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Stadelmann, S; Perren, S; Groeben, M; von Klitzing, K (2010). Parental separation and children's behavioral/emotional problems: the impact of parental representations and family conflict. Family Process, 49(1):92-108.
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In this longitudinal study, we examine whether the effect of parental separation on kindergarten children's behavioral/emotional problems varies according to the level of family conflict, and children's parental representations. One hundred and eighty seven children were assessed at ages 5 and 6. Family conflict was assessed using parents' ratings. Children's parental representations were assessed using a story-stem task. A multiinformant approach (parent, teacher, child) was employed to assess children's be- havioral/emotional problems. Bivariate results showed that separation, family conflict, and negative parental representations were associated with children's behavioral/emo- tional problems. However, in multivariate analyses, when controlling for gender and symptoms at age 5, we found that children of separated parents who showed negative parental representations had a significantly greater increase in conduct problems between 5 and 6 than all other children. In terms of emotional symptoms and hyperactivity, symptoms at 5 and (for hyperactivity only) gender were the only predictors for symptoms 1 year later. Our results suggest that kindergarten children's representations of parent- child relationships moderate the impact of parental separation on the development of conduct problems, and underline play and narration as a possible route to access the thoughts and feelings of young children faced with parental separation.
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Scrutiny of High-Frequency Trading Weighs on Online Brokerages
Online-brokerage shares extended last week's skid early Monday, signaling that the fallout from the intensifying scrutiny of high-frequency trading is not abating.
By the early afternoon, shares of E*Trade Financial Corp. shares fell about 2.4% to $19.93, TD Ameritrade Holding fell by 1.6%% to 30.18, while Charles Schwab fell by 1.42% to $25.68.
So far in April, E*Trade shares are down 14%, the biggest month-to-date drop among the scores of financial companies in the S&P 1500.
Brokerage companies that cater to mom-and-pop investors would not seem a likely target in the debate over market fairness, but analysts have pointed to a practice called "payment for order" flow as the culprit for the sell-off.
Under the arrangement, in place since at least the 1980s, brokers sell their customer orders to middle men who trade against the orders to gain tiny profits on many of the trades. Nowadays, those middlemen use high-frequency trading strategies and high-speed computers to trade against the customer order flow.
Regulators have investigated payment for order flow many times over the years and there is no sign they are looking any closer at the practice.
The only thing that has changed, analysts said, is broader discussions about the market coming after the publication of "Flash Boys" by Michael Lewis last week.
He argues in the book that the markets are "rigged" in favor of high-frequency traders and exchanges at the expense of investors.
Payment for order flow is a big business. Analysts estimate the practice brings in hundreds of millions for the discount brokerages.

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Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! Ad Blurbs (Nintendo DS)
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Take the brain age test and compare the score to your real age!
Daily training by quickly solving simple mathematics, sudoku puzzles, memory exercises and reading aloud can stimulate your brain and keep it fit. Enjoy calculation battles over the Nintendo DS Wireless Communication!
Contributed by Knyght (648) on Jun 11, 2006.
Do You Forget People's Names? Do You Forget Where You Put Things?TRAIN YOUR BRAIN IN JUST MINUTES A DAY
8th June 2006 – Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? launches in the UK tomorrow. Already a phenomenal success in Japan, selling 2.4 million copies to-date, the product stimulates your brain and helps train mental awareness and your long-term memory by being used for a few minutes each day.
A renowned Japanese neuroscientist, Dr Ryuta Kawashima developed a series of quick but challenging exercises designed to energise the brain. These quick brain exercises have been adapted into software for the Nintendo DS and allow users to train their brain by performing a number of tasks.
'Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?' goes on sale on Friday at the estimated retail price of around £19.99. It's never too early to start training your brain, and it only takes a few minutes each day!
Click onto http://touchgenerations.com to learn more about Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?
Contributed by Sciere (365783) on Jun 09, 2006.
Faire de l'exercise est fondamental pour être en bonne santé, physiquement et mentalement, et il existe à présent une facon de rendre l'exercice mental simple et amusant! Inspiré par les travaux d'un célèbre neurologiste japonais, le Professeur Ryuta Kawashima, ce jeu vous offre des activités destinées à stimuler votre cerveau et lui donner l'exercice dont il a besoin!
Contributed by Joshua J. Slone (4621) on Mar 31, 2006.
Exercise is the key to good health, both for body and mind--and now there's a way to make mental exercise simple and fun. Inspired by the work of prominent Japanese neuroscientist Professor Ryuta Kawashima, this game features 14 activities designed to help stimulate your brain and give it the workout it needs!
Contributed by Joshua J. Slone (4621) on Mar 31, 2006.
- Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day is a series of mini-games designed to give brains a workout. Activities include performing simple math problems, counting people going in and out of a house, drawing pictures on the touch screen and reading classic literature out loud.
- When users start a new game, they will take a series of tests and get a score that shows how old their brains are. This number is called the "Brain Age." As they use the software over a series weeks and months, their mental acuity will improve and the Brain Age will drop, indicating a younger, healthier brain. Progress is charted in graph form.
- Users can keep up to four save files on one game card. Sharing a game allows them to compare their results with those of family and friends. Users also can send a demo version of Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day to friends or compete with up to 16 players in a battle to see who can solve math problems the fastest.
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a DayFormat: Nintendo DS™
Launch Date: 04/17/06
ESRB: E (Everyone)
Game Type: Mental Training
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Give your gray matter the workout that it needs to stay sharp, focused and young. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day is inspired by a book that was written by Professor Ryuta Kawashima, a prominent Japanese neurologist. His theories revolve around keeping brains young by performing mental activities quickly.
Special powers/weapons/moves/features: If users send their friends a wireless demo or have multiple people playing on one game card using DS Download Play, they can compare their scores to see who has the youngest brain.
The entire game is played with the DS turned sideways to make it feel more like a book.
Syllable Count – Count the syllables in well-known phrases.
Reading Aloud – Read classic literature as fast as possible.
Stroop Test – Say the names of colors as they appear.
Word Memory – Memorize words that appear on screen.
Speed Counting – Count to 120 as fast as you can.
Connect Maze – Draw lines to connect letters and numbers in alphabetical and numeric order.
Calculation – Perform simple math problems quickly.
Head Count – Count people as they enter and exit a house.
Triangle Math – Solve math problems in a certain pattern.
Low to High – Memorize the position of numbers, then touch them in order from lowest to highest.
Contributed by Sciere (365783) on Mar 30, 2006.
Brain Awareness Week Reinforces The Need To Exercise Your BrainMarch 9, 2006
It's easy to tell when your body is out of shape, but what about your brain? International Brain Awareness Week begins March 13 as baby boomers and others are looking for the best way to exercise their brains.
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day for Nintendo DS™ launches April 17 on the heels of the week designed to increase public awareness about the brain. Users write their answers or draw a picture on the portable Nintendo DS touch screen to keep their "DS brains" young and fit by performing mental activities quickly.
Dr. Elizabeth Zelinski, dean and executive director of University of Southern California's Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, says games like Brain Age can help keep older generations of Americans' minds active. "Americans can do a great deal to maintain and even improve their mental abilities," Zelinski explains. "Aging is about taking on new challenges for our minds. Nintendo's Brain Age is a great way to do that."
Americans of all ages are always looking for ways to get a mental edge and Brain Age acts as a treadmill for the mind.
In Brain Age, first-time users take a few tests to establish their DS brain age. Holding the DS like a book, users perform activities like drawing lines to connect letters and numbers in order, counting the syllables in well-known phrases and other brain-stimulating activities. Sharing a game card allows users to compare their results with family and friends.
For more information about Brain Age, visit www.nintendo.com.
Contributed by Sciere (365783) on Mar 30, 2006.
Players Flex Their Mental Muscles With Brain Age For Nintendo DSIncredible 'Brain-Training' Craze in Japan Moves across Ocean to the United States
REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 30, 2006 – After decades of exercising players' thumbs, Nintendo is now moving to their minds. Brain Age™: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day for Nintendo DS™ will help players flex their mental muscles. Brain Age represents the first in a series of U.S. brain-training titles that already have taken Japan by storm.
Brain exercise has been a hot topic lately. Baby Boomers and test-prepping school kids alike want to challenge themselves. In fact, a recent Time magazine article cited Brain Age in its exploration of the trend of people looking for ways to exercise their brains.
But Baby Boomers picking up a video game system? It's not as far-fetched as you might think. Three separate titles in the brain-training series are currently a huge craze in Japan. Each of them has achieved sales of more than 1 million units, with the most recent title hitting that milestone in less than a month. The craze has been fueled largely by older players, many of whom had never played a video game system before.
Brain Age (known as Brain Training in Japan) was inspired by the work of Professor Ryuta Kawashima, a prominent Japanese neuroscientist. His studies evaluated the effect of performing reading and mathematic exercises to help stimulate the brain.
"Young or old, everyone looks for ways to get a mental edge," says Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of sales & marketing. "Our brain-training series, led by Brain Age, builds on the popularity of word and number puzzles and acts as a treadmill for the mind."
Brain Age presents players with a series of fun mental brain-training challenges that incorporate word memorization, counting and reading. It even includes sudoku number puzzles, which have become extremely popular features in newspapers around the country. The distinctive touch screen of Nintendo DS lets users write their responses, just as though they were using a PDA. Players even turn the Nintendo DS sideways to make it feel more familiar, like a book. The more often users challenge themselves, the better they become at the tasks and the lower their estimated DS "brain age."
Nintendo's brain-training series of games represent a cornerstone of Nintendo's aim to expand the world of video games to new audiences. The second title in the series, Big Brain Academy (known as Brain Flex in Japan) offers players 15 fun activities that test their brain powers in areas like logic, memory, math and analysis. Up to eight people can play with a single game card, and each activity takes less than a minute to complete.
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day is rated E for Everyone and launches on April 17. Big Brain Academy is Rated E for Everyone and launches May 30.
Contributed by Sciere (365783) on Mar 30, 2006.
Exercise your mind!
After decades of exercising your thumbs, Nintendo moves to your mind.
What is Brain Age?
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day for Nintendo DS is a fun, rewarding form of entertainment everyone can enjoy, as it helps players flex their mental muscles. Brain Age is inspired by the research of Professor Ryuta Kawashima, a prominent Japanese neuroscientist. His studies evaluated the impact of performing certain reading and mathematic exercises to help stimulate the brain.
Brain Age presents quick mental activities that help keep your DS brain in shape. Activities include quickly solving simple math problems, counting people going in and out of a house simultaneously, drawing pictures on the Touch Screen, reading classic literature out loud, and more. You can also play sudoku, the number puzzle game which has become an extremely popular feature in U.S. newspapers.
On your first day of exercise, you will take a series of tests and get a score that determines how old your brain is. This number is called your "DS Brain Age". By performing daily exercises just minutes a day over weeks and months, the better you'll get at the exercises and the lower your DS Brain Age will become.
Why is brain training good for you?
We all know as we grow older our bodies change and it becomes important to regularly exercise to maintain health and fitness. Our brain is no different. "Use it or lose it," as the adage goes. New research indicates mental acuity may be strengthened, like muscles, with brain exercises.
Dr. Elizabeth Zelinski, dean and executive director of University of Southern California's Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, says games like Brain Age can help keep older generations of Americans' minds active. "Americans can do a great deal to maintain and even improve their mental abilities," Zelinski explains. "Aging is about taking on new challenges for our minds. Nintendo's Brain Age is a great way to do that."
That's where Brain Age comes in.
But how does Brain Age work?
The Brain Age exercises are designed to stimulate your brain. Solving simple math and logic problems quickly, and reading aloud, have been proven to be effective methods of achieving this goal.
The distinctive Nintendo DS Touch Screen lets users write their answers with a Stylus pen, just as though they were writing on paper or using a Personal Digital Assistant or "PDA". Furthermore, the Nintendo DS's voice input identifies particular words you'll speak during the Stroop Test.
Brain Age tracks your progression through each exercise with easy-to-read line charts. Consistently using Brain Age each day will open new exercises to test your ability.
Baby Boomers and test-prepping school kids alike want to challenge themselves and find ways to stay sharp. Brain Age acts like a treadmill for the mind. With the simplicity of the Nintendo DS, and Brain Age's challenging and rewarding exercises, everyone can stimulate their DS brain, improving speed and accuracy of their game play.
Contributed by Evil Ryu (60745) on Mar 29, 2006.
Train That Brain!
Exercise is the key to good health, both for body and mind - and now there's finally a way to make mental exercise simple and fun. Inspired by the work of prominent Japanese neuroscientist Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, this software features activities designed to help stimulate your brain and give it the workout it needs. Using it for a few minutes each day can make your brain feel fresh and sharp!
Dr. Kawashima is your Brain Age guide, taking you through every step of the exercises.
Touch-based controls and over 15 fun activities - including sudoku - make training your brain a snap.
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Seattle Center seeks artist for 'Artists at Play' project
A partnership of Center Art LLC, Seattle Center and Seattle Center Foundation is seeking an experienced, energetic and imaginative artist/design team to provide design and fabrication services for the Artists at Play project. The project is a play area that will help reinvent and enliven up to a three-acre area within the former Fun Forest North site at Seattle Center.
The call is open to artists living in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska). The budget is $800,000, inclusive of all design, construction, artist and/or designer fees, materials, fabrication, installation, outreach, taxes and permits.The application deadline is 11 p.m., Sept. 4, 2013 (Pacific Daylight Time).
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A selection panel will choose an artist/design team following a two-stage process this fall. Construction is scheduled to be complete in 2014.
For more information and guidelines on the project, please visit Seattle Center's website.
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A Q & A session for prospective applicants will be held 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 20, at the Next 50 Pavilion at Seattle Center, 305 Harrison Street.
IMAGE: Gloria Bornstein, Neototems, 1995, located at Seattle Center. Photo by Spike Mafford.
Posted: August 13th, 2013 under Art Beat, Calls for Artists, News.
Tags: Artists at Play, call for artists, Fun Forest, Seattle Center
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President Richard Nixon's resignation letter Aug. 9, 1974 and President Gerald Ford's pardon of Nixon 40 years ago will be displayed Aug. 8-11 in the National Archives' "Featured Documents" exhibit.
And on Aug. 8 at noon at the National Archives, bestselling author Douglas Brinkley and Nixon tapes expert Luke Nichter will discuss and sign their new book, "The Nixon Tapes". The just-published book offers an unprecedented account of one of the most controversial Presidencies in U.S. history.
Brinkley, author of "Cronkite", "The Reagan Diaries", among other books, also is a contributing editor of "Vanity Fair", a CBS News historian, and a history professor at Rice University in Houston. Nichter, who digitized the 3,700 hours of Nixon tapes, is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University – Central Texas.
Before Nichter's massive effort, less than 5 percent of those 3,700 hours of recordings between 1971 and 1973 had ever been transcribed and published. Now, back to the exhibit:
"I hereby resign the office of the President of the United States of America. Sincerely, Richard Nixon". That's all he wrote when he became the only U.S. President to resign.
On Sept. 8, 1974, President Ford signed and read his proclamation granting "a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he...has committed or may have committed..."
The proclamation explained that the nation's few weeks of "tranquility ... could be irreparably lost by the prospects of bringing to trial a former President of the United States."
That pardon is one of the most controversial decisions ever made by any U.S. President. It is widely regarded as a main reason why President Ford lost the 1976 election to Jimmy Carter. President Carter began his inauguration speech, "For myself and for our Nation, I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land."
(Also, the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, administered by the National Archives, has just gone live with online Watergate tapes, videos, photos, and documents relating to his resignation.)
The Nixon and Ford items will be followed in the Archives' rotating "Featured Documents" by:
- (On display Aug. 12–Sept. 10) House Passage of the Bill of Rights, celebrating its 225th anniversary. The First Congress proposed to the state legislatures 12 amendments to the Constitution, ten of which were ratified and are now collectively known as the Bill of Rights.
- (On display Sept. 11–Nov. 3) Documents and an artifact commemorating the 1814 burning of Washington and attack on Baltimore and Fort McHenry. During the War of 1812, British forces occupied Washington, and burned the White House, the Capitol, and other government buildings. Just weeks later, the Americans held off the British at the Battle of Baltimore, including the Sept. 13-14 25-hour bombardment of Fort McHenry. That inspired Francis Scott Key to write the words that became "The Star-Spangled Banner" 200 years ago.
And the newest "Featured Document" is another extremely controversial one:
(On display July 15-Aug. 7.)The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, passed 50 years ago Aug. 7, allowed enormous escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the joint resolution a few days later. It authorized the President "to take all necessary measures to repeal any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent any further aggression" in Southeast Asia.
U.S. military forces in the undeclared war reached almost 550,000 -- more than 58,000 were killed. Congress eventually repealed the resolution in January 1971.
The "Featured Documents" exhibit, in the Archives' East Rotunda Gallery near displays of the original Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, is seen by more than one million visitors each year.
To see part of the exhibit online, click here
For more info: "Featured Documents", National Archives, www.archives.gov, on the National Mall at Constitution Avenue and 7th Street, Washington, D.C.
Suggested Links
- Nixon resignation 40 years ago Aug. 9 relived in new online multimedia exhibit
- National Archives now displaying 1964 Civil Rights Act for its 50th anniversary
- Sex and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, enacted 50 years ago July 2
- Monuments Men gave Hitler Album to Archives May 8, Victory in Europe anniversary
- National Archives opened gallery brilliantly illuminating struggles for equality


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Monday, September 20, 2010
Christine O'Donnell to be interviewed by Margot Adler on NPR
A teen Christine O'Donnell went on a date with a goth kid into the occult; go on a date with a Democratic Senator you end up dead in the Chappaquiddick, or at the very least with an unwanted, disowned love child.
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I got an email from a reader last week that made me think. And then smile. She mentioned how she liked my blog because it was about food while simultaneously being nothing about food. The more I thought about it, the more I realized she's probably right. If you really just wanted a quick granola recipe, there are many other places you'd probably go first. But here we are. And it's late on Tuesday night and it kind of feels like fall rather than summer and my sixteen year old dog is snoring at my feet. I've made a fresh batch of granola for the morning, there's a giant mosquito buzzing around my desk that I can't seem to catch, I'm drinking lime fizzy water from a straw and wishing my sister a happy first day of work tomorrow. So, yeah. I like talking to you about baking and salads and homemade ice cream. But I also liked talking to you about books and yoga and how amazing afternoon naps are. About movies and wacky seasons and travels. And hopes and family and pretty dishes. All that. Hopefully you're down. I'm guessing since you're still reading this paragraph, maybe you are.
Coincidentally, I've been powering through a book that's relevant to this idea of being about something while not being about it at all. Have you read Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running? On the surface it's a memoir about Murakami's long-distance running career. But if you asked me what the book was about, I probably wouldn't even mention running. Instead, it's about finding happiness in what you do, questioning why you commit yourself to certain activities, "the blessed right to grow old" and change. It's a sweet exploration of one man's passion and how it has seeped out into every other area of life. It makes you think about yours: passion and life, that is.
"I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run–simply because I wanted to."
There's this kind of loose logic to Murakami's life narrative that I admire. While it's quite structured with running schedules, book tours, and teaching gigs–it's also quite spontaneous in that he follows the pulls that lead him towards happiness or fulfillment. He doesn't question them. He doesn't try to make much sense of them (because how can you really make sense of getting up at the crack of dawn to run 26.2 miles?). The blind following of those pulls and tugs: we don't do that enough. At least I don't. It's much easier to excuse them as too whimsical or expensive or unrealistic. But lately I'm all about diving in. Right now I have friends that are starting their first business, beginning new jobs, being published, getting married. There are thresholds everywhere I turn and it's exciting and full of risk and craziness and blind dives without looking back.
It doesn't always have to be marathons or marriages we're talking about here. It can be as small as trying out a new granola recipe because you're pretty sure it'll knock the socks off your mornings in early August. That's what I did today. Many of you may remember the buzz around this time last year when The New York Times published their recipe for Olive Oil Granola. I never tried it because I'm basically married to my own recipe which I created while, coincidentally, training for my first marathon in Colorado. But lately I've been curious–what if I took the components I love about my granola and blend in olive oil, maple syrup, and kosher salt as the New York Times does? Well, a whole lot of goodness happens. That's what.
So I'll leave you with this simple, adaptable, morning-changing recipe and a quote from Murakami. He should have the last word here.
"And I hope that, over time, as one race follows another, in the end I'll reach a place I'm content with. Or maybe just catch a glimpse of it"
Olive Oil Granola with Pecans and Cherries
I love making granola in a convection oven because it cooks evenly and you don't end up with burned bits around the edges. So I've included cooking times for both a convection and a standard oven here. This recipe is also forgiving, so feel free to use your own mixture of nuts and dried fruits. And play around with different olive oils. It's amazing how a fruitier oil honestly conveys that taste once baked. I'm hooked.
Preheat the convection oven to 275 or the standard oven to 300 F. With the exception of the cherries, mix all the ingredients together in a big bowl and spoon out onto a large, rimmed baking sheet.
Bake Times:
–Convection Oven: 35-40 minutes, stir every 15 minutes.
–Standard Oven: 45 minutes, stir every ten minutes so granola doesn't stick to the sides of the pan and burn.
Granola will be done when it's golden brown and well toasted. Remove from the oven and stir in the dried cherries. Let cool completely. Serve with dollops of plain yogurt and fruit.


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Neighbors: Dogs a problem near Phoenix park where 72-year-old woman attacked
PHOENIX - A fork designed for the barbecue grill is protection for Olivia Levario and her daughter as they walk around their South Phoenix neighborhood.
"If (a dog) gets close enough, you know, and I feel like I'm getting attack, I attack back," said Levario.
RELATED: Woman attacked by dogs at Phoenix dog park
They live in the same neighborhood as 72-year old Elia Gutierrez, who was mauled by five dogs at Barrios Unidos park Wednesday near 14th Street and Mohave.
The dogs bit her on her head and body, and she lost four pints of blood in the process, according to officials.
"There are always loose dogs around here. There's a park up the street here and towards the nighttime. It seems like they come out all the time," said Levario.
Gutierrez was simply collecting cans in the park to recycle when she was attacked. A passerby in a truck stopped to help before calling Phoenix PD.
ALSO READ: Dog found dead in Mesa backyard, man arrested for animal abuse
Her grandson is thankful.
"Very thankful that God sent an angel," said her grandson Antoine Chagnon. "This person who passed by happened to drive by and came to her rescue at the nick of time, the nick of time."
Philip Moreno would leave cans outside of his home for Gutierrez. He, too, has seen dangerous dogs around; a pack of them attacked his own dog last year.
"(The dogs) tore up his ear, and ever since then he's had a problem. He's wound up with a twitch because of that," said Moreno, of his dog.
He says these are all examples of the ongoing problem that someone needs to fix.
"These dogs know how to do this. They stand in the street like they own the street," said Moreno.
All five dogs involved in the attack were captured and put down, according to Maricopa County Animal Control. All of the dogs tested negative for rabies.


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"The job market for fresh California college grads can still be brutal." Reports the Sacramento Bee. In a recent article, the Bee reports on census findings that shows while most recent college grads land a gig in their respective field as much as 25% of those grads wind up working in food service, clerical, sales and professional services industries.
This trend started and gained momentum during the economic contraction of 2007 and 2008 where it is seen clearly that there is a sharp rise in college graduates working as waiters and waitresses.
According to the Bee, about "14,000 young college graduates held jobs as waiters and waitresses in 2012, almost triple the number that worked as waiters and waitresses in 2000."
What the Sacramento Bee didn't report on is the actual real opportunity that exists in the service and sales industry. There are waiters and waitresses out there that make well over $50,000 a year. Working in the right establishment with either the right menu or traffic flow (or both) can create an income that their degree would never provide.
The same goes for sales and selling. Indeed.com shows the average Automotive Sales Professional in California averages $50,000 as well. Add to that the fact that there are automotive sales people right now who made more than their managers last year. One can also see a fair amount of car sales people in the six figure bracket.
Many people have leveraged the service and sales industry into remarkable careers and created a massive level of success and prosperity. Grant Cardone for example, has a degree in accounting. However, after leaving college realized that there was a greater opportunity for him in sales. Cardone has a real estate portfolio on target to hit a billion dollars, is CEO of 3 companies and his 3rd book, If You're Not First You're Last is a NY Times Best Seller.
So for the college grad who's waiting tables right now or working some other perceived "dead end job", just know that this also could be the biggest opportunity of one's life. It will come down to how the individual decides to see it.


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I want to use arrows whose heads and/or tails can be almost-triangles: roughly, something like
A ———▷ B or
A ▷——> B. For the heads, there's a good solution in xyguide:
A \to/@{-|>}/ B works as desired. Trying to use this as a tail suffers from a well-known problem, described further down the same page of the guide: "Often tips used as "tails" have their ink on the wrong side of the point where they are placed," so they sit too far back and crash into the letter behind them, giving something like
A▷——> B. Fortunately, the guide has an exercise on how to fix this, giving the solution
\newdir{ >}{{}*!/-5pt/@{>}}
which, unmodified, works beautifully to give eg
A >——> B. Unfortunately, the modification
\newdir{ |>}{{}*!/-5pt/@{|>}}
does not produce the expected result:
A \to/@{ |>->}/ B gives something like
A▷ ——>B, with the tail pulled back from the shaft and crashing even further into the letter behind it!
Changing the
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\newdir{ |>}{{}*:(1,1)@{|>}} rotates the triangle. But the
!/-5pt/, which as I understand should shift the reference point, and seems to do this fine in the exercise from the guide, just doesn't seem to work as expected in this example. I'm completely stumped. What gives?


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I posted a similar probability question before but I realized I missed something, so here's another question for you folks.
Say, I have a set of $10,000$ numbers which, if chosen $10,000$ times, have a probability of $\frac{1}{3.3}$. Some numbers may have a probability of $\frac{1}{4}$ some $\frac{1}{2}$ some $\frac{1}{5}$ but the total of all 10,000 numbers will be $\frac{1}{3.3}$. So if I do $30.3$ thousands draws I will win $\frac{1}{3.3}$ times.
Now say, $2500$ numbers of those $10,000$ numbers has a probability of $\frac{1}{5.3}$.
Now, in order for the other all these $10,000$ numbers to have a total probability of $\frac{1}{3.3}$, the other $75000$ must have a probability of less than $\frac{1}{3.3}$, otherwise the total wouldn't equal $\frac{1}{3.3}$.
How do I calculate the probability of the other $7,500$ numbers?


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"A Superman of Doom"
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Penciller: Al Plastino
Cover: Al Plastino
Reviewed by: Daniel McIntosh
Later in the office of the director of the Elmdale atom plant the director reveals to Lois Lane and the other reporters that the chain reaction from the explosion may in fact destroy the world. The phone suddenly rings to reveal that the atom pile will explode in five minutes. The director cries in fright that all is lost but Lois reminds him that Superman can save us. All of a sudden the door flies open with Superman asking "Am I being Paged?" The director proceeds to tell Superman how urgent the situation has become and that the atom pile is extremely volatile and is sensitive to movement. Superman proceeds to carve a platform out of the ground that the pile is resting upon and makes a hole in the ceiling that he can fly the atom pile out of the building and into space. Once away from the Earth the atom pile explodes hurtling Superman back toward the Earth.
Superman arrives back at Earth and is flying around when a bird passes him buy and suddenly bursts into flames and dies. Superman is completely taken by surprise. He proceeds to land and then notices all the fauna around him wither and die right before him. Lois Lane is in fact in an aircraft overhead and notices through Binoculars that anything that is in close proximity to the Man of Steel dies. Superman suddenly realizes that he is radioactive. Lois Lane runs the story in the next edition of the Daily Planet where all of Metropolis's criminals can read that Superman is now radioactive and cannot come close to living things. A group of gangsters believe this is their opportunity. The gangsters proceed to steal an armored car and take a hostage knowing full well that Superman will not approach, as he will kill the innocent hostage. Superman grabs some steel cable and in true rodeo style lassos himself the stolen armored car and takes it back to Police headquarters.
Meanwhile other thugs are attempting to escape. Superman uses his incredible singing voice and tunes his voice to the vibrational frequency of some old buildings to collapse them and block the escape of the thugs allowing the police to capture them. The thugs then capture Lois Lane and threaten to kill her unless Superman robs Fort Knox. Superman using his super intellect constructs a suit out of lead to shield Lois from the radiation. The lead suit covers every centimeter of his body and he uses his x-ray vision to see where he is going. The gangsters are lead to believe that the lead suit had failed and does not contain the radiation. Superman then hunts down the gangsters and surprises them by busting up their cheerful meeting. The gangsters then cry to the police that Superman has doomed them to death by exposing them to the deadly radiation. Superman then reveals how the lead suit had absorbed all the radiation from his body and that he is now safe to continue fighting crime with the police.
Story - 4: There is one really interesting point to note in this story and that is the fact that Superman can see through lead! All of us have seen Superman: The Movie with Christopher Reeve. And we should all remember that Gene Hackman who plays Superman's arch nemesis Lex Luthor informs Otis and Miss Teschmacher of the fact that Superman can't or has trouble seeing through lead. This is the method in which Lex traps Superman with the chunk of Kryptonite in the movie. So this is a really interesting point in the Superman mythos. I guess a really good competition question would be "Is there any Superman Comic that tells us that Superman has trouble seeing through lead?" I think even I would be interested in the answer to that myself. Maybe I will ask my local comic book dealer who has been collecting comics for over 40 years.
For those of you who remember our beloved Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman TV series where the New Nazis try to take over the world be irradiating Superman with a nuclear explosion or when Superman flies the nuclear devise into outer space in Superman II, it is great to go back and see where the writers for the these programs get their ideas from.
I guess being a scientist myself (a physicist in particular) I have to remind myself that this was written back in 1948, three years after they had detonated the A-bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. Back then people knew very little about radiation and other things of scientific matter. That is why the writers could get away with such stories as Peter Parker being bitten by a radioactive Spider and becoming Spider-man or the group of scientists working on a space station being exposed to cosmic rays and becoming the Fantastic Four. But it is really great to go back and read something from our past as it gives us an insight as to how we, as the general reading public, saw the world back then and what we understood from it. Looking at it through those eyes you would have to say it is another enjoyable Superman story. I guess that in a lot of ways it is refreshing to get back to the nice simple stories that Superman started out with. Nothing too brooding or with complicated emotional issues, just Superman doing his job and saving the day. Good triumphs over evil! I guess that is one of my criticisms over today's stories is that they so complicate things that I really just turn off and don't remember the stories and just simply look at the artwork.
Art - 4: Given that the artwork in the comic books of this era were not credited (for reasons given in the review of Superman #42 by Wallace Harrington) it makes determining who the artist and the writing teams were in these issues quite difficult. For someone who has been dealing with or collecting comics for many years one can begin to recognize the artists who work on the comics. Artists usually have their own style. Styles like Wayne Boring's Superman with the rather over-sized chest or the incredible details in the hands or flying poses with Al Plastino's artwork. Usually the Overstreet price guide for comics is the best source for artist information, but is not the case for this issue. After looking at the artwork and comparing to other Plastino work, I would have to say that Plastino was the artist for this issue. I am a fan of a lot of modern artists. The likes of Alex Ross and Jim Lee to name a couple, but it is nice to look at the art that started it all. It is relatively simple in comparison to Lee and Ross' artwork but it is still great.
Cover Art - 4: As mentioned in the review of Superman #42, the covers to the comics in this era usually do not reflect the story that is told inside the comic. The cover on this one does however resemble a little more closely the story that is told in the comic as opposed to other issues of the Superman titles in this era. Superman is sweeping out of the sky with two crooks, one under each arm, dropping them off to two police officers waiting with the police van. Al Plastino looks to be the artist for the cover on this issue.
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The Nikkei newspaper reported last week that three major Japanese paper products companies will be expanding into (ahem) diapers for seniors. So called "incontinence products" are flying off the shelves thanks to Japan's aging population.
The demographics are only going to skew older in the years to come, hence the Nikkei predicted adult diapers will surpass the more typical variety for babies soon — and a previous report from Unicharm, Japan's biggest diaper manufacturer, told Bloomberg last year that infant diapers have already fallen behind.
While this sounds like an occasion for levity, it's certainly no laughing matter in Japan. Thanks to an aging society and a low birth rate, the country's economy is groaning under the strain of big entitlement programs and not enough tax revenue to support them. That's to say nothing of the challenge to consumer spending and capital markets as older Japanese rely more and more on fixed incomes and capital preservation strategies.
Japan's fertility rate is 1.39 for women, below the "replacement rate" as Japanese citizens gradually age and die. Japan's population peaked in 2005, and is poised to shrink by about 1 million people this year, according to estimates.
Japan also has the highest median age in the developed world, topping out at 44.3 in 2010, according to the CIA's World Factbook. The United States, by comparison, was 36.9 while the fast-growing emerging market of Brazil was just 30.5.
This demographic time bomb is going to dramatically reshape consumer and investor culture in Japan — and not just in the form of diaper sales. How will government spending support the overwhelming portion of seniors in Japan? How will discretionary spending suffer since older Japanese have less desire or ability to travel or spend on luxury goods?
The Nikkei stock exchange has been booming in 2013 thanks to central bank policy propping up equity markets in Japan and elsewhere, but the run appears short-lived. While the iShares MSCI Japan Index ETF (EWJ) is indeed up 22% year-to-date to beat the S&P 500, it has seen big volatility lately and suffered a gut-wrenching 14% slide in just a few weeks across May and June before recovering. Major Japanese stocks including Sony (SNE), Hitachi (HTHIY) and Honda (HMC) have all actually underperformed the S&P 500 since the rollback.
In the short-term, there's no telling what might spark a quick rally in Japan. But longer-term, the diaper data is no laughing matter. It foretells a very painful future for Japan's economy, and companies that do business there.
Related Reading
- Also hot in Japan — the snail facial to treat signs of aging. (Fox Business)
- Japan's demographics problem could help the robot biz, at least. (Quartz)
- Out of need for immigrants to boost the labor force, Japan has quietly turned to China. (IHT)
Jeff Reeves is the editor of InvestorPlace.com and the author of "The Frugal Investor's Guide to Finding Great Stocks." Write him at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow him on Twitter via @JeffReevesIP. As of this writing he did not own a position in any of the stocks named here.


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Modern day psychometric testing
I suppose this is the equivalent of filling in "personality tests" at interviews. You know: the ones where you quickly work out what sort of person they want for the job and fill in the little boxes according to the required traits.
As it is, a lot of people (who have active FB accounts) adopt the persona of the person they'd LIKE to be - that outgoing, lively, vivacious, GSOH type that they'd describe themselves as in the lonely hearts ad - instead of the dull and uninteresting saddo who spends all his/her time glued to a screen (TV or computer) as they have no proper friends.
What an FB account, and any/all photos posted, can tell you about a person - to some extent anyway, is whether a potential interviewee harbours any of the attributes that you are not allowed to enquire about during a job interview for equality reasons. So while employers are prevented from selecting for reasons of age, gender, ethnicity it's easy for an immoral boss - or recruitment agent to preselect for interview candidates who volunteer this information in a social forum.


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Medina brothers Cale, right, and P.J. Walter donate toys Wednesday for The Gazettes Not-Forgotten Box. Cale, 13, attends Claggett Middle School and P.J., 10, is a student at Garfield Elementary. Cale said his grandfather, who was visiting from Colorado, told him that Christmas is about giving and some kids arent going to have one without their help.The Gazette is accepting new, unwrapped toys for children from infancy through age 17, and nonperishable items from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday until Dec. 18. Donations may be dropped off at the newspapers front office at 885 W. Liberty St., Medina. Tax-deductible cash donations also will be accepted, and checks should be made out to: Not-Forgotten Box-Gazette. All toys will be distributed through the Salvation Army of Medina. Suggested items for the Not-Forgotten Box are games, sports items, basketballs, skateboards, Legos, Knex, Dora the Explorer, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, makeup and cologne sets, curling irons, action figures, baby dolls, Barbies and Braatz. A food drive is ongoing as well, and those donations also will be handed out by the Salvation Army. Suggested food donations are peanut butter, pasta, pasta sauce, crackers, macaroni and cheese, canned vegetables and fruits, cereal and one-pound bags of rice. (LIZ SHEAFFER / GAZETTE)
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Participants will learn how to select meat and prepare jerky during hands-on sessions at a workshop Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 3-4, in Rock Springs.
The sessions are 6:30-8:30 p.m. both days in room 1444 at Western Wyoming Community College, said Josefina Ibarra, nutrition and food safety educator with University of Wyoming Extension.
The cost is $10 per person for supplies.
Sessions cover meat selection, preparation, seasoning and curing, food safety recommendations, smoking and drying equipment and proper storage.
Ibarra and Shawn Moore, meat and health inspector with the Wyoming Department of Health, will teach the sessions.
"It is a great opportunity for Wyoming residents to come and learn how to safely preserve their meat," said Ibarra. "It's the time of the year when hunters come back home and preserve their meat through different preservation processes: freezing, dehydrating or canning."
For more information or to register, please contact the UW Extension office in Sweetwater County at 307-352-6775 or 307-872-6310.


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T-Mobile Vivacity with Android Gingerbread launched in the UK
The T-Mobile Vivacity Android smartphone that we've been seeing around since the beginning of the month is now available for purchase n the UK.
T-Mobile is asking only £99 for the Vivacity on Pay As You Go, making it one of the most affordable Gingerbread handsets on the market. The device is also offered for free on £10 monthly tariffs.
You can buy the Vivacity online here.
The new T-Mobile Vivacity is manufactured by ZTE, and features a 3.5 inch WVGA display, 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, 3.5mm headset jack, 5MP camera with Flash, and MicroSD card support (a 2GB card is included in the box).
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Median weekly earnings for men and women in fourth quarter 2010
January 24, 2011
Men who were employed full time in management, professional, and related occupations in fourth quarter 2010 had the highest median weekly earnings, $1,267, compared with $937 for women in those occupations. Men and women who worked in service jobs earned the least, $585 and $421, respectively.
Across all occupations, women who usually worked full time had median weekly earnings of $679 in the fourth quarter of 2010, or 81.8 percent of the $830 median for men. The female-to-male earnings ratio varied by race and ethnicity. White women earned 81.1 percent of their male counterparts, compared with black (96.2 percent), Asian (75.9 percent), and Hispanic women (89.9 percent).
Among the major race and ethnicity groups, median weekly earnings for black men working at full-time jobs were $629 per week in the fourth quarter of 2010, or 73.4 percent of the median for white men ($857). The difference was less among women, as black women's median earnings ($605) were 87.1 percent of those for white women ($695). Overall, median earnings of Hispanics who worked full time ($539) were lower than those of blacks ($614), whites ($772), and Asians ($828).
Overall, median weekly earnings of the Nation's 100.1 million full-time wage and salary workers were $752 in the fourth quarter of 2010. This was 0.5 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 1.3 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same period.
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LAS VEGAS — Ron Paul is rolling the dice on Nevada and other caucus states like Minnesota, Kansas and Washington, hoping to keep his nontraditional presidential campaign alive by amassing Republican delegates rather than notching outright wins.
The presidential hopeful came in dead last in Florida's primary, fourth in South Carolina's primary and third in Iowa's caucuses. His strongest showing so far was in New Hampshire, where he placed a distant second behind Mitt Romney in the opening primary of the 2012 campaign.
Undeterred with just four delegates so far, Paul and his advisers say they are sticking to a strategy that avoids major commitments in expensive winner-take-all primaries, like Florida's and Arizona's, in favor of lower-cost states that proportionally allocate their delegates.
"Our goal is to win. And you win by getting the maximum number of delegates," Paul said at a news conference Wednesday in Las Vegas, where he is campaigning ahead of the Saturday's Nevada caucuses. "I'm delighted Nevada makes it fair, where we can compete for the votes. When we get the delegates and build up momentum, we can win."
It's a tall order for Paul by any measure, even though 46 states have yet to vote and just 6 percent of the delegates have been won so far.
A candidate must win 1,144 delegates to secure the GOP nomination. Romney's victory in Florida has already helped him jump out to a substantial delegate lead — he now has 87 delegates compared with 26 for Newt Gingrich and 14 for Rick Santorum. Those numbers include endorsements from Republican National Committee members who will automatically attend the party convention.
Romney's deep-pocketed campaign is also built to last, with strong organizations across several states, including Nevada, whose caucuses the former Massachusetts governor won in 2008. Paul placed a distant second in Nevada that year, and his advisers are cautiously predicting a victory on Saturday.
The campaign has been running television ads in the state for three weeks and several top Republican county activists are Paul supporters. The Texas congressman's diehard band of supporters is expected to show up at caucuses, while many less committed Republicans are likely to stay home.
"A lot of people care about liberty here," said Paul's chief strategist, Jesse Benton. "There's a strong independent spirit. We feel like we have the numbers."
Nevada's 28 delegates are allocated proportionally, meaning no one candidate can take them all.
Eric Herzik, a political science professor at the University of Nevada-Reno, predicted Romney would win the caucuses but Paul would come out strong.
"Nevada has a libertarian streak in politics. Our economy is based on gambling and drinking and low social service provision," Herzik said. "That speaks to this kind of limited government, individual liberty approach to politics that Ron Paul favors."
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Subject: INTERVIEW WITH JOSE GARCIA Y TRUJILLO -
S-240- Folk-Ways -
Submitted By: Janet Smith
Original Copy, Not Rewritten
Wordage: 1,800
Date: August 26, 1936
Approved: Ina Sizer Cassidy, State Director
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Jose Garcia y Trujillo doesn't believe that Billy The Kid was ever shot. He feels sure he got away to South America. He wouldn't be surprised if he is alive somewhere today, an old man with many memories and a quick mind, like himself. When I showed him a book by the man who killed Billy The Kid, he was unconvinced.
"No senora", and he shook his forefinger back and forth before his face. "You think Billy The Keed let himself be shot in the dark like that? No Senora - Billy The Keed - never. I see Billy The Keed with these eyes. Many times, with these eyes. That Billy, tenia un' agilesa en su mente - en su menta aqui." He pointed to his forehead.
Mr. Garcia could speak but little English, and I knew almost no Spanish, but I understood that he meant that Billy The Kid had an extraordinary quickness of mind.
Again he pointed to his forehead and then with a quick motion to the sky. "Una funcion electrica", he said. Something that worked like lightning.
When I stopped to see Mr. Garcia he was sitting on the ground under the cottonwood tree that shades the cracked adobe walls of his long narrow house. His hat was pulled down over his eyes and he seemed to be sleeping. As I stopped the motor of my car, however, he raised his head and pushed back his hat with one motion. He squinted at me, and then pulled himself to his feet.
"Como le va, Senora." Mr. Garcia placed the one chair in the shade for me. He found a box behind a heap of wagon wheels and car fenders and sat down beside me. He squinted his long blue eyes and asked in Spanish, "What's new?"
I patted the black kitten stretched on a bench at my elbow. Beside it perched a cock and two hens. Two little brown dogs nosed at my shoes, and a big shaggy fellow laid his head against my arm. The flies buzzed.
A thin dark old woman stepped over the little goat sleeping just inside the doorway of the house, its head resting on the doorstep. She gathered up some green chili from a table in the yard, giving me an intent look as she stood there, and went back into the house without saying a word.
Mr. Garcia asked me again, "What's new? You bring me those history books of Billy The Keed?"
I showed him the picture of Pat Garrett who shot Billy The Kid. "I don't want to dispute against you Senora, but in my mind which is the picture of my soul, I know it is not true. Maybe Pat Garrett, he give Billy The Keed money to go to South America and write that story for the looks. Maybe he kill somebody else in Billy's place. Everybody like Billy The Keed - su vista penetraba el corazon de toda la gentel
" - his face went to everybody's heart."
Mrs. Garcia came out again and sat on a bench beside her husband. Her skin looked dark and deeply wrinkled under the white towel she had wrapped about her head. She rolled a brown paper cigarette from some
"What did Billy The Kid look like?" I asked.
"Chopito - a short man, but wide in shoulders and strong. His forehead was big. His eyes were blue. He wore Indian shoes with beads on his feet. His clothes - muy desareglado - "
"Desareglado?" I asked.
"Like yours," he said, pointing to my blue denim skirt and shirt. "Any old way."
"Muy generoso hombre, Billy The Keed - a very generous man. All the Mexican people, they like him. He give money, horses, drinks - what he have. To whom was good to Billy The Keed, he was good to them. Siempre muy caballero, muy senor - always very polite, very much of a gentleman."
"Once lots of mens, they go together after Billy The Keed to shoot him. They pay us - we go - sure. But we don't want to shoot Billy. We always glad he too smart for us."
In broken English, mixed with Spanish phrases, Mr. Garcia told me how he went in a posse of thirty-five or more men to capture Billy The Kid. He didn't know the Sheriff's name, but the description sounded like Pat Garrett himself. "Muy, muy alto" - very, very tall, and Pat Garrett was six feet, four and a half. Jose Garcia was working at the
This ranch belonged to Lucien Maxwell. "Un hombre muy grande, un millionairio", said Jose Garcia. Lucien Maxwell was indeed one of the most striking figures of the early mountain frontier. Every trader and plainsman in the Rocky Mountain Region knew him. He came to New Mexico from Illinois when the country was still a part of Old Mexico. There he married Luz Beaubien, daughter of a French Canadian, Charles Hipolyte Trotier, Sieur de Beaubien, and a Spanish woman. With Guadalupe Miranda, Beaubien had received from the Mexican Government during the Administration of Governor Manuel Armijo a huge grant of land as a reward for pioneer services. Beaubien bought Miranda's share, and at Beaubien's death, Lucien Maxwell, his son-in-law, purchased all the land from the heirs and became sole owner of more than a million acres. He made huge sums of money selling sheep, cattle and grain to the Government, and built a great house at Cimarron. There he lived in as much magnificence as the times and the country could afford. His guests included cattle kings, Governors, Army Officers, and later when he moved to the ranch near Fort Sumner, Billy The Kid. Nearly every day his table was set for more than two dozen, and it is reputed that they ate on plates of silver and drank from goblets of gold. Jose Garcia said he didn't
Mr. Garcia said he knew a good friend of Billy The Kid, Jose Chavez y Chavez. When he was herding sheep on the Yrissari Ranch, which was not far from Santa Rosa on the Pecos River, Jose Chavez y Chavez was sheep herder on a nearby ranch. One day the two of them were sitting under a tree smoking when a pack train on the way to Arizona came along on the other side of the Pecos. Just opposite the tree where the two sheepherders were sitting they tried to ford the stream. But the water was swift and the horses floundered. Jose Garcia and Jose Chavez pulled off their clothes, jumped in and guided the horses to the bank. After the pack train went on, Jose Chavez showed Mr. Garcia the twenty-one bullet scars on his body. "He had an innocent face - didn't look as though he could break a dish, but he was bad with a gun. Que hombre!
"Did they try to get Jose Chavez to go with the posse after Billy?" I asked.
"Jose Chavez y Chavez", he corrected me. "No, senora, he had left the country at that time."
According to Walter Noble Burns it was this Jose Chavez y Chavez who was responsible for the friendship between Billy The Kid and the wealthy Maxwells. Billy The Kid had ridden over to Fort Sumner from Lincoln with several of his men, among whom was Jose Chavez y Chavez. The fiance of one of the Maxwell girls was drunk and met Jose Chavez y Chavez on the street back of the Maxwell House. The two men quarreled and Jose Chavez pulled his gun. Mrs. Maxwell ran out of the house and tried to pull her future son-in-law away, begging Chavez not to shoot him as he was drunk and didn't know what he was doing. Chavez replied that drunk or sober he was going to kill him, and he was going to do it immediately. Just then a young man walked rapidly across the road, touched his sombrero to Mrs. Maxwell, said something in Spanish to Chavez and led him away. It was the Kid. From that time until his death, he made Fort Sumner his headquarters, and was a frequent visitor at the Maxwell home. It was in Pete Maxwell's room that Pat Garrett shot him.
Mr. Garcia asked me if there were any books in Spanish about Billy The Kid. "My wife," he said, "she taught me to read. I didn't know the letters when I married her. She didn't know the words but she knew the letters and she taught me. I taught myself how the words went, but I never could teach her to read, ni con carinoes ni alebanzes - neither by coaxing nor praising - she never could learn anything more than the letters."
Mrs. Garcia shook her head. "Nunca, nunca, nunca," she said. Never had she been able to learn more than the letters.
I promised to look for a Spanish book about Billy The Kid. I sat for a minute longer watching some pigeons perched on a water barrel. They pecked at the water. The ripples reflected on their green and lavender breasts. The little goat came out of the house and sniffed the dirt around my chair.
As I rose to go, Mr. Garcia stood up and took off his hat. "Muchas felicidades y buena salud, Senora," he said, with a little bow. Much happiness and good health to you.
Mrs. Garcia put out her hand. Her dark eyes were always sombre. "Adios", she said, "Que Dios vaya con usted." Goodbye, I can only say God be with you.
"Vuelva", they called after me as I drove away. "Come back."


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I dont know how to calculate these two series: $$\begin{align} & \sum\limits_{n=1}^{\infty }{\frac{n+3}{{{n}^{3}}+\ln n}} \\ & \sum\limits_{n=1}^{\infty }{\left( 1-\cos \frac{\pi }{n} \right)} \\ \end{align}$$
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First one --- do a comparison to $\sum n^{-2}$.
Second one --- see whether you can find useful bounds on $\cos(\pi/n)$.
That is all --- you're on your own.
for 2>:
$$ 1 - \cos\frac{\pi}{n} = 2\sin^2\frac{\pi}{2n} <\frac{\pi}{2n^2}$$ then use convergence test to show series is convergent .
For the second sum, we can have it in another form
$$\sum\limits_{n=1}^{\infty }{\left( 1-\cos \frac{\pi }{n} \right)} =\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }{\frac { \left( -1 \right) ^{n+1}{\pi }^{2\,n} \zeta\left( 2\,n \right) }{ \left( 2\,n \right) !}} \sim 4.870718962.$$


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Lennie Tristano: Yesterdays [Glad I Am]
Yesterdays [Glad I Am]
Lennie Tristano (piano)
Live at Birdland 1949 (Jazz Records JR-1CD)
Lennie Tristano (piano).
Composed by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach.
Recorded: Chicago, 1945
Rating: 95/100 (learn more)
Here is one CD that you can't judge by its cover. The song is listed as "Glad I Am," but is actually "Yesterdays." Tristano is credited as composer, when Jerome Kern should get the nod. The cover of the CD promises a quintet live at Birdland in 1949, but this track is a solo piano selection from Chicago in 1945.
Ah, these are quibbles. Don't let the phony factoids stop you from checking out the music. This track is an inspired exercise in harmonic reconstruction, unlike anything else in jazz, circa 1945. Tristano takes the song at a leisurely pace, and the chords move slowly enough for us to savor the wry dissonances and the curious progressions, unexpected changes sometimes unfolding with four-surprises-to-the-bar. I have heard Tristano's protégés play standards in a similar manner, without ever resolving into a tonic key—an odd and unsettling philosophy when applied to a sentimental old ballad. Lennie stops short of such in-your-face atonality here . . . but just barely. Everything fits together, and resolves, but the games he plays in the process are fascinating to observe.
Yet pick up another Tristano CD and you will probably hear him play in a completely different manner. It's to this pianist's credit that he was able to forge such an identifiable sound, while making so many changes in his approach. I wish he had recorded more music in this vein—heck, I wish he had recorded more music in any vein—or perhaps had attempted to translate this approach into a combo or big band concept. As it stands, the 1945 solo piano tracks are just more outliers on the elongated Tristano bell curve, idiosyncratic performances that give little sense of where this artist would be a few years later, but still stand out as essential listening for anyone with a deep interest in piano jazz.
Reviewer: Ted Gioia
Tags: jerome kern covers · solo piano · yesterdays
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