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Dear (*******),
I'm so glad I checked my e-mail tonight. I'm actually kind of addicted to it - I check e-mail and facebook several times a day. But I nearly didn't, since I am just getting home from a little study group we have every other Sunday night, and I want to get to bed. But I HAVE to write to you and let you know that I do know very well where you are, and that loss...Yes, I'm glad my writing effort came across to you. I'm just so glad that I checked this e-mail and am hearing from you tonight. I'll try to be brief :)
About the kids, yes, they were older a little bit. Karen was the only one married at the time Ray told us. It was actually at her house, and we gathered there to get Ray to say he would see a counselor. We planned a type of "intervention," because I was so worried. And each of the kids had their own ways to confront him. I'd asked them to help me get him to see someone - I was so worried that he would commit suicide. He'd been acting strangely for several months, and I didn't know how close he was to dying every day. There was no way to get around it - and I'd done all I could to get him to talk. It was so scary - and had been for months - and I was afraid we would lose him.
So, we had dinner at Karen's. And when Liz, who was a sr. at Taylor University (a Christian college where all our kids went) spoke up, she said she would be afraid to come home when no one else was here, because she was afraid she would find him...and that got to Ray. And he decided to tell us - it was all of the kids, and me, all at once. I thought at first, for only a second or so, that he was kidding when he said, "I'm gay." And I didn't even know what it meant, because for all I knew you couldn't be a Christian and be GAY. I cried, we cried. We hugged, and we cried all the way home.
None of the kids knew what to think. I mean, we raised them very conservatively. We had our "liberal" ways - like being open to Karen having a wedding in Nepal, and we listened to music other than Ray's! (lots) :) But we were a very strict family when it came to being fundamentalist.
I didn't know what to think - we loved each other!. Ray was a Christian. I had all these questions going through my head: did Ray take a lover? (and I don't like even saying those words, calling a boyfriend a "lover.") Was Ray cruising gay bars? Was he wanting to cruise gay bars? Did he want someone else? Was he lying to me? Had he always lied to me? Had he EVER lied to me? Did he love me? Did he still love me? You know the questions I think, and they went on and on and on.
I rolled them ALL over in my mind: Were there clues? Was this something I did? I figured out pretty quickly that it was NOT! But all the self-doubt was there, and I just about lost it. Then there were all the questions about, WHAT IF SOMEONE FINDS OUT? And that whole line of questions. Plus, there was the fact that I'd always believed that God put us together, God led us in using Ray's music, and that God did all this with a reason. And all these questions went through my brain without words. And the big thing I didn't think I could handle: Did he want to leave me? Did he want a divorce?
We talked the next day. We both cried for about the next ... well, until recently we both have cried, I think, every day. And it has been 4 years, 4 months to the day since Ray told me. I don't cry all the time now, and I can even tell people and talk about it without crying - even though many days I feel terribly, awfully lonely.
Our divorce was final about a year ago, and then he decided to do the interview with the Washington Blade. He felt like he had to do that in order to begin to sing again. And he had been writing, and he wanted to be honest with his old fans, rather than let them assume he was still who they thought he was (straight). He knew he could have kept quiet, but he felt that to do that would be deceptive, and he isn't a hypocrite. The article was published online on Sept. 12, 2008, and then the *&^% really hit the fan. Letters came to our post office box, e-mails FLOODED the website, and people even found Ray's unlisted address and sent him boxes of his own CDs, along with mean, judgmental notes that demanded refunds.
I get all the correspondence, which is okay. I can disregard most of it - even though I sometimes want to lash out. That wouldn't do anyone any good, and it wouldn't show anyone the heart of me or of Ray. We still love each other, Ray always believed that God would change him, and Ray always thought he could live out his life without ever acting what he was feeling in his heart. But the depression, the self-hate for just who he was, not for anything he DID, was killing him, and he is now honest, real, and himself, if you know what I mean.
And I can go on, but it's hard. It's sad on both parts. I'm sad for you and for your husband - and I know you need someone to talk to. I would welcome talking to you in person ANY TIME. You are welcome to continue writing, or I will call you, or you can call me. There are not many secrets any more, and I would love to talk to YOU. Perhaps there are ways you could help ME! I'm still working through this - and expect to be for some time.
If you decide to call, here is my cell number: ### ### #### It's just a temporary number, so call me soon. I'd love to hear from you.
Bless your heart - for all that we are going through, there must be some good come of it. For your kids, for my kids, I know it will make them more understanding of people with problems. Nothing works out like we were told, but all our kids are still Christians. I'm thankful for that - and they are closer with their dad, even though he lives far away. They talk often, and we all keep in contact. While I was typing this, Ray called me to fill me in on his new record. Things are so different - but I'm okay. :)
I don't know how to close this - there is more to say, LOTS more, but it's late and I'm going to finish. Please write again, or call me.
Your friend,
Carol Boltz
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The Bell Jar
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Dr. Nolan, Esther's primary psychiatrist after she attempts suicide, is everything her mother is not. Unlike Mrs. Greenwood, Dr. Nolan understands how a bright, ambitious young woman such as Esther might chafe under the dominant social expectations for women to be subservient to men. Significantly, Dr. Nolan identifies Esther's relationship with her mother as a contributing factor in her depression. Dr. Nolan serves as an alternative mother figure for Esther in the novel by showing Esther that her future does not have to be the same as her mother's.


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NEW DELHI: The CII seems to have blinked. Just when its headline-grabbing stand-off with Narendra Modi appeared set to escalate, the influential industry lobby has chosen to sue for peace.
Threatened with secession by a large section of Gujarat's industrialists led by Karsanbhai Patel of Nirma, CII director general Tarun Das today handed over a letter of regret to the state's chief minister in Gandhinagar. Framed in the "let bygones be bygones" tone, Mr Das' letter reads like a fervent appeal for restoration of ties that Mr Modi had threatened to snap after he was attacked by Rahul Bajaj and a few others on February 6 for the handling of the post-riot situation in the state.


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A while back, Tropical Traditions sent Lynn and I big jar of Virgin Coconut Oil and a book all about coconut oil, how it is made and the Tropical Traditions Company. Thank you Tropical Traditions – for the oil and book – I love a company who wants to educate the consumer about themselves and their product!
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A Quote by Walter Lippmann on courage, duty, fulfillment, good, heroism, honesty, hope, inspiration, life, men, sacrifice, and wishes
Upon the standard to which the wise and honest will now repair it is written: You have lived the easy way; henceforth, you will live the hard way. . . . You came into a great heritage made by the insight and the sweat and the blood of inspired and devoted and courageous men; thoughtlessly and in utmost self-indulgence you have all but squandered this inheritance. Now only by the heroic virtues which made this inheritance, can you restore it again. You took the good things for granted. Now you must earn them again. . . . For every right that you cherish, you have a duty which you must fulfill. For every hope that you entertain, you have a task that you must perform. For every good that you wish to preserve, you will have to sacrifice your comfort and your ease. There is nothing for nothing any longer.
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Pixelligent Technologies has proposed the development of a unique, reversible, photo-bleachable material that could enable a new generation of photolithography for the semiconductor industry. The progressive shrinking of features in integrated circuits has been a driving factor in the "Moore's Law" phenomenon of ever smaller, faster, cheaper chips. It has been due, in large part, to a series of innovations in lithography that has made it possible for photolithographic equipment using light at a wavelength of 193 nanometers to reliably image circuit features far smaller than the wavelength, with the current state of the art being about 65 nm minimum feature size. The next step down in size will require even more complicated tricks. One approach, called double patterning, involves making two separate exposures using two slightly offset patterns to image features much smaller than would be optically possible with a single exposure. The process is extremely complicated and error-prone in part because of the need to remove and reposition the wafer between exposures. Pixelligent's approach is to add a "reversible contrast enhancement layer" (R-CEL) that can be selectively bleached in one pattern to allow the lithography light to go through, reversed to an opaque state, and then rebleached for the second stage pattern. The application of R-CEL could extend the existing optical lithography infrastructure down to 32 nm technology and beyond, while reducing lithography operating costs by eliminating extra steps and overlay errors associated with the conventional double patterning process.
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With the war in Iraq and the recent controversy over Senator John Kerry's statements about troops, serving our country is often a political and divisive issue. But with Veterans Day just a week away, some Eastern Kentucky veterans and officials who are reminding people to support the troops.
In the midst of the war in Iraq, one community is gathering to honor veterans, soldiers serving overseas, and to educate youth about the importance of the military. Saturday, Attorney General Greg Stumbo came back to his hometown of Prestonsburg to celebrate those who have served their country.
"If you look at veterans, they don't quit serving even after their military experience is over when they come back to their communities," Stumbo said.
Stumbo cosponsored a bill that has made Veteran's Day a state holiday in Kentucky. He says the state does more than just let kids out of school for the day.
"What's required by law is veterans groups or some veterans come to the school and talk to the kids about the experience of serving in the military," Stumbo said.
One local veteran say the law is good way to show children what military service means to our nation's history.
"By letting them see us and the way we carry our duties on at the D.A.V. or wherever there's service, that would be a great influence on them," said U.S. Army Veteran Odell Branham.
But some veterans are saying they don't want issues with the current war to affect people's feelings towards the troops.
"I think the people of the United States need to remember our troops and especially with what's going on right now. Regardless if you're a Democrat or Republican, we need to support our troops," said U.S. Army Veteran Duane Hamilton.
"They're serving so that we can if we choose criticize the war. We're not criticizing the troops. They're there under the command of the President," Stumbo added.
Stumbo and these veterans hope the region will at least support the troops in Iraq whether they agree with the war or not.
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Flatiron secures $70M contract to construct new Lake Champlain Bridge project
(Longmont, Colo.) June 8, 2010 - Flatiron, one of the nation's largest transportation and infrastructure contractors, was awarded a $69.6 million contract by the New York State Department of Transportation to construct a bridge that will connect Crown Point, N.Y., and Chimney Point, Vt. Flatiron was the low bidder of eight contractors vying for the contract. The project is the company's first in New York.
The original 80-year-old bridge was demolished in December because inspections deemed it unsafe. The new bridge, spanning 2,200 feet over a narrow stretch of southern Lake Champlain, will be constructed with conventional steel girder approaches and a modified network tied-arch main span. The main span will be assembled on land and then floated and hoisted into position.
AUDIO: Flatiron's Mark Mallett, project manager, talks about the Lake Champlain Bridge project.
Construction has begun with completion slated for the fall of 2011. Eighty percent of the project's total cost is being funded by the federal government. The balance of funding will be split evenly by Vermont and New York state governments.
"We are excited to have this opportunity to work in New York and look forward to more opportunities in the area," said Tom Rademacher, Flatiron CEO. "We anticipate a successful partnership with NYSDOT."
Flatiron, with a construction volume of $1.04 billion in 2009, is one of the leading providers of transportation construction and civil engineering in North America. Its core competencies include major bridge, highway and rail projects. Flatiron also operates as a contractor in public-private partnership projects. Founded in 1947, the firm is a subsidiary of HOCHTIEF, one of the world's leading international construction service providers. Further information is available at http://www.flatironcorp.com//.
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Fabian Cancellara was well fancied to defend the time trial title he won in Beijing, although recent weeks have not gone according to plan.
The Swiss rider, who fractured his collarbone earlier in the season, lost a time trial to Wiggins at the Tour de France and then suffered a heavy fall during Saturday's road race.
But x-rays revealed heavy bruising and no breaks and he returned to the bike yesterday for training ahead of Wednesday's 44 kilometre race around Surrey, starting and concluding at Hampton Court Palace.
"I am an optimist and now I hope the training will show if the position on the time-trial bike suits me and if I can go forward," he said.
"I feel better with every hour passing. The pain is still there, but I am in good hands. I am a hard man. I've had a lot of things happen this year.
"I have to look ahead to the next few hours and days to come to try to get the maximum potential of a good feeling in my body. Now I have to see how I sit on the bike.
"Maybe everything turns out okay. The mental aspect is important. I have two legs and I can ride. I have been training many, many hours for the Olympics. We will just have to see how it goes."
Swiss team doctor Andreas Goesele likened his injuries to whiplash and claimed doping regulations mean he has been able to prescribe limited painkillers.
While Cancellara sweats on his fitness, Wiggins has been staying in a luxury hotel in Surrey, enjoying a few five-star treats as he seeks to win his seventh Olympic medal – and fourth gold in a fourth Games appearance.
"Brad against the world when they're all on their own, he can wrap that up," said team-mate David Millar.
"He's got such incredible form and he's in such good spirits. I think we'll get our gold medal there."
One of Wiggins's other rivals will be fellow Brit Chris Froome, who played a supporting role to the 32-year old at the recent Tour de France, where they finished one-two on the podium.
But Froome admits he is feeling the pain from three weeks on the tour and Saturday's men's road race.
"At the moment, the tank is empty," said Froome, soon after Saturday's road race. "I'll be able to tell how I feel about the time trial when I wake up on Wednesday morning."
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Crystal Quest Chapter 2: At the Blind Monk
Posted 05 April 2012 - 11:05 PM
Hinckley, renowned thief and spy extraordinaire, meets with a shadowy figure in a dark corner. However, he has unknowingly been followed.
"Ahh, Hinckley. There you are. I was beginning to think I'd be stuck in this den of stinking drunks all night..."
"My apologies, sire. I was delayed on the road from Albion. There were soldiers, and-"
"No matter. Here is the map you were told of."
"Heed my words carefully, thief: you are to follow this and my written instructions to 't', otherwise your life will be forfeit. Either by myself, or the guardian who keeps safe the prize I seek."
"Yes, milord."
"Now, I trust your compensation has been adequate?"
"Indeed it has, milord."
"You have one fortnight to accomplish the task, or else. Do. Not. Disappoint me."
Just outside, Sharra Foxpaw and Dornir Threeleaves listen to the crytpic conversation.
"Interesting. What do you think the halfling thief is after, Sharra?"
"I have no idea, Dornir. However, I have a hunch that we must get to this 'prize' before he does at all costs. The fate of all Historica may well hang in the balance..."
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The Minifigs are great and have a lot of personality.
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I like how you set up a static build that seems so dynamic from different vantage points.
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Posted 06 April 2012 - 05:51 PM
Anyhow- nice minifigs and a good progression on the story. I feel like we are really getting into telling the stories round here now. Thanks to SoT I suspect in part. Weave that story JC!
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W3C HTML Validation and Search Engine Optimization
It has been a while since I have posted some of Virante's research to the blog, and a good friend and former COO Bob Misita called me out on it. I figured I would release some of the data from a recent study we did on the relationship of W3C HTML Validation and web page rankings. Because validation is quite complex, we chose to take a macro-look rather than our traditional methodology of getting individual sites into the SERPs via sitemaps and then tweaking individual independent variables.
In particular, we looked at the W3C validation of approximately 100 separate keywords in Google, Yahoo, MSN Live and Ask. For each keyword, we extracted the top 10 ranking sites, measured the number of errors via a W3C validation check, and used multiple statistical models to determine whether the individual rankings of the sites could be associated with validation error numbers.
The more rudimentary statistics are all we needed to fairly easily dismiss the assumption that validated content will perform better in the search engines – that is, in G,Y,M or A.
The erratic nature of average # of validation errors compared to the ranking position is fairly evident from the graph above. But, rather than assume that the data from the averages of all 100 keyword searches was accurate, we decided to look at the least squares regression for each and every keyword on each engine (400 different result sets).
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|MSN Live
As you can see, the slope of the Least Squares Regression Line is barely positive, the largest being Yahoo's at 3/1000. If the confidence levels were high, you could assume that for every 333 validation errors removed from your page, you could see your rankings rise by 1 point. However, the confidence levels were not sufficient and, perhaps most glaring, fewer than 2% of the sites tested had greater than 333 validation errors (meaning the vast majority of sites could not benefit from such a change).
|MSN Live
Even though validating sites appear to do better in Live and Ask than in Google and Yahoo, we can quickly counter this by looking at the aforementioned regression slopes. It is possible that W3C validation may play a role in being indexed (although I think this is unlikely). Importantly, we saw similar variation in the sites the 4 search engines allowed to rank – meaning that there appears to be no threshold score required to rank in any of these search engines.
So, there you have it. One less thing to worry about. While I still think HTML Validation is a worthy cause in-and-of-itself, one would be hard-pressed to prove that it is directly, positively correlated, much less causal, in regards to one's search rankings.No tags for this post.
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Good post. I agree, as much as I support the idea of web standards, when it comes to ranking in search engines I find it has little to no effect whatsoever. It is very useful for other things, but search ranking: I also very much doubt it. As a technical thing search engines are good at working around markup mistakes, and instead concentrate on "social" factors to determine ranking (e.g. number of inbound quality links etc).
I think when "web standards" were being pushed a few years ago, people kept saying that it would help with search engine ranking. It *might* help with indexing however, but I find that it only helps as much as just being sure you have a page that is not broken then a search engine is more able to parse it.
One only has to look at the 1,000+ validation errors that Amazon.com has and compare that to how much money they are making with their absolute disaster of site by any W3C Validation standard.
Yes, you have one more evidence to prove there is little if any corelationship between W3C validation and your search engine rankings. We have observed it countless times that you need do the basic on-page optimization, develop useful content and build lots of quality inbound links to be able to rank well in the major search engines.
Also interesting to think about is the possibility that sites that have many errors would tend to be sites that are more poorly developed overall with less internal linking, poorer onsite SEO factors, and more violations of SEO guidelines such as pop unders, hidden text, banned mx servers and mal ware, etc.
Another interesting test would be page load time and its affect on rankings. Clearly Google thinks this is a quality issue for web pages and have begun working this factor into AdWords landing pages.
Validation might be a quantifiable indicator or "smell" of other aspects of code quality, such as clean markup.
While page rank is obviously an important factor, cleaner code can dramatically increase search engine relevance by increasing the search term to page weight ratio.
Nice to have you burst the bubble on all the often-arrogant, know-it-all, anal-retentive validation junkies.
I have said it before and I will say it again, Validation is most important to meet the compliance of different browsers (human related) rather than SEO purposes. It never hurts to validate anything of course, but as far as your crawlability it has very little to do.
great post, i've watched this topic discussed, but no one has used any data to support their reasoning
thnx for really putting some solid evidence out there of why wc3 validation doesn't effect rankings
I disagree even though your evidence and mapping supports your case, you're only taking a few web sites and plotting them on a graph for certain key terms. I recently had an issue with not getting indexed with MSN or LIVE.com. I contacted MSN directly and they told me to validate and resubmit and it will improve.
"We are sorry, but StopScraper has determined that your IP address is associated with a scraper."
Ehh, ok? Normal RSS-feed usage. Default setting in app to check every hour. My IP is probably available in the admin interface of this blog. I now have changed to check every 12 hour. Please remove the block, since I find your stuff interesting. Thank you!
I like that this post, even with measurably relevant data, still leaves the discussion open, but more focused.
However, I consider that if a page looks bad to a visitor, then it will look bad to a bot; and vice versa. Mack asserts this point quite effectively in regards to browser compliance. If you have great rankings, but surfing your site in Opera means only using shortcut keys to navigate – the odds are that you'll loose a sale or exposure. That's just how it goes.
So, validation doesn't matter, eh? Because HTML validation was not 'perfect' for these sites, I'm curious to see how the script and CSS coding of these same sites perform against validation? Identical ratios would convince me that it's not a *ranking* factor, but a *user experience* factor (and aren't the two equally relevant to organic search?).
Thanks for recharging the debate!
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It was a night to remember for one Kameda brother at the Bodymaker Colosseum in Osaka, Japan, on Tuesday, and a night to forget for another.
While Tomoki Kameda made the first successful defense of his WBO bantamweight title with a unanimous-decision victory over Immanuel Naidjala, older brother Daiki Kameda dropped a split decision to Liborio Solis in a junior bantamweight title unification bout.
One judge scored it 115-113 for Kameda, while the other two had it 116-112 for Solis.
Daiki Kameda retained his IBF title, however, as Solis came in 2.5 pounds over the 115-pound weight limit the day before. The WBA belt that Solis brought into Japan now becomes vacant.
Though Solis (16-3-1, 7 knockouts) had an almost full division's weight advantage over Kameda (29-4, 18 KOs), it was Kameda who came forward most of the time. Solis, a native of Maracay, Venezuela, preferred to box more. Still, much of the action was ugly, as the two tangled often, to the point of drawing warnings from referee Tony Weeks for holding and hitting.
The loss was the 24-year-old Kameda's first since 2011, when he lost the WBA junior bantamweight title to Thailand's Tepparith Kokietgym in the same building. Kameda had previously won the WBA flyweight title in 2010, making two defenses before moving up in weight.
Earlier in the night, 22-year-old Tomoki Kameda (29-0, 18 KOs) handled business in outboxing his Namibian opponent by the scores of 119-109, 118-110 and 117-111.
Kameda, who is the first Japanese fighter to win a WBO belt after the organization gained recognition from the Japanese Boxing Commisson earlier this year, had a much tougher time in his first defense than in his title-winning effort, as the previously unbeaten Naidjala (17-1-1, 11 KOs) never stopped coming through 12 rounds.
The two Kamedas are part of Japan's first family of boxing. Their older brother Koki Kameda has held versions of the junior flyweight and flyweight titles, and currently holds the "regular" WBA bantamweight title, though Panama's Anselmo Moreno is currently recognized by THE RING as the WBA bantamweight titleholder.
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Derek Fisher keeps track of the Warriors. He checks their scores. Watches the highlights. Stays in touch with friends on the team.
And he has memories, although he doesn't exactly describe them as fond ones, of his two seasons with Golden State.
"It was a great experience because it taught me what life is like when you're not on a winning team," Fisher, the Los Angeles Lakers point guard, said. "I still regret that I wasn't able to figure out how to make it work. Seeing them struggle makes me sympathize with the guys there."
Fisher was saying this, by the way, in a raucous Staples Center locker room after yet another Lakers victory earlier this month. Times are good at the NBA's Hollywood branch outlet. The Lakers, so far this season, again are the class of the Western Conference.
And with the Warriors playing the Lakers tonight at Staples, let's just say Fisher has a greater appreciation for where he is now after having been at Golden State.
He's not just along for the ride, either. While the Lakers are built around reigning MVP Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol and emerging force Andrew Bynum, Fisher is a glue player who quietly helps hold everything together.
His importance can be hard to quantify because his game isn't flashy and his numbers hardly stand out — 11 points, 3.3 assists and 2.6 rebounds in about 29 minutes a game. All he does is start every night alongside Bryant, play good defense, work Phil Jackson's triangle offense to perfection and, by all accounts, be the best teammate a player could want.
"Derek just has a presence," said Ronny Turiaf, who signed with the Warriors from the Lakers last summer. "He has such a high basketball IQ. He always makes the right pass at the right time. He does everything correctly. He's just a professional."
His Warriors days
Those qualities are why the Warriors offered Fisher a $37 million, six-year deal in 2004 after he had won three NBA titles with the Lakers.
Only it didn't work out. Instead of guiding the Warriors from the wilderness, Fisher got pulled down by a franchise in a decade-long tailspin.
He still can't — or won't — say what went wrong. But Fisher, 34 and in his 13th season, does offer an interesting comparison about the difference between playing for a good team and a bad one.
"The best way to sum it up is that when you're winning, you feel like you're playing a game," he said. "But when you're losing, it feels like work. It's like punching the clock, like so many Americans do. You feel like people who might not enjoy their job, might not like their boss or the people sitting in the cubicle next to them. That's what you feel in a losing situation."
Fisher thought he could bring a winning mentality. Instead, without Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal to occupy defenses, Fisher was exposed as more supporting actor than leading man.
He posted some of the best numbers of his career, including averages of 13.3 points, 4.3 assists, 2.6 rebounds and 1.5 steals in 2005-06. But the Warriors continued to struggle, and the trade that brought Baron Davis from New Orleans cost Fisher his job.
A playoff moment
Traded to Utah in the summer of 2006 for three no-names — Keith McLeod, Andre Owens and Devin Brown — Fisher came back to haunt the Warriors in an unforgettable manner that still tugs on the heartstrings.
During the 2007 playoff series between the Jazz and Warriors, Fisher traveled to New York with his 10-month-old daughter, Tatum, for emergency surgery to treat retinoblastoma — a rare, cancerous tumor of the retina. Fisher returned in the third quarter of Game 2 to a thunderous standing ovation at Salt Lake City's EnergySolutions Arena. In a spine-tingling moment, Fisher hit a three-point shot in overtime to help the Jazz win the game and go on to take the series.
The best news of all is that Tatum continues to do well.
"Our doctor says the chances of the cancer returning are very, very low," Fisher said. "So we're optimistically cautious. You couldn't really tell what she's been through in terms of any visual impairment. We're fortunate."
He wears a pink wristband in Tatum's honor and sometimes plays with a blue one for a little boy they met who also suffers from the disease and isn't doing as well.
After the 2007 season, Fisher persuaded the Jazz to release him from his contract, and he re-signed with the Lakers. (Hard feelings remain in Utah over suspicions that Fisher, who said doctors told him Tatum would get better treatment in Los Angeles, used his daughter as an excuse to get back to the Lakers.)
His homecoming coincided with the Lakers' return to the NBA elite.
"He understands the triangle offense better than most players," said Warriors Coach Don Nelson. "Most point guards don't enjoy passing and then going to the corner to shoot. They want to be more involved. But he's the perfect guy in that offense because he's willing to do it. He just blends in."
But his value goes beyond Xs and Os. Fisher, also president of the NBA Players Association, is a calming influence on a team that has the drama magnet Bryant.
"He shows everyone else how to carry themselves on a daily basis," Turiaf said. "You watch how Derek is doing something and you say to yourself, 'Oh, then that's how I should be preparing and taking care of my body. That's how I should act.' He's always setting the right example."
And even though he once again has become a fixture in L.A., Fisher still has a warm spot for Oracle Arena.
"I always appreciated how fans kept coming out even when it didn't look promising for the team," he said. "We still would get 15,000 fans. I hope the guys there understand that. A lot of teams that aren't competitive get 8,000 fans. It's a great basketball atmosphere."
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Softbank Seeks to Sidestep U.S. Minefield With Sprint
Softbank Corp., in talks to buy a majority stake in Sprint Nextel Corp., is seeking to avoid the pitfalls that have soured investments in the U.S. telecommunications industry by the biggest phone companies.
Sprint said yesterday that it's in talks to take a "substantial" investment from the Japanese carrier. Softbank, Japan's third-largest mobile-phone company, also plans to buy MetroPCS Communications Inc. through Sprint, the Nikkei newspaper reported. Softbank stock plummeted today amid concern that turning around unprofitable Sprint will prove costly.
Foreign companies, including Deutsche Telekom AG, NTT DoCoMo Inc. and France Telecom SA, have struggled to profit from investments in the world's largest economy -- whether because they overpaid or lacked sufficient oversight of assets. Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA is worth one-fourth less than it was a decade ago, and NTT DoCoMo wrote down most of the value of its stake in the predecessor to AT&T Inc.'s wireless business.
"The track record hasn't been great," said Christopher Watts, an analyst at Atlantic Equities LLP in London. "The history is littered with examples of telcos that tried to enter the U.S."
Softbank tumbled 17 percent, the biggest drop since its 1994 debut on Japan's over-the-counter market, to 2,395 yen at the close of Tokyo trading, on speculation that the costs of the deal will outweigh benefits.
"Investors tend to worry more about the financial burdens initially when it comes to any major purchases, rather than hopes for growth," said Takashi Oba, a senior strategist at Okasan Securities Co.
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To lessen risks, Tokyo-based Softbank is discussing buying majority control, two people familiar with the matter have said. It's considering the deal after Overland Park, Kansas-based Sprint lost two-thirds of its value since 2007, even after the rally that more than doubled the stock this year. Sprint, which had plunged 68 percent from five years ago through yesterday, was little changed at $5.76 at 10:26 a.m. in New York.
The decline underscores the difficulty Sprint has faced in competition with larger carriers Verizon Wireless and AT&T, and the urgency of its effort to attract outside investment.
"With Sprint, you are not paying a huge premium for the equity," said Michael Mahoney, senior managing director at Falcon Point Capital LLC in San Francisco. "Valuations are relatively low."
The same can't be said of the era more than a decade ago, when the U.S. wireless industry was booming, and foreign companies led by Deutsche Telekom and NTT DoCoMo raced to gain a foothold in the nascent market.
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Bonn-based Deutsche Telekom acquired Voicestream Wireless Corp. for $35 billion near the height of the telecommunications frenzy in 2001 in a transaction that helped saddle it with 64 billion euros ($82.8 billion) in debt and led to the decision to replace then-CEO Ron Sommer. After failing to make the investment needed to turn T-Mobile USA into a viable rival to bigger carriers, Deutsche Telekom tried in vain to sell the company to AT&T for $39 billion last year.
"It's been a disappointing return on investment," Mahoney said. "They bought at the peak of the bubble."
A U.S. foray by Tokyo-based NTT DoCoMo foundered too. NTT DoCoMo invested about $10.2 billion in 2001 and 2002 in the company then known as AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in its bid to spur adoption of the more advanced wireless services available in Japan. It later wrote down most of that stake as U.S. markets swooned and some services failed to gain traction.
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NTT DoCoMo bet that games and mobile payments would take off in the U.S. as they had in Japan, said Maribel Lopez, a wireless analyst and founder of Lopez Research LLC in San Francisco. Those services didn't amass a wide following on this side of the Pacific until years later, with the advent of smartphones and more robust wireless networks.
"Telecom used to be about ringtones," she said. "Now it's about games and mobile-data apps."
Some of the failed foreign efforts came in other areas of telecommunications.
Sprint -- then a long-distance provider -- joined France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom in 1996 to form Global One, a venture to provide voice and data services. The effort was unprofitable and France Telecom bought out its partners in 2000.
Concert, a venture between AT&T and British Telecommunications Plc designed to sell phone, data and Internet services to global companies, broke up in 2001. It failed to reach sales targets amid a network-capacity glut and competition from smaller rivals.
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"Several of these partnerships look good on paper," said Jan Dawson, an analyst at Ovum Ltd. "But when the rubber hits the road, the synergies don't pan out."
Foreign efforts to harness U.S. growth occasionally fare better. U.K.-based Vodafone Group Plc bought AirTouch Communications, a wireless carrier, in 1999 and merged it into a joint venture with Bell Atlantic Corp. that later became Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. wireless service provider.
Vodafone benefits from its 45 percent stake in the company, which yielded a record service-profit margin of 49 percent and the highest-ever average revenue per contract user of $56.13 in the second quarter. Verizon Wireless announced a $10 billion dividend in July 2011, the first since 2005, though Vodafone investors have been waiting for its partner, Verizon Communications Inc. to approve the payout.
'Tremendous Investment'
Softbank could give Sprint a fighting chance against Verizon Wireless and AT&T, which according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. together control 75 percent of the market for U.S. contract customers. Softbank may also help Sprint buy full control of Clearwire Corp., a wholesale U.S. wireless carrier that's already 48-percent owned by Sprint.
Sprint stands to benefit from backing by Softbank in a market that requires heavy investment in network upgrades and large subsidies to offset the price to consumers of expensive handsets such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone, said Avi Greengart, a research director at Current Analysis Inc.
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Dragons and Power Puff Girls and Avengers, OM!
When people find out I am a Cosplayer, I get a lot of reactions. The most common one is disbelief. I am a homemaker and Real Estate Investor and I dress very conservatively. You don't really expect your Landlord to go home at night and be working on a superhero outfit, but that is what I do to get ready for Dragon*Con.
I started planning costumes for this year's Dragon*Con at last year's Dragon*Con. My boyfriend and I head down with around 40 of our friends and a lot of us Cosplay. I am doing 5 costumes this year and three of them are group costumes. I love the group costumes the most because they allow me to spend time sewing with my girlfriends. I'm not a very experienced seamstress, so I tend to need a lot of help. I try to commission what I can, and this year one of my friends volunteered to make me a costume; which is awesome! I'm better at finding materials and items to modify to meet my purposes. Dragon*Con also serves as my motivation for staying in shape. You have extra incentive for hitting the gym when you know you are going to be squeezing into some spandex.
I will be dressing as Bubbles, as part of a group Power Puff Girl Costume; Captain America, as part of a group Avenger's in Ball Gowns Costume; and Dr. Lauren Lewis, as part of a group Sci-Fi's Lost Girl Costume. My individual costumes are Ms. Marvel and Emma Frost. I also have a great Dragon Costume that I pieced together from found items to wear to the nightly Rave at Dragon*Con. If I can finish in time I plan on entering a costume contest as Aleta from Marvel Comic's Guardian's of the Galaxy. Wait, is that more than five?
I have one costume left and just a few days to complete it so I plan on getting no sleep and lots of hot glue gun burns. Possibly even worse injuries since the Aleta costume requires cutting Plexiglas. It will all be worth it when I get to Atlanta, slip out of my conservative look and become part of the spectacle that is Dragon*Con!


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Kara, who had once been El-Zora Ka'al Kara, held the envelope carefully. Paper was a rare commodity on Byshen. Those who were not of House birth saw it once in their lives if they were fortunate. But the families of the seven Houses held paper in their hands on three occasions. Once when a marriage was announced. Once when a birth was announced. And once when an invitation of shthor was extended. Kara knew there had been no impending marriages or births in House De'enth. This envelope then meant House Daughter De'enth Us'guin Ilith had received an invitation of shthor. And there was only one House actively seeking compatible bloodlines in a mate for its heir.
Kara slowly turned the envelope over. The affixed seal was the one she had expected and dreaded – a winged man towering over his defeated enemies, a flaming sword in his hand. House L'u-cif-er, the oldest and most powerful of the Seven Houses.
"Kara was that a messenger just now?" De'enth Us'guin Debor, Ladye of House De'enth entered Kara's accounts room. Other heads of House might leave House business to dsks like Kara, but Debor was involved in every aspect of House affairs. Still, her burdens sat lightly on her face. Though she had borne four living and two stillborn children, Debor retained an appearance of fresh fragility. Kara felt herself to be a lumbering giant in her employer's presence, though she was of medium height and build.
"Has Quinere deigned to send the estimates for the propulsion system?" A slight sneer twisted Debor's lips and there was an acidic tone to her words. House De'enth might have controlling interest in the space merchant fleet, but even they could not control the un-Housed engineers and technicians who served them. Much to Head of Houses' displeasure. "If she were not the best---," Debor's words trailed off as she noticed the envelope in Kara's hands. "What House has honored De'enth?" she said, slipping into House formal, though she already knew what the answer had to be.
Without a word Kara handed her the envelope, seal facing upward. A quick, indrawn breath was Debor's only response. Even after scanning the contents, she said only, "Have Ilith sent to my rooms when she returns from her classes."
Kara lowered her head in silent assent, as her employer swept from the room.
She found it almost impossible to concentrate on her work that afternoon. Finally, when she had added the same column of figures five times and come up with a different total each time, she pushed the accounts aside and stepped outside in the House garden.
Byshen's eco-system was a harsh and narrow. Its settlers had fit themselves in to the available niches and survived, even thrived, but it was a world suited to grains and roots, not trees and flowers. As a result, its gardens were usually of rock and stone, as austere and unyielding and lasting as its people.
At the center of House De'enth's garden was a flat, eleven circuit labyrinth. Each path led to the center and back again to the rim. Kara walked the familiar paths, seeking to soothe her troubled thoughts.
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This popular text combines theory, research, and applications to teach college students how to become more self-regulated learners. Study skills are treated as a serious academic course of study. Students learn about human motivation and learning as they improve their study skills. The focus is on relevant information and features designed to help students to identify the components of academic learning that contribute to high achievement, to master and practice effective learning and study strategies, and then to complete self-regulation studies whereby they are taught a process for improving their academic behavior. A framework organized around six components related to academic success (motivation, methods of learning, time management, control of the physical and social environment, and monitoring performance) makes it easy for students to understand what they need to do to become more successful in the classroom. Pedagogical Features include Exercises; Follow-Up Activities; Student Reflections; Chapter-end Reviews ; Key Point; and a Glossary.
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…darker than gods pocket ~ Trevor South It's that time again. I had fun putting some of my favorite dark, moody, ominous photos together in hopes of coaxing a poem out of you. (If you're new to Photo Poems check out this post or this one and you can read some of the wonderful poems […]
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Ducks Unlimited Government Affairs Office staff joined 200 golfers and congressional agriculture staffers to play in the 2013 Ag Open on Sept. 3 in Queenstown, Md.
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The 35-year-old had been one of the west Londoners' few shining lights this season, having joined in June following spells at Blackburn and Tottenham.
Nelsen made 21 appearances in all competitions but has now agreed to leave Loftus Road to take up his first managerial role.
"This was too great an opportunity to turn down," Nelsen said at a news conference.
The defender must still negotiate his exit date though and will play for Rangers at the weekend.
"Nelsen is under contract with QPR until June 30th 2013, however, he has requested to enter dialogue with QPR boss Harry Redknapp to discuss when he will join up with his new club," read a statement.
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It is unclear whether the job in Canada will also see him make a playing a return to MLS, having made his name there during a four-year spell with DC United.
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Barbara Howe's body was found in the trunk of the car parked in a lot in Middletown on Nov. 1. Her daughter had reported her missing four days earlier.
No arrests have been made despite 75 tips from the public and a $10,000 reward.
Her daughter, Donna Wesselman, says she thinks her mother, who lived in a retirement village, knew her killer.
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Sugarland has a long tradition of treating concert-going fans to cool cover songs, and there's one in particular from the duo's summer tour that shows the crowds who's Boss.
During the duo's request-friendly 2012 In Your Hands Tour, Kristian Bush took the lead to perform Bruce Springsteen's classic "Atlantic City." Bush's rendition of the song became a fan favorite and one of the most requested songs of the tour.
"Nebraska was my first Springsteen album, and 'Atlantic City' was the first Bruce song I ever learned," says Kristian of his decision to add the cover into this summer's set. "I loved it from the moment I heard it, and am reminded every time I play it that a great song is a combination of a great story and a compelling performance. It was an acoustic version on his album, haunting and true, and I love interpreting it as a giant country-rock song."
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Entropy 2011, 13(6), 1200-1211; doi:10.3390/e13061200
Effective Complexity of Stationary Process Realizations
1 Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Inselstr. 22, Leipzig 04103, Germany 2 Institute of Mathematics 7-2, Technical University Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 136, Berlin 10623, Germany 3 Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
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AbstractThe concept of effective complexity of an object as the minimal description length of its regularities has been initiated by Gell-Mann and Lloyd. The regularities are modeled by means of ensembles, which is the probability distributions on finite binary strings. In our previous paper [1] we propose a definition of effective complexity in precise terms of algorithmic information theory. Here we investigate the effective complexity of binary strings generated by stationary, in general not computable, processes. We show that under not too strong conditions long typical process realizations are effectively simple. Our results become most transparent in the context of coarse effective complexity which is a modification of the original notion of effective complexity that needs less parameters in its definition. A similar modification of the related concept of sophistication has been suggested by Antunes and Fortnow.
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The other day, the kids told me they were going with their dad to see "the Facebook movie."
They knew the actual title is The Social Network, but they, like everyone else on the planet, refer to it by the default title. As recent Facebook page owners, they were giddy about going.
I'd already seen it, so I decided to throw out a word of caution.
"It's not about Facebook," I said. "I'm not sure if you're going to like it, because they basically sit around and talk about business. It's about lawsuits."
They were surely going to fall asleep halfway through. That was my guess.
I was wrong. Not only did they both love it, but Jake emerged from the theater with a revelation: "I've gotta get into Harvard."
Since then, he's researched the school online and made a vow to buckle down in school to up the grade average. Hey, works for me! Go for it, Zuckerberg Jr.
Clearly, this is a generation impressed and enthralled with all things online. Especially if it's about them, which is why they're such Facebook devotees.
What could be better than telling the masses what's on their mind at any moment?
What could be better than sharing their thoughts, feelings, jokes, photos, likes, dislikes?
Here's what could be better: a generation that's focused a bit less on themselves. Much has been made about whether we're raising a future society of narcissists - people who are fully confident in who they are but severely lacking in empathy for others.
That worries me sometimes. My kids are definitely more confident and outgoing than I was at that age, and the same can be said of their friends. And yes, they're all really into themselves. Kids, by nature, have always been a little self-centered. I think they have to be to figure out who they are.
But if I raise two kids who can't put themselves in someone else's shoes, I've failed. That's really my first priority as a parent, and I won't know how I've done until they reach adulthood.
But every so often, life offers a glimpse into the future.
The other night, Emily was at a sleepover so I took Jake to the Texas Road House for dinner. (It's become "our place" on the rare occasions that it's just the two of us.) Afterward, as we sat at a light near the freeway, he asked, "Will you give that guy some money?"
What guy? Until he said that, I hadn't even noticed the bearded man standing on the side of the road, strumming his guitar. Jake had pointed him out a few weeks before; at that time, he wondered aloud about the guy's circumstances and added, "Just think: Once he was just some kid, like me."
As I maneuvered into the left lane and grabbed my wallet, a 20-something guy jumped out of the passenger seat of the truck behind us and gave the guitar player some cash.
We then inched up and I handed him a $5 bill. After he thanked us and we made the turn, Jake became quiet.
"Are you happy we did that?" I asked, curious why he wasn't saying anything. Then I noticed big tears in his eyes.
"I don't get why I have a home and he doesn't," he said.
I tried to explain that sometimes people make the wrong choices or get addicted to drugs or alcohol. Or maybe life just hasn't been fair. Who knows?
Jake tried his best to hold back tears and remain a tough 11-year-old boy, but he was clearly hurt. At a red light, I reached over and gave him a hug, suddenly fighting back tears of my own.
"You have the biggest heart, Jake," I told him. "And that's the best kind of person out there."
My son may not follow in Mark Zuckerberg's footsteps and make a billion dollars. He may not make it into Harvard. But I'm already very proud of the adult I suspect he'll be.
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Hey, I've been having a weird problem with my subs recently that seems to only happen when multiple subs are displayed at once (such as Karaoke for an anime). For some reason every other english line goes missing. For instance it will display:
namima ukabu chiisai fune
The small boat that floated between the waves
Then next it will display:
yurari yurari nagasarete
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umi no mukou shiranu kuni
To that unknown country beyond the sea
It will just not display the english text every other line displayed. This has consistently been happening to me for a while now. Are there any fixes to this, or is it at least a known bug?