text: GameShow producer who started off as just the average ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' Tournament of Champions winner in 1969, but then entered the game show trade himself. At first he worked with the other major production companies of the era, but his most prominent work came at [[Creator/MarkGoodson Goodson-Todman]], where he helped produce ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' from 1972-78 and created the short-lived quiz show ''[[Series/DoubleDare1976 Double Dare]]'' (the one with Alex Trebek).Wolpert's time at ''Price'' is most notable for the Showcase skits that debuted in 1974, where his fertile mind went to work on creating fairy tale parodies, film parodies, and stuff like Captain Klutz and the April Fool's Showcases. After leaving ''Price'', Wolpert started his own production company and became responsible for some of the most unconventional and experimental game shows on television. Thankfully, one of his most downright-ridiculous creations, ''[[http://www.usgameshows.net/x.php?show=DuelInTheDaytime Duel in the Daytime]]'' (essentially a MinigameGame with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvMDSBkyP7w an overly-medieval motif]]), didn't make it past the pilot stage.He also worked on two Goodson revivals for first-run syndication: ''The New Price Is Right'' with Doug Davidson (1994-95), and a revival of ''Series/MatchGame'' hosted by Michael Burger (1998-99). His longest-running show ended up being ''Series/ShoppingSpree'', a show he created for [[Creator/ABCFamily The Family Channel]]; unlike just about every other show he produced (which ended up being so good, [[ShortRunner they got canned after the networks found out they were on the air]]), this one lasted for two seasons.After ''Spree'' ended, Wolpert's company stopped producing new shows, but Wolpert continued working with others and dabbled in screenwriting a bit too. He was credited for the script of ''Film/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', story in ''[[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl]]'', and as a consultant for the "Super Mix" (2010-15) changes to ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire''. He also has a cameo as a doctor in ''[[Film/FatherOfTheBride1991 Father of the Bride Part II]]''.----Several tropes are recurring in many of Wolpert's game shows:* An AnimatedCreditsOpening showing the basic premise of the game (''{{Whew}}, Trivial Pursuit, Series/{{Blackout}}, Shopping Spree'');* Suspenseful ThinkMusic during the bonus round that featured alternating notes on each second, as well as repetitive {{Truck Drivers Gear Change}}s (''Series/{{Blackout}}, Rodeo Drive, Series/WaitTilYouHaveKids'');* Bonus losses being punctuated by a unique SignatureSoundEffect (''{{Whew}}, Series/HitMan'') or particularly bizarre LosingHorns (''[[Series/DoubleDare1976 Double Dare]]'', ''Series/{{Blackout}}, Rodeo Drive, Shopping Spree, Series/WaitTilYouHaveKids'')** ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' may also qualify since Wolpert had his hand in the first few years of the current version (the TropeCodifier for LosingHorns) as well as the 1994 syndicated version (which gave us one of the most extreme examples of the trope in the entire genre).----!!Shows originally produced by Jay Wolpert Productions include:* ''{{Whew}}'' (1979-80; at least three pilots were taped December 4, 1978)* ''Pandemonium'' (November 2-3, 1979; unsold pilots hosted by Steve Edwards)* ''Duel In The Daytime'' (August 22-23, 1981; at least three pilots, hosted by Peter Tomarken)* ''Series/HitMan'' (1983)* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq0k55aIHm8 Fortune Hunters]]'' (August 19, 1983; unsold pilot hosted by Robert "Bob" Hadley)* ''[[http://www.usgameshows.net/x.php?show=FastFriends Fast Friends]]'' (November 28, 1984; at least two pilots, hosted by Bob Goen)* ''Trivial Pursuit'' (1986-87; at least four pilots, hosted by Steve Morris and Linda Marr {although the latter was removed for the '87 attempt}; Wink Martindale would later create his own series based off the game in 1993 for The Family Channel, and 2008 saw the Hasbro-backed ''Trivial Pursuit: America Plays'')* ''Series/{{Blackout}}'' (1988; pilot taped November 8, 1986 with Robb Weller hosting)* ''Series/{{Skedaddle}}'' (1988; part of ''The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera'')* ''Rodeo Drive'' (1990; began as a 1980 CBS pilot hosted by Peter Tomarken)* ''Series/WaitTilYouHaveKids'' (1996-97)* ''ShoppingSpree'' (1996-98)----


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So this stress test I actually hopped on for some Elementalist action, and was extremely disappointed to see that whenever I use tornado or mist form, my character basically turns invisible, and the effects are not rendered at all.
I fear this issue will most likely carry over to animations of a similar nature. Has anyone had a similar experience? If so, were you able to fix it?
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Additionally, I had most of my settings maxed out and was running pretty good FPS. (35+ anywhere but WvW).
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Now, I am happily married to a woman with ZERO interest in Aikido, and she would frown mightily on my starting up a "Aiki-romance." However, it seems to me that if two people have a mature and healthy relationship off the mat, that they came remain so on the mat. I know a number of couples who happily practise together.
However, some people tend to unheathy relationships. If an student or instructor who had a reputation as a "swordsman" (or woman) used the dojo as a place to prowl for conquests then no good would become of it. (I have heard plenty of stories about what meat markets gyms can be - I'll stick with Aikido)
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My baby had a febrile seizure and I wonder what % of febrile seizures are fatal and also what % end up resulting in permanent brain damage?
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The National Institutes of Health. In short, there doesn't seem to be any relation between febrile seizures and death. There is no indication of brain damage and there also doesn't seem to be a major link with epilepsy, although the numbers are a bit higher for some children.
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There is no evidence that febrile seizures cause brain damage. Large studies have found that children with febrile seizures have normal school achievement and perform as well on intellectual tests as their siblings who don't have seizures. Even in the rare instances of very prolonged seizures (more than 1 hour), most children recover completely.
Between 95 and 98 percent of children who have experienced febrile seizures do not go on to develop epilepsy. However, although the absolute risk remains very small, certain children who have febrile seizures face an increased risk of developing epilepsy. These children include those who have febrile seizures that are lengthy, that affect only part of the body, or that recur within 24 hours, and children with cerebral palsy, delayed development, or other neurological abnormalities. Among children who don't have any of these risk factors, only one in 100 develops epilepsy after a febrile seizure.
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The Strategy: Ms. Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat and Harvard law professor, confronted questions this week over her reported Native American roots. The campaign of Sen. Scott Brown, her Republican opponent, used the issue to question her credibility, and other GOP operatives raised questions about whether she had used her ancestry to advance her academic career.
Ms. Warren's belabored response to the issue distracted from her efforts to promote an image of integrity as someone who has fought for those without power, mostly by challenging banks and other financial institutions on behalf of consumers.
The issue arose when the Boston Herald reported that Ms. Warren had for years listed herself as a member of a minority group in a legal directory, because she had distant Native American relatives. The newspaper also reported that the law school in 1996 had cited her minority background in response to complaints that its faculty was too male and too white.
There is no evidence that Ms. Warren gained a job or a promotion by asserting minority status. The only known context in which she identified herself as a minority-group member is in the 1986-95 editions of the directory of the Association of American Law Schools. Her major stints of employment as a law professor were at the University of Houston Law Center from 1978 to 1983, the University of Texas School of Law (1981-87), the University of Pennsylvania (1987-92) and Harvard Law School (1992-present). Officials from all four schools issued statements, released by the Warren campaign, saying they had hired Ms. Warren on the basis of merit.
In an interview, a representative of the University of Texas School of Law said that, in response to press queries, the school was searching its files to see if Ms. Warren identified herself as a member of a minority group in any documents relating to her job application or hiring. The search isn't yet complete, but "so far no one has turned up anything that indicates she said that,'' said Kirston Fortune, assistant dean for communications for the law school.
Still, the question hovered for several days. Ms. Warren said family lore held that she was connected to the Delaware and Cherokee tribes; the Warren campaign failed to document a connection. She said she had listed herself as a minority-group member in hopes of meeting others who shared her background. Eventually, a New England genealogist said he had found a record suggesting that Ms. Warren was 1/32 Native American.
No candidate likes to spend day after day on defense, so Ms Warren tried in different ways to shift the focus back to Mr. Brown—for example, by attacking him for taking advantage of provisions of the Obama health-care law, which he voted against, by keeping his 23-year-old daughter on his family insurance policy.
Midweek, the Warren campaign launched a new television advertisement in which President Barack Obama sings the candidate's praises. In the ad, Mr. Obama cites Ms. Warren's advocacy for the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as "a new independent agency that would have one simple overriding mission: standing up for consumers and middle-class families." The ad's launch was planned before the ancestry controversy surfaced, but it turned out to be a well-timed thrust in her effort to define herself rather than be defined.
The Result: Critics said the Warren campaign's inability to quickly quell the ancestry matter was a sign of Ms. Warren's relative inexperience as a candidate. It remains to be seen if the dustup has any lasting effect on Ms. Warren's profile among voters, but Republicans were delighted to see a star Democratic candidate spending so much time on defense in a race that will depend greatly on how voters are introduced to her.
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The next day was Belize. We should have just stayed on the ship. What a dump. I am not sure why carnival and other ships even stop here. It was filthy, and the shops had the EXACT things as the next one, we tried to haggle a little and made a bargain or 2, but really, it is just a filthy port and not worth the time to get off the ship for the 30 minute tender ride to the port. The ride back to the ship took about 40 minutes to load the small tender, and it was HOT inside with limited windows, they packed you in like sardines and the motor was kept running and so the noxious gasses were filling up inside and many of us got off and waited till more joined and the boat was full.
The next day we arrived in Cozumel. When we got to Cozumel, we did the Chankanaab dolphin park, booked off the web site as it was cheaper and we would get there faster than the ships tour. The taxi ride was $11 to it. We arrived about 30 minutes before the folks from the ship and got a great shaded cabana near the lagoon and bar. We brought our own pringles and peanuts and booze, so we only paid for a few cokes to mix with our rum. It was well worth the $ to swim with the dolphins, and as an added treat, we got to swim with the manatees even though we did not sign up for it. The cost to buy the pictures starts at $35 for one picture. The place is great to just enjoy with out the dolphins or manatees. Their beach is quite long, well maintained and they have places to snorkel, a little lagoon area for the kids to do snorkeling bar and food service on the beach as well as a restaurant and a large gift shop. We did see a rainstorm moving in and decided to leave and we got back to the taxi terminal just in time for torrential downpour! Most of the shops closed down so we didn't have time to shop, but we had been there many times, so really we didn't need any junk anyways
The last day port day was Grand Cayman. What a lovely Island. It was so beautiful and clean. We rented a car off the web from Grand Cayman Auto and it was only $80 total. We even got upgraded. The cost once there was a bit more (about $120 for the smaller car, $140 for the one we were upgraded to). DRIVE ON THE LEFT! It was fun driving all around. First we went to Hell, and then spent about 20 minutes at 7 mile beach, and then everyone else from the ship got there so we left. We then drove all the around the island, stopping at various beaches and visited the blow holes, and the pirate caves. We had lunch just before we got to rum point and then we went to rum point. The folks from the ship were there already as well and there were still plenty of chairs to enjoy. The water was a bit murky, probably because of all the people. Gasoline was $5.53 the day we were on the island a gallon. We only used 2.75 gallons to tour the whole island!
Next day we arrived in Mahogany Bay, Roatan. It is a very clean port that carnival paid a lot of money to fix up. There is a "village" of all the tourist shops like Del Sol, Diamonds International, and Piranha Joe and Fat Tuesdays and so on. It was well manicured and looked like a botanical garden. We booked a tour through eh ship to Mahogany Bay island retreat with snorkel and lunch buffet. The ride to the beach was on an overcrowded boat and about 20 minutes. It was a nice section of beach that is also very well maintained. There is a small "zoo" really just birds in cages and some ocicats. They also have nice snorkel gear and a large well maintained gift shop as well as very nice restrooms and changing rooms. The long pier to go snorkeling off is very well maintained. Once you get in the water, there is a small place to stand and get your gear on properly, and then there is a path that you follow to get between the coral reef out to the drop off area. There is a pool with many tables and loungers and on the beach there are many loungers and tables to enjoy both in the sun and the shade. The lunch buffet was pretty wimpy compared to ones on half moon cay I have been to. Also, you could only go thru the line one time, so when I went to get salad, they marked my wrist tag, then when I went to get the main meal, they tried to deny me, and I was trying to explain that I had not eaten my meats and beans. After about 5 minutes of arguing, they finally let me eat my meal! Once again the rain found us while we were enjoying lunch, but it was a brief hard rain and then it was over.
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Japanese-Americans revisit southern Idaho's internment camp
Internees unload at the Minidoka detention camp near Twin Falls. At its peak, the camp held 9,397 people of Japanese ancestry and was the eighth largest city in Idaho. Photograph courtesy National Archives and Records Administration (# 210-CMA-R-4).
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The bus rocked across rutted dips as it worked its way through the sprawling, fertile farmland on the outskirts of Twin Falls, Idaho. The rich, irrigated greenery of this place stands in sharp contrast to the barren scrub desert Takeshi Yoshihara remembers from 67 years ago, when he and his family were taken from their Portland, Oregon, home by the U.S. government, put on a train, and brought here, the middle of nowhere.
"The land has turned so green. It is so different," he said quietly as he gazed through the bus windows. "It looks beautiful, not what it was back then. It doesn't yet bring back memories."
Yoshihara, 78, and his 21-year-old grandson, Andrew, have joined more than 100 others from around the country on this annual pilgrimage to the former Minidoka World War II Japanese Internment Camp. Six decades ago, armed guards and barbed wire kept nearly 10,000 Japanese-Americans imprisoned here. Yoshihara lived in Minidoka with his parents and eight siblings for four years as a teen. From this internment, he grew up to become the first Japanese-American to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy, and a captain during the Vietnam War.
The pilgrimage is hosted each year by the Friends of Minidoka, an Idaho-based organization that supports education and research focusing on the Japanese-American internment experience and works to uphold the legacy of those who were incarcerated.
Yoshihara is joined on this day by 34 fellow former camp internees. Still more are friends and family. Some have come simply as a call to social justice and to learn more about what happened here more than six decades ago.
"At the Mercy of the Country"
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, authorizing the forced removal and incarceration of more than 115,000 people of Japanese descent who lived in the Western United States. Two-thirds of them were Nisei, the American-born citizens of Japanese immigrants, known as Issei.
The evacuation happened quickly. Families took only what they could wear and carry. Most of what they left behind was sold, vandalized or stolen, and when they were released years later, they re-entered a society still seething with anger over the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.
As Yoshihara said, "When my family left the camp, we literally had nowhere to go. We were at the mercy of the country."
For Aya Uenishi Medrud, 84, the chaos began immediately after Pearl Harbor. FBI agents arrived at her home in Seattle in the middle of the night, handcuffed her father, accused him of being a "dangerous enemy alien," and took him to a Department of Justice detention camp for suspected "troublemakers." She was 16 years old.
She describes how the agents ransacked the entire house, including her bedroom, where they dumped her dresser drawers on the floor. As her father was led away, he told her it had become her responsibility to take care of the family. "I was just a girl," she said.
In the days that followed, Medrud's father's assets were frozen. Without a second income to fall back on, her family was adrift. "We lost our property and our house. We had no money at all. We didn't know where they took him," she said. "I could not understand why this was happening to him. He was an accountant and a Buddhist and very non-violent. But I learned since then that it was probably because he also taught martial arts, and that was enough to consider him dangerous at the time." >>>
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What a wonderful and thoughtful piece. It is an amazing story and you did an amazing job telling it. Thank you for sharing.
What a wonderful job. I was a participant at the 2009 Minidoka Pilgrimage as well. Your article was most thoughtful and thought provoking and captured the spirit of what the Minidoka Pilgrimage is all about. Thank you for a job well done.


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Leon Powe wanted to play another season with LeBron James, but unlike the fans in Cleveland, the former Cal star wasn't angry that the NBA's biggest free-agent prize bolted the Cavaliers for Miami.
"He said he didn't have an idea of where he wanted to go until he woke up," Powe said of James' decision last Thursday to join Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in South Beach. "Some people believe him, some people don't. I can't fault anybody for making a business decision, a family decision. I know him a little bit, too."
Powe played alongside James with the Oakland Soldiers traveling team for portions of two summers while in high school.
The two were reunited in Cleveland last season, with Powe seeing action in 20 late-season games after recovering from a knee injury suffered while playing with the Boston Celtics during the 2009 playoffs.
"As a teammate, I wanted him to stay," the 26-year-old Oakland Tech High graduate said.
So did Cavaliers fans and team owner Daniel Gilbert, who felt betrayed by their star player and Akron native.
"The city of Cleveland, they raised him, watched him play for a number of years," Powe said. "I heard all the comments. I can understand why they're upset."
By the time James and the Heat visit Cleveland next season, Powe expects fans will have gained some perspective. "He's going to hear some boos probably, but he'll get some cheers, too," Powe said. "He gave them a lot. He brought a lot of business to the city. He just felt it was time to go."
For many in Cleveland, the issue wasn't simply that James left, but that he announced the departure in a one-hour special on ESPN. Even NBA commissioner David Stern suggested the idea was ill-conceived.
"I'm pretty sure he didn't want it to come out like that where it looked like he was rubbing it in their faces," Powe said.
No one has sold that notion to Gilbert, whose remarks in an open letter to fans were so caustic that Stern fined him $100,000.
"I haven't been here that long, but they've got a different relationship. It probably was a good one until he left," Powe said. "The owner wanted him. He was a little bit emotional."
Set to begin his fifth NBA season, Powe is eager to help fill some of the void left by James. Powe and his family are living in Pleasanton this summer while he works out at Cal, and he said his knee is 100 percent.
Powe averaged 4.0 points and 3.1 rebounds last season. The Cavs put a 20-minutes-per-game limit on him after he returned.
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Apparently, there's been a whooping cough outbreak in the U.K. recently that has resulted in the death of at least 14 children. The solution - and one that seems to be working to limit that threat - is vaccination. A program of vaccinating pregnant women has helped to limit and reduce the toll of the disease. It still astonishes me that only 60 percent of prospective mothers are participating, but the positive effect of this proven intervention is nonetheless apparent. Vaccinate now. Remember this chart and share it.


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For 38 years 60 Minutes viewers watched in awe as Wallace did just that: sitting down with his hero Martin Luther King Jr., interviewing Presidents and, in a moment he later regretted, infamously reducing Barbra Streisand to tears. And on April 7, six years after retiring and four years after triple bypass heart surgery, he died at 93 in a long-term care facility in New Canaan, Conn. "Mike Wallace filled the room when he walked in," recalls CBS News chairman and 60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager. "He was loud, full of life and often arguing with somebody-just larger than life."
Born Myron Wallace in Brookline, Mass., to Russian immigrants-a wholesale grocer and his disciplinarian wife-Wallace told PEOPLE in 2006 that he was meant to be a journalist. "The combination of my mother and father's personality traits was a good mix for an investigative reporter," he said. "A strong work ethic, a strict doggedness for perfection and then an affable good humor and empathy."
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He honed his edgy interviewing techniques while hosting two late-night news shows in the 1950s, Night Beat and ABC's The Mike Wallace Interview. But in 1962, following the shocking death of his son Peter at 19 in a mountain-climbing accident, Wallace had a professional epiphany. "I knew that the only work I'd do for the rest of my life would be my serious, substantive journalism," he said. "I wanted to do something ... that would have made Peter proud." A year later he became a full-time journalist for CBS and in 1968 helped launch 60 Minutes. "It suited him perfectly," says correspondent Lesley Stahl. "He was fearless and could ask questions that you can't even dream up, and he did it without difficulty."
His interview subjects would agree. Wallace had a knack for producing I-can't-believe-he-said-that moments, including, perhaps most notably, when he informed Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had referred to him as a "lunatic." His 1996 interview with tobacco industry whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand was the basis for the 1999 film The Insider (Christopher Plummer played him onscreen). But the story he felt was most controversial was his 1998 interview with Dr. Jack Kevorkian, which included footage of Kevorkian assisting with a suicide. "We were accused of crossing the line," he said. But "we thought it was in the public interest." No matter the story, "he was going to get to the truth, and that's what motivated him," says Fager. "That's the instinct of a great reporter."
He was willing to expose the truth about himself as well. In 2005 he disclosed his long battle with depression. According to Wallace, a 1982 libel suit brought by Gen. William C. Westmoreland-whom Wallace alleged in a documentary had lied about the strength of enemy forces-triggered such anguish that he attempted suicide. (The case was later dropped.) "I tried to end the pain with sleeping pills," Wallace said. "Thank God Mary found me. She saved my life."
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Rummy Ruminations – and the El Presidente RevisitedFriday, November 23rd, 2012
The new issue of Drink is out. The theme for this issue is rum, well known as one of my favorite topics. Fittingly, I got to write not one, but two articles. . . (more…)
The new issue of Drink is out. The theme for this issue is rum, well known as one of my favorite topics. Fittingly, I got to write not one, but two articles. . . (more…)
The Daiquiri at the Havana Club, straight from the pages of Graham Greene
While in Havana, when I wasn't drinking Mojitos I could often be found in close proximity to a Daiquiri. I already discussed the Daiquiri in detail here, so there is no need to say too much more. Still, it would be a shame not to share a few observations on how the drink is made in Cuba.
As mentioned previously, I had an article on the Mojito published in a China bar industry magazine, Drink (??). Drink does not have a website yet, but you can read the article here.
Street scene outside the famous Bodeguita Del Medio, the little bar that has spent well over half a century promoting itself as the spiritual home of the Mojito
The tropical heat can be a killer, and while in Havana I made sure to stay properly hydrated by drinking lots of Mojitos. This constitutionally prudent habit turned out to have useful side effects, such as affording an excellent opportunity to learn how the Mojito is made in the country of its birth. Little did I know at the time, but the long hours spent lapping up knowledge in stifling barrooms would eventually provide the launching pad for a prestigious writing career with China's preeminent drinks industry magazine, imaginatively entitled "Drink". Naturally, I got started by writing about Cuba's famous export.
Art Deco meets Neoclassical in the lobby of Havana's Hotel Nacional
Freely as the rum flows in Havana, the selection is limited. Most rum countries are like this, but Cuba may be unique in the total lack of imports. Even Bacardi is conspicuous only in its absence. No Bacardi is remarkable enough, but even more peculiar is that many Cubans name Bacardi as their favorite rum. More on that curious situation later. . .
Revolutionary decor in Havana's Coppelia ice-cream parlor
Well over a year after I left the place, I'm finally writing about Cuba. I didn't stay as long in Cuba as I would have liked. The lack of Internet in Cuba made work, and hence a lengthy stay, difficult. My stay lasted only five or so days, but during that time I devoted myself fully to drinking in the sights – and the rum.
I left Guatemala on a dawn flight, transited in Panama, and was in Havana by early afternoon. From arrival Cuba had its own unique feel. Havana airport was slightly worn, but red painted girders and splashes of yellow made it seem bright and cheerful.
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Mixology Monday has rolled around and get and brought with it the theme of rum. The host of Mixology Monday XXVII is Trader Tiki. To be honest, this was never intended to be a Mixology Monday post. However, since the drink includes rum I guess I get a handy Mixology Monday entry for minimal effort.
I was rearranging my booze cupboard when I remembered I had a bottle of Kola Tonic that had never been used other than to make the Filmograph – from Ted Haigh's Vintage Cocktails and Forgotten Spirits. (more…)
Having tried passion fruit with pisco, my next experiment was to try it with rum. Ed Hamilton mentioned that one of his favorite drinks was rhum agricole, mixed with passion fruit, lime and a little cane syrup. So rhum agricole was my starting point. . .
Having made some quality grenadine, the next step is to find some drinks to try it in. Three drinks immediately come to mind, the Clover Club, the Pink Lady, and the El Presidente. The Clover Club and Pink Lady are simply grenadine sweetened and flavored gin sours, while the El Presidente is a complex rum, orange Curacao and vermouth affair that gets a gentle lift from a teaspoon of grenadine. (more…)
So this time round, Mixology Monday (hosted at Kaiser Penguin) is about wickedly potent drinks – i.e. drinks you cannot safely drink more than one of. I didn't have to think too long about what drink to write about. Since picking up a copy of Ted Haigh's Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails, the Early Fogcutter has been a big favorite of mine, and one too rarely enjoyed. That being the case, Mixology Monday gave me a great excuse to mix one up.
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A few men emailed me after I wrote How to Get a Man to Do Housework. They told me that they did the majority of the work around their homes, and that their wives were the ones who were the complete slobs. I also heard from some women who fessed up to their messy habits, complaining about their annoying clean freak husbands who just didn't know how to relax.
They're all right. I should have titled that post: how to train a slob to clean a house.
Or something like that.
Anyway, today, I bring you part 2, and I write it mostly for women (and men) like myself, who just can't seem to relax when the house is a mess. We like to think of ourselves as right and our untidy TV-watching, trash-on-the-floor throwing spouses as wrong.
But the truth of the matter is this: our Dearest Disorderlies are the ones who are calmer and happier. We're the ones who are stressed out, uptight, and unhappy. It's quite possible that we could learn something from them.
This blog, by the way, is in no way an attempt to get a slacker who does nothing around the house off the hook. I'm not arguing for the merits of an unequal distribution of household labor. I'm only saying this: All of the communication in the world will get our houses only so clean. Unless you have the means to hire a housekeeper who comes daily, you'll have to learn how to accept at least some of the mess, especially if you have children.
Indeed, one of the things they never tell prospective parents is this: once you have a child, you will never again have a clean house. Similarly, you will never again get a good night's sleep, with the exception of those times you take an Ambien and go sleep in a hotel away from your family. (More on other things they never tell parents-to-be tomorrow).
Once you have children, there will always be a mess somewhere in your house, even right after you've cleaned it. Unless, of course, you've tied up said kids and locked them in a closet for an hour or two so you can enjoy the fruits of your cleaning labor before it all becomes undone in a matter of minutes. Although I'm sure Child Protective Services would tsk tsk about you doing such a thing, all I can say is this: I've thought of doing it myself. Only thought it, mind you.
So what should the clean freaks among us do when confronted with the mess that is known as parenthood?
Be proud of your mess. Here's something that they also don't tell you about parenthood and marriage: Every house has a mess somewhere. Some messes—like toys all over the living room floor—are easier to see. Others—like a sexless, loveless marriage—are more invisible to the untrained eye. I don't know about you, but I'd rather have old banana peels on my floor than a husband who doesn't love me. Just saying. There are worse things in life.
Be realistic about your mess. Many of us clean freaks worry about our messy houses the most when someone else comes to visit. I can't tell you, for instance, how many moms have told me, as soon as they've opened their doors, "Oh my God, my house is such a mess. I'm embarrassed to have you stand in my entryway." I can't say I've ever heard a father utter such words, but there I go being sexist again. The point is, whenever someone has greeted me at the door with a "my house is such a mess," it was a cue for me to try to find the mess. Most of the time, I just couldn't. Most people don't notice other people's messes. They only notice their own.
Be considerate about your mess. Please don't clean your house before I visit you. Not only is it unnecessary, it's downright selfish. You see, your mess makes me feel better about my mess. Cleaning up your mess right before I stop by is your way of saying, "I'm better than you. See? My house is clean!" But if you leave the dirty laundry on your living room couch, it tells me, "Yeah, I suck at this parenting thing, too. Are you as overwhelmed as I am?" I say, "Yes I sure am." Then you tell me that you love me, and I tell you that I love you. And then I make sure my house is even messier than yours when you come to visit.
Nightmare on Clean Freak Street
This weekend I experienced a Clean Freak's worst nightmare. My parents called me Saturday morning, asking if they could visit Saturday afternoon. In my house, Sunday is cleaning day. I have a 4 year old, a husband, and a dog. You can just imagine what my house might look like 6 days after cleaning day. It's not good.
I looked at the dishes in the sink, the dried banana remnants on the floor, the greasy dog footprints on the living room carpet, the hand prints on the glass door, the dirty clothes that were scattered here and there, and the toys in every conceivable place. I'd be leaving in 20 minutes to take our daughter to a birthday party. My parents would arrive within moments of our return. There was no way I'd have time to clean. I said, "Sure, come over. I'd love to see you."
I hung up, scraped the banana off the kitchen floor and went to the party. Later, my parents were a little late, so I also had time to wash the dishes and hide the dirty socks and underwear.
When my parents walked in, my mother's first words were, "What's all over your carpet?"
"The dog must have stepped in grease or something," I said. "We're planning on cleaning it up next year."
She laughed. I'm glad that I did my part to make my mother feel good about her own house cleaning abilities, you know? She doesn't have a kid or a dog; she has a cleaning lady. But she deserves to feel good about her house. And whenever she needs a self-esteem boost, she's welcome to come to mine.
Peace-of-Mind Pointers
- Try to pinpoint the point when a normal amount of mess spills over into an anxiety-producing mess. Try to find that sweet spot where you can feel calm with just enough mess, but not out of control with too much of it.
- Keep a mess free zone somewhere in your house, somewhere you can go to chill out and relax. Mine is my office. It's where I spend a majority of my daytime hours. No toys are allowed in my office. And I don't like husbands in here, either. The dog is okay, though, as long as his paws are clean.
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#11911 closed Bug (fixed)
urlizetrunc not taking into account last ')' of a link
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I'm using Django 1.1 , the release version.
The urlizetrunc filter is causing some problems , for example the following link
is rendered as http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...)
(please notice the trailing ')' )
This is not correct , it should take the ')' inside the link.
(As a work-around I'm adding # to my links, which seems to work).
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comment:1 Changed 7 years ago by russellm
- Needs documentation unset
- Needs tests unset
- Patch needs improvement unset
- Summary changed from [BUG] urlizetrunc not taking into account last ')' of a link (example given) to urlizetrunc not taking into account last ')' of a link
- Triage Stage changed from Unreviewed to Accepted
Changed 6 years ago by morty
Changed 6 years ago by morty
comment:2 Changed 6 years ago by morty
- Has patch set
I have attached tests and a patch that fixes this bug as well as #12183.
comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by julien
- Severity set to Normal
- Type set to Bug
Changed 5 years ago by graham_king
Split out just the part for this ticket. Added tests.
comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by graham_king
- Easy pickings unset
- milestone set to 1.4
- Version changed from 1.1 to SVN
This is still a problem in current SVN. I've updated the patch to apply cleanly, to be just for this ticket, and to have tests. All the unit tests pass.
comment:5 Changed 5 years ago by trez
- Patch needs improvement set
- Triage Stage changed from Accepted to Design decision needed
- UI/UX unset
It seems than the real problem come from the definition of punctuation_re:
TRAILING_PUNCTUATION = ['.', ',', ')', '>', '\n', '>'] punctuation_re = re.compile('^(?P<lead>(?:%s)*)(?P<middle>.*?)(?P<trail>(?:%s)*)$' % \ ('|'.join([re.escape(x) for x in LEADING_PUNCTUATION]), '|'.join([re.escape(x) for x in TRAILING_PUNCTUATION])))
The ')' character is not interpreted as a part of the url but as an enclosing character.
The patch provided solve the parenthesis problem but do not solve other cases for other unreserved characters in the TRAILING_PUNCTUATION list.
Valid character accoding to RFC 1738 named as extra are "!" | "*" | "'" | "(" | ")" | ","
For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibiu(Romania). which is the valid (notice the dot at the end of the url)
To completely solve this problem, I think an in-depth rewrite of the punctation_re should be done which should be able to distinguish between
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibiu(Romania) and (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibiu(Romania))
A design decision is needed.
comment:6 Changed 5 years ago by graham_king
Could you provide an example of a live url where this is a problem, with characters other than parenthesis?
comment:7 Changed 5 years ago by jacob
- milestone 1.4 deleted
Milestone 1.4 deleted
comment:8 Changed 5 years ago by aaugustin
- Owner changed from nobody to aaugustin
Changed 5 years ago by aaugustin
comment:9 Changed 5 years ago by aaugustin
- Resolution set to fixed
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July 22, 2010 - 4:52 PM | by: Ruth Ravve
Ieshuh Griffin is running for state office in Wisconsin, and she wants voters to know she is "NOT the white man's bitch".
In fact, she wanted that statement posted under her name on the ballot for state representative, in the place where the candidate's political party would be listed. "Its not racist, its not a slur...its not pointed to a particular person, in my point of view the average politician is a token" Griffin says. Despite that, the state's Government Accountability Board said no, and now Griffin is suing. She says her "freedom of expression" is being "suppressed". GAB spokesman Reid Magney says Griffin was denied because "Staff determined that her language used on her declaration of candidacy is perjorative in nature and does not satisfy the requirements of Wisconsin statutes". One board member asked "what if she just said 'not under the white man's influence? Is that okay?". No direct answer was given.
Griffin is running as an independent, to replace State Representative Annette "Polly" Williams, who is retiring after 30 years in office.
On a blog, which says its paid for by "The Poor People's Piece of the Pie Campaign", a statement attributed to Griffin is posted saying "There currently is...an in-depth corruption within our government... SLAVERY, yes SLAVERY has returned in almost every aspect except name".
Here's a link to the hearing where Griffin testified before the GAB: http://www.wiseye.org/wisEye_programming/ARCHIVES-agencies_09.html#
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This women is a ghetto trash racist without a doubt. Public office should be held by those that best represent what is best of us not the worst of us. These behavior should not be allowed in running for office.
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She may not want to be the white mans bitch but she's everyones bitch. Hell, she is a fucking bitch.
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Nor would I want her as my bitch. With a face like that, she won't be make me any money.
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That is quite a platform to run on,I hope it works for her. We have a president that ran on a platform close to that and won,by fooling stupid Americans so it may work for her. If it does not,she can go back on welfare and suck off the working people.
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Don't worry she ain't off it GUARANTIED!!!!
This type of scum knows how the system works better than the socialist who created it. They play it like a fiddle.
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaa!!!! This is classic!!!
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She is a Racist just like the white people who ran for goverment years ago. I hope when she died she go's to hell with all the other racist people, white and black.
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If She changed the slogan to Not Under The White Mans Influence then She would have done so, under the White Mans Influence..
Those blue eyed devils are crafty like that!!!
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The "racist" issue has become the new fad word or euphemism for the words "I don't agree with you on that, especially if you don't like Obama or are caucasian".
She must had some down time between her stops at the welfare office for her check or choking on her brothers dobber for lipstick money.
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If anybody remembers what happened in south Africa when the natives took over what wasn't even theirs to begin with and started killing whites and taking their plantations away.Blacks didn't want to live or work in that area until it was tilled and planted by white people 150 years ago.Now that its prospered,they took it by force.Blacks don't want to work for anything!
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So your saying our country is in the toilet because of the Tea-Party or Obama supporters? Can't be Tea-party people, being they are not the ones that have set this country on the progressive path for the last 100 years. Must be the Obama type elites and their supporters would be my guess. She is racist. Not the white mans bitch. These are the people that Obama attracts. I just hope people like you keep underestimating the Tea-Party and people that support them. Keep calling them nuts, crazy, rac More..
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I don't believe in that NWO crap. More people have things in common with the average Teapartier than they do with the average liberal progressives. This country is not divided its more of a 60/40 split and thats centre-right. Moderates and Independents are moving father away from Obama and Progressives. Media doesn't change core values and beliefs, they may sway opinion and can get a virtual nobody in office. When the shit hits the fan and peoples eyes wake up, slick speeches don't matter only a More..
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accept the fact that the tea party is a non racist multi racial group who is trying to make sure america doesnt get fucked in the ass by Obamanation and other idiot liberals who want to smother her.
this chick a failure. "Not the white mans bitch!" the only bitch this chick is, is her mack daddies.
seriously when will these people get over the white man thing - its fucking annoying.
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I remember about one year ago on liveleak ,most of the propaganda post by right-wingers were about health care, then suddenly its swapped for the race debate....
You are not hiding your pathetic racist agenda very well
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You seriously have to be kidding me. Liberals OWN the race card. They have perfected it to an art form. Let me ask you a question Sport! Do you think this woman is racist?
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if you think the right is racist, the left must be the fucking devil of racism because the left is the only one who spreads the race card on a daily basis.
the right at least waits for someone to say some racist shit to call them racist.
the left just calls everyone who disagrees with them racist.
they called the tea-party racist for christ sakes...the tea party is a multi coultural group of concerned AMERICANS.
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Are you fucking serious? You read a story like this and your first reaction is anger at the person or "party" that lets that information out?
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you are the bigot!
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Don't be surprised. This is standard operating procedure.
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~she ain't no white man 's bitch!
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Lonely little crack whore.
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It occurred to him that what had appeared perfectly impossible before, namely that he had not spent his life as he should have done, might after all be true. It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false. And his professional duties and the whole arrangement of his life and of his family, and all his social and official interests, might all have been false. He tried to defend all those things to himself and suddenly felt the weakness of what he was defending. There was nothing to defend. (11.12)
Ivan now reaches the conclusion that perhaps all of his life was false. Not just his work life, but also, his family life, his friendships, and everything he pursued was false. What's more, he places the blame for this on others. Ivan's been misled by his own social surroundings into living a false life. Everyone else around him (except Gerasim) is part of the same false social world.


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He has tried to get an answer from a half-dozen online retirement-planning tools, but they have hardly clarified the picture. He now has competing estimates of his savings at retirement that range anywhere from $500,000 to $2 million. Each tool asked for different pieces of information, and each produced a different answer. "You'd think these guys would all use the same basic financial computations," muses Rudy, who lives in Richmond, Va. "How or why they come up with such different answers, I don't know."
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We had the same experience. We created a simple financial scenario in which a young couple -- call them Jim and Jenny -- have amassed $100,000 in Jim's 401(k) retirement plan, to which he will continue to contribute $12,000 a year over 30 years (he also receives a $1,000 employer match). We ran our criteria through five online planning tools (though not all were the same ones Rudy used), and we wound up with five radically different projections of the total savings Jim and Jenny would have at retirement and their income afterward.
Which tool gave the most accurate results? We have no idea. Only time will tell whether these 30-year forecasts have any validity. What we can say, after quizzing some of the providers of the tools and digging into the fine print of how they work, is that retirement-planning software is as much art as it is science. Although some programs have impressive graphics and can calculate thousands of scenarios in just seconds, we didn't come away with a high degree of confidence in any of their findings.
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No piece of software can predict the future. The best it can do is calculate probabilities based on a long list of assumptions. These assumptions can include such things as the rate of inflation, investment returns, tax rates, spending needs and how long the user will live. Fidelity's Retirement Quick Check tool, to take one example, requires 28 dense pages to explain how it chooses and weighs each factor; small variations can lead to widely disparate results. For example, adding a single percentage point to an assumed 6% return on $100,000 can mean a difference of nearly $187,000 in your forecasted nest egg over 30 years. "It's like figuring the course of the space shuttle on the back of an envelope," says Boston University economics professor Laurence Kotlikoff, designer of one of the tools we tested and a critic of most of the others. "If you're off a few degrees, you'll end up on Jupiter."
Most of the tools we tried allowed the user to adjust some key assumptions, such as future interest rates, investment returns and life span. However, most investors are hardly qualified to forecast economic factors over the next six months, let alone decades into the future, and none of us knows how long we'll live. On these matters, you're better off accepting the tools' built-in assumptions (generally, 3% inflation and 6% investment return), and planning for a very long life (of, say, 100 years).
A more controversial assumption concerns the amount of money you're likely to spend in retirement. Quick Check assumes you'll need 85% of your preretirement income after you retire. Financial Engines assumes 70%. Both presuppose that a retiree's spending increases at the rate of inflation throughout retirement.
But that's a point of contention. Ty Bernicke, a financial planner in Eau Claire, Wis., says studies show that retirees actually spend less than they did during their working days and that their spending decreases for everything, except health care, the longer they are retired. "Retirees don't take a lot of vacations -- they don't have the energy they used to," says Bernicke. "They don't eat as much, and they don't drive as much." He believes retirement-planning tools could encourage people to save more than is necessary.
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Some critics say financial-services companies use their retirement-planning tools as marketing devices and deliberately set the so-called income-replacement ratio far too high in order to encourage people to invest more money with them. Not surprisingly, James Cornell, a senior vice-president at Fidelity, disagrees. He argues that the demise of traditional pension plans, doubts about the future of Social Security and soaring health-care costs have combined to dramatically decrease retirees' sense of financial security. "I don't think we're trying to get people to save more," he says. "We're trying to get people to be informed, to have a plan."
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Root cause analysis is an approach for identifying the underlying causes of why an incident occurred so that the most effective solutions can be identified and implemented. It's typically used when something goes badly, but can also be used when something goes well. Within an organization, problem solving, incident investigation and root cause analysis are all fundamentally connected by three basic questions: What's the problem? Why did it happen? and What will be done to prevent it?
In the Cause Mapping method, the word root, in root cause analysis refers to the causes that are beneath the surface. Most organizations mistakenly use the term "root cause" to identify the one, main cause. Focusing on a single cause can limit the solutions set resulting in better solutions being missed. A Cause Map provides a simple visual explanation of all the causes that were required to produce the incident. The root is the system of causes that reveals all of the different options for solutions.
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A Cause Map provides a visual explanation of why an incident occurred. It connects individual cause-and-effect relationships to reveal the system of causes within an issue. A Cause Map can be very basic and it can be extremely detailed depending on the issue.
Start on the left. Read to the right saying "was caused by" in place of the arrows. Investigating a problem begins with the problem and then backs into the causes by asking Why questions.
The questions begin, "Why did this effect happen?" The response to this question provides a cause (or causes), which is written down to the right.
The next question is again, "Why did this effect happen?" The cause that was written down last becomes the effect for the next Why question. Anyone who's ever had a three-year-old in their life will immediately recognize how Why questions change a cause into an effect. This is fundamentally how causes and effects link together to create a chain of events. Writing down 5-Whys, shown below, is a great way to start an investigation because it's so simple.
In the Cause Mapping method, a problem within an organization is defined by the deviation from the ideal state. A Cause Map always begins with this deviation which is captured as the impact to the organizations overall goals.
In addition to the standard Why questions, which tend to create linear cause-and-effect relationships, the Cause Mapping method also asks "What was required to produce this effect?" Anything that is required to produce an effect is a cause of that effect. This question, "What was required?," builds a detailed Cause Map that provides a more complete representation of the actual issue.
It should be noted that the popular fishbone cause-and-effect diagram starts with the problem on the right and builds the causes to the left. It was created by Kaoru Ishikawa (1915-1989) in Japan. The fishbone diagram builds from right to left because the Japanese language reads from right to left. The Cause Mapping method actually uses Ishikawa's convention by asking Why questions in the direction we read.
The fishbone is widely recognized as one of the standard quality tools. Ishikawa was a pioneer with his approach. The fishbone cause-and-effect diagram is part of every six-sigma program. A Cause Map builds on the original lessons with the fishbone with some subtle, but important distinctions. A fishbone starts with just one, single problem which doesn't reflect the nature of real world issues. It reads right to left because the Japanese language reads that direction. It mixes causes and possible causes without specifying evidence. And, it breaks apart the fundamental cause-and-effect relationships within an issue by grouping the causes into general categories.
The 5-Why approach is an excellent example of basic cause-and-effect analysis. Just as a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step; every investigation, regardless of size, begins with one Why question. The Why questions then continue, passing through five, until enough Why questions have been asked (and answered) to sufficiently explain the incident. The 5-Why approach, created by Sakichi Toyoda (1867 - 1930), the founder of Toyota, is a simple way to begin any investigation. A Cause Map can start with just 1-Why and then expand to accommodate as many Why questions as necessary. Some refer to the Cause Mapping method as "5-Whys on Steroids."
Problems within an organization are typically not singular. In the real world, a problem typically impacts more than one goal. The Cause Map starts with the impact to the goals even if more than one goal is impacted. If the causes are all part of one incident then the causes and the goals will all be connected on one Cause Map.
ANDs show where more than one cause is required. When an effect has more than one cause, both causes are placed on the Cause Map. Each cause is connected to the effect with an AND placed inbetween. These causes are independent of each other, but they are both required to produce that effect. An AND is needed when people provide different, yet valid, explanations of a cause. People think of cause-and-effect as a simple one-to-one relationship; an effect has a cause. In reality, every effect has causes.