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I'm spending the week at the American Society of Journalists and Authors conference. I co-chaired the conference this year. It was a huge job, one that was time-consuming, but also satisfying. If you are a journalist or author, I hope to see you there.
To ensure you all have something to read while I'm away, I asked Gal Josefsberg if he would mind writing a guest post. Gal is an amateur husband, dog owner, blogger and entrepreneur. His latest start up is a website that promotes gifts ideas for men and women. In the post that follows, he writes about how to keep it sizzling in the bedroom.
My brother in law is getting married. When I told my friends this I got the usual comments that single guys make about marriage (hint: all single guys think marriage is awful until they fall in love). One comment in particular stuck in my head though. It was "well, he can kiss his sex life good bye".
It's a common thing people think about marriage I suppose. You say those vows and somehow sex just stops. Guys stop trying to make an effort and women stop having sex because they no longer need to please their man. Now that's utter horse crap and we all know it, but this comment did lead me to think of the ways in which married sex is better and how to keep it that way.
When You're Married You Can Have Sex ALL THE TIME
That's right kids (wait, I mean adults), married people do indeed have sex. In fact, they have sex a lot more than single people. I was a bit of a player when I was single but my life still wasn't anything like Charlie's in Two and a Half Men (or Charlie in real life I suppose). Married? Well, I'm not going to give you an exact number (because my wife will shank me!) but it's a lot more!
Ways to keep this going? Easy, make time in your life for each other. It's easy when you're dating, each date is a special occasion meant just for the two of you to be together. Once you're married, it's easy to fall into a routine where you spend time close to one another but not really together. You'll work in separate rooms, one of you is cooking in the kitchen while the other is watching a show in the living room or maybe you're both in the same room but doing your own thing. If you want to keep your sex life sexy, you need to make time for that togetherness. I don't care if that's a weekly date night or just going to bed at the same time but make sure you're living together not just in the same house.
The Sex Is Better!
The first time you have sex with someone you barely know is so awkward. Are they into this? Do they like it when I do that? Oh god, please can they do more of that? Why are they doing that annoying thing with their hand?!?! It sucks. Sorry, I know the movies make it that first encounter really sexy but movies lie (A LOT!) Sex as a couple is way WAY better. You know exactly what the other person wants and they know exactly what you like. There's no pressure to perform, no worries about what they'll think of you, only a lot of really fun interactions.
Way to keep this going? Easy, just keep talking. Honest communication is the best way to have good sex, especially when married. Tastes change, people change, bodies change and sometimes you just want to try something new. Feel free, just keep your partner in the loop so to speak. If you really want to her to wear that sexy camisole, ask. If you really want him to fool around in the shower, ask. I know sex can be a touchy subject but that's exactly why married sex is better, because it's much easier to talk about your desire to experiment with blindfolds with your spouse than with a relative stranger.
It's safer, which means less to worry about.
I remember back when I was single how much anxiety was connected to sex. Even with the right protection, things happen. Condoms don't prevent all pregnancies, nor do they stop all diseases. Marriage makes those worries go away. Well, accidental pregnancies are still a problem but they're much easier to manage in a marriage than outside it.
How to keep this going? No real work necessary here but I'd still recommend annual physicals with complete blood work should be on everyone's calendar. They're not just for you, they're also for your wife or husband. I guess I should also mention that you shouldn't cheat on your spouse but that one sort of seems obvious.
You Guessed It
Yes, married sex life is way better than single. You have more and better sex, with less to worry about. So the next time one of your single friends tells you about their awesome sex life, you can just smile and nod, no need to make their life even worse by bursting their bubble.


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Virgin Australia opened a lounge in Mackay last month, and is planning new lounges for Sydney and Gold Coast, while Qantas has a new regional lounge in Emerald and plans another for Mackay.
For business travellers who spend a lot of time outside the decent lounges at Australia's major airports, a mini-lounge concept like Koru Express could well be a draw.
The concept and how it works
Koru Express is a mini-lounge that sits inside the newly built departures gate area for regional turboprop flights departing Christchurch, and is part of the FlyThru cafe. (Staff, food and drink in the lounge all come from the cafe, not from Air NZ.)
The main Koru lounge is a ten minute walk through security (and back), all the way on the other side of the airport's terminal.
Since you only need to check in 30 minutes before domestic flights, there's not an awful lot of point heading up to the main lounge if you're on a regional flight.
That's especially true since there's no security checkpoint for non-jet flights in New Zealand: you just walk up, drop your bags, swipe your boarding pass and board.
The Koru Express design and concept is interesting: it's a partially separated island between the regional flight baggage claim belt and the main departures seating area, blocked off by vertical slats that make it feel semi-private.
Entry is via a Smartgate-style automated gate. There's no Air NZ staff member inside the lounge -- food and drinks are served by the staff in the FlyThru cafe that backs onto the lounge.
So if your boarding pass doesn't have your frequent flyer membership number or lounge program affiliation, you'll need to head back to the check-in area a minute's walk away to sort that out -- you can't just show your (say) Virgin Australia Velocity frequent flyer card at the entry.
Koru Express has a pretty good range of food and drink, in some ways better than the main Koru lounge past security.
You'll find bacon rolls and baked cheese bites at breakfast, various muffins, cakes and bread for toasting, a range of juices and fizzy drinks, and a small selection of beer and wine (but it's Steinlager and Matua, so not as upmarket as in the main Koru lounge).
Signs prohibit pocketing a can of Coke for the flight -- you're only likely to see tea or coffee on domestic flights, and then only on the larger planes -- but there's nothing to stop you doing that.
Tea and Barista coffee is available all day (since the lounge is basically the back side of the FlyThru cafe). The flat white was decently drinkable, and better than the flat white from the main Koru lounge.
There's not a lot of comfort in the lounge: seating is on high stools facing a high work surface for the most part, except for a table of low stools. So you're basically perching at a breakfast bar.
The lack of better seating isn't necessarily a big problem -- if you had more than 45 minutes or so you to wait then you'd probably head through security to the main Koru lounge, which is more comfortable.
You'll find plenty of power points, though, although you'd struggle to plug in an Apple laptop adaptor without the longer cord attached.
Wifi is available, with a decent speed of 5Mbps down and 1Mbps up. Not enough to slurp down a movie before your flight, but more than adequate for email, web browsing and voice-over-IP services like Skype.
Also on offer are the local newspaper and Air NZ's in-flight magazine if there's nothing to read on the Internet.
All in all, Koru Express is a great option for the time-pressed business traveller, and Australia's airlines could well consider something similar for smaller Australian airports where they have significant flights but no lounge facilities.
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Autumn Quarter @ Stanford
September 27th, 2010 by Dan Meyer
Mathematically, what's wrong with this schedule? I mean, it trips me up every time I look at it.
So in case you were wondering:
- CS 106A – Programming Methodology. Mehran Sahami. Introductory Java, basically. My program requires me to do a minor and I'd like to get something under my belt to help me articulate theory to classroom teachers who may not have the means or interest to pick up a journal. Incidentally, everything about this class is available online, even to non-students. [Video. Coursework.]
- EDUC 200C – Introduction to Statistics in Education. Kenji Hakuta.
- EDUC 250A – Inquiry and Assessment in Education. Mitchell Stevens, Susanna Loeb. Towards a research proposal.
- EDUC 325A – Proseminar. John Willinsky, Martin Carnoy. Part one of three classes required of all doctoral candidates. They're trying to get us up to speed on the entire history of schooling, basically. First-week reading included the LA Times value-added kerfuffle. Next week we're into Adam Smith and Rousseau.
- EDUC 329X – Teacher Professional Development. Hilda Borko. What works and doesn't work in professional development? How do you move a professional development program from "boutique" (where the person who developed the program also facilitates it) to a scalable, sustainable program that is effective for non-volunteers and can be facilitated by anybody?
- EDUC 465 – Pedagogy of Teacher Education. Pamela Grossman. How do other professions — nurses, rabbis, pilots, etc. — induct new members and what can teacher developers learn from them?
- Maybe my expectations were soft going in but I love every class. We're doing three-hour blocks and all of the professors, many of whom are known more for publishing than teaching, know what to do with that time.
- I'm also a big fan of my cohort: fifty-ish people, none of whom seem particularly interested in comparing resumes, undergraduate GPAs, Feedburner subscription numbers, that sort of thing, which is great. Everyone seems well aware of what one of the professors said day one, that "we're all here by accident."
- The iPad is chewing its way through grad school and, with printing fees running ten cents per page, it may well pay for itself before this is over. I'm doing Papers for cataloging PDFs,
SimpleNote for notetaking[BTW: SimpleNote scarfed two of my essays, reverting them back to their first saved state. I don't recommend SimpleNote.], Google Calendar for storing assignments.
- If the only outcome of these four or five years is a paper and a few letters after my name, somebody please punch me.
Any advice from those who have been here, any questions from those who haven't yet, you know where to put them.
33 Responses to "Autumn Quarter @ Stanford"
on 27 Sep 2010 at 8:55 am1 Jerrid Kruse
Go back and teach a real classroom. Or at least stay connected to one and actually teach (don't just observe). I completed my PhD coursework and went back and taught 8th grade science for two years while I finished my dissertation. This experience was awesome! I plan to take any sabbaticals I get to teach k-12 students. For god's sake more professors of education need to climb out of the ivory tower and work with kids!
That is my main advice. That, and when you get an assignment that is about collecting/analyzing data use some real data related to your research interests. As you practice analyzing/collecting data, might as well set yourself up for success in the publishing game (if you are planning for a professor-type position).
Cautionary Advice: the bathrooms in CERAS are misleading. They alternate by floor and side of the building and the signs tell you who is not supposed to use them.
on 27 Sep 2010 at 9:45 am3 gasstationwithoutpumps
The biggest problem with the schedule that I see is that CS 106A is not scheduled. If you are relying on doing the course when you have time, you'll end up not doing it.
on 27 Sep 2010 at 10:26 am4 Darren Draper
329x looks like a class I could really use. I'd love to know how to take OpenPD from boutique to scalable solution. Maybe you can help me take the class vicariously.
As for advice, get in good with your fellow cohorters. Good friends now in my cohort carried me through stats and every other hard thing about grad school. I still haven't finished the paper (in IRB now) or received the letters yet, but cherish the relationships we built through all of those boring night classes together.
on 27 Sep 2010 at 10:29 am5 RudeDude
When you come to the part where you are cataloging journal articles and research papers in general… which then need to be regurgitated in MS-Word (or PDF) documents in a bizarre array of formats… you should turn to http://www.zotero.org/ but it may not help you with mis-use and general abuse of elipses (elipsi?).
on 27 Sep 2010 at 10:43 am6 Joe Henderson
Four big pieces of advice (some already mentioned above):
1. I agree with Jerrid. Mingle with kids as much as possible. The best research I see bridges the gap between the theoretical and the practical along the lines of Pasteur's Quadrant.
2. I agree with Jerrid again. Try to focus everything you do towards your dissertation. Time is precious and I suspect that you will want to finish this thing eventually. A laser-like focus at the beginning helps sharpen the final product, I think.
2a. Having said that, read outside the focus area as much as you can (and this will be a struggle). But do it. Some of the most germane literature comes from unexpected places.
3. Plan study/reading/writing sessions with your cohort. Chances are they will be struggling with similar things. I have learned a ton from my own cohort. Fight the creeping isolation of academic life.
4. Last, but definitely nerdiest. Hammer out your ontological and epistemological assumptions about the world. Understanding these will shape the types of questions that you ask, or don't ask. Again, the best research I see continually pushes and critiques these philosophical boundaries.
4a. Oh yeah, good luck:
on 27 Sep 2010 at 11:19 am7 kevin
your Friday class is 50 minutes long but due to how it fills out the calendar looks as though you have 2 hours of class time. Similarly, because your 1:15 spills over to 2:05 on MW, it looks as though you have 2 classes from 2-3. I think that's what you meant by what's wrong with this picture?
on 27 Sep 2010 at 11:21 am8 Joe Henderson
Oh yeah, one more: Get Endnote or Refworks. Get either one now. It will save you days of your life.
on 27 Sep 2010 at 12:35 pm9 @thescamdog
I use Quickoffice on my iPad for notetaking in class. It edits word, Excel and Google Docs. The Word and Excel documents can be saved directly to my dropbox account, and then I can access them from any computer. It was $15, but well worth the price.
on 27 Sep 2010 at 12:55 pm10 Karim @ Mathalicious
Biggest Issues:
1. All the classes are indoors
2. You have class on Friday
I don't know whether you can pull this off as a PhD candidate, but you gotta see if Marsh McCall is teaching a class this semester. Classics. Greek Mythology. Whatever. He's the posterchild for the advice, "Don't take the class; take the teacher." It's 50/50 that he's the reincarnated combination of Homer + Billie Mays, and will do as much as any Ed school class to keep you fired up about the art that is teaching.
@GasStation: great call re: CS 106A. Better call: Jamba Juice 107.
Glad you're enjoying your classes so far.
Piggy backing on what a few others have said, I'd spend the first month or so cateloging everything of any interest in the trial versions of Endnote, Refworks, Papers, AND Zotero (the first three have already been mentioned…the last is what I use. It's free, lives online, and I think it's great). At the beginning of November, pick the one that works best for you.
May be obvious, but be good about writing annotated bibliographies about any reading you do that you think might be pertinent. This is something I struggle to keep up with even after being done with classes.
If you read something that you think will be especially useful, kill a tree and print it out.
Other people have suggested zeroing in on a dissertation question(s) asap…I'll be contrary and advise not to be afraid to change. It's too much work to be doing something you're sort of interested in.
Keep a "random thoughts" file. This can include metaphors, authors you hear about, possible dissertation questions you think of in the shower, etc.
Talk to people in your cohort about their working research questions. Talk to other grad students in other fields about heir working research questions. This might be surprising, but I found this immensely helpful. Talk to friends and family about your own research questions. Keep an evolving list.
Use your "nonstandard" schedule (I won't say free time) to visit some classrooms. And sure, you can take this as an invite. I'm real close.
And what may be my most controversial piece of advice: don't let yourself get caught up in writing and topics that "sound" academic. Write about things you are passionate about and that you think will effect change. Write in ways that are as inclusive as possible so that they have the greatest chance of actually being read by anyone with the actual ability to effect change.
Oh, I almost forgot. What's mathematically wrong? Well there aren't any math classes for one. *sigh*
on 27 Sep 2010 at 2:01 pm13 Jimmy
Mathematically, what is wrong?
We've lost another good math teacher, that's what's wrong.
I look back through your archives and think how much fun it was watching you work and think your way through this incredibly difficult task. I think about reading more and more posts like this one, or even worse, posts about theory disconnected from DAILY practice, and I'm sad. I think about a class of students this year with a math teacher who is less than you were and I'm sadder.
I know everybody wants to be the big cheese and be the big hero. But what we need is teachers, not more professors, advocates, rabble-rousers, or whatever.
on 27 Sep 2010 at 3:20 pm14 gasstationwithoutpumps
For citations, I much prefer BibTeX and LaTeX to EndNote and Word, but I have to do math in my papers, and LaTeX is still the only system that does math decently. (It also has the advantage of being free and stable, unlike almost every commercial package I've seen.)
on 27 Sep 2010 at 5:43 pm15 Scott McLeod
Think ahead to what you plan to do with this degree when you're done. If you have any inkling at all of being a faculty member at a postsecondary institution, you need to get started on the publication/presentation hamster wheel immediately due to 1) the length of time between submission and acceptance (particularly for academic journals), and 2) the expectations of hiring institutions that you'll have several academic publications AND several academic presentations by the time you're on the market (which is typically your dissertation year). If this is even a glimmer in your eye, start talking to your profs about this now…
I'll also echo the comments about starting to master reference software. Pay now or pay later!
This Saturday is my big day to finally submit all of my supporting documents for grad school applications. My plan is to spend the next year watching and learning from your experience. So here's my first question: Why the ipad over a laptop for reading and cataloging?
on 28 Sep 2010 at 8:49 am17 Nico
What's wrong…the time!
1:00pm is not a block, it's a moment.
The time on the left should match with the lines…not the blocks.
I guess I'm kind of agreeing with one of the above messages but essentially that's how I see it.
EDU200C – 01 seems to be in the block of 1:00pm. So it starts 1:00pm and ends…at ummm…the end of 1:00pm? It looks horrible… especially since it's actually 1:15 to 2:05.
Good luck with the courses.
As sad as I am that Dan's children have lost their teacher, I try to focus on the bigger picture. If, once Dan and other amazing educators like him, earn their PhD's and then work to train other teachers how to effectively teach, he will impact many more student lives in the end. I think that this is especially needed in mathematics education, where the subject is often not presented in the most interesting matter. There is a reason that so many students "hate" math class.
on 28 Sep 2010 at 11:06 am19 Elizabeth S
Karim hits the two most important problems with graduate courses at Stanford.
Most important piece of advice for anyone entering a Ph.D. program: Schedule in time to spend with your partner/spouse/significant other. Write it in using permanent marker.
Don't let your partner/spouse/significant other get lost in the shuffle of new relationships.
on 28 Sep 2010 at 11:19 am20 dy/dan » Blog Archive » Guilt Is The New Merit Pay
[…] Jimmy: We've lost another good math teacher, that's what's wrong. [..] I know everybody wants to be the big cheese and be the big hero. But what we need is teachers, not more professors, advocates, rabble-rousers, or whatever. […]
Jerrid: Go back and teach a real classroom. Or at least stay connected to one and actually teach (don't just observe).
Okay. This got me to make good on one of my resolutions. I just e-mailed a local math department head to see if I could hang out in a classroom this semester.
Darren: As for advice, get in good with your fellow cohorters. Good friends now in my cohort carried me through stats and every other hard thing about grad school.
Yeah, this has been the unexpectedly pleasant part of grad school, how much fun the other grad students are. They're effortlessly cool.
kevin: your Friday class is 50 minutes long but due to how it fills out the calendar looks as though you have 2 hours of class time. Similarly, because your 1:15 spills over to 2:05 on MW, it looks as though you have 2 classes from 2-3. I think that's what you meant by what's wrong with this picture?
Right. The proportions are completely wacky.
Scott: If you have any inkling at all of being a faculty member at a postsecondary institution, you need to get started on the publication/presentation hamster wheel immediately.
It'd be a real big bummer (because of the length of your timeline there) to reach my third year and then decide I want to make a run for the tenure track. At the moment, that's pretty low on the list, though.
Jessica: My plan is to spend the next year watching and learning from your experience. So here's my first question: Why the ipad over a laptop for reading and cataloging?
Okay, I'm not gonna lie: a huge part of it is the style factor.
The other part is that I read off an iPad much easier than I do off a laptop. (I also find my laptop more distracting, but that's a personal failing you might not share with me.) The other part is its form, which lends itself really well to the kind of quick, informal show-and-tell that takes place all the time between grad students.
Elizabeth S: Most important piece of advice for anyone entering a Ph.D. program: Schedule in time to spend with your partner/spouse/significant other. Write it in using permanent marker.
Good one.
on 28 Sep 2010 at 6:24 pm22 Stacey Strong
If you haven't met Prof. Shelley Goldman, get to know her quick! And her husband Prof Ray McDermott!
on 28 Sep 2010 at 10:55 pm23 GeekyProf
That's a pretty busy schedule! Do Phd students in your field take so many classes? In my field, that'd be a massive overload in courses.
We tell our incoming Phd students, guess what, we just changed the rules on you. It used to be that your focus in school was on taking classes and doing great in them. Now that you are in a PhD program, classes are secondary; your main priority and main focus should be on your research and your dissertation. YThis one throws a lot of students for a while…
Thanks for the info on the ipad. I'll have to play with one before I make a final decision.
on 29 Sep 2010 at 8:55 am25 Rick Scheibner
Hey Dan, Evernote has a great iPad app and works across several platforms (web, mac, pc, mobile, etc…) Cataloging your .pdf's would be no problem.
on 29 Sep 2010 at 6:27 pm26 Derek
I would like to hear your thoughts on how a few select folks getting to spend every day talking, writing and reading about education are going to actually improve public education.
Wouldn't it be better for all of us if we worked out a system in which EVERY teacher were required to take a semester off every 2-3 years to experience some of what you have the luxury of experiencing.
I'd LOVE to take some time to struggle, read, talk and think with like-minded individuals. I think most public educators would.
Look at the medical field where doctors can both 'practice' medicine and do research. Why should we be so different? Wouldn't it be a better use of resources?
on 29 Sep 2010 at 6:36 pm27 Jerrid Kruse
What is preventing teachers from doing research? I presented and published while a classroom teacher. In many ways doing research as the classroom teacher is easier and more useful.
Just because Dan has a very nice opportunity doesn't mean we all don't have options. Stop making excuses, go do what you want to do.
I want to elaborate on what gasstation and karim have already articulated:
CS 106A is a substantive class that requires a *lot* of work. Some people are inherently good at programming and take less time, but the average student needs to stay on top of the assignments, which is tough to do if you don't allocate time to it.
I should know…I used to be a TA for the class!
Heh. Thanks for weighing in, Luke, especially in the second-to-last week of the quarter. For whatever it's worth to the doubters, a) I only watch classes online and b) I programmed the hell out of hangman a week ago.
Ah, yes…sorry, I've been gone from the Farm too long to realize it's that late in the quarter! I hope you had/are having fun in 106A, and that you continue the series…it actually gets more fun as you get to later courses.
Also, my parents are retired math teachers who taught with Michael Serra, who told us you're "pretty incredible".
Good luck at Stanford and thanks for sharing your experiences online.
What are you using for note taking now on your iPad?
Now that Notes syncs up with Gmail, I use that. I'd rather something that uses Dropbox's automated revision control, though. Any recommendations?
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I use Notability for my student's notes which has some great features for what can be added, including PDF's that can be written on directly and pictures that can be inserted in line. It connects with Dropbox and can sync automatically in formats of your choice. I particularly like that it has graph paper as an option for paper.


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Wright, R, Pilger, E (2008). Satellite observations reveal little inter-annual variability in the radiant flux from the Mount Erebus lava lake. JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH, 177(3), 687-694.
AbstractSatellite remote sensing represents a mature technology for long-term monitoring of volcanic activity at Mount Erebus, either independently or as a complement to field instrumentation. Observations made on 4290 discrete occasions over a six year period by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) indicate that the radiant flux from the volcano's summit crater (and by inference, the lava lake contained therein), while variable on the time scale of days to weeks, has varied little on an inter-annual basis over this period. The average radiant flux from the lake during this time was 15 MW, with a maximum flux of 100 MW. Such heat flux time-series have been shown to act as a reliable proxy for general levels of activity at erupting volcanoes around the world, particularly when these time-series are of a long duration. The apparent stability of Erebus' power output is in marked contrast to fluxes observed at three other terrestrial volcanoes, Erta 'Ale (Ethiopia), Nyiragongo (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Ambrym (Vanuatu), which, while also hosting active lava lakes, all exhibit much greater variability in radiant flux over the same period of time. The results presented in this paper are confluent with those obtained from geochemical considerations of the Erebus' degassing regime, and confirm that remarkably stable open-system volcanism appears to be characteristic of this long-active volcano. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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The footed pajamas fail to meet the federal flammability standard for children's sleepwear, posing a burn hazard to children. The garments are being recalled because they do not meet the tight-fitting sizing requirements.
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This recall involves three styles of The Children's Place bunny-themed one-piece cotton footed pajamas. One style is pink with dark pink bunnies and a ruffle at the neck. It was sold in size 9-12 months. This style has a sewn-in label at the side seam with both 2158 and one or more of the following numbers: 042521, 042523, 042571, 042572, 042774 or 042816. The other two styles are both blue/green with bunnies on the feet and bunny print fabric. They were sold in sizes 9-12 months, 12-18 months, 18-24 months, 2T and 3T. One style has bunnies with eyeglasses. The other has bunnies and yellow chicks. Both styles have a sewn-in label at the side seam with both 2598 and one or more of the following numbers: 030647, 030779, 038826, 670409, 670602, 670603 or 945210. "Made with love by PLACE" with a heart outline is printed at the neck of the pajamas.
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Consumers should immediately take the recalled pajamas away from children and return them to any The Children's Place store for a full refund.
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Sam Viviano ( Cover, special section opener, and various other spy illustrations) was born
sometime in the last century to an anonymous couple in Detroit. After graduating summa
cum laude from the University of Michigan, he moved to New York, where he quickly became
impoverished. He was saved from a life of crime by the editors of MAD, who assigned him
his first cover in 1980. In no time at all, he was one of the Usual Gang of Idiots, producing
movie and television satires, phony ads, and, of course, more covers. Finding no other way to
stem his seemingly endless output of bad illustration, the editors asked him to become the
art director of MAD in 1999, a position he still sleeps through today. Viviano lives in New York
with his wife and daughter, who (like his parents) would prefer to remain anonymous.
Brian Dereu (Dead Drop Device) has been self-employed now for more than 12 years and
has never looked back. "It took me a while to develop the discipline to work for myself,"
he says, "instead of just going fishing." He runs a small manufacturing business in rural
Missouri where his day consists mainly of lathe and milling machine work (when he's not
fishing). Even after hours, he can be found tinkering in the shop or on the computer working
on his newest venture (
spy-coins.com). Brian is a family man, with a wife and 9-year-old
twin boys at home. His wife, Sonya, home-schools the twins, and the entire family is active
at their Christian church.
Known to his wife, Linda, as Mr. Experimentation, David Simpson (G-Meter and Altimeter,
Covert Wireless Listening) was inspired as a child by his Uncle Marv, "a hot rodder
from the 50s. He would heat up plastic car models in the oven and squash them into
fascinating, realistic wrecks." Since then, David has built "a lot of off-beat things from found
objects," but his real passion is aviation and aerospace education, which "has been under
my skin for a while." He finally got his private pilot's license a few years ago, and is "always
working on developing new, immersive, hands-on educational experiences for cadets of the
Civil Air Patrol" in Ne w Jersey.
Star Simpson (Star Bust) started her career at age 3, when her mother told her not to mix
electricity and water. "So I stuck my fist under running water," she recounts, "and grabbed
the contacts of a night light plugged into the wall next to the sink with my other hand. I got a
120V jolt and found out my mom wasn't making things up. I've thought electricity was awesome ever since." Currently a world traveler with a penchant for photography, surfing, and
tinkering, Simpson grew up in Hawaii and attended MIT; she's now working on an outrigger
canoe to sail between islands in Hawaii. Her favorite tool is a homemade welder made from
salvaged microwave oven transformers, but she also thinks "a nice TIG is a good thing."
When Andrew Lewis (Secret Chessboard Drawer, Self-Destructing Object, USBattery) isn't
"hacking away on a problem connected to computational complexity," he's most likely
"working in my lab on a 3D scanner or some other hardware-related project." The computer
engineer, author, and Ph.D. student lives in a small village surrounded by farmland, not
far from the urban center of Staffordshire, England. Andrew is a steampunk fan with a
decidedly madcap attitude to making: "I think part of the fun is when something goes
wrong and provides you with a new challenge ... unless you're on a tight schedule!"
Dan Bassak (Roller Skate Toe Stop) hails from northeastern Pennsylvania. Growing up on
a dairy farm, Dan learned early on that he could freak out his entire neighborhood with his
inventions. His parents grew accustomed to the sound of explosions from his bedroom and
the sight of the local police on the front porch. Lucky for the planet, Dan channeled his talents and energy toward the greater good as he got older. Dan is also known for his excellent
culinary skills, most notably his bread- and sausage-making abilities. Presently employed
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George Orwell
George Orwell Timeline
How It All Went Down
George Orwell Born
Eric Arthur Blair—later known as George Orwell—is born in Motihari, Bengal, a British colony in what is now India. His father, Richard Walmesley Blair, works in the Indian Civil Service overseeing opium exports to Asia.
Young Orwell Moves to England
The young Eric Blair travels to England with his mother, Ida Mabel Limouzin Blair, and his six-year-old sister Marjorie. The Blair children are raised in England and see their father only during his sporadic returns from India.
Orwell Sister Born
Avril Blair, the third and last of the Blair children, is born.
Scholarship to Eton
Eric Blair enters Eton, the famous boys' prep school in England, as the recipient of a prestigious King's Scholarship.
Orwell Leaves Eton
After a lackluster academic career, Eric Blair leaves Eton without a diploma. He later records his bitter memories of the English prep school system in a posthumously published essay sardonically entitled "Such, Such Were the Joys."
Orwell in Burma
Eric Blair passes the entrance exam of the Indian Imperial Police, the police force set up by the British to maintain law and order in their colonies. He is posted to Burma. His experiences in Burma provide material for essays such as "A Hanging" and his first novel, Burmese Days.
Orwell Quits Indian Imperial Police
Blair contracts dengue fever. After five years in the Imperial Police, Blair leaves Burma because of poor health. Following his return to England, he resigns from the police, disillusioned with British imperialism. He decides instead to become a writer. He spends the next few years drifting around England and Paris, working odd jobs, writing and living amongst the poor. In an attempt to gain material for his writing, he even at one point tries—unsuccessfully—to get arrested.
Eric Blair Becomes George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair adopts the pen name George Orwell, combining the names of the then-monarch and a nearby river. Shortly after he publishes his first book, a narrative of his tramp-like existence in Europe entitled Down and Out in Paris and London.
Burmese Days
Orwell's first novel, Burmese Days, is published. The book is a bitter depiction of prejudice and corruption in imperial Burma and is based on his experiences there. Toward the year's end, following his recovery from a bout of pneumonia, Orwell moves to London to work in a used bookstore.
A Clergyman's Daughter
Orwell publishes his second novel, entitled A Clergyman's Daughter. He wrote the book the previous year while recovering from pneumonia.
The Road to Wigan Pier
Orwell embarks on a two-month trip to northern England to investigate living conditions among coal miners there. He publishes his findings a year later in the book The Road to Wigan Pier. Orwell's horror at the miners' living and working conditions marks an important step in his political development, and the second half of his book is a passionate argument in favor of socialism.
Orwell Marriage
George Orwell marries Eileen Maud O'Shaughnessy, a student he met in London. The couple settles into a tiny cottage in Hertfordshire, England. Orwell also publishes the novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
Orwell in the Spanish Civil War
Orwell spends six months fighting in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the left-wing Republican government, which is under attack from General Francisco Franco's fascists. Orwell volunteers for an anti-Stalinist unit. He is shot in the throat by a Kremlin-sponsored sniper but survives. His experience in Spain is the defining moment of Orwell's political awakening. He leaves Spain with a lifelong hatred of totalitarianism, and this stance forms the basis of all of his following works.
Homage to Catalonia
In April Orwell publishes Homage to Catalonia, a nonfiction book about his experiences in Spain.
Coming Up For Air
England enters World War II. Orwell volunteers for military service but is turned down because of his poor health. Instead he writes prolifically, turning out essays, reviews, and a novel set in England entitled Coming Up For Air.
Orwell's Wartime Propaganda Work
Orwell takes a job with the BBC producing wartime propaganda broadcasts for India. He creates cultural radio programs featuring English and Indian authors, while still writing essays and reviews for left-wing publications.
Death of Orwell's Mother
George Orwell's mother Ida Mabel Limouzin Blair dies.
Orwell Leaves BBC
George Orwell resigns from the BBC.
Orwell Writes for Socialist Newspaper
Orwell takes a job as the literary editor of the Tribune, a weekly socialist newspaper. He writes book reviews and a column entitled "As I Please."
Orwells Adopt Son
Orwell and his wife adopt a baby boy. They name him Richard Horatio Blair. In the same month a bomb lands near the family's basement apartment in London. They are not injured, but their home is destroyed.
Death of Orwell's Wife
Orwell's wife Eileen O'Shaughnessy dies during a hysterectomy. Orwell raises their son alone with the help of his sister Avril Blair.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story is published in the United Kingdom, overcoming initial resistance from publishers who believe it is too critical of Britain's wartime ally Russia. (A Soviet spy working in the British Ministry of Information also helps to delay publication.) The novel, an allegory of totalitarianism, gets a positive reception and goes on to become one of Orwell's best-known works. It's published a year later in the U.S. Orwell has by now quit his post at the Tribune and is working as a freelance correspondent for the Observer.
"Politics and the English Language"
Orwell publishes the essay "Politics and the English Language," a satirical skewering of bad writing and its political consequences. Though his writing career is flourishing, his personal life flounders. He makes several awkward marriage proposals to different women and is turned down. His home is decrepit. In May, following the death of his older sister Marjorie, Orwell moves to the Scottish island of Jura for the remainder of the year.
Orwell Contracts Tuberculosis
Orwell returns to London to write. It is so cold in the winter that he burns his books and his son's toys for heat. In April he returns to Jura. In December, his poor health worsens and he is diagnosed with tuberculosis.
Writing Nineteen Eighty-Four
A month after finishing the manuscript of his latest novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell checks into a sanatorium in England to recover from tuberculosis. His health is very bad, and friends are worried about him.
Orwell Informs on Suspected Communists
A friend named Celia Kirwan comes to visit Orwell at the hospital where he is recuperating. She is working for a propaganda unit of the British government and asks Orwell if there is anyone who should not be hired for the unit. In what turns out to be a controversial move, Orwell gives Kirwan a list of people whom he suspects of having communist sympathies.
Nineteen Eighty-Four Published
The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is published. The novel, portraying a creepy dystopia of total government control, is a huge hit with readers and critics.
Orwell's Second Marriage
His health failing fast, Orwell marries an editorial assistant named Sonia Brownell in his hospital room in London.
Death of George Orwell
George Orwell dies of tuberculosis. He is buried in an Anglican ceremony in Oxfordshire, England, under a simple marker reading "Here lies Eric Arthur Blair."


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LeAnn Rimes' Greatest Hits
Listening to LeAnn's first best-of collection is like flipping through a photo album at random, seeing snapshots of a (mostly) teenage girl going through phases, trying to find herself.
Within the first three songs, she croons "Blue" like Patsy Cline reincarnated, belts out "How Do I Live" like a full-blown diva, then fires up the mechanical teen-pop of "Can't Fight the Moonlight."
Greatest Hits dutifully captures all of LeAnn's hits in a generous 70 minutes, but such a crazy-quilt track list is continually jarring.
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The KFOR Best of Lincoln has always been "the people's choice" award since its inception in 1985. Again this year, KFOR utilized Spartan Polling, an internet-focused consumer opinion market research firm, to conduct the survey. During the month of June,we asked you to go to any one of our six stations' web sites and click on the "Best of Lincoln" link. This led you directly to the Best of Lincoln on-line survey.


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The problem of the kinetic justification of the extended irreversible thermodynamics on the basis of Grad's moment method for multicomponent rarefied gas mixture is discussed. The examination is carried out of linearized kinetic Boltzmann equation which is used to obtain an infinite chain of linked equations (moment equations) for the coefficients of expansion of the distribution function in a system of tensor polynomials. Using these equations generalized expressions are obtained for the entropy density, entropy flux density and entropy production as functions of an arbitrary number of state variables, which allow different variants of the relations between fluxes and thermodynamic forces to be considered. For spatially homogeneous systems these relations correspond to the Onsager version of the linear non-equilibrium thermodynamics. In a more general case thermodynamic forces involved in the transport equations are significantly redefined to include, besides the usual gradients of the initial macroscopic parameters, derivatives of the dissipative fluxes with respect to time and coordinates. Some consequence and physical effects, following from the obtained equations are analyzed.
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New MLK mural damaged by large-scale tagging
SAN DIEGO Years in the making, months of actual planning, and weeks of painting. And yet, two months after artists completed a massive Martin Luther King Jr. mural along state Route 94, somebody spray painted all over it.
The vandalism, discovered Friday, was as large-scale as the mural itself, a 20-foot-high, 225-foot-long piece that overlooks the eastbound freeway near Home Avenue.
The destruction came sometime late Thursday or early Friday morning, authorities said. It consists of large pink scrawl spelling out what looked like the phrase "OCP Kings." What it means is unclear.
San Diego City Councilman Tony Young, whose district abuts the area, called the vandalism disappointing and disrespectful to the community.
"I think most folks who drove by there today were probably heartbroken," Young said. "I just wish that people would think more, and be more conscientious and empathetic to other people. Clearly, these people didn't have that."
Seven Caltrans crew members scrubbed the wall, as one of the artists, Philip Matzigkeit, stood and watched.
"Sadly, we had anticipated this from the get-go. Anytime you do public art, there is a risk. I don't think there is a wall or mural that is not vulnerable," said Matzigkeit, a professor of interior design at San Diego State University.
He said the piece includes a coating designed to make tagging cleanup easier.
Matzigkeit has worked on the piece for years, including making an initial pitch to Caltrans when officials at the state agency announced in 2005 a $300,000 grant for an art project.
"I'm not going to rage," Matzigkeit said. "What is the point? I have no idea what the motives were here."
Prepping the wall for the project started in late August, and the painting began in September, the artist said. It was completed Oct. 7 and formally dedicated on Oct. 20.
The mural is the subject of a future documentary by Xavier Vasquez, who Friday watched the initial cleanup.
"I'm so mad I can cry," Vasquez said, adding that the vandalism left him "puzzled but not surprised."
Caltrans spokesman Hayden Manning said department officials expect to have the mural restored by next week.
The California Highway Patrol is investigating the vandalism.
A satirical piece published Nov. 20 in the San Diego Reader called for the mural's removal on the grounds that the image of King in prayer violated the separation of church and state.
The item appeared under the periodical's "Almost Factual News" page online, and purported to quote a lawyer named Theo d. Issy — which can be read as "The Odyssey," misspelled.
The "lawyer" was quoted saying, "Where's a tagger when you need one?"
No one from the Reader returned a call for comment late Friday afternoon. But the free weekly newspaper posted online a satirical follow-up Friday, offering various opinions as to the meaning behind the scrawl.


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Fight! RPG
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I know, I know, I've done this before, And that hasn't stopped being a thing! In fact I'll just go ahead and say that, should Crowstuck pick up steam and continue, I do not foresee any difficulties in running both games simultaneously.
So if it's not clear from the above I'm advertising my willingness to run another tabletop game. A radically different one, in fact. The game I speak of is Fight!, which provides the unique experience of emulating a fighting game. By this of course I mean Street Fighter, Fatal Fury, Guilty Gear, etc. The whole system is not only about using commonly associated fighter tropes, but even the gameplay style of a 2D fighter in combat. It's a completely new system for me but I'm willing to give it a try.
This is yet another headcount thread. This time due to the nature of the game I am limiting player count to four. In the unlikely scenario that demand exceeds that limit I could try something interesting
Unlike the Homestuck game I would like to do this over some sort of IM client, since fights would have to be run in something like real time or we would never get anywhere. There would still be a proboard involved, but it would be solely for keeping track of information and character stuff. So keep that all in mind if/when you're signing up. Skype (no mics/cams) is still my favored medium but that can be negotiated.
A PDF of the full core rules is here. There's a lot of info to sorta digest, but when you get an idea of how things work character creation is surprisingly simple. Perhaps even a bit limited. Creating moves is probably the hardest part of the whole thing, but I can always try to help with that.
A big question I have for potential players is, what sort of setting would you prefer? Fighting games take place in a variety of forms, as the book itself highlights, and so anyone signing up for this puppy should give me some input on this. Here are a few I have considered:
Bad Future - Alternate title: Arcsys. Basically everything goes down in a sort of post-apocalypse that kinda blows for everyone. Guilty Gear and Blazblue are good examples of this in action. Something like this would probably be fairly dark, and fighters would undoubtedly be more weapon-oriented, though still with the usual supernormal aspects to their styles.
Fantasy - Ok ok, so there's always a bit of fantasy to these. But specifically these will take place in a more low-tech high-magic setting. Tolkien meets Sengoku Basara. I would have to customize some non-combat skills to fit this but that's not particularly challenging.
Paranormal - Like fantasy, some aspects of this will already exist in anything. This will probably be something sorta Darkstalkers, but slightly less camp. Slightly.
Other - Give me your ideas.
Bloody Roar - This is not a setting so much as a sub-setting, so if you want this attached to anything please say so. But there exists optional rules for emulating the style of Bloody Roar. For the uninitiated, BR is characterized by its characters' ability to transform into anthro-animals as part of a super mode deal. They increase in strength, gain access to certain additional moves, etc. It can really be applied to any setting without trouble.
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I'll go ahead and throw my hat in the ring for interest. I'm personally down for Bad Future or Paranormal. I can't check the file yet since mobile. I'm also down for Bloody Roar style of stuff with either, I guess?
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I think my favorite genres would be Bad Future or Fantasy, sort of tied with Paranormal.
Also a big fat giant 'yes' from me on the Bloody Roar subgenre, because I fucking loved those games.
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Ok it seems pretty clear that this is our number. Pretty decent too. I hate having to justify large parties and, all things considered, three is enough to keep it diverse. If someone wants that final slot you're more than welcome to it.
The standing consensus seems to be Bad Future with a hint of Bloody Roar. If there are no objections I will roll with that when building up the setting.
Sooner or later characters will have to be a thing. Unlike the massive crowd that was Crowstuck I don't think we'll have a problem jumping on some kind of chat client at the same time. To be fair it is in no way necessary to do character creation live like this, but I would like to get everyone on the same page to some degree. Also communication will be important with keeping diversity, which I cannot stress enough. Like I guess you could make a party of giefs if you want, but a more varied group will have less trouble dealing with bad match-ups.
I'm not sure when we'll actually do this. It can be whenever really. We probably won't even finish creation together though, since building moves can be kind of a pain at first. At the very least I hope to get everything in the right direction.
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NEW BEDFORD — Frank Phillip Andrews, 88, of Rochester, died Saturday at St. Luke's Hospital, New Bedford. He was the husband of Laura C. (Fortin) Andrews.
Born in Acushnet, MA, a son of the late Frank P. and Winifred (Padelford) Baldwin. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, he served during WWII.
Mr. Andrews was a self-employed carpenter for 40 years, retiring in 1988. Mr. Andrews was an avid golfer and was a member of the Rochester Country Club and other golf courses. He also was a member of the D.A.V. Chapter 7, VFW Post 2892 in Fairhaven, MA and the Panther's Club of New Bedford, MA.
Besides his wife of 57 years, he is survived by a daughter Robin Prezner and her husband Jody of Rochester, MA; a sister, Elaine Harms of Maryland; 2 grandchildren, Aaron Prezner of Rochester and Lloyd Senna of Wisconsin.
A Memorial Service will be held at the Andrews's Home, 335 New Bedford Rd. Rochester, MA on Sunday from 1 — 4 p.m. Arrangements by the Nickerson Bourne Funeral Home 40 MacArthur Blvd. Bourne, MA 02532.
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Based on a recent study by researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health at Madison, taking Aspirin regularly may increase the risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). This eye related health problem is the main reason of vision loss among seniors in the United States. The study has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) this week.
The researchers explain that the increased risk of AMD development is affect to those people who had consumed aspirin regularly for 10 years, so patients who recently taking aspirin to lower the risk of heart disease no need to stop their medication. In fact, the researchers said that the chance to get the health condition due to aspirin consumption is very small. Dr. Barbara Klein, who also lead the study said that patients should not changing or even stop their aspirin dosage base on this result.
The study in detail
In the study Klein and her colleagues gather and analyze data that came from almost 5000 volunteers in the small city of Beaver Dam. The study is starting in the late 1980s by interviewing elderly and middle-aged adults every five years, including the data from full eye test results. The result of the study show there is a small correlation between AMD and regular aspirin usage for at least 10 years. According to the result, those people who regularly consuming aspirin 10 years in the past, they have twice risk of getting a new wet AMD compared to those people who did not regularly consume the medicine.
Since the development of wet AMD is very rare which fewer than 1 percent, so the eye health problem triggered by aspirin consumption will also very small. "I think perhaps the important take-home point is that, even though the relative risk is significant, the absolute risk is still quite small," Klein said.
Aspirin precautions and other side effects
According to NHS website, aspirin or also known as asetylsalicylic acid, often be used as general analgesic to relieve minor pains, aches including and fever. It also comes with anti-inflammatory property. Just like other medication, this aspirin has also side effects range from moderate to serious condition. Including to the side effects are nausea indigestion, bowel or stomach irritation, and breathing trouble. In rare cases, this medication may also interfere the function of kidney.
Aspirin also strongly not suggested for children especially they with chicken pox, flu, or other viral infection disease since it may cause a very serious health problem called Reye syndrome. As the alternative, health practitioners more recommend naproxen, ibuprofen, or acetaminophen over Aspirin since all those medicines seem to have less of side effects.


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Former Mafia Boss Testifies Against One of His Own
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A former Mafia boss who once ordered executions on suspected mob turncoats made gangland history Tuesday with his own betrayal, becoming the highest-ranking member of the city's five Italian organized crime families to testify against one of his own.
Joseph Massino took the witness stand at the Brooklyn trial of Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano, who served as one of Massino's captains in the Bonanno crime family. Prosecutors allege that Massino secretly recorded Basciano admitting he ordered a hit on an associate who ran afoul of the Bonannos.
Moments after being sworn in, Massino pointed across the courtroom and identified Basciano — "the guy sitting in the gray suit" — as the crime family's former acting boss. The defendant smacked gum as he stared back at the government's star witness.
In clipped tones, Massino testified that he had led a life of crime for more than three decades. Asked about his duties as boss, he replied, "Murder. … Making captains. Breaking captains."
Massino, 68, broke ranks and began cooperating with investigators after his 2004 conviction for orchestrating a quarter-century's worth of murder, racketeering and other crimes. While imprisoned together in 2005, the former Bonanno boss agreed to wear a wire and chat up Basciano.
Basciano "told me that he killed him," Massino said in recounting a conversation about the 2004 slaying. "He said he was a scumbag, a rat, a troublemaker."
Prosecutors say Basciano — the one-time owner of the Hello Gorgeous beauty salon known for his explosive temper — rose to his leadership role after a series of Bonanno defections and successful prosecutions decimated its leadership.
The 50-year-old defendant faces the death penalty if convicted of racketeering, murder and other charges. He is already serving a life term for a conviction in a separate case in 2007.


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DOLGEVILLE, N.Y.�� Brandon Lewandowski scored a career-high 32 points Saturday and the Dolgeville Blue Devils snapped a long-running losing streak with their 66-36 win over the Remsen Rams.
The Blue Devils, winless in 2012-13 and so far this season, had lost 30 consecutive games. Dolgeville ended longtime coach Brian Ellis� final season with five consecutive losses in early 2012. The Blue Devils did not win a game under Darren Brown last winter and had started John Campagna�s first season 0-7.
Dolgeville had last won a game Jan. 21, 2012, when the Blue Devils beat Poland 47-44.
Playing at home, Dolgeville led 26-12 at halftime and kept the pressure on from there. Nick Darling contributed eight points to the victory, Alex Johnson scored seven, and Alex Blakeslee and Tyler Smith each scored six.
Sabastian Bullard led Remsen with 17 points.
Dolgeville plays on the road Tuesday at Cooperstown.
REMSEN (0-11) � Steven Gothan 5; Devin Ossont 2; Sabastian Bullard 17; Jon Carrock 4; Andrew Foster 4; David Peterson 4.
DOLGEVILLE (1-7) � Brandon Lewandowski 32; Alex Johnson 7; Reid Johnson 3; Christian Seeley 4; Tyler Smith 6; Alex Blakeslee 6; Nick Darling 8.
Halftime � Dolgeville 26, Remsen 12. Three-pointers � Remsen 3 (Bullard 3); Dolgeville 10 (Lewandowski 5, Blakeslee 2, A.Johnson 2, R.Johnson 1).
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DEXTER - Sikeston's wrestling team capped off an outstanding week on Saturday by winning the Dexter Tournament. Three days earlier, the Bulldogs beat Carbondale for the first time in three years.
"We had a really good week," said Sikeston wrestling coach Chris Hodgkiss. "We're looking to take this good momentum into the Tiger Classic. I was very pleased with how the guys performed."
Sikeston beat out Park Hills for the top slot, finishing with eight first place finishes in the tournament.
"I thought we could go over and score big points, but I was extremely pleased to have eight guys finish first," said Hodgkiss. "We had some kids that came back to win some matches they were losing with a pin at the end."
Jeremy Freeman (103), Kyle Weeks (125), Cleveland Anthony (130), Justin Keller (140), Scotty Keenan (152), Jackie Cowley (160) and Stewart Carraway (215) all went 4-0 in their respective weight divisions to take first place.
"Kyle Weeks is only a sophomore, and he's 7-0 on the year," noted Hodgkiss. "He had a really good tournament."
Scott Heuiser went 3-1 in the 189 class and also took first. Cody Ryan (112) and Adam Miller (119) went 3-1 and took second.
Cody Weeks (135) and heavyweight Joe Johnson both went 2-2 in the tournament.
At 145, Jonathan Cartner went 0-1 and was unable to finish due to a dislocated elbow. Ross Merideth was also unable to finish, going 0-3 before a knee injury forced him to stop. Sikeston will travel to Murphysboro on Tuesday before competing in the Tiger Classic Friday.
SIKESTON -- Poplar Bluff won the Sikeston Junior Varsity Tournament on Saturday. Sikeston placed second, followed by Cape Central, Dexter and New Madrid County Central.
"This year we used a round-robin format," explained Sikeston coach Chris Moore. "In previous years, a couple of forfeits gave some kids a medal for free. They had to earn their medals this year by wrestling at least three matches. Overall everything went really well, there were no injuries or problems."
Sikeston's Josh Holmes (125) and Andy Croxford (189) each went 3-0 in their respective divisions to finish in first place.
"Andy Croxford really wrestled great," said Moore. "He had an outstanding tournament. He was up against kids with varsity experience and was still able to win."
Max Hansen (112), Shawn Cooper (119), Daniel Klimmek (130) and Shay May (135) all went 2-1 in the tournament to take second place.
"I thought we made an improvement from our last meet," said Moore. "The kids really started using moves we've been drilling hard in practice out on the mat, and it made a big difference."


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'16th & Mission' gatherings offer raw performances and rowdy audiences
By Theresa Seiger
During the day, this is one of the best places to score drugs in the city. Transients—drunk, sober, on drugs, mentally retarded or just hanging out—scatter themselves across the benches and the gum-speckled concrete. Boom boxes blare music while peddlers sell sausages and food from Guadalajara to BART riders.
At night, the scene changes.
A man plays a stand-up bass while a drunk man stands to his side, watching with interest. A semi-circle of listeners envelopes them along the BART railing. The bass player finishes his song, the crowd claps and the second man continues to stare as he sits down.
This is Thursday nights on the corner of 16th and Mission streets.
Often referred to simply as "16th and Mission," these gatherings have attracted artists who want to test their talent out on the crowds for the past five years.
"It's raw," says Guinevere Newman. Newman has been frequenting the corner since the fall of 2005. She's been a performing poet since attending an open mic in high school six years ago. She's drawn to the event because of the honesty of the audience and the variety of the performances.
"I've seen an angry woman throw a sandwich at a comedian, a French girl playing accordion, a junkie with holes in his arms the size of peanuts begging for a hug, a woman nursing a sick pigeon in her coat," she says. "I've seen honest and heartfelt, playful, melodramatic, dour, 'I'm just here to impress the ladies,' confessional, humorous, sing-songy, surreal, tragic, kitchen-sinky realist-drama, love-struck, experimental, uncertain, meditative, and, 'fuck everybody else, I'm a genius, and my brilliance is too good for this BART station.'"
"It's sort of a mixed bag," says J. Brandon Loberg. "There are a lot of people doing different things, unclassifiable things."
Loberg has been a regular at 16th and Mission for the past three years. He stumbled onto the event while making his way to the BART station.
"That was kind of what I expected to find when I moved to the city," he says. He had been living in San Francisco on and off for two years before finding 16th and Mission. Originally from Grass Valley, he had settled down in North Beach in hopes of finding San Francisco's literary scene. He was disappointed with what he saw at a lot of traditional, indoor open mics which he considered dry and lackluster.
"There's a whole different dynamic on the street corner."
More than five years ago the main players at the corner were performing indoors. Charlie Getter, Miguel Perierra and a woman remembered only as "Liz" were taking turns hosting an open mic at the now defunct Cuppa d'Oro. When the doors closed at the coffee shop, Perierra and some of the regulars decided to continue practicing their poetry to each other. They would spend nights with the five of them, Perierra, Patrick Donohoe, Eric Shaw, James Marchetti and Shahid Buttar performing for each other in Marchetti's living room. After a month without an audience, the group decided to take their talent to the streets.
The first outdoor reading was held at 24th and Mission streets.
"The vibe there was different," says Getter, who didn't join the group in its first month on the streets.
"I was far too full of myself to just hang out in a living room and do poetry," he explains in his personal history of 16th and Mission, "What Happened?" "I thought that I required a much bigger audience."
He has attended just about every Thursday night open mic since his first.
"I definitely get the most rain days," he says.
Getter was one of the founding members of 16th and Mission who formed the Collaborative Arts Insurgency (CAI). The group was shaped around a collective frustration with open mics in the city and became an opportunity for joint performances.
"I saw the collaborative emphasis as weakening each group member's individual poetry," Getter writes. "If you can lean on a bass player or a dynamic flute player, you didn't have to write pieces as tightly as if you had to do them on their own But I was wrong."
"Each of those things created cohesion between the performers, who were maybe not as confident in what they were doing on their own and the participation in the group gave them cover to experiment more and find their own voice."
Most of the CAI's first performances were politically motivated. As time passed, the group morphed as old members left and new members came. Getter and Perierra are the only two of the founding group to still regularly attend the open mic.
"Open mics are where bad performers go to ignore each other, so the CAI was pretty happy that the frustration with those events turned into something very positive," says regular emcee Alter the Path. Path came across the event on his way to the BART station in 2004. He did shows with the CAI in Portland, Ore., and around the Bay Area from 2004 to 2006.
"At a certain point the CAI took their hands off the thing and let it just be what it is," he says.
The event has lived on without the CAI's support.
"Nobody really runs the thing," Loberg says.
"We just get down," says Path. "It's not a scene."
The event has had an impact on its participants. Bonnie No, a poet who has been going to the event for four years, has a pigeon tattoo to represent the open mic. Amber Bouman has three stars tattooed on her, one for each year she's been "protected" by hanging out on the corner of 16th and Mission streets.
The idea came to her after a regular was being followed by a couple of guys on Mission Street. A woman sleeping on the sidewalk told the men that the regular, Sara Wingate Gray, spent time at the street corner. The men left her alone after that.
"Now, they might have taken off because there was a witness, but after Sara told this story we were all joking that it was because the guys were told that she hung out at 16th and Mission," Bouman says. "She was protected. So Sara, Miguel (Perierra), Bonnie (No) and I were joking that we should all get stars tattooed, like a general, to mark us as protected, and we'd get a star for each year we'd been there."
The open mic has also led to a series of books. The "16th and Mission Review" is put out monthly by members of the open mic who pool their resources to make the books.
"There is really no substitute for being there," Path says.
The idea for a chapter book came from Perierra after a session at Zeitgeist, a bar on Valencia Street.
"I've been over to random people's houses and seen books on their shelves," says Loberg. He has been involved in making the books because of the things he has seen while performing. "So many people are doing great, great stuff and not getting recognized."
The Review is filled with work from artists who perform on the street corner.
"Everyone sends in poems, short stories or comics, like in this next edition." says Loberg.
Each book is put together by hand. There were 100 copies printed of last month's edition.
"I glued the last one at 6:30 that morning," Loberg says.
The books are free to people at the open mic on release night and five dollars each after that.
The event will be celebrating its fifth year on the corner of 16th and Mission streets on May 15.
"We think we might have started in April, we're not sure," Getter says.
The open mic starts at 9 o'clock every Thursday night at the entrance to the 16th and Mission BART station opposite of Walgreens drugstore.


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Listing to music online has been around for some time, but only in the past little while, has it really become mainstream with so many options to choose from. It really is quite incredible – we have the opportunity to find music like never before, and listen to copious amounts of it!
But there are still some gaps to fill. For instance, audio files can be embedded into webpages, but those webpages have no way to listen to all the music. Or what about controlling the playing and pausing of songs on websites that don't respond to your keyboard controls? These are just two of the several problems that still exist, despite the great conveniences of music on the Internet.
In this article we'll talk about seven tools that will change how you listen and interact with your online tunes.
Songdrop (Chrome & Bookmarklet)
You probably don't only listen to music in one location on the web. You might find about an artist through a song embedded in a blog post, then read about them on a website, which contains a YouTube video of them performing live. How do you take these two audio clips, from different sources, and save them (and future songs) in one place for easy listening? Songdrop is your solution.
How does Songdrop collect these songs? Through its Dropit button, which comes in the form of a Chrome extension and bookmarklet. We've actually covered Songdrop in more depth previously on MakeUseOf.
Anesidora (Chrome)
Anesidora is a Chrome extension that allows you to listen to your Pandora stations without having a tab open at all. You can simply log in with your Pandora account credentials and it will load all your stations for listening directly in your Chrome browser. It has created some controversy since there aren't any ads that play through the extension, however according to the developer, he doesn't support the lack of ads in the extension:
Unfortunately due to Pandora using a closed API I have no choice in the matter. I offered to give Pandora ownership of my extension and they declined. They do this to themselves.
To find out more about Anesidora, refer to the MakeUseOf article.
Exfm (Chrome, Firefox, Safari)
Exfm, a website and browser extension, is a tool that collects displays any audio files from the webpage you're visiting. For example, let's say you visit one of Tina's Sound Sunday articles. With Exfm installed, it will automatically pull the embedded audio files and allow you to play them, even after navigating away from the page.
Below is an image of what Exfm looks like on a webpage, notice the controls, queue and options to "favorite", share and shuffle.
Want to close that page? No worries – the tracks have already been saved in your queue. However, you now are able to control them through the Exfm button in the Chrome browser. For more info, check out our full review.
Last.fm Scrobbler (Facebook App)
The Last.fm Scrobbler Facebook app has been mentioned a couple different times. Probably the one you might remember the most was in the slightly sarcastic, but educational article from Craig about apps you can use to help Facebook invade your life. As you might have guessed, the Last.fm Scrobbler app was one of them.
If you're playing with a program or service that doesn't have the ability to post to Facebook, but does scrobble to Last.fm, you can use this as a workaround.
Sway.fm Unified Music Media Keys (Chrome)
Have you ever been frustrated by the lack of compatibility that websites have with your media keys on your keyboard? Instead of being able to just hit the Play/Pause, Previous or Next buttons, you have to go to the webpage and manually click the controls. Sway.fm Unified Music Media Keys takes care of that problem.
Previously, Justin has covered it here and did an excellent job with a thorough review.
One thing to note is that if you're unable to install this in Chrome on Windows 8, it's because there is a compatibility issue. To get around this, put Chrome in Windows 7 compatibility mode and the you'll be able to install and use the extension.
Flutter (Windows, Mac, Chrome)
Would you believe me if I told you that you can control your media player with your hand? Yep, just like the Xbox Kinect. But this time, all you need is your webcam and three steady hand gestures.
Flutter works with iTunes, Spotify, Winamp, VLC and Windows Media Player on Windows and Mac. However, in addition to those local apps, Flutter can also control YouTube, Netflix, Grooveshark and Pandora via the Chrome extension.
Flutter has actually been covered on MakeUseOf before, once by Simon and another time by Dave, who went more in depth, gearing it towards Mac users (but the same applies to Windows users). I recommend you look into both of those articles for more information – it's been an excellent app for me to use.
I now use it more than ever since owning my new, almost perfect laptop, which has one slight imperfection – no media keys (play/pause, forward, back).
Plus Music (Chrome)
Plus Music is a Chrome extension that focuses on discovering music and instantly playing it from anywhere on the web. For instance, if you're reading about a new artist, you can simply click the icon, type in the artists name and listen to their music right in the extension. Plus Music has four standout features that integrate into Facebook:
- Artist Recognition: it knows when you're on an official band page and lets you listen with a single click.
- Similar Artists: Suggests similar artists on Facebook.
- Universal Remote: Control playback in the Facebook interface.
- Easy Sharing: You can find and attach songs to share directly in Facebook without ever leaving.
Outside of the Facebook integration, Plus Music also has great searching capabilities, instant play through right clicking an artist's name, and smart suggestions. It also can scrobble to Last.fm, share complete tracks – not just a clip and create a mix in the queue.
Now should you use all of these music listening tools together? Technically, none of them should interfere with each other, but I'm definitely an advocate of keeping extensions and apps down to a minimum. So let me ask you: which ones are your favorites?
Have you used any of these before? If not, which ones do you feel would fit best into your own lifestyle? If you have any other recommendations that I missed, feel free to share those in the comments below as well!


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SUDBURY, Ont. – New owners have changed the name of Sudbury's Harley-Davidson dealership to The Rock Harley-Davidson.
The dealership's previous owner, Ron Kanerva, retired after a 39-year career in the snowmobile and motorcycle industry, selling the former The Shop Harley-Davidson to FFUN Enterprises and minority partner Greg Erixon.
Kanerva opened the dealership on Long Lake Road in 2007, according to Northern Life. The dealership is known for raising funds for several charities, including annual donations to Maison Vale Hospice.
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When it comes to blockbusters, there are few that can do it better than Marvel Comics.
The studio has raked in about $6 billion dollars with their hero-heavy movies like Iron Man, Captain America and The Avengers.
- Guardians of the Galaxy blasts Marvel Comics into new movie territory
- The latest Marvel marvel: New Captain America is black
But when Guardians of the Galaxy hits Canadian theatres Friday, only Marvel's most die hard fans will recognize the ragtag group of characters leading the cosmic adventure.
Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, and Zoe Saldana star as a motley crew of misfits forced to fight together against a common enemy, Ronan the Accuser (played by The Hobbit's Lee Pace.)
The satirical space epic is a big departure for Marvel, and it represents a big risk for the brand.
But, according to CBC film critic Eli Glasner, it's a gamble that pays off if you ignore the plot and settle in for some fun.
Watch Eli's full review in the video above.
Guardians of the Galaxy is in theatres now.
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