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Tesla Upgraded: Analyst Sees Another 33% Upside
Shares of Tesla Motors are already up more than 400% this year. One analyst still sees significant upside ahead.
Craig Irwin of Wedbush Securities upgraded his view on Tesla to outperform from neutral and lifted his 12-month price target to $240 from $180. The analyst cited results from the firm's survey about the electric-car market, which showed "good receptiveness of mainstream car buyers to purchase electric vehicles and generally realistic expectations around vehicle performance and costs."
Shares jumped as much as 4.7% Tuesday morning to $188.09. The stock peaked at $194.50 on Sept. 30, but has struggled since after a separate analyst downgraded the stock and a viral video of a Model S on fire swept the Internet. The stock is up 430% this year through Monday's close.
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Tesla earlier this month defended the car's safety, noting the fire was contained to the front of the vehicle thanks to the design and construction of the battery pack. CEO Elon Musk also issued a detailed blog post explaining the situation in an attempt to calm safety concerns.
Last week, Jefferies analyst Elaine Kwei boosted her price target to $210 from $160. She said her research has led her to believe the Model S is still considered safer than conventional vehicles.
And now comes the latest analyst upgrade from Mr. Irwin at Wedbush. He offered more details on his firm's survey, which prompted the upgrade:
"Survey data was supportive for significant Gen III mass market potential in the $35k-$45k price range. In a survey of 892 respondents, we were pleasantly surprised that over 20% of respondents indicated they would "absolutely consider" driving an electric vehicle (vs. 65% "maybes"), and 19% were willing to pay a $5,000 or greater premium for a 90% improvement in fuel economy. This indicates a healthy number of mainstream car buyers are likely willing and able to pay the initial premium to buy an electric vehicle, where they would expect a payback based on improved fuel economy. We see these buyers as credible since 72% of the two groups overlapped and 64% scored in the top two tiers of our technology adopter quotient. We screened survey respondents to include only those that indicated they own or lease either a car, truck, or van and are likely to purchase or lease a new vehicle in the next year."
Mr. Irwin also boosted his 2017 sales estimates for a third-generation Tesla model (yes, 2017). He increased his forecasts for that model by 50% to 150,000 units. Over a longer time frame, he sees the Gen III selling anywhere from 300,000 to 5000,000 units on an annual basis.
"We see strong positives in Tesla's credible path to longer-term battery cost reduction and the Gen-III
vehicle target costs," he says, "and what we now believe will be a receptive buying public willing to purchase EVs while retaining reasonable expectations for these vehicles."
UPDATE: An earlier version of this post misstated Mr. Irwin's 2017 estimates for a third-generation Tesla vehicle. A corrected version follows.


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1967 Chicago Blizzard
The Chicago Blizzard of 1967 struck northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana on January 26, 1967, with a record-setting 23 inches (58 cm) of snow falling in Chicago and its suburbs before the storm abated the next morning. To this day, it is the worst blizzard in Chicago history.[1]
The snow fell continuously in Chicago from 5:02 am on Thursday, January 26 until 10:10 am Friday when 23 inches had fallen. The storm played havoc with commuters, stranding thousands of people and leaving an estimated 800 Chicago Transit Authority buses and 50,000 automobiles abandoned on the city streets and expressways.
The blizzard closed both Midway Airport and O'Hare Airport. Ten-foot drifts covered the runways at Midway. Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley ordered city workers to clear streets around the clock and asked citizens for help.[2] On Friday, the city was virtually shut down and area schools closed.[3]
On Tuesday, January 24 the high had been an unseasonably warm 65 °F. But the temperature started falling the next day. The Chicago area started to recover from the extreme snowfall over the weekend, then it snowed four more inches on Wednesday, February 1. The following Sunday, February 5, another storm dumped ten inches.[3] The 23 inches of snow that fell on Chicago on the 26th and 27th is a record for a single storm. The 19.8 inches (50.3 cm) that fell on January 26–27 is the greatest amount of snow for a 24-hour period. The single day record of 16.4 inches (41.7 cm) for January 26[4] was later broken by the Chicago Blizzard of 1979 when 16.5 inches (41.9 cm) fell.[5] Between January 26 and February 5, 36.5 inches (92.7 cm) of snow fell, which is typical for an entire Chicago winter.[4] Gusts of up to 53 miles per hour caused large snowdrifts to accumulate.[5]
- The 10 Worst Snowstorms In Chicago History « CBS Chicago (retrieved Feb. 2, 2014)
- chicagotribune.com Chicago Blizzard of 1967 (retrieved Jan. 21, 2011)
- National Weather Service crh.noaa.gov Chicago January Weather Trivia (retrieved Jan. 22, 2011)


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Educational Engagement
In previous years, the Rocket Girls have set records
for the number of persons reached by one team for USLI. However, for the
2012-2013 competition year the Rocket Girls are focusing on the quality
of outreach events. The outreach goal for the Rocket Girls is 2,000
persons with 500 of the total being 6th through 8th grade students. The
team members encourage diversity in engineering, science, and
mathematics for each outreach event by reaching out to females in grades
K-12 to ensure they take an interest in such subjects in the classroom.
The Rocket Girls allow for personal interaction with students by
allowing the children to have creative and hands-on experience with
rockets, science, and math intensive activities. Also, the team will
place emphasis on reaching out to students in grades 6th through 8th due
to the influential nature of the students at those ages.
Various outreach events are planned, are being planned, and will be planned through the year. The Rocket Girls will be assisted in a few outreach events by other organizations and members at the university. Kathy will oversee the educational engagement process, presentations, and lesson plans for local schools, libraries, and other outreach locations. Each member of the team is encouraged to present a presentation at a school of their choice. Social media, Facebook, and YouTube will also be used as a medium for educational engagement.
Outreach Methods and Target Audience
One of the major events the Rocket Girls have planned for the future will occur in March of 2013. The Rocket Girls will hold a small rocket workshop for middle and high school children and instructors. The workshop will last for two days and be held in Tuscaloosa at The University of Alabama. We would like to host at least 150 children at this workshop where each child will have an Estes Generic E2X Model Rocket to build.
On the first day of the workshop, the children and teachers will receive their rocket kits, and the Rocket Girls will instruct them about safety for building and launching rockets. Safety is the highest priority for any launch event. A team member will assume the role of building instructor for the workshop. She will take the attendees step-by-step through the construction process of the rocket kits. There will be intervals where glue is drying, at which time the Rocket Girls will take advantage of the free time and present information on how rockets work, the forces that act upon the rocket, different parts of the rocket, and what to expect on launch day. The building process will take approximately 6 hours to complete, not including glue drying time.
The second day of the workshop will be launch day. The Rocket Girls would like to launch at the University of Alabama Recreation Fields on campus. This will be a safe location for a launch due to lack of obtrusive objects such as power lines and trees. Before any launches, the safety officer for the Rocket Girls, Tiesha, will again go over launch day procedures and answer any safety needs for the launch. The most appropriate engine size for the age group is Estes A8-3. These are small enough engines that the rockets will be able to easily be recovered. After the Rocket Girls assist and show the attendees how to correctly prepare their rockets for launch, each person will be escorted by a team member to a launch pad. Once correctly wired for launch, there will be a countdown and an ignition, flight, and recovery of the rocket.
With the outreach events to schools, libraries, and
other locations, the Rocket Girls want to encourage all students to
become more involved and interested in science with the hope that they
will view engineering, science, or mathematics as a possible career
opportunity. The team also would like to encourage teachers to promote
science, mathematics, and engineering in the classroom by providing the
necessary tools for implementation.
The target audience will include students of all ages with an emphasis on children in the 6th through 8th grade. Due to the broad age groups, the Rocket Girls have prepared different presentations to account for the academic levels of each student age group. In addition to these presentations, the Rocket Girls also hope to provide teachers with an opportunity to be more knowledgeable on integrating engineering into math and science lectures and classes. Using the Alabama Course of Study, the Rocket Girls will use the following schema for presenting information for each grade:
Preschool and Grades K-4
Identify basic components of the solar system, such
Describe parts of the rocket
Describe the impact that weather has on the rocket
Grades 5-8
Identify steps used within the scientific process
Creating a hypothesis about payload
Using charts and graphs from data collected
Measuring dimension, volume, and mass using SI units
Identify Newton's three laws of motion
Defining terminology such as action and reaction forces, inertia, acceleration
Interpreting distance-time graphs
Grades 9-12
Explain linear, uniform circular, and projectile
motions using one- and two-dimensional vectors
Explaining the significance of slope and area under a curve with velocity-time data
Describing forces that act on an object
Describe basic forces and physics principles
The Rocket Girls' presentation and activities will be
modified according to the class, academic level, and the preference of
the school and/or teacher. Should the teacher and/or contact allow
hands-on activities, videos will be presented according to the grade
Additionally, social media will be used as a part of educational engagement. Social networking websites such as Facebook and YouTube will allow students and teachers with internet access to follow the Rocket Girls progress in USLI as well as incorporate educational videos into their lesson plans. On the Rocket Girls website, PowerPoint presentations, hands-on activities, and additional educational material will be available. Another feature for using social media for educational engagement is to allow followers to become more involved with the Rocket Girls by knowing launch dates and other outreach events.
Contact - The Internet and Social Media
In addition, social media will also be used as educational engagement. Social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter will allow students and teachers from all over to access the Rocket Girls. The Rocket Girls' YouTube account will allow teachers to incorporate educational videos into their lesson plans. The educational engagement team has also worked to create lesson plans that the educators can use in the classroom, involving crafts, quizzes, presentations and virtual tours. One example of this is the coloring page pictured below, our two mascots Haley and Comet (her dog)
To find out more about how to contact us to visit your school, or to ask us any questions, check out our facebook, twitter, youtube accounts and email!!
Educational Engagement Information
To find out more about our educational engagement activities and curriculum, explore the links below.


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Deep-Dish Pizzeria Owner Vows to Make Justice Scalia Eat His Words
Justice Antonin Scalia, who is one of the crustier personalities on the high court, has delivered his share of pointed barbs. Often the targets are litigators who don't dare lash back.
But one New York City restaurateur has decided to challenge the justice over some recent comments he made — about pizza.
Last week, Justice Scalia handed down a memorable opinion in a speech before the Union League Club of Chicago. "It's very tasty, but it's not pizza," he said of the Chicago-style pizza variety, the Sun-Times reported. He reportedly got booed after calling the Windy City's deep-dish specialty a "tomato pie."
Emmett Burke, a Midwestern transplant who recently opened a well-reviewed Chicago-style pizza parlor in downtown Manhattan, wants the 77-year-old justice to eat his words, reports the New York Daily News:
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When a child is referred to the Mary Bridge Neurology Clinic, they are placed in some of the most capable hands in the region. Our board-certified pediatric neurologists treat the full spectrum of nervous system disorders. They are skilled at working with every age group, from birth through adolescence.
Our family-centered philosophy focuses on promoting a patient's quality of life while including their families closely in their care. Every treatment offered by the Neurology Clinic is designed to return our patients to the normal activities of childhood and adolescence to the greatest possible degree.
The Neurology Clinic offers diagnosis, intervention and advanced treatment for infants, children and adolescents with various neurological conditions including:
When a child needs neurosurgical services, families have access to one of the area's leading pediatric neurosurgeons, Dr. William Morris and Dr. Ronald Grondin of the MultiCare Neurosciences Center.
Through our facilities and association with MultiCare Health System, Mary Bridge offers patients immediate access to resources that include Sleep-Deprived EEG, Video EEG, Ambulatory EEG EMG/NCS, CAT scans, MRI/MRA, Ultrasound, Sleep Study and EKG. The MultiCare Sleep Disorders Center is one of only a few sleep study centers in the state offering pediatric care, and our studies are interpreted by one of the few pediatric neurologist/sleep specialists in the nation.
Based in Tacoma, Washington, our Neurology Clinic team makes regular visits to Mary Bridge outreach clinics in Covington, Gig Harbor, Olympia, Puyallup and Silverdale, as well as to the Children's Therapy Unit at Good Samaritan Hospital. Whichever location is used, children receive care from the same highly skilled physicians, nurses and health professionals that have made Mary Bridge a trusted name in pediatric specialty care.
For more information or a referral, call the Mary Bridge Neurology Clinic at 253-792-6630.
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Epilepsy Education and Clinic For Kids & Families
Individual education for children newly diagnosed with Epilepsy or Seizures and for their families.
Meets the 4th Wednesday each month (3rd WED in Nov/Dec), 6-8 PM
Mary Bridge Children's Health Center, Tacoma - 1st Floor, East Wing, Board Room
For those who need further education or review, appointment will be scheduled.
Classes, camps and support groups are also available.
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A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.
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Electric Motorcycle To Race Up Pikes Peak
The 89th Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, a classic time trial in Colorado Springs to be held this year on June 26, will include an electric motorcycle. Racer Chip Yates will pilot the 365-pound, 240-horsepower superbike in the Exhibition PowerSport Division
The bike, which Yates has previously raced against gasoline-powered' motorcycles on conventional tracks, will have to be set up especially for the unusual Pikes course, which includes pavement, and dirt surfaces. Typically riders with dirt-style bikes enter the race, with a Ducati Multistrada ridden by Greg Tracy winning last summer. But Yates' machine resembles a purebred road-racing bike.
"The course is almost completely paved, but I will be challenged by several miles of dirt in the middle of the climb," says 39-year-old Yates.
The Pikes Peak event, also known as the Race to the Clouds, is open to wide variety of cars, trucks and motorcycles racing up a 12.42-mile, 156-turn course. The race begins at 9,390 feet and finishes at the 14,110-foot summit. As the air thins toward the finish, competitors' reflexes tend to slow and engines lose a lot of their power.
The event marks another step toward the mainstream for electric motorcycles, which have turned up in a range of surprising places in the last year, from police department fleets to the classic Isle of Man TT race.


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by Sir Walter Scott
Character Clues
Character Analysis
One of the things we really love about Scott is that he is not as straightforward a writer as he may seem at first glance. His direct descriptions of characters don't always match up with their actions.
For example, Scott comes right out and says that Brian de Bois-Guilbert has an "air of haughtiness, easily acquired by the exercise of unresisted authority" (4.2). In other words, he's a proud snob who's used to getting his own way. This appears to be a piece of direct characterization, since Scott is giving us explicit information about Bois-Guilbert's character.
But while Scott tells us that Bois-Guilbert is proud and used to getting his own way, he shows us a Bois-Guilbert who is changed by his love for Rebecca. The novel's direct characterizations of Bois-Guilbert don't always jive with his actions and development over the course of the book, as when he begs Rebecca to run away with him and when he self-destructs during the duel with Ivanhoe rather than allowing Rebecca to be executed.
Similarly, we are told over and over again about King Richard's bravery and honor, but his long resistance to taking his throne back suggests a layer of irresponsibility amid all of that courage.
We think it's more important to keep an eye on what the characters do than on what they say. The actions of the characters in Ivanhoe often speak louder than Scotts' words.
The names of the characters in Ivanhoe are deeply significant. We already mentioned in "What's Up With the Title?" that Ivanhoe's own name comes from an English nursery rhyme. Rowena is a great name for an ideal English lady, since it's the name of one of the first English queens in the fourth century. The historical Rowena was also the daughter of Hengist, whom Cedric mentions all the time. Isaac in the Bible is a Jewish patriarch, the son of Abraham. Rebecca is Isaac's wife in the Bible, which makes things a little weird, since she's Isaac's daughter here. The point is, Isaac and Rebecca are both familiar Old Testament names that Scott's audience would associate with Jewish identity.
The in-jokes really start to come in with the Norman names. For example, remember the brothers Albert and Philip Malvoisin? "Malvoisin" literally means "bad neighbor" in French. Reginald Front-de-Boeuf is Reginald Ox-Face, as his shield design reflects. (See "Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory" for more on Front-de-Boeuf's shield.) Lucas Beaumanoir's last name literally means "beautiful manor" – perhaps a reference to the very fine establishment he has going as leader of the Knights Templar. These names sound believably French, but they also have double meanings to entertain Ivanhoe's readers.
Physical Appearance
Physical descriptions are a pretty good way of gauging how Scott feels about a certain character. Ivanhoe, our hero, is young and handsome. Bois-Guilbert, our villain, is older, stern and kind of angry-looking. And take this description of Isaac:
[H]is high and wrinkled forehead, and long grey hair and beard, would have been considered as handsome, had they not been the marks of a physiognomy peculiar to a race which, during those dark ages, was alike detested by the credulous and prejudiced vulgar. (5.12)
Scott is saying that, by today's standards, Isaac's features are impressive, but by the standards of the prejudiced Middle Ages, he looks repulsive. There's a disconnect between the way Isaac looks objectively and the way the characters in Ivanhoe evaluate his appearance. Scott's first physical description of Isaac also conveys the horrible prejudice that surrounds him. In this way, physical description becomes a way for Scott to get at something important about Isaac's character.
Cedric identifies himself as Saxon. Bois-Guilbert, De Bracy, and Malvoisin all seem to consider themselves Norman. Saxon and Norman identities come with a whole host of prejudices and resentments that set them against each other.
Then there is this third nationality, English, which is more complicated. The outlaws in the forest swear to "Merry Saint George for England!" (31.23), and King Richard thinks of himself as King of England, the king of the outlaws and the Normans and the Saxons. He doesn't just represent one side or the other.
What English identity means in Ivanhoe is a little hard to pin down, but it has positive associations with freedom and fair play. The older generation of guys, who still identify as Saxon or Norman, appear much more prejudiced, even self-serving, than Englishmen like Ivanhoe.


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Sunday, September 9, 2012
Kids, kids, kids.
I did not, in fact, fall off the face of the earth although the temperatures made it feel as though our planet had been hurled out of orbit into spitting distance of the sun.
We've actually been pretty consumed with kids which is a much more fun but not necessarily more expensive alternative than being consumed by our pets. See previous posts.
We took 160 Mercy Street kids to Pine Cove for our fifth year of camp. Swimming with inner-city kids in lakes is one of my greatest joys. They start out all petrified and wigged out because they can't see their feet, the ground feels super slimy, and an occasional fish my nibble their legs but by the end of the week, they're blobbing each other sky-high, screaming and laughing the whole time.
And then we went back to school.
All four are settled in and, for the first time in nine years, they're all in school all day - every day. No more 1/2 days or early carpools so I can clean my house now for hours uninterrupted.
Huh. It sounded so much better in my head.
In this 'first day of school' picture, Graham was also supposed to be wearing his red sweater like the other two but we 'forgot it at home' which is a phrase oft-quoted by various members of our family. If we lived in the mid-13th century, I'm afraid it would be plastered across our Coat of Arms along with a picture of a mom with her head in her hands.
I'm 82% sure we would not have been knighted.
They're pretty cute anyway.
Speaking of pretty cute. Check this out.
It's been a long time since I've updated you on Dea. He's amazing. He's back in school at UTA and working almost full-time at a bank in downtown Dallas. The bank is involved with Mercy Street and, at an event last Spring, I had the opportunity to talk with the man Dea was scheduled to interview with. I could tell he was hesitant about the prospect of hiring an inner-city kid - not knowing exactly what to expect. I knew they would fall in love with Dea and he would extinguish any concern. They hired him at first as a part-time intern and then, three days into his job, he was approached by another department with an offer of more hours and more money 'cause, seriously, he's that awesome. He's blown us away with his resolve. From his work ethic, his determination, his responsibility, and his grades we really can't express how proud we are of him. He stayed with us for a short time again this summer between apartments and every morning, he'd be up early drinking coffee and would head out the door in his golf shirt and name badge. The young man who moved in at 15, a little unsure, confused and shy, who had lived a life at his young age that could have left him jaded and angry, rebelling - has grown into a young man of wisdom, kindness, and infinite potential. We are so thankful. The Lord's hand has been upon Him and we know that the trials he faced when he was young have been folded into the greater story we've had the privilege of seeing unfold first hand.
Like the rest of you, we're off to another great year. I can't wait to see the people and paths we'll cross along the way.
And by cross, I don't mean make real, real mad like my grandmother used to say.
6 comments:
- Becca said...
Ah I love you and your family, and I'm so proud of Dea for you!! :-) Zack is 15 right now, and it gives me so much hope for his future and the man he will become one day!
- September 9, 2012 at 11:11 PM
- Us said...
Thanks so much for the update on Dea. We've been wondering what he's been up too. I guess hearing aout your other kids is ok as well ;)
- September 10, 2012 at 7:58 AM
- Kelley said...
Oh, I am so proud of Dea!! That makes me so happy to read this! What a great young man he is!!! I miss y'all so much. I hate that I didn't get to see anyone when I was in Dallas. I literally jung out at Joey's the entire time.
- September 10, 2012 at 8:02 AM
- Dawn @ simply transparent said...
very goodlooking bunch and what a blessed life to share! love reading your posts..glad you had a moment to enjoy a clean house and blog a bit ;)
- September 10, 2012 at 9:52 AM
- Process Mapping Blog said...
Anther wonderful year and "all" of the kids are growing. I would not recommend speding all of your time cleaning the house...maybe work the car into that schedule.
Love to all,
DAD and Maxine
- September 10, 2012 at 4:53 PM
- Candy said...
Oh Wow! He has taught us all about discipline, hard work & determination.
Proud of Dea & the Hill quartet!
- September 11, 2012 at 9:25 PM


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Category: Nature
Photo and caption by Nicky Darmanin Demajo
I took this photo whilst walking through the green plains of Mongolia. I came across a birds nest buried in the ground with 3 little newborn birds waiting there all huddled together. Every time I would make a whistling sound they would immediately open their mouths, thinking I was their mother coming back with food.
Location: Erdene Sum, Mongolia
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text: Let's see mid Michigan has a gold medal here from the London Olympics, right? And Matt Greene of the Los Angeles Kings brought the Stanley Cup to his Grand Ledge hometown August 10th right? Now the BCS championship trophy has arrived Thursday afternoon from the Detroit airport for the weekend. Dr. Pepper is its sponsor and it is worth $30,000. The football is made in Waterford, Ireland. It last made an appearance at an MSU game in 1999 and it appears where two teams meet who are thought to have a chance to play in the BCS title game. This season it's in January in Miami. The trophy will be on display around and then in Spartan Stadium before and during the Notre Dame game Saturday night before heading on to Oregon. You're not allowed to touch it either after the father of an Alabama player dropped it in celebration after the Crimson Tide beat LSU in January to win the last BCS title in New Orleans.


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Credit cards are almost a necessity during the holiday season. If you purchase gifts online, book air travel or reserve a rental car, you will need to use a credit card.
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By Ellen Probert Williamson
Evergreen and holly wreaths are everywhere during the holiday season, but all kinds of wreaths adorn our houses the rest of the year.
They include wreaths of grapevine, straw, dried flowers and herbs, ribbon bows and lace ruffles. Even such unlikely materials as pretzels and macaroni make their appearance, not to mention straw hats wreathed with blossoms and ribbons.
One wonders whether the residents of all those houses realize what an ancient tradition they are following.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol will be conducting driver license roadside safety checkpoints from 9 to 10 p.m. during the week of Dec. 11 on Hwy. 27 at the Morgan County line.
Recognizing the danger presented to the public by unqualified drivers, troopers will concentrate their efforts on vehicles being operated by drivers who would violate the driver license laws of Tennessee.
Editor's Note: Readers are cautioned that some names may be the same as, or similar to, other members of the community.
Oct. 24 — Larry M. Viles, failure to appear/misdemeanor. Dismissed, cost to defendant. Probation violation. Guilty.
• Stephen P. Brackett, probation violation. Dismissed. Probation violation. Guilty.
• Kenneth L. Wetterlund, capias for failure to appear court date. Dismissed.
• Amber Helton, probation violation. Dismissed.
Editor's Note: Readers are cautioned that some names may be the same as, or similar to, other members of the community.
Nov. 20 — Anthony Brock Crowe, 25, 111 Browns Road, Gray: serving time.
• John Toban Halburnt, 29, 939 Windrock Road, Oliver Springs: attachment. Bond $1,500; court date Dec. 9.
• Andrew Alan Leach, 25, 103 Paint Rock Road, Kingston: fraudulent use of debit card, theft $500 or less and failure to appear. Total bond $10,000; court date Dec. 19.
Babies born at Methodist Medical Center, Oak Ridge, to Roane County parents:
Nov. 11 — Melanie Fitzgerald and Sam Seiber, Oliver Springs. A boy, Kyler Gage, 7 pounds, 1 ounce. Grandparents: Benny and Kathy Seiber; Rick and Julie Burgess.
• Farren Davis and Joshua Johnson, Rockwood. A boy, Elijah Carter, 7 pounds, 13 ounces. Siblings: Breanna and Mikah. Grandparents: Jennie and John Farmer; Robbie Griffith; Anita Barrow; Lois Maddox.
Abigail Grace "Abby" Ariks was born at 9:53 a.m. Nov. 2 in Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, Knoxville.
She weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces, and was 20 inches long.
She is the daughter of Chris and Jessica Ariks of Kingston.
Grandparents are Ron and Rhonda Nickell and the late Angelia Ariks, all of Kingston, and Johnny Ariks of Decatur.
Great-grandparents are Reva Nickell and Lonnie Johnson of Kingston, Sue Johnson of Harriman, and the late Nancy Edmonds of Pennington Gap, Va.
The Henry Center had two Orange and White Days during football season to show support for Coach Derek Dooley and the University of Tennessee Volunteers.
The Tennessee Historical Commission has extended the nomination deadline to Dec. 31 for its Certificate of Merit Awards.
The award is designed to honor individuals or groups who worked to preserve Tennessee's cultural heritage during 2011.
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Seib & Wessel: What We're Reading Wednesday
By Gerald F. Seib and David Wessel
The Pressure Is on Bernanke
President Barack Obama speaks Wednesday at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, a venue denied him as a presidential candidate in 2008. But financial markets (even in Europe), business executives and economists will be paying more attention to the Washington headquarters of the Federal Reserve.
At 2 p.m., the Fed's policy-making committee will release a statement following a two-day meeting. Fed watchers will scour it for the slightest changes from the May 1 statement, particularly wording about the Fed's latest criteria for paring the $85 billion a month it has been spending to buy long-term Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities. Any surprises will send stock, bond and currency markets into a frenzy, if the past is any indication.
At the same time, the Fed will release the latest economic forecasts by the 19 Fed governors in Washington and regional Fed bank presidents — for economic growth, unemployment and inflation as well as when they expect interest rates to rise; in March, they said that would come in 2015. These, too, will be scrutinized for the slightest clue as to shifting sentiment inside the Fed.
Half an hour later, Mr. Bernanke will take the stage for a televised press conference, which will begin with a brief prepared statement in which he summarizes and amplifies the committee's latest thinking followed by about two dozen questions from reporters. Unlike a congressional hearing, most of the questions will actually be about monetary policy; the press conference offers Mr. Bernanke several opportunities to either clarify the Fed's thinking or to emphasize uncertainty about its intention.
The pressure is on Mr. Bernanke. He and his colleagues have been criticized for creating more confusion than clarity about plans for paring back the Fed's bond-buying. Half of the economic forecasters surveyed earlier this month by The Wall Street Journal gave the Fed a D or F in communications. (Our colleague Sudeep Reddy will be live-blogging the whole event at wsj.com.)
One wild card: So far, Mr. Bernanke's second four-year term as Fed chairman ends Jan. 31. So far, he has ducked questions about whether he has any interest in another term. He will surely be asked about that again on Wednesday – and perhaps this time he'll answer. Most of Washington and Wall Street assume he has had enough. Mr. Obama fueled that speculation earlier this week, telling television interviewer Charlie Rose that Mr. Bernanke "has already stayed a lot longer than he wanted or he was supposed to."
–David Wessel
What We're Reading
Recommended reading from around the Web:
The government has missed a series of deadlines for setting up the health insurance exchanges called for in the new health-care overhaul, and there is a risk they won't be ready on time in October, the Government Accountability Office says in a new report. [WSJ]
Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) reports that the climactic White House meeting that produced a decision to arm Syrian rebels was marked by a tense argument between Secretary of State John Kerry, who advocated using U.S. air strikes against Syrian government airfields, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, who "loudly" disagreed. [Bloomberg]
Jon Ward (@jonward11) looks at how Sen. John McCain, who took a while to recover from his 2008 presidential campaign defeat, has returned to the center of the Washington debate as he walks through "the closing chapters of a storied career." [Huffington Post]
President Barack Obama's falling approval rating, even if exaggerated in a recent CNN poll, matters for the outcome of the 2014 election and for 2016, too. (The incumbent party does better when the incumbent is popular.) If sustained, it also hurts Mr. Obama's chances of getting what he wants from Congress. [The Monkey Cage]
Isaac Chotiner (@IChotiner) says the best thing for Sen. Marco Rubio might be for the immigration bill he has been pushing to fall short of passage. That would free him to run for president in 2016 without having to explain why he helped President Obama win a big second-term achievement. [New Republic]
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is clearly not running toward the center. In a fiery op-ed, he writes that the left wants "the government to explode, to pay everyone, to hire everyone" and that the left believes "money grows on trees, the earth is flat… people of faith are ignorant and uneducated, unborn babies don't matter, pornography is fine, traditional marriage is discriminatory…." [Politico]
Dashiell Bennett (@dashbot) wonders whether bringing peace to Afghanistan is a doomed mission as the Taliban seizes credit for an attack that killed four American troops, hours after agreeing to peace talks with the U.S. [The Atlantic]
Bloomberg editors compare this week's protests in Brazil to Occupy Wall Street, looking at how each movement grapples with middle-class anxiety and discontent about structural inequities. [Bloomberg]
What We're Writing
David Wessel lays out the telltale signs to watch for on whether Fed chief Ben Bernanke clarifies or clouds the central-bank message on the fate and rate of its bond-buying program. [Capital | Chart: Bumpy Ride]
Our Videos
Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Alan B. Krueger talked to David Wessel at The Wall Street Journal's CFO Network conference about the health-care law, tax reform and income inequality.
Rep. Sandy Levin (D., Mich.) said the corporate tax code is broken; specifically, he says, the international tax provision needs to be changed.
Levin: Returning Overseas Profits Must Be in Tax Deal
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Minor milestones we've spotted:
Why Chinese economic statistics aren't trusted: An investigation by the national statistics bureau found that in one town the local government reported that 71 companies had industrial output of 2.22 billion yuan in 2012, but the local government reported the output as 8.51 billion–almost four times as much as the actual number. [WSJ]
Nearly three-fourths—74.1%–of black students attend segregated schools, defined as majority nonwhite, nearly the same as in the late 1960s, when 76.6% of black children attended majority black schools. [Economic Policy Institute]
Of requests to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, 6,556 were made so far during Obama's administration, compared with 518 under Carter, 4,294 under Reagan, 2,218 under H.W. Bush, 6,057 under Clinton and 14,353 under George W. Bush. Eleven requests have been denied since 1979. [Washington Post]
A poll finds more support among the 18-34 crowd for the Senate immigration bill (56% favor, 38% oppose) than among the over 50 set (47% favor, 49% oppose). [CNN|ORC]
If the Senate immigration bill becomes law, the U.S. economy would be 3.3% bigger in 2023 than it would otherwise be, Congressional Budget Office estimates. [CBO]
In 2012, Hong Kong (113,500) surpassed Singapore (100,500) in the number of residents with more than $1 million in investable wealth, say RBC Wealth Management and Capgemini. [WSJ]
Europeans registered fewer new cars in May (1.04 million, down 5.9% from a year ago) than in any May for the past 20 years. [WSJ]
Eighteen percent of U.S. adults said they were smokers in 2012, down from 20.6% in 2009. [CDC]
In good times, 60% to 70% of Manpower temporary workers are offered a full-time job while on assignment; today, it's around 30%. [WSJ]
The American Medical Association voted to declare obesity a disease, a move that defines 78 million American adults and 12 million children as having a medical condition requiring treatment. [Los Angeles Times]
For critical perspectives on politics and the economy from Jerry Seib & David Wessel, visit Seib & Wessel.


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by Jeannine Garsee
July 17, 2012
Bloomsbury USA
388 pages
Source: Net Galley E-ARC
Sixteen-year-old Rinn Jacobs has secrets: One, she's bipolar. Two, she killed her grandmother.
After a suicide attempt, and now her parents' separation, Rinn and her mom move from California to the rural Ohio town where her mother grew up. Back on her medications and hoping to stay well, Rinn settles into her new home, undaunted by the fact that the previous owner hanged herself in Rinn's bedroom. At school, her classmates believe the school pool is haunted by Annaliese, a girl who drowned there. But when a reckless séance goes awry, and terrible things start happening to her new friends—yet not to her—Rinn is determined to find out why she can't be "touched" by Annaliese...or if Annaliese even exists.
With the help of Nate Brenner, the hunky "farmer boy" she's rapidly falling for, Rinn devises a dangerous plan to uncover the truth. Soon reality and fantasy meld into one, till Rinn finds it nearly impossible to tell the difference. When a malevolent force threatens the lives of everyone she cares about--not to mention her own--she can't help wondering: who should she really be afraid of?
Annaliese? Or herself? (Taken from Goodreads)
Opening Line
I love a good ghost story. Always have, always will. Cut my teeth on ghost stories you might say. They were my first foray into the supernatural when it came to reading. My childhood favorite, The Ghost Next Door, proudly sits on my shelf to this day amid all my current favorite books. So when I had the chance to pick up The Unquiet through NetGalley, I jumped at it. Plus I love this cover. LOVE it. Girls underwater seems to be popular trend in YA covers these days but I think this is one of the better examples.
So from the synopsis, you know that the MC, Rinn, is not your typical teenage girl. She's actually been diagnosed as bipolar, and there is this sketchy event in her past, namely, she killed her grandmother. Wait, hold up. She KILLED her grandmother? But it's not as clean cut as it would seem. Welcome to the strange world that author Jeannine Garsee has crafted in her work, The Unquiet.
There are things that I really like about this book. And there are some things that bother me. Let's start with the likes.
Check out Jeannine Garsee's website HERE
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Pierre Turgeon
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Aug 28, 1969
Rouyn, QC, Canada
Signed by Colorado as a free agent on Aug. 3, 2005.
1987 NHL Entry Draft
1st (1st overall)
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Game Log
Completed his 18th season in the NHL, his first with Colorado…Recorded 46 points in just 62 games, his most points since notching 47 with Dallas in 2001-02…Missed 20 games due to various injuries…Finished the season 31st all-time in goals (511), 26th in assists (809) and 27th in points (1320)…Scored his 500th career goal on Nov. 8 vs. San Jose, becoming the 34th player in NHL history to reach that milestone…He joined Joe Sakic as the only players to score their 500th in a Nordiques/Avalanche sweater…Moved past Alex Delvecchio (1281) for 27th place on the career points list with an assist on Oct. 25 vs. Edmonton…Missed the Nov. 14th game vs. Edmonton due to a sore hip…Scored his 503rd career goal on Nov. 21 vs. Calgary, breaking a tie with Joe Mullen for 32nd place in NHL history…Collected 14 points in 11 games during the month of November (4g/10a)…Had a point in six straight games, Nov. 16-25 (3g/8a)…Missed three games due to a groin injury, Nov. 27-30…Was placed on the IR Nov. 28 (retroactive to Nov. 25)…Suffered the injury after recording two assists on Nov. 25 in Columbus…Recorded career point No. 1,300 on Dec. 9 at New Jersey, the 27th player in NHL history to reach that milestone…Notched his 800th career assist on Dec. 23 at Minnesota, becoming the 26th player in league history to accomplish that feat…Missed 16 games due to a shoulder injury, Jan. 9-Feb. 12…Injured the shoulder on Jan. 7 vs. Columbus…Was placed on the IR Feb. 3 (retro to Jan. 7) and activated on Feb. 28…Ranked third on the team with 35 points at the time of his injury…Scored his 508th career goal on March 22 at Anaheim, passing Jean Beliveau for 31st place on the all-time list. PLAYOFFS: Dressed in five of Colorado's nine playoff games, collecting two assists…It marked his 15th appearance in the Stanley Cup playoffs…Needs just three points for 100 career playoff points…Ranks 14th among active players in career playoff assists with 62.
Ranked third on the Stars in plus/minus (+17)…Appeared in his 1,200th career NHL game on March 5 vs. Calgary, becoming the 59th player in NHL history to do so. PLAYOFFS: Skated in his 100th career NHL playoff game in Game One of the Conference Quarterfinals vs. Colorado.
Registered his 1,200th NHL point with an assist on Nov. 12 at Montreal, becoming the 37th player in league history to eclipse that milestone…Recorded the winning goal in three straight games, Nov. 13-17, becoming just the second player in franchise-history to accomplish that feat (also Wayne Connelly from Jan. 27-31, 1968 with Minnesota)…Missed the last 14 regular season games and the first six games of the playoffs (March 7-April 19) after undergoing surgery on his ankle.
Tied for second on the Stars in assists (32), was third in points (47) and fifth in goals (15)…Netted eight goals over his last 23 games (8-13-21) after recording only three goals over his previous 31 contests (3-15-18)…Recorded his 700th career NHL assist on Dec. 15 at Phoenix.
Spent the season with the St. Louis Blues where he tied for 11th in the NHL in assists (52) and tied for 16th in points (82)…Recorded his 13th consecutive 20-goal season, tied for the second longest current streak at the time (Hull 14 and Shanahan 13)…Netted his 15th career hat trick on Dec. 15 at Atlanta…Collected three assists on Dec. 26 vs. Columbus, with his second assist being his 1,100th career point. PLAYOFFS: Appeared in all 15 games with St. Louis and tied for 10th in the NHL in assists (10) and tied for 12th in points (15)…Led the team in assists, points and was second in goals (5)…Notched three points in both Game One and Game Three of the CQF vs. San Jose…Posted two assists in the series-clinching Game Four (CSF) vs. Dallas…Netted his only multi-goal contest of the postseason with two goals in Game Four of the Conference Finals vs. Colorado.
Recorded 66 points in just 52 games with the Blues (26g/40a)…Despite missing 30 games, he finished second on the team in goals and points and was third in assists and plus/minus (+30)…Recorded his 1,000th career NHL point on Oct. 9 at Edmonton…Netted 400th career NHL goal on Oct. 13 at Detroit…Posted a 15-game point streak from Dec. 2-Jan. 3 (7g/17a), tied for the second longest scoring streak in the league…Accumulated the longest assist-streak in the NHL and set a career-high with a 12-game streak (16 assists), from Dec. 4-30…Appeared in his 900th career NHL contest on Dec. 5 at Philadelphia.
Finished second on the Blues in goals (31), points (65), game-winning goals (5) and was third in assists (34) and power play goals (10)…Posted his 13th career NHL hat trick on Nov. 10 vs. Chicago. PLAYOFFS: Appeared in all 13 postseason games with St. Louis…Led the team in assists (9), points (13), game-winning goals (2) and was tied for second in goals (4).
Led the team and finished 10th in the NHL in assists (46)…Was second on the Blues in points (68) and third in goals (22)…Missed 22 games with a broken right forearm, suffered on Oct. 4 at Dallas…Tallied his 900th career NHL point on Feb. 4 at Toronto…Posted four points (2g/2a) on March 1 vs. Anaheim…Recorded a 12-game point streak, March 25-April 19, second longest in the NHL that season (7g/11a). PLAYOFFS: Appeared in all 10 postseason games for St. Louis…Recorded four goals and four assists for eight points.
Began the season in Montreal but was traded to the Blues after just nine games on Oct. 29…Tied for 13th in the NHL in points (85), recording 11 with Montreal and 74 with St. Louis…Tied a career-high with five points on Dec. 22 vs. Los Angeles (1g/4a). PLAYOFFS: Collected two points in five postseason games.
Led the Canadiens in points (96), goals (tied-38) assists (58), shots (297) and power play goals (17)…Named team captain on Dec. 8…Was the Canadiens' only representative at the NHL All-Star Game in Boston…Appeared in his 600th NHL game on Oct. 25 vs. Florida…Registered his 700th NHL point with an assist on Nov. 4 vs. Boston…Was the recipient of the Molson Cup Award for most Three Star of the Game selections…Netted his 12th career hat trick on Jan. 6 vs. Buffalo, allowing him to surpass the 300 career-goal mark. PLAYOFFS: Tallied six points in six playoff games with the Candiens.
Split the season between the New York Islanders and Montreal Canadiens.
Led the Islanders in points (94), assists (56) and shots (254) for the second straight season…Was second on the team in goals (38), power play goals (10) and game-winning tallies (6)…Finished third in the voting for the Lady Byng Trophy behind Wayne Gretzky and Adam Oates…Missed the opening game of the season with tendonitis…Tallied his ninth career hat trick and added an assist on Nov. 17 vs. Ottawa…Missed one game, Dec. 19 at Quebec, with the flu…Missed 12 games after suffering a fractured right cheekbone on Jan. 26 at Toronto…Posted a 13-gamepoint streak, Feb. 21-March 17 (13g/10a)…Appeared in the NHL All-Star Game at Madison Square Garden.
Awarded the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy…Finished fifth in voting for the Hart Trophy as he posted a career-high 132 points and 58 goals…Represented NY Islanders at the NHL All-Star Game in Montreal and tallied five points in the game (3g/2a)…Ranked sixth in the NHL in points, goals and game-winning goals (10)…Led the team in nearly every category…Scored more goals in a season than any Islander in team history except Mike Bossy, who posted more than 60 goals in five different seasons…Recorded a 14-game point streak, March 20-April 16. PLAYOFFS: Despite missing seven 1993 postseason games with a separated shoulder, still finished fourth on the team in points (13) and tied for third in goals. (6)…Scored the tying goal with just 43 seconds remaining in Game Three of first round series vs. Washington.
Began the season with Buffalo but was dealt to the Islanders in an eight-player trade on Oct. 25…Went on to finish first on the Islanders in points (87), assists (49) and game-winning goals (6)…His 95 combined points ranked 13th in the NHL…Had a career-high 18-game point streak, Jan. 11-Feb. 22, totaling 34 points during that stretch (17g/17a)…Tied for the third longest streak in club-history and was second longest in NHL behind Brett Hull…Missed three games due to a knee injury.
Finished second on Buffalo in goals (32), assists (47) and points (79) and tied for the team lead in power play goals (13)…Scored 100th NHL Goal on Dec. 16 vs. St. Louis.
Finished seventh in the league with 106 points (40g/66a)…Shared Wayne Larkin Trophy as Buffalo's team MVP with Darren Puppa…Represented Sabres at the NHL All-Star Game in Pittsburgh, netting two goals…Finished fourth in voting for Lady Byng Trophy.
Led the Sabres in scoring (88 points) and power play goals (19).
Made his NHL debut on Oct. 8 vs. Minnesota and scored 23 points in his first 30 NHL games.
Finished fifth in the QMJHL scoring race with 154 points (69g/85a)…Winner of the Mike Bossy Trophy as the top prospect…Helped Granby to a first place finish in the Robert-LeBel Division.
Selected first overall by the Granby Bisons in the 1985 QMJHL draft…Winner of the Michel Bergeon Trophy as top rookie forward in 1985-86, accumulating 114 points (47g/67a).
He and his wife, Elisabeth have four children, twins Elizabeth and Alexandra (14), son Dominic (10) and daughter Valerie (8)…His first job was helping out at a hockey school…Played for Canada in the 1982 Little League World Series…Enjoys both boating and golf.
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Issue No.12 - December (1988 vol.37)
pp: 1506-1514
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/12.9729
A two-writer, n-reader atomic memory register is constructed from two one-writer, (n+1)-reader atomic memory registers. There are no restrictions on the size of the constructed register. The simulation requires only a single extra bit per real register and can survive the failure of any set of readers and writers. A complete proof of correctness is given. Several obvious ways are suggested to t
two-writer; atomic registers; memory register; proof of correctness; two-writer protocol; computer architecture; protocols.
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Sri Lanka Real Estate Report – Q1 2012
- January 2012
- Region: Sri Lanka
- Research Intelligence Unit
The Real Estate Report is for the most part generated by our own primary data by conducting surveys and collected qualitative information as official data is scarce is this sector in Sri Lanka.
The bi-annual publication offers analysis on the entire market by segment (luxury condos', middle segment, leisure property, bare land, retail, office) and it gives commentary on the current market dynamics and investment environment (regulatory / institutional) whilst maintaining a succinct style that makes it quick and easy to read. It conforms to high international standards in all aspects.
Editorial Note
Colombo: Inner city clue
Condominium market overview
Residential lands in the suburbs
INSIGHT: The modern suburb of Mahargama
Commercial property growth peaks and eases off
Leisure properties: The investment incline
FACT FILE: Land and housing in Sri Lanka
Interview: Looming opportunity in construction
ANNEX A: Condominium prices in Colombo
ANNEX B: Retail rental rates for the top spots in Colombo
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TARGET SECOND SATURDAYS The Latino Cultural Center has a packed day of activities planned for families, with Oil and Cotton helping kids with Mexican corridos (stories told in song) from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and an architecture activity from 1 to 2:30 p.m., a performance of Tadpoles by Amphibian Productions from noon to 1 p.m., tango classes from noon to 4 p.m. and a dance performance presented by the LCC's after-school program from 2 to 2:30 p.m. Nov. 9 with most activities from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. 2600 Live Oak St., Dallas. 214-671-0045. dallasculture.org.
DALLAS CONTEMPORARY Kids are invited to a birthday party for Dallas Contemporary, which is celebrating its 35th with a showcase of 35 past, present and future artists. It kicks off with a children's story hour at 10 a.m., followed by a performance by School of Rock Band: Zeppos at 11 a.m. and a collage workshop for kids at noon. There'll also be two workshops for kids 7-13, including a collage workshop with artist Trey Wright at noon and screen printing with artist Nevada Hill at 1 p.m. Food trucks will be on-site, selling kid-friendly fare. Nov. 9 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 161 Glass St., Dallas. 214-821-2522. dallascontemporary.org.
STAR-WATCHING PARTY Grab a telescope and navigate the skies with the help of the Noble Planetarium staff and members of the Fort Worth Astronomical Society. This monthly party, presented by the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, begins at dusk, weather permitting. Nov. 9 from approximately 7 to around 10:30 p.m. 1600 Gendy St., Fort Worth. Parking is available in the museum's lot north of Harley Street. 817-255-9300. fortworthmuseum.org.
A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE Say hello to Jewel Box, a native box turtle, and meet an as-yet unnamed bullfrog at Trinity River Audubon Center's Make Art With Purpose family festival. Kids can see homing pigeons in flight and create crafts using recycled materials, including empty plastic bottles (feel free to take your own) to make scarecrows. They can also help create an oversized map of the Trinity River, take guided hikes and view a new permanent garden, Barbara Benish's "Flow: River to Sea," that addresses water conservation. Nov. 9 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 6500 Great Trinity Forest Blvd., Dallas. 214-398-8722. trinityriveraudubon.org.
A DAY IN THE ARTS DISTRICT Start your family's Saturday outdoors with a good stretch at a Yogiños: Yoga for Youth class from the Crow Collection and Yogiños at Klyde Warren Park. Then head across the street to the Dallas Museum of Art for a Tween Workshop, Saturday Morning 'Artoons, where kids 9-12 can try hands-on animation inspired by museum portraits in the European Galleries. Nov. 9, with yoga from 10 to 11 a.m. on the Ginsburg Family Great Lawn, 2012 Woodall Rodgers Freeway, Dallas. 214-716-4500. Cancellations due to weather possible; check klydewarrenpark.org for updates. Saturday Morning 'Artoons at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood St., Dallas, run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Free, but registration is required at jfuentes@ DMA.org as class space is limited. Additional Jim Hodges-inspired nature collage workshops offered at 1 and 2:30 p.m.; a limited number of free tickets available outside the art studio in C3 30 minutes before workshop begins. 214-922-1200. dma.org.


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Twitter on Friday confirmed that it has received another round of funding. The micro-blogging site did not disclose how much it was receiving, but it is rumored to be in the $100 million range.
"A few hours ago we closed a significant round of funding with a group of investment firms that we're excited to publicly thank: Insight Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price, Institutional Venture Partners, Spark Capital and Benchmark Capital," Twitter co-founder Evan Williams wrote in a blog post.
"It was important to us that we find investment partners who share our vision for building a company of enduring value," Evans continued. "Twitter's journey has just begun and we are committed to building the best product, technology, and company possible."
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Former Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton, who signed a $125 million, five-year contract with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim during the offseason, has a parting shot for the Metroplex.
In an interview that aired Sunday night on KTVT in Dallas, the 2010 AL MVP said Dallas-Fort Worth is not a baseball town.
"It's one of those things where Texas, especially Dallas, has always been a football town," Hamilton said. "So the good with the bad is they're (the fans) supportive, but they also got a little spoiled, at the same time, pretty quickly. You can understand like a really true, true baseball town — and there are true baseball fans in Texas – but it's not a true baseball town."
Hamilton, who has battled alcohol and drug addiction since he was selected with the No. 1 overall pick in the 1999 MLB draft by the Tampa Bay Rays, had at least 25 homers and 94 RBIs in four of his five seasons with Texas.
In 2012, he hit 43 homers and drove in 128 RBIs for the Rangers. He now joins a lineup that includes Albert Pujols, Mike Trout and Mark Trumbo.


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A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
by John Donne
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning Theme of Love
Since we know "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" was written for Donne's wife Ann, it's not a stretch to call this a love poem. Most love poems, though, focus primarily on the beloved. In this case, the speaker spends most of his time defining the nature of the love they share. The final argument is that real love is powerful, unconquerable. Real love can't be defeated by distance and real love doesn't fall apart at the thought of being apart. In other words, "Love lifts us up where we belong…"
Questions About Love
- In the first stanza, how is love like a good guy dying? Do you agree with that analogy? Why or why not?
- How is love like the movement of the stars and planets? Do you think the speaker is right about that comparison? Why or why not?
- Why is gold the right metal to compare to love?
- What does the compass metaphor tell us about how two people in love can endure separation?
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Donne argues that people who cry and mourn when they have to be away from their lover aren't really in love. Love's bigger than that (so knock off the waterworks already).
All this argumentation about love falls right in line with Donne's time period. All the writers boasted about how their love was better than everyone else's. Don't believe us? Check out Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" as a classic example.


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Please help me in my endeavor to help my brother who suffered a massive stroke five yrs ago. He immediately received therapy and was doing great. He could talk although his speech remained a little distorted. He could walk but with a slight drag of the right leg. He even began to drive. However, he has recently began to fall into a depression that has affected him intensely and he has lost all interest in any activity, being around others, has become weak and is suffering anxiety attacks, does not have an appetite and has lost his sleep completely. Could you please enlighten me as to what we can give him to help him sleep? He was on Ambien for sleep and they took him off of it because the long term use of this med began to attack his sense of taste and his ability to swallow including episodes of nausea. Please help me or inform me of what I can do for him.
Answer: This question is out of my realm as a therapist, however, I do have some resources that I can recommend. The National Stroke Association in Colorado, US has a publication called Stroke Facts. There is one that addresses sleep disorders after stroke that can be viewed by clicking here. The publication discusses breathing disorders, sleep/wake cycle disorders, and insomnia after stroke. You might consider evaluation by a sleep clinic which could help identify the specific reason your brother is not sleeping. If you do a search on the web for sleep disorders after stroke, you can gain a wealth of information.
You also mentioned depression which is common after stroke. In order to determine if your brother is experiencing clinical depression or other similar problems, have an evaluation performed by a physician. I would look specifically for a neuropsychiatrist who will have experience in dealing with post stroke depression and anxiety. The neuropsychiatrist may be able to help with the sleep disturbance as well.
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Question:My father had a stroke eleven weeks ago. It was a block stroke, and he cannot balance very well. He has lost the use of his left side and is unable to walk. He hasn't slept for longer than three hours at a time ever since. Any sleeping tablet me has taken seems to have a bad effect. He becomes hyperactive and behaves in a very strange manner (plucking things out the air saying, they need to be picked) and constantly trying to get out of bed. My mum is his main caregiver. She is 78 years old and suffering badly with lack of sleep. All the care he needs during the day is manageable by my mother and sister, but mum needs a night's sleep! What could help my Dad sleep? Nytol, rescue remedy, diazepam, phenegan,etc. just don't work. Any advice would be really appreciated.
Answer: I recommend reading the following http://www.stroke.org/site/DocServer/NSAFactSheet_SleepDisorders.pdf?docID=1002. I also recommend talking to a sleep specialist or even having a sleep study done to determine if anything can be done to help address the issue.
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Question: My mother had a second stroke. She is 77 years old. She is having trouble sleeping at night and yelling and talking constantly. Doctor gave her 25 mg. Atarax to sleep. She also having trouble eating. She doesn't want to eat. She drinks some water that's all. She is also having trouble taking medicines. She refuses to take them.
Answer: It sounds as if your mother has had some cognitive changes due to her stroke. If the second stroke is recent, it may be that you just need to give her a little time to recover. If it has been over a couple of months since this second stroke and these behaviors have remained consistent, then you may want to consider some type of schedule. I would make sure she is getting plenty of activity during the day and not sleeping too much so that she can sleep better at night. You can try making the bedtime routine relaxing. Some examples may include a warm shower, music, and lightly massaging lotion on to her skin. I would make sure she goes to bed at the same time each night. If she sleeps any during the day, keep that time consistent as well. I would also try to schedule feeding at the same times each day, and make sure you include some of her favorite foods at each meal. If she won't each much, you can try supplementing with drinks or puddings such as Ensure (or whatever her physician recommends).
For the medication issue, check with her physician and see if it's okay to crush her medicines and put them in something more tasty like ice cream or pudding. I would also check with the physician and see which medicines are mandatory or the most important to make sure you try to get those down first. If the stroke has affected her cognition and reasoning abilities, you may not be able to convince her to take food and medicines. If this is the case, then I would make sure she has some cognitive retraining with a speech therapist. Let the therapist know the areas in which your mom is having trouble so goals can be set accordingly.
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Question: What would cause a resident to sleep on and off at night and to be getting agitated after a stroke?
Answer Sleeping difficulty and agitation are not uncommmon after stroke and can be a direct result of the stroke. The patient's MD may be able to give medications that can help with sleep and agitation so I recommend consulting with the physician. If the stroke was recent, the patient may just need time to heal and stabilize into a more regular sleep pattern which in turn may also help with agitation.
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Question: I had a stroke 10 months ago but find I still sleep a lot. My right side leg,arm and speech was affected but have all come back. I sleep in the evenings but wake up at 4:00 in the morning. I work full time from 7:30 am to 5:00 pm but start getting sleepy at about 2:00 and then go right to sleep at home around 6:00
Answer: It is not uncommon to want to sleep more or become more fatigued at the end of the day after stroke. I would definitely mention the fatigue to your MD. Some things to consider that might be causing fatigue would be medicines that you are taking, the total amount of sleep you are getting (or not getting), any issues with blood work (e.g. anemia), and your diet. If you can't contribute fatigue to any other factors, then it is probably just a side effect from your stroke. If approved by your MD, it would be good to do some type of cardiovascular exercise which in turn may improve your endurance. Since you work, you don't have the luxury of taking a short afternoon nap, but I do often tell patients that experience sleepiness/fatigue to take a nap in the afternoon if needed.
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Question: How does a CPAP machine help?
Answer: CPAP stands for continuous positive airway pressure, and a CPAP machine is used to help a person who has obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Obstructive sleep apnea is a serious condition that causes people to stop breathing when they are sleeping. A person with OSA is two to four times more likely to have stroke. Sleep apnea is often managed with the use of a CPAP machine. By controlling sleep apnea, one can help reduce their risk of stroke.
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Object Oriented Cultural Assumption
Well, let's start with the obvious:
Everything is an object.
Whoever complains about OO probably just doesn't get it.
Whoever has troubles with OO surely doesn't get it.
OO is cool. The alternatives are all old-fashioned and obsolete.
I get a chuckle from this one, because I found the perfect example of OO is from philosophy: Plato's Ideals are classes
OOP makes "procedural" programming obsolete; C programmers have fallen behind and should upgrade. (Related:
Everybody should be doing OO. We should have OO databases, OO operating systems, OO AI systems, OO safety-critical software, OO toilet paper, etc... There are some who still don't get it and persist in their bad old habits, writing obsolete software systems.
"This is not OO." ( translated: "I'm sure it's something wrong with it")
We have to find the right
SQL is low level. We need to
storage access
with the CRUD interface: (create 1 object)/(read 1 object)/(update 1 object)/(delete 1 object). Now we got our fancy RDB back to a COBOL file, see how low level and obsolete it is ?
Every table in a relational database needs an OID column, so that we can "identify" our objects.
Please add or comment on the above list.
I hope nobody minds that I toned down some comments, trying to preserve the flavor without provoking people. Can we get definitions that both OO detractors and OO supporters agree on?
Everything is an object. And Object Oriented Programming is just the latest hack to get us as close to programming with that insight as is currently possible. -
What is the alternative? When i interview non-OO people and i ask them how do you develop software, they really have no idea. Maybe OO isn't the saviour of the world, but it at least gives you a vocabulary. --
I particularly like the design methodology espoused by Abelson and Sussman in
. In short, what it comes down to is that you design a programming language in which your problem has a simple solution. For complicated problems, the approach can be layered on top of itself. The problem is that this requires the use of a base programming language that easily lends itself to such an approach, without requiring you to actually go and write a parser, interpreter/compiler &c. In practice, this requires higher-order functions and fully general macros, otherwise you go nuts. The main languages that support such things are the various Lisp dialects (Scheme, Common Lisp, Dylan, &c.).
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At a high level, object-oriented programming is one of many interesting ways of designing programs. Here are some ways that work especially well for certain problems, though some (including OO) are much more broadly applicable than these examples:
Finite state machines for asynchronous networking
Constraint programming for incremental data validation
Pattern-action matching for text processing (like AWK)
Object-oriented programming for stateful objects with specialized behavior (e.g. GUIs)
Processes, streams, and pipes for connectable text-manipulation programs
At a lower level, you can implement all of these designs in most languages. Because tastes differ so much, it would be asking for trouble to suggest which is best for what. Instead, let's just acknowledge some fundamental options, each of which some people really love, each of which has many subcategories:
Classes, objects, and messages
Procedures, pointers, and system calls
Monads, structured types, and lazy evaluation
Lists, macros, and recursion
We all have our own favorites, and most of us won't have time or occasion to learn all the others, but it doesn't hurt to acknowledge each of them. Smart people are writing good programs in each of these ways, and no doubt countless others, every day.
Note that I did NOT create this topic. --top
"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California." — Edsger Dijkstra
"object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing." — Rob Pike
"The phrase "object-oriented" means a lot of things. Half are obvious, and the other half are mistakes." — Paul Graham
"Implementation inheritance causes the same intertwining and brittleness that have been observed when goto statements are overused. As a result, OO systems often suffer from complexity and lack of reuse." — John Ousterhout Scripting, IEEE Computer, March 1998
"90% of the shit that is popular right now wants to rub its object-oriented nutsack all over my code" — kfx
"Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function." — John Carmack
"The problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle." — Joe Armstrong
"I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy." — Eric Allman
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"The only
function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." - John
Kenneth GalbraithWe have witnessed a series of tragic events in
Japan over the past few weeks. It will take years for the physical scars to heal
and much longer before the emotional damage fades from memory, if in fact it
ever does. To add to its woes, Japan has been stuck in an economic malaise of
historic proportions. Its stock market, the Nikkei, has fallen from a high of
almost 39,000 in early 1990 to a closing level of 9755 on March 31, a decline of
about 75 percent. Real estate prices are at about half their 1990 peak and many
financial institutions remain barely functional. Many feared a similar fate for
the U.S. economy following the financial crisis in 2008-2009, but fortunately
they appear to be wrong; for now. The economy is recovering, albeit at a slow
and uneven pace.Japan's prospects don't look much better for the next
few years either. China has replaced Japan as the second largest economy in the
world, thanks largely to robust economic growth in China, while Japan
languishes. In addition, Japan has an aging and shrinking population, a deficit
to GDP ratio that has for years been the highest in the developed world (until
we overtook them this year) and a dependence on oil and other commodities that
are surging in price. Despite these economic woes, the Japanese yen
remains strong. Around the time the Nikkei approached 39,000 in 1990, the yen
stood at 160 yen per dollar. For most of the last five or six months, is has
been in an 80 to 85 range, except for a brief surge to 76.25 in the days
following the earthquake and tsunami. There have been several reasons for yen
strength since the financial crisis began. Here are a few:
Spot rate
on the day
End-2011 Forecast
End-2012 Forecast
September 30, 2010
December 31, 2010
Febuary 28, 2011
March 17, 2011
March 31, 2011
Source: Bloomberg, SVB
Financial GroupWhat I find noteworthy is that, although the yen is virtually
unchanged between the end of the third quarter of 2010 and March 31 this year,
with the exception of the blip on March 17 consensus forecasts for both the end
of 2011 and 2012 noticeably shifted in favor of less yen weakness. In other
words, forecasters are not as convinced as they were about the prospects for
material yen weakness in the months and years ahead. In my
opinion, they have thrown in the towel too early. I believe we are in the
process of forming a base and assuming the 80 level holds, could see significant
yen weakness over the next couple of years. I have summarized my main
reasons below:
As Japan
struggles to emerge from this tragedy, fight a twenty year pattern of subpar
growth and overcome its longer-term secular challenges, easy money and a weak
yen are what the economy needs and what policy makers want. The government's
hands are tied on the fiscal front, given its somewhat precarious deficit
situation and the constant threat of ratings downgrades, leaving easier monetary
policy and a weak yen as their main weapons to boost economic growth and
exports. In my opinion, too great a focus on repatriation flows has
clouded the picture. It is in Japan's interest for the yen to weaken and the
international community appears supportive. If investment and speculative flows
fall into alignment as well as I believe they will, the yen will break above the
85 level shortly, which will generate further selling pressure and a likely move
towards 95 and then 100. A lot of technology companies with un-hedged yen
receivables have benefited significantly from yen strength over the past few
years. That might soon change.
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