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Wayne Federman
Wayne Federman is a veteran comedian, actor, comedy writer, and author. He has been seen on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show, and has his own 1/2 hour stand-up special on Comedy Central.
He currently portrays "Dean Weinstock" on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm and has also appeared on dozens of TV programs including The League, The Larry Sanders Show, and The X-Files.
Moviegoers may recognize Wayne from Step Brothers, 50 First Dates, 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People, and Legally Blonde.
Wayne was the head monologue writer for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon over its first season has also written for Garry Shandling, Sarah Silverman, The Muppets, Kevin Nealon, Bill Maher, and Seth Rogen.
He co-authored the bestselling sports biography MARAVICH that ESPN called "The definitive biography of Pistol Pete Maravich."
Wayne also hosts the Annual Wayne Federman International Film Festival every January.
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Kyle Dunnigan is a standup comedian and actor, best known for his role as Craig aka The Truckee River Killer in the hit Comedy Central series Reno 911! As a standup, he has had his own half hour special on Comedy Central and he has been featured on several shows including NBC's Late Night With Conan O'Brien, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live and CBS's The Late Late Show. He was also a regular correspondent on The Jay Leno Show. Kyle was a series regular on NBC's Howie Do It as well as FOX's Cedric The Entertainer Presents. He also has a significant online presence which includes his viral video Craig Vs Wild that boasts over two million hits on multiple platforms. He is an alumni of the Groundlings Sunday Company and holds a BFA in theatre from the University of Connecticut. If you don't enjoy Kyle live, there might be something wrong with you. No, seriously, you should get that checked out.
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Cristela Alonzo is the cocreator, coexecutive producer and star of the ABC sitcom, "Cristela," an achievement which caps a whirlwind year. Cristela rose to fame in the world of standup and has since topped multiple comedy power player lists including "Variety's Top 10 Comics to Watch," "Top 10 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2014" by LA Weekly, Cosmo Latina's "8 Women You Should be Following on Twitter," Time Out's "Comics to Watch," Cosmo's "13 Female Comedians to Watch For in 2014," and "One of the 50 Comedians You Should and WILL Know" by Vulture.com.
Cristela recently made a deal with Comedy Central to release her debut CD, "Some of the Hits," this fall. "The Half Hour," her first half hour special in Boston, premiered in June 2013 on Comedy Central to rave reviews. Cristela has also made appearances on "The View," "The Late Show with David Letterman," "Conan," Gabriel Iglesias' "Stand Up Revolution," Showtime's "Legally Brown," "Last Comic Standing" and "Live at Gotham." In addition, she performed at the Bonnaroo Music Festival and the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal.
One of the most popular standup comedians in the college market, she showcased at the NACA (National Association of Campus Activities) national convention in Charlotte, NC, and was the most requested act of the convention. In the past three years, she has performed for almost 300 colleges.
Originally from San Juan, Texas—Cristela is based in Los Angeles, and when not on the road, can be found performing at various area clubs, including her home club The Comedy and Magic Club in Hermosa Beach.
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At Edinburgh for my first time! A wonderful place witn all that a town should have, in compactness and completeness unmatched — a perfect ideal of a city! Romantic site of hill and vale — fine buildings and monuments mediaeval and modern; palace and castle; antiquated gloomy wynds and closes and lofty houses towering up like cliffs, dotted with windows like loopholes; all teeming with associations, historical, poetical, scientific — national and individual — heroic, tragic, comic, quaint, terrible or humorous; all in their appropriate places. — Alfred Domett
- A late-Victorian reaction to Edinburgh, its Buildings, and Monuments
- The Bank of Scotland
- British Linen Bank
- Buildings overlooking Princes Street Gardens
- Buccleuch and Geyfriars Free Church of Scotland
- Edinburgh Castle
- Fettes College
- Regency Homes in the Classical Style (9 views)
- The Edinburgh College of Art — Edwardian Classicism in Scotland
- Semi-detached homes with bay windows, Blacket Place
- House with mansard roof and eccentric stonework, Blacket Place
- The Hub, formerly The Assembly Hall and Talbooth Church, Castlehill
- Jenners Department Store, Edinburgh (1893)
- National Gallery of Scotland
- The New Club
- The North British Hotel (now the Balmoral), Edinburgh (1895)
- The Royal Scottish Academy
- The Royal Scottish Museum
- The Scottish Conservative Club
- St. George's Close: A Fifteenth-century Courtyard
- St Giles' Cathedral
- The Cathedral of St. Mary (Victorian engraving)
- The View from Edinburgh Castle
- Lauriston Place Fire Station
- Salisbury Green (10 views)
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- Scott Monument (3 views)
- The Mercat Cross
- The Duke of Buccleuch
- War Memorial
- Alexander the Great, training his horse Bucephalus
- Allan Ramsay
- Sir John Hope, fourth Earl of Hopetoun
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The MacMurray College men's basketball team won its sixth straight game and climbed to the top of the conference standings with a 76-52 win Wednesday night at Iowa Wesleyan College.
Senior forward Brady Slagle paced the Highlanders with a game-high 21 points and thirteen rebounds. Junior center Clayton Whitlock was perfect from the field (6-6) and added sixteen points off the bench. Paul Crowder also provided a spark off the bench with thirteen points and Cole Busch added twelve points in the road win.
Coach Todd Creal's club improves to 13-4 overall and 9-1 in the conference; while Iowa Wesleyan College falls to 5-11 overall and 2-7 in SLIAC play. The Mac win moved them into a tie for first place in the conference standings with Spalding University.
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right now its 1:09 in the morning, and i can't sleep. when i can't sleep i become restless and my mind starts to go a mile a minute. right now all my mind is focused on is my inabilities to move forward and progress my relationship with God. thats why i have called this post "stagnant". because that is how i am feeling and how i've been feeling for awhile now.
lets first start off by defining the word stagnant.
- not flowing or running, as water or air.
- stale or foul from standing, as a pool of water.
- characterized by lack of development, advancement or progressive movement.
- inactive, sluggish or dull.
i believe all four of these definitions can sum up how i've been in relation to my relationship with God. for awhile i've tried to put a label on it. give it a title so it could have some substance and i could define how i've been feeling. before stagnant, i could only describe it as a numbness. you know its there, but you can't feel it. when your foot is numb, you can't walk. when your hand is numb, its difficult to hold on to something. when your relationship with God has become numb, you have difficulties holding onto it and walking forward.
i remember one time a few years back i got stung by a bee. i had been stung before as a kid but had never reacted the way i did a few years back. aside from it being painful, my foot turned about 5 different colors and became pretty swollen. and later that night, while trying to go to bed, i had hallucinations. first off i couldn't stop shivering. i rolled myself into the tightest fetal position i could possibly make to try to stop the shivering but it was no use. the clatter of my teeth was so loud, it woke up my roommate. i was up every 10 minutes trying to use the bathroom but couldn't go. and when i was in bed, trying to stop shivering and fall asleep, i felt as if i were strapped down to my bed and unable to move. i was hallucinating thinking i was bound to my bed. wanting to desperately jump out. physically i knew i wasn't tied down, but my mind didn't know the difference. it was the strangest thing i had ever experienced.
the reason i told you that is because the way i felt tied down to my bed those years ago is the same way i feel in my relationship with God. i feel tied down and unable to move. i feel numb. i've become stagnant. and honestly, i don't know where it came from or when it started.
when i think about what we as Christians are called to do which is to love and to go out and tell the world of the good news, thats when the numbness sets in. its as if i become strapped down. its like i'm strapping myself down. i become scared when i think of representing my Father. there is a line in an As Cities Burn song that has been with me for years because when i first heard it, it struck a chord deep inside me and it described me perfectly. he simply sings, "now i let go of Your hand somewhere between love and what it demands of me." and that is me.
back to the definition of stagnant:
first, when you're not constantly flowing or running with God, you stop growing. one thing i've learned as a Christian over the years is this: you can't expect to grow in Christ if you stay still. repeatedly throughout the bible, its stated that you must keep conversation through prayer. you must stay in the word. you must physically follow in the steps of Christ. if you stop, you won't change and you'll become stagnant.
second, when you become stagnant in your relationship with God, you become foul or stale. when i think of stale i think of bread. when bread becomes stale it either becomes moldy or it becomes hard. it becomes no good and has to be thrown away. when something becomes foul, it stinks. no one wants to go around it and it starts to attract insects. when we become stagnant with God, obviously we don't start to grow mold on our bodies and start to smell, but our personalities, character and souls do. we no longer look like the image of Christ. our moods and personalities start to stink and no one wants to be around us. instead of being the sweet aroma of Christ, we become the foul stench of the world.
third, we become characterized by lack of development, advancement or progressive movement. we become strapped to the bed. we don't grow. we don't move forward. and we don't learn anymore. we just are. as i was typing this third meaning, another As Cities Burn lyric popped into my head: "so i hear theres a whole world out there, but i've grown to love this bed to much to leave it. i keep hearing about this world out there. come untie me from this bed, come untie me from the wicked things i love." if we become tied down to our beds, to our complacency in life, we lose the ability to move forward and advance in our relationship with God.
forth, we become inactive, sluggish or dull. or all three. this one is the main one for me. especially sluggish and dull. i just feel lazy when it comes to my relationship with God. i've become so complacent and comfortable in the life i have, i've lost the ability to progress. its not that i don't want to, i've just been inactive for so long, i've become comfortable. and comfort is dangerous. being uncomfortable is scary, and that is why i get scared when i think of what it is God wants me to do. God usually doesn't call us to do things that make us comfortable, He calls us to step out of our comfort zone.
but this isn't uncommon. moses, one of the greatest men of the bible, was scared when God told him to go speak to pharaoh. i realize that being scared is normal and that God loves to use the ones who think they can't be used. and i'm sure the way i feel is no different than someone else in my situation. but the point i'm trying to get across is that for awhile now i feel stagnant in my relationship with God. its not something i want. i want to look forward to picking up my bible and spending time in Gods word. i want to enjoy praying and spending time with God. i want to be able to do Gods work without second guessing myself and without the fear the holds me back. but i don't. i just curl up in the tightest fetal position i can and wait for the fear to go away.
its the fear thats keeping me tied down. the other day i posted on twitter "the devil is only as strong as the fear he creates and the fear you allow him to create." each day i give into the fear, i weaken myself and allow the devil to become stronger. the way i've been feeling is incredibly difficult to explain and i'm not sure if what i've said has painted an accurate picture of where i am. but in a nutshell, i feel tied down and unable to move. i try my hardest to break whats holding me down and i constantly squirm, but i soon realize i'm not strong enough and give up. i pray to God to help, but my prayers are laced with doubt. i'm tired. physically, emotionally and mostly spiritually. i've become stagnant. i've become complacent. i'm in desperate need of change that only God can bring.
i didn't write this in search of pity. i just felt i needed to write so i did. if you have read this, then i'd ask if you wouldn't mind praying for me. because like i said, i'm tired and i can't go on running in the same spot. thank you.


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Set Index: Sydney Opera House
Theme: Architecture (Architect Series)
Parts: 270 (Reported, not counted.)
Create the world-renowned Sydney Opera Hose in LEGO form. The building has become a true symbol of late modern architecture and is one of the most iconic buildings of the 20th century. This replica model was designed by American architect Adam Reed Tucker.
Note: This is the prelim official blurb.
Ask the average Joe ( Josef or Josephine) for a man-made construction from France and it'd be a good chance that they pick the Eiffel Tower. Ask the same Joe about Australia and I think they'd pick the Sydney Opera House. I'm no different. When I first visited Sydney it was one of my primary visiting goals. To me it's one of those things that seem too fantastical to actually exist, especially since it's a practical construction. I'm not saying that it's not excessive, but for a building for artistic performances it makes almost logical sense for it to be unusual.
But anyway, back to LEGO, if there was a LEGO Eiffel Tower shouldn't there be a LEGO Sydney Opera House? I sure think so, and at last TLG agree. Will Adam Reed Tucker's creation satisfy? Thanks to TLG providing us with this early copy of the set, it's time to find out! Before we move on, do note the age recommendation; 12+. It is interesting how these sets are rated higher than their difficulty would suggest. For example the Empire State Building is 10+ when some Technic sets are 8+. My best guess is that they are aiming for people who don't normally buy LEGO.
This is what greets you when you open the seal. More empty space than one would prefer, but at least it's not Star-Wars-box empty.
Thank you, I will try to! Seriously though, it's little touches like this that make things seem more special.
As you can see the bigger parts weren't bagged. I've never liked this much. I understand with things like big rubber tires, but otherwise I think it just looks like a cost saving measure... which takes away from those special feelings!
The manual/guide is wonderful. It's very nicely bound... I wish all sets were done this well! Note the absence of a set number on the booklet.
Inside are 14 pages covering the development, design, construction, stats and history of the architect. (For those aware of the many controversies of the Opera House, I think it's written from a very neutral point of view. For those who aren't aware look it up! )
The instructions themselves are very nice too, and I especially like the little photos and quotes that are on about 25% of the pages. The part edging is emphasised, which I'm not sure if I like or not, but in the context of a set that could be sold in gift shops it's probably smart.
I think TLG should consider either bagging these and/or all of the parts; mine ended up with a noticeable bend on the back in transit, as well as some edge damage. (Mine was mailed however so it probably was mostly caused by mishandling.)
It's opening time! I considered arranging the parts really nicely, but there is a surprising amount of small parts and I got lazy! Thus I sectioned it instead. Interestingly there are no random colours (such as blue) in the set.
Finished! It's a the Opera House on a cloudy day... haw, haw, haw.
Actually there's more parts in the box so I might as well use them. From the start it's clear the amount of thought that has gone into this set; that amount of jumpers just to make a half stud offset? No way! But it's yes-way in a premium set.
While it's smart part usage, I find it really weird that the door rail part is in dark tan... but more on that later. It is amazing how many parts have gone into these few layers though.
Even at this stage I think it's clear what it's going to be. The rear platform is complete now.
On the subject of colours, the turntables used to angle the structure don't come in tan, so there's nothing that can be done about that little spot of black.
They're multiplying! (The buildings that is.)
Taking shape...
Adding the shells. The two angled structures are locked in by those 2x2 tiles, which are also needed for a more correct representation of the Opera House.
You can see here that the black turntables are mostly hidden... but not quite.
And now.... (photo shamelessly stolen from the LEGO® Architecture official sub-domain )
...we're really finished! Personally I feel the Opera House looks odd without water. It's generally photographed showing the setting and, like most great architecture, it was designed specially for the location. But maybe I'm just having delusions of grandeur seeing myself as someone who can appreciate fine architecture.
Here it is in comparison to two from the Landmark series. (N.B. Sets not to scale.) Anyway what I think would be cool would be if I could let our little model meet its Big Daddy....
...and as things turn out, I live in Parramatta, which is about 30 minutes from Sydney, so I can and will! Thus early on a Sunday I dragged myself out of bed, jumped on the bike, and took some photos. (This photo shows me after being in the sun for about 4 hours. I tried to smile, honest.... )
Now it's time for some comparisons. Before I do this I'd like to post a quote from the booklet in the section, "A Word from the Artist";
Adam Reed Tucker said:
(Much the same is said in other sets.) In other words, regardless of the "replica" in the blurb (and on others from the line), these sets aren't aiming for photo real perfection. Even so, the temptation was too great so I've done some comparisons. First off, here is the real thing. I was "lucky" to get a clear day for my photos, but it was too hot... anyway, complaints aside, let's move on!
This is also the real one taken with a block filter... haw, haw, haw... darn, it seems the sun killed my sense of humor. Anyway moving on...
The fun thing I tried to do was do the comparisons in camera. (I like to avoid image editing if I can.) This one wasn't the best, but it does let you see that in basic form the set is "correct".
Moving down the coast I took this one. On a side note, it was funny doing this. I arrived at 9am-ish (which on a Sunday is a huge effort for me!) so there was good light but not too many people, but even so, each time I stopped and pulled out the Opera House from my bag I got loads of stares. On a less positive note, it's clear from this angle that the single-piece shell is too simple to match the real thing.
I tried to get the (Bennelong) restaurant shell to overlap the Concert Hall, but the gap between is too big. BTW, the base you can see in most photos is a 3847 Magma Monster box. I carried it in that instead of the actual one as I didn't want to damage it. The set generally got a bit broken each time... and it's annoying to fix and re-align while you're outside, so I wouldn't recommended taking it on tour.
Forgetting about LEGO for a moment, I was able to catch the light here to highlight the tiled surface. Cool eh?
This one is a more successful comparison than the last. Interestingly I was rather close to the water while taking this one and I was concerned the whole time it'd fall in. (It didn't. )
Well I've arrived, all hot sweaty and sunburned at the Sydney Opera House! Unfortunately they are renovating so I can't do any long shots of the stairs. As you would expect from artists, they have turned the temporary fence into an artwork...
This part of the stairs people can actually walk under for another access point to the inside. This is a bit of detail that the model misses...
...and I think a bit of black (2 stud long after the cheese slopes?) would have given a similar effect. I might actually mod mine! Note that bit of black near the stairs? Good... keep it in mind.
The stairs are captured as good as can be expected. Aside from a print (blurk) I can't see how it could be improved at this scale.
Still remember that black? This I think is the reasoning for it. To be honest I think it should have just been a black plate. However it's possible that the black angles is supposed to look like a shadow.
Here is another bit of detail in the model that confused me; see that gap in the "floor" between the main buildings? I saw that and thought that it was meant to be a water feature or similar, so I went looking for it...
...but found nothing. Now that I've went to the effort to go and look for this "detail" I'm 95% sure that this is just a flaw in the model caused by LEGO limitations, but it does raise an interesting point about subtle details like this. In the case of this model the designer wanted a half stud offset and needed to do this to "catch up", but should it have done it somewhere else and in tan?
Interval. Time for five minutes of random Sydney Opera House appreciation. One...
..four (nice girl too)...
...five. Resuming program.
Sadly the details in the interval, while nice, would be impossible to replicate at any sellable scale, but this part can be, and...
...I think for the most part it does very well. This is actually the first time I've gone to the effort of walking out this far!
Continuing our walk we get to the the other side, so it's time for another comparison! I couldn't find a flat spot so I held it this time. I was tempted at this point to walk inside the Opera House and use my model to get a free tour but I feared the Wrath of Jan...
I was planning on taking photos from the other side of the harbour, but I was getting hot and I'd just ran into my wife and kids... so I called it a day. Here you can see me demonstrating my ability to balance glass balls on my head.
...and so we come to the end of the review. Where's the score you ask? I'll pass this time. Why? Well normally I judge by things like appearance, function, parts and price... but the Architecture sets don't really turn out too well when measured like that. I could make a custom one (as I have before) but for the most part I have done that by making comparisons... which are not supposed to be perfect anyway! So I think I'll just rant some more.
I do think this is a case of a huge opportunity missed. Because of the simple design concept of the shells they "jut" out rather than "flow" out in the case of the real one. I really think that they should have made it a bigger model, probably of around the size of Robie House. That would have made it more practical for this model to do more than merely resemble the Opera House, it would than have captured what I think is the essence of Jørn Utzon's design.
But I make no claims to be an artist, and I'm being a silly AFOL making comparisons that this model was not intended to stand up to. Ultimately the true test is "Would anyone who is familiar with the Sydney Opera House see this and know what it's supposed to be be?" and I think that the answer would be a "yes". The model is quite successful in pulling off a very complicated design in a small model, and I suspect this will turn up in the Gift Shop, where anything bigger simply wouldn't sell. This size is perfect for someone to buy as something to take home as an Australia souvenir, and unlike many, I suspect this would stay in a place of pride for a long time.
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For those of you who may be wondering why United States Champion Antonio Cesaro is not appearing on either the WrestleMania PPV or the pre-show it appears it has a lot to do with Vince McMahon's personal feelings towards him according to a report coming out of Wrestle Zone.com this afternoon.
According to the source there had originally been plans for the United States Championship to be featured on the Pay Per View when initial match drafts were drawn up in the months leading up to WrestleMania. In fact the United States Championship was going to be on the line alongside the Intercontinental Championship in the same match with both belts up for grabs. The premise for the match was akin to Money in the Bank except it would have been more similar to a traditional ladder match in that the titles would be hanging from the rafters not a briefcase. The match would feature 8 wrestlers and would end when both belts had been taken down and were in someone's hands or around their waist.
Theoretically Cesaro could have walked away as a double champion or we could have seen two new champions but instead the match was cut because WWE Chairman Vince McMahon doesn't like Cesaro as a worker. This not only means Cesaro misses out on a WrestleMania pay off it also means his days as a top guy in WWE may be numbered with zero support from the number one decision maker in the company.
With that in mind though there was another wrestler who Vince McMahon wasn't keen on and he ended up as the longest reigning WWE Champion in the modern era and will challenge The Undertaker on tonight's show. So maybe things aren't as bad as they seem. But for now Cesaro must be extremely disappointed that he will not make it onto the WrestleMania card.
Presumably the match would have also featured Wade Barrett and The Miz with guys like Kofi Kingston and R-Truth helping to make up the numbers. WrestleMania ladder matches are almost always exceptional and there's no doubt this could have been a show stealer if Vince had agreed.
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You are currently browsing the monthly archive for February 2009.
Let's start with the visible brains. Allow me to present: A fish with a transparent head.
Nikki McClure makes beautiful paper cuts. And now, she's made a book with Cynthia Rylant that I can't wait to see. Thanks to Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast for the heads up.
Another book that I can't wait to get my hands on is Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork. The story sounds very intriguing, and I am smitten with the cover.
Do you crave true adventure and have a block of time available for globetrotting? How about joining The League of Adventurists on a Rickshaw Run, or their next event- the Africa Rally? It's like the Amazing Race, but without a film crew. Or a prize. Or a cushion of heavily insured safety.
Bad ass, ludicrous fun for charity!
Joni Sensel is giving good revision advice as a guest blogger over at Darcy Pattison's blog.
She's also launching a book. A great book, as a matter of fact. Yay, Joni!
Do you know how revenue from a book is broken down? Here you go.
Speaking of book buying… do you do it? How often? And what do you buy? One of the agents in that Poets & Writers interview mentioned that a writer who does not buy books is a hypocrite. If you want to be published, and you want people to buy your books, than you should be buying debut novels and new releases.
Do you agree?
I do, but I admit that I don't buy many debut novels. I buy friends' books, and books I've been excited about, but the majority of my reading material comes from the library. I'm going to make a resolution to buy more new releases.
My mom gave me a mug when I was a kid covered with a tumble of elephant outlines. A friend of hers grabbed it one day and pointed out that the elephants on the mug were engaged in a wild, elephant orgy. They laughed about it, and a few days later I secretly studied the cup.
I forgot all about that little inadvertent sex ed. until Dan Santat posted about his parents, and the souvenir they lovingly brought him.
Mac question:
I have to quit and reload Safari ALL THE TIME because pictures don't load and website formatting goes all wonky. Does anyone have a solution for this? Safari crashes a lot, too. Anytime I mention it to a Mac-using friend they look at me like I'm some crazy impostor just posing as a Mac user to spread evil lies and tell me they've never had that problem. I get it. It's me. But, how do I fix it? It's had this problem from the beginning. The geniuses at the Apple bar can never fix it. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Leopard. I've tolerated it for two years, but it's gradually getting worse. Any suggestions? Please?
They tested me for mono! I genuinely thought it was something exclusive to teenagers. I just remember it as the kissing disease, and pity the kid who caught it. I haven't been kissing any sickly strangers, so it was a little perplexing. It's just a cranky sinus infection that I can take out with some antibiotics. Yeehah! I'm eager to breath, and have energy, and spend long hours in my shed.
Oh, I miss my shed.
Speaking of which, no sooner had I publicly declared a state of writer's block that it started melting away, and new ideas popped into my head. I'm neurotic like that. Before New York I tried to diet, and actually ended up gaining weight. I'm a stubborn, neurotic brat, is what I am. Maybe I'll work on some sort of reverse positive affirmation experiment. I'll start the day by looking in the mirror and declaring, "You are a wretched writer! You won't write a word today, and if you do it will be terrible. Eat the fattiest, starchiest things in the cupboard. And don't even think about exercising!" Maybe it will kickstart a new phase of skinny creativity! Hmmm.
The Cybils were announced!
I think I might swipe an idea from Mo Willems. I'm not changing the protagonists in my book into an elephant and pig, but I may just make a chalkboard room.
Publishers Weekly interviewed Lisa Yee.
T.S. Ferguson likens publishing to dating.
And, last but not least, Laini Taylor has revealed the cover of her new book, Silksinger! Can't wait!
Too sick to blog.
I'm going to the doctor later today, so hopefully there is a magic potion to kill this everlasting cold and I will be back soon.
In the meantime, why don't you go see what Holly Cupala says about applying for a grant from SCBWI. She know what she's talking about, having won and all.
I'm also suffering from a little writer's block, which I don't really believe in too much, so I'm blaming it on the cold cooties.
Sorry for the lack of posts, our family has been under the weather. And by under the weather I mean fighting the Phlegm War of 'o9.
Let's not dwell on that.
There was either a possum or a dog ghost in the garden last night. How do I know, you ask? I let the dogs out, went back inside, and returned to the yard to check on them. Through the dimness I watched a pale, shaggy rump root around in the bushes. I assumed it was P.J., until he ran into the house from the other direction. A couple of hours later he went out again and made an unholy racket, so I assume the dog ghost/possum was still lurking around.
Let's review the possibilities.
We know it wasn't P.J.
So, that leaves either
a) Ghost dog.
b) Possum
You be the judge. For the record, I think possums should be outlawed within city limits.
I missed the SCBWI Western Washington meeting last night on revisions and social networking. I could use some help with revisions (Boy, could I!). But with Facebook, this here blog, and now my website and Twitter– I'm not sure I could squeeze any more social networking in. Maybe I could have learned how to tweak my site. My husband linked the blog to it, but the links in my blogroll still open within my website, which looks a little like plagiarism. I'm either going to have to figure out how to fix it, or take out the blogroll.
I like My Cardboard Life by Phillippa Rice.
And I want to try making my own handwriting font to with the free font program that Dan Santat blogged about.
Betsy Bird posted a fabulous list of good graphic novels by reading level.
I somehow missed the first pages blog that Editorial Anonymous started. Behold, the Anonymati.
When you read a lot of manuscripts, you start to notice common problems. Coe of The Longstockings points a few out.
Whenever a story comes up about racial tension between high schools (like here), it REALLY irks me. I went to high school in Albuquerque, where the freeway and Route 66 divide up the town into distinct quadrants of racial and socio-economic differences. I lived in the poorest, brownest section of town and our high school rivals hailed from the richest, whitest section. There were big differences between the schools. We had crumbling walls and water-damaged textbooks. They had covered parking and a food court. You'd think they would just leave us alone and go about their business parking their fancy cars out of the sun and deciding between tacos and paninis. But that wouldn't be teenager-y, I guess.
The big football game between the schools seemed to be going alright, until halftime. Our cheerleaders shook their pom poms, and their side of the stands launched tortillas like frisbees. I'm surprised they could organizing such a massive tortilla-ing before the days of Facebook and Twitter. The field was covered and everyone was fighting. The newspaper reported that our students had instigated a brawl, but I think if someone throws a tortilla at you it authorizes a good smack in the chops. I remember that a few of our students were suspended for fighting, while theirs were not. There were more oh-so-clever-hijinks that year, but the tortilla incident is the one that still stands out.
I've been told my past lends me a treasure trove of rich material to tap into, but if there's a way to write about shit like that without it reading like bad fiction, I haven't found it.
New York is a fantastic place. I had a great time. Alice Pope blogged like a calm, stylish maniac all weekend, so you can read all about the conference here. Here are just a few of the standouts from each day (for me).
- People rave about Fran's salted caramels. The president himself finds them to be his most favorite of all candies. I don't usually like caramel, but these are really, really, really, really, good. I pick up a few to give away to helpful friends in New York.
- Our flight from Seattle to New York was cancelled due to an east coast ice storm.
- Another flight was available! Icy runways be damned!
- We had to cancel a couple of morning appointments with upcoming conference faculty, due to the delay. Bummer.
- The Grand Hyatt lets us check in very early. Hooray! We freshened up and went out into the-
- SLEET. There is a slushie machine in the sky, and it is malfunctioning. Icy puddles! Sopping clothes! Polished, professional appearance-kaputz.
- Secret meeting at Scholastic for top secret project (From now on referred to as TSP and having nothing to do with any of my books ever being published. So don't ask, because it will be awkward.).
- Rice pudding at the Jaime Temairik recommended Rice to Riches in Soho. I recommend the mascarpone with cherries.
- Evolution!
- Tea with a mystery editor, who will be visiting us in Seattle later this year.
- Blue skies! Dry streets! New York is a town capable of plowing and salting unlike say, err, Seattle.
- Meeting at the New York Public Library for TSP with Betsy Bird.
- More meetings with upcoming faculty for the conference in May, and down the road.
- Inside Random House we happened across pictures of Kirby Larson and Sundee Frazier and squealed.
- FAO Schwartz! I love toy stores. The Enchanted Forest in Soho was my favorite, but FAO is no slouch.
- Dinner with SCBWI friends.
- Bed, sweet bed.
- Great Scot! I signed up for the writer's intensives, didn't I? My critique group can tell you, I'm not so crazy about sharing my work. And with editors, agents, and strangers no less?!? Egads.
- Uh oh, remember that upcoming faculty member we stood up on Wednesday? He's leading my first intensive. Hope he's not still annoyed…
- Wait a minute, that went well! Great feedback, positive reception, spot-on ideas for revisions. Super!
- Another great intensive full of praise and constructive feedback. Yay!
- Cocktail party! This was A LOT of fun. I got to catch up with far away friends, meet awesome people, and be merry. There was a lot of TSP action, too. It went by really fast, but then Betsy Bird and Cheryl Klein had the foresight to schedule an after party right across the street. More fun!
- Late night diner food. Yum.
- The conference starts! Lots of editors talk about what they're looking for.
- Jay Asher gives a fabulous keynote address. Funny and inspirational.
- More editors talk (See Alice's blog.)
- TSP with mystery art director.
- Dinner with Washington peeps.
- Lots of talented artists win awards. Alice has the scoop on this, too.
- Bruce Hale gives a great keynote. And he sings! How many keynotes have you been to with a singing keynoter?
- An insightful agent panel. Edward Necarsulmer gives an example of coming across an exciting new author at last year's conference- and it's our very own Holly Cupala!
- Back to Seattle just in time to have dinner with my son, the birthday boy.
And that's the whole enchilada.
What did we learn?
- Flavored rice pudding is delicious.
- Editors are heavily guarded. We went to a few differerent publishing houses, and there was A LOT of ID checking by big security guards at various checkpoints.
- There are people out there who are unclear about the difference between advisors and agents, and will try to pitch you in the elevator. My sympathies, agents.
- New York is awesome!
And, a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who helped with the TSP.
All will be revealed…..much later.


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While pregnancy isn't a time to strive for "washboard" abs, strong abdominals support the additional weight and can ease your delivery. Unfortunately, your pre-pregnancy core exercises do not apply. Your new exercises include those that are performed from a face-down, or upright position to protect you and your baby.
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As your baby grows, especially after the first trimester, you should avoid exercises while lying face up. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says that this supine position puts pressure on your blood vessels may restrict returning blood flow to you heart. This is dangerous to you and your baby. This may also increase your blood pressure. The good news is with a slight change in position, you can perform daily abdominal exercises.
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Instead of facing up for your abdominal exercises, position yourself face down, in an all-fours position. When you are on your hands and knees, gravity helps to pull the weight of the baby off the blood vessels in your core. For example, rest on all fours with your hands positioned underneath your shoulders and your knees positioned under your hips. Raise an opposite arm and leg as you straighten your arm and leg to reach away from you. Maintain this position for a count of five, then lower the arm and leg and repeat with the opposite pairing. Complete 10 lifts on each side.
Vacuum It Up
The stomach vacuum exercise is performed in multiple positions. You can be on your hands and knees, sitting or standing. To do the vacuum and strengthen the deepest layer of abdominal muscle, tighten your stomach and pull your belly button toward your spine. Breathe normally as you maintain the pulled-in abdominals for two seconds. Release and then repeat 10 to 20 times.
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The abdominal sit-back is an upright exercise you can perform on the floor, in bed or seated in a chair. Sit with your back straight, your chest lifted and your knees bent with your feet flat. Extend your arms out at your shoulders as if reaching toward the wall in front of you, or cross your arms over your chest for a beginning sit-back. Inhale and lean back slightly, keeping your core tight and chest lifted. Exhale and return to an upright position. Repeat 10 to 15 times.
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Neutrons Reveal Quantum Order in Solid-State System
From NIST Tech Beat: August 3, 2007
Michael Baum
It's a truism that the world looks very different through the eyes of quantum mechanics. In a new paper appearing in Science,* an international team of scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Britain have detailed a particular striking example—a system that looks completely random to classical physics but that at the quantum level displays a hidden, relatively long-range, coherence. Their work demonstrates a unique solid-state device—basically a row of nickel atoms in a ceramic crystal—that might form the basis for a key element in a future quantum computer.
Classical magnetism is a function of the orientation of electron "spins" in a material that has a discrete set of quantum states. If the spins in a material tend to line up in the same direction, it's ferromagnetic, and if they tend to alternate, cancelling out any magnetic field, then it's antiferromagnetic. These new experiments studied magnetism in linear chains of up to 100 nickel atoms that, because of their arrangement in the ceramic, have the curious property of forming a "spin fluid" where the spin directions remain in constant flux rather than assuming a fixed configuration as in a ferromagnet or an antiferromagnet.
It's seemingly a completely disorganized system, but, according to team member Collin Broholm, a physics professor at the Johns Hopkins' Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the chain has "a beautiful, underlying quantum order." Although the spin directions may be random, the underlying wave functions that describe the quantum mechanical nature of the atoms are coherent—perfectly synchronized over the span of almost 100 atoms and 30 nanometers. In the quantum mechanical world, that's a significant distance for coherence, hitherto seen only in exotic materials such as superconductors, superfluids and Bose-Einstein condensates.
The team was able to demonstrate this by pinging the chains with neutrons that induce small packets of magnetic excitation to propagate along the coherent segment—which can be measured indirectly by observing the scattered neutrons. They also demonstrated that they could limit the coherent region by introducing defects in the chain, either by adding chemical impurities or raising the temperature to induce thermal breaks (the experiments were conducted from 10 degrees to 120 degrees above absolute zero). Their results show that relatively large-scale regions in a solid-state material can be placed in a coherent quantum magnetic state, which might function as a "q-bit" (quantum bit) in a quantum computer. (For more on quantum computing, see www.nist.gov/public_affairs/quantum/quantum_computing.html.)
The research team included scientists from Johns Hopkins, the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, the NIST Center for Neutron Research, Dartmouth College, University College London, Louisiana State University, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and the University of Tokyo.
The work was funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences within the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, the National Science Foundation, the Wolfson-Royal Society (U.K.), and by the Basic Technologies program of the U.K. Research Councils. For additional details on this work, see "Discovery of 'Hidden' Quantum Order Improves Prospects for Quantum Super Computers" www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jul07/quantum.html.
* G. Xu, C. Broholm, Y.-A. Soh, G. Aeppli, J. F. DiTusa, Y. Chen, M. Kenzelmann, C. D. Frost, T. Ito, K. Oka and H. Takagi. Mesoscopic phase coherence in a quantum spin fluid. ScienceExpress. Published on-line 26 July 2007 (10.1126/science.1143831).


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Anushka returns to kollywood
Chiruthai will be the remake of the Telugu hit Vikramarkudu. Anushka had earlier played the heroine in the Telugu version too. VV Kathir who directed the recent hit Thenavettu will direct the film. Studio Green, the production company owned by Actor Sivakumar's nephew will produce the film.
Anushka had made her debut in Sundar C's hit film Rendu. But the film had failed to fetch her good offers in Tamil.
In the mean time she got comfortably settled in Telugu and completed her innings successfully. Now she has shifted her focus to Tamil.
Karthi will join this project after he completes Lingusamy's Paiya.


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Intercampus loans are available to all UNSW Library clients and can be made on items that are on the shelf or already out on loan. Intercampus loans are not available for ULANZ, Alumni or community borrowers.
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The clash was ringing in Charles Rhodes' head all day Monday.
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It was his final opportunity to pull out of the NBA draft and stay for his senior year at Mississippi State, and now all the ringing he will hear is that of bully bells.
Rhodes has withdrawn his name from the draft. He said he tested the waters, and now he knows which areas of his game he needs to improve upon.
Rhodes is a 2-time All-SEC forward. He averaged 13.7 points per games last season with the Bulldogs, along with 6.2 rebounds.


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Warren Buffett: Economy is Slowing But I'm 'Salivating' for an Acquisition
Warren Buffett said results at the companies in his Berkshire Hathawayglomerate show that "there is some slowing down going on" in the global economy, but the U.S. economy is doing better than Europe and Asia.
Buffett, speaking on CNBC Wednesday morning, said home construction is picking up in the U.S., which will cause profit at Berkshire businesses tied to the housing market to improve. Berkshire's carpet business, Shaw, will have profit double this year, and manufactured-housing unit Clayton Homes will build 15% more units, he said.
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As one of the most successful investors in history, Buffett's views on the economy and investing are followed closely by investors. He told CNBC that market declines like those Tuesday make him want to buy more stocks and said he was "salivating" at the prospect of acquiring another large company outright.
He said he had been approached Tuesday night about a $6 billion company that he had already been familiar with, and planned to make more inquiries about it in coming days.
Berkshire had purchased additional shares of Wells Fargo & Co. in the past week. Berkshire already owns a massive stake in the bank.
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Now he is accusing Alex of being a paid troll or having commercial
interests in pointing out Roy's lies and inconsistencies. Needless to
say Mark Kent is parroting him and finding conspiracies where there are
none. Hey guys! There are none. You're just two lunatics! Nothing more
to be said!
Be sure to read Alex calmly destroy Roy and make him look like a
paranoid nutcase here:
LOL. I must get some more popcorn!!!! Hysterical!!!!
And thanks to Mole1 for the copy from Roy's irc channel.
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| <kentma1> schestowitz: it's the paid-troll thing again, isn't it?
| <schestowitz> I don't know. I doubt it.
| <kentma1> you think he's doing it for free?
| <schestowitz> That's what baffles me.
| <kentma1> why would he bother? Nah, he's got some commercial interest.
| <kentma1> It just might not be obvious what it is.
| <schestowitz> I think I know though.
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| <kentma1> Um?
| <schestowitz> I prefer not to talk about people, but let's face it: Alex took a Novell project that was abandoned after Novell had signed a deal.
| <schestowitz> He denies it has something to do with competition vs Mirosoft.
| <kentma1> haha! daft b*gger...
| <schestowitz> Now... it seems like he no longer works on the project, but I don't think he has any daytime job, either.
| <schestowitz> He lives in the same city as me.
| <kentma1> well, if he's prepared to self-delude that much, there's little point taking his words all that seriously. Is he hoping that Novell will take him on?
| <schestowitz> I don't know what his interests are, but he does a lot of research to discredit the site.
| <schestowitz> I mean, he pulls a lot of links that take a long time to find and replies within minutes.
| <schestowitz> Some days I reckon he spends hours not helping the site but just throwing slime at it.
| <schestowitz> kentma1: that's what I reckoned.
| <schestowitz> Maybe he tries to market himself that way.
| <kentma1> It's not all that likely to work, but you never know.
I love this little gem where AlexH slaps Roy down (Roy who has NEVER
contributed to an FOSS project)
| I would suggest that âdefending FOSSâ ought to be considered to include
| ânot attacking FOSS projectsâ. IMHO, obviouslyâ¦
When Roy tries to slink away AlexH delivers the knock out blow thus
consigning Roy to the ranks of loony thicky:
| Sorry, but no. You repeated the blog post which said âthere may be some
| âpatentedâ technologies in [Hadoop]â, and called it âPredictableâ and
| said they did the same thing to PHP.
| You asked if I thought that was FUD, and of course it is. But it still remains up there.
| So your revisionist history doesnât work. Patents were mentioned with
| regards to Apache.
Poor, poor Roy. Does he have anywhere to go from here?
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New Space Capsule in Place, Intrepid's Shuttle Pavilion to Reopen
Workers on Tuesday moved a Russian Soyuz TMA-6 space capsule to the aircraft elevator of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, where it was lifted to the flight deck and installed in the soon-to-reopen Space Shuttle Pavilion at the museum.
The capsule brought Greg Olsen, a private citizen, back to earth from the International Space Station in October of 2005. The museum is housed on an aircraft carrier called the Intrepid, which served during World War II and is now located at a Manhattan pier near midtown. Since opening in 1982, the museum has had more than 10 million visitors.
Workers move across the flight deck en route to the space shuttle pavilion. The pavilion, which houses the space shuttle Enterprise, was damaged during Sandy and will reopen to the public on July 10.
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum curator Eric Boehm, right, works to move the Russian space capsule. In addition to the capsule, the pavilion will feature new multimedia exhibits, including audio between NASA control and Enterprise astronauts.
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Dear Tony: Six years ago, we bought into a building in Vancouver that we discovered has a unique relationship called an air space parcel agreement. Our strata corporation is having a significant problem understanding what this means.
We understood when we purchased that our building was a residential and commercial mixed strata, but now we are having some difficulty in identifying which of the owners is responsible for different property. We suspect there are more of these buildings around and wonder if any other strata corporations are having the same problems.
The biggest issue right now is who is in control of the parking.
The developer has advised that the parking belongs to the commercial property and they control and manage the parking, yet when we purchased, we were sold two parking spaces by the developer.
Jenna M.
Dear Jenna: The commercial property in your building does not form part of your strata corporation and the relationship between your strata corporation and the commercial property is not governed by the Strata Property Act. Instead, an agreement called a reciprocal easement or air space parcel agreement defines the relationship between your strata corporation and the commercial property.
When an owner developer files a disclosure statement with the Superintendent of Real Estate, that statement for the strata property they intend to sell must identify all of those assets property and conditions the owner developer intends to sell purchasers, projected budget and proposed bylaw amendments, and any other type of leases, licences, contracts, covenants or easements that may affect your property.
Think of it being the same as two houses in a neighbourhood that have a property line between them and that is the boundary between the properties. In the same manner, when your strata plan is registered, and the titles for the condos are created, a number of other documents are registered, one of them being the airspace parcel agreement.
The registered strata plan of your building will show the boundaries of the strata lots, common property, the limited common property and the extension of the property line both vertically and horizontally, of your strata corporation. The boundary is between the commercial units on the lower level and your strata lots and common property shown on the plan.
Allyson Baker, a lawyer at Clark Wilson LLP in Vancouver, routinely assists strata corporations with understanding their complex air space parcel agreements. According to Baker, "the air space parcel agreement is registered on the Common Property Index of the strata corporation, and any additional agreements will also be registered. The air space parcel agreement should contain a volumetric plan that shows the 3D profile of the building, mechanical equipment, utilities, and boundaries, and most important, will contain the terms and conditions of the easement and any covenants. Those are the most important because they will identify the obligations of the each of the Air Space Parcel parties.
"The complication arises because the agreements often do not have a clearly defined schedule of obligations and fees and how they are apportioned, so the parties often assume they know what the allocations of cost and obligations of the parties are; however, they frequently get this wrong."
An air space parcel agreement may easily be 150 pages of documentation. It will require a significant level of legal knowledge and expertise to be able to interpret the schedule of fees, shared costs and liabilities. It is essential for the strata corporation to obtain a written legal opinion on the structure and formula of costs and liabilities so they may be properly administered.
CHOA has been proceeding with a number of research projects in 2013, including "What a strata corporation needs to understand about their air space parcel agreement" and "What a strata corporation needs to know about retrofitting parking garages for electric vehicle charging stations." To receive a copy of the new guides as they become available, contact Donna Heide at email@example.com or call 1-877-353-2462 ext. 2.
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Most of Frisco Fire Department's calls aren't for fires
As the population of Frisco has increased in the past 12 years, so too have calls to the Frisco Fire Department.
It's been a steady rise for the department. No surprises there. Statistics released this week by the department show 8,406 calls last year, a 2.6 percent increase from the previous year. A look at the past 12 years shows a 160 percent increase in the number of calls between 2001 and 2012. During the same time period, the city's population rose 195 percent.
The city opened Fire Station No. 7 on Frisco's west side last year. Plans are already in the works for Fire Station 8.
But what's also interesting is that the number of structure fires, vehicle fires and grass fires has stayed relatively steady over the years. There are fluctuations from year to year, of course, but overall the numbers are fairly steady: 91 fires in 2001 compared with 84 fires last year.
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This is a brief overview of the history of InnoDB with respect to the Version Control Systems (VCS) that were used for developing. It could be useful to people who want to trace back in time to find the origins of bugs or features.
Early days
InnoDB was born in the mid 1990s when Heikki Tuuri started developing this masterpiece. Heikki was a lone developer at that time and he did not use any VCS. There is no InnoDB revision history before 2001.
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AIG Won't Join Lawsuit Against U.S. Government
Published: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 3:19 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 3:19 p.m.
NEW YORK | Facing a certain backlash from Washington and beyond, American International Group won't be joining a shareholder lawsuit against the U.S. government.
AIG was legally obligated to consider joining the lawsuit being brought against the government by former AIG Chief Executive Maurice Greenberg, who claims that the terms of the $182 billion bailout weren't fair to AIG shareholders.
The prospect of AIG joining the lawsuit had already triggered outrage. A congressman from Vermont issued a statement telling AIG: "Don't even think about it."
AIG was rescued from the brink of collapse by the U.S. government at the height of the 2008 financial crisis. The insurance company nearly imploded after making huge bets on mortgage investments that later went wrong.
The company currently has an ad campaign themed "Thank You America."
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Girl Scouts of Colorado is extremely proud that Fort Collins Girl Scout Lauren Schneider has been named a 7 Everyday Hero for her work in earning the highest award in Girl Scouts, the Gold Award! The 7 Everyday Hero is a community hero award program managed through ABC Channel 7 in Denver.
For her Gold Award project, Lauren created hundreds of Med-Bugs to give to children at area hospitals. The inspiration for her project was a hospital stay she had as a child. "I spent a month being treated at Children's Mercy in Kansas City. I was terrified and many days the activities and small gifts made me feel less scared," said Lauren.
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Here is an odd bug. I'm logged into Facebook under my profile's fan page it owns and on my WordPress install. I have Simple Facebook setup to publish to my profile's fan page.
I edit a recently published post and find that the Facebook Publisher has informed me that there is either some bad java script or a plugin in conflict with it, and it can not display buttons. I try cleaning the post of all Java Script. I disable all plugins but Simple Facebook. Nothing works.
I log into Facebook, and switch out of my Fan Page profile into my personal profile. Then I go back to WordPress and reload the post editor. Facebook Publisher is working fine.
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The Memphis Police Department saw violent crime drop dramatically over a span of five years following the launch of Blue CRUSH, a predictive analytics system using data from cameras and police records to predict future crime.
Big data has traditionally been described by a series of words that begin with the letter 'V': volume, velocity, variety, and veracity.
The newest addition to that list is "value," a term gaining critical importance in times of tough budget constraints and pressure on agencies to better analyze the data they have, said Dante Ricci, director of federal innovation at SAP.
"What agencies should be thinking of is, 'What value could come out of it,' not just creating a big data solution for the sake of big data," Ricci said. "Big data is about the value you get out of it. It's not tough to gauge the outcome (of big data investments) if you understand what the use case is going to be."
Clay Richardson, senior analyst for Forrester Research, said agencies he works with are "trying to connect big data to get more value" by connecting data to operations.
Volume: The size of the amount of data generated that must be analyzed.
Velocity: How quickly data is being produced, received, processed, changed and understood.
Variety: Structured and unstructured data generated by a wide range of sources.
Veracity: The quality and lineage of the data.
Value: The end result or bottom line of a big data initiative.
In essence, Richardson said agencies are seeing success by making big data analytical processes "frictionless," allowing data to be collected, analyzed, disseminated and dispersed to clients or customers with ease.
"A big piece of value is agencies trying to connect the big data to their core processors and operational processes so they can make changes to processes as data chances," Richardson said. "So as more data and information comes in from the government, agencies are able to make quicker changes, and we're definitely seeing that in some agencies."
Data that can be analyzed and dispersed quickly helps an agency's bottom line, Richardson said, and it keeps customers who use the data happy.
"A lot of what agencies want to understand is how data flows, who it goes to, who consumes it, why they need it, and agencies want to find how we infuse more intelligent and smarts in data and make it more consumable across the organization," Richardson added. "Right now, a lot of the data is dumb – it isn't smart in the sense that you're not going to do anything with it other than build reports or a bit of analysis. Customers want more value out of the data."
Some agencies already boast successful big data initiatives despite the relative newness of the technology.
The Internal Revenue Service used big data analytics to fix tax-filing errors in 2012, saving approximately $100 million in erroneous claims. The Department of Defense's global shared service center, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), has saved approximately $4 billion in improper vendor payments since 2008 using a business activity monitoring software tool that continuously monitors several terabytes of Department of Defense transactions.
Dollars and cents are not the only currency for measuring value. Big data initiatives have been undertaken successfully at local and state levels, Ricci said, in some cases saving lives through programs at hospitals or by law enforcement agencies.
Violent crime in Memphis, Tenn., dropped 31 percent from 2006 to 2011 following the launch of Memphis Police Department's Blue CRUSH (Crime Reduction Utilizing Statistical History) pilot program in partnership with the University of Memphis. The predictive analytics tool combined data from surveillance cameras, crime records and numerous other sources and used it to predict crime hotspots and to provide officers with real-time information about suspects and victims.
A study by Nucleus Research showed the city of Memphis spent about $400,000 per year on the initiative, including personnel costs, and calculated a $7 million return on investment, or 860 percent.
"If you're able to save lives because of better data and situational awareness, that's invaluable," Ricci said.
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Clever and cute to keep adding V's, but only volume, velocity and variety are *definitional*. The other 12 characteristics of information Gartner defined years ago are important qualities of any data, but do not define Big Data. For future reference and proper attribution, see the original piece I wrote first introducing the 3Vs over 12 years ago at Gartner/Meta: http://goo.gl/wH3qG. --Doug Laney, VP Research, Gartner, @doug_laney
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Very Impressive.......The type of bank I would look to buyout!
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Unfortunately, when disaster strikes it affects not only the wretched Normals, but also a better, brighter class of people: Celebrities. Here's how they're handling it so far:
Al Roker is posing for classic weatherman pictures, taken with a "classic" Instagram filter:
Emma Watson sees the hurricane as God's viral marketing campaign for her new movie, Noah:
Take a break from calming your crying children to tell Gwyneth Paltrow where she should eat dinner tonight (She's in Spain):
Bette Midler is filling up her bathtub:
Pamela Anderson is worried about your pets — your greatest sources of food in a crisis:
Dr. Ruth is protecting your modesty or celebrating your exhibitionism:
Paris Hilton's life is beautiful:
Sandra Lee's boyfriend Governor Andrew Cuomo may have declared a state of emergency for New York, but mama needs a cocktail:
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I need a mic for IL2 that i am getting this week and I want to know if you uys know of any good ones? they have to be at or under $50
lol i forgot to say i am looking for a gaming headset
give me an engine, a couple of wings, some wire, a bomb, some plastic, and a whole lot of super glue, and i will make a bomber for me to fly
The creative fatality ones are great value and have good comfort and sound. Should be within your pricerange. I suggest you hop onto the ubi-zoo coops (check the sticky) for flying with some of us.
Get a USB mic if you want to use it for comms in this sim.
I'm using a cheap headset that plugs into my sound card. It works fine on TeamSpeak. What are the advantages of using USB?Originally posted by Bearcat99:
Get a USB mic if you want to use it for comms in this sim.
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I don't see what advantage there would be by using a USB headset if you have a decent sound card.
I've been using the KOSS SB45 for a couple of years now, and have been VERY happy with them. nice BIG earcups that go around my ears, so they are comfy for hours of use. Pretty good for listening to music as well. Not up to 'audiophile snob' standards, but very good for the average person, with plenty of bass response. Also, you won't have to mortgage your first-born to buy them:
Koss site:
$28.98 @ Buy.com (free shipping)
29.99 @ Newegg:
And, my TrackIR Pro clip will fit on them, just barely, but it fits.
I'm having an intermittant problem with the 3.5mm microphone (motherboard) socket on the back of my pc and a USB headset sounds like an easy solution.
I would be very interested to hear the pros and cons of USB.
Don't get Saitek GH50 headset. Less than a year old and something has come loose inside so they rattle when I shake my head. The surround sound thingy never worked and the volume control crackles really badly when moved and has blank areas.
I bought a 2 euro headset at a local store about a year ago and it's still working properly. It has a nice long cord with volume control on it, and the sound quality is surprisingly good bang for the bucks. The microphone produces a very clear sound in recordings. The only thing I don't like about it is that your ears start to hurt when wearing it for more than an hour. A small price to pay though, for something this cheap and surprisingly good!
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For flight simmers, the advantage of a USB headset is that you can use the headset for comms, but use the speakers for game sounds.
"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.[Europe], under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves and sheep. If once [the people] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, judges and governors shall all become wolves. " - Thomas Jefferson
ok so what is a good USB gaming headset for under $50
give me an engine, a couple of wings, some wire, a bomb, some plastic, and a whole lot of super glue, and i will make a bomber for me to fly
I use Sennheiser headphones for sound and a cheap 5$ mic that I can clip onto whatever I'm wearing. Works like a charm. I find the sound is better with non-gaming headphones. My desktop speakers have jacks for both the headphones and the mic which is very convenient.


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The Eyes of the Masters series is a special class where legendary artists share their experiences, knowledge and insights into the world of music both as an art form and as a business.In the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge had waged devastation on music, culture, and education in Cambodia, to make way for their tyrannical ideology. The shimmering 1960s era of Khmer rock'n'roll (so great!) had been all but eliminated, and almost every musician killed.
Kong Nay was spared. As the superstar of the moment, the Angkar leaders had let him keep his instrument, and his life, on the condition that he sang only songs about the greatness of the Khmer Rouge to his fellow prisoners.Eventually they took away his chapei, separated him from his wife and children, and he joined his fellow millions in bonded labour on the rice fields, starving and destroyed – the trauma intensified by his blindness. Now in his 60s and the formidable father of ten children, Kong Nay lives in a thronging side-pocket of Phnom Penh. Kong Nay became a CLA Master in 2003 and has now retired. He plays Chapei Dang Weng, a long neck 2-stringed guitar. This instrument is played in traditional songs as well as in improvised pieces with satirical, rhyming verses.
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