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One of the take-aways from this election is the fact that the United States is a deeply divided country. The rift is not just between the 47% and the hard working as Mitt Romney suggested. Although Obama got a huge majority of lower income votes and Romney scored with the more affluent. It is not just between minorities and the white majority, although this rift clearly manifested itself with Romney getting the bulk.
If you travel across the US and Iowa you will quickly discover that a more profound and lasting cleavage is centered around values.
In an article about a Republican woman in Tennessee who worked hard to elect Romney the depth of values was fully laid out.
On the one hand, "She blamed some of the divisiveness on Republicans. The party had gotten "way too white," she said, and she hoped it would never again run a presidential ticket without including a woman or a minority. The tea party was an extremist movement that needed to be "neutralized," she said, and Romney's campaign had suffered irreparable damage when high-profile Republicans spoke about "crazy immigration talk and legitimate rape."
On the other hand she was despondent over the moral decline of America. For her, a devout Conservative Christian, the passage of gay marriage laws, legalization of marijuana, rapid growth of people on food stamps and welfare, and the rush of people illegally coming or staying in the United States is frightening and seems to be the end of America.
This is not a shallow feeling but goes to the root, the heard, of a person's existence. As America changes demographically with more Hispanics (or is it Latinos?), a rapid growth of Asians, and a large LGBT community folks with traditional values feel deeply threatened.
The fight in Iowa over same sex marriage is but one manifestation of this class of cultures. Many see the changing laws and practices as a long-awaited adjustment of the legal system to the reality of America. There are large numbers of gays and many want to marry; marijuana use is uncontrolled with current laws and jails are full of people arrested for marihuana possession or sale @ $50K per prisoner; there are roughly 11 million undocumented people in the USA and most are not "self-deporting" as Mitt Romney suggested.
As I've been told by students and others I've interviewed that doesn't make any of this right or good for the USA. Here are some of the comments:
*Dr. Schmidt, we have huge numbers of pedophiles should we make that legal?
*We have millions committing a sin by having sex with someone outside their marriage should we say that's OK?
*There are men who have sex with animals should we legalize that?
*Many cultures have polygamy so should we legalize that in the United States?
*How about incest – that's widespread so should we legalize incest? And why NOT?
This cultural rift is not going away and of course we are living in an ever changing values system so it's an unsettling time for many people. What's right? What's wrong? Are there still bright guidelines?
The election of 2012 did not settle any of these tensions and rifts in American society. Expect future elections to be filled with tension and very, very hard decisions which Americans must make and on which leaders and candidates must take positions.


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To back out of a pre-planned event, especially after weeks/months of dramatic build up to said event. To quit. To wimp out at the last possible minute before being forced to fulfill your duties.
Tito out is derived from Tito Ortiz in Season 11 of The Ultimate Fighter when he, at the last minute, decided he was too "injured" to fight Chuck Liddell.
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By Rob Baedeker
Are you children team players? People who happily help out at home and include others at school? Kids who know not just how to lead but, when it's required, to follow?
There are compelling reasons to teach your children how to be more of a "Go team!" and less of an "I am the center of the universe" kind of kid. Children in the habit of sharing responsibilities and working with others — whether at home or at school — tend to be less self-centered and more respectful, responsible, cooperative, resilient, and self-sufficient. Research on kids and chores done in 2003 by Marty Rossmann, emeritus associate professor of family education at the University of Minnesota, found that those who regularly do household chores from an early age are far more likely to be successful young adults.
But teaching kids the value of teamwork doesn't have to be a wag-your-finger "Do this now!" exercise (unless you're prepared to deal with the requisite moans and groans of "That's not fair!" and "I don't want to").
What follows are seven activities to give kids practice at being part of a team. These work for a range of ages and abilities — just remember to have patience with younger children. They may not get every chore or game right, but it's the spirit of teamwork that counts.
To get every family member's buy-in for household teamwork, create a chore chart. Before making the chart, hold a family meeting and brainstorm about what needs to be done around the house. Kids will be more enthusiastic about doing their share if they're asked to contribute their ideas and opinions. Include parental "chores" too, so everyone can see how each person is pitching in. Ask questions like: "Who should earn the money to pay the rent?" "Who should put away toys?" "Who should pick up dirty clothes and put them in the hamper?"
On a sheet of paper — ideally one with horizontal and vertical lines to create squares — write the chores (for example, do the dishes, fold the laundry, feed the dog) vertically down the left side of the paper, and write the days of the week horizontally across the top of the page. Then fill in the family member's name in the corresponding square. (You could also print out a pre-made chore chart, like this or this.) A tip: To help make housework more fun and less of a grind, change the chart every so often and do several chores as a family team — or create chore teams with competitions: The parents versus the kids.
Teamwork lesson: The discussion, chart, and chores serve as regular reminders that pitching in is simply part of life — at home, at school, and at work.
Have a small group of kids put on a short play or skit. Give them a grocery bag filled with random items — a hat, an old necklace, a ruler, and an apple, for example — and have them think up a story using all the items.
The kids get to decide who should play what role. They can all perform in the show, but remind them that they'll also need someone to be in charge of making programs, ensuring there are chairs for the audience, introducing the show, and serving refreshments. Set a time limit ("The play has to start in one hour from now!") to add a fun element of pressure to "opening night" and an extra sense of how teamwork is necessary to meet a deadline.
Teamwork lesson: You often create something spectacular by working as a group, with everyone contributing ideas and talents.
In this game, one player wears a blindfold and the other is the seeing-eye "guide." The guide leads the blindfolded player around the house, through the yard, or around a simple and safe obstacle course by directing him or her — with words only — toward a specific spot, without bumping into anything.
With bigger groups, divide the kids into teams of three or four. The blindfolded player will have to listen to directions from the whole group — and the group will have to coordinate directions for the blindfolded person. Everyone should take turns in both roles to see what it's like to meet different needs in a team.
Teamwork lesson: To be part of a team, you have to follow — as well as lead — and learn to trust and depend on others.
Fold a piece of paper in half twice, then unfold it so you have four squares. One person starts by drawing anything he wants in a square, making sure that part of the drawing touches at least one of the creases in the middle. Then he passes the paper to the next person, who draws whatever she wants in her square while connecting part of her picture to the previous player's. And so on, with each player building on the work of the person before. No one is allowed to direct the other artists — everyone has to accept whatever contribution the others make and adapt to the ever-changing picture. The drawing ends after the page is filled.
Teamwork lesson: One person's ideas and contributions are just as important as other team members'.
Have kids design and operate a "restaurant" in your house and then serve you a meal for the "grand opening." First ask them to come up with the restaurant's name and what meal it will serve. Next they'll need to make a menu and decorate the restaurant. When it comes to preparing the food, depending on the children's ages, you may need to lend a hand (especially when working with fire and knives). But let them do what they can, and be patient with their mistakes.
Younger kids can serve something simple, like sandwiches, while older ones can try cooking on their own and managing the younger ones. But everyone will have to figure out his or her role.
Teamwork lesson: Every person's help is required to make any business run successfully.
This game works best with three players. To begin, two players move around near each other. After about 20 seconds, the third player calls out "Freeze," and the others hold whatever position they're in. The third player then makes up a description of the "statue" formed by the two frozen players. For example, "This is a statue of a cowboy putting horseshoes on his favorite horse before their last big ride together" or "This is a statue of two aliens eating cars." (Always fun to see if you can get the statue giggling.) Then the third player taps one of the frozen players to unfreeze him or her. (This means the statue keeps evolving one half at a time — half of each statue always stays in place, and the new player's position in relation to the frozen person creates an entirely new picture.)
The one who is tapped becomes the next artist, and the one who just had a turn as the artist now dances around the other frozen player until the third person calls out "Freeze." Then the new artist describes the statue and so on, with everyone taking turns in order and one player remaining frozen each time. (By the way, the frozen kids aren't allowed to speak — they have to accept whatever description the artist gives.)
Teamwork lesson: By being flexible and open to new (and even crazy) ideas, a team can create interesting things together.
This engineering and teamwork game works best with older kids and teens — although children of any age can participate. Form groups of two or more, and give each group the same set of supplies: easy things you can find in the house like newspapers, tape, paper clips, and cotton balls. Each group also gets one egg. Together the teams design and build a package to protect the egg when it's dropped onto the ground. (Unless you want scrambled eggs, consider using hard-boiled eggs.)
After a set amount of time for construction, the egg drop begins: Drop the package first from a low height (two feet or so) and gradually increase the distance until the egg breaks. (You can make it into a competition if you have more than one team.) If any team members are too young for the design and building of the package, they can take a role like timekeeper or "morale manager" (making sure the team keeps a positive attitude).
Teamwork lesson: Sure, all the king's men couldn't put Humpty together again. But by planning and working together, kids can produce egg-cellent results.


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The pool of candidates includes current Syracuse assistant Rob Murphy, who interviewed for the job at the Final Four in Houston on Saturday, according to sources.
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The empty space in "Madeline," the cinematic adaptation of Ludwig Bemelmans' 1939 children's book, is indicative of Hollywood's glaring inability to provide proper training for its directors. Unlike most other jobs, in which a person learns her trade and gains valuable experience before being thrust into the top ranks of the company, Hollywood is all too happy to waste no time in putting an array of incompetent interns right in the driver's seat.
Thus, people like Michael Bay, who began his career in the advertising industry directing commercials and music videos, now make feature-length films which seem like two-hour commercials and music videos. Likewise, the film industry gets as giddy as a schoolboy with his first erection over independent filmmakers like Daisy von Scherler Mayer, whose claim to genius is making one film, "Party Girl," that didn't get universally panned.
Unfortunately, when Daisy is promoted upstairs and required to tell a coherent story, she's as lost as Dan Quayle at a MENSA convention. After revolving an entire film around eccentricities (considered "cute" when you're funding the thing with credit cards and blood donations), Daisy doesn't know the first thing about getting the ball rolling in "Madeline," which takes an excruciatingly long time to discover its plot. Daisy stalls for time by introducing us to Madeline (Hatty Jones) and Miss Clavel (Frances McDormand) and Lord Covington (Nigel Hawthorne), studiously avoiding opening that pandora's box known as "the story." Elements are introduced, such as Lord Covington's wish to sell Madeline's school and a suspicious tutor who's planning to kidnap Madeline's neighbor, Pepito (Kristian De La Osa), but none of them reveal their relevance until we're already half past bored.
Daisy is so lost by then that she sends up a distress flare in the form of forcing the characters into sudden changes of mood, perhaps hoping that audiences will mistake their schizophrenic shifts for plot points. Both Lord Covington and Pepito undergo personality inversions that take all of three seconds because Daisy has no experience in creating effective transitions. Obviously, the first thing Daisy von Scherler Mayer needs to do is shorten her own name so she can spend less time explaining the significance of all those damn syllables and more time studying the relationship between character development and storytelling.
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This is a discussion on Re: Accessing encrypted messages after cert expires - Openssl ; On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Michael Sierchio wrote: > Steffen DETTMER wrote: > > > For operational, administrative and forensic concerns I think it > > is important to know the key generation time as well as ...
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Michael Sierchio
> Steffen DETTMER wrote:
> > For operational, administrative and forensic concerns I think it
> > is important to know the key generation time as well as who
> > generated it in exactly which way, who gave the key to whom when
> > and why and so on - maybe even including a transactional log of
> > every key usage ever done.
> I'm not suggesting that this isn't useful, just that it is not
> a defect that it isn't part of the key format itself.
If you have to handle management separately, then you increase the
amount of error that can creep in.
> For compliance purposes, how do you prove generation time? I claim
> that the relevant time is that of the first CSR. Operationally,
> a timestamp and a nonce as part of a challenge created by the CA,
> included in the CSR which is signed by the subject privkey, makes
> sense. And hygiene dictates that the only use of the private
> key permissible before issuance of the certificate is in signing
> the CSR.
If you want to 'prove' a generation time, use a timestamping service
like Verisign's timestamps. However, we're talking about ways of
making it operationally easier to administer and operationally easier
for devices to cry out 'hey, we're using a key that's coming up on its
expiration' -- defined by a delta calculation on the device itself,
NOT an enforced "key expiration" date defined at generation time.
> If the timestamp isn't generated by a trusted third party, I don't
> think it's of much value.
Remember: the private key is only ever read by the entities with
ultimate trust, by definition. If you can't trust yourself, who can
you trust? If no third party is ever going to see the timestamp, why
should it matter if it's generated by a third party?
A key can be separated from its timestamp and a newer timestamp
applied to it. It can be separated from its timestamp and an older
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mmulvenna hasn't been hanging around DIYC for a bit, but here's a link to a very cool video about the train he built for 2011. You will be amazed at what he's created!
mmulvenna hasn't been hanging around DIYC for a bit, but here's a link to a very cool video about the train he built for 2011. You will be amazed at what he's created!
Is he the guy that started the how-to in the DIYC newsletter two years ago? Pretty Awesome
No 2015 Display, but I jumping back in Deep for 2016
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I love trains so this is right up my alley. Great job!
Yes, I finally got back to it. Sorry for not being around in a while. Summer travels in the motor home and then lots of time beta testing LSP.
For those interested... here are a few facts.
Track and trestles made from scrap 2 x 6.
Engine fabricated from PVC pipes of various diameters, cereal bowls, plastic funnels and High density plastic.
Engine cab and cars made from painted coro....
Engine undercarriage made from aluminum L and Plywood
Wheels are attached to the axle which has a chain sprocket and chain that is attached to the sprocket on the motor. This provide 2 drive wheels.
Motor is a 24 v wheel chair powered by 2 35 amp hr 12 v sealed batteries.
I built a motor controller that provide PWM with a RC receiver that receives on/off, directional, and speed from an RC transmitter.
Connected a 24 to 12 volt reducer to power the lights so they draw evenly off of both batteries.
Master battery cutoff and Light switch.
Hour, volt, amp, and power (watts) gauges to be added yet.
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"This news has left me heartbroken," the actress tells PEOPLE in a statement. "I can only imagine the pain his family feels at this time, and my heart goes out to them, especially Deborah, Michael and Liliana."
"I spent 10 years of my life studying and admiring one of the most brilliant actors, yes, but more importantly, one of the greatest men," Sigler, who played daughter Meadow Soprano on the hit HBO show, continues.
"Jim had the ability, unbeknownst to him, to make you feel like everything would be alright if he was around."
The pair were a central part of one of the series' strongest episodes, in which Gandolfini's Tony and Sigler's Meadow take a road trip to visit New England universities, culminating in Tony admitting his Mafia ties to his daughter before strangling an FBI informant with a wire.
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Life, not death
Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in the trial of the man accused in the Boston Marathon bombing. What happened that day was horrific, violence with no purpose other than to kill or maim, without regard for who, only how many.
Should the man be found guilty, however, the death penalty might be the wrong sentence. While we must stand strong against extremists' violence, we must not unwittingly further their causes by making martyrs of them. I refuse to use the defendant's name here; if he's guilty, he doesn't deserve even that small degree of recognition.
Executing him would not make the dead come to life or the maimed whole again. Using death for retribution, in fact, is something we hear from those who sympathize with people like him and his motives - "Death to America!" Death seems to be their answer to even the smallest slights or perceived insults.
Caricatures in a Danish newspaper and a book by Salman Rushdie, for example, were both met with immediate cries for death. Do we really want to be like that?
We should instead lock the man away to waste his natural life in anonymity, nameless except for his prisoner number. Let him wallow in his own self-righteousness with the knowledge that it did nothing to further his cause, that while many will remember the tragedy, few if any will remember the man.
Skip Crane
Seabrook Island Road
Johns Island
Not canceled
Concerning an editorial in Thursday's paper, the Sustainability Advisory Committee, which meets quarterly, had a meeting set for Feb. 11, and it was rescheduled for March 11. The members of the committee were advised of the rescheduled date.
This frequently happens to meetings because of scheduling problems for me and for staff. There is a lot going on.
It seems it would have been better for the readers of The Post and Courier to know the meeting had been rescheduled and not canceled.
Mayor, City of Charleston
Broad Street
Terrible deed
A tiny Jan. 30 article was titled "Kids found in heatless house; mom charged." Am I the only one who finds this appalling? Not only did Duke Energy shut off this woman's heat when there were reports of an unprecedented ice storm the next day, but then she was arrested. What kind of a society can put this family at risk of death for back payments?
To be fair, maybe Duke did not see the TV reports asking people to stay home or the article in The Post and Courier, "Winter storm watch issued." But to turn off the heat to a woman with three children the day before this major storm is a disgrace. Duke Energy reported a profit of $1 billion and a rise in third quarter earnings of 69 percent in November 2013. What profit would it have lost to wait a few months until the weather changed to help a small family struggling to survive?
Dorothy Lemmey, Ph.D.
Palmetto Boulevard
Edisto Island
Chip your dog
My missing Pomeranian has been returned to me, thanks to the chip I had implanted when he was a puppy. I learned a lot over the three days he was missing.
Most people are kind and will go out of their way to help you find your pet. If not for the chip, getting my Red back would have been more difficult; however, just chipping your animal doesn't mean he will be returned.
All vets are required by state law to scan an animal that comes to their practice. But if you haven't filed a report with animal shelters, notified vets in the area, told the police department, and generally made a pest of yourself, vets have no reason to believe they are dealing with a lost animal.
Fortunately, I had filled out a missing animal form with the SPCA just 20 minutes before Animal Control brought him in. I don't know where he had been for three icy, cold, wet days, only that he was dry, and his hair not matted.
Small, local businesses went out of their way to help.
If you love your pet, have him wear a collar and tag, get him chipped, then get it registered. If he is missing, let everyone know. It's the only way to get him back.
Margaret Lentz
Hood Street
Save the coyotes
Citizens on the Isle of Palms and Sullivan's Island must stand up for the coyotes. The forests they inhabit are not used by people going to the beach or exploring. Coyotes don't want to have anything to do with people.
Some mistakenly suspect that they thrive off the large deer population. Actually, coyotes are small compared to deer and only rarely eat fawns.
They are helpful to us because they eat rats, which spread disease, and moles, which make a mess of yards. Probably, the coyotes that arrive in citizens' yards at night smell food from trash that is in bins or trash lying on the street. They do not like to eat cats or toddlers.
I don't think anyone should be leaving a child in the middle of the yard unsupervised at 1 a.m. (since coyotes are nocturnal). If a coyote eats a cat, it probably is as a last resort because food supplies are low. Citizens should just live with them because they are not harmful unless you annoy them. If a coyote is near you (the chance of one attacking you is extremely low because they are afraid of humans), call 911.
To find out more read the new brochure that the town of Sullivan's Island offers about how coyotes and people can live together. I hope we can live with these beautiful creatures.
Oliver Abar
Age 9
Vincent Drive
Help S.C. State
We do not need to dump on S.C. State University with another investigation right now. Particularly when new President Thomas Elzey has sent a letter to the S.C. Budget and Control Board outlining the reasons for a projected cash flow shortfall of $4.4 million.
According to President Elzey, the shortfall was "due primarily to declining student enrollment," but he also listed a number of other contributing factors, including significant debt service, a reduction in federal Plus Loan and Pell Grants for students and the elimination of certain non-recurring sources of revenue.
The president outlined major initiatives under way to address these problems, some of which have already begun to have a positive impact on the school's financial statements.
President Elzey has invited South Carolina lawmakers to visit him or the university's chief financial officer to answer any questions.
The state budget director has asked for a written plan within two weeks for more specifics to deal with the shortfall.
This president was elected less than one year ago when the school was swirling with allegations of breach of trust and impropriety.
The current board is in transition and will soon be composed of almost all new trustees.
We think we as lawmakers must give the new administration and board time to implement the programs they believe necessary to get the school back on the right track.
The president's disclosure should be welcomed and applauded as a big step in the right direction.
Instead of pointing fingers and calling for an investigation, we should remember how vital South Carolina State is to South Carolina and that we are all in this together.
SEN. John Matthews
Arista Road
Sen. Matthews represents District 39 (Berkeley, Calhoun, Colleton, Dorchester and Orangeburg counties)
SEN. Marlon Kimpson
Mary Ellen Drive
Sen. Kimpson represents District 42 (Charleston and Dorchester counties)
Cheating probe
Regarding Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel's orders to place renewed emphasis on moral behavior amid military problems, may I suggest he start at the top.
James A. Kenny
Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired)
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SET 2: Buried Alive > Tweezer > Guelah Papyrus[1], The Squirming Coil, Uncle Pen, You Enjoy Myself -> Cocaine Jam -> You Enjoy Myself -> Halley's Comet > Slave to the Traffic Light, Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Tweezer Reprise
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Obsessed (PG-13) Screen Gems (109 min.) Directed by Steve Shill. With Idris Elba, Beyonce Knowles, Ali Larter. Now playing in New Jersey. THREE STARS
Once you know the basic plot of "Obsessed" -- crazy white secretary goes after married black boss -- you know how it's going to play out.
The wife is going to look suspiciously at this young woman, and remark on her motives (and allegedly underfed derriere). The husband is not going to listen. The stalker is going to push further, and finally too far.
And then, in the final 10 minutes, the wife is finally going to grab the psycho secretary by those lovely L'Oreal roots and give said underfed derriere a whupping.
But the fact that you know the end somehow almost makes it even more satisfying when it finally arrives.
The movie's studio didn't agree -- it wouldn't screen "Obsessed" for critics. And I can understand its worries.
This is not a film that should be seen in a small room full of cranky male reviewers. This is a movie that should be watched in a big-city theater, full of boisterous girls-night-outers, recently wronged women and the gay friends who love them (I'm just saying, baby.)
But I caught it at 10:45 in the morning, and I had a fine, cheesy old time. And so did the surprisingly large crowd that had turned out for it.
As the husband thinking with his, um, ego instead of his brain, Idris Elba is a stolid, dependable presence. Cherry Hill native Ali Larter, meanwhile, strikes just the right sweet/tart balance as the temp who has designs on becoming a permanent fixture.
It's Beyonce Knowles, though, who's the most fun, a Sasha-fierceful bundle of outraged womanhood, with teetering high-heeled boots and a mean right cross. Put a ring on it? Girl, just put a period at the end of it. This woman is here to do business.
There's nothing flashy to the movie. The serviceable direction is by an old TV hand, Steve Shill. The straightforward script is by David Loughery, who once wrote the awful "Star Trek V" and "Money Train," but recently redeemed himself with the offbeat "Lakeview Terrace."
Like that movie, this one plays with racial tensions; smartly, it never calls attention to them. It has listened to African-American women talk, though, or caught a few Oprah shows (or at the very least, rented "Jungle Fever"). It knows there is a measurable anger about black men who marry white women.
Black actors know that too, and several have said as much, privately. There's a reason why Denzel Washington and Will Smith have been so careful about their co-stars.
The movie never mentions race, but like any clever exploitation film, it capitalizes on what's unspoken. And it knows that gives its climax an extra level that "Fatal Attraction" didn't have, as Knowles defends her family against this interloper who wants to snatch it all away.
And when she does? Even at this early-morning show, there were still happy shouts of "You go, girl!" from the back.
Ratings note: The film contains sexual situations, violence and alcohol abuse.
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Originally a product of Britain's new romantic movement,
Depeche Mode
went on to become the quintessential electropop band of the 1980s. One of the first acts to establish a musical identity based completely around the use of synthesizers, they began their existence as a bouncy dance-pop outfit but gradually developed a darker, more dramatic sound that ultimately positioned them as one of the most successful alternative bands of their era.
The roots of
Depeche Mode
date to 1976, when Basildon, England-based keyboardists
Vince Clarke
Andrew Fletcher
first teamed to form the group No Romance in China. The band proved short-lived, and by 1979
had formed French Look, another duo featuring guitarist/keyboardist
Martin Gore
soon signed on, and the group rechristened itself Composition of Sound. Initially,
handled vocal chores, but in 1980 singer
David Gahan
was brought in to complete the lineup. After one final name change to
Depeche Mode
, the quartet members jettisoned all instruments excluding their synthesizers, honing a slick, techno-based sound to showcase
's catchy melodies.
After building a following on the London club scene,
Depeche Mode
debuted in 1980 with "Photographic," a track included on the Some Bizzare Album label compilation. After signing to Mute Records, they issued "Dreaming of Me" in early 1981; while neither the single nor its follow-up, "New Life," caused much of a stir, their third effort, "Just Can't Get Enough," became a Top Ten U.K. hit, and their 1981 debut LP,
Speak and Spell
, was also a success. Just as
Depeche Mode
appeared poised for a major commercial breakthrough, however, principal songwriter
abruptly exited to form
with singer
Alison Moyet
, leaving the group's future in grave doubt.
grabbed the band's songwriting reins, the remaining trio recruited keyboardist
Alan Wilder
to fill the technological void created by
's departure. While 1982's
A Broken Frame
deviated only slightly from
Depeche Mode
's earlier work,
's ominous songs grew more assured and sophisticated by the time of 1983's
Construction Time Again
Some Great Reward
, issued the following year, was their artistic and commercial breakthrough, as
's dark, kinky preoccupations with spiritual doubt ("Blasphemous Rumours") and psychosexual manipulation ("Master and Servant") came to the fore; the egalitarian single "People Are People" was a major hit on both sides of the Atlantic and typified the music's turn toward more industrial textures.
Released in 1986, the atmospheric
Black Celebration
continued the trend toward grim melancholy and further established the group as a commercial force; it eventually sold over 500,000 copies in the U.S., which earned it gold status. Released in 1987,
Music for the Masses
, featuring three Hot 100 singles in "Strangelove," "Never Let Me Down Again," and "Behind the Wheel," propelled the group into the mainstream. The album would sell over a million copies in the U.S. alone. A subsequent sold-out tour yielded the 1989 double live set
. Recorded at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, it was accompanied by a concert film directed by the legendary
D.A. Pennebaker
With the alternative music boom of the early '90s,
Depeche Mode
emerged as one of the world's most successful acts. The triple-platinum
, released in 1990, was a Top Ten smash that spawned the hits "Personal Jesus" (a number eight single), "Enjoy the Silence," "Policy of Truth," and "World in My Eyes." Their 1993 LP
Songs of Faith and Devotion
-- featuring a significant change in its heavy use of electric guitars -- entered the charts in the number one slot. However, at the peak of its success, the group began to unravel, beginning with
's 1995 exit.
attempted to take his own life and later entered a drug rehabilitation clinic to battle an addiction to heroin.
After a four-year layoff,
Depeche Mode
continued onward as a trio and released 1997's
, which featured the hits "Barrel of a Gun" and "It's No Good." A year later, the band embarked on a tour in support of its newly released hits album,
The Singles 86>98
Depeche Mode
played 64 shows in 18 countries for over one million fans. Each member took some considerable time off after the tour's completion, and
Depeche Mode
would not regroup for another three years.
, the band's follow-up to
, was released in 2001, with the singles "Dream On" and "I Feel Loved" finding moderate success on international radio outlets. Two years later,
issued his debut solo album, the dark and sultry
Paper Monsters
also followed suit by issuing the all-covers
, a full-length sequel to his similarly themed 1989 EP. Each member supported his work with respective tours of the U.S. and Europe; however, the bandmembers soon resumed working together, and
Playing the Angel
, their 11th studio album, became a Top Ten hit upon its release in October 2005. Produced by
Ben Hillier
) and studded with singles like "Precious" and "John (The Revelator)," it topped the album charts in 18 countries and went multi-platinum and/or gold in 20 countries.
Depeche Mode
went on to play for more than two and a half million fans worldwide, and the 2006 video release Touring the Angel: Live in Milan captured one of the band's greatest shows.
Sounds of the Universe
, also made with the assistance of
Ben Hillier
, arrived in early 2009 and debuted at number three in the U.S. The 2013 release of Delta Machine made for a trilogy of
albums, while the album was mixed by longtime Depeche associate Flood. The concert film and album Live in Berlin (directed by Anton Corbijn from a late-2013 show) followed in November 2014.
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I'm Pregnant and Can't SleepLauren Jimeson
I never realized how much I valued sleep until having a child. The long nights and even longer days when very little sleep is involved are painful. Once my daughter finally started sleeping through the night and I was able to sleep again, I valued the actual sleep I was getting far more than I ever had before. I would fall asleep rather early and wake up early when my daughter would get up.
Even early in this pregnancy I found myself sleeping all the time. When my daughter napped, I napped. She would go down for the night and I would follow suit fairly soon after.
Falling asleep has never been a problem for me. I could fall asleep on a wooden floor with the lights on and TV loud, and it wouldn't bother me. I don't even remember it being an issue with my first pregnancy.
Once again, this second pregnancy proves itself to be tougher than the first with yet another pregnancy side effect I am encountering for the first time.
As I enter my third and final trimester, I've noticed that sleeping doesn't come as easy as it used to. As I write this post, it is the wee hours of the morning and everyone in my house has long been asleep. I've attempted to do my normal routine for bed and rest and relax so my body can fall asleep, but it just isn't happening.
Not realizing that insomnia is an actual pregnancy side effect, I googled it, just to be sure I wasn't going crazy. After doing a little bit of research I found that is in fact quite common to experience sleep problems during pregnancy. According to the American Pregnancy Association, 78% of woman are affected with insomnia during pregnancy.
I keep telling myself that it is my body's way of preparing me for the baby, but in reality I know that it is the fact that sleeping is just getting more and more uncomfortable. I get up almost two times during the night to go to the bathroom. As a full time belly sleeper, I am way past the mark where at least attempting to lay on my stomach is not even an option. I've also been waking up in the middle of the night with horrible leg cramps. Let's face it, sleeping just isn't easy when you're pregnant.
Did you battle insomnia while pregnant? How did you help yourself fall asleep at night?


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Compiling a list of the top plays and musicals from the past year is my annual labor of love. Admittedly, it's difficult to compare shows staged by local and area community theaters with touring Broadway productions, and professional regional ensembles with summer stock groups and college productions. But each of the following elevated my entertainment meter as either nicely staged, notable, or just plain nifty.
Here, in no particular order, is my Distinctive Dozen of 2013:
- "The Sound of Music" (Millbrook Playhouse) - The second Main Stage attraction at Mill Hall's Millbrook Playhouse's 50th anniversary season proved to be the audience's "... favorite things." Nicely staged with a minimum of set pieces, Rodgers and Hammerstein's score sung by a mix of professional and community artists (including the Von Trapp children) deservedly drew big audiences.
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- "I Love You, You're Perfect. Now Change" (Community Theatre League) - The reprise of CTL's earlier success produced even more laughs, ranging from thoughtful to the belly variety. A nigh perfect quartet sang on the joys of dating, mating, marriage, newborns and even why "Funerals Are For Dating" with many hilarious characterizations.
- "The Trial of Walter Goodwin" (Hamilton Gibson Productions) - A notable recreation of a murder case in Wellsboro is based upon actual trial transcripts. Only one hour in length but exceptional educational entertainment as Goodwin's conviction in 1897 for the grisly murder of his wife led to one of the last public hangings in Tioga County.
- "War Horse" (Broadway) - A riveting, highly emotional drama of a young boy's search for his horse through the horrors of a world war. Notable in that it is only a matter of minutes before the audience forgets that the high -stepping horses are puppets, The Lincoln Center production was so engrossing that "War Horse" ranks as the top non-musical show - not only of 2013 - that I have ever seen.
- "The Full Monty" (Allenberry Playhouse) - This mid-summer musical drew appreciative crowds to the professional Boiling Springs theatre. The tale focuses on unemployed steel workers who, frustrated with work and women, decide to bare it all regardless of looks.
With some serious back stories, the production's lighting was notable and vital, pinpointing how the best Chippendale strippers that Yorkshire England would ever see would also be what the Allenberry audience would not quite see.
- "Doubt: A Parable" (Penn State Centre Stage) - The Pulitzer-Prize and Tony Award winning drama got a suspense-filled production with Jane Ridley's last role as a teaching faculty member of PSU School of Theatre. As the rigid nun who, despite no evidence and no witnesses, has no doubt of the parish priest's molestation of a young boy, Ridley gave a mesmerizing performance.
- "The Merchant of Venice" (Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble) - The season opener and this year's Project Discovery, in which nearly 1,400 high school students saw the Bard's classic, "pushed the buttons" by its selection and casting. Andrew Hubatsek, the show's director, set the action in modern day Venice. The themes of prejudice, greed and "minority rights" got a unique spin in this "comedy" which is best remembered for its classic dramatic script.
- "Nunsense A-men!" (Millbrook Playhouse) - The super-silly season finale in the Cabaret was extra funny as the five Little Sisters of Hoboken go about stumbling from one crisis to another. The five male actors in drag - make that nuns' habits - milked the script for extra laughs resulting with five extra performances tacked on to the original sold-out run.
- "Annie" (Community Theatre League) - Everyone's favorite orphan turned out to be everyone's favorite musical ... CTL 's "Annie" was notable in many regards, from double casting the slew of "Little Girls" to having Daddy Warbucks and his adopted Annie played by a real-life father and daughter. Most notable, however, was the attendance - the highest in CTL's 35-plus years which optimistically points to a financially solvent "Tomorrow."
- "A Christmas Memory" (Open Stage of Harrisburg) - This show was included in 2011 list when BTE presented this autobiographical tale of young Truman Capote growing up in rural Alabama during the Great Depression. Notable then as BTE's alternative to its "A Christmas Carol" productions. Notable now as a winning musical score has been added with OSH offering the Northeast premier of this quietly funny and often poignant portrait of the young writer's fondest holiday memories. (Still running through Dec. 29 for those wanting to catch some exceptional family theater fare.)
- "The Graduate" (Bloomsburg University) - The mid-November attraction in the Celebrity Artists Series brought the cult favorite to the B.U. stage.
The 2000 stage version of the award winning film tells the tale of the martini-saturated Mrs. Robinson and her prey, young Benjamin. Presented by the L.A. Theatre Works, this touring production coincides with the 50th anniversary of the ground-breaking novel from 1963.
- "Mama Mia" (Broadway) - Notable not only because it was the third time that I've seen the ABBA musical that always gets audiences dancing in the aisle during its rousing 12-minute curtain call ...
But after the show, a jaunt to Times Square became life-altering when, before the Jumbotron screen, someone was heard to say one of show's song titles. It was "Will You Take a Chance On Me?" And the answer was "Yes!" Now that's notable!


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- Vol. 52
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Prisoner at Earth's End
Confronted with the Specter of Cancer, a Brave Woman Comes Home from the Pole
Just inside the entrance of the Amundsen-Scott station, the camp's physician, Dr. Jerri Nielsen, 47, of Canfield, Ohio, had been waiting expectantly for the plane's arrival. As the parka-clad Nielsen headed out to meet the Hercules, other workers swarmed toward the aircraft as well, some jumping and waving their arms. "We're the first outside people they've seen in nine months," observed one of the crew. With the temperature hovering at 60 below zero, the plane had to be off the ground again in minutes or run the risk of having its hydraulic fluids freeze solid. Mail and provisions were offloaded, but the real goal of the mission was to get the ailing Nielsen out. In just 22 minutes her friends had wished her good luck and seen her onboard, and the plane was off again, taking her on the next leg of what had already become an extraordinary journey.
Over the past months, Nielsen's South Pole saga has unfolded as both a gripping human drama and a modern allegory of the limits of technology. After discovering in June that she had a tumor in her breast, she could not be evacuated because of the weather, which held her prisoner for more than four months—marooning her, in an age of jet travel and instant communication, as surely as an 18th-century sailor on a desert island. With her rescue last week, there was finally the glimmer of a happy ending. As Nielsen mordantly told friends in an August e-mail: "It has been a Hell of an adventure, but not the one that I had planned."
In fact, the path that took Nielsen to the South Pole in the first place was hardly direct. Born and raised in Salem, Ohio, the oldest of three children of builder Phil Cahill, now 71, and his wife, Lorine, 67, a psychologist, she studied zoology at Ohio University, where she met her husband, Jay Nielsen, whom she married in 1974. Jerri graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in 1977, two years after Jay. From the start, friends and colleagues noticed their different temperaments. While Jay gravitated toward family medicine, Jerri chose emergency care. "Jerri seemed to be more interested in that excitement," says Dr. Michael Stark, a former medical school classmate, "wanting to see the person who gets shot in the abdomen, not the person who comes in to be treated for their diabetes and hypertension."
That enthusiasm carried over to her practice at a succession of Ohio hospitals. "She brightened up the room when she walked in," says Dr. Jeff Snyder, who along with his wife, Cathy, became a close friend when he worked with Jerri in the ER at St. Rita's Medical Center in Lima from 1995 through '96. "She was really outgoing and dynamic and got along really well with patients." But in 1998, after 23 years of marriage, Jay filed for divorce, citing "incompatibility." He was given custody of the children—Julia, 18, Benjamin, 16, and Alex, 14—and she was ordered to pay $454 per month per child in support. Jay maintains it was Jerri who walked out on him. "I was completely surprised by the events," he says. "We had actually been getting along quite well."
Around the time of their split, Jerri heard about an opportunity to be the sole physician at the U.S. camp at the South Pole. The job at the Amundsen-Scott station, which is run by the National Science Foundation for the study of such things as astronomy and global warming, required her to make a one-year commitment and pass a rigorous psychological and physical screening—including a mammogram. For nine months of the year, from January through October 1999, 41 scientists and support personnel—10 women and 31 men—would live almost entirely in the close quarters of the camp, which consists of three main buildings, plus assorted other facilities, beneath an aluminum dome 165 yards in diameter. Outside, the temperatures in the polar winter, when the sun never shines, can drop to 80 degrees below zero—or worse. "Antarctica is like a big animal waiting to eat you up," says Bob Thomson of New Zealand, a noted polar scientist who made 78 visits there. "It's the most hostile place on earth."
Jay, who remarried last year, says he was startled when his ex-wife decided to sign on at the South Pole, especially since it meant being out of physical touch with her children—who, he maintains, first learned of her tumor through the media. Jerri's friends and family see things quite differently. For starters, they insist she has tried to keep in contact with her children. As for her decision to go to the South Pole in the first place, her friend Cathy Snyder says Jerri considered it a necessary antidote to the pain she felt from her bitter divorce. "She loves her children dearly," says Snyder. "It was not easy for her to say, 'I'm going to bolt off to Antarctica and leave my family behind,' but it was one of those things where she had to find herself again."
Certainly, amid the desolate beauty of the South Pole there is not much else to be found. From the time she arrived at Amundsen-Scott last November, Nielsen apparently enjoyed the camaraderie she found there. Her main job was running a small hospital, where she took X rays, dispensed medicine and helped with the tension, disorientation and insomnia common to every crew that has been stationed there. "I am responsible for everyone's mental health, and the general morale for the station usually falls on my shoulders," she wrote in an e-mail to friends.
And on the cook's days off, she looked forward to doing substitute duty in the kitchen. She also spoke warmly of get-togethers where people would chat and sometimes read their original poetry, and of her taste for Antarctic snow cones. On one recent occasion, workers transformed the spartan dining room into an Italian restaurant complete with wine, soft music and, as Nielsen put it, "plastic plants from who knows where." Says her sister-in-law Diana Cahill: "She loves the people down there and she has totally enjoyed every aspect of her experience. There's a real feeling of family, of gathering around the table, of breaking bread together."
But in mid-June there came a less happy moment: Nielsen found a lump in her breast. She quickly notified the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Va., as well as Antarctic Support Associates, whose job it is to back her up on questions of medical treatment. There was no chance of an evacuation at that point, since a plane has never landed at the South Pole in midwinter. Instead, officials in Arlington decided on the less risky but still daring course of having a cargo plane drop diagnostic equipment and anticancer drugs for Nielsen. On July 11, a U.S. Air Reserve C-141 Starlifter parachuted six crates to the camp. A digital microscope survived the drop, as did fresh fruit and vegetables. But an ultrasound machine, which can be used to determine the size and location of a tumor during a biopsy, was crushed when the crate containing it smashed into the ice.
A few days later Nielsen, apparently with the help of two colleagues, gave herself a local anesthetic, then inserted a needle into her own breast and withdrew some tissue for biopsy. It is a procedure that can tense the hand of even the most experienced physician. "To do one on yourself is probably not as technically difficult as it is emotionally difficult," says Jeff Snyder. "Some doctors can't even inject themselves." "With the help of a satellite connection to the Internet, Nielsen was able to send digital images of the tumor cells to doctors in Denver for evaluation. Initially, officials refused to provide any details or even to acknowledge that the tumor was malignant, though Nielsen had begun a regimen of chemotherapy. Her mother also received a picture via the Internet of her daughter losing her hair. "I have found lumps in my breasts before," Lorine Cahill told London's Mail on Sunday, "and ... I know the fear that I went through. She is being amazingly brave." Last week, Nielsen released a statement thanking those who rescued her and confirming that cancer had been diagnosed. "I will undergo treatment." She added, "My spirit is strong."
Indeed, through it all, friends marveled at how Nielsen seemed to remain upbeat during a time of stress and uncertainty. In August she sent the Snyders and others a vivid description of first light at the Pole, the tiny smudge of blue on the horizon that heralds the approach of the polar spring. "The sky was more spectacular than I have seen it," she wrote to friends. "The Milky Way was incredibly bright. I wanted to...lay on the ground and contemplate it all." A month later, she made the short trek to the geographic South Pole to pose for the requisite photograph, an excursion that actually froze one side of her face solid and resulted in a frostbitten cheek, but which she jauntily pronounced "a good experience for me."
Finally, early this month, at the urging of doctors monitoring her progress by satellite, officials in Arlington elected to try to bring Nielsen out a few weeks before an evacuation would normally have been attempted. The New York-based Hercules departed from Auckland, New Zealand, for McMurdo Station on the coast of Antarctica, where the weather is far more favorable than at the Pole. The plane waited at McMurdo for two days until the polar temperature rose to approximately 60 below zero, considered the minimum for safety. From there the aircraft made the 1,600-mile round-trip flight to Amundsen-Scott (where a replacement physician was dropped off), then back to New Zealand, where Nielsen was joined by her brothers Scott Cahill, 45, and Eric, 41, for the trip to the U.S. An airman who saw Nielsen when the plane stopped in McMurdo said "she looked in good spirits" and had declined to use the medical cot arranged for her in the cargo hold. She later refused the Air Force's offer to fly her back to the States, catching a commercial flight from Auckland to Los Angeles, where she would continue on to an undisclosed location.
Her family and the government have guarded Nielsen's privacy throughout her ordeal, but all indications are that after treatment she will return to her parents' home in Canfield. Her prognosis remains an open question, since it will depend on what kind of tumor is found. As for whether the wait for full medical treatment will be a factor in her chances for recovery, that too is uncertain. Chances are it will not. According to Dr. John Glaspy, a breast cancer researcher at UCLA, a delay of a few months generally does not have an effect on the type of treatment or the odds of success. "One reason we know that is that doing mammograms once a year is often enough to change the cure rate for breast cancer for the better," says Glaspy. "The biology of breast cancer is such that it doesn't usually go from curable to incurable in shorter time frames."
Although Nielsen was no doubt relieved to be on her way to a hospital in the United States, sister-in-law Diana Cahill suggests that her early departure from Antarctica may have stirred some mixed feelings, given Nielsen's love for the splendor of the polar ice cap. Yet her time of trial may have helped her find something of what she went looking for there in the first place. Contemplating her impending return home, she wrote last month in an e-mail to her friends, "I see myself becoming weaker, then stronger, among the large Ohio trees that defined my childhood. As much as I love the Ice and the Sea, the most comfortable place is under the canopies of Birches and Hickory, of Maples and of great Oaks." She signed off that day, "From knowing the darkness, I have seen the light."
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WAILUKU - Jordan Hoiem is part of an illustrious line of Baldwin High School linebackers, but on Tuesday afternoon he was definitely No. 1.
The Bears' standout junior, the top-ranked prospect in the state for the class of 2014 and a four-star performer according to Rivals.com, became the first player in the University of Oregon's next class when he verbally committed to a scholarship in a telephone call with Ducks defensive coordinator Nick Aliotti.
Hoiem is the first recruit for Oregon's new head coach Mark Helfrich, who took over when Chip Kelly left for the Philadelphia Eagles in January. Helfrich finished sealing Kelly's class on signing day in February, but Hoiem will go down as Helfrich's first true recruit.
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'I don't understand how kids who have offers from them — and if they have been there — how they don't want to just commit right away.'
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Jordan Hoiem, shown celebrating a touchdown run by Baldwin teammate Dusty Flores during a game in October, took part in an Oregon camp in 2011.
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"I'm the first to commit and that's a real honor," Hoiem said Wednesday. "It's amazing. I mean, ever since I went up there for the first time it is where I wanted to go. I don't understand how kids who have offers from them - and if they have been there - how they don't want to just commit right away. I have nothing else I want to see. I'm stoked and I'm super excited to be going there."
After a junior season in which a stress fracture in his foot limited him to four games for the Maui Interscholastic League Division I champions, Hoiem was starting to wonder if the call from his dream school would ever come.
"I saw that other kids were getting offers, so I was getting kind of worried," he said.
Hoiem called Upcountry strength trainer David Kamalani, the father of Oregon senior linebacker Keloni Kamalani, and the elder Kamalani immediately phoned Hoiem back with good news.
"I was wondering if I should start looking at other programs," Hoiem said. "It was just a coincidence that I called him (Tuesday) right after everything happened and (David Kamalani) said, 'Yeah, I just talked to (Oregon offensive coordinator) Scott Frost.' He told coach David that they were going to offer me."
Oregon has been at the top of Hoiem's wish list since he excelled at a camp there in 2011. Before Tuesday, he had offers from Hawaii, Nevada-Las Vegas, Utah and Utah State, making him the most-recruited underclassman football prospect ever from the MIL.
"I was just blown away when (Aliotti) offered and I told him that, 'Definitely, you have my word that I will be attending Oregon when I graduate,' " Hoiem said. "I'm honored that they offered."
Hoiem has put on about 15 pounds since the end of the season, when he was listed at 6-foot-4 and 205 pounds, with the help of former Baldwin standout Jojo Dickson.
Dickson starred at Idaho and has had multiple tryouts at NFL camps. His sister, Baldwin softball player Kylie Dickson, is Hoiem's girlfriend.
"He told me how to lift and how to eat," Hoiem said of Jojo Dickson. "I have been stuck - I know I'm a linebacker, but I have to get my weight up."
Baldwin's linebacker legacy also includes Kaluka Maiava, a four-year NFL veteran who signed with the Oakland Raiders on Wednesday.
"I look up to Jojo and Kaluka and they have been here and they have done it," Hoiem said.
"Both those guys are very inspirational and they get me motivated."
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A Million-Selling Engine Opens the Door to "Tomorrow" for Honda Power Products
Honda began manufacturing power products in 1952, just four years after the company was founded. Naturally, motorcycles created a technological base for those power products. For example, the company's first general-purpose engine, the Type H, was a modified version of the Type F engine used in the Cub. Therefore, in a way the company's new business in power products was propelled by technology acquired through the manufacture of motorcycles.
The ME engine series, G150
The road to success in power products would not be easy, though. While Honda was already enjoying a reputation as a premier maker of motorcycles, it had no experience with power products. Moreover, the value the customers looked for in power products varied according to their particular applications. Added to that was the fact that many more types of power products had to be manufactured in order to satisfy market expectations. These elements combined to create a far more complex business than the one involving motorcycles. A key aspect of the business is that power products are generally divided into two categories: engines and complete machines. Accordingly, how a company might operate can vary depending on the category. Engines are supplied mainly to OEM companies as single units, while complete machines include a range of end-user products such as tillers.
Motorcycles and cars are like complete machines. Ever since the 1959 introduction of its F150 tiller, Honda had focused on complete machines. There was a strong conviction that the significance of being in that business was the ability to build and sell complete machines. With complete machines, Honda could satisfy its customers directly. However, along with that came various points of feedback from Honda customers. Listening to that feedback would lead to new products and technologies.
General-purpose engines, on the other hand, are supplied to OEM companies, so it is difficult to relate those products to their end users. The staff involved in the development of Honda power products had a definite sense of passion for their work.
They would not be satisfied with just making general-purpose engines. Therefore, it was natural for the company to focus on complete machines.
Another challenge inherent in power products is that the manufacturer must offer a range of models for each product in order to meet different needs. If it fails to do so, the manufacturer cannot meet customer expectations or sustain its retail operations. This applies to all work machines, including agricultural equipment, power generators and outboard marine engines, necessitating the small-volume production of multiple varieties. For these reasons Honda required a certain amount of time to build sufficient strength in the areas of development, cost competitiveness and marketing, in order to compete in the marketplace.
Honda's struggle to develop and market complete machines continued for two straight decades. However, as long as it remained in business the company would not be satisfied with less than absolute performance. As the 1970s began, there was a thirst throughout the organization; a hunger for the vision and direction that would revive the flagging power products business.


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The woman reportedly awoke to find herself bound in Lawless' home on the 3800 block of Balboa Drive, near Planz Road and South H Street. Lawless allegedly threatened to kill the woman, strangled her, repeatedly stabbed her, burned her, gagged her and bit her repeatedly throughout her body.
Police said the woman, whose name was withheld, had "significant visible injuries" and was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Officers arrested Lawless without incident at his home within hours of being called by the alleged victim. Unspecified evidence of the torture, along with drugs, were found at Lawless' home, police said.
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I shared a depressing chart last week using data from analytics firm Dalbar, showing how individual investors have fared against an index like the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC ) :
It's sad.
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I asked Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab, what she made of the data. Here's what she had to say. (A transcript follows.)
Liz Ann Sonders: "Look, when you look at very generalized statistics on how individual investors have fared in terms of performance compared to either the market overall, or if you look at things like the Dalbar study that compares investors returns themselves in funds versus the returns of the funds themselves, the generalizations taking a mean or an average or a median, doesn't put the individual investor in great light. It shows underperformance. Not all that different today than five years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago.
It's the reason why looking at what individuals are doing en masse is now a contrarian indicator, was a contrarian indicator 10 years ago, was a contrarian indicator 27 years ago, when I started in the business, so that aspect hasn't changed. What we have found, and as you said, we have some particularly unique insight into what individual investors are doing, having $2 trillion in client assets by individual investors, is what we find is there is a correlation in terms of returns and success with how disciplined you are around long-term plan and goals.
In many cases, if you have an advised relationship and you are going through an appropriate process of diversification and rebalancing, which is so important, staying disciplined, not reacting to whims or news and the ability to pull the trigger more quickly, but taking a very disciplined approach, the returns for that cohort of investors dramatically outshines the returns for investors who tend to be quicker with the trigger. And you're right, access to information, the speed with which we get it, and then the ability to trade on that has grown exponentially. It's just a question of what you do with that information."


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"Affordable hybrid." It's strange to see those words together because up to now a hybrid vehicle commanded a significant premium over the price of a similar vehicle with a conventional powertrain. But Toyota is out to change that with the under-$20,000 Toyota Prius C, a smaller version of its standard Prius that accounts for half of all hybrids sold in America.


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The Deep Impact extended mission, EPOXI, just released an amazing movie (Quicktime format, 1 MB) of the Moon transiting Earth, taken from 50 million kilometers away (or very roughly 150 times the distance from Earth to the Moon). You see Earth spinning away, and then from the left of the frame the Moon comes in to view and flies across Earth's disk. This movie makes obvious the albedo difference between Earth and the Moon -- the surfaces of both worlds have similar colors, but Earth is covered about 50% by highly reflective clouds, which makes it way brighter.
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The University of Hawaii Maui College Art Program, in partnership with Art21 as part of its Access 100 Artists initiative, is presenting a series of screenings from Art in the Twenty-First Century, the only prime time national television series focused exclusively on contemporary art.
The free screenings will be from 4:30 to 6 p.m. today, March 7 and 21 at UH-MC's Heona I.
The following episodes will be screened during the event: Season Five, Episode 2: Fantasy will feature artists Jeff Koons, Mary Heilmann, Florian Maier-Aichen and Cao Fei tonight; Season Five, Episode 3: Systems will feature artists Julie Mehretu, John Baldessari, Kimsooja and Allan McCollum on March 7; and season Five, Episode 4: Transformation will feature artists Yinka Shonibare MBE, Cindy Sherman and Paul McCarthy on March 21.
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See the work of artist Cao Fei during a screening tonight at UH-MC. Above is Fei's "Anime Video Still."
Todd Campbell's tall open vessel from the Art Maui 2012 exhibit.
Maui Open Studios participating artist Phil Sabado works on the base layers of a new painting.
Through in-depth profiles and interviews, the Art in the Twenty-First Century series reveals the inspiration, vision and techniques behind the creative works of some of today's most thought-provoking artists.
For details, contact Michael Takemoto at 984-3249.
Each year, the Art Maui Symposium Committee presents topics that encourage artists to stretch outside the boundaries. This year is no different. The public is invited to flex their creative muscles at two upcoming symposiums:
Dick Nelson, one of Art Maui's founders, will present a talk about visual literacy titled "Color, Light, and Space" from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center's Haynes Meeting Room.
Ron Kowalke, this year's Art Maui juror, will present "The Nature of Creativity" from 4 to 6 p.m. March 2 at the MACC's Alexa Higashi Meeting Room. Kowalke will take attendees through a tour of art and will present a "show and tell" discussion featuring 10 to 15 original works of art.
For more information, visit www.artmaui.com.
Quick, before it's gone! The monthlong Maui Open Studios event continues to offer an up-close view of local artists at work for one final weekend. More than 70 local artists are opening their doors and inviting the public into their workspaces on designated weekends. Artists located throughout west and south Maui artists will be featured from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Artists are encouraged to connect with visitors through live demonstrations, talk-story sessions and more.
The event is free and open to the public. For details, visit www.mauiopenstudios.com.


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quote: Apple is much more daring when it comes to innovations
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quote: Without the iPhone, you would still be stuck with antiquated UIs for smartphones
quote: everyone else tried to emulate Apple's success with a touchscreen and a UI designed for your fingers: google, palm and now MS
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a practical guide to becoming a true pun master
- accept that no pun is actually Good, but that the true nature of a good pun is to be so terrible that it becomes good.
- say every pun that occurs to you. i'm so serious about this, sometimes the most well received puns will be ones you considered not saying.
- ALWAYS laugh at your own puns, even if nobody else is. (especially if nobody else is.)
- know that you are hilarious. puns are a limitless resource and you have taken it as your duty to bring this gift to humanity. you are a hero.


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Perry Wins Regions Tradition at Difficult Shoal Creek
Kenny Perry closed with an even-par 72 to win the Regions Tradition. The $2.2 million event, the Champions Tour's first major of the year, took place at a tough Shoal Creek near Birmingham, Ala.
Perry carded three birdies and three bogeys Sunday to finish at 7-under 281, a stroke ahead of Mark Calcavecchia (70).
The victory for the 53-year-old Kentuckian was his sixth on the Champions Tour and third major title, joining his Senior Players Championship and U.S. Senior Open from last year.
With the Regions Tradition title he became the second player in history to win in three straight Champions Tour major starts, matching Gary Player, who was the first to accomplish the feat in 1987-88.
The latest triumph was worth $330,000 and 660 FedEx Cup points for Perry, the reigning Charles Schwab Cup champion. Perry moved into fourth on the current Cup points list; Bernhard Langer remains the leader.
Perry, who began the final round with a one-stroke lead over John Inman, spoke for the players when he noted the Jack Nicklaus-designed Shoal Creek played difficult all week, saying during a TV interview it "(never let) anyone get away."
Perry has a chance to set a new consecutive-major mark on the over-50 circuit when the Senior PGA Championship tees off next Thursday at the Golf Club at Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor, Mich.
Calcavecchia was in good position to log his first win on the Champions Tour since the 2012 Montreal Championship after recording four birdies through the first eight holes. But the 53-year-old couldn't sustain the pace, closing out the rest of the round with two bogeys and the rest pars.
Calcavecchia said later at greenside that he had a recurrence of a rib injury that started bothering him last year. "I was hurting all day," he said, noting that he wasn't sure he'd be playing in the Senior PGA.
Sharing third at 283 were Tom Lehman - who matched Sunday's low round of 5-under 67, Jay Haas (71) and Olin Browne (71). Tied for sixth another stroke back were Tom Watson, who also shot 67, Rocco Mediate (70) and John Cook (72).
Inman recorded a 73 to slip into a tie for ninth at 3-under 285 with Michael Allen (69), Marco Dawson (70), Joe Durant (69), Langer (71), Jeff Sluman (71) and Steve Elkington (73).
In addition to Lehman and Watson, Peter Senior was the third player to shoot 67. The Australian ended up alone in 30th at 291.
Defending champion David Frost closed with a 76 to drop into a share of 25th at 2-over 290.
One of the pre-tournament favorites, Fred Couples, was disqualified after missing his 9:40 a.m. tee time for the final round. No reason was given. Couples, who opened with rounds of 74, 77 and 73 and was 9-over at the start of play, announced later that he's withdrawn from next week's Senior PGA.
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