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Lead singer Jason Wade: "That's a super-special song for me. It seems to really connect with other people, too. It's one of those songs that every time I played it, a new part came to it. That's why it's so long and kind of mysterious. It's a bunch of different bits and pieces, but it has power because it kind of sums up everything I'm about lyrically and in terms of my relationships and Lifehouse overall. So I think it's a perfect way to end the record."
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Patti - Mahopac, NY
This song is played in several episodes of
, one of which entitled "Pilot," when Lana Lang goes into her house and Clark Kent is spying on her through his telescope. The other, titled "Tempest," is where Whitney Fordman and Lana Lang dance in the gym for the last time before Whitney joins the Marines.
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Dawson - Draper, UT
There is a skit that goes with this song that has become popular at churches across the US. It involves a girl that starts out loving God, but gradually becomes involved other things that steadily become more harmful, culminating in the girl nearly committing suicide. At the last second, she throws the gun away and runs back to Jesus.
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Jeff - Versailles, IL
Jason Wade: "A lot of people think this is our best song because how it kind of grows and there's the big climax at the end. We've been seeing people proposing to their girlfriends. You look out in the crowd and you know what's happening when everyone's face is turned towards the wall, and you have to spot where the guy is proposing. That's one of those songs where if we didn't play live we'd probably get shot by one of our super-fans!
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Me and a group of friends do a skit to this song, and it mostly show a person almost losing their connection with God but ends up with a new life.
Brian - Williamston,nc
To those who don't know whether it is a love song for a person, or for God, take your cue from Les Miserables: "to love another person is to see the face of God". This song is the truest, most honest, giving, and humble expression of love a person can give with words. It devotes itself to the object (person, or God) that means the most to you. Why can't it be both?
Tacey - New Milford, Nj
To, Trish, Houston, TX
I have a hard time with this song as corporate worship since the lyrics are such a personal confession. I see this as perhaps alter-time or reflective worship. or private worship at home etc. but I have a hard time with it as corporate sunday morning worship. its definitely, brings Christian themes and i think the line "how could i not be moved by you" is not a statement of not being moved, but a statement of there being no way he could resist being moved.
Dave - Prince Albert , Sk
its a great song. it could be a love song but i think we have too many love songs their should be more songs that are different so this song would be better as a christian song than i love. I want to play this at my sisters wedding and at church!
April - Mount Sterling, Oh
First of all, Lifehouse IS a Christian band, that doesn't meant that every song is a God Praising Hymn, Second, this IS a Christian song about Jason Wade's relationship with Jesus Christ, that is what HE wrote it about, however music can be interpreted however you like, that's what defines the songs that we love, what they mean in our eyes
Wes - Chicago, Il
I love this song. It was me and my husbands wedding song.
Andrea - Franklin, In
If it had more publicity I believe this song would've totally beat Hanging by a Moment.
And Lifehouse WAS a christian band before they became Lifehouse.
This song is probably about God, but the main lyrics 'How can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?" Somewhat makes me think differently. I just can't see how those lyrics make sense when talking about God.
Mitchell - Adelaide, Australia
Okay just to clear things up for you guys, Lifehouse is not a Christian band, but they are all Christian. Just like The Fray(and a million other bands!) this song is about God, not his girlfriend. If you would look at the lyrics:
"You are the light
That is leading me
To the place where
I find peace again"
"You are the strength
That keeps me walking
You are the hope
That keeps me trusting
You are the life to my soul
You are my purpose
You are everything"(his strength, he finds from God)
"You calm the storms"(how would his girlfriend calm the storms?)
So you can see they are about God.
Hannah - Fargo, Nd
I disagree with andres anleu; this song is about God.
Zac - Rio Rancho, Nm
I think this song can be about both... Love with another person or God. I personally believe it is about love for another person, because typicall speaking, loving only someone else can 'take your breath away' or be 'all i want' and 'all i need.'
But it could be interpreted as someone declaring their love for God...
Alexis - Rochester, Mn
Amazing song...is it covered by another christian artist?
Holly - Danville, Va
This song is definitely about God. It's absolutely one of the most beautiful and meaningful songs I've yet heard from a secular group.
Mokkan - Grove City, Oh
This is their best song.
Roger - Los Angeles, Ca
I think this is one of the best Lifehouse songs. I feel kind of bad that some people have never heard it because it would be a great song to put on the radio. I don't think it would make it as far as "Hanging By A Moment" though.
Hope - Florence, Mt
It is. Lifehouse originated as a Christian band.
Hilary - Grayson, La
This song is not written about God, or at least i don't think it is.
Andres Anleu - Guatemala, Other
We sing it at church with a full band and it's SO powerful. It's my favorite worship song.
Trish - Houston, Tx
wuld u tell me how culd it b any better dan this? aaaaaaaaa!! i love it
Ariana - Lima, Peru
This song is one of my favorite songs ever. This song gets me so emotional, I want to cry. I'm listening to it right now. It reminds me of Smallville.
Dawson - Draper, Ut
I really love this song. I think it's written about God, I'm not sure. That's certainly what I think about when I hear it/sing it. It's one of the deepest songs I've ever heard - it will continue to make me appreciate God.
Laura - Smithton
very very good song
Taufuboy - Burke, Va
One of the best Lifehouse songs ever. This was actually mine and my ex-girlfriend's song back when we were together. It's very hard to listen to at times. It is indeed very mysterious, yet straightforward. Amazing lyrics, amazing rythms. Awesomely arranged.
Dustin - Jones County, Ga
Very, very good song.
Leon - Waterbury, Ct
this song is a very powerful one. its written in a very unique manner... both lyrically and rhymically.
Terri Lynn - Heart's Desire, Canada
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In recent years, the U.S. economy has enjoyed two important safety valves that have vented inflationary pressures in the face of potent demand. Now, there's a problem: Both of those valves are wide open, but the pressure is still building. That's why the Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Mar. 21 for the fifth time since June, 1999. More important, it's why more hikes are on the way.
The first buffer has been a much deeper pool of available labor than anyone had thought possible. But with the unemployment rate likely to go below 4% this year, almost no one either inside the Fed or out believes that the job markets can be stretched further without a reacceleration in wages and benefits.
A less highlighted, but equally critical, safety valve has been a growing dependence on foreign producers to satisfy the accelerating pace of demand. The result shows up as a sharply wider U.S. trade deficit, as imports have soared. The January trade deficit increased to a record $28 billion, from $24.6 billion in December. That gap, well above the $25.2 billion average in the fourth quarter, all but assures another widening in the first-quarter deficit.
Moreover, it means yet another increase in the broad current-account deficit, which includes both foreign trade as well as financial flows between the U.S. and its trading partners. But as Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said in early March, "Growing net imports and a widening current-account deficit require ever larger portfolio and direct foreign investments in the U.S., an outcome that cannot continue without limit."
THAT LIMIT may soon be shattered. The current-account deficit rose to $99.8 billion in the fourth quarter, from $89.1 billion in the third. At an annual rate, that is equivalent to a record 4.2% of gross domestic product, and it may approach 5% this year (chart). Except maybe for Poland or Bulgaria, no country's current-account deficit is expected to exceed that level in 2000.
It's not just the trade gap that's causing the erosion. Because of the huge amount of foreign investment necessary to finance the gap between exports and imports, the U.S. is now paying out a record amount of investment income to foreigners. Up until two years ago, the U.S. balance of investment income (the amount foreigners pay stateside investors for investments made abroad minus what the U.S. pays out on foreigners' investments in America) was in the black, as it had been throughout the postwar era.
That balance is now in the red and deteriorating rapidly. In the fourth quarter, this deficit nearly doubled to $10.4 billion, from $5.3 billion in the third quarter, accounting for about half of the quarter's overall widening.
New foreign investment continued to flow into the U.S. at a strong pace in the fourth quarter. Moreover, that new foreign money is increasingly taking the form of highly mobile portfolio investment. Net foreign purchases of stocks and corporate bonds last year accounted for 43.4% of total foreign investment, matching the record set in 1998 and double the 22.7% mark in 1996. In the fourth quarter, net purchases of U.S. stocks hit a record $33.2 billion.
The point here is that the U.S. is increasingly vulnerable to a shift in foreign investment patterns. If, for whatever reason, foreigners become less inclined to invest in the U.S., that would weaken the dollar and put upward pressure on interest rates, which would undermine the Fed's attempt to keep inflation stable while bringing the economy in for a soft landing.
THE JANUARY TRADE DATA, however, brought no relief. Partly reflecting the highest oil prices since the Gulf war in 1990, imports of goods and services jumped 1.7% from December. Exports fell 1.8%. But that followed a 3.1% surge in December, and exports continue to recover from their post-Asia-crisis funk. Over the past year, exports are up a solid 8.2%, but imports have grown at more than twice that pace, up 19.3%.
Adjusted for inflation, however, some interesting trends emerge (chart). First, real oil imports have actually fallen over the past year. That trend suggests that pricier foreign oil is cutting into U.S. demand, and that domestic oil production is picking up.
Other, larger categories are pushing up the growth in real imports. Foreign-made capital goods, for instance, are rising at a 28% yearly clip, and economists will argue that financing a huge trade deficit that is dominated by imports of capital goods is not such a bad thing. That's because new investment lays the groundwork for the future income necessary to pay for those goods and their financing.
However, while imports of capital goods, especially high-tech gear, are soaring, imports of consumer goods are also accelerating, reflecting surging growth in household spending. A speedup in consumer-goods imports suggests that the U.S. is increasingly using foreign funds simply to finance current consumption which yields no future benefits and may eventually decrease the willingness of foreigners to invest in U.S. assets.
THE SAFETY VALVE from cheap imports is also losing some of its impact, even despite the dollar's continued strength. That's because import prices are no longer falling. Excluding oil's disproportionate impact, import prices in February increased 0.1% from a year ago. Only 18 months ago, nonoil import prices were falling a steep 4.2%. However, February's slim year-over-year advance was the first in four years.
Higher materials costs, even outside energy, are beginning to squeeze many companies. True, top-line inflation looks tame. Energy powered a 1% jump in producer prices of finished goods in February, but core prices, which exclude energy and food, increased only 0.3%, partly reflecting higher tobacco prices. However, core prices for intermediate goods are now rising much faster than core prices for finished goods, a sign that cost pressure on finished-goods producers is rising.
In addition, a few caution flags are waving around consumer prices. Energy also pushed them up in February, by a steep 0.5%, although core prices rose only 0.2%. Still, the devil is in the details. Housing costs are starting to show the impact of higher home prices and mortgage rates, and costs for medical care and education are both speeding up.
Services inflation generally is starting to show a clear, although still small, acceleration (chart). Given the large contribution of service outlays to the recent incredible growth in consumer spending, it's not surprising that service inflation is showing some pickup.
Indeed, that spending boom is undoubtedly creating an environment that may allow businesses to mark up prices. The Fed's latest move is an attempt to quell demand and dissipate that pricing power. But its hikes haven't had much impact. Demand continues to make claims on potential supply at a time when growing inflationary pressure has fewer and fewer ways to escape.


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Leak discovered in Bethel Middle gym
For Bethel area residents who may have seen smoke or emergency vehicles at the school this morning, there's no need to worry.
The auxiliary gym, also known as the "little gym," was seen emitting smoke this morning. Investigating the gym revealed that a part of the gym's heating and cooling system had been leaking.
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Thelonious Monk
Jazz lizards paid scant attention to Thelonious Monk's 1960s Columbia releases. Where once Monk was revered as a revolutionary, fickle LBJ-era critics and enthusiasts had moved on to the pointy-headed and pompous sounds of Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, and others. The irony, of course, was that most of the "space boys" -- as Sun Ra called them -- were diluted disciples of Monk. The critical inattentiveness was too bad, because what the scribes missed -- as Sony-Legacy's new repackaging of the four mid-'60s Monk releases shows -- was that a master of musical space and time was revisiting his own occasionally ornate work with a renewed and leaner approach.
Underground, from 1967, certainly makes this case. Criss-Cross, from 1963, might be the best of the four discs, stacked as it is with fresh tightly laced spins on Monk chestnuts.
So if the harvest was so good, why did Monk receive the critical cold shoulder? Maybe Columbia's clownish and embarrassing attempts to be "hip" in their cover art rubbed critics the wrong way. Maybe the lucrative contract Monk signed with the big label -- after living like a pauper for decades -- left fans believing he had "sold out." Or perhaps it was Monk's sense of humor.
Whatever the reason, time has been kinder to this segment of Monk's catalog than critics once were. And this might be a second chance for the intelligentsia to get it right.
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Google announced an important change in its search algorithm, a measure aimed at removing low-quality sites from its search results, thus responding to users' demands in the past regarding this issue. Until now, Google referred to low-quality sites as content farms; "sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful" and the ranking measure will impact 11.8 percent of the results. Google informed that the decision does not take into consideration the feedback received from the Chrome extension launched last week. On February the 14th, Google introduced an experimental Chrome extension for users that will be able to block low-quality sites from appearing in Google's web search results.
A week ago we commented on allegations brought to Google on its search algorithm, advertising strategies and price. The company is defending itself in a Texan court of law regarding its policies and procedures for calculation AdWords prices and minimum bids to minutes and agendas from search quality team meetings and files regarding "black listing" or "white listing" of various sites on the web. Yesterday, Google was also the headlines with its ranking of paid links, namely Forbes, Overstock and JCPenney that Google removed from search results.
There are other tensions regarding search engines and the latest quarrel comes from a Google engineer that accused Microsoft of copying its search results and a Bing engineer answered back by accusing Google of profiting from spam sites. Clearly, the debate around content farms is not disappearing just because Google's tweaking its algorithm. It's an undeniable part of the web that will likely best be addressed by third party services, especially as the web becomes more personalized in its access, delivery and monetization.


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Great show and I watch it all the time! Most perps are idiots and talk themselves into jail!
This is a discussion on The First 48 within the General Firearm Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; This is a good show to watch and learn from because: 1. It shows you how they investigate a crime 2. Shows you how stupid ...
This is a good show to watch and learn from because:
1. It shows you how they investigate a crime
2. Shows you how stupid BGs are
A lot of the time the BG comes in for an interview, never asks for a lawyer and spills his guts. Most of the time the cops having nothing on him and the only chance they have for a case is a confession.
It shows how the cops act like they are your best friend and someone you can trust to talk to. When they are actually getting something to use against you.
When I watch that show it reminds me of the tactics cops are willing to use against you to close the case.
A few weeks ago they had a case of someone who shot and killed in self defense. Lucky for him the barber shop had it on video and they could see he was right.
I'm not for the BG trying to get away with something. It just makes you think of what we can all expect what will happen in a totally self defense situation that will need to be investigated.
It puts in prespective the importance of shutting up and asking for a lawyer. No matter how innocent you think you are.
From the moment you decide to draw your gun and shoot and everthing you do after that, can and will be used against you.
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
Great show and I watch it all the time! Most perps are idiots and talk themselves into jail!
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking" - George S. Patton.
I watch it whenever I can. Good show.
Actually show what a lot of investigation is like.
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Oh, God, guys, don't get me started.
My line of work is defending people like that and what you guys say is absolutely right: once the idiot sets his mouth to "talk" mode, the game is pretty much over.
You'd think it wouldn't matter much when the guy is guilty (most are) and when the Government can easily prove it (it usually can), and the guy is going to plead guilty anyway (most do).
But you lose every bit of negotiating leverage you have as far as a better sentence, lesser charge, etc. when they get diarrhea of the mouth.
Ugh. No, you don't have to be a genius to be a criminal. In fact, the smarter you are, the better the odds are that you won't be or aren't a criminal.
Just one more reason why we say in the biz: "You have the right to remain silent. USE it."
"...bad decisions that turn out well often make heroes."
Gary D. Mitchell, A Sniper's Journey: The Truth About the Man and the Rifle, P. 103, NAL Caliber books, 2006, 1st Ed.
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It is a good TV show, overall. It is rather amusing how often the perp talks themselves into trouble. I like what randytulsa2 said. It is so true.
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Keep in mind that it is a TV show. Everything is not shown.
With that said, I like the show too.
"Just blame Sixto"
I reserve the right to make fun, point and laugh etc.
Great show!
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Yea! Great show!
There is a point in every episode that either I or my fiancee would say, "NO! DON'T SAY ANYTHING! ASK FOR AN ATTORNEY!"
They rarely listen.
I've watched "The First 48", and I agree with what most people here have to say about it. It's pretty good. I also watch some of the other TRUE crime shows...A&E has a couple ("American Justice") and so does Court TV ("Cold Case Files").
You'd think I'd be sick of the stuff after rolling in it every day at work, but I'm really not. The shows, IMHO, usually present a pretty good (though often severely truncated) picture of the case.
I even knew one of the lawyers who represented the murderer (and one of the homicide detectives) on one of the shows once as it featured a (really awful) murder in Tulsa. The murderer's name was Garrison and he really did some bad, bad stuff.
When the camera flashed to some of the downtown buildings, I recognized them all.
Anyway, the shows I DO NOT like and CANNOT STAND are those !@#$#@$% @#$$@#$%$ @#$%#@$ "CSI" shows.
My wife loves them, and she watches them all. The one set in NY, the one set in Miami (where the detectives drive a department-issued Hummer...yeah, right, you LEO's out there tell us how real THAT is), the one set in Vegas.
Folks, I am here to tell you those shows are (if you are looking for how things really work) ABSOLUTE SHULL - - BITT. Nothing happens as fast they make it out and no LE agency has all the stuff at their fingertips (or the expertise to utilize it) like they depict on those shows. LE labs are usually badly underfunded and overworked. They just don't produce stunning miracles every hour on the hour. They can't.
Lab stuff for defendants (except really rich ones) is usually even far worse than that.
I can't even be in the same room when those shows are on for more than five minutes.
Ugh. Rant off. Soap box down.
Thanks for listening (or not).
"...bad decisions that turn out well often make heroes."
Gary D. Mitchell, A Sniper's Journey: The Truth About the Man and the Rifle, P. 103, NAL Caliber books, 2006, 1st Ed.
LOL, Randy! I cant stand CSI! If I had a dollar for everytime someone tells me "we'll they did this on CSI, why wont you do it to find who TP'd my house?" (Or insert any other minor crime that you want.)
I would retire, and live happily ever after like a king.
"Just blame Sixto"
I reserve the right to make fun, point and laugh etc.
Now I'm disappointed...
Thanks for the update...now my CSI bubble has burst!
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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I love "The First 48" on A&E and I watch it every week and anytime I happen across a rerun. Heck, if there is nothing else on I will get a couple on the A&E on demand channel to watch while I am on the Nordic Track at night.
I like it for the same reasons you guys do but I also have a reason that you guys may not have for really enjoying the show. I get to see so much of the town that I live near almost every week on the show. Has anyone else noticed that it is a rare week that goes by where one of the murder investigations followed ISN'T in Memphis? I think the First 48 crew has their own office at the Shelby County Justice Center at 201 Poplar!
Heck, on the one that was on last Thursday, where the guy beat and dragged the woman from his Dodge minivan, when they towed his van I saw in the shot in the background the lighted sign of an electronics supply store that I have to go to all the time to pick up parts and supplies for work. So I knew right where they were.
Memphis seems to keep the production staff of that show busy as far as murders go.
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Thousands of people worldwide may be carriers of the rogue protein that causes the deadly human form of mad cow disease, a study in the Journal of Pathology has shown.
Further to a previous study in which appendices and tonsils kept from British surgical patients from the late 1990s were tested, a total of 12,500 have now been examined for the lethal prion protein that can turn a victim's brain into a spongy mass.
From the three samples that tested positive to the agent that causes variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, it is estimated that up to 4000 British people as well as anyone from around the world, including Australia, who ate meat products contaminated with the agent that causes bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) could unwittingly become spreaders of the disease.
CJD and the variant believed to be caused by BSE-contaminated meat (vCJD) are believed to be spread between humans by grafts of tissue including corneas as well as neurosurgical instruments used on CJD patients. The agent is extremely difficult to destroy and normal surgical sterilisation does not remove it.
The head of Australia's CJD Case Registry, Professor Colin Masters, said that given that the peak of human exposure to BSE-contaminated food was in the late 1980s and early 1990s, anyone who was in Britain at the time, including immigrants to Australia from Britain since, could have been exposed.
An author of the study, Dr David Hilton, calculated that the tonsils removed from people aged in their 20s - the highest-risk group now for vCJD - suggested that 3800 people in Britain could be carrying the infective agent.
However, he said the estimate should be treated with caution. Two of the three positive samples appeared to be different from samples taken from vCJD victims whose diagnoses were confirmed after their death.
But Professor John Collinge, head of the British Medical Research Council's prion unit, said the results were very concerning.
"Individuals who are incubating the disease, who themselves don't show any evidence of the disease, could still pose a risk to others, if they were blood donors, or if they had an operation which involved instruments contacting infected tissues," he told BBC Radio.
Worldwide there have been more than 150 definite or probable deaths from vCJD, mainly in Britain.


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Ryan Adams vs Neil FinnBRIDGET JONES
I'm not sure if you saw the story that came out of the UK recently about "alt-country bad boy" Ryan Adams and "Kiwi icon" Neil Finn getting into a bit of a one-sided barney over singing some songs together. Or not, as the case may be after Ryan decided not to/wasn't invited to sing with Finn on a UK TV show. (Here's the full story with miles and miles of back-and-forward message board chatter.)
When I saw it, I wasn't surprised. You see I love Ryan Adams (this guy, not this guy). He is, in my very, very humble opinion, one of the greatest songwriters around. Damn it, the man can make you cry with the mere twitch of his vocal chords. And he's married to Mandy Moore - she's amazing.
But, having recently interviewed Adams I realised he was a tricky character. In fairness, it was just after 11pm in his world and I was probably the 159th interview that day, but it's a bit soul destroying when one of your heroes can only muster one-word answers and, at one point, a rather loud yawn. I'm pretty sure my questions weren't that boring. To his credit, he did warm up a bit in the end, but it was a hard slog.
Luckily (?) I wasn't the only one who had "issues" with Mr Adams. I like to think that this guy was up just before me and ruined it for everyone.
And to aggravate matters, Adams has some hard-core fans that he can muster at the drop of a Facebook status update to launch into full tirades on any unsuspecting reviewer or journalist that even alludes to him being less than perfect. Trust me, it's a terrifying thought I might one day end up at the end of that.
In contrast, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Finn late last year, which was a lovely experience. He is a warm, welcoming, funny man who had no issue with posing in jandals for the photographer.
So it was no surprise Finn had kept pretty quiet about the whole disagreement, bar one Tweet - "well songwriter circle on BBC will be interesting, watch out for lovely backing vocals on Fall at Your Feet from Ryan" - @neilmullanefinn.
I don't want this to sound like a beat down of Adams. He's been through some tough times and he is incredibly talented - his new album is really quite amazing - but the "run-in" with Finn made me think about the Kiwi take on this "fame" thing, especially in the wake of winning THAT trotie.
It is yet another example of the depth of talent in this country. Yes we have made a song and dance about Richie and the boys - and rightly so - but they have managed to remain the picture of modesty and kept it all pretty humble.
And with the New Zealand Music Awards coming up next week, we will get a taste of what our top musos have been up too - whether it is the Naked and Famous, who have been scorching up stages overseas or Brooke Fraser who is making her mark on charts everywhere from Australia to the States to Germany.
Yes there are some egos here in Aotearoa, and yes there are always going to be some haters, but the overwhelming sense is that we are all in this together, right?
Is it a case of self-worth getting out of control? Or are Kiwis just naturally laid-back and humble folk?
Bridget Jones is the entertainment reporter for Auckland Now.
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This happened weeks ago and I find myself wondering why the press are only just now harping on it over and over and over? Ryan Adams goes on songwriters Circle and refuses to collaborate, he shows no interest in singing on anyone else's songs but his own, claims he was'nt suppose to/did'nt know to sing on Fall At Your Feet (despite 'collab' be clearly written next to the song on the set list and the trio rehersing the song at least four times before hand)THEN get on his own forum and makes up poppycock, hurls abuses at his fans, at Janice's fans and at Neil's fans. Heck, Mr. Finn must have the paitence of a saint to put up with that kind of c***
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The Cincinnati Chapter of the Federalist Society will host a luncheon discussion on the pending nomination of Judge Sonya Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court. Much has changed since the previous Supreme Court confirmation hearings. President Obama announced a standard for selecting nominees different from his predecessor. The President's party controls a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. "Judicial restraint" and "empathy" have been the catch phrases of the confirmation process. Our esteemed panel, which includes a former Sotomayor intern, will provide diverse views on the nominee, the confirmation process, the focal points of the debate, and the effects of the impending Sotomayor confirmation upon the High Court and future nominees.


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Hudson Valley Community College Individual Studies student Samantha Henrikson is part of a select group of students nationwide who will receive a $5,000 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study abroad during the spring 2004 semester.
Henrikson, of Selkirk, is one of only 173 college students in the country to receive the scholarship, and she is the first student in Hudson Valley's history to receive the award. The scholarship is based on need; students who receive federal Pell grants for the education are eligible to apply for the award, which can pay for any educational expenses, including tuition and fees, room and board, books, and airfare.
The scholarship, which is offered through the federal State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is administered by the Institute of International Education, the same organization that administers the federal Fulbright Scholars program.
The 19-year-old Henrikson, who will graduate from Hudson Valley in May 2004, will use the scholarship to study communications, including film, photography and screenwriting, at Bond University on Australia's Gold Coast. The study abroad program is made possible through Hudson Valley's affiliation with the College Consortium of International Studies. She is a graduate of Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk High School.
"I was ecstatic," said Henrikson, describing her reaction when she received news of the scholarship. "I was so excited. I told everyone."
Because of her outstanding academic achievement and involvement in student activities, Henrikson was encouraged to apply for the award by Amy A. Gumaer, director of International Programs at Hudson Valley.
A member of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, Henrikson has a 4.0 grade point average and also is vice president of the college's Foreign Language and Culture Club. She plans to continue her education at a four-year college after graduating from Hudson Valley, and is leaning toward a career in screen or script writing.
Founded in 1953, Hudson Valley Community College offers more than 50 degree and certification programs in four academic divisions: Liberal Arts and Sciences; Engineering and Industrial Technologies; Health Sciences; and Business; as well as programs run through the Educational Opportunity Center offering certification programs in workforce and academic preparation. One of 30 community colleges in the State University of New York system, it has an enrollment of more than 11,000 students, and it is known as a leader in distance learning initiatives and worker retraining. Hudson Valley has graduated more than 55,000 students.


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The social housing regulator is finalising tough new rules to prevent the 'asset stripping' of social homes by for-profit providers.
The Homes and Communitites Agency regulation committee also wants to introduce measures to prevent high-risk activities by unregistered parent companies from threatening the viability of landlords.
The regulator is concerned the regulatory framework, which was introduced in April, is based on an outdated assumption that all proceeds are re-invested in non-profit activities.
As a result it is considering making for-profit providers pay a premium if they sell a social home on the open market. The money would then be re-used for social housing, along with grant attached to the property.
This is to prevent for-profit providers from exploiting the fact that social and affordable rented homes have a lower value than open market homes.
Social rented homes have a lower value because rents are sub-market and underpinned by benefit. The regulator is concerned that for-profit providers may sell social homes for open market prices solely to boost profits by pocketing the difference in values.
Matthew Bailes, director of regulation at the HCA, said: 'It is not reasonable simply to buy at one value and sell at another and benefit from the proceeds.'
The regulator is still finalising the formula to be used but the premium paid should be the equivalent needed to replace the social home, including any recycled grant.
The HCA is also looking at how it can prevent unregistered parent companies, which it can't regulate directly, from taking risks which threaten their non-profit housing association subsidiaries. The regulator is likely to 'ring-fence' the risk by preventing unregistered parents from using homes of registered subsidiaries as loan security without permission. Limits could also be set on the amount of non-housing activity associations can undertake.
James Tickell, director of consultancy Campbell Tickell, welcomed the move, but said it could lead to less private sector involvement in social housing. 'The rules will have to be watertight because of the ingenuity in the private sector in terms of avoidance of restrictions,' he warned.
The government wants to encourage new entrants to the sector. Sixteen for-profit providers have registered with the regulator, and several companies including the UK's largest listed landlord, Grainger, are attempting to register for-profit subsidiaries.
The HCA hopes to publish a consultation later this year, with new rules likely to take effect next April.
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I just finished L1D1 and it was fun! I am sweating quite a bit. Quick question: is 25 rounds too much? Should I go up a level? I did 3 push ups most rounds, but on the flip side I was doing body rows on the bench as my gym and apartment has no pull up bar. I hope to have one at my new apartment gym when I move this week, if not will find a bar at the local park starting next week. I'm by no means in shape at 5'8 225 and about 32% BF, but also don't underestimate myself.
What do you all think? Stay on L1 until I can see if I can do a pull-up or move ahead and work on building up pull-ups if I can't do them later?
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What to make of this report in today's Financial Times?
Say the word mujahid -- or holy warrior -- these days and many inhabitants of Baghdad are likely to [snicker].
An appellation once worn as a badge of pride by anti-American insurgents has now become street slang for homosexuals, after men claiming to be captured Islamist guerrillas confessed that they were holding gay orgies in the popular Iraqi TV program Terror in the Hands of Justice.
The revelation, says the FT in a bit of ridiculous hyperbole, has "broken the mystique" of the largely Sunni insurgency. (Note that to discredit these guys it's not enough to point out that they routinely blow innocent civilians to bits; you have to throw in that they're into gay sex -- that should do it!) But it's also ticked off quite a few Sunnis, who don't like the implication that they, as Sunnis, are into that sort of thing. (Orgies are said to have taken place -- "usually" -- in mosques.)
Turns out the program has been "immensely effective" in getting Iraqis to come forward with information about "guerrillas."
As far as anyone can tell, these guys are real detainees. But come on! Orgies in mosques! Might it be that the men were "pushed," as the FT delicately puts it, to make their confessions?
[Sabah Khadim, spokesman for Iraq's interior minister] denies that the confessions were extracted by torture but has his doubts as to whether those confessing are being truthful or simply saying whatever they think their captors want to hear. He also has reservations over whether the display of prisoners on television violates the Geneva Convention. ...
"If this were not an emergency situation, we would not have run this," he says. "But it is an emergency situation, and this produces results."
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Windows Small Business Server 2008 will not ship with any client backup software, so how will you make sure the top employees at each of your customers sites are backed up (Imaged) everyday? This webcast will cover what you can use Windows Home Server for in small businesses that may not be a good fit for Small Business Server, as well as businesses that may need to use Windows Home Server as a complement to Small Business Server. You will learn the key points you need to know to add this to your arsenal of solutions for your customers.
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There were a lot of things about the first round of Friday night's NHL draft that seemed a little funny. Both league-wide and specifically to the Bruins, the first 30 picks were laced with irony and confusion. Some blatant examples: Two perceived top defenseman fell out of the top 10. The team that needed centers took winger Taylor Hall, which led to the team with too many centers taking Tyler Seguin.
A few storylines stand out with the Bruins' new center, one of which is that he was the top-ranked player in the draft by NHL Central Scouting, yet went second. Just as fascinating, however, is the team he went to, and with which pick.
Every young hockey player's dream is to play in the NHL, and with his selection Friday night Seguin will undoubtedly realize his lifelong goal. However, the path to Boston, a city he spoke about with excitement Friday night, ultimately went through the team he grew up admiring as a child.
Born in Brampton, Ontario, Seguin was close enough to Toronto to be a Maple Leafs fan. In addition to being an Original Six rival of the Black and Gold, the Maple Leafs were a trade partner in the move that would eventually bring Seguin to Boston. The Bruins acquired three picks from the Leafs last offseason in the Phil Kessel deal, including the first-rounder that became the pick used on the Plymouth Whalers center.
"Growing up I was the local guy," Seguin said. "I liked watching the Leafs because they were the local team. Now that it happened, I think it's meant to be. I think things worked out throughout my life and anyone's lives. It's just where we were supposed to fall, and Boston was the team that was supposed to pick me."
What makes it so interesting is the story the pick could have been if it stayed in Toronto. The hometown kid who grew up cheering on the Leafs goes to the historic franchise to give them a shot of both youth and scoring. Instead, he's gone to the rival, a Bruins team that has seemed to be knocking at the door for two seasons now.
So does the team that will also see their second-rounder Saturday and first-round pick next year made by the Bruins regret the deal?
"We made this trade," Leafs GM Brian Burke said at the draft. "We took our chance on how our team would finish. We talked about the possibility that it could be a lottery pick. … We said, 'Well what if it is Taylor Hall? What if it is Tyler Seguin?' and we said 'We're going to make that trade anyway.' We got the player we wanted and I hope Boston got the player they wanted."
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LOS ANGELES — There is little doubt Tyler Seguin is excited about wearing the Black and Gold and the possibility of immediately playing in the NHL next season.
Minutes after being selected by the Bruins with the second pick in the NHL draft Seguin soaked in the moment and acknowledged his goal is to make the team this season.
'It feels amazing, I can't really describe it,' said Sequin, a native of Brampton, Ontario who netted 48 goals while adding 58 assists playing junior hockey for the Plymouth Whalers last season. 'It's not winning the Stanley Cup but its one of the best feelings I've had so far in my life.'
With the highly anticipated draft process complete and his future team set, Seguin is ready to concentrate fully on his training regime.
'It definitely feels great just to be able to sit back and look down at my (Bruins) jersey' said Seguin. 'I'll try to have a fantastic off season so I'll be able to earn a spot next year.
'The whole journey and this last week in LA has been a phenomenal experience,' he added. 'Right now my main focus is to have an incredible offseason, put on some weight and keep improving in areas I need to.'
Although he is generally considered a center, Seguin can also play the wing.
'He's a highly skilled player,' said Bruins coach Claude Julien on the draft floor Friday. 'We know he can definitely bring some offense to our team.'
Seguin has shown to be a quick study in breaking down opposition defenses, he also has gotten a quick sense of Boston and what playing in New England could bring.
'From meeting with them and visiting Boston, you can just tell by the people that are there already that it's just a phenomenal place to play,' said Seguin whose dad was a captain of the University of Vermont hockey team.'
"There is so much history there with the Bruins, and the fan base and atmosphere. It's a hockey town.'
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LOS ANGELES — In a predictable move following Edmonton's selection of Taylor Hall, the Bruins chose Plymouth Whalers center Tyler Seguin with the second overall pick in the NHL draft, a choice they received from the Maple Leafs in exchange for Phil Kessel.
Seguin was ranked as the top overall player in the draft by NHL's Central Scouting Bureau but, by many accounts may have been a victim of playing for a bad team. While Hall made headlines the past two postseasons, Seguin's Whalers never made it to the Memorial Cup in his two years in Plymouth.
A common player comparison for Seguin has been Red Wings Hall of Fame center Steve Yzerman. A 6-foot-1, 172-pound right-handed shot, Seguin is considered an elite goal-scorer and playmaker. He is known more for a finesse game than a hard-nosed style. Seguin's father played college hockey at the University of Vermont in the 1980's.
After compiling 67 points in his first season with the Whalers, Seguin scored 63 goals and added 58 assists for 106 points. He was awarded the Red Tilson trophy for most outstanding player in the OHL.
There had been talk that the Bruins and Oilers could have worked out a deal in order to secure whichever player the Bruins preferred. While the Bruins would never admit to preferring Hall even if they did, no deal was made.
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With either Tyler Seguin or Taylor Hall set to join the Bruins in tonight's NHL draft, it seems only appropriate to take a look back at what's happened around WEEI.com in the past month with the two stars.
May 27: I spoke with Seguin about what playing in Boston may be like. We discussed his early struggles in the OHL, potentially playing wing, and his intrigue with jumping right into a push for a Cup with the Bruins. I also spoke to his coach, Mike Vellucci, who compared him to Steve Yzerman.
May 28: Peter Chiarelli gave a quote that, if read into as much as it was here, could suggest the Bruins were leaning towards Seguin.
May 28: On the very day that Seguin dominated the NHL combine, we found out why Hall was taking it easy.
May 31: Former NHL tough guy Warren Rychel, who won a Stanley Cup with the Avalanche and brought Hall in as GM of the Windsor Spitfires, called the left wing a "tougher" version of Pavel Bure.
June 1: We asked you who you wanted for the Bruins. Sixty-two percent of you wanted Hall, 24 percent said they'd be happy with either, and 14 percent preferred Seguin.
June 2: We got word that the Bruins were bringing in Hall for a visit. Seguin also met with the Bruins last weekend and the team visited both players' homes.
June 4: Peter Chiarelli said Hall and Seguin are so close that trading a large package to secure their preferred player might not be worth it. He emphasized this point several times with the media over the last month.
June 16: Chiarelli admitted that he got a very intriguing offer that stood out from the others involving the second overall pick, but rejected it. He stressed that under no circumstances would the pick be moved, saying "We're going to take one of those two forwards."
June 21: Chiarelli said both he and Oilers GM Steve Tambellini were hesitant to show one another their cards.
June 24: Seguin called Boston a "great place, great city."
|Neely: 'We're waiting like everyone else'
|06.24.10 at 10:08 pm ET
New Bruins president Cam Neely was taking care of business at the NHL Board of Governors meeting in Los Angeles on Thursday, but he now has to play a waiting game like everyone else.
While the Board of Governors approved a rule change providing a five-minute penalty for a blindside hit to the head ' such as that which sidelined Bruins center Marc Savard this season ' Neely emerged from Thursday's meeting focused on Friday's draft in which the Bruins have the second overall pick.
The Edmonton Oilers have the first pick in the draft, and with it the possibility of trading down if the player they would select is different than the player the Bruins want. Taylor Hall and Tyler Seguin are considered locks to be selected with the top two picks, but so far, the Oilers have not indicated which player they prefer.
There has been much speculation the Oilers plan to take Hall and the Bruins would then choose Seguin, but nothing is definite at this point.
'Edmonton still hasn't really said anything, so nothing is etched [in stone]. We're still waiting like everyone else,' said Neely, who was named as the Bruins President on June 16.
Neely had attended Board of Governors meetings before, but was doing so his new capacity for the firs time on Thursday.
'A lot of the stuff I've been doing has not really changed that much,' said Neely. 'Obviously, a little more responsibility now, which is OK. I'm looking forward to the challenge.'
Among his first duties at the Board of Governors meeting was assessing the blindside hit rule approved Thursday.
'The one concern that I have is that it's still going to be a tough rule to call,' Neely said. 'I don't know if you're going to get everyone happy. That's the problem.'
In response to a question regarding the Matt Cooke hit on Savard, which caused Savard to incur a significant concussion, Neely said that the hit would be illegal under the new rule, which he generally favors.
'I think it's going to be tough for the referee in that split second to really judge the call. Like all new rules, there's going to be some questions,' he said. 'At least there is an attempt to get [hits to the head] out of the game. '
|Don't quit your day jobs
|06.23.10 at 5:16 pm ET
Courtesy of Oilers_Travels and retweeted by the Oilers, here are a couple of pictures of top NHL prospects Taylor Hall and Tyler Seguin taking batting practice at Angel Stadium. The two are in town for the NHL draft on Friday night.
|Chiarelli conference call roundup, 6/21
|06.21.10 at 12:32 pm ET
Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli spoke with the media on Monday in a pre-draft conference call. Here are the highlights:
On talks with the Oilers:
"I spoke to Steve [Tambellini, Oilers GM] on the weekend and we really didn't discuss that in any detail. After speaking with Steve, I think he probably has these two guys as close as we do. Neither of us are really committed to moving forward on that type of discussion. We spoke briefly on the weekend and I would imagine that we're going to talk again at some point but right now, if the draft was tonight, I'd say there'd be no deal."
On what has been revealed in talks with Tambellini:
"It is different. Generally I would characterize it as we both don't want to play any cards to each other right now, if we have any to lay. I genuinely believe that Steve is of the same opinion on these players [as] me or close to them, and they're very close.
The discussions we've had aren't really in detail because we're not close to it yet. I don't know if they'll ever get truly in detail. It is unique. I think we're both very non-committal, in fact I know we are when we talk, but we talk in specifics on other fronts. We talk about the boys in general too, as what our thoughts are on each of the kids. It's a little different in this case."
On if they like one player more than the other:
"I would say right now as of today we have one guy over the other, but it's very very close."
On going back and forth between Hall and Seguin:
"I'll watch a game with one of the players and come away saying, 'This is the guy I want.'So that's a good thing. HYou want both of them. Specifically on Tyler: the speed, the innovation, the vision. He's got a real sneaky wrist shot that I think is underutilized. He finds ways to go around people with his speed and his style, his stick, and his passing. Dimensional speed, dimensional quickness. Very smart player and is a responsible player."


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If you believe the City of Sydney's opposition councillors, it doesn't matter if developers satisfy council staff, they have little chance of winning approval unless they win over the Lord Mayor, Clover Moore.
The five Labor, Liberal and Green councillors are furious at the approach taken to Belvoir Street Theatre's proposed redevelopment, which was recommended for approval by planning staff before Cr Moore used her casting vote to defer a decision in March.
It was never formally rejected by a council vote, but it was made clear the proposal would not be approved by the Moore team, forcing the theatre to look at other options.
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No surprises here, Trinity's faculty provide strong and passionate reasons why Algebra — and so many other subjects — are essential for our students and graduates. The "algebra doubters" of the world seem to miss the point about the inter-relationship of knowledge and the formation of advanced reasoning. While many of us found math daunting in our high school and college courses, we also cannot imagine being college graduates without the foundations that algebra, calculus and statistics provide for almost all disciplines.
As Dr. Nyamekye points out in her comments below, the real problem is the pedagogy of K-12 math educators, a topic that we need to take on and solve in our teacher education programs.
Here are the thoughtful comments from Math Specialist Dr. Farhaana Nyamekye, and Associate Professor of Mathematics Dr. Lee Chiang:
Dr. Farhaana Nyamekye on the "Is Algebra Necessary?" Question:
Thinking and problem solving are necessary skills used in daily activities, and algebra can serve as one avenue for helping students to develop these skills. I would agree that certain topics covered in algebra are related to quantitative reasoning that students may need on the job, while others are not. The use of equations for example is utilized in fields of business (calculating costs) and health (calculating BMI) and are necessary, while operations of factoring trinomials and completing the square are likely not as necessary and/or relevant to many fields. The question of whether algebra is necessary in part depends on what the goal is for American students. If the goal is for helping students build a certain type of intellectual capital and to have a technological advantage, then yes, I would argue that is it necessary. If the goal however is for students to use algebra efficiently on a daily basis in their everyday lives, then for a musician or actor for example, it is probably not necessary. For these students, there should be alternatives to algebra that still develop numerical thinking.
In response to Hacker, I think that the issues of students struggling and failing are inappropriately used to warrant a claim or sentiment about algebra being unnecessary. The act of questioning algebra's necessity, evades the real questions of "why are millions of students struggling?" and "why is algebra feared?" The main impediment to college graduation on the surface might appear to be freshman math, but in reality, is the often non-existent or poor mathematical foundation that many American students receive in the K-12 system of education, coupled with deep-seated math anxiety and negative mathematical experiences. There is much educational research to support that many teachers of mathematics are inexperienced, afraid of mathematics, not qualified to teach mathematics, lack proper certification, and the list goes on.
Like algebra, English is also a stumbling block for all kinds of students, but we dare not say that it is wrong to expect all students to master English, or that English is not really necessary for nursing or applied mathematics. I personally have never been asked to identify linking verbs or provide an analysis of Steinback as a part of my job, but someone felt these skills were necessary for me to learn. When a teacher asks a first grader to fill in the box for box + 3 = 5, the student is in essence doing algebra; it is just not referred to as "Algebra" at that level. There are first graders that stumble with the task of finding the number that should go in the box. If we take Hacker's perspective, first graders should not be subjected to this ordeal, and expecting them to do this problem will cause many of them to drop out of elementary school. Where do we draw the line?
Many questions arise from reading this Hacker piece. If we view algebra as unnecessary, then technically could we not also view trigonometry, geometry and calculus as unnecessary since they are probably not needed for the jobs that the majority of students will have? Does that mean that these subjects should not be made mandatory either? Many college programs require students to learn history, religion, philosophy, and environmental science. Hacker suggests that there is no evidence that being able to do an algebraic proof leads to more "credible political opinions", but neither is there evidence that understanding sedentary rock formations in Environmental Science or the way of the Dao in Religion 101 will lead to these, nor are these topics needed to function in various types of employment. Yet still, these topics are deemed necessary. Should we not "subject" American students to these topics either?
We could technically argue that demanding subjects like religion and history (I found history to be quite demanding) are also an attempt to "elevate a profession's status" as Hacker suggests, but we typically do not. Algebra is unfairly painted as the villain in students' quest for academic recognition because students struggle with it, while English which also plays a political role in our educational system via its dominance in high schools exit exams and college exit, remains virtually unscathed (perhaps because it is not as objective in nature as mathematics). I think that an alternative to critiquing the utility of algebra, is to focus on improving access to quality mathematics education at the K-12 level.
Dr. Lee Chiang Comments on Is Algebra Necessary:
I read Prof Hacker's article and got shocked that he concluded "But there is no reason to force them to grasp vectorial angles and discontinuous functions." He does not seem understanding that these angles and broken functions(like on/off switches) are everywhere in our daily life, including the statistics he used to support his points. But statistics is established based on algebra and geometry. If statistics is a must, how could we skip algebra?
Many majors at Trinity require Math110, Intro to Statistics and Math210, Inferential Statistics, for an obvious reason: Students need statistics knowledge and skills after graduation. In the past ten years, math faculty members have worked closely to develop new curriculum for these majors. In addition to teach theories and applications, we keep up with new computer software developments. SPSS, a real stat software at work, is used to enhance teaching statistics at Trinity (though not adopted by almost all textbooks for too complicated). The two SPSS workbooks developed for these statistics courses, co-authored by Sita and I and sponsored by President's 2003 Summer Grant, have been updated every year to match up the newest version of SPSS. Students graduated from Trinity and took Math110/210 can start using SPSS at work right away.
We do require students to complete algebra and more before taking statistics. In my opinion, no algebra, no statistics.
I just came back, on behalf of Trinity, from an international math conference in China, titled "Mathematics in 21st Century, Advances and Applications". During the conference, many presenters reported new applications, for example oceanography, traffic control, tax collecting, and etc. I myself presented my new research in simulating interaction between counterinsurgency and insurgency.
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