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I am working with a client who had a very upsetting weekend–nothing bad, she was just MAD. She asked, "How do I maintain focus when I'm so upset?" It's hard to make art or work on marketing your art when you don't feel like it.
Well . . .
I am certainly no expert in such psychological or motivational issues, but here's what I've found: Give into your natural response. Don't try to do anything you can't handle at that moment. It will, inevitably, be self-defeating. You'll create bad work–whatever it is–and still have to deal with the situation.
When I find I'm not focusing well, I do something else. Otherwise, I'm spinning my wheels.
Case in point: Miki, my Siamese cat, turned 19 years old two weeks ago. She's not doing great (arthritis, kidney disease, etc.), but she isn't too bad, either. I finally made the decision to take her to the vet today and have (what they call) a "geriatric" (!) exam. I have been worried about her for two weeks. I've been crying, reminiscing, and preparing myself for her eventual death. Yesterday and today were just too much. I found myself not wanting to work and I certainly couldn't do much that required a lot of thought. My mind kept wandering back to my upcoming appointment with the vet: what if . . . what if. . . .
Instead of wasting all of my time, I decided to turn on some music on my computer (happy music! Louis Armstrong stuff!) and do some of my more tedious tasks that didn't take too much brain power. I got that stuff done and out of the way. I honored my need to take care of personal issues while still getting some work done.
Don't fight it.
Oh, yes, and by the way . . . the vet thinks Miki is looking pretty darned good. Amazingly, she weighs less than half of what she was at her heaviest.
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Plans to return to a budget surplus this financial year already look unrealistic. In large part this is because commodity prices have fallen, weakening tax revenues. While further spending cuts and tax increases could be made, the more economically responsible tactic would be to allow the budget to stay in deficit for another year.
The government's plan to get back to budget surplus this year was always ambitious. Global growth has slowed and this financial year is one of only two years in the past decade when commodity prices have fallen.
To get back to surplus also requires a massive swing in the budget bottom line. The government's mid-year fiscal update set out plans to swing the budget by 3.1 per cent of GDP, from a $43.4 billion deficit to a $1.1 billion surplus in 2012-13. This would be the largest budget swing in Australia in over 40 years and also one of the largest in the developed world. The much feared US "fiscal cliff", which threatens to push the US economy back into recession, is not a whole lot larger, with a planned budget swing of 4.3 per cent of GDP.
Much like in the US, Australia's budget plans have also become more of a political than an economic imperative. In Australia's case, meeting a long-held commitment to achieve a fiscal surplus by 2012-13 is being used as "proof" by the current left-leaning government of how fiscally responsible it can be.
While this political imperative could be important for the government's re-election chances, the economic rationale for the need to return to surplus this year is weak. Unlike other countries, Australia does not have burgeoning debt levels or concerns about access to international funding markets. Australian government debt is low – at below 10 per cent of GDP in net terms – and the sovereign has a triple-A rating which has seen foreign ownership of government bonds recently rise to a record 77 per cent.
Indeed, the budget plans are now likely to present a downside risk to economic growth. If tax revenues surprise on the downside, more spending cuts or tax rises would further depress growth in an already slowing economy. Australia could face its own version of a fiscal cliff.
The current budget plans also raise questions about whether the mix of monetary and fiscal policy is appropriate. Arguably, the RBA has had to cut rates further than it might otherwise have done, due to the government's fiscal policy choices.
With the RBA's cash rate now back at a historical low of 3 per cent, further government cuts would risk leaving the RBA with limited room to move in the event of another negative shock to the economy. Further tightening of fiscal policy could see a political imperative overrule an economic imperative. That is rarely a good way to make policy.
The public discussion and political commentary about whether a budget surplus will be achieved, or not, is also somewhat unhelpful, as it distracts from the more important issue of how this should be achieved.The composition of taxation and spending decisions is far more important than whether the government registers a small surplus or deficit in a particular fiscal year.
On this front, recent developments are a concern. Australia's tax base has been eroding. The tax system has not kept pace with structural changes in the economy. The OECD's recent review of Australia puts tax reform high on the list of key policy recommendations, suggesting that the mining tax be expanded and the GST broadened.
Demographics are also starting to weigh on tax collection, with employment past its peak share of the population. The government's health spending commitments will increase as the population ages. There are also key questions about the role of the public sector in infrastructure provision, particularly in an environment when 10-year government bond yields are around record lows, allowing the government to lock in cheap funding.
With an election next year, the hope is for more political discourse that takes these broader issues of tax reform and the role of the government in our economy seriously. These are far more important issues than whether a budget surplus will be achieved this year.
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GOW 3 and freezing issues...
So i got GOW3 back in mid January and its played fine and all no issues, then i go back to school and since i left my PS3 at home i havnt played it in about 2 weeks or so. I come home this weekend and started to play it and i got up to Hermes, once i enter the room after climbing up the chain its just freezes and the little logo is spinning in the bottom right hand corner. Ive tried numerous times and it keeps doing the same thing at the same time, i was even able to reach the save point in the room and once i hit R1 it freezes. So no matter what i do i cant get through or to the save point in that little room without the game freezing.
Upon further inspection of the disk there is a pretty decent scratch on the edge of the disk, if i rub my finger over it i can feel the indent which is something that is never good. I bought this game used at Blockbuster and im pretty sure i can still return it since there is a 30 day return policy (i think?) even not im still going to give them hell until i get my money back for selling my a faulty product.
But what im more curious about is that this game is notorious for its freezing issues (unless i am mistaken?) and was wondering if there is a chance that its just the game not the disk that is causing this and if there is anyway i could test this theory out? I mean regardless i am going to exchange the game and hopefully get a replacement or my money back (only problem is that im not going to be able to find it cheaper then it is at blockbuster but its whatever)


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Via The Hustle Blog, Chase is changing some of their cards from Chip-And-Signature to the more secure and more widely used Chip-and-PIN technology.
Unlike Europe and other countries, most US banks issue credit cards with only a magnetic strip on the back. This old technology can make them easy for criminals to hack. If your card is hacked, your liability is limited to $50 as long as you report the fraudulent charges within 2 business days.
Both Chip-and-Signature and Chip-and-PIN cards have a Chip which encrypts your card information to protect from fraud. While Chip-and-Signature cards only require a signature (which is easy to forge), the Chip-and-PIN cards have the added security of requiring a 4 to 6 digit PIN.
Chip-and-PIN cards are most common outside the US. When Emily and I traveled to Europe, we discovered there were certain places that wouldn't accept cards with only a magnetic strip. We had to use our Chip-and-Signature cards to buy train tickets, rent bicycles, and use vending machines.
But US Chip-and-Signature cards won't work in all vending machines or at gas stations, so this change to Chip-and-PIN will make it more convenient for folks who travel overseas.
Which Cards Are Changing?
Here are the Chase cards which currently have a Chip:
- Chase Sapphire Preferred Card
- Chase British Airways Visa Signature Card
- Chase Hyatt Card
- Marriott Rewards® Premier Credit Card
- Chase Ritz-Carlton Rewards Card
- J.P. Morgan Palladium Card
- J.P. Morgan Select Visa Signature Card
I'm surprised that Chase doesn't include a chip in their business cards such as the Ink Plus or Ink Bold. I suspect it is only a matter of time before they start coming with a Chip!
Why Is Chase Changing These Cards?
We can speculate why Chase is changing the cards to the Chip-and-PIN versions, but the bottom line is that it will be easier to use certain Chase cards outside the US – especially in automatic machines!
I personally wouldn't rush to get one of these cards just for the Chip, unless you were already planning to get one.
You don't *need* one to travel to Europe, but it does make it a little easier. Just be sure to use a card that doesn't charge foreign transaction fees!
Bottom Line
Chase is changing several of their cards to Chip-and-PIN versions later this year. This will improve security and make them a lot easier to use outside the US.
The new Chip-and-PIN versions of the cards will be good for folks who travel to Europe and other places where Chip-and-PIN cards are used. But you don't have to have a Chip-and-PIN card to get by in other countries!
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Originally called the Bottlegarden, the Bluetones formed in Hounslow, England in 1994. The group consisted of guitarist Adam Devlin, drummer Eds Chester, vocalist Mark Morriss, and his brother Scott, who played bass. All of the members had previously played in local bands before forming the Bluetones. During 1995, the group released two singles on its Superior Quality Recordings label, "Are You Blue or Are You Blind?" and "Bluetonic," which received positive reviews in the British music weeklies. By the fall of 1995, they were being touted as the next big thing in Brit-pop, since their sound fell halfway between the Stone Roses and Oasis. Early in 1996, the Bluetones released "Slight Return," which shot to number two a month before their debut album, Expecting to Fly, was released. Expecting to Fly was greeted with mixed reviews, but it debuted at number one on the British charts and became a sizable hit.
Despite their British success, the Bluetones had trouble breaking through in America. Furthermore, they were the subject of a quick backlash, as many critics believed the group embodied the conservatism of Brit-pop -- the non-LP single "Marblehead Johnson" was welcomed coolly upon its fall release, and it only dented the charts. During early 1997, the Bluetones began working on their second album, Return to the Last Chance Saloon; Science & Nature followed in mid-2000. A collection of singles, aptly titled The Singles, followed in the spring of 2002, and 2004 brought Luxembourg. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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Shillong : More than 50,000 students across Meghalaya have been affected by the eight-day strike called by college teachers Friday to protest the state government's failure to fulfil their demands.
Over 500 college teachers under the banner of the Meghalaya College Teachers' Association (MCTA) have called the strike that will end Oct 1. There are over 60 colleges in the state, most of which have been affected by the strike.
MCTA is demanding an extension of the revised pay as recommended by the Meghalaya Fourth Pay Commission for teachers of seven ad-hoc colleges, the release of arrears for teachers of 15 deficit colleges and the release of 20 percent arrears for those who enjoy the University Grants Commission (UGC) pay scale, pension scheme and the reinstatement of all allowances.
"The government has forced us to resort to this strike for its double standards. We will continue with the strike to put pressure on the government to fulfil our demands," Eureka Lyngdoh, the MCTA chief, told IANS.
However, Education Minister R.C. Laloo said the government has already issued an official notification to release the 20 percent arrears to the teachers.
"I have been attending to their duties (demands) ever since I took over the education portfolio. They should also think of the students," Laloo said.
The Meghalaya College Principals' Council (MCPC) has requested the teachers to withdraw the strike as students will bear the brunt.
"We want both the government and the teachers to sit across the table and resolve their issue amicable," MCPC president Ioanis Warpakma said.


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From beard-strokers to Triple J's "yoof" audience, the Necks' brand of jazz has had a wide appeal for nearly two decades, reports John Shand.
In the unlikely event that the Necks ever annex a singer, they could do an hour-long improvisation on I Did It My Way with great conviction. Nothing has been conventional about the music or the career of this trio.
They don't just attract admirers or fans; they attract devotees - people whose imaginations have been sparked by the never-the-same-way-twice dreamy music, and who hang out for another fix when the band slides out on its annual Oz tour, or on one of its biannual visits to Europe.
In achieving this, pianist Chris Abrahams, bassist Lloyd Swanton and drummer Tony Buck have redefined hipness on their own terms, appealing to both a Triple J audience and a jazz one, as well as to what Swanton evocatively calls "beard-strokers".
In the past five years they have attracted a similar breadth and zealousness in Europe, especially in London. Despite this, the Necks are hardly frantic seeking world domination.
"We feel like the whole thing the band's about is just being patient and not panicking," says Swanton. "That's how we play the music and we sort of apply that to the career, as well."
The pursuit of what the bean-counting gnomes call "greater market penetration" must also be balanced by other considerations.
"There's a limit to how much we could do it without totally draining ourselves, creatively and emotionally," says Swanton.
This is because the Necks must maintain the creative energy to invent entirely new pieces of music on the spot every time they play. The ritual begins with them waiting for complete silence to descend. Then, whichever member feels the urge first makes the sound that sets the next hour of music in motion.
"In Brisbane this year, for the first time in the history of the band, two people started on exactly the same point in time," says Swanton.
"It was Chris and myself. I had my eyes closed and Chris had his back to me, so there was no way it was preordained, and the amazing thing was we were more or less in the same key.
"It almost threw the idea because we were both so surprised that we almost stopped!"
From the establishment of that initial pattern, the music unfolds in tantalising fashion: consecutive tiny changes resulting in what can suddenly seem a completely different piece of music to a listener whose mind has wandered.
It is this blend of being chilling in both the suspense-filled and sedative senses that is so engrossing. An hour or so later, the dream ends, whether dramatically or with a gentle fade to the merest wisps of sound.
"Where you finish a piece defines absolutely everything that you've played in that piece," says Swanton. "It's not just finding a finish. It sheds a new light on the very first note that you played."
In a 16-year career - which has included creating the soundtrack for the acclaimed movie The Boys, and last year having a performance at the Opera House interrupted by a hapless usher who had been told to stop the show and offer refunds just because a slide projector had gone on the blink - the Necks have released 11 albums, including the latest, Drive By.
The most popular is 1989's Sex, which, since its re-release in '96, has consistently sold 50 copies a month in Australia, year in year out. So why that one? The title, perhaps?
"You can only think so, yes," says Swanton. "Sex and the CD ..."
Sex aside, Swanton attributes some of the Necks' crossover appeal to Abrahams, who has played with such bands as the Whitlams, the Triffids and Midnight Oil, as well as to the transparent nature of their music-making.
"Because we're using such minimal amounts of material, I think when something changes, even people who aren't at all musically literate can hear that something's happened," he says.
"I think that's what sets the band apart from a lot of other contemporary improvised groups: people can go along who really don't know much about the genre, but they feel that they can understand our music."
This aspect of process and product being the same thing, says Swanton, "is something we had in mind when we first started all those years ago".
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Avoid Big Pharma and Protect Your Health
Published by Malcolm P. Shiel on April 14, 2010
by Malcolm P. Shiel
"AVOID DOCTORS if you want to live a long life" said a wise uncle of mine who just happened to live to the age of 82 with perfect health. He was writing imaginative fiction, penning incisive essays, and ardently pursuing a romantic relationship with a lovely fortysomething woman until the very last week of his life in 1947, when — you guessed it — he was persuaded to enter a hospital in Chichester over a minor complaint and came under the "care" of the medical establishment. That, as they say, is all she wrote.
Doctors know much more today than they did in 1947, and for some things they are indispensable. But note well the endless string of recalls and horror stories of drugs that, ten or 20 years on, have unexpected and severe side effects that the FDA somehow didn't catch. And recall how many times they have flip-flopped on what is good and what is harmful to take into your body: There were times when Thalidomide and cigarettes were said to be A-OK, and butter and eggs were called positively dangerous. Up until a year or so ago they thought we needed a whopping eight glasses of water a day — until they discovered no one knew where that dictum had even come from. Medicine is not yet an exact science.
And doctors have, sadly, been captured by Big Pharma and Big Insurance and are (usually unwitting) collaborators with the psychiatrists in the effort to medicate us all to the limits of our sanity and our bank accounts. Most of this drug-a-thon is unnecessary. Giving Ritalin to millions of perfectly normal energetic kids is just one outrage out of thousands.
Today, with the collective intelligence of the Internet and the unselfish efforts of researchers and writers like those at the Life Extension Foundation (LEF), more often than not you no longer need to consult a licensed practitioner or take his licensed drugs to treat what ails you. An intelligent man or woman, armed with an inventory of symptoms and his or her own history, can easily cut through the dross (which is out there) and find informed and even advanced opinion on what should be done. And supplement providers are still more or less free to sell you the substances you might need to treat yourself.
But, just as in the fields of spirituality and politics, there are con men galore in the health field. They mostly fool the uneducated and the uneducable. American Mercury readers would probably never fall for their blandishments, any more than they fell for those of Boy George Bush or Barack Hussein Fetchit. But Big Brother wants to "protect" us all. They don't think we're able to make decisions about our own health care.
Every year, Washington bureaucrats overreach their mandate and try to increase their power to control what vitamins and supplements we're allowed to buy. Every year, especially this year, Pharma-linked and Insurance-company-linked lawyers write laws (that the Congressmen seldom even read) designed to make medicine an ever more tightly controlled cartel with monopoly-like powers. They've even tried to regulate Vitamin B6 — and walnuts — and green tea!
Yes, I agree that frauds who prey on the ignorant need to be brought to heel. But the best way to do that is to eradicate ignorance as much as possible. And the worst way to do it is to give more power to the servants of the Drug Trust and the Insurance Cartel in Washington, DC.
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(Houston, TX – Wendy Siegle - KUHF) It's been four months since the Federal Transit Administration launched its investigation into METRO's procurement practices. The results of the inquiry are in, and it doesn't look good for the Houston transit agency. FTA officials say METRO violated both federal purchasing laws and Buy America requirements when it handed over two light rail contracts to a Spanish rail car vendor. FTA Administrator Peter Rogoff called METRO's purchasing process "alarming and disturbing" in letter he delivered in person to Houston Mayor Annise Parker and METRO officials.
METRO confirmed that around $40 million has already been spent with the Spanish manufacturer; officials say it's too soon to determine if it's possible to recover the money. According to the letter, METRO and Spanish firm Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) knowingly and systematically bypassed numerous federal rules. Rogoff added, "These rules are designed to ensure the integrity of procurements involving taxpayer funds and the requirement to use taxpayer funds in a manner to maximize the creation and sustainment of well-paying jobs here at home."
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Happily Ever After...Every Now and Then
Essay by: Bill Rayburn
Status: Finished
Genre: Memoir
Happily Ever After…Every Now and Then
I watched as my dog rotated from sitting on her stomach, paws forward, to shifting 90 degrees to lie on her side, all four legs poking out naturally. Two languid blinks, one last loving glimpse up at me, and she was asleep.
It got me to thinking.
Comparatively, a dog's life, admittedly shorter, is also much simpler than ours. A dog that is loved, fed and regularly exercised has little to complain about. And those brief naps, splayed on the deck in a ribbon of sunshine or shade, depending on the season, must be little slices of dog heaven.
The relentless pursuit of fun, an integral part of the human existence, is not unlike those dog naps in their sporadic nature. Sure, the idea of 24/7 fun is a nice scoop of mental vanilla ice cream on a hot day as you're lolling in the hammock, but once past that elusive concept of perpetual gaiety, reality rears its ugly head.
The almost unyielding amount of flotsam and jetsam disguised as responsibilities that wash upon the shore of the average human makes the pursuit of fun anything but relentless. Truncated is more like it. With each year, with each child, with each mortgage, fun becomes more and more loosely defined as that vague thing you hope sprouts out of the little earthquake cracks that wind their way between the more mundane tasks of life. The leisure life is there to be had. It simply becomes harder and harder to hold on to. Slippery as fishing by hand, carving out time for fun involves opportunity, carpe diem, and sometimes just forcing the issue.
It's easy to be cynical when assessing how much fun is actually available to us. There is always the pernicious aspect of guilt, the universal anti-fun sentiment, which often digs its stronghold in the outskirts of the mind, tugging gently at the enjoyment gene, cooing about the more important "should" related tasks you could be doing.
There are probably a few who never have to worry about anything BUT having fun. Mazel tov to them. The rest of us, however, are relegated to ferreting out opportunities, to moving the chess pieces of our lives about the board into a configuration that reveals those earthquake cracks. Then, of course, we need to have the willingness to leap into them. It's not as easy as it sounds. We battle against the instinct for fun on multiple levels, from the puritan work ethic sinisterly shaking its head in disappointment, to the discouragement from the buzz kills, both human and otherwise, that are too numerous to count.
I have a catch phrase chosen more for its simplicity than sophistication or intellectuality. 'Have fun'. I use it with regularity. I acknowledge that it probably is ignored or glossed over, much like "How are you?", and "How have you been?" are seen as throw-away questions not actually seeking an answer. I use 'Have fun' because it isn't a question, but a declaration, an exhortation even. It puts no responsibility on the recipient to choose whether or not to reply with the universally unrevealing, "Fine". I toss it out there to be absorbed and hopefully embraced. Not requiring a response creates a momentary mental vacuum, whereby I like to think the concept of those two words gets at least a moment of contemplation, maybe even sparking an inner question of their own, like "Why not?"
Pursuing fun in bits and pieces, snatching at the good stuff floating by only when it is within reach, is basically settling. It's a compromise, a frowning nod to reality and the day-to-day drudgery of life that practically insists on your attention. The compromise should not, in and of itself, result in applying the breaks to the pursuit of leisure and good times. Making fun a goal, while also acknowledging the multiple hurdles over which one must leap to get there, is a pretty damn realistic way to define life.
There is a fence, unseen yet sturdy as hell, in my life. On one side is the laborious, unrelenting daily existence that most of us find daunting. On the other side of the fence, it is green. Only green. Always green. When it comes to fun in my life, the grass IS always greener on the other side. I get there whenever I can.
Green is a good color to represent fun. Golf courses, baseball fields, the Irish, paper money, the olive in my martini. Hopping over that fence is a constant, fluid goal of mine. I know I can live on both sides of the fence, because I have. The variable is simply how much time do I allow myself on the green side.
"The best laid plans of Mice and Men often go awry". A slight paraphrase, but the Scottish Poet Robert Burns, a famous misanthropist, penned the phrase that has stood the test of time, and been incorporated in many a personal philosophy. I don't live in denial of tomorrow, I've simply grown not to rely on it or take it for granted.
Hard to argue that. In fact, I employ it as a premise for having fun, as a philosophical whiteout painting over any festering feelings of guilt. Living for today, when tomorrow is clearly not promised you, makes sense. I could even argue how nonsensical it would be to live any other way.
Puritanism will always hover over American life, the wind generated by its evil wings blowing through most lives like a dark typhoon of guilt. Moralism invites hypocrisy. It is a swirling maelstrom of conflicting human emotions that can paralyze the strongest of individuals.
Me? I'll take that leap to greener pastures every chance I get. What do you want to bet it's a golf course full of napping Irish Setters, dreaming about counting their money while sipping martinis?
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I am not one to complain and if this was only $10.00 then I may have let it go, but $100 dollars!!! They are scamming me because they keep sending me emails but not when, where or how my money or merchandise is going to be delivered.
I hope I am not the first one that this has happened to but I am sure it will not be the last of the complaints.
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When i traded my Rex in on the 2002 Sterling Mist Maxima, it seemed like i was an officer handing over his badge and Gun to his lieutenant.
after a day with the maxima on some open roads, i realized i got to keep "the gun". Sure the beam axle rear suspension hates railroad tracks and expansion joints. The tires really arent much better than RE92's. But that 3.5L V6 is downright heroic. Mash the throttle with TCS off any where in first gear, and the maxima marks its territory. Above 60 she reels in pavement quicker than a stock rex.
Sure, ill get flamed for getting an auto, but out of all the auto cars ive driven, this transmission agrees with my dowshift then go driving philosophy. Press the pedal slightly and the max holds gear, a little bit more and you get silky downshift putting you at 3000rpm or greater. From there you apply more throttle. Id never wish for a tiptronic because the tranny is eager to downshift even for less agressive accelerating. If you mash, youll get double downshifts and wheelspin in lower gears. from 4500rpm to 6500rpm is non stop thrust that compares to Stage1 Rex. Its a great motor, and so civil, its easy to see why its one 10 best engines ever made.
What i miss is security on snowblanketed roads, and great traction in the rain. i also miss the nimble suspension, and small turning radius of the Rex
The GLE has heated leather seats, killer bose 6 disc in dash audio system w/ steering wheel controls and subwoofer, HID headlights, Heated steering wheel!!!, Sunroof, Ginormous rear seats that fold. All of these features plus reliability will help me get over my Rex. its hard though, i loved that car
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Skateboarders -- Souls Beyond Redemption?
In the 1963 movie Bye, Bye Birdie actor Paul Lynde sings a ditty entitled "Kids," which includes what is probably the lament of every parent of all generations:
"Why can't they be like we were, perfect in every way? What's the matter with kids today?"
Personally I had dreamed of having a son who would actually listen to his daddy (like I always did, right?). There is every reason to believe that my time for having such a son has come and gone. At my stage of life the best any father can hope for is that said sons will eventually get old enough to see "father knows best" after all. Then, in the name of true poetic justice, my sons will have sons who won't listen to their daddy, either.
This brings us to our youngest, Benji; "the good son."
Benji was, back in the day, the best skateboarder in Brazil. I know he was -- he told me so. Even today young skateboarders wannabes reverently whisper his name, or so I'm told.
Back in the day he accurately relayed to his parents everything about everything he did; so we know all about his exploits. We knew about his respectful behavior whenever requested by adults to move on. We know of his always getting an owner's permission before doing really dangerous jumps off some high staircase or ledge. Of course he told us "everything." And that's his story and he's sticking with it.
Truth is, I really did not want to hear about most of what he could do. What he did reveal made me queasy.
I was with him at the various hospitals when he had to be splinted or sewn back together. I was with him the one time he actually had to go to juvenile court for doing something that I dare not repeat here for fear of inciting some young impressionable. And, we went together for the famous meeting at City Hall to discuss the new Skate Park proposal. Trouble is, that meeting was some few years ago. Nothing came of it then or since. Seems the skateboarders and their parents at that meeting have gone on to bigger and better things, and interest was passed to another generation.
Thus my interest in a story this week in the Brazil Times indicating yet another attempt is to be made to establish a skate park. I hope so. Two words of warning left over from days and meetings long since past:
"To skateboarders and parents: Don't let go of the project hoping "City Fathers" will finish it -- they won't."
"To "City Fathers": If you don't include some real live skateboarders in the planning, you might as well save yourself the effort."
Some readers may remember Benji as a more-or-less average Northview student; others knew him as an anywhere-and-everywhere skateboarder (there were no skate parks back in the day). If you did encounter him when he was a "kid" you may not believe this, but it's true: In about a month Benji will begin his third year of teaching the Fourth Grade in Charlotte, North Carolina. He teaches children who come from what we once called "disadvantaged backgrounds." From all reports his students love him.
Who knows, maybe skateboarding is just a phase some kids have to go through on their way to being "like we were, perfect in every way."
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Kara had lifted Karkid in her arms and was playing with Karkid's nose. Kara said in a rather happy manner to Karkid, "these are silly people."
Hyperion looks at Kara with a little bit of caution, "you Kara, mother of the Stygians, need to exercise a little caution. For if you do not handle events correctly, a white mage may replace the father of the Stygians as Dark Lord."
Click jaw dropped, did he just call, Kara, _mother_ of the Stygians?
Kara replies to Hyperion, "then a team of heroes will take her out as well. Really I've never got why we need Dark Lords throughout the ages. Seems like a silly, or flawed design to me."
Kara stops really regarding Hyperion at this time, and looks at Karkid asking, "Up?"
Karkid starts to mimick "Up!" as best he can, at which point Kara throws Karkid up in the saying, "Up!" with the Stygian squealing in delight.
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By Adam Clark
Gael Clichy has urged his team-mates to focus on beating Portsmouth on Sunday in the hope of finishing third in the Premiership.
The Gunners currently sit level on points with Liverpool who will welcome Championship-bound Charlton Athletic to Anfield.
But with only two goals separating the fourth-placed Gunners and
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"It matters," said the 21-year-old. "You have to play 100 per cent and have to try to do your best every time.
"We're going to go there to win the game and win the three points but if we can't do it one point will be good and we'll see if we finish third or fourth.
"The objective is to finish third - the boss is looking for it and we are looking to it. The last game will be a bit difficult to focus [on] but we'll try our best to bring something back."
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Kenneth Yeager, adjunct associate professor of social work and clinical associate professor of psychiatry, gave a highly detailed presentation on Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), and included a quiz that will help you figure out whether you have the normal winter blues, or something more serious. I scored a 3, which means I'm experiencing the usual seasonal blahs. A score of 7 or 8 means you should talk to your doctor about SAD.Take the quiz in Yeager's powerpoint presentation, and check out all the journal references at the end if you want to know more.BONUS: I'm excited to bring you news in the coming weeks regarding changes to YP4H. Watch this space!


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I stopped by Mission Federal Credit Union on Saturday May 10th, 2014 with the intention of making some financial transactions. The ATM offers the option of making a "CASH" deposit without the use of an envelope. I proceeded to make a CASH DEPOSIT, going through the prompts, until I finished my transaction.
On my transaction receipt, I noticed that I had not received "FULL CREDIT" for the "CASH" deposit I had just made and after a few minutes realized that the bank had put a "5-DAY HOLD" on over 40% my deposit. (MInd you that through the many prompts NOT ONCE was I informed of a potential "HOLD" on this deposit.) I tried to contact the bank without success because they close "EARLY" on Saturdays -- a full 3 hours before every other bank.
Today, Monday May 12th, 2014, I called the bank to inquire about the "5-DAY HOLD" on a "CASH" deposit. They informed me that this is the result of an ATM Rollout Issue BUT that once this "rollout" is finished they would begin to honor CASH deposits on the same day as IT SHOULD BE DONE... I expressed my frustration to the representative and she agreed that it was absurd the institution would hold a CASH deposit.
She proceeded to release "HALF" of MY FUNDS (NOT THEIRS) and that I would have to call back on Wednesday to see if they would do me the "FAVOR" of releasing the OTHER half... :-)
Does anyone think this is borderline THEFT by the institution regardless of company policy???
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It took almost three weeks, but Tampa Bay Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman was never too worried that he might lose star centre Steven Stamkos as a restricted free agent.
"One way or another, we felt we would get him signed," Yzerman said Tuesday, after the Lightning locked up Stamkos, one of their franchise cornerstones, for the next five years at a cost of $37.5-million.
The price was always going to be between $7 and $8-million per year for a player of Stamkos's pedigree – and that's where it settled, right in between. Just 21, Stamkos led the NHL in goal-scoring two years ago with 51 and chipped in another 45 last year, the highest total in the league over that span. Stamkos is also just the sixth player in NHL history to score 100 career goals before the age of 21.
So Yzerman worked hard at getting a deal done and Stamkos, for his part, didn't want to go anywhere else. The end result was a deal that will pay Stamkos $8-million in each of its first four years and then drops down to $5.5-million in year five. That final year represents a bargain for the Lightning, given that it also buys out the first year of Stamkos's eligibility for unrestricted free agency.
"At the end of the day, it wasn't something I lost any sleep over," said Stamkos, of the negotiations that spilled into the third week of the free-agent signing period. "For me, it was trying to get a deal done in Tampa, because ultimately that's where I wanted to say. I never really even thought of looking anywhere else."
According to Stamkos, the framework of the deal had mostly been in place for a couple of weeks and the delay in announcing the signing was the result of some minor details that needed to be clarified.
Both Yzerman and Stamkos tacitly acknowledged that he might have left some dollars on the table, given the wild spending spree that followed the July 1 free agency binge. But both made a similar point – that in order to keep a competitive team around a nucleus of high-end talent, sometimes a player cannot squeeze every last dollar out of the negotiation.
"You have to look after yourself as a player, but at the same time, you have to realize what that number does from a team perspective," said Stamkos. "It made sense for both sides. I'm happy with that number and Tampa is happy with that number – and they can still go out and field a competitive team and that's something I thought was important in the process."
There had been speculation that one of Tampa's rivals might try to overpay Stamkos and sign him away with a heavily front-loaded deal that topped $10-million or more, but the offer sheet never materialized.
Philosophically, Yzerman said tendering an offer sheet in order to poach away a rival makes no sense to him because effectively what it means, in most cases, is "you're really doing the work for the other club.
"Unless you want to do something really extraordinary .... Basically, you're going to have to overpay the player in the hopes of getting the other team to not match it," said Yzerman. "Either way, I think you're just screwing up your own pay structure."
In theory, Stamkos's signing may be the template for the ongoing negotiations between the Los Angeles Kings and defenceman Drew Doughty. Stamkos was the first player selected in the 2008 entry draft; and Doughty the second. Both are represented by the same agency and both have become integral parts of their teams in the first three years of their respective careers, which is why the Lightning were obliged to give Stamkos such a big pay day so early in his career.
Under the NHL's entry-level system, Stamkos did not have arbitration rights for another two years, a mechanism that was supposed to keep the values for second contracts lower. It hasn't worked out that way, at least not for the precocious high-end talent that has emerged in the post-lockout NHL.
As for Stamkos, he spends his summers in Toronto, so he was aware of all the speculation about his future – and the rumours that he might be playing elsewhere next year.
"I was getting texts from friends and family, asking me if I was playing here or signing there," said Stamkos. "It was comical at first. It got a little annoying towards the end, but it's something that comes with the territory.
"This deal has been pretty much locked up for a couple of weeks now. It was just figuring out the small details. Definitely, I'm excited – and happy that we could finally announce it."Report Typo/Error
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David Felder
SUNY Distinguished Professor
Birge-Cary Chair in Music Composition
Director, Center for 21st-Century Music
Director, June in Buffalo Festival
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David Felder has long been recognized as a leader in his generation of American composers. His works have been featured at many of the leading international festivals for contemporary music, and earn continuing recognition through performance and commissioning programs. Felder's work has been broadly characterized by its highly energetic profile, through its frequent employment of technological extension and elaboration of musical materials (including his Crossfire video series, and the video/music collaboration Shamayim), and its lyrical qualities.
Felder has received numerous grants and commissions including many composer's awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, two New York State Council commissions, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Guggenheim, two Koussevitzky commissions, two Fromm Foundation Fellowships, two awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, Meet the Composer "New Residencies" (1993-1996) composer residency with the Buffalo Philharmonic, two commissions from the Mary Flagler Cary Trust, and many more. In May 2010, he received the Music Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a career recognition award. Shamayim was awarded a Silver Medal in Music from the Park City Film Festival in Spring, 2011.
Current commission projects in the period 2015-2018 include new works to be composed for the Arditti Quartet, a chamber concerto for Irvine Arditti and Ensemble Linea, and other co-commissioners, and a new work for the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Felder serves as Birge-Cary Chair in Composition at SUNY, Buffalo, and has been Artistic Director of the "June in Buffalo" Festival from 1985, when he revived it upon his arrival in Buffalo, to the present. Since 2006, he has been Director of the Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music at the University. From 1992 to 1996 he was Meet the Composer "New Residencies", Composer-in-Residence to the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and WBFO-FM. In 1996, he formed the professional chamber orchestra, the Slee Sinfonietta, and has been Artistic Director since that time. In 2008, he was named SUNY Distinguished Professor, the highest rank in the entirety of the SUNY system. In 2015 he was named Co-Director of the University at Buffalo's Creative Arts Initiative, a plan to bring major international creative artists to the region as guest artists. A dedicated teacher and mentor, he has served as Ph.D. dissertation advisor and major professor for over sixty composers at Buffalo, many of whom are actively teaching, composing and performing internationally at leading institutions. Nearly 900 'emerging' composers have participated in June in Buffalo, the festival Felder pioneered and dedicated to younger composers upon his arrival in Buffalo in 1985. Felder served as Master Artist in Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in February-March, 2010. His works are published by Theodore Presser, and Project Schott New York, and portrait recordings are available on Albany, Bridge, Mode, and EMF. On June 1, 2013, a new Blu-ray surround portrait recording (90 minutes) with numerous works was released on Albany/Troy 1418.