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You're an adult if you can take care of yourself and make responsible decisions.
That sums it up so succintly! (I think I'm a woman of too many words. )
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As much as I always knew being a child sucked, the beauty of adulthood really sank in to me when I was walking to my car to go to work one morning and I found an injured pigeon. I called in to work and took to pigeon home to care for it until I found an organization that would take it in. You think my mom would have let me miss one measly day of glorified daycare--or even be 15 minutes late--to save the life of another creature? Do you think she would have let it into our house? Hell no! Anytime I'm stressed about my job, bills, or housework, I think of that pigeon, start crying from joy, and pray to God to thank him for the fact that I'm no longer a child.
Depending on context, I tend to think of "adult" as referring to whatever constitutes a legal or otherwise official adult according to the society that person is living in. Modern USA? Anyone 18 and older. Genghis-Khan era Mongolia? Anyone 12+ year and older, at least if they're married, which they usually will be. While a 12 year old in modern America is definitely a child.
When someone complains and asks for advice on their 19-year-old son's girlfriend, for example, and people respond, "He's an adult," I take them to be saying, "WTF, Mama, you have no more right to control him than you would some random roommate.")
When I write stories and want a character who has just entered adulthood, I make him/her 16. In one case it was really, really important to me that one such character be considered an official adult according to the audience, so I reluctantly made her 18 years old, but I moved her transition to adulthood back to being two years before the story. After all the fictional and non-fiction things I've read about adults of various ages in other cultures, I just can't think of adulthood as 18.
legally i think the age of adult should change to 25. i mean biologically the frontal lobes of our brains dont completely develop till then. and that is the area which impacts impulse control.
i think that will have a huge social impact on how one treats 18 year olds.
Ack! If anything, I think the legal age should be LOWERED! You're absolutely right that it would have a huge social impact on how one treats 18-year-olds, but why wish that sort of treatment on anybody?
While the frontal lobes may reach their largest size around age 25, they also shrink as you age, along with the rest of the brain. By the time you're 30 the shrinkage has already started. That means if we're basing adult status on the frontal lobe or even on decision-making abilities, senior citizens would have their adult status REVOKED passed a certain age!
(I can actually agree with using the frontal lobe argument to say people above a certain age shouldn't hold high-ranking government offices, but good luck getting that passed when so many of the people who already hold those jobs are old! :p)
Besides, everyone's brain is different, just like everyone's (insert any other body part) is different. Men and women, as a groups, have different brains, but your brain is different from any other woman's brain. Likewise, though young people have different brains from older people, the brains of any two people of any same age are going to be different. And that can include frontal lobe size. It makes no sense to limit one person's legal rights based on someone else's neurological development. "Their brains are different" is an argument that was once used to justify mistreatment of minority races and is still used to justify mistreatment of women. It's not right.
Yes, it would lower expectations of young adults even more than the abysmal standard of expections at the moment.
I think we should be raising our expectations, not lowering them. IME, teens and adults live up to expectations.
i guess we differ here a lot. i think we over expect out of our young adults way too young. i think we as parents need to support our kids a few years longer than 18. for example when one looks at college applications, its expected that kids should experience no 'pain' at being torn apart from family and go live in a whole new place - like different city/state. many are ready for that, but many, many arent. yet we have this expectation that they can or should.
I think it's a little of both. I think we hold teenagers at too low of a standard and adults at too high of a standard. People go from being treated pretty similar to eight-year-olds, then upon some quick arbitrary live event, being expected make a 180 to live alone, support themselves financially, and never need anything from their parents again. It seems each generation becomes a little less community-oriented and a little more every-man-for-himself, which makes adult life more challenging for some people than it may have been in the past.
It would make more sense for teenage years to be a slow transition to adulthood. I wish schools would be reformed with that in mind.
Yeah, I much prefer being an adult to being a child. My mom once quoted someone about the non-joys of childhood (maybe it was Will Rogers"):
"You're 3 foot high and don't have a dime to your name"
Yep, being a kid is largely overrated, I think. I remember it as a time of seething, impotent rage at my parents' decisions; sibling rivalry; crippling embarrassment and pain involved with losing teeth, getting haircuts, school photos etc; mind-numbing boredom and pointlessness at school (sports days, I'm looking at you!); and a whole lot of angst surrounding birthday parties. It was certainly an interesting experience, and parts of it were cool - discovering certain books for the first time, camps, the sheer overwhelming delight of eating - but all in all, I wouldn't want to go through it again. Plus, I've always loved cooking, and being too weak to stire cookie dough is a pathetic form of existence. :p
I do sort of miss the feeling that $100 was an incredible amount of wealth, though. Remember when you were so young you couldn't understand how a $40,000 a year salary wasn't enough to buy everything you could possibly want? I remember thinking adults must be incredibly foolish to blaze through all that money, and how when I grew up I was going to save it and then buy all sorts of awesome stuff.
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My family and I live on 20K a year. I still think 40K would buy everything *we* could possibly want. I can only dream of having 40K a year. YMMV.
My 18 year old is an adult. In a lot of ways, she's more adult than I am - she's much better organized and less flaky, and much better at dealing with life's bumps. Stuff like cleaning, managing a bank account, laundry, food shopping - she's been doing that for years. She doesn't support herself but she has earned her own spending money for years, and she's been a student - and I'm fine with that.
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Well thanks for that, but my question is directed at LynnS6.
Not that it should matter why, but as I live in northern California I am familiar with some of the unis around here, and as Lynn thought it was interesting enough to mention I thought I'd ask.
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I remember talking about this with some scandanavians at university. They thought I was not acting like an adult because my parents were paying my tuition. I pointed right back at them that their government was paying theirs. Somehow government dependence seemed more adult to them than relying on your family.
I'd say I became an adult when I was 22ish. I think there is also a certain level of "adult-ness" that happens when one has kids. There's something about the exhaustion that puts life into perspective. :)
As far as feeling adult... well, I sort of feel less like a responsible adult now than I did when I was single. Not in every aspect, but I guess financially. DH does all the bill paying and has the paid job and buys the insurance type "adult" things. I mind the kids, which is also adult, but I also minded kids when I was a teen.
I think the creation of a teen-culture does a lot to infantize young adults. I mean, ideally teens would be with adults and mentored and learning to be adults as teens, but instead there is a societal expectation that they just play and spend money and party and be irresponsible. Now don't get me wrong, teens don't think like adults, but I have found with the teen mentoring program I have been a part of that the more you give them to be responsible for, the more they generally step up and do it. And kids now do seem less willing or able to take responsibility than teens did a decade or two ago.
Sounds intriguing! What's the mentoring program about?
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The teens spend a week doing leadership training, they spend a week doing community service, and they spend a week running a local childrens' program. It is a really neat program. It is through our church, but a number of teens that do not attend our church have participated through the years as well. The teens really enjoy their time together, the community benefits from their service, and the kids in the area also get some great older kid role-models to emulate. It's win-win-win. :)
My DH and I got married and had kids much earlier than the people I grew up with. My friend did the same. I always felt we were much more on par than the rest of our schoolmates etc that we kept track of on FB who were still childless. It just seemed like a foreign concept to me, to be unmarried and childless throughout much of your 20's. Like, they had a job where they got respect, only themselves to spend their income on, they could travel when they wanted, sleep in when they wanted, take a sick day, etc. it just seems like, on a conscious level I know they had responsibilities too, and maybe they were MORE responsible than I was (maybe putting off kids until they were more financially stable) but when you're realistically only responsible for yourself, and maybe a boyfriend (or even a husband) and a cat or something, I think your whole perspective on life is different than when you have kids.
When you're a kid, your parents give you a curfew. When you're a parent, your kids give you a curfew (if you can even afford a babysitter). When you're a young, childless adult... you can go flit around for the whole weekend, if you want. Or go to the gym whenever you want. Or read a book from start to finish. Or decorate your home without wondering if the kids can hurt themselves on the furniture. Or a million other things that if you're childless, you can just *do* because you have the freedom to do so. I read in one book recently that everyone should "just take an hour every morning and do yoga" - yeah, right! Like I have an hour to myself every morning! That's a laugh.
And if it sounds like I'm jealous, heck no, I love my life the way it is. I *chose* to have a family early, and I would do it all over again. There's nothing I want more than to be in a functioning family, have twelve million kids and five dogs. I can't even quite imagine what I would do with a whole decade of me-time to myself (assuming someone plans to have kids in their 30's) and I'm sure they can't imagine how trapped I must feel (I don't).
Not to mention the stigma of having kids is huge (childfree movements, anyone?) so that sometimes takes some character-building to deal with, as well.
I don't feel that you can't be an adult without kids... I just think that it's more a significant of a change than any other transition *I've* been through. I felt "adult" at 17 (emotional/mental maturity); more adult when I moved to another city than my parents for college; more adult still when I got a grown-up job and moved in with my boyfriend (now-husband). But nothing has compared to how "adult" I feel since having kids.
I think the realization that I was responsible for the health and well being of another human, a tiny, utterly vulnerable one at that, forced me to grow up really quick. Maybe being a youngest child myself, who had never been responsible for younger siblings, made the change more abrupt.
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The City had been expecting a slowdown at Argos, particularly after its cracking performance last year. Peace said consumer spending had 'moderated' in the first quarter although overall sales at Argos were up by 10% during the period, boosted by strong demand for furniture and electricals. Further expansion of the product range is planned in furniture, textiles, bedding and housewares.
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That's not what ASB was saying.
The tipping system is simply our custom, just as its the custom in Europe to pay servers hourly. In Europe, the cost of eating and drinking out is higher than here but you tip less. Both systems work.
Our custom of tipping is not because of some lobby.
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and envelopes to the guys who cleaned the cabin and envelopes to the bar tenders at
the pool. I only drink soda and got a $25 soda card when I boarded the ship but tipped
at the end of the week. Everyone seemed satisfied.
The bar tenders at Half Pints in Bel Air ring a big bell when someone over tips and they
always ring the bell when I tip them. My favorite bar tender in Chillis was fired because
she made a mistake on the bill and the couple wrote their headquarters about it. She
made a mistake and corrected it. She was there a long time and her managers didn't
want to fire her but were told to by top Chillis officials. They take those complaints
seriously but they didn't have to fire the girl.
Good point about the coins. I'm always carrying about $2 in change in my pocket
and asked the bar tender in Batemen's last night if she'd take them plus the bills and she said sure.
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Let's circle back on topic here ...
Speaking of cruises, my wife used to work at a law firm in Houston and some of the senior partners have Texans as clients.
She's heard stories of players, once they signed their big deals, would charter boats to Atlantis for all their friends, family, hangers on, etc.
Keep in mind, this is during the off season so the excursion is financed until the league year starts and they actually start getting paid.
So once they start seeing the money, they're paying a huge portion of it toward the debt they racked up in the off season.
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Ravens #1 pick rookie Travis Taylor showed up in camp the first day in an expensive sports car. Goose just looked at him and laughed and said just because he can afford a big car doesn't mean he can play football. Goose was on to something because TT was a big bust.
Anyway, TT said he wanted to get his shopping over before camp so he could concentrate on football. The Agents give players their credit cards and say do your spending now and then take it out of their paychecks when they get paid. TT spent thousands on cars, jewelry
for his wife and clothes and a new house.
We all heard the story of DEZ who was sued for not paying the debt on the jewelry he got on credit. Even his agent was sued. In case you didn't here's the link.
Hartwell left the Ravens for big money but filed for bankruptcy and foreclosed on his
$2M beach front estate and his wife split. Ed loved going down to OC on Rave
weekend with all the fans. Here's photo of him with his wife.
Speaking of Goose, he showed up in camp in his helicopter and landed it amongst
great fan fare on or near the practice field so everyone could see him. Everyone
laughed but Billick just shook his head-lol.
Hard Knocks showed him in his chopper going to OC when they had couple of days off.
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Re: How Ex NFL'ers Go Broke
Here's a good answer on OTAs. Rookies and players don't get paid for OTAs but they don't go hungry or sleep in their cars. Teams reserve blocks of hotel rooms for them to stay in and feed them. The Arizona Cardinals rent dorms at a local college for their players.
The Castle has a nice cafeteria and all the food is free for everyone that works in the
building - players, secretaries, everyone. Bisciotti pays for it.
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it wasnt even his receipt was it? looks like it was a rappers'...then again i dont do the twitter/instagram stuff so maybe im confused
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But it would need to be written into the CBA for it to go into effect.
A lot of ball players get in trouble this way. They don't plan for the off season and then go to these predatory lenders for off season, high rate loans to get by.
If you have access to it, watch ESPN's documentary "Broke". They go into this in detail.


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The Illegitimacy of U.S. Drone Strikes... And the Entire "War on Terror"
By Larry Everest
excerpted from The Illegality, Illegitimacy & Immorality of U.S. Drone Strikes
There is a logic and a reason the "double-tap" and mass civilian casualties. It's rooted in the nature and objectives of the U.S. "war on terror," and imperialist logic and necessities driving it.
In his May speech, Obama claimed, "America's actions are legal. We were attacked on 9/11. ... Under domestic law, and international law, the United States is at war with al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their associated forces. We are at war with an organization that right now would kill as many Americans as they could if we did not stop them first. So this is a just war—a war waged proportionally, in last resort, and in self-defense."
This statement is packed with distortions, half-truths, and outright lies. The U.S. "war on terror" is, at heart, an unjust war for greater empire—not a "just" war to liberate people, "defend the American homeland," or rid the world of violence and terror. A key aim of this war is defeating al Qaeda, the Taliban, and other "associated" Islamist forces. This is not simply or mainly because these groups are plotting attacks on the U.S. It's mainly because they pose a big challenge to U.S. control of Central Asia and the Middle East, including because they're directly clashing with U.S. client regimes. This could greatly weaken the U.S. hold on these regions, which are key to U.S. global dominance and the functioning of its empire of exploitation. And provide openings for rival regional and global powers.
The U.S. initially tried to deal with this problem by invading and occupying Afghanistan and Iraq. But this strategy has, in many ways, backfired. The U.S. has not succeeded in either outright defeating the Islamists or in "draining the swamp"—restructuring these societies to undercut the societal roots of the Islamic fundamentalist opposition. And these occupations have cost the U.S. dearly, and have further fueled anti-U.S. Islamist trends.
So the U.S. has wound down the occupations of Iraq and now Afghanistan. But it hasn't abandoned the "long war" to defeat Islamic fundamentalism and maintain control of the arc from Morocco through Saudi Arabia to Pakistan and Afghanistan. Rather it is increasingly employing drone warfare and other covert operations to achieve its imperial objectives, while avoiding, as Obama has put it, American "boots on the ground."
The U.S. drone war in North Waziristan in northwest Pakistan is a key front in this war, which shows a lot about what it's actually about, and why so many are being blown to bits. North Waziristan, home to some 840,000 people, borders Afghanistan. It's where Zowi Sidgi, Ghundi Kala, and Miranshah are located and is a base area for the Taliban fighters from both Afghanistan and Pakistan and other Islamist forces. These groups oppose the U.S. puppet government in Afghanistan and the current regime in Pakistan, and are fighting for reactionary Islamic states in both countries.
This is why U.S. drone surveillance is constant and drone strikes have been concentrated in this region. Here the U.S. is targeting individual Taliban, al Qaeda, or other Islamist leaders or fighters.
Even when the targets of U.S. drone attacks actually are commanders of jihadist forces who may be plotting or carrying out terrorist attacks, these attacks are not about "saving lives." U.S. drone attacks, regardless of the intended victim, create a state of ongoing terror among all the people in large regions of the world. They are in the service of imposing the U.S. empire, which has brought so much misery to the Middle East, North Africa, and the rest of the world.
Again, the U.S. drone strikes are not at all limited to targeted strikes on jihadist leaders. There is also the "double-tap" logic at work of attacking any who might be Islamists or their supporters, or "associated forces"—a definition which can be stretched to mean most anything. This leads to murdering, injuring, and terrorizing whole groups—even whole populations—of people who may support, sympathize or just tolerate the Islamists, or who're just part of the population the fundamentalists draw from. And so these drone attacks perpetuate and accelerate the vicious cycle of U.S. imperialist aggression driving people into the arms of the jihadists.
These patterns have been evident since the drone strikes began a decade ago. Wedding parties in Afghanistan were obliterated. Funerals have been attacked. And then there were widely used "signature strikes" targeting people or groups of people based on "behavior patterns"—not because they'd been specifically identified as members of al Qaeda or "terrorists who pose a continuing and imminent threat to the American people."
The New York Times report (October 22, 2013) on the impact of the drone war on Miram Shah [Miranshah], a small town of some 3,500 in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, paints a picture of systematic terror impacting a whole population:
[V]iewed from Miram Shah, the frontier Pakistani town that has become a virtual test laboratory for drone warfare, the campaign has not been the antiseptic salve portrayed in Washington. In interviews over the past year, residents paint a portrait of extended terror and strain within a tribal society caught between vicious militants and the American drones hunting them. "The drones are like the angels of death," said Nazeer Gul, a shopkeeper in Miram Shah. "Only they know when and where they will strike."
It has become a fearful and paranoid town, dealt at least 13 drone strikes since 2008, with an additional 25 in adjoining districts—more than any other urban settlement in the world. Even when the missiles do not strike, buzzing drones hover day and night, scanning the alleys and markets with roving high-resolution cameras... the strikes in the area mostly occur in densely populated neighborhoods. The drones have hit a bakery, a disused girls' school and a money changers' market, residents say... While the strike rate has dropped drastically in recent months, the constant presence of circling drones—and accompanying tension over when, or whom, they will strike—is a crushing psychological burden for many residents. Sales of sleeping tablets, antidepressants and medicine to treat anxiety have soared, said Hajji Gulab Jan Dawar, a pharmacist in the town bazaar.
The Immorality of American Lives First
The reality of life under U.S. drones in Pakistan, in Yemen, in Afghanistan is systematically suppressed and hidden from people in the U.S. But when the news leaks out, when people begin to get a glimpse of what the U.S. is doing around the world (whether spying, drones or whatever), the rulers have an answer: it's all to protect you and yours, to save American lives. "To begin with, our actions are effective," Obama said in May. "Simply put, these [drone] strikes have saved lives."
Far too many have swallowed or passively tolerated the ideological poison that they should accept the slaughter of unnamed and uncounted thousands in distant lands because it makes them more "secure." That obliterating people in Pakistan is a small, and acceptable, price to pay for their own personal safety.
Putting American lives ahead of the lives of others is profoundly immoral. Today this is the moral equivalent of supporting slavery in the 1800s because you benefited, or thought you benefited, from it.
"Transparency" Is Not the Essential Problem, Imperialism Is
The exposure of the U.S. drone war, calls for disclosing government secrets, and for prosecuting those who have carried out war crimes—done by human rights organizations, UN special rapporteurs, and news agencies—is important. But these reports accept the framework and basic legitimacy of the U.S. "war on terror" and its "right to self defense." So while Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, some UN agencies, and others have called for "transparency," "legality," and "accountability," they have neither challenged nor opposed the "war on terror." For instance, Amnesty's Qadri stated on Democracy Now!, "There are genuine threats to the USA and its allies in the region, and drone strikes may be lawful in some circumstances."
But the root problem is that the entire "war on terror" is illegitimate, unjust, and directly contrary to the interests of humanity—as is the system of imperialism from which it flows. The U.S. rulers have violated their own laws and international agreements, but their greatest crime is waging an immoral and unjust war in service of global exploitation and oppression, a war that has further stoked reactionary Islamic fundamentalism which inflicts its own set of horrors on the people. And making such an unjust war of empire more "transparent," and concocting a more coherent and public legal justification for it, even restricting certain military actions or more complying with existing international law (which is bourgeois law), doesn't make it just or in the interests of humanity—quite the contrary.
What Is the U.S. Trying to Defend and Preserve in Pakistan?
Think about what the U.S. is fighting to preserve in Pakistan: an oppressive tyranny ruling over one of the most brutally exploited and impoverished countries on earth. A country where 82 million people will spend their entire lives in poverty, earning less than $19 per person per month. Where millions of children are driven to work in factories earning perhaps $10 a week to support their families. Where nearly all medium-size and large agricultural enterprises are owned by a tiny elite—less than 1 percent of the population. A country shackled by feudal, patriarchal traditions where less than half of women living in rural areas can read.
This is why—despite tensions and contradictions—the U.S. and Pakistani governments work together to crush any challenges, whether reactionary like the Islamists, or revolution, to the current order. This is why the Pakistani government, like the Islamists and the U.S., target restive populations: "We are scared that at any time there could be a blast [from an armed group] and then the Army will fire mortars without caring who they hit," one villager told Amnesty. And this is why despite its public protests, the Pakistani government supports U.S. drone strikes: "top officials in Pakistan's government have for years secretly endorsed the program and routinely received classified briefings on strikes and casualty counts, according to top-secret CIA documents and Pakistani diplomatic memos,"Washington Post reports (October 24, 2013).
What kind of empire and global order is it that depends on violence to preserve such oppression and suffering? That murders 68-year-old grandmothers, blowing them to pieces as they tend their small fields, and then attacking their children and grandchildren when they try to help? Or that massacres chromite miners, landless farmers, and near-penniless drivers? What is legitimate about trying to violently preserve a world in which millions upon millions are forced to live in destitution and fear, now, in the 21st century? Yet this is, at bottom, what the "war on terror" is about.
Why should anyone accept U.S. drone strikes, Obama's lies, and most fundamentally, this kind of world?
Amnesty International, "'Will I be next?' US drone strikes in Pakistan", October, 22, 2013
Human Rights Watch, "Between a Drone and Al-Qaeda," October 22, 2013
"Documents reveal NSA's extensive involvement in targeted killing program," WashingtonPost, October 16, 2013
Civilian Deaths in Drone Strikes Cited in Report," New York Times, October 22, 2013
"'How Do You Justify Killing a Grandmother?' Amnesty Says U.S. Drone Strikes May Be War Crimes," Democracy Now!, October 23, 2013
"The Deaths of Innocents," New York Times, October 23, 2013
Amnesty International, "USA Must Be Held To Account For Drone Killings In Pakistan," October 23, 2013
."Pakistan says drones killed 67 civilians since 2008," BBC, October 30, 2013
"Too Scared to Go Outside": Family of Pakistani Grandmother Killed in U.S. Drone Strike Speaks Out," Democracy Now! October 31. 2013
For extensive documentation of the U.S. "war on terror," drone strikes, and other covert operations, see Jeremy Scahill, Dirty War: The World Is A Battlefield (Nation Books, 2003)
Larry Everest is a correspondent for Revolution newspaper, where this article first appeared, and author of Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda (Common Courage 2004). He can be reached at email@example.com.
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City Rep. Steve Ortega Talks About The Proposed Downtown Ball Park [Audio]
Today on the KLAQ Morning show, City Representative Steve Ortega was on to talk about the proposed downtown ball park that has caused a bit of controversy.
During the interview Rep. Ortega talked about making unpopular decisions:
"My goal is not to make the popular decision, it's to make the best decision for the city."
He also talked about the mentality that some people have in El Paso
"Some people think that the city is destined to stay in poverty and that is wrong. We are working to change that mentality and by having the ball park downtown, it would help revitalize downtown."
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Where are the academic super-stars?
The Vice-Chancellor of Manchester University is reported to be recruiting Nobel Prizewinners to join his team of academics. In fact he has already signed up the economist Joseph Stiglitz, from the USA, to work part-time. He is only the first of a series of promised "iconic appointments". It is all part and parcel of nudging Manchester up the super-league of world-wide academic institutions.
I have no idea on what terms Stiglitz has been attracted to Manchester. But the usual deal in the international race for university super-stars is to offer them a lot of money, no "coal-face" administrative responsibilities and a teaching load that is made up of a few chosen seminars with clever graduates – none of the basic undergraduate teaching or the standard stint on the catering committee that the rest of us undertake.
Vice-Chancellors tend to love this kind of head-hunting (for Manchester University read Manchester United?). It adds lustre to their University, and kudos to their own cv. Stiglitz is, I guess, the Beckham of Economics. But the truth is that the brightest lustre ought to go to those institutions that actually produce the Nobel Prize winners, not those that just buy them in.
It is not all that difficult for a University to entice the high-fliers to join them – it's a question of making the terms attractive enough (and those terms tend to include a large salary and a delicate embargo on seeing too much of the undergraduates). But what happens to the rest of us when "Professor Whizzo" wings in for his couple of graduate classes a year, leaving the rank and file to run the show? According to the Manchester University website, Stiglitz has been hired just to chair their new "World Poverty Institute". I wonder what they say to clever first year undergraduates who would like to be taught be the great man.
In fact, in most subjects, great and world-changing academics are made not born. There may be a few enfant-sauvage mathematicians who revolutionize their subject simply by solitary scribbling. In Arts subjects there are no natural geniuses (or so few as not to be worth chasing, and generally only recognized post-mortem anyway). The difference between the clever person and the clever person who makes a difference to their subject is a combination of luck, community, back-up and local stimulation. The best thing a University can be proud of is providing a context in which little zany ideas can turn into big important ones, or young maverick academics can turn into influential ones. If I have made any difference in my field, the credit goes to my institution as much as to me.
That means taking a view of the intellectual community as a whole. And it means constructing an environment in which no professor is too grand to teach first year undergraduates (in many ways they are the most important). Or, because they are off back to the USA as soon as the meeting or seminar is over, doesn't have time to talk through the anxieties of junior colleagues, or to debate with the student representatives the rights and wrongs of the syllabus.
The sooner Universities pay as much attention to retaining and fostering home-grown talent as attracting Nobel Laureates and assorted divas from elsewhere, the better. Perhaps this is not so much unlike the message of Man U and English football. The home-grown has a longer shelf-life, and in the end may score more goals.


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Wellington, Oct 25 (ANI): Brendon McCullum has been stripped of the vice-captaincy of the Black Caps, following the decision of New Zealand cricket authorities to make the position redundant.
The reasons for McCullum's demotion are complicated, although no replacement will be appointed.
NZ Herald reports there is a suggestion that convenor of selectors Glenn Turner was uncomfortable with the power wielded by captain Daniel Vettori and McCullum, as witnessed by last week's evisceration of coach Andy Moles.
Some sources suggest it was felt McCullum dominated the dressing room too much.
However, a well-placed source said McCullum was effectively sidelined from the decision-making process on the tour to Sri Lanka in August, and his role in Moles' downfall was overstated.
New Zealand Cricket's Justin Vaughan said a decision was made that there was no absolute need for a second in charge.
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"Brendon being Brendon, he will lead. That's his nature. At the moment he needs to be focusing on several areas but primarily that is around fulfilling his potential with the bat," Vaughan said.
McCullum said when contacted by the Herald on Sunday: "It's disappointing, obviously, in many respects but the fact is I can now concentrate on my roles of scoring runs and keeping wickets. I still have some fairly big goals I want to achieve for New Zealand, including the captaincy, and this has not changed that."
McCullum was seen as the natural heir apparent to Vettori, and was endorsed by the man himself in this newspaper back in January. (ANI)


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Questions were submitted through WalesOnline and SWALEC digital channels with everyone who submitted a question will now go into a prize draw to win Wales v Ireland RBS 6 Nations tickets.
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I essentially need a program that allows me to create a database of all my contracts, with the ability to drag and drop different clauses wherever I see fit. Any suggestions? Thank you very much.
I'm not at all clear what the legal issue here is (except that it tangentially involves legal document production). Sounds like a mis-pick on the forum/site? :)
There are some automated software programs out there, but then there's also just having a boilerplate contract with every provision under the sun and deleting what you don't need.
Most good word processing and database programs you can't use (legally) for free. It's not exactly clear to me what you want to do. I don't quite see where a database program would be useful here. Certainly a good word processing system or document building program is great for taking basic standard contracts that you have (often referred to as boilerplate) and then modifying them to the extent needed for the particular situation you have. That's what lawyers often do. I use several different word processing programs for my work. But a database program isn't something that I'd see as useful for document creation and editing.
Thank you. I am looking for a way to take the hundred or so contact provisions I have and drag and drop them into a program to create a contract. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thank you. I am looking for a way to take the hundred or so contact provisions I have and drag and drop them into a program to create a contract. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
You can do that easily with Microsoft Word.
Create a document with each provision, name the document, save it.
Then, when you want to create a new contract you can open each provision and copy and paste the provision into the new contract, leaving the provision documents intact.
As you create new contracts you can save them and name the document for a particular purpose or type of job, or any other criteria and save the sample for possible future use if you have the same type of job.
Over a period of time you'll find that you can open your completed contract samples and only need to change a few lines or a paragraph here and there without creating a new one from scratch.
But if you don't want to buy Microsoft Word or Microsoft Office you can do the same thing with Microsoft's Wordpad that comes with your Windows operating system.
Try it.
Many a word processing package will allow you to mix in from 100+ paragraphs ---but it takes a lot of smarts to make a composite docuement hang together in a solid legal manner --I've seen supposedly well patched together leases that supposedly work in MD that result in a big bundle of nonsense in PA --and I'd suspect similar problems with any form of contracts used in multiple jurisdictions.


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Anyone looking for something delicious to eat for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Nautical colors. we are by the beach and long island sound. Our indoor/outdoor color scheme is Navy Blue, Sky Blue, and White. We don't necessarily want the logo to use these colors, but should blend with them.


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Re: How to produce variable substitution list?
On 7/29/08 at 1:37 AM, stoneyb at gmail.com (Stoney Ballard) wrote:
>Is there a straight-forward way to write a function that takes a
>list of symbols that are bound in the calling environment and
>produce a list such as is produced by Solve, like {var1->val1,
This is easily done using Thread. For example,
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IUP BASKETBALL: Stamp puts mark on victory
LOCK HAVEN — The IUP women's basketball team traveled across cold, snowy Pennsylvania this weekend and came home with two victories.
The Crimson Hawks overcame a little more than that to secure Saturday afternoon's victory, a 77-66 decision over Lock Haven in a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference crossover game.
Junior guard Lindsay Stamp, IUP's leading scorer, battled illness to lead the Hawks with 25 points, and three other players chipped in with double-figure scoring.
"She's a very confident player, and she knows that we have confidence in her," IUP coach Tom McConnell said. "After yesterday's game she spent all of last night and the early part of this morning in bed, battling flu symptoms. We didn't even know if she'd be able to play today. It was more of a game-time decision."
The 5-foot-10 former transfer from Mercyhurst leads IUP (11-1) with a conference-high 20.8 points per game. Her 25 on Saturday marked her second-highest scoring total of the season, next to a 35-point performance versus Pitt Johnstown.
"Frank Trenney, our trainer, did a good job making sure she was strong enough and ready to go," McConnell said. "She wasn't 100 percent physically, but for her to go out and play the way she did showed a lot of heart and a lot of courage."
Ashley Stoner scored 18 points and grabbed a game-high nine rebounds, Talen Watson added 12 points, and Amy Fairman had 10 points for IUP, which shot 26 of 57 (45.6 percent) overall and 6 of 11 (54.5 percent) from 3-point range.
"I'm real happy we were able to put four players in double figures, and Leslie Stapleton finished with eight, so we were close to putting five players in double figures," McConnell said. "That's the way we want to play. We want to be able to share the ball."
The Hawks have won five in a row, including a 78-63 victory at Mansfield on Friday night.
"I told the girls, this is no small thing, what you've done, to be able to win on the road back-to-back," McConnell said. "We were battling weather over there, illness, all those kind of things, but I said, 'Your unity and the way you care about each other and the way you love each other is stronger than any injury, any sickness, any weather and that kind of stuff.' That's a really, really good sign to keep doing that. It's a good team win."
IUP opened up a 20-6 lead early on but saw the lead cut to as little as four before the gap widened to seven, 38-31, at halftime.
"It seemed to be a game of runs where we were able to string some stops together, and then they did the same thing," McConnell said. "We were fortunate that we were able to sustain it just a little bit longer. … We knew they would make a run at us, so I was proud of our girls for the way they hung tough, stayed together, withstood their run and were able to build the lead back up again."
Emily Daugherty, a redshirt junior guard and a graduate of Ligonier Valley High School, scored 20 points to lead Lock Haven (2-10). She shot 6 of 12 from the field and made 5 of 6 free throws.
"We knew going into the game from watching film that Emily's a very skilled offensive player," McConnell said. "We knew if we were going to have any success today, we had to limit her shots, and she still went for 20 on us. She can beat you in a lot of ways. She can shoot the basketball, she takes it to the rim, she gets it off the glass. She's a really, really good player in our conference."
IUP improved to 5-0 in PSAC crossover play. Its final game against an East Division opponent is Wednesday, when the Hawks welcome Bloomsburg to the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex.
"At this point, we don't even really talk about that," McConnell said of his team's success against the PSAC East. "We just talk about the next opponent on our schedule. We don't really talk about where they're from or anything like that. We just try to focus more on us and growing and getting better every day. We were fortunate today to be able to get this one on the road."


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March 15, 2010 - Companies that actively embrace adaptive methods will be tomorrow's leaders in the biopharmaceutical industry, says Michael Rosenberg, president and CEO of Health Decisions, and author of the recently released book, The Agile Approach to Adaptive Research. According to Rosenberg, "The impact of adaptive clinical trials is going to be so profound that it's going to change the dominant players. This happens in every industry when there is fundamental change."
Yet despite this prophetic call, Rosenberg says that implementation of adaptive clinical trials (ACT) is very much in its infancy, and he estimates the percentage of sponsors using this technique as down in the low single digits. "Mostly, we're seeing companies starting with sample size re-estimation (SSRE), which refers to changing the size of the study population based on treatment effect, placebo response and other factors. It's one of the easiest ways to stick your toe into the adaptive pool," he comments.
Once stakeholders become comfortable with SSRE, the goal should be to expand the effort by implementing a series of agile design steps that make for a continuously updated flow of information. Rosenberg's book explores many of these steps, such as combining multiple phases in clinical trials, and implementing adaptive randomization. Each step is intended to bring measurable efficiencies and improved decision-making to an industry that spends in excess of $50 billion annually in R&D, while the output—the number of new drug and biologics approvals—is anemic, in the range of two dozen per year by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The Agile Approach also describes the critical importance of adaptive operational changes linked to monitoring, enrollment issues, data quality, site closeout, and database lock. Regarding monitoring in particular, Rosenberg says, "Monitoring accounts for one-third of study budgets, and is a tremendous source of inefficiency. Basically, they look to see that data from the source is accurately transcribed into the database."
A vast improvement and significant cost savings would come from re-defining the monitor's role from a boxchecker to someone in charge of managing the sites, with a focus on what's critical to a study's success, namely reaching enrollment targets in a timely manner and generating clean data. In an adaptive trial, this could be accomplished by dispensing with rigid adherence to monitoring intervals established at the beginning of the study, and moving toward the use of better electronic tools such as the SmartPen (see, Health Decisions Celebrates 20 Years of Adaptive Clinical Research). The SmartPen Advanced Electronic Data Capture (EDC) system enables continuous tracking, which helps monitors identify sites in need of help. This approach not only results in dramatically less travel for monitors and all of the costs associated with it, but also fewer queries and faster database lock.
Health Decisions, Rosenberg's company, is using some of these adaptive techniques to yield impressive outcomes such as completing a study for metastatic breast cancer nine months ahead of schedule, and saving $32 million of a $110 million Alzheimer's study by shortening the five year timeline to 3.5 years.
In an industry notorious for adopting efficiency-yielding technologies in a slow, incremental fashion, Rosenberg says this approach is no longer sustainable or affordable. Instead, stakeholders need to completely change their processes to realize outcomes. "It's not about adopting a specific technology to improve part of a decades-old style of clinical development. Only decisive action will bring about improvements needed to increase safety for subjects, lower development costs, shorten timelines, and realize the promise of personalized medicine. Our industry can do a lot better in terms of productivity. That's why I wrote the book," Rosenberg comments.


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Maybe you've heard about "secret airport tunnels" and other methods celebrities supposedly use to avoid the paparazzi while traveling, but did you know you too can travel like a movie star?
For a fee of course. But it won't cost all that much. [See air travel expert Rick Seaney explain in the video below]
You'll be shocked how many celebs fly this airline
How Celebrities Fly
Yes, celebrities are different from you and me. They have publicists and managers – and travel agents. And those agents are plugged into airline representatives who help smooth the way. As air travel expert Rick Seaney says, "Remember, even the airlines and the TSA get star-struck from time to time."
What this means is a lot of figurative hand-holding including airline escorts and sometimes special security and boarding line privileges, "the kind reserved for vendors or pilots," notes Seaney. The airlines make a good case for such access because it means less disruption for the rest of us (think of all those photographers). Of course plenty of celebrities bypass the airport altogether with private jets.
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No need to don oversize sunglasses and hang out at Los Angeles International (the one airport that's always teeming with paparazzi). There are a number of things you can do. Two of the more expensive options:
- Travel a lot to qualify as an elite. Earn enough miles in your frequent flyer program and you will be entitled to all kinds of perks.
- Sign up for a concierge-type program. One of the better known is American's 5 Star Service which the airline touts as "discreet and exclusive." For a cost of $125 to $200 per adult (price depends on the airport), you get an escort starting at curbside who will whisk you through check-in and an expedited security line, plus access to the VIP lounge and delivery to your gate.
If that's too rich for you, try these cheaper fee-based options:
- Cut-in-line service: Several airlines offer early boarding ranging from $12 to $40 or so, and you may qualify for the TSA's PreCheck faster security experience for free.
- VIP lounge pass: Many airlines offer day passes to their lounges for as little as $25 to $50 or so.
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There was good news for drivers today, but bad news for shareholders in Admiral. Premium costs are coming down, and so are sales at the motor insurer. For the third quarter to October, revenue fell 2% to £570 million.
The shares today fell 57p, or more than 5%, to 1083p. Admiral's staff hold a number of the shares while founder Henry Engelhardt and his family own about 14% of the company. The price reverse took about £23 million off the family's paper wealth. But don't feel too sorry for them — they have around £410 million of the company's stock.
Engelhardt said: "The UK car insurance market is cyclical, and we are in the softer part of the cycle with premium rates coming down."
The Association of British Insurers estimates the growing number of personal injury claims has meant the UK motor insurance market hasn't posted an underwriting profit for about 15 years. Insurers have been making money on ancillary income instead. Referral fees account for about 6% of Admiral's UK car insurance profits. But next year's ban on these fees is more bad news car insurers' profits.
Investec downgraded the stock to Sell with a price target of 570p and said "paying 12 times earnings for what is essentially a UK motor insurer is too much".
The FTSE 100 index, trying to hang on to yesterday's gains, was bumpy as the City awaited the latest US jobs report. The index was up just 3.01 points at 5864.93.
A question for you: is the City closed for business for small companies? Answer: Not for Aureus. With a little help from Canada, the AIM-listed miner is raising £50 million in a secondary placing to finance the building of Liberia's first commercial gold mine.
Aureus has raised money in the UK and North America through existing and new shareholders. It has a 25-year permit for the mine, New Liberty, and the financing enables it to be built. The shares dug down 6.25p to 51.25p.
The mining-focused Assaubayev family has created African Resources to buy 60% of Hambledon Mining. The family thinks Hambledon's Sekisovskoye mine has growth potential. Under the terms of the offer, shareholders will have the potential to sell a portion of their Hambledon stock at 2p each — a premium of about 66% to the closing price of 1.2p on 1 November. The shares ticked up 0.48p to 1.68p.
On the mid-cap index, some traders were speculating that a bid could still come in from Carlyle for defence equipment maker Chemring despite many suspecting it will ever materialise. The shares hurried up 13.4p to 273.7p.
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Cold Light by Jenn Ashworth is a psychological study of three teenage girls who have a history of jealousy, lies and perversion between them. These emotions eventually build into a tragedy. As events are slowly unveiled we learn the history of the friendship and how the secrets they held and the intensity of their relationship goes way beyond normal.
Told in a bleak, almost surreal manner, I had trouble getting into this book but eventually the hints the writer drops and the many questions that arose enticed me into the story. These are not likeable girls, they are mean, seem to have a sense of entitlement and no empathy to speak of. I can't say I liked the story, but it certainly became one that was difficult to put down.
Cold Light seems to have left me with more questions than answers as I ponder the motivations of the characters. The story is told in flashbacks from 10 years in the future and in the end the strongest emotion I felt was one of sadness for the waste that their lives became by being shaped by guilt and shame. Not an easy or comfortable read but a memorable one.
Jenn Ashworth writes books that are so different to anything else. Quirky characters, and always something that's not revealed right to the end.
This follows Lola and what has obviously been the tragic death of her friend Chloe. We don't discover how tragic, and the shadows Lola has lived with until the tenth anniversary of her death and the ground-breaking ceremony for her memorial.
The uncurling of a great tale.
A dark and compelling portrayal of lives gone astray. Ashworth is a gifted writer. I was especially impressed by the way the plot unfolded. Just as we think we understand what is going on, something new is revealed. Recommended.
Ashworth successfully elucidates the girls' lives – especially Lola's. They are fraught with the tensions and allure of dangerous older men, the peril of a flasher – whose crimes are escalating- on the loose, and their own semi-abusive treatment of one another. Lola's life is further complicated by the delusions of her elderly father, hostile relationship with her mother, and a harsh mixture of guilt and defiance concerning her own actions the year Chloe died. With the mystery of the newly uncovered body in the woods, all the pieces are carefully placed for a tense read as the true nature of Chloe's death is revealed. However the pacing is off, and the meandering plot of the novel exceeds plausibility, and proves too problematic to overcome. The transitions between past and present are frequently abrupt and confusing when overlapping each other. As interesting as the girls' stories could have been, the sprawling narrative and numerous plot lines diffused interest in the fates of all involved.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.When deciding if this was a book I wanted to read or not, I was torn, more than I've ever been before about adding to the To Be Read pile. The description promised an ominous tale of mysterious deaths in the recent past, told ten years later from the point of view of one of the survivors. Now that I've finally completed the book I'd categorize it as a dark young adult tale.
Had I known it was going to read like a young adult novel, I probably would have passed. I have no patience for the machinations and social cliques of self-absorbed teenage girls. Perhaps that says more about me as a reader than it does about this book, but I've clearly determined this is not a genre I can make myself care about.
Our narrator, Lola, is in her mid-twenties, watching the groundbreaking ceremony for a memorial to two of her friends who died ten years ago in what was determined to be a dual suicide pact. At 14 Lola was a social outcast - from a lower-middle class family whose parents had her late in life, thus making them much older than her friends' parents. Her father is losing his sanity, becoming obsessed with various projects he takes up then abandons. Her mother is devoid of any emotion.
When new-to-the-school Chloe befriends Lola, Lola's social prospects brighten. Chloe pretty and possesses a cocksure attitude which tends to get her anything she wants. Including a 19-year old boyfriend who is obsessed with photographing Chloe in various states of undress.
Pregnancy scares, pedophilia, flashers - all the tropes of those things your mother warned you about are here. Along with a rival for Chloe's attention who soon relegates Lola to the fringes of the school's social pecking order.
In the end, the mystery wasn't much of a mystery - you'll know whose body is found, you'll figure out what happened to the two dead lovers and you won't care about any of it because the characters are so off-putting, so narcissistic, that you'll find yourself wishing the surviving characters meet the same fate.
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"Lola's on the sofa, watching Chloe's family and the TV crews grouped round the pond. It's been ten years since Chloe and her boyfriend died, and they've finally decided what the memorial will be. The Mayor has a spade decked out in pink and white ribbon, and he's started to dig. She can tell from their faces that something has gone wrong, that a celebration has turned into something else entirely. But she's the only person who can be sure it's a body. She's the only one who knows straightaway who it is. Everyone thought Chloe's death was a tragedy, and they were right, it was a tragedy, but it wasn't as simple as that. Lola and Chloe were best friends. Lola knew everything about her. At least she thought she did..."--From publisher description.… (more)
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Who need's FP, BM, MS, TK409, Barks, MLC or anyone else I cant remember off the top of my head when you have stuff like this
Looks like an accident waiting to happen :P
aw man that is awesome! gotta get me one of these
that is the most movie accurate costume ever made.....how can we compare to that on this site.......gess its time to throw in the towel
The fine print says you get a free bowl of soup with purchase!
To funny !!
man! and to think I wasted $4,000. I could have gotten this beauty. just think of all the attention you would get at the Comic con's and Troops???
I seem to remember someone here selling that "rubber" ammo belt in the CH a while back.
The little sewn on footies make it soooooooo comfy too sleep in! :o
Do you think I could get that 501st approved?
aw man, and i just ordered more BKBT pieces! What was i thinking!?
man, I'd love to see the JP that goes with that
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it's a recast guys
That's not the worst mando costume out there, not by a long shot.
ALLRIGHT!!! Boba Footies!
Man, I think you could fly with those shoulder bells!
Do you inflat it?
I like this one better, besides it's half the price.
Mark Ecko who???
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I'm actually going to buy one of these and wear it around sdcc, just to see what the real Boba's say.
They look like Boba's Big Boy PJ's
Did'nt I just see this on ebay for a buy it now price of $3999.99
Darn it, GBH ... ya had to start a thread for Fett gloves when it turns out they're not even needed.
I feel sorry for the poor schmucks they got to actually wear these monstrosities. I just hope they didn't agree to get paid from a percentage of the sales.
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Kraft Nabisco Championship develops fan experience
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. - Kraft Nabisco Championship week officially teed off in Rancho Mirage. The first major championship of the LPGA season brings tens of thousands of spectators to the Mission Hills Country Club each year. This year, the tournament's adding a new attraction, just for the fans. A new sign with the words "KNC Fan Experience" greets spectators at the tournament. Organizers hope it helps a new push further engage the gallery. "In addition to coming out and seeing some great golf, by the tour players, the new fan experience is going to add a great element to the event," said Chris Keener from the First Tee of the Coachella Valley who has a booth in the new area.
The fan experience includes different booths like samples of Kraft Nabisco food, a long putt contest for prizes and the official merchandise tent, just to name a few. Every year for the last five years, Agnes McClure has made her way to the desert from Canada for the tournament. She's excited about the new addition. "I think it's wonderful, especially the First Tee thing," said McClure. "That is just wonderful, it's a great experience."
The First Tee is an area where children can learn the basics of the game from a professional on equipment made for them. Eleven-year-old Jack Dixon and his sister Katie took a swing on the miniature course. "Yeah, it was fun," said Dixon. "The obstacles get in the way, and you have to beat the master over here, and it's just fun to experience all of this and get the action."
Action that exceeded the expectations for the Dixon family, who paid their first visit to the tournament from Orange County. "It was great, we actually didn't expect anything today, and then to be part of the fan experience was neat," said Todd Dixon. "It's nice to have all the kids experience this."
In just its first year, the new area could become a selling point for the tournament. "This is one of the reasons we wanted to come see, just the whole fan experience, the hands on, it's just great," said Katie Dixon.
The fan experience also offers an unobstructed view of the 18th green where all players will finish their rounds. Access to the area is free.


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Berry, 5-foot-11, and 185-pounds, is excited to join the Buckeye program and is thrilled to be playing with freshman phenom Terrelle Pryor.
"I feel so much at home here and everybody treats me so great," he stated. "This just feels like the perfect place for me. I love the way they run their offense and I feel I can do real well in this system. Playing with Terrelle Pryor will be great and I'm happy to be his teammate next year. I know I need to work hard and have a lot to work on, but I'm looking forward to doing what I need to do to get out on the field. I'm good to go academically and I will be taking the ACT in October. My mom and I were really glad to meet with the acdemic staff and go over all that stuff."
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Edward HeatonTweet (1824 )
Keys /Mar 14, 2014
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Some works of Edward HeatonExtracted between 9 works in the catalog of Arcadja
Edward Heaton - Fishermen Unloading Their Catch
Auction: Rosebery's -Feb 6, 2016 - LondonLot number: 154
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Edward Heaton, British b.1824- Fishermen unloading their catch; oil on canvas, signed, 50.5x70.5cm (VAT charged on hammer price)
Edward Heaton - Rural Studies
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By E* Heaton - pair of rural studies, one with a horse-drawn cart on a snowy path, the other a boating scene, signed, watercolour and gouache, 5" x 15.5" (2)
Edward Heaton - Pair Of Bucolic Landscapes
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Auction: Eldred's -Nov 6, 2015 - East-dennisLot number: 993
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EDWARD HEATON British, b. 1824 Pair of bucolic landscapes. Both depicting cows by the water. Both signed lower left E. Heaton". Oil on canvas, 20" x 30". Framed 21" x 31"."
Edward Heaton - Rural Landscape
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Auction: Keys -Mar 14, 2014 - AylshamLot number: 81
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EDWIN HEATON (1824- , BRITISH) Rural Landscape with Figures and Horse oil on canvas, signed lower left 15 x 9ins (2) 200-300
Edward Heaton - Highland Cattle Watering
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Re: Generation of polynomials
f[n_] := (Expand[Normal[
Series[Product[Sum[(q*t)^i, {i, 0, n}], {q , {x, y}}], {t, 0,
n}]]]) /. t -> 1
from which one can generate polynomials e.g. f[1],f[2],f[3].
Now this does not generate the same display as given since Mathematica
has a different ordering of terms in mind.
Sometimes the simplest way to produce a mathematical expression is to do
mathematics, not hacking lists, tables, etc.