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Definition of laugh
intransitive verb
1a : to show emotion (such as mirth, joy, or scorn) with a chuckle or explosive vocal sound The audience was laughing hysterically.b : to find amusement or pleasure in something laughed at his own clumsinessc : to become amused or derisive a very skeptical public laughed at our early efforts — Graenum Berger
2a : to produce the sound or appearance of laughter a laughing brookb : to be of a kind that inspires joy the blue sky of Autumn laughs above — Amy Lowell
transitive verb
1 : to influence or move by laughter laughed the bad singer off the stage
2 : to utter with a laugh laughs her consent
laughinglyplay \ˈla-fiŋ-lē, ˈlä-\ adverb
Examples of laugh in a Sentence
What are you laughing about?
The audience was laughing hysterically.
I've never laughed so hard in my life.
I couldn't stop laughing when I saw what he was wearing.
I laughed out loud when I saw him.
He laughed so hard I thought he'd die laughing.
The movie was hilarious. We laughed our heads off.
"I've never seen anything so ridiculous," he laughed.
Origin and Etymology of laugh
Middle English, from Old English hliehhan; akin to Old High German lachēn to laugh
First Known Use: before 12th century
Examples of laugh in a Sentence
He gave a loud laugh.
a joke that always gets a big laugh
The movie has a lot of laughs.
You're going to be a movie star? That's a laugh.
Origin and Etymology of laugh
see 1laugh
First Known Use: 1592
LAUGH Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of laugh for English Language Learners
: to show that you are happy or that you think something is funny by smiling and making a sound from your throat
: to think or say that someone or something is foolish and does not deserve serious attention or respect
: to not be bothered by something
Definition of laugh for English Language Learners
: the act or sound of laughing
: something that causes laughter : something funny or foolish
: a funny person
LAUGH Defined for Kids
Definition of laugh for Students
: to show amusement, joy, or scorn by smiling and making sounds (as chuckling) in the throat
Definition of laugh for Students
: the act or sound of laughing
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Re: bimodal ditribution form counting signs of Pi digits differences
On 11/2/04 at 10:29 AM, drbob at bigfoot.com (DrBob) wrote:
>Why isn't the KS table built into Mathematica, I wonder? Or is it,
As far as I know, the KS table is not built in to Mathematica nor is it a function in any of the packages that come in the standard distribution.
1/2Log[1/(1-p)] - 1/(6 Sqrt[n])
is a good approximation to the pth percentile point for the KS statistic with an error O[1/n] for n>30
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Legislation Introduced in the House Would Amend the False Claims Act – On August 1, 2013, Reps. Howard Coble (R-N.C.) and David Scott (D-Ga.) introduced bipartisan legislation in the House that would amend the federal False Claims Act (FCA) by adding several procedural hurdles that make it more difficult to bring an action against a healthcare provider. Before even requesting information from a provider in a FCA investigation, the legislation would require the Attorney General to certify that (1) the government agency has examined all regulations, guidelines, and billing instructions relevant to the allegations; (2) such regulations, guidelines, and billing instructions are unambiguous; and (3) the allegations are viable. The legislation, H.R. 2931, is titled, "Fairness in Health Care Claims, Guidance, and Investigations Act."
The legislation also would bar an action based on a claim submitted or an overpayment retained with respect to a federal healthcare program if the provider is in "substantial compliance" with a model compliance plan, or if the provider relied in good faith on federal policy, erroneous information provided by an agency, or agency audit findings. It would raise the plaintiff's burden of proof from a "preponderance of the evidence" to "clear and convincing evidence." Finally, the legislation would require that the amount at issue be material, which is defined as exceeding a proportion (to be established in regulations by the Secretary in consultation with the Secretary of Defense) of the total submitted claims by that healthcare provider during the same calendar year.
In a letter to Rep. Coble dated August 1, 2013, the American Hospital Association immediately expressed its support for the legislation. A copy of the letter is available here. H.R. 2931 was referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary upon introduction. A copy of the legislation is available here.
Reporter, Kate Stern, Atlanta, +1 404 572 4661, email@example.com.
CMS Releases FY 2011 SSI Ratios – CMS has released the FY 2011 SSI data for IPPS hospitals, LTCHs, and IRFs. This data will be used to determine the disproportionate share adjustment for hospitals and the low-income payment adjustment for IRFs for cost reporting periods beginning in FY 2011. The change in SSI ratios for IPPS hospitals ranged from -0.30373 to 0.36215 (with one provider receiving a much larger increase of 0.94778). According to our calculations, the average change across all providers from FY 2010 to FY 2011 is -0.00038.
The FY 2011 SSI Ratios are available from the CMS website by clicking here. The Medicare Learning Network Matters article discussing the SSI Ratios can be accessed here. Reporter, Susan Banks, Washington, D.C., +1 202 626 2953, email@example.com.
CMS Releases FY 2015 Hospital Wage Index Development Timetable – CMS has released the Wage Index Development Timetable for FY 2015. This is the schedule that governs the review and corrections process for hospital wage index values. According to the Timetable, CMS will release two preliminary wage index files on September 13, 2013, and hospitals must request revisions to their Worksheet S-3 wage data and occupational mix data by November 21, 2013. This deadline to request revisions occurs earlier than previous years' deadlines, which typically occurred during the first week of December.
A copy of the FY 2015 Hospital Wage Index Development Timetable is available from the CMS website by clicking here. Reporter, Susan Banks, Washington, D.C., +1 202 626 2953, email@example.com.
CMS Updates NCD Policies and Procedures – On August 7, 2013, CMS published a notice updating the processes that CMS uses for opening, deciding, or reconsidering National Coverage Determinations (NCDs) for items and services under the Medicare program. The notice supersedes the 2003 Federal Register notice in which CMS announced its prior procedures for considering NCD requests and issuing NCDs. The 2013 notice does not alter or amend the regulations governing administrative appeals of NCDs, however. The King & Spalding Client Alert on the new rule is available by clicking here.
CMS Offers Clarification Regarding Incarcerated Beneficiary Claim Denials – On July 31, 2013, CMS updated its Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for all fee-for-service providers related to incarcerated beneficiary claim denials. Medicare does not cover supplies or services for persons who are incarcerated at the time the services are rendered.
Effective April 1, 2013, CMS created an Informational Unsolicited Response (IUR) process to identify and perform retroactive adjustments on any previously paid claims that may have been processed and paid erroneously during periods when the beneficiary data in the Medicare Enrollment Database did not reflect the fact that the beneficiary was incarcerated for the date of service. Following the implementation of the IUR process, CMS identified a significant number of alleged overpayments, released demand letters, and automatically recovered the alleged overpayments. Subsequently, however, CMS has determined that certain of the incarcerated beneficiary claims may have been denied in error, because the information related to the period of incarceration for certain beneficiaries was not completely accurate. As a result, CMS is reviewing the data and will make changes to improve the process used to identify periods of incarceration. CMS is working to identify claims that resulted in recent recovery actions and to correct any inappropriate overpayment recoveries. Providers are encouraged to appeal any claims that have not been recouped in error to preserve their rights to payment even if CMS is expected to reprocess the claims.
CMS updated its FAQs related to the incarcerated beneficiary claim denial process. The updated guidance provides:
Medicare will consider a person to be incarcerated when in prison or jail, but also in a supervised release program, and in certain other situations. The Medicare Learning Network Matters article (effective April 1, 2013) discussing the IUR process is available here. CMS's recently updated FAQs regarding incarcerated beneficiaries are available here.
Reporter, Juliet M. McBride, Houston, +1 713 276 7448, firstname.lastname@example.com.
ONC Issues EHR Contract Guidance for Providers – On August 2, 2013, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) issued a notice to the provider community with guidelines for drafting contractual agreements for electronic health record (EHR) products and services. The guide contains examples of EHR contracts, highlighting particular contractual provisions that providers should bear in mind—indemnification, confidentiality, warranties, liability, dispute resolution procedures, and termination clauses. In particular, ONC notes that many EHR vendors draft contracts that hold customers (i.e., providers) responsible for all injuries including HIPAA breaches and medical malpractice claims that are caused by the EHR, even if the injuries are the result of bugs or other technical flaws inherent in the EHR product. ONC's guide recommends using mutual indemnification clauses, whereby each party assumes liability only for acts that it causes.The guide is available by clicking here.
Reporter, Christopher Kenny, Washington, D.C., + 1 202 626 9253, email@example.com.
OIG Finds That Medicare Could Save Millions by Strengthening Billing Requirements for Canceled Surgeries – On August 6, 2013, OIG released a report with its findings that in a sampling of 100 hospital inpatient claims involving short-stay, canceled elective surgery admissions, 80 did not meet Medicare's requirement that the admissions be "reasonable and necessary." On the basis of this sample, OIG estimated that Medicare overpaid $38.2 million in Part A payments in CYs 2009 and 2010.
The 80 denied claims in OIG's 100-claim sample represented overpayments totaling $345,717, for which either (1) a clinical condition was not present on admission; or (2) a new condition requiring inpatient care failed to emerge post-admission. The $38.2 million extrapolated estimate does not take into account any services related to these admissions that might otherwise have been properly billed under Medicare Part B, potentially reducing this figure. According to OIG, overpayments occurred because of hospitals' uncertainty regarding Medicare billing requirements for canceled surgeries and hospitals' inability to confirm whether admissions were "reasonable and necessary" after surgery cancellations. OIG also points to CMS's "too restrictive" billing requirements, which prohibit changing a beneficiary's status from inpatient to outpatient after discharge.
Accordingly, OIG recommends that CMS:
CMS generally agreed with OIG's recommendations, and stated that it will work with OIG to recover overpayments. A copy of OIG's Report is available by clicking here.
Reporter, Katy Lucas, Atlanta, +1 404 572 2822, firstname.lastname@example.com.
CMS Seeks Input Regarding Release of Physician Payment Data – On August 6, 2013, CMS published a request for public comments regarding the potential release of Medicare data on payments to physicians. CMS's proposed policy on the disclosure of physician payment data is intended to increase transparency and stems from a federal district court ruling in May that lifted a permanent injunction originally issued in 1979 that prohibited the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (now HHS) from disclosing Medicare reimbursement payments made annually to individual physicians. CMS is now in the process of evaluating when, and in which circumstances, the public interest in disclosure outweighs the physician's privacy interest in the information.CMS makes clear that it does not contemplate the public "disclosure of any information that could directly or indirectly reveal patient-identifiable information," and specifically seeks input on the following:
CMS will accept comments until September 5, 2013. The request for comments is available here.
Medicaid Expansion Plans Not Required to Cover All Drugs – On July 15, 2013, CMS issued its Final Rule addressing prescription drug coverage for the Medicaid expansion population. Among other things, the Final Rule defines the scope of the ten applicable "essential health benefits" required for Medicaid expansion plans under the Affordable Care Act, including the minimum requirements for the provision of prescription drugs to these beneficiaries. For the expansion Medicaid enrollees, states are not required under the Final Rule to cover each "covered outpatient drug" subject to a national rebate agreement. Instead, states will only be required to cover a minimum of drugs consistent with the applicable "benchmark" plan in the state. The King & Spalding Client Alert on the new rule is available by clicking here.
A Conversation With A Healthcare Fraud Defense Team: Current Issues Facing Healthcare Providers – On Friday, August 23, 2013, at 1:00-2:30 p.m. Eastern Time, King & Spalding will host an Atlanta-based Roundtable focused on healthcare fraud and abuse enforcement issues that have arisen in the past year. The Roundtable is prompted by the increased pace and complexity of government investigations and qui tam suits and evolving areas of interest by regulators. This environment requires careful thought about areas of exposure and opportunities to mitigate risk. Thoughtful and effectively designed compliance initiatives can go a long way in reducing risk, and the panel will discuss lessons learned from recent developments and practical ways to apply this knowledge.The Roundtable will include the following topics:
You can register to attend in person or by Webinar by visiting http://www.kslaw.com/HealthcareRoundtable. If you are attending in person, lunch will be provided between 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. if you would like to arrive early for that. We hope you will be able to join us.
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If you're like me, you've come to associate bamboo with being eco-friendly… but you're not quite sure why that is. There are all sorts of bamboo products from linens to kitchenware to clothing and flooring. But what makes bamboo eco, and more importantly, is it actually beneficial to the planet?
Bamboo needs very relatively little energy to grow and thrives in damaged soil. Bamboo actually replenishes the soil in which it grows. It generates approximately 30% more oxygen than trees. While other trees take decades to grow large enough to be manufactured into useable products, bamboo grows at the rate of about two inches an hour. It is naturally resistant to pests, decreasing the need for insecticides. In short, there are a number of reasons why bamboo has earned its green reputation.
One of the more popular uses of bamboo right now is clothing. It is naturally soft, porous, and resistant to bacteria and odor, and also offers UV protection. Bamboo clothing is also more durable than cotton, and is generally less beaten down by machine washing.
But for all the good there are disadvantages to using bamboo. There isn't an official grading system for bamboo materials so the quality of the plant being used is dependent on the manufacturing company. The process by which it is broken down to make clothing is not entirely eco-friendly itself. The plant is sometimes chemically treated with lye and carbon disulfide to soften the fiber but this can cause skin and eye irritation, headaches and fatigue if low levels have been breathed in. The use of lye nullifies the antimicrobial benefits of the bamboo pulp that was initially used to create the product. The FTC also warned consumers about the deceptive labeling of rayon products as bamboo. Rayon is created by a process which uses harsh chemicals and as such, does not tout the same ecological benefits as bamboo clothing. Beyond the manufacturing process it is also said that the use of bamboo has lead to deforestation in some areas due to rapid increases in demand.
Where do you stand on bamboo? Do the environmental benfits outweigh the cons? Are there certain types of bamboo products on your do-not buy list, while others make the cut?


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Re: Installing AddOn
The file header indicates it has been encrypted with Encode.
Section 2.12.1 of the Mathematica Book, or the Help Browser).
The web page has an instruction "See the Read Me First file."
Are there instructions for decrypting there?
The warning message Get::noopen indicates that either the file
was not found, or the permissions prevented opening. Was the
SMath.m file originally in a directory StableDistribution?
There is a little-used-nowadays function ContextToFileName
that might be helpful.
In[1]:= ?ContextToFileName
ContextToFileName["context`"] gives the string specifying
the file name that is by convention associated with a
particular context.
to find out what the last part of the path to SMath.m should be.
In[2]:= ContextToFileName["Graphics`Graphics3D`"]
Out[2]= Graphics/Graphics3D.m
In this case, the Graphics directory needs to be in a directory in
the $Path list, and the Graphics3D.m file in the Graphics directory.
I hope this is helpful.
Bruce Miller
Technical Support
Wolfram Research, Inc.
support at wolfram.com
On Jun 1, 2006, at 5:56 AM, john2 wrote:
> I'm pretty much a novice in Mathematica but have ventured into it
> because I want to use a Stable Statistics Package from
> http://www.npgcable.com/~rrimmer/StableCalculation/HTMLLinks/
> index_4.html
> in 5.1.
> I unzipped and installed the AddOn SMath in c:/Wolfram
> Research/Mathematica/5.1/AddOns/Applications/ as instructed. It should
> load with the command
> <<StableDistribution`SMath`
> but the file is not recognized by Mathematica which returns
> Get::noopen : Cannot open Stable distribution`SMath`
> I checked with $Path and the file SMath.m is in a directory on the
> path.
> So what is the next step. Not even sure if the file is correct as it
> seems to be in binary, i.e. the first lines read in Notepad are
> (*!1N!*)mcm
> j<mi2X^Ue>E2FtTGjEmi2X^Ue>E2FtTGjEmi2X^Ue>E2FtTGjEmi2X^Ue>E2FtTGjEmi2X
> ^Ue>E2FtTGjEX4*4+5]HauE~i-SJ/_kQNyL<(=NQi"dYNZ'Skk425[0X&lF93l'"9_jYJ5
> BEX2=mcUTP6@oXt~$/27,yoERZ\Q'iG~ V[P]sD[MV18XdLd6`?e(YGbd}9IE<Vf^0"b&-
> l1Vh?'>"<<RZn[aq9h'{9_RApd;esXWUHHN3@DD@i?Ij"y_}d:.1dHG
> which looks like pure binary to me. Perhaps this is compiled code.
> thanks in advance
> john


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Sometimes you just can't make it into the kitchen to cook. Dr. Gourmet has reviewed over 800 common convenience foods, ingredients, and restaurant selections so that you know what's worth eating - and what's not. View the Index of all Dr. Gourmet's Food Reviews
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I know we reviewed Healthy Choice products last week. We do strive for variety in our reviews here at Dr. Gourmet, but this new product line from Healthy Choice was intriguing. It's so new, in fact, that it doesn't even appear on their web site.
The packages say "Fresh Baked Taste in the Microwave" and tout a "unique even bake tray" which is supposed to "cook evenly and minimizes burnt edges." I admit to being dubious. Isn't baked pasta all about crusty edges?
And if anything should be baked, it's lasagna, so we tried that first. The numbers are really good: 280 calories, a suprisingly low 380 milligrams of sodium, and 6 grams of fiber. This dish requires an unusually long cooking time: 6-7 minutes in the microwave, followed by letting it stand for 5 minutes. After all that cooking and sitting, you would expect a fairly dried out product, but because you just slit the plastic covering, you just end up with tomato sauce spilled into the microwave and dried onto the inside of the microwave. The food itself looks... watery.
It does thicken up a bit as it cools, but this was not a good sign. Although the dish does smell strongly of garlic while it's cooking, the flavor does not extend so strongly into the sauce. That said, it's a good, hearty meat sauce with a strong oregano component that's not sweet but savory. The panel reported a fair amount of ground beef evident and the ricotta was well represented as well. Even the lasagna noodles stood up well to the microwaving, leaving this not great, but good. The overall verdict: not "baked," certainly, but on a par with other meat lasagnas we've tried.
We had lower expectations for the Fettuccini Alfredo Bake because, well, you might not necessarily bake Fettuccini Alfredo. This has a comparable number of calories (270) but far more sodium at 580 milligrams. Less fiber, however: only 4 grams.
This dish calls for cooking 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 minutes and then standing for 2 - much more in line with other microwave dishes. This comes out smelling strongly of fresh-cooked broccoli and classic Alfredo sauce (parmesan and garlic, mostly). There's a lot of broccoli here and it's still crunchy and flavorful. While the noodles are overcooked, there's a generous amount of sauce that's a little thinner than I might like, but still has a fairly well balanced, if subtle, Alfredo flavor.
All in all, both dishes get an "eat," rather than a "don't eat" - as long as you don't expect them to be "baked."


text: So me and a group of friends went bowling one night and while we were waiting for lanes I went to grab food. When I came back I realized my remote was missing. I looked everywhere for it and I couldn't find it so I was like whatever it sucks but theres nothing I could do about it so I lock my car with my key and the alarm is armed. So after we finished our game I went to unlock my car and as soon as my opened my door the alarm went off. I quickly go to start my car but it wont allow me too. I hop back out and lock the doors and a minute later the alarm stops. Boy was I pissed off at my car. I could arm my alarm system using my key but I could not disarm it? Luckily my friends stuck around so I could get a ride home but that is just messed up. Either there is something wrong with my alarm system or subaru had a retard design the alarm system for it. Just a heads up for everyone and lose the keyring the dealer provided you because they suck.


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One of my blogger-colleagues over at Real Simple, Erin Doland, wrote a FINE post today called, Keep Assumptions from Cluttering Up Your Life.
We all want to feel included…
Erin's post has to do with "reading between the lines" and I personally enjoyed it very much because I'm guilty of doing this, maybe you are too? I'd like to quote her for a moment, "As a writer, I come into contact with eisegesis (the process of reading something into a text that isn't in the text) all the time. People will read my articles and then write me e-mails referencing things that don't appear in the text. I'll mention a product that can help handicapped people, and then I'll receive an e-mail asking me why I hate handicapped people. Or, I'll write about a baby crib, and then I'll receive an e-mail asking me why I hate people who co-sleep with their infants. The interpretations people make aren't always negative, but they are always baffling because they are so far off base. So much time and energy is wasted over misconceptions and misinterpretations." Erin said this so well I think.
Would you not agree that we all spend wayyyy to much time, especially as women, getting offended easily by things we either read online or see in person… I don't see nearly as many men running around feeling excluded so I think it tends to be more of a girl thing. I talked to my husband about this and he assured me that most men don't sit around for days thinking about how another man treated them at work, for instance.
It comes down to feeling excluded. I often think that being online amongst so many others freely sharing thoughts on blogs, forums, etc. that it can sometimes feel a bit like high school. Like some kind of popularity contest. I have seen this and I'm willing to bet that you're nodding your head as you read this – you've felt it too.
I feel it all of the time, excluded, left out, dissed, however you term it. In the end, there is no real way to change this – no way to change feeling left out because we all feel left out at one time or another, we cannot avoid being the last girl picked to dance at times… Okay there is a way but it has to do with how we think: changing how we look and react to things. For instance, I recently helped someone who assists a producer of a popular television show to find people who would be appearing in a specific show they planned to tape and I did a lot of work to help them locate those people and in the end, they gave me absolutely no credit at all. In fact, they credited everyone except me. At first, I was upset. I wrote to them immediately and explained how I felt and an apology was sent back in return so I'm okay with it now. But still. Talk about being shut out.
Some of us are more sensitive than others, but even in the tough girls I see this genuine interest in fitting in and being accepted. I hope that you'll read Erin's blog post for some great tips on just how to avoid allowing assumptions to clutter your life because sometimes we aren't being dissed at all, it's just how we are perceiving things to be.
Since we are amongst friends here on this blog, I'd love to open this up for discussion. I'm interested in getting your thoughts on how you filter out negative thinking, how you avoid allowing assumptions to rule your thinking, and if you are currently feeling excluded or upset about something, air that laundry here because I'd love to hear what's going on in your life and how you as a small business woman, blogger, man, woman, student, whatever – how do you handle feelings of being excluded: whether real or imagined. All I ask is that if you have issues against someone in particular, please do not state their real name because that is not needed.
I'll share below my personal thoughts in the comments section as well, so it's not just me asking you but I am willing to share on this topic too.
So who wants to go first? How do you avoid allowing assumptions to take over your life?
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Dealing with angry kids
Sometimes when your child has an outburst it might seem to be about anger, aggression or frustration when really sadness, anxiety or nerves can be the real motivation. Dr Justin Coulson looks at how to help when your child is upset.
John Gottman, author of Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child states that parents typically go for one of four reactions to their children's (and even other adults') negative emotions.
1. Disapproval
Our most common response to negative emotion is disapproval. This occurs when we become annoyed with our child and make aggressive statements like, "Cut it out", "Stop behaving like that" and "Grow up and act your age". Disapproval is associated with parents judging their children negatively for feeling a certain way. There is a feeling in such parents that negative emotions need to be controlled and put away – they don't serve a productive purpose. In fact, negative emotions are a nuisance – an inconvenience, disrupting our otherwise well-ordered life.
Kids whose parents disapprove of their negative emotions learn that their feelings are wrong. They feel that something must be wrong with them if they feel the way they do. Over time, such children struggle to regulate their emotions, ironically, because they're consistently being told to do so and they're not doing a good enough job.
2. Dismissal
The next most common response to negative emotion is dismissal. While not quite as negative as disapproval, dismissal is exemplified by statements such as "You'll be right", "Would you just get over it?" and "It's not that big a deal". Perhaps more insidious, parents often tell their children to "look on the bright side of life, see the silver lining, and focus on the positive." While well-intentioned, this response is just as dismissing as the shrug of the shoulders and the "get over it" attitude mentioned first. While it is couched in having a positive attitude, the child's emotions are still being dismissed.
Children whose parents dismiss their emotions feel invalidated. They may wonder why their emotions are always wrong, and have similar difficulties as those whose parents are disapproving.
3. Laissez-faire
Some parents tend to swing to the other side of the spectrum, and rather than responding to their child's emotions, they essentially roll with it in a laissez-faire kind of way. That is, they accept that their child is having an emotion. They sit with them and say, "Oh, it feels awful doesn't it." And they simply wait until the emotion has moved on.
Research indicates that such a response has a negative impact on kids' ability to regulate their emotions. They can also have difficulties socially because of this emotion-regulation challenge.
4. Emotion coaching
Emotion Coaching parents respond to their children's negative emotions in a patient, teaching way. Importantly, they are OK with their child feeling negative and see their child's frustrations, sadness or anger as an opportunity for becoming closer. When a child is upset, parents like this respond by being aware of what our child is feeling – even when it's subtle, recognising an opportunity to connect and teach offering empathy and compassion – while not necessarily condoning behaviour or attitudes that are out of line, labelling emotions, working with their children on setting limits around emotions and around the issues that may have caused the emotions.
Children who have emotion-coaching parents recognise their emotions and become comfortable with them. As such, they regulate them better than other children. This allows them to think more clearly when stressed, develop strategies and solutions to difficulties, and work more effectively with other people. They do better in school, relationships and well being.
Which parent are you?
Most of us are a bit of all of these parents, depending on the day and time, our availability, and just how needy the kids are at that particular moment. However, we typically fall into one category in a pervasive way. And it is the pervasiveness that matters.
Our children's negativity does not have to threaten us. And it doesn't need fixing. By taking a coaching mindset to our children's challenges, we move from being the know-it-all sage who undermines their thinking and learning, to being a kind guide who models empathy, understanding, and emotional attunement. And this approach does all of the fixing by helping our children discover answers within themselves.
For more on how we can work with our children's negative emotions, you can buy my book, What Your Child Needs From You: Creating a Connected Family, by clicking here.
More parenting articles on Kidspot:
- Parenting power: are you guilty of abusing it?
- Pay attention! How to be 'there' for your kids
- What type of parent are you?
More related reading:
- Helping children learn to manage anger from Kids Matter
- Helping your child learn to manage anger from Aha! Parenting
- 7 ways to help the angry child from Ask Dr Sears
Which parent are you? How do you typically respond to your child's anger?


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Joe Rosochacki
A Great Greek Tragedy - Poem by Joe Rosochacki
Kim Sjostrom I have not met you, perhaps I'll some day meet your husband.
Teddy Efkarpides, your husband not even a day,
You became faint and died in his arms when you danced your first dance together,
As husband and wife,
you'd be there always,
-never say never,
You were his Helen; he was your Paris,
-forever lovers to themselves to keep
There was much grief ands strife.
So much your tragic event that Homer would certainly weep,
Your first grade students certainly mourned your passing,
But in the end you found what loves is and you died living, loving,
That's than I can say about a lot of other people,
Marilyn Monroe,
Anna Nicole Smith,
Heath Ledger, for example.
For the fame and money is all what they had,
But for their TAO,
-their karma was very bad.
These were made for Sophocles,
Yours can be thought of by Euripides,
So mournful is your Efkarpides.
Sjostrom is Swedish surname, was your mother Greek?
Did you let the guests toss their dishes and break them against the wall?
I personally experienced in the Placa in Athens.
Did the milky color of Ouzo with ice in a glass drape the tables?
Did you have Dimitri Tiomkin music while your guest where seated?
Somewhere on TV,
Never on a Sunday played along with the Greek called Zorba;
Of that week.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding,
you cherished the movie,
Especially when Windex cures all,
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I'm sitting in a cell listening to something walk around.
..i dont want to come out
I'm sitting in a cell listening to something walk around.
..i dont want to come out
Just started playing the expansion. Walked casually through a corridor when one of those monsters just pops up at the end of it, spotting me.
I quit the game in horror :ohdear:
Used the lever at the first guy (tied to the table) and the spike thing lowered, so I got into the roof hatch and got chased or something and ended up dropping into the next area, went into the Library, tried using the slides in the holes where the Father David chap was, but after the second lever pull I think I ripped off his head... That opened the bookcase door however to went on to the next little area, where an enemy trapped me and never left the room, so eventually made a run for it and got killed.
I've tried nearly every combination to try saving the second guy and can't figure out what I'm supposed to do.
How do you play the expansion? My Amneisa hasn't updated today.
Only made it to the last part of the water level in the expansion, died before I could figure out what to do.
Just in case anyone doesn't know, you have to press Justine in the launcher to play the expansion. Stumped me for the past half-hour.
So how do you rescue the first guy other than just leaving him there?
I uh...
Note: Don't throw glass jars at the Amnesia creatures faces, if they're friendlyish.
It sucks that I bought the game from Frictional Games site to support the developers and unfortunately I can't play this now because I do not have the STEAM version.
Luckily the expansion is supposed to be released later but hopefully not THAT late.
Damnit, accidently killed the second guy.
Sounded pleasant though.
I got the latest update, but I don't know how to start this "Justine" thing? I can't Let's Play it if I can't find it
Waiting till midnight to play the new pack.
Were is the Wax Cylinder?
Oh god. I accidently the first person.
spoiler tags ffs.
Uh..how can I start the bonus mission or whatever?
Damn it I don't have the steam version is there a way I can get the expansion with the retail version?
I'm not the only one that saw "it" before even seeing the rest, right?
Damnit, way to let down people who bought the game off you Frictional Games.
Man... aren't they offering a update or anything? Seriously? I was planing on inviting a few friends over to play Amnesia but the normal campaign is too "long".
They just like to chill and smoke weed with me.
how the hell are you supposed to get passed the flooded area there's no fucking time to do anything before the bad guy comes in and kills me
You have to use the crates as platforms, so you don't touch the water and use books or other small objects to throw them away so the creature go inspects where the sounds came from (it actually is attracted to sound). When he's far enough, run to another platform and repeat.
If you talk about the other part, Just run like hell and close the doors behind you to slow the creature down.


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Cam specs are in my original post but it is a summit cam, k1108. This is setup as a race motor and has very little vacuum at idle but the previous owner was able to drive it on the street. This motor was in an all steel 41 willy's 4 door and clocked 10 flat on the strip with a 150 shot of NOS, several times. I know vacuum secondaries are generally better for vehicles less than 3000lbs or so with automatic transmissions and mechanical secondaries are generally better suited for heavier ace vehicles. I want to take this truck to the track but be able to drive it to a cruise-in or car show too, hopefully without changing anything except MAYBE the distributor and the stall converter for now and add my posi later. Which brings me here asking which carb to run. It looks like a 750cfm is the consensus and I'm guessing mech secondaries since I have very little vacuum. Unless a vacuum secondary carb can be tuned to operate correctly with little vacuum, So because I'm also reading that vac sec carbs are more street friendly and pretty good at the track when a person is not so into racing that they're trying to shave tenths off their et. So I'll put the 600 eddy on there so I can get a vacuum number because the previous owner doesn't remember how much the motor had because he didn't care since he ran with fuel injection. From there maybe I'll have a better idea which carb to use. I do the fab and body work part of building custom cars and truck. This is my personal ride and I want it to be fricken fast and track worthy. I'll upload some pics and maybe that will help some of you understand my perspective a little better, if you don't already. I've never had more than 300hp and never been the driver at the strip but I drive my truck like I stole it.
The idle vacuum doesn't matter as to whether to use a vacuum secondary or DP carb. When you floor it, either way the vacuum drops off to nearly nothing, regardless if it has a small or big cam.
Heavier vehicles and/or higher (lower number) rear gear ratio equipped vehicles are generally easier to drive w/a vacuum secondary carb. Light vehicles w/low rear gears take to a DP like a duck to water and aren't as likely to bog on you.
Either will work (the DP requires a learning curve- think of it as the difference between an AT and a stick shift). But for the street most guys tend to like a vacuum secondary-type carb better than a DP, and the mileage will tend to be better as well.
There's a lot of trickery that goes into a race engine. Glad you know the cam in this engine. I guess it's the heads that nothing is known about and I confused the two. My mistake.
Good luck.
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Is Now the Right Time for an MBA?
A guest post from Rose Martinelli, formerly the longtime admissions director at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, where she wrote a popular admissions blog, The Rose Report.
As we continue our discussion regarding career transitions, it's time to consider timing: When should you pursue an MBA?
Let's first take a look at the definition of an MBA. It is a professional degree that teaches people how to manage resources (people, finances, organizations) in the context of providing goods or services. In many respects, it's a finishing degree that depends on students leveraging prior work experience in the classroom to deepen learning.
With the many program formats—full-time, part-time, executive MBA—the flexibility to pursue the degree at various stages of your career is readily available. There is no right or wrong time to pursue an MBA, just a range of things to think about as you make your decision.
So here are a few things to consider from my perspective as a former admissions dean. For candidates considering an MBA early in their careers, it's important to have some level of work experience in order to capitalize on the learning experience, as well as career opportunities. Second, it is an expensive degree, so having a sense of direction will play a role in getting all that you can out of the investment. You want to make sure you make the most of the experience.
Third, the number of openings in MBA programs that take candidates directly from college, or those with less than two years of experience, is limited, while prospective student demand is high. You will need to be a very competitive applicant in order to make the cut. That means a great academic record, high test scores, leadership experience, and either an internship or entrepreneurial experience.
Once you cross the threshold of a few years' experience, the timing decision relies more heavily on what you hope the MBA will help you achieve, both as a learning experience and professionally. Return on the investment will be a factor to consider, especially for students pursuing full-time MBA programs in which they will be forgoing wages for a period of time.
Most students in full-time programs have three to nine years of experience. Since the career search process will be important for most students, it is important to keep in mind that the MBA search process—along with that by companies recruiting MBAs—focuses on students whose experience falls within this range. If you have more or less experience than this, the standard career opportunities available to MBAs may not suit your needs. That means you will need to play a more active role in identifying opportunities appropriate at this stage in your career.
Regardless of the timing you choose, your ability to answer "why now?" from a variety of perspectives will be an important consideration in the application evaluation process. Is this the right time? The only person who can answer that question is you.
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Have you guys heard of That's It Fruit Bars yet? I was lucky enough to try these tasty treats and I wanted to let you know about this new Paleo snack food. They're bars that are made entirely of dried fruit - that's it - hence the name... It's no accident that I used the word "treats" in the last paragraph to describe these bars. They are sweet and pretty high in carbs, especially sugar, just like you'd expect any … Continue reading


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About "Too Much Coffee" by randyotter3000
Too Much Coffee
Design by randyotter3000
This a collab between myself and the mighty davidfromdallas...
Anything is possible with another cup.
nice one dude!
c o o l ...5$
great design, fellas! $5
The ending is perfect!!!!!! 5$
i like it
Such a good collab, guys. Love the concept and it fits so well on the tee.
This is a great concept, but reading the text is an eyesore and a half. Small print plus bright red background equals ouch. A softer color scheme all around (I dont really care for the color in general) and larger text woulda made this a 5$ from me. 4 as is.
haha animorph!
great man!! 5$
nice collab, the character bother me a bit not sure why, but love the concept!
reading the text is an eyesore and a half.
Get some glasses, man! This is awesome design, guys! Best I've seen of comp so far..$$$$5!
oh man. 5!
and the circle is round, nice one!
I like the unpredictability of each sequence, the texts appears to be better than History of the World (so small), so ya fun design : )
This is pretty great!
this is SO good, especially the last row! And as DaleEdwin pointed out the little coffee mug in every little illustration. this might also be one of the rare shirts i like in red!
I want to catch a leprechaun!
5 buy
Just one more cup and i'll storm the halls of threadless demanding they print this shirt!
brilliant!! $5
Cool... 5 buy
can you give me your vote to, http://www.threadless.com/submission/277393/Behind_your_coffee_cup
PRINT!!! I love everything about this!
haha! oh randyyyyy, you so funny!
hahaha suuuuper funny. 5$
So hilarious!!
liked the animorph
Fun times!
Greatness as usual
perfect dudes!
COOL (or should I say HOT?) COLLAB!! I'd have fun wearing this one... 55$$
I like this design like I like my coffee... strong, black and covered in women. Or something.
I love the animorph character! Nice job!
nice one..this made me laugh :-)
haha! love it!
really unusual style for you aaron (prob due to it being a collab) but I like it a lot. might make a better print than a shirt because of the small text, but it's a great concept and looks great.
This is easily the best of the competition.
Amazing idea and execution! Soooo fresh. $5
Great work guys!! Love it!
Thanks for the awesome response, guys! We had a blast workin on this one. For reals.
Love how the coffee mug is in every shot
Agreed, makes the design. Fat $5
Awesome work dudes!
Love this! I LOLed when I saw the animorph :)
Looks great! Love the Animorph....
This is such a cool take on the comp.....5!
$5 sweet!
auhauhauha 5$
soooooo gooooood
I lol'd when I saw this. Great work. $5
haha awesome! $5
so frickin good, love the style! $5
i usually animorph 5$
Nice RANDY and DFD
you guys
Incredible work, guys. And looks so good on the shirt! 5
so funnny
I think these kind of designs work best when the type is used to add more to the design and doesn't need to be read to understand the joke. It's pretty tiny type and would be really difficult to read on a girly small. The characters are great and wacky, I just wish I didn't need to read all of that text to understand what was going on. But really it's just a matter of preference. :;)
well done guys, good luck!
Looks great
love it. particularly the last one turning into a cup of coffee..
Haha perfect! I especially like 'develop your own orbit'!
print it pack it ship it
ahhahah tooooo fantastic!!!!!!!!! 555555555$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Sweet Design! Love the Concept and Execution!
Great collab dudes! $5
nice one!
Too too hilarious and great meshing of styles y'all!
See the design on blue here!
See the design on blue here!
This is really cool I love the characters so much (how many more designs have you got up your sleeve?)
I agree with Ste7en. The top is great though the red did kind of sting my eyes. If the colour was softer then it would be easier to read.
Finally, a coffee design not on a shade of brown! This is a great concept and executed very well - a def contender! $5!
This is AWESOME!! $5
this is awesome
Nice work!
came back for some more coffee
I love that the coffee is on fire, too.
$5 to a flawless design.
love it! $5
love it! $5
nice one here! check my work! http://www.threadless.com/submission/278863/Discus_thrower
hahah, great! this reminds me that i haven't had my coffee yet today...
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The International Cycling Union (UCI) switched the event from China to Germany because of the Sars virus.
Stuttgart's Hanns-Martin Schleyer Hall will host the world's top sprint and pursuit cyclists, with Hoy the favourite to defend his title in the opening one-kilometre time trial.
World record holder Arnaud Tournant of France is expected to be the closest challenger to the Briton.
Chris Newton will defend his points race title on Friday, and Britain's squad of Jason Queally, Hoy, Jamie Staff and Craig MacLean go for gold again in the men's team sprint on the final day.
Australia are expected to top the overall medal table, although they will have to do without Bradley McGee.
The world 4,000m individual pursuit champion suffered suspected hypoglycaemia during the Tour de France, in which he won the prologue and wore the yellow jersey for three days.
Luke Roberts will be an able stand-in, however, and fellow Australian Sean Eadie could provide further success when he defends his sprint title.
France have a powerful team, with Laurent Gane, Arnaud Tournant and Michael Bourgain possible gold medallists, while hosts Germany will hope to upset Australia in the men's 4,000m team pursuit.
The Germans, however, sprang a surprise on Monday by dropping two-time Olympic champion Jens Lehmann from the individual pursuit.
The 35-year-old finished second in the recent German trials but has been replaced by another double Olympic champion in Robert Bartko.
Bartko did not compete in the trials but coach Bernd Dittert opted for Bartko after he timed faster in a private test on 30 June.
Bartko will line-up alongside Daniel Becke, who won the national
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February Trip: American Queen Cruise Review by SLOduck
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February Trip
Destination: USA
Embarkation: New Orleans
2/22/14 - 3/1/14
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We recently returned from a 9-day cruise on the American Queen Steamboat, round trip from New Orleans from Feb. 22nd to March 1st. The weather in some of the ports was rather 'brisk,' but the cruise itself was WONDERFUL! There are numerous different itineraries available on the American Queen (other than our Round Trip New Orleans), as it cruises the Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee Rivers at various times. Check the AQSC.com website for all of the options.
Since an overnight stay at a local hotel is included in the price of the cruise, there was a registration desk set up in the lobby of the Hilton Riverside (NOLA) to greet everyone and give them breakfast tickets for the next morning. After breakfast we went into the Registration Room, where we picked up our boarding passes and signed up for our dining room table. They also were taking More reservations for the Premium Excursions (more on that later)
The ship itself is just gorgeous. It was built in 1995, but has recently been refurbished and you really DO feel as if you are on a riverboat 'in the day,' yet with modern conveniences (like the elevator). The ship holds 436 passengers, although our cruise only had about 250, most in the 60-80 age group, with no children … at all.
There were a number of beautifully furnished public spaces available to nestle in with a good book, such as the Mark Twain Gallery, Ladies' Parlor or Gentlemen's Card Room, although I only saw a couple of people in them at any given time. There was also areas at the bow of both Decks 3 & 4 with rocking chairs that WERE used when we did have bursts of decent weather.
The two story Grand Saloon on Deck 1 (where all of the shows were held) featured beautiful hardwood floors. Chairs were moved onto the floor for the shows and then removed for later in the evening when the dance band would play and couples would dance.
There was also an elevated area around the perimeter of the dance floor, which is where we usually sat. There were also six small box balconies that held four guests each and were available on a first come first serve basis from Deck 2. We sat there one night, but felt the view was better from the perimeter seating on Deck 1.
As is the case on most cruises, people tend to sit in the same places throughout the cruise, and this cruise was no exception, so there were some 'balcony hogs' … alas.
Although this was somewhat of a small ship with just 436 passengers, it even had a spa! Both my husband and I both had an excellent massage.
I understand that there is also a gym onboard, but we never found it, but we DID find the pool, which was up on Deck 5, next to the River Grill Bar and Calliope. The Calliope was usually played as we were pulling out of each port and was probably the most elaborate one I've seen yet - the keyboard was on Deck 5 that connected to the steam pipes up on Deck 6 - it was fun to be up on Deck 6 and watch the puffs of smoke as the music played.
Our stateroom, 315, was on Deck three, category D, with a shared balcony. The double entrance doors opened onto the deck and was the only entrance to the room, as the bathroom was at the rear of the cabin. On those 'brisk evenings,' returning to the cabin was somewhat of a dash, but since it was a short distance, was not a problem.
There were plantation shutters on the beveled windows in the door, which allowed us to control light as well as privacy. Fresh air was available through the transom window over the door. Outside on the shared balcony, two chairs and a small table were available - those were used by many guests throughout the ship, weather permitting.
Each cabin was named after a state, river or historical person, in our case our cabin was "Idaho," which also had an information sheet about Idaho framed and hanging on the wall inside the room. It was kind of fun to walk around the boat and see the various names on the cabins! The Idaho plaque outside the cabin even helped us locate our cabin coming back in the evening when it was dark (remember this was on an outside balcony walkway).
Because the bed frames enabled the suitcases to be stored under the bed, the hi-loft beds were rather high so getting into bed was a bit of a challenge (for me), BUT the beds were wonderfully comfortable and allowed us to get a good night's sleep.
The dresser doubled as a desk, which also had a safe, but there was NOT much room for anything else. There was an armoire to hang clothes in, but with the plushy robes and life vests also hanging in the closet, there wasn't much room for clothes. So I ended up rolling up one of the robes and sticking it in the upper unusable shelve to allow for more room in the closet. In our cabin there was just one desk chair, although in some of the larger cabins there were larger chairs and settees, which would have made for a more comfortable experience, I'm sure.
The bathroom floor and bathtub sized shower was tiled with a black hexagonal pattern, true to the day.There was a small glass shelf above the pedestal sink and a small double glass shelved unit behind that for storing toiletries, so the storage space in the bathroom was VERY limited. A hair dryer was available as well as a magnified lighted mirror next to the mirror on the wall. Towels were plush and because we were the first cruise of the new season, brand new! NOTE: Some cabins have a full bathtub.
Since this was a first/second seating arrangement, we were assigned a table that we would return to each night for dinner. However, at dinner the first night, one of the other couples enjoyed the 'unlimited wine' just a little too much and became quite rude, so we asked to be reseated for the balance of the cruise - the Maitre 'D was more than happy to reseat us.
The service by our new waiter, Percy, and asst. waiter, Karen, was excellent. They were also serving two other tables, one of which was a little 'demanding,' so it was interesting to watch them wait on us and the demanding table with a smile and desire to make us all happy.
The dining room tables were set with white tablecloths, black cotton napkins, embossed gold chargers, white china and a red rose - simple, yet elegant.
The food in the dining room was EXCELLENT - each night there were specials that featured two appetizers, a soup, a salad and then four entrees, as well as standard items available each night if you didn't care for any of the specials. For dessert, there was always some kind of bread pudding, as well as a variety of other favorites - we were never disappointed.
About the only thing that was amiss in the dining room initially was the frigid temperature, especially at the beginning of the cruise, but things did warm things up considerably so by the end of the cruise it was quite nice.
Since our cabin was just a few cabins away from the Front Porch dining room, we ate all of our breakfasts and lunches there and even had breakfast outside a couple of mornings when it was warm enough. For breakfast there was a nice variety of items, including yoghurt, eggs, bacon, sausage, potatoes, grits, biscuits, oatmeal, variety of breads as well as an omelet station. They also had a WONDERFUL blend of coffee and fresh fruit, soft serve ice cream and homemade cookies available any time of day.
Lunch varied daily, but there was always a nice soup, variety of salads as well as roasted chicken (that you watched roasting while having breakfast) a hot entree, panini sandwiches and pizza and then, of course, desserts too.
There was a cappuccino machine, but it was out of order most of the cruise (which I have seen happen on many other cruises), but the ice cream machine worked the entire cruise, which made my husband happy!
There was also the River Grill up on Deck 5, but we never went back there other to listen to the Calliope one time.
Since this was billed as a Big Band Cruise, I was expecting most of the entertainment to be of the Big Band era, but as it turned out there were only three Big Band nights, but the Big Band entertainers WERE fabulous!
The other four nights were the four singer/dancers in production numbers accompanied by the Steamboat Syncapators, a truly EXCELLENT orchestra.
There was also a lounge pianist that would entertain everyone before and after dinner in the lounge separating the dining room and the Grand Saloon. He was very entertaining and was able to honor most of the requests from the passengers and even had some couples up and dancing …. on the rug!
There was also a two man duo in the Engine Room Bar that played after dinner in the evenings, but we never went back there.
One of the REALLY nice things about this cruise is that the cruise line provides 3 to 4 busses that follow you from port to port so you can 'Hop on, Hop off' at each port. This Hop on Hop off is included in the price of the cruise (which, if you do ocean cruises you know the shore excursions can add hundreds of dollars to your exit tab!)
The night before each port, a map is available that shows the bus route and where it will stop. You simply go to the kiosk next to the purser's desk to sign up for the departure time you want, as there are eight options in 15 minute intervals. In some cases, our arrival into port was a little late so the 'system' didn't really work as intended, but everyone ended up getting on the buses eventually and enjoyed the tours.
Once aboard the bus, there was a local guide that gave the history of the city and fun facts that only a local would know. What we ended up doing (as did a lot of others as well) was to go around the complete loop first and then return to the spots of specific interest to us on the next bus. The busses really did come by about every 15 minutes so it really did work out quite nicely.
There were also Premium Excursions available in most ports that went to a specific area(s) for a more in depth excursion. We opted to do this in Vicksburg and visited the Civil War Memorial. The guide was a HUGE Civil War buff and gave us LOTS of history about the war and pointed out lots of interesting things about the many memorial statues inside the park. It was well worth the $59.
Onboard our cruise was our Riverlorian (historian of the river, hence Riverlorian). He was actually pretty knowledgeable about the rivers and gave us loads of information to help us to understand 'why' things were the way they were on the river. He would give talks during the day, announce things as we would approach them along the way and also led tours of the pilothouse once we were docked. These were done regularly throughout the cruise and as the pilothouse is not a very big space, they have to limit it to about 10 or so people.
The other thing that was REALLY cool (actually rather warm) was to go down to the engine room. You can go down there any time, but it was quite fun to go down when the ship was under way so you could watch things move. The engineers were very proud and happy to answer questions. I was impressed with how CLEAN it was down there, but can only imagine how hot it would be in the hot summer months down there! YIKES!
This is not a cruise I would recommend to a family as there just is nothing for children to do, but it is a perfect cruise for people wanting to relax and remember a time gone by. It would also be good for folks that have motion sickness issues as there really is no 'motion' to get sick from! Less
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The cabin was VERY small and not much light, but a GREAT night's sleep! The dresser doubled as a desk, along with hiding the safe, but there was NOT much room for personal paperwork. Tub sized tiled shower and VERY limited storage in the bathroom. Close to both the Front Porch dining room and the stairs/elevator mid-ship.
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PAC is Pacifica's only family gym that caters to all ages. A locally owned and operated gym, PAC delivers a wide array of classes that caters to all and with a well stocked selection of weights and machines there usually will be no waiting.
With one of the most extensive weight training facilities on the peninsula, PAC fitness center provides a complete cardio room, full selection of classes in our aerobics studio, and the biggest and best selection of free weights, lifting equipment, barbells, stationary machines, weight machines and the ever-popular Smith machine.
Conveniently located two blocks off highway one across from Linda Mar Beach, PAC is at the center for those on their way home to Half Moon Bay, Montara, Princeton, El Granada and Moss Beach.
Our 2000 sq ft. gym is fully matted, with 4 heavy bags and a 20 ft. elevated ring.


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Police in Waterville are warning residents to be on the lookout for a bear. On the Waterville Police Department's Facebook page authorities posted this warning:
Bear Sightings: Over the last 24 hours, on two separate occasions, a bear has been reported in the Silver St. / Pleasantdale Ave. area. The police department urges residents to be cautious and make children aware of the danger. If spotted, do not approach the animal, but call the police department at 207-680-4700. Please do not leave trash out that can attract any animal. It is our hope that the bear has returned to the woods. The City is in contact with the Warden's Service and if sightings continue, steps will be taken to safely relocate the bear.


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He said: "The boys dug in tonight and we're really pleased to get the win. We knew they'd be a tough side but the lads played well for the full 80 minutes. Perpignan stayed close to us but we got the win and that's the most important thing.
"The weather was obviously frustrating for both sides as we both like to play with ball in hand but we adapted well and everyone put in a massive shift."
Andy Goode was in scoring form for the hosts as he racked-up all of Worcester's points, adding a try and conversion to his five penalties.
And Kvesic was quick to pay tribute to the former England fly-half. He continued: "Goodey brought his kicking boots tonight and he played really well.
"He put us in the right areas and made sure we didn't play in our half too much, which was key. We played as far up the pitch as we could and tried to put them under pressure in their own 22. Credit to Andy - he kicked the points and got a try as well."
Warriors travel to France next Saturday to face Perpignan on their own patch and Kvesic admits that Warriors must produce another strong performance if they are to remain in the driving seat in Pool 2 of the competition.
He added: "It will be massively different in France next weekend but we will work hard leading up to it and focus on our own game.
"We've been playing well and we've strung a few good performances together so we'll be confident of getting something out there."


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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|Cross section of the cochlea.
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The cochlea is the auditory portion of the inner ear. It is a spiral-shaped cavity in the bony labyrinth, making 2.5 turns around its axis.[1] A core component of the cochlea is the Organ of Corti, the sensory organ of hearing, which is distributed along the partition separating fluid chambers in the coiled tapered tube of the cochlea.
The name is from the Greek κοχλίας kokhlias ("snail, screw"), from κόχλος kokhlos ("spiral shell").[2] This is in reference to its coiled shape: the cochlea is coiled in most mammals, monotremes being the exceptions.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Anne M. Gilroy, Brian R. MacPherson, and Lawrence M. Ross (2008). Atlas of anatomy. Thieme. p. 536. ISBN 9781604061512. http://books.google.com/books?id=wFkxkpPcBoUC&lpg=PA536&ots=naIXUiP9Gd&dq=anatomy%20cochlea%20axis%20modiolus%202.5&hl=sl&pg=PA536#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- ↑ etymology of "cochlea"


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Strategic Concept
Photo credit: NATO
NATO's "Strategic Concept" is its core mission statement, and the current 1999 version predates the 9/11 attacks on the United States and the sending of NATO forces to Afghanistan. The 60th Anniversary NATO Summit held in Strasbourg/Kehl in April 2009 launched the process that will lead to a new NATO Strategic Concept in late 2010 or early 2011. This is a summary list of all the content in the site categorised within the Strategic Concept policy area. Also see and comment on NATO Watch's Citizens Declaration of Alliance Security.


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Reunited after around two (or was it three?) years of not seeing each other!
Mango Tree Bistro
We've been meaning to dine at Mango Tree Bistro upon the recommendation of my friend who always goes on a date in this resto with her boyfriend.
It was by far an unexpectedly expensive dinner (because we still managed to have space for some Red Mango after), but it's not everyday that we get to treat ourselves, so, no regrets!


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Best Of :: Food & Drink
The boardwalks of the Jersey Shore are dotted with Kohr Brothers custard stands, and generations of Garden Staters are grateful. Now the company has moved to Houston, and even if your cone won't be accompanied by the smell of a nearby stand grilling up a sausage-and-peppers sandwich, you can still taste why Kohr's has lasted more than 80 years. They claim to have the calories of frozen yogurt, but it's hard to tell from the flavor. The custard is made from Grade A milk, cream, sugar and eggs and has a texture like soft ice cream. There are two Houston locations, at the large "entertainment center" that includes Jillian's and the Edwards Cinema, near Silber and I-10, and at the work-in-progress Memorial City Mall. Neither site really offers the full East Coast ambience, but you'll just have to imagine that everyone around you is talking like an extra from The Sopranos.
Zimm's has been a wine bar; it's been a coffee-and-wine bar; it's been all but burned out in a fire last year; and it's been flooded by Tropical Storm Allison. Still, it endures, and it makes a damn good martini. The drinks are helped by the seductive ambience of the place -- dark and agreeably louche, with not-too-loud music, which one staffer describes accurately as "always calm and sexual and jazzy." The crowds on the weekends can get a little too pretentious for some tastes, but the weeknight vibe is more amenable and the martinis are just as good.
These sublime concoctions are undoubtedly best enjoyed alfresco, and to do so there is no place better than the Guatemalan/Mexican surf-and-turf, El Pueblito Place. First, there's the marg itself, which is tartly delicious as any in town and comes in large, extra large, and call-a-cab sizes. Then there are the cabana-comes-to-Montrose surroundings of the restaurant's new back patio, in which riots of pastel shades delight human eyes, and hanging plastic bags full of water bamboozle those of the flies. Accompanied by the restaurant's legendary pineapple salsa (or its severely underrated red companion) and the relatively cool breezes of the Gulf Coast evening, the El Pueblito Place alfresco margarita experience is not to be missed.
Houston's unique brand of spontaneous fusion is in full flower on Telephone Road. Formerly home to the white middle class, now part Asian and part Hispanic, Telephone crosses all the lines. Shipway began its life as a run-of-the-mill doughnut shop, and then it was purchased by a Hispanic family who expanded the place. So now the glass cases are filled with the usual chocolate-frosted and plain-cake doughnuts, along with brightly colored Mexican pastries. There's also a full menu of Mexican breakfast items like bacon-and-egg tacos, chorizo and egg plates. You can also order a tres leches cake for your kid's birthday party. And if that's not enough of a selection, Shipway also sells some of the best homemade pork or chicken tamales in the city on Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings. A hot foil package containing a dozen tamales sells for $5. Better get two: one to eat on the spot, slathered with hot sauce, and one to take home for the family.
Old-timers remember the era when Sunday afternoons meant post-church meals where anything but fried chicken would constitute outright heresy. Now the special repast is almost strictly the domain of fast-food joints. Fox Diner pays due homage to the heritage of fried chicken on Sunday. While the cooks of past eras never would have dreamed of coating the chicken in corn flakes, they'd be more than a little pleased at how this place does it with spectacular results -- the crust is properly crunchy and tasty. And the chicken itself stays oh-so-moist and flavorful. Have faith. This is one Fox you want in the henhouse.
When we say plantains, we aren't talking about those crunchy chips you find in a bag of trail mix. No, we're talking plantains here, the ones you peel and fry up in a pan. Most restaurants will serve up slabs of fruit from plantain purgatory, soft and pretty yellow on the outside, with a stiff, flavorless center. But Cafe Piquet is a place that understands Caribbean cooking. The tostones, fried when the fruit is still green, are thick and dry, and add the right touch to certain dishes. But the maduros are what keep us coming back. Sweet and gooey, they almost glisten as they drip off the fork. They aren't much to look at, with none of the pretty cinnamon sprinkles or frilly garnish. They're misshapen, blackened lumps that leave it to your taste buds to be the final jury. But don't let the discoloration scare you -- that's proof that this place knows the one secret to serving up good soft plantains: Pick 'em when they're ripe.


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Superfund Site: MOUAT INDUSTRIES
Superfund Site Profile
The 4.5-acre Mouat Industries site is located in Columbus, Montana. From 1957 to 1962, Mouat Industries processed chromite ore mined from the Stillwater Mining Complex in south-central Montana. The process generated wastes containing sodium chromate and sodium dichromate. Waste piles leached contamination into the soil and groundwater. Further contamination resulted from sodium dichromate spills during normal facility operations. Following cleanup at the site, operation and maintenance activities are ongoing.


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This year, the contestants used an LG Optimus Zip for the contest, which is nothing more than a low-end Android powered smartphone with a physical keyboard. Using the same format as previous events, contestants basically showed off their texting prowess in a variety of elimination events – including one where they are blindfolded and asked to text a phrase.
Considering that a title and $50,000 was on the line, every contestant made sure to give it their all, but in the end, it basically came down to the two finalists – last's year's winner in Austin Wierschke of Rhineland, Wisconsin and Kent Augustine of Jamaica, New York. Ultimately, it was none other than Austin Wierschke that retained his crown as being the nation's best texter – according to LG's contest.
Making it two in a row for the defending champion, it'll interesting to see if the streak will continue for next year, but for now, he can rest knowing that the title is solely his. Don't forget to check out the additional pictures from the event below and the video announcing the winner.


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Archive for the 'Identity' Category
Gender, gadgets and Identity
This image was sent to my husband in one of those emails that has about 25 jpg attachments. All were ads from the 1960s and 1970s collated presumably because they all seem funny now. Each ad seems now being used to laugh at 'the way we were'. Old ads depicting a different era, helping us to feel sophisticated and clever and think ' How naive we were'. And "so glad we are not like that now'. It's all a bit smug really.
One way of reading this particular ad is the feminist way: the man is the wage earner and he has kindly bought his grateful wife a Kenwood Chef. She worships him; she is so happy. We the latter day feminists feel she is foolish; a dupe who is unknowingly her husband's slave. We, in the present tense, are apparently superior.
Nowadays though, media representations of women and technology are more of this variety:
Here the technology is sexy and liberating. The dancing figure is clearly female, loving her life and feeling in control. She has leisure time and she has the cash to buy her own sleek, hold-in-the-hand mobile technology. She is able to dance. She is iPod woman. She is certainly not thinking about cooking (or eating). She only knows dance and fun.
I agree the 'iPod girl' seems to be a liberated woman. Not to put too fine a point on it though – she is sexy and a fat woman galumphing about woud not sell the product. All is not as liberated as we pretend. The detail of the graphics are like the gadget itself – cool, cool, super-cool and minimalist – pared down as a dramatic but sparse line drawing (in fact animation) against a dramatic coloured background. The background by the way, is the same as the colours available for the ipods … coming in pink, azure, lime green and whatnot. It is woman aligned with product – or even – woman as product . The marketing campaign did a great job. , (I really like the spoofs by the way). And these are not really about liberation but getting your cash one way or the other.
The Kenwood Chef is now seeing a revival and the whole cooking thing has been re-configured. We have all these TV programmes celebrating the frilly apron style of cooking again. It seems that the zeitgeist stuff of make do and mend; of home baking; of home grown; of ditsy cooky cutesy fashion, is also making a breakthrough and we need no longer feel ashamed of our cooking impulses.
Thank goodness because I wanted one and got one this last week. Yes dear readers. My husband bought it for me and I have been making bread, cakes, soups and even mashing potatoes in it. Because I love technology no matter what. And so we turn back again – is this a fresh look at feminism. I suspect not; I think it is a clever marketing move on the back of the recession, which pretends that if you make it yourself, you are doing it cheaper. But the love affair with technology lives on.
Just do this stuff with your eyes open. It is all consumerism. Whatever.
No time to be my son (& distributed identities)
I was telling some friends of mine about the next stage for my Facebook research. One of them was immediately excited about this, saying how much she hates Facebok … 'I think it's terrible. Even when he is at home with us, he has to keep up appearances with is friends. They are forever commenting and LOLing. I just wish he could sometimes just relax, be a kid with us and not be forever on call. It's like he has no time just to be my son.'
A very interesting insight I thought. It made me wonder. I suppose it means he is 'enacting being a friend ' when he is in a context away from his friends. He is 'doing' an identity that belongs to another context. But to him, he feels he is with friends when he is on Facebook.
This is Clare after she had taken a photo of me. She emailed the shot to my husband. (Dobbing me in for bad behaviour). So sometimes in real life, you can't get away from the fact that your behaviour is reflected out elsewhere. These days, we have distributed identities.
Public / Private stuff
I have been interested to see that the British tv and radio have had quite a lot of stuff about diaries recently. Richad E Grant hosting something, 'Dear Diary' for example. This documentary features diaries kept by a number of people over many years… the iplayer info explains:
Richard E Grant, a diarist since childhood, uncovers the power of the diary. He considers the diaries of Joe Orton, Kenneth Williams, Erwin James, John Diamond and Rosemary Ackland and asks whether a diary should, or could, ever be totally honest, wholly accurate and absolutely true.
I was surprised to find the first in this treble episode series to be quite riveting; Richard is quite posh so I found it fun watching him amble about poshly and awkwardly asking nosey questions (pretending not to be famous and giggling like a kid) – there is this great part where his wife calls him while he is doing a webcam thing and he answers 'I'm just doing the diary programme' or some such. Anyhow this is all quite weird as we watch him question diarists about why they keep diaries all their lives. He asks whether people should be totally honest – and I thought that interesting as paper based diaries tend to be thought of as quintessentially private writings – unlike blogs, of course. So it is strange to ask whether people should be honest – when there seems to be moral outrage if blogs do not seem to be honest. Why would you be less than honest in a private diary? Today the radio mentioned that the Green Goddess has kept a diary since she was a kid (and is now 70) . Then (Lady) Antonia Fraser was on book of the week reading her diary about her life with Harold Pinter.
So all this stuff about writing in a private way and going public with it is totally age old and I just find it fascinating that there seems to be this widespread interest … also Dr Irving Finkel is assistant keeper in The Middle Eastern Department of the British Museum and his collection of private diaries, written by 'ordinary people' appears in the Wellcome Collection's exhibition 'Identity: Eight rooms, nine lives' which runs until April. (I would like to go) It was funny as he was talking about how apparently boring diaries are interesting as they show us things about ourselves. On the radio he read excerpts which included things like ' I really hate Lindsay; I hate her hate her" etc…. showing that teenagers have always been the same! But I will be very interested to see if any critics slate this exhibition for being banal – in the same way as they often slate Twitter, or blogs for being so. Or will the fact that they are written on paper (and are a bit less than contemporary) save them this fiercesome criticism? I think that we love to see traces of people – and I like to see the lives of ORDINARY people. There is something that immediately makes things seem special if you put them in a museum – maybe it is the glass cabinet effect that CHANGES the meanings.
Fascinating also, is the stuff you find on Flickr that is so diary -ike. Check out this custom made diary from Traveliter
see all the interesting comments under the photo. And then of course there are all the 365 groups which ask for one photo a day per year – and thousands of people commit to this. Fabulous, I say.
Interesting this desire to leave traces of ourselves everywhere; the web allows us to distribute the narrative across spaces and time and to share aspects of our lives and to provide a particular version (or brand) of ourselves.
The Guardian reported today on someone who one day, scarily, burned every photo he ever took …a professional photographer who had had ENOUGH. he said 'Photography was dead by 1972'
I am so glad he is less right; i.e. wrong.
Here are some traces of people doing identity work:
wearable technology
As if we really needed further signs that technology is overtaking our lives … one of the most traditional stores in the UK, Marks and Spencer, recently featured this suit with HIDDEN ipod pouch on its website. (You completely MUST click on the link and see the close up views … my friend told me that instore, this suit is held in the 'gimp' section. Oh dear.)
(I am worried they will take off the image – tantalising though it is.)
The secrecy of the little thing means that you can hide the fact that you are listening to 2pac of Misteeq as you make your way across the city to the next hi powered meeting. But discretion is all a charade of course; minimalist is stylish and it is obligatory to arrive with earphones IN, but to hurriedly remove them. The great thing is that in fact you can either be listening to a podcast of The Archers, to good ol' Melvyn on 'In our Time' or even Vegan Freaks.
I wonder though what was the sound when the "'Muslim juror' listened to iPod under hijab" as reported in The Times a coupla weeks ago. Apparently she now faces jail for this.
In the meantime I am delighted to announce that I too am giving the iPod another chance. After my long lasting railings and wailing about the demise of my first one way back in 2004 (after only using once) I took my courage in both hands and accepted a gift from TT…
Actually I love it. I am just putting fast music on it as it will be my companion as I attempt to shift the lard from my body down at the gym. It can clip onto my great big trousers which I hope will get baggier and baggier.
So wearable technology for the naughty juror – subverting the image of the benign, pure, innocent , veiled and oppressed female; for the business man who wants to pretend to hide his funky identity under his suit … and then there's me at the gym. Listening to music liked by the 'woman of a certain age' down the gym trying to stave off middle age. (Alongside rows of other wobbly ladies on a Sunday morning.)
Well. Technology does help blend the boundaries of our lives in many different ways. The 'digital divide does exist, but it is certainly not a clear cut line through society and as participation widens and uses become more complex, theorists need to stop trying to put forward simple arguments about the impact on society and the self.
identity kits
Vic mentioned this wonderful new project, which takes the 'What's in my bag' idea a bit further.
A long time ago I contributed this to the pool:
(Showing a bag I continue to use and will be using again this weekend when I go to this conference.)
It is clear that people do not reveal 'all' but construct images in a manner so that they represnt themselves in a way that they feel OK about going online. To do this, they need to think about how people might read the images – (what will they think? what associations do the objects have? what do they 'connote'?); they need to know something about how objects represent aspects of their persona; they need to consider what to leave out as well as what to include. Maybe they arrange things so they look smart/show their label/hide their label/ look casual/ appear expensive/cheap. And the inclusion of images of faces taken on a scanner connotes something ludic; maybe a cross-reference to office parties and 'parts of the body image making' and a presentation of self that says @I am game' 'I am fun' – 'I live life madly'.
I am really interested in the ways in which we display online identities and have noticed the continuities in the ways some people present themselves across sites. For example they may begin a persona on a flickr stream and then deepen it through displays in other spaces… like Niznoz's stream and his two blogs here and here; or Gamma's stream and his blog. They are serious reporters of the city; they show something of 'life as it is'; of the history and the way things are changing. NizNoz has two blogs, each with a different function.
People often use their blogs as a way of SPECIALISING. People use different parts of the web, different types of software to perform different tasks. And they are getting good at working out what is good for what task. This is a digital literacy skill; not everyone will 'GET IT' intuitively and so there is a role for researchers in working out what the conventions are and a role for educators in teaching about these things.
It has recently become trendy to represent oneself as a Simpson on Flickr and use the image as an icon of identity. YOu can get one via a new gadget available over at The Simpsons new movie website here. Obviously a lot to be written about re avatars and icons people use on websites, but no time here… must go.
But I'll just leave you with the image my dear partner in life made of himself on Sunday. What kind of impression does he give here? (Answers on a postcard please).
Girls – nattering on the net
Wow Thursday already. Time for an update. How about a trip to a website to see other people with the same name as you?
Go here.
Funny way to network… you can link up with others who share your name . It's quite fun to see what's there.
Maybe you are more interested in finding out that if you are in Britain now and reading this (which you are) you are more likely to be a woman between the ages of 18 and 34 than any other type of person… see here.
I am amazed by this:
now account for 38% of game players. Women over 18 represent a significantly greater portion of game players compared to boys under 17.
This sounds whizzy and all counter intuitive, but then there ia also this list here:
- iVillage Parenting Network
- Huggies
- The Full Experience Company
- BBC Parenting
- Galaxy Radio
- hairboutique.com
- Foxtons
- La Senza
- Pregnancy-info.net
which provides details of where most women are going online. Not so funky, huh?
The original report is here.
For those who are just getting into social networking online, you could do worse than start on Club Penguin … and to entice you …
Dress up your penguin, decorate your igloo, be the first to discover new areas and lots more, when you become a member!
But what is NOT mentioned here is the introduction to capitalist practices through networking – the poor little penguins have to work to earn money in order to do anything much on the site – by making pizzas…
Blending Identities
Originally uploaded by Trois Têtes (TT)
Went to Peace in the Park on Saturday. Some interesting stuff to photograph and saw a wonderful band Just Potatoes. The lead singer had the most beautiful rich Blues voice but could also belt out Waits' Chocolate Jesus, giving a momentous performance.
(This is the singer from Just Potatoes.)
I found out about the event in several ways – all of which were to do with my 'life online' Firstly I took a photo last week of a a performer advertising the event – but only found out about the event after I took the shot for my Flickr stream (not yet uploaded); secondly I heard about the event on a discussion thread on Flickr; thirdly I heard about it via a contact on Ian Jones came up to me and said 'Hi you're DrJoolz aren't you? I recognise you from Flickr …
So I went to an event prompted by online stuff… and when I was there I did stuff just so I could enhance my online activities… life online and off line have blurred boundaries …. and all this stuff about DrJoolz… Am I DrJoolz?? There is this thing about a textual self that I present … am I becoming it? (Or is it vice versa)
Life Online, huh? Blending Identities.
(Thanks to TT for the images.)