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text: I just got a 36" Exmark Metro with ECS. I have already made some adjustments and not it is a lot easier to push on neutral and the brakes aren't catching anymore. I thought that would fix my issue but I still sometimes tear up the turf unless I turn it and out it in neutral and pull the machine back. My neighbor's guys have a Metro with pistol grip and they can just turn on a dime without tearing the turf up so what's the issue with mine?

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Summer of Code 2008/Ogg Theora Codec
From The Neuros Technology Wiki
Port Ogg Theora Codec
Mentor: Jason Kridner
Developer: Marcelo Guedes Silva
GIT: git://github.com/marceloguedes/theora-davinci.git
Since this Google Summer of Code project was initiated, Mozilla funded Ogg Theora work on the C6000 DSP that should be perfectly well suited to run on the OSD2. For information about it, see http://code.entropywave.com/leonora-beagle-board-demo/.
Theora is an open, lossy video compression technology being developed as part of the Ogg project. Based upon On2 Technologies' VP3 codec, Theora is targeted at competing with MPEG-4 and similar low-bitrate video compression schemes.
The Texas Instruments DaVinci Technology combines TI's DSP chips, software, tools and support for developing a broad spectrum of optimized digital video end equipment.
At this moment, there isn't support for Ogg Theora in Texas Instruments DaVinci DSP. A complete open-source scheme of video compression is a great tool to further developers on DaVinci Technology. They will be free to create patent free solutions for multimedia devices. Completing this Ogg Theora port is the objective for this application.
The Theora port will be implemented in Code Composer Studio. I will use open-source code in C, like VLC and FFMpeg, to get a base for my implementation in DaVinci. An extensive study about the Theora specification document and DaVinci architecture will be done too. The study about architecture will be very important to avoid problems with memory exceptions and to improve speed of algorithm. This knowledge can improve the use of cache memory, e. g.
A validation phase will be necessary. I will insert as many Theora streams as possible in the system. Furthermore, this process will be necessary to guarantee that the system will work properly with corrupted streams and in exception cases.
Road Map
The project will continue after Summer of Code. For now, I'm without the Code Composer Studio license. A new road map will be write here when I have a complete workstation.
To Do
- Get a new license with TI
- Get a xDAIS, xDM sample code with TI
Useful Links
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Top 5 Women Leading the global business
Gloria Tesch provides this Guest Post on the Top 5 Women she believes are Leading the global business. Her inspiration is largely from "Seven Secrets of Successful Women: Success Strategies of the Women Who Have Made It – And How You Can Follow Their Lead" by Donna Brooks and Lynn Brooks and published by McGraw Hill Professional, in March 1999.
So we'll hand over to her…
In the current time, a woman is performing so many roles in her life whether it is a role of a business woman or a role of an emerging super-mom. Women are leading almost every field either engineering, medical, arts, business or even going to the space! In both developing as well as developed nations, women's influential power widens well ahead the traditional responsibilities of family and education to administration, business, and the environment.
Don't you think it is essential for us, women, to have knowledge about the top businesswomen who have raised the glory of corporate world with their spirit and talent in a very short time? Let's have a look at the top five women dominating the large-scale business.
Ginni RomettyImagine a veteran business woman, who has taken a new role in Oct. 1 in the IBM, supervised $3.5 billion PwC Consulting acquisition that instigated IBM in the services business. Amazed? Ginni Rometty, 55-year old, is the first female leader and ninth CEO of IBM who has determined to kick in transformational changes or strengthening revenue after years of supporting profit more than top-line growth. After completing her graduation in 1979 from Northwestern University in computer science and electrical engineering, she took an internship with General Motors institute in Detroit. As a system engineer, she joined IBM in 1981. For regular eight years, she has been recorded her name to fortune magazine's in the list of "50 Most Powerful Women in Business." Her rank was 7th in Forbes magazine last year, which has uplifted into 1st on this year.
Indra NooyiIndra Nooyi is an American-Indian woman, who is the current CEO and Chairperson of the second largest food & beverage business in the world. Superstar CEO of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi returned $5.6 billion to Pepsi shareholders and grew net revenue 14% to $66 billion. Did you know that this genius lady worked midnight to 5 A.M. to earn money while getting her masters at Yale? Moreover, this influential business woman has recorded her name in the Forbes list of world's 100 Most Powerful Women' in 2008 and 2009. Guess what guys, the female business elite has unbeaten the market budget for core brands by $500 to $600 million, or 15% and cut 3% of PepsiCo's worldwide staff to reduce costs.
Meg WhitmanMeg Whitman is an amazing woman, who tops almost every single power list of the world with her excellent business skills. After all, we wouldn't expect anything less from the top gun of HP, right? She is the President and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, who refurbished the former fame of this tech company. In 2011, the profit rate and the stock of the company dropped by 19%. But, the annual sales of HP have reached up to $127 billion, which proves the power of Meg Whiteman. She also wrote a book "The Power of Many," in which she lays out ten rules of thumb to climb the ladder of success without any ethical compromise.
Irene RosenfeldForbes magazine recently ranked Irene Rosenfeld, the Chairman and CEO of Kraft Foods, fourth on its most powerful businesswomen list. She has been busy arranging a planned division of Kraft's North American grocery business and its global snacks business into two autonomous companies on Oct. 1. With her clear, determined and consistent thinking and planning she challenged Buffett on business and proved herself right beyond guarded. Rosenfeld is the public persona who leads the $35 billion Mondelez International, Snacks Company, with brands like Oreo, Ritz, and Tang, where she predicted considerable development.
Ellen KullmanEllen Kullman is a 56-year old foremost and the key supporting woman to lead the 210-year-old DuPont. Since, she took charge of DuPont as Chair of the board and CEO in Wilmington in 2009, DuPont has returned 141% contrasted with 67% for the S&P 500. With her insightful knowledge, she has won market-driven skill for driving novelty across the company's dealings. Forbes magazine has ranked her fifth of the 100 Most Powerful Women in 2012. She has been a director of general motors' in prior becoming the chair of DuPont.
At first glance, the amazing success of these business tycoons seems like a stroke of luck, but these women have done an incredible amount of work to benefit from their luck. Of course, it may still be difficult for a woman to lead in business, but these women have proved that it is not impossible and a growing truth.
Gloria Tesch is a financial advisor and a passionate blogger
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by Jud Spena
I love that term, "nuclear family." But I'm not quite sure what it means. Is it a family consisting of the traditional two parents and their children (three in our case)? Or does it refer to the fact that once the kids reach a certain age, just about any thing they say to each other leads to World War III?
I think it's the former, but both definitions apply in our case.
A word about our family. We're musicians. I am a band director, trumpet player and drum corps nut since age 10, when I first joined the Watkins Glen Squires. My wife, Rebecca, plays the cello, teaches orchestra in school and was never involved in any marching activity. Her introduction to drum corps was on one of our early dates. She enjoys it a lot.
Interestingly, her father, who was also a professional trumpet player and band director, often scoffed at the marching activity and drum corps in particular. Well, after we were married a couple of years, much to our amazement, he confessed to belonging to a corps in Utica, NY, when he was growing up in the late 1940s. But I digress.
Our three children — Samantha (13), Lucy (11) and Michael (9) — all play piano and a string instrument. As they reach 5th grade, they start brass instruments. Their exposure to drum corps began with scratchy albums, a dusty scrapbook, some CDs and videos over the years. And, of course, they have had to listen to my endless stories and descriptions around the dinner table.
In 2003, when the kids were 7, 9 and 11 years old, we decided the time seemed right to take them to a contest. Fortunately, a DCA show, "Sounds on the Susquehanna," is held less than 20 minutes from our house. So, off we went. Perfect weather, great seats and six great corps provided us a wonderful evening.
Rebecca and I weren't exactly sure how things would go, but much to our mild and pleasant surprise, the kids were riveted to each and every corps' performance. In fact, Michael was so excited, he couldn't sit down.
The family favorite was the Syracuse Brigadiers and, later that week, the kids sent an e-mail to their drum major via the corps' Web site. A day or two later, he — Trevor Stoyer — sent a nice reply, a class gesture and a real thrill for the kids.
Rebecca and I were delighted that the kids had so much fun and it was a very reasonably- priced evening out, so much so that two weeks later we repeated the experience at the Syracuse DCA contest, about an hour and 15-minute drive.
For the rest of the summer, the big question was, "Daddy, do you think the Brigadiers will make the finals?" For the record, the Brigadiers finished second at the DCA Championship that September.
Fast-forward to 2004 and we are ready for the next step. We decided to take the family to DCI East in Allentown. Allentown is about two hours from our Binghamton, NY, home, so the drive was reasonable. The question was, how would the kids handle two evenings, each over four hours long, with 12 corps performances and a night in a motel sandwiched in between.
We arrived in Allentown a bit worried about threatening weather and our first task was to buy rain gear. It turned out to be a very good move. We checked into our motel, the Days Inn, as per the DCI Web site. Our room had a funky smell and a lot of wet carpet around the bathroom. We put up with it.
Out to J. Birney Crum Stadium under threatening conditions. First thing was, the kids wanted to see the concession area and maybe buy a souvenir. While we were there, the opening ceremonies got underway with the playing of the national anthems of Canada, the Netherlands and, of course, the Star Spangled Banner.
In a moment of complete embarrassment, a man near us took a cell phone call. The kids were shocked and puzzled. This fellow not only took the call, but he made absolutely no effort to lower his voice or in any way make himself anything but completely obnoxious. To make matters worse, the fellow's friend tried to get him to end the call and he created a scene by making some inane political statement, quite loudly, and refused to end the call or be respectful in any way. This idiotic behavior is hard to explain.
The show got underway with threatening skies. I looked around and quickly realized there were very few kids in the audience. I really didn't see any families with children in the age range of ours. By the time the Glassmen got started, it was really raining and there was lightning and thunder. Rain delay. Now I was worried.
We had a long night ahead of us and we were getting wet. Fortunately not too wet because we had new ponchos. And I must say, the kids were very cute in them. But again I digress.
The stadium was cleared and we waited for an hour or so in our van until the show got underway again. Turns out, there was no need to worry. The corps came out totally energized after the rain. The kids loved every one of them, especially the Cavaliers.
I'm starting to believe in a dream come true. My family loves drum corps. Again, I'm thinking there are very few families like ours at drum corps shows. There are a lot of couples, middle age and older. And I see a few young couples with babies. This surprises me because I don't think a drum corps show is a great place for a baby, not to mention that after two or three hours, holding a child gets quite tiring.
We got back to our musty motel room (which we now referred to affectionately as "the dump") and surprisingly we got a decent night's sleep. After an extremely mediocre motel breakfast (at least it was included in the room), we hung out at the pool for the rest of the morning. It was cold, but we've learned that kids love to swim in just about any weather.
At noon, we found a laundromat and dried some clothes and popped into a Chinese restaurant for a snack. When all we ordered was a plate of fried rice and three egg rolls, the lady owner looked at us cross-eyed. I tried to explain that we were just having a snack, but she didn't think it was enough. I don't blame her.
We then headed out to a mall to kill the afternoon. We had a nice dinner at the local Olive Garden (I wanted to try the Italian place across the street, but the certainty of a chain restaurant overrules my adventurous appetite) and we headed back for the finals.
The seating was crowded and the kids, being small, are getting scrunched in. A man behind us with a gut the size of a bowling ball eating a snow cone about the same size managed to spill some of it on Lucy and we were off to a bad start.
After some cleaning up and some shuffling of seats (no apology, of course) we calmed down. Once again, the show was great. The kids enjoyed it. Folks to our right (New Englanders/ North Star alumni) took a shine to Michael. We had a real nice time. We opted out of the smelly Days Inn, leaving Allentown at about midnight, got home about 2:00 AM and everything worked out great. Our first DCI adventure was a complete success.
The 2005 season was dawning. DCI was going to be in Boston and we decided to take the ultimate step. The Spena family is going to DCI! After all, it is a golden opportunity — drum corps' finest and a beautiful and historic city. My first shock was ordering tickets.
I've been paying for tickets to DCI events for years, but hadn't given it much thought until multiplying the cost by a factor of five. We went ahead with the arrangements. A very nice,
reasonably-priced hotel in Dedham, five tickets to the semis and finals ($625.00 plus handling fees!) and side events including something called a Duck Tour, the New England Aquarium and Old Ironsides.
We headed out on Thursday and the drive to Boston wasn't bad. We were there in about four hours. We checked in to our hotel and then headed into the city for our Duck Tour.
MISTAKE! Everyone knows about driving in Boston (except me) and we took about triple the amount of time our faulty Mapquest directions told us it would take. We flew along the highway guessing at just about every turn and ended up on the far side of the Charles River before we knew it. We got some directions and as luck would have it, we made the tour at the last second and truly enjoyed it. I recommend it.
In this case, the "Duck" is a World War II-vintage amphibious motor vehicle. You go on land and in the water. Once in the water, the kids got to steer the duck. And you see a lot of Boston. After the tour, we hiked into the city and took a look around. Folks, noting we were tourists, were very helpful and we saw some neat stuff including Fanueil Hall, Paul Revere's house and some sidewalk entertainment. An underground fire closed down most of the restaurants on the North End, but we had pizza and soda and everybody was happy as clams.
Friday was another odyssey as we headed for the New England Aquarium. We got there at noon, although it was only 12 miles from our hotel. Early on, I suspected we were a little off track when we were approaching Rhode Island.
Parking in large cities is always a problem. Add the frustration of being lost for three hours, I pulled into the first parking garage I could find. It was nice — air-conditioned and very clean and a short walk to the Aquarium. Only later, when we got back from our sightseeing, did I discover it would cost us $38.00 for the two-and-a-half hours we left our mini-van there.
The Aquarium, however, was great. We had a nice late lunch at a park downtown (I believe it's called Post Office Park) and got back to our hotel just in time to clean up and head for the stadium. When we arrived at Gillette Stadium, the kids are in awe and, although it was hot, we were all excited to see the corps. I was depressed that we had to pay $25.00 to park the van.
Our semi finals seats were in the center of the nosebleed section. We tried to get enough food into everybody to avoid the exorbitant cost of stadium food, but that never works. After a couple of hours, everybody was hungry, including me, and I headed for the concession stand. I remember paying $3.50 for water bottles (but you couldn't keep the caps) and my mind has since executed a massive Freudian event by forgetting the cost of everything else.
Suffice to say, the cost of feeding five people adds up pretty fast. I was quite sure we would still be able to send the kids to college when the time comes. They might just have to settle for the local community college. The kids, of course, have no concept of the expense we were incurring, so they continued to enjoy the entire experience. Let's face it. You can't beat high fat, high sodium, high sugar junk food and fabulous drum corps. I took a look around to see if there were any young families in the crowd. I didn't see any.
We had no problem getting back to our hotel after the semifinals. Not willing to waste another three or four hours driving around the city, we decided to spend Saturday relaxing at the hotel pool. This was another very good move. Late in the afternoon, we get some supper and headed for the stadium. It was hot!
Michael, who has an affinity for numbers, noticed the thermometer in the van indicated the outside temperature was 100 degrees. His wise father explained: "The van, being exposed to the direct sun, is giving a faulty reading. Heat is building up artificially and causing an inflated reading. It's not really 100 degrees. The temperature will go down once we get on the road and some of that heat under the hood dissipates." Twenty minutes later, we arrived at Gillette Stadium and the thermometer still read . . . 100 degrees.
I was once again quite happy for the privilege to shell out another $25.00 to park our van. We perused the souvenir area and the kids each picked out something. We headed for the gate and were stopped by one of the stadium employees. Rebecca was carrying a styrofoam cup with about two ounces of water and maybe a chip of ice remaining. The fellow at the gate, who obviously had a very inflated idea of his self-importance, proclaimed, in a very authoritative voice, "You can't take that in, ma'am."
Now remember, it's 100 degrees. We have just invested almost $700.00 in tickets and parking, not to mention what we have spent and are about to spend on over-priced food, and we couldn't take a cup into the stadium. I managed to keep myself from committing a violent and unnatural act with the cup. We threw it out and headed in.
We got to our seats, which were better than the previous nights', and settled in. After the usual seemingly interminable but necessary formalities, the contest got underway and, once again, the corps were just fabulous. There was a weather delay, but it had no effect on our morale.
However, there was a major annoyance to our left. Elevator bells were ringing incessantly. What a distraction! I talked to someone about it, but it never got taken care of. As the night went on, we got to know our neighbors. To our left, Lucy got to know two ladies from Hershey, PA. They were Cadet fans. I shamelessly coaxed her into to giving them my business card, hoping they might buy the book I wrote. (This being me taking blatant advantage of an opportunity to plug my book.) In front of us were two nice folks from Illinois rooting for the Cavaliers. Behind us was a small group of kids from the Blue Stars and I made the acquaintance of a very nice young couple on my right. They were locals who had never been directly involved in drum corps, but were Boston Crusaders fans.
The finals, as expected, were fantastic. We moved to lower seats for the encore performance by the Cadets. Their show was even more mesmerizing up relatively close. The kids, even though it was getting quite late, were once again completely taken by the performance.
Unwilling to give up on Boston just yet, we traveled into the city on Sunday morning and took the ferry from the Aquarium to see Old Ironsides. This was very cool because it cost next to nothing and we got a beautiful view of the city from the harbor. Throw in a little lightning and thunder and it got real exciting.
Old Ironsides, the USS Constitution, is a thing of beauty and history. I'm glad we didn't blow it off. We left Boston late in the afternoon. There was a lot of rain and traffic really got bogged down on the Massachusetts Turnpike. It took us about eight hours to get home, but we didn't mind. We stopped for dinner in a small town in western Massachusetts and drove a fair distance on two-lane road to enjoy the countryside. All-in-all, it was a very nice four-day vacation, combining a little bit of history and culture and lots of drum corps — what I call a well-balanced vacation.
With the end of summer approaching, we took the family to Scranton for DCA. Scranton is less than an hour from home, so traveling to the show was no big deal. A leisurely drive and we were there in a very timely fashion. We parked for $3.00 . . . real cheap. Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but I always wonder about where all that money goes.
The attendants do not give you a parking ticket or any type of receipt for your $3.00. Don't get me wrong, after paying $25.00 to park at DCI, I was not going to complain about $3.00. I just wondered.
We had absolutely perfect seats in the upper deck. The weather was perfect.
We hit the food vendors early and ended up paying about $30.00 to feed the five of us. In fact, that included ice cream and the food was definitely well above average stadium fare. And how can you beat high fat, high sodium, high sugar food and the anticipation of a great night of drum corps?
The show got a very exciting start with the three class A corps — Alliance, Govenaires and Chops, Inc. These corps can really communicate with their audience. I can see the look on the kids' faces and they're really enjoying this. The one problem we had was a fellow in front of us. He looked to be about 45 and was wearing his hat backwards. Of course, neither of these things is a problem, but he had a mouth that would make a sailor blush and he was definitely old enough to know better.
On top of that, he kept taking out a hip flask and drinking from it. I don't know for sure what he was drinking, but I believe it was safe to say he was probably not keeping his electrolytes up with Gatorade.
It finally reached the point where I approached him in the most passive, unthreatening manner I could muster and I asked him if he could watch his language. He gave me a look as though I just insulted his manhood. His female companion was immediately begging him to not make a scene and I was anticipating some trouble. I explained that I had my family with me. After a moment of puzzlement, he noticed 9-year-old Michael next to me and then the girls to our left and he lightened up. Now we're best friends. Confrontation averted.
The open class portion of the show got underway and it just got better and better. If you've ever been to Scranton, you'll know what I mean when I say the corps, even if you're sitting in the upper deck, are very close to the audience. If you're sitting in the upper deck, you have that feeling that you're right on top of the corps. It's an opportunity to experience the corps on a level that's almost visceral. And by Labor Day Weekend, these corps were prepared to give their audience everything they wanted.
The night went on. The competition intensified. We sat absolutely enthralled with the entire affair. DCA has a lot to offer and you get a lot of variety. I won't mention every corps, but Minnesota Brass had a sound that bathed our ears. The Renegades were out to blow you away and they did. The Bushwackers took a different approach and gave a complex program that also entertained. Personally, I loved the sound of the Brigadiers' brass. The Statesmen had the high note men that everybody loved. And the Buccaneers had a total package that we've known since early season would to take them to the top.
We had a great time. DCA is the best bargain in drum corps. I could go on, but I won't. Is drum corps family-friendly? Yes and no. Maybe we should ask if it needs to be. You can draw your own conclusions. All I know for sure is that, as we left Scranton, Samantha said it most succinctly, "That was the best drum corps show I have ever seen!"
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Jud Spena is author of the book "Echoes in the Valley," a 226-page history of the Watkins Glen Squires and the 50-year drum corps activity in Schuyler County in upstate New York.
When not thinking or writing about drum corps (or mediating World War III) he is band director and music department chair at the Chenango Valley Central Schools near Binghamton, NY. He is also a member of the trumpet section of the Binghamton Philharmonic.


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ABC Frets About Obama's 'President-Elect Housing Crisis'
On Friday's "Good Morning America," anchors and reporters fretted about there being no room in Washington D.C. for Barack Obama. It seems that the President-elect's children start school on January 5 and Blair House, the presidential guest quarters, will not be available until the 15th of that month. News anchor Chris Cuomo worriedly insisted, "I mean, you know, he has got enough on his mind. He is worried about getting his kids situated, which is testament to the Obamas as parents."
Co-host Robin Roberts sympathetically wondered of Obama, "You know, he can't check in early?" An ABC graphic hyperbolically asked, "President-Elect Housing Crisis?" During a tease for the David Wright segment, Roberts labeled the Obamas as like "so many folks" who are "scrambling to find a hotel room."
Towards the end of the piece, ABC's Cokie Roberts appeared briefly to calmly point out, "There are all kinds of fancy hotels in Washington. They are likely to be booked because of the inauguration. But I suspect they'd make some room for the Obama family."
A transcript of the segment, which aired at 7:16am, follows:
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ROBIN ROBERTS: And among those people looking for a place to stay for the inauguration, you know, so many folks are scrambling to find a hotel room. How about a President-elect? You know, he can't check in early?
CHRIS CUOMO: I mean, you know, he has got enough on his mind. He is worried about getting his kids situated, which is testament to the Obamas as parents. And they don't know where the Obamas are going to stay yet. So, we're going to tell you the latest on that.
ROBERTS: There's supposed to be a hotel that is guaranteed to have the presidential suite, wherever he stays.
CUOMO [Laughs]: That's for sure.
ROBERTS: And now, today, a milestone for the Obama family. It's Sasha and Malia's last day of school in their hometown of Chicago, weather-permitting, of course. And that will bring the family one step closer to their new residence on Pennsylvania Avenue. But the Obamas have a slight problem here. When they arrive in D.C. in a couple of weeks, there will still be a no vacancy sign at the White House. And David Wright is there in D.C. and has more for us. Good morning, David.
ABC GRAPHIC: President-Elect Housing Crisis? Obama's Checking In
DAVID WRIGHT: Morning, Robin. This has been billed in some places as a stumbling block in the transition. But it's really more of an etiquette problem. What do you do if the guest wants to arrive early? Especially, if the guest is the next president of the United States? The official move-in date here is January 20th. No exceptions.
GARY WALTERS (Retired Chief White House usher): There's one family that's moving out. And there's one family that's moving in.
WRIGHT: The problem for President-elect Obama, his daughters start school January 5th. The Obama family asked for an easy check-in at Blair house, the presidential guest quarters across the street from the White House. But the Bush administration said no. Apparently, Blair House is booked.
DANA PERINO: They'll be able to move in on the 15th
COKIE ROBERTS: It's awkward for the Bush administration because they had no reason to expect that the Obamas would need Blair House. And it's awkward for the Obamas because they need a place to stay.
WRIGHT: The White House kindly offered up temporary accommodations on a nearby military base. The Obamas politely declined. They've also, apparently, ruled out his Senate apartment. The couple told "60 Minutes" Michelle Obama has never slept there.
BARACK OBAMA: Yeah, it was sort of a one bedroom. It had, kind of, the vintage, college dorm pizza-
STEVE KROFT: Community organizer. Community organizer.
BARACK OBAMA: -empty beer bottle feel to it.
MICHELLE OBAMA: It reminded me of a little better version of the apartment you were in when we first started dating.
BARACK OBAMA: Yes, which was right near-
MICHELLE OBAMA: That was a dump too.
WRIGHT: The future first lady recently stayed at the Mayflower, a hotel that's probably eager to have famous guests other than Eliot Spitzer. But hotel rooms in this city are now in short supply.
COKIE ROBERTS: There are all kinds of fancy hotels in Washington. They are likely to be booked because of the inauguration. But I suspect they'd make some room for the Obama family.
WRIGHT: You know, I'm actually reporting from one of those hotels. You know, you see this shot every day. What you may not know is we're actually in a hotel room in the Hay-Adams hotel. ABC rents this room on a long-term basis because it has such a pretty view of the White House. Presumably, the presidential suite isn't as crammed with television stuff. Chris and Robin?
ROBERTS: You know how much we could get for that room on January 20th?
WRIGHT: Probably so. I think it will be busy, though.
ROBERTS: It will be busy. Okay, David. Thanks so much.


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A man of parts (original 2011; edition 2011)
by David Lodge
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A Man of Parts by David Lodge (2011)
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Great fun. I'm an H. G. Wells fan. This is novel about H. G.
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This kind of "biographical novel" is a bit of a risky exercise: at one extreme it can be hard to see what added value over the biographer's scholarship is provided by the novelist's freedom to invent where the evidence is silent, and to attribute motives; at the other, you have to ask yourself why the writer has bothered with the constraint of using the names and known circumstances of real people. Lodge, of course, is both a literary scholar and a novelist, and his account of H.G. Wells tends very much to the biographical side of the equation. The text is full of bits of dialogue and description unmistakably drawn from Wells's own works (I'm amazed how much I remembered of them: I don't think I've looked seriously at one of his novels since about 1980, but clearly they made an impression.) and quotations from actual letters. Lodge scrupulously identifies in his afterword the few "documents" he had to invent for the story to work.
Where the novelist takes over is in his freedom to hold imaginary dialogues with Wells, in which he challenges him to defend his ideas and actions, and to follow him into the bedroom — given the scale and complexity of Wells's love-life this is not just prurience, but a key part of Lodge's analysis of his character. I think in this case, it is a worthwhile exercise to add a novelist's insight, particularly since there's already so much conventional biographical material on Wells. Lodge does seem to capture a lot of the contradictions and ambiguities in Wells's character, and to push the reader to think a bit more about him rather than just filing him away as a socialist writer we read when we were young.
I'm not sure if the book fully answers either of the big questions about Wells: is it still worth reading him as anything other than an entertaining social commentator and pioneer of science-fiction? Did his political ideas actually change anything for the better? Lodge evidently thinks that at least the early novels and stories are of some literary value, but that Wells was something of a failure in persuading people to follow his political ideas. Either he was saying the right thing at the wrong time, or he undermined his political message by avoidable personal squabbles and scandal (e.g. by having affairs with the young daughters of two of the senior figures in the Fabian Society). The opening and closing sections of the book show the elderly author against the background of London in the closing years of World War II, the cataclysm that Lodge clearly means us to see as both the ultimate expression of all the things Wells had been warning the world against and the clear signal that no-one had listened to him. I'm not so sure: for me personally, growing up during the Cold War, Wells was one of the writers who really seemed to be saying something relevant to idealistic young people (even if he said it half a century earlier). Looking back, some of his ideas seem naïve and even irresponsible, and there was all that unfortunate elitism, racism and belief in eugenics which I somehow didn't notice when I was 16. If Wells could go on making young readers think about inequality, injustice and the misuse of science many years after his own death, surely he must have had some influence for good?
For all that wartime gloom (no doubt informed by Lodge's childhood in wartime London), it's often a surprisingly funny book: Lodge has taken the Kipps/Mr Polly side of Wells into account, and he enjoys the element of bedroom farce that frequently seems to have played its part in Wells's life.
The English literary scene in the early 20th century is not exactly uncharted territory for historical fiction, and there are interesting overlaps with quite a few other novels here, not least Lodge's own Author, Author! which shows us the other side of Wells's friendship and quarrel with Henry James, and A.S. Byatt's recent The Children's Book, which is much more a work of fiction than Lodge's, but centres around a family recognisably based on that of the writer E. Nesbit (Lodge takes Wells's affair with the daughter Rosamund Bland as one of the key elements of his story).
I have a passing interest in Odette Keun, having more or less accidentally come across a couple of her books, so I was a little disappointed to find that she only plays a very marginal role in this book: Lodge isn't really all that interested in Wells after the First World War, and he dismisses her in a couple of paragraphs that didn't add anything to what I already knew from her books. The only one of the later mistresses to get much attention is Maxim Gorky's sometime secretary, Moura, who met Wells in Leningrad in 1920, and was subsequently said to have been a KGB agent.
A Man of Parts is a fictional biography of author H.G. Wells. I did not go into this book knowing anything about H.G. Wells, except for his having written quite a few novels and his being one of the founders of the genre of science fiction. Given that, I cannot assert with complete assurance that the events related in Lodge's book are all faithful representations of the author's life, but I suspect they are. The extensive acknowledgements certainly suggest that Lodge did his research before writing the book, not that I would expect less.
Why, then, is this written as a novel, rather than a biography? My suspicion is that it is simply much more fun to write historical fiction than a strictly correct biography. Why? Because, had he written this as nonfiction, he would have been unable to put words into the mouths of the characters, and would have had to rely solely on, instead, the literature, letters and speeches of Wells. While that does a lot, it does not give the same freedom that the label of fiction does.
This is my second experience with David Lodge, although my only successful one, as I gave up on the first book of The Campus Trilogy quite swiftly. I found the opening pages not at all to my liking and decided to move on. Lured by the interesting subject matter here, I could not resist requesting a copy of A Man of Parts. Thankfully, I found myself much more drawn to the book than I ever expected. The writing is excellent and what I learned completely shocking. Impressed by this one, I will definitely be giving The Campus Trilogy another go, especially since Penguin was kind enough to give me the new, completely gorgeous edition containing the whole of the trilogy with this book.
You may wonder why I found the contents of the novel so entirely shocking. That's because it turns out that H.G. Wells was one heck of a horndog. Seriously. He spent all of his time that was not devoted to writing pursuing sexual intercourse with various ladies, most of whom were many years his junior. Many of these sexual partners were authors like himself.
Honestly, the descriptions of Wells' social life and his completely nutty (and hypocritical) opinions on sexual relations were the most intriguing part of the book. Wells espoused a belief in free love, although he did (mostly) attempt to only sleep with women he cared for, although, given the opportunity, any relatively good looking woman would do. (On one occasion, he even slept with a woman with a shriveled hand.)
At the same time, Wells fervently believed in the institution of marriage. He married twice (the first, which was to his cousin by the way, ended in divorce, since he wanted to marry his second wife, Jane). Both marriages were passionless, which increased his straying. Jane seems to have been okay with it, although certainly not thrilled. I imagine she was not as pleased with the arrangement as Wells seems to have believed. Despite his constant straying, Wells was remarkably constant to Jane, and never really wanted to leave her. Of course, his affairs also had other consequences, like babies and scandal. It's funny how this is never the part of history that you get to learn about in school.
Lodge largely uses a pretty straightforward narrative style (third person, mostly following Wells' viewpoint). However, he occasionally switches to a very strange style, wherein H.G. Wells responds to some sort of interviewer. I'm not entirely sure what to make of these sections, but they did tend to be fascinating, since the voice really liked to probe Wells about the subjects he least wished to discuss. I suspect that this was either employed solely as a narrative device or, perhaps more likely, was used to depict Wells' dementia at the end of his life, as he tried to account for his behavior.
While I did enjoy the novel, I will warn that it is not an especially quick read, or, at least, it was not for me. Nonetheless, I found it to be well worth the time, and, if you ever want to have your illusions of a classical author shattered, this is definitely the way to go.
Professor David Lodge is a graduate and Honorary Fellow of University College London. He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, where he taught from 1960 until 1987, when he retired to write full-time.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, was Chairman of the Judges for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989, and is the author of numerous works of literary criticism, mainly about the English and American novel, and literary theory. He is also the author of The Art of Fiction (1992), a collection of short articles first published in the Independent on Sunday.
David Lodge is a successful playwright and screenwriter, and has adapted both his own work and other writers' novels for television. His novels include The Picturegoers (1960), The British Museum is Falling Down (1965), Changing Places (1975), Therapy (1995), Thinks... (2001), and his most recent, Deaf Sentence (2008).
He lives in Birmingham.
I never read a book by H.G. Wells. I do know about his works but they are not really books I would pick up for a fun read. After reading several pieces in this book I knew I was right. Still when I saw this book on the shelves in the bookstore I got intrigued and decided to buy it.
I am in doubt if that was a good or bad decision. This really is a book going from one place to another. Parts are brilliant others are long. It is clear Lodge gathered a lot of information on Wells to build a frame of facts filling the big holes he left on purpose with the story.
As Lodge did a brilliant job in mixing those up it is hard sometimes to separate the facts from the fiction and you just have to take that for granted. This did disturb my reading experience at points.
The characters in the book really come to life. You can easily imagine them in the various places. And combined in truth and fiction the character Wells does not really deserve a nice description, but lets keep this civil. For a man taking position for woman rights he has a weird way of dealing with them. The simple example that he can have multiple relations and his wife has to deal with it but the woman in his life should be loyal or he will be jealous. In the brain of a woman that is a one way ticket to the dislike corner for a man.
Written in two styles the story starts in the last years of Wells life where he reminiscing about the decisions he made in his love life. Parts of the story are written while he is being interviewed by his own conscious and though some of the questions he is asking himself are funny I found these parts difficult to read. I did enjoy the other parts better where the story was "being told".
Overall I experienced the read as bumpy disturbing my experience of the story making it hard for me to decide on the star rating. I am afraid I will have to give this book two stars, cause I will not even consider reading it a second time. Still I think people can easily enjoy this book or experience it different depending on how a person reads. Meaning.. if you are interested find a copy and read two pages to see if you can handle the bumps if yes the story offers enough entertainment to read it, if not do not pick it up cause it will keep you busy.
"...you might conclude, as Lodge does in his smart, engaging novel, that Wells was "a man of parts." Lodge quotes a dictionary definition as an epigraph: "Parts. Plural noun. 1. Personal abilities or talents: a man of many parts. 2. short for private parts."
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Archer Humphryes designed the opulent interior of Sans Souci, a 63-room luxury hotel created within a 19th century building in Vienna's Museum Quarter.
The project draws on the city's glorious decorative and artistic heritage to create a rich but relaxing environment throughout both public areas and three floors of residences at the top of the building. Archer Humphryes designed the lobby, bar, restaurant, private dining room, spa, and eight residences, which include a sixth floor penthouse with panoramic views across the city.
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The conversion includes the reinstatement of the original carved stone façade – removed in the 1960s - and the restoration and sensitive extension of the existing Grade II listed building. The resulting ensemble is designed to enhance the dynamic composition and romantic silhouette of the original. The hotel includes a restaurant housed in the former appliance shed and a new five-storey annex with a ground floor Conservatory bar. The hotel, which has become a popular celebrity hang-out, was the winner of the Hotels & Hospitality category of the 2014 New London Architecture Award.
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Matthew Pankiewicz is 10 years old and attends Maryvale Intermediate School. And here's why he's been selected as this week's Good Kid of the Week.
Matthew was recently given the "Do the Right Thing" award from the Cheektowaga Police Department for knowing what to do in an emergency. His mom says when she experienced a medical emergency in November of last year, Matthew was calm and brave enough to call his grandmother (who is a nurse) and dial 9-1-1 without hesitation. Without his fast reactions, his mom says she might not be alive today.
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A political storm is raging over the enforced shut down of Wirral Council's information technology systems today.
A software problem will create computer disruption for hundreds of council staff for around four hours later today.
Tory group leader Cllr Jeff Green called for an immediate investigation into the failure and seized on the situation to blast the Labour administration for "yet more incompetence."
Council leader Cllr Phil Davies hit back by claiming that Cllr Green was indulging in "the worst kind of political opportunism."
Cllr Green said today: "We believe that council chiefs are planning an enforced shutdown of council IT systems this afternoon which would result in hundreds of Council workers unable to carry out their jobs and the people of Wirral unable to access vital council services.
"Council workers have been suffering intermittent IT problems over the course of this week including being unable to log onto systems and incapable of accessing email.
"This is absolutely unacceptable.
"Let us not forget Wirral's Council Taxpayers were paying £16,000 per month since 28 November 2012 when the Labour Administration agreed to engage an Interim Head of IT.
"Given this huge consultancy fee and the massive increase in spending on IT I have asked for an immediate report on how this gross failure happened and the impact on the public."
Cllr Green continued: "This is yet more incompetence. This administration have made significant changes to the IT service and brought in, at top whack, an IT consultant; and now the Council's IT systems are at breaking point.
"After all this money they have spent on just one consultant Labour are now proposing another council tax rise, a reduction in pensioners' council tax discount and the closure of the Lyndale School. It truly beggars belief."
Cllr Davies said: "We have got a software problem and we will have to close the system down for about four hours from 3pm.
"We have got alternative arrangements in place; we are trying to minimise inconvenience to the public. Important records are not affected.
He added: "I am absolutely outraged Cllr Green can actually use Lyndale school to criticise me and make political points. It is the worst kind of political opportunism."
Cllr Davies acknowledged that the council's IT system was "pretty outdated" but investment had been precluded by massive government cuts.
Cllr Davies said: "We need to look at our capital finances and see if we can afford to do this. We are going to sort this out as quickly as possible – the request will be looked at sympathetically.
"It is clearly important that we have a high quality IT system that works."
Strategic director for transformation and resources Joe Blott said: "On the advice of the council's software provider, Microsoft, we are undertaking essential maintenance today to permanently resolve an IT problem, which has been preventing some staff from accessing some of our systems.
"This does not mean that council services will be closed.
"Services will continue to operate while this work is being done and we have effective contingency plans in place to minimise any potential inconvenience to members of the public.
"The maintenance is being undertaken from late afternoon today in order to reduce the impact on the next working week by making use of the weekend."
- A report to the council's transformation and resources policy and performance committee next week strongly recommends that the council consider the installation of standby power arrangements at a cost of around £200,000.
- Last September a computer technology disruption caused the loss of both the ICT systems and the council's telephone system for a 48 hour period.
- It followed an electrical fault on the national grid network causing a Wirral wide supply network voltage dip.
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The better we know people, the more likely we are to find fault with them.
If familiarity breeds contempt, then overindulgence breeds snobbish connoisseurship.
Second, if familiarity breeds contempt, anonymous familiarity seems to fuel it even more.
familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
I think, in this case, it must be that familiarity breeds contempt.
With your friends remember the old proverb, that, familiarity breeds contempt.
But familiarity breeds contempt for choice possessions as well as friends.
But, as Dr. Durkheim says, man and wife might soon abandon each other, if familiarity breeds contempt.
The contempt which our metaphysicians show for matter, comes from the fact that "familiarity breeds contempt."
The oft seen easily becomes the oft unheeded; familiarity breeds contempt.
familiarity breeds contempt, and even poplar-trees and marshes pall on one in time.


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We Want the Same Healthcare They Got at Alcatraz
Julie Parker, the creator of the sign above, is among several Working America members and staffers who came out for the economic justice street theatre organized by the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (PHAN) this week. PHAN's skit called on Congress to protect funding for critical programs – like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security – by eliminating the costly sweetheart deals and loopholes set up to benefit corporations and pharmaceutical companies.
Over the course of PHAN's street theatre, Larry the Lobbyist and his costly Loophole smugly sucked up a mother's purse, a college student's backpack, and a senior's medication money, revealing the costliness of corporate tax loopholes and deals to the American People.
Not only do these corporate breaks suck up our money, they strain our country's resources. The desperate situation caused by such loopholes and deals gives rightwing politicians fuel to attack critical social insurance programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
The Working America members at PHAN's event know that we cannot allow the slashing of such programs: programs that keep our seniors and low-income folks afloat and able to take care of their health.
Julie Parker (seen above holding her sign) explained what inspired her to create her sign:
"I remember visiting Alcatraz prison and seeing a sign stating that the prisoners were entitled to medical care along with food, clothing, and shelter….I thought that if our convicted felons were entitled to health care, shouldn't our citizens also be entitled to the same? After all, the only 'crime' [of recipients of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security] is being old or poor."


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Featured here are pots and jars necessary for storing the five grains (wheat, rice, beans, millet, and foxtail millet) and water in medieval Japan. The strength and simplicity that can be seen in their forms are one of the great allure of medieval Japanese pottery. The cherished ceramics of the six old kiln sites have captured the hearts of many. They include the hearty and rustic Tokoname and Echizen wares, the bright and robust Shigaraki, the simple and elegant Tanba with its dripping glaze, the bold and majestic Bizen, and the sole glazed ware, the graceful yet powerful Seto.
Ode to Early Pottery explores these medieval Japanese ceramics and presents an overview through approximately 170 ceramic pieces. Exemplary works from the six kilns will be highlighted together with examples from other nearby kiln sites. The result of scholarly research on the history of medieval kiln sites, this major ceramic exhibition, the first of its kind in thirty years, will begin at MIHO MUSEUM and thereafter travel to four venues throughout Japan.


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Anyone care to make a Neon video? - stoli - 2011-06-10 15:44
The video that is on YouTube is way out of date. If someone using the nightly builds would like to take the time to make a video showing off the skin and their collection I would be most appreciative.
- rflores2323 - 2011-06-10 19:12
I can take a video however i cant do all teh fancy intros etc.. I am traveling until next Friday and do it when I get back if someone hasnt by then.
I however am on the stable build and not nightlies so can only take video of that version.
- loki131 - 2011-06-10 20:07
You can use this, it's not great but it impressed my friends!
It's not using nightlies and it doesn't have sound (my sound card is incompatible..) but if you want to throw it up until someone does a better job go right ahead!
- paak - 2011-06-10 20:55
Loki, how did you get Hulu and Netflix on your home screen?
- paak - 2011-06-10 20:59
NM, I found my answer Here. Sadly it's not Linux compatible so I can't use it on my OpenElec box.
- loki131 - 2011-06-10 21:28
Bummer about the Linux support... you can however use hulu linkey, just use the Launcher or Advanced Launcher add-on although between Icefilms and the FreeCable add-ons I don't use hulu that much anymore...
- Ymeltje - 2011-06-16 09:33
I will make a video, but my xbmc isnt that impresive.
I'll post the vid when i find the time to make 1. (1-3 days)
- paak - 2011-06-20 19:13
I played with FreeCable this past weekend actually and I was rather impressed by it! Icefilms is awesome as well, I found that a couple of weeks ago. I swear, it seems that everytime I get a chance to sit down and play with XBMC I find a new plugin that blows my mind. Having it all wrapped up in a skin as beautiful as Neon makes it that much easier to push to friends who come over and see it.
- mechiah - 2011-06-22 05:30
tossing my lot in the "i'll make a video next week or so" pile
tried tonight on my htpc, but it is too low-power to run fraps and xbmc at once; it would lag behind on loading thumbs and fanarts when fraps was recording.
next week, after done moving, i'll copy my xbmc settings and library (but not the movies) to my gaming PC and record to a SSD.
all that said, i think the first video linked is pretty good. if loki has the original uncompressed file, putting music to that one would be pretty nice imo.
i should say, how much detail (and what features) are you looking for? your op was a pretty open-ended request
- stoli - 2011-06-22 18:12
mechiah Wrote:tossing my lot in the "i'll make a video next week or so" pile
Whatever you think would best show off the skin... I just want someone to show it off w/out posting dozens of screen shots that do not do it justice.
...and then there is the whole Neon logo that needs help...
- Kode - 2011-06-27 00:16
I didn't do it for this thread, and it could be better, It's to showcase the different things that come from fanart.tv, but it uses Neon so feel free to use it if you want.


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HAHA I WAS JUST THINKIN BOUt the i typin thing ....
and no pic shows up nlc at least on my comp...
worddd good looks ill be over their tomo prob gotta pay them dues to E
Well, apparently I cant post images anymore?
Heres some pictures I was about to post. If someone could post them so everyone doesnt have to click links that'd be great.
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Please make your trowie small on the new ones so I dont have to break out the ladder for the next addition -_- lol
Throwie* girlfriend just corrected me.
yo it was so hard for me to resist from writing on the streetsign above the wood, but i did.. figured if u start fukn shit up round that spot they will end up takin those canvases down... jus my opinion
yeah I just went there and saw a ton of new shit on the sign, and your opinion is the truth. they'll know the memorial attracts "thoes kind of people" so they'll eliminate the problem from the source.
yea that crushed can idea is dope...
Skep, never seen him up but the style looks familiar.
lmfaaooo yea skep does those but iThink izy started it orginally, whats gud wit a eyt memorial writers block??
someone should clean that shit off son cause they deff gunna take that shit off if they see that ..sucks to sayy....but u goto buff that family lol
i wanna go out there if anyones goin thru the mid 516 area please pm me
Stopping over there tomorrow to buff that shit off the sign. It was obviously all in good manor but kids should still know better.
this might sound like a dumbass idea but i think we should make eyt a crew name to remember him by open to anyone that had some sort of contact with him
Arkay oner
when life give you lemons say fuck it and get oranges
And Shepherds we shall be
For thee, my Lord, for thee.
Power hath descended forth from Thy hand
Our feet may swiftly carry out Thy commands.
So we shall flow a river forth to Thee
And teeming with souls shall it ever be.
In Nomeni Patri Et Fili Spiritus Sancti.
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Robby, On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:17:58AM -0600, Robby Findler wrote: > The top-level shouldn't cause you any problems. Just create a new > namespace for the eval'd code and it will only be able to use that > namespace. I neglected to mention that in this case, I'm embedding mzscheme in a c++ environment. I take it that either scheme_basic_env or scheme_make_namespace provides an isolated Scheme_Env/namespace for the untrusted code. > You will probably want to make a separate thread (and eventspace if in > mred) in case the code runs forever. To protect against code that > attempts to allocate all of the memory in your program, use > custodian-limit-memory. I tried this (in mzscheme3m) on a recent SVN snapshot: (define cust1 (make-custodian)) (custodian-limit-memory cust1 1000 cust1) (current-custodian cust1) (let loop ((acc '())) (loop (cons 'x acc))) I expected this to raise an exception after a few seconds, but it kept running. What's the proper way to set this up? Wayne
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Listener Request - April 21, 2012
Hi Mr. Kingsley,
It's been one year now that my dad has been in Ocean View Continuing Care Center and I see him often. On the average of four times a week, I leave work and drive out there, listening to the local country station en route. And I miss our visits when bad weather or something else keeps me from going.Hi Mr. Kingsley,
Well, whenever I hear the Trace Adkins' song, "Just Fishin'", I think of my dad and smile. My parents have four girls, of which I'm the third, and I have wonderful memories of fishing with dad on Campbell River Lake in British Columbia, when I was growing up.
I remember one particular trip when he took all three of us with him. The fish weren't biting, and dad said, "Well girls, we'll give it a few more minutes, and then we'll try another spot." Those words were no sooner out of his mouth when all three of us were calling for his help simultaneously. We all had a fish on the line! It was loud family chaos, as you can imagine.
Well that memory makes me chuckle and grin. I'm thankful for the great memories of time spent with my dad and I appreciate making more memories every chance I get.
Thank you,
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Dear Bob,
Four years ago, I had the difficult task of leaving my first-born at college, two states away from home. Now, as we near graduation in May, I once again have the task of letting him go. I know, no matter what path he decides to pursue, my boy will be leaving home and starting his own life. I won't be there to bandage scrapes and bruises, or make sure he takes his coat! I just have to have faith that the person my husband and I raised makes the right decisions.
The song "My Wish" may have been written and sung by men, but it's every mom's song. Could you please play it? Not only for me and my son, Bruce, but for all the parents who are facing the same thing I am.
Thank you so much,
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The Reliance of the Traveller by Ahmad Ibn Lulu Ibn Al-Naqib and Noah Ha Mim Keller is approved by al-Azhar in Egypt as authoritative, it narrates "There will be peoples of my Community who will hold fornication, silk, wine, and musical instruments to be lawful ..." Another quote says that: "On the Day of Resurrection, Allah will pour molten lead into the ears of whoever sits listening to a songstress." Another legal ruling says that "It is unlawful to use musical instruments - such as those which drinkers are known for, like the mandolin, lute, cymbals, and flute - or to listen to them. It is permissible to play the tambourine at weddings, circumcisions, and other times, even if it has bells on its sides. Beating the kuba, a long drum with a narrow middle, is unlawful."
Muslims in the days of Omayyad's and Abbasids had access to Greek musical theory, yet they decided not to concentrate on the Greek creative bequest. It was integration of music and pictorial arts into religious worship in Christian Europe that yielded into De Vinci and Michelangelo, or music that eventually culminated in the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven centuries later. This never happened in the Islamic world; calligraphy and chanting of holy book replaced real art and music. The Ottomans' resistance to the printing press was based on religious authorities' monopoly in providing legitimacy through loyalty because the transmission of knowledge depended on 'oral technology.' Mullahs' chanting and control of the source book gave them the control over the Faithful.
The Gregorian chants and the growth of polyphonic music in medieval European monasteries and cathedrals established the musical tradition and notes. The invention of musical notation enabled musicians to build upon the work of the past.
Without these there would be no Mozart or Beethoven. Yes, it makes no difference if a society does not have Mozart or Beethoven but a society that fails to deliver Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven also fails to deliver Copernicus, Galileo or Newton. A society that bans music and art resigns itself to humiliation of medievalism. The medieval mindset is the curse and nuisance which is innate and hereditary, it has to be broken for that is the only way the mind of man can be free from dogma and backwardness. He needs to rebel against the doctrine that embeds him in cohorts with desert norms that are comprehensively antiquated and archaic.
Expansion and development of musical expression helped discovery of the connection between mathematical ratios and musical intervals that is attributed to Pythagoras. According to Charles Murray, "Just as linear perspective added depth to the length and breadth of painting, polyphony added, metaphorically, a vertical dimension to the horizontal line of melody."
The lack of freedom of mind led to coercion and lack of expansion on all fronts. Let's see some other instances, for example of Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham) who wrote optics; history of optics without mentioning Alhazen is unthinkable. At the time the only regions in the world where clear glass was extensively made was the Middle East and Europe, but the theory of optics was used by Europeans to create eyeglasses for the correction of eyesight, and later for the creation of microscopes and telescopes and thus the birth of modern medicine and astronomy. Middle Eastern Muslims could have done so, but they didn't. (Encyclopaedia Britannica )
Had they done so instead of wasting their time on 'Alchemy and Puritanism,' who knows the 'Telescope' that would show the moons of Jupiter to Galileo could have helped the descendents of Al Hazen. Similarly Geber (Jabir ibn Hayyan) did good work in alchemy for his time and may have been the first person to create some acids, but there was no follow-up.
Today the Spring revolutions in Middle East are the product of the embracing of new technology:
'Clergy helped the rulers in controlling the limited number of books available for public use in libraries, scrutinizing their contents and ensuring the suppression of items that could threaten loyalty (Göçek, 1987: 109).
Many within the crescent of Islam find convenient explanations such as 'colonialism and poverty' as the major cause of disorientation within ranks of the faithful that finds random use of 'terror' a part and norm of ideological promotions, however, repugnance to the new technology has been deeply rooted based on protection of the faith. Though guns were accepted, printing presses were a big no for centuries by the Ottomans. Guns helped victories and expansion instantaneously whereas books change a society within that takes a while to sprout.
The Ottoman Empire was one of the first states to put gunpowder weapons in strategic use. The famous Janissary corps of the Ottoman army began using matchlock muskets as early as the 1440s. The army of Mehmet the Conqueror, which conquered Constantinople in 1453, included both artillery and foot soldiers armed with gunpowder weapons. The Ottomans brought to the siege sixty-nine guns in fifteen separate batteries and trained them at the walls of the city. The barrage of Ottoman cannon fire lasted forty days, and they are estimated to have fired 19,320 times. ''The siege lasted from Friday, 6 April 1453 until Tuesday, 29 May 1453 (according to the Julian Calendar), when the city was conquered by the Ottomans. The Fall of Constantinople marked the end of the final remnant of the Roman Empire, an empire which had lasted for nearly 1,500 years; it was also a massive blow to Christendom. After the conquest Mehmed made Constantinople the Ottoman Empire's new capital. Several Greek and non-Greek intellectuals fled the city before and after the siege, migrating particularly to Italy. It is argued that they helped fuel the Renaissance. Some mark the end of the Middle Ages by the fall of the city and empire.''
The victory based on guns implodes but a victory based on books lives on. The next fifty years will change the thinking landscape of the Middle East; Egyptians and others will soon realize that the success of revolution now depends on policies that are short on ideology and long on practicalities. Will of Allah alone does not change the state of the nation; it has to be the work that is put in.
A primary enigma of technological record is why some societies have foregone progress and chosen backwardness by failing to adopt technological advancements. Although the Ottomans were quick to adopt advancements in military technology, they waited almost three centuries to allow the first book to be printed in Arabic script. Imagine if the Internet was disallowed for 3 centuries! What would have been the status of freedom in the Middle East? No revolution is possible without knowledge. Assad, Qaddafi and Mubarak never realised that in an open connected world, the first victims would always be their chained populace. Openness is the nemesis of all closed societies.
In adopting the printing press and gunpowder weapons, often considered the most important inventions of the late Middle Ages, the Ottomans reacted quite in a different way, moving like a pendulum between closeness and openness. The introduction of the printing press was potentially a significant threat to the stability of this process and to the ability of religious authorities to provide legitimacy. Once adopted, mass printing altered the technology of transmitting knowledge and diminished the comparative advantage of religious authorities. The general public could obtain knowledge directly from books or from literate individuals not necessarily affiliated with religious authorities. The authorities lost their monopoly in the transmission of knowledge and their power in convincing the public on the legitimacy of the ruler. Young Turks were products of such a rare openness.
One question every Muslim should always ask is how the Middle East went from being a global hub of civilization to being the global epicentre of terrorism and ruthless killing as it arguably is today. American evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond in his bestselling book Guns, Germs, and Steelhas listed smallpox, or because zebras are more difficult to domesticate than water buffaloes, for some societies to fail; in case of the Middle East, it is the software that needs an anti viral dose. The main cause of the backwardness is the mindset of the region. The abhorrence of fine arts and preference of violence and conquest over logic and reason as a matter of holy cause and injunctions have led 1.5 billion to be a part of a stifled society that detests beauty of expression, expressive art or music.


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Designers of a high-quality educationPosted by reinecka on Nov 15, 2012 in Featured | 0 comments
Our groundbreaking University Studies Program, a redesigned general education program launching in fall 2013, prescribes small learning communities, student peer-and-alumni mentors and an array of high-impact courses and community experiences that dovetail with the signature questions and topics a 21st Century student must explore in sustainability, cultural awareness and civic engagement.
Grade-point average is but one measure of students' success. This new program is built upon better teaching, better learning and the expectation that students demonstrate and document their mastery and application of essential learning outcomes in "ePortfolios." They will question, explore and connect. They will chronicle how they have applied their general education to think analytically and strategically, to examine, dissect and confront the issues of the day and to solve problems.
Through required community experiences, or Quests, students will support after school programs, food pantries, shelter providers and other agencies, organizations and initiatives sustaining communities. As their education and experience strengthens, so will our state's future.
UW System grant helps move University Studies Program forward
Lori Carrell knows first-hand the amount of intellectual and creative effort that has gone into reinventing general education requirements at the university level.
The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh communication studies professor and director for the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning is co-leading the development of the innovative redesign of general education requirements – the University Studies Program (USP).
The USP is innovative and aimed at being high-value and high-impact for students. And come fall 2013, students coming into and graduating from UW Oshkosh will benefit from a different kind of general education. This summer, UW Oshkosh's landmark USP earned another tremendous endorsement when it was awarded a three-year, more-than $400,000 UW System institutional grant – "Promoting Student Success through Curricular Reform." It will help support USP development and implementation over the next three years.
Landmark 'University Studies Program' earns key Faculty Senate nod
Pardon the pun, but there is little to nothing "old school" about the "University Studies Program" (USP).
The sweeping and innovative redesign of how the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh offers a high-value, high-impact general education is designed to take student learning to a new plateau. And it is going to become reality in fall 2013.
The groundbreaking USP proposal earned the nearly-unanimous approval of UW Oshkosh's Faculty Senate on March 13. It is the culmination of months of collaborative work by the members of the institution's academic community, who developed a landmark framework for general education at the University, following general guidelines set forth by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). With Faculty Senate approval, the USP framework's big ideas, concepts and questions now segue into a roughly year-and-a-half long implementation process. Faculty and staff training, course selections and student and community education are all necessary for the program to hit the ground running in fall 2013.


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The Princeton United Fund board has set a $12,500 goal for donations during this year's October donation drive.
That is down from the $15,000 goal last year, but the board members are optimistic about raising more than the $12,500 set this year, said board president Luther Dorr. He talked about the enthusiasm the board members showed when they met Monday evening this week.
Princeton United Fund should not be confused with United Way, Dorr said, emphasizing that Princeton United Fund concentrates on Princeton and the surrounding area.
Last year Princeton United Fund received $8,000 in donations and after expenses was able to distribute about $6,300 to various groups.
"We're hoping to go way beyond that," Dorr said of the amount to distribute from this year's upcoming drive which goes for the month of October. People can still donate after that as the money can go into an account for use in another year.
The groups requesting help through Princeton United Fund this year are:
• Foster Grandparents
• Mille Lacs Developmental Achievement Center
• Princeton Dining Center bus
• Princeton Dining Center activities
• Princeton Pantry
• Salvation Army
• Elim Care & Rehab
• Rum River Life Choices
• Special Olympics
• Kinship Youth Mentoring
• Princeton Friends of the Library
• Pearl Crisis Center.
Another recipient from the fund drive is the Needy Child Fund, in which the school district will request help for a needy student or for a needy family of that student. Some examples have been a blanket, winter clothing, a kit for getting rid of head lice, and in one case, a blender for pureeing food for a student who could only eat pureed food.
Tax deductible donations can be sent by check to Princeton United Fund, PO Box 304, Princeton, MN 55371. A donor can also specify the group that their donation is to go to.
Businesses who donated to the fund last year are receiving letters seeking support this year. But there won't be letters sent to households as that practice was stopped last year.
Reminders of the fund drive are planned in a front page ad in the Town & Country in the first week of October, as well as on the Bremer Bank electronic sign, and through broadcast on WQPM Radio.
Princeton United Fund board members looking for a sign of energy to kick off this year's fund drive might have found some of that in the $400 donation that arrived Monday from local American Legion Woodcock Herbst Post 216.
Donation receptacles, found in nine places around town, will offer another chance to contribute to the fund drive.


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Spiced Bananas with Rum sauce
READY IN: 13mins
Recipe by Monica in PA
A luscious low-fat dessert! Check out my other recipe for broiled pineapple for a similar fruit dessert. I adapted this recipe from an old magazine ad.
Top Review by Charishma_Ramchanda
This is a real yummy treat. I make this (but I do omit the allspice and apple juice concentrate). It always gets over before I know it:)
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 firm ripe bananas
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar or 1 tablespoon sucanat
- 2 tablespoons thawed apple juice concentrate
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄8 teaspoon ground allspice
- 2 tablespoons dark rum
- 1 cup vanilla ice cream or 1 cup frozen yogurt
Directions See How It's Made
- Cut bananas in half crosswise then lengthwise and set aside.
- Melt butter ina skillet over medium high heat.
- Add brown sugar, apple juice concentrate, vanilla, cinnamon, and allspice and cook for 30 seconds.
- Add banana pieces and cook for 1 minute.
- Turn bananas pieces over and cook an additional minute.
- Heat rum in saucepan.
- Pour over banana mixture.
- If desired, ignite run with a long match, let flames die down.
- Stir gently.
- Arrange 4 banana pieces on each of 2 dessert plates; spoon sauce over pieces and top each with 1/2 cup ice cream or frozen yogurt.
- Serve immediately.


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Kaley Cuoco & Ryan Sweeting: More Wedding Photo Fun!
Following a whirlwind romance, Kaley Cuoco and Ryan Sweeting couldn't have looked more in love as they got hitched on New Year's Eve.
And thanks to the modern miracle of Instagram, we all get to see some of the nuptial nuttiness that occurred at the Hummingbird Nest Ranch in Santa Susana, California.
In one shot, the "Big Bang Theory" babe and her groom walked down the aisle and Kaley captioned the image, "My fairy-tail ending. Or beginning I should say!"
Meanwhile, Sweeting posted his own pic with the caption, "My cheeks hurt from smiling so hard. Best night in history."
Check out all the Cuoco/Sweeting wedding sweetness below!
Photo Credit: Instagram