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Fri Feb 24, 2012, 01:16 PM
jberryhill (47,475 posts)
1. We used to get the Morning News *and* The Evening Journal
I don't know who thought taking a newspaper office out of Wilmington and putting it in a swamp was a good idea.
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Fri Feb 24, 2012, 01:29 PM
cyberpj (10,794 posts)
2. My family did as well. And I even remember when the news in them was actually different!
Then it became the same.
Then only one paper per day.
And now, mostly AP articles except for the local stuff.
We stopped getting delivery because you couldn't even read the thing without getting the cheap black ink all over your hands and anything else you touched after reading it.
Online is a pain because of the ads and the time it takes to download muti-pages for a single story but it's easier to remember to check in since I'm aleady at my computer most days.
Maybe it's been too long since I had a subscription now but does $15/month seem like a lot to just find out about local crime and events?
Hey! Remember, too, when we caught movies on either The Early Show or The Late Show out of Philly? I even remember the clock that was the opening photo AND the theme song (with a tick tock sound) that started things off.
"Mem-ries.... in the corners of my mind....."
Sally Starr, Chief Halftown, Pix-anne, Gene London.......
American Bandstand!
Stop! Stop! I'm feeling older by the minute!
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Sun Mar 18, 2012, 09:56 PM
woodsprite (7,914 posts)
3. I get about 4 emails daily from the Newark Post.
Depending where you are, it covers mainly NCC, DE and Cecil Co., MD. I think the crossover is because the people that do the Newark Post are the same ones that do the Cecil Whig. I don't know if they still have paper versions. They used to be printed and delivered to area stores on Thursdays. I know you could get them free at Concord Pet and McDonalds. Their website is
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Mon Mar 19, 2012, 03:36 PM
LynneSin (95,336 posts)
4. $15 a fricking month to subscribe to the News Journal online???
Hell for $15 a month I could subscribe to the NYTimes and get way better news than you'd find at the News Journal.
I glance at the headlines and then read Huffington Post.
News Journal screwed themselves on that one. I would have considered a subscription fee like $25-$40 a YEAR tops. but to pay $145 a year just to read the News Journal online - no thank you!
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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 04:41 PM
ges5626sek (50 posts)
5. kick.
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Wed May 23, 2012, 01:23 AM
kristopher (29,778 posts)
6. Read article, clear Delawareonline cookie, read next article, clear cookie
Troublesome, but it works for occasional browsing
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Thu May 24, 2012, 12:24 PM
cyberpj (10,794 posts)
7. Thanks.
Hadn't even thought of that.
They keep telling me the one article I read per day is my free article. - they've been doing that for the last few weeks now. But sometimes I do want to read more than one.
I wouldn't even mind paying if the price wasn't the same for online AND delivery. For such a small state the 15/mo seems excessive, expecially when so many articles are simply AP reprints. But then I remember they're owned by Gannett Corp now.
Tx again.
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Response to cyberpj (Reply #7)
Thu May 24, 2012, 12:43 PM
LynneSin (95,336 posts)
8. I just confirmed - NYTimes is the same cost $15 a month
Although they do offer $.99 for the first 4 months. That seems like a reasonable price since the NYTimes is one of the major USA newspapers.
But for the News Journal - not even close. I know that NJ is part of Gantt Publishing - if the $15/month meant unlimited articles for ANY Gantt Newspaper, that might make sense. But I saw about the Cookie clearing with the NJ. I use Google Chrome and really don't want to be clearing cookies all the time, but I do use IE for one website so perhaps I'll just read the NJ on my IE - don't mind clearing cookies on that one.
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Hi, On Thu, 27 May 2010 20:05:24 -0400 Lindsey Kuper <lkuper at cs.indiana.edu> wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Marek Kubica > <marek at xivilization.net> wrote: > > Ok, I slowly start to see the pattern how to translate Prolog code > > into miniKanren. > > It's tricky, because miniKanren doesn't have Prolog's pattern-matching > ability built in. There is, however, a pattern-matching macro for > miniKanren, which you can find at the URL I gave earlier. (Not much > in the way of up-to-date documentation, unfortunately. I should do > something about that.) As a matter of "getting things done" I switched to Schelog for that task. I needed to do some porting to get the 2001-code running but I was able to translate the Prolog solution without problems. The next major PLT release (PLT Racket 5) will include Racketlog, an improved version of Schelog. > > Hmm, maybe I should come up with a version of permute that does not > > need do-insert... Tricky, since I am quite new to logic programming. > > Yes, I think that do-insert might not be the most natural way to write > it in miniKanren. If I ever have time to come back again to miniKanren, I'll be sure to try it again :) regards, Marek
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This dystopian novel places two groups of people at war. On one side of the bridge, in Cityside, live the privileged. In Southside, located on the other side of the bridges, live all of the poor people called Hostiles. The Hostiles have been at war with Cityside for years, seeking equal rights and treatment.
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The City is divided. The bridges gated. In Southside, the hostiles live in squalor and desperation, waiting for a chance to overrun the residents of Cityside.
Nik is still in high school but is destined for a great career with the Internal Security and Intelligence Services, the brains behind the war. But when ISIS comes recruiting, everyone is shocked when he isn't chosen. There must be an explanation, but no one will talk about it. Then the school is bombed and the hostiles take the bridges. Buildings are burning, kids are dead, and the hostiles have kidnapped Sol. Now ISIS is hunting for Nik.
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Besides The Dutchman, which Suzy Bogguss covered on her #1 selling Aces album, Michael Smith classics and their interpreters include Spoon River, a song inspired by the stories of Edgar Lee Masters, which was also recorded by Goodman. Jimmy Buffet recorded Elvis Imitators, Michael's tongue in cheek ode to the King's legions. Dead Egyptian Blues, a song about ex-pharaohs and their riches was recorded by Trout Fishing in America. A couple of other Smith classics include Crazy Mary, a song about the 'crazy lady next door' in everyone's life that David Allan Coe recorded, and Last Day of Pompeii - a smooth jazz number about the cities impending disaster, which appears on the swing recordings of Harmonious Wail. As Michael's resume includes over 30 other artists who have cut or performed his tunes, it becomes safe to assume that if Michael Smith has written a song, someone else has played or recorded it.
In 1986 Michael found himself regularly taking the stage again. He had started to work with Anne Hills, and Anne got Michael to record two albums for Flying Fish Records, while becoming his producer and touring partner. Michael recorded Michael Smith (1986) and Love Stories (1987.) Both albums have been reissued as a single CD, which is among Acoustic Guitar Magazine's list of essential singer-songwriter albums. Anne Hill recorded her own album of Smith songs called October Child (1993).
In the winter of 1987, Claudia Schmidt introduced Michael Smith to theatrical director Frank Galati. It was Galati who asked Michael to write the music for Steppenwolf Theater's production of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater, founded by Gary Sinese and John Malkovich, has a glowing reputation in Chicago and nationally, and The Grapes of Wrath became a huge success, playing in Chicago, London, San Diego, and on Broadway where it received Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Director. The success of The Grapes of Wrath allowed Michael to quit his job as a clerk at Time, and his work in theater brought both new dimensions to his writing and his performances.
Since then, Michael has been performing regularly, both as a solo act and in a duet with with Anne Hills. He recorded his third album for Flying Fish, Time (1994), and recorded a duet album with Anne Hills called Paradise Lost and Found (1999). He has also continued to write music for theatre, including for a Colorado Children's Theatre production of The Snow Queen. Most notably though, in 1993 Chicago's Victory Gardens Theatre premiered his autobiographical play Michael, Margaret, Pat and Kate. The play won four Jeff Awards (the Chicago Theater Union's equivalent of the Tony), for Best Original Music, Best Production, Best Actor In A Revue, and Best New Work. February 2000 finally sees the official release of the music from Michael, Margaret, Pat and Kate by Wind River Records in February 2000.
Michael has performed at dozens of major folk festivals including the Kerrville Folk Festival, Black Mountain Festival, and Philadelphia, Owen Sound, and Winnipeg Folk Festivals. He has also appeared on a number of radio programs including WUMB's Circle in the Stream, interviews with Studs Terkel on WFMT, a series of interviews on All Things Considered and Good Evening on NPR as well as interviews for the BBC in London for All Things Considered. Michael continues to write songs, tour regularly, do songwriting workshops as well as perform frequently with Anne Hills. Though sometimes elusive to the spotlight, Michael Smith has had a long, eclectic career as a musician. His songs are played and known throughout the world. Considered by his peers to be one of today's most intelligent, literate songwriters it is a wonder he managed to stay hidden to so many others for so long.
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Even if you've only seen minutes of Rachel Bilson's show Hart of Dixie, you know that her character, Dr. Zoe Hart, is the most fabulously dressed woman in Dixie, AL, and arguably the best-dressed doctor anywhere! This ensemble she wears on the latest episode is one of her most fashion-forward yet. Zoe starts wild with an animal-print A.L.C. top, topped with a Robert Rodriguez blazer, Juicy Couture jeans, Christian Louboutin peep-toe pumps, and a Z Spoke handbag. Her top and bag — in a blue color — are available to shop below, but this look can just as easily be re-created with similar pieces. Start with a leopard tee or tank, colored blazer, and skinny black jeans. Then accessorize with peep-toe pumps, diamond-shaped hoops, and a statement bag, and you'll nail Zoe Hart's wildly polished look outside the hospital.
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I like white things. I like gold things. I like new things. I like old things. What I don't like is the nagging voice that reminds me of what's missing. Here's a corner of my home that I stumbled upon this morning, paused, and said to myself, "I quite like that". Sure, I need to hang my art and get some wallpaper… but it's also fine just the way it is.
Sometimes we need to live in the moment and be perfectly content with what we have and forget about the projects pending, the ugly bathroom tile, the floors in need of a good scrub. It would do us some good to simply pause and say, "I quite like that," whatever "that" is, and just leave it alone, walk away, and feel good about accepting what is without worrying one bit about what it is not.
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Fine and Visual Arts Events in the NYC Area
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Here are some tips for a successful visit to New Jersey's first major state science museum, the Liberty Science Center.
In honor of Star Wars Day on May 4, Discovery Times Square is hosting a special celebration with their Star Wars and the Power of Costume: The Exhibition display.
A Year with Children is an annual exhibit, now in its 45th year, that showcases the artwork of New York City public school students in grades 2-6 at the Guggenheim Museum.
Beloved children's author and illustrator Mo Willems now has an exhibit all about his work at the New-York Historical Society.
After being closed for over three years, the South Street Seaport Museum is finally reopening its doors with a new exhibit called "Street of Ships: The Port and Its People."
UPDATED February 2017: March is Women's History Month, and there are many ways to commemorate women that made an influence in progressing female empowerment in our country and the world. Celebrate at one of these activities, museums, or statues across the New York area all month long.
It turns out that man's best friends have been dogs ever since the Viking era!
Learn how the Vikings actually lived their lives and walk out of this exhibit at Discovery Times Square with a whole different perspective.
From Valentines Day to Presidents Day, from local bowling alleys to regional day trips, here are the best kids' activities for February.
Housed in a former crayon factory, the Crayola Experience in Easton, PA, offers many activities for kids to unleash their artistic creativity.
Wildlife abounds at Hudson Highlands Nature Museum in Cornwall, NY. The nature center was founded in 1959 with a focus on environmental education.
Do you and your kids prefer hikes in the woods, or exotic meals? Outings to the art museum or the Empire State Building? Take this quiz to discover your ideal NYC-area family activities.
The Titanosaur is now on display at the American Museum of Natural History. The dinosaur was discovered in 2014 in Argentine Patagonia and is the largest dinosaur ever found, at a whopping 122 feet long.
Sid the Science Kid exhibit opens at Liberty Science Center in New Jersey.
IDNYC released their list of updated benefits and discounts for all municipal ID holders.
A roundup of the best kid-friendly and children's museums in the New York metro area, including museums in Manhattan, Queens, Long Island, and Fairfield County, CT.
The Museum of Feelings is a free multisensory installation that features five scents to evoke its namesake emotions.
SONY Wonder Technology Lab is a free state-of-the-art facility in midtown Manhattan, where kids can learn about science and technology.
Get your Star Wars on with these great activities for kids in New York.
The Discovery of King Tut is a traveling exhibit created by Premier Exhibitions that recreates archeologist Howard Carter's discovery of King Tut's tomb in Egypt.
UPDATED November 2016: Visit New York Botanical Garden, Grand Central Terminal, and New-York Historical Society for their holiday train shows and plenty of other family-friendly activities for the 2016 winter season.
How to make your museum visit a success for the whole family.
The American Museum of Natural History's newest science exhibit for kids, The Secret World Inside You, explores the human body as an ecosystem made up of trillions of single-cell organisms that affect your body and health.
Children's Museum of Manhattan opens NYC + Me: A Little Bite of the Big Apple exhibit featuring the New York Mets.
The Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor is a great place for kids to learn about science, history, and art.
Housed inside a historic subway station, the New York Transit Museum takes an interactive, educational look at how the city moves—literally. Here's when and why to visit with your kids.
A new sneaker exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum sheds light on how the utilitarian athletic shoe has taken on more meaning in recent decades. Stepping out in a pair of Chuck Taylors conveys something very different than wearing Air Jordans--a style statement even clueless parents can "get." See why this design exploration is worth sharing with your kids!
The Brooklyn Museum is at the heart of Brooklyn's cultural epicenter, and there are plenty of reasons to visit. Get tips on the best way to explore this art and history museum with your kids, including some lesser-known exhibits and activities.
From museums and parks to festivals and beaches, this list has something for everyone, all within easy traveling distance from the New York City area, including Upstate New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania.
Are your kids not thrilled about learning history? Try immersing them in history by visiting a local museum with a mummy exhibit, The Brooklyn Museum or Metropolitan Museum of Art are two nearby, or watch one of these movies or play one of these games about history to supplement learning.
Maker Faires, which celebrate invention, creativeness, and resourcefulness, are a fun, family-friendly way to support STEM learning at home. We've compiled a list of Maker Faires in the New York metro area that you can take your kids to.
Indulge your kids' dinosaur obsession this summer with any of these fun outdoor activities taking place across the Tri-State area.
UPDATED AUGUST 2016: On warm summer evenings, it's fun to go outside, direct your gaze up, and count all of the stars you can see. When the clouds cover the sky, go inside to look up at the stars at these planetariums near the New York metro area.
Fly with the Blue Angels, meet an astronaut, and soar into space at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, NY, an institution that celebrates the grand history of aviation on Long Island.
The Yorktown Museum exhibits timeless treasures in a holiday exhibit for every generation.
The Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, NJ, is all about giving kids (and their grownups!) hands-on opportunities to learn about the world around them. Here's what to do at this New Jersey science museum on your next family visit.
A comprehensive selection of kid-friendly museums in the New York City area, including Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Westchester County, Rockland County, Long Island (Nassau County and Suffolk County), Fairfield County, CT, and beyond. Our museum guide features science exhibits, nature, transportation and technology innovation, and art exhibits; you'll find something for every member of your family.
During Smithsonian magazine's Museum Day Live!, you can get free admission to participating museums in the NYC area and beyond.
The American Museum of Natural History is running a new exhibition from July 28 until December 2, 2012, showcasing approximately 20 species of live spiders, and highlighting the animal's anatomy, behavior, and unique characteristics. Visitors will learn about the anatomy, history, and defense mechanisms of spiders, and will also see live spiders up close.
Active duty military and their family members can enjoy free admission to 70 museums, cultural centers, and historical sites in the NYC area this summer through the Blue Star Museums program.
Brooklyn's Jewish Children's Museum opened its new-and-improved fourth floor, which now houses a fun and interactive exhibit that takes kids on a journey through Jewish history and culture.
Take the family to nearby Mystic, Connecticut, a coastal New England town with a big history, small-town charm, and maritime culture. Read on for exciting descriptions of such Mystic attractions as the Pequot Museum, the Mystic Aquarium, Mystic Seaport, and much more.
Help bring your child's favorite books to life by taking them to kid lit landmarks all over New York City. On your trip, you'll find Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza from Knuffle Bunny, party in the Plaza Hotel like Eloise, and hang out in the Upper East Side like Lyle, Lyle Crocodile, and more.
Max Schumann cut his teeth in that moment and on that end of the political spectrum, consorting with such critical culture brokers as Bread and Puppet Theater, Paper Tiger Television, The Cheap Art Collective and Printed Matter. It is from this fevered brow that he springs, but as these radical politics are a birthright and second nature there is also another generational layer steeped in critique and Deconstructionism-- -a cool detachment, a ready laugh, a sense of fatalism and an attraction to the knowing cynicism of Punk and the nihilistic gore/bodycount of heavy metal. Schumann's extensive knowledge of the machinations of global power structures breezes past the Logic of Late Capitalism and confronts the reality of Early Doom.
Baltimore, Maryland, is not only home to a myriad of kid-friendly museums and sites, but it also comes alive during October with free festivals, events, and special exhibits for the entire family. And with the city's tourism office running a "Bmore Happy" campaign to help you find the happiest places to explore in Baltimore, your trip has never been easier to plan.
Find family-fun activities in our nation's capital.
Famous for its wild Mardi Gras parties, vibrant multiethnic culture, and jazz music, New Orleans, Louisiana, might not seem to be the spot for a great family vacation. But dubbed "The Big Easy," this city is a charming Southern belle boasting a culture that is unique, music that is truly inspiring, cuisine to die for, fun-for-all entertainment, and an intriguing history.
Whether a child is interested in insects or dinosaurs, the goal of children's museums is to encourage that natural curiosity and allow it to blossom. We spoke with exhibit developers at area children's museums to find out the formula that results in a perfect balance between learning and fun.
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Hercules Wimbledon AC's Kieran White continued his record-breaking spree when he set a club men's over-35 veterans record in the Wolverton five miles road race in Buckinghamshire on Saturday.
White clocked 26 minutes, six seconds in finishing sixth out of more than 200 runners to add to the club age group records he already holds over 5km, 10km, seven miles, 10 miles and the half-marathon, all set this year.
Not far behind White was James Davis in eighth, clocking 26.45.
The club's two top road runners were missing from the Hercules Wimbledon line-up in the South of the Thames five miles championship staged in pouring rain at Reigate Priory.
But Hercules Wimbledon still made history by finishing a women's team in the event for the first time.
Claire Grima led the team home finishing seventh in 36.24, with Alison Purnell 25th in 39.59, Chloe Hawkins 28th in 40.11 and Rowena Hornshaw 65th in 49.48.
Claire was accompanied for most of the way by husband Dave who sprinted ahead at the finish to clock 36.20. Sean Crummy led the weakened men's team home finishing 29th in 32.21 ahead of Rob Tuer (35th in 32.43), Phil Glynn (41st in 33.21) and Stewart Bond (60th in 34.40).
Elsewhere, Hercules Wimbledon had a representative in the Beijing marathon in China on Sunday.
The club's most easterly-based member, Neil Fraser, clocked just outside three hours for the event.
He said: "I was fairly pleased considering I hadn't run more than 21km in the build-up to the race and I only run about 30km a week."
Two other Hercules Wimbledon long-distance runners were in action abroad over the weekend.
Monika Crouse was 1,225th out of 2,614 runners in the San Sebastian marathon in Spain in a personal best 3:26.49, while Anastasia Hancock also clocked a personal best for the distance in finishing 126th in the La Rochelle marathon in south-west France in 3:53.59.


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Holiday season is fast approaching, with that comes all the fun parties and celebrations. One of the most fun parties is the holiday sweater parties. Furby Boom is right on that trend and has released the Furby Boom Festive Sweater.
The Festive Sweater Furby has a cool holiday sweater design, which includes red and blue symbols and snowflakes. The ears and feet are blue and the eyes are red. Currently there is only one design but there may be more on the way. Some ideas we have are reindeer, gingerbread men and a Santa Clause Furby.
This is only available for a limited time so get one before they are gone! We were recently at our neighborhood Super Target store and they had this in stock so you might want to check Target for these.
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Some time during the week of October 14, 2013 we will be posting our first Furby Boom Medallion that will allow you to win a free Furby Boom! We will post the official Rules early this week. This will be a lot of fun and we will even pay the shipping! What could be better than winning one before the holidays?
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East Bentleigh runner Andy Smith doesn't take his walking stick on to the track.
"I'm all right when I'm running," he says. "But I've got this Parkinson's disease and it's difficult to stand up when I am standing still."
At 89, Mr Smith is the oldest man among 4559 participants in the Masters Games being held in Alice Springs this week.
The former army officer, who was wounded in the Middle East during the Second World War, says a few years ago, after suffering a heart attack and finding out he had Parkinson's, he asked his doctor whether he could keep running, a passion he has had since he was 50.
"The doctor told me to run as long as I can and that's what I do," he says.
Although Mr Smith cannot do crouching starts ("I wouldn't be able to get up again") he is not always last in his favourite 400 and 800-metre races.
"I like to tell people I came second or third but maybe I do usually come last," he says.
Mr Smith is competing in his seventh Masters in Alice Springs, which has been holding the games every two years since 1986.
The games are expected this year to inject $10 million into the economy of the central Australian town.
Among this year's stars are the "Glenroy Grannies" netball team, whose 1970 founding member Maree Wilson, 61, was back on the court only five months after triple bypass heart surgery. "I knew I would pull through," she told the Northern Territory News.
The netball team members have 63 grandchildren between them.
More than 8000 medals will be presented for sports at the games including basketball, athletics, cycling, eight-ball, hockey, motorcycling, rugby, shooting, softball, swimming and volleyball.
Plenty of records have fallen this year.
Mildura swimmer Stephanie Jones, 49, broke Dawn Fraser's record for the 400-metre freestyle - set 18 years ago at the inaugural games.
She beat Fraser's record by 12 seconds.
Also in the 400-metre freestyle, Mount Waverley swimmer Barbara Wilson-Brooks, 70, shaved 28 seconds off the games record for her age group.
The oldest competitor this year was swimmer Margo Bates, 94, from Torquay, in Queensland.
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I make faces at kids if I go to the store;
I'm definitely that guy, but I like that guy.
My name's Kando.
I'm mostly trying to connect with 'quirky'.
I'm registered with the Ministry of Silly Walks.
Board games. Bonus if you're competitive!
I like to scrawl where I can. It's all crap!
Terrible terrible paintings too. Try with me!
Winter walks. Work for that kiss - I'll be bundled like an eskimo!
Plants. I have too many plants.
My friend got me hooked.
Stealing off your plate in public, like the batman.
Getting myself kicked under the table. Much less batman.
Basically, being a goonie in general.
much like a fresh orange without rinds or peel.
I think that's what the people are thinking.
Or that I can reach high things. Probably that.
That off of my chest, here are a few of my favorite things:
scent: tarragon.
feel: curling into my undersized sofa.
taste: dipped pretzels.
sight: the copper glow of streetlamps.
sound: crystal castles!
I'd also like to live in a green house, with its muddy smell
and its earthy warmth and white lit-up walls.
Social norms and taboos.
I embody an harmless faux pas.
Words like non-plussed and shaft,
which can mean one thing or the opposite.
Pop culture and why no one gets my non-sequiturs.
When it was that I started conversing with people's pets.
... inappropriate.
Just in case though, message me if
you can laugh at yourself sometimes.
That says enough about someone I'd feel great meeting.
It's about having charm without all the caked-on grace.


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Wow, most of that post header came out like some kind of pet command. Sorry. I'm just excited, I suppose, to have been contacted by the renown innovation research firm Cambridge Consultants on this project: they're looking into combination products* for the diabetes community and would like to ask all of us to complete a brief survey, to give real and actual patient perspectives on how we choose our devices and how we feel about them.
*They're defining "combination products" as things that combine drugs or biological products with a specific device used for administration of the drug (injection pens, pumps, inhalers or medication patches).
"The intent of the survey is to uncover information about the extent to which patient requirements and usability factors are taken into account in the development and prescribing of combination product devices." Hmmm, I'm sure we all have a few opinions there...
Another version of the survey will be filled out by doctors who prescribe these devices, and also by device manufacturers who develop them. In other words, all the so-called "stakeholders" get their say!
What's it all for?
The collective findings will be presented at a March 3 panel event for the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council (MassMEDIC). This organization is a powerful force in the medical device industry. They "advocate industry positions at the federal and state government levels" and also have close contact with the FDA. The panel is about "maximizing the potential of combination products," which sounds very profit-driven, I'll admit, but here's the thing:
I've long been complaining that there are no established Best Practices for achieving patient involvement in the design process of products for chronic illness care. Typically companies create something very clinical or engineering-driven, and then pay lots of money to set up "focus groups" where they fill a room with patients (i.e. customers), give 'em the gadget, and just watch to see what buttons they push... That's a crappy way to go about it, IMHO. Patients need to be involved in conceptualizing their own new tools! This is of course the whole drive behind the DiabetesMine Design Challenge crowdsourcing competition.
The point being: I think it behooves us to talk to the medical device industry when they finally ask us point-blank.
So please help out by filling out the survey HERE.
The survey results will also be available publicly via the MassMEDIC website following the panel in early March — we'll direct you there when the time comes.
Thank you All, and thanks also to the med device innovators at Cambridge Consultants.


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It Came From My Cupboard: Pressing Matters
by Robrt L. Pela
If the house caught on fire, I'd grab my French press and run. Oh, and the cats. I'd grab the cats, too. Except that in my horror fantasies, the cats are waiting patiently by the door (even though they've never gone outside in their lives) to be whisked away to safety. Along with my French press, without which I cannot wake up in the morning.
I've become one of those people who'd rather not interact with the world until his coffee kicks in. Deplorable. If you happen one day to be my houseguest, it'd be better if you didn't try to strike up a conversation with me while I'm waiting for my early morning coffee water to boil. If you find me in the kitchen grinding a fistful of beans at, say, 7 a.m., it would be best if you went and sat in the breakfast room until I've swallowed a cup or two. Just a friendly warning.
My French press was a gift from my friend Dominick, a sort of "thank you for letting me visit you in France" after he came to see me and Mr. Grossman at our house there one summer. I've used it every morning since, and I never share. Of course, no one's home at our house at 7 in the morning who wants my coffee. Even if I weren't the only one home, I've been told I make my brew "too strong." And if there were anyone here to hear my reply, it would be, "I didn't make it for you."
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Topic: Passport (07/25/05)
TITLE: Caught Between Two Worlds
By Michael Hurd
Today was just a reminder that my time on earth is not permanent, as the Lord woke me with these words-
You woke me up again this morning Lord; you set my feet on solid ground. You breath the breath of life into me Lord, you spoke the word and I was found. Caught between two worlds alone am I, you're my strength to carry on. I give to you my fears and cries; I have found I'm not alone. This task between me, I must carry on, no way to tell when I'll come home. But, while I'm here I'll be true. All I want to do is come on home.
There's a time that we, as children of God, come to a place that we empty ourselves from all desires, from all hopes, from all existence from this earth. Longing for freedom, for redemption, to be clothed with immortality. To be stripped from all the cares of this life, to be transformed in the fullness of Christ's image. Our spirits cry out "Abba, Father!" We, like Jesus, cry out to God that he take the cup from us.
We earnestly want Him, more than life itself.
We have our passport, our destination is planned, and we no longer wish to be in a world that is dying around us. We no longer want to be mistreated, misunderstood, and taken for granted.
All we want to do is go on home.
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Royals Strengthen Rotation in Trade with Rays
Don't look now, but the 2012 race for the American League Central Division crown may have gotten a little more interesting on Monday following a trade between the Kansas City Royals and the Tampa Bay Rays. The Royals will receive two right-handed pitchers in the deal, James Shields and Wade Davis; in return they will send their top hitting prospect, outfielder Wil Myers as well as two pitching prospects and one third base prospect to Tampa. The deal gives the Royals a strong starting rotation that was already bolstered this offseason by the acquisition of Ervin Santana and the re-signing of Jeremy Guthrie. If the season started tomorrow, the Royals rotation would be Shields, Santana, Guthrie, Bruce Chen and Davis, with youngster and future star Luke Hochevar a possible candidate to take one of the spots, and certainly a guy who can step up and deliver results in case of an injury to any of their starting five.
Last season, Davis, 27, was bumped from the Rays' starting rotation but performed very well out of their bullpen posting a 2.43 ERA in 70 1/3 innings of work. Davis brings with him a contract that could keep him with the Royals through the 2017 season, with a salary that is expected to average around $15-million over the next three seasons, and team options for 2016 and 2017. At 30-years old, Shields brings with him a lot of experience, pitching 477 innings over the past two seasons, the second most innings pitched in all of baseball. Shields posted a record of 31-22 with a 3.15 ERA during that time, and he could be looked upon to be the club's ace next season.
The move gives the Royals a legitimate chance to contend in a division that looks to have one or two other teams that will finish the season above .500. Detroit will be the team to beat, and the White Sox should improve from last season's ups-and-downs. Cleveland and Minnesota have still not made any major moves this offseason, and without major improvements to either club, they are likely to fight it out for last place again in 2013. The Rays seem to be going in the opposite direction however, and have dealt away several key pieces of their ball club to restock their farm system. With Toronto now looking like a much better ball club, Boston making key acquisitions and both New York and Baltimore expected to come back strong next season, the Rays may be the odd-men out in the division and appear to be moving further towards a rebuilding season. The Royals have been in a perpetual rebuilding mode for the better part of two decades, and they look to be finally putting the pieces together this offseason to make some noise in their division next season, building a team with solid starting pitching, and a potent, young offense.
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Newcastle's Europa League win over Metalist Kharkiv in Ukraine was marred by violence both before and after the game.
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It is believed that one travelling fan was taken to hospital for stitches after being attacked with Magpies supporters taking to Twitter to claim they had been ambushed as they arrived at the Sportyvna Metro station at the Metalist Stadium.
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New York -- Well, they say he's not the only male doing this sort of thing these days. Artist Salvador Dali has his hair coifed in the salon of Sebou in New York. The press and television were invited for the session. One newsman commented that Dali looked "pretty much the same going as he did arriving." (1972)
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Sitting down with Los Angeles' Power 106 radio station, the 23-year-old R&B artist flat out denied that he was dating Rihanna, 24, again.
"No," he bluntly told the DJ. "And that's just quick — the quick answer."
Brown then went on to explain why he decided to release his homemade video after splitting with girlfriend Karreuche Tran, where he famously mused is there "such a thing as loving two people."
"With that is just me being honest with myself," he said. "Me and her have history and me and her are definitely always going to be best of friends."
"We're working on our friendship now," Brown continued.
The former couple famously had a falling out when Brown attacked his then-girlfriend at a pre-Grammys party in 2009. Brown is currently still on probation for the assault.
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"I think everybody feels so attached to this old situation," he said of the attack. "I mean, it's still a detrimental situation because it's still stuff we're dealing with today … that shows that domestic violence is not okay. But, as far as our personal lives, I think people's got to give it a chance."
A split second later, Brown corrected himself, "Well, not even give it a chance. Shut the hell up! It is what it is."
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Northwest Mississippi Community College's first "Author Rodeo Round-up" on Saturday, March 29 was successful and event organizers plan to make it an annual event, according to Maggie Moran, director of Learning Resources. The event was held at the R.C. Pugh Library. Twenty-four local authors were on hand to participate in a book signing at the library.
The event kicked off with a panel discussion of local authors, including Julie Cantrell of Oxford; Northwest Instructor Katherine King and her sister Margaret King; Saltillo poet Patricia Neely-Dorsey; children's author Arthur Avant of Senatobia and Northwest Webmaster Ray Sharpe, who has published five books.
"Over and over, I was told that the authors were so happy to have a place to meet and chat with fellow authors in the area," Moran said. She said that she got a lot of positive feedback and some suggestions for making the event bigger next year.
The R.C. Pugh Library is located on the Senatobia campus. There are libraries on each of Northwest's campuses including the DeSoto Center and the Lafayette-Yalobusha Technical Center in Oxford. For more information about the Division of Learning Resources, visit the website at www.northwestms.edu.
Pictured: Left to right, Margaret and Kat King of Oxford, authors of "Y'all Twins" and "Which is Which?" were two of the 24 local authors who participated in a panel discussion at the "Author Rodeo Roundup" on March 29 at Northwest Mississippi Community College. The event was hosted at the R.C. Pugh Library. The Division of Learning Resources plans to make it an annual event. (Photo by Nancy Patterson)


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Vanity - Poem by William Verbaud
If my reflection be not absent, but untrue,
am I to assume that I be dead?
A mirror be but a visual tool for the living,
But a tool for eyeing transcendent souls is lost among poet's
To love, to hate, to fear to prey is faux living's fog,
But moonlights' smile upon the tortured, half dead gazes.
I toast to vanity's perpetual utopia,
Peace is found in insanity.
I do not evoke the rational,
but am martyred in the absence of reality's façade.
For in mirrors exists eternal Purgatory,
Beautiful sight is my whore.
I am dead upon the world or
is, the world dead upon I?
I shall consult the mirror,
but which one?
Encompassing the vast highways of the senses,
loss of the mind and the extinguishing of one soul deity,
in the universe of desires and love and loneliness; will result in the
loss of direction,
To who does validity answer,
does the eye rapture?
Mirrors play in grey leaves trembling in the autumn's deceitful mental plight?
But existence's neck;
exposed, naked, as cool breezes pass living rivers.
The light again peers joyously,
as red hues pierce the sky,
You moonlight damned un-blinded,
the gaul to curse fog's guise.
Peering into the mirror,
I see serenity's wretchedness,
and peering into the fog I see reality's despondent glare,
Fog's infinitely copious nature of ill repute,
Pierced by red mirrors of pragmatic, hypocritical, dear friends.
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In this paper, an improved cascade control strategy is presented for hydroturbine speed governors. Different from traditional proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control and model predictive control (MPC) strategies, the performance index of the outer controller is constructed by integrating the entropy and mean value of the tracking error with the constraints on control energy. The inner controller is implemented by a proportional controller. Compared with the conventional PID-P and MPC-P cascade control methods, the proposed cascade control strategy can effectively decrease fluctuations of hydro-turbine speed under non-Gaussian disturbance conditions in practical hydropower plants. Simulation results show the advantages of the proposed cascade control method.
With the high rate of growth of electricity consumption, hydropower plants have been playing a significant role in peak load and frequency regulation of the electric system. Control of hydroturbine speed is economically essential in terms of guaranteeing stability and improving efficiency. Nevertheless, it is challenging because of the complex speed adjusting process characterized by nonlinearity, uncertainty and various disturbances. The principal control target of hydroturbine speed governors, when various disturbances are imposed and/or the set point changes, is to keep the rotor speed within a proper range by tuning the influent flow of the penstock so that the mechanical transmission torque and the generator torque can arrive at a new balance.
Researchers have made a lot of efforts to develop some advanced control strategies for controlling hydroturbine speed governors. In order to be closer to the actual conditions, more and more studies have focused on nonlinear systems [
The above advanced strategies have shown their potential use in controller design for hydroturbine speed governing systems. However, when random disturbances are considered, these methods will not achieve ideal control performance. Actually, in the hydroturbine speed governing process, disturbances can cause fluctuations of rotor speed besides variations of load [
Fortunately, stochastic distribution control theory has been established to deal with the stochastic systems with non-Gaussian noises [
A hydroturbine is a rotary engine that takes energy from moving water. Flowing water is directed onto the blades of a turbine runner, creating a force on the blades. Since the runner is spinning, the force acts through a distance (force acting through a distance is the definition of work). In this way, energy is transferred from the water flow to the turbine. In the energy conversion process, the inlet total head of turbine, fluctuates of flow and water hammer effect would affect the stability of the control system.
The transfer function between the inlet total head
The turbine model can be obtained by considering the effects of water hammer, head loss caused by friction and inelastic penstock [
The synchronous generator model can be expressed by [
The servo motor model is described by [
Carriers' position and inlet water flow disturbances involved in hydroelectric turbines should be paid high attention, since they can cause fluctuations of rotor speed besides variations of load. These disturbances are usually non-Gaussian, which makes the hydroelectric turbine model be a linear, non-Gaussian stochastic dynamic system. Denoting the target hydro-turbine speed as
Minimum entropy based hydro-turbine speed cascade control systems.
The main purpose of this paper is to design the outer controller such that the tracking error is minimized both in magnitude and randomness, which means that the PDF of tracking error should be made as sharp and narrow as possible near zero. Since the tracking error
In the improved minimum entropy criterion (6),
It can be observed from Equations (7) and (8) that the PDF of tracking error should be estimated in order to calculate the criterion (6). As a nonparametric method, the histogram-based estimation approach [
Substituting the histogram PDF Equation (9) into Equation (7), the nonparametric estimator for Renyi's entropy can be obtained:
The mean value of tracking error
The design object of the minimum entropy controller is to make the performance index
According to Equations (13) and (14), the performance index (6) can be rewritten as:
The optimal control input
Then, the recursive sub-optimal control law can be obtained as follows:
In order to analyze the stability of the proposed system, the model of the equivalent plant in outer loop should be formulated first.
Denote the transfer functions of inner proportional controller and sensor 2 in
Since the tuned value of
Therefore, the transfer function of the equivalent plant in outer loop can be formulated by:
Since cascade control can reject disturbances introduced in the inner loop,
In order to analyze the closed-loop stability of the hydro-turbine speed control system, the increment form of Equation (21) is formulated as:
Motivated by the analytical method in [
Using the condition (16), we have:
Substituting Equation (24) into Equation (22), we have:
Finally, the stability condition of the outer closed-loop system is:
The proposed cascade control method is applied to regulate the hydroturbine rotation speed. In this simulation, the transfer functions of the penstock hydraulic servo system, hydroturbine with elastic water hammer effect and synchronous generator are chosen as,
The outer controller is the given optimization controller using minimum entropy criterion and the inner controller is a conventional proportional controller
The hydroturbine rotation speed is governed at a steady state before 500 s, the target rotating speed increases from 500 rpm to 510 rpm at 500 s and lasts forever. The responses of the hydroturbine rotation speed with three different controllers are shown in
Distributions of disturbances
The responses of the outer controllers are shown in
Responses of the hydroturbine rotation speed.
Responses of the outer controller.
Performance index.
Information potential and entropy of the tracking error.
PDF of the tracking error.
PDFs at typical instants.
This paper investigates the minimum entropy-based cascade control problem for hydroturbine speed control systems with non-Gaussian disturbances. The performance index of a closed-loop control system consists of entropy, mean value of tracking error and control energy constraint. In this regard, the task of control is to design the control algorithm so that the established criterion is minimized. The histogram-based estimation approach is adopted to obtain the nonparametric estimation of the tracking error PDF, and then the whole performance index can be obtained. By minimizing the improved minimum entropy criterion, an incremental control law is eventually formulated. Comparative simulation results show that the presented method can achieve better speed control performance in dealing with non-Gaussian disturbances. Future work incorporates considering nonlinearities exist in the hydroturbine speed control systems and doing experiments on a real turbine.
This work was supported by National Basic Research Program of China under Grant (973 Program 2011 CB710706) and China National Science Foundation under Grant (60974029). These are gratefully acknowledged. The authors wish to thank Ting Zhang for relevant simulations. We also wish to thank Guolian Hou and Fang Fang for their constructive suggestions when the paper was revised.
Jianhua Zhang conceived the project. Mifeng Ren, Di Wu, Jianhua Zhang and Man Jiang searched relevant literatures. Mifeng Ren and Jianhua Zhang carried out the theoretical derivation. Di Wu provided the simulation results. Mifeng Ren, Jianhua Zhang and Di Wu analyzed the simulation results and wrote the paper. Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to Jianhua Zhang.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- It is not the happiest of birthdays for the landmark Supreme Court decision that, a half-century ago, guaranteed a lawyer for criminal defendants who are too poor to afford one.
A unanimous high court issued its decision in Gideon v. Wainwright on March 18, 1963. The justice said states have an obligation to provide defendants with "the guiding hand of counsel" to ensure a fair trial for the accused.
But in many states today, taxpayer-funded public defenders face crushing caseloads, the quality of legal representation varies from county to county and people stand before judges having seen a lawyer only briefly, if at all.
Attorney General Eric Holder says "there's no denying" that much more needs to be done.