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August 18th, 2013 06:36 PM #37"C." Mid 20's. Sonographer and hobbyist writer. Just collecting.
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August 18th, 2013 06:40 PM #39
My thoughts on the names:
Milo Andrew - I really like the name Milo, he's wholesome and sounds refreshing. But Milo doesn't have a very strong sound unlike Josiah, Stella, and Emma. Milo feels a little to soft next to his half siblings.
August Charles - August is a great name, very handsome with a great summery feel. I like how August looks and sounds, especially with Charles. August Charles has a fantastic flow and is really strong in sound, yet still sounds fresh. August works with Josiah, Stella, and Emma.
Henry Andrew - Henry is a great classic, sounds very handsome and has great flow. Henry Andrew is a very strong combination. I like the natural flow of them.
Hollis Andrew - For me Hollis is a middle name choice, in my eyes the sound of Hollis is just to weak in a way to work as a first name for a boy. Whereas Hollis would sound awesome as a middle name for Elijah or Nathaniel.
Rhys Andrew - I dislike the flow of Rhys and Andrew together. Rhys is a great Celtic name but I just dislike Rhys with Andrew. I prefer Rhys Henry.
Levi Andrew - Levi is a brilliant choice, my favourite boy's name for a LONG time now. Levi sounds great has this soft, wholesome appeal. I also love the religious connotations of Levi. Levi Andrew has a great flow but I would prefer Levi Henry just sounds way cuter.
Amos Henry - Ugh I hate Amos, it's so unattractive.
Orlando Andrew/Orlando Charles - I love Orlando, yes he's associated with one attractive individual ; ) but he's also associated with Florida and the Shakespearean play 'As you like it'
so in all honesty the association of Mr Bloom isn't really a flaw. There are a lot associations. Orlando is a great choice! I dislike Orlando with Andrew it doesn't have a good flow. Orlando Charles is great though.
Conrad Henry - I like Conrad he sounds edgy but I hate the flow of Conrad Henry. Would prefer Conrad Andrew.
Micah Henry
Andre Charles
Hugo Charles
Wilson Henry
Liam Andrew
Elias Henry
Reuben Andrew
Samuel Charles
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Poll: Romney leads on electability, but faces challenges
The latest Washington Post/ABC poll zeroes in on Mitt Romney's main advantage - being seen as the most "electable" of the field - but also his weaknesses, which are seen in most other categories and portend potential rough patches as the race enters a compressed phase.
Romney gets 24 percent, roughly where he's been in most national polls in recent weeks, and leads in electability. But that's about it, via Balz and Cohen:
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Romney's lack of traction carries well beyond the head-to-head matchups with other competitors. It also is reflected on discrete issues and candidate attributes. Considerable numbers of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents consider the health plan that Romney signed into law in Massachusetts and his Mormon religion as strikes against him.
The survey tested the candidates on six attributes or characteristics. Romney has a sizable lead in just one: One-third of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents say he has the best chance of anyone in the field to defeat Obama in 2012. Running second on that question is businessman Herman Cain. About one-fifth say Cain would be the party's strongest candidate.
Cain is basically tied with Romney in the poll, which was taken between Oct. 31 and Nov. 3. That's the window during which there was heavy national focus on the reports of past sexual harassment allegations made against Cain.
The majority of Republicans said the allegations don't impact them possibly voting for Cain.
The poll also underscored the ways in which Cain is positioned right now as the strongest anti-Romney candidate, including taking enough of a portion of crossover votes between the two to impact the Massachusetts governor's tally:
In the other five areas tested in the new survey, Romney shows no greater strength than other GOP contenders. On empathy, 21 percent say Cain is the one who best understands their problems, compared with Romney's 17 percent. On honesty, it's Cain at 22 percent, Romney at 17 percent. The two also run closely on the economy and issues generally, while Newt Gingrich rivals Romney on upholding core Republican values.
The Post-ABC survey highlights the divide within the party between the most conservative Republicans and all others. Romney's candidacy will be directly affected by the composition of the primary and caucus electorates. The more conservative the electorate, the more challenged he could be.

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Did Pfister ghosts help the Brewers sweep the Marlins?
The Milwaukee Brewers today completed a three-game sweep of the Florida Marlins. The Crew's bats came up big in the series with Prince Fielder getting hot, among others.
But, according to Marlins media it might have been the ghosts of The Pfister Hotel that helped knock pitcher Josh Johnson and his Fish teammates off their game.
According to palmbeachpost.com at least two pairs of Marlins players shared a room in Milwaukee because of fear of ghosts. A blog by Joe Capozzi goes on to say, "The Pfister Hotel is famous for its ghost stories and paranormal activity. And stories of other baseball players' ghostly encounters there have made there way around clubhouses."
I love the Pfister and eat at its Café regularly. I've never seen a ghost or heard a ghost there. But, legend has it that the ghost of Charles Pfister lurks.
According to Capozzi, "Pitchers Josh Johnson and Dan Meyer had separate but adjoining rooms. "Every time there was a noise, JJ would yell, 'It's the ghosts,''' Meyer said.
"I heard a couple of noises,'' Chris Volstad said with a laugh, "but I just closed my eyes.''
More from Capozzi's blog: "Not everyone in baseball is laughing about the Pfister's haunts. Twins center fielder Carlos Gomez was spooked last June when his iPod, sitting on a table in his room, kept vibrating after he'd turned it off several times. Seattle slugger Adrian Beltre once slept with a bat for protection after he said he had a brush with a ghost in his room at the Pfister. Beltre, now with Seattle, was playing for the Dodgers when he had his scare. The Dodgers no longer stay at the Pfister."
Read the whole blog here and use the Talkbacks to tell us about your Pfister ghost stories.
ajornlin | May 21, 2009 at 4:51 p.m. (report)
Details of the Beltre and Gomez experiences at the Pfister are covered in a recent article of our Milwaukee Ghosts blog: http://bit.ly/qd2BW In this article, I also explore the question: "Is it ever a good idea to admit your business is haunted?" Many business writers answer with a resounding, "Yes"! The Pfister's promotional staff might want to review the blog entry's links which recommend ways business owners can embrace their hauntings to add value. Happy Hauntings, Allison Jornlin milwaukeeghosts.com
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ThePfisterHotel.com | May 20, 2009 at 10:56 a.m. (report)
The Pfister hotel is alive with the spirit of hospitality of 300+ employees. We appreciate and value the history of Milwaukee's Grand Dame of hotels, and are happy to share it with many of the visitors to Milwaukee and locals alike! A tour today will start with a glass of wine in Blu, continue on to meeting our featured Artist in Residence, move into a great dinner at Mason Street Grill and then a relaxing night's sleep! If our walls could talk about our 115+ years of magical guest experiences, the stories would certainly be dramatic and captivating!
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zerodan | May 15, 2009 at 1:57 p.m. (report)
that must be why the brewers have been so successful year in and year out
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zerodan | May 15, 2009 at 1:55 p.m. (report)
must be why the brewers have had so many years of uninterupted success
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17:20:51 \ Clean-only build of configuration Default for project TestCpp\bash "D:cocos2d-2.1rc0-x-2.1.2samplesCppTestCppproj.android/build_native.sh" NDK_DEBUG=1 v=1 e=1 ~~j4 cleancygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: D:2d-2.1rc0-x-2.1.2\samples\Cpp\TestCpp\proj.android Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/d/cocos2d-2.1rc0-x-2.1.2/samples/Cpp/TestCpp/proj.android CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning. Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html\#using-pathnamesNDK_ROOT = /cygdrive/d/android-ndk-r8e/COCOS2DX_ROOT = /cygdrive/d/cocos2d-2.1rc0-x-2.1.2/APP_ROOT = /cygdrive/d/cocos2d-2.1rc0-x-2.1.2/samples/Cpp/TestCpp/APP_ANDROID_ROOT = /cygdrive/d/cocos2d-2.1rc0-x-2.1.2/samples/Cpp/TestCpp/proj.android/Using prebuilt externalsmake: Entering directory `/cygdrive/d/cocos2d-2.1rc0-x-2.1.2/samples/Cpp/TestCpp/proj.android'Clean: box2d_staticClean: chipmunk_static/bin/sh:~~c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('/bin/sh: ~~c: line 0: `rm~~rf (TARGET_OBJS)'/cygdrive/d/android-ndk-r8e/build/core/build-binary.mk:52: recipe for target `clean-box2d_static-armeabi' failedmake: * Error 1Clean: cocos2dx_static/cygdrive/d/android-ndk-r8e/build/core/build-binary.mk:52: recipe for target `clean-chipmunk_static-armeabi' failed**make:* Waiting for unfinished jobs…./bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('/cygdrive/d/android-ndk-r8e/build/core/build-binary.mk:52: recipe for target `clean-cocos2dx_static-armeabi' failed**/bin/sh: ~~c: line 0: `rm~~rf (TARGET_OBJS)'make: * Error 1make: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/d/cocos2d-2.1rc0-x-2.1.2/samples/Cpp/TestCpp/proj.android'/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `'make:* [clean-cocos2dx_static-armeabi] Error 1
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It seems that a dollar sign is missing, so that the shell is confused and 'TARGET_OBJS' cannot get resolved.It should be `rm ~~rf \${TARGET_OBJS}' or just `rm~~rf \$TARGET_OBJS'.
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It seems that a dollar sign is missing, so that the shell is confused and 'TARGET_OBJS' cannot get resolved.It should be `rm ~~rf \${TARGET_OBJS}' or just `rm~~rf \$TARGET_OBJS'.>/miro/but i do not know where missing, the log does not tell me, how i can find it
Sorry, but I cannot tell you where this 'rm' command can be found, because I do not have any setup for Android.You can try to find it by yourself using the grep command, for instance.
Try something like:grep -ir 'rm -rf (TARGET_OBJS)' *
…in one of the following directories:/cygdrive/d/cocos2d-2.1rc0-x-2.1.2/samples/Cpp/TestCpp/proj.android/cygdrive/d/android-ndk-r8e/build/
…or maybe its already here:/cygdrive/d/android-ndk-r8e/build/core/build-binary.mk
…or some other script is calling 'build-binary.mk' with '(TARGET_OBJS)', instead of '\$(TARGET_OBJS)'.
This is a bug in the Android NDK
Bug is how to fixhttp://developer.appcelerator.com/blog/2013/03/correcting-a-bug-in-the-latest-google-ndk-r8e.html
S. Fujii wrote:
This is a bug in the Android NDK>Bug is how to fixhttp://developer.appcelerator.com/blog/2013/03/correcting-a-bug-in-the-latest-google-ndk-r8e.html
Thanks! This solution works fine!


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Making Dreams Come True
I love this quote
"He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality."
– Anwar al-Sadat (former Nobel Peace Prize winner, former President of Egypt, until is assassination October 1981)
What this quote means to me is that if you want to be a talented agility handler and you cannot visualize yourself as one, you will never been one. Whatever your dreams are start to see yourself as that person or it will never happen. See yourself as already having accomplished it.
Let go of the fear and the doubt and just have at it. It all starts with just a thought, then a vision, then that vision becomes reality. This stuff really does work.
How cute is little "Export" at 7 weeks of age showing off his future start line control.
Today I am grateful for Jill Dearmin and her awesome, kick-ass workouts down here in Florida!
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Heather says:
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 1:16am
Love "Stop the Rock" Always helps with a kick ass frisbee routine! Nice choice!
WendyJ says:
Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 3:23pm
Thanks to you and a seminar I attended by Tracy S, I'm already visualizing myself at the 2010 nationals and i'm tattooing one of my affirmations on my arm. Is that taking it too far 🙂
MicheleA says:
Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 11:30am
I am trying to visualize myself alot thinner and not trying to chase my dog down because we have NO start line stay.
Tracy says:
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 12:26pm
Jenny Crabtree, don't force me to kick your butt.
Trouble Gower on behalf of El Sexie Exie.
Kristine D says:
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 11:18am
With many thanks to Team Small Dog, I'm currently visualizing Iggy Pop running agility with an iPad….
laura, captain of team small dog says:
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 11:01am
Sometimes when I visualize real hard, I come out as Iggy Pop.
AJ Carrington says:
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 9:31am
Thinking of kick-ass workouts, is there going to be an SY workout DVD for handlers? 😉 We need to visualize ourselves as talented and fit handlers (to keep up with our driven dogs).
Jan V says:
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 7:58am
"U" – "G" – "L" – "Y", He ain't got no alibi… he ugly… he ugly!!
Just kiddin' Trouble Gower, ;-))
– Jenny Crabtree
Trudie says:
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 7:52am
I just can't get that "Stop the rock… Can't stop the rock!" out of my head these past coupla days, back to "barking thoughts" or clickerdogs on youTube, for the fabulous footage from Florida 2010. I defy anyone to watch it without visualizing oneself as the handler there!!!


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We've all seen the pictures, we've all heard the horror stories. We know about the 25% unemployment rate, the unsolved crimes; we know there's not a single chain grocery store within the city limits. Detroit is depicted as the picture of dystopian America. But not everyone sees it that way. Plans to revitalize it surface emerge from time to time, but all the while, the 800,000 residents who remain have begun quietly transforming their own city, with small urban farms.
Now, financier John Hantz, a Detroit resident, is pushing a plan to convert large tracts of abandoned land within the city limits into a large urban farm. Hantz wants to use $30 million of his estimated $100 million personal fortune to establish farms that would sell produce locally and elsewhere, while helping to cut the city's 25% unemployment rate.
Why a farm? Well, why not?
"Well, I wondered, 'How could we create scarcity in a way that impacts everything else we're trying to fix, like reduced services?'" he explains. "With a farm, you can turn the sewage and the water off; it takes care of blight; it's actually cheap compared to other solutions, because once you've gotten down to the ground, you've succeeded. It's really the cheapest option you have. So I came up with the farm and I wondered, 'Who's going to do that?' And I thought, 'No one.' So if you think it'll work, why don't you try to do it?"
While some call it a land grab, Hantz does seem earnest about the social benefits of his plan; he claims a major reason he doesn't want to run the venture as a non-profit is because the city needs the taxes — taxes they're not collecting from empty spaces and abandoned homes. And the fact that he still lives in the city limits lends him some credibility. "To get to work, I leave the city and drive to the suburbs—the opposite of what most people do," he said.
"[T]he farm will be open to schools so that students can come to the fields and touch fresh fruit," Hantz said. "It will have a huge research component that will deal with aeroponics and hydroponics and breakthrough ideas in the new urban-ag industry."
But, two years after he started working on this project, the city is still dragging its heels. The venture, Hantz Farms Detroit, broke ground in the spring and raised its first, experimental crop, but it still awaits city permits and decisions on such important matters as pesticide rules. State Representative Gabe Leland tried to grease the wheel in Lansing exempting the city from the state Right to Farm law, which would allow city officials to make their own rules concerning Hantz's venture. But so far, no dice. And in the meantime, property values for those who remain in the city continue to fall.
But it seems that, steely-eyed capitalism aside, Hantz has a bit of the dreamer about him, too. He might be in it for the long haul.
"The world is going to change," he said. "And Detroit could be a ground zero for new engineering and manufacturing of indoor growing systems."


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Discussion in 'General Dance Discussion' started by wannadance, Feb 8, 2008.
when ever I spin i get really dizzy. how do i get over this?
Try 'spotting'. You keep your eyes focused on one point while your spinning. It takes some time to develop but is very effective once you get the hang of it.
I can't think of another way to explain it so maybe someone else can explain it.
I think it is really important to re-align your thinking to the action not being a spin but a forward action...
I get dizzy if I do several left turns in a row in VW. Cure: don't do that!
Seriously: Just practice will help in itself; over time, your inner ear will improve as far as not getting disoriented so easily. Do what MBB and fasc said; work on your spotting and make sure that your spins and turns are progressing instead of just drilling a hole in the floor. Also, make absolutely sure that you are holding your head straight up and keeping your body vertical during the spin. If you let your head tilt during a spin, that's a sure inducement for a barf. :-|
Definitely do not look at your feet. (Not that you should at any time anyway, but...)
Bravo! Exactly.
oooo...I love it when someone who knows something agrees with me...happy dance happy dance
another point ...never try to step and spin at the same time...step, then turn, step, then turn...be completely over that foot before you turn
Another excellent point and common error. Doing this will aide the other and vis-a-vis.
Don't spin.
Miss Ballroom Bear had said: "keep your eyes focused on one point while your spinning". If I may elaborate on that point....
When you are preparing right before a spin, and you are staring straight ahead, focus on whatever is in front of you, and actually SAY to yourself whatever that thing might be. THIS is the item you want to "spot" or "return to" after each spin. So for example, if you are partner dancing and the lead is directly in front of you and has given you the signal for a spin, as you prep, look straight ahead at his neck, his gold chain, his third eye...whatever part of his body/clothing is at your eye level. I find it helps to then say to myself "Adam's apple" and then as I spin, I know that what I am "looking for" to return to, or complete one spin, is his Adam's apple. Then if there are successive turns to be done, I just keep thinking about his Adam's apple, and at the end of each complete rotation, I am lookign to focus on, or return to that. This is what spotting is, and this is what helps to stop you from getting dizzy.
If you are doing a free spin without a partner, then find whatever else might be in front of you at the time, and make THAT your return-to spot, be it "wall" or "wall of mirrors", etc.
If you don't "spot", your eyes are just randomly seeing everything in the room as a big blur while you spin. But if while spinning, you are concentrating on your "spot"...the spot you first saw right before you began spinning...the name of the spot you then said to yourself in your head before you started spinning... and you are looking for that spot to signal the end of one complete turn, then your eyes will be more focused, ergo you'll get less dizzy.
A second tip for spinning is...your head/eyes should be the last thing to turn during a spin, especially your first spin if we are talking about multiples. So even though your body has begun to turn away from your "spot", you want to continue to keep your eyes focused on that spot for as long as you can, until it is physically impossible, and your head/eyes must turn along with the rest of your body (that began turning ahead of it), in order to complete the spin. To understand this concept, watch some videos of good spinners, and you will notice that before they do their first spin, their head will be tilted to the side as they spin, so that they get that last view of their "spot" from their peripheral vision, before they must turn their head/eyes away from the spot, to complete the spin.
This all reminds me of another tip if I may offer it to anyone who's interested... byt the way, this tip applies to salsa, and perhaps other dances as well.
There are times in salsa when er...gosh...I often don't know the names for moves... where the guy might give you a turn, and then a counter-turn. So it's not a rapid spin per se... but he's turning you, and then you pause...perhaps he gives you a shoulder check...and then he turns you back towards him. Anyway, one time I was having a private, and the teacher noticed something while we were doing these type turns or something similar. She said that any time I am doing something like that, I should also be spotting, even though it is not a "spin". She said by doing so, my moves will look more "intentional", more sharp. She said I should never just be staring into space so to speak with a blank stare, with my eyes not focused. So I employed the spotting technique, and during these turns, when the lead would stop me with a shoulder check or whatever, I would LOOK at what was straight in front of me and SEE what was in front of me. (Most people only think of spotting with relation to spinning, but apparently that is not the only time you should be spotting.) And the teacher said that when I practiced this concept with her, that she noticed a huge difference. She said I looked alot sharper. And now when I employ that practice when social dancing, I too can feel the difference...that my moves look more intentional...more like a "performer"...
I'll probably have to defend this, but 'spotting' really has little to do with not getting dizzy. Though, it will aide some because the eyes are not trying to constantly refocus, it is mainly aesthetic. For example, I coach figure skaters. There is absolutely no physical way that they can spot when doing "scratch spins" or "headless spins" (the incredibly crazy fast spins often seen at the ends of routines). They don't get dizzy. They stop on a pinhead, and are able to skate off in perfect control. Note, I said "they", not "we". How they do this is by a process called blind focusing.
It is simple in theory. If you have ever stared at something until it became blurry and out of focus; or, intentionally widened the eyes until objects within the sight are blurry or out of focus, then you understand the basic principle. the skater knows how to do this on command. I teach it to BR students, and my performance company dancers all the time.
I agree, spotting has absolutely nothing to do with dizzy or not. I don't teach spotting as a way to keep from getting dizzy, I teach spotting as a relationship of head and foot position. I also teach shaped turns as a relationship of head and foot position. Spotting or shaping can increase or decrease the speed of a turn because the use of head weight can influence your rotation. But this has nothing to do with dizziness, it is purely aesthetic to the viewer, a sense of style to the dancer, and mechanically tied into the workings of the body.
You get dizzy because the gelatenous fluid in the ears spins. This happens whether or not you spot, or shape, or something else. To not get dizzy you have to train your brain to interpret the signal of spinning fluid as "something other than dizzy" or "perfectly normal" or "non-threatening".
The simple practice of spotting over and over and over with the intent to not get dizzy is what in reality makes you not get dizzy. You are tricking your brain to percieve that action as normal.
I used to get dizzy faster with spotting than I ever would from a shaped turn, but that is because I spent my career learning how to shape turns... and so forced my brain to see that action as non-threatening. It took longer to not get dizzy while spotting because I did less of those type of actions in my dancing.
So tha real answer is practice something, practice anything, but practice with the intent that you will not get dizzy, because you can overload your brain "important information to process" instead of letting it think "oh my gosh I am dizzy".
In Smooth when we spin and turn our entire body is rarely vertical, my head is almost laid flat to my shoulder when I spin sometimes. Shaped turns are almost like a requirement in Smooth. Also in Standard the ladys head is far from vertical.
Just the fact that when you spin and you say to yourself "I am vertical, there is my foot and I will feel a tall vertical stretch, I see where I am going, I will start to turn, and I will leave my head here while my body turns, I feel the floor under my foot...." and so on, you are giving your brain something to do besides freak out over the spinning fluid.
I'm really interested to see that the pros around here don't think spotting helps dizziness.
I have to say that I do not think spotting ever made me less dizzy. Luckily I didn't have a big problem with dizziness to start with, but the times that I have felt a little woozy I think have often come from *over-spotting* - i.e., snap-spotting so fast that I feel like my brain is sloshing against the inside of my skull.
It almost seems reasonable that spotting would make dizziness worse, since instead of a smooth uninterrupted rotation of your head you get extra-rapid movement interspersed with stops.
If I didn't spot I would screw up the exit from the spin though, because I wouldn't know my position in relation to my partner and the room anymore. Spotting definitely helped me orient myself. I no longer have a problem spinning while looking up, down or wherever but for a long time that would make me lose my orientation and therefore my balance.
This is an interesting thread. I wonder why ballet dancers spot so much in their dancing? Is it more for the look? It seems to make sense that the mind alone could overcome dizziness. Could it be that for some people spotting also helps to overcome dizziness? By having short intervals where the room is visually not spinning, maybe this helps mind to overcome dizziness too.
Some of my social dance partners (I'm a guy) seem to get more dizzy if looking down while spinning. Holding head/eyes up usually helps. Most do not spot. Maybe fluid of inner ear is less agitated while head held up. Or maybe some natural (but not forced) visual spotting is occurring thus helping brain to overcome dizziness.
No. Please reread posts #13 and #14. These answer your questions directly.
Keep on practicing. I cannot spot, but just through mere repetition I can turn quite a fwe times without being affected. ;-)
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The invention relates to a middle ear prosthesis and to a method for mounting it.
A significantly large number of people suffer from ear diseases ranging from slight reduction of hearing to severe damage. Where hearing capability is lessened only in a general manner, remedy is possible by hearing aids. If particular organ components are damaged or ruined, such as the tympanic membrane or parts of the ossicles, they may be repaired or replaced by artificial component parts. Here, the surgical art has greatly advanced in the last decades.
Examples may be taken from U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,624,672 and 4,281,419 whereby intermediate members such as volute wire springs including several coils or movable shaft joints, respectively, have been proposed for establishing mechanical vibratory links between the tympanic membrane and the stapes. However, such partial reconstruction is possible only where there is still a healthy anchoring system, i.e. where not all of the middle ear has been damaged yet. Unfortunately, though, such severe cases are numerous. Chronical suppuration will not be eliminated by the conventional prostheses.
Proper function of the middle ear depends on ventillation of the tympanic cavity. The air contained therein is partly absorbed by mucous tissue all the time so that it is necessary to supply air and to provide pressure equalization via the Eustachian tube. If the latter becomes clogged and if the mucous membrane is prone to be affected, this may result in repeated disease of the middle ear and even in chronicity. The consequence is a series of pathological processes frequently followed, despite surgical operations, by the loss of the entire mechanism of acoustic transmission to the inner ear. The stapes or its footplate only may be retained. When suppurations in the osseous wall of the middle ear, particularly in the mastoid cavity system (see FIGS. 1 and 2), are removed surgically, the so-called radical cavity is formed which is an enlarged midlle ear volume in contact with ambient air. In such cases, malleus, incus and the tympanic membrane are lost and the eustachian tube is shut so that extreme hardness of hearing is inevitable. Faced with such heavy impairments, conventional surgery often was of no avail.
The invention aims to providing help especially in such cases deemed rather hopeless up to now. Where the patient's inner ear and the auditory path still function, it is possible to implant a middle ear prosthesis and to couple it to the inner ear. Moreover, the prosthesis may be implanted if the middle ear failed to develop due to embryonic harm but the inner ear is working. Finally victims of accidents may be equipped with the prosthesis as long as inner ear and auditory path still operate.
It is an important object of the invention to create reliable aiding means for patients whose inner ear is intact yet whilst their middle ear is deficient or non-operative. It is further contemplated to also utilize the invention in less severe cases of failure and with domestic animals, provided they are mammals. As a solution to the problem posed, the invention provides a middle ear prosthesis with the features of the hereinafter set forth.
The principle of the invention comprises the surgical implantation of a complete middle ear prosthesis. This does away, in a surprisingly simple manner, with difficulties that could not be overcome in the past. As an entity, the novel middle ear prosthesis includes a confined volume within artificial walls of a premanufactured casing that is adapted to be dismantled following a performance check, to be transported, to be mounted stepwise and to provide a complete acoustical transmission system. It is free of living tissue within. No part of the implanted prosthesis will be exposed to the exterior.
The middle ear prosthesis features four main components or units. Adjacent the inner ear in the region of the oval window, there is an inner coupling unit. Next thereto a cover unit serves to confine a small volume of gas at the round window. Outwardly, a transfer unit is provided having an artificial tympanic membrane and a connection to a mastoid unit with a soft outside as well as a spongy damping insert. Thus the middle ear prosthesis according to the invention is a complete device for acoustical transmission as well as pressure balance. This is a considerable advance over the prior art which more or less successfully permitted, subject to available anchoring structures, to merely repair or replace individual pieces or elements of the oscillatory system. As a result, the restoration of hearing capability depended largely on chances and on sundries such as the surgeon's dexterity or the progress of healing.
An important feature is the connection to the oval window by means of a pipe socket, a sealing sleeve and a diaphragm which latter preferably includes central stiffening means functioning as stapes and simultaneously as an element of the oscillatory transmission system.
The cover unit includes a cap affixed in front of the round window. If required, a conduit may be provided for connection to the interior of the transfer unit.
The design of the transfer unit includes, between the tympanic membrane and the diaphragm an impedance converter or transducer which, comprises a transmission element or a transmission chain including vibratory elements that may be damping and be interconnected by adjustable coupling means. From ambience to the interior, the pressure is intensified at a ratio between 1:7 and 1:30 or above, especially wherein the oscillatory system has a large receiving face at the tympanic membrane and is suitably connected to a small force output face at the diaphragm, e.g. by an adhesive spring.
If an outer vibratory system is tuned to a lower frequency and an inner vibratory system is tuned to a higher frequency, the plotted area of the audiogram will closely approach that of a healthy ear, since the centers of the resonance ranges are superposed to harmonize.
Complete implantation using biocompatible materials is important whereby all of the prosthesis is imbedded in the patient's body tissue so that reactions of repulsion are precluded to the utmost.
The mastoid unit has a soft membrane outside that may be partly permeable to air which is useful where venting will be required at the mucous window. The rear wall of the mastoid unit, by contrast, is stiffer but nonetheless adapted to yield somewhat so as to suit a wide variety of topical conditions met with the individual patients. Further, hearing capability is much enhanced if the mastoid unit and the transfer unit are connected by a detachable junction for acoustical transmission. Preferably, a check valve is provided to fend off acoustic shocks and pressure waves.
At least the components that are immediately adjacent the inner ear may be secured by means of an adhesive paste permitting ingrowth of living cells which form a sort of interpenetrating trestle work. At the same time, the interior of the prosthesis and in particular that of the transfer unit will remain free of tissue.
Elastic straps serve to exactly center and fix the pipe socket and/or the diaphragm relative to the inner ear windows.
Further features, details and advantages of the invention will become evident from the wording of the claims and from the following disclosure elucidated by the drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 is a schematized head sectional view showing the mucous membrane of the middle ear, the section plane corresponding to the line I--I of FIG. 1a.
FIG. 2 shows a like head sectional view,
FIG. 3 is a view of the position of a prosthesis according to the invention relative to the auricle,
FIG. 4 is an enlarged sectional view of a schematized middle ear structure,
FIG. 5 is a front view of a middle ear prosthesis according to the invention,
FIG. 6 is a cross sectional view of an implanted middle ear prosthesis, the section plane corresponding roughly to the line VI--VI in FIG. 5,
FIG. 7 shows a much enlarged sectional view of a check valve,
FIG. 8 is an enlarged diagrammatical sectional view of an implanted middle ear prosthesis, the section plane corresponding roughly to the line VIII--VIII in FIG. 5,
FIG. 9 is a much enlarged sectional view of a schematized coupling unit of a prosthesis corresponding to the region IX shown with broken lines in FIG. 8,
FIG. 10 is a view, also much enlarged, of a pipe socket and strap arrangement, and
FIG. 11 shows a sectional view, similar to FIG. 9, of a modified coupling unit.
The illustrations of FIGS. 1 to 3 serve to elucidate the problem on hand. FIG. 1a shows a top view of a head K the nose N of which is indicated for proper orientation. The angled section of planes I--I lead behind the outer ear the auricles of which are marked by O.
In the lefthand portion of FIG. 1, a middle ear in good health is seen, including the mastoid cavity M whose interior is connected to the nasopharynx P via the Eustachian tube E. The brain G is schematized. In the righthand portion of FIG. 1, a middle ear disease is evident from the swollen mucous membrane that caused narrowing of the eustachian tube.
A suppuration condition in which the Eustachian tube is completely shut is seen in the righthand portion of FIG. 2. In order now to forestall damage to the inner ear and to restore or provide hearing capability, all of the inflamed tissue is removed and the middle ear prosthesis 10 according to the invention is implanted, as shown schematically in the lefthand portion of FIG. 2. It will be realized that a transfer unit 26 is connected to a mastoid unit 50 placed in the mastoid cavity M.
FIG. 3 shows the arrangement of the prosthesis 10 relative to an auricle O.
The schematic view of FIG. 4 will assist in understanding the function of the prosthesis 10. The middle ear structure includes the external auditory meatus A joined by the tympanic membrane T whose edges have grown into the tissue of the cranial bone S. Oncoming sound is transmitted with pressure boosting (at a static ratio of 1:22) to the stapedial footplate via a lever system H comprising malleus, incus and stapes which latter delivers acoustic oscillations to the oval window V and thus to the inner ear liquids I. The membrane of the round window F seals the cochlea C of the inner ear relative to the tympanic cavity, i.e. the interior of the middle ear. The auditory nerve L leads into the brain G.
Principally similar is the middle ear prosthesis 10 according to the invention. Its topical arrangement is seen in FIG. 5, whereas details will be evident from FIGS. 6 to 11. The prosthesis 10 comprises a coupling unit 12 having a pipe socket 14 as well as a sealing sleeve 16 which is preferably made of polytetrafluorethylene and is closed by means of a diaphragm 18 attached with a ring 17 (FIGS. 8 and 9). Artificial stapes 20 by way of a central reinforcement is arranged at the center of the diaphragm 18. For centered fixation, in particular, straps 19 (FIG. 10) are provided which may be integral with the pipe socket 14 and which may be anchored, for example, using a paste 64 of bone-dust and fibrin adhesive. The round window F is covered by a cap or cover unit 22. As indicated by broken lines in FIG. 8, a conduit 24 towards the transfer unit 26 may be provided.
The transfer unit 26 is a main component of the middle ear prostehsis 10. It includes an artificial tympanic membrane 28 having a large receiving face 30 from where a lever system 32 (FIG. 8) that comprises an axis of rotation 34 as well as a socket 36 provides connection via a small adhesive spring 38 to the artificial stapes 20 of the diagraphm 18 (see FIG. 9).
The interior 11 of the prosthesis 10 is confined by an inside wall 40 that is connected to the coupling unit 12 by a connection 42 which preferably is of a form-fitting or bonding nature. The volume between the inside wall 40 and the cranial bone S as well as the elements of inner ear and coupling unit includes a filling 56 of biocompatible material. The eustachian tube E is closed, too.
Whilst the connection 42 provides tight sealing towards the inner ear, the transfer unit 26 is secured outwardly by a frame 44 engaging the artifical tympanic membrane 28. Fixation is effected by means of pins 46 of biocompatible material which extend through tongues 48 (FIG. 5) and which are anchored in the cranial bone S. All of the outer surface is coated by thin epithelium (see FIGS. 6 and 8).
A detachable junction 60 serves to connect the transfer unit 26 with the mastoid unit 50. The latter includes, towards the auricle O, a soft membrane 52 also epithelialized and adapted to follow slow pressure variations. Since topical conditions widely vary with the individual patients, the rear wall 58 of the mastoid unit 50 is flexible to some extent so that fitting it is easier. If ambient pressure should rise, the soft membrane 52 will be forced inwardly until the pressure level is the same both within and outside the prosthesis 10. As ambient pressure decreases, the soft membrane 52 will automatically bulge again until the pressure levels are balanced. Therefore, such slow pressure fluctuation will not influence the acoustic system. A safeguard against sudden transient pressures of large differential is a check valve 66 provided at the junction 60 which preferably is plug-like. The check valve 66 includes a wide-mesh grid or screen 68 and on one side a resilient flap 70 (FIG. 7) adapted to shut off the interior 11 of the transfer unit 26 in respect of the mastoid unit 50. A damping insert 54 that partly fills the volume of the mastoid unit 50 is adjacent its rear wall 58, as will be seen in FIG. 6 where the lever system 32 (omitted here) of the transfer unit 26 is shown by broken lines only.
As compared to FIG. 9, a slightly modified embodiment of a coupling unit 12 is shown in FIG. 11. It will be utilized where the stapedial footplate of the natural system is intact yet and should be retained in order to prevent an infection hazard to the inner ear. This footplate is suspended by a ring gripping (Lig. annulare) and itself forms a sealing membrane so that no artificial partition will be required. The socket portion 36 will then drive, again preferably by means of an adhesive spring 38, a plunger 39 adapted to be axially shifted within the pipe socket 14, with a foot of the plunger engaging the stapedial footplate. Plunger 39 may be guided and possibly also sealed in the pipe socket 14 by collars 37 functioning as pistons, flanges or the like.
The walls of the middle ear prosthesis 10 preferably consist of rigid biocompatible material such as polytetrafluorethylene or titanium having a coat of biocompatible ceramics. A similar compound structure, though very thin, may also be provided for the artificial tympanic membrane 28. For coupling components, in particular, polytetrafluorethylene or a similar material will be suitable. Attachment can be done by a fibrin adhesive, possibly with the addition of bone-dust gained from the patient as in the case of the adhesive paste 64. This will be applied both at the sealing sleeve 16 and at the cap 22 which may include a packing ring 15. The vibrating component parts of the transfer unit 26 may be attenuated by a suitable plastics coating.
Owing to its very small overall dimensions, the prosthesis 10 according to the invention may have a mass of about 0.5 g only. The impedance converter in the transfer unit 26 may be designed such that the maximum sensitivity centers on frequencies in the range from about 1,000 Hz to 4,000 Hz, in particular 3,500 Hz.
The application of the invention is not limited to ossical repair or replacement in the field of human medicine. Rather, the prosthesis can also be employed with domestic animals having a similar basic ear structure, e.g. horses, dogs, cats, etc.
All and any of the features and advantages of the invention, inclusive of design details and of spatial arrangements, as evident from the claims, from the specification and from the drawings may be inventionally substantially both per se and in most variegated combinations.
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Pulled out an old favorite this morning, for the sake of a quicker brewing process (in that I don't sit there and wonder which tea to make). This time I put in a 1/2 tbsp of Samovar's Masala Chai to give it a bit of spice/warmth. I have to say it was a good choice! I also have to say you can't go wrong with this Dian Hong since it seems to provide a base to potentially mix in several other flavors. Cheers!
200 °F / 93 °C 6 min, 30 sec
That sounds really good… I haven't tried vanilla + chai yet, but it sounds like something I'd be all over.


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The Senate did not close out action on the fiscal 2013 defense authorization bill in three days as had been anticipated, instead shooting for an agreement to wrap up work early next week.
As floor work continues, senators are already looking toward resolving the differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill. Here's a look at some of the outstanding issues:
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) had planned to submit an amendment regarding export controls on commercial satellites, but instead will let the issue be handled during negotiations between the leaders of the House and Senate armed services committees to resolve differences between the two versions. "I think it's going to be included in the conference," Bennet says.
The matter is a top priority for Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.), top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. Smith drafted an initial provision in the House bill that removes commercial satellite exports from International Traffic in Arms Regulations and deals with congressional notification requirements for more broadly altering the U.S. Munitions List. The Obama administration objects to the new notification requirements; it remains to be seen whether or not those remain in the bill's final version.
The Senate did not pass an amendment by Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) that sought to strike language in the bill that would cut by at least 5% the Pentagon's civilian and contractor workforce through fiscal 2017, but the amendment failed to pass.
Cardin remains hopeful that the language will be removed during conference.
"The way the Senate has worded this, it would be a real hardship. It's a cap," Cardin says. "It would be a second form of sequestration."
The White House also opposes the initial provision, but its original author is Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee and therefore one of the "Big Four" final negotiators on the conference committee.
The Senate passed two amendments striking two different blocks on the Pentagon's ability to purchase alternative fuels and help invest in the biofuel industry. Those provisions still exist in the House version of the bill, so the two chambers will have to decide whether to continue those investments or pull back.
The White House wants to continue those investments, but again, McCain was an original drafter of the provision.
An amendment to begin work on a third Ground-based Midcourse Defense site in the Eastern U.S. was pulled.
"My amendment would have established a study on three potential locations for an East Coast missile defense site, an environmental impact study and a plan for deployment of that site," said Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), who intended to cosponsor the measure. Since the House has already passed a similar provision, she pulled the amendment in favor of having the conference committee be the final arbiter.
One issue that the House and Senate now agree on is that the U.S. should stop contracting with Rosoboronexport, which has been tied to selling weapons to Syria. The U.S. in July announced a contract to buy 10 Mi-17 helicopters from the Russian company for the Afghan military. The amendment, which passed unanimously in the Senate, calls for a prohibition on the use of funding to do business with Rosoboronexport, but at the same time, it allows the defense secretary to waive the rule in the cases of purchases for Afghan National Security Forces.


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I seeded this bed with fall carrots about 6 weeks ago. I thought it would be perfect in the dappled shade to grow through the hot summer. I left one lettuce plant that I've gotten three cuttings from so far.
What? You're wondering where the carrots are?
Well, here are three.
And here are four more. Hmmm, you think that'll keep us in carrots during autumn?
Yeah, it's a great big "fall carrot fail." I find carrots so iffy – sometimes they take off and fill the bed and I can't thin them fast enough and other times…well, seven come up. I'm pretty sure I use the same soil, prep it similar, and fertilize the same, and yet I get such variable germination. Sigh.
Anyone else starting to think about a fall garden?
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Chrysler gives workers day off to vote
Chrysler gave its entire work force the day off to Vote Today! Let's go! #America
— Ralph Gilles (@RalphGilles) November 6, 2012
The car company that attacked Mitt Romney for falsely claiming it was moving operations overseas is going a step further, ostensibly for President Obama.
Chrysler's vice president of design, Ralph Gilles, tweeted Tuesday that the company gave its entire work force the day off to vote. "Let's go!" he wrote.
UAW has been a stalwart supporter of the president and Obama has campaigned heavily on his decision to bail out the auto industry, particularly in the critical swing state of Ohio, where one in eight jobs depends on the industry.
Last week, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne pushed back on a Romney ad that asserted the company was moving Jeep manufacturing to China. Gilles also pushed back on the assertion when it was made by Donald Trump last week. Gilles tweeted Trump "you are full of ----!"
UPDATE: Reuters' autos reporter Deepa Seetharaman points out this article from the New York Times, which says all auto workers were given Election Day off in contract negotiations several years ago, something the GOP was not happy about.
(Also on POLITICO: 9 takeaways from the 2012 election)
''That will be the biggest corporate contribution in American political history,'' Gov. John Engler of Michigan told the Times at the time, ''because the corporations will be paying the wages and the U.A.W. will be using the manpower to attempt to defeat Republican candidates.''


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Bel ka Sharbat – Wood Apple Squash
You can get different types of soft drinks in the market but we can't compare it with the home-made juices. If you will drink wood apple squash in the morning then you will not get affected by Sunstroke
Different types of juices are raw Mango Panna, watermelon juice, muskmelon milk shake, mango juice and so on. Wood apple squash is very popular in India and many people drink it in the summers. Let's see the recipe of it
Ingredients for Bel ka Sharbat
- Wood apple - 2
- Sugar - 4 big table spoon
- Cumin powder (Bhuna Jeera)
- Salt - 1/4 spoon
How to Prepare Bel ka Sharbat - Wood Apple Squash
Wash wood apples and cut them and take out its pulp. Take a pulp of wood apple and water doubled than pulp in the utensil. Mash them and make it it in the water. Sieve this mashed pulp in the heavy strainer and take out of juice by pressing it with the help of spoon.
Add sugar in the juice and when it mixed in the juice properly then mix cold water or ice cubes in it. You can mix salt and cumin (Jeera) power as per yur requirement. You can make 4-5 glasses of wood apple squash from 1 kg wood apples.
Your wood apple squash is ready for drink.
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OpenTable IPO Shocks, but Doesn't Surprise
OpenTable IPO Shocks, but Doesn't Surprise
by Louis Basenese, Advisory Panelist
Senior Analyst, The Oxford Club
Wall Street's latest scam – the OpenTable IPO – just went down.
I warned yesterday about investing in the OpenTable (Nasdaq: OPEN) IPO.
But after pricing shares 54% above the initial range and tacking on another 45% in the aftermarket, I'm the front-runner for the village idiot award.
Or am I?
As I write, over three million shares have traded hands.
Funny. A quick check of the SEC filing reveals only 3 million shares were offered. That means, roughly every single share that was sold by the company to well-heeled investors (i.e. – not you or me) just got flipped for mega profits to investors like you and me.
Talk about the greater fool theory back in full effect!
And insiders making out like bandits again. Haven't we been scammed enough to know we need to do our own research and not rely on institutional hype?
I mean how can you rationally expect this stock to head higher for an extended period of time?
It came to market at an ungodly valuation – more than 180 times earnings. (That's not a typo).
And that's if we're charitable. The company was profitable in the first quarter, earning 4 cents per share). But there's no guarantee it will continue to make money for the rest of the year. It does have a history of losing money for four out of the last five years.
And bets are off if it relapses. After all, you can't have a P/E ratio without the E (earnings).
Doesn't anyone remember the sage advice of Warren Buffett: "It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."
Of course, the valuation isn't my only concern, although it's sufficient.
Remember, the stock is intimately tied to consumer spending, which is hanging out in the gutter. Even if spending miraculously rebounds and we all start eating at Morton's and Ruth's Chris's again, the company's not going to dominate the world all of a sudden.
I mean in 10 years its bagged one-third of the market for reservation-taking restaurants (impressive), but it still hasn't figured out how to be consistently profitable. Increasing market share won't magically make this fundamental business flaw go away.
Bottom line, if you bought into the IPO, I'd consider selling immediately. Pray there's a greater fool out there to take shares off your hand. Then maybe establish a short position because the fall promises to be historic.
Then again, what do I know?
We'll continue to see how this plays out…


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Grateful Dead
Robert F. Kennedy Stadium - June 10, 1973
Robert F. Kennedy Stadium
June 10, 1973
Washington, D.C., DC US
Wet Willie, then Allman Brothers Band opened - first "That's Alright Mama" - first "Train To Cry" - final "Wave That Flag" - "Half Step" appears on some tapes but is likely from a different show
Set List:Morning Dew
Beat it on Down the Line
Ramble On Rose
Jack Straw
Wave That Flag
Looks Like Rain
Box of Rain
They Love Each Other
The Race Is On
Row Jimmy
El Paso
Bird Song
Playing in the Band
Eyes of the World
Stella Blue
Big River
Here Comes Sunshine
Around and Around
Dark Star
He's Gone
Wharf Rat
Sugar Magnolia
It Take A Lot to Laugh. It Take A Train to Cry
That's Alright Mama
Promised Land
Not Fade Away
Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad
Not Fade Away
Johnny B. Goode
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This was one helluva weekend. I went up to NYC (from Philly) with some friends (who went to Penn and lived in my building) to see Secretariat, and party w/Fats and friends in Manhattan. After that, either late Saturday or early Sunday we drove down to D.C., hung out with some more friends and then went to RFK stadium. After that it was a blur, I was hot, wasted and fadin' in and out all day. All kinds of crazy sh#t went down. At one point some folks wanted to hand me - hand-over-hand - through the crowd to the stage. It was at that point that I went off into the stands. Still though...it was a great experience. the Dead will always hold a special place in my heart...and to Tinker and Freddy, Fats and the rest of you (you know who you are)...Keep on Truckin'
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"Wet Willie" (great Southern Band)opening, and two really HOT DAZE wl/ "ALLMAN BROS" and "DEAD",, when DUANE was still Livin' remember Jams and MMDA (???) wahat;;;;;;;;;;;;;
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During the midst of a November FURTHUR east coast Tour 2011, on the first "day-off" for the band,crew & fans since the tour started last Thursday. This morning we were treated to hear this entire show-playback started before check-out.. All 3 sets plus a Grateful Dead Head hour break included.
The 1st song of set 3 is famous for the Bob Dylan cover with Dickey Betts: "It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry. but I never heard Elvis Presley's "That's Alright Mama" too.
Great sounding soundboard recording, no hi-cupps. Clean n Mean.
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Hot summer by the Anacostia River!! My favorite Eye's of the world out of a number of regularly jammed Eye's in 73. Fourth set store the show with the Allman Bros. and the Dead ripping it up. Great show, they don't build them like this anymore!!
Can we get this one on Cd, DVD or any other format you can think of. The nasty heat and humidity were mitigated by a great set list and superior versions of many songs. My favorite is the Eye's contained within. It was rocking and thoughtful and went places that others do not. Birdsong always pleasure and a Playin while not the all time best has many treasure imbedded. The Truckin is an underrated gem to be sure but it's the fourth set that makes this show. The Allman Brothers returned to the stage to join the Dead whose many parts were already well lubricated and simmering just below a boil. Jerry and the gang coaxed the Brothers into a full set of familiar songs play at a nice full pace. It was all quite well done and not to be missed!!!
I remember being on the field near where second base would be, it was very hot. I left my shoes at my spot and started walking around during the Allmans set. Toward the end of the night when the Dead and Allmans were jamming on Going Down the Road Feelin Bad I went back to my spot and there were my shoes where I left them. They had there own little space and were never disturbed. I just remember it as a great show.


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DETROIT — Now hiring in Detroit: Scads of software developers and programmers.
General Motors is moving past layoffs and the Motor City's rusty, low-tech image. It's setting out on its own to develop software and invent the most advanced gizmos for your car.
The nation's biggest automaker plans to hire up to 10,000 computer professionals in the next three to five years as it tries to lead the auto industry with cutting-edge technology.
It's a bold and expensive move, counter to the industry's history of buying software from outside companies. Experts say manufacturers are realizing software is among the few things that will set them apart from competitors.
General Motors Co. isn't alone in trying to move more technology development under its roof. But the plans of its biggest rival, Ford Motor Co., aren't nearly as ambitious.
GM aims to bring 90 percent of its computer technology work into the company by recruiting workers to four new information technology centers around the nation. Ford recently joined GM, BMW AG and Renault-Nissan in opening a technology office in California's Silicon Valley, though it's staffed by only about 15 people.
GM's first "Information Technology Innovation Center" was announced last month in Austin, Texas, with plans to hire 500 programmers and software experts. On Monday, GM unveiled plans to hire 1,500 at a second computer center in Warren, Mich., on the campus of its big tech center. GM already has product designers, engineers and other technical experts at the site, including the team that created the Chevrolet Volt electric car.
The other two sites haven't been revealed.
Staffers at the centers will develop the latest ways to link smartphones with cars or control a vehicle's heating and air conditioning with voice commands. They will also be counted on to invent new technology. GM expects to see long-term cost savings when the centers are fully in operation.
Though there are shortages of programmers and software engineers in some parts of the country, GM should be able to recruit enough talent by setting up shop in four different regions, experts say. With the tech-hub of Austin and GM's home base in Detroit already covered, the most likely locations for the next two centers are on the West Coast, experts say.
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There's not a single good, damn reason for my hands to be ever-so-slightly shaking as I click the Play button, but there they are, just sort of fluttering around of their own accord. It's not fear at all, but it is a kind of tremorish anxiety. My neck is tense and my shoulders feel like they are pulled up to my ears. I take in a deep breath to steady myself, thinking the entire time that the fight-or-flight response feels radically out of context for the situation.
There is a futuristic whoosh kind of sound that indicates a match has been made, and I feel my nostrils flare with a deep, determined inhale. I flex my fingers, feeling a strange cold settle into the knuckles and the tips. I wiggle the still-slightly trembling extremities to loosen up. I'm pointlessly, needlessly, hopelessly tight, tense as the few seconds tick by. And then I'm loading.
My opponent is some rando-nobody. I automatically knee-jerk to picturing some half-doped college kid in a dim dorm room somewhere, or a teenager in ragged and faded jeans sitting at a computer chair not unlike mine. That person, whoever and wherever they are, is chill, with ice-water veins and a plan for my humiliating demise. With that internal image, a cold resolve settles in my belly. I feel it click into place like the last Lego, and then I'm looking at my drones spread out from my hyper-futuristic home base while I click out basic commands, start building my first unit, set hotkeys for key units and get comfortable for the bloodshed to come.
That is what it feels like every time I start a multi-player ladder game in StarCraft 2, a stressful, invigorating and intimidating exercise in nervous recreation.
I had walked away from StarCraft 2 for a good long time. To be entirely honest it was mostly because, for all that I like StarCraft 2, I don't necessarily like how it makes me feel. The game just stresses me the hell out. No matter how fast I'm moving through the build order, how good I feel about my unit mix, or even how far ahead I am whenever I seem to be ahead, I feel like I'm walking the proverbial razor's edge. In a weird way, I'm out of control when I play.
If you watch StarCraft 2, it can be somewhat deceptive how easy the pros make it look, even when it doesn't look all that easy. For those who don't know the game intimately, a lot of the time it just looks like people moving pieces back and forth on a board, which is still exciting when armies collide and desperate defenses hold beyond all reason. Those who have some inkling of the game, who have ever tried to play even briefly on the ladder, recognize another layer below that. Seeing a player separate his forces as Zerg banelings come rolling in to deliver doom, or a player dropping the perfect scan at the perfect time to uncover a beautifully crafted trap — We've been in situations like that. We know that those players are a kind of super human.
But there's another, deeper level beyond that. While these heroes of StarCraft are micro-controlling their forces in active combat, positioning their pieces on the board in a way that I couldn't — even if you slowed the game by half. While they are doing all that, they're also building new units in their base, or expanding to new corners of the map, or scouting out the enemy's edges and weaknesses. They are not only holding a dozen different pieces of information that inform small but vital decisions. They are building, expanding, scouting, and manipulating data in real time.
I can't do anything like that, nor do I imagine I should be able to. But, there's something about the chasm between my play and the play of the gods, something that sets me on an uncomfortable edge, even when I'm playing someone who is likely every bit as bad and as good as I am. I feel the mistakes. The moments when I can't build any units for a minute because I forgot to keep enough supply. The moments when I realize the enemy has obliterated my worker units because I hadn't remembered to look at the mini-map. The moments when I send my units carelessly into a chokepoint, and the enemy descends from all sides.
When those things happen — and at least one of those along with countless other normal flubs will happen every game I play — I have the knowledge and experience to know exactly what I did wrong. Every game provides a lesson, but my ability — the reaction times, the very degrading flesh I have to work with in my nervous hands — is not enough to correct everything that needs correcting.
I tell myself I don't care, and I can take that not caring into the game with me. But, there's a moment in every game where I have to make the active choice to keep not caring, and I rarely roll that particular saving throw. Either the enemy rolls into my base with a slightly superior force and I become engrossed in the defense, or I smell blood in the water of a weakened enemy and I seek to unleash a passionate hell upon them. The fire of competitiveness is too great a siren call for me.
There is this high when you win a StarCraft 2 ladder game, particularly against a competitive and challenging foe, that few games can evoke quite so keenly. It is this raw thing that makes you want to pump your fist and bare your teeth. It is the reason I push the Play button to begin with, because even in the face of error and incompetence, StarCraft 2 makes you feel like a winner when you win.
Of course, that coin has two sides.
The release of the Heart Of The Swarm expansion brings with it an inevitable return to the scene of multiplayer gaming. The new units, an extra helping of complexity for a puzzle I never really sussed out the first time around. New highs and new lows as I take on whatever opponent the system decides is a good candidate for my skill level. Here in the middle of it, as I am, I'm jazzed to be playing again. The pregame jitters are still a slightly desirable buzz, though that won't last. Eventually, I just won't need that kind of pressure anymore.
And, if I'm honest with myself, I'm kind of looking forward to that day.
Playing RTS's against human opponents (especially Starcraft and Warcraft, for some reason) gives me the same kind of jittery stress. I love the games, but I have a very low ceiling of ability with these games even if I have a higher ceiling of understanding. And for whatever reason, while I can have a relaxing time against the AI opponent even if they're spanking me mercilessly, you put me up against a human and my blood pressure shoots up immediately.
I agree completely with how you describe it...
And I _hate_ that feeling. I want to feel like I'm in a friendly game, where I can lose gracefully, with a touch of self-deprecating humor, or where I can win gracelessly, with a touch of trash-talk which everyone knows I don't mean.
With anonymous strangers, this is impossible for me.
I bought the expansion, but I'm not sure I even want to TRY multiplayer.
I feel the same way. Thing is I love multiplayer games so I continue to be drawn to them. I feel much more confident playing a FPS than an RTS against pubs though. Playing with friends and those you know are much more enjoyable.
I feel the same way when I play BF3. For whatever reason, death by AI is acceptable, but death by {{dontquitNOOB!}} — a thirteen year-old, pimply-faced basement dweller — makes me seethe with impotent rage.
I agree completely with how you describe it...
And I _hate_ that feeling. I want to feel like I'm in a friendly game,
And THAT is why I don't play DOTA or SC2, but love ME3 multiplayer. Multiplayer Co-Op lends itself to this soo much more than PvP.
The comparison to FPSs is an interesting one. I'm thinking the intensity we're feeling comes from the the high stakes of the 1 on 1 match up. When we lose we don't have anyone else to blame.
It's kind of like the difference between allowing a sack as an O lineman and striking out in baseball. There are so many moving parts in a football play that it probably wasn't all your fault but when you strike out in baseball you just got dominated by another individual.
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I agree completely with how you describe it...
And I _hate_ that feeling. I want to feel like I'm in a friendly game,
And THAT is why I don't play DOTA or SC2, but love ME3 multiplayer. Multiplayer Co-Op lends itself to this soo much more than PvP.
Yep and I play a ton of vsAI games when I do bother with LoL or DotA2. It may not be as challenging, but it's a whole lot less stressful and generally more fun. After all, fun is the point of "playing" right?
There's not a single good, damn reason for my hands to be ever-so-slightly shaking as I click the Play button, but there they are, just sort of fluttering around of their own accord. It's not fear at all, but it is a kind of tremorish anxiety. My neck is tense and my shoulders feel like they are pulled up to my ears. I take in a deep breath to steady myself, thinking the entire time that the fight-or-flight response feels radically out of context for the situation.
I used to get the same feeling playing WoL MP. It was very intense and strange that a mere videogame would make me so tense.
I eventually quit because even the supposedly brilliant matchmaking couldn't get my sucky ass a win ratio of higher than 33%, but maybe I can do a bit more for HotS. I do have more free time.
There is this high when you win a StarCraft 2 ladder game, particularly against a competitive and challenging foe, that few games can evoke quite so keenly. It is this raw thing that makes you want to pump your fist and bare your teeth. It is the reason I push the Play button to begin with, because even in the face of error and incompetence, StarCraft 2 makes you feel like a winner when you win.
I was with you up to that point.
I hated SCII multiplayer every game.
Every game felt like a final exam I knew I didn't prepare for enough. I hated imagining a frustrated Day9 narrating my every slow, poorly coordinated move.
I felt observed and scrutinized from the first second where I stumbled to get my 5 probes to start mining minerals. Building a vespian gas extractor always felt too late.
The few games I won, I felt like an archaeologist that had somehow discovered a forgone civilization that had encountered a keyboard and mouse for the first time. Someone worse than me. I was never better than anyone, they just had to be terrible in order to lose.
I just realized how much I hate this game.
Not really, the game I really like, and still watch Day9; but playing it... playing it made me feel terrible!
This is why I feel like we need to get some GWJ SC2 nights organized and going. You get all the practice and fun without the stress. Confidence is really the best defense against that sinking feeling when you start a ranked match, I think.
Same feeling here Hobbes! Loved SC and BW with that. But haven't played one ladder game yet. But I did by HoTS...don't ask me why....guess I will just bite the bullet.
Maybe because Certis showed there are people out there, worse then me at it
I wonder how much of the stress comes from what the game demands that we do in order to win. Am I constantly making workers? Am I constantly training military? Is my army in the right place, and am I keeping an eye on it? Am I building sufficient supply? Am I building enough new unit production buildings? Am I keeping on top of my race-specific macro? Am I researching upgrades? Do I have sufficient cloak detection capability?
Answer "no" to any of those when your opponent answered "yes" -- and a lot of people still playing SC2 online these days are pretty good at answering "yes" -- and that's not a recipe for winning the game. It's a lot to keep track of!
I hated imagining a frustrated Day9 narrating my every slow, poorly coordinated move.
Oh no, that's a hilarious yet terrible mental image (applied to my own weak play)! I'm going to try *not* to think about that next time I play.
This is why I feel like we need to get some GWJ SC2 nights organized and going. You get all the practice and fun without the stress.
I'm in, if someone would like to organize!
I avoided serious competitive non-FPS multiplayer games for years before I got into League of Legends big time back in August 2011. I started out playing bot games exclusively to avoid the pressure of PvP but after a hundred games or so finally decided to delve into the dark side. I had the same exact issues so many of you have had... literally shaking with nervousness and just stressing the hell out. Fast-forward to now, with somewhere over 900 multiplayer games under my belt. I don't shake anymore and I'm a lot more calm when I play, but I still have a temper and still take this sh*te way too seriously.
I have never gotten into the competitive nature of online gaming like I did for WoL when it came out. I played a lot, watched a lot, took and left notes all over my monitor. I practiced unit micro, build orders, and macro Zerg. I climbed up the leagues, and joined some online tournaments. All of this and I finally decided it wasn't for me.
As mentioned, there are few things that feel better in all of gaming than besting someone of similar skill in Starcraft. All of that practice, and all of that worry culminating into a fantastic experience that jets you from your seat in sheer enjoyment and adrenalin. I can't name another game that matches that. Maybe, the shouts of anger from another room at a LAN party when you got that perfect head shot on Blood Gulch, but nothing is LAN anymore...
I had to quit because it started to feel like a job. If I didn't put in at least a hour each night I would start loosing games in the most frustrating of ways. I had to move on to newer less stressful pastures. Now I have been enjoying 4v4 with my brother. The atmosphere is more casual, but I can't help but wish it was a 1v1 game when my teammates fail to help an early rush because they are rushing to .
The way to enjoy Starcraft MP is with friends. That's how I roll.
Sounds like there's some people in here that should be playing with us!
For my own part, ladder anxiety is definitely a thing. I sit there and stare at the button and just can't press it most of the time. But it's not the idea of losing a game or two that gets me really. It's the idea of losing a bunch of games. The last time I laddered on Wings of Liberty I lost six games in a row in the same matchup (curse Protoss players that turtled on three bases...) and it just crushed my will to play further.
That said, in Heart of the Swarm I've already laddered more games than I did in the probably the last four or five ladder seasons of Wings of Liberty. Most of it happened tonight, and the thing that pushed me into more games was streaming. I had a couple of people from here on the forums and at least one other random internet person watching the entire time and it kept motivated to keep playing, even when I lost four out of the first five matches after I finished my placements.
You would think it would just bring more pressure, but somehow it gave almost the same feeling that playing 2v2's or 3v3's does, where there's somebody else there kind of on your side, even if they aren't actually playing.
Anywho, just an experience I found interesting
A few things that also help with ladder anxiety:
1. Music (Find something familiar with a driving beat.)
2. No outside distractions. (If you have kids, wait until they are in bed. Let the dog out. Get the dishes done. A clear mind is crucial to maintain motivation and confidence while laddering.)
3. A glass of wine.
I get the same anxiety. In fact, just reading this article stressed me out, lol
Turns out Day9 is playing the single player campaign at 20-30 minute intervals.
I'm actually really enjoying someone playing the game for me.
Just wanted to follow up about my anxiety about playing this online; way back when Wings of Liberty was released and all the GWJers thought it would be a good idea to have a tournament, I gladly joined. I'd have to look it up, but I remember losing early and actually feeling relieved.
I didn't, not for one second, fear ridicule or mocking. It's what makes GWJ such a great place. But the anxiety was not related to winning or losing, whether it was a close game or either side got steamrolled.
This is why I feel like we need to get some GWJ SC2 nights organized and going. You get all the practice and fun without the stress. Confidence is really the best defense against that sinking feeling when you start a ranked match, I think.
Not really true. I played a few evenings of GWJ SC2 nights when SC2 came out, and I sucked so bad that I couldn't even hack it in friendly games. I eventually quite playing all SC2 mp after a while. Had the same experience with Sins of a Solar Empire, Dawn of War 2, League of Legends, etc.
I liked the campaign, and there are some fun mods, and I like skirmishes against the AI. But I've learned that I'm simply not ever going to be competitive in any way at multiplayer in an RTS game.
We should play, my win rate is 1/6 atm. We can see who sucks worse.
I think that may be a matter of "This is not the game you're looking for." At the lower leagues, you can win with just simcity and dinerdash.


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In the world of convoluted classical myths, the story of Pegasus, our star constellation this month, is a classic.
Most of us recall that Pegasus is that grand winged horse of mythology, special enough to be granted a place in the autumn skies. To locate the final resting place of the great beast, all one must do is go out in the early evening, face south, and look up. Just below the point directly above your head is a great square, slightly tilted.
That is the Great Square of Pegasus. Easy enough so far, but now it gets a little weird.
First, the ancients placed him upside down. Turn completely around, facing north now, and look up at the Square. His head and neck are that line of stars crawling out of the upper left corner of the Square towards the west. His two front legs are the two long strings of stars flowing westward out of the lower left.
Apparently, poor Pegasus was at the end of the line when they were passing out constellation real estate. The Great Square is only his upper torso. This horse has no backside! And, scandalously, one of the stars of the Great Square really belongs to Andromeda!
Maybe he should just be happy he was honored at all.
His birth is steeped in lopsided confusion, as well. Perseus, a hero in Greek mythology, was sent out to slay Medusa, that none-too-attractive Gorgon with snakes for hair. Anyone who beheld her subdued beauty would be turned to stone.
Perseus only managed to cut off her head while she was sleeping by looking at her reflection in his ultra-shiny shield.
What happens next is still being argued today in schools of Greek mythology.
One story of several has it that as Perseus flew away with the head in a bag, some of Medusa's blood spilled out and into the foaming ocean waters below.
Ta-da! Pegasus was born. Warning: Don't try to make winged horses at home this way. It doesn't work and only ends up making a big mess.
Pegasus has many interesting -- and conflicting -- exploits afterward, not least of which is befriending a prince of Corinth named Bellerophon. (You can see the winged horse displayed on the ancient coins of Corinth.) In one alleged battle, the two conquer the dreaded Chimaera, a monstrous beast with the fore part of a lion, the tail of a dragon, and the head of a goat.
After all the confusion of the Greco-Roman stories, the myth of the Arawak Indians of Guiana is refreshing. They saw the Great Square as a huge barbecue grill. Ah, sweet simplicity.
To readers interested in the science of the stars of Pegasus, let's go back to facing south again. As you look up at the lower right hand of the Great Square, you will see the brightest of the stars of the square, Markab. It pours out more than 190 times more energy than our sun, but is also 140 light-years away, hence its dimness.
The star at the upper right corner is Scheat, a red giant more than 200 times bigger than our sun and pouring out more than 4,000 times more energy! But, interestingly, all that energy is released through Scheat's amazingly large surface area, which means, due to the laws of physics, it is relatively cool on the surface -- so cool that it appears mere reddish.
At the lower left is Algenib, from the Arabic "al janah," or "the wing." This bad boy is 30 times smaller than Scheat, but still manages to emit nearly half the energy Scheat does! All that energy coming from a smaller star means a very, very hot surface -- blue-hot, in fact.
The last star of the Great Square is not of the horse at all, but part of Andromeda.
Alpheratz is from the Arabic Al Surrat al Faras, The Horse's Navel, and is another high-energy hot star.
One final interesting bit of trivia regarding the Great Square: It was between Scheat and Markab in 1995 that the first planet outside of our solar system was detected revolving around a sunlike star called 51 Pegasi. Since then, nearly a hundred others planets have been discovered.
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