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Many years ago when Ben and I built our house – we were faced with a tiny yard – a mere 20x50 plot of land – not a backyard truly, more a courtyard. Building on a town lot like ours doesn't leave, unfortunately, much spare space for a swimming pool or beautiful views. Our house was due to be completed in the early fall and when my parents returned from their annual summer in California to see our almost finished house – to their dismay, the backyard was a desolate area, filled with unsightly construction debris. Ben and I had decided to put grass out back along with a few flower beds and call it a day. Frankly, we were over our budget and professional landscaping was not exactly where we had planned to use our precious few funds. But, my parents were insistent. They themselves had lived in a townhouse with a courtyard and knew how vital that space was to a house's decor. And so they offered, as parents are wont to do when children are penniless, to provide the landscaping as a housewarming gift. It was probably one of the best things done for our interiors. You see, our entire back wall is French doors which open onto the courtyard and the landscaping is seen from every room downstairs. We turned to Reed Dillon, a young landscape architect who, with his partner owned Ruckel-Dillon. Reed came up with a wonderful design, he approached the courtyard as if it was actually another room in the house. He added a large brick terrace that lead directly from our house, past the covered porch, on through the back fence. On each side of the terrace were two grassy areas, framed by brick-lined flower beds. For the front yard, he designed a large, curving, brick-lined bed and a rose garden. But it was the back courtyard that really showed off Reed's vision. Through the years, we have used our backyard as a second family room. I practically live outside – writing on my laptop all through the day and night while sitting at a table and chair on the brick terrace. In the past sixteen years, we have changed very little from Reed's original design, a testament to his talents. We did replace the two grassy areas with gravel, something that I think Reed would have originally done had we not insisted on greenscape for our dogs. At one point we added a fountain – an anniversary gift to ourselves. But otherwise, the design remained the same. The two once small ligustrums now tower over corner beds and the fence is overgrown with fragrant, flowering vines. We look at the yard and marvel at how Reed's vision became the focal point of our house – he took a dirt filled, small patch of land and turned it into a place that draws the eye and the body of everyone who comes over to visit.
Our courtyard last summer.
At the time we built our house, Reed Dillon and his wife Stacey also lived in West University, in a house designed by architect Kurt Aichler (a favorite of mine, as readers of this blog well know.) Kurt is a favorite of the Dillons too – he actually designed two of their houses in Houston. Though Ruckel-Dillon was successful in Houston – they worked on yards in all the toniest of neighborhoods – both Stacey and Reed were from Kansas, and after 15 years here, they decided to move back home to Lawrence.
The stucco house in West University designed by Kurt Aichler for Stacey and Reed Dillon.
Once Stacey and Reed and their two young children were settled back in Lawrence Kansas, he opened Reed Dillon and Associates, quickly picking up from where he left off in Houston. They decided on a large piece of property to build a new house and turned to Aichler to design a sprawling French inspired home made of stucco and stone. The many gardens surrounding the house were of course designed by Reed. John Kidd from Houston was called on to design the interiors, along with help from Rusty Arena, another Houstonian who added the special wall treatments to the dining room, amongst other spaces. It had been years and years since I last spoke with Reed, but one day a few weeks ago he and Stacey and I sat down for a lesiurely cup of coffee at, yes, of course, Starbucks. Stacey and Reed were sweet enough to share pictures of their house and gardens back in Kansas. They had recently hosted a winter wedding for their son at their house and those pictures were an added treat. Talking about their house, it amazed me how many Houstonians they had used to design their house in Kansas. But, knowing how talented their team is, I completely understood their reluctance to use anyone else. Reed teased Stacey that he was ready to hire Kurt again – to design, perhaps, a Belgian inspired house – but judging from the look on Stacey's face, that is in the future. Myself, I was overwhelmed by pictures of their house – and especially their gardens. Thinking on my own small courtyard and the happiness it has brought me, I can't imagine the joy that must come from looking out on views like the Dillons have. It must be absolute heaven.
Lawrence, Kansas: The house that Kurt Aichler designed for Stacey and Reed Dillon. Part stone, part stucco, there is a long, walled courtyard at the front of the house.
The winding stone walk leads up to the courtyard.
Through the iron gates, onto the front door.
Throughout the property are architectural elements that the Dillons have collected at antique stores and salvage yards. Here, old iron gates lead to the front courtyard.
Along the back of the house is a large flagstone terrace with a pond, a swimming pool and assorted gardens. At the left is a stone lined, running stream. The Dillons' property extends out past the back fields.
A close-up view of the flagstone terrace. A series of steps lead down into the different gardens.
Another picture of the same view, different season. Both Stacey and Reed are avid gardeners.
A view of another section of terrace, off the living room.
The swimming pool is a focal point. A large industrial autoclave salvaged by the Dillons was turned into a fountain. Just beautiful!!
Another view of the swimming pool area.
Another water feature in the garden is this fountain which leads off the back terrace.
Another view of the pond, looking towards the house. The back fields are to the right, past the stream.
A photograph taken a few years earlier when the plants were not quite as tall. The stream is really visible here. Also, you can see the wooden pergola on the left.
The log garden structure with the stream behind it. This leads off the parterre garden.
A view of the parterre garden, with its gravel paths and box enclosed beds.
A large pot stands in the center of the parterre garden – off the kitchen and breakfast room. I think this is my favorite garden!!
A view of the house taken by the pond. In the reflecting sunlight, the stucco almost looks pink.
Spring: The large gently rolling fields beyond the back terrace is filled with bulbs that Reed has planted. Yes, this is still their yard!! So pretty! Who knew Kansas was so beautiful????
More spring daffodils.
An early spring view of one side of the yard featuring ornamental trees. These beds are edged in stacked stone.
This winter: The Dillon's son was recently married at their house, where a large tent was erected past the back terrace. With a huge stroke of luck, a heavy snow fell the day before the wedding. Stacey would not allow anyone to traipse through the snow, hoping to keep the view pristine. Along the stone walk at the right, you can see the white candles in votives, waiting to be lit. Is this too gorgeous???????
Inside, all the furniture was removed to make room for the guests. The wedding took place in the formal living room. Here, the dining room was emptied save for a library table holding the wedding book. Past the window you can see the terrace where some of the furniture was moved to.
The same dining room, as it is normally furnished. Houstonian John Kidd did the interiors and Houstonian Rusty Arena did the wall treatments in this room. I love how the host chairs are different than the guest chairs.
Close up of the dining room – ready for the wedding. Through the window you can see past the terrace to the reception tent.
On the back terrace, looking into the dining room. The furniture was moved outside to make room for the wedding.
The formal living room – ready for the wedding. The antique fireplace mantel is so tall that Stacey can actually stand inside it! Notice how beautiful the ceiling is.
The living room as it is usually furnished. The Dillon house was featured in Betty Lou Phillips book: Unmistakably French.
I had to show the bride and groom!!!!
The kitchen in preparation for the wedding. Of course the flowers were beautiful!!
Roses were placed inside this niche.
The tent going up behind the terrace. On the right is the entry tent located over the small fountain.
The linking tent between the house's back terrace and the reception tent. This tent is over the fountain area off the terrace (see below.)
The small fountain – where the linking tent was placed. Looks so different in the summer!
Inside the tent. All the tables were skirted in linen. The sides of the tent were draped. Jill Brown from Houston's BROWN provided the large Italian chandeliers for the event. The Dillons wanted the tent to seem as if it was another room in the house.
A view of the tent – on the left, guests are sitting on the furniture taken from the formal living room. Hard to believe this room is really outside in the winter air!!
And finally, another picture of the seating area of the tent. There was even a faux fireplace erected for the event. Recognize the antique coffee table and sofas from the living room?
Reed Dillon, sitting by his fountain.
Below is a list of Reed's favorite plants for your perusal. Reed's company, Reed Dillon and Associates, is located in Lawrence, Kansas, but they perform work throughout the United States. I hope you've enjoyed seeing this landscaper's own gardens – with a peek into a gorgeous wedding at home! Congratulations to the newlywed couple - many, many years of happiness. The beautiful wedding photographs were taken by J. Gladman Studios in Lawrence, Kansas.
To access Reed Dillon's web site, go HERE.
Favorite Plants for the Garden:
Hydrangeas, all types, they have a wonderful scale and are blooming in the summer when most people are outdoors.
Roses, have a great feel and look. The Knockout variety are fabulous and with no black spots or diseases, they are worry free.
Boxwood, they are the work horse of the garden, looking beautiful when they are sheared and bringing fabulous winter structure to the garden.
Azaleas, as long as you site your azalea with East or North light and a little shade with lots of compost, they will perform beautifully here.
Reminder: The new Skirted Roundtable with Tobi Fairley is now online HERE. Enjoy!!!


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Whatever holiday traditions your family follows at this time of year, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's, or just school holidays spent at an amusement park, chances are that you will see family members in the next week or two, and be reminded of fond memories. Take a few minutes from decorating cookies and watching football to ask an older relative to share a memory of holiday customs of his or her youth, or the recollection of some significant event in his or her life. And really listen to the story, making it part of your own history, perhaps even writing it down, noting who told the story. Next year, that person may not be able to impart this little slice of history, and a golden opportunity will be lost.
At the same time, if you are the older relative, take a few minutes to think of something to impart that would provide insight into your life and that of your ancestors. Because not everyone will think to ask for your recollections, take a few minutes to record your knowledge, either on tape or digitally, via a scrapbook or the written word, and provide copies for relatives, challenging them, even children, to do the same next year. It's never too late – or too early – to record your family's history.


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About two years ago I posted my top 10 problems and that post actually led to the solution of one of those problems. So I am trying here, again, and my list today is somewhat different, due to progress made in several areas.
1. Catherine Young (Bennett) (Baldwin) Ross (1832? – 1907). The first "gap" in my mother's family tree is for the parents of my gg-grandmother, Catherine Young (Bennett) (Baldwin) Ross, known as "Grandma Ross" to my grandfather. Grandma Ross took my grandfather in for a while after his mother died and his father was busy with other things. He knew about her three marriages because he scrawled all the names on the back of this picture – he was descended from her second husband, Edward Baldwin.
Catherine was born in Surrey, England, possibly 04 Jun 1832. The borders of Surrey were altered around that time, making this extra-difficult. Her father's name may be William B and her mother, Catherine (from her death record). In the 1900 census she gave her immigration year as 1843; the 1905 census says 1840. Searching English census records, ship passenger lists and American records has turned up a few speculative possibilities but nothing that seems to fit together. My earliest record for her is an 1860 census record with her second husband at Belmont in western New York; eventually she had four children, William Blackstone Bennett, Anna Jean Bennett, Harriet Elizabeth Baldwin and Miles Edward Baldwin. I have found no trace of any member of her original family.
My latest research track:
- try and pin down her elusive first husband, William Bennett, who was born in Massachusetts. I suspect she was divorced rather than widowed.
- Keep investigating the idea that her first marriage might have taken place in Massachusetts, and even the divorce could have happened there. It did not happen in Allegany County, New York.
- Keep pursuing possible clues from DNA.
2. Sarah Arnold (1776? – 1861?). Having confirmed my relationship to Sarah's husband, Jesse Andrews, I now need to move on to determine which part of the large Arnold family in Warwick Sarah's father, Joseph Arnold, is from. That name is pulled from Sarah's 1795 marriage record in Warwick, Rhode Island. Sarah is, as far as I can tell, not mentioned in The Arnold Memorial or other books published about the Pawtuxet/Warwick Arnolds, which probably means that she was not mentioned in any local birth or probate records (although I continue to check). A Joseph Arnold is sometimes noted nearby Jesse and Sarah in census records.
This would be an ideal common-name problem for me to tackle because I have good access to many records. No excuses!
My latest research track:
- make my own documentation of all possible Joseph Arnolds, using vital, probate and land records in Warwick and East Greenwich.
- try to pin down any further details of the neighbor Joseph Arnold, including nearby possible grown children.
- Explore Joseph Arnold more widely in court, military and cemetery records.
- I do not know the names of most of Sarah's children, but continue to try and find those names, possibly in Norwich, Connecticut, as hints to her family.
3. James Lawrence (1807-1882). My 4x-great grandfather James Lawrence was born in England in 1807, and his father's name may have been James. In 1835, he married Ann Shortridge (Shortriggs) in Dorchester, Massachusetts. The next twenty years found them in North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, and Connecticut before ending up in Providence by 1860 with several of their almost-grown children. According to the 1865 census, he was a machinist. If I could learn more about James' origins, it might help me to verify my complicated relationship to the Lawrences through DNA testing.
My latest research track:
- Keep looking for ship passenger records and court naturalization records for James.
- Other than birthplaces listed by his children years later, I am having trouble pursuing him across the eastern U.S. through the 1830's – 1850's, although I do have an 1850 census record for them in Virginia. Try finding clues from that for further research.
- Learn more about Dorchester resources such as directories, businesses, and immigrant populations there.
4. Jessie Ruth MacLeod Murdock (1861-1936). Thanks to a helpful cousin who saw my blog post, I learned about a 1954 local genealogy book written by the nephew of my brick-wall gg-grandmother back in Pictou, Nova Scotia. That was a great moment, but imagine my surprise as I obtained the book and saw her listed as "adopted" – a sentiment I do not believe she shared. Although I now know more about my gg-grandmother Jessie's early life in Pictou, Nova Scotia, I continue to know nothing about her mother, Rachel, and her relationship to the people who may have adopted her, William and Mary MacLeod. Jessie came to the U.S. around 1881, according to the 1900 and 1905 census. I can find no evidence of her journey or any relatives coming with her. She married Louis Murdock in 1883, making me wonder if she was related to Louis' adopted father, William Murdock, also from Pictou. There are some Rachel's in the Murdock family.
My latest research track:
- investigate land and probate records of the Murdocks in Pictou through microfilm at the New England Historic and Genealogical Society library in Boston.
- see if the name of her third daughter – Jessie Ellen – can be matched with any people from Pictou.
- naturalization records
5. Lydia Minor (1787-1849). Now that I have solved the Andrews problem, I plan to move one generation back to the Lydia Minor problem. She married Russell Lamphere in Norwich, Connecticut in May, 1807 "At Preston", as reported by the announcement in the Norwich Courier. Lydia and Russell had seven boys and seven girls in Norwich Falls, Connecticut. No vital records for the marriage, the children, or Lydia's death has been found. A Norwich Courier notice indicates she died 18 January 1849.
Russell was from Westerly, Rhode Island, and at age 32 in 1808 his father's probate papers said he was "late of Westerly now residing in Norwich", however census and town records show him moving between Westerly and Norwich several times. So the marriage at Preston could be because she was from Preston, or perhaps they were both originally Westerly residents.
Lydia's 1849 death notice gives her age as 62, making her birth (if true) around 1787. There was a Lydia Minor born to Jerusha Peabody and Ludowick Minor in nearby Stonington, Connecticut in 1787, however, I am pursuing another person that may be THAT Lydia.
My latest research track:
- Examine deeds and probate for a potential "Minor" family in Westerly and Preston
- Look for probate for Lodowick Minor at Stonington.
- Keep pursuing the possible sister for Lydia, Eliza.
6. Maria Shipley Martin (1848? – ?). Maria or Mariah Shipley Martin, my gg-grandmother, has a fascinating family tree that includes immigrants from Scotland and England who came to Nova Scotia in the 1700's. So she is one of those mystery ancestors whose origins are well known, but she disappears from records after 1892, when her daughter got married at her home in Milton, Massachusetts. I suspect, by that time, she was separated from her husband, but I have never found any further record of her. Massachusetts was pretty strict about death records so perhaps she had gone with a relative to another state before her death, or perhaps she did, indeed, divorce and remarry. My family had no knowledge of this branch, so I have found the stories of her children Bessie (my great grandmother), Clara, Hazel and Daisy, but I have found very little about Minnie, May, and John Anderson Martin.
My latest research track:
- keep looking for a divorce record in several counties. Look further for a second marriage in Massachusetts.
- Look for her death record at the NEHGS library in Boston.
- Try Milton, Mass. city directories.
- Try naturalization records.
7. Nancy (——-) Lamphere (1752?-1833). Nancy may be a Tefft, but I have no confidence in that so I am open to all names. She married Daniel Lamphere around 1774 and had six children. The only records I have for her are her husband's probate in 1808 (and later), a number of Westerly deeds that she is mentioned in, and the birth records of her children in Westerly. She may have died around 1833. If she was living next to her son Russell Lamphere in 1810 (perhaps in her third of the house), then apparently she was sometimes called Anne, an obvious variant that I haven't been using very much.
My latest research track:
- Explore middle names that were used by Nancy's children for their own offspring.
- Do a thorough review of all the neighbors from early census records, and also those mentioned in the deeds.
- Look at the spouses of her children for possible connections.
8. Rachel Smith (1734? – ?). I estimate that my 7th great grandmother Rachel was born around 1735 (based on first child born mid-1750's), and signed a deed in 1768. She may have been a Smith. She married Thomas Arnold around 1754 and they had 5 children that I know of: Lucy, Asa, Catherine, Aaron, and Philadelphia. My most recent clue is that Thomas Arnold purchased some property from John and Mary Smith very early on in Smithfield. The children ended up in Cumberland, but the story of Thomas and Rachel seems to end around 1775 and although the children stayed in Cumberland, I can find no further trace of Thomas and Rachel – perhaps they died young. Truly, this one may never be solved which, of course, just seems like a fun challenge.
My latest research track:
- Pursue the early, local Smiths
- Keep looking for the exact John and Mary Smith that sold land to Thomas Arnold, following clues in the deed, which I now have.
- Try looking at town council records for Smithfield.
9. James Anderson (1748?-1796). With the help of some fellow researchers I know so much about my 5x-great grandfather James Anderson of Fells Point, Baltimore, later Chester, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. Usually, knowing this much should have led, long ago, to knowing about his origins, but not so in this case. His original family and place of birth remain a mystery.
My latest research track:
- My cousins and I are focusing on DNA at this point.
- Of the latest clues uncovered here and there, the ones that seem the most realistic are for other, earlier Anderson privateers off the coast of Maryland. I may be able to explore those clues further in Maryland court records online, or at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
- Think about how to acquire further records which may be held in England.
My latest research track:
- Keep looking through probate records for local possible fathers of Nathaniel, to see if they mention him
- Go through Nathaniel's earliest land transactions more carefully. He took over the farm of Elinor's father, so the transactions are not that revealing. Could he have been a cousin? How did he have money for a purchase?
- Learn more about the early history of Sudbury and the place of the Browns in it.
In closing
It's possible I wrote this so I could choose my next project. Still not sure which it will be.
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The CPAN Book - Chapter 2
Just after Sawyer X gave a quick review on my chapter 2, on Modern OO programming, I am making the second chapter PDF file available on the book website.
Before leaving you reading the document, I would like to make it clear that i really want to make this chapter this way, presenting first Moo, then Mouse, and finally Moose. I know that the order is not cronological. It is just the order of presenting, each time, a more complex module. I didn't know Moo, Mouse or Moose. I had to learn them all from scratch, and I did it in this order. And I liked it.
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It's been seven years since Beyond Good & Evil wowed us with its personality, sharp writing, and excellent voice acting -- IGN gave it a 9. Next year you'll get to either relive the experience or see why it's a cult classic when Beyond Good & Evil HD is released on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. This will be the same game released in 2003, only now it will have 1080p visuals, the character models are receiving makeovers, textures are being polished, and the soundtrack is being re-mastered. Achievements/trophies and online leaderboards have also been added.
Beyond Good & Evil was created by Rayman developer Michael Ancel. It has many gameplay elements in common with The Legend of Zelda including puzzle dungeons, vehicular transport to different parts of the game world, an intuitive combat system, and even heart containers. You play as Jade, a spunky 20 year old scraping by as a freelance photographer. Her home, the island city of Hillys, is under attack by a sinister alien race, the DomZ. Jade is recruited to help expose a massive conspiracy and try to put an end to the war.
IGN played Beyond Good & Evil HD today and, after we reminded our brains how to play (it's been seven years!), we found it to be the same game we know and love.
Publisher Ubisoft has yet to announce price or a release window (other than 2011) for Beyond Good & Evil HD.


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Hollywood's love for sequels knows few limits, yet rare is the instance when a studio turns out a follow-up to a movie that was never released.
That's the case with the new documentary "The Armstrong Lie," which is a spinoff from an earlier Lance Armstrong movie called "The Road Back."
Sony Pictures was poised to release "The Road Back," but just as director Alex Gibney ("Taxi to the Dark Side") was completing it in 2011 came fresh — and persuasive — evidence that the famed cyclist had won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times thanks to performance-enhancing drugs.
So Gibney and producers Matt Tolmach and Frank Marshall discarded "The Road Back," which was almost as much hagiography as biography, and remade the documentary as "The Armstrong Lie."
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The film, which opens Friday in Los Angeles, is a far tougher chronicle of Armstrong's deceitful (and often vindictive) behavior and an unusually candid account of how the team behind the movie was seduced into believing the athlete's carefully crafted but fully fraudulent story.
"We were so caught up in the myth," said Marshall, producer of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "The Sixth Sense," whose friendship with Armstrong began at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. "Had 'The Road Back' come out, it would have missed the point."
The path to the screen for any Sony movie about Armstrong is nearly as tortuous as a cyclist's climb up the switchbacks of a Pyrenean summit. Sony's involvement in Armstrong's life story dates back to his 2000 memoir, "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life," which recounted Armstrong's recovery from metastasized testicular cancer to his first Tour de France victory in 1999.
Sony studio chief Amy Pascal personally met with Armstrong to sell him on the studio's adaptation of the bestseller, and Sony spent several years developing screenplays based on the book, with Gary Ross ("Seabiscuit") once penciled in to write and direct. The studio even shot part of the 2005 Tour de France, Armstrong's last win, in case they needed to cut real footage into the fictional feature.
But when Tolmach, a senior Sony production executive at the time and an avid cyclist, heard in late 2008 that Armstrong was returning to the next summer's Tour de France after a nearly four-year layoff from the stage race, he and Marshall persuaded the studio to enlist Gibney and film the comeback.
Compared to those of almost all other documentaries, the budget ($3.5 million) and equipment (Gibney used 10 cameras on some Tour de France stages) was astounding. The production even mounted a miniature camera on the bike of Armstrong teammate Yaroslav Popovych, delivering hair-raising images from within the bike race. Gibney also captured Armstrong's feud with Alberto Contador, who raced alongside Armstrong and would win that year's Tour while Armstrong finished a distant third.
Though Armstrong's loss to Contador was scarcely the Hollywood ending Gibney, Tolmach and Marshall wished for, "The Road Back" had bigger problems.
By 2011, a federal criminal investigation into Armstrong's possible use of performance-enhancing drugs was gathering momentum, and former teammate Floyd Landis, in disclosing his own use of testosterone, blood transfusions and Erythropoietin, or EPO, had implicated Armstrong in similar deeds. The filmmakers showed "The Road Back" to Pascal, who recommended they take a break.
"There was a lot of noise in the air," said Tolmach. "And Amy said, 'Let's not put out a movie and be trapped by the real news.'"
That real news turned "The Road Back" into "The Armstrong Lie."
Even though federal investigators dropped their inquiry, in October 2012 the United States Anti-Doping Agency released a voluminous report, buttressed by sworn testimony from 11 Armstrong teammates, concluding that Armstrong's racing team "ran the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."
Given that Armstrong had denied doping throughout his career — including under oath — Gibney recast his movie as an exploration of the psychology of a sometimes angry but always compulsive liar, an athlete convinced his right to win not only meant that he could cheat but also that he could destroy, through litigation and character assassination, anyone who truthfully said that he had.
While the film, which is being released by the studio's art house division, Sony Pictures Classics, does not contain any bombshells about Armstrong's drug use (although it does point up the unholy alliance between the racer and the sport's governing body), it does offer an illuminating portrait of a narcissist.
"I think Lance is exceptionally simple and extraordinarily complex," Gibney said. "It's all binary to him — win or lose, live or die. Inside the sport, that win-at-all-costs ethic is admirable, but when it spills outside of the sport it's dispiriting."
Gibney retained about 30 minutes of footage from "The Road Back," and sharpened his knife. The director said that he had clashed with Tolmach and Marshall about how much of Armstrong's doping — then publicly unproved — and less amiable attributes would factor into the film's first iteration, but felt unconstrained with "The Armstrong Lie" to be kind.
At the same time, Gibney chose to include himself in the new version of the film, showing how someone trained to be a skeptic could fall for the Armstrong legend. "I was impressed, and I did become a fan," the director said. "I thought it was a redemption story." But then, as he read the USADA report, his blinders came off, as they did for Tolmach and Marshall.
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With "In the Heights," musical theater welcomes a dynamic new talent in Lin-Manuel Miranda. The composer-lyricist-performer's lovingly drawn portrait of a Hispanic community in upper Manhattan's Washington Heights began as a student production during his sophomore year at Wesleyan U. The show's plotlines rehash familiar indie-movie staples of immigrant family experience, but even when it wades through sentimental cliche, this vibrant Latin-beat musical has a sincerity that amplifies its infectious charm. It also scores by keeping its song and dance strengths front and center.
The resume of production team Kevin McCollum, Jeffrey Seller and Jill Furman includes "Rent," "Avenue Q" and "The Drowsy Chaperone." That track record raises commercial expectations, not to mention the idea of a Broadway transfer for this ambitiously scaled Off Broadway venture, which has a cast of 20. But first the show must attract young auds, and even more so Latinos, if it is to stake out a niche at heretofore undertrafficked venue 37 Arts.
Despite the invigorating prevalence of hip-hop and rap in Miranda's songs, there's more innocence than urban cred here. The book by playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes ("Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue") is disarmingly sweet-natured — some might say naive — in its depiction of the struggle to make an honest living, carve an identity, find love, remain true to one's cultural roots and retain family and community unity amid the shifting sands of gentrification.
With its wholesome characters and touching reaffirmation of the value of home, "In the Heights" recalls such Hispanic-themed films as "Raising Victor Vargas" and "Real Women Have Curves" or the family scenes in ABC's "Ugly Betty." There may be financial woes, but there's little evidence of drugs, crime, violence or machismo in this idealized fairy-tale world.
Anna Louizos' agreeably cluttered, two-tiered set conjures a neighborhood in the shadow of the George Washington Bridge, with a fire hydrant on one corner and the 181st Street subway entrance on the other. Downstairs from the jumble of apartments and fire escapes, there's a hair salon, a car service and a bodega, run by Usnavi (Miranda), named for the U.S. Navy ship his father saw on arrival in the country.
Singing the title song that opens the show, Usnavi observes the sleepy community coming to life on a July 4th weekend morning. We meet his cousin Sonny (Robin De Jesus), a teen desperately cultivating cool home-boy attitude, and their Cuban de facto grandmother, Abuela Claudia (Olga Merediz).
Then there's the Puerto Rican couple who run the car company (John Herrera, Priscilla Lopez); their daughter Nina (Mandy Gonzalez), back for summer break from Stanford U.; dispatch worker Benny (Christopher Jackson); and hairstylist Vanessa (Karen Olivo) and her gossiping salon cronies (Andrea Burns, Janet Dacal).
The plot developments are pedestrian but engaging enough. Usnavi tentatively romances Vanessa while he dreams of opening a bar on a beach in the Dominican Republic and she plans her exit on a downtown train. Tender feelings also grow between Nina and Benny despite the objections of her father, who wants to sell the business to keep her in college. Abuela Claudia, meanwhile, gets a $96,000 windfall on a winning Lotto ticket, which may change the future for Usnavi and Sonny.
The show is somewhat overloaded in that virtually all the characters get their own "I want" song and/or a paean to their homeland. But it's hard to grumble when the music is so fresh and the hard-working cast so delightful. The large ensemble works smoothly together and, some harmless overacting notwithstanding, no one reaches too hungrily for the spotlight.
An appealing performer as well as a gifted songwriter, Miranda deftly blends hip-hop with salsa and merengue, pop and traditional Broadway. With their droll lyrics, syncopated phrasing and smattering of Spanish, the freestyle rap elements are the musical high point.
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There are a lot of design pointers available for house owners, but just what concerning those that are just leasing? More than one-third of all homes are rented out these days, but designers are a little slow-moving in dealing with the demands of this expanding segment of Americans.
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With a little ingenuity tenants can resolve at least one issue – storage space and shelving – with a solitary item: bakers racks.
Yes, bakers racks, those time recognized bastions of turn of the century kitchen furnishings that were originally used to cool down baked goods. They have been transformed in the contemporary house, as well as while you can still cool off your pies on them, they have many more dress up their sleeves.
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PLSJC Director Alan Hall writes a weekly column discussing library and community news, history, and other interesting subjects.
40 years ago this week, I started my first job in a public library.
I was a teenager who had answered an ad posted at the high school for Pages to work at the local public library in the evening.
I was one of the young people who re-shelved things returned to the library, and performed other odd jobs around the library.
Many of you know that I am a native of Marietta, and the public library there is a 1916 Carnegie that sits atop a prehistoric Indian mound.
It was a fascinating place to work as a place for your first job. Those early years of working with the public provided training for my years of working in a library.
Thinking back to those early days, much has changed; yet many things remain the same.
Libraries were busy places, but the tools that we use have changed with time and technology.
Coin-operated copy machines were just appearing in libraries. They were enormous machines that slowly produced a photocopy, and most people needed assistance in working the mechanism.
Books were common on the shelves of a library, supplemented with record albums, 16mm films, and some cassette recordings.
Computers were unknown to most libraries, only a handful of major libraries had mainframe computer systems.
Those systems operated around tape drive units, and key punch cards to entered and retrieved data.
The Ohio College Library Center in Columbus had been formed in 1967 to serve as a union list of books that could be found in area libraries. In addition, they produced catalog cards for libraries around the world.
Today, it is simply called OCLC, Inc. and provides a multitude of services to libraries around the world, and produces "Worldcat," an online catalog of library holdings.
In my first year, I learned to operate a "telefacsimile" machine (today's fax) that could send one sheet of information via telephone lines to a remote location in only 6 minutes.
Checkout of library materials was accomplished with a book charger machine, or a "needler machine to separate the cards by the date due.
Large rolodex files kept information for speedy recovery for the public.
The Internet was being used exclusively by the Defense Dept. and colleges for specific purposes, but no public libraries were involved.
Library training involved use of indexes and abstracts of information to access other print sources of data information.
Much of the information from my early days of librarianship could be easily used in later years of automated searching and information retrieval.
Customer service hasn't changed only the means and methods for providing the service has changed.
Do you want to know the closely-held secret of libraries of that era? We really couldn't tell you if a book was checked out of the library or not.
Those cards were kept in order by the date due, so if you asked us if a certain book was checked out, librarians 40 years ago didn't have a clue.
Once overdue, the cards were placed in order by the person who checked it out, and then the answer to that question became clearer.
Today, a library's computer system can be accessed by a variety of methods, and information is at the librarian's fingertips at any time.
Thousands of requests are handled daily by library systems, and managed with a degree that we could have only dreamed about 40 years ago.
Today, it is a wonderful time to be involved as a librarian, just the same as when I started 40 years ago.


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You can control access to your Xbox Live account from the Xbox 360 console by setting a pass code, or by requiring your Microsoft account password to sign in to your profile. For information about requiring your Microsoft account password to sign in, see Password protect your Xbox Live profile.
NOTE This article applies to Xbox 360 only. For the Xbox One version of this article, see Require a passkey for purchases on your Xbox One console.
You can use a pass code—a button sequence on your Xbox 360 controller—to control access to your Xbox Live account. Once the pass code is set, anyone who wants to use your profile must enter the pass code before signing in to Xbox Live.
To set a pass code on your Xbox 360, use the following steps:
Now, when you sign in with your Xbox Live gamertag, you'll be prompted to enter your Xbox Live pass code.
To change or reset your pass code, repeat these steps. You'll need to enter the original pass code before you can change it.
If you forgot your Xbox Live account pass code, download your profile from Xbox Live.
The Xbox 360 console and Xbox Live offer a wide array of family and online safety options for your console and Xbox Live accounts.
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YAM - Yet Another Mailer (#2) - Not closing window after last message (#53) - Message List
I tend to go through my mailboxes using the 'delete' button. As each mail is deleted, the read window closes and the next mail opens.
When I used to use V2.4, the last mail would delete and the read window would close.
Now I'm using YAM 2.5-dev [OS4/PPC] 18/02/2005, and when I read and delete the last message, the read window stays open. Sometimes I don't realise that it IS the last mail and press 'delete' again. This causes YAM to crash and I have to re-boot.
Sorry if this is a known issue, but I couldn't find it in the bug reports, and the behaviour hasn't changed in recent nightly builds.
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Yes, indeed that seems to be a bug introduce when I reworked the read mail handling. I will have a look at it ASAP, though.Jens MausFeb 19, 2005, 12:45:12 PM (14 years ago)
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ok, the next nightly build should fix it. give it a try then and report back, please.Jens MausFeb 19, 2005, 3:21:14 PM (14 years ago)
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ok, the next nightly build should fix it. give it a try then and report back, please.
Yes, the OS4 executable from 20/02/2005 is working fine.
Thanks damato.redmelonsFeb 21, 2005, 6:19:47 PM (14 years ago)
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Are you sure this works for you.
I find the bug is still around with the latest nightly build of a couple of days ago.
The Read window STILL remains open when you get to the last mail, it only closes if ALL mails have been deleted, not when you get to the end of the current lists - as it used to prior to the Jan 19th build.
PS. Is it possible to report these things on the normal YAM mailing list, this web interface for typing emails is bloody awful.BillEavesMar 18, 2005, 2:38:44 PM (14 years ago)
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Same here: when reading a bunch of new messages, I usually delete the messages I'm not interested in, until I arrive to the last of that new messages, and if I delete that last message, window remains open, going back to last non-deleted, but already read message. First time it happened, I nearly delete that message by mistake, until I realized it was an already read message…
I think the desired behaviour is to close the window when last message is deleted.
Ferrán.FerryMar 24, 2005, 8:49:49 PM (14 years ago)
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Are you sure this works for you.
The Read window STILL remains open when you get to the last mail, it only closes if ALL mails have been deleted
Yes, you're correct Bill. I hadn't noticed because I nearly always delete all mails after I've read them. (I'm the same at home - if I'm not using it now, it goes in the bin)redmelonsApr 4, 2005, 3:55:17 PM (14 years ago)


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This four-lecture series by top experts in neurology and psychiatry will enhance health-care professionals' understanding of the intersection between genomics and these specialized fields of medicine.
The series is sponsored by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), in collaboration with Suburban Hospital and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Each lecture takes place at Suburban Hospital's lower level auditorium at 8600 Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda, Md. All are welcome to the hour-long lectures, which begin at 8 a.m. on the first Friday of the month.
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June 20, 2014
Recent Advances in the Epidemiology and Genetics of Bipolar Disorder
Kathleen Merikangas, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator and Chief of the Genetic Epidemiology Branch in the Intramural Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), NIH, Bethesda, Md.
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This presentation will review the epidemiology and impact of the major subtypes of mood disorders, including bipolar disorder and major depression. The speaker will provide a summary of both environmental and genetic risk factors for mood disorders and will present advances in the application of the tools of molecular genetics to bipolar disorder. The presentation will include recent findings from family and genetic studies at the National Institute of Mental Health and approaches to integrate molecular genetics and genetic epidemiology in order to facilitate investigation of the joint influences of genetic factors and environmental influenes on the etiology of mood disorders.
Learning objectives:
- To demonstrate the value of application of the tools of epidemiology to our understanding of the magnitude, impact and spectrum of expression of mood disorders
- To understand the role of genetic epidemiology in identifying the role of environmental and genetic risk factors in mood disorders
- To learn about recent progress in identifying genes for psychiatric disorders in general and bipolar disorders in particular
May 2, 2014
Uses and Misuses of Clinical Genetic Testing in Psychiatry
Francis J. McMahon, M.D.
Chief, Human Genetics Branch & Genetic Basis of Mood & Anxiety Disorders Section, National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program, NIH, Bethesda, Md.
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As genetic findings in mental illness accumulate, there is increasing interest in the potential use of genetic testing in clinical psychiatry. Good genetic tests could help with diagnosis, identification of high-risk individuals who might benefit from primary prevention, and treatment planning. However, the current knowledge base is still incomplete. While certain genetic tests might be clinically useful in particular situations - such as first-onset psychosis in an adolescent with intellectual disabilities -- it is not clear that genetic tests with true clinical utility will be available to psychiatrists in the near future. Dr. McMahon will provide an overview of the current state of knowledge regarding genetic testing in clinical psychiatry and will review recommendations of a recent taskforce report on the subject.
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- To understand the uses of genetic testing in clinical psychiatry
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National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Md.
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In recent years, disease genes have been identified for many different neurological disorders. Genetic testing has become clinically available to diagnose diseases such as muscular dystrophy, hereditary neuropathy, spastic paraplegia, cerebellar ataxia, and Huntington's disease. Rational use of these tests can provide an accurate diagnosis without other expensive and invasive procedures. Genetic diagnosis of symptomatic patients can be very helpful in providing a prognosis and in pointing the way to appropriate treatment. Genetic tests can also be used for carrier detection, prenatal diagnosis, and pre-symptomatic diagnosis; for these applications it is important to involve a genetic counselor. New "next-generation" (NextGen) DNA sequencing, such as exome capture and whole genome sequencing, can allow screening of many or all genes in a single sample, and thus may provide a more efficient way to establish a genetic diagnosis. However, it opens new issues to address, including establishing pathogenicity of the sequence variants that are found and managing incidental genetic findings.
Learning objectives:
- To appreciate the availability of genetic testing for neurologic diagnosis
- To understand how to use genetic tests for neurologic diseases
- To recognize the pitfalls of pre-symptomatic genetic testing
March 7, 2014
Genetics and Genomics of Craniosynostosis Syndromes
Max Muenke, M.D.
Chief and Senior Investigator, Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Md.
Craniosynostosis, the premature fusion of one of several sutures of the skull, has been recognized since ancient times. Cranosynostosis is a common birth defect with an incidence of 1 in 2,500 - 3,000 newborns. Over 150 syndromes with craniosynostosis have been described. Causes for the most common syndromes (Muenke, Apert, Crouzon, Saethre-Chotzen, Pfeiffer, and Craniofrontonasal syndrome) have been elucidated. Clinical management is complex and involves a multidisciplinary team. New treatment and diagnostic modalities allow a dramatically improved understanding and prognosis for affected individuals.
Learning objectives:
- To review embryologic and neonatal suture formation of the skull
- To appreciate the genetic and environmental causes of craniosynostosis
- To consider the impact of genomics on understanding causes of the disease and the impact on treatment
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