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As reported yesterday, notorious Photoshop-victim Faith Hill is gracing a trio of Redbook covers... as Twiggy, Brigitte Bardot, & Grace Kelly. Unfortunately, the mock-ups have no cover lines, so we added some electronic magic ourselves.
Nowhere in the magazine's new interview with the country singer did Redbook editors address the Photoshopping scandal from almost two years ago; the writer, Lori Berger, did, however, mention that the magazine's new cover shoots involved "20 total hours of primping, painting, pinning, and plucking" and that the "results are extraordinary."
Oh, and there was this hard-hitting question:
What do you try to teach your girls about beauty so a bad hair day doesn't become a crisis?
Hill's answer was, well, illuminating.
Mostly, we have tried to lay the foundation for the girls to have a sense of self-worth that goes way beyond anything that's not real or achievable.
Anyway, here's Redbook's "original" shot of Faith as Brigitte Bardot.
No mention was made of Bardot's own controversy, which includes being charged and fined for "inciting racial hatred" stemming from remarks she made about Muslims. (She's also criticized the modern-day gay man. She likes them retro-y.) Here's our version, with cover lines:
The Many Faces of Faith Hill [Redbook]
Faith Hill Plays Dress Up as 3 Iconic Blondes [Redbook]
Earlier: Here's Our Winner! 'Redbook' Shatters Our 'Faith' In Well, Not Publishing, But Maybe God

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Jen Reese scored 11 points to lead No. 23 Colorado over Utah 56-43 Sunday, in their second meeting this week.
Reese was 5 of 11 from the field for the Buffaloes (13-2, 2-2 Pac-12).
Arielle Roberson scored 10 points. Rachel Hargis had seven rebounds, and Chucky Jeffery had six assists.
Colorado led 25-23 at halftime and never trailed in the second half. Colorado shot 44 percent from the field for the game, while Utah shot 26.3 percent. Colorado outrebounded Utah 41-32.
Taryn Wicijowski scored 16 points, passing her 1,200 career-point. She entered the game with 1,195 career points. Michelle Plouffe had 15 points and seven rebounds for Utah (9-6, 0-4).
Colorado also defeated Utah 67-57 Tuesday.
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Jesus made strong wine. Can't I drink it?
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2011-01-21 02:19
Drunkards who want a basis for their drinking in the Bible always quote, (Jn. 2: 1-11) forgetting all the other anti-drink passages in the Bible (Is. 28: 1, 3; Prov. 23: 21; 26; 9; Rev. 17: 1-2; Gal. 5: 21, Rom. 13: 13; Lk. 21: 34 etc.) The miracles of the fourth Gospel are called signs. Concerning John 2: 1, Jerome Bible Commentary says, "The Wine of Cana that replaces the water of Jewish purification, the life-giving water that comes from Christ, the heavenly bread that is his flesh (6: 51) - all these signify the sacraments that are efficacious in virtue of his redemptive work, bestowing the Holy Spirit that is the life of the church" (Vol. II. p. 418). The water changed to strong wine is the sign of the change in the elements of the sacraments by the presence of Christ. Those who have Christ in them are already in the spiritual presence of the Holy Spirit and they do not need the spirit of strong wine to boost them up. Even if we take it literally, we must understand the Palestinian local situation and the custom of serving only wine in the wedding parties as Palestine is a wine growing country. The first miracle of Jesus is misinterpreted if it is taken as a permission to drink strong liquor. It is the mind of Christ that is more important than a particular event in the Savior's life. The mind of Christ was certainly full of sympathy for the hungry, the sick and the bereaved. If we have such a mind, how can our conscience permit us to spend the God-given money for liquor? An incident in a particular wedding party, where the honor of the Host was protected by the Lord in response to the intercession of His mother is no excuse for wasting one's health, resources, time and talents for drinking alcoholic beverages. Christian conscience from the very early period has been against drinking wine even for medicine. Hence Timothy would not use it even as medicine. Therefore St. Paul had to plead with him and write, "No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments" (I Tim. 5: 23). We must remember that more families are destroyed today by liquor than any other single factor. Liquor is the greatest killer by so many means such as cancer, drunk driving, murder and what not?
Prohibition alone will not solve the habit of alcoholism as it is a negative approach. The Churches must be responsible to solve the problems of individuals who resort to drinking against their own desire by the pressure of circumstances and as an easy means of getting temporary mental peace as in consuming opium. Pastoral counseling must be one way of helping such people. Confession to the priest must also give the person all the benefits of counseling and much more. If a father is going to the toddy shop to decrease the worry about his married daughters of marriageable age, the church must have means to have those girls married through aid from Marriage Assistance Fund. All the churches must support the government's effort to impose prohibition and to make it a success. There should be no liquor advertisements. Young people must be brought to the joy of absolute self-surrender to Jesus Christ and the thrill of life and service in the power of the Holy Spirit that they will never go for the dangerous alcoholic spirit. Christian publications must have articles on the dangers of alcoholic drinks. "Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler" (Prov. 20:1).


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Melissa Rycroft Tricks Her Daughter (and Husband!) at the Dinner Table
"She pushes my buttons like nobody else on this earth can do," Rycroft, 29, tells PEOPLE.
She triumphed with her fancy footwork on the dance floor, but Melissa Rycroft may have finally met her match.
Although completely head over heels in love with daughter Ava Grace, 2 next month, the first-time mom admits her little girl has her beat.
"She pushes my buttons like nobody else on this earth can do," Rycroft, 29, tells PEOPLE.
"She's going through that phase right now, the 'I'm sorry, Mommy, you didn't want me to touch this? This right here I wasn't supposed to touch?' And she just gives you this look and I want to be so angry with her, but I can't!"
Rycroft isn't the only one being tested by the toddler;Dad Tye Strickland has been known to be on the receiving end of a few of Ava's tricks, too.
"It's Daddy's day with her while Mommy goes and works and as I was leaving [Ava] pooped in the bathtub," she says with a laugh. "It's little things like that where I go, 'That's my girl! There you go, Tye!'"
At the end of the day, however, it's Rycroft versus the father-daughter duo — at least when it comes to the dinner table.
"We don't want to make her a vegetarian or just a meatatarian or just a hot dogatarian like most toddlers are," she quips. "It doesn't help in my house that my husband also eats like a 5-year-old, so it's almost like I'm raising two kids [and] trying to get vegetables in both of them."
Noting that "if it's green [Ava's] not going to eat it," a crafty Rycroft reveals she may have finally found the secret to her struggles.
"I'm finding new recipes online of how you can kind of hide vegetables in meals and so far they can't tell that it's there," she shares. "There's a nice stuffed chicken you can do [where] you can put some spinach and cheese right in there. They'll never know it's there!"
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mmm.. going to the park…
hello nice reederz its dennis the vizsla dog hay this weekend mama and dada finaly got on the stik and tuk us to feeesta iland in the mithical land of sandy eggo ware we he had a lot of fun wandring arownd eksploring and plus the insinerayshun of the erth was narrowly avoyded by my kwik thinking it wuz reely an amayzing day!!!
wel at first wen we arrivd at feeesta iland we had no ideea of the firy horror that awayted no it just lukd like a tipical winter day in sandy eggo a little windy but nuthing to indikayt that the sun wood shortly looze its mind
we went abowt owr yoozual feeesta iland bizness of running arownd and smelling stuf even tucker ran arownd a bit:
we did owr yoozual eksploring in the weedz:
and along the ridj:
but hmmmmm isnt the reflekshun of the sun on the water gitting kind of brite??? maybe it is just my imadjinayshun oh hay see that puddel their on the left??? wel let me tel yoo me and tucker had a grayt time chaysing eech other arownd in a big mud puddel their were thrils and spils and splashing and mud and i am pretty shoor that at wun poynt i saw speed rayser go by chek it owt:
see now i shud eksplayn that dada wuz playing with his noo kamra and evidently this kamra comes with sumthing calld "direkshuns" wot dada hasnt red properly and so wen he thawt he wuz recording us playing in the mud he wuz akchooally just watching us on the littel screen inside the kamra and wen he thawt he stopd recording us wuz wen he akchooally started oh wel dun dada i am shoor my nice reederz ar thrild to hav missd the mud ressling!!!! did yoo notiss tucker calling dada a hack at the end of the viddyo??? yoo tel him tucker!!!
wel ennyway after the wunderful gaym of mud chayse wot yoo wil never ever see we continyood wawking along the sandy rodes of feeesta iland checking owt the wunderful smels and wotnot:
ahhhh yes wide open spayses peeese and kwiet and hay wot the hek???
kurse yoo paparazzi!!!! dont yoo hav ennything better to do then follow me arownd in yore silly helikopters??? i think andjeleena jolee must be having anuther baby or sumthing go tayk a pikcher of her!!! but then i notisd that the eevil jeenyuses at see wurld had finaly fired up there long awayted deth ray wot wuz intended to pul the sun into the erth berning all the other amyoozement parks to a krisp so that the only wun left wood be see wurld itself:
kurse yoo eevil jeenyus shamoo!!! as yoo can see there dastardly plan wuz abowt to sukseed wen i sprang into akshun!!!!
yes it may luk like i am just tayking a random tinkel at the end of that viddyo wot dada finaly manadjed to shoot but in reeality i am cooling off the erth so that it is not insinerayted by the sun!!!! and then of korse see wurld had to tern off its deth ray becuz it wuz time for shamoos show and as evrywun nos their is not enuf elektrissity in californya to power both the see wurld deth ray and the see wurld jumbotron at the saym time and thus disaster wuz narrowly averted!!!
as the sun reternd to its akkustomd spot in the sky we reezoomd owr peeseful eksplorayshun of feeesta iland heer ar me and trixie in owr nobel silowetts as the sun reeseeds yes its anuther suksesful sooperheero operayshun wel dun trixie!!! and heer is trixie protekting me frum the scary shadow man wot follows dada arownd all the time:
sum day i wil figger owt how to destroy yoo shadow man!!! wel after all that eksitement we sat down in the piknik areea for a wile
hay luk their ar sum garbadj cans neerby!!!
now i no wot yoo ar thinking yoo ar thinking hay dennis that luks like yoo sniffing arownd the garbadj not tucker but the trooth is i wuz just trying to find a littel snak for tucker becuz he wuz too tired to do it himself i personaly hav no intrest in garbadj yuck bleh!!!! ok wel that wuz abowt the end of owr trip to feeesta iland altho before we left i wuz mobd by sum of my adoring fans:
wel ok so maybe me and tucker and trixie owtnumberd my adoring fans by three to wun but stil it wuz just like wen the beetels came to america and wer chaysed arownd by all those shreeking teenaydj girls rite??? rite??? rite it wuz just eksaktly the saym!!! wel then it wuz time to leev but tucker had compleetly run owt of enerdjy so mama had to kerry him bak to the car poor poor tucker it must be so hyoomilyating to hav to be kerried arownd like a baby!!!
thats ok tucker we havnt lost enny reespekt for yoo becuz we never had enny ha ha wel ennyway that wuz the end of owr day at feeesta iland we stopd at the gayt for wun last luk bak at the park:
hmmmm the sun stil luks a littel big but i think that just meens spring is on the way now i am pretty shoor it is not becuz we ar all going to be bernd to a krisp at leest not until 2012 ha ha ok bye
mmm.. going to the park…
I am a little bit disappointed that I did not get to see the mud-frolicking. I never get to play in mud.
I wanted to see some mud therapy!
too cold for the park here… but you guys had a grand day there!
That is funny that Tucker got tuckered out hahaha
Dennis buddie! I thinks you should get your dadda and momma to take you here lots lots more! Momma loves the pictures and we both love living vicariously through them!:))
hehe Tucker running picture made-ed us all laff!
Hai Dennis, yoo know dat mud stuff looks fun! I can only gets my feets dirty acuz dad won't let me roll in mud. Yoo know what Mom and Dad pick me up and carry me sometimes too – usually when I's been bad. And dat place yoo was runnin round had lots of sand which means time to playplayplay!!
::springs in my feet::
::springs in my feet::
I is Jake!
Dennis, you would get along SO well with my brother Tanner, I swear it dude. It looks like you had fun at the island, and I am thankful you uh, saved the world. Good job.
Wow! You had good weather! Good thing Joey wasnt there he wouldhve gone straight for the mud puddle! Yikes! Love your pictures! HUgs Joey and Kealani
Good job saving the world Dennis!
Kisses and hugs
You certainly had a fun-filled day on the island, Dennis. Good job on saving the world.
oh dennis! wide open spaces, sun, seasand, you are a fortunate pup indeed!
Wow Dennis, thanks for your tour of Feeesta Iland, looks like a good time was had….and thank dawg you averted the incineration of the Erth! For some reason we can never view your videos anyway, but we love a bit of mud-wrestling…well, who doesn't? Your cool pics more than make up for it though, and we love how you call Shamu the See World Jumbotron, heehee!
Slobbers xx
Great photos! I'd be in trouble though if I had to carry Charlie around.
Harrrr Dennis
thanks for saving the world Harrrr. I cant beleve the Puparazzi was fallowing you Harrr.
looks like you all had a good time at the park. 🙂
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#17- Rhapsodie's Visual PAIN Diary- April 2017
More here continuing from #16- Visual PAIN Diary- Winter into Spring 2017- Worse & Better At the present time, my LEFT Forearm, LEFT Calf, RIGHT Calf, RIGHT Forearm, LEFT Rotator Cuff, RIGHT Shoulder, 2nd to smallest toe on my Left foot, are my only real PAIN ISSUES that shift and vary with bone strain in movements.
I generally get upmost days without any pain, but my movements during the day can and sometimes do cause PAIN. A wrong step or a wrong lift can give me lightning pain followed by swelling and an ache that diminishes without more stress if I do not repeat that motion within the next week.
Sleeping is made way more difficult, because my left calf feels like it splits when I rest on my right side for 15 minutes or any more. The exercises for my lower left ankle/calf assigned with physical therapy have increased and advanced the fever of my right calf. It only aches like a bruise presently.
Walking with my left calf wrapped causes pain like shoving micro spears into my bones near the last place a spike of pain happened if I'm on uneven ground and barefoot. Walking with shoes and bracing causes me to ache whenever I take a step wrong at the store, like from pushing a shopping cart. My right calf ONLY hurts when rubbed by hand to remove the swelling that centers over the fracture, that is as yet untreated, and when the fever in the calf gets bad my body temperature rises also.
ANTIBIOTICS CONTINUE TO REMAIN THE ONLY PAIN TREATMENT that removes pain. But doctors' have continued to ignore this sign of infections in the body. Prescribed treatments only fiddlefarden by brain to disguise from it the reality of pain.
- Steroid– I was allergic so only 2 doses out of 7 were taken, a week of no pain, but I really injured areas that weren't felt as being in pain. Over 3 months of working to recover to the point I was previous to taking a single dose.
- Acetaminophen/Cod 3o mg & Turmeric Cur-cumin– 24 hours of sleep with 36 hours of fuzzed brain, fluffing away the pain in disguising the problems from nerve central.
- Aspirin/Ibuprofen– 5 to 12 hours of sleep
- NSAID Cream– Anti-Inflammatory, I've only used one dose so far.
The fever in my right calf has been regrowing, today April 15th my temperature was over a degree above normal. The area of swelling on my right calf is not associated with 'bone injury,' but surgery was mentioned to me this last week. My left arm though is the problem we've discussed through this set of blog posts, with the Visual PAIN Diary- From September 2013 into April 2017,
- #11- 2013 &
- #12- June 2014 &
- #13- July 2014 &
- #14- August 2014 to Summer 2016 &
- #15- July through December 2016 &
- #16- Winter into Spring 2017
- #17- April 2017
this is the last post for that section of this PAIN Care blog. Because I believe the plate for my LEFT arm has been moving around. And thus the movement of the plate means that the areas of pressure from grip have shifted when pressing in areas also.
My sleep is again being problematic. Because of so much lack of care, lack of physically moving properly regularly I'm almost incapable of walking presently. The present medical system is set up to make sure anywhere there is a problem on your body you have to go in for a separate visit.
The Left shoulder injury could probably have been avoided if there had been care for my lower arm, but there hasn't been, and I'm still having problems with my left lower arm & the recovery exercises for the shoulder exacerbate the problems with swelling of my Left Forearm.
But beyond them is how the patient will continue to suffer into the future and the cost settlements for injuries that are as yet uncared for as well as uncalculated into the lack of care … The lack of care results have led to a weak left arm, added to taking my ability to do the enjoyable tasks I still love as shared in the beginning of the document.
many of which are avoided because of the work stress spiking pains:
- Holding a bowl of soup, a small notebook, anything at all really with my lower left arm results in spiking and shifting pain with a single move.
- It's really hard to eat a bowl of cereal.
- Taking out trash, on the kitchen 15 gallon can has not been done, by me in over 2 years, my previous work at McDonalds involved lifting larger trash bags regularly.
- Sorting through my storage of season clothes exchange took over 2 weeks, pain hindered me as did my arm not being powerful enough to brace a suit on a hanger single handedly with my left hand.
- I have not washed a sink full of dishes since the week of the Steroid NO PAIN;
- SWOLLEN NUMB FINGERS, specifically the 2 middle ones of my left hand, started feeling pinched about the summer of 2015 after the Steroid week & this reoccured in September & October of 2016.
- SWOLLEN HAND, if my Left Arm is not angled up to sleep, I awake with it totally numb.
More ARM Work PROBLEMS,
- Watering my plants is uncomfortable with my 1 quart watering container. 2 hands work best.
- Adding water to the humidifier is done with the smallest cooking pot in the house, the 2 to 3.5 cup one. That's between 16 and 28 ounces, a gallon of milk has to be lifted with 2 hands.
- Lifting my drink mug with my left hand aches.
- I do not comb my hair or brush my teeth with my left hand anymore either.
- Washing Dishes, 1 piece at a time,
- After doing anything normally easy for over 1 hour,
- except for using the typing keyboard, it's okay with resting my arm on the brace pad on my tucked down bear.
- I haven't sewn, sketched, crafted, read a book that weighs more than a Harlequin in over 6 months because my left arm can't support the weight or the use angle stresses presently.
Just earlier this week a metal L door handle touched the upper edge of the YELLOW ORANGE bruise pain on the picture, the pressure felt like having a hand slap onto a bloody purple bruise beneath the skin. That area has never caused me any pain in the past; I would rate that at somewhere near ONE but less than that. It's the persistent re-ache that is most annoying.
Because months have passed since my last entry I'm adding details from the present situation and the pain shifting. A situation which the doctors have listed as chronic pain, they're stupid about that, but then they only read what others share with them before making a diagnosis. The February 2018 post demonstrates how the so called 'chronic pain' isn't, it's in fact circumstantial driven by life AND lack of proper treatment.
Associated Posts
Please forgive me, but you'll likely want to right click and open in a new tab, because the click link MAY NOT WORK.
#01. Inaccurate PAIN Assessments CAN CAUSE MORE BODY DAMAGE
#02- PAIN Assessments Corresponding with UTI's
#03. Inaccurate PAIN Assessments with A HIGH PAIN Tolerance
#04- Inaccurate PAIN Assessments with JUST Rate Pain from 0 to 10
#05- Inaccurate Doctoral PAIN Assessments based on Guesses
#06- Inaccurate PAIN Assessments because of no Patient Pain Understanding
#07- Inaccurate PAIN Ratings with NO Applicable Associations
#08- Inaccurate PAIN Assessments MADE a BIT Better
#09- Detailing Diaries Could Limit Inaccurate PAIN Assessments
#10- A PAIN & Injury Diary MAY Change Inaccurate Doctoral ASSESSMENTS
Rhapsodie's Visual PAIN Diary- From September 2013 into April 2017
- #11- 2013
- #12- June 2014
- #13- July 2014
- #14- August 2014 to Summer 2016
- #15- July through December 2016
- #16- Winter into Spring 2017
- #17- April 2017
- #18- February 2018- With Updated Assessments & Images
Rhapsodie's ideas to improve Medical ASSESSMENTS by doctors
- #19- Medical ASSESSMENT Improvement Ideas Begin With
- #20- For Doctors & Medical People to Work On Continuously
- #21- Improve Medical Assessments & Limit Legal Hassles
- #22- Patient's & Doctor's NEED to Communicate Well
- #23- Relational Corresponding PAIN Chart Part- A- Section 1 through 4a
- #24- Relational Corresponding Pain Chart Part A- Section 4 & Part- B- Sections 5 & 6
PAIN Variables
- #25- Infectious PAIN Variances
- #26- Your healthcare is YOUR HEALTHCARE!
- #27- Good COMMUNICATION a Necessity
- #28- More ACCURATE ASSESSMENTS with Good Reporting, Filing, & Reviewing
- #29- OUR Responsibilities!
- #30- Growing PAIN Problems


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There is something magical in the night breeze! It makes the soul long for unknown things. It stirs up desire and witchcraft. It brings butterflies in my stomach to make the wind's need to speak to me through the leaves known to me. It makes me close my eyes breath deeply and surrender.
Blessed be
Sun and Moon blessings to all in this magical day, may the most ancient of Gods be always with you!
Brightest Summer blessings
Greetings blogfriends! Summer is finally here. I love the warm air of Greek summer. It is so enticing, tantalizing to the senses. The Sun, the smells, the sounds enforce such sexual invigorating energies. Solstice is almost here and if you listen closely you can hear the fairy songs and dances. Right now I am in my balcony drinking sweet peppermint tea with my little witchling.
Skipping a bit
Greetings blogfriends! Today was my six month check up and I was so worried. I cleared my schedule so I had some extra time before my appointment. So after an hour and a half of vigorous exercise I bathed and did my hair and make up. I wore a pretty white dress. I wore pearl bracelets and pearls on my hair. I looked up the mirror and saw a woman almost dressed as a fairy or a bride and that there was nothing more to do. So, I began singing and then before I realized it was time for us to get in the car. There was a bit of a wait in the doctor s office which went really quickly with some chit chat with the receptionist. I went in and I tried to give all the information as clearly as I could and then there was nothing else but wait to hear the verdict. I watched the endocrinologist's facial expressions darken a bit before he began talking. My heart skipped a bit. It turns out I am clean as a whistle and completely cancer free. Just a few minor complications of the treatment troubled him. It seems I am not responding to some drugs I am taking, as well as he would like. This is why my metabolism is so low. He was reluctant to give me more, he feels I am maxed out on both t3 and t4 and yet somehow I am not absorbing them. He just told me to spread the doses throughout the day to see if it works better. There was a time I would be miserable about the appointment, crushed even. But you know what? I have seen so much worse, been so much worse. I can still lose weight(well that is if I stay under 900 calories with an hour of high intensity cardio 6 days a week, but still), I can sleep every night now, I have energy through the day, no more cramps, no more chronic pain(most of the time no pain at all if I am careful). I consider myself healthy because my body can do so many things it couldn't.
And I can enjoy so many beautiful things. Like truly offer myself to the triple Goddess and try to connect to all Her aspects. Brighid came to me to bless me through her fire healing energies in my hardest of times. She guided me, opened me up with Her creative surges, making me sing and write again. I pray to Her almost every day over 3 red candles that I light in a wreath made of intertwined grapevine twigs. I chant the spell 3 times while the smells of the incense engulfs me. One drop of my blood and then my soul just opens to all Her glory. After that I am ready to cast any spell I want. I am ready to call upon the elements and the powers of the universe to help my voice travel where it needs to go, to help my heart go where it needs to go. My inner voice and sight is stronger because of Her. Sometimes my little witchling joins me in prayer. She loves to throw more incense to the fire. She also loves to grind the leaves, petals, resins and oils together in her mortar and pestle. I am beyond blissful when we practice magic together and she enjoys it too. And then we go and cook together. She washes all the vegetables and I explain to her how all things that grow carry the love of our sweet Goddess. How she is blessed,cherished and protected by Her. How I am too.
Be blessed, be cherished and protected too my friends!


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text: Not to be confused with the legendary country singer of the same name, Jimmie Rodgers (sometimes billed as Jimmie F. Rodgers) was a versatile vocalist who whose warm, inviting style lent itself to rock & roll, folk, country, and easy listening styles, and he enjoyed success from 1957 to late 1967, when a violent incident derailed his career. James Frederick Rodgers was born in Camas, Washington on September 18, 1933. Rodgers' mother was an accomplished pianist who taught her son to play, and as a youngster he also sang in the choir at church. After graduating from high school, Rodgers went to college, but after a year he left to join the Air Force and served in Korea. While overseas, Rodgers bought a second-hand guitar and formed a singing group with of his pals, giving him a taste for performing. After serving in Korea, Rodgers was transferred to a base near Nashville, Tennessee in 1954, and he started performing at local night spots in his spare time. In 1956, he returned to Washington and continued to pursue a career in music; he performed on Art Linkletter's television show House Party during a trip to Los Angeles, and the same year traveled to New York City to appear on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts program, where his performance of the song "Honeycomb" caught the ears of producers Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore. Peretti and Creatore arranged for Rodgers to sign a deal with Roulette Records, and in 1957, his recording of "Honeycomb" went all the way to number one on the Billboard pop charts. Rodgers' next two singles, "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" and "Uh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again," also went Top Ten, and while his fifth release, "Secretly," would prove to be his last visit to the Top Ten, he continued to record and tour, and hosted his own television series in 1959. However, Rodgers had a falling out with Roulette over their failure to pay royalties (the label's owner, Morris Levy, was connected to the Genovese crime family and had a long history of intimidating musicians who had the nerve to demand payment for their work), and in 1962 he signed with Dot Records. On Dot, Rodgers landed a few singles on the Adult Contemporary charts, but while he was still in demand as a live act, his recording career remained cool until 1966, when his recording of "It's Over" broke into the lower reaches of the Top 40. Rodgers also dabbled in acting, making his screen debut in 1961's The Little Shepard of Kingdom Come and co-starring in the 1964 film Back Door to Hell (which also featured a young Jack Nicholson). In 1967, Rodgers signed a new deal with A&M Records, and his career was looking up; his song "Child of Clay" rose to number 31 on the singles charts, and his first album for the label was faring well. But his good luck abandoned him on December 1, 1967; while driving home from a Christmas party, he was pulled over by a car he thought belonged to a friend. An assailant, believed to be an off-duty police officer, brutally beat Rodgers and left him with a severe skull fracture that had to be repaired with a metal plate. While Rodgers survived the attack (which he's said may have been the work of one of Levy's associates), it left him with ongoing health problems that often interfered with his career, and he would record only three more albums after 1967, though he hosted a summer replacement TV series in 1969 and was a guest on Johnny Cash's variety show in 1970. Rodgers continued to perform live when his health permitted, and in 2007 he successfully underwent surgery that removed the plate in his head after the fracture finally healed. Since then, Rodgers has performed regularly in Branson, Missouri and lives quietly in California. He has also published an autobiography, Dancing on the Moon. ~ Mark Deming


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Liberal Democrat president Tim Farron has appealed for an end to "absolutely foolish" calls for Nick Clegg to quit as leader.
Mr Clegg's future has been questioned by MPs as Lib Dem candidates in target Westminster seats joined voices urging him to fall on his sword over dismal election results.
The Deputy Prime Minister has insisted he is staying despite the party losing more than 250 councillors in local elections and anticipating another rout when European election results emerge later.
Southport MP John Pugh suggested that a dozen of his Commons colleagues had expressed doubts over whether Mr Clegg should continue at the head of the party.
In a call for unity Mr Farron - a favourite to succeed Mr Clegg - said: "Nick Clegg should undoubtedly stay and the Liberal Democrats should stay the course in Government."
"There will be lots of people who are bruised by the results," he conceded.
He told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show: "I have lost elections before and it is miserable, and I also understand why these people will feel that the message that they got back on the doorstep, that they don't like us being in government and so on, is a really difficult one.
"But I just think, at this time, it would be absolutely foolish for us as a party to turn on ourselves.
"What has separated the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives the last four years is that while the Conservatives have been like cats in a sack fighting each other, the Liberal Democrats have stood united. That is what we will continue to do."
Unlike the "spineless" other leaders, Mr Clegg had been "the only one with the bottle and the backbone to stand up to Nigel Farage", he told the Murnaghan programme on Sky News.
Mr Pugh told the Sunday Times a n internal "post-mortem" of the poor night at the polls - which saw the party almost or entirely wiped out in some former strongholds - "has to include a truly open, mature and balanced look at our whole strategy, including the leadership issue".
Colleague Adrian Sanders, who represents Torbay, said: "The problem is the messenger, very few people say it's the message."
Ex-MP Sandra Gidley - one of around 250 people to have signed an online letter demanding a change of leader - said Mr Clegg was tainted by his position in the Tory-led coalition.
"What we need over the next year is somebody to lead the party who is credible, who has questioned the coalition in the past, not seen to be in a love-in with David Cameron and has the confidence of the party," she told Murnaghan.
"We should be making more of a case for what we have done in the coalition and we are not able to do that at the moment while we have Nick, as a leader, associated with some of the negative aspects of the coalition - the broken promises.
"It's not easy to say this because Nick did a stonking job for us at the last election but I do not think he is the right face for the Liberal Democrats at the next election and many others sadly agree."
She backed Business Secretary Vince Cable to take over as an interim leader as he "has been shown to be independent-minded within the coalition".
Mr Clegg has conceded that the strongly pro-EU party could lose all 11 of its MEPS when results are declared at 10pm and even the most optimistic polls suggest only a handful will survive.
In Thursday's elections, the Tories took charge of Kingston Council - the back yard of Energy Secretary Ed Davey - and the Lib Dems lost control in Portsmouth following gains by Ukip.
As the scale of the losses became clear, Mr Clegg said he would "absolutely not" resign, and insisted the Lib Dems were still succeeding where they focused on their achievements in coalition.
Two would-be MPs have signed the online LibDems4Change campaign.
Jackie Porter, who is set to fight the Tory-held target seat of Winchester in next May's General Election, said the party was "not going forward with a clear strategy".
The county councillor said the party's achievements were overshadowed because Mr Clegg "allowed himself to be portrayed as just another pea out of the same pod" as David Cameron and Ed Miliband.
The open letter says: "We consider it vital that at the 2015 General Election the party should be led by someone who will receive a fair hearing about our achievements and ambitions for the future.
"It is clear to us that this person is not you, as the loss of so many of our hard-working councillors highlights."
If Mr Clegg refuses to quit, a leadership contest could be triggered if 75 local party associations formally demanded one, or if a majority of the parliamentary party approved a no-confidence motion.
Ros Kayes, the candidate in West Dorset, is another to put her name to the letter.
She told BBC Radio 5 Live: "If you were to ask the general public what it is they don't like, they wouldn't say they don't like the coalition, they would say they don't like Nick Clegg."
Mr Pugh told the Independent on Sunday that among backbenchers there was a " widespread view that no matter how much Nick spoke there was a section of the electorate that would not give him a fair hearing. But equally, there was a need to avoid any civil war in the party".
"We need to try to improve the national profile and try not to make Nick such an obvious target. It's the elephant in the room and the party can't ignore it," he said.
Another MP, John Hemming, said he would consider "whether any action is needed" when Parliament returned on June 4 but said he was " not an enthusiastic fan of Nick's leadership".
Former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown, who is chairing the party's 2015 general election campaign, said leadership change was "just about the silliest idea I have heard I think in my political career."
"It is just not serious politics," he told the BBC's Sunday Politics - quipping that a "Lib Dems Like Cake" website had more people signed up to it.
"This is the moment when we need to get out with a really good message and campaign through the summer in the context of the general election and we spend it on an internal, totally unnecessary, divisive leadership election? I think that's ridiculous.
"At the very moment when our sacrifices - and we have made some very big ones, painful ones - are beginning to gain traction, we turn in on ourselves."
Mr Clegg was "the best prime minister Britain hasn't got", he said, insisting that the message would get through to voters by next May.
The public had to be convinced that the party could "hack being in government".
"If we were to take this step the answer to that would be incontrovertibly 'no' and that would damage the party forever."
Mr Hemming said he would consult local party members over whether he should continue to support Mr Clegg but that he was personally "not of a view he must stay".
The organisers of the letter said that the signatories included 43 councillors, including two group leaders, three general election candidates and six local party chairs.
Former MSP Margaret Smith is also among those calling for a change as well as ex-c hair of the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors Bill le Breton and county and city councillor Martin Tod - a member of the party's governing Federal Executive.
They rejected claims by Mr Farron that some of those on the list were not members - insisting that party membership numbers were required to register support.
"As the party president responsible for the activist base across the UK it is important that Tim Farron understands that this letter is entirely driven and supported by current members.
"We urge Nick Clegg to reflect on the contents of our letter and believe it would be remiss of any of our parliamentarians to ignore this group now."


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The main card for the UFC's long-awaited return to Brazil is set.
UFC 134's pay-per-view lineup features five fights, including a headliner pitting UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva (28-4 MMA, 13-0 UFC) against challenger Yushin Okami (26-5 MMA, 10-2 UFC).
Other bouts slated for the Aug. 27 main card include light heavyweights Forrest Griffin (18-6 MMA, 9-4 UFC) vs. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua (19-5 MMA, 3-3 UFC), lightweights Edson Barboza (8-0 MMA, 2-0 UFC) vs. Ross Pearson (12-4 MMA, 4-1 UFC), heavyweights Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (32-6-1 MMA, 3-2 UFC) vs. Brendan Schaub (8-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC), and Luiz Cane (11-3 MMA, 4-3 UFC) vs. Stanislav Nedkov (11-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC).
The event takes place at HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro. It's the UFC's first event in Brazil since 1998. However, during a media event in Rio on Thursday, UFC president Dana White said the promotion plans to make return trips to the city and other Brazilian locales for upcoming events, including pay-per-view shows and UFC Fight Night events.
No preliminary-card broadcasts or streams have been announced for UFC 134, though they'll likely come closer to the event.
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- Forrest Griffin vs. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua
- Edson Barboza vs. Ross Pearson
- Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Brendan Schaub
- Luiz Cane vs. Stanislav Nedkov
- Spencer Fisher vs. Thiago Tavares
- David Mitchell vs. Paulo Thiago
- Erick Silva vs. Mike Swick
- Yves Jabouin vs. Ian Loveland
- Yuri Alcantara vs. Antonio Carvalho
- Alexandre "Cacareco" Ferreira vs. Rousimar Palhares*
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== Software links ==
* hugin (Lucerne edition)
* hugin (Lucerne edition)
* Mono - You will need this download to use autopano or autopano-sift, both assist in finding control points.
* Mono- You will need this download to use autopanoor autopano-sift, both assist in finding control points. I download and install ''Mono 1.2.6_4 Framework - Universal'' from [http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads mono-project.com] (ca. 62 MB)
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As a professional photographer I ran into cylindrical panoramas in 1996 and since that time I'm dedicated to panoramic photography. At that time I looked on the map to find a place that is called "Nodal Point"... I did all the mistakes, I know them well.
I still learn a lot and hope to give something back to the Panotools community. However I'd like to point out that the panotools.info server and it's management are not equal to the Panotools community. This wiki is the work of the community. Feel invited to join the Panotools-List Yahoo! group to discuss the friendly and democratic future of the Panotools community.
Besides commercial photography I also have some experience in print solutions, sometimes database driven, graphics and Mac administration.
Since the start of the PanoTools NG Yahoo group I am co-owner and one of the moderators of that list.
The nickname Zarl was given to me by a crazy austrian fashion photographer a long time ago when I worked as an assistant. My real name is Carl von Einem. I still shoot with film.... am I also crazy?
contact me at: einem {at} gmx .de or leave a message on my talk page.
little parts of my work can be viewed at einem.net
--Zarl 23:29, 23 November 2006 (CET)
hugin on Mac OS X
I will try to explain the steps needed to get hugin plus the necessary components running on Mac OS X. This description is aimed at the usual Mac user who is not familiar with terms like compiling and thinks that Terminal is some kind of ant. Feel free to ask for details on my discussion page if something is missing.
This article is based on a fresh standard installation of Mac OS X 10.5 aka Leopard unless otherwise noted. I use a German system and as a default work with an account that has no admin rights.
Software links
- hugin (Lucerne edition) - Ippei Ukai helped me to install the then newest version of hugin at the Panotools meeting 2007 in Lucerne, Switzerland. AFAIK this is still the latest available version for Mac if you don't know how to compile from the sources. I will try this other approach later.
You can download HuginOSX LucerneEdition temporarily from my website, the sources are available from sourceforge. Unpack the archive and move the containing HuginOSX.app in your Applications folder. If you want to use HuginOSX in a different language you can deselect your systems default language in the application's Information window in the Finder.
- Mono - You will need this download to use autopano or autopano-sift, both assist in finding control points. I download and install Mono 1.2.6_4 Framework - Universal from mono-project.com (ca. 62 MB).
To check the version number of your currrent Mono environment open your Terminal app and type
mono -V
- autopano-sift needs to be put into the HuginOSX bundle. Download autopano-sift-2.4.tar.gz from Sebastian Nowozin's site and install.
- enblend - see Enblend
- enfuse - see Enfuse


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I was contacted by Terri Toner of Pirate Jonny's LLC asking if I would like to review some of their rubs. By now you know that I'm always game to try out new things. Today's article goes into detail about Pirate Jonny's Caribbean Cowboy Steak Rub.
Pirate Jonny's is based out of Tampa, FL and specializes in rubs that are low-sodium, MSG free, and gluten free. Their Caribbean Barr-B-Q rub won 2nd place in the 2011 National BBQ Association Awards in Excellence. They offer several different products ranging from an original BBQ rub to a key lime chili seasoning.
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Some of the key ingredients in this rub include brown sugar, paprika, chili powder, black pepper, sea salt, and coffee. The rub is a browish-red color, as you can see below. The aroma of the rub leans strongly towards coffee and chili powder, as does the taste. The rub is not an overly salty rub.
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Steak. Wonderful, glorious, juicy steak. That is the meat du jour for this rub. It advertises itself as a steak rub, why not try it out on a steak? And when you mention steak, it's sure hard to beat a ribeye.
I preheated the grill for indirect cooking to 450 degrees, seasoned the steak liberally with the rub, and cooked the steak on indirect heat for about 15 minutes. After that 15 minutes, I turned the heat to high and seared the steak for about 5 minutes. Below is the final result.
I'm going to preface this statement by saying I'm generally a terrible steak cook. However… this had to be the best tasting steak I've ever cooked. The tenderness of the steak was absolutely perfect, and I probably could have used a butter knife to cut the steak. The flavor of the steak was spot on. The chili powder and paprika gave the steak a good color, and the coffee in the rub was the star. Absolutely tasty!
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Takeaki Ayabe grabs lead at Tour de Langkawi; Americans Chris Jones and Alex Howes now in top 10
Asian riders showed their improving strength Wednesday when riders from that continent took the top spots on the first mountain stage of this year's Tour de Langkawi, putting Japan's Takeaki Ayabe into the overall lead.
Asian riders showed their improving strength Wednesday when riders from that continent took the top spots on the first mountain stage of this year's Tour de Langkawi, putting Japan's Takeaki Ayabe into the overall lead.
Ayabe climbed well on the tough slopes leading up to the Cameron Highlands, then timed his finishing burst perfectly to blaze to victory ahead of the veteran Colombian Libardo Nino Corredor (Le Tua) and 18 others.
Americans Alex Howes (Chipotle) and Chris Jones (UnitedHealthcare) finished with the lead group and now both sit in the top ten on GC.
Iranian rider Amir Zargari (Azad University) came in third while France's Thomas Bonnin (Skil-Shimano) was best of the European competitors in fourth place.
"I really prefer climbing in the mountains," said Ayabe, who had the chance to make the most of that talent today. "I am really happy to get the first stage win today.
"I was in about 10th position going to down the descent (towards the finish). The road was really slippery because of the rain, it was really dangerous. There was some distance between the front riders, but when I chased them, I could ride very well, then I made a finishing sprint and won. I am very, very happy with this victory."
Ayabe had to take risks to win, pushing things on the downhill. Fortunately he stayed upright, and said afterwards that he had to put caution aside. "Sometimes you think about risks as well, but today I didn't think about that. I only thought that I would win, and this is why I was so happy to succeed today."
His victory also earned him the yellow jersey, which he took by four seconds from Nino Corredor. Zargari is two seconds further back. A total of 25 riders remain within one minute; so there are still quite a number of contenders.
One who has slipped back though is the overnight race leader Andrea Guardini (Farnese Vini – Netta Sottoli). He said beforehand that he full expected to lost time as he is a sprinter and not a climber, and so it turned out. He crossed the line in a group 17 minutes 25 seconds back, and drops right down to 88th overall.
"On a mountain like today, I can manage to get over it," he said. "But tomorrow will be harder because it is a shorter stage and a tougher climb."
The pressure went on from the very start of the stage, with numerous attacks being fired off. A break of 18 riders clipped away prior to the first sprint at Seri Iskandar (km 21.6) and from this, Christoff Van Heerden (MTN Qhubeka) beat teammate Arran Brown for the points.
The peloton came back together at km 29 and a subsequent break was also reeled in prior to the second sprint. This went to Boris Shpilevsky (Tabriz Petrochemical) ahead of Van Heerden. Ten riders then clipped away and pulled well ahead before the third and final intermediate sprint of the day; from this group, Chan Jane Jang (Korea National Team) edged out Hui Zhang (Max Success Sports Cycling). The others involved in the move were Albert Timmer (Skil-Shimano), Damien Gaudin and Guillaume le Floch (Europcar), Shpilevsky, Van Heerden, Takashi Miyazava (Farneze Vini-NeriSottoli), Christopher Jones (UnitedHealthcare) and Floris Goesinnen (Drapac).
The break continued onwards and had an advantage of one minute 55 seconds at the start of the first category Kampung Raja climb. Albert Timmer, who had earlier taken top points on the third category Pos Slim climb (km 69.7), rocketed away and took the prime. He was caught after the top and Jang pushed on ahead with over 20 kilometers to go. However he too was reeled in by many riders before the prime of the hors category Bukit Brinchang, which came just 8.3 kilometers from the finish.
Rahim Emami (Azad University) beat Domenico Pozzovivo (Colnago CSF Inox Pro) and others there, following which the 20-man group began the slight descent down to the finish. Ayabe played things perfectly to ensure he hit the line first, grabbing the biggest win of his career at 30 years of age.
Nino Corredor is a full 12 years older again and went close to taking what would have been a sensational victory. "In the last kilometer I was hoping for a win, but unfortunately for me the Japanese rider was faster than me," he said. "I have lost an opportunity to win the stage, but I am still happy because second on the stage is a good result for the team. I hope I will ride well tomorrow for the general classification."
Emami's efforts on the final climb were enough to see him take over the lead in thecking of the mountains classification. "We are good climbers (on the team) and our tactic was to win on the hors category KOM," he said. "I didn't try on the little hills before. This climb was steep enough for me to go away, so I attacked and I was alone on that part."
He and the other riders will have plenty of scope to test their climbing legs again Thursday. So too race leader Ayabe, who is also the best Asian rider after Wednesday.
Ayabe and the other GC contenders will be fully aware that Thursday's leg to the Genting Highlands is likely to be the most important of the whole Tour. The gruellingly-steep slopes will go a huge way towards determining the final general classification, and strong performances will be necessary for all who want to target yellow or even a top ten on GC.
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Video: DOUGH in Clinton Hill for Hibiscus, Chai, Lemon Glaze Doughnuts
"I tell him to handle the dough like it was a woman—gently, softly," says Fany Gerson of DOUGH, a new doughnut shop in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. In this video from Food Curated with Liza de Guia, we go behind-the-counter with Gerson to learn about her doughnut experimentation. After over 50 trials, she found the winner recipe: a not-too-sweet batter with a smidge of nutmeg that, when fried, gets those crispy outsides and light insides. They're also about as big as your face. "You don't want to have it end too soon!"
Gerson's goal is to be different, but not all over the place. She makes glazes in all sorts of flavors (hibiscus, spiced chai, blood orange, lemon) in addition to the old-fashioned trademark flavors: plain glaze, cinnamon-sugar, and of course holes, which were some of our favorite holes in the recent SENY doughnut tasting.
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BME103:W930 Group9 l2
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Course Logistics For Instructors
Wiki Editing Help
Everyone has contributed to this project even though there are only two usernames. Every person used these two users to make edits to the wiki. Dr. Haynes said that this would be sufficient enough to give each member full participation credit for this project
Thermal Cycler Engineering
Our re-design is based upon the Open PCR system originally designed by Josh Perfetto and Tito Jankowski.
The KeyPad will be detachable, and will be connected through the USB connection.
Key Features
The key features of the new design include a larger main heating block and a
The new OpenPCR will be assembled and operated almost identical to the old OpenPCR.
PCR Protocol
*important* Use one pipet for each transfer do not reuse the pipet.
3. After the DNA priming mixture is transferred move each tube into the PCR machine.
a. Enter in the number of parts the heating portion will have(example First cycle, Main cycle and Last cycle=3).
1. Place the flourimeter on the table and turn on the blue light.
1. Take a picture of the fluorimeter assembly with a smartphone.
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Background on Disease Markers
The first sequence is the original. The second shows the change that occurs, the deletion of the ∆F508, and this will be picked up by the PCR.


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John Adams, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
History 101
The Inauguration Date was originally in March to allow for Long Travel Times
It was difficult to be a career politician at the federal/national level at the Founding. Thanks to the horse. The primary means of transportation over great distances. Either on horseback. Or pulled in a buggy. Neither of which provided for a comfortable ride. With that discomfort compounded by the fact you were leaving family and friends behind. People you wouldn't see again for a very long time.
When John Adams served in the Continental Congress he rode for some two weeks through brutal winter weather on hard, frozen ground. Ground so hard and dangerous that they let the horses only walk. Whether it was traveling to Cambridge to meet with the newly appointed General Washington facing off with the British in Boston. Or riding on to the federal capital in Philadelphia. The ride was long, brutal and cold. As well as lonely. For Adams missed his wife and family when away serving his country. Which he did often. And longed to return home.
James Madison was a Virginian. And hated traveling up to the federal capital in Philadelphia. And then later in New York. For he hated being away from his wife. And he hated those long rides on hard, bumpy roads. As Madison suffered from some digestive disorders. Leaving him with chronic discomfort in his abdomen. And lower. For he probably suffered from hemorrhoids, too. Making those long, bumpy rides unbearable. This is why the inauguration date was originally in March instead of January like it is today. They had to allow for long travel times and bad weather for the new office holders to get to their offices. Unlike today where you can fly from anywhere in the United States to Washington D.C. in one day.
James Reynolds had his Wife seduce and sleep with Alexander Hamilton so he could Blackmail Him
George Washington was president when the nation's capital was in New York City. Which was a long way from Mount Vernon. Washington's Virginian home. Other Virginians were the first Secretary of State. Thomas Jefferson. The first Attorney General. Edmund Randolph. And the first Speaker of the House. James Madison. While the first Vice President, John Adams, and the first Secretary of War, Henry Knox, came from Massachusetts. The first Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton, on the other hand, was a New Yorker. Living in New York City. Close to the capital.
Ironically, the man closest to his wife was the one to have an extramarital affair. Alexander Hamilton. Who was targeted by a couple of con people. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds. That's right, Mr. Reynolds used his wife, Maria, to seduce Alexander Hamilton. Including actually having sexual relations with him. Just so he, James Reynolds, could blackmail Hamilton for money. Threatening to tell Hamilton's wife. And ruining his good reputation as a gentleman if he didn't pay. He paid. For awhile. And with his own money. Reynolds was later arrested for counterfeiting. And told the opposition party of Hamilton's affair. Thomas Jefferson. And his fellow Republicans (the forerunner to the Democrat party, not the Republican Party of today whose first president was Abraham Lincoln).
Thomas Jefferson loved his wife and hated being apart from her. The last place he wanted to be in 1775/1776 was at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. A lonely year spent a very long way from his wife. Who was sickly. And died in 1782. Jefferson was at her bedside when she passed. And he was devastated. He had promised her he would never remarry. And he never did. He later accepted the post as United States Minister to France. A much greater distance from Virginia. Which is probably the first time he wanted to be far away from his beloved Monticello. To escape the desolation of life without his wife.
The Founding Fathers served Reluctantly and didn't leave Office Richer than when they entered Office
Hamilton and Jefferson hated each other. They vehemently disagreed with each other's vision for the United States. When Jefferson got wind of the Hamilton affair he pounced on it. Well, not so much him. But the Republican Party which he was the de facto head of. And a guy by the name of James Callender. A pamphleteer and journalist. And all around scandalmonger. He made the Hamilton affair public for the Jefferson Republicans. Who, being men of the Enlightenment, would not sink to such a low level. But Callender would. And did. Who Jefferson helped with some financial support. But Callender ended up in jail for sedition. And when he got out he wanted Jefferson to make him post master general of Virginia in return for services rendered. Jefferson refused. Then Callender turned on Jefferson. Revealing that it was him that was bankrolling his journalistic scandal mongering. And that he fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings.
George Washington was the commanding general of the Continental Army from 1775 until 1783. And he spent most of that time with his army in the field. Away from his beloved Mount Vernon. Just after he returned to civilian life came the Philadelphia Convention. And a new nation. The first president of that new nation? Much to his displeasure it was him. George Washington. Who was the only one people were willing to give the powers of the new federal government to. And after sacrificing so much he did not want to see it all be for nothing. So he served one term as president. Then another. In New York. A long way from Virginia. And pretty much hated every minute of it. Especially the bickering between his 'children'. Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. He was never happier than when he left office in 1797. Sadly, he lived just shy of three years in retirement.
The Founding Fathers hated being in office. They hated being away from home. And the long travel time to and from home. Which meant when they were serving in office they did not see their family and friends. Unlike today. Where modern transportation allows career politicians to enjoy the graft in Washington. While breaking it up with numerous vacations back home. Without having to endure two weeks of bouncy rides with hemorrhoids. Or riding horseback in blowing snow. Being a career politician today is like being part of an aristocracy. Where you travel first class. And live first class. Unlike the Spartan loneliness at the Founding. And the animus. Washington's, Jefferson's, Madison's and Hamilton's lives all got worse from serving. Washington was cheated out of a long retirement he more than earned. Jefferson suffered bitter loneliness after losing his wife and probably did turn to the comfort of a slave. (Sally Hemings had accompanied him to Paris to care for his daughter. And later was a house servant. Though he didn't legally free her and her children from slavery they did live their lives out as free people after he died. Which was probably a compromise by Jefferson to reconcile his feelings for her while protecting his historical legacy). Something that blemishes his reputation to this day. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson went from practically best friends to bitter enemies before they left Washington (though they rekindled their friendship later in retirement). James Madison was the father of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Believed in a strong federal government and wrote the Federalist Papers with Alexander Hamilton to help ratify the Constitution. Then he switch sides. And sided with Thomas Jefferson and fought for limited government. Then he was president during the War of 1812 and believed in a strong federal government again after struggling through that war with a weak government. Madison spent his later years rewriting letters and correspondence. Making large revisions to his historical legacy. While Alexander Hamilton's stand on principle ultimately led to his death in a duel with Aaron Burr.
Washington, Jefferson and Madison all returned home after serving as president poorer than when they left for Washington. That just doesn't happen today. Today once you get elected to a federal office in Washington you return home a millionaire. Because being a professional politician today pays very well. Which is why there is less standing on principle in Washington and more doing what it takes to remain in power. Such as lying to the American people. "If you like your health insurance and your doctor you can keep your health insurance and doctor." The Founding Fathers served reluctantly. And their lives were worse for serving. But the country was far better off because they did. And that's something else that just doesn't happen today.
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Robotics is an interdisciplinary field merging together at least mechanical engineering, electronics engineering and computer science. Often, however, other fields such as biology, cognitive science and others are involved.
The goal of this field is to create robots. Why this is important? Because if you merge mechanical engineering, electronics engineering and computer science to create a printer or an ATM it's mechatronics.
If you merge mechatronics and biology to research new mechanisms it's biomechatronics. If, however, you use the same sciences to create a robot it's robotics. This leads me to this frequently asked question.
This is a question I've heard more than a few times and I've thought about it pretty much. There are quite a few definitions around yet I haven't found a universal definition that would really answer the question.
Some definitions seem quite good at first glance, yet I later realize that these definitions either exclude something we regard as robotic or vice versa - include something we don't.
1. A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance. 2. A machine or device that operates automatically or by remote control. "robot." The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Houghton Mifflin Company.
The first one seems OK, right? However, what about Mars exploration rovers? It's not actually a human task they're doing. So this definition effectively excludes some devices that are widely perceived as robots. Moreover, CNC machines and ATMs perform complex tasks that were previously exclusively human tasks. Yet, neither CNC machines nor ATMs are regarded as robots or even 'robotic'.
There are a lot of gray zones like the above mentioned. For example - a car. Although KITT from Knight Rider and DARPA challange cars are usually regarded robotic, most cars are not. However, if a car has an adaptive cruise control, a lane keeping system, an emergency braking system, an electronic stability control, an intelligent parking assist system, etc, then I have to ask - who's actually the driver. Despite this, it's still 'just a car' while a single microprocessor controlled sumobot is a robot.
In this connection there's one quote I really like:
I can't define a robot, but I know one when I see one.Joseph Engelberger, developer of the UnimateIn my opinion this is the best robot 'definition' around. As you can see it's really more about human perception than engineering.
Historically the word robot itself was created to describe artificial yet sentient workers. You can read more about it in my Robotics history section. So, as I see it it's actually the illusion of sentience that we judge when making this unconscious decision whether something is robotic or not.
The gauge I usually use when deciding whether to write about something in this site or not is the public opinion. If people regard something as a robot I do too. From this point of view you can say that the site is really about answering the question - what is a robot. This leads me to.
Although the name (All On Robots) is quite self explanatory I guess you may still be wondering about the purpose of this site. As you can understand, the site is mainly about robotics (Duh!). In the wider meaning of this word.
It's not only about 'robotics' as in 'industrial', or as in 'robot building'. I talk about these topics too of course. But it's the phenomenon itself I'm more interested in. I want to discuss and answer questions such as - where it came from, where it's now and where we're heading with it. That's why you can find some philosophical nonsense here and there in this site.
As you can see I try to include the whole robotics spectrum not just one part of it. I really think there's no other way how to really get a grasp on this concept than to look at the whole picture together.
Also, the types of robots section is there to show you the wide variety out there. There's really more to it than just industrial and service robots, or wheeled robots and 6-axis arms.
And of course - Robotics History section. Being an engineer with a heart of a historian I really like to get to the bottom of things. There you can find articles on the origin of the term, as well as important milestones in different sciences that have made robotics possible today.
Who am I to write this? I'm a mechatronics engineer and as you may have already guessed - a robotics enthusiast. In my day job I have to deal with technologies that when looking at definitions could be even regarded as robotic yet never are. Technologies that run in the background making our modern lives possible.
Because of this education and job there may be places where I slip into some technical or theoretical debate. I try to keep these to the minimum though and mostly write in a popular scientific way. Speaking about writing.
There are few places in this site were I can let my inner writer express himself. The history section is one such place. But there is no 'Robotics future' section. The reason for this is actually quite obvious - writing about 'possible' future scenarios would be science fiction. This site, however, is about real world robotics.
As i don't have a separate section for such philosophical debate, I'm going to discuss it with you a bit here. I've written quite a lot about past, yet the main idea is that people have tried to create alive and sentient (or appearing as such) artificial beings a long time before electronics and computers.
So, it's not really a modern times only phenomenon, just read about automatons and karakuri ningyo. The impact of karakuri ningyo tradition on japanese robot culture is actually quite significant. As you can see aesthetics and art is an important part of robotics too. So really, I believe that if robot kits would've been available in prehistoric times 2 out of 10 cave painters would've created robots instead of cave painting.
Today robots aren't science fiction anymore, sort of. We have robots cleaning our apartments, exploring distant worlds for us and building our cars. However, there are no 'sentient' man-made beings around having 'real' artificial intelligence.
This brings me to the future. I believe there will be more and more robots (illusionary sentient or just regarded as such) doing something for us in the future. Robots mining helium-3 on the Moon, autonomously building a Mars base, becoming an integral part of search and rescue operations, etc, could all be seen in a foreseeable future.
I also believe that other devices will gradually become more automatic. Cars will probably become more robotic, public transportation without drivers and self-stocking refrigerators could be found in near future too.
The pivotal point, however, would be the creation of real artificial intelligence. Then ethical questions would arise - should we develop robot rights similar to animal rights, or similar to human rights? Can you marry a robot? Should robots be allowed to vote? At the moment though it's science fiction.
Whether or not we should allow Roombas vote is not something we have to worry about now. We shouldn't worry about robots now at all. Robotics is an exciting research field with many practical applications and rich educational value.


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Watchdog advises ending early look at jobs data
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Labor Department watchdog has recommended ending a practice that allows reporters to review a key unemployment report before it is made public.
Media "lockups" for weekly unemployment benefits are a problem because news outlets can feed the data to investment firms and financial exchanges immediately after the lockup ends, the Labor Department's Office of the Inspector General said in a report released Thursday.
Several news services use software to transmit the economic data to traders, who then profit because they have the data fractions of a second before other investors. The AP provides such data to the Nasdaq exchange, which then sells the data to its customers.
In its report, the Inspector General recommended adopting procedures that eliminate such competitive advantages or discontinuing the lockups entirely.
The report focused only on weekly applications for unemployment benefits. But it could mark the first effort to end all lockups, including the monthly jobs report. Journalists have had an advance look at a whole range of economic data issued regularly by the government since the mid-1980s.
The Labor and Commerce departments hold lockups in secure facilities to allow reporters 30 to 60 minutes to review complex data before public release.
When lockups begin, the room is secured. Internet and phone access are shut off. Reporters then receive the embargoed information. Officials turn the phone and Internet lines back on when the lockup ends and the data are officially released.
Reporters are prohibited from bringing cellphones and other devices into the lockups. And Labor requires reporters to stow all personal items — including their pens and calculators — in lockers outside the room. They also must pass through metal detectors before entering the room.
Still, the report noted that the advent of high-speed computerized trading has allowed news outlets to profit from their access because they are "selling, to traders, high speed data feeds." These plugged-in traders have a "competitive advantage" because their computers can act on this information faster than the Labor Department can post reports to its website. Even milliseconds can provide a financial advantage.
The Labor Department has raised its own concerns about the early release of market-moving data and responded to the report by saying it will consider ending the unemployment benefits lockup. They agency also said in a written response to the report that it has been "exploring" alternatives.
A Labor Department spokesman said the agency is currently reviewing the Inspector General's report and had no timeline for introducing possible changes.
The lockups were started in the pre-Internet 1980s as a way to improve the accuracy of reporting about economic data.
Federal officials have become increasingly concerned about the security of sensitive, market-moving information in the past year. Possible leaks of government data have already led the Labor Department to tighten its procedures for distributing information early to reporters. Labor also revoked early access for some media organizations. The accidental early postings of unemployment benefit data in August 2012 helped to trigger the Inspector General's audit.
The Federal Reserve also operates media lock-ups when its policymaking committee meets eight times a year, and recently adopted stricter requirements for reporters who attend them.


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Implementation of the guideline on electricity balancing
The EB Regulation sets out certain obligations for TSOs, ENTSO-E, DSOs, regulatory authorities and the Agency regarding the development and approval of terms and conditions or methodologies. Articles 4 and 5 describe the process of adoption of these terms and conditions or methodologies submitted by the TSOs, which are divided into three categories: the ones subject to all regulatory authorities' approval, in accordance with Article 5(2), the ones subject to the approval of the regulatory authorities of a concerned region, in accordance with Article 5(3), and the ones subject to the approval of each regulatory authority of each Member State on a case by case basis, in accordance with Article 5(4).
A proposal by TSOs should typically be consulted upon in accordance with Article 10 and according to Article 5(5) submitted to the concerned regulatory authorities and to the Agency and should contain a timescale for implementation and the expected impact on the objectives of the EB Regulation as referred to in Article 3. The implementation timescale shall not be longer than twelve months after the approval by the relevant regulatory authorities, except where all relevant regulatory authorities agree to extend the implementation timescale or where different timescales are stipulated in the EB Regulation. The concerned regulatory authorities should take decisions concerning the proposed terms and conditions or methodologies within six months after receipt of the proposal. Where the regulatory authorities were not able to reach unanimous agreement on the approval of the proposal, they can request an amendment, which gives the TSOs extra two months for amending the proposal and another two months for the regulatory authorities to approve the amended proposal. If, in either case, the regulatory authorities were not able to reach unanimous agreement or upon their joint request, the Agency shall adopt a decision within six months from the referral.
After the adoption of the terms and conditions or methodologies TSOs responsible for developing the respective proposals or regulatory authorities responsible for their adoption, may request amendments of these terms and conditions or methodologies, in accordance with Article 6(3). In that case the proposals for amendment to the terms and conditions or methodologies shall be submitted to consultation and follow the approval procedure as described above.


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The Hat, by Jan Brett, was a hit... as anticipated (See Tuesday's post for a review of the book). Here are some thoughts about yesterday's predicting lesson:
- My first group session was a little crazy. The students just got so excited during our activity we did during the read-aloud. They had a difficult time staying seated and staying quiet long enough for me to read each page. I mean, I love that they're so engrossed in the story and our activity, but I don't enjoy having to say, "On your bottom, please," over and over... and over.
- I gave the students complete creative freedom with their "hats" and puppet. No regrets there.
- Keeping the order during a unit on predicting proves to be quite tricky, because each child is eager to get their prediction out first as we go through each story. I hate to enforce strict rules about raising hands and what-not too much, because I want them to feel free to chime in and say what they're thinking, and I want it to be fun. But perhaps I need to put more focus on this?
- Conversations between the puppets were a riot!
- Yesterday we used some paper puppets to do predicting during The Hat. The students each couldn't wait for it to be their turn to predict with their animal puppet. After one student's turn had passed, he immediately said, "Can we read the story again?" I said, "We still are reading the story!" I love when they are so blantantly excited about our story and what we're doing. Motivating and Empowering readers?? Check!
- The clothesline activity I came up with added the perfect element of fun, and helped with comprehension. I loved it.
- This lesson would be so much fun with even one child. Oh, the possibilities! I can't wait till Isaac is old enough to play around with these activities!
- Yes, he purposely put the stocking over the hen's eyes.