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Arnie's lawman vs. outlaw action tale gets pretty bloody.
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Parents need to know that The Last Stand is an old-school action flick starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. There's a high body count and lots of bloody violence (shootings, explosions that lead to strewn limbs, etc.), as well as frequent strong language ("motherf---er," "a--hole," "bitch," etc.), but no sexuality beyond a couple of kisses. Families concerned with consumerism should note that the film features plenty of Chevy vehicles and references to a particular very expensive Corvette. Ultimately, despite the movie's violence, at its core it has a decent message about protecting your home, your friends, and your town.
Families can talk about the amount of violence in The Last Stand. If it had been slightly less bloody, do you think that would have changed the impact? Did some of the deaths seem gratuitous, or were they necessary to the plot?
How is The Last Stand a classic example of the "lawman vs. outlaw" genre? Was there any doubt who would win in the end? Does it make the movie less enjoyable if you know the action star is bound to get the bad guy?
Arnold Schwarzenegger makes several jokes about being old. Do you think he's past his prime as an action star, or does the "old man" still have decent moves?
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: The Last Stand's overwhelming message (amid lots and lots of action violence) is that even a small group of people can make a big difference. The sheriff and four deputies manage to defeat a criminal druglord who's outsmarted the FBI. The movie also espouses the military ideals that you never leave one of your own, that you don't let your fellow soldiers die in vain, and that, even if you're outnumbered, it's your duty to defend your home and your people.
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: Sheriff Owens is completely devoted to his town. He goes beyond the scope of his job (albeit in a sometimes violent way) to help the FBI stop a murderous drug cartel kingpin from escaping U.S. borders. His deputies sacrifice their time -- and, in one case, their life -- for the cause. There are clear lines between "good guys" and "bad guys."
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: There's a high body count, and people die in all sorts of ways. Being shot is the most common (some at close range, with blood spurting out of the bodies), but others are blown apart (limbs are strewn around), thrown off the side of a building, crashed into, etc. The sheriff and the prisoner get into a prolonged hand-to-hand fight that's bloody but not deadly.
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: Two passionate kisses: one between the escaped prisoner and his hostage and the other between exes who reconcile. In one scene, a criminal remarks on a female character's body and says he would "kill for that ass" as he points a gun at her.
: Frequent but not constant use of words including "motherf---er," "f--k," "a--hole," "bitch," "s--t," "d--k," "hell," "ass," "damn," and more. Exclamations like "Jesus Christ!" and "goddammit!" are also used.
: The escaped prisoner drives in a customized Chevy Corvette ZR1, and parts of the movie seem like a commercial for the performance sports car (which costs more than $100,000). And, later on, the sheriff saves the day in the mayor's Chevy Camaro; he also has a Chevy truck, and the government agents drive in Suburbans. The main character wears a Timberland fleece in one scene.
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Kyle Spaans <kspaans at student.math.uwaterloo.ca> writes: > Either way, I've recently started writing Conway's Game of Life in > C, as an exercise. I needed to figure out how to dynamically > allocate a 2D array. I found an answer on the comp.lang.c FAQ[1]. > It's not terribly complex, but it seems to me like it's more > involved than with Fortran. It is pretty easy, as easy as Fortran. I'm not sure I understand the issue. Lets say you have a 100*100 array type... typedef double my_array_t[100][100] If you have a function, and you only want the thing allocated for the life of that function... int foo(blah...) { my_array_t bar; .... } Or of course, you can just do it without an advance type declaration... int foo(blah...) { double bar[100][100]; .... } If you don't know the size in advance, and you're just allocating for the life of a function: int foo(int dim_a, int dim_b,....) { double bar[dim_a][dim_b] } works just fine (and indeed, you can use variables like that in any block scope, not just at the start of a function block). If you wish to allocate a my_array_t with malloc, it isn't really an issue either. ptr = malloc(sizeof(my_array_t)) Of course, if you don't know in advance how large your array is going to be, you have to multiply, for example: ptr = malloc(sizeof(double)*100*100) > And if it came to an array of dimension >> 3, wouldn't that be a lot > of array indicies and deferences to calculate as the dimensions > added up. C compilers are no worse than Fortran compilers at that. -- Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
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Sergio Mendez
Niteroi, Brazilhometown
- Rockgenre
- 1961started
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Sérgio Santos Mendes (Portuguese pronunciation: ˈsɛʁʒu ˈsɐ̃tuʒ ˈmẽdʒiʃ; born February 11, 1941 in Niterói, Brazil) is a Brazilian musician. He has over fifty-five releases, and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2012 as co-writer of the song "Real In Rio" from the animated film Rio.
Mendes is married to Gracinha Leporace, who has performed with her husband since the early 1970s. He has collaborated with many artists through the years, including the Black Eyed Peas, with whom he re-recorded a version of his original breakthrough hit "Mas Que Nada".
1 Biography
1.1 Early career,
1.2 Brasil '66,
1.3 Middle career,
1.4 Later career,
2 Discography,
3 See also,
4 References,
5 External links,
Early career:
The child of a physician in Niterói, Brazil, Mendes attended the local conservatory with hopes of becoming a classical pianist. As his interest in jazz grew, he started playing in nightclubs in the late-1950s just as bossa nova, a jazz-inflected derivative of samba, was emerging. Mendes played with Antonio Carlos Jobim (regarded as a mentor) and many U.S. jazz musicians who toured Brazil.
Mendes formed the Sexteto Bossa Rio and recorded Dance Moderno in 1961. Touring Europe and the United States, Mendes recorded albums with Cannonball Adderley and Herbie Mann and played Carnegie Hall. Mendes moved to the U.S. in 1964 and cut two albums under the Sergio Mendes & Brasil '65 group name with Capitol Records and Atlantic Records.
Sergio became full partners with Richard Adler, a Brooklyn-born American who had previously brought Bossa Trés plus two dancers, Joe Bennett and a Brazilian partner, to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, in 1963. He was also accompanied by Antonio Carlos Jobim; Flavio Ramos, and Aloisio Olivera, a Record and TV producer from Rio. The Musicians Union, only allowed this group to appear on one TV show; one club appearance (Basin Street East) before ordering them to leave the U.S. When the new Group, Brasil '65 was formed, Shelly Manne, Bud Shank and other West Coast musicians got Sergio and the others into the local Musicians Union. Adler and Mendes formed Brasil '65, which consisted of Wanda Sá and Rosinha de Valença, as well as the Sergio Mendes Trio. The group recorded albums for Atlantic and Capitol.
Brasil '66:
When sales were tepid, he replaced his Brazilian born vocalist Wanda de Sá with the distinctive voice of Chicago native Lani Hall (who learned Mendes' Portuguese material phonetically), switched to Herb Alpert's A&M label, and released Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, an album that went platinum based largely on the success of the single "Mas Que Nada" (a Jorge Ben cover) and the personal support of Alpert, with whom Mendes toured regularly.
The original lineup of Brasil '66 was Mendes (piano), vocalists Lani Hall and Bibi Vogel (later replaced by Janis Hansen), Bob Matthews (bass), José Soares (percussion) and João Palma (drums). John Pisano guested as guitarist. This new line-up including Hansen then recorded two more albums between 1966-1968 (including the best-selling Look Around LP), before there was a major personnel change for their fourth album Fool on the Hill.
Karen Philipp replaced Hansen as the second female vocalist, while veteran drummer Dom Um Romão teamed with Rubens Bassini to assume percussionist duties.Claudio Slon was to join the group as drummer in 1969, and played with Mendes for nearly a decade. Sebastiao Neto was the new bassist and Oscar Castro-Neves the guitarist. This line up had a more orchestrated and big band sound than their predecessors. Most significantly, in the early 1970s, lead singer Hall pursued a solo career and became Alpert's second wife. Some accounts claim that Mendes was upset with Alpert for years for "stealing" Hall away from his group.
Though his early singles with Brasil '66 (most notably "Mas Que Nada") met with some success, Mendes really burst into mainstream prominence when he performed the Oscar-nominated Burt Bacharach and Hal David song "The Look of Love" on the Academy Awards telecast in April 1968. Brasil '66's version of the song quickly shot into the top 10, peaking at No. 4 and eclipsing Dusty Springfield's version from the soundtrack of the movie, Casino Royale. Mendes spent the rest of 1968 enjoying consecutive top 10 and top 20 hits with his follow-up singles, "The Fool on the Hill" and "Scarborough Fair." From 1968 on, Mendes was arguably the biggest Brazilian star in the world and enjoyed immense popularity worldwide, performing in venues as varied as stadium arenas and the White House, where he gave concerts for both Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon. The Brasil '66 group appeared at the World Expo in Osaka, Japan in June 1970.
Middle career:
Mendes' career in the U.S. stalled in the mid-1970s, but he remained very popular in South America and Japan. His two albums with Bell Records in 1973 and 1974 followed by several for Elektra from 1975 on, found Mendes continuing to mine the best in American pop music and post-Bossa writers of his native Brazil, while forging new directions in soul with collaborators like Stevie Wonder, who wrote Mendes' R&B-inflected minor hit, "The Real Thing."
In 1983, he rejoined Alpert's A&M records and enjoyed huge success with a self-titled album and several follow-up albums, all of which received considerable adult contemporary airplay with charting singles. "Never Gonna Let You Go", featuring vocals by Joe Pizzulo and Leza Miller, equalled the success of his 1968 single "The Look of Love" by reaching No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart; it also spent four weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart. In 1984 he recorded the "Confetti" album, which had the hit songs "Olympia", which was also used as a theme song for the Olympic games that year and "Alibis". The '80s also found Mendes working with singer Lani Hall again on the song "No Place to Hide" from the Brasil '86 album, and as producer for her vocals on the title song for the James Bond film Never Say Never Again.
By the time Mendes released his Grammy-winning Elektra album Brasileiro in 1992, he was the undisputed master of pop-inflected Brazilian jazz. The late-1990s lounge music revival brought retrospection and respect to Mendes' oeuvre, particularly the classic Brasil '66 albums.
Later career:
Timeless features a wide array of neo-soul and alternative hip hop guest artists, including The Black Eyed Peas, Erykah Badu, Black Thought, Jill Scott, Chali 2na of Jurassic 5, India.Arie, John Legend, Justin Timberlake, Q-Tip, Stevie Wonder and Pharoahe Monch. It was released February 14, 2006 by Concord Records.
The 2006 re-recorded version of "Mas Que Nada" with The Black Eyed Peas had additional vocals by Gracinha Leporace (Mendes' wife); this version is included on Timeless. In Brazil, the song is also well known for being the theme song for the local television channel Globo's Estrelas. The Black Eyed Peas' version contains a sample of their 2004 hit "Hey Mama". The re-recorded song became popular on many European charts. On the UK Singles Chart, the song entered at No. 29 and rose to and peaked at No. 6 on its second week on the chart.
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Forgive me, I don't recall ferrets being on the list of acceptable creatures to bring to Hogwarts.
I HAD THE SAME THOUGHTThey're Harry Potter's kids. I'm sure they could bring a fucking giraffe to school and it'd be fine.
Omg that comment.
They will also be allowed to join the Quidditch team during first year and apparate on school grounds.
The forbidden forest is just the forest to Harry's children. Their is no curfew. When Harry Potter's kids see teachers out of bed they scold them. Hogsmeade permission slip? I think not.
'Have you done your homework Albus Severus?'
'No. My father defeated Voldemort'
'Fair enough'
'Albus Sverus, go to bed'
'You can't tell me what to do.My father was the chosen one.'
'Potter what are you doing in the girls labatory?'
'fuck you my dad did it'
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Your lecturer wins for including David Tennant.
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The extent of my knowledge of graffiti artists begins and ends with Exit Through the Gift Shop, an exciting, inspiring and mysterious documentary that made big waves at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
I wasn't even aware that the crossover to legitimacy -- it's now called street art -- had occurred at all. Spending my first few years in Koch-era, New York, graffiti was more or less everywhere you looked. Be it hastily scrawled declarations of fidelity (gang-oriented and romantic), the marking of territorial boundaries or elaborately designed murals of disco, acid trip, phantasmagoria, it was all considered a nuisance and, more enticingly, illegal. I'd invariably hear this when I'd point out a particularly cool looking bit of work to one of my relatives.
It's been decades since we left New York and almost every political, cultural and musical shift that has since given rise to what now fuels the world of guerilla and underground street artists, all happened while I lived in a place where no such things really existed.
Billed as "The world's first Street Art disaster movie," Exit Through the Gift Shop -- a title that seems to denote the need for the occasional quick getaway -- begins as nothing more than a series of tapes being amassed by Thierry Guetta, a French expat in Los Angeles who runs a clothing resale business, and compulsively video tapes everything.
Guetta's cousin is a Los Angeles street artist called Space Invader, who's known for specializing in making mosaic plates depicting the alien ships from the classic 8-bit arcade game and tagging them in hard to reach places all over L.A.
Guetta goes out with him to document the work, and his pathological need to film every moment he sees brings him into contact with other street artists, including Shepard Fairey (known by all for designing the Obama HOPE image), and eventually leading to the internationally famed British enigma known as Banksy. They all think Guetta is a filmmaker making a documentary. He happily lets them believe it.
Exit Through the Gift Shop takes an oddly ingenious turn with Banksy commandeering the documentary and fulfilling a narrative arc that's almost too perfect to be true, as Guetta morphs from compulsive videographer into his own street artist alter ego, Mr. Brainwash.
Compiled from years of footage captured by Guetta and others -- chopping it down to the best bits alone must have been a Herculean task -- Exit Through the Gift Shop is a pure vérité (if it isn't, in fact, it's own piece of performance art). Guetta's camera is a low-fi window that takes us along as his constant companion to witness late-night raids against urban blandness, while he acts as look out or, just as often, risks life and limb in vertiginous locales to capture his mise-en-scène, as it's born on precariously high places.
While the directing credit goes to Banksy, that seems nearly arbitrary and likely an unverifiable designation. It doesn't help that Banksy is a somewhat mysterious character -- never having been photographed (in the film his face is blurred, and his allegedly Bristol accent is distorted with a voice modulator), who's identity is only known to a trusted few, and who also specializes in the subversion of politics and culture through his art. Sometimes seriously -- he did a series of images on the West Bank Barrier of children being borne skyward by fistfuls of balloons, and crafted a hole in the wall revealing an oasis on the Israeli side -- but more often with humor.
It's that air of wry amusement that makes me wonder if Banksy isn't having one over on us, though I'm pretty sure I don't really care.
Thierry Guetta is the real enigma, though, and I can't decide if his meteoric, near idiot savant rise from wannabe street artist to legitimate crossover gallery smash -- he recently created the cover art for a Madonna retrospective disc -- smells like a joke.
His work is so highly derivative of his forebears, Shepard Fairey and Banksy, as well as co-opting Warhol, yet people spend insane amounts of money for a piece by Mr. Brainwash; though what they buy is something that is merely conceptualized by him and then created by others. It feels like a middle-finger to the gauche, opinionated, art wanks that flock to spend thousands on pastiche crap that the city used to paint over. And the artists themselves all seem bemused by that, as if the collectors are missing the point. Perhaps the audience is, too.
But like Banksy, Guetta's whim-of-existence life is so fascinating and funny I really don't care where the truth ends and the joke begins -- and I'm not even sure there is a joke. The film's inertia, ingenuity and ultimate truth work brilliantly as a straight doc or the abrogation of one.
Exit Through the Gift Shop is an instant front runner for best documentary of the year, and apparently no one involved with it has ever made a film before. Amazing. And I mean that in a good way.
A Western Comic
As I seem doomed to repeat, I don't read comics. Even when I had an interest in them, the sheer amount of money one had to dish out to keep up with the characters, crossovers and goings on in the DC World alone would make your average meth head seem fiscally responsible. And DC is the Mets to Marvel's Yankees.
As a result, I usually find out about C-List characters such as Jonah Hex when the movie is announced, and I wind up getting quasi-educated in their back stories through film geek friends who also love comics.
Coming off more like an adaptation of script treatment as opposed to an actual screenplay, Jonah Hex finds Josh Brolin in the titular role, as an ex-Confederate officer who betrayed his unit to the Union after he's asked to help blow up a hospital.
The film opens on Hex as he's being crucified, watching his family burn at the vengeful hand of Quentin Turnbull (a sleepy John Malkovich) because Turnbull's son, Jonah's friend and comrade, Jeb (an uncredited Jeffery Dean Morgan) was killed by Hex in an altercation sparked by his treason.
Turnbull brands Hex's face, scarring him horribly, and leaves him to die. But the local Indians revive him and, having come so close to death, he gains some supernatural powers, one being the ability to resurrect the dead with a touch of his hand -- which not only looks cool, but comes in handy for talking to the stiffs.
Hex is bent on vengeance, but when he learns Turnbull has died in a fire, he instead becomes a notorious bounty hunter by drifting from place to place while sometimes landing in the bed of his favorite call girl, Lilah (Megan Fox).
But, like a bad penny, Turnbull turns upright again and leads a band of Confederate terrorists (complete with cloaked faces and suicide bomb vests) on a daylight train raid -- and the film's sole interesting action sequence -- to acquire a weapon of mass destruction to take out Washington and destroy the Union before its 100th birthday.
The U.S. government, in the form of the unlikely cast Will Arnett (Arrested Development), hires Hex to find Turnbull and stop him before he becomes history's most successful Tea Partier.
It sounds simple, but the film is such a perfunctory and jumbled mess that it's numbingly straight-forward plot still gets obfuscated in a flick that only runs for an hour and 15 minutes before the credits roll. I guess I should be thankful, but the ghost of a decent movie is in there -- somewhere.
Directed by Jimmy Hayward (whose directorial work should end here) from a script by the usually reliable Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (when it comes to Crank films, at least), Jonah Hex suffers not only from its direction but also some scorched earth editing, which clearly saw a chunk of the narrative hit the cutting room floor. It was, by all accounts, a troubled production. Neveldine and Taylor were originally in the director's chair until they stepped down due to "creative differences."
That it's a PG-13 film based on a notoriously violent, trippy and obscure source probably contributed.
Even when Jonah Hex struggles for some thematic aspirations, they pass quickly and go unexplored. Turnbull as an 1870s terrorist trying to destroy the Union (basically a contemporary sovereignty masturbation fantasy) is something that I'm sure had an allegorical undercurrent -- and an interesting one -- but gets dammed up by the film's need to cut, which breaks any flow or tension it attempts to generate. While Malkovich is clearly sleepwalking here, the idea behind his character is subverted more by his almost cameo-like appearances in the narrative than his actual performance.
Of course, Malkovich can cash this check unscathed, as will Brolin (who does everything he can to support this under some truly awkward make-up), and Michael Fassbender (Fish Tank) as Turnbull's insanely fun and psychopathic right-hand-man, Burke.
Fassbender was clearly having a blast here, channeling a combination of Malcolm McDowell and Frank Gorshin, melding it all into something that, like many elements of Jonah Hex, could have been good.
The visuals of the film vary wildly, sometimes looking like cheaply rushed re-shoots, and sometimes looking quite well done, particularly the aforementioned resurrection sequences. They blew up a lot to a pulsing soundtrack provided by Mastodon, who gallantly tries to emulate Neil Young's score for Dead Man, but which only makes the film seem more tonally disjointed than it already is. And I like Mastodon.
I doubt they'll have to worry; if I were Megan Fox, I would start. Fox is a void of talent in all her sweat dappled, vapidly sexual perfection. I missed Jennifer's Body, but if this is what it's like when she's not out-running Decepticons -- and she's been fired from that job -- than anyone who wants to see her look hot on in an actual movie theater should see Jonah Hex while they have their very short chance. Or, just find out where she goes to see better movies than this.
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I had been wanting to make sweater dresses for the girls forever. I just never found the right sweater. Or didn't want to spend money on a sweater just to try it out. But for free......, I'll try just about anything.
Here is the sweater we are starting with. Please ignore the pink balloon in the bottom left corner. The kiddos were helping me take photos.
After I laid out the sweater I took one of Abba's longer shirts that fits her well and laid that on top.
I didn't want to mark on the sweater so I just used pins to make my "pattern". I made sure to give myself plenty of seam allowance. That way if I messed up I had more to work with. I cut on the outside of the pins. This way I would only have to put one seam down each side of the dress. I pinned all the way to the bottom of the sweater so I wouldn't have to hem the dress.
Open the shirt after it is cut and place right sides together. Then sew up the sides and arms. I took a 5/8 inch seam. Hem the sleeves by folding them over twice and doing a top stitch around. Sorry no photos of this step.
After I sewed it all back together. I trimmed my seam a little so it would lay nicer. Then I zig-zagg stitched the edge of the seam to help with fraying. If you have a surger you can can just surge it.
I felt like it needed something so I ruffled some satin ribbon and sewed it on in three swirls. If you would like to see how I make my ruffles you can check out this post.
For a more detailed tutorial you can check this one out.
Paired some leggings and boots it makes for a cute outfit and one happy girl. Now I need to make one for the baby.
Thanks for stoppin' by and hangin' out.


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Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), an anti-immigrant group, blames Mexican immigrants for increasing carbon emissions in the U.S. The group bases its startling claim on a bogus report by the nativist Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), which is linked the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a hate group. But even more worrisome: the group's hatefest is airing on popular channels such as MSNBC.
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"Because of American's proclivity for conspicuous consumption, most environmentalists understand that population growth in the United States affects the environment here and also worldwide," commented Missy DeYoung, Chairman of the Board of Californians for Population Stabilization. "However, many environmentalists won't talk about the fact that immigration is the number one factor driving U.S. population growth. It's intellectually dishonest to think we can address population growth without addressing mass immigration."
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By the time his wife, Allison, was a few months from delivering their first child more than five years ago, Eric Gregory knew all about the birthing process and how to install a car seat. But he didn't know what to expect as a new dad. That changed when he completed "Boot Camp for New Dads," a three-hour program hosted by First Things First of Greater Richmond in which "veteran" dads share advice and information with dads-to-be in a casual group format. "All the maternity classes we had taken were focused on Mom," Gregory recalled. "This was the first class I had heard about that was for dads. It was amazing." The program, created by a California man and then replicated nationwide, teaches dads-to-be everything from what to pack in a diaper bag and how to hold a newborn to how to identify the signs of post-partum depression in the baby's mother. Each session includes a facilitator and veteran dads, who bring their infants with them and share tips and experiences with the dads-to-be. Though the expectant fathers come from all different backgrounds – from unwed teens to married CEOs – they quickly find common ground, said Gregory, who has remained involved with the program as a veteran dad and facilitator. "This happens every time I facilitate a class," he said. "You walk in, it's nine o'clock on a Saturday morning, there are all these guys, all strangers to each other, everybody kind of hunched over. And then when it starts, the dynamic changes almost immediately. In no time at all, the guys are relaxed, joking with each other, sharing things with each other." First Things First Board member and Boot Camp facilitator Jeff Ukrop agreed. "It's usually the most diverse group of men you could expect to put in a room – across culture and socio-economic range – but the thing they can all relate to is not having a clue about how to handle this baby," he said. "Boot Camp" is one of many programs offered by First Things First of Greater Richmond, a not-for-profit organization that works to educate and strengthen families. Boot Camp's specific value quickly became apparent shortly after its inception locally in 2007, said Bob Ruthazer, the founder and program director of FTF. "What we noticed was that there were lots of things for moms, but there was very little in our community for dads," Ruthazer said. "We've seen over time the sort of tremendous negative impacts that occur when dads are missing from kids' lives or emotionally absent. We wanted to encourage dads to be more involved and equip them." Sessions cost $25 and are held on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon several times a month at eight local hospitals, which provide the meeting space for free and also make financial contributions to the program. Boot Camp has grown primarily through word of mouth and has served more than 1,700 men since its inception, Ruthazer said. "We had a letter from a mom [recently] saying 'I don't know what you did to my husband, but thank you very much!" he said. As Gregory attests, one three-hour session can make a significant difference for an expectant father who may have many unanswered questions. "Sometimes these young guys are holding babies for the first time at Boot Camp," he said. "They come out of the session excited to be new dads – and they'll be in that relationship [with their children] for their whole lives. "It had a profound impact on me, and it continues to." For fathers with preschoolers and elementary school-aged children, FTF offers All Pro Dad, a national program created in part by former NFL coach Tony Dungy that is designed as a way to foster communication between dads and their children. Dads and their kids meet 10 times a year in a group setting to discuss various values, watching videos that help explain them and then having one-on-one and group conversations about them. Meetings are free, but registration is required. During a recent gathering at the Martin's at Crossridge, the group discussed "kindness" and the benefits of paying it forward. As a take-home exercise, each father-child pair was encouraged to put the lesson to work by paying for the person behind them the next time they passed through a tollbooth or purchased a cup of coffee, for example. Ukrop's son still recalls a lesson learned at an All Pro Dad meeting last October, during which the value was "humility" and attendees watched a video of NFL players celebrating touchdowns. "At the end of it we talked about how the other team feels," Ukrop recalled. "To this day, when he sees a touchdown, my son will go, 'Is he being humble?' I turn it back on him and say, 'What do you think?' So we're able to have that dialogue. . . and to engage in a meaningful conversation." |
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As a new technical lead in a new company, what are some additional strategies to employ to change the culture of the development team so that people show up at the time that I've requested?
TLDR: My team doesn't show up on time. I've tried to compel them and it isn't working.
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- Small company, 30 employees, 5 members of my team.
- The previous lead is still on staff as a regular developer.
- The culture prior to my arrival was one of informality with no set boundaries or core hours. This culture was not challenged by the corporate leaders. Most people on the team would show up between 10:30 and 11:00 because of this.
- Other departments, due to the nature of their work, have set start times of either 8 or 9.
This discrepancy and unpredictability causes a lot of angst between my department and other departments. As such, I sat the team down and specified a 'no later than' time of 9:30. I explained my reasoning and I explained the benefits of such a scheme and the negatives of the current scheme. It was a long and contentious conversation and 3 of the 5 people on the team were quite displeased.
Needless to say, people aren't showing up on time (and 9:35 is not on time.)
I've scheduled our daily standup meeting at 9:30 as an added motivator. Knowing that it takes a little bit of time to transition start times (with commute, etc...) I initially would wait to begin the meeting until everyone showed up, but now I just start the meeting (and often finish the meeting) with whomever is present. That seems to not be making a difference either and it's making the team less cohesive.
Conversations on an individual and group basis yield the same results as the original conversation (i.e. they don't see the value, think I'm taking away a perk of the job, etc...)
I have the full support and backing of the senior management team and am empowered to employ whatever devices I feel appropriate to get this taken care of.
My current next step is to send someone home and make them take the day off. Is that too drastic? Are there alternative strategies that I'm overlooking that could help me solve this problem?
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How new of a technical lead? 6 months, at this company, at the time of this question.
Why are you imposing purely non-technical managerial policies? It is in the scope of my position as defined by executive management.
What are your management credentials? 10 years experience as a technical lead. No formal education or certification in anything managerial.
What previous personnel management experience do you have? I have been a technical lead for 10 years. I've been responsible for hiring/firing/interviewing/reviewing/leading/building a few different technical teams.
Have you earned the respect of the team in a technical manner? Yes
Have you earned the respect of the team in a managerial manner? I was interviewed for technical and managerial ability by the team. I was clear and straightforward about how I like to run technical teams and how I like to run projects (with the obvious caveat that that is just a starting point and culture and personnel ultimately influence where I land.) There are many things, from a managerial perspective, that the team is quite happy with.
Did the previous technical lead step down? Yes.
Was the previous technical lead demoted? No. It was his request.
Was the previous technical lead effective? For a time. But, growth of the company and the codebase made his style ineffective.
Does the majority of the existing team have a more personal relationship with the previous technical lead? Yes.
Is the previous technical lead effectively still in charge? No.
Then [the previous culture of informality with no set boundaries] must have been working? It worked for a time, when the company was still a startup. It has grown and evolved well beyond the startup phase and, due to that growth, is not nearly as effective as it once was. Especially as other departments have introduced a bit more formality and predictability.
Was the team successful in delivering useful products when promised? At the beginning. But, as the company and the product grew, quality and delivery times slipped significantly.
Doesn't sound like you even considered or explored some kind of compromise with your team or the external teams based on their negative feed back. Did you? Of course I have, I'm not a rookie. The fact of the matter is, I respect the fact that the rest of the company works in an inflexible box due to the nature of their responsibilities. The team was unwilling to compromise on their flex time and, in many cases, the other departments are unable to compromise. I have also addressed the negative feedback specifically with the other departments and implemented a number of things to make things better. One of the big benefits of this change was to improve predictability and change perceptions.


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NBA PM: Kobe Cedes Scoring Title to Durant
Posted By Eric Pincus On April 26, 2012 @ 5:46 pm In All,Main Page,NBA | No Comments
As first reported by Sam Amick of SI.com, Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant will cede the scoring title to Kevin Durant by sitting out the Lakers' finale in Sacramento against the Kings.
Oklahoma City Thunder star Durant is right at 28.0 points per game this season. Kobe, at 27.9, would need 38 points against the Kings but Lakers Coach Mike Brown has chosen to sit his All-Star instead.
This will be Durant's third-straight scoring title. More importantly, the Thunder have improved each year over that time.
For the Lakers, sitting Bryant is easily the right thing to do.
Certainly Kobe could pad his resume with another scoring title but to what end? The Lakers are locked into position in the West as the third seed. They don't hold the tiebreaker over the Indiana Pacers should both teams make it to the NBA Finals.
The game means nothing to the Lakers. Risking injury to Bryant serves no purpose.
To that end, Brown will play a skeleton crew which will likely see the Laker debut of forward Christian Eyenga who has been with the Los Angeles D-Fenders since the Luke Walton/Ramon Sessions trade.
Bryant has been adamant for some time that he's far less concerned with individual accolades at this point in his career. His focus is on attaining a sixth title.
The Lakers have shown this year that they're capable of great highs (and various lows).
Metta World Peace will miss the Lakers' first-six playoff games. LA will need to get past some combination of the Oklahoma City Thunder, Dallas Mavericks and Denver Nuggets to get to the Western Conference Finals.
A second-round matchup between the Lakers and Thunder would hold great appeal, except for fans of the Mavericks and Nuggets naturally.
Unless LA sweeps the first round, Peace will be available for (nearly) all of the second. The seven-game suspension was more than some thought was deserved and far less than others – a general sign it was on target.
Look for the Lakers to rely on second-year guard/forward Devin Ebanks in Metta's absence. Reserve Matt Barnes is also hobbled with a sprained ankle.
Rushed Season Ends
Thursday marks the final day of the 2011/12 NBA Regular Season. It was a year that almost didn't happen, came together quickly and packed far too many games into too tight a schedule.
Four teams have already completed their year (Indiana Pacers, Los Angeles Clippers, Phoenix Suns and Thunder). The playoff chase is done. The final 16 are in place although there remains some slight jockeying for position in the last few hours, perhaps fought by the second, third and fourth stringers.
The San Antonio Spurs will host the Utah Jazz (starting on Sunday) and while the veteran Spurs should be favored, the Jazz have some true meat in the middle with Al Jefferson, Paul Millsap, Derrick Favors and Enes Kanter. That won't be an easy series for San Antonio, even if they are the likely victor.
It would appear the Thunder will draw the reigning champions (Dallas Mavericks) while the Lakers will get the Denver Nuggets. Dallas does have the tiebreaker to climb if they beat the Atlanta Hawks and the Nuggets happen to lose to Minnesota Timberwolves. The Thunder series will begin on Saturday; the Lakers on Sunday.
The Mavericks just aren't as good as they were last year. It's clear that they miss Tyson Chandler and J.J. Barea but before last postseason they didn't seem all that great either until their magical championship run. It would be foolish to write Dallas off early.
The Memphis Grizzlies simply need to win Thursday at home against the Orlando Magic to retain home court advantage over the Clippers. Look for the Grizzlies to play to win while the Magic may start Chris Duhon at center (not really).
The Clippers are average on the road. They sat out Chris Paul on Wednesday night in New York with a sore groin, saying a healthy Paul was more important than home court advantage.
Whichever team loses between Memphis and LAC will not have met expectations this year. The series will start on Sunday.
In the East, the Chicago Bulls are slotted to host the Philadelphia 76ers while the Miami HEAT are likely to draw the New York Knicks. That too can change if NY loses in Charlotte (at team that has dropped 22-straight games) and the Sixers beat the Detroit Pistons.
So far the Sixers have looked awful against the HEAT. Even if the Knicks super-tank against the Bobcats, the Sixers may not even take a shot on basket in their finale.
Both series will start on Saturday.
The Pacers will host the Dwight Howard-less Magic on Saturday, which should be a ticket to the second-round for an underrated Indiana squad.
The Boston Celtics and Hawks will meet Sunday, starting in Atlanta (unless the Hawks lose to the Mavericks and the Celtics finish off the Milwaukee Bucks). Favor Boston in the series although there will be a few bloody noses along the way.
If the run to the bottom was ugly, at least this year it was a shorter duration of misery.
The Charlotte Bobcats and Washington Wizards will have the most lottery combinations. Three teams are tied with 44 losses (Cleveland Cavaliers, Sacramento Kings and New Orleans Hornets). The New Jersey Nets and Toronto Raptors are next at 43 apiece.
The Golden State Warriors are going to need some lottery luck if they're to keep their pick (top-seven protected) given they "only" have 42 losses. Once again, the Warriors did not tank efficiently enough.
Rounding out the lottery are the Pistons, Wolves, Portland Trail Blazers, Bucks and Houston Rockets.
The Jazz get the Warriors' first-round pick and the Blazers will get New Jersey's (both with some levels of protection). For such a strong draft, there are quite a few first-round swaps. The Hornets will get Minnesota's, the Rockets get New York's, the Wolves get Utah's, the Celtics get the Clippers', the Cavaliers get the Lakers' and the Warriors get the Spurs'.
Clippers Back In It
Before the acquisition of Chris Paul, the Clippers expected to make the playoffs. Once the blockbuster went through, expectations when through the roof.
Losing Chauncey Billups was a major setback – one that sent the team reeling through a brutal March schedule. The team recovered late in March and had a strong April but if they don't attain home court advantage on Thursday, the path to the second-round won't be easy.
Point guard Chris Paul remains optimistic and said recently the team will need to execute defensively to have any level of sustained success.
"Just keep getting better defensively. In the postseason you've got to execute because they're going to know every play that we run," said Paul. "They've going to know where we like it – the sweet spots and stuff like that. It's all about counters and doing what you do."
The Clippers were a playoff sensation back in 2006, losing in the seventh game of the second round to the Phoenix Suns. Each year since then they've gotten worse and worse until last season when Blake Griffin broke out as a rookie.
Eric Gordon, who the Clippers traded for Paul, was cautiously optimistic for his former team.
"I think they'll do fine. Let's see what happens," said Gordon. "They're very talented of course. They're very deep. We'll see how they play. There's a lot of other good teams in the West. We'll see how they match up with whoever they play."
"Old" Friends
A few 30+ players are done for the year and ready to hit free agency this summer. The biggest name is Steve Nash, who may have played his final game in Phoenix with the Suns.
At 38-years old, Nash shot over 53% from the field, 39% from three and 89% from the line. He averaged nearly 11 assists per game and hopes to continue his career for three more seasons.
Don't count out a return to the Suns. Nash has established roots in the community and has great trust in the superb Phoenix training staff.
Still, it would not surprise if Steve took this opportunity to chase a title.
Nash's teammate Grant Hill is also a free agent. If he keeps playing, he'll be doing so at 40-years old. This wasn't Hill's best year with the Suns but he's still one of the smartest players in the game and would be a welcome addition to a contending team.
Antawn Jamison of the Cleveland Cavaliers will be 36-years old before next season. He still averaged 17.3 points a game this year and has been one of the more capable scoring forwards in the league for most of his career.
Jamison would help a team with strong low-post scorer/rebounder like the Lakers have with Andrew Bynum.
Veteran Marcus Camby is 38-years old and yet he still averaged nine rebounds a game this past season, missing just six games. He'll have multiple suitors this summer.
On the young side of "old," Chris Kaman at 30 may be the top unrestricted center in free agency this summer. He was solid for the New Orleans Hornets (when they let him play).
Finally, veterans Brad Miller and Ben Wallace are expected to retire after putting up impressive careers considering neither was drafted.
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Bust 'er was the first set of bolts drilled at Thunder. Climb face moves up to a " pork chop" shape plate, pull hard here to get to the crack above. (crux) Mid -to- hard 5.11. Around corner left of Brown Wall.
Bolts up to crack then gear to top. There are chain anchors at the top.
Looks like a pretty cool climb from the ground. Too bad some immature juvenile frat boy named it, because now my wife will never belay me on it.
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I feel obligated to climb this route.
It's calling your name... git er' done!!
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Rodeo queens and clowns, vintage farm tractors, cowpokes, horses and longhorn steers strolled, rolled, and rode down 17th Street Thursday to kick off the 107th National Western Stock Show & Rodeo.
Holly Farmer, 45, of Denver, brought 9-year-old Avery and 7-year-old Daniel downtown to see the spectacle. The Farmer children attend Graland Country Day School.
"We are so excited," Farmer said. "Last year we came and we were a little late and we missed the longhorns. Today we came and we are going to be very excited."
Avery was especially anxious to see the steers. "I like their horns."
Elbert County rodeo royalty Ashley Baller, 16, and Ashley Gerczynski, 12, rode at the head of the parade in a red stage coach.
"I think just being in the parade is very exciting," said Gerczynski, whose official title is Elbert County Princess.
To win the Elbert County Queen title Baller had to give a speech, display her horsemanship and demonstrate other abilities. "It's pretty difficult, but if you know your stuff it is not too bad."
The crowd lined 17th Street for the length of the 14 block parade, which began at Union Station.
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The show officially opens Saturday and runs through Jan. 27 at the National Western Complex at Interstate 70 and Brighton Boulevard.
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About a month ago, the backlight on my laptop went out. In the old economy I would have just asked for a new laptop from my company. Unfortunately they are not doling out the money for new hardware these days. Since our laptops are not under warranty anymore, if I wanted a fully functional computer, I had to take matters into my own hands.
Luckily we had another dead laptop of the same model in our office. I took both laptops apart, and swapped the entire monitor section, casing and all, with the dead laptop. I needed a new keyboard so while I was at it I swapped that too.
A week ago, calamity struck again; I broke the LCD on the new monitor; leaving me with a good backlight but a broken screen. Today, a coworker and I performed another transplant. We completely disassembled the monitors of both laptops. We took the backlight out of the broken LCD and swapped it with the backlight in the other one, and then put it all back together. This was not nearly as easy as the first transplant, because the backlight is sealed inside the LCD as one unit. It is not really designed to be stripped down that far. But we did it, and now I'm back in business! Yea!
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- absoluteraleigh said...
Wow, good job! It helps having a good backlight on hand, especially for the T42p laptops w/ the UXGA LCD. You should see the Hitachi screens! Yikes! If you ever go to sell some of those broken units I'm interested =)
- Slapped Enough said...
Dude, you NEED to lose some weight.
- Jason Carini said...
Had to do something very similar to my laptop a couple years ago. Yeah...working with LCD monitors on laptops can be a pain. :)
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LoL good job and do lose some weight hehehe..


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Saturday, September 4, 2010
I love my job!
I loved creative writing in high school. I should have realized it then, but I didn't. Having been a creative soul all my life, I felt the need for a creative outlet especially when I found myself in a very uncreative career...nursing. It put food on the table and allowed me to pay my rent when I was a single mom, but there were days I thought I'd explode if I didn't "make" something. A painting, a craft project, anything!
When I married my terrific husband, I switched to the night shift so I could take a screen writing course at the local state college during the day. I wrote a few romantic comedy screenplays that never saw a screen other than my computer monitor! But I learned lots! One thing I learned about myself was how happy creating stories made me. My husband saw it too.
When the opportunity to write full time presented itself (an inheritence) I made a deal with my hubby. If I paid off the mortgage, he'd pay the regular bills and we'd call it even. And I'd give my dream a shot. I knew my folks would want me to.
At first he saw it as a pipe dream. He gave me one year to get published. A year? I told him that was impossible and let him know what he could do with his year! Well, I set about doing the impossible anyway and went after it like a mad-woman. While writing the book of my heart, I adapted one of my more commercially viable screenplays to novel format. Guess what? One year to the weekend of his ultimatum, I received an offer! Woo Hoo! Take that, hubby! It was from an e-pub, but he never specified. LOL
Now he's on-board completely. In fact, he's one of my biggest fans. I wish I could celebrate my recent successes with my family of origin, but in lieu of that, I have extended family--cousins and one uncle. So, I'm celebrating with them. Tomorrow they're all coming to my home for a reunion. I can't wait to truck out my paperbacks and say, "See what I made?"
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- Terry Spear/Terry Lee Wilde said...
LOL, Ash, about being epubbed first and making the deadline! I love it! But you're right. Published is published! I'm like you and have to be doing something creative! That's what makes me feel self actualized! Have a great Labor Day weekend! :)
- September 4, 2010 at 12:08 PM
- Mary Margret said...
Loved it, Ash!
I understand about needing to make something. Although I had written forever, I didn't turn to it seriously--like not playing around, I'm going to make something--until I could no longer paint.
Congratulations on achieving the job of your dreams! A perfect way to celebrate Labor Day. - September 4, 2010 at 12:12 PM
- Ashlyn Chase said...
Why couldn't you paint anymore MM? I 'can't' either, but it's just because I feel blocked in that area and don't want to create something mediocre.
Ash - September 4, 2010 at 12:36 PM
- Amanda Forester said...
Wow - publishing in a year is amazing! Good for you! Someday I would love to be writing full time too!
- September 4, 2010 at 1:12 PM
- Cheryl Brooks said...
Hmm... my mortgage is paid off, too, thanks to an inheritance, but my DH is such a nervous Nellie he can't even think about me giving up the nursing biz to write full time.
When I actively started writing with an eye toward publishing, it took me two years. It might have come sooner, but SB wasn't publishing romance then! - September 4, 2010 at 1:16 PM
- Judi Fennell said...
a year. two years. I'm jealous. It took me 4 years. And I just went back to the day job after being unemployed for 2 years.
I need an inheritance. :)
I love how supportive Hubs is, Ash! And I esp. love the one year! Good for you!!! - September 4, 2010 at 1:22 PM
- Olivia Cunning said...
If anyone wants to pay off my mortgage, I'd appreciate it! How wonderful to be able to write full time. Actually, I do write full time, and work at a day job full time and occasionally catch an hour of sleep and do a load of laundry. I'd gladly give up the day job if I could afford it. You are living the dream, Ashlyn! Major congratulations!
- September 4, 2010 at 2:35 PM
- Desiree Holt said...
Ash, you are just so fortunate. But of course, he obviously knows great talent when he sees it. *wink* So, is he the hero in all your stories?
- September 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM
- Robin Kaye said...
My day job is the three kids special needs kids, always has been. I write around them and so far, it's working. I'd love to find out a long lost rich relative has left me enough to pay off the mortgage but I don't see that happening.
- September 4, 2010 at 4:35 PM
- Anita Clenney said...
Great story. I love loop holes. One year! It took me just under four years to get published, from the day I plopped my butt in the chair and typed the first word until Deb offered to buy my story. I write full time, thanks to a very supportive hubby, but our house is too small and we've spent way too much money, creating a financial strain. I've considered going back to work.
I'm with you. I should've realized I was meant to be a writer long before I started writing. - September 4, 2010 at 5:39 PM
- Ashlyn Chase said...
All of you who were published in under 5 years are way ahead of the norm! I heard it's usually 5 years or more. (But that's traditional publishing.) If I were going by when I got my Sourcebooks contract, I'd be right on the money.
Desiree, my hubby is absolutly my hero. I dedicated Strange Neighbors to him and said, "Yup, these great heroes are real, folks, and I'm so glad I got one.
Ash - September 4, 2010 at 7:06 PM
- Joanne Kennedy said...
Hey, I'm actually normal for a change! It took me about five years to get published once I started writing fiction, but I feel like I prepared for it all my life by reading so much and working in bookselling. I wish I'd caught on and started writing my own books a lot sooner. I agree about the creative urge - if you need to "make something," you have to do it or you're miserable!
- September 4, 2010 at 9:58 PM
- Tamara Hogan said...
It took me 20 years after college to find the guts to try to write a novel. Deb bought that novel and two others (not yet written) about a year ago, and TASTE ME will be on the shelf early next spring.
I dream of being able to write full time. Can't do it yet, alas! - September 5, 2010 at 5:23 PM
- Author Kathryne Kennedy said...
It's so important to have the support of your significant other in this business, Ash. We are both lucky girls. :}
- September 10, 2010 at 7:09 PM