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9/25/2012, 9:08 p.m.
For Marcia Thomas and her family, having affordable broadband Internet access in her Ward 8 abode is nothing short of miraculous. The 40-year-old single mom now goes online in the comfort of her own home.
"It has been a great benefit for us, as teachers put grades online I can check, and my job offers online classes through Cornell University, which I do instead of going to physical classes," said Thomas whose son, Lance Jackson, is a senior at Ballou High School.
Last year when Thomas signed up, her daughter, Mariama, completed college applications and signed up for the SAT online. She is a freshman at Trinity University. "I used to print out their homework at my job," said Thomas, an accounts receivable specialist at a downtown hotel. "They would call me, say what their research is, and I would print it out."
"It's been good for me as the library on South Capitol closes early," said Lance, 17, who also uses library computers but prefers in-home Internet. "It helps me with my AP lessons and keeping up with my stats for football, colleges and scholarships."
The Thomas family is one of 2,000 families [or 8,000 residents] in the Washington, D.C. area connected to the Internet through Internet Essentials, launched last year by Comcast Corporation. Now in its second year, Comcast continues to enhance the program with new processes to ramp up enrollment.
To date, more than 100,000 low-income families [or 400,000 Americans] nationwide have benefitted from residential Internet service for less than $10 a month, which includes no price increases, activation fees or equipment rental fees; a voucher to purchase a computer for less than $150; and access to free digital literacy training in print, online and in-person.
For Comcast's David Cohen, no family in America should suffer the digital divide.
"The Internet now is not just about FaceBook and video games and not just for the well-to-do," said Cohen, 57, executive vice president of Comcast, an entertainment, information and communications provider. "Comcast like most other corporations only take job applications via the Internet, so if you don't have access, that's another area that widens the gap."
Cohen, a former chief of staff for then-Philadelphia Mayor Edward Rendell, spent more than 20 years advocating for educational parity.
"A kid is a kid. Give poor kids the same tools and the same opportunities and they will learn like the wealthier kids," Cohen said. "As a society we have to provide fair and equal opportunities for all kids and that's what Internet Essentials is able to do, and these kids are going to be just fine."
As the country continues as a digital nation, many low-income families are at a disadvantage without Internet services at home. District families are eligible for Internet Essentials if they have at least one child who qualifies for free or reduced lunch, lives where Comcast offers Internet, is not a subscriber nor have an overdue Comcast bill.
Cohen joined Mayor Vincent C. Gray, NBC4 president and general manager Jackie Bradford, former NFL Coach and Internet Essentials' spokesman Tony Dungy and community partners at a year-two kickoff at Kramer Middle School in Ward 8 on Sept. 24. In the classrooms, students pored over Apple laptops, something the principal seemed especially pleased about.
"For the past few years, we've been overhauling one of the lowest performing schools as Kramer became a pilot school for finding creative ways to integrate online technology," said Kwame Simmons, principal for three years, about using the blended school model. This combines personalized online programs with face-to-face time with teachers. "Through Internet Essentials, our students are being provided the tools they need to succeed."
Comcast will sign up eligible families through the end of the 2013-2014 school year. Qualified households remain eligible if at least one child receives free or reduced-price school lunch.
"Reliable broadband access helps our children become stronger students and prepares them for an increasingly interconnected world," Gray added. "I am proud of the work we have done to close the digital divide in Washington, D.C., but there's much to be done. I'm urging all members of our community to spread the word and the need to connect more families."
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Covert says that the new rule could potentially make hospitals' outcomes look better but make ASCs' outcomes look worse, but "that is why we have tight preoperative screening processes in place to uphold managing the right patient in the right venue."
The new rule will ultimately help ASCs and patients by separating the good from the "not-so-good," Priest says.
"If you have a surgery, your goal is to get home," Priest says. "Our burden is to try to minimize the time [patients] spend in the hospital, if we can do it safely. This rule will also allow us to create an infrastructure in those environments that will allow us to take care of sicker patients."
Of course, ASCs could opt to not report their quality metrics and take the 2% payment reduction, but it does not seem likely.
"Margins are very tight in our industry, so I find it hard to believe that an organization would forgo that payment," Covert says. "Having noted that, there are many small, standalone organizations that are going to find themselves conducting business in a new way and holding themselves to a higher standard. It will be a steep learning curve for the smaller players."
In addition to a payment cut, ASCs that choose not to report will risk being vilified by competing organizations for their lack of transparency. While reporting organizations risk looking inferior to the surgery center down the road with better quality scores, it fosters an environment of positive competition that will benefit patients.
"It's pretty hard to not be willing to tell people whether you have wrong-site surgeries because I'm walking into your ASC with my iPad and looking up data on everybody—including you," Priest says. "It changes the game."
All in all, the new reporting measures will help surgical centers create systems and processes that measure other quality metrics.
"It will improve patient care and attract patients to Bon Secours and attract physicians and nurses that want to improve patient care," Priest says. "The measures are a good place to start. It's something the public deserves. We don't need to be shrouded in secrecy, and the more transparent we are, the more we're able to solve our challenges, so I'm pretty upbeat about it."
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At the door, Strasbourg, August 2013.
At first, I was trying to make something out of the flowers and the orange background reflecting on the top of the black car in front of the restaurant. Then I noticed the waiter was there, sitting just behind the window. I waited for him to go behind the bar. I snapped one to be sure, he noticed me. Left his bar to walk towards me asking "what are you doing?". Not that angry, but not that happy. It was already late, I had finished work around 8 30. Night was about to fall, people are more nervous to be photographed by someone they don't know in the dark.
So I shot this last one before getting closer, to explain and show him what I'm doing. He turned to be the nicest man possible.
First lesson: I should have tried to gor for one more, as I'm a bit bothered by the framing. I'd like the up right yellow window to be framed in black as the red one in the up left corner.
Second lesson: speak and get closer to people who react negatively to you snapping photos. Don't turn your back on them.
Waiting, Strasbourg, summer 2013.
A recollection of some of my latest reflections.
To keep things fresh, I now try to incoprorate in my frame more urban elements. Whether used as colored flats, as in pic n°1 and n°8 (from top to bottom and left to right), or as light sources to help silhouettes detach themselves from the background, in n°2 e. g.
I also use more lines and markings (n°4,5,6) in my compositions.
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I remember watching a major fire in a lumber yard located near "the junction" (the intersection of Flatbush and Nostrand Aves) in Brooklyn. It was about 1938. Does anyone have details as to the fire, e.g., was it arson? anyone hurt? was the lumber yard totally destroyed? did it reopen?
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First, I think the obvious critique is that the average is supposed to be based around 1500. 1500 is a fairly insignificant number, especially considering the range. There are a number of options that I think would be better than this depending on a handful of factors.
Second, and my main critique is that, PSR(Player Skill Rating) does a poor job of actually measuring player skill. Not only that, but, since the "K-factor" is calculated based on PSR, PSR gets exponentially worse at measuring skill as time goes on(games are played). I will explain:
I find it is important to give definitions for terms in an argument, since differences in definitions is often the cause of contention in arguments. --So, Player Skill(a.k.a. skill) is defined as a players ability to increase the chance that their team will win. i.e. if you swap out player A for player B and the chance the team will win goes down, then player A is more skilled at the game than player B. Also note the instance based definition of skill, where by player B can skill be more skillful than A if B has a good game, where A would have had a bad game. e.g. B played the game skillfully. That is the definition of skill I'll be using, so if you don't care for that definition, you might as well stop reading now.
I'll start by comparing PSR to %wins for estimating skill. Since %win shows a players tendency to win when added to random teams, it does at least a reasonably good job of showing skill, considering skill is the difference in win likelihood when added to a random team. A difference exists between those two statements, but there is definitely a strong logical and statistical correlation between them.
PSR works something like %wins, in that the value goes up with wins and down with losses. PSR, however attempts to be more accurate than %wins, by acknowledging and attending to the fact that, when you are added to random teams, not all games are created equal, since skills on a team can vary which will have an impact on how influential you were in the outcome. e.g. you can be 5-0 and suck because your teams always pulled you up, also, you could be 0-5 and rock because your teams drug you down.
PSR attempts to deal with this by essentially weighting the outcomes of each game based on the skill of the people in the game. The problem is, that skill evaluation is the PSR value its self. PSR gets calculated using PSR.
When error is introduced into these two systems, %wins %error remains constant, while PSR's %error is expounded by using its self in its own calculation.
Example: assume we have 10 players who have all played 100 games, not specifically with each other. Assume 1 of those players had 1 completely erroneous game, and that there is no other errors currently in the system. I will say that a game, in which the player in question was the MVP of the entire game(both teams) and was on the losing team, is a 100% erroneous game. This would both optimally confuse %wins and PSR.
Assume that those 10 players play a game together, and the game added no additional error into the system. %error for %wins decreases overall since the same amount of error is averaged over a larger game set. i.e. (100*9+99)/100 < (101*9+100)/101. However, since the player with 1% of error accounts for 1/10th of the calculation for each persons PSR change, 0.1% of error gets added to each persons PSR change. thus, even though this new game had no error in it, the PSR scores of this game added extra error into the system anyways. i.e. after that game 9 players have a very slight amount of error in their PSR(meanwhile 0%error in their %win), and 1 player has roughly 1% of error in their PSR(and likewise 1%error in their %win).
This merely showed how 1 flawed game out of 1000 impacted the next un-flawed game. Now imagine a system with a constant amount of error. e.g. for every 10 games played there is 1 games worth of error (a.k.a. 10%error). %error in %wins will remain at a constant 10%error, while %error in PSR will grow exponentially, so even if you assume %error for PSR starts below 10% because the PSR numbers start-out accurate, it will eventually grow larger than %wins %error. That also assumes PSR numbers start-out accurate, which they clearly don't since everyone starts at an arbitrary 1500.
Third, 1500 is in fact NOT average. The only way 1500 could remain average is if the total PSR remained constant, changing only with the creation and deletion of accounts. I believe there is both a mathematical proof and historical events out there that prove total PSR is not constant for me. Since the total PSR in the system can grow, and PSR is supposed to represent a unit of skill, when the total PSR grows it would suggest the HoN community as a whole got more skilled, which makes a whole lot of sense, BUT it means that the PSR value that represents average is constantly changing with the fluctuations in total PSR.
Having a system in which the average skill level is a constant number has advantages over a system that doesn't when viewing it from a singular person's perspective. If I have 1632 PSR, am I good or not? I don't know unless someone tells me what average is, and no one has, so PSR is rather pointless other than comparing to other people you meet on a micro scale.
Also note that, since S2 proclaims 1500 to be average and starts new accounts at 1500 even though it's not, if PSR has grown over time, which it has, then accounts created now are started at a lower skill value than accounts created in the past. This again makes sense on a global aggregate scale, but punishes new individuals on a micro scale.
Forth, Ludo-logically speaking, a scale that has essentially a 500 point radius, and starts at 1500, isn't very positively re-enforcing. It implies that you can't even come close to doubling your skill level, which is not encouraging, which in turn is against a major tenet of good game design.
TL;DR version: "PSR does a poor job of actually measuring player skill." Or I think so, read only half of it.
There's 3-4 things wrong with the current implementation. I'm still editing my post on the PSR system's flaws, but I intend to point these out explicitly.
Your post isn't going to be convincing to anyone, though.
1600 is what the K-factor's middle is based around, while 1500 is the starting PSR. There are some minor artifacts(this combined with the K-factor clamping lets you 1v1 2 1500 accounts to get both above 1500; but there's only a small range of PSRs where you can do this trick), but it's not actually a serious issue.Third, 1500 is in fact NOT average. The only way 1500 could remain average is if the total PSR remained constant, changing only with the creation and deletion of accounts. I believe there is both a mathematical proof and historical events out there that prove total PSR is not constant for me. Since the total PSR in the system can grow, and PSR is supposed to represent a unit of skill, when the total PSR grows it would suggest the HoN community as a whole got more skilled, which makes a whole lot of sense, BUT it means that the PSR value that represents average is constantly changing with the fluctuations in total PSR.
You're assuming that PSR's "skill level" is linear. A difference in 100 PSR points will turn a 1v1 into roughly 80%-20%; "player skill" is in some sense exponential in the difference is PSR.Forth, Ludo-logically speaking, a scale that has essentially a 500 point radius, and starts at 1500, isn't very positively re-enforcing. It implies that you can't even come close to doubling your skill level, which is not encouraging, which in turn is against a major tenet of good game design.
To put it another way, the hypothetical top-of-the-world chess grandmaster with 3000 ELO ranking is not "twice as skilled" as a 1500 practicing club player; his win % would be so vastly higher that you'd have to get him drunk or high to beat him.
If it were possible for your PSR's error(difference from true PSR) to grow exponentially, then in particular your PSR would grow exponentially. The K-factor is clamped between 10 and 40 so this isn't possible.while %error in PSR will grow exponentially, so even if you assume %error for PSR starts below 10% because the PSR numbers start-out accurate, it will eventually grow larger than %wins %error
Let's be honest, HoN's K-values are pretty stupid.
The difference of 10-40 is twice as much as 16-32, and it caps at relatively low levels (1440, 1680).
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HoN should really take games played, em games played, total kills total deaths and total assists into account. a person with 1 kill and 1 death have 1 kdr, which is the same as a person with 5000 kills and 5000 deaths...
1600 is an equally arbitrary and inaccurate number, so maybe I'm missing your point here.
I am not assuming PSR is linear, I am assuming peoples perception of PSR is that of a linear progression, which is the rightful assumption. Assuming anything else from a calculated user stat would be illogical. Positive re-enforcement is based off of perception, which is what I was talking about.
%error isn't strictly equal to 'difference from true' value, and certainly isn't specifically positive. If this is confusing to you, then consider how significant digits are calculated through equations. I believe this will lend a relative parallel. Lose of information isn't a delta, but an uncertainty of truth. If you multiply an inaccurate number by an accurate number, the inaccuracy of the first number gets carried over into the result, regardless of how accurate the second number was. The 'true' value isn't even known so the %error isn't a difference. My "true" PSR and my given PSR could be the same number even if the %error is very high. The chance that the two numbers will be the same decreases as the %error goes up. That's really what we are talking about, not how wrong your PSR is, but how little you can trust that your PSR is right.
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You are saying that PSR isn't exact? How does that make it a bad system? If you can come up with a way to measure exact skill you will be a billionaire. It's an estimate that should move around in a bell curve centered at your "actual skill". Randomness evens itself out it doesn't compound exponentially.
You say it isn't linear but people "rightfully" assume it's linear. How does one rightfully assume something that is wrong? PSR is a standard model and most people would assume as such.
% wins is meaningless. When you are saying the error in % wins error from what? What is the baseline % wins that the error is from?
PSR is essentially unitless. The units are standard deviations not some "unit of skill".
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I find it is important to give definitions for terms in an argument, since differences in definitions is often the cause of contention in argumentsPSR = Public Skill RatingPSR(Player Skill Rating)
Maybe i am stupid but i do not understand whats the point out of this post
You talking about error % , but all that tend to balance as if there is an error in your PSR (ex you s*ck but reach hight PSR carryed by good team) . Your PSR just gonna tend to drop in the next games as your skill is less hight than what your PSR represent.
Because everything tend to balance the error in the system slowly goes down and that is what make PSR a good scale
My experience so far: You need to play a semi/ hard carry to win a game in low tiers. This sucks hard, most of the time I played support. Just started to play carries to get as higher KD and PSR. But the other problem is: You end sometimes with four hard carries in a game :/
So what to do? Prevent people from picking what they want? :/ Kinda bad...
Playing BD would be an option, but in low tier no one wants to play BD :/
SM isnt working, tried it twice and both times people left before game startet ( The countdown was showing they got a DC, I hope)
My best bet would be: Close custom matchmaking for one or two days and rework SM maybe this helps :/
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The only thing I don't like about this PSR system is that if I play with a friend with lower PSR and we lose. He or she will lose more psr than I will, eventually increasing the gap between us.
I've even seen cases where people can't get up from their current PSR-level because when they win they win ~2 psr and when they lose they lose ~30.
This means he or she must win 15 games just to catch up with one loss, and that's quite stupid to be honest. Sure, he or she must be bad in order to get that low, but to get up (after doing some practise and with more knowledge and skill) he or she must use the costly feature of reseting stats. Seeing there'll be tons of effort to raise oneself from these levels.
So what I mean is that low psr people shouldn't lose -40 when they are up against higher tier players. It should almost be the other way around to be honest. A high tier player playing with a bunch of low-tier players will not lose any PSR. Better give this stomper the disadvantage of risking a -40 psr loss because he can't grow the balls to play against players with the same PSR.
Which brings us back to the "playing with friends" situation; Sure, you shouldn't be punished for playing with your friends, but neither should the low PSR people that CAN'T get up be punished because the gain is so low at low level games.
The lowest I've been at is 1350 or something, I don't know might be more. All I know is that at 1700 rating I usualy gain/lose 5 psr a game, while at the "bottom" I gain or lose 20. This is a big flaw in my opinion.
Solution to this?
Well a suggestion would be to make the whole team lose/gain the same ammount of PSR from a game. Based on the win% chance.
This will not be too accurate but better than the current if you ask me.
(Do tell me if I am missing something here please)
Example: Team A has 80% win chance and overall higher PSR. The gain from a win in this situation should be like 3 psr, the loss from a loss in this situation should be like 17. If Team B wins they gain 17 and if they lose they lose 3.
What now? Am I contradicting myself in saying that the low tier players shouldn't be punished if a high tier player is in their team? Well they will lose equally much from this loss. Meaning the gap won't increase.
ËDIT: Regarding how this system measures skill I don't care, because there will never be a system that can tell perfectly how skilled a player is by a simple mathematical function based on stats from games. The stats does not handle good positioning, said player's accuracy with spells and abilities and so on.
Last edited by GregerMoek; 11-15-2010 at 07:17 AM.
Stats are like women in bikinis, they are interesting to look at however they don't show you everything.
How about PSR +/- for each game being calculated considerint the TSR (true skill rating). I fond TSR the best way to know the skill lvl of a player. My friend is 1750 and has only .8kdr so people think hes not that good. How about that 2.6 Wards per game, or 11 assist a game,etc.
Also, with TSR, i can stomp pub very easily. Im 1670 or something and I often play with my friend whos 1750. So we need 1650+ in the other team to balance. Sometime i get 1600+ with TSR below 4. What does that tell me, they play with good friend but they personnaly suck ballz. They can have a good game once in a while with some STRG Heros but if they got a WH, WS or anything they will be completly useless. For example, i've got a friend who 1600 but is totally noob with most of the hero(but is good with pred, plague). The reason is that he is playing with some of his other friends who are really good and they pub stomp. I often tell him, go play by yourself some game so youll loose cuz when i play with you you totally disbalance the game.
I prefer playing with a 1400+ with 4.5 TSR than a 1700 with 4.0 TSR.
So one way to counter jackass like me who balance the game PSR wise but unblance TSR wise would be to integrate TSR to the game. What do you think?
Anyway you know what I mean. I agree that calculating PSR with PSR is a problem, so what about integrating the TSR into the game since its really good to calculated +/- psr for a game???
PS mother tongue french so sorry for bad english
The TSR arguement is stupid, I don't care about kills and assists, they don't win me the game, a win wins me the game. Thus a measure of skill based on wins should be the most accurate. That said, I do think TSR should be shown in game, but I'm not sure how it should be integrated into the AB.
I don't understand all the whining about PSR. In my experience, PSR is an accurate indicator of how likely an individual is to win me the game based on prior wins against enemies of their skill level.
And if you make it so the PSR gain/loss is not symmetrical then you have PSR constantly decreasing, which is not desirable.
psr is crap because players are crap, when terrible idiotic morons stop playing this game we can accurately create skill levels for different players... Theres a difference between being a moron and simply being a lesser experienced player.
PSR is 100% accurate (if this was a 1on1 game).
Since it isn't, teams will often win vs pubs even though their individual skill levels are higher. Or a bad player will win with his 4 better friends. Or an A1 team captain picking the right heroes/strategy will win the game for his team by default. And if you want to use any other stats than raw wins, those can always be manipulated... see TSR and wards placed where so many people who'd have had 0.1 wards placed per game will now have 10 wards per game for their rest of their life due to ward of revelation abuse/spam at the end of games.
So... just take it as it is, PSR being a rough indicator of one's skill, that might not be worth much sometimes, but works most of the time rather fine.
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TSR tells as much about someones skills as PSR. Play support heroes -> bad k/d ratio -> bad TSR -> you get a codex scout telling how bad your TSR is.
TBH the PSR system isn't that bad. The fact that most people win 50% of games means it's fairly accurate...
The point of the diminish effect for overrated people is so they can't gain PSR by playing people 200 PSR below them. Your suggestion makes the situation you describe worse not better.
What you describe as a "flaw" is the system being lenient towards lower PSR people. If they get better they can rise much faster because of it. If it was equalized it would take a 1200 player who became as skilled as a 1500 player about 4 times as many games before their PSR is accurate. At high PSR it assumes changes in skill will be less rapid and so stability in PSR and less effect of RNG is better than being able to reach your real PSR faster.


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We knew we struck a chord during the research phase of our WT Insider report on the prime-sub contractor relationship when Lodestar, our research partner, said they had never seen so many written responses in a survey.
"You have an extremely engaged audience," I think are the words they used.
We sure do. Nearly 1,500 written responses were submitted to questions such as "Why do you say working with prime contractors over the last two years is much easier/somewhat easier/more difficult?"
Other open-ended questions asked: "What is the single most important thing a prime can do to partner more effectively?" and "What will be the largest challenge to partnering over the next two to three years?"
With this blog and the next couple, I'm going to explore these comments and highlight some of the findings of our research report.
Let's start with the negative: Why has the relationship become more difficult?
The budget was the most common response, and the feeling that subcontractors often pay the price when budgets get squeezed. One prime I spoke to pretty much confirmed this when he told me that when the customer pushes price, the prime pushes that down onto its subs.
There also is a sense that as the pie shrinks, that primes are trying to keep more for themselves.
The tighter market is forcing some large primes to cling to old ways of doing business instead of restructuring and becoming more agile, one commenter wrote. They need to read "Who Moved My Cheese," he suggested.
But subs also are concerned about a lack of candor and communications on the part of the primes.
Some people were harsh:
Many Prime Contractors are building teams to win contracts, and then not meeting work share agreements. It has become more difficult to trust many of the large industry players as they underbid many contracts and then attempt to recoup those costs from subcontractors, or simply do not enter into subcontracts that reflect the terms of the original teaming agreement.
The word "trust" pops out at me in that quote, and the word trust occurs over and over in the comments.
"The primes do not pursue a full, open and transparent exchange of information related to the work the subcontractors believed they were entitled to do," a commenter wrote.
Commenters complained about the difficulty negotiating with primes on workshare because everyone is fighting for margins.
So, what do subcontractors want? Again there were a lot of uses of the word trust. Responsiveness was another common response.
For me, one of the takeaways of the entire report is that some dysfunction in the prime-sub relationship has always existed, but it is now much worse because of the budget environment.
No one group is to blame, as many commenters said there is pressure on all sides because of contraction in the market.
No one can do anything about the budget, but the importance of the relationship to the success of the primes and the subs, and ultimately the government customer, begs that this dysfunction not be ignored.
Hopefully, our report will give you some pause, and an opportunity to look at your prime-sub relationships and ask yourself what you can do better.
The entire report is available exclusively to WT Insiders, and if you want a copy of all 1,500 verbatim comments, let me know and I'll send you a copy.
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fried pizza versus porkchops....
The mugs up there? Awesomeness. If I may say....they have a cat on there that I have been drawing lately, and these are the first mugs with him.
I made fried pizza again this week. You will recall exactly a week ago I made it the first time, after the NY Times did an article on fried pizzas at restaurants. We are not talking deep fried southern, but Italian: a little olive oil in the pan and a couple minutes crisped each side to give a nice rich crust on there. Somebody commented recently that it is excessive and fatening. WELL, maybe deep fried pizza at the state fair, but a couple spoons of olive oil? And havn't we buried the myth about carbs being evil? I mean, keep in mind, for example, in our house as a vegan, I have to eat something (not just twigs and lawn clippings). And splitting an 8 inch pizza topped with soy cheese and veggies with the wife...are you trying to tell me a pork chop would be healthier? (that was a joke a few years ago in a Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum book--her sidekick Lula was on a no carb diet and packed her purse with healthy pork chops instead :)
You will recall that there is a cute little corgi across the street named Soupy...Penny's good friend. They have a ball...well, Penny races around and Soupy kinda enjoys the spirit of the game....
11 comments:
- Michèle Hastings said...
i have got to make the fried pizza this week. I will use fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil... even with the real cheese I don't think it's unhealthy... and it will taste WAY better than a pork chop.
Bon Appetit!
(i love corgi dogs, if i ever get another dog, that's what i want!) - April 30, 2012 at 8:03 AM
- smartcat said...
Love the photos of Penny and Soupy. We are still trying to figure out what Winter's other half is.
I am going to try fried pizza this week. Some people fell that food should not be an enjoyable, sensory experience. Home made pizza is perfectly healthy......
bread, cheese (or not) vegs....what could be better? - April 30, 2012 at 8:10 AM
- Barbara Rogers said...
Hard to choose which cat mug I like best. And me, who eats lean pork chops occasionally, I have a yearning for a fried pizza now. Thanks a lot! Love those puppies!
- April 30, 2012 at 8:32 AM
- Joe Troncale said...
I like the zany mug! (if I had to choose.) I like them both, are you kidding? Very cool.
The pizza recipe sounds pretty amazing. Fried dough of all kinds is very Italian! - April 30, 2012 at 9:52 AM
- Gary's third pottery blog said...
Both mugs are identical, actually, with 3 different cats painted on each, going around...thanks all!
- April 30, 2012 at 10:55 AM
- Lori Buff said...
Pizza not pork!!!
- April 30, 2012 at 1:02 PM
- Claudia from Idiot's Kitchen said...
A few things:
I LOVE that little fluffy cat drawing on the mug on the left. It totally looks like Henry, my orange beast.
Corgis are awesome. I want one.
Pizza. Yes, in all forms.
You read Janet Evanovich books too? We really are weirdly alike. I always feel like they are the junk food of my reading list. A bit like having an open bag of oreos in the house.
Happy Monday! - April 30, 2012 at 2:08 PM
- Claudia from Idiot's Kitchen said...
Me again...I'm making the Gary inspired veggie fajita burritos AGAIN for dinner tonight. They are my new favorite! I'm going to do a pizza theme on my blog soon so the fried pizza will definitely be on the list.
And maybe some peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies just for fun too. :) - April 30, 2012 at 2:10 PM
- Busy Bee Suz said...
That mug shape is super awesome.
Corgi butt? Love it! - April 30, 2012 at 3:01 PM
- Joyful Things said...
I've been known to keep a pork chop or two in my purse - along with pizza, several bags of cookies (homemade of course) and the obligatory bag of roots and berries - just to fill me up! Love the mugs!
- April 30, 2012 at 7:48 PM
- Reverend Awesome said...
I need to try some of this fried pizza. Anytime we try making homemade pizza the crust is just...not right. It all seems fun and wonderful, but we fail at it. This frying seems like it might be the solution.
- May 2, 2012 at 2:33 PM
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The Living World of Oscar Wilde
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Dr. Robert B. Sargent, Associate Professor of English, Hofstra University
April 5 - May 14, 2000
David Filderman Gallery, Ninth floor, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library
"Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly." -- Wilde's An Ideal Husband (1899)
Today, at the centenary of his death, Oscar Wilde remains very much alive - as the intense interest in his life and work by a diverse group of contemporary film makers the American Todd Haynes, the British Oliver Parker and the Chilean Raoul Ruiz, suggest . The reason for his currency is best expressed by Wilde himself when he was asked by Walt Whitman at Whitman's home in Camden, New Jersey in 1882 to distinguish his stance as an artist and man from that of Tennyson the Poet Laureate of England. He told Whitman that Tennyson "has not allowed himself to be a part of the living action. [but] We [Whitman and Wilde - Wilde implies], on the other hand, move in the very heart of today" (Mikhail 48). It is this attitude to art and life - neither self-consciously modern nor defiantly traditional - which makes Wilde seem so relevant and appealing as we face a new millennium.
n keeping with these times, this exhibition originated in a web site, Reading Wilde, Querying Spaces, constructed by the graduate students in the Victorian Studies Group at New York University, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the trials of Oscar Wilde. I was sent by my colleague Robert Keane, the director of the Hofstra Cultural Center Conference on Wilde, to see Marvin Taylor, Director of the Fales Library/Special Collections, at the Bobst Library at New York University to arrange for the show to travel to Hofstra for the Wilde Conference. On learning that the "show" now only exists in cyberspace, I began to construct an exhibition which could be viewed in real time and space and that would give some tangible sense of Wilde's life and work by selecting an original photograph, letters and first editions of Wilde's works from the excellent holdings of the Fales Collection with additional material from Hofstra University's Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, especially the Weingrow Collection. As a graduate of New York University's Victorian Studies program and a long-time faculty member at Hofstra - originally the suburban campus of New York University - this joint venture has been very satisfying for me. I thank Marvin Taylor for his kindness and cooperative spirit and Mary Wakeford, Karen Albert and Dean David Christman of the Hofstra Museum for their able assistance.
The exhibition has been organized around Wilde's life and career and has been divided into three stages, with a fourth section to suggest his evolving heritage. That the year-long travels in America in 1882 to some 50 cities - he called the country "an extensive lunatic asylum" (Mikhail 80) - may seem inevitably provincial for a conference sponsored by an American University. But, I believe, Wilde's experience in the United States was as crucial in his development as novelist Charles Dickens' visit was 40 years earlier. As we look at the carte de visite photography of Wilde in the exhibition, taken in Union Square, New York, we might remember a contemporary reporter's description of Wilde's grand entrance into Jersey City:
As a Pennsylvania ferryboat swung into her slip at Jersey City at a few minutes before one o'clock yesterday afternoon, the crowd scattered about the dock exclaimed in subdued tones: "There he is; see him, that's Oscar Wilde." The tall figure of the apostle of aestheticism, clad in his olive-green overcoat with its otter trimmings, and his large face brightened by a smile and framed in long brown locks, blown about by the wind, was a conspicuous figure as he stood in the very front of the crowd of passengers pressing against the gunwales of the boat.
He had evidently been enjoying a breezy trip across the tawny Hudson, for his eye sparkled and his face was flushed with pleasure as, with a long stride which kept him far in advance even of the eager rush with which a New York crowd escapes from the ferry, and which left his valet struggling hopelessly in the rear with a burden of baggage, he entered the Pennsylvania station and passed to the waiting Philadelphia express. (Mikhail 42)
If the highlight of the second stage of Wilde's career is the creation of The Picture of Dorian Gray, his great but only novel in 1890, his decision to marry Constance Lloyd in 1884 and to begin a whirlwind relationship with Alfred Douglas in 1891 express directly the complex inner forces of a man whose life could only be hinted at in "Dorian Gray" and the play Salome (1894).
It is not possible to convey in an exhibition how brilliant Wilde must have been as a conversationalist and how much of himself he invested in his friends and acquaintances. He was a great man and he constructed a great life. Poet W. B. Yeats called him "the greatest talker of his time" (Mikhail 149), yet, according to author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he "had the art of seeming to be interested in all that we had to say. He took as well as gave" (Mikhail 161).
Wilde's final tragic stage defies easy description or interpretation. In 1895 Wilde charged Lord Queensberry, Alfred Douglas' father, with publishing a libel against him, that he was posing as a homosexual, and he lost. In a second trial - this time of Wilde for "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" (Ellmann 477) - ended with a hung jury. Out on bail, Wilde refused to flee prosecution as some of his friends urged. In the third trial a jury convicted Wilde on all counts and he was sentenced to hard labor for two years. He was released in 1897 and lived his last few years of life as an exile in France. He died on November 30, 1900 - with very little money and few mourners. Wilde's contemporary and friend Walter Crane, the English painter who was asked by Wilde to do illustrations for his first book of stories The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888), expresses a usefully succinct view of this tragic conclusion to Wilde's life in his Reminiscences of 1907:
If he ever fooled people he was also befooled. He squandered the most brilliant talents on trifles, but showed even in his brilliant trifling gleams of real power and imagination. He would have been happy in pagan times, but could not adjust himself to modern British suburban ideals or morals. He fought the Philistines with delicate weapons, and at last, defying them, and overstepping ordinary bounds in the pursuit of pleasure he committed the fatal crime of being found out, was instantly dropped by Society, and so fell, and was crushed by the heavy foot of the Law (Mikhail 151).
In 1891, Wilde declared: "The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself. Legends should never be destroyed. It is they which help us catch a glimpse of the genuine face of a man" (171). After 100 years, Wilde's legend remains strong and his heritage secure. We celebrate in this conference his protean gifts and accomplishments and look forward with great anticipation to the new insights and interpretations of Wilde's life and work the scholars who are participating in this conference will contribute to his living record.
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