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SOUTH JAMAICA, N.Y. -- On Saturday, the final day of the iS8/Nike Spring High School Classic, both the semifinal matchups, as well as the championship game, were crammed into the schedule at the main tournament venue, Intermediate School 8, in Queens, N.Y.
The semifinal contests, which attracted a standing-room-only crowd, were on two different ends of the basketball spectrum: one resulting in a blowout of mass proportions and the other culminating to a nail-biting, photo finish. The championship matchup revealed the tried-and-true "kings" of the Classic.
Regardless of the games' outcomes, there was no lack of sweat and scrappiness during these hardwood clashes.
Let's take a look at the semifinal and championship contests.
The way both teams played during the pool play portion of the Classic, it seemed as if the contest between The "Maine" Attraction and Team Price, was going to be a great, suspenseful, evenly matched meeting. However, although Team Price did put up a fight, it did not seem to stand a chance by the third quarter.
The "Maine" Attraction took a substantial, 12-point lead, 19-7, by the 3:45 mark of the first quarter on a 3-pointer by Seton Hall-bound Isaiah Whitehead (Abraham Lincoln High School (N.Y.) '14). Coached by Dwayne 'Tiny' Morton, The "Maine" Attraction was able to maintain that advantage of 12 points, 23-11.
Because of The "Maine" Attraction's ability to crowd the paint, Team Price, behind the floor leadership of Jerry Mejia (H.S. for Language and Diplomacy/Washington Irving Campus (N.Y.) '14), had to quickly execute plays to the basket. Team Price, coached by J.R. Rodriquez, did this by either quickly attacking the basket in transition or sharp feeds to Farfield-decommit, 6-foot-9, 250-pound big man Ami Lakoju (The Luke School (N.Y.) '14).
On defense, Team Price's Mejia was good for quite a few steals, deflections and disruptions that were capitalized on by either Mejia or his teammates.
This all seemed to be the right answer to the problem that The "Maine" Attraction posed. With about four minutes left in the second quarter, Team Price cut its deficit to just six points, 29-23, after the completion of the conventional three-point play by Cesar Ramirez (Bread and Roses (N.Y.) '15) and a bucket by Tarik Allicock (Grand Street Campus (N.Y.) '14).
Still, The "Maine" Attraction rapidly changed the momentum of the game back in its favor. The Brooklyn-based squad, led by the range of Rutgers-bound Mike Williams (Bishop Loughlin (N.Y.) '14) and the toughness baskets of Whitehead, tightened up on defense, its ball-handling and became a formidable force on the glass.
As a result, in the final three minutes before halftime, The "Maine" Attraction was able to amass a 16-point lead, 44-28, by the break.
Although the third quarter was the perfect opportunity to stage a comeback run, Team Price made certain changes in its point guard assignments that were not effective and led to an abundance of turnovers at halfcourt and three-quarter court before any plays could be run.
Consequently, The "Maine" Attraction's advantage wildly grew. Despite Team Price making a switch back to its original point guard assignments, it was too late in the period to climb out of the deepening sinkhole.
The "Maine" Attraction held as much as a 23-point lead, 70-47, early in the fourth quarter.
The "Maine" Attraction's sharpshooting Williams posted a game-high 24 points (13 in the first half). Teammate Whitehead and Niagara-commit Matt Scott (Brooklyn Law (N.Y.) '14) netted 18 and 10 points. Meanwhile, Team Price's Lakoju finished with 13 points as Allicock recorded 12 points eight in the third quarter). Teammate Mejia had 11 points.
In a semifinal matchup that had the look and feel of a championship game, two Queens-based ball clubs -- Jamaica Youth Organization (JYO) and 2GZ Entertainment-Will battled for the full 32 minutes as the winner was not decided until the final buzzer.
Tough and scrappy play characterized the meeting since neither squad left much room for error. The teams had more than style in common -- JYO is composed of current players from PSAL 'AA' championship team Benjamin Cardozo High School (N.Y.), while 2GZ Entertainment featured some former Cardozo athletes, who have since moved on to prep school.
Propelled by the dynamic play of Nosike Obanya (Believe Prep (N.C.) '14), the 2GZ squad shot off to an early seven-point lead, 11-4. Though JYO narrowed the deficit to only four points with much assistance from Armando Dunn ('15) and Tareq Coburn ('16), 2GZ was able to earn an eight-point advantage, 23-15, at the close of the first quarter.
Having more age and experience over JYO, 2GZ stifled the competition and extended its lead to 11 points, 41-30, on a basket by Darnell Holmes ('14) just before halftime.
A 1-of-2 performance from the charity stripe by Drexel-bound Tyshawn Myles (Washington Irving (N.Y.) '14), as well as an up-and-under and jumper by Holmes, at the start of the third period, catapulted 2GZ Entertainment ahead by 14 points 46-32.
A bucket by JYO's Dunn followed up by a 3-pointer from teammate Elijah McNeely ('16) snipped 2GZ' lead to seven points, 46-39. With under 3:25 left in the quarter, JYO came together and utilized its team chemistry. A reverse lay-in by Amir Tutt ('16) and a tough shot cleared by McNeely after zigging and zagging through the defense brought JYO within an ace, 54-53.
Tutt continued his hot-handed streak into the fourth quarter, scoring on back-to-back baskets -- the last of which was secured while drawing a foul. After Tutt completed the conventional three-point play, JYO held a four-point advantage, 58-54. Though 2GZ tried to re-establish the momentum in its favor, a stop-and-pop jumper by McNeely prevented 2GZ from getting too far.
In fact, each time it seemed as if 2GZ was pushing its will on the competition, JYO would do just enough to stay ahead. JYO held as much as an eight-point margin over 2GZ before the long, Iowa-bound Dominique Uhl (Point Pleasant Beach (N.J.) '14) netted a basket over his defenders.
The 2GZ' Omar Williams (Believe Prep (N.C.) '14) and Obanya gave their squad a one-point advantage, 70-69. With pressure turned all the way up as time winded down, JYO and 2GZ traded buckets and leads.
The 2GZ Entertainment appeared to be the winners to advance to the championship game when, after much contesting, Uhl and his teamnates grabbed about four offensive boards right under the rim and cashed in with only 11 seconds left in the matchup.
Yet, JYO refused to give up. Having to run the full length of the court against 2GZ' frisky defense and get a decent shot off seemed like an extremely difficult task. Dunn inbounded the ball to McNeely, who pushed it rapidly up the court and passed it to teammate Coburn waiting on the wings.
Colburn nailed an off-balanced 3-pointer as time expired.
JYO's Coburn and Dunn each finished with 17 points, while Wes Nelson added 11 points. McNeely chipped in nine points. Meanwhile, 2GZ' Obanya recorded a game-high 27 points (19 in the first half). Teammates Holmes and Uhl finished with 16 and 12 points, respectively.
THE "MAINE" ATTRACTION WINS iS8 CHIP
Sometimes when you do something for the right reasons, it really does pay off.
The "Maine" Attraction was composed of some of the best high school talent coming out of Brooklyn, N.Y. The purpose of the squad's presence in the iS8/Nike Spring High School Classic this year was to serve as a tribute to head coach Dwayne 'Tiny' Morton's former assistant coach at Abraham Lincoln High School (N.Y.), the late Jermaine 'Maine' Brown.
"It's wonderful to get a win for 'Maine," said Morton, "and especially for all those guys going to college... Jermaine always wanted to win one of these."
"I got his (Brown's) brother to take one of the trophies home," added Morton.
Throughout the Classic's pool play and the playoffs, The "Maine" Attraction played with a purpose, rarely struggling with hardwood contenders. Composed of primarily Lincoln seniors heading to Seton Hall along with Morton, who will be a Pirates assistant this upcoming season, The "Maine" Attraction barrelled through its championship opponent for an easy win on Saturday.
Though The "Maine" Attraction tipped-off against Jamaica Youth Organization (JYO), which is made up of players from PSAL 'AA' championship squad Benjamin Cardozo High School (Queens, N.Y.), the Brooklyn-based ball club met very little resistance.
The "Maine" Attraction staged a large-scale blowout, 81-58.
JYO's Tareq Coburn ('16) carried some of his outside firepower from his team's buzzer-beating win in the semifinal round and opened the matchup with a confident 3-pointer. Though Coburn received much help from teammate Elijah McNeely ('16), The "Maine" Attraction's Rutgers-bound Mike Williams (Bishop Loughlin (N.Y.) '14) started to make his presence felt.
The "Maine" Attraction inched ahead by eight points, 15-7. JYO climbed back, coming within two points, 15-13, with 55 seconds left in the first period. However, from the final seconds of the warm-up phase and into the second quarter, The "Maine" Attraction surged.
Williams, along with future Seton Hall teammates Isaiah Whitehead (Abraham Lincoln (N.Y.) '14) and Desi Rodriguez (Abraham Lincoln (N.Y.) '14), punctuated the massive run with a 30-point advantage, 54-24, by halftime.
JYO appeared to be a shadow of its earlier self, visibly winded and not clicking on the same cylinders it was in its semifinal contest.
The third quarter was more of the same. There was no major dent made in the hefty deficit created in the first half. Ultimately, The "Maine" Attraction extended its lead to as much as 32 points in the fourth and final phase.
Williams, who won the championship MVP, finished with a game-high 26 points (16 in the first half), while teammate Rodriguez recorded 17 points (12 in the first stanza). Whitehead posted 15 points.
JYO's McNeely, who secured the championship sportsmanship award, had a team-high 15 points in the loss, while Wes Nelson and Coburn each added 10 points apiece.


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In Feb 2012 I had an ectropion repair after top & lower eye surgery 6 months prior. My left eye wouldn't stay closed while I slept so was always irritated. I was told it was a simple procedure . The result is that my left eye is now smaller/shows less outer white than the right. When I look to my left I have no clear vision with my top & lower eyelid covering my eyeball. it looks ugly and my eyelid still peels open at night. My doctor says it can be fixed. I dread another op. What should I do?
One Eye Looks Smaller Than the Other After Ectropion Repair and I Have Impaired Vision when I Look to my Left? (photo)
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You need to heal 6 to 12 months.
You analysis is correct. The left lateral canthal angle is disinserted. This causes the eye to look smaller. A lateral canthoplasty not a canthopexy is what you need. The canthoplasty is an open canthal reconstruction that reattaches the lateral limb of the eyelids to the orbital rim. The challenge here is that sometimes in correcting the ectroption, the surgeon removed some portion of the lower eyelid margin. This effectively shortens the lower eyelid permanently. This makes correcting the position of the outer corner of the eyelids very difficult. I suspect this is your issue. Also the surgeon you are referring to is Dr. Lisman and he described modification of earlier ectropion surgeries. My recommendation is let yourself heal more and do very careful listening before making a decision as to who should attempt to correct the eyelid.
One Eye Looks Smaller Than the Other After Ectropion Repair and I Have Impaired Vision when I Look to my Left?
Great photo documentation. Your issues are real but over the internet very hard to give advise in this detailed situation. Best to seek many second opinions in person. I say this because the deforming issue in the photos appears very minor, thus only in person evaluation can demonstrate the issue.
Canthopexy and timing
You should wait. . .another 4 to 6 months. Time won't hurt you really but premature revision surgery may.
You're issue is not that uncommon in ectropion repair even in the very best hands.
This can be revised but give things time to settle. I would also see a few Oculoplastic surgeons before moving forward. The surgeon who performed your ectropion repair got the tough job and so have him/her follow you and give them an opportunity to be a part of your care, but again, get a few more opinions. You need a canthopexy to over and support the corner of the eye. However, as time passes you may find this bothers you less if at all.
Best of luck
Chase Lay, MD
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RBI will launch IIBs linked to consumer price index inflation to individuals at a minimum fixed interest rate of 1.5%, the central bank said in a release on Friday.
Also called CPI inflation-linked national savings securities, these 10-year bonds will pay interest rate linked to the combined CPI inflation over and above the minimum rate of 1.5%.
Interest rate would comprise two parts fixed rate (1.5%) and inflation rate based on CPI and the same will be compounded in the principal on half-yearly basis and paid at the time of maturity, the RBI said.
Bankers said the bonds will get a positive response but volumes may take time to pick up given the cap on maximum investment.
We will have to see how banks can track the R5,00,000 investment limit of an individual, said Ashish Parthasarthy, head of treasury at HDFC Bank.
It will take time for volumes to pick up because of this limit, he added.
At present, IIBs in the institutional market are linked to the wholesale price index inflation and every IIB auction has seen a very tepid response from retail investors given that the CPI inflation is far higher than WPI. The 1.44%, 2023 IIB that was first issued in June, is currently trading around 3.63%. In the last four auctions of the bond, there were no bids in the non-competitive segment reserved for retail investors.
For retail IIBs, the CPI inflation with a three-month lag would be used for interest calculations, RBI said. For instance, CPI inflation of September will be the reference for CPI inflation of December. The retail inflation in September was 9.84% and it rose to 10.09% in October, according to latest government data.
Retail investors can buy these securities from banks for a minimum investment of R5000, the central bank said. The maximum investment will be capped at R5,00,000.
Investors will also be able to redeem the securities after a lock-in period of three years, the RBI said. For senior citizens, this lock-in period is one year.
While the bonds have an investment limit, they offer the flexibility of leverege as they can be used as collateral while availing loans from banks.


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Why is it so hard for individual investors, or even fund managers, to beat the market
First, let's look at the pros.
S&P Indices research says that over the past 10 years, 56.6% of all domestic funds underperformed the S&P 1500 composite. This index includes small-, mid- and large-cap stocks.
Such findings can inspire criticism, but drawing the right conclusion isn't as easy as it appears.
The critics of the fund industry overlook several realities.
Reality check No. 1: Some conservative funds — such as income funds — aren't designed to "beat the market." They are designed to distribute income and preserve capital by lowering risk. These funds naturally underperform, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Reality check No. 2: Nobody should expect talent among fund managers to be evenly distributed. Saying more fund managers underperform the market than outperform the indexes deserves a shrug and a so-what response.
The masters of any discipline will often deliver results that are far better than the average performance. That such masters are few in number isn't surprising.
Reality check No. 3: Part of the reason most fund managers can't beat the market consistently is because cash is not considered a valid position. A 100% or even 50% cash position would be hard to get past a fund manager's boss, committee or customer.
Is that the fault of fund managers? Probably not. Many understand that there are times when cash is king. But they are not going to fight the Zeitgeist.
What about individual investors
They also have problems beating the market, but usually for different reasons.
Many rely on "gut instincts" rather than research. This often leads to strategy switching, or throwing bits of different strategies together into a chaotic mess.
Admitting mistakes and cutting losses also can be hard for the individual investor. One bad stock, allowed to run to a loss of 30%, 50% or more, can kill a portfolio.
Lack of patience also can be a problem. Individuals may find it hard to wait for a high-probability opportunity. Cash is like a lack of courage, a thing of shame, to these investors.
They are consumed by the notion that somewhere, there is a stock taking off without them.
Actually, there always is. The problem is that in a serious market correction, the odds of finding that stock are far less than the odds of finding a loser.
How does IBD propose to get around these realities? Proper market timing is the only way to beat the market.
Many people say, "You can't time the market.
This is reminiscent of the tale about a man who went up to trumpeter Miles Davis and said, "You can't dance to that music." Davis looked at the man and said, "No, you can't dance to that music.
One reason market timing gets a bum rap is because few people are truly listening to the market. And if you don't pay attention, you'll never hear the tones.
Finally, asking why it's so hard to beat the market is probably the wrong question to ask.
A better first question might be: Why is it so easy to beat a bad market when you're not in it
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Over the last few years Big Data has become more important and critical to the world. Increasingly, business value seems to be discovered by mining large amounts of data. However, the Big Data technology landscape is very fragmented. There are a number of established database/analytics providers, there's Hadoop (in a number of flavors) and there are a myriad of homegrown systems. For instance, Facebook and Google alone have publicized six analytics tools all loosely based on the SQL language, yet different: Hive, Peregrine, Presto, Dremel, Tenzing and F1. While each of these systems solved important business problems, most of them do not follow industry standards due to development time pressure or technology limitations imposed by scalability. They do not speak exactly the same language and don't see data the same exact way. Moreover, the data they process is often produced by programs written in a language significantly different from SQL, such as C++ or Java. When you put it all together it mostly works, except when it doesn't. And when it doesn't, it is often very hard to understand the error or track it down because it's not related to a specific application code change.
Data Languages at Quantcast
At Quantcast we've certainly experienced some of this while processing a few exabytes of data in various formats. At first we used mostly Hadoop/Java and PostgreSQL to process data. Then we adopted Sawzall, which increased our productivity and made our data available to non-engineers. Prior to Sawzall, product managers would normally have to work with an engineer for days to analyze a data set, but with Sawzall they could now analyze large data sets themselves.
Using Sawzall, however, brought a new set of challenges. It didn't play all that well with our Java codebase. We had to translate back and forth between four type systems: Java, protobuf, Sawzall, and PostgreSQL. We've seen issues with signed vs. unsigned integers, character encoding, wide vs. narrow types, and nested vs. flat structures. These issues can cause serious problems because they may go undetected at first, causing subtle behavior changes downstream.
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Surviving Babylon: It Helps to Know Ahead
Given all of the risks around throwing a mix of useful but different languages at an already unwieldy Big Data problem, we wanted to highlight one of the ways we made sense of it all.
Our first measure was organizational. We standardized a single reference type system, which was essentially a subset of Java basic types and arrays that have a precise match in PostgreSQL.
On the system side, we took control of type conversions. Essentially all data passing between systems either goes through Java or is made in a binary format that is compatible with our Java type system subset. For instance, Sawzall programs produce output in a proprietary type system. We have (1) written a translator that automatically converts to protobuf and (2) limited the capability of the translator to only types that can be safely translated to our reference type system.
Perhaps the most successful measure in dealing with multiple type systems was designing the system so that type checking is 100% performed before data processing starts, and programming it to abort execution early on mismatches. In other words, if you're going to be running a 10-hour data pipeline, it really helps to give up after seconds instead of wasting hours, when you know the data shape/types won't match at some point. Even complex data pipelines made of a mix of steps written in Sawzall, Java and PostgreSQL are type-checked precisely 100% at execution planning time, across type systems and across languages.
Precise and Complete Type Checking Across Multiple Languages
Here is how we got full type-checking across Java, Sawzall and PostgreSQL.
- Our data pipeline engine is written in Java. The pipeline execution plan is produced entirely before starting execution. Type checking happens in Java while the execution plan is being assembled. The data record abstraction is a flat row in which each element is a basic Java type or array thereof.
- Each language must provide a record schema translator that, given a program in that language and an input record format, produces the exact output record format. All input/output record formats conform to the data record abstraction requirements. Also, each language should provide a type checking mechanism to ensure that the program is valid and matches the input/output format.
- In Java, this requirement is provided by declaring record formats as Java classes containing only basic field types (or arrays). A Java pipeline step takes as input objects of such a class and produces as output objects of such a class. We require programmers to specify input/output classes statically. This information becomes available to the checker through reflection.
- In Sawzall, this requirement is fairly easily satisfied on the input side. Flat rows containing Java types map easily into protobufs, the Sawzall input schema. We construct the protobuf definition at pipeline assembly time and compile the Sawzall program against it to continue type-checking fully within the Sawzall program. On the output side, however, the schema and types will change depending on the text of the Sawzall program. We developed a schema translator that grabs Sawzall output table schemas from the output of static analysis and converts them to record formats that can be processed by the global checker.
- We interact with PostgreSQL through JDBC. At planning time we execute the SQL query against an empty table with a schema translated from the input record format. This accomplishes three goals. First, it forces PostgreSQL to validate that the query matches the input record format. Second, it forces PostgreSQL to perform type checking throughout its expressions and aggregators. Third, it forces PostgreSQL to produce an empty result set that contains the output schema definition. We translate this back into our standard record format so the checker can carry it forward to its consumer, be it Java, Sawzall or PostgreSQL.
- In addition to the pipeline assembly time checks, we also generate code to perform binary data translation between the different type systems. The code includes runtime checks or conversions such as the ones needed to avoid overflow.
Bottom Line
We've shown how we managed to use Java, Sawzall and PostgreSQL together to solve Big Data problems reliably. Each language has its strengths, but using them together can cause trouble. While they do seem to work together well at first sight, proving that they do work together well is both nontrivial and needed in order to provide reliability at scale. At Quantcast we have transferred hundreds of petabytes between Java, Sawzall and PostgreSQL with the certainty of early and complete type checking across components written in these three languages.
Written by Silvius Rus on behalf of the Big Data Platforms team at Quantcast.


text: Study: birth defect rates higher in MTR areas By Paul J. Nyden June 21, 2011 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Researchers found "significantly higher" rates of birth defects in areas with mountaintop removal mines than in non-mining regions in central Appalachia, according to a study released Tuesday.The study "offers one of the first indications that health problems are disproportionately concentrated specifically in [mountaintop removal] areas. It's significant not only to people who live in coalfields but to policymakers as well," said Michael Hendryx, an epidemiologist at West Virginia University.Hendryx is one of the authors of the study, titled "The Association between Mountaintop Mining and Birth Defects among Live Births in Central Appalachia, 1996-2003.""This study extends previous research on low birth weight and on adult morbidity and mortality in coal mining areas," Hendryx said.Published in the journal Environmental Research, the study was based on more than 1.8 million live birth records between 1996 and 2003.The study used statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics from four central Appalachian states: West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee.The study found six different kinds of health problems occurred more frequently in areas near mountaintop removal mines than in non-mining areas: circulatory/respiratory, central nervous system, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, urogenital and problems from "other" types of defects.The study also noted, "Elevated birth defect rates are partly a function of socioeconomic disadvantage, but remain elevated after controlling for those risks. Both socioeconomic and environmental influences in mountaintop mining areas may be contributing factors." The new study, "shows that places where the environment -- the earth, air and water -- has undergone the greatest disturbance from mining are also the places where birth defect rates are the highest," said Melissa Ahern of Washington State University, another of the study's authors.Four other WVU researchers working on the study were Jamison Conley and Evan Fedorko from the Department of Community Medicine, and Alan Ducatman and Keith J. Zullig from the Department of Geology and Geography.The study found health impacts from mountaintop removal mining were more pronounced between 2000 and 2003, than between 1996 and 1999.In 2003, the federal Environmental Protection Agency released an "environmental impact statement" estimating more than 1.4 million acres of central Appalachian forests had already been destroyed or were sites of future mountaintop removal operations.Telephone messages seeking comments were not returned by the West Virginia Coal Association or by Alpha Natural Resources, the Abingdon, Va.- based company that recently purchased Massey Energy, a major owner of mountaintop removal operations in Central Appalachia.Many coalfield residents and community action groups opposed to end mountaintop removal mining previously warned of its health impacts, according to a news release sent out on Tuesday by the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Coal River Mountain Watch, Kentucky Environmental Foundation and Kentuckians for the Commonwealth."Mountaintop removal is not necessary; it destroys jobs, it destroys communities, and it is destroying human health," said Bo Webb, a Coal River Valley resident and anti-mountaintop removal activist. Reach Paul J. Nyden at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-5164. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Facebook founder visits Charleston restaurant 2 Innerviews: Dual-identity surgeon riding high in horse racing world 3 Gazette editorial: Capito has second chance to do the right thing 4 Doug Smock: AAC not ready for Power 6 quite yet 5 WVU seeking improvements during off week Troy sewing circle seeks new recruits Previous Story Iowa Daybook Next Story


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This interview was conducted by Sara Normand, Study Abroad and Exchange Officer, Edith Cowan University. Daisy Sanders, a student in the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) at ECU, was an international exchange student at UNCG during the 2012 Fall Semester.
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Ronald Post, a resident of Cushing, passed away Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013, at the VA Medical Center in St. Cloud.
Funeral services were held Wednesday, Aug. 14, at the Shelley Funeral Chapel in Little Falls. Burial was in the Minnesota State Veterans Cemetery north of Little Falls.
Ronald was born Nov. 2, 1933, in Parker Township, to the late Arthur and Myrtle (Statema) Post. He grew up and resided his entire life in Cushing. Ron entered into the United States Army May 2, 1957, and served in Germany his entire tour. He was honorably discharged April 22, 1959. Ron was united in marriage to Mary Lou Bollig Dec. 3, 1965, in Little Falls. Ron worked as a welder for much of his life, but his favorite job was making firewood that he sold. In his free time he enjoyed hunting, fishing and working on old steam engines. He loved spending time with his family and also enjoyed having coffee with his friends every morning in Lincoln. Ron was dearly loved and will be greatly missed.
Ron is survived by his wife ,Mary Lou Post of Cushing; son, Kevin (Angie) Post of Cushing; brother, Arthur (Meridith) Post of California; sister, Jeanette White of Little Falls; and grandchildren, Kevin Post Jr., Levi Post, Elliott Post, Garrett Post, Megan Post and many nieces and nephews.
Ron was preceded in death by his parents, Arthur and Myrtle Post; twin brother, Donald Post; brothers, Robert and Michael Post; and sister, Annie Brock.
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Are you looking for some simple, fun, and creative crafts, recipes, and decorations for St. Patrick's Day? Me too! So I pulled a couple ideas from our archives and then found a few more to inspire us with their simple ingredients, kid-friendly steps, and fun presentations.
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Friday, July 27, 2012
Stay Out of the Attic!
Ever since I was a small boy, and watched them on TV or in the theatre, I've always had strong feelings when it comes to horror and scary movies.
They scare the bejeezus out of me.
Whenever I make the stupid mistake of seeing a scary movie, I have nightmares, I jump at strange xsounds, and I'm convinced that all the monsters in every scary movie I've ever seen, including Jaws, are under my bed, on my side. They stay away from my wife's side, because they know she owns a shotgun and I do not.
It's weird, because I'm not afraid of psychological thrillers like Silence of the Lambs, Basic Instinct, or Copycat. In fact, I enjoy them, and have seen them several times, and not because Sharon Stone gets naked.
It doesn't matter whether I'm at home (the monsters are in my closet), at a friend's house (the monsters are in his closet), or at the movie theater (the monsters are hiding in the popcorn), I'll be scared witless.
But no one takes my fears seriously. Just a few weeks ago, my wife, my sister-in-law, and her husband absolutely demanded that I go see The Others, the Nicole Kidman-Tom Cruise pre-divorce production, and they promised me "it wasn't so bad."
The Others is a "supernatural suspense thriller" about a young mother (Nicole Kidman) and her children (two pasty-faced English kids) who live in a house on the Channel Islands. The kids believe there are ghosts in the house, and Kidman gradually realizes her kids may just be right.
One reviewer called it "the scariest thriller of the year."
"The scariest thriller of the year!" I informed my wife a week later. "You made me see the scariest thriller of the year."
The last time I watched a scary movie was August 1989, 24 hours before I was supposed to start graduate school. I hadn't seen a horror movie for several years, and thought I could watch The Shining with no problem. I told myself, "I'm 21 years old and a college graduate, so I should be able to handle The Shining."
When it was over, I went to my dad's house, where I was staying that summer, sleeping in my sister's old room. As you would expect, I had nightmares, and woke up in a sweat. I slowly pulled the covers back with my feet, since the movement would be hidden by the covers (monsters can only see you if you move), and did the unthinkable: I opened my eyes.
That's when I saw something hovering several feet above me — a small white blob. Of course, my eyesight is so bad without my glasses, it could have been the Queen. However, since it was 4:00 a.m., I knew there shouldn't be anything hovering several feet above me, including the Queen.
I didn't know what I was seeing, but I couldn't look away. I wanted to stare death in the face when it came. I lay there, listening to my thudding heart, sweating profusely. And if I didn't get to the bathroom fast, I was going to have a bigger problem than just having my life force sucked out by the Queen.
As time passed, I began to remember the setting of the room, the various items my sister had left there from years past, and it suddenly hit me: I wasn't looking at a ghostly white blob or the Queen at all! It was just a stupid Winnie the Pooh mobile she'd had when she was a baby. I guess she had been nostalgic for her days as an infant and hung the stupid thing over her bed. I had been lying there for 30 minutes, trying not to wet myself, waiting to be pounced on by Winnie the Pooh and his friends!
I breathed a huge sigh of relief, but was so disgusted at my own wussiness, I stormed out of the bed, stomping on several monster hands, and went to the bathroom. Afterward, I was still too scared to go back to sleep, so I watched infomercials until I had to get up anyway.
Until I was dragged kicking and screaming to The Others, it was the last time I ever watched a horror movie.
And I'm not going to see anymore until I get a shotgun of my own.
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Friday, July 20, 2012
My Short-Lived Career as a TV Futurist
Not in a psychic, you-will-meet-a-tall-dark-stranger kind of way. But rather, I would look at a certain set of facts, spot a pattern that no one else had, and then predict with 100% certainty that a specific thing would happen, or not happen.
I thought I wanted to have a career as a futurist, which is a fancy way of saying I would get paid a lot of money to give speeches about what technology trends we could expect to see in the future.
In high school, I did play with the whole psychic prediction thing, and even took a little test. I scored 30%, which meant I was slightly better at guessing than the average guesser, but I did not have what the Gypsies call "the Second Sight." And I needed glasses for my First Sight.
The only prediction I did get right was that I was never going to be a futurist.
I began to realize how bad I was in 1998, after the Indianapolis Colts released quarterback Jim Harbaugh in favor of some new kid. Harbaugh had just taken the Colts to the AFC championship game, where they lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Colts rewarded him by cutting him loose.
"What the hell are they doing, getting rid of the Comeback Kid?" I said with all the authority of a sports reporter. "Why are they turning the offense over to some hick out of Tennessee? Just because his dad played football doesn't mean he's any good."
I was right, because the Colts went 3 – 13 that next year. But after the 1999 season, when the Colts went 13 – 3, I decided that, okay, maybe Peyton Manning was a good pick.
But I was livid again when the Colts traded Marshall Faulk to the St. Louis Rams at the end of 1998, and picked up another rookie for their running back.
"Edgerrin James?" I exploded. "What the hell kind of name is Edgerrin?"
Apparently it's a winning kind of name, because in 1999, he was part of that 13 – 3 team of Peyton Manning's.
So when the Colts got rid of tight end Marcus Pollard in 2004 and put Dallas Clark in as the primary tight end, I didn't say a word, other than to mumble, "good choice, good choice."
I'm not that good at picking favorite TV shows either. When "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" from Aaron Sorkin premiered at the same time as Tina Fey's "30 Rock," I went with Sorkin. His show was canceled before the season ended. "30 Rock" has won enough Emmy awards to beat Aaron Sorkin senseless. (In my defense, I have since become a huge "30 Rock" fan and have almost all the seasons on DVD.)
However, I'm not a complete prediction failure either. Remember, I scored 30% on my psychic predictability test, and that's about how well I've done picking TV shows too. I would like to go on the record as having picked "Highlander" and "Xena: Warrior Princess" to have long, successful runs.
While this does redeem my reputation somewhat, it doesn't speak very highly of my tastes in television.
Of course, I'm not the only one to make bad predictions. Many stories abound of publishers who thought they knew what the public liked and didn't like, only to find they had passed on some blockbuster properties.
Jack Canfield, author of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series was rejected over 140 times before he found his first publisher. Poet e.e. cummings' first book of poetry, "The Enormous Room," is considered a masterpiece of modern poetry, but cummings had to publish it himself, because 15 publishers rejected it.
And J.K. Rowling is now richer than the Queen of England, thanks to Harry Potter. But she nearly wasn't, because the first book was rejected by 12 publishers before it was bought by Bloomsbury in England, and only after the chairman's 8-year-old daughter read the first chapter and insisted on more.
I can only hope the 12 publishers are kicking themselves at passing up an empire-building series, because they thought they were good at predicting what "the public" wanted.
If they had only listened to me, maybe things would have turned out differently.
But I can safely predict they probably never will.
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My latest book, No Bullshit Social Media: The All-Business, No-Hype Guide to Social Media Marketing is also out. You can get it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Books-A-Million in October, or get it for the Kindle or Nook.
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Friday, July 13, 2012
Trust Means You Don't Spy On Your Spouse
Trust Means You Don't Spy On Your Spouse
Samantha Brick of London spies on her husband because she doesn't trust other women.
In a recent story she wrote in the London Daily Mail, Brick said her husband's business is not just his business, it's hers too. Every day, she snoops into his personal correspondence — checking his email, voicemail, snail mail, and text messages every single day — all under the guise of not trusting other women.
"It's not that I don't trust my husband, Pascal — I do. I just don't trust other women."
No, you don't trust your husband. If you really trusted your husband, you would trust him to be able to say no, and not get tricked into accidentally having sex with another woman.
"Oopsie, how did that get there? Oh, because my wife forgot to check my email today."
Brick's rationale for her lack of trust is Jools Oliver, wife of Jamie Oliver, host of the Naked Chef and Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. Jools apparently also pries into her husband's personal correspondence for the same reason.
Jools' first problem was marrying a guy called the "Naked Chef."
Brick said she doesn't see it as snooping, she sees it as protecting her marriage.
There are many ways to protect a marriage. Open communication is one of them, trust is another. And if you feel the need to monitor everything and everyone your husband talks to, you don't have either.
For further justification, Jools and Brick cite Vernon Kay, an English TV presenter, who admitted to his wife, Tess Daly, another TV celeb, that he had exchanged "racy" texts with five women. Understandably, Daly no longer trusts her husband.
I won't excuse what Vernon Kay did as "not as bad as cheating," or any other "boys will be boys" cliché. Vernon Kay violated his wife's trust. But for Jools and Brick to snoop on their husbands because another TV celebrity was sexting is like me refusing to go to my bank because another bank across town got robbed.
Brick said her experience has shown her "there are scores of women who are morally bankrupt when it comes to using every form of modern communication available to snare an already taken man."
In other words, this is all Alexander Graham Bell's fault. Apparently women were not morally bankrupted until that Scottish bastard hollered to his assistant, "Watson, come here. I need you!"
Okay, I'll give you that one.
We can also blame Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and even King Charles I, who created the Royal Mail Service in 1635 for women's chicanery and men's gullibility.
But it's obvious Brick doesn't actually trust her husband, and she doesn't hold men in high regard either. She said, "(m)en seem to have no idea about how pitifully easily they can be trapped by unscrupulous women hell bent on hooking any chap they fancy."
In other words, it worked on her husband once, so it might happen again.
Brick's statement is rather sexist. Men are not dim-witted sex addicts who are one racy text message away from having an affair with some woman they just met. A strong, dedicated man can recognize when he's getting into a situation he shouldn't, and get himself out of it. It shouldn't take a nagging shrew snooping into every inch of his life to make sure he keeps his promise.
I saw an ad for a wedding ring that had the word "MARRIED" deeply engraved on the inside. The idea was that if a philandering husband ever tried to remove the ring to pick up a strange woman, his marital status was branded on his finger.
This is a way for women to keep their husbands honest when they weren't around. (Although according to Brick, this may be an open invitation to the rampaging hordes of sluts who are all clamoring to have sex with your husband.)
But honestly, wives, if your husband is the type of man where you have to brand him to keep him from cheating, is he really the man you want to be married to? If that's all that stands between him and violating his marriage vows, then he's not the right man for you.
And men, if your wife is the kind of woman who has to brand you, sift daily through your personal life, and keep tabs on you every second of the day, then she's not the woman you should really be with either.
For the men who don't mind it, and the women who think it's alright, hopefully you'll find each other soon and can start a beautiful non-trusting relationship together.
Just don't let your spouses find out.
My first book, Branding Yourself: How to Use Social Media to Invent or Reinvent Yourself (affiliate link), is now in its 2nd edition. It's available on Amazon.com, as well as at Barnes & Noble and Borders bookstores. I wrote it with my good friend, Kyle Lacy.
My book, No Bullshit Social Media: The All-Business, No-Hype Guide to Social Media Marketing is also out. You can get it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Books-A-Million in October, or get it for the Kindle or Nook.
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Friday, July 06, 2012
Lifeguard Fired for Saving a Man, Internet Saves Him
Lifeguard Fired for Saving a ManThomas Lopez was a lifeguard. He guarded lives. If someone's life was in danger, it was his job to save that person.
Except now he's been fired for saving a life.
Because he broke the rules to do it.
Lopez was working at Hallandale Beach, a city north of Miami, for Jeff Ellis Management, an aquatics company that hires lifeguards and stations them at beaches they have contracts with. Lopez was working at his station when he was summoned to save a man who was in danger of drowning in an "unprotected" area of the beach, where city officials have said visitors swim at their own risk.
Lopez ran 500 yards to the area, only to find that several other people had pulled the man from the water. So he and an off-duty nurse tended to the man until paramedics arrived.
On Monday, Lopez was fired for leaving his station to cover an area they were not contracted to cover.
Everyone who heard the story thought the company acted reasonably. After all, rules are rules.
No, I'm kidding. There was a media crapstorm and social media lit up like the proverbial Christmas tree over the idiocy of the decision.
"People are more important than your bureaucratic rules," said the Internet. (I'm paraphrasing a bit.)
After the incident, two other lifeguards said they would have done the same thing, and were fired. So three more quit in protest.
The city of Hallandale Beach also thought lives were more important than rules. Peter Dobens, a spokesman for the city, said, while the swimmer was in an area marked, "Swim at Your Own Risk," it shouldn't matter when someone is in danger.
"It's always been city policy whether it's in a protected or unprotected area to respond to an emergency," said Dobens.
Dobens said Jeff Ellis Management has been employed by Hallandale Beach since 2003, for $339,000 per year, but that their contract runs out on September 30, 2012.
"I'm told the city was planning on going out for bids on [a new contractor] to see if we can get a better deal," Dobens said.
Something tells me they're going to get it.
After the outcry, Jeff Ellis, owner of Jeff Ellis Management, said they would review Lopez's firing and try to fix the problem. "If we find our actions on the part of the leadership team were inappropriate, we will rectify it based upon the information that comes forward," he said in an interview just as the crapstorm was starting.
By "review, I assume that means management will pull their heads out of where they are currently housed, blink furiously at the bright lights, and then do the common sense thing.
Which they did, sort of.
Today, Lopez was offered his job back, which he politely declined.
"Now that [the firing] is public, they want to fix it. That's shady to me," Lopez told ABC News a few days ago. "If I never said anything, they never would have acted."
I can't blame Lopez for taking a stand. Jeff Ellis Management didn't do the right thing because it's the right thing. They did the right thing because they were shamed out of doing the wrong thing.
It was less of a "oh, should we not have done that?" and more of a "oh crap, they saw us!"
Ellis' feeble explanation was that they have limited zones for a reason: their responsibility is to provide lifeguard services for their specific zones, so they don't disrupt the service, which could potentially endanger swimmers.
"We limit what we do to the protected swimming zones that we've agreed to protect," Ellis told WPTV, an area TV station, on Monday.
In other words, Lopez was essentially fired for not following the rules about staying inside the zone.
In other words, the Jeff Ellis Management company values strict adherence to the rules more than they value a human life.
In other words, Lopez would still have his $8.25 an hour job if he had let the man die.
I can see why the Internet got upset.
It was Edmund Burke who said, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Thomas Lopez chose not to do nothing.
Jeff Ellis Management wanted him to do nothing. By firing him for not following orders, they took that unintended first step toward evil. But thanks to the outraged roar of the general public, Jeff Ellis Management blinked first and backed down, for one simple reason:
All that is necessary for the defeat of evil is to piss off the Internet.
My book, Branding Yourself: How to Use Social Media to Invent or Reinvent Yourself (affiliate link), is available on Amazon.com, as well as at Barnes & Noble and Borders bookstores. I wrote it with my good friend, Kyle Lacy.
My latest book, No Bullshit Social Media: The All-Business, No-Hype Guide to Social Media Marketing is also out. You can get it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Books-A-Million in October, or get it for the Kindle or Nook.
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Monday, July 02, 2012
IndyCar Team Fresh Engine Status Update (Subtitle: Yeah, That's a Thing)
INDYCAR provided an update today regarding the status of fresh engines remaining for each team for the remainder of the IZOD IndyCar Series season.
Car — Entrant — Driver — Fresh Engine Status
No. 2 — Team Penske — Ryan Briscoe — 1 Engine Remaining
No. 3 — Team Penske — Helio Castroneves — 1 Engine Remaining
No. 4 — Panther Racing — JR Hildebrand — 2 Engines Remaining
No. 5 — KV Racing Technology — E.J. Viso — 2 Engines Remaining
No. 6/7 — Dragon Racing — Katherine Legge/Sebastien Bourdais — 2 Engines Remaining
No. 8 — KV Racing Technology — Rubens Barrichello — 1 Engine Remaining
No. 9 — Target Chip Ganassi Racing — Scott Dixon — On Engine 5
No. 10 — Target Chip Ganassi Racing — Dario Franchitti — 1 Engine Remaining
No. 11 — KV Racing Technology w/SH — Tony Kanaan — 1 Engine Remaining
No. 12 — Team Penske — Will Power — 1 Engine Remaining
No. 14 — A.J. Foyt Enterprises — Mike Conway — On Engine 5
No. 15 — Rahal Letterman Lanigan — Takuma Sato — On Engine 5
No. 18 — Dale Coyne Racing — Justin Wilson — 1 Engine Remaining
No. 19 — Dale Coyne Racing — James Jakes — 2 Engines Remaining
No. 20 — Ed Carpenter Racing — Ed Carpenter — 1 Engine Remaining
No. 22 — Panther/Dreyer & Reinbold Racing — Oriol Servia — 2 Engines Remaining
No. 26 — Andretti Autosport — Marco Andretti — 2 Engines Remaining
No. 27 — Andretti Autosport — James Hinchcliffe — 2 Engines Remaining
No. 28 — Andretti Autosport — Ryan Hunter-Reay — 2 Engines Remaining
No. 38 — Service Central Chip Ganassi Racing — Graham Rahal — 1 Engine Remaining
No. 67 — Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing — Josef Newgarden — 1 Engine Remaining
No. 77 — Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports — Simon Pagenaud — On Engine 5
No. 78 — Lotus-HVM Racing — Simona de Silvestro — On Engine 5
No. 83 — Novo Nordisk Chip Ganassi Racing — Charlie Kimball — 1 Engine Remaining
No. 98 — Bryan Herta Autosport w/ Curb-Agajanian — Alex Tagliani — 2 Engines Remaining
Pursuant to Rule 15.1.4, Each Full-Season Entrant will be provided with no more than five fresh built Engines throughout each year covered by an engine service agreement. Using more than five fresh Engines in a season will result in a penalty. Engines beyond the fifth fresh Engine may be fresh or part-used.
Pursuant to Rule 15.6.2, Using more than five fresh Engines in a season will be considered Unapproved Engine Change-Outs.


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Pittsburgh International Airport eateries showing improvement on health inspections
Vendors at Pittsburgh International averaged 3 critical violations over the last two years vs. 14 when the Post-Gazette checked 4 years ago.
Ford Fusion? Not seductive. Ditto for nuclear fusion. Spinal fusion sounds painful. And don't get me started on jazz fusion.
But Munch can't help it -- the word "fusion" has a certain beguiling quality when applied in a culinary fashion.
It promises a delicately woven tapestry of cuisines, combining recipes, techniques and ingredients from different countries, or even continents.
Executed correctly, you get a novel dining experience.
And when it works, it works memorably -- Tamari's Latin-Asian fusion and Kaya's mix of Latin American, Asian and Caribbean cuisines are but two examples.
That's why, when Munch hears the word "fusion" uttered in proximity to the phrase "that new restaurant," the heart starts a-fluttering and the stomach starts a-grumbling. Hope springs eternal in the breast of Munch n'at.
But caveat lector: sometimes "fusion" is just a marketing gimmick. This would seem to be the case with Lin's Asian Fusion on East Carson Street in the South Side. Munch visited with Dear One of Munch (DOOM) a few days ago, hoping for a bit of China, a bit of Thailand, a bit of sushi.
Instead, what we got was a whole lot of Chinese, and not much else.
First, the good -- this is a tidy little place (as it should be, because it's just a few months old), brightly painted, and the rolling windows at the front of the restaurant open to the sidewalk.
This is a welcome feature: The more fresh air that is wafting through the dining space, the less your clothes will smell like kung pao when you leave.
Also good: The South Side, believe it or not, can actually use a Chinese restaurant. For all of the dining variety down there -- French to Nicaraguan, Sicilian to Lebanese, Thai to Mexican, German to Irish, Spanish to Japanese, Cambodian to cheesecake, and all manner of bars, sandwich shops and pizza places -- there aren't a lot of spots on Carson where you can get cheap Chinese food.
So it's not that Munch has a knee-jerk bias against Chinese joints. It's just that you only get one chance to make a first impression. And Lin's Asian Fusion had set a certain expectation, which it did not meet. Munch wanted to channel Munch's inner "Where's-The-Beef" lady:
Say, where's the fusion?
But it is what it is. A good restaurant critic -- and Munch is certainly the furthest thing from a good restaurant critic -- learns to roll with the punches. (Actually, a good restaurant critic would have known that Lin's is not a fusion restaurant from the get-go, because he or she would have bothered to check the menu online.)
Anyhow. Egg flower soup ($2.75 for a bowl, $1.50 a cup), a Chinese appetizer staple that you also may know as "egg drop soup," was in fine form at Lin's, silken strands of beaten egg yolk sluicing through the boiling-hot chicken broth.
DOOM, on the other hand, found the avocado spring rolls ($3.95) disappointing; too sweet and too much cream cheese, and frankly, in this presentation, almost identical to the ubiquitous crab rangoon. The avocado was nearly imperceptible. And by the way, do they actually use cream cheese in the Far East? No, I suspect they do not.
The meal improved from there. Salt and pepper shrimp ($10.50) was handled nicely, plump shrimp lightly fried in cornstarch, seasoned and then joined with rice and vegetables. DOOM was concerned when the "basil tofu" ($8.25) came out flash-fried, but Lin's offered to replace the dish with steamed tofu in place of the fried stuff, and it made a big difference.
DOOM would have appreciated a warning about the hot peppers in the meal, though, and that seems fair, considering the dish wasn't denoted as one of the spicier menu options.
From a neighborhood development standpoint, it's a better use of retail space than what had been there before, a massage therapy center and medical building, with a fairly hideous stucco archway fronting the street.
And it's really not a bad little Chinese restaurant.
But fusion it is not, despite the cameo appearances of pad thai and bubble tea on the menu (and two curry dishes).
As a great president once said, "Fool me once, shame on -- [long pause] -- uh, shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."
I think those words carry special meaning, especially in these troubled times.
Lin's Asian Fusion, 2018 East Carson St., 412-251-0228, linsasianfusion.com, open seven days. Munch: firstname.lastname@example.com or look for Munch on Facebook.
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Vendors at Pittsburgh International averaged 3 critical violations over the last two years vs. 14 when the Post-Gazette checked 4 years ago.
Columnist shares 40 favorite Pittsburgh food stops, past and present.
Cafe Eighteen's pastry chef, Arbil Lopez, explains the science behind the ingredients of the cake.
Lots of fairs, fun and music as the summer winds to a close.
There also will be festivals this week inspired by the planet Earth and Congo rainforest, and wine and brew festivities.
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LOVING my Easter victories. Feeling at peace despite challenges.
EXCITED FOR next week. Business partners from Thailand and Philippines will come over for our Asia Pacific Convention and Benjo and I will be awarded for our efforts. I can't wait to be ignited and spend time with our team!
LISTENING TO Kuya's laughter while he watches Smurfs 2. He watches movie every morning after breakfast. After that he will exercise. Then prepare for school.
ENJOYING my home office and all the stuff I do at home. I am happy to wake up before sunrise, prepare breakfast and lunch boxes and pray early. I want to maintain this habit. And I also hope to maintain blogging. I know I say that every time I post. Lol.
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How was your day?
I woke up really early.
Went to school with B.
Danced at the children's day concert.
Danced again with some mommies at the canteen while giving out snacks to the kids (because there was music).
Played basketball and dart with my boys.
Ate cheese prata with the boys.
Ate cheese prata with the boys.
Read scriptures.
Talked to a friend.
Had facials.
And pedicure.
Tried to keep in touch with my family.
Understood when my family was to busy to keep in touch.
Became a "friend" to my husband.
Worked hard.
Got rejected.
Cycled for an hour to move on from rejection.
Had black coffee.
Ate fruits.
Took vitamins.
Finished my phone's memory by recording memories.
Did some crafts.
Gave thanks to God.
Did some crafts.
Gave thanks to God.
Wrote this post.
And smiled a lot.
Hope you too had the best day ever!
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Kidzania 2016
Finally, the boys were able to experience Kidzania! We went there with no enough knowledge of what it was all about except that it's a huge "pretend play" theme park for kids. The night before, I saw bad reviews on facebook about the insanely long queue not just at entrance but in all activities and kiddy jobs. Uh oh.
Kuya has autism and although he can tolerate mild to moderate waiting time, I was not so sure about the "insanely long" kind of waiting time. So because Benjo already bought the tickets online and Miguel "couldn't stop grinning" it was too late to back out. That explains my hoping-for-the-best-expecting-the-worst-face in the photo.
Now imagine my face when I saw this! SHORT QUEUE!
The start of an amazing adventure! Look at those priceless smiles :)
They gave us these Radio Frequency Identification bracelets. Kids are only allowed to go out if their bracelets match with the bracelets of those who accompany them. Kuya's was a special (red) bracelet so that all the staff will know he has autism. Apparently all the staff are trained to handle children with special needs. How AWESOME!
Happy trip!!!
Arrival at Kidzania. It looks like a small city full of very busy small people. I mean big kids. I mean kids who think they are big people! Once we got there, I was overwhelmed with cuteness!
The first thing Miguel saw was the acting workshop.
Even when they become delivery boys, as long as they are happy (and as cute as this when they work haaha). This was one of the activities I enjoyed much. It was so "real" until I looked at the "first salary" they gave me and I saw it was Kidzos and not in dollars or pesos lol.
At one point
Miguel 's bracelet won't work Miguel was called to report to the immigration office due to his questionable identity. Good thing it was settled so he was able to continue making his dreams come true. Such as being a producer/anchor to his own documentary show at Discovery Channel.
Now he wants to be a crew at KFC.
But being a health researcher was too hard to resist. Especially if you come out with freebies!
Now here's the best part. The part where I got emotional.... this was when Kuya joined Miguel again to be a firefighter! Migs was always mindful of his brother, reminding him, giving him a nudge or instructions, making the experience so fun not just for him but for his brother too. Benjo and I were watching, speechless. At one point there was a woman who approached me, telling me how blessed I am to have both of them. We both got teary-eyed. Maybe also because we're both at our 40's, hormones make us cry always :D
Here we are, at the end of the day, so happy and full of new fun and cute memories. Maybe we just got lucky that even if it was a school holiday, it was not as crowded as described by many. And even if it was crowded there's still something we can get out of it. Like when we were queuing at the courier job, I told the boys its really like that when you are looking for a job. You need to sacrifice and work hard and wait.
So if you are a parent, contemplating of whether you give Kidzania a try, JUST GO. It's a wonderful experience your child should not miss.
To the staff of Kidzania especially those at the fire station, THANK YOU! Hats off to you for being so passionate in what you do and for giving our children an experience they won't forget!
Till our next adventure! :)
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Port of Lost Wonder
Enjoyed our family time on the eve of Daddy's birthday at Port of Lost Wonder, Sentosa --- a nice place for family bondings, picnics and water play.
It was first time for us to not worry about Kuya wandering off because Miguel stepped up and took charge! In the photos you can see that they are always together as they would wait for each other all the time! At one point, when the lifeguard talked to Kuya about something, Miguel was there to the rescue, ready to explain about Kuya's autism. HAPPINESS OVERLOAD. I couldn't help but get teary eyed to see that happening.. we can think of it as the boys birthday "gift" for daddy :)
It was first time for us to not worry about Kuya wandering off because Miguel stepped up and took charge! In the photos you can see that they are always together as they would wait for each other all the time! At one point, when the lifeguard talked to Kuya about something, Miguel was there to the rescue, ready to explain about Kuya's autism. HAPPINESS OVERLOAD. I couldn't help but get teary eyed to see that happening.. we can think of it as the boys birthday "gift" for daddy :)
Port of Lost Wonder is open everyday, with $15 entrance fee per child on peak days and holidays and $10 on normal days. FREE entrance for adults.
More photos here.
It's a decision to love life. Every minute of it.
Today, It was just the boys and me as Daddy went biking at Pulau Ubin and Mae enjoyed a day off. Which means, WORK day for me. Ha.
The day started quite not so nicely because I was waken up by a bad dream, some negative thoughts about Kuya's mood swings lately.. and I smell PMS. But at 41, I am becoming so good at loving my life, no matter how hard it is sometimes that what started to be a bad day ended with a bottle of red wine and this blog post.. My day wasn't so bad after all...
The day started quite not so nicely because I was waken up by a bad dream, some negative thoughts about Kuya's mood swings lately.. and I smell PMS. But at 41, I am becoming so good at loving my life, no matter how hard it is sometimes that what started to be a bad day ended with a bottle of red wine and this blog post.. My day wasn't so bad after all...
I arranged flowers, washed plates, cleaned the house and I loved it.
I baked. While I finished some backlogs for work.
I fed the boys. I ate with them. I played with them. I loved it.
We... I mean, I sorted toys, books, flash cards... and we all loved it.
Yes, life may be hard at times. But it can still be beautiful, happy, colorful. If you DECIDE it to be!
Not in the photos:
Miguel's beat box performance
Miguel preparing Milo for Kuya
Kuya's fascination with his old photos
Wine with hubby
chat w/ team
week 6 planning
my teal manicure hahaha!
Heavenly Father, you are my life, and to be with you is the fullness of joy and peace and life; in your loving care for me, I am never truly alone. Help me to live in the certainty of your love and presence each new day. - Praying With Saint Luke
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Dear Papang and Mamang...
I honestly dont like the fact that you are in the hospital now. But I believe you feel happy and very blessed. My prayer is that you will always find pure peace in your heart... and the kind of happiness nga indi ma kuha sa tawo, sa kalibutan and even sa facebook... our love for you is so much more that what can be seen and said. Know that you did and gave the best thing any parent could give to their children --- FAITH. God is so merciful and loving and we have witnessed that because you guided us and you did so well in transmitting your faith to us. For me, that is worth more than all the riches this world can ever give. Thank you for being you. Thank you for everything. Thank God for all his mercy and love to our family manifested in all the struggles we have gone through, the tears and the laughters... life could have been boring and shallow without all these.
We love you our dear parents. If you love us enough to want to stay longer in this world and spend more years with us until you reach your golden anniversary, please be extra careful with what you eat (the jollibee take out made me upset, I cried) please be mindful of your sleeping time, take your supplements religiously and avoid stressors that could further harm your health such as carrying heavy stuff.. etc.
We wish we could be with you today, to visit you in the hospital. I could bake a delicious cake. Miguel and Kuya could sing karaoke. And this day could be as perfect as a rainbow. But God placed each of us where we should be at this moment and we have to trust Him and be grateful.
Happy 43rd anniversary! We love you very much.
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Benjo, Rujim and Migs (and Mae)
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Best. Ever.
First post of the year ... is about the best thing ever that happened last year.
For some of you who may not have been following me long enough, my eldest son, Rujim has Autism. We celebrate everything about him, good or not-so, which I believe helped him so much. He is now almost 10 years old. We don't always have the best days but he is growing happy and adjusted.
Last year December 20, we celebrated Rujim's really special milestone. I want to call it the biggest blessing for our family last year --- he received Jesus Christ through the Sacrament of Holy Communion.
It was unbelievable.
It was hard not to cry.
Best moments were when he received the Host and when he read a prayer in front of everyone present. I wanted to jump and cry and I didn't know that to do. I was just too happy.
We want to thank the Parish of Saint Anthony under Father Terrence, the teachers and catechists Marilyn and Prema and also our newfound friends, Sharra's family who also received the First Holy Communion most of all to God, for making this very important day possible!
And of course, I want to thank Sizzix for giving me the tools I need to personalise Rujim and Sharra's prayer booklets. Would you like me to share with you how I did it? It's very simple, you can do it too! :)
My inspiration and startng point were these pastel chalk inks and the flower wooden stamps. I just randomly stamped on the folded A4 cardstock, which would be the booklet's cover.
Then I die-cut 2 different sizes of ornate shapes using the Sizzix Bubbly Framelits and my Sizzix Bigshot. It's too easy to do this. Just layer a "sandwich" made of Sizzix Cutting Pad, Magnetic Platform, the paper, and another cutting pad... then roll it through the machine! Done!
When all the shapes I wanted to use were ready, I adhered the white ornate shape over the front cover, using foam dots for dimension.
I stamped the words "First Holy Communion" on a smaller, kraft ornate... and layered it on top of the white.
Here are finished books, bound with jutes that match the kraft color. I added stickles (glitters) and dewdrops to prettify it :)
I hope I inspired you today as much as making these and writing my thoughts inspired me. Happy 2016 everyone!
- GeN
Supplies Used:
Sizzix Bubbly Framelits
Sizzix Bigshot
Sizzix Cutting Pads
Sizzix Magneting Platform
cream, white and kraft cardstock
chalk inks
flower stamps - Hero Arts
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Founded as the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, the ensemble gave its inaugural performance on November 5, 1903, shortly after baseball's first World Series and exactly six weeks before the Wright brothers made their unprecedented airplane flight. The Orchestra played its first regional tour in 1907 and made its New York City debut in 1912 at Carnegie Hall, where it has performed regularly ever since. Outside the USA, the Orchestra has played concerts in Australia, Canada, Europe, the Far East, Latin America and the Middle East. Since 1968 it has been known as the Minnesota Orchestra.
The 98-member ensemble now presents nearly 200 programs each year, primarily at its home venue of Orchestra Hall in downtown Minneapolis, and its concerts are heard by live audiences of 400,000 annually. Its Friday night performances are broadcast live regionally by Minnesota Public Radio, and many programs are subsequently featured on American Public Media's national programs, SymphonyCast and Performance Today.
In the early 1920's, the Minnesota Orchestra became one of the first ensembles to be heard on recordings, as well as on the radio - in 1923 it played a nationally broadcast concert under guest conductor Bruno Walter - and it has been recording and broadcasting ever since. Its landmark Mercury Living Presence LP recordings of the 1950s and 1960s, under music directors Antal Doráti and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, have been reissued on compact disc to great acclaim.
In addition to traditional concerts, the Minnesota Orchestra connects with more than 85,000 music lovers annually through educational programs including Young People's Concerts (YPs) and Target Free Family Concerts. In the last decade more than half a million students have experienced a Minnesota Orchestra YP. Musicians also engage in such Orchestra-sponsored initiatives as the Adopt-A-School program, Side-by-Side rehearsals and concerts with young area musicians, and the UPbeat program, which establishes multi-year relationships with communities throughout the Twin Cities and around the state.
The ensemble also offers numerous pops concerts, presenting the greatest contemporary pop performers in genres ranging from rock, jazz and Big Band to Latin, country and world music. In 2008, the Orchestra established Jazz at Orchestra Hall, a jazz series featuring top performers from around the nation, and named Irvin Mayfield as the series' artistic director. American conductor Andrew Litton serves as Artistic Director for the Orchestra's beloved urban summer music festival, Sommerfest, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2010.
With a long history of commissioning and performing new music, the Minnesota Orchestra continues to nourish a strong commitment to contemporary composers. Since 1903 the Orchestra has premiered and/or commissioned nearly 300 compositions, including works by John Adams, Dominick Argento (Minnesota Orchestra Composer Laureate), Aaron Copland, John Corigliano, Charles Ives, Aaron Jay Kernis (Director of the Orchestra's Composer Institute), Libby Larsen, Stephen Paulus, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (Orchestra Conductor Laureate) and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. In addition, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) has bestowed upon the Orchestra 18 awards for adventuresome programming, including Leonard Bernstein Awards for Education Programming in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and, in 2008, the John S. Edwards Award for Strongest Commitment to New American Music.
The Orchestra welcomed Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä as its tenth music director in the fall of 2003. Praised for his intense and dynamic performances, Vänskä is recognized for compelling interpretations of the standard, contemporary and Nordic repertoires. During his tenure, he has drawn extraordinary reviews for concerts both at home and abroad, including appearances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, three European tours - the most recent in February and March 2009 - and Minnesota tours in 2005, 2007 and 2008. Vänskä has extended his tenure with the Minnesota Orchestra through 2015.
The orchestra first began recording in 1924, and produced some landmark records. Among these was the first electrical recording of Gustav Mahler's Resurrection Symphony with Eugene Ormandy, who recorded extensively with the orchestra for RCA Victor in the 1930's. In the 1940's, the Minneapolis Symphony was contracted to Columbia Records and made a series of records with Eugene Ormandy's successor, Dimitri Mitropoulos. These included the premiere recording of G. Mahler's First Symphony. In 1954, the group made the first complete recordings of Tchaikovsky's three ballets: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker under the baton of Antal Doráti. That same year, they also made the first recording of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture to include actual cannon fire, again under the direction of Antal Doráti. These recordings were made for Mercury Records as part of the Living Presence series. In the 1970's, the now Minnesota Orchestra made a series of recordings for Vox Records under the direction of Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. In the 1990's, the orchestra recorded for the Reference Recordings label under the direction of music director, Eiji Oue.
Under Music Director Osmo Vänskä, the Orchestra has completed a five-year, five-disc initiative to record the complete L.v. Beethoven symphonies on the BIS label. The collection has amassed rave reviews, with The New York Times writing that it "may be the definitive [cycle] of our time" and the Financial Times of London praising it as the "modern L.v. Beethoven recording par excellence." The Orchestra's recording of L.v. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with the Minnesota Chorale, received a 2008 Grammy nomination for "Best Orchestral Performance," and the CD featuring the Second and Seventh Symphonies was nominated for a 2009 Classic FM Gramophone Award. In 2009 BIS released its newest collaboration with the Orchestra, the premiere recording of To Be Certain of the Dawn, a Holocaust memorial oratorio by Stephen Paulus on a libretto by Michael Dennis Browne.
Vänskä and the Orchestra have recently embarked on a series of new recording initiatives, include a five-year project with BIS to record all five L.v. Beethoven piano concertos with Russian pianist Yevgeny Sudbin and, for the Hyperion label, live in-concert recordings of Tchaikovsky's three piano concertos and Concert Fantasia, recorded over two seasons with British pianist Stephen Hough.
Summer Festival
Begun in 1980 with Leonard Slatkin at the helm, the orchestra's summer festival has been known by several names, beginning with Viennese Sommerfest, changing to MusicFest in 2001, and eventually reverting to Sommerfest in 2003. Sconcerts are held over a four-week period in midsummer at Orchestra Hall. The orchestra also offers free live music on the plaza before and after each show, with genres varying from folk to jazz to polka band. Leonard Slatkin was Music Director of Sommerfest from 1980 to 1989. Since 2003, Andrew Litton has been Music Director of Sommerfest, and in June 2008, his contract in this post was extended to 2011.
Music Directors
Emil Oberhoffer (1903-1922)
Henri Verbrugghen (1923-1931)
Eugene Ormandy (1931-1936)
Dimitri Mitropoulos (1937-1949)
Antal Doráti (1949-1960)
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (1960-1979)
Sir Neville Marriner (1979-1986)
Edo de Waart (1986-1995)
Eiji Oue (1995-2002)
Osmo Vänskä (2003-Present)
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Bach- Boessenroth: Chorale Prelude Wir glauben all an einen Gott (I) (We all believe in one Creator), BWV 680, transcribed for grand orchestra [1st]
Bach-Mitropoulos: Fantasia & Fugue in G minor ("Great"), BWV 542, transcribed for orchestra [1st]
Bach-Weiner: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C major, BWV 564, orchestrated for large orchestra
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Bach-Cailliet: Prelude & Fugue in B minor, BWV 544, transcribed for orchestra
Bach-Cailliet: Chorale Prelude Herzlich tut mich verlangen (Fervent is my longing), BWV 727, transcribed for orchestra
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Bach-Skrowaczewski:: Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, transcribed for orchestra
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