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When they first arrive at college, many students are surprised at the general education classes they must take in order to graduate. They wonder why someone who wants to be an accountant or psychologist or television producer should study subjects that have nothing directly to do with those fields. And that is a reasonable question--Why should you study history, literature, philosophy, music, art, or any other subject outside of your major? Why should you study any subject that does not help to train you for a job? Why should you study computer programming when you will never write a program? Why study logic when all you want to do is teach first grade or be a church organist?
In answer to this question, let's look at some of the benefits a liberal arts education and its accompanying widespread knowledge will give you.
You will also learn that thinking has its own grammar, its own orderly structure and set of rules for good use. Many subjects help the student to develop an ordered mind, and each subject contributes in a slightly different way. A careful study of computer programming or mathematics or music or logic or good poetry--or all of these--will irresistibly demonstrate the structure of thought and knowledge and intellectual movement, and will create the habit of organized thinking and of rational analysis. Once you develop good thinking habits, you will be able to perform better in any job, but more importantly, the happier your life will be. After your class in programming or poetry you may never write another line of code or verse, but you will be a better husband or wife or teacher or businessman or psychologist, because you will take with you the knowledge of organized solutions, of hierarchical procedures, of rational sequences that can be applied to any endeavor.
2. You will be able to think for yourself. The diverse body of knowledge you will gain from a liberal arts education, together with the tools of examination and analysis that you will learn to use, will enable you to develop your own opinions, attitudes, values, and beliefs, based not upon the authority of parents, peers, or professors, and not upon ignorance, whim, or prejudice, but upon your own worthy apprehension, examination, and evaluation of argument and evidence. You will develop an active engagement with knowledge, and not be just the passive recipient of a hundred boring facts. Your diverse studies will permit you to see the relations between ideas and philosophies and subject areas and to put each in its appropriate position.
Good judgment, like wisdom, depends upon a thoughtful and rather extensive acquaintance with many areas of study. And good judgment requires the ability to think independently, in the face of pressures, distortions, and overemphasized truths. Advertisers and politicians rely on a half-educated public, on people who know little outside of their own specialty, because such people are easy to deceive with so-called experts, impressive technical or sociological jargon, and an effective set of logical and psychological tricks.
Thus, while a liberal arts education may not teach you how to take out an appendix or sue your neighbor, it will teach you how to think, which is to say, it will teach you how to live. And this benefit alone makes such an education more practical and useful than any job-specific training ever could.
3. The world becomes understandable. A thorough knowledge of a wide range of events, philosophies, procedures, and possibilities makes the phenomena of life appear coherent and understandable. No longer will unexpected or strange things be merely dazzling or confusing. How sad it is to see an uneducated mind or a mind educated in only one discipline completely overwhelmed by a simple phenomenon. How often have we all heard someone say, "I have no idea what this book is talking about" or "I just can't understand why anyone would do such a thing." A wide ranging education, covering everything from biology to history to human nature, will provide many tools for understanding. Context is crucial for full understanding, and a general knowledge of the world gives you that context.
2. The more you learn, the more you can learn. Knowledge builds upon knowledge. When you learn something, your brain remembers how you learned it and sets up new pathways, and if necessary, new categories, to make future learning faster. The strategies and habits you develop also help you learn more easily. In terms of the psychology of learning, in order for new information to be transferred from short-term memory into long-term memory, your mind has to reach into long-term memory and find a relevant schema to attach the new information to. The more you learn about everything, the easier it becomes to learn anything and everything else because you have more schema to draw upon.
And just as importantly, good learning habits can be transferred from one subject to another. When a basketball player lifts weights or plays handball in preparation for basketball, no one asks, "What good is weightlifting or handball for a basketball player?" because it is clear that these exercises build the muscles, reflexes, and coordination that can be transferred to basketball--building them perhaps better than endless hours of basketball practice would. The same is true of the mind. Exercise in various areas builds brainpower for whatever endeavor you plan to pursue.
3. Old knowledge clarifies new knowledge. The general knowledge supplied by a liberal arts education will help you learn new subjects by one of the most common methods of learning--analogy. As George Herbert noted, people are best taught by using something they are familiar with, something they already understand, to explain something new and unfamiliar. The more you know and are familiar with, the more you can know, faster and more easily. Many times the mind will create its own analogies, almost unconsciously, to teach itself about the unfamiliar by means of the familiar. It can be said then, that the liberal arts education creates an improvement of perception and understanding. (This process explains why the freshman year of college is often so difficult--students come with such a poverty of intellectual abilities and knowledge that learning anything is very difficult. After a year of struggle, however, an informational base has been created which makes further learning easier. The brain has come up to speed and has been given something to work with.)
4. General knowledge enhances creativity. Knowledge of many subject areas provides a cross fertilization of ideas, a fullness of mind that produces new ideas and better understanding. Those sudden realizations, those strokes of genius, those solutions seemingly out of nowhere, are really almost always the product of the mind working unconsciously on a problem and using materials stored up through long study and conscious thought. The greater the storehouse of your knowledge, and the wider its range, the more creative you will be. The interactions of diversified knowledge are so subtle and so sophisticated that their results cannot be predicted. When Benjamin Franklin flew a kite into a storm to investigate the properties of electricity, he did not foresee the wonderful inventions that future students of his discoveries would produce--the washing machines, microwave ovens, computers, radar installations, electric blankets, or television sets. Nor did many of the inventors of these devices foresee them while they studied Franklin's work.
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." --Thomas Edison
"Chance favors the prepared mind." --Proverb
2. A map of the universe. A well-rounded education, a study of the whole range of knowledge, produces an intellectual panorama, a map of the universe, which shows the relative disposition of things and ideas. Such a systematic view of reality provides an understanding of hierarchies and relationships--which things are more valuable or important than others, how one thing is dependent on another, and what is associated with or caused by something else. As abstract as this benefit may sound, it is just this orientation that will give you a stable foundation for a sane and orderly life. Many people waste their lives in endless confusion and frustration because they have no context for any event or decision or thought they might encounter.
3. Life itself is a whole, not divided into majors. Most jobs, most endeavors, really require more knowledge than that of one field. We suffer every day from the consequences of not recognizing this fact. The psychologist who would fully understand the variety of mental problems his patients may suffer will need a wide-ranging knowledge if he is to recognize that some problems are biological, some are spiritual, some are the product of environment, and so on. If he never studies biology, theology, or sociology, how will he be able to treat his patients well? Shall he simply write them off as hopelessly neurotic?
The doctor who believes that a knowledge of cell biology and pharmacology and diagnosis will be all-sufficient in his practice will help very few patients unless he also realizes that more than eighty percent of the typical doctor's patients need emotional ministration either in addition to or instead of physical treatment. The doctor who listens, and who is educated enough to understand, will be the successful one. A doctor who has studied history or literature will be a better doctor than one who has instead read a few extra medical books.
The preacher, who would produce effective, understandable, memorable sermons that will reach his flock, will need a thorough knowledge of--yes--English composition and logic, that he might preach in an orderly, clear, rational manner. As writing and thinking skills have declined in recent years, so has the quality of preaching. In fact, you have probably noticed how disorganized, rambling, and consequently boring many young preachers are today--how many uncertain trumpet tones are sounding now. The preacher may be a brilliant theologian, but as long as he believes that the only rule of preaching is, "Talk for twenty minutes, say 'Amen' and sit down," he will continue to be ineffective.
John Henry Newman wrote that the pursuit of knowledge will "draw the mind off from things which will harm it," and added that it will renovate man's nature by rescuing him "from that fearful subjection to sense which is his ordinary state." This point--that knowledge will help a person to move from an infatuation with externals and toward worthy considerations--has been often repeated by philosophers for at least three thousand years. And if you consider for a moment the unhappiness caused by our society's slavery to sense and appearance, I think you will agree that a deliverance from that is certainly desirable.
"Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment." --John 7:24
2. General knowledge is an ally of faith. All truth is God's truth; why should we ignore or depreciate an ally, a part of God's wholeness of revelation? The more you learn about the creation, in astronomy, botany, physics, geology, whatever, the more you will praise the miracles he has performed. How can an uneducated man praise God for the wonders of crystallization or capillary attraction or metamorphosis or quasars or stalactites?
General knowledge provides an active understanding of the Gospel and of how it intertwines with human nature, the desires and needs of the heart, the hunger of the soul, and the questions of the mind. The more you learn about man, from history, psychology, sociology, literature, or wherever, the more you will see the penetrating insights and the exact identifications the Bible contains. Some students have remarked that, yes, they always "believed" the Bible, but they have been surprised by how modern and accurate its portrait of humanity really is.
2. Knowledge makes you smarter and smarter is happier. Recent research has demonstrated that contrary to previous ideas, intelligence can actually increase through study and learning. Educated and intelligent people have, statistically, happier marriages, less loneliness, lower rates of depression and mental illness, and a higher reported degree of satisfaction with life.
Christianity is not an addendum to life or knowledge, but the true organizing principle of existence, informing every endeavor with value and every person with purpose and direction. It alone answers with truth and confidence the five great questions that must be answered before life can progress meaningfully:
Who am I?
Why am I here?
Where did I come from?
Where am I going?
What is the purpose of life?
Only when these questions have been correctly answered can the next set be correctly answered also:
Why should I act?
How should I act?
What is good?
What is to be sought?
The answers each person gives to these questions will determine the quality and effectiveness, or perhaps the misery and despair, of his life. By showing the student how to find the right answers to these questions, the Christian liberal arts institution makes more meaningful and useful all the rest of the knowledge it offers.
"[The purpose of a liberal arts education is to] open the mind, to correct it, to refine it, to enable it to know, and to digest, master, rule, and use its knowledge, to give it power over its own faculties, application, flexibility, method, critical exactness, sagacity, resource, address, [and] eloquent expression. . . ."
"A habit of mind is formed which lasts through life, of which the attributes are, freedom, equitableness, calmness, moderation, and wisdom. . . ."
"Knowledge is capable of being its own end. Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward."
"I hold very strongly that the first step in intellectual training is to impress upon a boy's mind the idea of science, method, order, principle, and system; of rule and exception, of richness and harmony."
"There is no science but tells a different tale, when viewed as a portion of a whole, from what it is likely to suggest when taken by itself, without the safeguard, as I may call it, of others."
"If his [a student's] reading is confined simply to one subject, however such division of labour may favour the advancement of a particular pursuit . . . certainly it has a tendency to contract his mind."
"A truly great intellect . . . is one which takes a connected view of old and new, past and present, far and near, and which has an insight into the influence of all these one on another; without which there is no whole, and no centre."
"General culture of mind is the best aid to professional and scientific study, and educated men can do what illiterate cannot; and the man who has learned to think and to reason and to compare and to discriminate and to analyze, who has refined his taste, and formed his judgment, and sharpened his mental vision, will not indeed at once be a lawyer, or a pleader, or an orator, or a statesman, or a physician, or a good landlord, or a man of business, or a soldier, or an engineer, or a chemist, or a geologist, or an antiquarian, but he will be placed in that state of intellect in which he can take up any one of the sciences or callings I have referred to, or any other for which he has a taste or special talent, with an ease, a grace, a versatility, and a success, to which another is a stranger. In this sense, then, and as yet I have said but a very few words on a large subject, mental culture is emphatically useful."
"One thing is unquestionable, that the elements of general reason are not to be found fully and truly expressed in any one kind of study; and that he who would wish to know her idiom, must read it in many books."
2. Others' Views
"The whole object of education is, or should be, to develop mind. The mind should be a thing that works." --Sherwood Anderson
"More is experienced in one day in the life of a learned man than in the whole lifetime of an ignorant man." --Seneca
"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants." --John Gardner
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Shyvana, the Half-Dragon
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|November 1st, 2011
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- Twin Bite:
- Shyvana strikes twice on her next attack. Both attacks trigger On-Hit effects and Fury of the Dragonborn effects.
- Dragon Form: Twin Bite cleaves all units in front of Shyvana.
- Burnout:
- Shyvana deals magic damage per second to nearby enemies and her Movement Speed is greatly increased for 3 seconds. Shyvana's Movement Speed bonus is reduced over time.
- Dragon Form: Burnout scorches the earth, continuing to damage enemies that stand on it.
- Flame Breath:
- Shyvana unleashes a fireball that deals magic damage and shreds the target's Armor for 4 seconds.
- Dragon Form: Flame Breath engulfs all units in a cone in front of Shyvana.
- Dragon's Descent (Ultimate):
- Active: Shyvana transforms into a dragon and takes flight to a target location. Enemies along her path take magic damage and are knocked toward her target location.
- Passive: Shyvana reinforces her scales, increasing her Armor and Magic Resist. Defensive bonuses are doubled in Dragon Form.
- Fury of the Dragonborn (Innate):
- Shyvana's melee attacks enhance her abilities.
- Twin Bite - Reduces the cooldown by 0.5 seconds.
- Burnout - Extends the duration by 1 second to a maximum of 6 seconds.
- Flame Breath - Deals 20% of the ability's damage to debuffed targets.
- Dragon's Descent - Attacks generate 2 Fury and Shyvana passively gains Fury over time while in human form.
- Range increased to 125 from 100.
- Piltover Peacemaker: base damage reduced to 20/60/100/140/180 from 20/65/110/155/200.
- Yordle Snap Trap: activation radius reduced to 135 from 150.
- True Grit True Grit:
- Buff duration reduced to 3 seconds from 4.
- Armor and magic resistance per stack reduced to 3 from 4 at max level. (?)
- Buckshot: extra damage per additional projectile reduced to 30% from 35%.
- Undertow: missile speed increased to 1600 from 1500.
- Ragnarok:
- It now breaks crowd control effects upon activation.
- Duration changed to 6 seconds at all ranks from 5/6.5/8.
- Fixed a bug that caused her to stop moving after certain commands.
- Fixed a bug that caused Ki Shout Ki Shout and Broken Wings to temporarily leave dead unpathable minions behind.
- Fixed a bug that caused her collision radius to be improperly calculated.
- Rewrote his Deceive, Hallucinate, and champion tips for more clarity.
- Deceive will now still critically strike even if you break stealth (ie: to cast Jack In The Box Jack In The Box).
- Jack In The Box Jack In The Box:
- Base damage reduced to 35/50/65/80/95 from 35/55/75/95/115.
- Ability power ratio reduced to 0.2 from 0.25.
- Activation range reduced to 300 from 350.
- Cast range increased to 425 from 400.
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- Fixed a bug where Shaco's clone wouldn't trigger Two-Shiv Poison Two-Shiv Poison's passive.
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- Shadow Assault: cooldown increased to 75/65/55 from 60/50/40.
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- Total attack damage ratio increased to 1.1 from 1.0.
- Fixed a bug where it did not display critical strikes or benefit from life steal.
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- Casting it no longer instantly shows a reduction in his mana bar to enemies.
- Fixed a bug where his stealth state did not ignore unit collision.
- Improved general behavior and placement - the Decoy should now more accurately mimic Wukong's previous position and behavior.
- Wukong is now pushed forward slightly when using Decoy, rather than the Decoy being pushed back from Wukong's position.
- Nimbus Strike Nimbus Strike.
- Attack speed bonus increased to 30/35/40/45/50 % from 20/25/30/35/40 %.
- Attack speed bonus duration increased to 4 seconds from 3.
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Recently I attended a wonderful pulp art exhibition with my daughter Michelle at Syracuse University's Lubin House in Manhattan. The Palitz Gallery is at 11 East 61st Street, just a block away from my office, and the exhibition ran from February 13 through April 12.
All of this ties in nicely with my upcoming book "The Secret History of Marvel Comics", dealing extensively with Martin Goodman's Red Circle pulp line and the artists who contributed. (Note that the book has been expanded to 300 pages and this is not reflected in the pre-order ad below).
The Secret History of Marvel Comics
With that connection to this blog's mission statement linked, I now present below:
|Program Booklet (front cover) art by Norman Saunders
|Program Booklet (back cover)
The program booklet above gives a excellent concise background into the history of the pulp in American culture, focusing on Street & Smith, the obvious choice as most of the program consists of holdings in their library archives.
The exhibit is broken down into parts in the booklet. I've added photos from the exhibit for context:
Introduction: "Orange Pulp - The Pulp Magazine & Contemporary Culture". The pulp novel is placed into historical context by Sean Quimby, Director of Special Collections at Syracuse University Library.
Street and Smith: A brief history of the company and numerous examples of their pulp and dime novel output, including some some vintage photos of the famous Street and Smith printing presses. Street and Smith also had a comic book line in the 1940's, After the success of their Shadow pulps, Street and Smith debuted their comic book line with The Shadow in 1940 (The debut issue put together by Jack Binder and the Chelser Shop without Shadow creator/author Walter B. Gibson's knowledge. He soon came aboard). Titles including Doc Savage, Bill Barnes, Blackstone, Super Magician and Red Dragon would follow. Timely/Atlas star artist Joe Maneely made his comic book debut in Street and Smith's Red Dragon #3 (May/48). An exhaustive look at Maneely's Street and Smith career will be seen in my future art biography on the artist.
Hugo Gernsback: A brief history of Gernsback and his importance to the history of the science fiction pulp. Below are two cover examples of Gernsback's seminal Amazing Stories pulp, including the debut of Philip Nowlan's Buck Rogers (Aug/28). The artist was Frank R. Paul, the father of science fiction art and Gernsback's #1 artist. Paul's Goodman connection is two-fold. First he painted two covers, Marvel Science Stories Vol 1, #2 (Nov/38) and Dynamic Science Stories Vol 1, #1 (Feb/39) (and a score of interior illustrations in 10 Goodman sci-fi issues). Second, he was the cover artist for the very first Timely comic book, Marvel Comics #1 (Oct/39), featuring the blazing debut of the Human Torch. Once again, the link is that Goodman knew Paul from his earlier Gernsback days and considered him his favorite science fiction cover artist.
|Artwork by Frank R. Paul
|Marvel Comics #1 (Oct/39) - Frank R. Paul artwork
The Shadow: An overview of Street and Smith's iconic pulp star. (See display in photo below).
Pulp Writers: A discussion of everyone from Tenessee Williams, Joseph Conrad, Dashiell Hammet, Isaac Asimov, Robert E. Howard, and H.P. Lovecraft, to William Burroughs (as William Lee) in the classic Ace Double Novel D-15 "Junkie" (1953). Below is my copy of this killer pulp paperback. The only quibble I'll make is that this is a mass-market paperback, and not a pulp.
Here is a letter from Ray Bradbury to Frederil Pohl:
Isaac Asimov: A brief overview of his pulp writing history. For the record, Asimov made a single appearance for Martin Goodman, contributing the short story "Shah Guido G." in Marvel Science Fiction Vol 3, #5 (Nov/51). Illustrations for this story were by Lee Ames.
Pulp Artists: A discussion about the importance of the painted cover in drawing in a reader browsing the newsstands. Mentioned are N.C. Wyeth, Milton Luros, Margaret Brundage, Hannes Bok and Norman Saunders. Brundage was world renowned for her Weird Tales covers. Bok was equally renowned for his science fiction artwork and contributed the covers to Goodman's Marvel Science Fiction Vol 3, #4 (Aug/51) and Vol 3, #5 (Nov/51), as well as contributing illustrations to Vol 3, #5 also.
Norman Saunders: Norman Saunders gets the bulk of this exhibit. A brief history is depicted and then hanging in the gallery are at least 7 original paintings by the pulp master, all I believe belonging to the Syracuse University Art Collection and from Street and Smith pulps. Saunders' Martin Goodman career will be covered in detail in my upcoming book.
Pulp Readers: A brief discussion about the audience for these publications and their cultural context.
And finally, "The Pulp - A Reminiscence by a Reader & Collector", a two-page pulp labor-of-love by Gary Shaheen, whom I believe loaned material for the show. Gary is a senior vice-president at Syracuse University's Burton Blatt Institute and a passionate pulp collector and historian. Together with Sean Quimby (Director of Special Collections) and even pulp historian David Saunders (Norman's son, who lent his expertise and permission to reproduce his father's work), a wonderful exhibit was produced.
Here are some photos from the exhibit:
The first photo below is Lubin House from across the street on 61's street. The second is a close-up of the exhibit advertisement hanging outside.
As you enter the room upstairs, on the immediate right was a wall display of assorted pulp titles in all genres. (Sorry about the flash glare in the middle).
Important to us here is a single Goodman Red Circle pulp in the third row (and the only one in the entire exhibit) American Sky Devils Vol 1, #4 (Jan/43). This was a 6-issue war-era pulp, a title that ran through the heart of World War Two. Nearly all of the stories supported as propaganda the United States air war against their Japanese war enemies. Authors included David C. Cooke ("The Stop-Watch Pilot") who also wrote for Lloyd Jacquet's Funnies Inc. shop and contributed numerous text stories to early Timely comics put together in that shop.
Other David C. Cooke Goodman pulp stories can be found in:
Complete Sports Vol 6, #5 (Apr/49) "The Home Run That Wasn't"
Complete Sports Vol 7, #1 (Oct/49) "Grudge Fight"
Western Short Stories Vol 6, #8 (Sept/49) "The Last Deal"
David C. Cooke's Timely comic text stories include:
Marvel Mystery Comics #2 (Dec/39) "Death-Bird Squadron"
Marvel Mystery Comics #3 (Jan/40) "Siegfried Suicide"
Marvel Mystery Comics #4 (Feb/40) "Warning Enough"
Marvel Mystery Comics #7 (May/40) "Blasting Bombers"
Marvel Mystery Comics #15 (Jan/41) "Dreadnaught from Mars"
I also recently came across an advice article he wrote for prospective authors in the Feb/49 issue of the trade magazine Author & Journalist. The piece, entitled "Rejections Are Your Own Fault", is a critique of the majority of the writers sending in submissions to the pulps and magazines of the day. Cooke is basically giving us Sturgeon's Law, that 90% of everything submitted is garbage and it takes a lot of work for an editor to wade through piles of garbage to locate something that can be printed. Cooke's commentary is based on his position as editor at Whisper magazine. Sorry about the quality of the image below. It's a photocopy of a microfilm image.
|Author & Journalist (Feb/49)
This particular cover was painted by Norman Saunders, who also painted the covers to issues #1 and #2. Allen Anderson painted #3. The interior pulp illustrations were frequently handled by Timely comics staffers and included artists Stan Drake, George Klein and David Gantz, as well as non-Timely illustrators like J.W. James, Harper and H.W. Kiemle. Below is my copy of the pulp.
|American Sky Devils Vol 1, #3 (Jan/43) - Norman Saunders cover
As we continue left we come across an exhibit on The Shadow, Street and Smith's most iconic pulp hero. The display had a component running audio from the radio show on a loop.
And more:
Artwork by Milton Luros:
|Artwork by Milton Luros in 10 Story Detective (Jan/44)
The illustration at the top right above is an original illustration by August Schomburg, an older brother of noted science fiction and Timely Comic cover artist Alex Schomburg. Alex's Martin Goodman career will be covered in detail in my book.
The image at the lower right bottom above is an original pen and ink illustration by L.F. Bjorklund, the most prolific western interior pulp illustrator that Martin Goodman employed. His riveting images can be found in nearly every western and adventure Red Circle pulp published throughout the decade of the 1930's, including all the illustrations utilized in all three issues of the Red Circle's Ka-Zar. I apologize for not getting a better picture of this illustration. Here's one below.
|L.F. Bjorklund - BEST WESTERN Vol 1, #1 (Sept35) p.4
And lastly:
|Doesn't this look like it's more fun than M.O.M.A or the Met, Michelle?
- All photographs were taken by myself at the Orange Pulp exhibit at Syracuse University's Palitz Gallery at Lubin Hall on April 12, 2012.
- Images of Ace's D-15 "Junkie" by William Burroughs, American Sky Devils Vol 1, #3 and L.F. Bjorklund's illustration in Best Western #1 (Sept/35) were taken from my own collection.
- Special thanks is given to Katie Hudson '10 (Syracuse University), who was able to locate for me the very last copy of the exhibit's program book. All had been given out by the time I saw the show on the last day and Katie went out of her way to find me a copy!


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Looking to get out and enjoy San Diego's beautiful weather this weekend? Good thing the climate allows San Diegans to enjoy outdoor events. Here's a few festivals to make your weekend super:
Allied Gardens Spring Fest
5 to 11 p.m. Friday, May 11 and 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday, May 12
Head over to the Allied Gardens Community Park this weekend to check out live performances and family-friendly activities – so bring the kids! There will be a beer garden for the 21+ crowd and an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast for only $5 that Saturday.
Kaiser Permanente will also host a blood drive on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Good thing there will be plenty of food vendors to get your sugar back up!
Saturday will offer up kid-appropriate games, including a dunk tank and bounce house. During the evening, live entertainment will include music from Pullman Standard and Fusion Beat.
Allied Gardens Spring Fest is free and open to the public.
MiraCosta Car Show
9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday May 12
The students at MiraCosta College in Oceanside have organized a car show to raise education funds for veterans and active-duty service members.
Flashy and vintage cars will be shown at parking lot 2A on 1 Barnard Dr. in Oceanside. The event is free, but if you want to register your car prices start at $5.
Asian Cultural Festival of San Diego
11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday May 12
Join NBCSanDiego's Mari Payton in observing Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at the Asian Cultural Festival of San Diego.
Visit NTC Liberty Station Park in Pt. Loma on Saturday to check out San Diego's largest celebration of Asian-American and Pacific Islander heritage.
The festival provides an open space for family-based activities sharing traditional Asian cultures with the community, featuring a dedicated martial arts stage, cultural dances and song, the expansive Cultural Row of Asian countries, supporting local business, and most importantly: Food.
True to the values of Asian culture, the festival solidifies the essence of community and gathering, drawing crowds of nearly 10,000 every year. There will be two stages for entertainment, live cooking demos, a martial arts demonstration and more.
The Asian Cultural Festival is a fun, free, family-friendly event that is open to the public.
Mother's Day Shamu Brunch
9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. and noon to 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 13
There's plenty going on for Mother's Day, but don't you think mom would like dining poolside...with a whale? Then check out the Shamu Brunch that gets you and the family up close and personal with SeaWorld's largest mammal.
Tickets start at $59 and park tickets are not included in the price.
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A Kidnapping in Colonial Boston
Yesterday I described how when Boston families realized that one of their boys was lost, the public criers would go through the streets, calling out the news. (Girls, who were expected to stick closer to home, don't seem to have gotten lost so often.)
An interesting example appeared in the Boston News-Letter on 27 Oct 1768:
Monday last in the Afternoon, a Child of about 3 Years of Age, Son of Mr. Benjamin Goodwin, at the North-End, being missing from School, a Search was made, and the Cryer employed about the Town, but no Intelligence of it was had till late in the Evening, when upon its being cry'd in the Common, a Soldier's Wife gave Information that such a Child had been bro't to their Tent by a Woman belonging to the Town, and the Child being weary was lain down and asleep;This search came soon after British regiments had arrived in Boston and camped on the Common. If a woman associated with those troops had kidnapped a child, the Boston Whigs would have trumpeted the story as an example of the danger of turning the town into a military garrison. As it was, a soldier's wife helped to rescue and return a child kidnapped by a "Woman belonging to the Town."
upon which the Child was carried home to its Parents, and a Search was made for the Woman, who was taken up; and proves to be one who had been released from Goal the Saturday before:
she kidnapp'd the Child, taken the Buckles out of its Shoes and Buttons, and intended to have disposed of it, or something worse, as the Child said it was going to be carried into the Water.
Another intriguing detail in this story is that this three-year-old went to school. That must have been a private reading school rather than one of the five town schools, which enrolled boys starting about age seven.
The Descendants of Francis Le Baron of Plymouth, Mass. suggests that this particular three-year-old was Charles Goodwin, born 3 Aug 1765. He died at age eighteen in St. Augustine, Florida, so he did wander.
(The photo above was taken by kthypryn during a Revolutionary era reenactment on Boston Common.)


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Join other wedding and portrait photographers in effectively pricing and packaging their services through the psychological understanding behind consumption.
If you're wondering what the best way is to package your services and to properly price your worth – you're not alone.
Creative Pricing and Packaging for Photographers is a downloadable PDF e-book designed to help you better convey your worth to your clients in such a way that engages interest and commitment.
144 Pages Contain:
- A breakdown of psychological triggers that affect a consumer's willingness and hesitations to purchase
- Deeper understanding through world applications as to WHY we buy
- Powerful strategies on HOW you can apply them into your own business.
This 3-step approach will help you understand the strategy and why it works by relating them to your own life and how it can build your business.
Since implementing Lawrence's Pricing Strategies, I have closed 100% of my wedding inquiries so far. And last week I booked a wedding a day. Before, I would be lucky if I closed 50% of my inquiries.
I've only been receiving serious inquiries due to my new strategies [and I now know who to not] waste my time with. And thanks to Lawrence, clients are now booking my larger collections and I haven't had to haggle prices, either. So thank you very much for being so generous with your experience and knowledge – thanks to you my 2011 is looking spectacular! ♥
Love and Lemonada (Nina)
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Who Can Maximize This Book
This book is targeted for creative professionals in all stages of their business including:
- photographers who just started and don't have a solid price sheet
- photographers who feel they are undervalued, but don't know how to raise prices without scaring away prospects
- those who want to be competitively priced against other photographers
- those who struggle between packages (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5…?) or a la carte
- how to have clients focus on your work and not on how to discount (more than what I've already shared online)
- And more…
This book is NOT a silver bullet. It will, however, guide you into realizing which options fit you best. You'll get to download the ebook immediately after checkout! It comes in a .zip file, so please download it to your computer and extract it prior to transferring to iPad or iPhone.
I have been in this business for a very long time and I kind of consider myself an expert on pricing. And I've tried a little of everything over the years – packages, a la carte, all kinds of stuff.
But anytime Lawrence is talking, I'm always listening. I always pick up a couple of great nuggets that I'm always going to apply to my business. Today was no exception. In fact, today there were a couple of things I took down in my notes. I've promised Lawrence that I'll always give him credit when I steal his ideas because he's really a brilliant guy and I absolutely loved the [book].
Money is one of the hardest things to figure out – what to charge, how to charge. Photography is one thing, but building a business and knowing what to charge is so important.
Pricing is every bit of an art form in running a business and doing your pricing and I really think this will help you out.
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- techniques for crafting an attractive package
- pricing sales tactics during consultations
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- usage of powerful incentives
- methods on effective upselling
- how to handle deposits and payments
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- What are You Worth?
- Psychology of Choosing
- Choosing is Painful
- Create Photographer Packages that Sell – New
- Are You Incentivizing Your Customers?
- Secrets on How to Handle Discounters
- How to Make Discounting Work – New
- How to be Fearless in Pricing
- How Many Packages Should You Have?
- How to Name Your Packages
- Increase Your Perceived Value Easily – Coming Soon
Overall, the strategies will help you craft a powerful pricing presentation and give you the tools to sell with confidence.
We just wanted to give you a rave about your pricing and packaging teachings. We just booked a $7K bride for the St. Regis using your tactics.
After completing your e-book, we redid our packaging to remove all the suffocating choices (our pricing used to be in a 17 pg. catalog). We refused to discount. We discussed the package pricing as you suggested. We took out all the fluff, no other prints, just 1 album.
We were able to meet the bride and groom and had them sold after just a half hour, the shortest meeting we've had. Your tactics work!
David Park
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The book provides wonderful examples as to how the psychology of pricing and packaging works, but my personal 5-page price sheet will embody all that was discussed. Feel free to use and alter it to fit your needs.
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If you still prefer a personal consultation on this matter, you may commission 2-hours time and I will help you construct a custom price sheet. However, I'm very confident that the e-book coupled with my actual pricing guide will suffice.
OMG OMG OMG .. Since I bought this guide .. implemented .. I keep selling my TOP packages!!!!!!! for [next year] .. I [already booked] 4 weddings .. 2 of which bought my very top package .. 2 got "the one I love" package ..
This is the BEST investment I think I've make allll year!!
Thanks Lawrence .. again you ROCK!!!!! Xo
-Julie C. Butler
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Lawrence Chan is marketing strategist specializing in creating powerful online presences. Since 2009, he's had the opportunity to work with countless wonderful creative professionals enhance their businesses either in person or through his blog – tofurious.com.
Lawrence also speaks about business and marketing regularly at photography related user groups and conventions.
P.S. He thinks it's funny to write in 3rd person.
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Sample Content
- What are You Worth?
- Psychology of Choosing
- Choosing is Painful
- Create Photographer Packages that Sell – New
- Are You Incentivizing Your Customers?
- Secrets on How to Handle Discounters
- How to Make Discounting Work – New
- How to be Fearless in Pricing
- How Many Packages Should You Have?
- How to Name Your Packages
- Increase Your Perceived Value Easily – Coming Soon
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Everyone struggles with pricing. The strategies in here are strategies that any business can apply.
Just by adjusting the packages so that it makes more sense will help clients commit to me easier and understand my value. It's hard to explain the inherent value, so this information will definitely help.
I definitely feel more comfortable after reading this ebook. It was a lot of information that made so much sense and so well organized. I feel like that I will be able to apply everything that he's taught…and I have ideas rolling through my head right now about what I can do.
Ashleigh Taylor
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I really feel confident now… And I'm going to change things up to maximize benefits for my bride and myself.
Just like what [b]ecker was saying earlier, anytime Lawrence is talking, I'm always ears open. This guy is a genius. He really really knows what he's talking about.
So whatever market you're in – whether pet groomer or photographer – the nice thing is that you can apply [these pricing and packaging strategies] to everything.
Miguel Pola
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…eye-opening information. One thing I definitely walked away with was understanding the psychology of choosing – being able to simplify the choices in developing a pricing strategy for my brides.
This is a great resource for photographers especially those who are starting out. We always have questions like, "how much should we charge?" or "what am I worth?" or "how do I create barriers?" and so forth. I actually teach at Cypress College, but I came away learning how to further simplify my presentation and have a better understanding of what my brides' needs are.
I came away with so many ideas… And I highly recommend this.
Greg Bumatay
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I have read your blog religiously and found it to be (duh) very helpful. I'm one of those artsy-fartsy, ADHD, "why doesnt my business take off just because i'm a badass artist" types.. the part between sales and the talent is completely greek to me.
I picked up my first dslr in september of 09. and just had my first wedding consultation this past sunday. (never really had a client find me online and meet me for a consult). but thanks to what i've read from you, along with my refusal to work for less than what I believe I'm worth, I booked the wedding on Sunday for 4800. totally did all that after your package blog and really felt confident about what i was offering even though 4800 for 6 hrs of photography and an engagement session is really high for my area.
I am so confident in my pricing and why I include what I include, that I was really able to come across as a vendor who knew what she would really want when all was said and done, even though [the bride] admittedly didnt know what she wanted yet. I felt like I was successful at making myself look trustworthy, knowledgeable, and worth the extra money – and I'M A TERRIBLE SALESPERSON!
I'm sort of bragging right now because (a) i'm stoked (b) no one around here charges that much (bc they're SILLY) and (c) because I honestly feel like you are succeeding GREATLY at what you do. Not only are you a great marketing strategist, but you are great at teaching ME how to do what will work for me.
I hated at first that you wouldn't just come out and say "here, do this!".. but of course that's brilliant on your part.
You are an excellent leader. You should do seminars like … good at inspiring and informing other photographers. (wait.. do you already do them? if so, i'm embarrassed)
thank you
you are VERY good at this.
the better you are at getting wedding photographers to charge for their work, the better life will be for all photographers. seriously, thanks. and more power to ya.
Basically I feel confident about my decisions because I feel like there's Lawrence Chan out there in my corner! LOL
Amy Zumwalt
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We read Lawrence's pricing e-book and studied the strategies he outlined in the book. Next we re-wrote our entire price guide and modeled it after the one Lawrence uses.
Our average wedding client over the past 3 years has been $3k. After meeting with our first potential client using the new price guide and techniques, they booked us yesterday at …$5900. Just wanted to say thank you Lawrence for sharing your thoughts and ideas as it has significantly helped us to put together a more polished price guide as well as proven to be successful right out of the gate!
Jeremiah Colling
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I've learned how to make myself more attractive just in pricing by creating value and trust. This is going to be valuable for anyone who wants to take this to a professional level.
Merrilyn Romen
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As a new photographer, pricing can be very overwhelming and scary. After reading what Lawrence had to say, I had a lot of things demystified. I feel very confident now! I can go home and get busy.
I really recommend what Lawrence has to say. Whether you're experienced or brand new, buy the ebook. It's good.
Rhonda Kane
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His teachings have helped me to achieve a higher value as photographer and, believe it or not, by applying them to other aspects of my personal life, including my "day job" I've been able to achieve tremendous positive results.
Pricing Strategy came at the right moment when some (like me) are battling to start and dedicate full time to a new business while others are struggling to stay afloat in the rough waters of the current economy changes.
Thank you for sharing.
Gabriel Mora
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I definitely had issues with confidence to put together packages that I thought made sense to me and my target client.
I absolutely and honestly would recommend this ebook. I think that pricing is very elusive for a lot of people. It's something that we definitely lack confidence in. It's nice to have to tools to understand where to start and where to go forward. And to help our business grow!
Melissa Brandman
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Photographers should be concerned about pricing just as much as technique. Nowadays, technology is so good. Therefore, pricing structure and strategies are essential. The aim is to cut the noise out and connect with my clients not on pricing, but on personality and style.
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Tribune carries a story today saying that the Kathmandu-Lhasa bus line will "resume" running , mayhaps within the next few days. The story is the offspring of a weird process : China is said to send a " a strong message" to India and the world , but this message comes relayed from un-named Indian intelligence sources.
The core message is very thin on details : supposedly there was a two day meeting between Nepal Tourism Board and Tibet Tourism Administration some months ago , and a February deadline has been set.
Sceptics will note that the Chinese Embassy has made no announcement confirming this , but still has a posting from November 2007 talking of resumed actual buses open for tourists from Jan 2008. The last Kafkaesque chapter of the 2006 Ktm-Lhasa runs was the bus being sent off empty from Kathmandu. You can follow it on a Indiamike thread here
The news story has some other points which gives an impression of being penned not in Delhi but Beijing : it describes it as a real change that there is a written agreement between Nepal and China this time , but so there was in 2005 as well.
Those of us who follow the Nathu La developments also will point out that we have been waiting for a announced bus line between Gangtok and Lhasa since 2006.
Another Beijing-centric comment from the article is describing the opening as a snub against the exile Tibetan community :
China aims at bringing in tourists – European and Indians – into Tibet from the Nepal route. This will mean that China will show "normalcy" in Tibet, a thought that will not find favour with the Dalai Lama, living in exile in India since 1959.
This is a odd slant since there never has been a call from Dharamsala to boycott tourism in Tibet , instead tourists have been encouraged to go there and bring back what they see to the world.


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We'll be there in our PF finest. ;) Keeping our fingers crossed for some warm weather!
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posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 9:09 pm
I have arrived at a possibly valid generalization and wanted to share it in case it is valid and might help others. In testing an added growth model, such as in Fig 5 of Muthen & Curran (1997), it seemed to me that there were two ways one could go. One could constrain the added growth factor to be equal across the groups and compare that to a model in which the added factor is free to vary across groups (but the common factors are constrained to be equal across groups). Alternatively, one could omit the added growth factor from both groups and compare that to a model in which the added factor is added to the group it is hypothesized to be specific to. I have done some VERY limited power simulations that suggest that the second approach is more powerful. Though my simulations are limited it makes sense as the correct model in the second approach is a less parameterized version of the correct model (correct assuming the added growth model is valid) and yet accounts for the data as well as does the more parameterized version. If anyone thinks this is faulty logic or likely to be invalid, I would love to hear about it.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 9:27 am
In Muthen-Curran we compared 2 approaches. One is your second approach. The other is not using an added growth factor in either group, but just test equality across groups of the regular growth factors means (and variances). We found that this other approach seemed less powerful in pinpointing the treatment effects. Your first approach is a little different from that in that you have the added growth factor in both groups equal and not equal. That approach is a little odd to me in that the control group shouldn't have an added growth factor.
Note also that the Muthen-Curran approach with treatment-baseline interaction is limited to monotonic treatment effects (e.g. low baseline gives low effect, medium gives larger effect, high gives largest effect), whereas growth mixture modeling captures general effects (e.g. low baseline gives large effect, medium gives low effect, high gives large effect).
Richard E. Zinbarg
posted on Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 12:26 pm
actually my first approach did involve constraining the added growth factor (and all others) to be equal across the two groups but no matter as it didn't seem to be as powerful and doesn't seem like it should be.
Thanks for the info about growth mixture modeling, I wasn't previously thinking it would be relevant for my applications but your post suggests to me it would be worthwhile for me to learn more about it. It looks like the two upcoming Mplus short courses advertised on the website won't cover growth mixture modeling. I see it is in the Web training course, do you ever cover it in any live training sessions these days or should I just go through the Web course?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 12:46 pm
We used to teach 5 days straight, but now split up the content in sets of 2-3 days, where we can go a little deeper for each topic. The twice annual Hopkins courses cycle through all topics going from Day 1 to Day 5. The March 2008 course essentially covers Day 1 FA and SEM plus categorical versions of it. August 2008 covers mixture (latent class) modeling (cross-sectional and longitudinal) - so GMM would be taught then. March 2009 covers multilevel versions of all previous models. We may add new topics such as missing data and survival, but the idea is to go forward and build it up like this. The courses given in other countries complement the Hopkins courses. For example, multilevel modeling is taught in London this December.
Richard E. Zinbarg
posted on Friday, October 26, 2007 - 7:05 pm
thanks Bengt, I will keep my eyes open for more details about the dates of the August 2008 Hopkins course and plan on going if the dates work for me.
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Another day, another story about the chaos surrounding the 'improvements' to the Jubilee Line.
According to the Evening Standard:
"Two million passengers who use the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines face years of delays after a major row broke out today over the amount that will be spent on the Tube network."
Apparently Tube Lines, the company in charge of the upgrade want £460 million more for the job than London Underground are willing to pay out, despite being ordered to cut their fee by £1.3 billion.
The news came with the sniping and blame-shifting that is now an all too familiar part of the Tube upgrade, with everyone from Mayor Boris Johnson to Bob Crow, RMT union leader, weighing in.
Well, I don't care who is at fault – Tube Lines, London Underground, Gordon Brown or Thomas the Tank Engine – and I suspect I am not alone. I just want some action.
Living in outer London you get used to whiling away time on icy train platforms as the tannoy announces 'good service' but the next train is nowhere in sight.
Delays, abrupt terminations before your stop (announced once the train has already left) and a necessity to leave inordinate amounts of time for your journey 'just in case' are irritating but acceptable. The complete lack of transport from north London on most weekends is not.
The congestion charge and the general drive to get Londoners out of their cars was launched on the understanding that public transport could compensate from the steering wheel.
When the Met, Jubilee and Northern lines are running poor service or not running at all, as has been the case recently, there is no incentive to trade in your car for something environmentally friendly. Sure, there are replacement buses in operation whenever there is a tube closure. But I suspect anybody who trumpets them as a viable alternative has never actually whiled away hours, and hours, of an afternoon on one.
Moreover, it seems increasingly unclear what benefit these alleged 'upgrades' will have.
The idea is to finish them by the time of the Olympics – something looking unlikely anyway – but is uprooting our transport for more than a year really the price we must pay for a few weeks of sporting glory? Harrow seems likely to enjoy little benefit from London hosting the games, far from the sites as it is, so why must we put up with the cost?
There is no question the Tube could do with some maintenance – a lick of fresh paint, air conditioning, better station facilities – but not if it means causing us chaos every weekend from now until eternity. Either stop bickering and sort it out, or stop trying to redo it.
Because as deficient as the Underground may be, bad service is better than no service.
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Dr Titus Naikuni Receives the award
Kenya Airways has been recognized in the prestigious World Travel Awards 2013, which is billed as the travel industry's Oscars.
The airline scooped the top award in the 'Africa's Leading Airline – Business Class 2013' category of the World Travel Awards Africa Gala Ceremony that was held on Wednesday night at the Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi.
Kenya Airways beat five other nominees in the category – Air Namibia, Egypt Air, Ethiopian Airlines, Air Maroc, and South African Airways.
The annual World Travel Awards, which are in their 20th year, recognize, acknowledge and reward the leading travel, tourism and hospitality players in the world.
Speaking after receiving the award, Kenya Airways' Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Titus Naikuni said that the recognition highlighted the airline's core values of putting the customer first, by ensuring that all operations start and end with them.
"We are committed to consistently deliver world class service for our guests. We continue focusing on our valued customers and responding to their changing needs," Dr Naikuni added.
The Grand Finale Gala Ceremony 2013 of the World Travel Awards is slated for Doha in Qatar on November 30, 2013.
The recognition comes as Kenya Airways implements its long term growth strategy in which it targets growing its fleet size and network of destinations. As part of this plan, the airline has announced that it will be receiving a new state-of-the-art Boeing 777-300ER aircraft that will offer excellent customer experience.
Among the exciting features in the Premier World section of the aircraft that will service long haul routes are: full flatbed seats with leather foot-rests, laptop stowage and armrests that also act as privacy dividers, high quality in-flight entertainment; each seat has a 15.4 inch touch screen monitor, power socket and USB port, and an in-flight entertainment handset.
For the Economy Class, seats are also a cut above the rest, with articulating seat bottoms for better legroom, four-way adjustable headrests, in-flight handset seatback and large 10.6 inch touch screen monitors. Each seat also has a USB port, with power sockets strategically installed throughout the cabin.


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ESPN.com breaks down several possible destinations for receiver Brandon Marshall if/when the Broncos decide to deal him this offseason.
· The first speculation was that Marshall would be headed to the Seahawks or the Redskins, via two of our NFL Nation bloggers.
· Cincinnati has the need for a second WR to go along with Chad Ochocinco, but we're not sure the Bengals would want another head case.
· The Cowboys need a legitimate No. 1 WR and Jerry Jones would have no problem forking out cash for a new deal to Marshall.
· What about the Pats? Randy Moss isn't getting any younger, and Wes Welker might be a shell of his former self after shredding his knee.
· Dave Krieger of the Denver Post speculated on some new spots: the Ravens, Dolphins and Cardinals.
Mike Klis of the Denver Post also throws out a Marshall-for-Brady Quinn scenario, but he's just speculating – he has nothing to back that rumor up.
The problem the Broncos have is that Marshall's trade value has never been lower. Teams know that he and head coach Josh McDaniels are at odds and that Denver wants to rid itself of him. The Broncos will be lucky to land a third round pick for him, which would be quite a steal for the team that acquires him.
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There's no shortage of smart phone apps that aim to help you locate a parking spot in the city, but finding a good one can seem like it requires an app of its own. Many newer apps incorporate real-time data to locate available spaces and pricing information, but as parking apps continue to evolve these elements will seem more standard than spectacular. The next-generation parking app will go beyond mere availability to include features like reservations, open-space predictions, and flexible pricing. Here are five standout apps (or apps in progress) that offer glimpses into the future of smarter parking.
ParkPGH (Pittsburgh)
ParkPGH takes the basic functions of a parking app and adds a dash of clairvoyance. Its core task is to scan roughly 5,300 spaces in ten lots in downtown Pittsburgh, a quarter of all garage parking in the area, and update space availability every 30 seconds. But ParkPGH also taps a unique algorithm — developed by Robert Hampshire of Carnegie Mellon University — that considers historical parking data and current events, such as concerts, to predict what the parking situation will be in the future. The result is the country's "first predictive parking app," according to the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, which recognized the technological advances of ParkPGH with an award in early October.
SFpark (San Francisco)
Boosted by a $19 million federal grant, the intricate SFpark program launched this past spring. Using sensors spread across eight city neighborhoods, SFpark reviews the availability and pricing of some 18,500 street and garage spots and feeds this information to drivers in real time (primarily through the app, but also, more recently, through text message as well). But what makes SFpark so unique is its city-sponsored ability to adjust the cost of a spot to meet demand: rates fall on streets with a number of open spots, for instance, while they rise on packed blocks. Sometimes that means paying more for parking, but it also means fewer cars circling for a spot, and therefore less congestion in downtown San Francisco.
George Costanza refused to pay for parking on the Upper West Side — "It's like going to a prostitute," he said. "Why should I pay, when if I apply myself, maybe I could get it for free?" — but other neighborhood residents are more, let's say flexible with their wallets. That's the idea behind Parking Auction, an entirely new direction in smart parking that debuted in early August in Costanza's old haunt. The app is essentially a parking-space marketplace: drivers ready to leave their street spot name a price through Parking Auction, and those searching for a space respond with a bid. "It's like following the guy with the keys in his hand, but for a fee," writes Wired's Autopia. The program's legality has been questioned, but its founders maintain that drivers are selling information, not the city space itself.
Smart Parking (Boston)
Parking in the Hub will get easier when this app, still under development by researchers at Boston University, finally gets off the ground. While it may have a generic working name, the program has a number of complex wrinkles that could separate it from the field. The system provides drivers with the location and price of a nearby spot, upgrades the space as necessary during the ride, and even lets users reserve a spot (in a garage, at least). The reserved spot is indicated by an overhead light fixture: when the right driver pulls in, the light changes color; if another driver tries to steal the space an alarm sounds. The developers emphasized space reservation because they worry apps that only provide parking availability might actually make street congestion worse, as drivers all funnel toward an open space at once.
Parker (various cities; primarily Los Angeles)
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All Blacks will get through no problem, will it be a help to them? We will have to wait and see. I think Italy are in with a good chance of making it through.. I hope they do anyway
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Rest In Peace Fardin
Rest In Peace Sazza
once you think you're out they pull you back in
I had a glimpse of Eureka
Chewing me up, chewing me up and spitting me out
-jected, I was rejected
I wasn't good enough to be elected
Lava, it was like lava
Moving through my body like fire
Borderline national hatred, tbh
Romania was a very good team in the 80s. There were some rumors about a possible inclusion in the Five Nations tournament. They beat France, Scotland, Wales (both at home at Cardiff Arms Park) However, in the next decade Romania began to fall.
The All Blacks would be able to win this group even with their third best team. These are my predictions:
NZL vs ITA and NZL vs SCO: NZL win by 50-60 points. I would not be surprised if Pierre Berbizier (Italy's coach) would not use his best players. Since Italy has no chances to beat New Zealand, it is better to have the best players rested for the other matches.
NZL vs ROM: 100 points
NZL vs POR: 200 points???
Other matches: Italy should beat Romania by 25-30 points. And Scotland should do the same. Last year Italy played against Portugal: final score 83-0. So, we should expect easy victories for Italy and Scotland vs Portugal.
The final match (Italy vs Scotland) will decide the second team of the group: Italy defeated Scotland at Murrayfield some months ago. Italy never qualified for the quarterfinals: this year they have a great chance.
I am Italian, so I am rather happy about this group. However, I don't think it is fair. Think about the other groups with France, Ireland and Argentina. Or England, South Africa and Western Samoa. All these six teams are much better than Italy and Scotland (Italy has never defeated Samoa), but two of them will be out of the quarterfinals.
This mean: COME ON, ITALY! However, nowadays lots of people (and I am among them)
do not like to say this. But this is related to politics.
In the last World Cup NZ's pool play was a debacle. I hope Henry doesn't rotate the team too much through pool play.
But wasn't that typical of John Mitchell? Win one Test and make 13 changes to the next and basically giving out a cap in a brown paper bag from your nearest supermarket. Make a few changes that is fine but that was OTT.
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Colo. mosque founder offers to bury Boston bombing suspect's body in Muslim cemetery
AURORA, Colo. The founder of the organization that built Colorado's largest mosque is offering to bury suspected Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a Denver-area Muslim cemetery.
Sheikh Abu-Omar Almubarac said Monday he will pay for a traditional Muslim burial - no headstone, monument or casket - at a plot at a Muslim cemetery in Denver or Bennett.
Almubarac refused to say which one out of concern for "undue publicity." He says he'll bury Tsarnaev as long as his family can get the body to Denver.
Almubarac incorporated the Colorado Muslim Society in the late 1960s but made his offer independently of the organization.
Tsarnaev's uncle Ruslan Tsarni, of Montgomery Village, Md., has been unable to bury his nephew in Massachusetts because of protests.
Almubarac says only God can judge Tsarnaev.


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When packing for a trip, sometimes we forget something small: a toothbrush, shaving cream, or socks. In order to compensate, we simply make a quick pit stop at a nearby convenience or department store to buy a replacement for the missing item.
Can confession work similarly?
My Question:
- According to Catholic teaching, if I die before I can confess my sins, can I just confess them to God in Heaven?
If you think about it, it would probably be much better to confess your sins to God than any human on planet Earth.


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CARMEL, Calif. - Two scuba divers have died while diving off the coast of California's Monterey County, authorities said.
Emergency crews were sent to Point Lobos State Natural Reserve around 2:45 p.m. Friday where they found lifeguards performing CPR on one of the divers, said state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Daniel Berlant.
Lifeguards and firefighters used a boat to get to second diver floating just offshore.
"At that point, we got in a boat with State Parks lifeguards and located the second victim floating in the water about 50 feet from the rocks," Capt. Carlos Aguilera of the Carmel Highlands Fire Department told The Monterey County Herald.
CPR was also performed on that person, but both divers were pronounced dead after being taken to a hospital, officials said.
The names, additional details about the victims and what killed them have not been released, but authorities said one was a male and one was a female.
The reserve where the divers died is a popular diving area about four miles south of Carmel, or about 90 miles south of San Francisco.
The offshore area forms one of the richest underwater habitats in the world, with wildlife that includes seals, sea lions, sea otters and migrating gray whales, according to the state Parks and Recreation Department website, the agency that operates the reserve.
Proof of certification is required, and diving is permitted only at two coves within the park, including Whalers Cove, the area where the two stricken divers were found, the website said.
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I am a fledgling game designer with no knowledge of how to program. Me and a friend have been working on a new RPG in paper and pencil for about two years now. I do the artwork and graphic design, and he does music.
The concepts and look of the game have already been ironed out. Even the battle system has been worked out in paper and pencil.
We would perfer students who are talented in programming and can utilize Direct X and polygonal graphics, who are willing to work for free, and want a very nice project for thier portfolio.
Credit will be given where credit is due, and if we submit the demo to a company and they like it, we will try to bring as many of the people who worked on the demo as we can with us to start a game company (possibly).
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Today is the 61st anniversary of the Brooklyn Dodgers signing Jackie Robinson. Robinson became the first African American to play Major League Baseball in modern American history.
For years Eugene, Oregon has been known as Track Town USA. Now they may want to change the city's nickname to The Whitest City in America.
Embarrassingly, the City passed a resolution recently mandating its employees to receive training in how to speak to black people.
This year Eugene will host the US Olympic Track & Field Trials for the fourth time. The trials determine which American track athletes will go to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
The Trials are expected to attract about 17,000 people per day while injecting $16 to $18 million into the local economy.
When it comes to track history, Eugene, Oregon stands alone.
The University of Oregon is not only the home of legendary track star, Steve Prefontaine…
They are also the town where Nike founder, Phil Knight went to college.
What the city does NOT have is an African American population.
African Americans make up less than 2% of Eugene's population. So, city officials have ordered their employees to undergo sensitivity training (to better relate to the hundreds of African Americans in town for the Olympic Trials.)
They've even formed an organization to help educate local townspeople on diversity. They're called "Blacks on Track," and are made up of 23 members. The group will work on how to make all athletes, especially those in the African American Community, feel at home. Member Betty Snowden says,
"We'll let them know where they can get their services be it good soul food, a hair cut, or religious services. And that they feel welcome."
The city's attempt at political correctness has been met with scorn and derision from the Right and the Left.
A sampling:
Fox News has been gleefully running video of this story all day.
And the guy from blackentertainmentblog. com went so far as to call the people of Eugene, "You dumbass bastards." Michael Vass was incredibly offended that people in Eugene feel that he needs a translator.
Before now, the University of Oregon was most famous as the location of the filming of the movie Animal House.
That would mean the most famous person ever to set foot on campus in Eugene is this guy:
The kids who attend school at the University of Oregon are now doomed to go through life with the label as the real life "The Whitest Kids You Know."


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I am new to the game and trying to decide where to put my points. The manual seams to be a bit vague when it come to stat descriptions, however it does say:
Shield - Additional blocking points.
So I assume this is useless if you are dual-wielding?
Also, is it possible to re-distribute the stat points at a later date?