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The Courtyard Apocalypse[1] was a battle that took place on 2 May in the year 1998 as part of the Battle of Hogwarts in the Viaduct Courtyard at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry between the Hogwarts students, Professors, Hogsmeade villagers and the Death Eaters, Acromantulas and the first and second Giant.[2]
Breaking into Hogwarts
- "GET INSIDE! Take cover. TAKE COVER!"
- —Minerva McGonagall yelling instructions[src]
Just after midnight, on 2 May, 1998, Death Eaters broke into the Viaduct Courtyard, and battle was joined between them and the Hogwarts Professors and Hogsmeade villagers. It was a serious conflict that destroyed large sections of the courtyard, blowing up the cloister walls. Later on a Giant also joined the battle, along with another Giant, after making their way through the Onslaught at the Viaduct.[2]
Making a way to the Boathouse
During this stage of the battle Oliver Wood and his friends joined in, flying on their brooms. Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, and Hermione Granger came across the battle on their way to the Boathouse, defeating a Death Eater and being discovered by the giant.[2]
While fleeing from the Giant, they ran into a group of Acromantula that had joined the courtyard battle. Seeing no other way out, they ran from the spiders across the courtyard past the Giant and into the cloister wall's walkway.
With an Acromantula in pursuit, which was then blown into the Ravine below, the Trio discovered Fenrir Greyback, who attacked and bit Lavender Brown, trying to kill her. Furious and angry, Hermione shot a spell at him and pushed him out through a window and into the Ravine.
The Giant, who had chosen to chase the Trio, destroyed the corner of the cloister walls and the Trio ran on the outer side and into the climax between the courtyard and the Viaduct. The Dementors then tried to join the battle but were driven off by Aberforth Dumbledore's extraordinary Patronus. The Trio then ran to the staircase leading to the Boathouse.[2]
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- The film and game each contain some noticeable differences from the book.
- In the second film adaption and the second video game adaption of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the Viaduct Courtyard is where the major part of the Battle of Hogwarts takes place; however, it doesn't completely replace the Skirmish in the Entrance Hall. That part is nevertheless shortened to a brief fight.
- Also, in the video game adaption, Hermione sees Greyback push Lavender Brown, and they have a fight in the courtyard, joined by Death Eaters.
- In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7, Greyback is tugging on Lavender's foot, then Hermione throws a bone and blasts him away.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7

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We took a bus from the bus terminal in Tagbilarean, close to the Island City Mall. It was a big green-yellow bus that had good seats and lot's of space – going straight to Anda! Great. The ride was 80php per person, and took about 2 hours (100 km).
We thought we would have people offering us hotel when we got of the bus or something in Anda, but nothing – it was just a very sleepy small village center. A tricycle driver came to us and asked us where we had our accommodation, and we said we didn't have anything booked yet.. And he was like "oh, ok. There are some accommodations on that street there, you can walk there" and showed us where to go, about 100m away. We almost wanted to pay him just because he was so sweet and not annoying at all, haha.
We walked into 4 different accommodations, one was super fancy – like a small apartment with kitchen and everything, for about 1500 php per night, but the building didn't have anything else but rooms, no hang out area or anything. The other three places were just a room with a bed in someone's house, about 600 php per room. We looked a little bit online if there was some cheap resort here, and found one at Anda the Boracay offering a good price, about 1400 for a big room with sea view. We went there, but they didn't have any rooms for less than 2000 php per night to offer, but we could still book it online for the cheaper price, so we did. Haha. So for 4 nights we are paying about 6100 pesos (118 euros/130 usd), which is quite good for this kind of luxurious accommodation! The resort has a pool, restaurant, massage, gym, shop and everything, and our room is perfect – with tv, AC, a really good bed with good pillows, bathroom, desk and everything. We are super happy we chose this place!
The pool was full of children when we arrived, it's like the towns own local swimming pool, it costs 100php for them to use it. I like that this place isn't exclusive and that the locals people can enjoy it too! ;)
After having a good dinner overlooking the sea, we walked along the Anda beach. We had some coffee at the only other restaurant/bar on the beach, the Old Castle. So happy to have real brewed coffee! And watch sunset :) The beach is really nice, it's very tranquil since it's not so much people here, and there is a breeze all the time, it was even a little bit chilly at night! Anda is really lovely, just what we had been looking for!!
At night, since it was Saturday, our resort had a live band playing there. When we checked in they told us if we were ok with the noice, "yeah sure!" we said – and yeah, our room was just above where they were playing! Haha. So we sat by the restaurant having a few beers and watching the band. It was crowded with lots of local people, everybody in this town and the small towns next to Anda comes here for the weekends for some party :) They really like to party here in Philippines, more like hang out with a lot of people and drink beer – it's true the philipinos are the latins of Asia, haha.
The band greeted us guests here, "and Sofia Armenteros from Sweden" hehe. We were like 5 guests or something, the rest – over another 100 guests or more – were only locals enjoying their Saturday night here hehe. We had a bunch of guys talking to us and wanted us to dance haha, but we were happy to just sit and listen to the band.
Next day, a little hangover, we had a big breakfast at the café Coco Loco – yuuuuummmiiiiii!!! A little bit expensive, but so good with whole what brown bread and home made marmelade and everything. Loved the fruit, coffee, omelette… Just great! The owners are and english-slovakian couple with 2 kids, and they have been living here in Anda for 4 years!
We saw that they had vegetarian hamburgers there in the menu too, so we had to come back to eat dinner here! Twice! Hehe. I've been craving vegetarian hamburgers for a while now! :) We had a couple of artisanian beers from the Philippines, french fries and first night I had the sweet potato burger and Duilio had the beef hamburger. The second night I had the coconut burger :) Delicious!! Truly made with love.
In the evening they had some live music, a few guitars and singing, very small scale and acoustic, but it was cozy. All though they were drowned by the roosters that was just beside the house, and the karaoke from every house around. The philipinos really love the kareoke.. aaaall day singing, seriously, for like 6 hours in a row or even longer!
Sunday is a family day and the Anda beach is public and a lot of families and kids from the towns around Anda come to spend the whole day here, eating and enjoying some bath. Allthough the water is reeeeally shallow here, I couldn't bath more than my feet, Duilio went out like 150 meters to have water up to his thies, haha. But another day there was actually a little higher, it changes a lot during the day too. But it's nice, especially for kids :)
It's still very quiet and peaceful in Anda, there are like 5 other tourists in Anda at the same time which we saw either in our resort, or in Coco Loco, or in the Old castle, like "Ah, that's the couple from the breakfast" "ah, that's the family from the beach" haha. :) You also see the same locals here, I love that they always greet "Hello, good morning, how are you?" :) I got a lot of comments about my hair again, hehe. People can't really believe it's real haha.
We hung out quite much in the Old castle during the days and sat there in their sun chairs and had some juice or shake or coffee or ice cream haha. We also arranged the diving, Anda Divers have their office there.
We went out for a 2-dive around the area of Anda, well, we had to take a van to another town about 10 minutes away from where the boat can actually anker to, because it's to shallow here in Anda Beach. We were 5 divers and the instructor, well actually two of the divers were dive masters, german, and then one older man from France and me and Duilio. On the first dive the instructor and the french man dived together and me and Duilio went with the other two dive masters. We went down to about 25m along a wall, there is a place where there usually are many many different kind of sea horses, but it was quite current and sea horses are quite bad swimmers, they can't hold on, so we only saw one :( We saw cuttlefish and nudy branches, and a a couple of turtles too :)The visibility wasn't so good on the first dive.
The second dive spot was in "Coral Garden", and it really was a coral garden. Beautiful – so many different kind of corals everywhere – in all colors and shapes. And here we saw many many turtles! They like to hang out there, so we could really be close to them, like 1-2 meters, very cool. The visibility was a lot better on the second dive too, so we enjoyed it more.
We were supposed to be back around 13-14, but instead the boat took us to the dive resort that the dive shop has and where the germans where staying, which wasn't even in Anda, we had a few beers and wrote or dive logs there, and then we took the van back to us, about 40 minutes drive or something. So we weren't back until 17. The owner Michael was very sorry for this, he was waiting for us at the place where he dropped us of, wondering where we were, haha.
But it was ok for us, much longer day than expected, we had only bought some fruit to eat in between the dives since we thought we were going to eat lunch around 14, so when we got back we were quite hungry. We tried the "Food court" they have here in town, and it was great! They had like 20 different dishes to choose from, half of them vegetarian, and 30php per serving. So for both of us we paid a total of 140php for lunch (3 euro/usd). :)
There isn't much to do in Anda, just relax. There is a couple of attractions, one of them visiting a small island where there is some witch thing, we had plans on doing that but in the end we didn't.. haha. Time passes by really quickly. We spent 4 days in Anda and one day of them diving, the rest of the days the plan was something like "we eat breakfast there, then we go to the beach, then we have a massage/eat lunch or dinner/do some henna tattoos" haha. It was very nice!
So yeah, we got a massage in our resort, ahh, so nice! It was Duilios first massage ever, haha. Full body for 1 hour was 500 php, about 10 euros/usd.
I really don't understand how they can make profit on this resort, because it's at least 20 people working there during the day (reception, boutique, restaurant, bar, gardening, pool cleaning, security, massage etc) but there are only very few guests here!
It's probably during the weekend when all the locals go to see the band that they earn money maybe. I don't know. We felt a little bad about not using the restaurant that much, we had to pass by the restaurant from our room to go out from the resort, and the staff is very sweet and friendly. There were always like 3 staff members sitting there waiting for customers… we didn't use it much because the breakfast wasn't so good and they only had one vegetarian option for lunch/dinner, but we had a few coffees there at least.. haha.
And we both did henna tattoos – there is one artist by the beach, he is from Manila but he comes to Anda for long vacations about 2-3 months every year, you can see him by the beach doing poi when he doesn't have any henna costumers, hehe. The henna was different from the one I had in India, this is darker but still lasts for 3 weeks, and I had my whole back done! I showed some reference pictures and let him do what we wanted, took a couple of hours, but the artist said it was his master piece :) Duilio had 2 smaller ones, one with a "philippine sun" and another with a turtle. :)
We were really sad to leave Anda, we could easily have stayed 1 week… but the direct ferrys direct to Camiguin only leaves Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1pm from Jagna, so we wanted to take it on Wednesday and stay for 5 days. It's Duilios last destination before heading back home.
We took a bus in the morning to Jagna, about 1 hour from Anda.. But guess what – once we are there we get to know that the ferry was cancelled!!! We couldn't believe it… it was because it's "holy week" or easter, and apparently a lot of people go to visit their families or to spend the holidays in Camiguin, they have a pilgrimage there during these days. And there is only one ferry, which they had taken from another city instead of from Jagna… so typical!! We were like… "Fuck, we could have stayed in Anda 2 more days!!" It definitively would have been the best option to go back..
So we didn't really know what to do. We met a polish couple there that also where supposed to take the ferry to Camiguin. They told us that they had talked to the travel office and they said that you can rent a private boat for about 5000php to get to Camiguin, but there is some problems with the coast guard, they don't allow private boats to do it.. The other option was to take a ferry at 10pm instead to Cagayan de Oro, about 8 hours away, and from there take a 2 hour bus to a port, from where there were ferrys going to Camiguin… So we wouldn't be there until next day around noon.
A Philipino lady that also needed to get to Camiguin to visit her family for easter, started to arrange a boat for us together with another french girl there. She spoke perfect english and philipino, and talked to some local people there that could fix a bout that could take up to 8 people and that it would be 1000php per person… Ok, so we went to a fishing village next to Jagna from where we would get the boat. We thought it was going to be a bigger bungo boat, like the ones we used for diving… But it reeeeally was a very very small boat, there was no sun shade and there wasn't even a place for us to sit in, we sat on the proa! At first we thought we would take this little boat out to a bigger boat, because there were bigger fishing boats docked in the middle, but no, it was this boat going the whole way!! And it was about a 3 hour journey.
We had put all our backpacks in plastic bags inside the boat, but once we got out a couple of hundred meters from the shore, it was quite wavy and water kept coming in all the time in the boat, and we were already completely wet and I really didn't feel ok with this, we were over weighted and it was very crazy, if we would have some motor problems or something we would probably go under.
I said to Duilio "Duilio, this is crazy, I we should go back now before it's too late, don't you?" and he said "YES PLEASE!" he was super scared. I asked the other people if they were ok about going back, at least we would, and they were all "Yes yes yes!" haha. So yeah, we turned back. I think even the philipino lady was happy about it.
We had paid 2000php in advance for the gasoline, which we said they could keep (I think 1000 of them was for muting the coast guard or something), but we just felt that it was the right decision, that we get to live another day. :) Duilio was still all shaky about this. So we went back to the port in Jagna and bought the tickets to Cagayan the oro at 10pm for 570php each. Then we went to a café and sat there for about 8 hours haha.
Once in the ferry we were surprised to find it was a sleeping ferry! So it had bunk beds! Yay! We are happy we got there at 8pm because you could border the ferry before. I felt asleep early, super tired. We arrived in Cagayan a little before 6am, saw a beautiful sunrise.
We got a jeepney for 10php each to the bus terminal and from there a van for 150php to Baligoan port, from where the ferrys were leaving to Camiguin. The van was quick, took only 1,5 hours to reach the port…. And…. Disaster. There was a looong que to the ticket booth.
I had previously arranged with our contacts of the house we are renting through airbnb in Caminguin to meet up at 11am, if it would have been a regular day, that's when we where supposed to arrive. But there where literally thousands of philipinos in cue to get to Camiguin. We started queing 7.30am and at 6pm we finally boarded the ferry that took us to Camiguin, at that ferry only takes one hour. It was crazy. You could see Camiguin from the port, it would have been quicker to swim there!
I was truly surprised that the Filipinos were in such a good mood! Like happy, talking, waiting without pushing or anything, just staying there in line. And they only have a couple of days of, so waiting 11 hours for a 1 hour ferry ride across the sea should be harder for them then for us, because we have months! We were tired and hungry and just wanted to arrive, but they didn't show it.. Such a different mentality.
But yeah, we are aware of how bad this was organized, like really, the worst. Everything was suuuuuper slow, and just completely.. bad. One ticket booth for maybe 3000 travelers… Stupid!!! When we left, there was still about another thousand people waiting to cross… Really crazy!! So after this experience, yes, we would definitively have enjoyed to turn back to Anda and stay 2 more nights and take the direct ferry on Friday instead, with less hustle. But but….. an experience too.
Well… next post will be about Camiguin :)


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Teachers are "the key to our success in today's global economy"
WASHINGTON - April 29, 2010 -
President Obama publicly encouraged efforts to keep teachers in the classroom, and thanked NEA President Dennis Van Roekel, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), and Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-Iowa) for their leadership during a White House ceremony today honoring the 2010 National Teacher of the Year.
"Recovery efforts must continue as states face budget shortfalls that put hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk," said President Obama. "Because we need—our children need—those teachers in the classroom."
In keeping with past recovery efforts under the Administration's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), Sen. Harkin, chair of the Senate Education Committee, recently introduced the Keep Our Educators Working Act, which would provide $23 billion to extend the already successful State Fiscal Stabilization Fund. According to Sen. Harkin, the bill, cosponsored by more than twenty Senators, would offer a one-year influx of money to fund state and local education jobs.
"As educators continue to face layoffs across the country, we must remember what this means for our students and their futures," said National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel. "Massive class sizes, less attention to individual student needs, fewer services—all mean our children won't receive the education they need. How can we give our children a world class education when teachers and other education personnel are in unemployment lines instead of in classrooms and schools?"
"Education Secretary Arne Duncan has estimated that as many as 300,000 educators across the nation could get pink slips this fall," Chairman Harkin said. "Today, as we honor the contributions teachers make - especially teachers like Iowa's Sarah Brown Wessling, the 2010 National Teacher of the Year – it's important to realize what these cuts would mean. Job losses of this magnitude would take a terrible toll on our education system, resulting in bigger class sizes, fewer program offerings and less time for students to learn in school. The Keep Our Educators Working Act would help keep educators like Sarah Brown Wessling in the classroom. Kids only get one shot at an education, and it's up to us to make sure it's a good one."
As states struggle with budget shortfalls in preparing 2010-2011 budgets, a devastating number of educators across the country are receiving layoff notices. Hundreds of thousands of teachers and support professionals may not be in classrooms and schools next school year, affecting millions of students. In addition, many school districts are being forced to close schools, cut education programs and classes, as well as increase class sizes and shorten the school year or week.
"Sen. Harkin's bill will save or fund hundreds of thousands of education jobs, and ensure that millions of America's students will not be penalized or shortchanged because of the nation's economic woes," said Van Roekel. "When educators lose their jobs, our children lose too."
According to figures released by the National Education Association, most states will receive more education funds under the Keep Our Educators Working Act than if they were awarded grants under the administration's Race to the Top competition.
President Obama named Wessling, an Iowa English teacher, the 2010 National Teacher of the Year. Wessling and the Teacher of the Year finalists were recognized in a White House ceremony that highlighted their contributions to their students and communities. The National Teacher of the Year Program is a project of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) with program partners, the University of Phoenix Foundation and People To People Ambassadors Programs. CCSSO is a nationwide, nonprofit organization of public officials who head departments of elementary and secondary education in the states, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Education Activity, and five U.S. extra-state jurisdictions.
"Sarah possesses all the qualities of a great teacher, and we are proud that she is an NEA member," said Van Roekel. "She is devoted to preparing students for the next stage of their lives, and she is committed to ensuring that all children receive a quality education. We need to ensure that Sarah and millions of educators like her keep their jobs and continue working hard to make great public schools for every student. We salute her for receiving this prestigious national recognition and for being an outstanding representative of our profession."
President Obama's announcement of the Teacher of the Year and his endorsement of education recovery efforts come as the nation prepares to celebrate National Teacher Day, May 4 and Teacher Appreciation Week, May 2-8.
"I also want to take this opportunity to thank all of America's teachers, who work every day with students of every age, from pre-k through graduate school, for their hard work. Their enthusiasm and commitment to students makes a positive difference in all our lives. Teachers are among America's heroes—they motivate and inspire young minds and enable students to achieve extraordinary things," Van Roekel said.
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Since 1983, I have provided therapy for children of all ages, for adults, and for families. The list of problems I do not treat is much shorter than the list of problems I regularly do treat.
For children, these regularly treated problems include fears of all kinds, toileting issues, compliance with parental requests and instructions, autism spectrum disorders, ADHD, and selective mutism. I regularly help teens and adults with anxiety, depressed mood, and relationship issues.
I often use couples and family visits to help with 3 kinds of problems: behavioral problems of preschool and elementary school age children, disagreements between parents about parenting, and couples issues.
I understand how children can be lonely, that every child is longing to be loved and validated. Many problems arise from children's difficulties in communicating their feelings and needs, something that is frustrating for child and parent alike. I have developed many creative ways to help children express their deepest feelings and needs in productive ways.
One of these is through animal-assisted therapy. Sasha, the daschund mix whose photo you see here, is always in my office and provides comfort to patients of all ages. She gives very young children something to look forward to when they come to the office, and offers comfort and 2 acutely sensitive ears for teens and adults.
Having written 3 professional books about my approach to therapy and 2 books for the general public about sibling relationships, I am now writing about the unique bond that forms between dogs and their people and how it is therapeutic for both people and dogs.
Individual and family therapy visits are not the best fit for everybody. I regularly receive calls from parents of all ages who are concerned about their children also of all ages) and also concerned about how they are managing or responding to those children, whether they are preschoolers, school age, adolescents, or young adults.
The reasons vary. Younger children may be engaging in challenging, but manageable behaviors for which a modification in parenting techniques is often sufficient. Adolescents and young adults may either be too anxious or too oppositional to agree to participate in therapy directly.
In these situations, coaching can be extraordinarily helpful. In my practice, this coaching includes discussions about underlying causes of the concerning behavior, developing clear and specific action steps, and ongoing monitoring of these steps to ensure that they are being as effective as possible.
I am pleased to be able to offer my services to help you help your dog conquer troublesome behaviors. The same approach, one that incorporates behavior change through understanding, that has helped hundreds of children of all ages, is now available to help the canine members of your family.
I specialize in helping your canine family member learn to behave in a way that makes life more enjoyable for him and you.
For many people, the biggest impediment to fully enjoying being with their dog is a lack of good manners. I will teach your dog to sit, lie down, wait (stay), and come when called. More than that, I can teach them these things in a way that they will actually enjoy. They will look forward to "School time." Some dogs like it so much, and some people enjoy the training so much, that they want to learn tricks such as rolling over or finding and carrying their leash. Motivated dogs can even learn card tricks!
You can learn much more about my approach to therapy from my blog posts. Just click on "Therapy & Dogs" at the top of this page. And if you would like to see and here me giving a talk about Contextual Therapy, click the link in the left hand column on this page that says "Click here to see an excerpt of my Contextual Therapy Lecture in the Netherlands."
BIO: I was born in Boston, Massachusetts, grew up in Connecticut, went to college in Maine, and earned my MA in psychology from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Connecticut.
I interned at the Worcester Youth Guidance Center and followed this with postdoctoral fellowship training in the Department of Psychiatry of Harvard Medical School at Judge Baker Guidance Center and Boston Children's Hospital.
I have lived in the Philadelphia suburbs since 1983, where I have a practice providing therapy for children, adults, couples, and families. Shortly after moving to the Philadelphia area, I began intensive training in Contextual Therapy with Dr. Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, who endorsed my his first book,Contextual Family Therapy.
I studied animal behavior and comparative psychology at Cornell, earning my M.A. in 1980. I then continued my training in Clinical Psychology at the University of Connecticut, where I was awarded the Ph.D. in 1981.
I am the author of Doing Contextual Therapy and Working with Children and Families and 2 books for the general public: Beyond Sibling Rivalry, a book for parents of children of all ages, and Why Can't We Get Along: Healing Adult Sibling Relationships, a book for adults.
I have Board Certification in Clinical Psychology and Family Psychology from The American Board of Professional Psychology. I have held faculty positions at The University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr College, and Thomas Jefferson Medical School, and have lectured and presented workshops in 4 countries.
I am widely recognized as an expert in sibling relationships and child development and have been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Redbook, Family Circle, Parents, and many other print and online publications. I have appeared on the TODAY show, CBS Sunday Morning, Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, and Voices in the Family with Dan Gottlieb.
LOCATION: My office is located one half block from the Narberth station of the R 5. You can reach me using the contact page of this website, by sending an email to pg at drpetergoldenthal dot com. or by calling 610-660-8400.


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The teams responsible for developing the digital baseband and the analog RF portions of an embedded electronic system are often literally worlds apart. At Atmel, for example, our digital team is based in Ulm, while the analog team is based 150km away in Heilbronn.
In our previous design process, the separation was more than geographical. The RF front end and digital baseband were developed and simulated independently. This meant that we had no way to verify the complete system until we had actually fabricated the chip. Fixing problems discovered during post-silicon debugging required a respin, often adding months to the schedule and tens of thousands of Euros to production costs. The only sure way to address this problem was to improve our first-time-right silicon process.
To meet this objective, we implemented a design process in which we cosimulate digital baseband components in MATLAB® and Simulink® with the analog components in Cadence® Virtuoso® AMS Designer. This approach enables us to verify system performance during the design phase—well before we commit to silicon.
Developing Analog and Digital Components
The intention of the Atmel design flow is to use MATLAB models as the executable specification for the baseband and data processing part of the system. This executable specification guides the more detailed VHDL implementation and ultimately, the transistor-level implementation.
Atmel engineers have years of experience using MATLAB to develop complex baseband components, starting with the DVB-T demodulator shown in Figure 1, in which the OFDM demodulator, 64-QAM demapper, inner deinterleaver, Viterbi decoder, convolutional deinterleaver, and Reed-Solomon decoder were all designed and modeled in MATLAB and Simulink. For system verification the existing blocks were supplemented by a synchronization block.
On the analog side, Atmel engineers use Cadence Virtuoso AMS Designer to design, simulate, and verify analog and mixed-signal components. The RF front-end of a DVB-T system is first modeled using behavioral blocks to enable rapid simulation. Later, these blocks are successively replaced,first with passband behavioral models and then with transistor-level models to increase model accuracy (Figure 2).
Developing the System-Level Model
Our designs often include analog blocks that are partially controlled by digital logic. For example, the analog design may include an automatic gain control with a gain factor generated by digital components. As a result, our system-level simulations must include this feedback loop from the digital to the analog domain. It is simply not possible to verify that these loops are working as intended without cosimulating the complete mixedsignal system.
Cadence Virtuoso AMS Designer Simulator provides a bidirectional link between Simulink and Cadence Virtuoso AMS Designer, enabling cosimulation and earlier verification of complex chip designs that combine analog and digital components.
The cosimulation interface is implemented via coupler blocks. The Simulink coupler block, which we place in the Simulink model (Figure 3), represents the Virtuoso AMS Designer model of the RF front end.
Similarly, we place an AMS coupler block in the Virtuoso AMS Designer schematic editor to represent the Simulink model. These two coupler modules communicate with each other, enabling the cosimulation to take place on a single computer or on separate hosts (located in Ulm and Heilbronn,for example) and even on different operating systems. The coupler modules provide a user interface for configuring input and output parameters, the sampling mode, and network connection settings.
In the next step we used the experience gained for our MATLAB based DAB system. To create the system-level diagram in Simulink, we considered reimplementing our MATLAB algorithms for modulation, encoding, and so on as Simulink blocks. But the MATLAB implementations had been refined and optimized over a period of years, and the engineering team wanted to leverage this investment of time and effort and to keep the original MATLAB design flow unmodified as far as possible. Therefore we used the S-function API to create a custom Simulink block named DAB_BB_Simulink that incorporates these MATLAB algorithms (Figure 4).
This approach gives us reusable modules of proven MATLAB blocks that Atmel engineers can use to assemble and verify digital designs in the Simulink environment.
Synchronizing Domains
Synchronizing the two simulation domains in a cosimulation environment is a vital step. When using Cadence Virtuoso AMS Designer Simulator, Simulink serves as the primary controller of the cosimulation, determining the number and data types of the coupled signals as well as the length of the synchronization time intervals. When cosimulation is initiated, Simulink computes the input data for the coupler block and sends this data with a timestamp of the next sampling point to Virtuoso AMS Designer via the coupling interface. Virtuoso AMS Designer simulates the analog portion of the design up to this timestamp and then sends the resultant data back to Simulink, again via the coupling interface.
Choosing the sampling rate involves an engineering trade-off. As sampling rates increase, so do simulation times, and it takes longer to get results. Setting the sample rate too low, however, can cause rapid signal changes to be missed.
The Cadence Virtuoso AMS Designer Simulator cosimulation interface supports the different sampling modes available in Simulink and Signal Processing Blockset™, including fixed-step, variable-step, single-sample, and frame-based. Frame-based signals compose multiple samples into a single frame that can be transmitted all at once. This typically results in improved simulation performance because there is less communication between the connected blocks. After trying both sample-based and frame-based synchronization, we settled on the frame-based approach because of this performance advantage.
Simulating at the Right Level of Detail
Simulating at the transistor level takes too long for the kind of complex SoCs that we design at Atmel. On the other hand, simulating the entire system using only higher-level blocks does not provide the level of accuracy required to identify problems.
Cosimulation with MATLAB, Simulink, and Virtuoso AMS designer enables us to verify lower-level blocks in the context of a system-level simulation while maintaining acceptable simulation times. In fact,we can easily trade off accuracy for performance as needed by replacing selected parts of the system-level model with more detailed transistor-level blocks.
Furthermore, the cosimulation approach enables us to use our MATLAB algorithms in downstream design activities, bridging the gap between early-stage development and implementation. By incorporating our existing MATLAB algorithms as Simulink blocks, we enjoy many of the benefits of using Simulink as a testbench for mixed-signal design, including complex stimuli generation, signal visualization, and postprocessing.
We have already demonstrated the advantages of this approach on DAB and DVB-T projects at Atmel. We can use the same workflow on any project that combines an analog front end and digital processing. Using MATLAB and Simulink as a multidomain integration, development, and verification platform is a big step toward our goals of first-time-right silicon and no respins.


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"Stranger Things" actress Millie Bobby Brown has deleted her Twitter account after users posted memes depicting her as homophobic.
The memes featured photos of the 14-year-old with homophobic slurs.
It is not clear why she was targeted. The actress' publicist did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Thursday.
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This is interesting. What it strongly indicates is that the stimulated brain rises to full alertness and quite safely. That may well be good enough. That it also is beneficial for fibromyalgia is in intriguing as well. It is neither a cure nor a change agent but works with what is there to enhance.
Since it is perfectly safe, go foir it and see if it helps at all. A lot of chronic conditions are worsened by memory itself and this may just modify that feedback system to alleviate the problem. As said, nothing to lose and a possible gain.
Perhaps I need to bottle something and label it placebo. Clinical studies prove it is efficacious in almost every ailment.
Inside the Strange New World of DIY Brain Stimulation
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When Brent Williams got to RadioShack that day in the spring of 2012, he knew exactly what he as looking for: a variable resistor, a current regulator, a circuit board, and a 9-volt battery. The total came to around $20. Williams is tall and balding, with wire-rim glasses that make him look like an engineer, which he is. He directs a center on technology in education at Kennesaw State University and is the kind of guy who spends his free time chatting up people on his ham radio or trying to glimpse a passing comet with his telescope. But this project was different.
When he got home, he took his supplies into his office. He heated up his soldering iron, hoping his wife wouldn't see what he was up to. He fished a few wires out of his desk and built a simple circuit. Using alligator clips, he connected the circuit to two kitchen sponges soaked in saline and strapped them to his head with a sweatband. He positioned one sponge just above his right eyebrow and the other up high on the left side of his forehead. Then he snapped the battery into place, turned a small dial, and sent an electric current into his brain.
It's been nearly two years since Williams cobbled together his first device, and he has been electrifying his brain two to three times a week ever since. Often he does it for about 25 minutes in the evening while reading on the couch. Sometimes it's while he's doing laundry or other chores. It's become just another part of his routine, like brushing his teeth.
Williams got the idea from a news story about how Air Force researchers were studying whether brain stimulation could cut pilot training time. The military is not alone in thinking that brain zapping may improve mental function. In recent years, the method—technically known as transcranial direct current stimulation—has caught the interest of academic researchers. British neuroscientists have claimed it can make people better at learning math. A team at Harvard has found promise for depression and chronic pain. Others are looking into using it to treat tinnitus and eating disorders and to speed up stroke recovery. Hundreds of papers have been published, and clinical trials are under way.
Though these are still early days for the research—many of the studies are small and the effects modest—it has inspired largely enthusiastic media coverage ("the electric thinking cap that makes you cleverer … and happier!" one British newspaper gushed) and spawned a community of DIY brain zappers.
Williams is one of its leaders. The treatments have made a huge difference in his life, he says. He retains more information from the tedious journal articles he has to read for work, and he feels more creative. On his blog, SpeakWisdom, he posts technically detailed reviews of stimulation devices and cheerfully gives advice to anyone considering trying it for the first time. He's got lots of company. A subreddit devoted to the practice has nearly 4,000 subscribers who actively follow the scientific research and share tips on where to place the electrodes on your head if, say, you're depressed, too impulsive, or just want to amp up your creativity.
Williams is spreading the brain-zapping idea closer to home too. He has built brain stimulators for his wife (he couldn't keep the secret very long) and several friends and acquaintances. All in all, he has persuaded at least a dozen people to give it a try. One says she's gone off antidepressants for the first time in 20 years. Another says brain stimulation is helping him get his ADD under control. Several ambitious middle-aged professionals say the devices have boosted their memory and focus.
Entrepreneurs are starting to get in on the action. A company called foc.us has already planted a flag with a commercial brain-stimulation headset released last year. It's marketed as a gadget for videogamers looking to improve their skills, thus skirting the need for FDA approval. The first batch of 3,000 sold out in just a few months. So did the second.
With easy access to the research, the equipment, and each other, self-experimenters aren't consulting their doctors or waiting for scientific consensus. They're zapping first and asking questions as they go.
In October I meet some of Williams' converts at a barbecue he is hosting with his wife, Madge, at their four-bedroom house in a quiet neighborhood of mature trees and well-tended lawns outside Atlanta. The first to arrive are Tom and Susan Tillery, a couple in their midfifties bearing a plate of brownies. While Brent tends the grill and Susan helps Madge in the kitchen, I ask Tom what kind of results he is noticing from the brain stimulation. He compares it to a runner's high: not euphoria but a sense of wellness and calm. He assures me he's not just doing it to achieve inner peace, though. "I'm doing it to be better at life," he says. It's not like electrotherapy will turn any dumb schmuck into an intellectual superstar, he says, but it puts you closer to the top of whatever game you've got.
Susan tried it first. She'd heard about it from Madge, who'd been stimulating her brain to improve her memory. Madge, who likes to memorize scripture, says the stimulation has improved her retention dramatically. Susan admits she was skeptical at first, but she was impressed to find out that researchers at Harvard were looking into it. "I was so intrigued," Susan tells me. She decided to see what it could do for her. The Tillerys own a busy financial planning firm with offices in four states, and she figured she could use some extra focus.
She started stimulating her brain a few times a week. "I put it on while I'm reading the Bible, so it goes by quickly," she says. It gave her greater mental clarity. "It just kind of took the fogginess away."
It's a rare thing for a scientist to stand up in front of a roomful of his peers and rip apart a study from his own lab. But that's exactly what Vincent Walsh did in September at a symposium on brain stimulation at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. Walsh is a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London, and his lab has done some of the studies that first made a splash in the media. One, published in Current Biology in 2010, found that brain stimulation enhanced people's ability to learn a new number system based on made-up symbols.
Only it didn't really.
"It doesn't show what we said it shows; it doesn't show what people think it shows," Walsh said before launching into a dissection of his paper's flaws. They ranged from the technical (guesswork about whether parts of the brain are being excited or inhibited) to the practical (a modest effect with questionable impact on any actual learning outside the lab). When he finished this devastating critique, he tore into two more studies from other high-profile labs. And the problems aren't limited to these few papers, Walsh said, they're endemic in this whole subfield of neuroscience.
Another crucial issue is how to rule out placebo effects. Though the current flowing through the brain during stimulation is almost imperceptible (it's about a thousand times less than what's used in electroconvulsive therapy), a slight tingling sensation under the electrodes can be a giveaway. Scientists are still grappling with the best way to deal with that.
A previous speaker had shown a slide with a curve illustrating the typical hype cycle for new technology. It starts with a steep rise to the "peak of inflated expectations," then plunges into the "trough of disillusionment," before finally reaching a "plateau of productivity." Researchers at the meeting seemed to agree that brain stimulation was somewhere near the peak, and Walsh said the sooner they turn the corner the better. "It would do the field a service if we took a head dive into that trough of disillusionment and swam around in it for a while," he said. There was nervous laughter in the audience. The DIY crowd, meanwhile, puts scientists in an awkward position. On one hand, the researchers genuinely believe the technique has potential. Some of them have filed for patents and started companies. For both selfish and scientific reasons, they don't want the self-experimenters ruining it for everyone by getting hurt or creating an aura of kookiness around the thing.
Still, they're reluctant to condemn the tinkerers outright. "You have to respect people's autonomy," says Roy Hamilton, a neurologist at the University of Pennsylvania. Hamilton and his colleagues have even considered making a safety video aimed at the DIY crowd. "We've talked at some length about whether that would be a socially responsible thing for clinicians to do." They still haven't decided.
Before I leave Atlanta I visit James Fugedy, a physician who offers brain stimulation treatment at his small office. Fugedy is 65, with salt-and-pepper hair, a mustache, and glasses that give him a slightly owlish appearance. He electrifies his own brain several times a week and says he appreciates the boost it has given his memory.
Fugedy may be the only doctor in the country who trains people to stimulate their own brains and sends them home with a kit. In a way, he represents a narrow middle ground between the scientific establishment and the DIY community. Patients willing to pony up $2,400 get a four-hour consultation in his office, medical-grade equipment, and follow-ups by Fugedy, usually via Skype.
The day I visit, he has arranged for two of his patients to stop by. Hellen Owens has been coming to Fugedy for nine years, driving an hour and a half from her home in rural Bremen, Georgia. Dressed head to toe in burgundy velour, she rocks slowly back and forth on Fugedy's examination table as we talk, gently massaging one hand with the other. At 57, she has suffered chronic pain that she attributes to fibromyalgia. Her previous doctor gave her epidural injections that helped for 20 minutes or so before the agony returned. "It was like my bones were going to explode," she says. Brain stimulation hasn't cured her, not nearly. But she's convinced she'd be bedridden without it.
The other patient, Deborah Ellis, says brain stimulation has relieved her chronic pain—doctors also diagnosed her with fibromyalgia—and the depression that came with it. "I no longer spend every day thinking I don't want to live," she says.
It's impossible not to sympathize with them. It's also impossible to know what's really going on. Placebo effects can be strong for depression and pain conditions, but Fugedy says it's not in his patients' minds. He has treated more than 300 people with overwhelmingly positive results, though he acknowledges that those results are just anecdotal. It's the research that's made him a believer.
It was basically the same thing I'd heard from the Williamses and their friends. They all trusted the scientific data, even if the scientists weren't entirely convinced by it themselves. They felt it worked for them, and they've seen it work for their friends. They're convinced it would work for others if they would only give it a try.
When I'd visited Brent Williams the day before, he told me he'd recently gotten an email from a psychiatrist in Los Angeles who was interested in trying brain stimulation with some of his patients. Williams was fantasizing a bit about the possibility that some Hollywood celebrity might use it and talk to Oprah or do an interview with People magazine and tell the world about it. That, he says, would be awesome.
As he was talking he plucked several sponges from a glass of saline solution he keeps on the kitchen counter. He popped them into his foc.us headset and put it on. He tapped a button at the back of his head and the device buzzed to indicate it was working. I watched his face closely. He didn't twitch or blink or even stop talking for a second, but the current was flowing through his brain.


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|Dev: Liquid Entertainment
|Release: May 3, 2011
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by Angelo M. D'Argenio
Let's face it, movie tie-in games never stand much of a chance of actually being good. Nonetheless, when I was told that the new Thor movie was getting not one, but three separate games by three separate developers across three separate consoles, I had some hope that one of them might be at least a semi-decent game.
Unfortunately, Thor: God of Thunder for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 is not that semi-decent game. It's pretty much what I expected from any other movie tie-in: a generic action game with a shiny coat of franchise paint. Unfortunately, Thor's coat of paint isn't even that shiny.
The story kicks off with a frost giant attack on Asgard. This makes Thor mad, so obviously he does what he does best: SMASH! Wait, no, that's the Hulk. Well, Thor beats the crap out of them anyway, and in the process gets tricked by Loki into releasing Mangog. For those of you who aren't Thor fans, Mangog is the sum total of the hatred of a million billion beings that were once killed by Odin, so the fact that he is released from his prison under Asgard is pretty much a bad thing.
I'm not a fan of the Thor comics, so I'm not all that interested in Thor's plot in the first place. But Thor: God of Thunder somehow manages to make it even more boring than it already is. Thor screws up, and then he has to try to fix it, and that's about it. Nothing else happens. There are a bunch of characters like Ulik, Ymir, and Surtur from the Thor comic that make appearances, but they are just roadblocks that Thor has to smash with his hammer, and their plot relevance is pretty much non-existent. I think the developers assumed anyone who was playing this game was going to be like "Oh awesome, remember that character from issue #64?" Somewhere in the middle they forgot they had to make the story accessible for the rest of us.
The gameplay system in Thor is a good idea gone wrong. Thor has access to a lot of moves. He can string hits together to create combos with powerful finishes, throw his hammer at foes at range, smash the ground to cause a quake, and call on the power of the lighting, thunder, and wind. He has a tech tree that you can spend "valor" on to learn new skills and abilities, and HP and MP bars for fueling his skills. He can counter enemy skills by dodging or reflecting them, and can dash, block, and jump really high in the air. There's even a rage meter that fills throughout the course of certain battles that, when full, can trigger an immense attack that alters the very terrain around you.
He also has a cool grapple system that lets him grab enemies and finish them off cinematically. However, unlike games like God of War that simply have you press the grapple button and finish an enemy off, Thor lets you choose what to do after you grapple. This allows you to string together brutal hammer strikes and thunderbolts. The bosses in the game are titan-sized beasts that Thor can climb upon, and they have multiple grapple points to work with. When grappling a boss, you can deal damage or leap to another grapple point at whim, making the boss fights incredibly dynamic. Even quick time events have their own choices that allow you to dismantle foes exactly the way you choose. Sounds fun right?
Well, there's one particular problem with this formula. None of that stuff I just mentioned matters one bit. You only need one thing to beat this game: the X button on an Xbox, and the square button on a PS3. Mash that button and you'll be just fine. You don't need to use other combos, or counters, or his god abilities, or ranged attacks, or any of that stuff. Every enemy, including most bosses, simply goes down as long as you keep mashing out attacks. Do you want to dash? Think again. Dashing leaves you wide open to enemy attacks. How about blocking? Nope. Blocking is slow and clunky, and it doesn't always respond. You might as well be using that time to smack your enemy some more. There is no depth to this system whatsoever. Even if you never upgrade Thor, you can still get through the game by mashing out attacks as quickly as possible.


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UCONN FOOTBALL: Injury couldn't keep Ty-Meer Brown out of lineup against Buffalo (video)
EAST HARTFORD -- The first few days following the loss to Western Michigan weren't the most enjoyable for Ty-Meer Brown.
As if dealing with a disappointing result on the road wasn't enough, UConn's starting safety had a troublesome shoulder injury that kept him from being a full participant in the first few practices leading into Saturday's game against Buffalo.
It wasn't until Thursday when Brown was able to feel confident in his ability to play against the Bulls.
By Saturday Brown was ready to go and it showed. Brown got the start, finished with five tackles and had his first interception of the season in a 24-17 victory.
"I saw the quarterback looking to the right," Brown said. "I just followed his eyes and he threw the ball up. It is special, especially last week not knowing if I was going to be able to play."
Having Brown, a redshirt sophomore, out there for the entire game provided a sense of comfort for his veteran teammates.
"Ty-Meer is a fighter," UConn senior linebacker Sio Moore said. "I was glad he was able to contribute because he is a big part of our defense. He has to communicate with everybody on every play and he has been able to take on that responsibility full on. He is a guy out there giving you everything he has. When you have a guy like that, it makes you want to play for them."
Even on a defense which starts six seniors, Brown finds himself in a leadership role in his second season. As Moore said, it is Brown's responsibility to make the defensive calls and make sure the Huskies are lined up properly.
"My teammates make me feel like a veteran," Brown said "They make me feel comfortable."
The feeling certainly appears to be mutual.
"He is a very experienced guy, he is starting to get a lot of experience," UConn senior linebacker Jory Johnson said. "He is young, but he has played in every game. He is a guy who makes our calls. He is a guy who gets our secondary and front line (in position). Ty-Meer being out there he can see things happening (quicker) than somebody with less experience."
Brown and the Huskies finished the non-conference portion of their schedule with a 3-2 record. They open Big East play on Saturday on the road against a 4-0 Rutgers team ranked 22nd in the latest Associated Press poll.
"It doesn't matter if they are ranked or not, Rutgers is always a good team and you always have to come ready to play," Moore said. "They always have athletes and great players. I know they have good wide receivers and a good back. We have to be ready to go at them."
It looks like UConn will be in good shape health wise heading into the Rutgers game. On his Sunday conference call with the media, coach Paul Pasqualoni said that there were no injury issues coming out of the Buffalo game. He also said that center Alex Mateas, who missed the Buffalo game with an ankle injury after starting the first four games, should be back for the game against the Scarlet Knights.
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Ed O'Brien - Words and Music - 2008
6.28.11 11:35am
Radiohead set off a frenzy of buzz last year offering 'pay what you want' downloads of the album 'In Rainbows.' Now that the dust has settled, 'In Rainbows' is being appreciated for its complex but beautiful musicality, and one of the artists responsible - guitarist Ed O'Brien - spoke with Julianne Welby about both the art and business of the album. Tonight, hear that conversation along with live tracks from Radiohead's recent 'Scotch Mist' webcast.


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Skip to 0 minutes and 1 second The difference it's made to all our lives is just– I can't even begin to explain.
Skip to 0 minutes and 9 seconds It's completely changed everything.
Skip to 0 minutes and 14 seconds Jack's gone from, you know, a sick, almost, a child with no personality who was miserable the whole time into a happy, social little boy who loves life, loves learning, and feels well the whole time. He's got friends. He's doing well at school.
Skip to 0 minutes and 47 seconds He's liked.
"It's changed our lives"
Archive footage reproduced by kind permission of Rick Cresswell.
We'd like to open with a video of Emma describing what a difference genetic testing has made for her son Jack, who was born at 38 weeks gestation with a birth weight of just 2kg and was diagnosed with diabetes at just 17 days old.
Jack's blood glucose was very high, he was vomiting and was in diabetic ketoacidosis, a condition where the body can't metabolise blood glucose and instead breaks down fats, causing build-up of harmful ketones. Jack was started on insulin immediately. There was no known family history of diabetes.
It was exhausting, absolutely exhausting, because his blood glucose would go from one extreme to the other. One minute his blood glucose would be 20 and then it would be 2 and you'd be running milk and hypo stuff into him. Emma (Jack's Mum)
Managing diabetes in such a young child is extremely difficult and, despite frequent monitoring of Jack's blood glucose and regular insulin injections, Jack's family found his diabetes very hard to control. Watch the video to hear more about their experience.
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Game 6: Thoughts From The Commute
Two things popped into my Big Empty Head in route: anybody remember George Steinbrenners last great personnel gasp? His insistence that the Yankees trade Andy Pettitte because he just wasnt tough enough in the critical games? This, as I recall, was in. 1999 and the deal was supposed to send him to…the Phillies. The other thought: what became of the four teams that really did blow 3-1 leads in the Series? The 1985 Cards fell below .500 in 1986 but made it back to the Series in 87 and it was five years until manager Whitey Herzog left the job. The 68 Cards never recovered but skipper Red Schoendienst lasted until 1976. But the 1958 Braves would stagger into another crisis – a tie for what wouldve been a third straight pennant in 1959. But after a disturbing playoff loss to the Dodgers, manager Fred Haney was fired, Milwaukee never again seriously contended, and within seven years the franchise was moving to Atlanta. The 1925 Senators werent competitive again until 1933 and player-manager Bucky Harris was out by 28.
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Big empty head?? I'm sitting here cracking up, now. Your head may be "big", but it is by no means empty. 🙂 I wish I had half the knowledge that resides in that head of yours… or even a chance to sit and converse with you one on one. I imagine it would be a great deal of fun, at least for me. I hope it would be enjoyable for you as well, but I have no idea.
As to what you wrote, I've always wondered about teams that get rid of managers or players after coming close to a huge win. I guess "almost there" isn't good enough, so they have to clean house and start over? That makes no sense to me at all. It seems rather like they're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
I remember when the Mariners made it to the playoffs for the first time. It was absolutely amazing. I was living in Seattle back then, and the whole town was caught up in the magic of it all – and the team itself was playing smart baseball. They did all the little things that were necessary to win the games that counted.
I'm guessing your mother hated the Mariners that year, though, and they probably weren't high on your list either. As I'm sure you recall, they were down two games to nothing in the series against the Yankees, and behind in the third game… and then came back to win that series. Sorry about that. For us, in Seattle, though… it was a magical season. I still remember watching that third game, and hearing the announcer declare that the Yankees could relax now, as the series was "over". For some reason, the Mariners seemed to play best when their backs were against the wall, and they managed to prove that announcer wrong. "Dewey defeats Truman!"
They lost to Cleveland in the next round, however – and Cleveland went to the World Series. But I still remember that year fondly, because the whole city seemed to come together as one, and it was beautiful to see. During the break, however, the Yankees traded for several of the Mariners, and during the next couple years, took a few more from that particular group. We took to calling the Yankees the "New York Ex-Mariners".
I guess sometimes, for a team, it comes down to the money. I suppose Seattle needed the money more than the players, but I always regretted the trades they made that year and in subsequent years. I still wonder if we would have made the Series if they had managed to keep that group intact. There's no way to know, but it still crosses my mind from time to time.
Anyway… thank you for bringing back so many good memories. I enjoy reading your blog, and watching Countdown, and I wish you nothing but the best. Good luck to your father, and may he be living near you soon… and doing well.
A World Series victory – such a joyous celebration for both the team and its community.
I think between tonite and tomorrow nite, tonite's game is the best chance the Phillies have to win a game. Either way, I think in the end, the New York Yankees take it. Most likely tonite. It's been a while since they won it all. It has for sure been a long rocky road since 2000.
What a difference between being thrilled to be in the World Series (like I was in '67 & '75) and EXPECTING to win the World Series, like the NYY this year. It takes its toll on everyone.
Good luck to both teams. Especially Andy & Pedro.
"When Rivera takes the mound, the other team ?is sitting in the dugout thinking, ?We?ve got no chance. It?s over.? This guy walks into the game, and they are done.? – Rich Gossage in New York Magazine (06/28/2004)
I started watching "Countdown" about a year and a half ago and really like it. Who knew politics could be so humorous? I am also a huge fan of Chris Matthews. It wasn't until this World Series that I ever thought I would have a negative thing to say about Keith and his comments. I normally find him insightful, intelligent and almost as funny as Jon Stewart (which is a huge compliment by the way). Please Keith, give the Phillies a bit of credit. Their payroll is slightly more than half of the Yankees' and they are still in this despite being described by some as unworthy usurpers. And after all, they are the defending World ******** Champions! Take a lesson from Chris Matthews. Wear your Yankees hat and cheer for your team but leave the making of obnoxious comments to the likes of Rush and give your Philadelphia viewers (I assume there are others), a bit of a break. Of course the Yankees are great. Can you imagine if they weren't with all the money spent and negative headlines written about some of their illustrious players? They would just be another bunch of overpaid, morally impaired grown men wearing baseball uniforms. I know the Phils aren't perfect but as the mother of two mostly-grown sons, I'd rather my boys look up to the likes of Ryan Howard than A-Rod any day of the week. Go Phils.
I as well would like to comment on the "big empty head" statement. The best part of baseball is its history. Just one debate between fans can last an entire lifetime. I know I'm always up for a good argument. Most of us are.
Us non-Yankee fans always feel slighted, so we fight harder to make our case against the NY media. Between the NYY, the Wall Street thieves and Donald Trump, we get tired of the NY media (especially the sports writers) always labeling the NY athletes the best, the grandest, the this, the that.
We across the nation love our teams too. And we're just as proud of their accomplishments as the NY fans are of their team's accomplishment. I sometimes get the impression that the New Yorkers behave as if they alone own baseball. It gets tiresome after a while. So we fight back. It's instinctive.
Having said that, Keith Olbermann is the brightest and funniest person on tv. And it's a thrill for us to actually watch and listen to a tv host who is smarter than his viewers, something that is rare to find in this day and age. We learn something every single night, because he spends his program dissecting the damage done all day by liars and just plain not too bright people. His job requires hard work, research, responsible reporting and dedication.
He has had a tough year personally. So I'm hoping he can take some joy out of this baseball season. I suspect that he will.
1984braves, thank you. I agree with you on your assessment of Keith. He's a good man, and I truly appreciate what he does here and on Countdown. If not for him, it would have been much harder for me to survive the Bush years. And added to what you wrote – he treats us as valuable human beings; intelligent members of the community. He doesn't tell us what we want to hear, but what we need to hear. He treats us like adults, and I appreciate that a great deal. Most networks seem to think we're either too stupid to hear the real news, or that we're so gullible we'll just buy the lies.
I always miss Keith when he's not on the show, but I have to admit, there is something inside me that is hoping he's at the game tonight. He's earned it.
Thanks for all you do, Keith.
And by the way, if I'm talking too much here, I'm sorry… but I actually feel comfortable here. It's a good feeling. I'll try to limit myself a bit more in the future, though. 🙂
@marij123 – Wow. Where to start? What "obnoxious comments" has Keith made toward the Phillies? He has only quoted statistics, and responded (mildly) to obnoxious Phillies FANS who have been flaming him to a crisp since this series began. Actually, I think he's a shown an incredible amount of restraint, considering that the Phillies fans have been attacking him personally, rather than debating the Yankees/Phillies matchup.
As for the money, were you whining about how much the Yankees were getting paid, when the Phillies won the WS last year? The Yankees, until tonight, had become a joke, despite their highly-paid players. Your complaint should be that it's about time they won the WS, given their highly-paid talent.
BTW, Keith doesn't need to take any lessons from Chris Matthews. Wearing a Phillies hat on his own TV show was highly unprofessional. And a lot of people prefer the civility of Countdown or The Rachel Maddow Show to the shoutfests Matthews instigates on Hardball. Like what you like, but please don't tell other people how they should act on their own shows. When a host's behavior is unacceptable, the ratings will reflect that–quickly.
As for Jon Stewart supposedly being funnier than Keith? You apparently never saw Jon's late, unlamented talk show on MTV, did you? Bear in mind that Stewart has a team of writers behind him, while Keith has written much of his own Countdown scripts, AND improvised banter for years on SportsCenter. Holding one's own against Dan Patrick is something Jon Stewart couldn't hope to do, even with a team of writers and a teleprompter. 🙂
@1948braves – You make a good point, about how the NY media (and IMHO, NY fans) tends to lionize their own, and pretend that any team west of NYC is unworthy of merit. I felt that burn a lot back in 2001, when I was rooting for the D'Backs to win that World Series. It goes without saying, that the media dumped all over the Snakes. And the visiting New Yorkers (team and fans) were so rude while in Phoenix, that we celebrated their departure every bit as much as our win. (I'll concede that I doubt Keith would have been one of those fans–contrary to Phillies fans' belief, he does try to be fair and stay above the fray.)
So why was I rooting for the Yankees this year? Because they and their fans have suffered more than enough…because the Phillies won last year, and it gets boring when the same team wins year after year…and because Phillies fans became even more annoying than the 2001 Yankees fans. Aside from the occasional anti-MSNBC troll, this blog was a fairly peaceful place until the Phillies fans started in with their personal attacks on Keith and other posters, including Yours Truly. The song goes, "Let me root, root, root for the home team," not, "I will flame, flame, flame all the bloggers."


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|ELIZABETH N. SMITH -- (A nineteenth century example, actual dates uncertain )
Though an important division of the American people, in one phase we differ from most, if not all other divisions--we know so little about ourselves. We have neglected to preserve facts and incidents of those of us who have lived lives of strenuous endurance and unwavering self-sacrifice. Such had a lofty aim to sustain them, that of securing the unhampered enjoyment of life, liberty and property; and they could not be satisfied to plod along restricted paths marked out for them by certain self-styled superiors.
So the story still remains to be told in all its details how our forbears inaugurated a propaganda so insistent and forcible as to culminate in a train of events making emancipation both a political and a moral issue.
Regarded in the light of heroism, many Americans, bond and free, have passed on unhonored and unsung who yet were worthy of the olive crown and the victor's palm for their constancy, their courage and their firm belief in the ultimate triumph of justice.
Among this galaxy of heroes may be included a woman who, born in New England, well might a century ago have lived the restrained life of a gentle woman and left an illustrious example of culture, refinement and noble character.
Elizabeth Smith had wise, sagacious parents and enjoyed a material ease that seemed opulence in days of frugal habits and simple customs. This afforded her the opportunity to grow normally. With the advance of years she attained a fine physique, a trained intellect, a moral
Her earliest instruction was given her by private tutors belonging to the Quaker element of her home town, Providence, R. I. Studiously inclined, she was inducted into some branches then popularly deemed "too deep" for ordinary females. She also was at one time a pupil in the "Prudence Crandell" School. This was prior to 1832, for during the year the school building was dragged from its foundations and its brave principal was virtually driven into exile. In the prejudiced eyes of the Canterbury towns-people teaching of Negro and Indian youths was a misdemeanor. One year later the Connecticut legislature covered itself with ignominy by the passage of a law making the opening of a school for pupils of Negro descent a felony.
In Rhode Island, however, such an institution was tolerated. Just prior to the middle of the last century a "colored school" was established which was located within sight of the State House. There Mrs. Smith worked many years, first as a teacher, afterward a principal.
In 1865 the school law was so amended that children regardless of race, or color, were admitted into the schools of their respective districts. The only child of Mrs. Smith, a son, thus gained the right of attending the Boys' High School from which he graduated with honor.
This "opening" of Providence schools just at the close of the Civil War was indeed a notable event. Through the efforts of Albert Lyons and his intrepid wife, Mrs. Mary J. Lyons, a revival of a statute was secured making public school really not merely nominally free. The action was both warmly contested and as strenuously endorsed. The endorsers were most ably assisted by Mrs. Smith, Hon. George T. Downing, of Newport, and many of the influential men in Providence both white and colored. Despite the opposition of "Copperheads," fair play won in the contest. The third daughter in the Lyons family, after
Many of our future women of mark attended this now venerable institution. Of these Amanda (Mattie) Bowen should be referred to for her successful work in Washington, D. C., as a teacher and her welfare work there where she literally spent and was spent in her voluntary sacrifices for her people.
Miss Lyons, writer of this sketch, has always kept in touch with some of her former classmates, with one, a member of the Tappen family, well-known in abolition days, she has maintained permanent close relations. Until the end of her fruitful busy life the renowned educator, Miss Sarah E. Doyle, remembered "her girls" in ways kindly and practical, and Miss Lyons as one of them had the high honor of assisting in the celebration of this noble woman's ninetieth birthday. The school taught by Mrs. Smith was never "opened" neither was it "closed" until she voluntarily ceased her connection with public education. She turned her attention to private tuition and soon found herself fully occupied in giving piano lessons and instruction in French. Her pupils being mainly children of her neighbors, as she resided on the aristocratic "East Side," were of the better class and she enjoyed her work with them.
Mrs. Smith was a pianist of high rank and a fine linguist. The writer is most happy to record her personal indebtedness to this woman who loved learning not only for learning's sake but for the privilege it gave her to aid in developing the mental growth and mental strength of the immature though aspiring.
In conversation Mrs. Smith was supreme. She lived when conversation was an art; her disciplined mind and varied reading, her choice of apposite quotations and illustrations, her animated graceful manners, charmed as well as her kind heart led her to intuitively adapt herself to her auditors. She had the faculty of drawing out the best in each and the good sense to avoid monologues. The secret of her popularity was that she was equally a good talker and a good listener.
Her endowments, her culture, her high ethical standard, her genuine charity gained for her in her maturity a more than local reputation. To the last she maintained a lively interest in all groups working for uplift recalling with satisfaction how she had helped him who became the "Grand Old Man" of our people, how she had fought and endured with the "real patriots who essayed such heroic service in stirring northerners' consciences just 'before the crisis'."
Her purity of intention, her faith, her fidelity mark her existence as noble for its endeavor and its fruition. Wonderful records are enshrined in the life stores of so many of our women of the past. We can but dimly realize what it was to do one's duty under the shade of a slavery-darkened country. All honor to our women who were faithful to ideals despite doubt, discouragement, disappointment, despair. The nimbus of serfdom weighted like a nightmare. With the conflict between the spirit of legality and the letter of the law they lay, as it were, between upper and nether millstones. Their joy was so commingled with sorrow, their place so harrowed by injusticed, their sense of justice so maltreated, that they were able to cultivate
From the South have come many women who literally fought the stars in their curse, to step out of the darkness of bondage into the light of personal liberty. Throughout the North and other sections our thoughtful women have lived clouded lives, made dim by the tales of the indescribable sufferings endured by their sisters by blood and lineage. Their tears have flowed in sympathy and their characters have been moulded by large sacrifices cheerfully made upon demand to aleviate distress which at best could only be surmised. An impregnable persistency, a luminous faith, combined to make both the bond and the free able to endure to the uttermost.
And they all have done their duty, much better than they knew. They have left a broad foundation upon which their successors are obligated to raise an enduring superstructure of character, one that will exhibit the progress of the much maligned "black woman of America," and so conserve the toils, vigils and prayers of the many whose lives have been lived in shade, who only in lives of others saw "the shine of distant suns."


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Fearless a Worthy Second Offering in Suspense Series
- Paul Rose Jr. Infuze Magazine
- 2007 23 Aug
Author: Robin Parrish
Title: Fearless
Publisher: Bethany House
When INFUZE founder Robin Parrish released his freshman novel Relentless, he made it clear that it was just the first part of a grand three-stage epic. In Fearless, he delivers on his promise, creating a straight-up superhero story that many of the X-Men writers would envy, yet one that proceeds smoothly out of Relentless' suspense-filled thriller pages without missing a beat.
The story picks up a few months after the conclusion of Relentless, with Grant Borrows and his rapidly-growing band of ring-wearing cohorts in Los Angeles, fighting crime and defending innocent bystanders from the dangers that have arisen in the city, thanks to riots and fear from a large spate of global natural disasters.
Grant is a hero of the people, spawning a rash of websites, news stories and fan clubs across the world, none of whom know his or his teams' real names. He is known simply as 'The Guardian,' and has been working with Dr. Daniel Cossack to continue to understand and develop his powers. Meanwhile, Morgan, the earliest-known person to be shifted, has dispatched her former lover Payton, also a ring-wearer known as the Thresher, to further their investigation of the organization who claims to be pulling their strings, the Secretum of Six, once led by Grant's grandfather.
With new ring-wearers popping up on a regular basis, Grant's sister has developed their own version of the Underground Railroad to bring new Loci into the fold, at the same time, attempting to vet them as true heroes. Unfortunately, the plan isn't flawless, and finding themselves as the subject of betrayal, Grant and his closest teammates flee the country to avoid an FBI investigation, reluctantly led by Special Agent Ethan Cooke.
But the team's departure is not just for the sake of convenience. As a result of the natural disasters, a group of rogue ring-wearers, under order of the Prime Minister, isolate the central portion of London, creating an invisible barrier that no one on either side can manage to pass through. And following an encounter with Devlin, the man who appears to have replaced Grant's grandfather as the Secretum's Keeper, Morgan convinces Grant that the answers to his questions might be hidden in the 5-centuries of writings stored in the Library of London.
A detour to Jerusalem is prompted by a mental message from Payton, which gives Grant and the team an opportunity to express their worldwide commitment to heroism, while helping dig out the victims of another so-called natural disaster.
Once in the British Isles and cleverly penetrating the barrier, Grant and his closest Loci find themselves closer to the truth than certain parties are comfortable with and the story's intensity continues to build, page after page, to its startling conclusion.
True to his word, Parrish answers many of the questions left open at the conclusion of Relentless. We learn more about the Secretum, their origins, where the rings come from and some of the deeper mysteries involved in the prophecy told about the Bringer by the Dominion Stone. But like with all truly great epic stories, every question answered leads to more questions as Grant finds himself deeper in the proverbial rabbit-hole than ever before.
Along the way, Parrish demonstrates that he not only understands the super hero genre, but is willing to break some of the standard rules of the game to increase the tension and raise the stakes far above that of normal suspense or comic book-styled literature.
In Fearless, Parrish quickly proves that he is far from a one-hit wonder, something his INFUZE readers doubtless recall from his earlier serialized novels on this website. Relentless was a much more serialized novel, with short chapters that left the readers dangling on the cliffhangers, hardly able to put the book down in their quest to find out what happens next.
Fearless, on the other hand, has longer chapters, giving Parrish and the readers more time to explore character depth, which Parrish handles with almost as much style as his action scenes, while at the same time, building with a pace reminiscent of Relentless, still keeping the readers at the edge of their seats in anticipation of the final chapter. In fact, I stayed up an extra two hours to finish the book myself, wanting to discover the book's finale. In fact, the ending is so monumental, Parrish's readers will be cursing the fact that they have to wait 12 months to discover the Dominion Trilogy's endgame in Merciless.
It'll definitely be worth the wait to find out how Parrish resolves the threads he leaves hanging at the end of Fearless. I can't imagine anything less than a conclusion in the style of a blockbuster film. One thing's for sure—The Dominion Trilogy should have a place on any suspense fan's bookshelf next to Stephen King and Dean Koontz.
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Starting on August 16, Apple will offer users of third-party iPhone, iPad, and iPod power adapters the chance to trade their old chargers in and pick up a genuine model at a discount. The USB Power Adapter Takeback Program will allow you to bring your third-party adapter in to an Apple Store or Apple authorized service provider and get an Apple-branded adapter for $10 ("or the approximate equivalent in local currency"), just over half of the standard price of $19. The program is being offered in response to "safety issues" related to "counterfeit and third-party adapters."
"Customer safety is a top priority at Apple," the company said in its announcement. "That's why all of our products—including USB power adapters for iPhone, iPad, and iPod—undergo rigorous testing for safety and reliability and are designed to meet government safety standards around the world."
This program has almost certainly been prompted by reports from last month alleging that an iPhone had electrocuted and killed a Chinese flight attendant. Later reports pointed to a third-party charger, not the phone itself, as the actual culprit.
Apple will run the program until October 18, 2013, and the company will give users one discounted charger for each iPhone, iPad, and iPod owned. Interested parties will need to bring their iDevices in along with the power adapters so that Apple and its resellers can verify the devices' serial numbers. The old adapters will be "disposed of in an environmentally friendly way."


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By RICH FOLEY
I've always been a bit jealous of writers who get others to do their research for them. Some of you may be familiar with the "News of the Weird" column in which Chuck Shepherd edits and reruns odd news items sent in by readers. No need to leave the office, just wait for the news to roll in.
Back when he wrote a regular column, Dave Barry often thanked an "alert reader" who sent in a strange news item that Barry then used as a column idea. It was a goal of mine to become an alert reader, but at the time, I never came across anything I considered worthy. At least Barry gave his contributors credit by name, unless several sent in the same article.
Now Jay Leno does much the same thing on "The Tonight Show" with his "Headlines" and "Police Blotter" features. I actually sent some contributions in last summer, but none of them made the cut. I thought an ad for toothpaste containing an endorsement from a dentist named "Dr. Fang" would make it, but no luck.
A few months later, a "Headlines" segment showing several ads for doctors with odd names had one for another Dr. Fang. Is that a common name for dentists? I felt slightly cheated, but since Leno doesn't give credit to contributors, no one would know, anyway.
An old ad with a local connection actually made Leno's feature earlier this year. Several years ago, an advertising insert for Chief Supermarkets which ran in the Observer, along with several other papers, advertised a meat item that was a certain percent "fat free." Only it didn't say "fat;" instead it was related intestinal gas. Someone must have taken the ad out of their scrapbook and sent it in.
I'd think Leno would like some of the strange car ads I repeat at times, but for some reason, he never seems to show any. That's odd, since he's such a car guy. Instead, I've rounded up a few more ads, headlines and contributions for "Police Blotter." Maybe he'll like something out of this batch.
I have an ad from an Adrian store for Del Monte Fruit Cocktail. "Your Choice!," says the ad. "2/$1 or $1 each." After some thought, I think I'll take the 2/$1.
A Mexican restaurant in Defiance recently ran a hard-to-resist coupon: "Spend $50 and receive $1 off entire order!" Really? A whopping 2 per cent off? I hope they were able to handle the crowds.
Maybe he'd like this headline about a California marijuana initiative: "Pot measure's immediate effect remains up in air."
My best chance of making the show might come when Jay does the "Police Blotter" feature. Lenawee County has had some interesting police reports recently. Jay almost has to like one of these.
In the first one, the Adrian Police Department answered a call at 4 a.m. regarding a man who was said to be "breaking glass and creating a disturbance." The man told police he was celebrating because "a friend was coming to pick him up in a limousine with Sandra Bullock." He was arrested for disorderly conduct and released on bond.
At 11:50 a.m., officers returned after complaints the same man was standing in the street "yelling he was going to blow up his house." I sure hope Ms. Bullock wasn't inside. This time, he was jailed.
In a report from the Michigan State Police, an Onsted woman was injured when her car left U.S. 223 in Rome Township and overturned several times. That's never a happy situation, but it's hard not to laugh at the cause of her losing control.
The woman told troopers she was eating yogurt at the time of the crash. And no, she wasn't Jamie Lee Curtis. She did, however, get a citation for careless driving.
Leno, as a fast food fan, ought to appreciate the final item. An Adrian woman, driving south on North Main Street, called the Adrian Police Department after someone in a northbound car threw something at her vehicle.
The object in question, according to the police report, was a McDonald's McChicken sandwich. The woman reported that the car fled the scene. The police had no suspects at the time of the report.
No suspects at all? Do we know what Mayor McCheese and Grimace were doing at the time? And how about that Burger King? He always looked pretty suspicious to me.
That's all I've got for now, Jay. Take your pick.