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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10, 2012 – In today's Los Angeles Times, its award-winning sports columnist, Bill Plaschke, wrote an illuminating piece headlined Game is just a day at [the] office, which included this provocative comment:
The players don't care as much as you do.
In my 30 years of covering professional sports, I've found barely a handful of players who care as much about winning as the most fervent of fans. We're spoiled around here because we've watched Kobe Bryant hate on losing for the last 16 years, but Bryant is the exception.
Professional athletes care about their salaries. They care about their security. They care about their health. They care about the same things we care about in our jobs. They like winning and dislike losing but are generally unaffected by the daily successes or failures of their company, and really, what right do we have to demand otherwise?
Certainly, pro athletes with integrity instinctively give their best effort, are at least momentarily devastated upon suffering a tough loss, and are jubilant after a big win. But on a daily basis, the average pro athlete views the average game as another day at the office.
Plaschke's column got me to thinking about the plight of those Olympic-sport athletes who compete in sports that are commercially viable enough to allow them to make a living, notably track & field, skiing, skating and gymnastics.
These are individual sports and these athletes certainly care – a lot – about how they do. But perhaps it is also true that they are too busy making a living to be able to care about all of the off-the-field failings of their sport's marketing and presentation.
Track & field is as illustrative of this as any of these sports. Certainly the sport's athletes care about how their sport is marketed and presented, but there are awfully few of them who are out in front about it. Shot putter Adam Nelson and 800-meter star Nick Symmonds come to mind, but the high-pitched discussions at last December's USA Track & Field Convention about the ability to sell commercial "signage" space on personal uniforms point to the core of the issue.
Athletes such as American 5,000-meter ace Lauren Fleshman cared a lot about the logos-on-uniforms issue because it directly affects her ability to make a living. She certainly does not get the kind of salary that a major-league baseball, football, basketball or hockey player does and her earning ability is much more tied to performance, a la those in golf and tennis.
So unless being involved in the sport's politics has a direct and immediate bearing on her earning power, how can she afford to get deeply involved? She and her fellow competitors can't change their sport's standing and schedule instantaneously; the more involved they get, the less time there is for training, traveling and competing, or getting ready to compete.
And they had better be ready, because they don't have that many opportunities. For American sprinters, throwers and jumpers, there are a few indoor meets available, a pitiful few U.S. outdoor meets with paydays attached and then the all-important Olympic Trials in July. Distance runners are better off thanks to the busy American road-running circuit, but even there athletes have to pick their spots to ensure strong, money-earning finishes against quality competitors from Kenya, Ethiopia and elsewhere.
How can they care about what might be off in the future, when they have to earn a living now. Plaschke is right, but in the Olympic-sport context, perhaps the correct phrase might be "The players can't care as much as we do."
This raises the question, of course, of who should care. If athletes expect USA Track & Field to play the role that Major League Baseball, the National Football League, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League and the golf and tennis tour agencies do, then the national governing body has to be the one to create more opportunities for more money.
If USA Track & Field is not correctly situated, or is unable to do this, then another entity has to be formed to create a track "circuit" or "league" that can provide new possibilities. Looking at the unchecked rise in rights fees being paid for live sports programming nationwide – with more coming – has there ever been better timing to market a sport in which the United States is unquestionably the world leader?
I think not, but then again, Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) announced on January 30 that it was suspending operations for the 2012 season after three years as the second try at a high-end women's pro soccer league in the U.S. And the American team continues to be considered as one of the best – if not the best – in the world. It won't be easy.
There is opportunity afoot for track & field (and also, perhaps, for skiing, skating and gymnastics) in the U.S., but let's not expect our elite athletes to be at the center of any organizing effort. Especially in this Olympic year, they don't have time, and as Plaschke noted, we have no right to demand otherwise.
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I worked on this mix for a friend of mine a bit ago and I really got into it. Researched song lyrics and adjusted tempo and mood for the subject I had in mind. She loved it and listens to it at work all the time. I was proud!
We should start the mp3 mix thread in here pretty soon!
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November 22, 1999
The relation between atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and beavers may not be readily apparent to the average person. As a scientist interested in the flux of carbon into and out of boreal wetlands, and a participant in the Boreal Ecosystems Atmosphere Study (BOREAS), Nigel Roulet finds the connection more obvious.
The BOREAS experiment was set up as a short-term, multiscale project. Data collection ranges from local, in-situ measurements to regional measurements obtained using remote sensing techniques. The experiment was designed with the intent of gaining a better understanding of the energy and gas fluxes between the boreal forest and the lower atmosphere. By varying the scale of data collection BOREAS scientists hope they can improve climate models to predict temperature and precipitation patterns in these mid-latitude regions. Researchers expect that output from these process models can then be incorporated into ecosystem models to more accurately represent global climate variation.
"One of the approaches of the BOREAS experiment was to use landscape ecosystem modeling. You model individual fluxes within the ecosystem and then use remote sensing information to scale up," explained Roulet, professor and director of the Centre for Climate and Global Change Research at McGill University.
Roulet's objective is to better understand the carbon flux between terrestrial ecosystems and the lower atmosphere. The BOREAS researchers are trying to account for the atmospheric distribution of carbon by identifying its sources and sinks.
Debate abounds as to the location of carbon sinks. The common perception is that the oceans account for a large proportion of carbon dioxide uptake. It is unclear what percent of the carbon budget is attributable to oceanic uptake and what is attributable to terrestrial and atmospheric uptake.
Scientists have only been aware of the boreal forest's role as a large-scale carbon sink since the late 1980s. Forests absorb carbon when the fixation of carbon dioxide by the plants exceeds ecosystem respiration. The flux of carbon into forest ecosystems should equal the flux of carbon out of these systems, ensuring a balance between carbon dioxide levels and vegetation growth. Initially, increased atmospheric carbon had caused a jump in vegetation growth in the boreal forests. This process, however, seems to be slowing, resulting in lower amounts of carbon being recycled through the ecosystem.
During the BOREAS experiment, one of Roulet's tasks was to study beaver ponds, which were known to produce and release significant amounts of methane (an important greenhouse gas) into the atmosphere. "Wetlands make up from 25 to 50 percent of the Canadian boreal forest and beaver ponds constitute about seven percent of this total wetland area. We found that beaver ponds are one of the largest wetland sources of methane. So we knew that they were 'hot spots' in terms of methane emissions," said Roulet.
"The more interesting result, since we already knew that beaver ponds were large methane sources, is that we also found them to be large sources of carbon dioxide," said Roulet. "This means that they are a source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere among forest ecosystems that are carbon sinks. The ponds have a large unit areas' source strength, so they can offset some of the sink occurring in the forest. Through analysis of air photos and remote sensing, we will determine the areal extent of beaver ponds and then we can estimate their role in the boreal carbon budget," said Roulet.


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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
The History of Weather on Google Maps
Weather Underground's WunderMap now allows the user to view historical weather records on a Google Map.
A calendar control above the map allows the user to select a date and view the historical weather records for that day. The records include radar, storm reports and even weather related photographs and webcam images taken on that day.
WeatherSpark also lets you view historical weather on a Google Map, giving you access to the historical records of over 4,000 weather stations.
If you want to know what the weather was like in Honolulu on the day of Barack Obama's birth in August 1961 all you have to do is use the time-line to bring up the correct date, and centre the map on Honolulu. You can then view the recorded weather for that day (a balmy 30 degrees centigrade).
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The effort to craft a comprehensive national energy strategy got a significant nudge this week. After two year's work, the nonpartisan National Commission on Energy Policy, a panel funded by several foundations, issued what's likely to be an influential report addressing all aspects of energy policy: supply, national security, environmental impact, and diplomacy.
Recommendations are laced with incentives as well as regulations that in total are unlikely to completely please anyone - smokestack apologist or solar-powered activist. Still, the commission's middle-of-the-road approach could stimulate movement on the national energy policy, which has stalled over things such as global warming and drilling for oil in Alaska.
Among the major recommendations:
• "Significantly strengthening" vehicle fuel-economy standards while providing $3 billion in consumer and manufacturing incentives to build and buy hybrid and advanced diesel cars and trucks.
• Applying diplomatic pressure to encourage nations with underdeveloped oil reserves to allow foreign investment while also easing US economic sanctions that currently prevent such investment.
• Beginning in 2010, institute a mandatory "cap and trade" program on greenhouse-gas emissions that would reduce such emissions 2.4 percent a year. This rate of reduction is 50 percent more than the Bush administration proposes in its voluntary program.
• Build an Alaska natural gas pipeline.
• Invest $4 billion over the next 10 years in advanced coal technologies.
• Provide $2 billion over the next 10 years to research and develop one or two advanced nuclear power plants.
• Increase federal support for renewable energy technology by $360 million a year.
It's a plan designed to be both ambitious in scope and politically realistic. Seated around the discussion table were advocates for business, labor, consumers, and the environment.
The commission - prompted by 9/ 11, the California energy crisis, and rising global energy expenditures - was formed early in 2002 by independent foundations to address growing concerns about shared resources. Among the 16 commission members are former EPA administrator William Reilly, United Steel Workers president Leo Gerard, Sharon Nelson of the Consumers Union, Ford Motor Company vice president Martin Zimmerman, former CIA chief James Woolsey, and Ralph Cavanaugh of the Natural Resources Defense Council. The contrast with Vice President Dick Cheney's closed-door task force, generally thought to be industry-heavy, was obvious.
While the overall energy package would cost some $36 billion over 10 years, it is designed to be revenue-neutral in that the money would be raised by selling emission allowances for greenhouse gases.
On many of the most important recommendations, there is a "prime the pump" approach that assumes that technology development - spurred by incentives and deadlines - will take off in a way that impels more efficiency and less reliance on foreign energy sources, as well as eventual reductions in climate-changing emissions.
"We almost always overestimate what technology can do in the short run, but underestimate what it can do in the long run," says commission co-chair John Holdren, an engineer and physicist who teaches environmental policy at Harvard.
As expected, there are criticisims. The National Association of Manufacturers calls the recommendation for mandatory caps on greenhouse gases "a significant threat to US industrial growth." The group prefers the Bush administration's voluntary approach to such reductions.
"The last thing our economy needs right now is a new government mandate that will raise energy prices even higher," says NAM vice president Mark Whitenton.
But the context for this week's energy policy report includes political activity and public pressure that moves well beyond what the White House and much of the business community want in terms of government control.
Under the bipartisan "Climate Stewardship Act," authored by Sens. John McCain (R) of Arizona and Joseph Lieberman (D) of Connecticut, all major sectors of the economy would be required to return greenhouse-gas pollution limits to year 2000 levels by 2010.
California is in a court fight with auto manufacturers, which filed suit this week seeking to halt the state's new program curbing vehicle emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Seven other states are moving in that direction as well. Eight states have filed a "public nuisance" lawsuit against the country's five largest power companies for the 652 million tons of carbon dioxide (the principal greenhouse gas) emitted annually.
One of the major criticisms of the Kyoto Treaty on global warming has been that it does not include developing countries such as China and India, whose burgeoning economies could account for increasing amounts of climate-changing gases. Members of the National Commission on Energy Policy take account of that possibility by recommending a review in 2015 of US actions to reduce emissions in light of what such countries have accomplished.
Having spent considerable time with officials and scientists in China and India, commission cochair John Holdren predicts those countries will be working to reduce their emissions as well, particularly as the technology to do so becomes more developed and available. "I think in 2015 they'll all be on board," says Dr. Holdren.


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Goal.com takes a look at the latest round of domestic action in Germany, after another eventful weekend of football
Markus Gisdol's debut as a Hoffenheim coach saw the troubled Kraichgau side sweep aside Fortuna Dusseldorf comfortably with a 3-0 victory at the Rhein Neckar Arena.
A defending mistake by Robert Tesche gave the hosts the opportunity to counterattack in the 11th minute, which Roberto Firmino ruthlessly finished.
Then, an own goal by Andreas Lambertz made it a second for the hosts halfway into the second half, as the midfielder's attempt to clear a corner with a header saw the ball unexpectedly end up in the net behind Fabian Giefer.
In the dying seconds of the encounter, Kevin Volland finally made it three by rounding Giefer and tapping home.
Despite the success, Hoffenheim remain glued to 17th spot, but have the opportunity to leapfrog Augsburg next matchday, should the Bavarians lose their match against Eintracht Frankfurt.
Borussia Monchengladbach carved out a narrow 1-0 win against 10-man basement boys Greuther Furth at the Borussia Park.
The visiting underdogs hardly focused on defending and were eager to make an impression against Lucien Favre's men by creating several chances at the start of the match.
However, the first half went goalless, and Matthias Zimmermann was sent off after half-time for his second consecutive yellow card within five minutes, following a tackle on Havard Nordtveit.
The deadlock was finally broken by Netherlands striker Luuk De Jong late into the second half, as he made use of a great through-ball by youngster Amin Younes during a counterattack.
With the success, Die Fohlen move up towards the Europa League qualification spots, but all hope seems lost for Furth.
Schalke brushed aside struggling Werder Bremen with a 2-0 win at the Weserstadion to gain three invaluable points amid their hopes for Champions League football next campaign.
Scoring was opened in the second half when young midfielder Julian Draxler nutmegged opposing defender Sokratis to place the ball into the left-hand corner of the net.
In the 68th minute, co-ordination errors backfired on Thomas Schaaf's men, and Ciprian Marica scored in front of an empty net to secure Die Knappen's second goal of the afternoon.
Following this convincing victory, Jens Keller's men get to keep their fourth position in the league and now enjoy a three-point advantage over Frankfurt, who lost to newly crowned Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich.
Wolfsburg held Champions League hopefuls Bayer Leverkusen to a 1-1 draw at the BayArena on Saturday.
A misplaced pass by Simon Kjaer enabled Andre Schurrle to intercept and lay on to Stefan Kiessling, who then brillantly volleyed home in the 12th minute.
However, Kjaer later made up for his previous mistake, as he picked up an indirect free kick in the 70th minute to restore parity with a great header.
The Werkself's third place is not threatened following the result, which keeps their hopes for Champions League football next term alive, but the Wolfe remain stuck in the middle of the table.
Hamburg failed to give a response to their trashing at Munich last matchday as they suffered a 0-1 home defeat to Freiburg at the Imtech Arena.
The Breisgau side carved out two excellent chances during the first half, but Jan Rosenthal and Matthias Ginter saw their efforts smash off the aluminum of Rene Adler's box.
And it was not until the 68th minute when the final result was eventually determined. Max Kruse ran down the right flank and crossed over to Jonathan Schmid to put the ball past Adler.
While Christian Streich's men brightened their hopes of playing in Europe next term, the Rothosen were kept at distance and remain in the midfield of the Bundesliga.
Per Nilsson's first ever double with both goals scored after set-pieces secured Nurnberg a vital 2-1 win over Europa League hopefuls Mainz.
The opening stages of the clash were marked by the Nullfunfer trying to besiege the hosts, forcing them back into defending.
Then, Nicolai Muller was felled by Javier Pinola inside the box, but the following penalty did not reward the visitors for their efforts, as Adam Szalai missed the target.
However, in the second half, der Club took the lead. Hiroshi Kiyotake delivered to Nilsson with an accurately placed free-kick, and the Sweden international thanked his team-mate by heading home.
Mainz equalled scoring shortly after, when Muller gently dinked the ball over Raphael Schafer, however, Nilsson grabbed his double by prevailing against Thomas Tuchel's defenders and driving the ball into the net after a corner.
Points were shared between Hannover and Stuttgart after a lacklustre match for both contenders at the AWD Arena on Sunday afternoon.
Although the hosts looked eager to display their home strength at times, the first half saw no serious chances for either of the teams, and both sides deservedly reached half-time empty-handed.
In the second half, the guests turned momentum in their favour occasionally, but sound defending by Mirko Slomka's men and an in-form Ron-Robert Zieler prevented the Swabian side from scoring.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Seventeen service members from the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard participated in a re-enlistment and promotion ceremony Friday at the National September 11 Memorial Museum in Manhattan.
Rear Admiral Scott A. Stearney, commander of Carrier Strike Group Four, presided over the ceremony in front of one of the reflecting pools where the twin towers once stood.
Navy Lt. Christopher Mikell's 2-year-old daughter Addyson attached her dad's new lieutenant bars to his dress white uniform. Mikell said his promotion ceremony at the memorial was moving.
Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Alejandro Diaz said he was happy to re-enlist.
"I love my job," Diaz said. "I love it every day, what I do."
The service members were in town as part of Fleet Week New York, a weeklong celebration of military services by sea when active ships dock in the city.
The celebration had been canceled last year because of federal budget cuts.
President Barack Obama marked the opening of the Sept. 11 museum at the World Trade Center site May 15. The museum officially opened to the public Wednesday. The memorial was opened in 2011.


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The documentary filmmaker Gideon Bachmann, who made an ambivalent study of Fellini titled Ciao, Federico!, likes to recall the premiere of 8½ in New York, when he, Fellini and his entourage entered the Paris Theatre on 58th Street. Ingmar Bergman, on a rare visit to the States, had apparently been sending letters to Fellini for some years, without reply. Now Fellini turned to Bachmann and asked him who was this young man retreating before him down the aisle. Such was Fellini's superstar status in the summer of 1963.
More than any other "foreign" director, Federico Fellini beguiled and delighted the American public. He was awarded five Oscars, more than his peers Bergman and Kurosawa, and his masterpieces, such as La Strada and 8½, continue to enjoy excellent sales on DVD. Fellini may be viewed as a laughing seer, a portly lecher, a lapsed Catholic. He could succumb–without a trace of embarrassment–to the frivolous and the bombastic. His later films often spiraled away into an indecipherable landscape of half-baked dialogue, outlandish characters and cheesy sets. Impious though it sounds, Fellini was fortunate to die when he did, in 1993. He had not made a major film for two decades, and critics damned each new one with the faintest of praise. In the years since his passing, however, his reputation has soared. Retrospectives multiply. Exhibits of his drawings, sketches and photographs travel from city to city. At last count, he had around 3 million references on Google.
Fellini seems to embody all that was rich and experimental about the 1950s and '60s in Europe. The warmth of his spirit, like Truffaut's, appeals to a new generation that's now more diffident toward the clinical, cynical brilliance of a Godard.
The private life of a great director does not always shed light on his artistic accomplishments. One need know nothing of Wajda, Buñuel or Kaurismäki offscreen to come to intimate terms with their work. Fellini, however, like Bergman, Visconti and Welles, wore his life on his sleeve, as it were. Each new film seemed to exorcise a particular demon or scrutinize a personal foible.
He has been graced with a profusion of books–some thirty in English, French and Italian at last count–but Tullio Kezich's biography surpasses them all. Trenchant in its critical analysis, absorbing and sympathetic in its account of his private life, Kezich's Fellini is a revelation. It effaces virtually everything written to date about the Italian maestro. Told in the present tense with relish and urgency, it reads like a chronicle, a biographical paean worthy of Boswell. Kezich first met the young maestro at the Venice Film Festival in 1952, and remained his friend and confidant for forty years. But the book is not merely a biography. Kezich, the much respected critic for the Italian daily Corriere della Sera in Milan, brings an analytical eye to bear on each film. He writes particularly well about Fellini's relationships with his screenwriters and his contemporary filmmakers in Italy, and his richly textured portrait of Fellini's youth in Rimini and Rome illuminates so much of I Vitelloni, Roma and Amarcord.


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Sequel to The Reason Sirius Doesn't Love Anymore. It has been six years since Belief's death and everyone is in their seventh year. Sirius still isn't the same. James and Lily are officially together and Severus is no longer tolerated by anyone but the Slytherins.
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I want to make you: clay tags
Like these beauties by Besotted Brand:
Or this simple faux bois version from Live Laugh Rowe
Or handpainted versions from A Beautiful Mess
Have you made your own? Is it realy as simple as it looks?
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The last ones are gorgeous!ReplyDelete
They do look lovely, don't they? Which is why I've had that special clay lurking in my craft cupboard for two years now...just waiting for the Christmas that I'm at a loose end...I need to get going in the summer-time, I think!ReplyDelete
I am also obsessed with clay tags. They are so simple and chic. These are all spectacular. You should totally make some. You definitely don't have enough going on right now. ;)ReplyDelete
Also, sometimes I leave comments on your blog and I don't see them show up. Like just now. :) Am I doing something wrong?ReplyDelete
- Jamie Foley11:25 AM
Thank you for these pretty tutorials. I was looking for a tutorial for polymer clay butterfly (symbolic of renewal/rebirth, something that has been an ongoing theme in my life this year) ornaments online yesterday and there was an abundance of ugly. These are so much better!ReplyDelete
Oh I love it, how sweet and thoughtful!ReplyDelete


text: I've been eating heartily for over two years now between pregnancy and nursing. I'm losing weight, our 13month old is underweight, but my husband has been gaining weight and we just found out that his cholesterol is high. Overall we eat very well, it's just that the portion sizes are probably to big for him and all the homemade ice cream and steaks that keep me from wasting away probably aren't helping him. Obviously we can cut back on ice cream and steaks, and he can start eating oatmeal with me (I eat a lot of oatmeal) and split eggs with our daughter (she can only have yolk), but I'm wondering if anyone else ever noticed that their husbands gained weight/cholesterol while they were nursing?


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Regardless of what anyone tries to tell you, the best way is spending lengthy periods of time there.
Immersion forces you to learn non-stop, consciously and subconsciously.
If you want to learn Japanese you have to dedicate your time and yourself.
I started learning this language five years ago but I'm not as good as I should
be because I didn't dedicate myself enough.
The first thing you should learn is the Japanese writing system: Hiragana, Katakana, & Kanji (evolve with this as you go).
some good websites:
lang-8.com (great way to meet native speakers)!
livemocha.com (it's like rosetta stone. It also offers speaking and writing exercises. Native speakers are on this site as well).
genkijapan.net (lots of helpful videos - annoying, but they stick in your head).
Erin's Challenge by Japan Foundation
I also think listening to nursery rhymes helps you get the tone and speaking fluctuations right.
Taking a class would probably be the best option because it forces you do to the work and you're in an environment where there
are others just like you wanting to learn.
Good luck!
There are several ways, but I think the best would be to make Japanese friends and talk to them every day. It makes for a lot of practice apparently. A lot of my American friends make me talk to them in Japanese all the time because it helps them process it much faster in the long run. Also, go to Japan!! We love foreigners and visitors! haha Whenever I'm in Japan with my friends, we always run up to foreigners to high five and hug them. It's pretty fun. Going to Japan will definitely help you learn Japanese far more quickly than any college course (I've taken the college courses and they are at most, elementary japanese with little to no socializing/speaking skills that are taught)
Started watching castle. Pretty awesome show
I don't know much but I learned hiragana and some minor Japanese thigs from an app. It is called Human Japanese.
Lose yourself within the country. From then on desperation will kick in.
Refuse to do as told.
Have you ever asked yourself "How should a person learn English or what's the best way to master English language?"
My best recommendation is this:
1. Know the two forms of the verb (辞書形 (jishokei) & ます形 (masu kei)). If you know these two, you should have no problem changing the form of each verb
2. Master the vocabulary. Some of the words are taken from English e.g エスカレーター (Esukare-ta- / Escalator)
In the end, if you can go as a exchange student in Japan, you should be able to master the language in a year or two.
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Well, I want to learn Japanese too and I know some Japanese because I used to study online, and listen to a lot of Japanese music and memorize their lyrics. Also, watching Anime and TV shows from Japan with subtitles can help you. After a while, you start to be familiar with some words. For me Is music, anime, and online classes. By the way, I'm planning to study languages in College. I want to be an interpreter. I hope to someday, travel to Japan and learn a lot more.
Anime <3
I studied Japanese at a time where there were no learning apps on smartphones
I enrolled in a school that specializes in Japanese and also supplemented it with online lessons from a native Japanese teacher.
But many of us do not really have the time to go to language schools to study. The good news is, there are a lot of online and offline resources for learning Japanese.
If you like audio programs like Rosetta Stone, be sure to also use a reliable grammar book. Rosetta will teach you sentences and phrases but does not go into the nitty gritty of grammar. Some good books are: Japanese for Busy People, Genki, Minna No Nihongo, A Dictionary of Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Japanese Grammar.
Tae Kim's website teaches kana and grammar. There is a smartphone app that has the same content too.
For kanji and vocabulary learning, some good apps are Anki, ScribeOrigins, Brainscape, Kanji Study.
I'm sure there are many thousands of non-Japanese speaking Anime and Manga fans around the world who have thought to themselves, at one time or another:
"Subtitles... grrr!" "Dub? ... that's even worse!!" "I know! I .... I will learn Japanese!!"
Well, I am among those who have said as much. Having done a little digging just to start, I know it's a long learning curve to be sure... years... if I were to study and practice a little each day. Of course, that would be more for language fluency, as apposed to just "getting the general idea" while watching shows.
So.. I have often wondered, if I am really going to do this, at least enough to enjoy shows without subtitles, just how much must I learn?
So here's my plan:
1) Learn how to read Japanese Kanji & Kana (including pronunciation) from online resources
2) Learn proper Wāpuro Romanization
3) Study using "Frequently Used" Language and Vocabulary cheat-sheets flashcards and online sites
Backup plan: ... take some beginning Japanese Language courses at the University LOL
- Anyone tried these steps?
- What is your progress?
- What was your method of learning, or more importantly what do you wish you had done?
The site issues appear to have been resolved for the time being ;)
I'd say go with the "Minna no Nihongo" series. It's what they use at most universities that teach Japanese around where I live. It's a good start, but you need to learn the kanas first (try finding animated gifs of the stroke order).
Make sure to get for the each of the 2 beginner levels :
- the main text book,
- translation an grammatical notes (the non romaji version for your language)
- Kanji Edition
The beginner level is a little bit more expensive than the intermediate book since with the intermediate ones, the CD is included with the main text book (but unlike the beginner ones, it's only for the listening comprehension exercises) and there are no intermediate level Kanji books. Also, while the 2 kanji book might not seem that important since you also have them in the vocabulary sections of the translation and grammatical notes books, it's still a good idea to get them because they teach you proper stroke order which will be very useful later on when looking up kanjis while reading.
Until you get to the intermediate level, I wouldn't recommend attempting to read novels / manga / etc., since you'll have difficulty understanding the grammar, not to mention you'll have a lot of difficulties with the kanjis.
Once, you're at the intermediate level, then you can start reading. It'll be a good for vocabulary building, including kanjis readings. However, at that point, you'll absolutely need an electronic dictionary that allows you to search by directing drawing the kanas / kanjis. The Casio Ex-Word XD-D10000 is a great one (or whatever current version will be available at that time). It's on the expensive side, but you'll barely need anything else. That's what I use along with the "Advanced Favorite Japanese English Dictionary" (paper dictionnary) for the very rare occasions the examples provided are a little too ambiguous for me and I want cross validation.
But be warned that trying to read a light novel at that point, is going to be a painstaking process, because although you'll have little problem understanding the grammar, you'll need to look up most words in the dictionary. This is where the electronic dictionary comes in. It will accelerate the process. It's a lot faster than looking up in a kanji dictionary (for proper reading when there is no furigana) then in a regular dictionary.
If you want to go the paper dictionary route, avoid the Basic Oxford Japanese - English Dictionary and the "Japanese - English / English - Japanese" dictionaries. They contain so few word that they are barely even useful. The "Kodansha's Essential Kanji Dictionary" is decent, but they are kanjis or compounds that are not in it, so there are times where it will be useless and will leave you frustrated for not finding what you are looking for.
Apparently, the 3 books : A Dictionary of Basic / Intermediate / Advance Japanese Grammar are good, but I cannot comment on them at the moment since I'm waiting for their delivery.
When it comes to apps, you might want to look at Mindsnacks, it won't teach you grammar, but it's a fun vocabulary builder.
Finally, just know that learning Japanese is a long process and you'll need to study on most days of the week if you want to make significant progress in the long run.
Hope this helps.
@Ecchi-Go: It's best to find people who know how to speak Japanese fluently and learn from them. That way, at least in speaking, you'll sound more accurate.
I started off with kana, then basic grammar (think: XはYです。Yes, really), then I built up some vocabulary, and continued with grammar from there. Kanji inevitably come up, so I learned some of the important ones (such as for dates, commonly used words, &c. i'm leaving the obscure ones for later). If you have Chinese background, kanji won't be as difficult. If you have no prior experience with characters, then the whole concept can be difficult to understand, but it's not impossible. It just takes time to get used to, and more time to beautify your handwriting, heh.
I haven't had a problem with word processing since I've known Romaji fairly well, even before learning Japanese.
At some point, you'll know enough grammar to start picking apart Japanese sentences. You might not understand what each word means, but you'll get the gist of the sentence. The same is true, to some extent, with English or any other native language.
The beginning is fun, then you hit a point where learning becomes difficult or tedious, and you'll question whether or not you really want to continue with Japanese. You either quit or break out of that mentality and continue learning.
I suppose this advice applies to anyone who wants to learn Japanese. My best regards to all of you.
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US GP: Hulkenberg finishes eighth for Force India
Austin (Texas) - Sahara Force India's Nico Hulkenberg withstood intense pressure from rival Williams to finish eighth in the Formula One United States Grand Prix here.
Hulkenberg, who started sixth on the grid, held off the challenge from Pastor Maldonando and Bruno Senna towards the end of the 56?lap race to collect four points Sunday. Paul di Resta in the other Force India came home in 15th place.
It was Hulkenberg's fourth points finish in the last five races, coming after the opening lap retirement in Abu Dhabi. Di Resta's form has dipped with the Scot scoring once in the last five rounds.
"Another tough race but very satisfying to have so many good battles and score another four points. I think we squeezed the maximum from the car and should be pleased with what we achieved. For the first few laps we looked very strong, but after lap ten the tyres started to fade away. When we switched to the hard tyres we were not so competitive so it was just a case of pushing hard to stay in the points," said Hulkenberg, who will drive for Sauber next season.
Commenting on his fight with the two Williams, Hulkenberg said: "The last few laps were not easy because I was getting massive pressure from the Williams pair, who were very quick through sector one. They had the advantage of DRS and it was not easy to keep them behind me. There was quite a bit of fighting but I managed to stay ahead."
Di Resta, however, struggled with tyres and a spin at turn 19 further ruined his chances.
"I was just trying a bit too hard to keep the cars behind me. That gave me some flat spots on my tyres so I had to pit for a second time. From there it was difficult to fight back because it was a clear one?stop race," said di Resta.
Force India look set to finish seventh in the team championships. They have 99 points to Williams' 76 ahead of the final race in Brazil.


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Definitions of "life" vary over time and cultures.
Those folks who refer to themselves as "Pro-Life" and state that those who do not subscribe to their views "kill babies" are hypocrites. They, themselves, have been known to kill doctors who perform abortions. They have been known to blow up clinics to "save" fetuses. These action make "Pro-life" words arbitrary and suggest that they get to decide who lives and who dies.
Scientists are not certain when life begins. A heart beat? Pulsing cells are observable in tadpoles! Many cultures believe that we are alive when we can breathe on our own, as in "the breath of life." Others believe life begins when we are able to think. Brain waves in six month fetuses indicate some activity is occurring, but not thought.
The Talmud recognizes no rights for a fetus. Abortions were common in ancient Greece and Rome. For another view, in ancient Assyria, a woman who attempted an abortion, was impaled! Whose life was valued? How did killing the woman save a fetus? The old and new Testaments say not one word prohibiting abortion. St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas did not consider an abortion to be homicide.
When microscopes first allowed sperm to be seen, early scientists thought they looked human and called them "homunculus" and thought they were tiny people. Does that mean every drop of semen contains people? Science tells us that a healthy young man produces enough sperm in a week to double the population of the world! The old Testament condemns Onan for "spilling his seed on the ground." He was willing to have sex with his dead brother's widow, but not to support a child if he impregnated her. According to Genesis 38:9-10, God killed him for his refusal.
If we look at the chain of life, life began millions of years ago---"in a galaxy far, far away." We know not where or how. Life is a long, long chain of events and changes. We, the living, are kin to ALL of life, past and present. We are composed of the same elements, mostly carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. During fetal development, we pass through stages from being the size of a dot at the end of this sentence, to floating in amniotic fluid, to having gills, to developing a rudementary brain at about three months of gestation. So, when are we human?
Chimpanzees and people share 99.6 % of our genes in common. Chimps use tools, learn sign language, live in families. Humans kill chimp mothers to get the babies to sell as "pets," or in some places eat them, and in more "advanced" places keep them in cages for years and perform painful experiments on them. Since we share 99.6 percent of the same genes, are chimps 99.6 % human?
Are legislators wise enough to decide 1) what is "life" 2) when "life" begins 3) who/what is "human" 4) and when does life" end? But that is a topic for another time…


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Pope Benedict XVI chose "Migrations: pilgrimage of faith and hope" as the theme for the 2013 celebration of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees. On Oct. 29 he issued a message on the global phenomenon of migration. "Faith and hope are inseparable in the hearts of many migrants, who deeply desire a better life and not infrequently try to leave behind the 'hopelessness' of an unpromising future," Pope Benedict wrote. Migration by its nature involves the pain of being uprooted and separated from family, country and possessions, the pope said, but faith and hope allow those who emigrate to face a difficult present if they can believe it will lead to a better future. They are not seeking just to improve their financial, social or political condition, the pope said. People who leave their native countries are hoping to "encounter acceptance, solidarity and help" from those in their new country who can recognize the values and resources they have to offer, he said.
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The beta service is aimed at small- to medium-sized businesses. It lets them use free private-label versions of four Google offerings:
- Gmail – Online email with up to two GB of storage per account, and search tools and instant messaging built right in.
- Google Talk – An instant messenger that allows audio chat as well.
- Google Calendar – A simple online calendar offering that lets users organize their schedules and share chosen events (or even entire calendars) with others.
- Google Page Creator – A WYSIWYG website design tool that lets you create and publish web pages for your domain.
Businesses sign up for the service, answering a few questions. They can choose to use any number of the offerings. For example, if a particular firm is happy with its email but needs a better way to keep track of people and projects, maybe Google Calendar can help. Google would of course be perfectly happy if a business chose to use all four.
If the items in this bundle of business services sound familiar, it's because they've been around for a while. In fact, we've reviewed several of them. If you're curious, you can check out our reviews of Google Talk and Google Calendar. As is also true with Gmail, neither service has completely blown its competitors out of the water, but many users have appreciated certain features (such as Gmail's huge storage, which left its online email rivals scrambling to catch up when it was first introduced).
Be that as it may, these are pretty standard office applications that you'd expect in any bundle of productivity software. But there are some important differences. A close look at these differences gets to the heart of why many observers are arguing about whether GAYD is a threat to Microsoft Office.
{mospagebreak title=GAYD is not Office. Really.}
First, you need to "bring your own domain." You can use many of the standard office productivity applications without even being online (except for email, of course, though even then it's only necessary for sending and receiving). The whole point of GAYD, however, is that it is hosted online. You can access the services (and the documents you save with them) anywhere there is an Internet connection. That is both good and bad, as I'll explain in a bit.
Second, there are certain applications missing that we would normally expect to see in an office productivity suite. Where is the word processor? What happened to the spreadsheet? Why isn't there a basic database application in the bundle? And good heavens, where is the presentation software?
Well, if you're familiar with Google's other offerings, you know that many of these parts already exist. For the word processor, there's Writely, an online word processor produced by Upstartle. Google purchased Upstartle in March of this year. For the spreadsheet, there's Google Spreadsheets, which we reviewed here at SEO Chat not too long ago. You can check out that review here.
While Google doesn't currently seem to be offering something comparable to Microsoft Access, it seems likely that the search engine giant could do it easily enough – perhaps by modifying the code for Google Base. Likewise, Google doesn't seem to have anything like Microsoft PowerPoint – but then, looking at GAYD this way misses the point, so to speak. As I said at the outset, it isn't Microsoft Office.
That point is clear enough when you look at what the package actually can do. Have you ever tried to share a spreadsheet or a Word document for editing purposes? It's uncomfortable at best; real-time collaboration with others not in the same office is practically impossible. Since GAYD is all about being online, however, Google has seen to it that collaborating with someone in a different room (or a different country) is as easy as making sure you are both connected to the Internet.
Taking that into consideration, GAYD is not really trying to compete with Microsoft Office as much as Microsoft Live Services. Indeed, it's been suggested that many users will take advantage of both Office and GAYD, because Microsoft's Office suite is currently weak on collaboration features (that is expected to change somewhat with Office 2007). Since Google has deliberately created its products to be reasonably compatible with Microsoft's, it will make sense for many users to (for example) save an Excel spreadsheet on their own system, but translate it to a Google spreadsheet when they want to collaborate with others.
{mospagebreak title=GAYD Issues}
Okay, we know that many of these Google services work well, or at least have enough of the features that small- to medium-sized businesses would want in an office productivity suite. We know that they even offer features that Microsoft doesn't implement or implements poorly. That said, there are still some very specific concerns that could make any business think twice before embracing GAYD in the workplace.
First of all, while it's free, remember that it's ad-supported. Do you really want to have Google selling ads around your business emails and business data? At the very least, that hardly looks professional (and that's always a struggle for a small business) – but worse, think about the privacy implications. It's not exactly comforting. Indeed, certain businesses may not be able to use GAYD at all for that very reason, such as doctors' offices or small clinics, which have to abide by the strict privacy regulations of HIPAA. Google said that it will be offering a premium version of GAYD soon; presumably, it will charge for the service in return for not including ads.
Second, while Google might be thought of as a cool company, it isn't exactly known for its customer support. If you're having a problem with your package, there isn't a phone number you can call for help. For most businesses, when it comes to mission-critical applications such as email, that simply isn't good enough.
Third, you're putting all of your eggs in the Internet basket. The applications only work as long as the Internet is up. While in general that's not a problem, think about mobile users. If you have a laptop with Excel on it, you can work on your spreadsheets to your heart's content as long as it has power. For emails, if you have Outlook, they're downloaded and saved to your machine. But if you're using GAYD, you must have access to the Internet. That's getting somewhat easier now, but there are still far too many places where it is difficult or nearly impossible to access the Internet at all, let alone get wireless broadband access (like flying in a plane between meetings, or even in a hotel that hasn't upgraded yet).
Fourth, speaking of mobile users, there are many devices that simply cannot access GAYD. Blackberry addicts will be sorely disappointed, as will users of Treo and similar devices. Supported browsers include Microsoft IE 5.5 and above; Mozilla Firefox 0.8 and above; Safari 1.2.1 and above; and Netscape 7.1 and above. This leaves out the kinds of browsers that mobile devices use to find their way online.
{mospagebreak title=Pluses and Future Growth}
But let's not overlook the good points of GAYD either. Remember its target audience; there's enough functionality here for your average small- to medium-sized business. Especially for those who don't need a number of the functions available in the Microsoft Office suite, the price is certainly right. And with the services being hosted on Google's servers, a small company doesn't need to have someone dedicated to maintaining a suite of office productivity software.
For the record, Google does plan to add the Writely word processor and Google Spreadsheets to GAYD, and to make its online collaboration features work across all of GAYD's applications (so presumably someone you're collaborating with could copy one of your Google spreadsheets into a Writely document they're creating). To make the package more business-friendly, Google plans to include APIs, directory-server integration, guaranteed performance levels, and telephone tech support. Once it's ready for business, though, you can expect to see Google begin charging a fee for the package.
Remembering that it isn't an either-or proposition, companies that use GAYD alongside Office for the collaboration features may find themselves lured away from the more expensive package. Indeed, Google reportedly plans to prompt people who send Office documents via Gmail to translate those files into Google's formats. "That's a brilliant idea, because it would allow them in a way to shanghai Microsoft's corporate customers into the Google fold," observes Tim Bajarin, president of consulting company Creative Studios.
If you're wondering what Google gets out of all this, it feeds back into the Google advertising machine. Remember, the package as it stands is ad-supported. The more information that Google can get about you (as an individual or part of a company), the more likely it is to be able to serve relevant ads. More relevant ads mean more conversions for Google's advertisers, which mean more money for those advertisers – and more revenue for Google. It may not be "noble," but GAYD still provides many users with an option that suits their needs better than Microsoft Office. And having more options is a good thing.


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Radiation therapy uses high energy x-rays to destroy cancer cells. Special tools and dosing will help to kill as much of the cancer as possible while minimizing the effect on nearby healthy tissue. A radiation oncologist will customize the treatment dose for individual needs. Radiation therapy may be given:
- Before surgery—To shrink the tumor and decrease the amount of tissue that needs to be removed. This may be more common with borderline resectable tumors.
- After surgery—To kill any remaining cancer cells and decrease risk of return.
- To help relieve symptoms of metastatic cancer and extend survival time.
For pancreatic cancer, radiation therapy is most often used in combination with chemotherapy (called chemoradiation).
There are different types of radiation therapy, but external beam radiation is used to treat pancreatic cancer. In external beam radiation therapy, radiation is produced by a machine positioned outside the body. Short bursts of x-rays are directed at the cancer.
The radiation oncologist will direct the radiation beam to deliver as much radiation to the tumor as possible with as little damage to healthy tissue as possible. Different machines use different delivery methods depending on what is needed. Types of external beam radiation include:
- Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
- Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT)
A variety of treatments are available to help manage side effects of radiation therapy, such as dry, irritated skin, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and fatigue due to anemia. Sometimes adjustments to treatment doses may also be possible. The earlier side effects are addressed, the more likely they will be controlled with a minimum of discomfort.
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Private employers added 166,000 jobs in September, according to Roseland-based payroll company ADP, a level consistent with modest economic recovery — though economists say policy uncertainty and political infighting are clouding future business plans.
Economist James Hughes, dean at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, said growth has cooled the past few months, reflecting a "dysfunction" in Washington, D.C., that perpetuates uncertainty among employers.
Hughes said the partial government shutdown beginning this week adds to confusion stemming from the rollout of the new health care law, whose ramifications are still unclear as employer decide whether it make senses to hire full or part-time employees.
"Companies are holding back on hiring decisions," Hughes said. "Office construction hasn't bounced back as quickly as the residential side."
The ADP report today also revised down its August report to 159,000 jobs, down from an initial 176,000 jobs. Hughes said the current pace projects the country to add about 2 million jobs this year, slightly below 2011 and 2012 levels.
"That's enough to keep the unemployment rate declining, but we're still a long way off from where it should be," Hughes said.
Unless the government reopens, the ADP report will provide the only national signal about job market health this week. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics was scheduled Friday to release September unemployment and payroll figures.
The August national unemployment was 7.3 percent, better than New Jersey's average of 8.5 percent. Hughes said the New Jersey job market, though broadly mirroring national trends, lags the country because the state has missed the manufacturing rebound elsewhere in the United States, particularly driven by the auto industry in Midwest.
Other headwinds include a slow recovery from Hurricane Sandy, which Hughes said led to a weaker summer at the Shore. Plus, the stalling of New Jersey's population level has tapered housing construction and related growth of services jobs seen in other states, he said.
"We're also not getting the retail growth you would see on average throughout the country," Hughes said. "We're pretty much overstored in that regard."
Nationwide, service producers led the way in September, adding 147,000 jobs. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, who produces the report with ADP, said growth may be softening there as rising interest rates reduced mortgage refinancing applications and dampened growth in financial services.
Otherwise, Zandi said, the job market has been resilient considering headwinds.
Looking ahead, Hughes and Zandi each said the partial government shutdown will hurt the economy if it lingers for weeks, a trend bound to rattle the financial markets.
"As soon as people start to lose money, they are going to scream very loudly, and that will put a fire under lawmakers," Zandi said.
If no deal is struck by Oct. 17, the government would breach on its debt limit. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said in a letter today to House Speaker John Boehner that if legislators can't hammer out an agreement by then, the federal government would only have about $30 billion cash on hand — not enough to meet daily expenditures, which can run as high as $60 billion a day.
"That's going to open an economic Pandora's box that's going to be pretty hard to put back together again," Zandi said. "That will do significant economic damage, almost immediately."


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After 26 years in Salem, R. Michael Wall has moved his prestigious American Marine Model Gallery to the Nations' first seaport, and his home city of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The Gallery is conveniently located in the heart of town at 20 Pleasant St., just across the street from the Cape Ann Museum.
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On Wednesday, May 16, the Alzheimer's Association hosted "An Evening with Glen Campbell," an event to raise awareness of Alzheimer's disease among members of Congress. Held at the Library of Congress, the evening honored country music legend Campbell, who is living with Alzheimer's disease, and his family.
Actress and philanthropist Jane Seymour welcomed a crowd including members of Congress, staff and their families. Seymour's husband, James Keach, and his filmmaking partner, Trevor Albert, are making a documentary on Campbell and his family, following their battle with Alzheimer's disease as Campbell conducts his farewell tour.
The attendees watched a brief film highlighting the state of Alzheimer's today, revealing statistics from the recently released Alzheimer's Association 2012 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures report. The film focuses on the cost of Alzheimer's to the country, which will total a shocking $200 billion in 2012.
Harry Johns, president and CEO, Alzheimer's Association, started the program by congratulating the assembled crowd on the release of the National Alzheimer's Plan the day before.
"The release of the National Alzheimer's Plan is a huge historic moment for our cause. I want thank of all the members of Congress for their support of the National Alzheimer's Project Act," Johns said. "Your leadership has made it possible to have a plan that creates a platform to address Alzheimer's in America, and we truly appreciate that."
Johns also talked about the challenge ahead, applauding Campbell and his family for their bravery as they publically face this disease.
"There are 5.4 million people today that have this disease, and because of baby boomers like me, that number is going to grow to 16 million in the next 38 years," Johns said. "What I want to commend Glen and his family for is announcing his diagnosis and staying in the public eye. It sets a precedent and helps to advance conversation about the cause."
Congressmen Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Chris Smith (R-N.J.), longtime co-chairs of the Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease, also spoke to the attendees, addressing recent successes in the fight against the disease and looking to the future.
"No coach goes into a big game without a strategy, and now we have a fully integrated plan with public and private stakeholders," Smith said. "We have worked on this for a long time."
"These families at home, they are heroes. But heroes need help," Markey added. "You've heard the numbers. We have to give them hope."
Dr. Ron Petersen, director of the Mayo Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and a member of the National Advisory Council on Alzheimer's Disease, gave an update on scientific progress in the field and the ways in which the National Alzheimer's Plan will help to advance that research.
"Now we have a blueprint, a roadmap, for how we are actually going to get to a cure for this disease," said Petersen. "The charge is back to us, the charge is back to Congress. I think we've done part of the work, but in another sense the work has just begun."
After Petersen's remarks, Campbell's daughter Ashley took to the stage to introduce a sneak preview of the documentary focusing on her father's farewell tour. She and her brothers, Shannon and Cal, are members of Campbell's band and travel with him; Campbell's wife, Kim, is his primary caregiver.
"We decided to go on a farewell tour with him to keep his struggle public," she said. "We didn't want people to think they were going through this alone. This isn't a disease that just affects the person living with it — it affects their entire family."
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Fumigation Releases New Song
Your death metal pest control specialists in Fumigation have just released a second track off their upcoming album "Integrated Pest Management," titled "Pediculosis (Mommy, I Have Lice)."
The track is available through the latest "Pig Squeals and Breakdowns" monthly compilation series. Fumigation's "Pediculosis (Mommy, I Have Lice)" also features a brief guest vocal appearance by Stef of Insurrection?, whom appears on three tracks off the upcoming full length.
You can stream the full compilation below, or download it for free at this location. The complete track listing for the compilation is as follows:
1. Under Godless Skies - We're Not In Wonderland Anymore Alice 03:40
2. Pandora's Wake - A New Chemistry 03:27
3. Truth Inside The Silence - Muras 03:13
4. Gaia - Deadfalls 04:27
5. Graveborn - Infernal Ascendance 04:37
6. Infinite Design - Calculating Insanity 03:08
7. Death Comes Home - Longevity 03:14
8. Fumigation - Pediculosis (Mommy, I Have Lice) 03:04
9. Hadal Maw - Merchant of Aeonian Pulse 03:41
10. Bloody Obstetric Technology - Unrecognizable Bloody Mess 03:53
11. Colombian Necktie - Clown Killer 04:08
12. KILL WHITEY! - Burn Shit Down! 03:01
13. Skies of Gehenna - Disciples 03:41
14. Bodies In Barrels - Dragon Slayer 05:05
15. From Blue to Gray - Terrible Among the Fierce 05:07
16. Al Goregrind - Prepare To Get Fisted By The Empire 02:32
17. One Sense Too Much - Damnation Through Design 05:35
18. KnowThySelf - Raggle Fraggle 03:54
19. Four Story Massacre - Inappropriate Methods of the Dead 03:09
20. Homicyde - Rotten 04:08
21. CounterMeasure - Castaway 04:08 More...
Pandora's Wake Streaming New Track
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This is driving me crazy. I had one of the first OLPC and it stopped connecting to my wireless, so i decided to do an update on the software. I have downloaded the current stable release (and now a few others), and everything went fine. As soon as it reboots it goes to a screen that is blank and says NAME, with the cursor showing. MY KEYBOARD doesn't type and the MOUSEPAD doesn't move the cursor.
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Make signature permeate from webmail to mobile and desktop apps
I have a created some email accounts with a domain name that I have registered. I accessed them using the webmail service provided by the registrar and added a image signature to all of them. The signature is two lines of text followed by a small image on the next line.
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My Dd2 is 11mths today
am wondering should i wean or continue to bfeed?
My initial goal is to make it to a year.
I do have mixed feeling on to weaning:confused
She still take 30-45mins to nurse all d time n sometimes an hour. She will suck for like 10mins then later just comfort nurse till d nx let down which sometimes takes a while to happen or she will pop off n grab whatever things is around us.
And we will be travelling in June for a month to Denmark, Sweden n Italy. How am i able to always spend 45mins to nurse her n she nurse at least 5times a day.
Also lately my regular 5-6am(last feed 12am) pumping session is getting lesser n lesser, n for d past 5days i noticed i am 2-3oz short:sctrachhead
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STOCKTON - Authorities apprehended a man who was wanted for murder Thursday in an east Stockton trailer park, police said.
STOCKTON - Authorities apprehended a man who was wanted for murder Thursday in an east Stockton trailer park, police said.
Alfredo Villalobos, 29, was wanted in connection with the death of DeAndre Marquis Sargent, 20, who was shot to death Sept. 30 on Gateway Court, police said.
Police spotted Villalobos in a white Pontiac Grand Am about 1:15 p.m. Thursday.
Officers tried to initiate a traffic stop, but the driver failed to yield, leading police on a pursuit that led to a trailer park on Robindale Avenue east of North Myran Avenue.
Villalobos jumped out of the car and ran into a mobile home, authorities said.
Representatives of the Stockton Police Department, a U.S. Marshals Service task force, the Delta Regional Auto Theft Task Force and the Community Corrections Partnership Task Force converged on the area, establishing a perimeter around the trailer park.
Authorities then deployed a police dog, which found Villalobos hiding under the mobile home he had fled into, police said.
Villalobos, who stripped down to his boxer shorts and tennis shoes during the pursuit, was arrested on suspicion of homicide.
He was taken to a hospital to be treated for dog bites to his legs and torso before being transported to San Joaquin County Jail, authorities said.
Neighbors said Villalobos had been staying in the mobile home in which he was found for about a week.
Daniel Acevedo, 32, who lives in the home, said Villalobos was a frequent visitor who was dating Acevedo's sister.
"I wish I would've known," Acevedo said when asked if he was aware that Villalobos was wanted for homicide. "Not that I would have called the cops to report him, but I wouldn't have had him over here, because that sounds crazy."
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text: i want to ebf so bad. but it has been so much harder than i thought it would be! i have overcame latching issues, using and getting off nipple shield and breastfed with a milk blister. but my newborn seems to always be hungry when done feeding and my breasts are empty, he gets fussy while on the breast and i can tell there is nothing else coming out. he is one month and since he was born his feedings have been more than an hr and a half because he howls when taken off the breast. my pediatrician said he is using me as a pacifier but i dont think that is true. i have tried soothing him, giving him a paci and putting him in his swing. he just cries and puts his fists in his mouth. so of course, i put him back to nursing and he seems content. so am i not producing enough milk? this cant be a growth spurt since it has been happening since he was born. i know it could affect my supply but i have given him 2 oz of formula a couple times after nursing. i once gave him 4 oz formula instead of nursing to try to give my breasts a break. and he was still hungry! he ended up eating 5.5 oz of formula. I feel like my breasts never get a chance to fill up because he is constantly nursing. its as if any time he is awake he is hungry. If he could go a little bit between feedings my breasts would fill up and he would get full and be satisfied right? when he is so upset, and nursing calms him down right away i feel like it is the right thing to do. it is just so time consuming. I love my lo and want to feed on demand and will continue to do so. just wondering if anyone is going through same thing, and if it gets better. I go back to work in a week! i hope i can pump enough to satisfy him while i am at work.


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The game was out of reach with less than 5 seconds to play, but after the way hed played all night, Alex Herrera wasnt about to give up any late pity buckets.
Herrera capped the night with one final block, walking off the court while shaking his head as if to say, Not tonight, boys. Not in my lane.
Herrera had the most dominant performance of his young career Friday, and the No. 20 Fort Lewis College mens basketball team built a big lead, then held off Colorado Christian 84-71 for its eighth win in nine games.
Herrera, a sophomore center from Ignacio, was an impenetrable force defensively and a load on offense. He scored a career-high 24 points, pulled in 11 rebounds and had eight blocks, the second time in three games the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conferences leader in blocks per game turned away eight shots.
Among those 24 points were three dunks, two and-ones and eight made free throws, a showcase of Herreras aggressiveness around the basket.
I was just trying to be aggressive (Friday), and it obviously worked, said Herrera, son of Chris and Kathy Herrera.
His biggest points came late, when FLC (13-2, 10-2 RMAC) watched its 20-point lead dwindle to six at 77-71 with 43 seconds to play. After a Torrey Udall free throw, Herrera hit a free throw, then took a pass in transition and converted a layup plus a free throw to push the lead to 82-71. Matt Mazareis layup with 8 seconds to go put the game away before one last Herrera block put the icing on the cake.
FLC head coach Bob Hofman said the reason for the Colorado Christian rally had to do with his substitution of a handful of players who hadnt had the opportunity to play much with their already-on-the-floor counterparts and FLCs 21 total turnovers.
Weve got to learn to be strong against pressure and reverse the ball. When we reversed the ball, we were really good, Hofman said.
Not to be outdone, the Skyhawks perimeter players gave FLC a potent inside-outside punch. FLC hit 52.6 percent from 3-point range, with Wes McKenzies pair of triples early in the half helping FLC turn a 42-34 halftime advantage into a 50-34 lead rather quickly.
Marcus Ayala was the catalyst in the first half offensively, getting hot to help FLC overcome Herreras two fouls. He scored 14 of his 18 points in the half and hit all four of his 3s before intermission.
Nick Tomsick finished with 13 points for the Skyhawks.
McKenzie hit all three of his 3-point attempts for nine points.
We had a couple daggers that I thought we missed, but we did make our share, Hofman said. Well take that percentage any time.
And Herrera wasnt the only FLC big man that took advantage of a size advantage in the post over the smaller Cougars (7-13, 2-10 RMAC). Udall nearly missed a double-double of his own, scoring eight points and pulling in nine rebounds.
FLC also held a rebounding advantage of 41-33.
After the Metro (State) game, we just wanted to rebound a lot better, and I think we did that (Friday), Herrera said.
Now the Skyhawks turn their attention to Colorado Mines, who theyll meet at 7:30 p.m. today at Whalen Gymnasium. The Orediggers clipped FLC by one on a late jumper last year in Durango, and despite their injury woes, they should provide a stiff test as the Skyhawks chasse the nations top-ranked team, Metro State.
Mines has been so resilient. ... Theyve just done a great job of gluing it together and playing extremely well, Hofman said.