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I never imagined that the President of the United States would display basic ignorance about NATO, a cornerstone of our national security. But let's use this as a teachable moment. One of the purposes of this blog, after all, is to offer some explanations about national security issues for my friends and family. Sort of a "National Security for Really Smart People."
Saturday, President Trump tweeted the following about Germany and NATO:
<Despite what you have heard from the FAKE NEWS, I had a GREAT meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Nevertheless, Germany owes.....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 18, 2017
...vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 18, 2017
Trump fundamentally misunderstands how NATO works. NATO is not some club with some membership fee, and Germany owes the United States nothing for having troops in Europe.
So here is your primer (which is based on a great series of tweets by Ivo Daalder, the former U.S. Ambassador to NATO) : A few years back, in response to the rise of Russian aggression in Ukraine, the NATO members pledged that they would all spend at least two percent of their Gross Domestic Product on defense by 2024. Two observations here: (1) the commitment was to a target defense budget, not some payment to NATO or the U.S., and (2) the commitment was to meet this commitment by 2024, not right away.
As of this year, 5 of the 28 NATO countries have met this obligation , but most of the other NATO countries (including Germany) are increasing their defense budgets with an eye toward meeting this commitment. Remember that the 2024 target date is still seven years away. Trump's notion that Germany "owes" NATO money is a complete fabrication--or a profound misunderstanding of NATO.
A second point also needs to be made. The United States benefits greatly from its military presence in Europe. Europe is critically important to the U.S. economy, and a peaceful and stable Europe is in our national interest. While, the focus is on the defense of NATO against Russian aggression (and Soviet aggression during the Cold War), there is an often unstated additional benefit--our military presence in Europe and the NATO alliance itself, solidify peace among these allies as well,
Moreover, the troops in Europe also provide easy access to Africa and the Middle East during moments of crisis. Our rapid intervention in Libya and Mali were only possible because of our forces in Europe.
Finally, it is important to remember, that Article 5 of the NATO Charter--which calls for the collective defense of any NATO member attacked--has only been invoked one time in the entire history of NATO: when the U.S. was attacked on September 11, 2001. This was not merely symbolic. Within weeks, NATO AWACS planes were flying over the U.S. providing air defense support.
Our NATO allies should pay more for their own defense, and a little jawboning by the United States is certainly fair game--Obama and Bush both did this as well. As you can see from the chart above, several countries (including Germany) have lots of work to do to meet the 2024 commitment. The problem with Trump's comments is that it displays a profound lack of knowledge about how NATO works.

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Friday Fotos
June 27, 2008
More pics from Saskatchewan:
Can you see the 5 English sheep dogs? The puppy had two light blue eyes, he was very cute. Except when he was trying to knock me over.
Can you see 10 bugs? Too bad the ones in the foreground were out of focus, they are beautiful iridescent green and Burgundy. And huge!
I'm telling you guys, next week is going to be crazy times here at Knittingwater! A holiday, a parade, and another paid vacation to a uranium mine! Whew! And this weekend: a fiber fair! Oh yes, I'm very excited about this! In the last two months I have officially saved almost $70 by biking instead of taking the bus, can you believe it! Let's think about what it would cost to have driven downtown everyday, I think just mentioning the $1000 that I'd have to pay in parking is enough! Of course, $1000 would have bought a lot of pretty, scrumptious yarn! Now this Fiber Fair is mostly about unspun fiber, which is great, but I still haven't caught that bug. I'm going to be searching for lovely laceweight, and trying desperately not to buy every single skein of Fleece Artist Merino sock yarn that I can find. Wish me luck!


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As the Multimedia Director for the Long Beach Latino Civic Association, I am privileged to be the "online voice" that bridge the gap between the organization and the community they serve.
Although I am fortunate enough to be get paid for this position, I volunteer my time, energy and skills by photographing special events and programs the LBLCA provides, supports or manages.
I've been so busy on the clock (and off the clock) that I haven't had the time to update my own blog/website.
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- To prick; spur; pierce; prod: often used figuratively.
- n. A sharp-pointed instrument.
- n. A prick with such an instrument; hence, an incitement; instigation.
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Item, we gyve as good as bequest unto [her] a saied Elizabeth Hall, all my plate, solely my brod china as good as gilt bole, which we right widely separated have att a date of this my will.
"I brod you some keys that Mrs. Witter left for you," he said.
Thad flashed his light downward to catch a furry rump and puff tail-a weaver-brod.
We avoided the ghost garden and the brod nest, also those portions under the eeopoe nests where there were showers of an unpleasant nature marked on the walls and fouling the ground sand.
"Cameel-brod," said he, and kneeling down he commenced scooping away the sand with his hands, and from a few inches below the surface he soon drew a whitish tuber the size of a large turnip.
A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa
Nas þe þwang noht brod bote ase hit were a twined þred.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
Setterday at nycht, thei song thare _Salve Regina_, the hole Scottishmen putt on thare cappes, thare hoodis, or such thing as thei had to cover thare headis; and when that otheris war compelled to kyss a paynted brod, (which thei called "Nostre Dame,") thei war not preassed after ones; for this was the chance.
"You tink I gif you von plate und knife und fork und napkin; no, go to vork at the oyshters, und here is brod a blenty."
Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
The town owes its name to a ford (Servian _brod_) of the Save, and dates at least from the 15th century.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
Then another offers him another article belonging to the ploughman's business, such as the _mool-brod_, but this also is refused; another, perhaps, gives the _sock_, another the _stilts_, another the
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My award winning shot from 2014 was up to May this year the only time I have been able to shoot fighting adder males in the mating season. Compostion-wise, light-wise and color-wise is hard to do it better than this 2014 shot, but my experience from My 5th this year still offered a very special situation.
It was May 5th this spring. I was slowly & carefully checking around my local "adder field" hoping to find adders in a mating related situation, and spotted a grey male down in the tall, dry grass. I sat down quietly and waited, and after a while I saw the brown female too (very hard to spot in the brown grass). He was trying to seduce the old lady by his characteristic staccato movements over her body. Sitting completely still I then spotted another male, and another and another and another, …. altogether 5 males in the situation and hoped that at least one of them will challenge the casanova with the female…. and patiently waiting is the key to photographic success with these animals : Finally one of the males find the romantic couple and a fight between the rivals starts immediately. This is not a mean battle with bites and dirty tricks, it`s a gentleman's wrestling match where the main issue is to press the rival to the ground from their common entwined, upright positions. It`s hard to shoot because this is happening very quickly in the tall, dry grass and the focusing business is "complicated". The light is also hard on the light surfaces of the dry vegetation.
Then suddenly a third male is entering the combat and for couple of magic minutes I have :
3 males in one fight !!
Never saw this before
All pics are shot with D4s, 200-400 4,0 at 400, f/6,3, 1/1250, ISO 280-640
Deep in the dry grass a male adder (grey) is busy trying to seduce a female (brown)
A second male in entering the stage and the rivaling males starts fighting
Suddenly a third male is joining the combat
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It is no secret that there are millions of potential poker players in China that would love to have a chance to go a few rounds. Amaya the new owners of Full Tilt and Poker Stars, is trying to facilitate that wish by offering a series of initiatives to expand the game in Asia.
Increasing its presence worldwide Amaya is setting its sights on the Asian market mainly in Japan and China. The increased interest in poker on mainland China continues to give Amaya the incentive to expand into that marketplace.
The People's Republic of China will host the Nanjing Millions six-day Asia Pacific Poker Tour in mid-April again with PokerStars having the blessing of the Jiangsu Provincial Chess Sports Association and held in conjunction with Beijing's Star Poker Club. The event is expected to attract a huge crowd so organizers have booked the 62,000-seat Olympic stadium.
Eric Hollreiser, head of corporate communications for PokerStars, reported in a press release the venue "…will give the growing number of Chinese poker players a fantastic opportunity to test their skills."
Amaya has been working with other celebrated online poker players to keep their image a the top of the recognition charts. Poker's all-time money maker Daniel Negreanu, Chris Moneymaker and Jason Somerville, are all part of the Pro PokerStars team that now includes 24 year old Japanese model and celebrity Yuiko Matsukawa.
Celebrities and pros currently, being used by PokerStars attention team are Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal, Brazilian soccer legend Ronaldo, Swedish skier Marcus Hellner, and Holland field hockey Olympic gold medalist Fatima Moreira de Melo.
While gambling is generally considered a criminal activity in Japan, PokerStars' move to bring Matsukawa into the fold indicates PokerStars has hope that the government there will modify its gambling laws to suit the desires of the public and the lawmakers.


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Here we have a simple model of a pile of sand. If the pile gets too high it topples as explained below in the text. Initially sand is falling continuously in the centre. Toggle this with the "flow on/off" button. Add one grain everywhere with the "all+1" button and zero it with the "restart" button. You can also click to add grains wherever you want. Try the "all+1" button especially, clicking it a few times makes some lovely patterns.
Flicker noise, also called pink noise or ${}^1\!/_{f}$ noise, was first observed in experiments by J.B. Johnson on early electronic amplifiers in 1925 and has since been observed in an amazingly diverse array of places: almost all electronic devices, heartbeats, DNA sequences, film shot length (that is the distribution of times you have to wait from cut to cut, see here). You have probably heard of white noise, and may be aware that there is pink, brown (random walks), blue (Cherenkov radiation) and others. To characterise the different noise colours we have to use a tool called a power spectrum.
The basic question that a power spectrum answers is "How much energy is accounted for by each frequency?". Signals we measure, which are just functions of time $x(t)$, can be decomposed into various frequency components. That means we can find the various pure tones which together make up the observed signal, and ask how much energy is accounted for by each tone. Some equations may help: the energy of a signal is
E = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} |x(t)|^2 dt
We take all the measurements, square them and add them all up. Now the idea of a "Spectral Density" is that instead of calculating energy from the signal in time, we take the signal, transform it to a function of frequency, $x(t) \rightarrow \hat{x}(f)$ and calculate the same quantity by summing over all frequencies instead of over all times.
E = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} |\hat{x}(f)|^2 df
The quantity $|\hat{x}(f)|^2 $ is the spectral density and tells you how much energy is contributed by each frequency.
Pink noise is a signal with a spectral density proportional to ${}^1\!/_{f}$. White noise has a frequency spectrum proportional to a constant, Brown noise goes like ${}^1\!/_{f^2}$, blue noise goes like $f$. Pink noise will be our main interest here. If you are very sharp, you will have noticed that the integral ${}^1\!/_{f}$ over all values of $f$ will diverge, so no noise can be completely pink. In practice though, many real observations of ${}^1\!/_{f}$ processes show no indication of anything other than ${}^1\!/_{f}$ behaviour. This is because the divergence is of a particularly mild sort,
\int_{f_1}^{f_2} \frac{1}{f} df = \ln(\frac{f_2}{f_1})
following Milotti we can estimate that the lowest possible frequency in any conceivable experiment is the inverse age of the universe $\sim 10^{-17}$Hz and the highest possible frequency is something like the the inverse Plank time $\sim 10^{43}$. Thus using these times our divergent integral gives $138 \ll \infty$.
One of the most famous ${}^1\!/_{f}$ processes is the Gutenberg-Richter law, which states that the number of earthquakes of magnitude $M$, $N(M)$, is proportional to $10^{-bM}$ for some number $b \sim 1$ or
log(N) = c – b M.
Data on real earthquakes across quite a range of magnitudes obey this law. The classic model of earthquakes is the so-called Burridge-Knopoff model, which is running here. One tectonic plate moves to the left (the 'marble table') and others (the green blocks) are kept from sliding with the table by an attachment to the 'ceiling'. The interplay between friction and the restoring force of the vertical springs causes the green plates to stick, then slip which counts as an earthquake. The details of the model, and how accurately it reproduces the frequency spectrum of real earthquakes, depends on what you choose for the friction force. Above I used $F_0 v / (|v| + |v|^2)$ but there are many different forms. For an alternative to my simulation try here. Predicting and modeling earthquakes is tricky, the Burridge-Knopoff model seems to break down at low frequencies, earthquakes are likely to be more complicated than a system of blocks and springs.
Since pink noise is observed in so many places is there a universal explanation? We might hope so – for example much of the physics of white noise is explained by independent, uncorrelated, random variables and the framework of the central limit theorem. Similarly brown noise is explained by the theory of random walks. Pink noise on the other hand has resisted such a unifying mathematical framework until very recently. Where it was originally found, vacuum tubes, an explanation was given by Schottky. The cathode surface has sites which trap electrons and release them according to an exponential relaxation process $N = N_0 e^{-at}$ which contributes to the observed current. Unfortunately this particular solution doesn't seem applicable to earthquakes, much less movies.
Self organised criticality is one of the 'C' subjects that emerged in the late 20th century (catastrophe theory, chaos theory, cellular automata…) that nowadays are studied under the umbrella word – Complexity. Complexity is hard to define, even for people studying it. For our purposes I will give the following recursive definition: Complexity it is the study of how complex behaviour can arise from simple interactions. Those interactions are usually local and the 'complex behaviour' is difficult to specify precisely, but you know it when you see it. Usually it involves some kind of interesting macroscopic pattern, or some kind of non-obvious collective motion emerging from simple, local rules.
The famous "BTW" paper "Self-organized criticality: An explanation of the ${}^1\!/_{f}$ noise" proposed the sandpile model reproduced above. This is a cellular automaton (the sort beloved by Wolfram) that obeys the following rules: There is a grid with a number of sites. The number of sand grains at a site $(x,y)$ is given by $z(x,y)$. When the height reaches a certain critical height the pile topples and sends one of its grains to each of its neighbours
z(x,y) \rightarrow z(x,y) – 4\\
z(x\pm 1,y\pm 1) \rightarrow z(x\pm 1,y\pm 1) +1
By adding sand and studying the distribution of avalanche sizes, they showed that there is no length scale in the problem and scale invariant structures emerge. Empirically the power spectrum of lifetimes goes like ${}^1\!/_{f^\alpha}$ where $\alpha$ was measured to be close to 1.
The sandpile model came at a time when people were first starting to explore critical phenomona and collective behaviour in other areas of physics after the spectacular successes of renormalization group theory in statistical and particle physics. The sandpile authors clearly hoped that self-organised criticality was a widespread phenomenon. The original paper mentions everything from the flow of the river Nile to cosmic strings. In the language of dynamical systems, self organised criticality is observed in systems with a critical point as an attractor. Left to their own devices these systems will organise themselves into a state with structure on all scales. While many models exhibiting SOC have been constructed there is no good criteria for determining when a model will exhibit SOC. Some Danish interest – Jensen, Christensen and Fogedby showed that real sandpiles actually have a ${}^1\!/_{f^2}$ power spectrum. Real sandpiles do not exhibit SOC but rice piles between two glass plates do.
This is the crux of why SOC is no longer seen as a good explanation of pink noise processes. Since these are very diverse and robust observations and SOC seems to be difficult to define and observe it probably lacks the universality that was originally hoped for. There are alternative and more rigorous mathemathical explainations for pink noise. Given a sequence of data, $X(t)$ and assuming we have stationary increments,
X(i+t) – X(i) = X(t) – X(0)
and self similarity
X(at) = a^H X(t)
where $0 < H < 1$ is called the Hurst index and is something like a fractal dimension. We then find the miraculous relation \[ Cov(X(t), X(s)) = [ |t|^{2H} + |s|^{2H} - |t-s|^{2H} ] Var(X(1)). \] This relationship implies that if we bin the data into bins of size $m$ and let the bin averages $Z$ be the new variables then \[ Var(Z) \sim E(Z)^{2H}. \] Then using a very cool result in Fourier analysis called the Wiener–Khinchin theorem we get that any process with a variance to mean power law displays ${}^1\!/_{f}$ noise, or the more general ${}^1\!/_{f^\gamma}$ noise where $0 < \gamma < 1$. This is called the Tweedie convergence theorem, and with its central limit like effect on Tweedie distributions which have these power laws, it implies that ${}^1\!/_{f}$ noise is ubiquitous, due to the very general nature of these distributions (encompassing Poisson, Gauss and many others). These results are relatively new, and if you want a better explaination there is some local expertise. It may be that we will have Tweedie distributions alongside Gaussian distributions in future stats courses or perhap SOC will be repaired. Physics itself has not yet converged.


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Tuesday, December 09, 2014
A Western Safari last Autumn.
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|"Bison Range" 18x24 oil
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My summer sailing.
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|"Day at the Sea" 6x6 oil
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"Okavango Flight" 26x42 oilI love it after I post something but I hate to stop painting and think about passwords, jpegs and sizes of paintings. And how far behind I am when I look in my folder of images that have not been shown here! Too many to write about. I'm just going to post as many as I can and if you have questions let me know!
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Hi Ladies,
This past year, my 4 year old son & I rowed BFIAR & other preschool stories. This next year, he will be turning 5 in the middle of august. As you know, we are non traditional- so he will be going to private school (BUT not this year) I'm holding him back from traditional kindergarten for a year. (our school cut off is 2 weeks after his 5th birthday)
I'm so glad we held off moving to FIAR until this year. We created many wonderful memories of cozing up on the couch with our BFIAR books. I also now own all 3 manual's & plan to row the "easier" titles.
I really struggled parts of this year with easing off of my own preschool teacher experience. I was such an over achiever at work, creating innovative & imaginative curriculum at work. i had a hard time remembering the heart of "preschooling at home" - convey a love of learning & books.
there are SO many resources out there- many times i was guilty of enjoying the planning more than the execution. since the execution was more detailed than i had desire to do (when it came time for school)
here's my question- how do i drop the urge to find extra resources & just simply stick with the manual's & enjoy the richness of the material?
Does anyone have a blog that i can physically see what following just the manual looks like?
any hints? or things that have helped you back away from the pretty homeschool share units? LOL thanks! I have really come to value your input. You gals & Steve were so spot on about BFIAR for our family!
(ps please excuse errors, still on first cup of coffee)


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KS Ravikumar reveals the similarity between Balakrishna and Ajith Kumar
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Padman vs Padmavat: It"s not the wisest thing for films to clash, says R Balki
R Balki is not too happy with Padman and Padmavat clashing at the box office......»»
Confirmed: Kesari has Parineeti Chopra playing Akshay Kumar"s love interest
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No Deepika-Ranveer marriage now? Padukone just revealed what her wedding will be like
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Krrish 4 release date out: Rakesh Roshan has a surprise for fans on son Hrithik"s birthday
Hrithik Roshan's Krrish 4 has got a release date......»»
Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru director Karthick Naren signs his third film
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Sunny Deol film Mohalla Assi gets CBFC green signal after two-year fight
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Anurag Kashyap on Padmavat: People opposing Bhansali film haven"t even seen it
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People opposing Bhansali"s Padmavat have not even seen it, says Anurag Kashyap
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Pawan Kalyan"s Agnyaathavaasi gets jaw-dropping box-office opening. Beats Baahubali in US
Pawan Kalyan starrer Agnyaathavaasi has opened to record-breaking response at the box office and has earned about 1.4 million USD on the first day in the US. In Indian currency, that is Rs 9 crore......»»
Did Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh buy a bungalow in Goa?
Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone are taking their relationship to the next level......»»
Naachiyar release date out: Jyothika"s film to hit the screens this February
Naachiyar, directed by Bala, has Jyothika and GV Prakash in the lead roles......»»
Happy Birthday Hrithik Roshan: Sussanne Khan to Kangana Ranaut, women in the star"s life
As Hrithik Roshan turns 44 today, we take a look at some of the women in his life, including Sussanne Khan and Kangana Ranaut......»»
Anushka Sharma"s Pari teaser: Get set for "not a fairy tale" this Holi
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McCain and JDate: Targeted Ads Online
The web allows advertisers to target audiences with more precision than ever before, so it's interesting to work back from the appearance of an ad to deduce the intentions of the folks who placed it.
Take the English-language websigte of Haaretz, the left-of-center Israeli daily, which has to count a lot of American Jews among its readers.
Who's trying to reach that demographic?
JDate, "The Leading Jewish Singles Network."
Various travel services.
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After much negotiations with the police and the security up at the University of East Anglia, we finally got round to organising a photo shoot for the movie. Kate, Simon, Jen (the director) and I drove up to the UEA broad at 11 and met with security. It was a beautiful day, and even though the lake was half frozen the sun was shining and it was perfect photo weather.
Unfortunately it was perfect dog-walking, kid-taking-outing and jogging weather too, which meant that the broad was absolutely choc-a-block! Which is fine usually, but when you've got a model in a fake-blood-stained wedding dress holding a very real machete it can cause problems! Fortunately we had a great security man with us in a fluorescent jacket, who kept the passers-by calm! Most people were curious rather than alarmed, to be honest, and quite a few snapped their own pictures. There was just one student who seemed terrified at the sight and scampered off in the other direction with no small amount of speed!
We spent about an hour taking some shots and got some really good ones. We'll be making a website this week, hopefully, so at least we'll have something to show investors! It was a great day anyway, and it left us all feeling really positive about the movie. The pic above is my sister posing between shots!
I'm back doing Furnace stuff this week as there is loads that I need to catch up on after Christmas. I have just written some copy for Death Sentence, the third Furnace book. Have a look and let me know what you think!
Furnace: Death Sentence
In order to escape them, I must become one of them...
We were so close. We had one last shot at freedom and we failed. This time the warden will show us no mercy. This time, our punishment is a death sentence.
Only death won't come for us here, not in Furnace. It wouldn't dare. No, our fate is something much, much worse. Because in the bloodstained laboratories deep beneath the prison lies the horrific truth behind the warden's plans. Down here, monsters are made.
I can feel myself changing, something ancient and evil pumped into my veins. I'm forgetting who I am, and if that happens I'll become one of them, a creature of Furnace. But they are also making me stronger, faster, tougher. If I can control it then I might stand a chance, I might be able to fight my way out. I just have to remember...
My name is Alex Sawyer.
They framed me for murder.
And I will have my revenge.
Only two months to go until Furnace Number One, whoop!!!
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The absence of Bay Hawks captain Paora Winitana looms as a potentially decisive factor heading into the final four of the NBL in Wellington this weekend.
Winitana will suit up on Saturday night for the Hawks' semifinal clash with the Wellington Saints but, should his side advance, the former Tall Black will be unable to take the court for Sunday's final.
The small forward is a Mormon bishop and will sit out the showpiece - against either the Auckland Pirates or the Manawatu Jets - for religious regions for the second year running.
And the coaches of the league's also-rans seem to agree - the Paul Henare-coached Hawks should make the final but they'll struggle without their talisman.
"It'll just be a huge thing with Paora being out because it'll weaken Hawkes Bay," Southland Sharks coach Richard Dickel said. "That's a tough one ... but I think it'll come down to how it's refereed and the way the game is played."
Otago Nuggets coach Anthony Arlidge said the potential absence of Winitana "changes everything", and thought a Hawks outfit sans their captain would face an uphill battle.
"I find it an absolute pity that he won't be playing if the Hawks make it to the grand final."
For that possibility to become a reality, the Hawks will first have to vanquish the Wellington Saints. Taranaki Mountain Airs coach David Bublitz believed that shouldn't be too much of a problem, despite the Saints benefiting from the home-crowd support.
"The Saints seem to have come at the right time, so it'll probably be close, but Hawkes Bay certainly have too much depth," Bublitz said.
Harbour Heat coach Alex Stojkovic agreed with his peers on the likely outcome of the semifinals and echoed similar sentiments on Winitana.
"Winitana is a key player and he'll be hard to replace if the Hawks make the grand final. It's also an opportunity for young Morgan Natanahira to step up, because he did that last year in the finals."
The side that will benefit most from Winitana's withdrawal will be found in the first game of the double-header in Wellington.
A stacked Auckland Pirates line-up, boosted by Breakers Alex Pledger and Dillon Boucher, take the league's best road record into the final four and will be warm favourites against the Manawatu Jets.
All of the coaches gave the edge to the Auckland side, though Arlidge felt the injection of Pledger and Boucher had slightly upset the Pirates' rhythm.
The Jets do, however, provide something of an unknown threat due to a changeable side, especially in the import ranks. American power forward Dustin Mitchell, who helped the Jets hammer the Pirates in March, has departed with livewire American point guard Chris Hagan taking his place.
"I haven't seen too much of [Hagan], but I know he's a very good player," Auckland Pirates coach Judd Flavell said. "He's turned that team around to make them real contenders.
"He complements what they already have and fills a big hole - he's made them a well-balanced team."
Other interest can be found at centre, where reigning MVP Pledger goes up against Manawatu's Nick Horvath. The former Duke University captain has defended his rebounding title, held before him by Pledger, and has put together a portfolio that should see him challenging for top individual honours when the NBL awards are handed out.
"Horvath is always a handful, but this year he's playing as well as I've ever seen him," Flavell said. "That match-up between him and Pledge will be a good one."
- Additional reporting by Hawke's Bay Today


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It felt shockingly small inside compared to Leaf - don't know whether its just a unfamiliarity thing. The seat was ok (but then, I'm thin). Charge was low - so couldn't really go far or quick. but it drives adequately. I knew it would be a econobox - but it was still shocking how barebones - hard plasticky it is. You'd feel practically robbed paying $40k/>$500 a month lease for this.
Currently GM hasn't announced a lease program for WA - and buying the car knowing I want to get rid off this whenever I get Model 3 would be not prudent. Infact if the lease continues to be close to $500 (zero down) I expect to spend about double of what I'd spend on a new Leaf in the next 18 months. I find it difficult to justify the expense.
I just have to comment on your impressions after your brief exposure to the car. We've had ours for two weeks and we just love it. I won't argue that most of the interior plastics aren't hard and cheap feeling. But the engineers have done a phenomenal job with the packaging and the engineering. The car rides and handles beautifully. I find the handling and steering feel very easy to adapt to and reassuring, with just the right mix of firmness for good handling but without harshness. There is such a wealth of adjustability to the regen settings. My wife, who likes to drive a car without thinking about regen and such, and she expects the usual degree of "creep" drives the Bolt in D. I always immediately put it in L, which switches off creep and greatly enhances regen. In addition, there is the regen paddle behind the left steering wheel strut that allows me to add strong regen at any time, regardless of the drive setting (Volt also has a paddle). There is also a Sport setting that sharpens the throttle response. The car has so much more torque than the 2013 Leaf SL that I had that there's no comparison. The Bolt can be a sedate family grocery getter for my wife and it can put a huge grin on my face as a sports machine. The seats are even grippy enough to hold me in place for cornering. I'm not kidding. In fact, I even enjoy it more than my BMW i3.
The space utilization is amazing. The car is tall, so seating is upright. Rear seating for two adults is good behind two other adults, and we routinely carry two kid seats back there with lots of space around them. My wife loves the cargo organization, which offers a covered lower space for shopping bags and small stuff below a rigid floor of a clear luggage space for cargo. Tires are a new Michelin Self Sealing formulation.
And they've really loaded the Premier model. The high def 80 degree rear camera monitor in the rear view mirror, the rear cross traffic alert, surround view, rear parking sensors, lane change blind spot sensors, lane keeping assist, pedestrian and vehicle sensing emergency braking. While the car doesn't offer navigation per se, I'm really enjoying the Nav by Apple Car Play. It's quite sophisticated.
You're right, the lease deals aren't attractive right now. I assume they'll get better. Some dealers are discounting in California, though not many. We found a no haggle dealer who is offering a $2500 discount.
We also have a reservation for a Model 3 and I foresee both a Bolt and a Model 3 in our garage. But we saw enough in the Bolt to warrant purchasing it even though we've leased all three of our previous EVs.
I wrote this because I noticed that it's easy to pile negative comments on to a competitive car on a fan site like this, but some of the comments are based on precious little information or familiarity.
I do think that a Volt would be a good stopgap choice for you before the Model 3 is available. Good luck in selecting your next EV.
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Hi there!
Yes, its been a long while since I've written. Here.
In fact, I've been doing a lot of writing, lately. The second edition of "Exposed" is nearly complete. Oh my! What a project! When I embarked on a rewrite six months ago, I had NO IDEA what I was opening up. But, it's worth it, and I hope you'll agree. I'll be sharing excerpts over the next few months as it goes through the editing process.
AND, the first draft of the second book is FINISHED! The working title is Dragonfly, and I'm excited to get back on that.
The reason I'm writing today is because I saw an article in the magazine "Science News" this morning. The upshot is that the microbes in our bodies may affect our moods, and hence our behavior.
"Though preliminary, such results suggest that the right bacteria in your gut could brighten mood and perhaps even combat pernicious mental disorders including anxiety and depression. The wrong microbes, however, might lead in a darker direction."
Then there was a book review in the New York Times titled "Sext and the Single Girl" that wonders if women are getting the sex they want or need from their current lifestyles.
How do I tie these references together? Yeah, it's a stretch, but here goes.
First, women will not get what they want or need out of sex until each determines exactly what that is, and it's not easy to do so. It is even more difficult when there are conflicting demands: Blow job for a man who doesn't want to return the favor? Eyes for the muscle bound gym-boy on the third week of this month but the CPA on the fourth? Etc.
If our microbiome is also at large in this process, in addition to our heredity and memories from a forgotten childhood, how the hell are we supposed to know what we want, and why?
The fact is, we often don't until we've tried it, and even then it may change. We need to stop judging ourselves for how that goes down, or we do, if that's what we feel like at the time.
Free will may not be our prerogative in the best of times, and certainly not when it comes to "the passions." I don't know. You don't know, either. Don't be too harsh, toward yourself or others.
That's all.
It's nice to be back.
~ Jessica


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I love Holidays! And, I honestly never put a whole lot of thought into St. Patrick's Day. I never got into the Leprechans and gold and green beer and so on, but now that I am older and have kids, I find it as an excuse to do fun projucts with my kids and make green food!
One thing I love to do with my kids is color!!
So, to start us off on the countdown to St. Patrick's Day, below are some links to some great free printable coloring pages, games and more!


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...pivoting to focus on innovation. Still blogging about copyright and occasionally on digitization.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Learning about digitization
As someone who gives workshops, I'm wondering what I and others can do to make our workshops more relevant to those involved in digitization programs. Is the difficulty that every program is different and a workshop may not touch deeply on a topic that is relevant to a specific program? Is it that hands-on experience can be impossible to build into some workshops? Or is it that by the time people attend workshops, they already know the information that the workshop is going to cover?
If you have thoughts on this topic, I'd like to hear them (as would others who give digitization workshops). If you've learned about digitization in varies ways, what method was most useful to you? What would have made the workshops more useful?
If you don't want to leave a comment here, you can e-mail me at hurst {at} hurstassociates {dot} com . If you don't want to tell me at all, consider telling your local library consortium which is likely planning some digitization workshops and could use the input.
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I think some generic learning in workshops offsite is useful, but the frustration expressed by many staff we have had on this kind of program is that it is generic and not specific enough to the equipment and software they use or the programs they are involved in. That means they can't immediately apply their learning in an operational environment. So, last year I applied for funding to set up a new training program that was more like hands-on guidance and coaching from experts on-site in our workplace. Also, we were proposing an integrated program of tailored training to address different needs for staff engaged at all levels from senior executive management down to operational levels. The concept was put together by a training provider and myself (a collections manager in a museum). Unfortunately it was not seen as being beneficial by the department offering funding for new initiatives and it did not become successful. I still think it is the way forward, especially in such a dynamic and specific environment. Generic training will never accomplish as much.
My institution (an academic library) is sending me to the "School for Scanning" being put on by the Northeast Document Conservation Center in Minneapolis this May. I am very new to digitization but one of my new job responsibilities is to take over the digitization projects our library is involved with. I'd be interested in hearing if others have attended the School for Scanning and if they found it helpful, especially for someone very new to digitization.


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Absolutely love this re-mix of Mr. Rogers and The Garden of Your Mind. Miss you heaps, Neighbor.
-- Janet Boyer, Amazon Hall of Fame/Vine Reviewer, author of Back in Time Tarot, Tarot in Reverse and the Snowland Tarot (Schiffer 2013). Featured in Tales of the Revolution: True Stories of People Who Are Poking the Box and Making a Difference (A Domino Project eBook edited by Seth Godin)


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Editor's Note: This is the third of a three-part series on Islamophobia in America. Part I discusses the premises and implications of the King hearings. Part II examines the emerging semantics of Islam and Muslims in the West.
Nazir Harb, MPA
With the death of bin Laden, the world faces another opportunity to re-evaluate status quo assumptions and modes of operation. However, this is also an important time to think critically about how we use language to describe the events occurring in the Middle East and the "War on Terror." Obama was right to describe bin Laden not as a Muslim leader but as a mass murderer of Muslims—having orchestrated the killing of, according to several studies, x38 more Muslims than non-Muslims in his lifetime. But among bin Laden and al-Qaeda's most insidious contributions to the targeting and vilification of Muslims everywhere is their malicious manipulation of Islam's idioms, phrases, and its co-optation and distortion of sacred Quranic conceptions. Unfortunately, as I discussed last week, post-9/11 anti-Islamic sentiment led many to unwittingly adopt al-Qaedaists' language and its corresponding ideology that perpetuates both the network's self-portrayal as defenders of Islam and the notion that Islam is a geo-political entity rather than a world religion that is not only devoid of the terrorist organization's political agenda but in fact contravenes it at every turn.
In short, I argue, language matters a lot—the way we talk about Islam, Muslims, and Arabs in the United States impacts people in the Middle East in real ways. Not only insofar as the United States is participating in a third major combat operation in a Muslim country—Libya—but also on a social and cultural level. The way English-language media describe events and people affects Arabic media and, critically, innocent lives are often lost in translation.
The adoption of English media norms by Arabic media
Research I conducted on English and Arabic media prior to 2011 indicated that certain politically-charged discourse items in Western English-language media ranging from "Islam" and "Muslim" to "terrorism," "threat," "violence," or "fundamentalism" tended to readily go in and out of Western political discourse following crises where, whether true or not, Muslims or al-Qaeda were suspected of inciting or carrying out violent acts. After their respective frequencies would peak, these terms did not always decrease to pre-crisis levels but they generally experienced a period of significant decline until another event triggered them. However, the usage of these same discourse items in Arabic media, once becoming politically-charged in the context of a crisis situation (e.g. terrorist incident) and introduced into Arabic political discourse in popular media (Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabiyya, etc.), tended to escalate increasingly from that point onward with no abatement, and in many cases exceeded the limitations of charts and graphs over time.
Since 9/11, the use of terms relating "Islam" and "Muslims" to "terrorism" or "extremism" in Western English-language discourse has been steadily rising—by now there is a conflation of the words "Islamist" and "threat" such that "Islamist" has come to imply a threat in its own right. In Arab media there is a time lag as these terms creep into the Arabic language environment initially via translation and secondary-source references. As such, phrases that conflate "Islam" with words like "terror" (irhab), "terrorism" (irhabiyya), and "violence" ('onf) had an average frequency of 8.27/year pre-9/11. After 9/11, the rate escalated rapidly, especially after the invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of the Iraq war. There was another peak after January of this year with the onset of the Arab revolutions across the Middle East. On average, since 9/11, the conflation of Islam with terror and violence in Arab media has increased to the unprecedented level of 1,222.57/yr.
Why? What is the difference between the Arabic-language political environment and its English counterpart? Why might a post-crisis politically-charged word's or phrase's frequency not just linger on but continue to rapidly increase in the former environment but not the latter?
How do ideas become paradigmatic?
An April 2011 study by the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London reported that new word associations form ideas in the mind by physically creating synaptic connections through the process of potentiation—a finding that challenges prior assumptions about the brain's ability to learn new ideas after a certain age. This cerebral plasticity, the brain's ability to learn and change, was found in adults over the age of 18. The Centre found that new connections are triggered by repeated novel sensory experiences, which include new combinations of words.
The fact that Arab media are repeating phrases that associate Islam with violent extremism and terrorism should concern U.S. policymakers. While al-Qaeda recruiting numbers remain very low in absolute terms, there is a correlation between new recruits and the increased incidence of new phrasings that cause neurological associations between the words "Islam" and "Muslim" with "violence," "terrorism," and "al-Qaeda". Though U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East remains overwhelmingly the most commonly cited motivation for violent extremism, language plays an important role in individual and collective national identity formation in the Middle East. (Suleiman 2003) This factor to date has been largely ignored—at our peril.
While many argue that an integral part of the "War on Terror" is combating al-Qaeda's narrative, it is not easy to come up with a counter-narrative when many do not understand the master narrative of the Arabic-speaking and, for that matter, non Arabic-speaking Muslim world, let alone its complicated, radical offshoots—or what socio-linguists would call a "restricted narrative," i.e. the particular idiom of al-Qaeda and its affiliate networks that portends to re-appropriate Islam's vocabulary such as "Ummah" (community) and Quranic spiritual concepts like "Jihad" (striving for self-improvement and closeness to God). Countering this narratology requires considerable expertise. Such a campaign may not be possible in the near future given the low levels of even the most basic Islamic literacy among average Americans, policymakers, and leaders in the "War on Terror" the world over. But we can help to change this by educating ourselves. And the first step can be as easy as how you spell the word "Muslim."
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Plans for a housing estate on the outskirts of a Northumberland town will be decided at a public inquiry.
Local families have opposed the bid by George Wimpey to build nearly 200 homes at Southgate Wood, Morpeth, which they claim will result in a loss of green space, add to existing traffic problems and put pressure on schools in the area.
Castle Morpeth borough councillors refused the company planning permission but Wimpey had already lodged an appeal over the time the council has taken to reach a decision.


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If you want it to weaken, let it gain strength.
To bring a thing down, let it be raised high.
To bring a thing to you, let go.
This is called "perceiving the subtle workings."
Soft and weak overcome hard and strong.
A fish should not leave deep water.
A country should not show off its power.


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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Scrapmaster's Paradise Color Combos Challenge #23
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Well, you are on a roll with this owl! Love the color scheme and dig that popped frame!ReplyDelete
Great job Carolyn! That owl is so fantastic I thought it was a pre-made embellie! Gorgeous!ReplyDelete
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I love that owl - google eyes are my favorite! Love the frame too! Great job!ReplyDelete
Such a cute card! I love the owl! Great job with the colors!ReplyDelete
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So glad you joined us this week at SPCC!
So far one of my favorites as I blog hop around the SPCC participants. Love the owl - love the stripes. Great job.ReplyDelete
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- 3 1/2 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes
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- 1 cup chopped shallots (about 3)
- 3/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup chopped peeled fresh ginger
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 cups (packed) chopped cilantro leaves and tender stems, divided
Recipe Preparation
Bring large pot of salted water to boil; add potatoes. Cook until potatoes are tender when pierced with knife, about 25 minutes. Cover and refrigerate until very cold, at least 3 hours. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill.)
Puree shallots, mayonnaise, ginger, and lemon juice in processor. Transfer to small bowl. Stir in 1 1/2 cups cilantro. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Peel potatoes; cut into 1/2-inch cubes. Place in large bowl, add dressing, and toss to coat. Refrigerate until cold, about 4 hours. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Garnish with remaining cilantro and serve.


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I took a vacation day to get my room set up. First, paint the trim.
I changed it from a dingy off-white color to a bright white. You can see the drastic difference.
Then I painted the room a lighter color. Even though this photo was taken before I had overhead lights working, you can see the difference.
Any romantic ideas about how nice it will be to paint my entire house went out the window. Painting is a bitch. Mostly because my canvas tarp wasn't large enough to cover the whole floor, so I had to keep sliding it over to the area that I was working on. And that involved moving paint cans, a ladder, various crap. Stepping into flip-flops whenever I stepped on the newly finished floors so as not to get any paint on it. Then checking and wiping off any paint droplets before they dried.
But the result, as I finally laid down on a borrowed air mattress (that did not leak!) was pretty awesome.


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Community Forest
What is a Community Forest?
Within the United States, community forests originated in New England, only recently spreading to the Southeast. According to the Community Forest Collaborative, a community forest project "secures access and rights to the forest resource at the community level; it promotes community participation in management decisions; it ensures that communities receive value and benefits from the land that can support and reinforce community priorities and economic development objectives; and it secures permanent protection of the conservation values of the forestland" (Lyman 2007).
In a recent review of 32 community forest case studies, 25 projects were in the North and Southeast, and 23 projects were on forest tracts of less than 1,000 acres, making the McIntosh S.E.E.D. Project one of the largest (Cook 2014).
McIntosh S.E.E.D. Community Forest History
McIntosh S.E.E.D., a grassroots nonprofit organization in Georgia, purchased 1,148 acres of land situated in Georgia's southern coastal plain, with the goal of designating it as the McIntosh S.E.E.D. Community Forest. The property is under a conservation easement and was purchased in February 2015. The purchase was made possible through partnerships with the The Conservation Fund's (TCF's) Resourceful Communities and the Fort Stewart Military Base located in Hinesville, Georgia.
This project fits within McIntosh S.E.E.D.'s mission to "strengthen low-wealth families and improve neglected rural communities through asset-based economic development, education reform, empowerment, and environmental preservation". Our vision is to empower underserved communities to make decisions about the management of the forest. The forest will feature demonstrations of working lands conservation, thereby enhancing local food-or forest-related businesses and markets to improve the likelihood of both conservation and financial success.
The motivation behind the community forest is founded in the historical lack of access to public conservation programs and services by socially disadvantaged and limited-resource producers; the effect of which is the conversion of high value natural resource lands (e.g., wetlands, riparian buffers) to small working lands that are not competitive for conservation dollars due to their size or low market value.
Community Forest Location
The McIntosh S.E.E.D. Community Forest is located in Long County, Georgia on Rye Patch Road and Banks Pasture Road just outside of Ludowici, Georgia and 30 minutes west of Hinesville, Georgia. The McIntosh S.E.E.D. Community Forest is surrounded by four neighboring counties, Tattnall, Liberty, Wayne, and McIntosh which are all within a 30-mile radius of the property.
Current and Future Activities for the Community Forest
Sustainable Timber Harvests
Longleaf, Slash, and Loblolly Tree Replanting Projects
Annual Hunting Lease Agreement for Local Hunting Clubs
Construction of Nature Trails
Sweetgrass Cultivation for Basket Weaving
Wildlife Inhabitants and Bird Species in the Community Forest
White-Tailed Deer
Wild Turkeys
Feral Hogs
Over 40 different species of birds have been observed out on the property. The most common species were the Chipping Sparrow, Eastern Towhee, Hermit Thrush, Pine Warbler, and the Brown-headed Nuthatch. In addition to these common bird species, three different types of woodpeckers have been observed along with Red-Shouldered Hawks, Wood ducks, and Canada geese.
List of Partnerships with the McIntosh S.E.E.D. Community Forest
The Conservation Fund
The Turner Foundation
Georgia Land Trust
Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS)
The Longleaf Alliance
James Resource Management, LLC
The Georgia Forestry Commission
U.S. Partners for Fish and Wildlife
Fort Stewart Military Base
Resourceful Communities
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International mental health experts meet in the North West to tackle challenges of austerity
Mental health experts have been meeting in the North West to look at how mental health services can work in different ways to tackle the challenges of austerity, by drawing on experiences of pioneering recovery services from around the world.
The Think Tank event was hosted by AFG at its head office in Merseyside and facilitated by The International Health Collaboration Network (IMHCN).
The conference was organised by Mike Smith, AFG's Clinical Director who was recently elected Vice Chair of the IMHCN, which is a formal network of partner organisations and individuals from across the world who are committed to the twin goals of deinstitutionalisation of psychiatric services and replacing them with a community based approach to mental health.
Speaking at the event he said: "Budgets for mental health services have, like many other things, been squeezed and it's necessary to look at how we can continue to deliver quality care for some of the most vulnerable people in society.
"It's useful to hear how colleagues across the world are coping with cuts and share their experiences. It's vital that mental health providers work together to develop a shared learning set for communities."
Earlier this year, AFG linked up with Mobee, a Gambian charity, and has been sending groups of support workers to Africa to share their experiences and learn new skills.
Salifu Manneh, Director, of Mobee said: "This innovative approach to staff development is already delivering real benefits for people here and in Gambia.
"I think the mental health professionals who've visited Gambia as part of this partnership are shocked by the lack of resources available to us. Despite this, they have still been able to get involved and help people who need specialist support.
"Sharing knowledge is vital if we are to continue finding new ways and techniques to help people suffering with mental problems across the world."
Speaker presentations
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If the surging Montreal Canadiens are to get closer to a playoff spot Tuesday, they will have to solve one of the NHL's hottest goaltenders as they face Henrik Lundqvist and the New York Rangers.
The Canadiens (39-31-6) got two goals from Alexei Kovalev in a 4-1 win over Washington on Saturday for a season-high sixth consecutive home victory and fourth straight overall.
"There are a lot of good things going on for us right now but the reality of it is that everybody's waiting to see what happens with the other games," Canadiens captain Saku Koivu said.
This hot streak has moved Montreal into a tie with Carolina and the New York Islanders for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Those teams trail seventh-place Tampa Bay by two points and the sixth-place Rangers by three.
"We've been playing so well lately," Kovalev said. "I know we have a big test in front of us."
That test comes against Lundqvist, who has won all five games of the Rangers' current winning streak while posting a 0.58 goals-against average and two shutouts.
He made 34 saves in a 2-1 road win over the Islanders on Sunday, one day after stopping 40 shots in a 2-1 victory at Boston. Six of the Rangers' last 11 games have been decided by a 2-1 score and they are 8-1-2 in that stretch.
"I want to play in a game where every save means the difference in winning or losing," Lundqvist said. "I love 2-1 games. I hate 6-5 games. It's challenging, and you know you have to stay focused."
Lundqvist has been just that early on, shutting out opponents in the first period for the last 10 games. He will try to backstop the Rangers to their first six-game winning streak since a seven-game run from Feb. 1-March 2, 2006.
The Swede has won both season matchups against Montreal with a 1.50 goals-against average, including a 19-save effort in a 4-0 victory at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 27 in the most recent meeting.
If Montreal is to avoid losing three straight to the Rangers for the first time since the 2001-02 season, it would be helped by Kovalev building on Saturday's performance - his best in three games since sitting out two contests with vertigo.
Kovalev has only 16 goals this season after getting 23 in 2005-06. The right wing hasn't scored in the last three games against the Rangers - his former club - and only has two goals in the last 11 meetings.
New York's Michael Nylander, who scored the game-winner Sunday with 48.9 seconds to go, has seven points in the last seven games. Teammate Martin Straka, however, has no points in 12 straight to match the longest drought of his career, set from March 29-April 11, 1994, while with Pittsburgh.
The Rangers hope they can continue their run and gain more points as they try to qualify for the playoffs in consecutive seasons for the first time since they made it four years in a row from 1994-97.
"It's about getting points," said Rangers left wing Brendan Shanahan, who has three assists in the last three games since missing 15 games with a concussion.


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- Gene Black said...
Oh my goodness! That is awesome. I just can't imagine the time that goes into that. She has some lovely patterns, though.
- March 28, 2017 4:40 am
- Marlene said...
It is very time consuming, Gene, in a good way though! I'm surprised actually how addicting I find it. I'm usually itching to get back at it every spare moment. I guess that for me it is just the right mix of relaxing, challenging, and quiet.
The learning curve at the beginning is very steep. If a person can't get "the flip" they cannot proceed further, but I am finding that learning from YouTube videos suits me much better than one on one instruction. When I'm learning something that takes some practice to understand I'd much rather be alone than having a teacher or classmates hovering, seeing my struggles.
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J. T. Butler and T. Sasao, "Multiple-valued combinational circuits with feedback," IEEE ISMVL-94, May 1994, pp. 342-347.
T. Sasao and J. T. Butler, "A design method for look-up table type FPGA by pseudo-Kronecker expansion" IEEE ISMVL-94, May 1994, pp. 97-106.
R. S. Stankovic, M. Stankovic, C. Moraga, and T. Sasao, "The calculation of Reed-Muller coefficients of multiple-valued functions through multi-place decision diagrams," IEEE ISMVL-94, May 1994, pp. 82-88.
T. Sasao, "Logic design of FPGAs"(in Japanese), Jo-Ho-Shori, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 530-534, June 1994.
T. Sasao, "Easily testable realization for generalized Reed-Muller expressions," IEEE The 3rd Asian Test Symposium, November 15-17, 1994, Nara Japan, pp. 157-162.
T. Sasao and D. Debnath, "An exact minimization algorithm for generalized Reed-Muller expressions," IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS'94) December 5-8, 1994, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 460-465.


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Author Notes: My mother's mother, a feisty Chinese woman in horn-rimmed glasses and a hand-knit cardigan, lived with our family for several years during my childhood. We called her Popo -- the Cantonese name for grandmother -- and she was a legendary cook. She would cook elaborate multi-course dinners for us every night, shooing us kids out of the kitchen if we got in her way. The one time she would accept help from her grandchildren was when she embarked on her pot sticker project, a half-day affair which would take over most of the kitchen and dining room table. She would make hundreds of little pot stickers -- guo tie in Cantonese -- and pack them for freezing, for the family to eat over the next few months until we ran out and she did it all over again. During these epic days, she would sit down her small army of pot sticker stuffers and carefully demonstrate just the right amount of filling to put in and how to crimp the edges. My uncoordinated little fingers always made misshapen, overflowing dumplings, but Popo would just laugh and show me one of her impossibly perfect creations. Because we had a language barrier between us, it was always such a great opportunity to interact with her without the stress of words.
And the pot stickers themselves? They continue to be the gold standard against which all other dumplings are measured. They're full of zippy flavor with tons of ginger and garlic. In fact, I credit these pot stickers with getting me over my childhood aversion to ginger. I use Sichuan peppercorns in mine just because I like the added spiciness, but Popo would just use white pepper. —vrunka
Food52 Review: WHO: Vrunka is a librarian, gardener, pie enthusiast, and kitchen mischief-maker living in Portland, OR.
WHAT: Her grandmother's potstickers: the gold standard of dumplings.
HOW: Mix together your pork and seasonings, then work in a mixture of egg, soy sauce, sesame oil, and cornstarch. Shape into dumplings. Pan-fry.
WHY WE LOVE IT: Popo has figured out a way to work an extreme amount of flavor into each dumpling; each little packet is singing with garlic, chili, ginger, and intense porkiness. We love the classic, foolproof fry/steam method used in cooking these. They freeze beautifully, so make a big batch -- and enlist the whole family to help. —The Editors
Makes: about 50
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 1 hrs
pound ground pork
tablespoons ginger, minced
cup cilantro, minced
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cup green chives, minced (or green onions)
teaspoon salt
teaspoons ground Sichuan peppercorns (or white pepper)
tablespoons sesame oil
tablespoons soy sauce
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package round gyoza/pot sticker wrappers
- In a large mixing bowl, combine pork with ginger, cilantro, garlic, chives, salt, and pepper. In another bowl, whisk together egg, sesame oil, soy sauce, and cornstarch. Mix this into the pork mixture with your hands, making sure it's well combined.
- Make sure your wrappers are completely defrosted before starting. Have a small dish of water nearby. Put one wrapper at a time one a clean working surface and place a scant teaspoon of filling in the middle. Using your fingers, dampen the edge of the wrapper and fold it into a half-moon. Push the edges together tightly; you may also decoratively crimp the edges if you like. Repeat until finished (with or without child labor!).
- Dumplings can be fried, baked or boiled, but the traditional Cantonese method for cooking pot stickers is a hybrid of frying and steaming. Heat a large non-stick skillet on medium high and lightly coat the bottom with oil. Place about 20 or so pot stickers in a tight circle, flat side-down. Allow them to sizzle in the pan for about 1 minute then add about a half cup of water. Cover immediately, as it will splatter. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook until you can see the moisture inside the dumplings boiling, about 10 minutes. Remove lid and increase heat to medium high. Allow the water to boil off and the bottoms to brown, about 5 minutes. Gently unstick the stickers with a spatula. Invert a plate over the pan then flip the whole circle of pot stickers onto the plate, browned side-up. Popo would serve these with a simple dipping sauce of equal parts soy sauce and vinegar, but they're great plain, too.
- You can freeze any extras before cooking them. You can use the same method to cook them from frozen, but it might take about 5 minutes longer.
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For the second consecutive year, the entertainment industry's premier magazine, Variety, has selected Darrell D. Miller, chair of Fox Rothschild's national Entertainment Law Department and managing partner of the firm's Los Angeles offices, as one of the world's 40 top entertainment attorneys in its 2015 Legal Impact Report.
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Mobb Deep's Prodigy Talks on Illuminati Lyrics
HipHopDX chopped it up with Prodigy about his latest album H.N.I.C.3 and they asked him about the Illuminati rhymes and here's what he had to say:
HipHopDX: I usually don't start off interviews asking super-heavy questions, but I wanna go ahead and get the inevitable Illuminati question out of the way first. On "Skull & Bones" you spit, "Illuminati is us, we are the origin, of all enlightenment / These pirates stole our shit." Can you elaborate a little bit on what you were saying in that verse?
Prodigy: The word Illuminati means "the illuminated ones," basically. And, the origin of that comes from the ancient Egyptians, the Black Egyptians that ruled Egypt. They had the schools of thought in medicine, technology, and that's where everything comes from. So that's what I mean when I say, "We are the origin, of all enlightenment / These pirates stole our shit." Like, that's our shit. We are the original illuminated ones. They took it and used it for something evil.
Later, he goes on to talk about how he actually had more Illuminati references on the previous album, H.N.I.C.2.


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May 25, 2015: Daily Bible Reading with Commentary for Exodus 33-36
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Context: The Lord ordered that the Israelites remove the ornaments they were wearing. These ornaments represented pagan beliefs, keeping them from whole heartedly worshiping the Lord. God calls the Israelites "stiff-necked" people. The Israelites were chosen as God's people, but not because they were superior. While the Tabernacle is being built, a tent is set up away from camp where Moses could meet with the Lord. Joshua is mentioned and is being prepared to take over for Moses, although no one yet recognizes that. Like many today, Moses wanted to see God, however, he was separated from God by sin, as are we. God once again created stone tablets for Moses, since the last ones were destroyed. God also provided a warning for the future, not to make treaties with any in the land they were to conquer or else the Israelites would be led back to idolatry. God provides instructions to the Israelites on sacrifices, work, and feasts. Moses face shines from being in the glory of the Lord. God re-emphasizes the importance of the honoring the Sabbath. The Israelites freely donated the supplies used in the construction of the Tabernacle. God assigned two people, whom He had blessed with gifts, to be in charge of the building of the Tabernacle. Previously, in earlier chapters, we read the Lord's instructions to Moses on how to build the Tabernacle. Here, we read of the work being completed.
World History: The Israelites were fresh out of slavery. Where did they get the materials to donate for the construction of the Tabernacle? Simple! From the Egyptians, who were so thrilled to have them out of their land that they gave them whatever they wanted. The Israelites were not robbing the Egyptians, but rather, collecting back wages for the years they had spent in slavery. God was fulfilling His word, for He had said that the Israelites would leave Egypt wealthy. The Tabernacle, although a simple and small building, was richly decorated. Today, it would be worth several million dollars.


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Today I am inspired by love. My favorite age was when I was 16 years old. I was full of life, innocence, happiness. Most of all, I was full of love. Even without experience, I read every love story and drew love quotes over notebooks. I dreamed of what love would be like. One day. It's been six years since I met my best friend, my person. He is the best man I've ever known. He makes me want to write every love song in the book. Sometimes I watch him sleep just to memorize the lines on his face in the rare chance that I ever lose him. He's reinvented my idea of love. For love isn't what the love story or love songs tell you. It's made up of uncontrollable laughter at the dumbest of jokes. It's saying "hey, we're on the same team" and "kiss break" when we argue. It's saying, "no I'll get it this time" when I'm too tired to make dinner or clean after our cats. It's leaving a post-it note on the light switch after I've had a long late day saying "can't wait to cuddle." It's the days between every amazing romantic gesture, although the gestures themselves blow me away. It's about the strength in the sweetness, the everyday "damn, you look hot," and making sure you get a kiss before we leave for work every morning. It's saying "I love you" and meaning all of it not bc of unicorns and rainbows, but because we trust, respect, and so deeply LIKE each other. Time to admit: I have never written a real love song because I can never find the words. But I've chosen my person. I can only believe maybe the words will come some day. Because hopefully we'll have forever.


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Very Disappointing.
Boz | 08/28/2000
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"This cd has some great movie themes but the performances are lousy. The "Red Nash Orchestra" consists of one person playing all of the parts on a synthesizer. The selections have no orchestral life and very poor depth. Also, some of the arrangements are quite sloppy. Avoid this cd and buy Erich Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops "Round Up". It has great western themes and the lush sound of a great orchestra."
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""The Greatest Western Movie Themes" offers a good selection of tracks from some of the best western film scores. It suffers, however, from having all of these tracks played on a sythesizer. As a result, most of the musical reditions fall flat; they are pale imitations of themselves.That's not to say that this album is not enjoyable - it is. Unfortunately, it is also seriously flawed."
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"Ever click on somebody's crappy web page from 1995 and think "Jesus Christ, what IS that terrifying sound!"? Well, it was probably a midi ripped from this CD. I think it's safe to conclude that "The Ned Nash Orchestra" is actually some nerd messing around with a synthesizer in his garage. If you're counting on sweeping renditions of classics this is not for you. Then again this CD is not recommended for anybody who cries easily, suffers with migraines, or values music in general."


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Christians around the globe celebrate the hope we have in the Easter message.
Unfortunately, millions of Americans are faintly holding on. They are holding on to the instilled American dream they saw in grandpa or even mom and dad. It's about the attainable dream of living securely with a job, a house, a car and trips to the grocery store. Don't forget a trip to the doctor when necessary. Many Americans can remember people in their family retiring at 55 - 65 years old. Those ages seemed old then but not so old today.
In the middle of today's political chaos, government shutdowns and the national finger-pointing blame game, many Americans keep hoping. Years ago many of us were instilled with belief, faith, hope and dreams. We were taught that you don't give up. We heard, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." We heard about independence, liberty and that eventually with enough work, faith and focus life would settle in and work out.
We heard about the power of people helping people, the great United States of America and that all things with God are possible. Today, many see our country as a place of "me-ism." Fewer people are confident that we can count on our government leaders to make wise choices and to look out for the people. While mega churches are flourishing thousands of churches have closed their doors due to lack of interest.
America is more desperate today than we've been in a long time. Overall, America is desperate for government leadership to stop fighting and do something. We're tired of hearing about the evil Democrats and the hypocritical Republicans. We're tired of the unemployment numbers and hungry Americans living in the streets. We're weary of worrying if there is any future for our children. We don't want another ten- year trillion dollar war that we can't afford and takes the lives of our innocent children and parents. We just want to get past all of this mess, but it never ends and is ever growing.
This week there is a shining example of someone who taught us about hope and making a real difference. He went more than the second mile, helped others, cared for the sick and the poor and actually had some very wealthy friends. His name is Jesus. He was a friend of sinners, loved people and humbled himself even unto death. His life changed our world. He was a problem solver and a grave conqueror.
Sadly, America must hope and pray this Easter that our political leaders might become what we elected them to be - servants of the people. They are not servants but they are supposed to be. Our entire planet, from Vladimir Putin, President Barack Obama, Kim Young-Un, Hassan Rouhani to all of us caught in the crossfire, could turn our planet around if we would all become more like the one man who Easter is about.