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I have the same issues!
I won't be much help. My style seems to be everywhere these days too. I need to find some happy medium but not sure how to go about that.
These are all so chic! I love the 5th, 8th, and 9th ones.
Gorgeous spaces! Makes me want to redo some of my spaces!-Jessica
my style is all over the place as well , i'm sure you can find a way to fuse it all together they aren't that drastically different. I think when i get a house one day each room may have to have a different theme lol
Pretty light fixtures, bold rugs, ikat and the color blue 🙂
what i love about your style is it seems you have room to play with it. Pick neutral bases…like a beige couch or bed spread and then play with accents. You can get sick of them and redo your rooms all the time and not spend a fortune because your bases are staying the same. You can always change throw pillows or blankets or vases or pictures in a room.
I love the teal colors in the first picture.
You like clean, cozy, modern, chic. Not that that's one type of style, but if a house is all decorated with the same theme throughout, I think it's so dull. You like crisp things with clean lines and pops of bright (but soft) colors.
I wouldn't mind calling any of those spaces my own! I particularly love the first pin, though. My couch is a similar color and everything else black and white.
Girl, you and me both!
My taste varies sooo much!! I can never decide!
Love that teal color!! P.S. your post is up!! Tell your readers to pop over 🙂
Stick with timeless and classic…muted earth tones…I would not pick too many trendy trends and colors…but hey, I am no designer…you have great taste…love all your picks!
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Love, love, love the first picture! You can't go wrong with any of them, though! Kelli
These are all great inspiration! It looks like you go back and forth between traditional and modern. Keep looking and ask your self questions. You will find your niche!
Gorgeous interiors. I have a very varied taste in just about everything, but you can really see it in the homes I like, so you're definitely not alone hehe
Wow, I'm loving the first, third and last pictures! The ones with the bright pops of color are amazing. I think that the all cool tone ones are pretty too, you just might get bored with them really easy…
Just a thought…but after looking at your pictures it seems like you lean towards a cool grey color (blueish grey) since that color is in almost every picture. That accented with some bright color whether it be white, yellow, teal, red, etc. Also, accented with elegant and casual pieces (a gold lamp on what looks to be a silver filing cabinet or a chandelier hanging over a cloth ottoman/coffee table). I could be completely off but it could be a place to start?
I am feeling the exact same way lately while attempting to redo my bedroom. I can't decide between a white palette, lots of pastels, black and white, or lots of color! The chandelier is a given. 😉


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Approximately 16.5 million American men and women served in the armed forces during the World War II (WWII), from September 16, 1940 through July 25, 1947. These participants represented one-third of the then male population, 15 years and older. Among the more than 16 million WWII service men and women, 70% served in the Army (including Army air forces), 26% in the Navy, and 4% in the Marines. Approximately 73% of WWII military personnel served overseas. This is the WWII Army registration card of Frank R. Dahowski, Jr., born in 1910, and one of eight children of Frank and Sophie Dahowski, emigrants from Warsaw, Poland in 1898, and residents of Montague, Massachusetts. A 1928 graduate of Deerfield Academy, he married Olga Kostecky in 1947; they were married 41 years before Frank died in 1988. Frank was employed by the Luey and Abercrombie grocery business of Greenfield before enlisting in the service in 1942.
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On Sunday, I weighed in on why I disagree with Tim Ryan, the former Bears defensive tackle and current FOX analyst who was the only All-Pro voter who didn't cast a vote for Lions receiver Calvin Johnson. On Monday, Ryan called me and gave me his explanation.
Even though I criticized his vote, Ryan was perfectly pleasant and cordial in our conversation, and he said that his vote shouldn't be construed as a knock on Johnson.
"I love Calvin Johnson. I've got tremendous respect for him. If I had known it was going to create such a stir I may have just voted for him. I don't know," Ryan said.
Still, Ryan said that Bears receiver Brandon Marshall and Bengals receiver A.J. Green, both of whom scored 11 touchdowns to Johnson's five, were strong candidates and worthy of their spots on his All-Pro ballot. Ryan argued that as impressive as Johnson's NFL record 1,964 receiving yards were, his lack of touchdowns were a mark against him.
"Breaking the Jerry Rice yardage record? Awesome. Jerry had 15 touchdowns that year," Ryan said. "If I would have just done it based on numbers because he broke the record, I would have given it to Calvin. But when I was doing it — and maybe I don't know the criterea — my feeling was, the two guys [Marshall and Green] had twice as many touchdowns with less targets."
Ryan worked the Lions' games against the Rams, Seahawks and Cardinals in 2012, and those were not among Johnson's best games. Ryan allowed that seeing those games may have made him discount Johnson, and he also said he was particularly impressed with Marshall when working the Seahawks-Bears game, in which Marshall had 10 catches for 165 yards, including a 56-yard catch to set up a game-tying field goal at the end of the fourth quarter.
"I also did the Bears-Seattle game where Brandon Marshall was all they had and they still got him the ball and he was able to make it happen," Ryan said.
In the end, Ryan doesn't want his vote to suggest that he doesn't view Johnson as one of the NFL's elite receivers.
"Calvin Johnson's a great player," Ryan said.
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actually, "things like that" do NOT get "expunged" at age 18.
even something like ACOD in new york is there forever.
here in long island, non-payment of the fine will prevent you from renewing your registration. seems simple enough, and it seems to work.
to all the posters calling his treatment "torture", have any of you ever been inside a military prison? it's not like a civilian prison at all. it is a very unpleasant place, populated by, and policed by, for the most part very unpleasant people. not saying it is okay by any stretch, just that he really isn't being singled out like it is being trumpeted.
having been in both civilian jails and military brig/stockade i can say there are vast differences in how you are treated, and what "rights" you have.
i do remember that day, biggest think i noticed immediately was the quantity of comments posted by readers dropped to almost zero. articles which would have had over 200 comments would have 5 or 6. and they also started rabidly controlling and limiting which articles even allowed comments.
really a shame. schutt made a very good product, my kids used them. i guess this jury wasn't "thinking of the children".
ebay used to be really great, both for selling and purchasing.
but sadly, it has gotten overly greedy it seems, and particularly annoying for small sellers.
if you live here on long island, the police and gov't employees ARE the rich.
we must alert al gore!
the mta is a financial disaster. and it is subsidized by the citizens of not just nyc, but the whole state. exhorbitant bridge and tunnel tolls, dept of motor vehicle "fees", as well as payroll taxes specifically for the mta, from people who have never used the subway in their life, and probably never will.
yeah, i think he's headed to burger prep next.
it's time to go...
he does? i thought that stuff only happened in german porn.
sounds like my brother can forget his xmas card this year.
chill out, karl.
how can anyone say this gentleman is any worse than the clowns already elected? i'd take him over any one of my rep's here in new york.
during the height of this over here (us) i was at a hospital emergency room with my daughter (unrelated issue). while there, a nurse wandered by with a cart, offering the vaccine to all the other emergency room personnel. not one of them got the shot. made me wonder about it.
obviously, she asked for more than what they were willing to pay. and not in ethnic diversity.
turkey used to have a secular gov't.
not anymore. go figure.
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Another year in the cellar did wonders for this wine. It still has a core of dark berry fruit, but there's now a bit of an herbal edge and a swirling mid-palate complexity with earthy tones mixing with the fruit and herbs. Not a lot of structure, so it goes down way too easily!


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Here's the deal: Is Meri the only Sister Wife who has any grasp on reality?! Not that she actually does have a grasp on reality, because, quite honestly, four beautiful homes per one "family" ain't exactly what I'd call "reality" in this day and staggering unemployment age, but anyway. As anyone who's ever read any of my Sister Wives recaps knows, I have plenty of issues with Kody Brown and what he considers to be "normal," but PUH-LEEZE. The fact that Kody & Co. felt justified in nickel-and-dime-ing Meri over her home furnishing choices because she "only" has one child is ... INSANE. Because, hello?!?! Kody still wants Meri to have another baby! And is another baby really any more affordable than sliding glass doors?!?!
Soooo, anyway. Tonight was a big deal because Logan, the "eldest child," is getting ready to go off to college (thankyoujesusyes!!!!!!). And Kody and Meri and Janelle and Christine and Robyn and ... I guess that's it? ... all had lots of emotion re: Logan's impending departure.
Particularly Kody, who seemed especially concerned about the possibility of Logan having -- gasp! -- sex outside of marriage. YIKES! (Honestly, he seemed more concerned about the possibility of having to get a buzzcut/reveal his receding hairline.) Ahem. Anyway, said Kody: "When you are sexually active outside of a marriage, it is unhealthy all the way around."
Polygamy, however, is healthy ALL THE WAY AROUND.
Lucky for Logan, his many, many parents sent him off to college with a quilt bearing each and every one of their images, so, sex outside of marriage? Good luck with that, Logan.
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Bioethics and biomedical ethics are defined. Common bioethical concepts, exemplary moral values, fundamental ethical principles, general ethical theories, and approaches to moral reasoning are reviewed. The scope of topics and issues, the nature of practice situations in bioethics, and social work roles on organizational bodies that monitor and respond to bioethical issues are summarized, as are trends in bioethics. Practice contexts, from beginning to end of life, are highlighted with biopsychosocial facts, ethical questions and issues, and implications for social work—a profession uniquely positioned in giving bioethics a social context.
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Diana R. Garland
The term "Christian social services" refers to the involvement of persons and agencies that identify themselves as having a Christian faith orientation that motivates their response to the material and interpersonal needs of persons not met by family or the larger community. This entry describes formalized services provided through organizations, including congregations, as well as agencies and organizations affiliated with congregations.
Congregational Social Work
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The social work profession has deep roots in religious practices and organizations. Congregations have served as viable contexts for social work practice from the very beginnings of the profession. In this entry, we examine congregational social work as a field of practice through discussion of definitions, historical development, characteristics of congregations, academic preparation of social workers for this field of practice, review of the literature and research, and ways of strengthening the future of social work in this field of practice.
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Religions have traditionally called upon believers to be generous and assist others in need. Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism are a few examples of religions that stress this call. In the United States, the roots of the current religious system date back to the 17th century, when those who fled Europe to escape religious persecution established the first congregations. However, real faith-based social care developed only after independence and disestablishment. Today, faith-based social care is an essential part of the American welfare system, from the safety net provided by congregations to the sophisticated contracted services provided by the faith-based social services.
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Direct social work practice is the application of social work theory and/or methods to the resolution and prevention of psychosocial problems experienced by individuals, families, and groups. In this article, direct practice is discussed in the context of social work values, empowerment, diversity, and multiculturalism, as well as with attention to client strengths, spirituality, and risk and resilience influences. The challenges of practice evaluation are also considered.
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Stephanie Clintonia Boddie
This entry presents the history of faith-based services, demonstrating that they are a long-standing component of the U.S. service delivery system. Recently, the reduction in financial support of some government social services and growing skepticism about the effectiveness of government services have led to an expansion in interest and sometimes in financial support of faith-based services. At present, faith-based services are delivered in formal agencies with varying ties to government, and also in many congregations.
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Hospice social workers are essential members of the interdisciplinary team that provide biopsychosocial and spiritual care to terminally ill patients and their significant others during the last 6 months of life. Hospice philosophy emphasizes symptom control, quality of life, patient self-determination, and death with dignity. Hospice social workers must be skilled in providing evidence-based interventions including direct client services; collaboration with the interdisciplinary team; community outreach; developing culturally competent services; and advocating for policy change on the organizational, local, and national levels.
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During the 21st century, professional organizations such as the National Association of Social Workers have sanctioned standards for religious competence in social work practice and education. Social work practitioners and students are expected to receive training and education in spirituality. While content on Islam and Muslims is emerging in the professional literature, this is the first article in the Encyclopedia to explore the relatedness between the teachings of the Islamic faith and the social work profession. The Muslim population in the world, and in the United States specifically, is described briefly, along with an overview of intra-faith diversity. Social work practice with Muslims can be enhanced substantially when practitioners are aware of the worldview of Muslims and core Islamic values. In addition, practitioners should be familiar with Islamic teachings within a historical and professional context. Micro and macro level practice strategies and approaches are presented with a special emphasis on social work values and ethics. Lastly, practice principles for religion-sensitive practice with clients who self-identify as Muslims are delineated.
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Islamophobia is not a new term but it has become commonly used in the United States following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This entry provides an overview of the demographics of the Muslim population in the United States. The historical context in which the use of the term first emerged is then identified, followed by a discussion of the two major approaches to defining Islamophobia. The term connotes either outright anti-Muslim bigotry due to religious intolerance or racism and xenophobia toward people from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia who are Muslim or who have a "Muslim-like" appearance. The history of anti-Muslim bigotry in the United States is traced from before the founding of the nation through present times. Implications are presented for social work with Muslim clients, organizations, and communities who may be impacted by anti-Muslim bigotry.
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Douglas Stream Book Signing
Local author Douglas Stream from Belgrade will be having a book signing and reading of his book Better Late Than Never this Saturday the 8th from 3-6pm at Hastings on Main Street. It's an inspiring story where Stream reveals all. Written from the point of view of a recovering addict, not a counselor or researcher, the book provides the reader with rare insight into sexual disorders. An inspirational book filled with adventure, hope, and divine truth, Better Late Than Never will encourage you to overcome your fears and weaknesses on the way to a more productive and meaningful life.
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What could inspire a shy, middle-class Christian gentleman to write a non-fiction book dealing with such distressing and relatively unknown subjects – sexual anorexia and sexual addiction? As I attempted to explain in the introduction, the driving force behind Better Late Than Never – But God's Best is Worth Waiting For arose not more than one month after publication of my first book – I had to know the truth. Working feverishly to meet a self-imposed deadline, I failed to do the hard research that would be necessary to properly write such a chapter. More specifically, my inability to understand the complex reasons behind that confusing chapter dealing with "sexual disorder" motivated me to continue my research and begin writing again.
Essentially what commenced as a continuation of my autobiography, Catamount's Quest, soon blossomed into a healing journey of self-discovery. As a matter of fact, those last six words could very well have been used as an appropriate sub-title to Better Late Than Never. With a steady stream of fresh insight, it was as though God was rewarding me for the research I continued to conduct. Admittedly, if my objective had been more clearly defined when I started the second project, the entirety of Better LateThan Never would likely have been devoted to the subject of sexual addiction and recovery.
As it were, nearly half of this new book was required to fully unpack the "baggage" that preceded my long-delayed recovery from sex addiction. Had I been content to believe that "sexual aversion disorder" (aka sexual anorexia) is primarily attributable to anxiety (as one very highly-acclaimed sex therapist would have you believe), I would never have known the complete truth. Those of you who have struggled with pornography and sexual sin will find Better Late Than Never a valuable resource for your recovery.
I would like to share a final word with regard to my elusive soul-mate. As you will soon learn, the odds that I would ever successfully marry were stacked very, very high against me as I approached the half-century mark. Had it not been for the divine appointment that brought my future wife and me together in 2006, Better Late Than Never would never have been written. Not only did her sweet love save me from impending disaster, but it inspired me to share this most unusual, heartwarming story with you. I can assure you that if someone like me can fall in love and live happily ever after, anyone can! I sincerely hope that you enjoy reading Better Late Than Never as much as I enjoyed writing it.
I will leave you with one final word of admonition that I have learned the hard way. Don't try to force open a door that God has closed through sheer willpower and/or manipulation; He alone knows what is best. With God's help, anything is possible - but you must wait patiently, never losing hope.
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This is an amended version of a post I wrote for the CU-WISE blog (my local Women in Science and Engineering group). See below for additional comments to geek feminism readers.
This Wednesday fun is actually something connected to CUWISE: We met the fine folk working on Dot Diva at GHC09 and got to hear about some of their plans to make computing seem like a cool career for girls. While most of us seem to focus on fun outreach science programs, they took things in a different direction: seeing as crime shows like CSI have increased the public interest in careers in forensics, they thought perhaps TV would be the best way to make younger girls realise that computer science is actually pretty cool.
They've released the first episode of Dot Diva:
KATE, a sarcastic fan of alt- and indie-rock. ALI, a lover of kittens, chick flicks, and the mall. Two girls with NOTHING in common… except for being ace programmers at a seriously-crazy video game company.
As they work to launch Rocklette's first-ever game, these two Dot Divas have to outwit their smarmy boss, Kate's doofus boyfriend, and the spy within their midst.
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I wasn't too sure about the first episode initially, since it seemed like they were throwing a lot of the stereotypes in there, but I think they dealt with them ok for a first look, and I expect we'll be seeing more nuanced stuff as the characters develop. I found myself caught up in their story despite my initial feelings of awkwardness. One thing I really loved was how different the two women main characters are, while still both being programmers.
Now, I'm actually guessing some of our readers here on Geek Feminism are going to be irked by this video because it's once again conventionally pretty young women depicting geeks, but I'd really like to hear comments about more than their appearances here. Would this show have appealed to you as a tween (their target demographic)? What else would you want to see? What other stereotypes would you like to see them deal with and maybe overcome? What else do you think could make the career of programmer appeal more to girls? Do you think this actually does make it more appealing to girls? Have you shown it to girls you know? What do they think?
Please be constructive in your comments — remember the women who produced this are genuinely trying to help the image of computer programmers in a way beyond Barbie, and that they actually have a decent amount of media savvy but likely had to choose their battles to make something appealing to both their sponsors and their target demographic.
Note: I'll be taking a heavier hand to moderation here than I usually do because I don't feel like hosting a whole lot of hate towards this project, though I do think readers may have interesting suggestions, criticisms and ideas for future episodes. If you'd like to rant, you may wish to keep a copy of your post for your own blog, or find a way to balance it with constructive ideas.


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The silliest thing - and there are many - about feminists is their constant use of the word 'privilege' and hurling it at men. Why? Just because some of the most powerful people in the world happen to be men?
They only represent about 0.0001% of men. I certainly don't have any power. Yet because I'm the same sex as those in charge, I'm 'privileged'.
Furthermore, most men 'in charge' care more about women than men. David Cameron, the Conservative Party Leader, bleated in his opening speech about how horrified he was at the lack of women in his party.
How many times have you seen a woman in power give one iota of a damn about men? Never. Yet powerful men do, because it's often in their interests (in the grand scale of things, feminism wouldn't have gotten so far as to name itself if there weren't men to support it. But there were; the Socialists, for whom the destruction of the family and neutering of men was vital to their totalitarian vision, and - at the opposite end of the spectrum - Capitalists, who would be raking it in with the female half of the population joining the male half in wage-slavery.) It's not in the interests of the majority of men though, or women for that matter.
Yet feminists still declare us men - even the most humble of us, like me - as being somehow Almighty Privileged Man-Bastards just because we share the same downstairs plumbing as the tiny number of individuals in charge upstairs.
That's as stupid as a non-British person assuming all of us Brits are privileged on the basis of the luxury the Royal Family are enshrouded in.
"Gee, all you limeys are so Goddamn privileged, with your big castles, your retinue of servants and your Crown Jewels!"
That sounds silly, but this is basically what feminists do all the time. A tiny, tiny proportion of men run big companies and governments - and invariably care more for women than men anyway - yet us men are expected to never, ever criticise feminism and women in general on the basis that we're all living privileged and luxurious lives, no matter what our actual fucking lives are like and no matter what daily shittiness assails us, and despite the fact that 99.9% of us men have as little power as women do, if not less.
It's the easy way out of an argument I guess. Feminists hate arguments. That would force them to realise the emptiness and stupidity of their ideology and make them realise they've devoted their miserable lives and their few brain-cells to something that's as silly and as pointless as a frog in a fez. It's so much easier to dismiss someone who questions them as a loser, a woman-hater, gay, or just someone who is 'unable to see how privileged he is' - which is connected to the accusations flung at non-feminist women; 'you don't see how oppressed you are due to Patriarchal brainwashing.' See? No logic, facts or even common sense required! Hooray for feminist tactics!
Given that women live longer than men, they're allowed to denounce us as 'bastards' and 'scum' whilst we're silenced into submission for implying they're not perfect, that they get pretty much automatic custody of the kids (and the house, furniture, savings, etc) in divorce cases, are allowed Women's Studies, have the right to kill a man's baby and call it 'the right to choose', have their own fucking government department, I think women have got a fucking cheek squealing 'you over-privileged bastard' should any of us guys dare object to their cat-like mewling and say 'Hang on a fucking minute...'


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From Ken Burns, Geoffrey Ward, and Dayton Duncan (authors of Jazz, Lewis and Clark, Baseball and The Civil War) comes this audio companion to the PBS film of the same name. It pulls together material from a variety of published and unpublished sources. It examines not merely Twain's justly famous novels, stories, travelogues, and lectures, but also his diaries and letters. The authors take us from Samuel Langhorne Clemens' boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, to his time as a riverboat worker - when he adopted the sobriquet "Mark Twain."
Twain believed that "The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven." This paradox fueled his hilarity and lay at the core of this irreverent yet profoundly serious author. With essays by Russell Banks, Jocelyn Chadwick, Ron Powers, and John Boyer, as well as an interview with actor and frequent Twain portrayer Hal Holbrook, this audio provides a full and rich portrayal of the first figure of American letters.
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- Tad Davis
- 07-04-10
A treat!
This audiobook is a treat. It's actually three (short) books in one. The first is a five-hour biography, based on the Ken Burns documentary. The biography is well-researched, well-written, and well-narrated, and it's loaded with quotes, some of them extensive, from Twain and the people who knew him. Other biographies (like the one by Fred Kaplan) are more detailed, but this one covers all the main points in a concise and entertaining way. It doesn't shy away from the darker years, when many of Twain's loved ones had died and his attitude became more pessimistic and deterministic than ever.
The second part is a collection of short essays and extracts by Twain, chosen to illustrate both his wit and his range. I'm not sure what the organizing principle is here, but it's fun to listen to.
The third part is a collection of essays by some of the scholars who were interviewed for the documentary. They cover a broad range of topics, some biographical, some literary, some social: race, racism, and racist language are among the topics discussed in depth. One biographical essay is by Ron Powers, another Twain biographer who is himself represented elsewhere on Audible.com. This part also includes the transcript of an interview with Hal Holbrook, developer (and actor) of the one-man show "Mark Twain Tonight!". (Holbrook, at one point, remembers a quote from Twain that made me laugh out loud: "The problem isn't that there are so many fools in the world; the problem is that lightning isn't distributed right.") It's unfortunate that Audible doesn't carry Mark Twain Tonight! as a separate title (it IS available on iTunes, if you're interested).
I love Mark Twain. I loved this audiobook. The first part lays the groundwork, the other two expand on it. Taken together, they introduce many sides of this many-sided prince among writers.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
- D. Littman
- 10-01-04
Very well read & organized, but superficial
This is a good introduction to the life of Twain, but it is more multimedia oriented than history oriented. It is missing vital pieces of his biography (esp. his pre-fame period) and it is utterly missing the analysis I like to see (not excessive, but enough to make the story more interesting). All that said, I recommend the book to you.
7 of 8 people found this review helpful
- cort
- 15-07-08
A wonderful listen
For those interested in history and in Mark Twain, this is a great way to spend your time. Full of facts about Twain that are not commonly known. It finishes with readings of some of his works accompanied by insightful critiques of why the work was important. The narration is also splendid.
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- G. Robert
- 29-01-03
Re read
I forgot how good this book is. Read it again, for the first time.
Maybe it should be re-read every 5 years.
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- Tangoo
- 11-07-09
Great Book but I didn't get through it
I liked this book, and I really enjoyed listening to it but I have to say that in the end I didn't finish it.
All I can think of is that in the end I enjoyed his books (I read 5 of them) much more than I enjoyed this biography.
If you are really into the topic of Mark Twain then this is probably the book for you but to me it was not as entertaining as reading his novels.
Who knows, perhaps I will come back to it another time and finish it off - I did get 75% or so of the way through it.


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Cong You Bing, aka Scallion Pancakes (warning: not diet friendly)
This is my version of something I ate growing up. I'm pretty sure it's forbidden by Atkins, South Beach, and every other well-known diet, but sometimes you need food to feed the soul.
Recipe: (makes 5 thin pancakes about 9 inches in diameter)
Dough: 58% hydration
300 g bread flour (12.7% protein)
174 g room temperature water
1 Tbsp sesame oil
10 g salt
vegetable oil
scallions (about 1.5 to 2 cups chopped)
~AP flour will work if you don't have bread flour, though bread flour provides some additional strength and chew. High gluten flour is not ideal, because the finished dough won't be extensible enough to be rolled out thin in one of the later steps.
~You can decrease the amount of salt according to your own tastes and/or dietary needs. Salt is not necessary.
~If you don't like the flavor of sesame oil, you can replace it with vegetable oil. It's in the formula to make the finished product a little more tender.
~This is already a rich recipe, but if you're feeling extra indulgent, you can use room temperature pork fat or duck fat instead of oil in the filling
1. Combine all the ingredients at once and mix/knead for a minute or two until you have a uniform but still shaggy ball of dough. All of the flour should be hydrated. In Peter Reinhart parlance, the dough should be "tacky but not sticky"
2. Allow the dough to rest for 15 minutes, and then knead for a minute by hand. After kneading, give the dough another 15 minute rest, followed by another minute of kneading. You can repeat the resting and kneading procedure as many times as it will take to get a very smooth, satiny dough. It took me three kneading sessions in all, including the initial kneading in step 1. Below, you can see how the dough develops.
Just after step 1, the dough is still shaggy, and you can see a lot of tears on the surface due to lack of gluten development. After the first resting and kneading step, the dough is smoother, although not yet perfectly smooth (above, left). The tears on the surface have decreased but are still there. After the final resting and kneading step, the dough has no tears on the surface and is perfectly uniform.
During the resting periods, chop some scallion finely, like so:
Set the scallion aside for later.
3. Weigh the dough, and divide into 5 equal pieces by weight. They should be around 100 g each, probably a bit heavier.
4. Shape each piece into smooth ball, as if you're making dinner rolls, and let rest for 10 minutes.
5. Roll each ball into a flat pancake. Go as far as the dough will allow you. Let these intermediate pancakes rest for about 10 minutes. Use bench flour to prevent the dough from sticking to the board.
6. After resting, roll the dough out again. The goal is to get a sheet of dough that's less than 1/16 of an inch thick. You should be able to see your fingers through it, but it should not be so gossamer thin that it breaks easily. I usually finish this step by picking the dough up and draping it over my knuckles and tossing it a bit to let gravity stretch it.
7. Lay the sheet flat on a large surface. Pour as much oil onto the sheet as it will take to cover every square inch with a thin layer (as I said, this is not a low-fat recipe). Gently fold in corners of the dough to help spread the oil around.
8. Sprinkle a handful of chopped scallion on the sheet, and roll the sheet up gently but somewhat tightly into a big cigar. Try to squeeze out the air as you roll.
9. Pinch the ends to seal, then coil the cigar and flatten by pressing down with your palm. Coat the flattened coils generously in oil, and them rest for yet another 10 minutes. The photo below shows how the coil should look before flattening.
10. Place each flattened coil on top of a sheet of plastic wrap. Roll them out until they are very, very thin – no more than 1/8 of an inch each. If the dough is resisting, give it another 5 minutes or so to rest before continuing. Don't worry about the dough breaking and the scallions peeking out. Toasted scallion never hurt anybody. The photo below shows how they look after rolling out with a rolling pin. The thickness in the photo is not the final thickness - I had to wait five minutes after this point to get them as thin as I wanted, because the dough was bouncing back on me
11. Now you're ready to cook them (finally). Use the sheet of plastic wrap to flip the pancakes onto your stretched palm and then onto a frying pan on medium heat. They're so flimsy that they'll deform under their own weight if you don't support them this way. Since the pancakes were already coated in oil in step 9, you should not have to put any oil in the pan. You can reuse the same sheet of plastic for all the pancakes. Once both sides are toasted, the insides should be done as well, since the pancake is so thin. You'll smell sauteed scallion in the air.
Once they're cool enough to handle, cut them into wedges and enjoy. You can eat them plain, with your favorite spread (mine is japanese mayo with sriracha and lime), or filled with whatever you want (I had them with barbecued pork). For a breakfast of champions, roll up a couple of fried eggs in a whole pancake for a variation on the "Rolex," a "chapati burrito" with egg that I ate while I was in Uganda for a month.


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Bankroll percentage
Bankroll percentage is one variant of Flat betting. Its difference is that the bet size will change after the win or loss. The percentage is taking not from initial bankroll but from the current. For example, instead of 5% from $1000 that were initially, but 5% from the current bankroll, let us assume $1100. The balance increases and the bet size increases and vice versa.
Martingale betting system
Martingale strategy is the doubling of a bet after a loss (is used with coefficient 2.0). Advantage – you are sure to gain some profit at the end of a session. Disadvantage – bankroll is thrown away in a series of losses; the lack of money for next step.
Anti-Martingale betting system
The bet is decreased after a loss. The minimal passability for a stable earning – 75% under the coefficient 1.75. It is impossible to thrown away the bankroll that is why freshers should use it. The disadvantage – long-term winning series that will surely break up and, possibly, on maximal sum of money.
Dutch betting system
While using Dutch betting system not only the bet size but coefficient is immediately increased after loss. When you win, the series continue. Dutch betting system is useless. The higher the quotations are the lower the chances for a bet to pass are. Failures can happen when the probability percentage for an event is 50-70%. After 5 losses it is silly to risk with 20-30% of a bankroll under the coefficient 7.0. Several sessions can be still profitable but you won't be able to earn every time, using this system.
Oscar's Grind System
Oscar's Grind System means you gain a profit in one unit during every session. The sum of a unit is determined independently – either a fixed size or bankroll percentage. The bet is increased with one unit after a winning and will be the same with a loss. The session is closed with two successful wagers.
Kelly criterion
The essence of the Kelly criterion is in determining the sum of every wager using the following formula (k*V-1)/(k-1)=C, where: k – coefficient; V – probability; C – sum of a wager. Its effectiveness depends on correct evaluation of the outcome's probability thanks to the analysis but not to bookmakers' quotations. Here is an example of calculation.
The D'Alembert system
The essence of this betting strategy is simple: while a win the bet is increased with a sum of first base staking unit; while a loss the bet is decreased with a sum of first base staking unit; minimal coefficient – 2,0. Winning example: 1st wager – 1% bankroll, 2nd wager – 2%, 3rd wager – 3% and so on.
Alternative or anti- D'Alembert betting system
While losing the wagers are reduced with a chosen size and vice versa. You should remember that the sum of a first base staking unit should be large enough in order to be decreased on several steps.
Miller's financial management
The Miller's strategy is a combination of Flat and Bankroll percentage. The author of this system proposes to bet 1% bankroll until the bankroll will increase up to 25%. For example, if bankroll size is $10 000 the bet size is $100 till the balance will reach $12 500. After this step the sum will be $125 (1% from 12 500). It is good for equally probable outcomes (50% & 50%). Minimal passability is 53%.
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The essence of the Up the Stairs betting system is in beginning the betting series using one sum and to finish it at fixed amounts. The whole winning is used for the next wager. An example: wager ?1 – $100 coeff. 1.32 – winning 132; wager ?2 – $132 coeff. 1.5 – winning 198; wager ?3 – $198 coeff. 1.6 – winning 316. The session lasts either till the loss or the winning of fixed sum.


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Hartsville, S.C. – Coker snapped their four game losing streak on Tuesday with a pair of Conference Carolinas wins over Erskine College. The Lady Cobras won game one 3-2, while senior Shelly Catlett led Coker to a 10-2 win in her final home game of her career. The wins improve Coker to 16-17 overall, and 8-10 in the conference, while Erskine falls to 18-16 overall, and 5-5 in the conference.
Game One
Haleigh Rogers (Ward, SC) hit a two run pinch hit double in the bottom of the fourth inning to put Coker up 3-2 and eventually lead to the win. The Lady Cobras got off to a shaky start as starter Sydney Greenwalt (Edwardsville, IL) gave up two runs in the first inning, but then settled into a grove and shut down the Flying Fleet.
Greenwalt (4-4) earned the win scattering six hits, allowing two runs in 5.1 innings with nine strikeouts, while Shelly Catlett (Orangeburg, SC) (1) earned her first save of the year, going 1.2 innings, allowing no runs and no hits with four strikeouts.
Erskine's Lauren Gunter (9-7) took the loss, allowing three runs on six hits in six innings of work with five strikeouts.
Leading Coker at the plate was Rogers going 1-for-1 with a double and two RBIs, while Whitney Wallett (Shermans Dale, PA) was 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored. Allie Bragg (Cassett, SC) was also 2-for-3 with a double.
For Erskine, Katee Knapp was 2-for-3 with a pair of doubles and two RBIs, while Kelly Davis, Kayla Vinson, Courtney Davis and Jocelyn Smith each had a hit for the Fleet.
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Coker came out guns blazing in game two, as the Lady Cobras jumped out to an early 7-1 lead after the first two innings. Erskine plated their second run of the game in the third, but that would be all Catlett would allow. A run in the fourth and two in the fifth gave Coker an eight run lead and the win 10-2 in five innings.
Catlett (12-9) earned the win, tossing five innings, allowing two runs on six hits with five strikeouts, while Rebekah George (6-5) took the loss for the Fleet, allowing three runs on two hits in a third of an inning.
Miranda Klees (Murrells Inlet, SC) was a perfect 4-for-4 with a home run, two RBIs and three runs scored to pace the Lady Cobras, while Brittany Owens (Johnsonville, SC) and Bragg were each 3-for-3 with an RBI. Rogers finished the game 3-for-4 with three RBIs and Wallett was 2-for-3 with two RBIs.
For Erskine in game two, Davis was 3-for-3 with a double and two runs scored, while Lindsey LaPrad was 1-for-2 with an RBI and Courtney Davis was also 1-for-2 with a double.
Coker will return to action in a week when they travel to Barton to play a make-up series on Wednesday, April 15 .


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Sixth career A-Sun Defensive Player of the Week; 2nd this season
MACON, Ga. (Oct. 7, 2013) – After helping ETSU to an unbeaten weekend in conference play, senior goalkeeper Ryan Coulter (Dublin, Ireland) was named Atlantic Sun Defensive Player of the Week.
Coulter recorded his conference-best sixth and seventh shutouts of the season in ETSU's road wins over North Florida and Mercer this weekend, moving him into second place in Atlantic Sun history for most career shutouts with 22.
Coulter, the reigning Atlantic Sun Goalkeeper of the Year, is just one shutout shy of equaling Jeff Casser's mark of 23 shutouts at Florida International University from 1992-95.
With Coulter helping anchor the defense, the Bucs (4-3-3, 2-0-0) rank third in the nation for shutout percentage (0.70) and in the Top 40 for goals against average (0.74) and save percentage (.814).
ETSU and Florida Gulf Coast will break a tie for the conference lead when the Bucs host the Eagles Friday, Oct. 11 at 7:00 p.m.
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Months ago I posted the highly detailed metallic skull (I've reposted it in this post so you can see the finished product on the same bench and in the same position).
The completed head is made from finely tooled soft leather. Each hair has been stitched into place by hand and the leather face is connected to an intricate series of tiny pulleys and leather straps that act like muscles to drive expression and movement. My next painting is the middle image in this Steampunk Tryptych. It will be the image showing the muscles and controls being built on the face. Can't wait to get to it.
For this painting I wanted a mad and complicated sense of Vyctor, bringing all his artisan skills and victorian technology to bear on making this creation of great and subtle intricacy.
I can't tell you any more as I'd like you to read it in the book (which is coming along very nicely). I hope you enjoy these ongoing glimpses into the world of Frahnknshtyne.
Be sure to see the just completed middle stage of the making of the Frahnknshtyne head. It's the crafting of the muscle structure you can find here.
cheers, Kevin
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2 Amsterdam, Netherlands
3 Hyderabad, India
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5 Beijing, China
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Posted by Nurhisham Hussein in "Windows Phone News" @ 07:00 PM
If you're one of the few who've actually picked up a Windows Phone 7 unit (hey, if you're reading this, you must be!), then you'll know that the buying experience leaves a lot to be desired. Despite Microsoft's spending on topline marketing, getting info (and working units) at retail isn't exactly easy. There's little in the way of support at ground level, except what little the handset manufacturers are willing to put up. For example, even here in Malaysia, I see plenty of ads on the Samsung's Galaxy II and HTC's burgeoning line of Android devices, but few for the Focus or the HD7. The carriers here aren't exactly pushing WP7 either - it's mainly the iPhone4 or Android. That may change soon, as Microsoft's strategy has changed - they're going to concentrate more on sales level training if this article from the Boy Genius Report is to be believed. Not before time, with Mango round the corner.


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Paradise installed our 17 kw ground mount in 2017. Lots of permits for Montgomery County , Md and holdups for inspections. Operational Dec. 2017 and works flawlessly.Produced approximately 21 megawatts to date.Awsome system. Very happy with Paradise. Very honest and professional.
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Great people, great customer service, and great installation. Third Sun was very helpful from the design and plan stages, to helping us apply for and get a REAP grant, to installation. Since the installation, the system just runs on its own and generates money-saving electricity. We hardly even notice it's there, other than looking great on our roof. Sean WhiteCo-Owner, Little Fish Brewing Company Athens, Ohio... read more
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Johnathan and his team installed a 5.1kW system for us in December of 2014. They were a pleasure to work with and they devoted a considerable amount of time to review options and get the right system installed. I highly recommend them for anyone considering a solar installation.
After contacting the larger solar installers in the area I decided to go with ARP and could not have been happier. Not only was he able to give me a quote in a timely manner. He was able to augment the original system for future expansion, possible battery backup and generator tie in, Something other installers said they would not or could not do. I felt that having Gary, the owner of the company, on site, doing the sight survey and having him available and willing to make last minute changes was invaluable. The installation only take two and half days and my wife and I could not be happier. Knowing that I can contact Gary if any problems arise or if I need a question answered is a great peace of mind that cannot be bought.... read more
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Thanks Simpleray for the amazing solar installation. The installers and customer service was first class! They were productive, affordable, and the team tidied up all around when they finished. Extraordinary experience!
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Office location: Roanoke, VA 24019
Installers very friendly and professional
We hired Bold Alternatives to do a 3KW array on our house (no storage). They pulled all permits and passed inspection the first time. The array looks beautiful. They worked with a roofer who seems to have done a good job with our cedar shingle roof. Overall a highly recommended company.
My experience with Dovetail was outstanding from the initial informational call, design, installation, and service. Their engineers really take the time to empower you with solar knowledge so that you really understand the capabilities you require and that of the different systems. Installation and turnover were right to the date I requested. These guys are really top notch!... read more
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Working with Greenside Energy was an unbelievable experience. We got a half dozen proposals from installers before we pulled the trigger. Greenside didn't just sell us a solar system but educated us about all the componets like the inverters, power optimizers, snd solar panels. They set us up with an amazing web based monitoring portal so we are able to track our power production in real time. After The install was complete they used their quad copter to take an aerial photo of our system which we have hung up in our office! I would highly recommend giving them a call.West Main Self Storage Team... read more
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Committed to the principles of patient- and family-centered care, Hamilton General Hospital is a tertiary care centre serving people from Burlington to Brantford and Niagara Falls to Guelph. The Hamilton General has one of the province's few Burn Units and an Integrated Stroke Unit caring for acute and rehabilitation patients. Patients who require open-heart surgery or cardiac catheterization are also served by the General's innovative and integrated approach to care.
The General is also home to leading edge research. Hamilton Health Sciences' new David Braley Cardiac, Vascular and Stroke Research Institute is the new home to the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) and the Henderson Research Centre, and will do wonders to enhance cardiovascular research. The PHRI at the General conducts and co-ordinates international clinical trials to improve the health of people in Hamilton and around the world.
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Hirzel Canning Reduces Energy Costs with Common-Sense Process Improvement
Hirzel Canning reduces natural gas and electric costs with incremental, common-sense process improvements.
Energy cost-cutting is on everyone's mind, but a recession isn't conducive to large capital outlays. An energy-saving program may be even harder for smaller processors, and harder still for ones with seasonal operations.
But if a relatively small tomato canner in Toledo, Ohio, can make a dent in its energy costs, so can you. Following is a look at several ways Hirzel Canning (www.deifratelli.com) trimmed its energy bills despite the seasonality of its operations and overwhelming competition from California vegetable processors.
Energy can be saved even before it gets to the plant through smart forward-contracting.
"We're talking about 50 percent savings right now versus contracts that may have been done for a one-year forward term last year, or even Q2 or Q3 of 2008," says Dave Sopko, director of supply origination and structuring for Delta Energy (www.deltaenergyllc.com), a regional natural gas marketer and energy consultancy based in Columbus, Ohio.
Sopko says all food processors should get out of the traditional "box" of buying one-year energy contracts and forgetting about them for the next 10 or 11 months. Current prices, hovering in the range of $5 per million BTUs, may make two-year contracts worth a look.
But when prices are likely to fall, six-month contracts are wiser. Consider how much money companies lost in 2008 if they bought one-year contracts during the spike and ignored the opportunity to sell before prices took a nosedive later in the year. (See adjoining chart of New York Mercantile Exchange prices.)
Following the market axiom that "the only cure for high prices is high prices," last year's spike led to major drilling and pipeline expansions that brought supplies up and prices down. But gas prices are highly volatile; experts are "still scratching their heads" over the first half of 2008, says Ron Sekinger, vice president at Delta Energy. "Prices kept going up and up and up, yet we had no Katrina or Rita; we had no major supply failure; and we had no fundamental factor to point to that could explain what happened."
The energy execs say food plant buyers can save on gas purchases when they conduct valid energy balances, watch prices for a proactive mid-contract change as needed and call on experts if they have the resources to do so.
"Seasonality – that's always hanging over our heads," says Karl Hirzel, director of manufacturing at the family-owned company. "We have some pieces of equipment that only run 40 days out of the year, so traditional return-on-investment calculations and strategies don't always work for us. What works best are small, incremental ways to improve."
Hirzel Canning produces more than 100 tomato products for its Dei Fratelli and Star Cross brands and sauerkraut under the Silver Fleece name from three northwest Ohio locations: a year-round plant at its Toledo (actually suburban Northwood) headquarters and ones in Pemberville and Ottawa that operate from early August to mid-October. Additionally, a storage facility at Ottawa is slated for upgrades that will make it a processing operation.
California's tomato growers, which account for more than 90 percent of the U.S. crop and roughly half the world's supply, affect the little Ohio firm's fortunes as much as any factor — a good crop there can put the squeeze on the Ohio firm. Those are factors certainly outside of Hirzel Canning's control. While the fluctuations of most energy costs also seem beyond the company's grasp, Hirzel Canning has found ways of controlling some of its energy usage.
Partnering for improvements
Hirzel Canning's first energy-saving moves centered on common-sense projects to cut major plant energy hogs. For some of the work, the company looked to outside experts. For example, Hirzel took advantage of energy management services from the local offices of Crescent Electric, a national electrical distributor, that resulted in upgraded lighting fixtures and motion sensors to shut-off lights in low-traffic areas.
Ohio Burner & Boiler Service, Toledo, assisted in tuning and optimizing heat processing and recovery equipment. Help also came from Smith-Boughan Mechanical Services, Lima, Ohio.
There hasn't been a formal full-site energy assessment or audit, although that may be coming as a result of Hirzel's growing relationship with the Edison Center for Innovative Food Technology (www.eisc.org), part of a statewide network supported by universities and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Hirzel Canning's work with the Edison center led to process upgrades including new equipment installations.
Natural gas is a volatile substance, financially speaking. If there was a triggering event that drove Hirzel Canning to take energy saving seriously, 2005's Hurricane Katrina was "the biggest single factor," Hirzel says.
Prices spiked to 2.5 times the norm before coming back down in 2006. But "they could go right back up any time just as easily, for any number of reasons," he warns. Like many processors, Hirzel Canning defends against this uncertainty with forward contracting.
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Dear Members of the CMC Community,
It is with great pleasure that we announce the appointment of Professor and Associate Dean of the Faculty Nicholas Warner as Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty during an important time of leadership transition at the College.
Warner succeeds Gregory Hess, who leaves in June to become President of Wabash College in Indiana. Warner is the ideal choice to work with our distinguished faculty as a new presidency begins at CMC.
An accomplished and seasoned member of our community, Warner has demonstrated his expertise and effectiveness in a broad range of institutional roles, both academic and administrative.
A member and former chair of the Literature Department, he also serves as the director of the Freshman Humanities Program and oversees our successful Summer Session, which has produced a significant boost in the number of curricular opportunities available to our students.
His work on behalf of the College exhibits a deep understanding and appreciation of our mission across the academic spectrum, from chairing the Curriculum Committee to academic advising, from faculty development and hiring to academic integrity and curriculum development.
Warner is also a noted critic, publishing numerous articles and reviews on Russian, English, and American literature. Choice magazine selected his book, Spirits of America: Intoxication in 19th-Century American Literature, as an "Outstanding Academic Book" in 1999.
Both in his scholarship and teaching, Warner is an innovative and award-winning educator. Specifically, he has focused on the intersection between leadership and literature with courses in "Leadership and Diversity in Literature," "Leadership in Literature and Film," and "War in Modern Literature." Most recently, he co-authored the article "Italian-American Leadership in Hollywood Films: Images and Realities" with colleague Ronald Riggio, Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology. In the course of his career at CMC, Warner has been the recipient of seven Huntoon awards (both the Glen R. Huntoon and G. David Huntoon awards), which recognize excellence in teaching.
We are grateful to Dean Hess for his years of service, and we are equally grateful to Associate Dean Warner for taking on these responsibilities as we look to the exciting future of the College. Please join us in congratulating our new Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, Nicholas Warner.
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The Power of a Nudge
The federal CIO wants to use behavioral psychology to make individuals do what's best for society.
Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel has cited innovations from a British government group, informally known as the "nudge unit," as part of his inspiration for a plan to launch evidence-based innovation projects in non-tech sectors of the executive branch.
The CIO would receive about $6 million for such projects under the president's proposed fiscal 2014 budget.
The nudge unit combines behavioral psychology and statistics to uncover the most effective way to press people to do things that are good for society at large, such as paying their taxes and insulating their attics. Once the data's in, the unit focuses on interventions with the best mix of low cost and high return, such as hand signing government letters to delinquent taxpayers or telling them many of their friends and neighbors paid on time.
Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner has a longer -- and fascinating -- take on the nudge unit here.
Also on the topic of low-cost government interventions with outsize gains, Foreign Affairs has a typically well-researched and comprehensive article this month on big data and the way it's changing government.
The article includes this story of a big data intervention by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg:
Illegally subdivided buildings are far more likely than other buildings to go up in flames. The city gets 25,000 complaints about overcrowded buildings a year, but it has only 200 inspectors to respond. A small team of analytics specialists in the mayor's office reckoned that big data could help resolve this imbalance between needs and resources. The team created a database of all 900,000 buildings in the city and augmented it with troves of data collected by 19 city agencies: records of tax liens, anomalies in utility usage, service cuts, missed payments, ambulance visits, local crime rates, rodent complaints, and more. Then, they compared this database to records of building fires from the past five years, ranked by severity, hoping to uncover correlations. Not surprisingly, among the predictors of a fire were the type of building and the year it was built. Less expected, however, was the finding that buildings obtaining permits for exterior brickwork correlated with lower risks of severe fire.
Using all this data allowed the team to create a system that could help them determine which overcrowding complaints needed urgent attention. None of the buildings' characteristics they recorded caused fires; rather, they correlated with an increased or decreased risk of fire. That knowledge has proved immensely valuable: in the past, building inspectors issued vacate orders in 13 percent of their visits; using the new method, that figure rose to 70 percent -- a huge efficiency gain.
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by Micah Hart
Looks like we missed one of these during the regular season when we were on vacation, but can't let the playoffs get too far gone without acknowledging LaMarcus Aldridge's handiwork before his season-ending hip injury.
For those that are new around these parts, the Horry scale examines a game-winning buzzer-beater (GWBB) in the categories of difficulty, game situation (was the team tied or behind at the time), importance (playoff game or garden-variety Clippers-Nets game), and celebration, and give it an overall grade on a scale of 1-5 Robert Horrys.
The Blazers had a tough season, losing many, many players to injury, but at least we know one night ended happily. What'd Horry have to say?
Medium-difficulty shot. Aldridge gets the ball pretty far out on the perimeter with his back to the basket. He gets a nice little shoulder into Brendan Haywood as he makes his move towards the paint, creating some space for a step-back jumper. LA is one of the sweetest shooting big men in the game, so I'm not surprised he cans this one. I know you got bumped a little there Brendan, but a little more effort there on the contest might have been nice.
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Tied 97-97 in overtime, the Blazers have just 3.7 seconds left to make something happen. Just enough time to get the ball to Aldridge and let him go to work.
This game was played on April 6, at which point the Blazers were still very much alive for the 8th spot in the Western Conference playoff race. So yeah, a pretty important win. Unfortunately Aldridge would be lost for the season just a few days later, and Portland would be lottery bound.
2 Horrys. A tie game, a somewhat easy shot (though LA's smoothness deserves a lot of credit for making it look so) makes this one a little on the pedestrian side. I'll give it 2 though for the potential playoff implications at the time and for doing it to the (since departed) defending champs on their home court.
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Cuomo highlighted the need for an "Innovation Hotspot" that would partner educational institutions throughout the state with the private sector to create more jobs in New York.
"In this state we have the academic institutions that generate the ideas, but they go to other states to become businesses and commercialize," he said.
Cuomo said he believes New York has a reputation for being "anti-business," and that former New York State students go elsewhere to start their careers and businesses.
Cuomo's program would take recent graduates and support them with the services they need to start a business in the state.
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There is only one catch: the new business has to stay in the state of New York.
In his address, the governor said he believes the state will see an increase in workforce because jobs are coming back from foreign countries.
"Companies moved overseas because they had cheap labor, and you know what they found?" he said. "You get what you pay for."
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Cuomo also suggested a change to the educational calendar. He believes other countries are keeping students in the classrooms longer, enhancing their ability to learn.
"Our education calendar is built around a time when we were agrarian society," the governor said.
He proposes two possible changes to the system: either the school days get longer or the school year is extended.
"You need to have more classroom time," Cuomo said. "It will also be complicated and controversial."
He said he will leave the decision of whether to have a shorter summer, longer school days, or a combination of both up to the school districts.
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