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Daughters of Eve
Debi Pomeroy and Andrea Levin Parnes share their recollections of being members of Chicago's first all-girl band.
By Bess Korey
An edited version of this story appeared in the Spring 2009 issue of Ugly Things. I first found out about this band back in the '90s when I acquired volume 1 of Girls in the Garage and they left an impression on me that has lasted until this day.
During the mid-late 1960's, the Rogers Park/Edgewater neighborhoods of Chicago were a hotbed of youth culture activity. Senn High School, located on Ridge Road, near Hollywood Avenue, was the home base of two local bands, the Daughters of Eve and the Dirty Wurds. It was more than just the High School that tied these bands together, a pair of siblings played an integral part in the formation of these groups as well. Debi and Justin Pomeroy shared a love and enthusiasm for music that was encouraged by their father, whom happened to be a Pastor. He went on to be nicknamed the "Rock N' Roll Preacher", for being willing to go above and beyond the call of duty to help his kids make their musical dreams come true. When Justin started a Chicago Blues influenced, Garage Band, called the Dirty Wurds, the "Rock N' Roll Preacher" became their manager. In an era when the idea of women playing in Rock bands was seen as an anomaly, Debi's father was still willing to nurture her musical aspirations as well.
The renowned Chicago Music Institution, Old Town School of Folk Music, which was located by Wells Street and North Avenue at the time, ended up playing a key role in the Pomeroys' musical story. Justin and Debi were both enthralled with the Folk music scene which was occurring there, and it inspired them to re-create that scene in their own neighborhood of Edgewater, which was located about 20 minutes north of the school. Debi says, "I was studying at the Old Town School of Folk Music, which is where I learned to play guitar, and my brother and I were having hootenannies in our basement. We'd go down to Old Town School of Folk Music and we'd beg these Folk artists to come perform at our hootenannies, and they would. We had the stage set up, and the lighting, and it would be packed [with people]. We had great music, and we'd have a lot of our friends playing. It was just all about music back in those days, and it continued on when I started in the Daughters of Eve."
Andrea "Andee" Levin [Parnes] was learning to play guitar around the same time Debi was, and also took inspiration from the Folk scene. "I was really interested in Folk music. I was listening to Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul & Mary, and I was copying all of their stuff. I would put the needle on the record and listen and try to figure out what chord it was, and continue back and forth, and then finally I ended up knowing what I was doing, and practiced so hard that I was actually getting quite good at Folk music."
At that time, Debi, Justin and Andrea were all attending Senn. Justin stood out at school for being a rebel that was ahead of his time. He was the first guy there to have long hair, and it was before the hippies had made it fashionable. Andrea ended up meeting Justin before she met Debi, and was able to bond with him over their love of Folk. It wasn't until Justin had invited her over to the Pomeroy house that Debi was able to meet her. The house was connected to their father's church, which had a gymnasium inside of it, and the kids were able to use it as a music practice space.
Debi vividly remembers the first time she saw Andrea. "She [Andrea] came over to the house, she had long red hair, and she always wore black, and I thought, 'Wow, that's a pretty cool chick. Who is she?' I was getting ready for rehearsal with my surf band and I had to carry all of my equipment to the church gymnasium. We were in the gym, [Andrea was there] so I asked, "Who is she?" [And was told], "Oh that's Andee."
Debi played lead guitar in that surf band and was the only female member. Becoming friends with Andrea gave her a chance to play music with girls too. Andrea, Debi and a friend named Sue started a trio together where they all played guitar and sang. This trio played together just for fun, but it foreshadows the musical direction that both Andrea and Debi would end up going in soon after that.
Debi was never intimidated by the fact that the world of mid-'60s Rock music was male dominated. Her passion for music drove her past the boundaries of what was feminine and what was masculine. Feminine was being a folkie and playing acoustic guitar. She rejected this notion by playing electric guitar, and then she developed an interest in playing drums, and that became her instrument of choice. Debi's involvement in Rock musicianship proves that Justin wasn't the only member of the Pomeroy family that was ahead of their time. This was 10 years before Heart and the Runaways, and the idea of women as Rock musicians was hardly a blip on the mainstream radar. But just because the mainstream was unaware of the fact that women wanted to play Rock music, doesn't mean that this desire didn't exist. Debi wasn't alone; there were many other women that had developed the same interest, and they went on to start bands like: the Luv'd Ones, Hairem/She, the Ace of Cups, the Feminine Complex, the Daisy Chain, the Shaggs, and a plethora of others. In the 2000's, many of these groups have finally gotten the recognition they deserve, and have even had their music re-released by labels like Sundazed and Ace Records, but for the decades preceding that, they were mostly forgotten, and the chauvinistic nature of music journalism could perhaps be blamed for their omission from the annals of Rock history.
Andrea had been following the female folkie path before Debi had come into her life. Even after they became friends, she hadn't developed much of an interest in playing Rock music, but this was soon to change. Debi's transformation from guitarist to drummer led to an important musical opportunity being presented her way. This happened during 1966 when she was 15 years old. Debi says, "Carl Bonafede [who was a famous Chicago DJ, and the manager of the Buckinghams; a Chicago group who went on to national renown with hits like "Kind Of A Drag" and "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" ] was looking to start an all-girl band [to be the Buckinghams' sister group]. Marsha Tomal [Guitar and Vocals] and Judy Johnson [Also on Guitar and Vocals, had already both joined the group at that point] knew John, a friend of mine at the time, and we were jamming in the basement [of her house, her brother was there too, and she was playing someone else's drum kit], and John said, "Hey, would you like to audition for an all-girl band? You play really good drums." [And she said], "But I don't have a drum kit." And he said that was ok, that I could bring the kit in the basement [to the audition] and told me about the band and how they had management. So we went out to Marsha's house, and I auditioned [for Carl] and I guess I did everything right. Carl said, "Wow, we've got to get you a set of drums!" So he went over to talk to my parents, and said "Debi's a really good drummer." and asked for my parents to buy me a set of drums."
This group would go on to be called the Daughters of Eve [DOE]. The "Rock N' Roll Preacher" was the one who coined this name. He had mentioned that all girls were the Daughters of Eve, and those involved agreed that it would be a good name for the group. Marsha, Judy and Debi became a fixture of the group, but the line-up wasn't quite cemented yet. Andrea says, "Debi, being a drummer, was recruited to be in an all-girl band. It was Marsha, Judy and Debi, and some bass player, whose name I don't even know, because she apparently flaked out all of the time and never made it to rehearsals. There was this one Saturday that Debi invited Sue and I [to DOE's practice], so we went there and they couldn't start their practice because the bass player didn't show up. So Carl was going nuts, ranting and raving, and the band was bummed out because they couldn't practice without the bass player there. Up until this point, I had never picked up a bass. But I was good musician, I knew my music, so I said, "How bout I fill in until she gets here?" So they gave me a [bass] guitar and I just started playing. I don't even know how I knew how to do it [play bass] but I just did. I guess Carl was impressed, because he asked if I wanted to be in the band."
Because of her Folk background, Andrea had some reservations about joining a Rock band, but it was ultimately her parents that made the decision for her. Carl had called them up and was able to charm them into letting their daughter join the band. Andrea reluctantly agreed to do it. This reluctance did not stick with her in the long run, and she started to enjoy being in the band.
Carl was all business and wasted no time in getting some gigs together for the girls once Andrea was in the band. Though the fact that they were an all-girl band was enough to make them a novelty, Carl still wanted them to have a gimmick, and that was for them to wear matching outfits. Andrea recalls one of the outfits that they had to wear with much disdain. "We ended up with these outfits that were so God awful, they were like green jeans and a burgundy colored velour V neck, and not only were they God awful, but we actually had pictures taken in them. That was the first uniform when we actually got work."
Once they had begun gigging, interest quickly grew in the band, and they started to draw a following. The girls were received well, even by male audiences, and Andrea feels as if it was more than just the novelty factor which drew people to them. She says, "We had a good sound and a good energy, and the audience was always very receptive, just thrilled. I never felt that anyone was looking at us going, "Oh My God, who do they think they are?" It was like, "Wow, you guys are great, and you're girls!" It was a novelty, but I don't think they were thrilled [with the band's performances], or just liked us, [only] cuz it was a novelty. They really liked the music."
Debi also felt as if the audience reaction to their band was very positive, and was even able to compare their smaller scale of success with that of the Beatles. She says, "I got to go to their [The Beatles] concert and after that day, I just couldn't believe what kind of impact they had on people, especially the girls. And then when I got into Daughters of Eve, and we played, it felt kind of like the same feeling, because all the boys [in the audience] got all crazy, since they had never seen an all-girl band play [before]. When you're young like that, you can go, "Wow, we're like the Beatles!" It's such a fantastic feeling to have people like you, and want to hear you play."
The band's success with Andrea as a member ended up being pretty short lived. She had only been 13 at the time she joined, and found herself in the middle of a tug of war between her parents and Carl. Debi says, "It just so happened that Judy's parents didn't get along with Carl, and Andee's parents didn't get along with Carl. It was a constant struggle. That was the only bad part about the whole thing, when you're young, because you're at your parents' mercy."
These circumstances had an affect on Andrea prematurely exiting the band. The group continued on without her, but Debi feels as if things weren't the same. This definitely had to do with the fact that Andrea and her were such close friends. But despite that, Debi stuck with the band, and remained their drummer up until their demise in late 1968. The band had two other bass players before they broke up, a girl that Debi had known who was named Mary Lou, and a girl who Carl had found who was named Lori Wax.
During their two and a half years together, they put out 4 singles, all of which remain hard to find today and have never been released together on a CD [Note: Debi has these songs in her own personal collection, and would like to put them out on CD someday]. As for their musical output which can be obtained at this current time, their breathtaking cover of the Animals' "Help Me Girl", which was gender-bended and re-titled, "Help Me Boy", can be heard on the compilation, Girls With Guitars [Ace Records]. The dreamy, otherworldly sound of the music, and the enchanting vocals, entices the listener, and makes their version stand out dramatically from the original Animals' track. A more upbeat, as compared to the melancholic feel of the former song, surf influenced number, "Don't Waste My Time" can be heard on Illinois in the '60s: Volume 1 of the Psychedelic States [Gear Fab] and on Volume 1 of the '90s compilation series, Girls In The Garage [Romulan Records].
All these years later, Andrea and Debi remain friends. Although both women no longer live in Chicago, having both relocated to California since the '60s, music remains an important part of their lives. More than 40 years later, Debi continues to play drums, and has created an extremely lengthy band resume for herself; which included a brief association with an all-girl Garage band from Michigan called the Luv'd Ones, whose lead singer and guitarist, Char[lotte] Vinnedge, was thought of by Debi, and by others, as the female version of Jimi Hendrix. Before leaving Chicago, Debi was also in another all-female group of a different genre, Country, called Jeannie Wright and the Western Wonders. After moving to L.A. during the late '60s, Debi went on to play with numerous other groups including Marlane and the Swinging Dolls, and the drummer she replaced in that group, Jenny Jones, became a famous Talk Show host in the '90s. Her drumming skills even drew the attention of Rock Svengali, Kim Fowley, who considered adding her to the line-up of his soon to be legendary all-girl band, The Runaways, but changed his mind when he found out that she was older than her young looking appearance. The Runaways, like their predecessors DOE, were meant to be a teen only band. DOE had even turned away a female musician in her 20s who wanted to join because she was considered too old, and ironically enough, the same thing ended up happening to Debi 10 years later.
After DOE, Andrea was in another all-female, Chicago group, called the Weaker Sex. It was a bit of a departure from her former band, being a 6-piece group, including horns, and having a funkier sound. After moving to California, shortly before Debi did in 1969, Andrea decided to give up the Rock N' Roll Lifestyle, and became a wife and mother. Her love of music remained permanently ingrained in her, and even though she was no longer playing in bands, she took on the profession of being a music teacher, and continues to impart her musical wisdom on students today. Andrea, as well as Debi, come across as much younger than the middle-aged women that they are, and this definitely has to do with the fact that neither of them has let go of the youthful, rebellious spirit of Rock N' Roll that began to shape their lives when they were in DOE.


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North Korea Video Shows Nuclear Attack on U.S.
Gordon Chang, author of "Nuclear Showdown:North Korea Takes on the World," discusses the latest propaganda video showing a North Korean missile attacking an American city, saying in five years it could be a real possibility.
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A few references and sites for sampling and MIDI
"Making Music with Samples" by Daniel Duffell , 2005.
This book is for the beginner who wishes to use sound samplers.
"Principals of Digital Audio" by Ken C. Pohlmann, 5th edition, 2005, Mac Graw Hill.
This book is meant audio engineers and covers tapes, DAT, Optical Discs, CDs, DVDs, desktop audio, internet audio, and digital radio and TV.
The lecture on this site covers the basics and is easy to read.
"A Practical Guide to MIDI in the Project Studio" by David Miles Huber, 2007.
This book covers a lot of material and also is easy to read.
The above website contains a good overview of various topics that include MIDI and sound sampling.
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Throughout the year, examining the line between national security interests and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution during wartime has been at the forefront of national political debate. From classroom discourse on the topic to the John Ashcroft events, Wabash has added its very own voice and ideas to this discussion.
Geoffrey Stone, Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, added to the discussion with his lecture "War and Liberty." Stone's lecture, sponsored by the Pre-Law Society and Pre-Law Committee, was held in conjunction with the annual David W. Peck Awards Banquet. Stone received the David W. Peck Senior Medal for his distinguished legal career.
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Stone has recently written Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism. His book has won prestigious awards including the Robert F. Kennedy Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Perilous Times was honored as the best book in categories including history, political science, and public affairs. Stone is considered, according to Professor Scott Himsel, to be the nation's leading scholar on free speech in wartime.
Stone posits that situations of liberty and security tension during wartime have occurred many times in American history. He outlined four disturbingly concurrent scenarios – the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, the suspension of habeas corpus by President Lincoln during the Civil War, the Espionage and Sedition Acts during World War I, and the Japanese interment during World War II.
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Majestic Lynx Technologies LLC
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Vasodilators for Mitral Valve Regurgitation
Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors
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Nitrates (used in acute MR)
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How It Works
Vasodilators work on different substances in the body to help widen (dilate) blood vessels.
These medicines might help mitral valve regurgitation because the wider blood vessel reduces resistance in blood flow and makes it easier for blood to move forward from the left atrium to the left ventricle to the aorta. This helps reduce the amount of blood that leaks backward through the valve into the left atrium.
Why It Is Used
Vasodilators are used to treat acute mitral valve regurgitation in the hospital. For chronic regurgitation, they might be used if you have symptoms or high blood pressure, or if your heart is not pumping blood as well as normal.
How Well It Works
Vasodilators can reduce the severity of mitral valve regurgitation when the left ventricle is not working as well as normal. 1
Side Effects
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
- Usually the benefits of the medicine are more important than any minor side effects.
- Side effects may go away after you take the medicine for a while.
- If side effects still bother you and you wonder if you should keep taking the medicine, call your doctor. He or she may be able to lower your dose or change your medicine. Do not suddenly quit taking your medicine unless your doctor tells you to.
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
- Trouble breathing.
- Swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
ACE inhibitors
Call your doctor if you have:
- Hives.
- Irregular heartbeats (this could be caused by too much potassium in your blood).
- Dizziness or light-headedness or fainting.
Common side effects of this medicine include:
- Dry cough.
- Headache.
Nitroprusside is generally only used for acute mitral regurgitation in the hospital. If nitroprusside is used, you are closely watched, because this medicine may cause severe low blood pressure.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
What To Think About
ACE inhibitors
A cough is one of the most common side effects of ACE inhibitors. But most people do not get a cough. The cough tends to be a minor problem for most people who have it. They feel that they can live with it in exchange for the benefits of this medicine.
If you take an ACE inhibitor and have a problem with coughing, talk with your doctor. Your cough may be caused by something else, like a cold. Do not stop taking your medicine unless your doctor tells you to.
If you have a cough that is a problem for you, then your doctor might give you an angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB) instead. ARBs are less likely to cause a cough.
Interactions with other medicines
ACE inhibitors may interact with other medicines such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), antacids, potassium supplements, certain diuretics, and lithium. If you are taking one of these medicines, talk with your doctor before you take an ACE inhibitor.
Taking medicine
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Advice for women
Do not use ACE inhibitors if you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant. If you need to use this medicine, talk to your doctor about how you can prevent pregnancy.
If you take an ACE inhibitor, your doctor may check your potassium levels and how your kidneys are working to make sure this medicine is not causing problems.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
- Bonow RO, et al. (2008). 2008 Focused update incorporated into the ACC/AHA 2006 Guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing committee to revise the 1998 Guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease). Circulation, 118(15): e523–e661.
Last Revised: August 21, 2013
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review: Rakesh K. Pai, MD, FACC - Cardiology, Electrophysiology & Brian D. O'Brien, MD - Internal Medicine & John A. McPherson, MD, FACC, FSCAI - Cardiology


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Teacher Training
Sol Group of Career Colleges is the teacher training division of Sol Schools International. Since our first course in 2004, we have been a leader in training English language teachers. Our continuous efforts to keep our programs relevant and innovative is what gives our graduating teachers the renowned reputation of being acknowledged as the most able, creative and authoritative in the ESL teaching industry.
Sol Schools Teacher Training Centers also have a special commitment to working with teachers whose first language is not English, creating career opportunities for teachers from different backgrounds and working to improve the quality of language teaching provision in the state system.
Since Sol Schools in Toronto is predominantly an ESL school, teacher-training students are constantly immersed with ESL learners throughout the day to give a real sense of what it is like in a school that teaches English as a second language.
Our qualified and experienced staff knows just how broad the ESL and EFL industry is, so they are able to provide you with one-to-one employment assistance after graduation. This employment assistance includes, but is not limited to resume and cover letter assistance, job contacts, contract review, visa advice and assistance and anything else you need to begin working as an English teacher at home or overseas.
TESL or CELTA……
What's the difference?
TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language)
This term refers to teaching English in countries such as Canada, USA, Australia, etc., where English is the common everyday language in the community. The TESL Diploma is recognized internationally as well as locally so this English teaching certification is very popular in Canada and the USA.
CELTA (Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults)
Cambridge CELTA is the most widely recognized international teacher qualification. CELTA is a standardized teacher preparation program, so no matter where you take the course, it is more or less the same. If you have a CELTA certificate, prospective employers know exactly what to expect in terms of your training. CELTA requires a minimum of six hours teaching practice time, a minimum of six hours of observation, four assignments, a pre-interview task, an interview in the application process, and a pre-course task once you are accepted.


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Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding
The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding present, in a highly accessible form, key concepts and practices from the fields of restorative justice, conflict transformation, and peacebuilding. Written by leaders in these fields, they are designed for practitioners, students, and anyone interested in justice, peace, and conflict resolution.
The Little Book of Conflict Transformation
by John Paul Lederach | More detail | Order from Amazon
John Paul Lederach explores why "conflict transformation" is more appropriate than "conflict resolution" or "management." Conflict transformation asks not simply "How do we end something not desired?", but "How do we end something destructive and build something desired?"
The Little Book of Restorative Justice
by Howard Zehr | More detail | Order from Amazon: English | Spanish
From the grandfather of restorative justice, an overview of the process and how to involve those who have a stake in a specific offense and how to identify and address harms, needs and obligations, in order to heal and put things as right as possible.
Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice
The Little Book of Strategic Peacebuilding
by Lisa Schirch | More detail | Order from Amazon
Strategic Peacebuilding: Lisa Schirch covers strategies such as long-term planning, working at all levels of society, careful decision-making, and coordinating different actors and approaches to peacebuilding—the foundation for a just peace.
The Little Book of Family Group Conferences
by Alan MacRae and Howard Zehr | More detail | Order from Amazon
A form of restorative justice based on the New Zealand model of decision-making processes related to child welfare, school discipline and criminal justice.
The Little Book of Biblical Justice: A Fresh Approach to the Bible's Teaching on Justice
by Chris Marshall | Order from Amazon
Jesus and justice? A close examination of how the Bible has profoundly impacted Western culture, what biblical justice looks like, and what it means to strive for "what makes for peace."
The Little Book of Circle Processes: A New/Old Approach to Peacemaking
by Kay Pranis | Order from Amazon
Humans have long gathered in circles, around fires or kitchen tables, and now Kay Pranis explains how circles can be used to address harms and tension—when crimes are committed in the neighborhood, in the classroom to create a positive environment and address behavior problems, in the workplace and in social services to develop more organic support systems.
Kay Pranis teaches a three-day course in circle processes each year. Contact us for additional information.
The Little Book of Cool Tools for Hot Topics: Group Tools to Facilitate Meetings When
Things Are Hot
by Ron Kraybill and Evelyn Wright | Order from Amazon
Practical exercises and activities to help people
hear each other, better understand, and make decisions the whole group can support.
The Little Book of Contemplative Photography
by Howard Zehr | Order from Amazon
How to practice mindfulness, with a camera. Especially for those who are so committed to their causes that they may forget to take time and notice the world around them.
The Little Book of Dialogue for Difficult Subjects: A Practical Hands-On Guide
by Lisa Schirch and David Campt | Order from Amazon
A transforming and freshly hopeful approach to handling tension-filled topics, using principles of dialogue. For conversations around the table, in the boardroom, or within the community.
The Little Book of Healthy Organizations: Tools for Understanding and Transforming
Your Organization
by David Brubaker and Ruth Zimmerman | Order from Amazon
The best way to change the world may be one organization at a time. Find out how organizational change and conflict are not only inevitable, but survivable.
The Little Book of Restorative Discipline for Schools: Teaching Responsibility; Creating
Caring Climates
by Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz and Judy H. Mullet | Order from Amazon
Can an overworked teacher possibly turn an unruly incident with students in an opportunity for learning, growth, and community building? Yes, say the authors, who give practical guidance and examples.
EMU's MA in Education program offers a graduate certificate in restorative justice in education.
The Little Book of Restorative Justice for Colleges and Universities: Repairing Harm
and Rebuilding Trust in Response to Student Misconduct
by David R. Karp | Order from Amazon
Three models of campus practice, considerations when starting a campus program and how to include restorative justice in a student conduct code.
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How people in prisons can live restorative justice principles and change prison culture as well as society.
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by Jayne Seminare Docherty | Order from Amazon
Most books on negotiation assume that the negotiators are working in a stable setting. This one assumes a less ideal one: fragile or volatile settings, amidst change.
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by Carolyn Yoder | Order from Amazon
An overview of invidual and collective trauma, common responses to trauma, and how to break the cycles of unhealed, unaddressed trauma. For everyone who works with trauma, whether the everyday variety, or with those affected by terrorism, tsunamis, current conflicts or historical wounds.
Trainings with Strategies for Trauma Awareness & Resilience
The Little Book of Victim Offender Conferencing: Bringing Victims and Offenders Together
in Dialogue
by Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz | Order from Amazon
Victim-offender dialogues are a way to hold offenders accountable to the person harmed and to give victims a voice about how to put things right. Not to be confused with reconciliation, mediation or negotiation, victim-offender conferencing is a way to acknowledge harms that brings in the voices of those who have been victimized, including the broader community.
The Little Books in the Justice and Peacebuilding Series
Looking to further your professional or organizational mission? CJP offers practical skills for the field, the office, and life in general. Contact us for information about on-campus offerings or having CJP come to your organization.


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Roy Stenstrom - Worship Pastor
Roy earned his MM in Music from the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati 1996 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Newberry College 1994. He has served as Minister of Music at First Baptist Church in Newberry, SC from 1998-2005. He served as Music Director, Newberry Community Theater 1999-2003, and Music Director, Greenwood Community Theater 2002-2003. Roy and his wife Susan were married on March 1, 2003. They have a son named Reilly and a daughter named Emma Blair.
Contact Roy
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It's 1994. Mount Vista High's student body president Tim Timmerman has aspirations of attending Yale and becoming a famous politician. Tim realizes the quickest pathway ...
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Genre: Comedy
Actor: Andrew Caldwell, Stephanie Drapeau, Seth Meriwether, Laird Macintosh, Jason K. Wixom, Monica Moore Smith, Casey Elliott, Eddie Perino, D.L. Walker, Kami Christiansen, Christian Busath, Drue Knapp, Yolanda Wood, Chelsea Maidhof, Christopher Escalante


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I didn't need it, but it was the perfect thing for anyone who considered herself artistic and liked to make detailed drawings, I had to agree. The art supplies salesperson smiled ingratiatingly at me as our conversation morphed into a pitch I literally felt I couldn't refuse. We had struck up a chat about art, and he somehow found a way to make an expensive pen-and-ink set seem indispensable by echoing back to me things I had said I valued in my drawings and in my tools. When he would point out its virtues, he'd say, "Don't you agree?" Yes, I did. And at the end, I forked over $25—at the time, more than I would spend for a week of groceries as an undergrad—and I could not figure out what he had done to make me buy that set. He literally had changed my mind.
Now I know more about why that happened and even have some ideas about how to make it happen myself with other people—and so will you when you read the cover story by psychologist Kevin Dutton, "The Power to Persuade." Dutton provides several simple secrets that confer surprising influence.
Evidence is persuasive to me as a science journalist, and that is why I have always appreciated the work of Scott O. Lilienfeld, a psychologist, columnist and member of Mind's board of advisers. Lilienfeld's emphasis on evidence-based psychology has helped sort wheat from chaff in that field. Now we are gratified to present to readers an article he has co-authored with Steven Jay Lynn, John Ruscio and the late Barry L. Beyerstein entitled "Busting Big Myths in Popular Psychology." The feature holds up six myths to evidence-based scrutiny. You may be surprised.
Oh, and that pen-and-ink set? I've never used it, although I still have it. Always felt too guilty to do so because of what it cost. But that's a subject for another article.


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smeff needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 99 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
Intern Profits
We are entrepreneurs who have had a tremendous amount of success using interns in our business. We are creating an information product about how companies can get interns to work for them. We need a logo and branding help
Entrepreneurs, small business owners, small business owners looking to find educated, free or low cost labor by hiring interns from colleges & universities
We need a horizontally oriented logo, NOT square or round.
Needs to be rendered in both black & white, AND color
Needs to be able to be used in smaller sizes as well as print
We would also like a favicon.
We may distribute a binder of information, meaning that we would need a binder cover, plus binder spine image as well.
We would also like the image to be able to used on the following following:
CD/DVD cover
Book cover
Competitive sites include http://www.Enternships.com and http://www.UrbanInterns.com although we don't necessarily like their particular logos.
Examples of logos that we like (however, don't feel like you have to mimic these logos, these are just examples of logos that we like) include:
FILA (although this is square, remember, we want horizontal based)
Levi's (although this is vertical, remember, we want horizontal based)
Wikipedia (although this is square, remember, we want horizontal based)
Land Rover
Dunkin' Donuts
Sony VAIO
Illy (although this is square, remember, we want horizontal based)
Discovery Channel
As far as colors, we are open to anything, just no pastels.
For format we would like images in .jgp, .png and .gif
Please submit your best work, and we look forward to evaluating it!
We would like to see the a concept where the "I" in Intern looks like a diploma, and the "S" in Profits looks like a dollar sign.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Dozens hurt in casino bus accident on L.A. freeway
Witnesses say the the chartered casino bus swerved and braked to avoid hitting another vehicle while changing lanes.
At least 50 people were injured Thursday when a chartered casino bus overturned after apparently swerving on Interstate 210 east of Los Angeles.
The accident occurred about 10 a.m. PT on eastbound 210 in Irwindale, just past the interchange with the 605 Freeway. The crash left the bus — with the front windows knocked out — resting on its side down an embankment beside train tracks.
The Da Zhen Travel Agency bus was headed to the San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino, near San Bernardino, said the charter company, based in in Monterey Park, Calif.
None of the injured was in critical condition, KTLA-TV said, citing the Los Angeles County Fire Department. KTLA reported 50 were injured; the Los Angeles Times said 55. Most suffered cuts and bruises.
A doctor told the Times that most of the patients he treated at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center were between 60 and 80 years old.
According to conversations on the California Highway Patrol radio, officers were seeking Chinese translators at the scene and at hospitals to help talk to passengers.
The Associated Press noted that the route is frequented by "gamblers' special" buses carrying tourists from the San Gabriel Valley to desert casinos and Las Vegas.
All lanes of 210 were shut down to allow emergency helicopters to land, creating a massive traffic jam winding back for several miles. The highway patrol opened the westbound lanes after about an hour, and some eastbound lanes were reopened just after 2 p.m.
Authorities did not immediately announce what caused the accident, saying the investigation was continuing.
Some witnesses said the bus was moving toward the carpool lane when the driver swerved and braked hard to avoid another vehicle, KABC-TV reported. A truck driver traveling behind the bus told the Times it was traveling about 70 mph before the accident.
Early reports said the bus had collided with a big rig, but one witness told KABC the bus clipped a car as it changed lanes.


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screative needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 26 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
Simple, photo-centric website inspired by http://www.lakewood.cc / http://www.joelosteen.com
Mountain View Church
Design the home page and an interior layout for the Mountain View Church website (currently none exists).
The main inspiration for the design is http://www.lakewood.cc (a color variation is http://www.joelosteen.com). In fact there really aren't any other inspirations other than these two.
Logo and wireframe available at http://drop.io/mvcfiles (password is 99designs)
Budget isn't very high, but we hope having provided a lot of the direction will help cover a lot of the work you'd normally spend the most time on. Thanks for considering helping out with this this non-profit church site design. :)
Graphics and Design
* Put some effort into finding good stock photos for the callouts.
* Show a design for dropdown navigation for one of the items in the navigation.
* Vibrant but not bright
* Neutrals (tan, beige) with shades of blue or green as accents
Inspiration Sites
* http://www.lakewood.cc
* http://www.joelosteen.com
Navigation Tree
* ABOUT (show dropdown design for this item, see below)
** Welcome
** What We Believe
** History
- Don't blatantly copy the inspiration sites, use them as inspiration to develop a unique design
- No need to be exact. Sizes/proportions DO NOT need fit the wireframe exactly, layout is flexible so use your best judgment.
- No clichéd graphics. When looking for stock photos/graphics for the header and callouts, please don't use any photos of mountains or the like.


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The recent Coastal Athletic League boys' volleyball playoffs were an exciting and well organized event as always. Hosted by Harbor Day School under the guidance of Mike Coleman, the Coastal League tournament is an experience that these young athletes treasure for many, many years. The excitement of the event coupled with the well-attended and intense feel that Harbor Day's Blass Gymnasium brings, create memories that are lasting and sweet.
The Coastal Athletic League is for the junior high school teams from Ensign, Corona del Mar, Costa Mesa, TeWinkle, Harbor Day as well as Huntington Beach's Dwyer and Sowers. Each season, the teams play a round-robin league play to determine seeds for the tournament. This is one of the first times that these young athletes can play in matches representing their school which makes this very special. It is also a sampling of the future high school events between Newport Harbor, Corona del Mar, Estancia, Costa Mesa, Edison and Huntington Beach.
The semifinal matches were outstanding. In the seventh-grade division, top-seeded Dwyer battled Ensign who entered as the fourth seed with Dwyer sneaking out with a 27-25, 18-25, 18-16 victory. Ensign was led by the all around play of Max Toffel.
The other seventh-grade semi featured third-seeded Harbor Day versus second-seeded Corona del Mar. CdM won the three-game thriller, 25-16, 24-26, 15-12. Setter Vinson Chiu led Harbor Day especially with his serving while John Holland, Chase Hall and Ryan Shean were also major contributors. CdM's dominant middles, Fritz Miller and Jake Pearson, provided too much firepower. Setter Danny Rogers delivered with efficiency.
The eighth-grade semifinals were also well played with a packed house. Top-seeded Corona del Mar beat Sowers in two games, while Dwyer survived a battle with Harbor Day, 24-26, 25-23, 17-15. Harbor Day was led by the all-around play of William Hunter, the setting of Robbie Rosoff, and the middle hitting of Jacob Flaxman. Harbor Day was co-coached by Mike Coleman and by former Harbor Day setter Kim Coleman who also set for two national championship teams at Corona del Mar High and at UCLA.
In the seventh-grade finals, Corona del Mar avenged a three-game loss in league to win the championship in two games. With Miller and Pearson leading the way, the Sea Weed squad featured the all-around play of Will Gehl, Wilson Lubeck, Tyler Flood, and John Fenmore. They were co-coached by Mike Pearson and Joe Sloate.
The eighth-grade final was a battle with Dwyer battling back in Game 2 to win and force a third game. This was only the first game that CdM had lost all season long. Corona rallied to win the last game, 15-8. CdM featured an extremely talented combination of athletes. Head coach Bob Ctvrtlik called this team "names who will be on the volleyball scene for years to come." They featured the hitting of Matt Ctvrtlik, Brian Chelf, Mika Grasso, Jack Denning, Nick Premer, Karl Donovan, Garrett White and Mark Thompson, as well as the setting of Sam Kobrine and Shane Gooding. The back-court play of TJ Hunter and Jason Neiger was outstanding.
The CdM coaching staff was a family affair with Olympic gold medalist Bob Ctvrtlik as the head and his sons, Joe and Erik, were the assistants. Bob, a hall of famer, had coached both Joe and Erik when they played for the Corona del Mar junior high team. Both play for Coach Steve Conti's CdM High volleyball team. Joe recently committed to play volleyball at Stanford.
Coach Conti must be very pleased to see the success that the junior high teams have achieved. Unfortunately, Garrett White is the son of Edison football coach, Dave White, so Garrett will attend Edison for high school. Garrett's dad was not able to attend the championship game because Edison was playing Fountain Valley in the Battle for the Bell. The next morning, Garrett and his dad flew to Las Vegas where Garrett's brother, Hunter, played football for Boise State. Quite a schedule!
Carden Hall completed its Tri-Way League girls' volleyball season two weeks ago with a championship. The junior high league features 12 private junior high school teams from throughout Orange County that play a round-robin league to determine their seed in the playoffs. The team from Carden Hall played in the championship match against Heritage Oak from Yorba Linda, which was the top seed in the tournament. After losing the first game, Coach Monica Stewart calmed the team and won the next two for the championship.
Carden was led by Remy Wilson, Katie Condino, Kinley Ohland, Ellie Hagadorn, and Katie Kearns who all were on the team that won the championship last year. Callie Govaars, who is the sister of Newport Harbor volleyball assistant coach Taylor Govaars, was the only seventh-grader in the starting lineup. Brennan Cuttrell, Jaynie Hexberg, Elle Zielinski, Skyler Gullick, and Hannah Schubert were all contributors, while sixth-graders Devyn Copeman and Sarah Graham gained valuable experience for the future.
Coach Monica Stewart knows a lot about success. As a high school player at Corona del Mar, she was Monica Park and a player on two CIF championships. Carden Hall is very fortunate for her knowledge and leadership.
Playing in the Tri-Way league is Pegasus School. Corona del Mar's Jessica Harris plays for Pegasus and is an extremely talented player.
Carden Hall beat Pegasus in its trip to the championship.
CHARLIE BRANDE is a former head coach of Newport Harbor and Corona del Mar high schools.


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3 Expert Backstage Beauty Tips from New York Fashion Week
Designers are debuting their fall collections in New York right now, but the hair and makeup accompanying lush coats and heavy knits? No need to wait eight months to wear it in real life. Here are a few handy tips from the world's best makeup artists to start using now.
Photo:Greg Kessler
Tip #1: Eyeliner is always a good thing.
Photo:TIMOTHY A. CLARY/Getty Images
Makeup artist Diane Kendal said that designer Jason Wu didn't want to make any sort of statement with the makeup—nothing to distract from the clothes. But the fact is that even models can benefit from just a bit of liner eye. So while she left cheeks, lips, and lids almost bare, Kendal drew a super thin line along the upper lashline to define the models' eyes.
Kendal used Lancome's 24H Artliner ($30) in Black.
Photo:Chelsea Lauren/Getty Images
Tip #2: Match the texture of your makeup to the texture of your outfit.
Photo:Chelsea Lauren/Getty Images
"I like the idea of matching the weight of your makeup to the weight of your clothing," makeup artist Sarah Lucero said backstage at Rebecca Minkoff. "So a thick tweed overcoat for fall calls for an opaque lip."
Lucero mixed a bit of Stila Smudge Pot ($20) in Chocolate with Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick ($22) in Amore for a dark, matte, berry lip to contrast Minkoff's pastel-heavy collection.
Tip #3: Choose one thing!
Revlon's Global Artistic Director, Gucci Westman, was inspired by both Katherine Hepburn and the French Yé Yé girls of the '60s. "The rag & bone girl is easy, kind of street, and has one thing," Westman said backstage. "She doesn't have 15 steps—like eye shadow, then lipstick, then something else." Who doesn't want to be that girl?
Of course, it's a runway show, so while it may be one cool thing Westman actually used three products to get there. First, Revlon's ColorStay Crème Gel Liner ($10) in Black, then the ColorStay Liquid Eye Pen ($8) in Black on top of that to make it super matte), and finally, she defined the graphic line with the brand's new ColorStay Skinnny Liquid Liner ($8) in Black Out (out in June).
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(Chinese recipes, prepare authentic Chinese food now!)
Sui Kow Recipe (Dumplings /水饺)
Guest Writer: Food 4 Tots
I would like to introduce you to a special guest blogger today, Food 4 Tots, who happens to be my high schoolmate in Penang. What a small word! Food 4 Tots is an awesome food blog with recipes meant for toddlers.
Every time I read the blog, I drool over the homey and delicious dishes and secretly jealous of her 4-year old and wish that I am eating at her dining table every day. Please welcome Food 4 Tots to Rasa Malaysia as she shares her sui kow (Chinese dumplings) recipe with us.
Two year ago, when I was just starting to cook for my family, a friend of mine made a strong recommendation that I visit Rasa Malaysia's food blog for its recipes and cooking ideas.
When I browsed through her blog, I was very amazed by her stunning shots and high level of professionalism in food presentation, not to mention her cooking and baking skills. Since then, I had been following her blog closely and even referred it as my "online cookbook."
I have to say that her featured recipes are getting more and more interesting and impressive now. There are many cooking tips and methods I learnt through reading her posting. Each time I visit her blog, I will be drooling and leaving with a hungry stomach. Her Penang-style cooking also makes me very homesick and I just feel like flying home the next day to satisfy my cravings.
Today, I would like to thank Rasa Malaysia for featuring me as her guest writer. I had chosen sui kow (水饺) as my featured recipe because she loves dumplings. Co-incidentally, it is also my childhood favourite.
I had never gotten bored eating it even until now. Hopefully by sharing this sui kow recipe, you will love sui kow as much as I do.
"Sui kow" (水饺) is a Chinese dumpling which filling is mainly made up of coarsely diced or whole shrimps, minced pork, and other chopped vegetables such water chestnut. Usually, "sui kow" is paired with Chinese wonton noodles. But it can also be served separately in boiled broth.
I first learnt about how to make "sui kow" from my mother-in-law. Since then, I always love making sui kow for my family. By serving it with some blanched vegetables and Chinese noodles, it makes a wholesome meal for us. My son (a 4 year-old boy) loves the "sui kow" so much that he can easily wallop 5 sui kows in 1 sitting!
When I told my hubby that I will made "sui kow" to be featured on Rasa Malaysia's blog, he suggested that I should follow his "self-proclaimed" authentic sui kow recipe which he used to eat at a Chinese noodle house in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) as a child.
This recipe calls for the inclusion of green peas and finely chopped coriander leaves on top of the common fillings. Although I had neither seen nor tasted this version of sui kow before, my instinct told me that his suggestion is feasible as the green peas will add extra colour and nutrients to the filling whereas the coriander leaves will give more flavour to the sui kow. So I decided to give it a try.
Guess what is the verdict? My hubby's suggestion was proven right! These two extra ingredients did give the sui kow a new twist in its flavour. The green colour of the pea resembles a hidden jade, made the filling more appealing to the eyes.
I must say that it is the best sui kow I had tried so far. The taste and texture are simply AWESOME! Before I had finished my shooting, 8 "sui kows" had disappeared from the serving plate and gone into our stomach! The temptation is so irresitable! Are you as excited as us, too?
Finally, my hubby said, "If one is to enjoy the full eating of "sui kow", the art of eating it is just as important as the serving itself."
He strongly recommends placing a piece of coriander leave on top of the "sui kow" and dip it into some chili sauce (just a bit will do, so as to prevent the chili taste from over-powering the wholesome taste of the fillings). ENJOY! If you have better way to enjoy sui kow, feel free to comment. We love your feedback.
Now, let me share with you the authentic sui kow recipe (based on my own concortions):
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Asus HDP-R1
From MythTV Official Wiki
Asus O!Play HDP-R1 Media Streamer
This a general purpose media streamer from asus. Please see the Asus website for more details. This isn't a mythfrontend yet, but you can serve up your files via cifs (Samba) and watch your recordings on this device. It also works well with the mythtv UPNP server.
[global] workgroup = WORKGROUP netbios name = MYTHTV server string = Samba Server Version %v log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 security = share [mythtv] path = /export/data5/mythtv public = yes browseable = yes only guest = yes writable = yes printable = no
Creating pretty filenames
- Create a dir for sharing
- Remount your myth shares under dir above "mount --bind old_mount new_mount".
- Run the contrib/mythrename.pl --link script.
- If you are using storage groups, you need to tweak around the multiple mountpoint issue. I symlinked all the mpg files to a single dir, then pointed mythrename.pl at that base.
Be sure that BOTH smb and nmb are enabled and running. If nmb is not running, your asus box won't discover the share.
NOTE: If you use and enable mythtv's upnp feature, you automatically will get recordings sorted in various ways, so the script below is really obsolete.
Sample shell script
[fa@mythtv bin]$ cat go.symlink.myth
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If a news story about human evolution mentions Raquel Welch or One Million Years B.C. in the lead paragraphs, you should lower your expectations for the rest because it is shallow and hackneyed. If it mentions The Flintstones, you should probably skip the rest because it is juvenile. But if it mentions both Raquel Welch and Wilma Flintstone twice in the first six paragraphs, you should sigh with relief: because you will never read anything more stupid in the rest of your life.*
Kudos to Paul Harris and Fiona MacRae of the Mail Online, then, for establishing that standard with this journalistic masterpiece:
A study has found evidence of 'alpha cavewomen' roaming the plains and calling the shots while the menfolk slobbed at home.
The discovery could put paid to the belief that cavemen were the aggressive, violent go-getters in the relationship between the sexes.
It also raises the intriguing possibility that Fred Flintstone, the eternally henpecked half of the cartoon partnership with Wilma, might actually have mirrored life on Earth all those centuries ago.
Yes, "all those centuries ago"—certainly the preferred way of describing events dating back roughly two million years.
What impresses me is that essentially none of the "facts" presented in those three paragraphs is supported in any way by the source material—the new report "Strontium isotope evidence for landscape use by early hominins" in Nature (02 June 2011) by Sandi R. Copeland, Matt Sponheimer and their colleagues. Ewen Calloway provides a far less loopy story on the discovery for Nature News, and anthropologist Margaret J. Schoeninger offers commentary. Read either of those for a more informative discussion.
In brief, the scientists were looking for information about how widely those ancient ancestors of humanity called australopithecines wandered in the course of their lives. To that end, they looked at the relative amounts of two strontium isotopes in the teeth of two groups of fossil remains from caves in South Africa. Those strontium ratios were characteristic of the differing soils in the two areas, and of the differing types of vegetation that grew in them; the australopithecines in each locality would have ingested that strontium and tucked it into their tooth enamel when they were young.
What the studies revealed was that at each location, the teeth from bigger specimens (presumably the males) tended to have local strontium signatures whereas the teeth from smaller specimens (presumably the females) had isotopes from elsewhere. The researchers' conclusion, as they wrote in the abstract to their article, was that "females were more likely than males to disperse from their natal groups. This is similar to the dispersal pattern found in chimpanzees, bonobos and many human groups, but dissimilar from that of most gorillas and other primates." In other words, the sexes may have had very distinct foraging habits that led to the females resettling in new communities while the males generally stayed put.
So let's review some of the ways in which the Mail Online piece flies off into its own bizarre, pop culture-inspired fantasy:
- The study focused on australopithecines, not modern humans, Neandertals or any other member of the Homo genus. I'm happy to consider them to have been people, but they weren't human. The females in question weren't Raquel or Wilma; they were Lucy.
- The words "alpha cavewoman," notwithstanding the Mail's use of quotation marks around the phrase, are nowhere to be found in the study.
- Nothing in the study implies that the wandering women were "very much the boss," "calling the shots" or "aggressive, violent go-getters," nor that the women were the ones "who went out clubbing, so to speak—reversing the popular conception that it was the bloke who bashed the girl on the head and dragged her home by the hair."
- Similarly, nothing in the study would suggest that the men were "henpecked" or "slobb[ing] at home."
- And it is safe to say that nothing in the sentence "A couple more millennia would have to pass before female independence re-emerged with the bra-burning liberation of the Swinging Sixties" is appropriate or accurate—including the woefully ignorant misuse of "millennia" to mean millions of years.
Otherwise, well done.
To be fair, once the Harris and MacRae article gets this faux controversial gender-baiting out of the way, it abruptly drops into a more responsible mode of journalism, one that might be practiced by someone who had read the Nature paper and hoped to be something other than a hack. That shift is so sharp as to suggest that the last two-thirds of the article was written first, but that someone—perhaps Harris, perhaps MacRae, perhaps an editor in the mix—then said, "Nobody wants to read this dry stuff. Here, let me punch it up for you." So very helpful.
It's too bad that the Mail's "battle of the sexes" version of the Nature paper missed the real story: that, as Schoeninger put it in her commentary, "These results have implications for understanding australopithecine diet, group size, predator avoidance and home-range size." Why did the females need to wander farther afield than the males? And how did those australopithecines survive the threats from predators and from giant baboons, which also would have been foraging across those open woodland savannahs and would have matched or exceeded our ancestors in size?
*This guarantee does not apply if you read "creation science" texts, of course. I can't be responsible for acts of masochism!


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MikeK wrote:I'm not a fan of many karate or martial arts books and could come up with a list of what I wouldn't recommend.
Here's a list of books that I did like and why.
By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions
I found this one interesting as in many ways the history of use of the sword mirrors the recent history of modern martial arts (1800-present).
Medieval Combat; A Fifteenth-Century Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat by Hans Talhoffer
A very old German guide for combat that shows how developed Western martial arts were.
Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons From The Tokyo Riot Police by Robert Twigger
An entertaining story about how the author goes from 0 to Aikido black belt in 1 year.
Kata, The Folk Dances of Shotokan Rob Redmond.
A real book, that you can download for free as a pdf. Goes into history and throws out some ideas on history and why, where and what kata is. Rob is an excellent writer and being free there is no excuse not to read this.
Sabaki Method by Ninomiya. Mostly sport based but it's just so well put together and is what other karate books attempting to teach technique should be.
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From Gambit wiki
This page should greatly help anyone trying to understand the Gambit source code, because it lets people know what the # signs mean and gives them enough information to experiment (and to not get stuck).
But it doesn't give enough information (for me, anyway) to build a mental model of how the namespace feature works and how it might be implemented. I want to really understand the source code and possibly write tools to analyze it, or test and possibly improve the reader, printer, and REPL. For those things a good understanding of the namespace feature is essential.
- I've been experimenting and talking with the page's author, User:Pflanze, and I understand some of the details better now. New comments in italics and indented.
A better page might be organized along these lines. Unfortunately I still have mostly questions and not many answers. Please comment, then I can continue the organization and writing.
- Storage and access.
- The Scheme standards define the ideas of environments, the actual environment(s) that exist(s) before programs run, and the ideas of binding and scoping. So you get a mental model of names and values being stored as programs run, and access rules controlling which names and values programs can see and change.
- It sounds like Gambit's extensions to this model are very simple. Each name is divided into two parts (namespace and local name) which are both fixed when the name is created. There is a current namespace that sets the namespace part attached to unqualified tokens.
- Maybe it's better to say that explicit qualification, and the variants of
namespace, work together to create a mapping from each unqualified token to its qualified form, at each point in the source code.
- Also, the standard evaluation rules define when each token is used to create a new name/value versus looking up an old one, and the namespace extension doesn't change those rules.
- Also, as Pflanze pointed out in IRC, evaluating
adoesn't involve qualification.
- This part should come first because the extensions are so simple and static, and because I hope all names really are stored fully qualified. That would make the other points easier to think about.
- Are there any restrictions on what can go into a namespace or local-name part in this low-level view of the world -- characters that are rejected if they are found?
- It's important to get this part right before writing the others.
- Reading.
- This is where things get complicated. The
namespaceform looks like it affects tokens as they are read, but it also follows scoping rules. So it's not only part of the lexical-analysis phase. How early in the parsing process does it execute? Can you think about any part of the parsing process as working with fully-qualified names, and forget about unqualified names at that point?
- Obviously some forms like
defineare designed to work with unevaluated names, which delays the process of evaluating and then qualifying them.
- What strings can make up namespace and local-name parts at this level? That is, what read syntax is allowed in tokens?
- What strings can be passed to the
- How do you convert those strings to the namespace parts that are actually stored?
- The current namespace may affect the creation of new names differently than the lookup of old names. Is it useful to describe those algorithms separately?
- I've changed my mind about this. I was looking at how the compiler uses
namespace, and I couldn't see all of the uses in effect at certain points, so I thought there might be exceptions to the rules. Actually the rules apply to tokens at reading, and have nothing to do with evaluation (which is what creates or looks up names).
- The page should emphasize the exceptions to the rules, especially the fact that there's no way to refer to identifiers in the empty-string namespace unless that's the current one. Saying "Just use ##namespace instead of namespace" glosses over the fact that they are diferent identifiers, not two ways of writing the same identifier.
- My edits have tried to make these points clearer.
- This is where things get complicated. The
- Printing.
- How does the printer convert namespace and local-name parts back to a human-readable form?
- It prints the namespace part when it's not empty. The current-namespace settings are not used.
- What the namespace form does.
- (The page already explains this pretty well.) I don't get the impression that it imports or exports names at all (copying them from namespace to namespace at runtime). Rather, it simply controls how unqualified identifiers are qualified.
This organization may be too heavy on the theory, but it hopefully defines concepts before they're used in later parts.
Gambit also transforms names as it generates C code, and the Gambit sources use other naming conventions like initial underscores in file names. Those don't belong on this page but should be described on a related page.


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Viorel wrote:I get great FPS on firestorm (80ish on average), but I tried Singularity and it kicked me up to 120.
Though, it seems to behave like/have a memory leak. Mind you, no benchmark test was done, I'm just highlighting symptoms.
Singularity seems to run really smoothly for me as well. The primary reason I don't use it that often is the photos come out horrible with shadows. But for someone with an older machine who isn't concerned about shadows etc I would recommend it.


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by Tom Utescher
With graduation losses limited to a pair of outfielders, Mount St. Joseph Academy returns most of last year's softball line-up for the 2012 season. Bill Thompson is back for his second year as MSJ skipper, and is sharing the head coaching duties this spring with a new arrival, Kat Longshore.
A Philadelphia native, Longshore attended Central High School and then played Division I softball at Lafayette College.
After a few weeks in training with the Magic, new coach noted "The girls seem determined to improve and they know that it's going to be a team effort, because we don't have any superstars. From hitting to them in practice, I think our defense is tight, and that should help to keep us in games."
The Mount returns its 2011 starting battery of junior pitcher Kathryn Cnudde and senior Mary Riccezza. Cnudde will carry the load as much as possible, with back-up coming from players such as Morgan Tinneny, a junior who also serves as designated player for the Magic.
In addition to Riccezza, the senior starters are right fielder Bree Barton, third baseman Maeve Elliott, and first baseman Melissa Williams. Filling out the infield are junior shortstop Amanda Hawthorne and sophomore second baseman Sam Burns, while juniors Margo Buckley and Julia Mustin (a Norwood Fontbonne Academy graduate) play in left field and centerfield, respectively.
The Mounties' bench strength will come from seniors Charlotte Banzhoff and Lauren McMenamin, juniors Rachel Dapper, Maddie Searle and Lauren Stabler (another Norwood product), and Bree Barton's sophomore sister, Becca.
In an early outing that ended in a lopsided loss to Catholic League semifinalist Archbishop Ryan, the Magic's chief defensive lapse occurred in the first inning.
"It was our first time out and we were shaky at the beginning," Coach Longshore commented. "Once they calmed down, they sort of focused in and were making those routine plays – if we get those down then the rest will come."
Turning to the offense, the new MSJ mentor said "Our hitting needs some work, mostly because we need to see some more of that fast pitching to get our timing down. I think the short game is going to be a strength for us because we've got good speed. What we need to do is identify who the hitters are, and then balance that with the small game."
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"Even a cursory glance at the evolution of feature animation in the United States reveals a lack of thematic diversity. Walt Disney started out making movies for children, and that is still pretty much the situation today. For one brief moment in history, it looked like John Lasseter and his Pixar crew were going to break the mold. "Toy Story" was for adults, as was "Monsters Incorporated", "The Incredibles" and "Ratatouille". These movies worked for the kids in the audience, but they had adult themes and featured characters with adult wisdom. Pixar gave Hollywood animation a real Camelot moment. But then Disney bought Pixar, and we are back where we started, with movies for kids. The stories invariably are about good vs. evil, virginal first love or non-life-threatening bravery. There is definitely sufficient talent in Hollywood to handle tough adult-world issues, but there is more money to be made with kids' movies and their tentpole merchandising opportunities."
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Ed Hooks on Hollywood Animation
4 comments:
- Thad Komorowski said...
I think he's overstating Disney's purchase (CARS, released the year of the buyout, stunk, so the seeds were already there), but I agree.
- February 04, 2014 1:51 PM
- Peter said...
To be fair to Walt, he didn't actually start out making movies for children either - that crept in during 50s.
But ever since then the perception that "cartoons are for kids" has predominated - despite the absurd contradiction that so many golden age shorts have had to be edited or excluded for television consumption.
Too many animated features today seem to be made 'back-to-front' - rather than building around a basic story concept they appear to start with the premise 'this is a kids film' and then try to build it on a perceived pre-existing formula to this end.
It is worth noting that the original Disney features were created by building on the most memorable elements of the source material, then letting the characters' personalities determine the way these played out. There was no attempt to shoehorn elements into the plot that were not in someway already present.
Nowadays the original source seems to be the first thing to go.
- February 05, 2014 4:18 AM
Ed Hooks is kind of a fraud, in that his "acting for animators" is responsible for some of the worst habits in animation over the last few decades. I wouldn't put too much weight in ANYTHING he says.
- February 08, 2014 9:28 PM
- Mark Mayerson said...
I don't put too much weight on ANYTHING said anonymously.
- February 08, 2014 9:36 PM


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