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Ok so the exersaucer, play disc, etc thing is the best invention ever for babies ever. All of our kids have had them. The girl's sits in between our his an hers computers so she is right with us, especially in the evening when we are online geeking out.
On Saturday, I was logged in and yacking with my friend Gogo. The girl was beside me and bouncing and babbling loudly.
She starts rocking a bit, kind of - frantically, and is getting louder.
I turned and talked to her, and kissed her and tickled her. She giggled and bounced around some more, babbling more and calling me DA.
As I'm IMing I notice, she's really wiggling and bouncing and rocking and her babbling is getting fussy. Which is weird because she's eaten recently. She shouldn't be upset. I sing to her a little and she's ok but then she's not. In that way that babies are ok and then they are really not ok.
Now she's crying so I reach over to pick her up.
And her shirt is stuck to her back.
Pasted there, with poop.
She is literally slathered with what has to be her WEIGHT in poop from her neck down to her ankles. It's everywhere. All that bouncing has propelled it both up and down OUT Of her diaper with as much force as she could muster.
This would be more a tragedy except - my husband has already had this happen, THREE TIMES. Once for each boy. I was always at work, and would hear the tale of how they created a poop explosion while sitting in their disc.
It's a hell of a lot funnier when you aren't the one choosing to throw away the tiny pink clothes, let me tell you.

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Using data collected from its Mobile Threat Network, Lookout today released a full report on the state of mobile malware and security. The report covers both Android and iOS, and compares the risks that both platforms face. You can view and download the full report on Lookout's blog, but here are a few of the highlights:
An Increase In Android Malware: Android apps infected with malware rose from 80 in January to over 400 in June. Because of this, Android users are two and a half times more likely to encounter an infected application either in the Market or through a third-party source now than they were at the beginning of the year.
New Malware Distribution Techniques: Malware makers are getting even craftier in how they are distributing their infected wares. Malware writers can publish a clean app to the Android Market and wait until the app gets some positive reviews and gains in popularity. After an app has gained a substantial following, an infected update will be released that will turn the app malicious. This is known as an "upgrade attack".
iOS Users Don't Patch Their Devices: Since Apple distributes patches through firmware updates, users have to connect their iPhones to iTunes in order to fix security exploits. But it turns out that as many as 50 percent of iPhone users do not regularly sync their devices with iTunes to receive these critical updates. This won't be as big of a problem with iOS 5 where updates are pushed over the air (provided users upgrade to iOS 5), but until then users are vulnerable.
The full report goes into much more detail about each type of attack and includes many more details than what we covered here. Near the end of the report, Lookout gives a few quick tips on how to stay safe from mobile attacks. When we spoke with Lookout Co-Founder Kevin Mahaffey about the rise of mobile security threats, the best advice he could give on the matter was that people should not panic. He explained that the report wasn't released as a scare tactic, but rather as a way for people to become informed about the risks out there and take the necessary precautions to prevent any sort of security breach or infection.
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This was a New Mexico Mountain Club car camp to the Pecos area of the Santa Fe National Forest northeast of Santa Fe. It was dubbed the "Lazy Days Car Camp" since there would be late starts for hikes and lots of time in the campground for resting, reading, etc. We arrived at the Holy Ghost Campground around 3pm on Sunday, thus had our pick of sites since the crowds had already headed home after the weekend.
We did three hikes, one each on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Shorter than "normal" but not necessarily "lazy" due to some steep uphills! Lots of wildflowers were encountered, more than expected. Sunday was a four mile hike up Grass Mountain with lots of meadows and views of distant mountains. Monday Stef and I did our own 7+ mile hike to Mora Flats. Tuesday was the final hike up to a couple of meadows north of the campground. Again about 4 miles but very steep! Wildflowers were plentiful with mostly yellow, white and light purple colors.
Cocktail hour and campfires are always anticipated and fun! The weather was warmer than usual so the evening and morning temps were not bad (though it was 48 degrees Monday morning). We returned to ABQ Tuesday afternoon, after a stop at the local Pecos town Dairy Queen for Blizzards!


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Given $A\in Mat_{n\times n}(R)$ where $R$ is a non-commutative associative ring are there exist any (non-zero) matrices $X, Y\in Mat_{n\times n}(R)$ such that $XAY=diag(a_1, \ldots , a_n)$ for some $a_i$? The interesting answer for me is if $A=(x_{i,j})$ and $R=\mathbb Z [x_{i,j}]$ (free associative non-commutative algebra on $x_{i,j}$ over $\mathbb Z$).
For example if $R$ is commutative then we put $X=Id$, $Y=(det(A_{i,j}))$ and get $XAY=det A\cdot Id$. What about non-commutative polynomials?
Upd1: I want to have a non-commutative polynomial equality. Also I want $X$ and $Y$ to be in general invertible.
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Jess Worby shares his lesson plan for a five-week comics unit he taught to teens in a studio art class at LOMA, a public art high school on Manhattan's Lower East Side in spring 2014....read more
The holidays are coming! And we have a great gift idea for you: a beginning cartoonist's starter kit! To get your special person started in comics, just use our checklist to buy him or her the basic tools of the trade....read more
Our annual list of Notable comics from the Best American Comics, with links!...read more
Every year, we get requests from teachers wanting to know what will be in the new Best American Comics before it comes out, so as to plan their classes. Herewith, therefore, is the table of contents of the next Best American Comics, edited by Jeff Smith, and with a fantastic cover by Kate Beaton, and out in September of this year....read more
Derek Mainhart lays down the comics history for his students, and gets them to draw their own, updated Yellow Kids!...read more
In the fall of 2011 we did a comics reading series at the Brooklyn Public Library. The third book we read and discussed was Lucille by Ludovic Debeurme. Here is a slightly edited transcript of our discussion that Sunday afternoon....read more
In anticipation of the upcoming 24-Hour Comics event in Angoulême, France, cartoonist and teacher Dan Berry shares his pointers on how best to prepare yourself for this rewarding challenge....read more
Now that your students are approaching the final version of their Gag Cartoon, it's time for some more drawing lessons. Nothing terribly complex, but these simple concepts can make all the difference in the work of a neophyte cartoonist, both in visual appeal and readability....read more
A complete list with links of the Notable Comics 2012 from the Best American Comics, and a giveaway of some of those very books! Comment to enter the drawing....read more
So after spending yesterday helping my students struggle with their nascent, shaky ideas, revising, reworking and shaping them according to the fundamentals that make gag cartoons work, what do I do? Introduce Anti-Gag Cartoons of course! Keep 'em off balance, that's what I say!...read more


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Why El Niño Could Mean More Bad News For Coffee Prices
Coffee prices are up about 90% year-to-date.
A drought in Brazil and leaf rust in parts of Central America have helped push prices higher.
And now El Niño is coming.
El Niño is a weather phenomenon that tends to bring dry weather to Asia and Australia, and a lot wetter conditions to South America.
"If El Niño leads to lower output from Indonesia and Vietnam (25% of global coffee production) as seems likely, prices may stay high for longer," writes Caroline Bain at Capital Economics.
That being said El Niño is a "transient event," and prices should weaken as weather conditions normalize.
Meanwhile, inventory of sugar and rice are at "comfortable levels," and dry weather in Southeast Asia and Australia isn't expected to see much of an impact on those commodities, according to Bain.
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- Tech CEO Who Allegedly Hit His Girlfriend 117 Times Breaks His Silence On Twitter
- Apple and Facebook Are Phone Companies Now
- John Kerry Just Gave Russia A Final Warning
- Should You Buy Or Lease A Car?
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No. 14 Women's Golf Ready for NCAA Regional
STILLWATER, Okla. – The LSU women's golf team, which jumped up to No. 14 Wednesday from No. 17 in the Golf World/WGCA Coaches Poll, looks to make a jump back to the NCAA Championships when it begins play here Thursday in the 2014 NCAA Central Regional at the Karsten Creek Golf Course.
The Lady Tigers are one of 24 teams here looking to become one of the eight teams that advance after 54 holes to the NCAA Championships set for May 20-23 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Stillwater regional is one of three events taking place this week with the East Regional in Tallahassee, Florida and the West regional at Cle Elum, Washington. Those will also advance eight teams each to make up the 24 teams that will play for the women's championship.
LSU will be looking to get back to the championships for the third time in four years after finishing a school best third place in both 2011 and 2012.
Joining the Lady Tigers, who are the fifth seed in the 24-team Central field, are (in seed order): UCLA, Arkansas, Alabama and Arizona in front of LSU. Following the Lady Tigers beginning as the sixth seed are host Oklahoma State, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio State, Miami, Mississippi State, California, Kent State, Kansas, Texas, UNLV, Colorado, SMU, Minnesota, Harvard, Lamar, Wichita State, Long Island and Siena.
"We are looking forward to the opportunity presented us by being invited to this regional," said Coach Karen Bahnsen, who is taking her team to the regional round for the 20th time in the last 22 years and for the 11th consecutive year. "We know our focus has to be ourselves and not what is happening among other teams or elsewhere on the golf course.
"It's a very good golf course. We had a good practice round. You have to give it the respect it deserves. The girls are in a good place. We just have to go out and play with the confidence I know they have."
One concern with 24 teams trying to play each day is the weather which the forecast for the Stillwater area shows a 40 percent chance of overnight rains and ramping up to between 50 and 70 percent chance during the daylight hours on Thursday. The regional tournaments have to be concluded by Saturday evening.
The Lady Tigers are coming off a fifth place finish in the loaded Southeastern Conference championships in which senior Lindsay Gahm finished in a tie for second at 1-over 217 (73-71-73). Gahm is third in LSU's lineup with a 74.00 stroke average for the 2013-14 season with one win and her second place SEC finish.
All-SEC first-teamers Madelene Sagstrom (72.73) and Caroline Nistrup (72.92) will lead off for the Lady Tigers. Sagstrom has a win this season while both Sagstrom and Nistrup lost in playoff for other title opportunities.
Rounding out LSU's lineup will be Louisiana products Ali Lucas (75.54) of Crowley and Elise Bradley (80.36) of Mandeville.
The Lady Tigers are off in the second wave of the morning session off the 10th tee at 8:36 a.m. playing with Arizona and host Oklahoma State. The first shot begins the morning wave at 7:30 a.m. with the afternoon wave to begin at noon. LSU will play in the afternoon wave on Friday with Arizona and Oklahoma State and in the final round on Saturday the top 12 teams will play in the morning wave.
Live scoring for the regional will be available at LSUsports.net through golfstatresults.com. Updates of LSU's play during the round can be found on Twitter @LSUwomensgolf.
Golf World/WGCA Golf Coaches' Poll
Division I
Rank Team Points Last
3. Duke (2) 467 3
4. Arkansas 408 5
5. South Carolina 403 6
6. Stanford (1) 397 7
7. Arizona State 361 4
8. Oklahoma 352 11
9. Arizona 341 9
10. Vanderbilt 316 13
11. Washington 313 10
12. Alabama 302 8
13. Pepperdine 246 12
15. Clemson 193 14
17. Northwestern 164 15
18. Oklahoma State 134 16
19. Virginia 125 NR
20. Michigan State 105 22
21. Wake Forest 93 19
22. North Carolina 83 21
23. Ohio State 71 NR
24. Florida 69 20
25. Auburn 66 24
Also receiving votes: N.C. State, 30; Florida State, 28; Kentucky, 19; Campbell, 14; Kent State, 9; Miami (Fla.), 9; Texas, 8; Iowa State, 7; Oregon, 7; Mississippi State, 5; Harvard, 4; Louisville, 4; Tulane, 2.
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I joined the Ticketmaster team five months ago to help build a platform that drives both internal and external product innovation worldwide. The gateway to this platform would be a set of empathic APIs that developers love. Our customers are the API clients (see below) who will need to use the platform without having to learn the intricacies and understand the complexities of our systems.
The team took on this challenge and has been hard at work over the past several months simplifying the complexity of the systems and focusing on the developer experience with a clean, well-documented APIs. As a result, we will be announcing our very first set of open APIs in January! Very exciting 🙂
Why "Open" Platform?
At Ticketmaster, we see ourselves as the engine that powers unforgetable moments of joy for fans everywhere. That's our purpose. That's our promise. We were just reminded of the impact our work has on fans when Adele tickets went on sale in North America two weeks ago. The emotional impact and the memories we help create are very real.
In order to continue delivering on our promise, we have to embrace a platform on which 3rd-party product innovators can bring those moments of joy to fans. We have to democratize the creation of compelling, innovative products powered by our APIs.
Aside from providing fans with eclectic and effective experiences powered by our data, an "open" platform has a direct impact on a company's ability to grow and innovate. Here are the four main reasons why an "open" platform is critical to a business:
1. Reduction of Platform Entropy
The second law of thermodynamics tells us that entropy, or disorder, in a closed system can only increase over time. The same applies to a "closed" platform where software entropy takes on many faces like system complexity, technical debt and low data quality.
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2. Becoming a Marketplace
To ensure fans get tickets to any live event they want on the Ticketmaster platform, we'll need to become the definitive marketplace for all live events, much like Amazon is the definitive marketplace for consumer goods. Earlier this year, we acquired both Front Gate and Universe ticketing platforms, and soon their events will be available on the Ticketmaster website, mobiles apps, and the APIs.
in 2016, 3rd-party ticketing companies can reach the millions of fans that come to Ticketmaster by publishing their events to the Ticketmaster platform using a Publish API. In the end, any experience built with our APIs will give fans access to the widest array of live event catalogue on the market today.
3. Unleashing Effective R&D
When a platform puts out open, predictable and intuitive APIs, it attracts entrepreneurial developers with specific product ideas in mind. Oftentimes, those are out-of-the-box ideas with unknown or untested product/market fit. Using APIs, those developers can run fast with their ideas.
This process helps the platform provider (i.e. Ticketmaster) evaluate the feasibility of ideas without the overhead that goes into building them into products. For example, two days after we internally announced the availability of an event search and discovery API, one of our interns asked for an API Key and went on to create a winning prototype at a hackathon in just under 30 hours (see below).
He used the Ticketmaster API to create a live event search app on the Amazon Echo with the ability to later book an Uber ride to the venue. The prototype caught our attention and we're now in talks with Uber to see how we can bring it to market.[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZLE14s5pGE]
4. Tapping into The Network Effect
An intrinsic characterstic of an "open" platform is its network effect. The more producers of value (i.e. application developers) you have on the platform creating apps and experiences for fans, the more consumers of value (i.e. fans) that that platform attracts. The more fans you have on the platform, the more attractive it is to developers, and so forth. All along, the growing platform renders the business a robust ecosystem for both producers and consumers of value.
What's Next?
On January 16th, we will be soliciting feedback from developers on our new developer portal and APIs. We want to delight developers as much as we like to delight our fans. We want to extend the same enthusiasm and promise to developers by focusing on the developer experience, or DX. This will ensure that our open platform is actually providing what developers need in the way they need it.
2016 will be the year we provide open APIs, hold public hackathons and fully engage the developer community worldwide. To stay abreast of what's coming down the pike, follow us on Twitter, subscribe to our Medium Publication and tech blog.
Here's to plenty more unforgettable moments of joy, for both fans and developers, in 2016! 🙂
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Cassandra Clare shared these descriptions of some of the characters from THE DARK ARTIFICES:
Helen is described in City of Lost Souls. White-blond curly hair, blue-green eyes (those eyes are a hallmark of the family), petite, slightly pointed ears due to faerie blood in the family.
Mark: Same white-blond curly hair, but he has one blue eye and one gold. Tall, thin, has the same faerie blood as Helen, so rather delicate bone structure. Favored weapon: curved, single-edged blades like katanas.
Julian: Dark brown messy hair, blue-green eyes. No faerie blood here or in the rest of the family on down — he's only half brother to Helen and Mark. Different mothers. He's a little lanky, with high cheekbones. Bites his nails. Usually splattered in paint. Favored weapon: throwing knives, seraph blades. Seventeen years old.
Olivia: Brown hair like Julian, the same blue-green eyes. Long lashes and a cupid's bow mouth. Where Tiberius is extraordinarily weird, Livvy is extraordinarily ordinary, at least on the surface. Underneath she's peculiar as her brother, but in a very different way. She and Tiberius are nine months younger than Jules. Favored weapon: poison darts.
Tiberius: Manages not to look like anyone else, which Julian puts down to sheer stubbornness. Black hair and gray eyes. When he and Livvy were born they had the same gray eyes, but hers changed and though the family were sure his eyes would also change color from gray to blue-green they never did. Has the same long lashes and cupid's bow mouth as his twin sister though. Favored weapon: Livvy will kill you if you look at him funny, so why bother?.
Drusilla: Is only thirteen. She has the Blackthorn brown hair and blue-green eyes, but she is the only one of them to have freckles. Most of the Blacthorns are lanky and tall, but Silla is compact and will grow up curvy and short.
Octavius and Ariadne are so little — Tavvy is only six, and Ari five — but they both have the Blackthorn dark brown hair and blue-green eyes.
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Emma has golden-blonde hair which she keeps long for sentimental reasons, but usually has braided back or up in a bun for efficiency's sake. Her eyes are dark blue. She works extraordinarily hard at her training – her body is strong and tough, and she has a bad scar that runs up her right arm, that she's both proud of and a little self-conscious about. Telling blonde jokes in front of her is a good way to find yourself in the hospital. "Oh dear, did I just drop that giant broadsword on your head? I guess I did! Must be cause I'm blonde." Favored weapons: the repeating crossbow, wind-and-fire wheels.
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Hart: IRS Says It Lost Lois Lerner's Emails. Right.
I can just see the members of this administration sitting around a table discussing how to handle the inquiry into the IRS targeting of its opponents. David Axelrod says, "Just how dumb do I think Americans are? I say we just tell them we lost two years worth of emails around the time of the conservative groups targeting."
Obama was so incensed about the IRS scandal that he ordered his Benghazi investigator to look into it. Then he said, "There's not a smidgen of corruption in the IRS." Case closed. We are viewed by this administration as a nation riding the short bus it drives.
So far, the cost of not providing pertinent emails has been $10 million, 250 IRS employees' time and, they say, 120,000 man hours. Do not kid yourself; the time spent was on covering up and circling the wagons, not complying with Congress.
This month is the anniversary of Watergate, where Nixon recorded himself with all the forethought of Donald Sterling. The IRS loses two years of damaging emails versus Watergate's 18 minutes of lost Nixon tapes. No scandal here.
For the young people out there, the early 70's were different. We were in a costly, unwinnable and poorly thought-out war about which our government lied. There were cover-ups and selective enforcements. The administration spied on reporters and used the IRS to go after opponents. Yep, I am glad Nixonian days are behind us.
The difference is that the media did not have Nixon's back. The IRS scandal, Benghazi, NSA spying, wiretaps, ObamaCare, etc., are all stories that go away quickly. Only two major news channels covered the IRS email loss story. If Joe Namath had the offensive line protection the media give Obama, he could have played 30 years in the NFL. Obama will continue to preen, posture, accuse, deflect, and label any accusations as "racist," his go-to mode.
The manpower Obama can marshal against political opponents is astonishing. He chose the IRS to go after his opponents, deploying the coercive intimidation of 90,000 IRS workers, 4,280 investigators, 13,000 revenue agents, 1,500 attorneys and 2,600 "special agents" -- and there will be even more when ObamaCare fully kicks in. Not only does he have an enemies list, under ObamaCare he will have an enemas list.
IRS employees are overwhelmingly Democrats. Republicans and we Libertarians favor getting rid of the IRS, a flat tax and, at least, a less complex tax code (i.e., fewer IRS employees). They gladly do the bidding of Democrats. The main O-bots are life-long employees in management roles, like Lois Lerner.
Added to the NSA snooping, their willingness to destroy the reputations of even the most honorable men like Mitt Romney and John McCain should send chills down your spine. The Obama administration knows Republicans work, make money, own businesses and file tax returns. They fear the IRS like a Democrat fears the DEA, EBT drug testing or a registered letter (which is probably a late notice on their rent-to-own, 60-inch, flat screen TV).
Lois Lerner gave up donor lists (presumably to target them) and shipped a 1.1 million-page database on 12,000 grass-roots, non-profit organizations to the FBI. All this was done illegally (including disclosure of confidential taxpayer information and donor details) before the presidential election -- why? Are non-profits working in communities in our country a problem worthy of FBI investigation?
Lerner made a speech, took the Fifth, and then refused to testify. She so relied on our Constitution that she put herself at risk of an IRS audit.
Americans hate the IRS worse than fruit, vegetables and exercise. IRS employees (including Lois Lerner) gave each other bonuses ($70 million) and spent $50 million on lavish conferences in this two-year period, including $11,000 on a "happiness" expert. They spent $4 million on a California conference where they got dance lessons. I guess that is where they learned to tap dance around the facts.
To wrap up the irony: The Tea Party folks, who say we need less government and who fear its overreach, tyranny and selective prosecution, were dismissed and derided by the media as kooks. Gosh, I wonder who has been borne out as correct? Obama could not have provided a more stark example of why a grass-roots Tea Party-like movement is needed. Now if you will excuse me, I must go prepare for my inevitable audit.
Ron Hart, a libertarian syndicated op-ed humorist, award-winning author and TV/radio commentator can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.RonaldHart.com


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Swim for the gold, then get a reality TV gig. That's the path Olympic athletes Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps have chosen to follow.
But while Phelps, the greatest Olympian of all time, will take a relatively low-profile approach on The Golf Channel's 'The Haney Project,' his biggest rival is getting his own show on E!
The cable network on announced during the TV critics press tour that it had picked up 'What Would Ryan Lochte Do,' a six-episode series set to debut in April.
'Ryan Lochte captured everyone's attention at the Summer Olympics with his athletic prowess and his utterly unique and unaffected approach to life,' said E! Entertainment president Suzanne Kolb. 'He is an incredibly endearing personality who is sexy, entertaining and fun. Watching this show, I believe people will fall into three categories: they want to be him, sleep with him or mother him.'
The series, from the producers of 'Millionaire Matchmaker,' promises to take viewers 'inside the unpredictable and offbeat life' of the London Olympics star as he continues training and searches for the 'right gal.'
On the Golf Channel's 'The Haney Project,' Phelps follows in the footsteps of other celebrities who have tried to improve their game under the guidance of famed golf coach Hank Haney. Over eight hourlong episodes, Phelps will be seen waging battle with some of the world's greatest courses. 'The Haney Project' returns for its fifth season at 9 p.m. Feb. 25.


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Since seeing my doctor on Friday, and since scheduling my c-section for Memorial Day morning, I've totally changed my tune. I used to be all "la la la, I want this baby out this minute. dum dee dum dum I'm so ready not to be pregnant anymore." And now, now that the surgery is scheduled and come 8am Memorial Day morning I'll be nearly cut into two separate pieces while my beloved doc thrust her arm into my torso up to her elbow and pulls out a new member or my family, I'm back peddling. My tune sounds more like, "I HATE being pregnant (as thankful as I am to be so) but can I push a pause button someplace, recoup some energy cycles, and just plaaaaaay with Clementine all summer long. Just the two of us dee dum."
I love my kid. She is smart and funny and spontaneous and soooo random. She loves to laugh and make others laugh. She is great at giving compliments. She yells, "toot" whenever she...toots. And loves it when Nate and I burp (which, if you've ever been around a pregnant woman...is often). She loves to get dirty and play with toy sharks and be outside. She sings! She dances! There is a million versions of her smile and each one makes you feel like a million bucks.
So, who in their right mind would ever want more than what I already have? Who would want to introduce a distraction from the most amazing person ever to be born? WHAT HAVE WE DONE? These are the thoughts that have passed unceasingly thru my head. I took Clementine to This is The Place park a few days ago, which sidenote was a perilous endeavor for someone of my pregnancy level, but I did it because when else could I and how could she turn two without having ever petted a baby goat or rested one tiny little finger on the top of a baby chick's downy head? HOW? So we went. And I sweated mighty rivers. If you were there on Tuesday and you saw a woman that was totally pregnant and pitting out and drenched in a gallon of her own sweat...that was me.
Clementine embraced the baby animals with nothing less than 100% of her love. She squatted right over the sleeping baby goats, patted them on the tummies, and said, "soooo cute". She gently rubbed her fingers through the wool of the baby lambs and declared, "sooo soft". The pot belly pig, while in a pen, was a highlight. And the baby chick? Now I know how she will be with baby Busy. So gentle and sweet and ADORABLE. Every time her pointer finger softly touched the top of the chick's head she would say, "cheap". The pony ride was a no-go. I was disappointed because what mom doesn't want her girl to be fearless and embrace every opportunity. But she is MY daughter after all which means she does realize that the only horses you can trust are the ones my dad, "Pop", has trained. Period. Anything else is taking your life into your own hands.
Aside from the baby animals I've tried to do something special with just me and Clem every day. We've painted pictures (which has quickly become her OBsessions). We've played in her shark pool. We take walks and sing and dance and eat cookies whenever we damn please. And I've been so tired and felt so disgusting and I've had the time of my life. Like, queue up the song from Dirty Dancing because "I've haaad the time of my liiiiife."
I know what will happen though. I know that by 10am on Memorial Day I'll be gazing into a pair of dark eyes, kissing a soft cheek and holding a tiny wilted hand and I'll be like, "Okay, you can come play with us. We'll make room." And then the three of us will hold hands and skip off into the sunset. Or something like that.
When I had Clementine my heart literally broke. I held her and tended to her in the hospital for ten days and it just broke. And when it grew back together it was a little bigger and softer and began communicating regularly with my tear ducts. And I know that once Busy is more than this little body that kicks me incessantly with all six of her legs, my heart will break again. And what I'll be left with will be a superman strength heart that will become even more annoying on Facebook and Instagram with all the "my babies are better than your babies" posts. I'm sorry about that by the way. Every baby is perfect and beautiful. Mine just happens to be a smidge more-so.
So once again, this blog has served more as a personal therapy session. I have a fear, I stew over it for days and nights, I decide to blog about it, and voila! I come to some conclusion on my own that makes me feel a little better.
So I guess I'm still basically excited for Beatrice to be born. Busy, don't take offense to any of this when you are 13 and snooping through my personal stuff, it's not that I didn't love you from the moment you existed, it's just that I was super busy being completely in love with your older sister. And this, as it turns out, is a good thing because it was all good practice for loving you, too.


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Great idea, Xin!
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Lately many top AIG employees who were targeted by Congress in the $165 million "Bonusgate" incident have returned their bonuses. Some people are still holding out, and in my opinion, they would be better off if they simply donated their bonuses instead of returning it to AIG. Here is an open letter to these employees and others who may be targeted and threatened with confiscatory taxes.
Dear targeted bonus-receiving employees,
If I were in your shoes, I would be furious at the congress critters who have no idea what merit pay means. After all, they have the power to vote for their own pay raises even though their approval rating were in the single digits. Right now you are simply a tool for some political smoke and mirrors to distract the citizens from the trillions of dollars the government is throwing around carelessly. I think many of you know that already, and it sucks to be the scapegoat.
Many of you already promised to give your bonuses back, but why would you return the money to an institution that we all know is failing? If you do not need the money, I think it would be much better to give the money to a local food bank, homeless shelter, or whatever charity you support. Many of these private nonprofit organizations are much more efficient than the government in helping those in need. Right now many charities are in need because less people are donating, and the millions you have will definitely help.
If you do donate your bonus, the government cannot tax it 90% because the money is gone. I also highly doubt that they will go after a charity for the money because that would just be plain tacky. You would actually get significant tax deductions for the money you donate and in a way say "screw you" to those who are trying to single you out for their own political gain.
If any of you do decide to donate your bonus and it is a significant amount, I suggest making a ruckus about it and tell the media. This way you will get some good PR. Seriously, why give the money back to a financial black hole when you could get your name on a building and help the homeless?
Xin Lu
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I was actually thinking of writing this a while ago. Anyway, it seems that at least one bonus recipient is donating everything: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/opinion/25desantis.html
Xin Lu,
Excellent idea! Why didn't I think of it!
Thumb their noses at those attach dogs in Congress. (As if they had a leg to stand on.)
Why should AIG employees get performance bonuses when the company is failing? Why should we reward the people who threw AIG into a tailspin in the firstplace?
Daniel, think about this for a moment. Do you think that ALL the people who received bonuses at AIG were involved in the company's negative performance? What about the IT director who dramatically exceeded performance? What about the person running facilities who dramatically decreased expenses?
This over-generalization and misunderstanding of how compensation works is frankly dangerous and misguided.
Why would all the remaining good people want to work for a company that is being torn apart when they can go somewhere else? Shall we just let them go without paying them, let the company completely fail and lose our $160B investment in it? The amount of these bonuses is chump-change to the wasteful billions that congress has spent in the last month alone. Who should we really be mad at? I wonder why congress is making such a stink about this? Possibly to distract from their mismanagement and reckless spending?
Good advice, except I'm not sure this is true:
If you do donate your bonus, the government cannot tax it 90% because the money is gone.
If you owe taxes, it doesn't matter if the money is gone--the IRS can still come after you for it. It does that all the time--and will take whatever money you happen to have lying around.
In this particular case, it will matter a great deal just how the law that eventually gets passed is written. It could well be that donating your entire bonus would reduce your taxible income by that much, but not reduce the special 90% tax that you owe. If you'd donated the money you'd just have to scrape together the 90% out of savings (or ask the charity to give 90% of it back).
At this point, I expect the smart move would just to be to do what the open-letter guy did: Pledge to donating the after-tax sum, once you know for sure what the taxes will be. One extra bonus: it'll get the philanthropic community on your side.
yes, you are right that the deductibility of the donations depends on how the new tax law will be written. If it works like the current tax system, it would mean that these people can donate up to 50% of their adjusted gross income and since their tax rate is 90% they wouldn't have to pay 90% taxes on the part they donate. However, if the 90% tax is just a brand new surcharge that's not tax deductible, then some of them already have to pay over 100% of the bonus due to state taxes. So the bottom line is that there is really no point in trying to keep the money.
These guys have some nerve-- they should all be drawn and quartered . . .
As for the charities, these guys should never have gotten the money in the first place!
"I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Should be a Dem Donkey up there with all the AIG ties to Dodd, Obama and such. Not that the Elephant shouldn't be there either (McCain etc. AIG cash).
People seem to be missing the bigger issue. The tax code is now being used to punish people without giving them the benefit of a fair trial. The bonuses may be considered by some as unethical, I'm not going to waste time debating that. Has the law, as it is currently written, been broken? I don't see indictments, trials or convictions. We just skipped the whole process and went straight to punishment. There are AIG employees receiving death threats and having their homes swarmed by angry protesters. Many of them were not the recipients of any bonuses. A Federally funded organization (i.e. supported by YOUR tax money) is providing tour buses to these people's homes, doing every thing it can to throw more fuel into this fire. Not to mention that it was CONGRESS who authorized these bonuses, as a provision of the bail-out funds for the company.
Where is the public outrage against congress? Why aren't their homes being stormed by angry mobs? We didn't vote for any AIG members, but the elected officials who continue to be the beneficiaries of your tax money have betrayed to you. If you're against the bonuses, they have played an equal part in robbing you. We're throwing away the constitution to squelch an emotional need to act, even when the full facts aren't available to the public.
The Constitution is NOT a series of laws the government came up with to govern us. Rather it is the restrictions WE as citizens have put on that government to ensure our freedom. It is the line they can not cross. A line that is being pushed further and further back at our expense. We as a people have the right and the responsibility to assemble and speak out against a government who crosses that line. That right exists in writing because of the implied responsibility. We have the right to bear arms, as we are expected to take up those arms against such injustice and remove any power that threatens our freedoms.
The current government is dividing us. Republican vs Democrat. Liberal vs Conservative. Rich vs Working class. Sides are chosen and we're pitted against each other. Then they throw us some little shred of controversy and lets us squabble over it while they continue to seize power, safely hidden by the meaningless distractions they've created. AIG is done, these executives, be they right or wrong, pose no further threat to us. And still the angry mob gathers outside their homes. Congress will ensure there's always another scandal and they'll spend billions of dollars of your money to distract us. Anything they can do to keep the torches and pitchforks off of their own lawns, the threatening letters out of their mail, anything to avoid accountability for their actions.
Without freedom, there is no prosparity, economic or otherwise. We're losing our country because people are so easily lead into the fits of outrage. They'll piss away 230 years of hard work that went into building the country, just so they can feel better seeing one group punished. Are you a Republican or a Democrat? Union member no non-union? Upper-class income, middle-class, or welfare or disability recipient? Are you fresh out of college looking to enter the workforce, or are you trying to keep the job you've had for 25+ years? What is your race? Religion? Odds are YOU are a part of at least a dozen groups that someone lobbying Washington has a problem with. This time it was executives, but sooner or later the focus will change. We're all the target eventually. Maybe some are deserving targets, others may not be. But when your time comes, right or wrong is rarely a factor. What's important is the conduct of those who point their finger at you. Will you be able to demand legal representation, or will an angry mob just arrive on your doorstep? If we continue to set such a dangerous precedent and allow this conduct now, it's only a matter of time until it's used against you group.
I would spend the money to mail out millions of copies of the US constitution. The government will make their end on the deal in the form of postage, and a few people might actually wake up and realize what's happening here.
rule 1 of problem solving: correctly define the problem. your last paragraph hints at the real problem... it's the sheep. go ahead and waste your money mailing out the constitution. the sheep follow the path of least resistance. they resist change which includes learning something or voting idiots out of office. they may live in s***, but it's warm s***.
You really hit it on the nose.
Please come to http://freedom-forum.com and make an account, or just poke around
We could really use some highly conscious people like you
Really, with words and a brain like that, you'd be doing the country, its people, its future and yourself a disservice
It is astonishing that people who were up in arms during the Bush administration about our supposed loss of civil liberties are cheering Obama on in the fastest, most extreme deterioration of our liberties we've seen since Franklin Roosevelt's wartime excesses.
As we prepare to release Guantanamo terrorists into our population so that they can enjoy our coming publicly controlled "universal" health care, Obama proposes to incarcerate and set up indoctrination camps for ALL American young people in his new mandatory "national service" army. Those who absorb the correct thoughts will no doubt be kept on in government funded political organizing posts, to teach the rest of us how to be proper 'global citizens' and make our proper, Obama-defined 'shared sacrifices for the common good.'
And the people who were appalled by Guantanamo have absolutely no problem with this much greater and less justified intrusion on personal freedom.
People who were appalled that the federal government might listen in on their phone calls to terrorists seem to have no problem with Obama requiring that ALL our medical records be an open book to that same federal government.
At least when Bush was eroding our civil liberties, he was trying to stop more 9/11 events. Obama's justification is - what? Oh, I forgot, he doesn't need one, because hardly anybody is willing to ask him for one, and if they do, he'll just stop calling on them at his press conferences. Once the Democratic Congress starts funding and controlling major newspapers as "non-profits," his propaganda will be the only thing most people will get to read.
p.s. the sheep is the american public. no on can divide someone else. the sheep divide themselves along lines of interest. there are many subdivisions within divisions. and both of these two posts, or most of them, are in reply to viatro and annjo (maybe others, i haven't read everyone' posts).
AIG is a huge multi-line company. Not all parts of AIG lost money. What about the worker that landed a new million dollar account? Should they have to give back their bonus? They made money for the company. This issue is not the black & white picture congress would like you to think it is. Today it is AIG's bonuses that congress is going after. Tomorrow it may be your income that is deemed to be excessive and taxed.


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Mexican-American War and the Mediahttp://www.history.vt.edu/MxAmWar/index.htmProfessor Linda Arnold, Virginia Tech UniversityReviewed by: Matthew KarushGeorge Mason University March 2003
This growing digital archive provides transcriptions of newspaper articles related to the Mexican-American War of 1846-48. Arnold is an established and well-regarded scholar of 18th- and 19th-century Mexico and has done extensive work cataloging the holdings of some of Mexico's most important historical archives. For this website, Arnold has coordinated the efforts of a large team of undergraduate and graduate students at Virginia Tech. The website now contains thousands of transcribed articles and is a valuable resource for teachers seeking to provide their students with significant exposure to the process of historical interpretation.
Transcriptions of articles cover the war from five newspapers: The Times of London, England, Niles' National Register of Baltimore, Maryland, the Richmond Enquirer of Richmond, Virginia, the Richmond Whig and Daily Advertiser of Richmond, Virginia, and the Martinsburg Gazette of Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia). Although this selection is arbitrary (reflecting, I imagine, the holdings of the Virginia Tech library) it does enable comparisons of the responses to the war in England and in the United States as well as between specific localities within the United States. The transcribed articles span the period from 1845, when the U.S. annexed Texas, through 1848, when Mexico surrendered and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed. The articles include opinion pieces, more straightforward reporting, published U.S. and Mexican government documents, and reprinted items from other newspapers. Finally, the homepage contains links to related images and documents housed on other websites.
In general, the website is well organized and accessible. For both The Times and Niles' National Register, the website provides comprehensive indexes with one-line descriptions of the contents of each article; for the other two papers, indexes are only available for certain months. The transcriptions appear in a simple frameset, with one frame for a listing of the dates included and another for the actual text of the articles. As the home page suggests, one excellent means of navigating the site is by way of a Web browser's search capabilities. Since all of the transcriptions from each newspaper appear on a single webpage, keyword searches are easy and effective.
Even a cursory examination of the articles contained in the website can be fascinating. The contrast between coverage of the war in the United States and in England is particularly striking. The Times fulminated against the immorality of slavery and of the southern scheme to annex Texas as a slave state, while exposing America's imperialist ambitions as, among other things, an attempt to shore up the nation's fragile stability through the escape valve of western migration. By contrast, neither Niles' National Register nor the Martinsburg Gazette examined the issue of slavery in any of the articles transcribed on the website. Their descriptions of the conflict (or those reprinted here) employed a racialized terminology that naturalized the American conquest of Mexico as the inevitable victory of a superior race over a "degenerate," "oppressed," and "effeminate" one.
While the materials on the website are exceptionally rich, the challenges to using them effectively in the classroom are significant. The site provides a comprehensive bibliography on the war, but it does not offer any historical background. Students lacking a thorough knowledge of the chronology of events will likely get lost among the many articles. This problem is compounded by the skeletal nature of the indexes, which offer only a minimal description of each article. As a result, teachers would be wise not to send students to this website unprepared.
However, in conjunction with one or more scholarly accounts of the war, the website can be a terrific pedagogical tool. Teachers might select a handful of articles for the different papers for students to compare. Or they might ask students to look up articles to assess the way a single event (say, the annexation of Texas) is covered in different papers. Alternatively, students could perform their own searches for such keywords as "race," "slavery," "democracy," "empire," and "manifest destiny." Using the results of these searches, students could then write an essay on the way the war was packaged in the U.S. and British media, enabling students to formulate their own interpretations.
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The rumors started last week, and they were largely true: Buick plans to offer a model of its Regal compact sports sedan with the eAssist mild-hybrid system.
What we didn't have were the projected EPA mileage ratings (based on GM's internal tests). The company expects the 2012 Buick Regal with eAssist to be rated at 26 mpg city, 37 mpg highway, making it the most economical Buick model for 2012.
Unlike the larger 2012 Buick LaCrosse, which will fit the eAssist system as standard on the 2.4-liter Ecotec engine, the 2012 Regal will offer a base 2.4-liter engine without the system, and a version of the same engine with the fuel-saving powertrain as well.
The eAssist system consists of a small 0.5-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack, mounted at the rear of the Regal's trunk along with its power electronics and control circuitry. While there is a slight reduction in trunk space, the Regal fitted with eAssist maintains a pass-through from the trunk to the rear passenger compartment.
An engine-mounted electric motor replaces a standard alternator, and is connected with a special tensioned belt that allows it both to be driven by the engine and to restart it and contribute torque for short periods.
The alternator-start acts as a generator to recapture energy that would otherwise be lost as heat from the brakes, using it to recharge the battery pack. It can also act as an electric motor to start the engine, as well as contributing some torque to assist the engine and avoid the transmission shifting to a lower gear under load.
The system is tuned to provide high power rather than sustained energy delivery. It does not provide full electric running, but allows the engine to switch off as the car comes to a stop, and then switches it on again as the driver's foot begins to lift off the brake pedal.
While GM executives would not explicitly discuss projections for how many eAssist-equipped vehicles they hope to sell, they did acknowledge that the company could produce up to 100,000 eAssist-equipped vehicles per year if market demand reached that level.
That 100,000 number had been mentioned two years ago by GM executive Tom Stephens when the system (then known as Belt-Alternator-Starter II) was first described at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show.
Production of the 2012 Buick Regal with eAssist will begin in the fourth quarter of this year. No pricing for the eAssist option has been announced.


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(a) Declaration of uniform policy
It is the policy of the United States that guidelines and criteria established pursuant to title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 [42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq.] and section 182 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Amendments of 1966 [42 U.S.C. 2000d–5] dealing with conditions of segregation by race, whether de jure or de facto, in the schools of the local educational agencies of any State shall be applied uniformly in all regions of the United States whatever the origin or cause of such segregation.
(b) Nature of uniformity
Such uniformity refers to one policy applied uniformly to de jure segregation wherever found and such other policy as may be provided pursuant to law applied uniformly to de facto segregation wherever found.
(c) Prohibition of construction for diminution of obligation for enforcement or compliance with nondiscrimination requirements
Nothing in this section shall be construed to diminish the obligation of responsible officials to enforce or comply with such guidelines and criteria in order to eliminate discrimination in federally assisted programs and activities as required by title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 [42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq.].
(d) Additional funds
It is the sense of the Congress that the Department of Justice and the Secretary of Education should request such additional funds as may be necessary to apply the policy set forth in this section throughout the United States.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (c), is Pub. L. 88–352, July 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 241, as amended. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is classified generally to this subchapter (§2000d et seq.). For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2000a of this title and Tables.
Section was enacted as part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Amendments of 1969, and not as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, title VI of which comprises this subchapter.
Transfer of Functions
"Secretary of Education" substituted for "Department of Health, Education, and Welfare" in subsec. (d) pursuant to sections 301 and 507 of Pub. L. 96–88, which are classified to sections 3441 and 3507 of Title 20, Education, and which transferred functions and offices (relating to education) of Department and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to Secretary of Education.


text: Inside your body, proteins are a kind of communications system, allowing DNA to pass information and energy back and forth. Every protein is a specific message from one molecule to another. And the information is expressed via the strange folds and twists of each protein's structure. They look like beautifully folded ribbons, and you can gaze at their sublime spirals on the Beautiful Proteins blog, created by Mike Tyka. This is microbiological fetishism at its finest.


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Your Zodiac Sign May Have Changed
Astronomers have restored the original Babylonian zodiac by recalculating the dates that correspond with each sign to accommodate millennia of subtle shifts in the Earth's axis. Prepare to have your minds blown, all you people with easily blowable minds.
Here is the zodiac as the ancient Babylonians intended it—with the dates corresponding to the times of the year that the sun is actually in each constellation's "house"—according to the Minnesota Planetarium Society's Parke Kunkle:
Capricorn: Jan. 20-Feb. 16.
Aquarius: Feb. 16-March 11.
Pisces: March 11-April 18.
Aries: April 18-May 13.
Taurus: May 13-June 21.
Gemini: June 21-July 20.
Cancer: July 20-Aug. 10.
Leo: Aug. 10-Sept. 16.
Virgo: Sept. 16-Oct. 30.
Libra: Oct. 30-Nov. 23.
Scorpio: Nov. 23-29.
Ophiuchus:* Nov. 29-Dec. 17.
Sagittarius: Dec. 17-Jan. 20.
* Discarded by the Babylonians because they wanted 12 signs per year.
I was born a Virgo, and because that's the shittiest sign in the zodiac, I have long refused to believe in astrology and forbid my loved ones from believing in it, either. (My anal retentive need to destroy an entire worldview because I do not like my role in it is, I am told, part of my Virgo nature.) If I'm really a Leo, though, who knows. [Star Tribune, Fox News, WTHR via LadyE. Image via Shutterstock.com]


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Solid-state storage maker Fusion-io today announced a PCIe-based flash card for workstations, the ioFX, that it said is a fraction of the cost of its higher-end server cards.
As the name suggests, Fusion-io is also heavily targeting the motion picture industry with the new ioFX flash card, saying its performance is well-suited for special effects post-production work with high-definition video.
The card uses a less expensive internal architecture that differs from past drives, using only four flash channels -- a quad-die package -- or half the write I/Os per second compared with Fusion-io's previous PCIe flash cards.
"We're not going to officially support HP-UX on this product because it's not going into servers. We're supporting Windows 7, along with some Windows Server because some artists need the horsepower," said Vincent Brisebois, performance computing industry manager for Fusion-io.
The new cards also support Linux and Mac OS X.
Brisebois said the reduced bandwidth of the card shouldn't affect the performance of the drives based on the types of applications that will be using them because they're more read- than write-intensive.
"The IOPS on the entertainment side [video editing] are pretty much irrelevant. It's not about operations per second; ...it's mostly about bandwidth and access speed to the data," he said. "The real benefit is being able to bring it out at a fraction of the cost of our server product."
The ioFX SSD has a read rate of about 1.4GB/sec and a write rate of 700MB/sec, according to Brisebois. The card comes in only one size, 420GB.
By comparison, Fusion-io's ioDrive2, which is an in-server flash card, uses eight lanes to its MLC flash chips, offering greater throughput. The ioDrive2 also comes in 365GB and 785GB models.
However, the ioFX and ioDrive2 have the same latency times: .068ms for reads and 15ms for writes. One major difference from the ioDrive2 is a GPU-like cooling fan on the ioFX to help the card cope with warmer temperatures in workstation environments.
The ioDrive2 also costs more than twice as much as the new ioFX card, which retails for around $2,500. The ioDrive2 retails for $5,950.
The price includes one year of support.
"That's a very big step down from a server product in terms of pricing, and it brings it into the range of a high-end GPU, really," Brisebois said.
As with the ioDrive2 predecessor, the ioFX card comes with Fusion-io's ioSphere management software, which allows IT adminstrators to see how many cards have been installed, monitor their read-write performance and see how much data has been written to them.
The software also has an algorithm that predicts remaining life on any given card based on past use, Brisebois said.
Next week, Fusion-io plans to demonstrate the ioFX card at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas.
Lucas Mearian covers storage, disaster recovery and business continuity, financial services infrastructure and health care IT for Computerworld. Follow Lucas on Twitter at @lucasmearian or subscribe to Lucas's RSS feed . His e-mail address is email@example.com.
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How to Tell If You're a Plagiarist
Disturbing word from the halls of academia: kids these days don't know what the hell plagiarism is. All the internet copying and pasting has frazzled their young brains to the point of incomprehension. Kids! An easy guide is below.
According to the New York Times, college kids can't even walk five paces in a straight line and repeat their own name, metaphorically, when it comes to putting citations on their dumb college papers. Do I need to cite the internet? Am I required to admit that all of my term papers are essentially very lightly rewritten expansions of Wikipedia entries? Print out the following Guide to Plagiarism and put it in your Trapper Keeper, and pass it on to your children one day, if "colleges" still exist, in the future.
1. DID YOU WRITE IT? [Yes/ No]
2. DID YOU CITE IT? [Yes/ No]
If you answered Yes, No, you are an honest student.
If you answered No, Yes, you are an honest student.
If you answered No, No, you are a plagiarist.
If you answered Yes, Yes, that doesn't even make sense.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: "Cool," since before the internet was even a thing.


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by Tenzan Eaghll
Have you heard the good news? The world is not a dark and dreary place of myth but is filled with true magic and wonder! No longer must you live under the weight of sin and myth foretold by generations past, for you can step out of the cave of delusion and see the world for how it really is!
In Richard Dawkins new book, The Magic of Reality, this is the truth he reveals. Each chapter begins with a question, such as 'what is a rainbow,' or 'what is the sun,' and then discusses various myths from different cultures that try to account for these things. However, the real bulk of each chapter is spent discussing the magical scientific explanation of what a rainbow, the sun, or an earthquake (etc.) actually are. By his use of the word "magic" Dawkins does not mean anything supernatural, and he is not referring to the conjuring magic used by magicians, but the kind of magic you experience when you look into a telescope, glance down a microscope, or learn that consciousness is produced by thousands of firing neurons. What the book discloses is that we do not need myths about imaginary figures who live in the sky to encounter the wonder of reality, because the truth is far more magical than anything foretold in the Bible, or Ancient folktales for that matter.
In The God Delusion Dawkins argues that religion is like a misfiring gene or virus that is uselessly infecting mankind; it developed at some point in our evolution and just keeps replicating itself through cultural memes, regardless of the fact that it does more harm than good. Religion is of no cultural use, he suggests, because it causes fanaticism, bigotry, and ignorance, and does not improve the lot of mankind. What he claims is that religion is inoperative; it doesn't work to some beneficial evolutionary end but is in fact useless, like the human appendix. As he writes,
The general theory of religion as an accidental by-product – a misfiring of something useful – is the one I wish to advocate. (188)
And again,
The very same peoples who are so savvy about the natural world and how to survive in it simultaneously clutter their minds with beliefs that are palpably false and for which the word 'useless' is a generous understatement. (165-166)
Dawkins argues that we should only keep those things around which work, and we should discard those that don't work. This is especially true of dangerous things like religion because they only produce social ill. What is so special about his new book, The Magic of Reality, is that Dawkins provides a scientific replacement for the fantastic promises of religion. Dawkins argues that reality itself is magical and that we do not require the supplement of the supernatural. The truths that science gives us are so wondrous that they can replace myth with a magical feeling of awe.
I only have one question: Why the need for magic at all? What is the purpose of this wondrous supplement? Because I must say, it seems rather odd to make an argument to do away with all cultural elements that are useless, and then to claim that the actual truth is far more magical than the discarded myths. What I find interesting, is that Dawkins argues that the inoperative elements of society must be discarded but then also argues, with the same vigour and enthusiasm, for his own type of inoperativity. He seems to suggest, simultaneously, that religion is useless and that the feelings it produces are similar to those revealed by scientific discovery. Indeed, he seems to argue that the feelings reality generates match, nay, surpass, those feelings promised by religious myth.
My question here does not concern Dawkins science, but his magical supplement. What is this experience of wonder that reality generates? Why does he spend so much time attacking religion, only to turn around and appropriate the very sublime awe he condemns? Why the need for the magical supplement?
Tenzan Eaghll is Ph.D candidate in the department of religious studies at the University of Toronto. His dissertation analyzes Jean-Luc Nancy's work on the Deconstruction of Christianity.


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Massachusetts is a place where the winters are cold and harsh, and many houses are suffering damaged by snow and ice each year. With snow and ice building on top of roofs, the damage can costs thousands of dollars. Ice damage is known to cause roof leaks, rotting and interior damage, which can ultimately cause health and structural complications.
In order to prevent ice and snow damage, Rob Robillard of A Concord Carpenter shares and demonstrates how to install WarmlyYours gutter deicing system on an old house in Massachusetts. The WarmlyYours gutter deicing system is a permanent home solution to fight against the damaging effects of winter's heavy snow and ice.
The deicing system consists of high quality copper cables, a controller, thermostat, and a premium-aerial sensor. The aerial sensor has a reach of over 2,000 feet and it detects falling/blowing snow at temperatures below 38°. Within the controller there is a timer that you can set in order to have control over the amount of time you want to utilize the heating system.
The control box can be easily hidden in the basement and then it can run through a weatherproof junction box leading up through the gutters to the roof.
Rob's project takes place on top of an old the roof consisting of slate shingles. The cables are mounted in a saw-tooth pattern, which allows rain and water to drain properly. He uses two different types of cable fasteners that also vary in size, for optimum security.
The cables are secured to the roof with either aluminum or copper fasteners, depending on the location of the cable. An adhesive pad can either secure the fastener to the roof/gutter, or a larger fastener with a hook can attach to a nail under the shingles. Once the cables are fastened and secured in place, the aerial sensor is mounted in an unobstructed area on the roof and then the installation process is finished.


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Laibach, Congress of lī´bäkh [key], conference of European powers in 1821, held in what is now Ljubljana, Slovenia. The chief powers at the congress were Russia, Austria, Prussia, France, and Great Britain. The meeting was convened to complete discussions begun at the Congress of Troppau (see Troppau, Congress of). The congress caused the breach between Great Britain and the three conservative powers of Austria, Prussia, and Russia (popularly called the Holy Alliance) to widen. Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies was present upon invitation, and the chief action of the congress was the sanctioning of the suppression by Austrian forces of uprisings in Naples and Piedmont.
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I wrote a piece on one of my favorite albums for BiffBamPop.com. Here is a description of the column.
Each week, one of Biff Bam Pop's illustrious writers will delve into one of their favorite things. Perhaps it's a movie or album they've carried with them for years. Maybe it's something new that moved them and they think might move you too. Each week, a new subject, a new voice writing on… something they love. This week, BBP contributor Robin Renee talks about Gary Wilson's You Think You Really Know Me.
Check it out and let me know what you think:
Robin Renee On… Gary Wilson's You Think You Really Know Me
Gary Wilson's music might be a gradually acquired taste for some, but in my personal experience people either get Gary or they don't. I've been a huge fan for years thanks to my friend Marcello McDonnell (Steel Tips, Spy Gods, Vinyl Dogs) and I have had the opportunity to turn many people on to Gary Wilson's work. Some love it and never look back. Others just look completely puzzled or slightly freaked out. Personally, if I ever were to leave for that fabled desert island, Gary Wilson's cult classic You Think You Really Know Me would be a must on the playlist.
For many years, it seemed unlikely that I'd ever have the chance to see his live performance, so I was amazed when he began performing again in 2002. Now I check out the live show whenever possible, and am excited to go to see Gary Wilson with his band, The Blind Dates on April 20th at Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn.
There is much to the Gary Wilson back story, but I'll take a tip from Five Minutes 3 Seconds and will not reiterate here. You can read my account of the story along with insights from the man himself in this 2003 piece for WeirdoMusic.com. I will say that I've described various aspects of Gary with the terms "outsider rock groove," "obsessive teenager in love," "punk-influenced," "maniacal repetition," and "Steely Dan with a Love Unlimited Orchestra attitude." All those still hold, and don't even begin to cover it.
Gary Wilson exemplifies The Dream Between concept in many ways- his sounds and "out there" stage performance float free within their own lexicon, existing in no single musical or psychological universe. All this points toward just the kind of mind I can't help but explore. Big thanks to Gary for taking the time to respond to these questions with honesty, oddity, and ultimately with optimism.
Robin Renée: According to my understanding, you tend to play and record all the time. How does your process change when you are getting ready to release a new recording? What was happening as you wrote and prepared for Feel The Beat?
Gary Wilson: Nothing has changed since I was 13 years old. I get inspired and I walk into the room where my recording equipment is and start recording. It can happen anytime. I might come home from playing piano in some country club, turn a horror movie on the TV, throw a cheese pizza in the oven and wait for the inspiration to hit me. Then it begins. For me, coming up with an album's worth of material is a long process. I do a lot of self-editing. I toss out a lot of tracks that I spend a lot of time on. That can be depressing. You think you might have a song, then after working for weeks on it you throw it away. That's showbiz.
RR: Even though your process seems to hold steady, will your audience be hearing new sounds and shifts since Electric Endicott in 2010?
GW: First of all, Feel The Beat was recorded on my new recording equipment (Tascam 2488neo). It's always exciting for me to get familiar with the capabilities of new recording equipment. It's sort of like a new toy. I started with a Wollensak mono tape recorder when I was 12 years old. Always had an interest in recording. Also the dynamics of life, from day to day, bring a new adventure into my world. This becomes part of my music. Each album is like giving birth to a baby. There's excitement in the beginning, then it's released and a sort of gloom comes over me. That's when you go back into the recording room and start a brand new project.
RR: The people and places of your youth in Endicott, NY still persist and are the backbone of your work. Linda, Cindy, Debbie, Bermond Avenue, Northside Park– What continues to draw you into these stories?
GW: I guess it brings me back to a happier, less stressful time in my life, though growing up is no easy feat. When I perform now, I try to recreate the way I felt when I began playing professionally at 12 years old. Music was fun, exciting and innocent. Our parents would take us to the gigs. That is why sometimes I will bring a large cardboard box on stage with my home address painted on the front of the box. I can sit in the cardboard box and recreate, in my mind, the way I felt when I was a young teenager on stage – the way I felt when Linda, Karen and Lugene would come see my band (Lord Fuzz, Dr. Zork and The Warts, Gary Wilson and the Blind Dates) at the local teen centers. When I come out of the box I feel refreshed.
RR: Do you recall a defining moment or incident that solidified these memories as your palette?
GW: I recently was talking to my older brother and he mentioned that I was hit in the temple with a baseball bat when I was 10 or 11 years old. We both thought that perhaps that event, getting hit in the head with a baseball bat, was what determined my perspective on art and music.
RR: "Lugene Kissed Me Last Night" is reminiscent of the intense ending of your classic "6.4 = Make Out." What inspired you to introduce "the new girl," Lugene, on Feel The Beat? (Note: I asked this question temporarily forgetting that Lugene was mentioned previously in "Your Dream is Not My Scene," in 2008 on Lisa Wants To Talk To You. It's not easy to keep track of all of Gary's women.)
GW: Lugene was my first girlfriend, before Linda. The first girl I really kissed. I have fond memories of summer days at my friend's house in Endwell, NY. His parents worked in the day time so we had the whole day to hang out at his house. Lugene and Cheryl would bus it down from Johnson City, NY to Endicott, then make their way to my friends house in Endwell. Yes, Lugene kissed me that night.
RR: I have an artistic love of mannequins and wig display heads. At least in part, I think I have you to thank for this influence. The mannequin aesthetic has carried throughout your artwork and live shows. All kinds of theories could arise on what they indicate – beauty, uniformity, sexism, objectification, idealization… What's the mannequin thing about for you?
GW: There is something modern, surreal about mannequins. I've been fascinated with mannequins ever since watching the black and white Twilight Zone episode "The After Hours" when I was 8 or 9 years old. The story featured Anne Francis. That's the episode where the department store mannequins come to life for a short time. For me, the mannequins represent the girls in my life –frozen for eternity in the form of a mannequin, as if our love will never die. I remember my first "comeback" gig at Joe's Pub in NYC in 2002. The record label rented 3 or 4 mannequins for the night. By the end of the performance, the mannequins were damaged. It cost the label something like $650 per mannequin. The label decided to put the damaged mannequins in their NY apartment as works of art.
RR: I once had a cassette of yours called You Made Me Feel My Misery. As I recall, a few of those tracks, like "Gary Saw Linda Last Night (Kissing Frank Roma)" reemerged on later albums. I always loved the title song. Whatever became of it? What factors help you decide which tunes make the cut?
GW: I re-recorded "You Made Me Feel My Misery" recently. I was going to include it on my album Feel The Beat but decided against it. When I self-released the original Mary Had Brown Hair back in 2003 before Stones Throw Records released it, "You Made Me Feel My Misery" was included on that release. When Stones Throw re-released Mary in 2004, (hip-hop producer and Stones Throw Records founder) Peanut Butter Wolf eliminated three cuts including "You Made Me Feel My Misery" from the original version. The song will appear on my next album.
RR: What do your noise pieces and avant garde jazz interludes ("Why Did You Kiss Me?," "Stephanie Was Crying in the Rain") say that aren't said in your songs constructed in a more traditional pop fashion?
GW: I've been involved in the avant garde since I was 12 years old – recording my own electronic music, composing avant garde classical music, modern plays, painting, etc. The weirder the better, when I was growing up. This is what led me to John Cage inviting me to his house in Haverstraw, NY when I was 14. I always try to combine both elements on my records and performances. I also love the music of Debussy, Ravel, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
RR: Yes, I always hear that combo of distinctly avant garde and smooth, upbeat pop in your music. I am wondering: does each style help you convey or express a different set of emotions or experiences?
GW: Yes, the avant garde and smooth pop convey different emotions, though they can collide. This occurs in many of my songs such as "Chrome Lover," "Sea Cruise," "6.4=Make Out," "Gary Saw Linda Last Night," "Linda Wants To Be Alone" and others. When we do these songs on stage, you never know what can happen. I always wanted to do a 30 minute version of "6.4=Make Out" with my band and I performing with a large classical chamber group complete with a large string section.
RR: What was your visit like with John Cage? What an honor at 14.
GW: It was an honor to spend three days with composer John Cage at his house. I was 14 or 15 years old. I was playing cello and string bass with our school chamber orchestra and string quartet. I was composing experimental music and our school chamber group would occasionally perform my classical compositions at school events. This led me to contacting John Cage by phone. Mr. Cage gave me an address where to send him some samples of my music. A few weeks later John Cage invited me to his house in Haverstraw, NY, not far from NYC. My mother drove me to Haverstraw from Endicott, NY. On our first visit, my mother became lost in the wooded area not far from John Cage's house. We stopped at the local general store and I called and told him we were lost. (He) drove down to the general store and picked me up and drove me to his house. Here I am at 15 years old being driven to John Cage's house by John Cage himself. My mother drove me to Haverstraw for three days. Each day John Cage went over my musical scores, corrected things, and suggested things. I still have some of the scores where he went over my original notation and put in what he thought the orchestra would be better at interpreting. It still amazes me that he took the time to meet with me, a young teenager. College grad students would give anything to meet one-on-one with John Cage and have him correct and advise on their compositions. One of the highlights in my life.
Many years later, I had a chance to meet with John Cage again at the University of California, San Diego where he was a composer in residence. Bernadette Allen was a grad student at UCSD at that time. I handed John Cage a copy of You Think You Really Know Me and asked if he remembered me. He said he did. Truly an inspiration to me.
RR: You had a very long artistic and personal relationship with Bernadette Allen. I heard about her passing – I'm so sorry, Gary. If you are willing, will you please say something about your years with her? Where was your connection and what was her influence on your life and work?
GW: Bernadette Allen passed away in 2011. My heart is broken. We were together for 32 years. I miss her dearly. Bernadette performed with me often and we did many videos together. Bernadette even attended (though didn't perform) our last CBGB's gig back in 1979. Stones Throw Records has been converting all her 3/4″ videos to DVD for a future DVD release.
RR: How wonderful to have such a partnership for so long. What qualities made her such a special person in your life?
GW: The great thing about Bernadette was she let me be myself. I felt comfortable with Bernadette. She was very intelligent and artistic and put up with me for 32 years.
RR: Thank you for being willing to share that, Gary. Is there an essential story you ultimately wish to tell? One's roots are never forgotten? Something about life as a romantic quest? The surreal nature of consciousness? Love is pain? Is it really all much simpler?
GW: Life has its ups and downs. We all try to get through life the best we can. Try to follow your passion. Try not to hurt people and animals. I know sometimes following your passion can be difficult if you have family and many responsibilities. One has to sometimes put your dreams aside to take care of your family and your responsibilities. That's sad. But still, you still can do what you love part-time. My father worked for IBM for about 40 years. He still played music at the local hotel lounge four nights a week. He didn't give up music even though he had a wife and four children and work 5 to 6 days a week. In other words, don't let life bring you down to the point where you lose your dreams. I've been fortunate in the last ten years to be able to do what I really enjoy and will continue as long as I can.
RR: Is there anything else you'd like to share today from the heart-mind-soul of Gary Wilson?
GW: Please don't sport fish and hunt. The poor fish and animals have it hard enough already without humans killing and hurting them for sport. How can someone laugh and smile while they hold up a gasping fish on a hook. Poor fish is dying. What's so funny about that? Or chasing some animal through the woods for the sole purpose of killing the animal. Don't the hunters see the fear in the animal's eyes right before they blast away at the poor thing? It's one thing, and that's even sad, when one has to hunt and fish for survival, but not for blood sport.
RR: It's good to hear you speak out for non-violence. I am also so glad that your re-rediscovery has led to your being able to do what you enjoy. Fans who never imagined new recordings and live shows are pretty happy, too. So, I can see how the songs themselves convey the "follow your passion" message, particularly if your passion is pursuing Linda, Kathy, or Karen. Is there anything else you hope the songs themselves convey directly to the listener?
GW: Yes, I appreciate all that has happened to me. When people listen to my music and come to my shows, I do get different reactions, which is good. I hope I convey to the audience what I learned from John Cage. Walk one's own path. Be yourself. Have fun with your art, and your life. Don't worry what other people think. Ask yourself what would you like to see and hear. Then do it. It takes time to get one's personality imbedded into one's art but if you keep working at it, you never know where it can lead.
Gary Wilson will perform at Glasslands Gallery, 289 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, Friday, April 20th
Doors open 8:30pm (Early Show)
Also on the bill: The Immaculates, Moonmen on the Moon, Man, Slowdance (DJ set) and Mr. Fahrenheit (DJ set)
$10 adv/$12 day of show
Gary Wilson online: www.sixpointfour.com


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GREEN BAY, Wis.—The Green Bay Packers have signed rookie wide receiver Sederrik Cunningham.
The Packers announced the signing Tuesday. Terms were not disclosed.
Cunningham played in 44 games at Furman, a Football Championship Subdivision team, from 2008-11 and caught 95 passes for 1,196 yards and seven touchdowns.
The 5-foot-11, 192-pounder added 238 rushing yards on 29 carries and returned 66 kickoffs for 1,549 yards and a TD.


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So rumor has it that Jessica Alba is chasing the Valtrex dragon and that it was that damn Yankee Derek Jeter who gave it to her.
Our source who worked for one of their camps, had to refill her Valtrex prescription for her on a regular basis! Guess who she got it from...that's right...dirty Derek Jeter.
Immediately, our brains began tallying all the ladies with bold-face names we know with whom serial-dater Jeter has gotten to home base. Luckily, so did gossip site Holy Candy, who made a handy chart so we can track who's at risk for the gift that keeps on giving. After the jump, the Derek Jeter Herpes Tree.
We kinda like how they treat dudes in Hollywood like baseball cards or something. But we didn't realize that Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Biel were so into each other's sloppy seconds! Also, does this mean that Cameron Diaz is in danger?
Derek Jeter Gave Jessica Alba Herpes [SportsWrap via L.A. Rag Mag]