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Frugality is simply a tool to ensure that whatever does come first in your life is well protected and facing a minimal amount of stress.
This is something I often have to remind myself of. I spend a fair amount of my time during the week reading personal finance blogs and other sites, looking for interesting links and ideas and perspectives.
When you spend time browsing through all of these people practicing and talking frugality, it's really easy to let yourself focus on the nuts and bolts of maximizing every dollar and lose sight of the big picture.
We don't make meals in advance at home so we can be proud of the $2.50 we saved. We do it as a matter of routine so that we know we're not overspending on food, which lets us save for that home in the country we dream of.
We don't browse the community calendar for free activities so we can revel in the fact that we didn't spend $20 at the movie theater. We do it because it's fun, it's a great way to meet people, and the fact that we're also making sure the entertainment part of our budget stays under control is just a sweet kicker.
We don't make our own laundry detergent so that we can pride ourselves on having a few more quarters in the change box. We do it so that our children can see such behaviors as normal and that adults think carefully about how they spend their money.
We aren't frugal so that we can stare in slack-jawed awe at our growing net worth. We do it so that we'll be able to take the entire family to France for a couple of weeks when they're older without worrying a bit about how much the flight will cost and how overwhelmed our credit cards will be.
Frugality doesn't come first.
It is a tool to fill the ordinary days so that the extraordinary ones come without stress.
It is a tool that we use to maximize the value of the things we do each day so that we have the resources to chase those bigger dreams.
It is a tool we use so that we can sleep well at night without financial stress hanging over our heads.
Saying that frugality makes you miserable is much like saying a hammer is bad because you can use it to smash your thumb. Frugality is a tool so that you can live the life you want by minimizing the cost of the stuff you don't care about as much. Like all tools, there are good ways to use it and bad ways, and there are also times to put it aside.
If you let frugality come front and center in your life and if you let that ever-escalating bank account be the goal of things, then you've become a miser, and that's an existence that leads to unhappiness.
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A South Dakota State runner was killed on a training run Thursday near Otsego, Minnesota.
Incoming sophomore Phillip LaVallee, 19, was hit shortly after noon on the western edge of Otsego and was dead at the scene.
The Wright County Sheriff's Office told the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
The northbound van crossed the centerline of the two-lane road and struck LaVallee as he ran on the southbound shoulder.
LaVallee finished 15th overall at the 2012 Summit League Cross Country Championships and fifth in the 800-meter run at both the league indoor and outdoor track and field championships.
He also was honored as a Summit League Distinguished Scholar and was named to the Summit League Honor Roll for academics while majoring in civil engineering.
SDSU athletic director Justin Sell said in a school press release:
Our thoughts and prayers are with Phillip's family, his teammates and coaches during this very difficult time.
He was a model student-athlete and a great teammate to everyone in our cross country and track and field programs.
He loved being a Jackrabbit and the entire SDSU community shares in this tragic loss.
The incident remains under investigation. Funeral arrangements are pending.

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ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Symphony Syracuse, conducted by Daniel Hege, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 27, at St. Bonaventure University's Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts in the seventh concert of the 2011-12 Friends of Good Music season.
The orchestra will present an evening of favorites by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, including the popular "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" and Symphony No. 40 in G-minor. Acclaimed soloist Rimma Bergeron-Langlois will perform Violin Concerto No. 4 in D-major.
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"We congratulate the musicians of the former Syracuse Symphony Orchestra in founding this new orchestra and wish them the best of luck in their new endeavor," said Ludwig Brunner, interim executive director of The Quick Center. "Friends of Good Music and the QCA have a long-standing relationship with the Syracuse musicians and we are grateful for their loyalty to our audience." Conductor Daniel Hege served for 11 seasons as the music director of Syracuse Symphony and in June 2009 was appointed music director of the Wichita Symphony. In 2001, he finished a five-year tenure as resident conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, where he worked closely with David Zinman. Hege oversaw the release of Syracuse Symphony's live "Classics Concert" CD, the "Holiday Pops" release and the release "Big Band Bash."
Bergeron-Langlois, associate concertmaster of Syracuse Symphony Orchestra for several seasons, is now concertmaster of the Orlando Philharmonic. She has performed extensively in concerts and recitals throughout Europe, Russia, North and South America, Asia and Australia. A native of the Ukraine, she has been playing the violin since she was 5 years old.
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+1 votes Shane Cline › January 7, 2012
This layout is alot better than the last. It is just open and for the most part long tho. They do change the pin positions often tho. Carpet tees are not a fav of mine. Also on a couple holes the signs are poorly placed at the end of the tee and you have to watch your follow threw if you take and angel off the tee. Some of the numbering on signs and baskets dont match that well.
+1 votes Corey D › May 27, 2011
+0 votes Truck Roley › June 19, 2011
first time there. lots of fun. good layout. really fun holes for middle tennessee.
+0 votes Craig Buchanan › April 11, 2011
Still using carpet teepads for most of the holes, and the area between 10 and 12 is a little sketchy since you feel like you might hit another group while you are teeing off. Overall, this plays like a brand new course and is much more enjoyable to play. You only have to walk up the hills twice that I recall. A huge improvement and the new layout seems much more challenging overall. Two Rivers will be a solid B+ once the permanent tees go in, and a welcome addition to the Nashville discgolf scene.
+0 votes duncan bare › May 15, 2011
+0 votes John Hill › August 7, 2011
+0 votes Oscar J › March 15, 2012
+0 votes Marcus Rodgers › February 27, 2012
This course has recently been overhauled for less grueling holes adding more fun and simplicity and fluidity to the course. Lots of open holes lots of birdies to be had. Good for rec up to pro.
+0 votes tyler hunt › May 12, 2011
+0 votes LUKE OWENS › May 13, 2011
Sweet course lots of variety lots of fun..
+0 votes Dave Foster › August 15, 2013
There is not enough signage for the course that's my only complaint. This course has som really fun routs for every hole. Its in a really hilly city park just look at the pictures.it reminds me of malone university in ohio. I had a ton of fun
+0 votes Justin chapin › January 22, 2012
+0 votes Shawn Hardin › March 14, 2012
nice and wide open. great for us beginners trying to get down the basics without having to worry about losing a disc or hunting one down in the woods. multiple pin positions means this course can change from time to time which is great. lots of non-disc golfers around (mostly on the back 9), so watch out. had fun playing this course for the first time. will be back soon!
+0 votes Billy Turnbull › April 25, 2016
+0 votes Timmy Turnbull › May 5, 2016
+0 votes John Stowe › July 15, 2013
+0 votes mateo lawry › September 25, 2015
+0 votes Sean Geisler › May 29, 2014
+0 votes Jeremy LeCrone › July 9, 2014
+0 votes Jeremy Kirk › April 25, 2018
Missing some tee signs and some of the tee pads are old carpet.
+0 votes Matt Jolley › June 9, 2015
Sort of weird to navigate. Big open course to practice your bombs on if you're more of a beginner. Fun, but watch out for the skunks! Literally.
+0 votes Kevan Greunke › July 6, 2017
+0 votes Ryan Rodgers › May 5, 2015
I played it a few years ago. It had some trouble finding the holes. A fun course overall. I mostly played with my fairway driver and mid range discs.
+0 votes Andrew Maley › June 15, 2015
+0 votes Brett Downing › October 30, 2016
+0 votes Zachary evans › March 1, 2019
-1 votes Greg McAtee › November 20, 2010
-1 votes Johnny Foodstamp › November 24, 2010
Lots of room to drive out here. Sort of hard to navigate the first time through but I live local and would be happy to show you. Most of the holes play over nice elevation changes (2 and 4 are the exception.) Distance and minimal accuracy are required for a good score out here. Hole 3 is the longest hole in the area, from the Pro tee, weighing in at 800ft!! Think of this as a place to practice drives and putts and you will enjoy yourself a lot.
-1 votes johnathon high › January 8, 2011
-2 votes Joe Shamp › June 12, 2011
The course was redesigned by some local players I think and it is much better. Challenging up and downs and long par 3's.


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This incident happened more than 12 years ago, but my neighbors still remind me of it from time to time.
It was way past midnight before I finally came home from another bovine adventure. I had checked my heifers at about 7:30 that evening before I came in and everything was fine — their waterer was good, they had lots of pasture and the electric fence was hot. About 9:00 a phone call came in announcing that there were cattle on Highway 9 and someone thought they were mine. Probably not, I thought, but it's possible. I jumped back into my clothes and headed out to check.
Since it was dark and I had to make time, I jumped on my Mule (an off-road utility vehicle). As I sped down the road I realized that only one of the two headlights on the Mule was working. This would not be a problem, because as I approached the scene of the sighting, I realized that there was plenty of light.
Unfortunately, it was a combination of red and amber flashing light.
Part of my roundup had been completed. There on the shoulder of the highway was the carcass of a heifer — laid out flat and not moving. On the other side of the road was the carcass of a Dodge Omni — laid out flat and not moving.
The deputy sheriff walked up to the heifer and looked at me as I drove up beside it.
"They're mine," I said.
"The rest of them headed that way. They're up by that corner," replied the deputy as he motioned toward Cresco.
I looked around for injured motorists and, in the absence of any, sped off to find the herd. More law enforcement was stationed near the herd, controlling the burgeoning traffic jam of cars. All these motorists were out of their vehicles trying to direct my herd off the highway. I weaved through traffic and told the crowd to let the herd take whatever opening they had. The herd opted NOT to follow the bike trail next to the highway that would return them to their place of origin. Instead, they opted to go into my hay field and see where that would lead them.
I ditched the crowd and went in pursuit of my herd with my dad following behind me. We practice a great deal of soil conservation here in Winneshiek County and, as such, we have an elaborate system of connected waterways woven throughout the fields. I guided the herd through these waterways and through the maze of maize for almost two miles before we reached our destination and got back to a pasture.
The deputy pulled up shortly after I got the herd into their pasture. I asked if anyone had been hurt and he said that no one had. They had been buckled up in the Omni and that saved them. The car, though, had been totaled. He asked if we needed help getting the heifer off the road. He said we could just leave it on the shoulder and the rendering truck would pick it up the next morning. We informed him that we would get it off the shoulder right away and move it home…where no one would see it.
Unfortunately, the herd did not have a total herd instinct. Three different individuals decided to go it alone along the way. Since it was dark, foggy and there was no moon, we couldn't find them after searching for about two hours. The search continued at daybreak. Fortunately, the incident did not turn into "The Renegade Revisited" before it was all over (see "The Renegade," September 6, 2006).
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Promoting Pluralism
It is a sweaty April afternoon, and the community hall in Cangkol, a fishing community on the outskirts of Cirebon on Java's north coast, is packed to the gills. People have come to see former first lady, Ibu Sinta Nuriyah Wahid. Ibu Sinta, the wife of former president Abdurrahman Wahid, is touring halls like this around the country ahead of the 2009 election, listening to ordinary people talk about the problems they face in their everyday lives.
Today, however, there are some technical difficulties in hearing those voices. The sound system is playing up, and while technicians fiddle, the MC, a popular and charismatic young kyai, an expert of Islam, KH Maman Imanulhaq Fakieh, keeps the crowd entertained.
The captive audience presents a perfect opportunity for him to push his favourite issue of the moment: freedom of religion, a hot topic in Indonesia thanks to recent attacks on Ahmadiyah mosques and calls to outlaw the sect.
Cheerful anti-violence propaganda
"Is Islam a religion of violence?" he cries, raising his fist in the air. "No!" The crowd, largely comprised of jilbab-wearing housewives, responds with enthusiasm. "Does Islam permit violence by anyone?" "No!' "Towards anyone?" "No!' "On any grounds?" "No!" "Do we want the government to uphold the rights guaranteed in the constitution?" "Yes!"
Kyai Maman, 35, is the spiritual leader of Al-Mizan Pesantren in Jatiwangi, West Java. Outside Indonesia, thanks to coverage of terrorism cases, Indonesian pesantren, or Islamic boarding schools, have earned a reputation as extremist havens where young students are indoctrinated in fundamentalist teachings and groomed to become terrorists.
While it is true that many pesantren teach conservative, literalist interpretations of Islam, only a tiny number have links with terrorist organisations and in fact the pesantren world is the source of some of the most progressive Muslim voices in Indonesia and indeed the Muslim world.
The best known progressive kyai is former president Abdurrahman Wahid, but surrounding Wahid are a number of increasingly vocal and influential progressive pesantren leaders. Kyai Maman is a protégé of a group of kyai and pesantren alumni in West Java that includes KH Syarief Usman Yahya, head of Kempek Pesantren and KH Husein Muhammad of Dar al-Tauhid Arjawinangun Pesantren.
The late KH Fuad Hasyim of Buntet Pesantren and KH Yahya Masduki of Babakan Ciwaringin Pesantren were role models for this group. They preach values of pluralism and encourage their students, or santri, to reread religious texts contextually. The vision of Islam that they promulgate is grounded in the Qur'an, Sunna and classical Islamic texts and advocates justice for all human beings.
Muslims protecting Muslims against Muslims
Earlier this year, the Ahmadiyah issue became a rallying point for progressive Muslim leaders. While fundamentalist groups such as the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and the Indonesian Mujahidin Council (MMI), along with many moderates, called for Ahmadiyah to be outlawed, progressive kyai, including Kyai Maman, were organising community events with Ahmadiyah in order to emphasise a message of tolerance and pluralism.
When police and local government failed to protect Ahmadiyah from increasing incidents of vandalism and violence, progressive kyai offered paramilitaries recruited from Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia's largest Islamic organisation, to protect Ahmadiyah mosques and homes.
For those like Kyai Maman who defended Ahmadiyah, the issue was never really about Ahmadiyah, but about upholding the rights of citizens, guaranteed in the constitution, to practice their respective religion and beliefs. The issue also had the potential to set a precedent for the religious beliefs of the majority to become the basis of laws that discriminate against other groups.
This potential looked set to be realised when in April 2008, a government-appointed body of prosecutors, religious scholars and government officials recommended that the government outlaw the sect, declaring that its members "had deviated from Islamic principles".
Peaceful rallies in support of religious freedom
Whether Ahmadiyah members have deviated from Islam is not the point, argues Kyai Maman: "I have never defended Ahmadiyah's teachings," he says. "What we are defending is their rights as citizens, as set out in the constitution. I would defend FPI if they were being oppressed and terrorised. This issue is not about Ahmadiyah but about people whose rights as human beings, as citizens, have been denied."
For their defence of Ahmadiyah's rights, progressives have themselves become targets of violence by extremist groups. The most high profile incident occurred at the National Monument (Monas) in Jakarta on 1 June last year, the anniversary of Sukarno's famous 1945 speech where he formulated Indonesia's state ideology, known as pancasila. With the government's decision regarding the fate of Ahmadiyah due to be handed down any day, dozens of demonstrators, among them Kyai Maman, held a peaceful rally in support of religious freedom.
"We came to Monas for two reasons," Kyai Maman explains. "One was to celebrate pancasila, our national philosophy, which is all about living in a plural society. The second was to urge the government to uphold the constitution."
Violent zealots
"We were just about to get started," Kyai Maman recalls, "when suddenly a group of people wearing white robes and carrying FPI banners arrived, shouting 'Allahu akbar!' (God is great)".The FPI supporters attacked the demonstrators with sharpened bamboo stakes and stones. Nineteen people were injured, some seriously. Kyai Maman was among the most badly hurt.
He recalls being beaten on the head with bamboo stakes until he fell to the ground where he was repeatedly kicked and stamped on by at least ten people. He was hospitalised with concussion and head wounds.
The incident shocked many in the Indonesian public. The attack on Kyai Maman in particular was significant in swaying public opinion because FPI had, deliberately or unwittingly, dared to attack a kyai, the moral equivalent in Muslim Indonesia to attacking a priest or a nun. In the days after the incident, calls to disband Ahmadiyah were replaced in the headlines by calls to disband FPI. Fifty-seven members of FPI, including leader Rizieq Shihab, were arrested following the incident, and the group is now seriously weakened.
The government's eventual decision on the Ahmadiyah case was neither an outright victory for anti-Ahmadiyah campaigners nor a win for pluralism. The joint ministerial resolution, released on 9 June, did not "ban" Ahmadiyah per se but demanded that they stop practising their beliefs and strongly encouraged them to "return to mainstream Islam".
Kyai Maman sees the decision as an excessive and ambiguous form of intervention by the government, designed to get them out of a difficult political situation. "The government's job is to guarantee freedom of religion," he argues, "not to meddle in matters of belief."
From puritan to progressive
Kyai Maman has not always defended the values of pluralism. There was a time when he supported, rather than opposed, violence in the name of religion. Kyai Maman grew up in a puritanical pesantren where he mixed in narrow circles and studied only traditional religious texts. His understanding of the world, he explains, was black and white, and anyone different from himself was a sinner. Just seeing a church or a Christian cross, he confesses, would make his blood boil.
He was involved in militant groups that participated in "cleansing" gambling and prostitution dens in the Majalengka area. In 1998, he stood by while members of his congregation destroyed churches, shops and houses belonging to Chinese Indonesians in Jatiwangi. "At that time," he says, "I thought that there was only one truth: only we were right and everyone else was wrong."
But the violent events of 1998 proved a turning point in his life. Witnessing the effects of violence perpetrated by Muslims convinced him that there had been something wrong with his readings of religious texts. The texts, he explains, always refer to Islam as a blessing for the whole universe, not just for Muslims. The goal of Islam, he reasoned, could not be to make people afraid of it.
On this basis, he says, he decided to start listening to the voices of "the other". He began inviting leaders of other religions to his pesantren – priests, pastors and Buddhist monks – for inter-religious dialogue. He also invited them to come along to religious and cultural ceremonies at his pesantren, and even to teach classes to his pupils. It was a move that initially met with disapproval in his community and in his own family.
"My father didn't like me associating with non-Muslims," says Kyai Maman. "They were dirty unbelievers. But eventually my family began to see that, 'Oh, it turns out priests are cool, and Buddhist monks are cool.'"
He also began to read from a variety of sources including philosophy, socialist thought and Christian liberation theology, and mixed with artists, writers and musicians. He dabbled in writing his own poetry. In his view, art has values that are congruous with religious values, such as freedom from contamination by worldly power or earthly desires. "From art," he says, "people can understand how to live a more harmonious life, not just see in black and white."
Politics and public image
Despite having what he claims is a fundamental disinterest in politics; Kyai Maman has recently become an active member of the National Awakening Party (PKB). "I was invited [to join the party] by Gus Dur [Abdurrahman Wahid], so I decided to see whether politics could be made into a tool to fight for pluralism." Certain goals, he realises, can only be achieved through parties and through policy:
"We must take steps that push our friends in the legislative assembly to ensure that pluralist values continue to be upheld and defended." The Ahmadiyah case, he says, has reinforced this conviction in him.
However, he continues to see his main work as being at the grassroots level. This is not just a matter of seeding pluralist values, he maintains, but about improving people's welfare. "Who can be influenced or provoked by radical groups?" he argues. "Usually they are people who have trouble making ends meet, so our job is not to oppose those groups with violence but to try to create community prosperity and end poverty."
The Ahmadiyah case and his own brush with celebrity following the Monas incident have also taught him the power of the media in shaping public opinion. "The failure of progressive Muslims, in my opinion," he says, "is that we don't dominate the media. Maybe this is a problem with the media itself: you know 'bad news is good news'. So it means that if a priest eats in my pesantren, or I break my fast in a church or a monastery, that will never get in the newspaper. But if a priest beats me up, or if I poison a priest's altar wine, that's the kind of thing that makes the newspaper."
Joanne McMillan
© Inside Indonesia 2008
Joanne McMillan works as a translator and editor for Fahmina Institute in West Java and is currently completing a Masters of Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development at the Australian National University.
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Quote from: Dice on February 09, 2013, 02:10:04 PMI don't even think robots are cool
I don't even think robots are cool
The only anime robot I like is Robo from Chrono Trigger. And whatever the hell Guillo is if that actually counts. I'm talking more "mechs". Fucking Zone of the Enders has women in women-shaped mechas.... what the fuck? WHY DOES A ROBOT NEED CURVES (don'tanswerthat).
WHY DOES A ROBOT NEED CURVES (don'tanswerthat).
That isn't the most unfortunate part of the Z.O.E. designs. The designer took the term 'cockpit' a little too literally.
Thankfully they seem to be back on track now, after about 6 games.
I'm one of the ones that was bored by FFXII and loved Xenoblade. Saying that the games are similar is like saying Deus Ex and Call of Duty are similar because they both use first person combat. Sure, they use the same basic battle system, but that's where the differences end.


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After the holiday, you can remove the fabric and you have your decorative pillow back. You can store your fabric with your decorations for next year. No waste! Here is my Christmas pillow sitting at my front door on my Adirondack chair. Fun!
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A Danville funeral home owner died in a single-vehicle crash along Interstate 57 in Kankakee County. Illinois State Police say 70-year-old E.R. 'Bob' Pape III died when the van he was driving left the interstate and ran into a creek.
Kankakee County Coroner Bob Gessner says Pape was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:35 pm Wednesday. State Police report the van driven by Pape was southbound when it left the highway for some unknown reason.
Pape was headed home to Danville following a trip to Russia when the crash occurred.
The Danville Noon Rotary Club members said Pape had a passion about helping children at an orphanage in Russia.
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I recently tweeted saying that I would have a guest contributor on the blog as I have been talking about my 'journey' through concussion. I wanted to lift the lid on the other aspect that we harldy ever get to hear about; It's effect on families and family life.
The below is an open and honest account from my wife – Libby – and her story through my concussion and how it affected us. You can follow Libby on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/littlered_libby
Thank you for agreeing to share the story. I know it hasn't been an easy ride.
I hope you find her story of interest:
I don't normally do this kind of stuff so please bare with me while I try and explain my side of things.
As you all know Janne suffered a major concussion in March last year and it has had a major impact on his hockey career, but more importantly, on his personal life. The following is the impact the concussion, had on me his, girlfriend/wife of seven and half years.
I was watching the game when Janne got hurt. The hit that changed our lives didn't seem that out of the ordinary for a hockey game. I didn't really think too much beyond my normal "please get up, don't be hurt." However, I had no idea how badly injured he was and how drastically our lives would change as Janne got up and finished the game.
After the game, we were due to go to my uncle's house in Ebbw Vale, Wales. I tried insisting on driving, but Janne being stubborn he was adamant to drive the distance. By this stage, he had mentioned that he didn't feel quite right. It wasn't until the next morning that the symptoms became apparent. I was only slightly worried at first, as I've grown up around sportsmen (mainly rugby players whose mentality is similar to hockey players) my whole life, I've even had a couple of concussions myself.
As the morning went on, I realised it wasn't like any other concussions I had experienced before. Janne's eyes weren't responding and it was like he was totally spaced, I had to talk very slow and simply for him to understand anything I asked. The uncle who we stayed at had just had a baby girl who to this date Janne will call Faith, despite it not being her name. Further to that, today he has to pause and place faces to my uncles' names as he struggles to remember which is which.
He had no idea where he was or what he was doing but he refused to go to the hospital. I was panicked and scared. My whole family was gathered at Ebbw Vale for my cousins christening and the advice we kept getting was to take him to the hospital, which got Janne incredibly irate. This made me worry even more and we left the christening early to drive home. During the drive back Janne dosed in and out the whole time. When we eventually got home he kept asking me the same things over and over again. I found this very frustrating as Janne couldn't remember anything from a few moments before and I could see how confused Janne was with my reactions. I wasn't angry but having to repeat myself over and over made me have anxiety attacks.
Following from the injury and as the PCS symptoms persisted, life got difficult at home. Janne was having trouble remembering anything that he was told or asked, which made me feel ignored, even though I kept telling myself it's the concussion and I knew I had to be patient with him. However, I started to get increasingly worried as I started to notice Janne's personality change. He wasn't happy with the way he looked. He grew a beard and grew his hair, which was really out of character for him. He also said that he hated the person he saw in the mirror every morning.
When I offered to help him and speak to him, Janne refused it. He was constantly going through mood swings, which would make him happy at one minute and completely reduced to tears the next. His moods would be anything and everything between those two extremes. I was afraid to speak to my husband, because I wasn't sure if what I said was going to be greeted with smiles or with shouting.
Janne put himself into a shell and started to shut down. He found solace in blogging. At one stage I felt I found out more what he was going through by reading his blog, than from his own mouth. Janne said that he didn't want to worry me or his family over nothing and that is why he was turning to the blog and to social media to air his feelings. However, it made things worse as he wouldn't talk to me or the rest of his family about the issues. Janne's parents and my parents were just as much in the dark about his state as I was.
Janne always had a sparkle in his eye, which showed his love and affection as well as his cheeky 5-yearold boyish side. With the concussion and as the symptoms worsened, the sparkle was gone. I was afraid that I was losing my husband and I started to feel unwanted and lonely. It wasn't till after he recovered that Janne admitted that he felt like he had shut down emotionally.
I don't want to sound needy, but at times I got so lonely and upset I would cry myself to sleep and Janne wouldn't even notice, I didn't tell him as I was scared that he would snap at me or worse leave me. His moods were getting worse. One time when we were in town, Janne was visibly suffering. He was pale, he was sweating and his eyes had, what can be called the 1,000 yard stare. I asked him if he was OK and if he needed to go home, but my suggestion and concern for his wellbeing was met with anger and shouting.
Sometimes I would try and force him to pay attention to me by jumping on his lap and kissing him with all my passion I felt inside for him, but the reaction back was on the verge of repulsion, which was so hurtful that after awhile I couldn't cope with what felt like rejection, so I stopped trying.
As things moved on and Janne seemed to distance himself more from me and the outside world, I became worried. While he was still going to training, which in hindsight I should've stopped him from doing, Janne wasn't really interested in engaging in social situations. We started to argue more as Janne's moods changed. I insisted that he was keeping things from me, while he didn't see it the same way and kept saying he wanted to protect me and not burden me with all his issues.
As months went by, Janne was starting to feel better. He was still suffering from constant headaches, mood swings, light sensitivity and he was constantly frustrated as he was not as fit as he wanted and kept blaming people (me, doctors etc.) for holding him back. In fact every time we went to see the doctors for a control visit and when the answer was "It is going to take a lot of time" Janne would get really angry and depressed about it. I think deep down, where he kept saying he felt lost, he longed for normality again.
Our relationship also suffered. Yes we loved each other, but we were on autopilot mode. We would go through the motions but not really spend any quality time with each other. Janne kept saying he felt so lethargic and that he felt like he had lost himself.
I tried my best to support him the whole time, but I felt like I had no one to talk to about it. It almost felt like the concussion was stigma as others kept saying Janne looks fine, if maybe a bit depressed. I was too proud to admit to other people I was struggling with it as well. I just kept plodding along and kept telling myself things will get better and that the sparkle in his eyes I had fallen in love with would come back.
It has been a gruelling year marred with ups and downs. We have had to face up to the problems that the concussion caused on the long term. It wasn't just a knock that would've healed in a couple of weeks time, it took good 6-8 months for us to really get our lives back. During the time of the concussion and PCS we were drifting apart and we have had to work hard on our relationship to make sure that we are fine. We almost lost each other, but we have come out a lot stronger from it, so in a way it has had a positive impact on life, but it is something that I would never want to go through again.
However, every time Janne steps onto the ice, I'm scared that he will be seriously injured again and that we would have to endure the hell again. I was scared after his car accident that the concussion he suffered would set him back, but at least we both have learned valuable lessons from the last experience to better manage it. Where it doesn't seem as bad as the last one, I still have this constant worry over it.
I hope this helps people to realise that concussions and PCS have a major impact not just on the person but everyone around them. It's hard to cope with all the changes, but as long as you deal with them and don't ignore the "illness" you can get through it.


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|After withdrawing from the last two drafts, Vezenkov appears to be ready to make the jump from Europe to the NBA. Now 21 years old, Vezenkov has fine-tuned a long-range shot which should serve him just as well in the States as it did playing for Barcelona. The native of Cyprus has a quick release, excelling in catch-and-shoots and is also able to create a bit off the dribble. The son of a coach, Vezenkov shows excellent technique and has a high basketball IQ. He understands spacing on the court and is a solid ball handler. While he displays sound shooting and basketball instincts, it's uncertain how the rest of his game will translate, as his overall athleticism lags behind what you see in the NBA. He doesn't have a quick first step and doesn't possess a great deal of strength, and those deficiencies present big concerns when it comes to his defense. However, with his solid understanding of basketball principals and defensive rotations, he rarely gets caught out of position. Vezenkov doesn't have a huge upside but is an accurate shooter from deep who may be worth taking late in the second round.


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The Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) conveniently integrates numerous Big Data tools in the Hadoop ecosystem. As such, it provides cluster-oriented storage, processing, monitoring, and data integration services. HDP simplifies the deployment and management of a production Hadoop-based system.
In Hadoop, data is represented as key/value pairs. In HBase, data is represented as a collection of wide rows. These atomic structures makes global data processing (via MapReduce) and row-specific reading/writing (via HBase) simple. However, writing queries is nontrivial if the data has a complex, interconnected structure that needs to be analyzed (see Hadoop joins and HBase joins). Without an appropriate abstraction layer, processing highly structured data is cumbersome. Indeed, choosing the right data representation and associated tools opens up otherwise unimaginable possibilities. One such data representation that naturally captures complex relationships is a graph (or network). This post presents Aurelius' Big Graph Data technology suite in concert with Hortonworks Data Platform. Moreover, for a real-world grounding, a GitHub clone is described in this context to help the reader understand how to use these technologies for building scalable, distributed, graph-based systems.
The Aurelius Graph Cluster can be used in concert with Hortonworks Data Platform to provide users a distributed graph storage and processing system with the management and integration benefits provided by HDP. Aurelius' graph technologies include Titan, a highly-scalable graph database optimized for serving real-time results to thousands of concurrent users and Faunus, a distributed graph analytics engine that is optimized for batch processing graphs represented across a multi-machine cluster.
In an online social system, for example, there typically exists a user base that is creating things and various relationships amongst these things (e.g. likes, authored, references, stream). Moreover, they are creating relationships amongst themselves (e.g. friend, group member). To capture and process this structure, a graph database is useful. When the graph is large and it is under heavy transactional load, then a distributed graph database such as Titan/HBase can be used to provide real-time services such as searches, recommendations, rankings, scorings, etc. Next, periodic offline global graph statistics can be leveraged. Examples include identifying the most connected users, or tracking the relative importance of particular trends. Faunus/Hadoop serves this requirement. Graph queries/traversals in Titan and Faunus are simple, one-line commands that are optimized both semantically and computationally for graph processing. They are expressed using the Gremlin graph traversal language. The roles that Titan, Faunus, and Gremlin play in HDP are diagrammed below.
GitHub is an online source code service where over 2 million people collaborate on over 4 million projects. However, GitHub provides more than just revision control. In the last 4 years, GitHub has become a massive online community for software collaboration. Some of the biggest software projects in the world use GitHub (e.g. the Linux kernel).
GitHub is growing rapidly — 10,000 to 30,000 events occur each hour (e.g. a user contributing code to a repository). Hortonworks Data Platform is suited to storing, analyzing, and monitoring the state of GitHub. However, it lacks specific tools for processing this data from a relationship-centric perspective. Representing GitHub as a graph is natural because GitHub connects people, source code, contributions, projects, and organizations in diverse ways. Thinking purely in terms of key/value pairs and wide rows obfuscates the underlying relational structure which can be leveraged for more complex real-time and batch analytic algorithms.
GitHub provides 18 event types, which range from new commits and fork events, to opening new tickets, commenting, and adding members to a project. The activity is aggregated in hourly archives, [each of which] contains a stream of JSON encoded GitHub events. (via githubarchive.org)
The aforementioned events can be represented according to the popular property graph data model. A graph schema describing the types of "things" and relationships between them is diagrammed below. A parse of the raw data according to this schema yields a graph instance.
To integrate the Aurelius Graph Cluster with HDP, Whirr is used to launch a 4 m1.xlarge machine cluster on Amazon EC2. Detailed instructions for this process are provided on the Aurelius Blog, with the exception that a modified Whirr properties file must be used for HDP. A complete HDP Whirr solution is currently in development. To add Aurelius technologies to an existing HDP cluster, simply download Titan and Faunus, which interface with installed components such as Hadoop and HBase without further configuration.
5830 hourly GitHub Archive files between mid-March 2012 and mid-November 2012 contain 31 million GitHub events. The archive files are parsed to generate a graph. For example, when a GitHub push event is parsed, vertices with the types user, commit, and repository are generated. An edge with label pushed links the user to the commit and an edge with label to links the commit to the repository. The user vertex has properties such as user name and email address, the commit vertex has properties such as the unique sha sum identifier for the commit and its timestamp, and the repository vertex has properties like its URL and the programming language used. In this way, the 31 million events give rise to 27 million vertices and 79 million edges (a relatively small graph). Complete instructions for parsing the data are in the githubarchive-parser documentation. Once the configuration options are reviewed, launching the automated parallel parser is simple.
$ export LC_ALL="C" $ export JAVA_OPTIONS="-Xmx1G" $ python AutomatedParallelParser.py batch
The generated vertex and edge data is imported into the Titan/HBase cluster using the BatchGraph wrapper of the Blueprints graph API (a simple, single threaded insertion tool).
$ export JAVA_OPTIONS="-Xmx12G" $ gremlin -e ImportGitHubArchive.groovy vertices.txt edges.txt
Titan is a distributed graph database that leverages existing storage systems for its persistence. Currently, Titan provides out-of-the-box support for Apache HBase and Cassandra (see documentation). Graph storage and processing in a clustered environment is made possible because of numerous techniques to both efficiently represent a graph within a BigTable-style data system and to efficiently process that graph using linked-list walking and vertex-centric indices. Moreover, for the developer, Titan provides native support for the Gremin graph traversal language. This section will demonstrate various Gremlin traversals over the parsed GitHub data.
The following Gremlin snippet determines which repositories Marko Rodriguez (okram) has committed to the most. The query first locates the vertex with name okram and then takes outgoing pushed-edges to his commits. For each of those commits, the outgoing to-edges are traversed to the repository that commit was pushed to. Next, the name of the repository is retrieved and those names are grouped and counted. The side-effect count map is outputted, sorted in decreasing order, and displayed. A graphical example demonstrating gremlins walking is diagrammed below.
gremlin> g = TitanFactory.open('bin/hbase.local') ==>titangraph[hbase:127.0.0.1] gremlin> g.V('name','okram').out('pushed').out('to').github_name.groupCount.cap.next().sort{-it.value} ==>blueprints=413 ==>gremlin=69 ==>titan=49 ==>pipes=49 ==>rexster=40 ==>frames=26 ==>faunus=23 ==>furnace=9 ==>tinkubator=5 ==>homepage=1
The above query can be taken 2-steps further to determine Marko's collaborators. If two people have pushed commits to the same repository, then they are collaborators. Given that the number of people committing to a repository could be many and typically, a collaborator has pushed numerous commits, a max of 2500 such collaborator paths are searched. One of the most important aspects of graph traversing is understanding the combinatorial path explosions that can occur when traversing multiple hops through a graph (see Loopy Lattices).
gremlin> g.V('name','okram').out('pushed').out('to').in('to').in('pushed').hasNot('name','okram')[0..2500] .name.groupCount.cap.next().sort{-it.value}[0..4] ==>lvca=877 ==>spmallette=504 ==>sgomezvillamor=424 ==>mbroecheler=356 ==>joshsh=137
Complex traversals are easy to formulate with the data in this representation. For example, Titan can be used to generate followship recommendations. There are numerous ways to express a recommendation (with varying semantics). A simple one is: "Recommend me people to follow based on people who watch the same repositories as me. The more repositories I watch in common with someone, the higher they should be ranked." The traversal below starts at Marko, then traverses to all the repositories that Marko watches. Then to who else (not Marko) looks at those repositories and finally counts those people and returns the top 5 names of the sorted result set. In fact, Marko and Stephen (spmallette) are long time collaborators and thus, have similar tastes in software.
gremlin> g.V('name','okram').out('watched').in('watched').hasNot('name','okram').name.groupCount .cap.next().sort{-it.value}[0..4] ==>spmallette=3 ==>alex-wajam=3 ==>crimeminister=2 ==>redgetan=2 ==>snicaise=2
gremlin> g.V('name','okram').out('created').has('type','Comment').count() ==>159 gremlin> g.V('name','okram').out('created').has('type','Issue').count() ==>176 gremlin> g.V('name','okram').out('edited').count() ==>85
A few self-describing traversals are presented above that are rooted at okram. Finally, note that Titan is optimized for local/ego-centric traversals. That is, from a particular source vertex (or small set of vertices), use some path description to yield a computation based on the explicit paths walked. For doing global graph analyses (where the source vertex set is the entire graph), a batch processing framework such as Faunus is used.
Every Titan traversal begins at a small set of vertices (or edges). Titan is not designed for global analyses which involve processing the entire graph structure. The Hadoop component of Hortonworks Data Platform provides a reliable backend for global queries via Faunus. Gremlin traversals in Faunus are compiled down to MapReduce jobs, where the first job's
InputFormat is Titan/HBase. In order to not interfere with the production Titan/HBase instance, a snapshot of the live graph is typically generated and stored in Hadoop's distributed file system HDFS as a
SequenceFile available for repeated analysis. The most general
SequenceFile (with all vertices, edges, and properties) is created below (i.e. a full graph dump).
faunus$ cat bin/titan-seq.properties faunus.graph.input.format=com.thinkaurelius.faunus.formats.titan.hbase.TitanHBaseInputFormat hbase.zookeeper.quorum=10.68.65.161 hbase.mapreduce.inputtable=titan hbase.mapreduce.scan.cachedrows=75 faunus.graph.output.format=org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.SequenceFileOutputFormat faunus.sideeffect.output.format=org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.TextOutputFormat faunus.output.location=full-seq faunus.output.location.overwrite=true faunus$ bin/gremlin.sh ,,,/ (o o) -----oOOo-(_)-oOOo----- gremlin> g = FaunusFactory.open('bin/titan-seq.properties') ==>faunusgraph[titanhbaseinputformat] gremlin> g._().toString() ==>[IdentityMap] gremlin> g._() 12/12/13 09:19:53 INFO mapreduce.FaunusCompiler: Compiled to 1 MapReduce job(s) 12/12/13 09:19:55 INFO mapred.JobClient: map 0% reduce 0% 12/12/13 09:21:26 INFO mapred.JobClient: map 1% reduce 0% 12/12/13 09:21:36 INFO mapred.JobClient: map 2% reduce 0% 12/12/13 09:21:43 INFO mapred.JobClient: map 3% reduce 0% ... gremlin> hdfs.ls() ==>rwx------ ubuntu supergroup 0 (D) .staging ==>rwxr-xr-x ubuntu supergroup 0 (D) full-seq gremlin> hdfs.ls('full-seq/job-0') ==>rw-r--r-- ubuntu supergroup 0 _SUCCESS ==>rwxr-xr-x ubuntu supergroup 0 (D) _logs ==>rw-r--r-- ubuntu supergroup 243768636 part-m-00000 ==>rw-r--r-- ubuntu supergroup 125250887 part-m-00001 ==>rw-r--r-- ubuntu supergroup 331912876 part-m-00002 ==>rw-r--r-- ubuntu supergroup 431617929 part-m-00003 ...
Given the generated
SequenceFile, the vertices and edges are counted by type and label, which is by definition a global operation.
gremlin> g.V.type.groupCount ==>Gist 780626 ==>Issue 1298935 ==>Organization 36281 ==>Comment 2823507 ==>Commit 20338926 ==>Repository 2075934 ==>User 983384 ==>WikiPage 252915 gremlin> g.E.label.groupCount ==>deleted 170139 ==>on 7014052 ==>owns 180092 ==>pullRequested 930796 ==>pushed 27538088 ==>to 27719774 ==>added 181609 ==>created 10063346 ==>downloaded 122157 ==>edited 276609 ==>forked 1015435 ==>of 536816 ==>appliedForkTo 1791 ==>followed 753451 ==>madePublic 26602 ==>watched 2784640
Since GitHub is collaborative in a way similar to Wikipedia, there are a few users who contribute a lot, and many users who contribute little or none at all. To determine the distribution of contributions, Faunus can be used to compute the out degree distribution of pushed-edges, which correspond to users pushing commits to repositories. This is equivalent to Gremlin visiting each user vertex, counting all of the outgoing pushed-edges, and returning the distribution of counts.
gremlin> g.V.sideEffect('{it.degree = it.outE("pushed").count()}').degree.groupCount ==>1 57423 ==>10 8856 ==>100 527 ==>1000 9 ==>1004 5 ==>1008 6 ==>1011 6 ==>1015 6 ==>1019 3 ==>1022 9 ==>1026 2 ==>1033 6 ==>1037 4 ==>104 462 ==>1040 3 ==>...
When the degree distribution is plotted using log-scaled axes, the results are similar to the Wikipedia contribution distribution, as expected. This is a common theme in most natural graphs — real-world graphs are not random structures and are composed of few "hubs" and numerous "satellites."
More sophisticated queries can be performed by first extracting a slice of the original graph that only contains relevant information. These slices can be saved to HDFS for subsequent traversals. For example, to calculate the most central co-watched project on GitHub, the primary graph is stripped down to only watched-edges between users and repositories. The final traversal below, walks the "co-watched" graph 2 times and counts the number of paths that have gone through each repository. The repositories are sorted by their path counts in order to express which repositories are most central/important/respected according to the watches subgraph.
gremlin> g.E.has('label','watched').keep.V.has('type','Repository','User').keep ... 12/12/13 11:08:13 INFO mapred.JobClient: com.thinkaurelius.faunus.mapreduce.sideeffect.CommitVerticesMapReduce$Counters 12/12/13 11:08:13 INFO mapred.JobClient: VERTICES_DROPPED=19377850 12/12/13 11:08:13 INFO mapred.JobClient: VERTICES_KEPT=2074099 12/12/13 11:08:13 INFO mapred.JobClient: com.thinkaurelius.faunus.mapreduce.sideeffect.CommitEdgesMap$Counters 12/12/13 11:08:13 INFO mapred.JobClient: OUT_EDGES_DROPPED=55971128 12/12/13 11:08:13 INFO mapred.JobClient: OUT_EDGES_KEPT=1934706 ... gremlin> g = g.getNextGraph() gremlin> g.V.in('watched').out('watched').in('watched').out('watched').property('_count',Long.class) .order(F.decr,'github_name') ==>backbone 4173578345 ==>html5-boilerplate 4146508400 ==>normalize.css 3255207281 ==>django 3168825839 ==>three.js 3078851951 ==>Modernizr 2971383230 ==>rails 2819031209 ==>httpie 2697798869 ==>phantomjs 2589138977 ==>homebrew 2528483507 ...
This post discussed the use of Hortonworks Data Platform in concert with the Aurelius Graph Cluster to store and process the graph data generated by the online social coding system GitHub. The example data set used throughout was provided by GitHub Archive, an ongoing record of events in GitHub. While the dataset currently afforded by GitHub Archive is relatively small, it continues to grow each day. The Aurelius Graph Cluster has been demonstrated in practice to support graphs with hundreds of billions of edges. As more organizations realize the graph structure within their Big Data, the Aurelius Graph Cluster is there to provide both real-time and batch graph analytics.
The authors wish to thank Steve Loughran for his help with Whirr and HDP. Moreover, Russell Jurney requested this post and, in a steadfast manner, ensured it was delivered.
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Disabled woman sexually assaulted on video 'very traumatized,' lives in 'extreme fear,' detectives say
The disabled woman seen on a videotape being sexually assaulted is "very traumatized" over the incident and lives in "extreme fear" that her alleged assailants will strike again, according to detectives with the L.A. County Sheriff's Department.
Officials released details of an interview detectives had with the woman. Authorities did not release her name or the facility where the attack occurred, saying the woman wants her privacy.
"Her medical conditions have caused her to be physically defenseless; however, she was able to communicate with detectives," officials said in a statement. "Her interview Monday with sheriff's Special Victims Bureau detectives was very emotional and painful for her. Detectives described her as very traumatized. She is being provided with victim assistance."
Ernie Lloyd, 37, of Los Angeles, was arrested Saturday after he turned himself in to Los Angeles police in Hollywood in connection with the assault of an unidentified 25-year-old. The graphic video shows men having sex with women, many of whom appear to be disabled, with some in wheelchairs and wearing diapers.
But prosecutors said the tapes alone are not sufficient evidence, telling Sheriff's Department detectives that they need to provide more facts about the women's medical histories, level of disabilities and other information.
"In order to effect a filing, we would either have to prove that the victim did not consent to the sexual acts or she was unable to consent to the sexual acts," the district attorney's office wrote in a memo. "There is insufficient evidence to prove either of these theories beyond a reasonable doubt."
The Sheriff's Department did not directly comment on the district attorney's decision. But in a statement issued after prosecutors had turned back the case, sheriff's officials said they had gathered large amounts of evidence including an intensive interview with an alleged victim, who told them she was sexually assaulted at a residential care facility in Los Angeles.
The department said the woman specifically named Lloyd and a second suspect, Bert Hicks, as being among those who assaulted her, according to the statement. Hicks is already serving a state prison sentence.
Suspect in videos of disabled women being sexually abused is arrested in Hollywood
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Anonymous tipster who provided video of attacks on severely disabled women meets with detectives
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Photos: Ernie Lloyd, known to authorities as "Suspect #1," in video still at top and after being arrested Saturday. Photo credit: L.A. County Sheriff's Department.


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