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AS A REDSHIRT JUNIOR IN 2013: Played in 29 games…recorded 19 goals, 27 assists, and 14 field blocks…scored against LMU and Stanford…led Broncos with three goals against Fresno Pacific…two assists against Princeton.
AS A REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE IN 2012: Played in 25 games, tallying 37 attempts, 19 goals, 16 assists and six steals.
AS A REDSHIRT FRESHMAN IN 2011: Played in all 35 games and started in eight of them … totaled 15 goals, 13 assists, 8 steals, and 17 kick-outs in his first full season after redshirting as a freshman … scored his first career goal at No. 17 Princeton … collected one goal against MIT … notched two goals against Fordham … delivered one goal vs. West Valley … connected for one goal against La Verne … scored one of the Broncos' two goals against No. 3 Cal … added one goal at No. 11 UC San Diego … added two goals at Chapman … scored one goal in the consolation game of the WWPA Championships against LMU.
AS A FRESHMAN IN 2010: Redshirted the season.
HIGH SCHOOL: 2010 graduate of Cathedral Catholic High School in San Diedo, Calif. ... coached by Brett Ormsby and James Hamilton ... team won CIF Championship in 2009 ... academic All-American 2008-2010.
PERSONAL: Parents are David Kochalko and Mary Hayes ... has three sisters Anna, Sarah, and Katie ... major is Mechanical Engineering ... enjoys surfing, playing the piano, and playing the drums in his spare time.
Why Santa Clara? Santa Clara is a wonderful school with a great engineering program. I wanted to play water polo at a competitive college and this school was the perfect fit for me.


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ATLANTA (AP) Freshman R.J. Hunter poured in a career-high 38 points, including a school- and Colonial Athletic Association-record 10 3-pointers, as Georgia State dismantled Old Dominion 83-63 Saturday.
Hunter, the son of coach Ron Hunter, hit 10 of 15 3-pointers and scored the most points by any CAA player this season. It's the most by a Georgia State player since Anton Reese had 38 in 1998.
The Panthers (12-12, 7-4), who've won six of their last seven games, led 33-28 at halftime. In one 5-minute stretch of the second half, Hunter scored 19 straight Georgia State points on five treys, two foul shots and a dunk. He finished 12 for 18 from the floor.
Georgia State, which shot a season-high 53.8 percent (28 for 52), got 16 points from Manny Atkins.
Old Dominion (2-19, 0-9), which lost its ninth straight, was 4 for 21 on 3-pointers. DeShawn posted a 15-point, 14-rebound double-double.


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A man falls off his horse and, thanks to Junipero Serra, he gets up unscathed. A woman visits Serra's tomb in Carmel and something stirs her deeply, changing the course of her life. An alcoholic gives up drinking and credits Serra for seeing him through.
Junipero Serra: An article in Friday's Section A about efforts to canonize Junipero Serra, the Franciscan missionary, reported that the mission in Santa Barbara was one of the nine he founded in California before his death in 1784. The mission was the 10th established in California and was founded two years after Serra's death by his successor, Fermin Francisco de Lasuen. —
They all believed their experiences to be miraculous -- but none was deemed the miracle needed to lift Serra into sainthood, a goal church officials announced 75 years ago today, the 225th anniversary of his death.
Serra, the revered and reviled Franciscan priest who founded California's missions, has one officially recognized miracle to his name. A nun in St. Louis was healed of lupus after praying to him, leading to Serra's beatification in 1987.
But sainthood requires a second miracle, defined by the church as an event that cannot be explained by science but can be attributed to the candidate's intercession from beyond the grave.
Two years ago, Serra advocates thought they had found one. A Denver woman who had prayed to Serra delivered a healthy baby, despite a dire prognosis. The case went to Rome, but physicians for the Vatican concluded it was not a miracle.
Now there's another possibility. Sheila E. Lichacz, a Panamanian artist, has survived 14 brain surgeries for tumors called meningiomas, after being told time and again that she was dying. One-third of her skull was removed in surgery and replaced with acrylic plates. But they too were removed after causing life-threatening infections.
Now a large part of her brain is covered not by bone or plates, but only by flesh.
Yet at 66, she is exuberant and stylish. On a recent trip to Santa Barbara to confer with priests about her medical history, she wore a brilliant blue pantsuit with matching hat and turban, heavy silver chains and a black leather belt of her own design studded with 13 silver crucifixes. Her words tumble out in a cascade of religious fervor.
"Have you ever seen anything like this?" asks Lichacz, who still has four benign tumors in her head. "Have you? Brain surgery for 45 years? Blessed Junipero -- that poor man, he needs me. He gave it all, I'm telling you, and -- I'm not bragging -- I'm giving it all too."
Whether her story will reach the Vatican is an open question. The process of discerning miracles is grindingly meticulous and has become even more demanding as science explains once-mysterious phenomena.
Serra's top advocate is Father John Vaughn, a Franciscan priest who lives at the mission. Ten years ago, he was appointed Vice Postulator for the Serra Cause -- the fourth in a succession of priests charged with ushering Serra to sainthood.
"I felt honored; I felt humbled," says Vaughn, who, as former minister general of the Order of Friars Minor, led the world's 16,000 Franciscan monks for 12 years. "I guess I felt terrified too."
In his brown robe and rope belt, Vaughn walks slowly through the gardens and down the cool, 189-year-old corridors of Mission Santa Barbara. Now 81 and a stroke survivor, he is keenly aware that his job might outlast him. It took 755 years, after all, to canonize St. Bede.
In Serra's case, much of the heavy lifting has been done. Roman Catholic scholars spent 14 years scouring letters, diaries, church documents, biographies and accounts of those who knew him. They conducted research in 125 libraries. At hearings in California, they took testimony from about 50 descendants of the Indians who toiled at Serra's missions and the Spanish soldiers who guarded them.
Twice Serra's body was exhumed, as prescribed by church tradition, to ensure that he was still in his resting place. Hundreds of shavings from his bones were removed as relics to aid the faithful.
"All the groundwork has been laid," Vaughn said, leading a visitor into the mission's archives. On a wall, part of an embroidered vestment worn by Serra was displayed in a frame. In the vault, a death register written in Serra's bold hand told somber stories of early Santa Barbara; its first entry was for a child named Maria Antonia -- possibly the daughter of a Spanish soldier and an Indian mother -- who died Dec. 22, 1782.
On the shelves, volume after volume -- some 10,000 pages in all -- constitute the transumptum, the complete record of the case for Serra's sainthood.
Santa Barbara was one of nine missions he founded before his death in 1784. Serra, a native of Majorca, the largest island of Spain, evangelized for years in remote regions of Mexico. Seeking to convert as many Native Americans as possible, he hobbled through uncharted California on a painfully ulcerated leg, walking thousands of miles to establish religious communities. At one point, he walked back to Mexico to lobby for a decree barring soldiers from sexually abusing native women.
Yet in his missions, flogging and shackling were common punishments. Indians who left were pursued and brought back -- sometimes to die from European diseases that ran rampant.
The missions "almost failed to recognize inhabitants of this continent as being fully human," said Sister Kateri Mitchell, director of the Tekakwitha Conference, a Native American Catholic group.
Vaughn, who says that saints "are not perfect, but holy," has heard it all before. "You can't judge a 17th or 18th century figure by 21st century rules. How many of our Founding Fathers owned slaves?"
That argument has sparked dissent.
"Sainthood requires that Serra's experiences -- especially those with the California Indians -- transcend time and place," writes James A. Sandos, scholar of the Mission era at the University of Redlands. "Sainthood means that his is a universal example for all Catholics to follow."
In 1985, Pope John Paul II found that Serra had lived a life of "heroic virtue" and declared him "venerable." That triggered the hunt for two miracles -- one for beatification and one for sainthood.
The first was the healing of the St. Louis nun. Gravely ill in 1960, Sister Mary Boniface Dyrda knew nothing of Serra when a chaplain from California urged her to pray to him. Decades later, her recovery was evaluated by panels of physicians in St. Louis and Rome, and weighed by the 32 cardinals and bishops of the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints. In 1987, Pope John Paul II proclaimed the healing miraculous. Serra was beatified and made "Blessed Junipero Serra."
The final miracle has been elusive.
At one point, Serra advocates pinned their hopes on a Riverside County man with terminal pancreatic cancer. Inspired by the priest's image in a stained-glass window, he sought Serra's aid. He lived six years but died of a heart ailment before he could testify.
Then in 2007, the Denver woman's case looked promising. Suffering complications in pregnancy, she was told her baby would be severely disabled. The child was born healthy, but a Vatican medical review concluded the healing could have been natural.
Lichacz, the Panamanian artist, said she had no knowledge of Serra when she first felt his healing presence nearly 30 years ago.
She has always been deeply religious. Many of her paintings play on images such as the clay vessels at Cana, where Jesus is said to have turned water into wine. One work is on permanent display at Jerusalem's Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre; others have been exhibited at Harvard and the Smithsonian. Before beginning a canvas, Lichacz inscribes it in chalk with the letters AMDG, for Ad majorem Dei gloriam, or "to the greater glory of God."
Studying at a Catholic college in Texas, she was diagnosed at 21 with the first of her meningiomas.
Since then, her life has been punctuated by surgical procedures, severe headaches and the possibility of blindness and sudden death.
In 1979, she was in San Diego for a neurological exam. The evening before, she and her husband, John, a U.S. Air Force major now retired, prayed at Serra's Mission San Diego de Alcala.
"We both went through an ethereal experience," says Lichacz. "Something was calming us down so we could face what we had to face."
Sixteen years later, the couple flew from their part-time home in Miami to San Diego for another consultation.
On that trip, they visited Serra's mission at San Juan Capistrano.
"I saw his statue and for some reason I put my hands on his feet," recalls Lichacz. "I looked at him and said, 'Please take care of me.' And may God be my witness, I started walking back to the car and it was as if I was levitating. I didn't feel the ground. That's when I realized it was Junipero."
In the twilight hush of a chapel at Mission Santa Barbara, she slowly draws a cherished possession from her purse.
It's a quarter-sized gold locket bearing the red wax seal of the Franciscans. Inside is a grayish-brown fleck, a Serra bone chip given to her by a monk in Santa Barbara.
"He suffered so much," she whispers. "He's a saint. I know he's a saint."
A pamphlet promoting Serra's cause quotes an unidentified neurosurgeon expressing amazement that after so many surgeries, Lichacz "never suffered any neurological deficits nor psychological trauma . . . If this is not a miracle, then it must be proof that faith heals everything and makes one stronger."
If physicians consulted by Vaughn agree that science cannot explain Lichacz's relatively good health, he may have a tribunal take her testimony and scrutinize her medical records.
Then, the case would be sent to the Vatican, where the pope will have the last word.
Church officials won't speculate on the outcome for Lichacz.
"It's up to God," said Vaughn, "and other people."


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Editing FAT32 file attributes
Here's a quick and useful tactic for dealing with file attributes on FAT32 drives. I got the idea from this post on the Ubuntu blog
My new MP3 player (which I'll be blogging about when I have more time) uses a FAT32 filesystem. I needed to change the attributes on some of file attributes so that it would show the media folders but hide the system folders. Why I needed to do that is another story. Anyway, the point is that there was no obvious way to do this from Linux and since charging the MP3 player seems to reset these attributes, I didn't want to have to rely on a Windows machine being handy.
After way more Googling than I thought necessary, I discovered that you can do this with good old mtools. The really old-school people in the audience will probably remember them from the days when floppy disks were still in common use. Well, it turns out that they can be used with USB mass storage devices too.
The first step, after installing mtools of course, is to set up a drive letter for your USB device in your ~/.mtoolsrc file. This can be done by adding something like the following:
drive s: file="/dev/sdb1"
The first line associates the S: drive letter with the device file for my player. The mtools_skip_check line suppresses errors which, I believe, arise from the fact that this is a USB device, not an actual floppy disk. Either that, or there's something about the FAT that mtools doesn't like, but can still work with.
Once that's set up, I was able to simply use
mattrib to change the file attributes and [cdoe]mdir[/code] to show the attribute-sensitive directory listing. The actual commands look something like this:
mdir S:
mattrib +h S:/TMP
mattrib -h S:/MUSIC
Note the use of the S: drive letter to prefix paths on the root of the device. The
+h and
-h flags turn the hidden attribute on and off respectively. Also note that you can have the device mounted while doing this - mtools doesn't need exclusive access as far as I know.
Eventually, I'll be scripting this so that I can (hopefully) run it automatically after charging my player. Ideally, that script would include some HAL or udev magic to detect the dynamically assigned device node and add that to the mtoolsrc file. When I get around to writing that, I'll post the result.
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One thing that is useful to know in case the trainers come to you looking for help with their virus-addled USB drives. A fairly common thing these viruses do is mark the directories as hidden and then create files with identical names. It wouldn't be a big deal except the computers that are locked down administratively aren't allowed to show hidden files, so you have to use your own laptop. Naturally Linux completely ignores the "hidden" attribute on files, but you can use mtools to change the attributes, even on a USB drive, by creating a mtoolsrc file like this or, I think, directly using mattrib -i /dev/sdb1 or whatever. To remove system and hidden on everything, which is probably what you want to do: mattrib -S -H -/ S:/.Pingback: Diego Escalante Urrelo: Removing the hidden/system bit of vfat/fat32 files on GNU/Linux | Linux-Support.com
After some googling I got this solved by using mtools:Pingback: Removing the hidden/system bit of vfat/fat32 files on GNU/Linux | Diego Escalante Urrelo
After some googling I got this solved by using mtools:
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Editing FAT32 file attribute
well thanks I used that command it's been too long to remember.
i tried to search for it in the repository but without success
thanks for the tip.
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Great tip!
Thank you!
Although I had to cp /etc/mtools.conf to ~/.mtoolsrc, because it did not exist there.
This can be done much nicer using fatattr:
At least for Debian systems there is a package available.
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What is undercutting? I assume you are referring to the slab here?
QuotedWithout running the system long enough to cause undercutting you can't really tell without digging.
What are implications of a loop? How can I know if a loop was put in? If a loop was put in, what does this mean in rerouting the 3 lines found thus far? Will it do nothing?
QuotedOr your line may have been put in as a loop to help with pressure and flow.
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She hates that her "thighs jiggle".
She hates that her "belly sticks out".
She hates that she's "the biggest girl" in her class.
She wants to die and she's seven.
I've been waiting for this moment since the day I gave birth to a daughter. The day she inevitably starts hating herself. And here it was.
I felt sick. I still do. But, I was prepared.
Had this been any other night I would have sputtered and stammered for an appropriate response vacillating between understanding compassion and helpless frustration.
But THANK GOD I just happened to be up until 1:30 a.m. the night before reading an amazing book about how to raise confident daughters.
I immediately went into action.
I got down on my knees and took both her hands in mine. I looked at this gorgeous innocent little girl. The baby that I nursed the sleep. The toddler who gave herself kisses in the mirror, she loved herself so much.
This little girl who now needs to be led through the landmines of adolescence.
This little girl who will grow into the woman I shape.
I looked into her big green eyes and said "You're the most beautiful second grader in the whole world. Daddy and I love you very much and we will do whatever we can to make you feel better."
It was almost verbatim from the book. Give her hope, not answers.
She looked startled by my intensity. She immediately relaxed a little. Then she said quietly "I like myself. But then I look at other girls and think they're prettier and then I don't like myself anymore."
I can't tell her not to feel that way. I can't dismiss feelings she has at seven that I continue to struggle with at 32. I can't divulge that she will likely always battle with feeling this way. That this is being a girl. The constant struggle to love ourselves as we are while at the same time trying to figure out who that is.
I see being a girl in this world through her eyes all over agan - perfect models, plastic surgery, anorexia, bulimia, diet pills, suicide - and it shakes me to the core. I want a different world for her.
I remember being 12 years old. Sitting on my mom's bed as she folded laundry, I had just returned from the beach and I was complaning about my chubby body. I had spent the day in the sand under a towel eating all the snacks, completely intimidated by the bikinis around me.
My mom said all the right things ("you're beautiful...I was just like you at your age...it's baby fat"). Then I said the one thing that made her turn and look at me.
"But there are girls with perfect bodies."
I'll never forget. She looked at me with sadness. As if I had just discovered the secret she had been keeping from me. She said quietly and with great empathy "I know."
I don't know what I took away from that. But I felt like I saw something about my mother for the first time. My mother was a beautiful woman herself. But as often as she told me I was beautiful. I don't ever remember hearing her say she was.
And I can't say Savannah's story with her mother is much different.
How often has she heard me complain to my friends, my husband, my mother about my jeans not fitting, how much weight I've gained, foods I'm avoiding? How many times have I snapped at her in a fit of frustration because I'm once again naked in my closet throwing clothes around as if it's the end of the world that I'm up a size?
How confusing must it be for me to then turn to her and tell her to love herself as she is?
It stops today.
I knelt there in the bathroom in front of her, my baby. And I flashed on a quote from the book. Self-esteem can't be taught. You can talk all you want to your daughter, but it must be gained. Through accomplishments.
So I blurted out the first thing that came to my mind. "Do you want to take singing lessons?"
A smile immediately appeared. She brightened up. Yes! I'm a great singer, mommy!
With that, she turned to get ready for her bath, chirping to her dolls along the way. All was well again.
The next morning I decided to do something that always makes me feel beautiful. I took a yoga class. I pulled on some spandex, drove to the gym, and planted myself in front of the mirror to admire the 20 pounds I've put on since my last class 4 years ago.
I started to go through the stretches, reaching my arms to the sky, arching my back, feeling strong in my core.
By the end of the hour I lay there, eyes closed, as I followed the relaxation instructions. I let my breathing slow, I let my mind relax. I felt such pride and tenderness for myself. Because for the first time I was seeing my body as I wish for my daughter to see hers.
I refuse to send my daughter out into the world feeling less than. I refuse. Not without a fight.
Helpless to stop them, tears rolled down my cheeks. I felt strong. I felt beautiful.
And I pledged to bring that feeling home with me.
Dear kind emailers, the title misspelling was intentional. Clearly a FAIL at word play.
55 comments:
- Austin said...
Lena, this is a wonderful post! I've been reading you awhile now and this is my first time commenting. How could I not comment, when this is an issue I wonder about even though I don't have any daughters yet? I think you are exactly right - a girl's confidence is built by watching closely the women around her. Some of my most vivid childhood memories of my mother are ones where she lamented over her weight. It makes me sad that I am 24 and already doing the same thing.
I am inspired by your determination to love yourself so your daughter can grow up with a healthy example of what a woman's relationship with herself can be. Kudos to you! Savannah is a very lucky little girl.
- Austin said...
Oh, also. Can you give us the name of the book you read??
- DianaCLT said...
Beautiful, insightful, and something we can relate to, as always. Thank you for this! My daughter is only 2 1/2, but I already wonder and worry for her future. I don't want her to struggle as I always did and do, with appearances. So - I sit here reading this, and realizing that I really do need to make a change and take better care of myself. Not so I can fit into my jeans without a struggle, but so that my daughter can see me loving me enough to take care of me and feel good about me. So that she can learn that feeling good on the inside is more significant than looking good on the outside while feeling crappy. I'm not going to get the 24" waist back that I once had, but that doesn't mean I can't be healthy and FEEL confident and good about myself.
- lizzyval said...
Wow Lena, this was an amazing, heart tugging post. I got teary as this is at struggle I have at home with my 7 year old. Since getting pregnant with the child they told me I could never have, I sworn to myself that she wouldn't see me tear myself down, that she would never see my fear at groups of people, my low self esteem, etc. I think I've done pretty well; she tells me I'm beautiful, and I don't cringe or laugh it off (at least where she can see me).
This has been somewhat more of a challenge recently, as my husband has decided to leave me. To him I've gotten fat, haven't lost that baby weight "and really, don't you think that 7 years is a bit long to lose the extra pounds?". It must have been the first excuse he could come up with, as I'm a smaller size than I was when we met. But the problem is that he's now turned to making comments to my daughter about gaining weight, making her self conscious in that way I swore I wouldn't do.
Thankfully, at this current place in her life my daughter thinks she rocks the house, the world, and, well, that everything is about or for her in some way. She looks in the mirror and tells herself WOW, YOU LOOK AMAZING TODAY, and I'm so grateful for that! I don't think I could be as strong as you were, to handle it so wonderfully. I'm pretty sure if she said that something like that, I'd be in a puddle of tears, which I'm sure would only increase her inner self confidence demons. You should be so proud of yourself, you set a great standard. And you really need to let us know what book that was, to give you such wonderful mommy-power!
- Wahkonamama said...
Can I ask what book you were reading? My sister is trying to eliminate any negative body talk in her house, hoping to shield my sweetie-pie niece from the self-criticism cycle, and I know she'd love to find books on the subject.
- Wahkonamama said...
Gah, I forgot to post the rest of my comment. I often wonder if we're conditioned to self-criticize. It's a double-edged sword. If you're confident and self-loving (not narcissistic, just self-accepting), there is someone waiting in the wings to slap on a negative label (or maybe that's just a part of the uber-passive-aggressive culture of where I live).
- Mrs. Chicken said...
Beautiful and meaningful. A lesson for all of us with daughters. Thank you.
And yes, please share the book. My daughter is 4 and already she is refusing food when she is hungry. I need this book, and I needed this post.
- Mrs JP Chaos said...
Amazing. Completely amazing and so important for those of us with daughters.
I work so hard to make sure they are confident in who they are, and I LOVED reading this because it reminds me of how hard I've worked on myself, to love myself enough to show them the way. THAT is the hard part.
I really loved this post.
- twoboysmommy said...
Lena, you rocked it on this one. Living where we do it is especially hard to love ourselves and have a healthy relationship with our bodies. Unfortunately, it isn't just girls that suffer from the stress and anxiety of weight issues and how their size affects their acceptance in school and daily life. With two boys, I know well the same torment can pop up in their heads as it can for girls.
Savannah is a beautiful girl and blessed to have you for her mom!
- Heather said...
I love and relate to this post more than I'd like to admit. I have caught myself doing the same thing (pointing out all of my flaws) around my daughter and it has to stop. Thanks for sharing this, I needed to hear it.
Do you mind sharing the book you read?
- Petunia Face said...
This breaks my heart and gives me hope. I have a three year old and right after I write this I am going to go tell her how happy I am with myself. Just because.
True, she will look at me as if I'm crazy or seem not to hear me at all, but I'm doing it anyway.
- JachiCue said...
You know I just about cried when I heard my co-worker talking about how her 8 year old skipped dinner and opted for a piece of fruit and water instead because she was 'fat'. She was surprised, but just days before this co-worker was saying that she had skipped dinner and had fruit instead because she was trying to drop a few pounds.
You're absolutely right. We are the ones who mold our children.
Thank you so much for writing this. It's truly moved me.
- Anonymous said...
Good stuff here.
- Lena said...
The book is Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters by Joann Deak. All kinds of awesome.
@Anonymous - Great site. I'm following her on Twitter now. Thanks!
- Lori said...
Thanks for this post. It was exactly, exactly what I needed to read tonight, as I sit here with sore eyes from crying after having a night like this with my almost 6 yr old. Except I haven't been enlightened by these books yet. Off I go to the bookstore! Thank you.
- lynn @ human, being said...
Have you seen that Dove Evolution video on Facebook yet? It's something all moms and daughters should see, because it speaks to the unrealistic expectation of beauty we have today.
The other day, I took Lauren to the water park. She wanted to wear her bikini. Lauren is a big girl, chubby. She's also very tall--4-10 and she's only 8. So, we're at the water park and she's have a great time, and as usual, she's making new friends. And then, she's sitting in front of me crying quietly. She doesn't want to tell me what happened, just needs me to hold her. I know exactly what happened. Those kids told her she was too fat to wear a bikini. I know this, because she wanted to know where her rash guard was. I wanted to go over to those kids and shake them, point out THEIR flaws--and hey, little boy, let me see your penis so I can tell you how small it is and always will be. And you, skinny blonde girl? Your eyes are too close together and your nose is too big. You're "almost cute," and boys will fuck you when you're 13 and dump you.
Yes, I'm horrible, but those kids? Just as horrible. Of course I didn't say those things to them. Instead I found Lauren's shirt and helped her pull it on over her wet skin. "I just don't want to get sunburned, Momma," she told me.
- Hall Family in MD said...
Great post. I am struggling with the same thing with my daughter. The only difference is that she has a bst friend who is built just like her, so she doesn't seem to care as much which is great, but I do. And I worry about when she will come to me like Savannah did to you. ((Hugs)) Know you are alone and that you did great!
- bold said...
Lovely. Brava to you.
- SuzyB said...
Beautiful post, my daughter is going through the same thing and like you say, no matter how many times we tell them they are beautiful and gorgeous as they are, they need to believe it themselves.
Kids can be so cruel to each other at this age, its heartbreaking when she comes home and points out what she thinks are huge flaws and each time it happens it knocks her confidence just that little bit more. I think to myself, I dont want people like that to be her role models anyway, she has a best friend in me and together we'll get through it all x
- MichelleRenee said...
I just love this one. You did a great job on such a emotional subject.
My eldest was a happy (yet very chubby) little girl. About second grade she started to HATE herself and her weight.
It made me sick how sad she was. I focused on the positives, bought clothes for her that covered, but were in style.
Then one day she grew. OMIGOD she grew. She is now 5 inches taller than me and everything evened out.
But she remembers.
- kdiddy said...
oof. I can only imagine the gut punches from having a conversation like that with your baby. I know that I started hating my body around Savannah's age and it only recently occurred to me how fucked up that is. my son is 7 and there's nary a thought toward his appearance. it's amazing what different lives they lead.
you did great, mama. I'm so proud of you. *hugs*
- Julie @ The Mom Slant said...
I can identify, almost to the letter, with this post. Problem was, at my house, nobody said the right things.
Savannah is lucky to have you.
- Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah said...
This is so painful to read, because it is so real.
I hate my body and I try to hide it from my daughter. I don't want her to have to go through the mental anguish I live with.
- mouthy_broad said...
good job. good good stuff.
- Terri Jones said...
How wonderful you discover this at age 32. I remember my mom putting down her looks when I was little. And what a great lesson to turn the subject away from her looks and onto her singing talent. It's a long hard road ahead when it comes to our looks but let's hope it's the road not taken.
- Janice Ellen Wright said...
You're such a beautiful person. Inside and out.
- Anonymous said...
I strongly recommend you look at this website www.girlsontherun.com and see if there is an organization in your area. It's a non-profit self-esteem building program which is amazing!
- Mel said...
Such a powerful post! Savannah is one lucky girl to have you for a Mommy! Something I heard (probably on Oprah!) that has always stuck with me is little girls need to hear and see confident mommies. Something as simple as primping in the mirror and saying to your daughter, "Look how nice my hair looks today. Doesn't Mom have nice hair?" She'll see you liking something about yourself. I think about my own mom and all the ways she put herself down. I would have loved to hear her compliment herself!
- Laurie said...
I did not begin my trip into physical self-loathing until I was 11 years old. I do not have children. It still makes me sad to hear how much earlier it seems to start for young girls now. Horrible.
You will help her. You can't deprogram all the craziness out there but how you are communicating with her and supporting her will help her so much.
Sigh...crazy world.
- mori said...
It's so sad this starts earlier and earlier with our little girls.
BUT you said/did the right thing.
Us mothers have to love ourselves and be comfortable in our skins so our daughters can do that same.
And we can redefine what is beautiful.
Self confidence and being happy with who we are is just as beautiful (if not more so) than some women with the 'perfect' bodies, makeup,hair, etc. I've seen those women and they look great but some act pitiful. What is the image we feel pressured to aspire to?
And you know our little girls with the baby fat and poochie tummies need to know that that is nature's way of preparing them for womanhood. Remember how we loved it when our babies were chubby? well, that fat was there for a reason. Babies grow 'out' and then 'up'. The same applies (within reason) to our pre-teen and pre-tween girls.
WE really have to love ourselves - whether we are skinny, athletic, curvy, heavy, etc. It does not matter. A standard is just a standard and we need to let our girls know that if they don't meet those standards...so what? We gotta find a way to make ourselves and society understand beauty is in the eye of the beholder. so when our girls do 'behold' themselves in the mirror they see beauty.
We have to love ourselves first before we can teach our girls to love themselves.
Great blog! You are a wonderful mother and your daughter is so lucky to have you for a mom!
- Lena said...
@Lynn @ Human, Being:
I have.
- The Girl Revolution said...
We talk about this a lot at The Girl Revolution. I call it mother-daughter emotional osmosis. They inherit our body-feelings.
Of course, you did exactly the right thing by taking action by going to yoga yourself. If they're going to inherit our feelings, the goal is then to change our feelings to be more positive about our own bodies.
- Crystal said...
I thought this was a wonderful entry. I have daughters myself ages 8 and 6. I see them as any mother sees their child as beautiful wonderful little girls. But I also see the effect that growing up is having on my older daughter. The need to wear the right clothes and have her hair done just so, all in an attempt to fit in and look just like the other girls in her class.
Being a parent is a very scary thing and I think being a mother with daughters is even scarier. We project on them our own insecurities and struggles with weight and body image. I want my girls to grow into strong confident women and I hope I do my best to help them get there.
- Stephanie Melton said...
This is a beautiful post. She is so lucky to have such an amazing, flawed mother, so that she will always know it is ok to be flawed! You are a terrific mom and wife from what I can see. We all struggle with weight/body image and it means a lot to be able to pull up your blog and see that someone as smart, beautiful and funny as YOU can deal with this in such an honest manner.
- mpotter said...
oh, i'd love to know the book you read. i fear this for my own little girl. i have never had self-esteem. and i don't know where it should come from....
but i do know if there's ANYTHING i can do to help littlebean, i certainly will.
because living a life w/o it has totally sucked!
- Liana said...
De-lurking to say: Beautiful!!! Brought tears to my eyes.
Thank you for this.
- Nichole said...
Yes...exactly. I just hope that I have the strength & grace to react as well. I habitually lurk on lots of blogs (Google reader helps that), but this post made me need to comment. Just...thank you!
- Anonymous said...
ROLE Model
- Lena said...
@anon: Yes, it's called a play on words. I'm sort of a wizard that way.
- Linsey said...
I love this post. I always worry so much about my sweet little girl. I know she hears what I say about myself, I need to change that. You inspire me.
- Deb said...
Fabulous post. This is my first visit to your blog and I am glad I came by.
When I found out that my baby to be was a girl I made a list. A lists of things that I will and will not do for her well being. Never putting myself down or complaining about my looks or weight was #1 on that list. I grew up and struggled with low self esteem, not because I lacked anything, looks, intelligence or anything else for that matter, it was because my mother had no self esteem. She was as supportive as any mother could have been, but the words she spoke to herself were so much more powerful than the words she spoke to me.
It is so important to realize how easily we can pass these things along to our children without even realizing it. Your post does a fantastic job of bringing this to light.
- Anonymous said...
I feel for you. I'm raising my daughter to be strong and confident and to love her body, but living in OC, I know one day she will feel the temptation to starve herself to oblivion as I did when I was young. UGH. And it's not just here. My DH is from Paris and it's even worse there. :(
I hate how girls feel that they are fat if they aren't skin and bones.
- Relyn said...
This is beautiful. Powerful and wise. I have to ask. What book??
- Traci said...
Oh WOW! I struggle with this same thing every day. I also have a daughter who is 7, I always try to say the right things but I am afraid she sees through me. I grew up with a mother who was a model and never weighed over 103. I think I crossed 100lbs before I was out of elementary school. At the ripe old age of 35 I have reached a plateau now which is only a size 10/12 but I still would love to drop 20lbs.
My daughter loves Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato & Selena Gomez but they are all very naturally tiny, I just hope I am reaching her when I tell her that being beautiful is all about being beautiful on the INSIDE.
- Serenity Now! said...
I love how you handled this. And thank you for writing this because my daughter is three and you may have just helped the both of us... and can you tell me which book you were reading?
- Serenity Now! said...
Oh haha... i just had to read the comments to find the name of the book. :)
- Lin said...
I'm de-lurking to tell you that this post was posted on a day that helped to inspire this: http://becominglovely.blogspot.com/2009/09/on-how-to-be-lovely.html
Hope you don't mind the reference, I tried to keep it vague, but this post was so touching. It just added to the thoughts I was already having and I really hope to make something of the blog that will be helpful and uplifting. Thank you for sharing!
- Anonymous said...
You may want to look again at your blog title "Does this blog make me look fat?"
- Linda E. said...
Where art thou Cheeky Lotus?
- CharmingPixieFlora said...
Lena!!! I love this post! I am a long time follower, but first time commenter. I am 34 and have two boys. Even boys start commenting about how the other boys are taller, stronger, etc.... Reading this made me tear up in admiration and confidence.
Hugs and much love to you sister!!!
- Tom said...
I got the word play in the title after about two sentences. So it wasn't a complete failure. I like your blogs, and this was a very very nice one. Something this fellow who wants to be a dad will make a point to remember.
- Mr Lady said...
Oh, damn, dude.
That's the best I've got. Well, except I bet your kid is going to be just fine. Way to be a good mom.
- Graham said...
Oh haha... i just had to read the comments to find the name of the book. :)
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My constituent David Sason has a cover story in the Bohemian this week about the rampant homophobia in reggae music, tracing it to the sources in Jamaica and examining the cultural roots of hatred. It's worth a full read, and when you're done, there's even more here.
Dancehall artist Beenie Man has a quote in the article:
Beenie Man proudly performs his controversial songs, including "Damn," which has him "dreaming of a new Jamaica" where he can "execute all gays."
But perhaps it's just a matter of semantics. In a 2006 statement, Beenie Man explained his point of view: "Jamaica is not against gay people. Gay means consented sex. What we have in Jamaica is not what it is in England, where two men live together. That's not it in Jamaica, and these people fail to understand that. In Jamaica, gay is rape. It's a big man with their money going into the ghetto and picking these little youth who ain't got nothing. And then give them money and then involving them.
"There were 550 youths who got raped inna Jamaica, you know? And nobody seems to speak of that. Nobody sees the youth get raped and throat cut because the man who raped him, he knows him, and he doesn't want him to go back and say he did it. And these things still happening."
Obviously, Beenie Man is a confused individual with no proper set of logic and probably, I'm guessing, no gay friends. His explanation is about as preposterous as myself saying, "Santa Rosa is not against Canadians. Canadian means nice person. What we have in Santa Rosa is not like other places. In Santa Rosa, Canadian means fucking asshole. 550 youths were beat up by fucking assholes. Nobody seems to speak of that. All these fucking assholes are still around. That's why I have a song called 'Canadians Are Fucking Assholes.'"
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I've had people say for months that there were problems with the Contact Form, and I have no idea why… it seems like 100 people get it to work fine one day, and then the very next morning I see at least three comments from people who say it wouldn't work for them.
I have no idea how many people might have tried contacting me, had it fail, and just gave up, and I don't know what's wrong with the plugin, so I updated the Contact page with an email address. I'll leave that up until someone that knows what the heck they're doing can look at the Contact Form code.
I like the Contact Form, because when I get the email, I can see from the formatting it's from the blog and it makes it past my spam filters 100% of the time.
Anyway, so there is that.
The other thing is, I just wanted to say that when I went to bed last night, I had some serious doubts as to whether or not I was coming back today.
This blogging has always been, to me, about having fun chatting with friends, and sharing things with friends that I think are cool in WoW.
When I started the blog, it grew out of posting long rants and stuff in a small Yahoo group of just my few friends in our WoW guild, and it grew from there into a blog that was still just the same people, and maybe a handful more that BRK sent to me because he mentioned me once a long time ago.
As things have grown and changed, intellectually I've known that more people have been reading, but emotionally, I've always felt that my audience, the folks that visit here, are just part of my circle of friends.
That's why I share everything that I do about what's going on in my life. It's why I post some of the things that, in hindsight, readers of a 'feral druid blog' probably think are just… stupid, and a waste of your time.
I see a funny WoW related vid, and think "Oooh I bet my friends would get a kick out of that."
I shared my PBeM game that Manny and James and I have been playing in the same spirit of wanting to share something I'm proud of with my friends.
Even writing for WoW Insider… I was incredibly surprised to be asked to do that. And I have written very differently over there, because I do not feel my audience over there is made up solely of friends, I feel it is made up of mostly serious players looking for advice, tips and strategies. So I write serious Druid stuff for the most part, and I take making my articles valuable to the Druid community seriously when I write for them.
But it still felt like, the players that read over there are more the 'norm' of strangers looking for tips, and that when I come back here to blog, it's back to chatting with friends. I think my biggest mistake there was putting a link to my blog in the articles.
The events of the last few days, the teeny bit of stuff in the public comments and the deluge of SHIT on my email, has brought that house of cards crashing down.
I no longer feel like I'm just chatting with friends. After some of the shit I've read in my email, I'm sorry, but emotionally… it's a bunch of faceless strangers staring at me and judging me and my life.
TJ has chatted with me in the past, and she's tried to beat into me this thing about how big I am in blogging for WoW, and that I must be doing this for fame or I wouldn't be doing it in the first place, and I never understood what she was saying. I just didn't get it. I'm chatting with friends, I was doing it when there were 3 other people reading it, nothing has changed since then except I've got more friends now. Who gives a shit about being famous? What am I, Britney Spears? I don't THINK so, thank you very much.
But… now I see what she meant. If I'm not doing all this for fame, then what reasonable person puts themselves out there like this in front of total strangers that have no problem ripping you apart in a personal manner, in the foulest of language, in personal emails, apparently trying to 'win' the internet.
So… I don't know.
I do know that I went to bed last night pretty much thinking that I was done. This morning, I saw that I had a bunch of smart advice and nice words from folks that I do think of as friends posted about the MgT run, and that plus a couple of emails from other WoW friends just saying 'hi' helped remind me that everyone I like is still here… it's just that there are a bunch of OTHER folks here too.
I need to remember that I'm not just chatting with friends, put that knowledge in a compartment, and then forget it. My friends are what it's about, and screw the rest of the people that have nothing better to do with their lives than… screw it. They're not worth my time.
Please bear with me a bit, because it's gonna take me a while to regain my sense of humor about this.
I'm thinking of it like this… where before, I felt like I invited some friends over to my house, and we were all hanging out and chatting in the comfort of the living room… now, I feel like I went out to a bar, and invited a bunch of friends over, and we're sitting there having a few pints and chatting and having a great time… but the bar is crowded, and there are plenty of people standing around our table, just standing and wathcing, close enough to overhear, and bored. And listening to us is a good way to pass the time as they have a few drinks.
And they're not really our friends, and they don't really give a shit… but if they hear something someone says they disagree with, they'll sure as hell make sure we know it.
It's not that big a deal… I just gotta remember that I don't give a shit what the strangers think… it's all about what my FRIENDS think.
Yeah, if I was as emo now as I was in High school, I'd pull out the Violent Femmes and spin "Good Feeling". Oh, boo hoo.
As it is… I'ma gonna go play. Damn it, it's late enough in the morning that I bet the good easy farming of ore is gone! Crap!
My friends, thank you for being you, and I am grateful that you made for me this imaginary little dream world where I thought everyone in the entire world that I knew was cool… whether you ever commented or hung out and had fun, you each know who you are, you are what has made this so much fun for the last year, and each and every one of you rocks. Thank you for being awesome.


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Monkey is 4 months old now. It's hard to believe, and I keep squeezing him extra tight and enjoying that delicious baby smell because I know that the newborn days are flying by. Each passing day is bittersweet– it is wonderful to watch him grow and thrive, but I miss some of his itty bitty baby behaviors. I took these pictures early this evening.
Monkey is such a happy baby. He is a joy to be around:
He is such a smiley boy– he loves to laugh. Frog was much harder to make smile.


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Your peace of mind is vital to us, and we take your security very seriously. This website holds a valid and updated SSL secure certificate for payment processing via sage pay,one of the worlds biggest and trusted payment gateways, which means all your details are encrypted and protected at all times.
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Over the years, we all receive many less-than-memorable gifts. They end up in a closet or buried in the basement and soon we forget all about them. But every once in a while, there's that one gift that stands out among the rest-something truly special. Bob Bertelsen's '67 Camaro has come a long way since rolling off the assembly line in 1966. It was then that this convertible became part of his family
and eventually Bob's pride and joy.
In 1966, Bob's father bought his wife a very special Christmas present-this then-new '67 Camaro convertible would be her first new car
When it came time for Bob and his sister to get behind the wheel, the
convertible was theirs to learn on until it was parked in 1978. Bob's father
had every intention of restoring the Camaro once he retired, but after being
untouched for 13 years, the F-body would be a Christmas gift once again. With
the torch now passed from father to son, Bob decided it was time to breathe
some new life into this family heirloom.
The first round of resto found Bob's ragtop sporting all new GM sheetmetal. Dressed in stock trim, the Camaro netted some trophies at a few local shows before being parked once again in 1996. Fast-forward 10 years: A road trip sparked a renewed interest for Bob, and his '67 was once again brought to the forefront. "I originally thought I would just freshen up the car
new paint, a couple of suspension upgrades, and an overdrive
transmission," Bob says. "Then I thought I needed to exceed my last
Camaro, which won national awards. I couldn't go backwards."
The revamping started with the exterior and the ponycar was quickly mounted on a rotisserie. With the help of his friend Tom McKenzie, Bob media blasted the bottom side of the car and began fabricating and test fitting the new wheel tubs, subframe and frame connectors, along with the new custom tailpanel. The front and rear bumpers were cut and narrowed to provide a better fit before the boltholes were filled for a smooth appearance, and once the fabrication was complete, the bumpers were sent out for chrome plating. The factory door handles gave way to new units normally found on the Buick Lacrosse, and the emblem and molding holes were filled completing the metal work.
With the sheetmetal having been replaced in 1992, bodywork was kept to a minimum and Bob laid down the Sherwin Williams primer in preparation for the new silver hue that was soon to come. With the help of Rick DeSalvo, the body was blocked, leaving every panel straight and ready for color. With basecoat and clearcoat now covering the car, Bob and Rick finish-sanded and buffed the body, bringing out a mirror-like finish.
Now that the body was in line, Bob shifted his attention to the suspension. The front and rear subframes from Chris Alston's Chassis Works were prepped and treated to charcoal powdercoat, custom made at A Plus Powder Coaters to match the stripe on the hood. With the powdercoat complete, and the subframes back in the car, Bob started assembling the rest of the Chris Alston's suspension and air ride system from Air Ride Technologies. The Air Ride Shockwave system cushions the front and rear suspension and gives this Camaro the sleek, low look Bob was after.
Wilwood six-piston brakes reside up front, while its four-piston counterparts sit in the rear. The beefy binders lay-in-wait just in case Bob needs to bring the good times to a timely halt. As soon as Bob decided Trial wheels from I Forge wrapped in BFGoodrich rubber would be this Camaro's new shoes, Tom went to work narrowing and mounting the Fab-9 rearend housing from Chris Alston's Chassis Works completing the rear suspension.
With the drivetrain now at the forefront of the build, Bob turned to Schafiroff Race Engines to handle the task of making power. The Little M Dart block is the base for 406ci of Chevy power. An Eagle 4340 forged steel crankshaft uses Eagle H-beam rods to move the forged Mahle pistons producing 10.3:1 compression under the Canfield cylinder heads. A Comp Cams camshaft manipulates the valves inside the heads allowing the air/fuel mixture and exhaust in and out. Induction is handled by an 800-cfm Edelbrock carburetor, which sits on top of an Edelbrock Performer RPM intake manifold. Exhaust gasses escape through a set of long-tube headers and full custom exhaust with 40-series Flowmaster mufflers.
Power is transferred through a 2,400-stall speed TCI converter to a TCI 4L60E four-speed automatic transmission while Moser axles and 3.55 rear-end gears handle the duty of getting power to the hides out back. A TCI Outlaw shifter sits in the console while a Twist Machine paddle-shifter assembly handles the task of controlling the ups and downs of the gearbox.
As the project was seemingly coming to a close, one area was still left unattended. The interior needed to be customized in a way that reflected the overall attitude this '67 now emits. For this, Krist Kustom Interiors of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was called into action. Optimum leather from Sherwin Williams wraps the seats, door panels, and custom center console, and Auto
gauges help Bob keep an eye on everything happening under the hood. A Kenwood
CD/DVD player provides a little extra entertainment for the other passengers
Nine months of custom work was well worth it. Bob's dream car has gone from a drawing to reality, and it all started with a Christmas gift.source: http://www.superchevy.com/features/camaro/sucp_0906_1967_chevy_camaro/viewall.html
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text: You do not need any adaptor to connect to this valve so the point 1 is irrelevant. As long as you have a pump with a hose you can inflate it. And I don't think the point 2 is a good one, you should make a survey about that but less is better so if you have one great valve that can inflate/deflate you should not keep an other one that will never be used and is a source of eventual problem. That is just my personal opinion, try to do a survey about the need for the second old type valve.


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How secure is your online identity? Did you know that identity theft is more easily and more frequently perpetrated on the Web than it is in the physical world? The biggest reason this is true is because physical access to documents, face-to-face conversations, and in-country mailing addresses are not required, and attackers can be located anywhere in the world. As a result, online accounts are targeted for a variety of reasons by many skilled attackers in many countries.
So what can you do to keep yourself safe from being hacked or having your identity stolen? This slideshow features seven tips, identified by Shuman Ghosemajumder, vice president of strategy at Shape Security, to help keep you from being hacked and losing your identity online.
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O'Play necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 176 diseños de 41 diseñadores freelance.
Cafe O'Play
We are a new concept to our city. A coffee shop where parents can go to get a coffee and relax while their 0 to 6 year old get to run and play! We are going for a cozy modern feel with modern amenities! We also have a section of our business reserved for people without children.
Our target market is anyone wanting a good cup of coffee in a nice setting. It is for that reason we don't want our logo to cater to the children.
We want classy, contemporary, modern and trendy.
The wording must read Cafe O'Play. All logos, fonts and colors should be made to translate to various media and materials. Feel free to experiment with color.
We are looking to incorporate a symbol into our name that is easy to reproduce on it's own also. The symbols should capture the name and the concept.
It all needs to be clean, easily readable and recognizable. Nothing too fancy.
We like white space so it doesn't need to be filled up with color.
No clip art or stock imagery.
Good luck and thank you!
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OTTAWA, ONTARIO and MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Feb. 20, 2013) - Maplesoft and Alphinat (TSX VENTURE:NPA) today announce they have signed a reseller agreement for the commercialization of Alphinat's SmartGuide® and SmartGuide® PaaS Edition software.
As part of this agreement Maplesoft will market and provide technical expertise to implement SmartGuide solutions to clients in need of efficient deployment of user-centric online services that leverage existing IT solutions and investments.
"We're pleased to be able to leverage SmartGuide's industry leading technology for our clients that wish to automate the front-end delivery of their entire online services application process", said Carl Nappert, Maplesoft Executive Vice President. "Alphinat SmartGuide provides us with a proven technology to rapidly deliver online services for our clients with applications rendered on multiple devices and platforms".
SmartGuide was developed by Alphinat to help clients address the uncertainty of end-user adoption of applications - and therefore the risk to the return on investment - on all new projects, especially processes that involve complex and rapidly changing needs in markets and regulated environments. The SmartGuide software suite provides clients with an agile and flexible development tool that allows service aggregation with rapid deployment and high probability of satisfied user outcomes for WEB consolidation and mobile renderings in a single development process.
"We are very pleased to be working with Maplesoft and their team of experts in innovative solution implementation" said Curtis Page, Executive Vice President and COO of Alphinat. "This agreement underlines our commitment to work closely with our partner and help them provide new productivity tools to leverage existing IT investments and be ready for next generation Cloud computing platforms with a best of breed technology to manage their enterprise business processes."
About Maplesoft
Maplesoft provides it clients world-class Systems Integration, helping clients successfully execute their business strategies, create value and achieve measurable results through the innovative and collaborative delivery of professional consulting services and technology-enabled solutions.
Maplesoft helps drive growth and innovation. We differentiate through our dynamic approach to business, as we focus on exceptional customer service, deep industry experience, best-in-class technology partnerships and quality talent to help our clients gain competitive advantages in today's increasingly volatile and competitive landscape. For more details about Alphinat or its software suite, please visit http://www.maplesoftgroup.com
About Alphinat
Alphinat provides SmartGuide a leading Web, Portal and Cloud Solution Development Platform that enables organizations to easily create, deploy and manage intelligent and personalized web applications. It provides organizations with the agility to quickly deliver efficient online services to all their stakeholders while unleashing the full value of existing corporate IT assets.
Alphinat technology can benefit organizations of all sizes and industries by helping them modernize, automate and render cost-effective a number of business processes at a fraction of the cost associated with conventional customized solutions. For more details about Alphinat or its software suite, please visit www.alphinat.com
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In 1998, two teams of physicists looking at distant supernovae noticed something surprising--the supernovae were not only moving outwards but also accelerating. These observations have won three Americans the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. Nobelist Adam Riess discusses how physicists are now looking at the universe.


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This function prints a call-graph for the profile data collected to the stream specified by the stream keyword argument. The default value of the :stream argument is *standard-output*.
The name keyword argument, if provided, specifies the
function for which information is requested. If the
keyword argument is not specified or is specified
nil, information on
all functions will be printed. The value of the
name keyword
argument should be a symbol (that is the argument must evaluate to a
symbol) or a compiled function object if you want information on a
Lisp function. The value should be a string if you want information on
a C function or a Lisp runtime system function.
The current-profile keyword argument specifies the profile data to be displayed. If no value is specified, data from the last-run profile will be displayed. If a value is specified, it must be a profile saved with save-current-profile, in which case data from that profile will be displayed.
The verbose
keyword argument controls whether or not
messages about the progress of the analysis are printed to
*standard-output*. The messages will be printed if the value is
true and they will not be printed
if the value is
nil. The value
defaults to
nil. (Note that in the default,
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result are printed to *standard-output* so if you rebind
*standard-output* to be a stream open to a file, the messages will be
printed to the file as well.)
This function returns no value.
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then profiling will be stopped and analysis and display of the
results will occur. The status of that profile (as returned by profiler-status) will then be
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The Overall Of This Contemporary Dream House Design Is Very Impressive
We have seen many home designs that have incredible scenery around. Starting from the beach, the ocean, the desert, the mountains to the ocean. Beautiful scenery it also requires a design house that is located in spots that are around the object earlier. For example, homes with ocean views. This house must be located on the beach or a definite shore. This time we will not discuss it again, we will go to the forest to see the design of a house that is very modern there. Do not believe it? Let's check them all.
The house with its large and well-equipped glass on the windows design is really fantastic. The design is minimalist but looks very charming. In the front of the house, large black wooden pillars adorn the walls. Combined with white on the walls of the room, I think this is a very beautiful blend. This two flooring house according to its location, filled with green plants that seen almost all over the house. Fresh green plants and beautiful that adds a natural feel increasingly felt.
What's so interesting about this house is its modern design that is actually not even located in urban areas. Look at an outdoor mini dining. Design of this dining without a roof is really beautiful. Dining furniture is fitted with a white overall. Look at the dining chairs that are a simple structure with chair legs unique. In front of the three seats, it contained a table as that hbig enough size yet with an elegant white color. Dining is located on a deck with wood flooring. Next to it, there is a fairly large glass with wooden frame next to it. I am sure if it is the entrance to the room in the house.
Green plants are not only consist outside the house, look at a living room with blue sofa that has enough length size. The living room also has accents of green plants in pot that is really beautiful. Trees that size is not too big adds a beautiful atmosphere increasingly felt. As I said before, if this house has a modern design. Evidenced by the living area which is made up of a lot of furniture. The living room is very cozy feel with beautiful sofas in black and white. Do you agree with me?Read more »


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This is way over my head. Help?
What are the answers to these questions and why?
I'm trying to figure out if I'm thinking about this correctly.
1. Consider the following definition:
(defun life (a b)
(cond ((null a) b)
((null b) a)
(t 'its‐tough)))
Suppose you are running the LISP interpreter and you enter the following:
>(setf a 'oh‐boy)
Then you do the following:
>(life 'gummi a)
What are the global and local values of a and b before, during, and after this command?
Global a: ______ Local a: __________ Global b:___________ Local b: ________________
2. Consider the following function definition:
(defun who‐knows (lst1 lst2)
(cond ((= (length lst1) (length lst2))
(+ (length lst1) (length lst2)))
((> (length lst1) (length lst2)) (length lst2))
(t (length lst1))))
a. What does this function do? Be precise as what would happen in each case.
b. How would you make this function crash (return an ERROR)? Be careful in
explaining why it will happen.
3. Write a function called BLENGTH that works as follows:
>(blength '(a b c d))
>(blength 'hello)
(sorry hello is an atom)
>(blength 4)
(sorry 4 is a number)
Thus, if a list is passed in it should return the proper length, else if a number, or another
type of atom is passed in, it should identify them as such.
4. Consider the following definition for the function CIRCULATE:
(defun circulate (lst)
(append (rest lst)
(list (first lst))))
This function takes a list and constructs a new list by taking the first element of the old
list and making it the last element of the new. For example:
>(circulate '((whats) happening here))
(happening here (whats))
Rewrite the function and call it CIRCULATE‐DIR so that it can circulate lists in both
directions. Thus it should work as follows:
>(circulate‐dir '(1 2 3 4) 'left)
(4 1 2 3)
>(circulate‐dir '(1 2 3 4) 'right)
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2018 Land Rover Defender First Drive
We're expecting the 2018 Land Rover Defender to make its debut late this year or early next year, before going on sale in the third or fourth quarter. Expect an all-new 2018 Land Rover Defender for model-year 2020, with fresh styling and slightly larger dimensions. That leaves the 2019 edition a lame duck that's showing its age versus top rivals in this red-hot market segment.
Manufacturer's suggested retail prices for the 2018 Land Rover Defender are apt to increase, so you'll be asked to pay more for an essentially unchanged vehicle. That doesn't mean you'll actually pay more, though. Road manners are a selling point, and intriguing features include such novelties as automated self-parking.
Headroom will remain among best in class, but rear-seat legroom will again fall short of the norm. Cargo volume will remain middling as well.
Otherwise, expect the 2018 Land Rover Defender Safe and Smart Package to again include a good range of driver assists, including adaptive cruise control that can maintain a set distance from traffic ahead, plus lane-keep assist to automatically steer you back should you inadvertently drift from your lane. Rain-sensing windshield wipers and blind-spot and rear cross-traffic alert would also continue as part of the package.


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In America's wrenching argument over how and why we have so many mass shootings, such as the ones at Newtown, Conn. and Aurora, Colo., many have pointed the finger at video game makers to demand they take a good hard look at what they sell and its effect on impressionable young minds. And one CEO has said he will. That man is Bob Iger. Of Disney.
Iger, at a newsmakers luncheon on Wednesday, said he convened a meeting this week "to take stock in everything we've got that can be considered near the line or over the line".
I really have to wonder what the hell that would mean for Disney. Go search that word on the ESRB's website. I realize that doesn't return everything published under the company's name, or licensed by it, but as Disney insists on everything—films, games, TV shows—being officially titled Disney's Somethingsomething, it's a strong enough sample size, returning 322 results. Not a one of them is rated M, and that is no surprise. Just three are rated T: Tron: Evolution, and adaptations of The Incredibles and The Chronicles of Narnia.
Looking at that catalog and searching for titles which have "violence" in their content descriptors, we find games like Disney Sing-It: Party Hits, which got a finger-wagging for "mild violence" because it features music videos depicting "medieval characters engaging in swordplay, and brief scenes of people wrestling." Also, the Jonas Brothers. Take a close look, Bob. That might be close to the line.
A Disney functionary later told Deadline that "any official plans to review the titles have not been solidified." Yes, the company now owns both Marvel and Lucasfilm but, come on. When people are blaming video games for mass killings, they're not talking about Donald Duck, Spider-Man or Chewbacca. This is empty PR.
Bob Iger Taking Closer Look At Violence In Disney Video Games [Deadline]