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The national women's hockey team camp starting Monday in Ottawa is head coach Dan Church's last look at players before he names his world championship team.
Ottawa is the host city of the 2013 women's world championships April 2-9 at SBP Arena and the Nepean Sportsplex. The Canadian women will attempt to defend the gold medal they won in 2012 in Burlington, Vt.
Church says he will name the players he wants to try out for the 2014 Olympic team shortly after the world championships.
Three goaltenders, seven defenders and 13 forwards will hit the ice Monday at Carleton University for a five-day camp.
Captain Hayley Wickenheiser will not be among them because of school commitments at the University of Calgary.
"For Wick, it was school," Church said. "She's closing in on the end of her academic undergrad degree. We talked about it. She wanted to come. I said 'if it's too much stress and pressure, why don't you stay?' She's in a good club environment there in Calgary."
Wickenheiser plays for the University of Calgary Dinos and gets regular practices and games, the coach pointed out. All but one of the players invited to the Ottawa camp play in the Canadian Women's Hockey League.
The practice and game schedules of the CWHL players are more erratic than those of the players in school, which is why so many CWHL players have been summoned to Ottawa, says Church. He also didn't want to pull his college and university players out of school and interrupt their studies at this time.
"We want to continue with our skill development, work on the fine skills and the technical aspects of the game," he said. "That's definitely a goal for this camp. It's definitely an opportunity to polish up some of our tactical play five-on-five and specialty teams.
"Whenever they come together in a camp, we're always looking at evaluation and this will be our last opportunity to see people together before we name the worlds team in March. It will definitely give us some more information on what we're going to do, both looking at worlds and centralization."
The CWHL's Clarkson Cup is March 20-23 in Markham, Ont., and the NCAA women's Frozen Four is March 22 and 24 in Minneapolis. The majority of Canada's world championship team will come from the CWHL and NCAA.
Church, who also coaches the York University women, says that doesn't give him enough time to hold both selection and training camps for the Canadian team prior to the world championship.
He'll name his world championship roster in March and get players to Ottawa as soon as he can after the Clarkson Cup and Frozen Four to start preparing.
"We have a week, which is adequate," he said. "Depending on who is in the Clarkson Cup and the Frozen Four, we may bring some players in a little bit earlier and get them on the ice together. We probably won't have the full group, but we're looking at that as an option."
The one college player on the camp roster is Winnipeg forward Jenelle Kohanchuk from Boston University.
Kohanchuk was sidelined last season with a concussion. She played for Canada's under-22 team earlier this month at the Meco Cup in Germany.
"We wanted to see her a little more extensively," Church said.
The camp lineup features 16 players from the team that beat the U.S. in overtime for gold at last year's world championship, as well as 10 from the victorious 2010 Winter Olympic team.
Veterans Caroline Ouellette, Jayna Hefford, Gillian Apps, Meghan Agosta-Marciano, Tessa Bonhomme, Catherine Ward and goaltender Charline Labonte will be among the veterans at the Ottawa camp.
Goaltender Shannon Szabados, who plays college hockey for Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton, will not attend. CWHL goalies Christina Kessler of Mississauga, Ont., and Genevieve Lacasse of Kingston, Ont., join Labonte at camp.
Church invited 2010 veterans Sarah Vaillancourt, Cherie Piper and Kim St. Pierre to the Ottawa camp, but they will not be there. Those three players haven't suited up for Canada at a major international tournament since the 2011 world championships.
St. Pierre took last season off to have a baby. The three-time Olympian has said another Winter Games is unlikely for her. Piper was finishing her education degree and is now nursing a knee injury, says Church.
"I think they still want to be under consideration. We're going to keep them under consideration," Church said. "As we move through the rest of the year, as we get closer to world championships, we'll see some final decisions being made."
Vaillancourt, who plays for the CWHL's Montreal Stars, has been dealing with a string of injuries.
"She could probably come and skate, but not participate fully," Church said. "The thought was to leave her in her normal environment, get stronger and be ready to play faster."
Canada opens the world championship April 2 versus the United States at SBP Arena.
Ottawa was the site of the first women's world championship in 1990. Other Canadian host cities were Winnipeg (2007), Halifax (2004), Mississauga, Ont. (2000) and Kitchener, Ont. (1997).


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320 million years ago, mammals and reptiles reached an evolutionary parting of the ways. We've now sequenced a lizard genome for the first time ever, and it's vastly different from our own...but in a few crucial ways, it's shockingly similar.
The green anole lizard of the southeastern United States is the first non-bird species of reptile to have its genome sequenced. While we've previously sequenced nearly two dozen mammalian genomes, reptiles - and lizards in particular - have remained largely ignored. Like birds and mammals, reptiles are special among vertebrates because they don't have to lay their eggs in water, which means they're fundamentally tied to the land in a way that amphibians and fish rather obviously are not.
There are over 400 species of anole lizards found in nearly every corner of the Americas, making them one of the most intriguing groups to study in terms of their evolutionary history. But this isn't just about lizard evolution - the anole lizard may have already shed some much-needed light on a mysterious part of the human genome. Within our genome are several key sequences that are non-coding - in other words, they don't serve any immediate function - but have remained largely unchanged in our genome for many thousands of years.
What they might be are the husks of special DNA sequences known as transposons. These can only be described as "jumping DNA", able to actually move through the genomes and copy and paste themselves elsewhere. Transposons can give any genome that carries them great agility and resilience in dealing with unexpected environmental challenges.
It appears humans can do just fine without them, as they've been inactive for a long, long time, but these transposons are alive and leaping inside the green anole lizard genome. The researchers took these transposon sequences and matched them to nearly a hundred different non-coding sequences inside the human genome, which would indicate that they share a common history. The exact mechanics of why they became non-coding is still a mystery, but at least we now know a key step in their evolutionary journey.
The green anole genome is also pretty remarkable in its own right. We can confirm that lizards possess the same sex chromosomes as we and other mammals do - males have the XY combination while females have XX. Birds, for instance, have a completely different setup featuring entirely different sex chromosomes, as male birds carry what's known as the ZZ pair and females have the ZW pair.
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Paul Walker's Family Reacts To Tragic Death — Official Statement
Paul Walker's family has taken to his official Facebook page to release a statement about the death of the actor on Nov. 30. While at a charity event, Paul was riding in a friend's car that hit a tree, and exploded into flames. He was 40.
The tragic car crash that killed Paul Walker took place in Santa Clarita, Cali. while he was volunteering with his charity, Reach Out Worldwide to raise money to help those affected by the storm in the Philippines. His family and friends are heartbroken by the tragedy, as are we. They have released the following statement.
It is with a truly heavy heart that we must confirm that Paul Walker passed away today in a tragic car accident while attending a charity event for his organization Reach Out Worldwide. He was a passenger in a friend's car, in which both lost their lives. We appreciate your patience as we too are stunned and saddened beyond belief by this news. Thank you for keeping his family and friends in your prayers during this very difficult time. We will do our best to keep you apprised on where to send condolences. – #TeamPW
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Additionally, Santa Clarita's Sheriff's Station confirmed that the two passengers in the vehicle were pronounced dead immediately.
"Sheriffs deputies are currently investigating a two person accident," Deputy Heischuber told HollywoodLife.com exclusively. "Two people were pronounced dead immediately at the scene. The coroner's office are the ones who will determine the identity."
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A trip back to the Bengal Nation in the last week helped reignite the competitive flame of Cincinnati receiver Chad Ochocinco, who bounced back from weeks of dismal scores to land in the Top 3 on Monday night's "Dancing with the Stars."
The outspoken football player brought intensity to his dance with partner Cheryl Burke – a sharp Argentine Tango full of locking limbs and sexy twists.
"The revenge of Ochocinco! Strong! Powerful! Demented!" judge Bruno Tonioli said of their number as last year's champ, Donny Osmond, cheered from the audience. "I was hard on you because I knew you had it and tonight you proved you can actually dance."
"On 'Dancing with the Stars,' you either grow or you go. You grew tonight," notoriously tough Brit judge Len Goodman commented as the crowd went wild.
The pair took home 24 points for the number and added another 7 points later in the night during the Swing Dance Marathon, where Chad stripped down to just pants and suspenders as the pair jumped, jived and wailed.
While Chad made good on some of the promise he showed at the beginning of the "DWTS" season, he and Cheryl didn't quite hit the top spot on the leaderboard, placing third overall for the night.
Spot No. 2 went to ESPN reporter Erin Andrews. The blonde beauty and her partner, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, showed off their sexy samba — Erin in a nude colored dress with strategically placed glitter ornamentation and Maks ending the number shirtless and on the floor.
Len suggested there were too many gimmicks in the number and scored them low, just a 7, but Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno helped the pair, by giving them each 9s for a total of 25 out of 30.
Later, placing second in the Swing Dance Marathon, the two added another 9 points, taking them to second place for the night with a total score of 34.
Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger and her partner, Derek Hough, once again took the top spot, thanks to their version of the samba, which saw the professional dancer hitting the ballroom with his shirt open enough for the entire room to see his six-pack. While Derek's abs impressed the crowd, Nicole's dancing impressed the judges who had a hard time finding room for improvement.
"That was just ridiculous," Carrie Ann announced.
"You are one singular sensation!" Bruno added. "Watching you makes [one] dribble with desire."
Surprisingly, Nicole's biggest competition this season, figure skater Evan Lysacek, had trouble keeping up.
The Olympic gold medalist who has been pulling double duty – skating in the Stars on Ice national tour, in addition to his "Dancing" practice — was briefly sidelined during one rehearsal when he sustained what a doctor called "a very mild concussion."
While the doctor cleared him to dance his samba, the diagnosis from the judges was bad news.
"Sometimes, on this show, you come up against a dance and sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. Tonight, I definitely felt that you lost the battle with the samba," Carrie Ann said as Evan and Anna earned only 21 out of 30 points.
They added another 6 points later after placing fifth (out of 7) in the Swing Dance Marathon, but their total score moved Evan down from last week's second place finish, to fifth on the week's overall leaderboard.
Pamela Anderson with her partner, Aussie Damian Whitewood, managed to beat Evan, scooping up 22 points for their Argentine Tango. They earned another 8 after a third place finish in the marathon.
Niecy Nash and partner Louis van Amstel took the 6th leaderboard spot scoring 21 points for their Argentine Tango and just 5 for the marathon number, while "Bachelor" Jake Pavelka and partner Chelsie Hightower placed last, taking 21 for their samba and just 4 points in the marathon, for a total of 26.
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Stephen Toub is a member of the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft.
Partitioning is the act of splitting a data set to be processed in parallel by multiple logical processors. It is a fundamental aspect of parallel computing, as without partitioning everything would execute serially. There are, of course, a multitude of ways in which a data set may be partitioned, and which approach is best for a particular situation depends on a variety of potentially complicated factors.
The .NET Framework 4 invests heavily in helping developers to more easily write parallelized applications. As part of this, the Framework includes Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) for doing data-parallel processing with a familiar set of query operations, as well as the System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel class and its ForEach method, which enables the implementation of data-parallel loops. Both of these constructs need to be able to partition the provided data set, and both utilize multiple built-in algorithms and heuristics for partitioning data sets to be processed in parallel. However no set of built-in components could adequately represent the full spectrum of possible partitioning approaches. As such, both PLINQ and Parallel.ForEach support custom partitioning, enabling developers to implement their own partitioning algorithms, which PLINQ and Parallel.ForEach can then consume.
Partitioner<TSource> and OrderablePartitioner<TSource>
Partitioning logic in the .NET Framework 4 is represented with the System.Collection.Concurrent.Partitioner<TSource> class and its derived System.Collections.Concurrent.OrderablePartitioner<TSource> class. These abstract types provide the core interfaces that are consumed by parallelization constructs like Parallel.ForEach. In fact, Parallel.ForEach is implemented entirely in terms of partitioners, even when it is provided with a simple IEnumerable<T> data source (Parallel.ForEach uses a built-in Partitioner<TSource> implementation that is also exposed for public usage).
Partitioner<TSource> presents a relatively simple interface:
public abstract class Partitioner<TSource> { protected Partitioner(); public abstract IList<IEnumerator<TSource>> GetPartitions( int partitionCount); public virtual bool SupportsDynamicPartitions { get; } public virtual IEnumerable<TSource> GetDynamicPartitions(); }
The primary entry point into Partitioner<TSource> is the GetPartitions method. GetPartitions is called by a parallelization construct, such as PLINQ to retrieve a static (or fixed) number of partitions. Each partition is represented as an IEnumerator<TSource> that the parallelization construct will then iterate through serially on a single thread of execution. For example, on a quad-core system, PLINQ will request four partitions from GetPartitions and will then use four threads, each of which will walk one of the four enumerators.
Don't allow the "static" terminology employed here to confuse you. Just because a static number of partitions is utilized doesn't mean that "static partitioning" must be employed. The phrase "static partitioning" is often used to imply that no run-time influence is applied towards determining which partition processes which element. For example, a common form of static partitioning is range partitioning, where a data set of size N is partitioned into P partitions by giving the first N/P elements to the first partition, the next N/P elements to the second partition, and so on. Another common form of static partitioning is striping, or round-robin, where a partition is assigned all of the elements based on round-robin through the data structure's indices. As an example, with four partitions and a data set of size 12:
- The first partition would be assigned elements 0,4,8
- The second partition would be assigned 1,5,9
- The third would be assigned 2,6,10
- And the final partition would be assigned 3,7,11.
Such static partitioning mechanisms can be extremely efficient due to no need for synchronization between partitions in order to determine which partitions get which elements. However, they can also suffer serious flaws in the form of a lack of load-balancing: if the time required to process individual elements varies at all from element to element, one process may end up being given a greater load than others. For these cases, more dynamic forms of partitioning may be appropriate, where all partitions collude to determine which elements are processed by whom. As such, it's possible (and in fact common) to have a fixed number of threads engage in dynamic partitioning.
Partitioner<TSource>'s other main entrypoint is GetDynamicPartitions, which returns an IEnumerable<TSource>, whose GetEnumerator method is used to return a new partition represented as an IEnumerator<TSource> . GetEnumerator may be called any number of times, and each time it dynamically introduces another partition that will collude with all previously created partitions from that dynamic partitioner (the enumerable). While it's quite common for a Partitioner<TSource> to support a dynamic number of partitions, not all do, and thus the SupportsDynamicPartitions property is available for consumers to check whether they can take advantage of it.
The OrderablePartitioner<TSource> class extends Partitioner<TSource> with the notion of an ordering to the elements being partitioned:
public abstract class OrderablePartitioner<TSource> : Partitioner<TSource> { protected OrderablePartitioner( bool keysOrderedInEachPartition, bool keysOrderedAcrossPartitions, bool keysNormalized); public abstract IList<IEnumerator<KeyValuePair<long, TSource>>> GetOrderablePartitions(int partitionCount); public virtual IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<long, TSource>> GetOrderableDynamicPartitions(); public bool KeysNormalized { get; } public bool KeysOrderedAcrossPartitions { get; } public bool KeysOrderedInEachPartition { get; } }
This is necessary for parallel constructs that need to understand the order of the elements from the original data source. For example, overloads of Parallel.ForEach support passing into the body of the loop the index of the element being processed. As another example, PLINQ's AsOrdered operator is used by developers when they want to ensure that the output ordering of elements from a processed query match the input ordering; PLINQ can only achieve this if it knows the input ordering, which requires that the partitioner inform it of the ordering. In addition to the base type's GetPartitions and GetDynamicPartitions methods, OrderablePartitioner<TSource> adds GetOrderablePartitions and GetOrderableDynamicPartitions methods. The signatures of these methods are almost identical to the base implementation, but instead of returning streams of TSource instances, they return streams of KeyValuePair<long,TSource> instances; each pair contains the TSource data as well as its position in the original data sequence.
A mechanism like PLINQ's AsOrdered needs to deal with the fact that multiple partitions are being processed in parallel, which can perturb the order in which elements are completed. In the worst case, elements could emerge from processing in a completely random order, which would force the consuming construct to do an expensive sort operation over the entire result set. However, it's rare that this worst case will arise, and it's likely that the partitioner knows enough about its partitioning algorithm that it could make some guarantees to the consuming construct which will lighten the overhead. For example, if static range partitioning is employed to partition an input of size N into P pieces, all of the N/P pieces assigned to the first partition will by definition have positions prior to all of those assigned to the second partition. As such, while each individual partition's results might need to be sorted, the entire result set of the first partition can be placed prior to the entire result set of the second partition, eliminating the need for sorting across partitions. To assist with this, OrderablePartitioner<TSource> exposes three potential contracts, which a derived implementation can choose to make or not, and which a consumer can choose to use as an optimization if they're made. If KeysNormalized returns True, all of the elements provided by the partitioner will have unique positions in the range [0,numberOfElements). If KeysOrderedAcrossPartitions is True, all of the elements in partition N have a smaller position than all of the elements in partition N+1. And if KeysOrderedInEachPartition is True, elements will be yielded from an individual partition with increasing positional values.
In most cases, custom partitioners derive from OrderablePartitioner<TSource>. This is because many data sources have notions of ordering (either explicit or implicit), and it typically takes very little extra effort to track the positions of each value from the source. Additionally, OrderablePartitioner<TSource> provides default implementations of GetPartitions and GetDynamicPartitions based on the derived implementations of GetOrderablePartitions and GetOrderableDynamicPartitions, so developers still only have to focus on implementing two core methods.


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A play about relationships, parenting, and mankind's unbridled aggression, Yasmina Reza's "God of Carnage" won the 2009 Tony Award for Best Play when it was on Broadway. The play opened at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts on January 25th, 2014 and proves you don't have to travel to New York to experience an awesome night of brilliant theatre.
"God of Carnage" is the story of two sets of parents, who meet one night to amicably work out an agreement after their two 11-year-old boys have had a scuffle in the park. Armed with a stick, Benjamin, son of Alan & Annette, has hit Henry, son of Michael & Veronica, and knocked out two of his teeth. The couples' civilized meeting gradually digresses into insults, bickering, and a series of repercussions, which then turns to all-out chaos – in this case, hysterically funny chaos.
The four characters are extremely well drawn and highly relatable. Alan and Annette, the visiting parents, are played by Jamison Jones and Amy Sloan. Alan is a self-absorbed, cell-phonaholic who is constantly interrupting the foursome's discussions by taking calls regarding his legal case, and obnoxiously talking in front of everyone. Now, who in today's world can't relate to that?! His wife, Annette, is a somewhat uptight "wealth manager" who loses it, both figuratively and literally in a "puke" scene that's as memorable as the pea-soup regurgitation from The Exorcist… although here, instead of being frightening… it's hilarious.
Maura Vincent plays the accusatory mother Veronica, who, after succumbing to the rum her hubby has offered everyone else, descends into the physical violence that she purportedly so abhors.
In the Broadway version, the late James Gandolfini played the character of Michael. Here, in the same role, Hugo Armstrong bears little resemblance to the hefty, cuddly Gandolfini. Armstrong is tall, trim, and balding with a super, straight-laced appearance. As the injured boy's dad Michael, Armstrong turns in a tour-de-force performance that continually has the audience in stitches. He starts out looking and behaving like a yuppified liberal, but as the evening goes on, before our eyes he tosses off his preppy sweater, pulls out his plaid flannel shirt, and reveals his wifebeater that more aptly shows the Neanderthal he is and proudly admits to being.
Yasmina Reza, who wrote the raucous comedy, is a multi-award-winning French playwright and novelist whose work has been translated into 35 languages, which shows the universality of the story. The English version, translated by Christopher Hampton, shows off Reza's caustic humor and sarcastic insight, along with her wonderful characters, sharp dialog and a myriad of opportunities for laughs.
La Mirada's "God of Carnage" is helmed by Director, Michael Arabian, who previously received kudos for directing Mark Taper Forum's hugely successful "Waiting for Godot." Arabian has directed the current production of "God of Carnage" with exceptional skill and style. Many people in the post-show crowd said they found this show even funnier than the Broadway version. When I spoke with director Arabian after the play, he told me he intentionally created more physical "carnage" for the actors, and indeed, the added physicality creates more sheer hilarity for the audience. His stellar cast delivers perfect comedic timing from the subtle to the outrageously un-subtle. There was non-stop laughter from beginning to side-splitting end, and there were even several applause breaks during the quick-paced, 90-minute show.
If you've never seen "God of Carnage" – you simply must go. If you have seen "God of Carnage" before – you simply must go! This is a production that warrants the drive to La Mirada for an evening that promises to delight. The theatre itself is a beautiful state-of-the-art building with a huge lobby graced with comfortable couches and chairs and a large impressive fireplace. There are lots of theatre posters on the walls to read and enjoy, or you can simply sit and relax before the play with a beverage or snack from the bar.
In summary, La Mirada's new production of "God of Carnage" is an evening of rollicking fun that proves Southern California does indeed have brilliant theatre.
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Beckett, Samuel
Samuel Beckett (bĕk´Ĭt), 1906–89, Anglo-French playwright and novelist, b. Dublin. Beckett studied and taught in Paris before settling there permanently in 1937. He wrote primarily in French, frequently translating his works into English himself. His first published novel, Murphy (1938), typifies his later works by eliminating the traditional elements of plot, character, and setting. Instead, he presents the experience of waiting and struggling with a pervading sense of futility. The anguish of persisting in a meaningless world is intensified in Beckett's subsequent novels including Watt (1942–44); the trilogy Molloy (1951), Malone Dies (1951), and The Unnamable (1953); How It Is (1961); and The Lost Ones (1972). In his theater of the absurd, Beckett combined poignant humor with an overwhelming sense of anguish and loss. Best known and most controversial of his dramas are Waiting for Godot (1952) and Endgame (1957), which have been performed throughout the world. Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Beckett's other works include a major study of Proust (1931); the plays Krapp's Last Tape (1959) and Happy Days (1961); a screenplay, Film (1969); short stories, Breath (1966) and Lessness (1970); collected shorter prose in Stories and Texts for Nothing (tr. 1967), No's Knife (1967), and The Complete Short Prose: 1929–1989 (1996, ed. by S. E. Gontarski); volumes of collected writings, More Pricks than Kicks (1970) and First Love and Other Shorts (1974); and Poems (1963). His Collected Works (16 vol.) was published in 1970 and a comprehensive centenary edition (5 vol.) was published in 2006. Beckett's first works of fiction and drama were both published posthumously, the novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women (1932) in 1992 and the play Eleuthéria (1947) in 1995.
See S. Lawlor and J. Pilling, ed., The Collected Poems of Samual Beckett (2014); M. D. Fehsenfeld et al., ed., The Letters of Samuel Beckett (3 vol., 2009–14); J. and E. Knowlson, Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett: A Centenary Celebration (2006); memoir by A. Atik (2006); biographies by D. Bair (1980), J. Knowlson (1996), and A. Cronin (1997); studies by H. Kenner (1968 and 1973), R. Cohn (1972 and 1973), S. Connor (1986), P. Gidal (1986), R. Pountney (1988), L. Gordon (1996), C. C. Andonian (1998), J. D. O'Hara (1998), A Uhlmann and S. E. Gontarski, ed. (2006), and S. Watt (2009); S. E. Gontarski, ed., A Companion to Samuel Beckett (2010).


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This French Friday's with Dorie is seemingly pretty healthy but also quite delicious! I've actually had this twice so far just this week. I did make a few substitutions (of course). Instead of tomato and cucumber, I used finely diced zucchini and red bell pepper. I also added a bit of diced red onion and right on top of the cottage cheese and yogurt, I sprinkled some dried dill.
Let's see, what else? Oh and I used toasted spelt bread instead of white bread.
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Our compadre Shortwaveboy once said that the Jays will never win anything as long as they continued to give regular playing time to Reed Johnson. That was before RJ's big year and run at the batting title 2006, and for a time, it was easy to write it off. But the comment stuck in our head ever since.
If there was any truth to that statement, then yesterday's news that the team had cut the "gritty" and "scrappy" outfielder loose is truly a happy moment, and a turning point for the team. You'd never know it to read all of the maudlin eulogizing of Reed's time in Toronto, but the truth is that he's been living on borrowed time for as long as he's been a Blue Jay.
Plus, he runs like a girl.
We've noted before that with a bit of digging, you'll find that Johnson's brilliant career with the Jays was comprised of a lot of replacement-level, marginal performance with the exception of about nine weeks of good fortune.
Sure, he's a gamer who runs hard (if not fast or in a masculine manner), and he's a guy who'll lay out for balls in the outfield. He's got spunk, but to quote Lou Grant, we hate spunk.
If you're feeling down about Reed Johnson's fate today, just take a moment and compare the man'd performance to any of the outfielders on the Red Sox, Yankees, Indians, Tigers, White Sox or Mariners. Those are the teams the Jays are going to have to beat if they expect to make a run at anything meaningful this year, and Reed Johnson wouldn't rate a bench spot any of their rosters, much less the starting left field job.
Other thoughts that percolated whilst we were in self-imposed exile:
The story about Scott Rolen's fingernail grosses us out too much to discuss. Yeesh. Of course, it is another hand injury to a hitter, so if Rolen is hitting .247 with 4 homers in mid-July, we're sure we're going to hear about this mangled digit lots this year. Or we'll get to know Marco Scutaro really well.
There's no good story that can't be ruined by a Paul Godfrey quote
We were really excited to hear the news that Toronto will be hosting first round games in the World Baseball Classic, and were trying to figure out how we get tickets. Then we read this quote in a Blair article about the forthcoming tourney from our old pal Godfrey: "(Y)ou'd like to think that you'll be able to attract fans from some of those baseball cities in the northern U.S.," Godfrey said. "I mean, you see a city like Detroit and with Magglio Ordonez likely to be with the Venezuelans, that would be a draw."
Jeebus Cripes on Segway, Godfrey! Can you stop fixating on bringing fans from outside of Toronto to the city, and start thinking about your own fan base?!
Monday, March 24, 2008
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- Chris said...
Yeah, because the people in Detroit will only have a chance to see Mags play in person, um, 81 times this summer. And next summer.
But I'm sure all those Detroigonians would prefer to drive for 5 hours to see him play with some foreign country team in a contrived pre-season tournament.
- March 24, 2008 at 3:00 PM
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If you ever wanted to know how Academy Award winner Robin Williams feels about the Nintendo Wii, we can't help you. We can just direct you to this one bit of comedy wherein he mentions it.
It's right at 6:44 in that video. The rest of it is pretty hilarious, too, though.
Fans of Williams were probably already well aware of his Weapons of Self-Destruction tour. Sadly, I was in the dark about it until I came to my mother's house for the holidays and discovered her TiVo.
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By Sir Guillaume "I Shinbalds" de la Belgique, Guest Contributor
There are plenty of dirty jobs at Pennsic to go around, but on Wednesday evening, when the rain began to fall at midnight, the war became a dirty job for everyone. There were tents drenched, costumes soaked, and camps flooded in the wee hours of the morning. But one of the hallmarks of this war is that when something like that happens, everyone steps up: the War staff, the people of Cooper's Lake, and all of us who've come for the week, to do the wet, muddy, dirty job of keeping the camp standing. What might have been a disaster became an opportunity for acquaintances made and friendships strengthened. It gave us all a tiny taste of the sort of dirty work that goes on all over Pennsic.
It has been my honor this week to get to know the folks who do some of the dirty jobs of Pennsic but I know I've only scratched the surface. In fact, my single regret is that we only had a week to profile these tasks and the people who do them. Pennsic's "dirty jobbers" are far too numerous to name. The fact is, everyone who volunteers, from the folks who work for a few hours at the troll booth, right up to Mayor John von der Velde himself, is likely to be sweaty, filthy and tired at the end of their shift.
It's easy to overlook just how much work goes into making Pennsic happen. By the most recent calculations, the official staff of the war—that is, the folks who were camping out here a week or more before the first attendee showed up for land grab—numbers 135 people. Those hard-working folks are supported by about 2,000 other volunteers, all of whom give up some or all of their summer vacation time so those of us who come to fight, learn, create, shop and party with friends can have a war to enjoy. And the most amazing thing is just how easy they make it look—because if there's one thing I've learned in exploring Pennsic's dirty jobs, it's that making the war look "effortless" takes a lot of effort.
If you have the opportunity as you're beginning your break-down in the next day or so, take a moment to acknowledge the hard-working Pennsic staff. Give a wave to the team of Dukes Michael, Valharic, Cuan, and their ducal deputies who maintain the watch and have given up a lot of sleep to keep the campground friendly and safe. Wish a good day to Baroness Anna and her staff who, in heat or rain, are waiting at Information Point to answer all of our questions, from how to navigate the campground to where you can find emergency dentistry services nearby. Give a shout-out to all the safety staff at Chirurgeon's point, led by James "Hawk" Galloway (who, I suspect you'll be glad to know, only had to break out his biohazard suit once during the war—really!). Shoot a smile at Lord Gregor "Tree" McLey and his gang in the technical services tent. They've been surveying, digging, plumbing, and wiring since early July, and they'll be on site for almost another week after all the rest of us are safe (and cool!) at home with all of our garb washed and our armor polished.
And finally, raise a cup at your camp to toast the many, many people who go on working behind the scenes to get the war going and keep it running. It's a phenomenal effort of volunteerism and personal sacrifice that, frankly, is almost unheard of in the modern world—and perhaps that's part of what makes Pennsic so magical.
I've noticed one thing as I've explored the dirty jobs of Pennsic this week: Everyone who does this sort of work is reluctant (sometimes obsessively so) to be recognized for their efforts. "Please don't write about me. There are other people who work a lot harder than I do," is a statement I've heard from just about everyone I've interviewed, even people drenched with rain, dripping sweat, and covered with mud, grease and paint. But the truth is, our dirty jobs series has proved that while the work that's done to make Pennsic happen can be messy and exhausting, the jobs themselves bring a great deal of reward. Everyone who works toward putting on the war has the satisfaction of seeing their efforts enjoyed by the thousands of attendees at the event, and the joy of making new friends in the process of getting all the work done. Viscount Edward said it best: "Pennsic and the SCA have become my family, and (doing these jobs) is a way to give something back to my family."
So on behalf of everyone at Pennsic, let me conclude our series by simply saying "thank you" to the whole war staff. By doing the dirty jobs of Pennsic, you've made this a very beautiful week for us all.
Editing Guillaume's writing might be considered a "dirty job" in itself, but he would like to thank the Pennsic's media liaisons, THLs Jacquetta de Mehun and Bonita of Steltonwald, and the staff of the Pennsic Independent who worked with him and the SCA's Office of Media Relations in the creation of this series. You can follow along with more of Guillaume's SCA adventures in his books, We Are Not Amused, Sir Guillaume, and Here Comes The Reign, both available in Ceridwen's Closet in merchant's row, space 074, or through his website www.SirGuillaume.com.


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Thursday's Child: The Edinburgh Royal Military Tattoo
31 comments:
- Kayte said...
Not only sound, but looks...this all looks wonderfully exciting to me!
- November 3, 2011 at 8:54 AM
- Belinda said...
Had no idea that was the origin of the word! What fun!
- November 3, 2011 at 9:44 AM
- Valerie Gamine said...
What a lovely moment...Auld Lang Syne is such a beautifully sad song. And who knew the real meaning of the word "Tattoo"? (I like this meaning much better than the modern version.) :D
- November 3, 2011 at 10:06 AM
- Marina said...
I was in Edinburgh two years ago.. I looove it.. I would love to see something like this. Well, I guess I have to go again!
- November 3, 2011 at 10:17 AM
- Claudia said...
This makes me want to reserve tickets and go! How magnificent! I got a kick out of the meaning of "tatoo" and it's early meanings.
- November 3, 2011 at 10:25 AM
Sounds wonderful!
- November 3, 2011 at 10:56 AM
- GratefulPrayerThankfulHeart said...
Oh, so moving! What an experience!
- November 3, 2011 at 10:57 AM
- Unknown said...
What an awesome experience, Beth. I love that you have been able to travel so much with your family. I enjoy hearing about it.
- November 3, 2011 at 1:22 PM
Wow! That sounds like a really exciting experience! It must be so much fun to travel and see the world-you take such lovely photos and always have unique stories that make me smile!
- November 3, 2011 at 2:07 PM
- Barbara said...
I didn't know anything about that, Beth. How exciting to be a part of that! I would have loved to see it.
- November 3, 2011 at 2:32 PM
I would probably shed a tear or two with the Auld Lang Syne hand-holding business. What an experience!
- November 3, 2011 at 2:56 PM
- Emily Malloy said...
Sigh. There is nothing like Edinburgh. Your beautiful photos have taken me back! Thank you :)
- November 3, 2011 at 3:32 PM
- Bonnie said...
Beth, I had cold chills reading about the lone piper atop the castle. I can only imagine the beauty. Bonnie
- November 3, 2011 at 5:04 PM
- laurie said...
What a wonderful time you had!
- November 3, 2011 at 7:29 PM
- Julie said...
Another beautiful journey! Thanks for sharing with us.
- November 3, 2011 at 8:30 PM
- Gloria Baker said...
Sounds wonderful Beth!! gloria
- November 3, 2011 at 11:05 PM
- Miriam said...
I love that story, such a great memory!!
- November 4, 2011 at 12:28 AM
- Liz That Skinny Chick Can Bake said...
What a great experience, Beth! My parents lived in Scotland for a year, and I have fond memories of visiting them :)
PS...I added the chocolate chips to the caramel streusel bars (for the chocoholic family members), but I think I might have liked them even better without!
- November 4, 2011 at 7:08 AM
- Christina Lee said...
Wow--I bet it was "haunting"!!!
- November 4, 2011 at 9:27 AM
- Lorraine said...
Wow! That sounds like it must have been so wonderful to see and hear. It must have been very moving. Amazing experiences you have given your girls:)
- November 4, 2011 at 10:31 AM
- Unknown said...
Oh, I thought it meant you got to watch the military get tattoos. The real version sounds so much better. :D
- November 4, 2011 at 6:12 PM
- Jess said...
Wow, Beth. I could feel the energy of the moment in this post. Wish I could have been there :)
- November 4, 2011 at 7:02 PM
- Elaine said...
It sounds like a truly special, wonderful evening. Thank you for sharing it with us.
- November 4, 2011 at 10:50 PM
- grace said...
what an impressive and majestic sight to behold! some things just stick with you. :)
- November 5, 2011 at 2:50 AM
- julie said...
What an amazing experience you had there. You have given your children such a gift with all this overseas travel. I hope that when my kids are a bit older, we can share that same gift with them.
- November 5, 2011 at 7:27 AM
I'm pretty sure that music is one of the ways I communicate, so I'm very excited for this series! I can only imagine what it was like to hear and experience such a showing. And I'm sure there was a lot of pride happening there as well - what a fun annual tradition for those people!
p.s. I think the idea of choosing an all-English speaking country with younger kids sounds like an extremely manageable idea if you're trying to maximize the experience that every family member gets to have.
- November 5, 2011 at 1:12 PM
- Angie's Recipes said...
A really special evening...I wish I were there too.
- November 5, 2011 at 1:27 PM
Special evening, indeed. Thanks for sharing it. :)
- November 5, 2011 at 10:44 PM
- shaz said...
Wow! How fantastic. My dad is a big fan of this Tatoo, though we've never seen it "live". For some reason, they'd televise it around Christmas in Malaysia, and he'd make us all sit through it :)
- November 6, 2011 at 12:07 AM
- sally said...
I missed the Tatoo when I was in Edinburgh. It looks like a great event though!
- November 6, 2011 at 12:53 PM
How cool is it that you were part of such a moving event? Very cool. I would most definitely been tearing up at the emotion of the experience of Tatoo. Edinburgh is definitely on our list of places to visit.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Red Velvet Cake (Gluten Free)
A few weeks ago my co-worker Jennifer (whom you can thank for that lovely new blog header) was telling me about a brownie that her husband brought home. He picked up the brownie at a bakery near his work and it was called a "Red Velvet Brownie." The brownie itself was chocolate, but it was laced with red velvet cake squares swirled throughout the batter and topped with cream cheese icing. I was drooling.
Jennifer and I searched and searched for a recipe that might be similar to this brownie. We gave up. I couldn't find one that mimicked the brownie she had.
Last year I made mini-red velvet cupcakes for Valentine's Day. I thought these cupcakes were good, yet I hated using all of the food coloring required for the recipe. I decided to look for different red velvet options!
I finally read several recipes that gave a possible alternative to food coloring. These recipes stated that *originally* red wine vinegar or red beet juice was added to the standard buttermilk , cocoa, and baking soda recipe and a chemical reaction occurred during baking which gave the cake a reddish hue. Not food coloring red... just a reddish overtone.
That was good enough for me.
I converted the recipe to be gluten free, lower fat, and lower sugar and gave it a try.
It was worth the try. I LOVE this cake. It's light, yet decadent. Stays moist and fluffy, and has every bit of that delicious red velvet flavor of it's "food-coloring laden" predecessors.
I will post better pictures of this cake this weekend because I'm going to make it again for a dinner we are having.
I've included a halved recipe in the printable PDF in case you would only like to make one layer, as I did originally. It makes a lovely single layer cake. I think this would be perfect for tea parties!
Gluten Free. Food-Coloring Free. Soy Free. Lower fat. Lower sugar. Red Velvet Cake.
I do recommend using a high quality cocoa powder that is NOT dutch processed for this cake.
Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
Wet Ingredients
1/2 cup melted butter -or- canola oil
1/2 cup applesauce
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup good quality cocoa powder (NOT dutch processed)
2 extra-large eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 cup buttermilk
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar -OR- 2 tablespoons red beet juice
Dry Ingredients
1 cup brown rice flour
1/2 cup sorghum flour
1/2 cup tapioca flour -or- sweet rice flour
1/2 cup cornstarch
1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Grease 2 9-inch round cake pans. (I lined my pan with parchment paper and then spritzed it with non-stick cooking spray.) Mix melted butter with applesauce, water, and cocoa powder. Set aside. In a medium sized bowl or your mixer, beat eggs. Add vanilla, buttermilk, baking soda, red wine vinegar -or- beet juice. Add butter/cocoa mixture to egg mixture. Set aside. In a large mixing bowl whisk together all dry ingredients. Fold the wet mixture into the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. Batter will be thin and a very light brown. Pour batter into prepared cake pans and bake for 18-20 minutes until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Let cakes cool completely before frosting.
Cream Cheese Icing
from Allrecipes.com, submitted by Janni
Whole Recipe
2 (8 oz.) packages cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 cups confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 Recipe (I used this to frost a single layer red velvet cake)
4 oz. cream cheese
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
In a medium sized bowl mix together cream cheese and butter, until smooth and creamy. Mix in vanilla and gradually add confectioners' sugar. Frost as desired on cake and store leftovers in fridge.
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- AnonymousOctober 23, 2008 at 10:43 AM
Looks great, Carrie!! :)ReplyDelete
Love the new blog header.
I'm so glad you didn't use red food coloring, Carrie! I never thought of using red wine vinegar or beet juice - good for you! Red food coloring makes me ill. Glad to see this recipe! ThereseReplyDelete
Thanks Terese! I always enjoy seeing your comments! I hope you'll try this!ReplyDelete
Thanks for stopping by Kim!! Thanks for the compliment on the header! I'm so grateful for friends who are better at designing than I am! ;-)
mmmm...in my pre-GF days, baking a red velvet cake from scratch was my biggest accomplishment (i was a pretty new baker). I always kinda figured it was un-recreatable, so thanks!!!ReplyDelete
and very interesting about the cake's history. you've given me a lot to think about while I drool over your pictures ; )
This is so yummy sounding! I can't wait to bake this up. Thank you!ReplyDelete
I use juice and pulverized freeze dried fruits and veggies to color frostings and cakes, too. It really works nicely without all the chemicals. Great post!
The cake looks delicious. I'm with you on the food coloring. I never thought red cake was real appetizing anyway. I'll try the recipe soon.ReplyDelete
BTW, I like the new header, and thanks for stopping by my blog.
Yummy! You've hit upon my favorite cake of all time. I'll have to try this GF version of red velvet; I'm getting frustrated with my old standby.ReplyDelete
There's definitely an art to making this classic, (I've written about some of the secrets at http://www.ehow.com/how_4531816_great-red-velvet-cake-secrets.html ), but it is well worth the effort.
- AnonymousNovember 17, 2008 at 9:33 AM
Old-style non-dutch cocoa turns reddish in the presence of acids. But not bright red like we are used to in this cake but a dark red.ReplyDelete
I'm supposing that people started adding food coloring when they switched to dutch cocoa to get the red look back.
So if you can find non-dutch cocoa you won't need the food coloring.
this looks great can't wait to try it. If you use half the recipe what size cake pan do you use and do you need to alter the baking time? It looks like you used a rectangular cake pan.ReplyDelete
Thanks for all you do
Hi Mary! No, you wouldn't need to alter the baking time! Just use one 9" cake pan (square or round), or make 12 cupcakes! :-) I hope this helps!!ReplyDelete
This looks like a great recipe but I can't have Cornstarch. Is there a substitute I can use?ReplyDelete
Thank you!
Jules - you can use additional tapioca starch, potato starch, or arrowroot starch!ReplyDelete
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
Now Playing: The Descent
Posted by Rot at 12:47 PM
Labels: david julyan, music, now playing, soundtrack, the descent
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- Jon Glassett said...
One of my favorites--the film and the score.
- October 14, 2010 at 3:34 PM
- Anonymous said...
That is a great movie! Particularly for those with claustrophobia or a fear of the dark.
- October 14, 2010 at 5:58 PM
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You'll frequently hear references to a "software ecosystem" on various platforms, but it's relatively rare to see someone take that sort of terminology seriously. A group of evolutionary biologists, however, has now used the tools of ecosystem analysis to look at the evolution of Debian releases, examining things like package dependencies and software incompatibility.
The team went back to 1993 and compiled statistics on every major stable release, noting the number of packages in each release and comparing it to the previous version. This allowed them to track the life history of packages, watching as new ones were introduced and older ones got deprecated. In addition to compiling the statistics, the team also compiled the x86 version of the operating system and installed packages at random, which gave them a statistical measure of the frequency of dependencies and incompatibilities.
Several trends were apparent in the data. For example, the modularity of the system was increasing exponentially up until the 3.0 release, after which there was a sharp drop. From that point on, modularity held steady with successive releases. This had a major effect on functionality, defined as the rate at which randomly chosen packages would successfully install on a Debian system—the value started rising significantly with the version 3.1 release. The authors ascribe this to the large time gap between releases that occurred at this time.
Over time, software modules (clusters of packages with high interdependency) also increased in both size and number. As these trends continued, the number of software conflicts between modules went down; however, the number of conflicts within a module rose. "Therefore, there is a trade-off between reusing many pieces of existing code and the emergence of incompatibilities among software packages," the authors conclude.
They also showed that it's possible to model this trade-off using standard ecological tools: dependencies between packages look like predator-prey interactions, while conflicts looked like species that have a competitive exclusion relationship.
Overall, the key feature of the modularity the team identified seems to be that the decreasing number of conflicts across modules means that more of the software available for the operating system can install, since it's rare that a conflict will completely block an entire module from installing and running. The authors suggest that we might learn something about biology by studying software, but they don't actually provide examples of how this might work; at this stage, then, it's not an especially compelling argument.
PNAS, 2011. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1115960108 (About DOIs).


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The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) has turned to a tried-and-tested fundraising method to establish a home for the rebuilt Colossus computer at Bletchley Park.
Individuals and firms are invited to buy up pixels of an online picture of the wartime code-breaking machine - at 10 pence per dot with a minimum spend of £10 - pretty much like Alex Tew's million-dollar homepage effort.
The museum's curators need the cash to open an exhibition featuring the Colossus in the historic Block H, on the spot where Colossus No 9 stood during the Second World War and where the rebuild took place.
Colossus was the world's first electronic programmable computer, and was used to crack encrypted messages between Hitler and his generals.
Housing the rebuild in the same location as its wartime predecessor will be "a fitting tribute to the wartime code-breakers and an inspiration to future generations of computer scientists and engineers", according to the museum.
Details of how to sponsor a valve on the virtual Colossus can be found here. Payment is collected by PayPal. The National Museum of Computing hopes to raise £150,000 via the scheme.
More information on the Colossus rebuild project, which was led by engineer Tony Sale, can be found here. Details of the technology were kept secret until 1975. The rebuild project started in the 1990s and took more than ten years.
Tim Reynolds, acting chairman of TNMOC, said: "Tony Sale's tribute to the wartime code-breakers is awe-inspiring and we are seeking resources to present the rebuilt Colossus so that generations to come will be able to understand its significance. The death of Tony Sale last year was a tragic loss to us all, but fortunately he had already started to plan the new gallery with a TNMOC team.
"TNMOC, an independent charity, has received no lottery funding and must pay substantial rent and other overheads. Despite this and working with very modest budgets, we have opened two major new galleries - featuring the Tunny machine and BBC Domesday Touchtable - over the past nine months and have two more including Colossus planned for 2012. We therefore welcome all contributions from individuals and company sponsors to help us present a gallery that will do justice to Colossus and enthral visitors for years to come."
The Colossus room will be closed from early March for the construction of a new gallery, which will house "exciting interactive and informative displays" as well as, hopefully, the rebuilt Colossus. ®


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and Jeremy Lamb, 12th player chosen in a deep draft, was lights out hot when UConn
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OKC bolstered their squad and got rid of some dead wood, other than losing James Hardup for money.
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ONE of the questions I wrestled with when writing about Steve Jobs was how smart he was. On the surface, this should not have been much of an issue. You'd assume the obvious answer was: he was really, really smart. Maybe even worth three or four reallys. After all, he was the most innovative and successful business leader of our era and embodied the Silicon Valley dream writ large: he created a start-up in his parents' garage and built it into the world's most valuable company.
But I remember having dinner with him a few months ago around his kitchen table, as he did almost every evening with his wife and kids. Someone brought up one of those brainteasers involving a monkey's having to carry a load of bananas across a desert, with a set of restrictions about how far and how many he could carry at one time, and you were supposed to figure out how long it would take. Mr. Jobs tossed out a few intuitive guesses but showed no interest in grappling with the problem rigorously. I thought about how Bill Gates would have gone click-click-click and logically nailed the answer in 15 seconds, and also how Mr. Gates devoured science books as a vacation pleasure. But then something else occurred to me: Mr. Gates never made the iPod. Instead, he made the Zune.
So was Mr. Jobs smart? Not conventionally. Instead, he was a genius. That may seem like a silly word game, but in fact his success dramatizes an interesting distinction between intelligence and genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical. They were sparked by intuition, not analytic rigor. Trained in Zen Buddhism, Mr. Jobs came to value experiential wisdom over empirical analysis. He didn't study data or crunch numbers but like a pathfinder, he could sniff the winds and sense what lay ahead.
He told me he began to appreciate the power of intuition, in contrast to what he called "Western rational thought," when he wandered around India after dropping out of college. "The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do," he said. "They use their intuition instead ... Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work."
Mr. Jobs's intuition was based not on conventional learning but on experiential wisdom. He also had a lot of imagination and knew how to apply it. As Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Einstein is, of course, the true exemplar of genius. He had contemporaries who could probably match him in pure intellectual firepower when it came to mathematical and analytic processing. Henri Poincaré, for example, first came up with some of the components of special relativity, and David Hilbert was able to grind out equations for general relativity around the same time Einstein did. But neither had the imaginative genius to make the full creative leap at the core of their theories, namely that there is no such thing as absolute time and that gravity is a warping of the fabric of space-time. (O.K., it's not that simple, but that's why he was Einstein and we're not.)
Einstein had the elusive qualities of genius, which included that intuition and imagination that allowed him to think differently (or, as Mr. Jobs's ads said, to Think Different.) Although he was not particularly religious, Einstein described this intuitive genius as the ability to read the mind of God. When assessing a theory, he would ask himself, Is this the way that God would design the universe? And he expressed his discomfort with quantum mechanics, which is based on the idea that probability plays a governing role in the universe by declaring that he could not believe God would play dice. (At one physics conference, Niels Bohr was prompted to urge Einstein to quit telling God what to do.)
Both Einstein and Mr. Jobs were very visual thinkers. The road to relativity began when the teenage Einstein kept trying to picture what it would be like to ride alongside a light beam. Mr. Jobs spent time almost every afternoon walking around the studio of his brilliant design chief Jony Ive and fingering foam models of the products they were developing.
Mr. Jobs's genius wasn't, as even his fanboys admit, in the same quantum orbit as Einstein's. So it's probably best to ratchet the rhetoric down a notch and call it ingenuity. Bill Gates is super-smart, but Steve Jobs was super-ingenious. The primary distinction, I think, is the ability to apply creativity and aesthetic sensibilities to a challenge.
In the world of invention and innovation, that means combining an appreciation of the humanities with an understanding of science — connecting artistry to technology, poetry to processors. This was Mr. Jobs's specialty. "I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics," he said. "Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do."
The ability to merge creativity with technology depends on one's ability to be emotionally attuned to others. Mr. Jobs could be petulant and unkind in dealing with other people, which caused some to think he lacked basic emotional awareness. In fact, it was the opposite. He could size people up, understand their inner thoughts, cajole them, intimidate them, target their deepest vulnerabilities, and delight them at will. He knew, intuitively, how to create products that pleased, interfaces that were friendly, and marketing messages that were enticing.
In the annals of ingenuity, new ideas are only part of the equation. Genius requires execution. When others produced boxy computers with intimidating interfaces that confronted users with unfriendly green prompts that said things like "C:\>," Mr. Jobs saw there was a market for an interface like a sunny playroom. Hence, the Macintosh. Sure, Xerox came up with the graphical desktop metaphor, but the personal computer it built was a flop and it did not spark the home computer revolution. Between conception and creation, T. S. Eliot observed, there falls the shadow.
In some ways, Mr. Jobs's ingenuity reminds me of that of Benjamin Franklin, one of my other biography subjects. Among the founders, Franklin was not the most profound thinker — that distinction goes to Jefferson or Madison or Hamilton. But he was ingenious.
This depended, in part, on his ability to intuit the relationships between different things. When he invented the battery, he experimented with it to produce sparks that he and his friends used to kill a turkey for their end of season feast. In his journal, he recorded all the similarities between such sparks and lightning during a thunderstorm, then declared "Let the experiment be made." So he flew a kite in the rain, drew electricity from the heavens, and ended up inventing the lightning rod. Like Mr. Jobs, Franklin enjoyed the concept of applied creativity — taking clever ideas and smart designs and applying them to useful devices.
China and India are likely to produce many rigorous analytical thinkers and knowledgeable technologists. But smart and educated people don't always spawn innovation. America's advantage, if it continues to have one, will be that it can produce people who are also more creative and imaginative, those who know how to stand at the intersection of the humanities and the sciences. That is the formula for true innovation, as Steve Jobs's career showed.


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I think the cause of my bad mood, to a large extent, is the observed behavior of other bicyclists. This is a problem with misanthropy. I guess I just don't like to see other bicyclists do stupid things and risk grievous injury in the process. I've found that riding a bicycle in the city is a non-stop series of judgment calls and, while judgment calls are entirely subjective, I'd like to think of myself as having fairly good judgment. And pretty much what I've come to figure is that being risk-averse on a bicycle isn't a bad thing. Though I suppose in order to know if a behavior is risk-averse you need to both recognize what you're doing and what constitutes risk and I'm just not entirely sure how many people (bicyclists, motorists, pedestrians, zookeepers, etc.) are even making these kinds of calculations. That doesn't mean riding scared and it doesn't mean deferring to drivers or anything like that. I just hate the idea of people putting themselves (or someone else) in bodily harm because they're not thinking about what's going on around them. That's all. (Excuse me if my thoughts, like a mojito, are muddled.)
Give money to WABA today.
I think I saw a woman riding her bicycle wearing what might have been hot pants and go-go boots. For real.
I'm ending my passive-aggressive "war" on shoaling bicyclists. I don't have the ability to keep it up. Just too many of them and I don't even think they know what they're doing. One's willingness to pass a stopped bicyclist isn't necessarily the same as one's ability to maintain a pace such that the previously passed bicyclist won't just pass you again. I think this is Newton's 6th law of velodynamics, or something. I'm done complaining.
Something new today in that I rode down V street. It was fine. I then rode on Florida briefly and turned onto 19th, where I waited at the end of a row of cars while a bus driver attempted a three point turn on Columbia Road. It took a while and seemed imprudent. After a bit, I decided that I would just ride up the sidewalk. So much for that.
At the intersection of Calvert and Cleveland, I watched the crossing guard deny a pedestrian the ability to safely cross the street even though, as the pedestrian indignantly noted that she "has 8 seconds left." I don't know why the crossing guard did this, but it was quite the standoff. The woman really wanted to cross the street and had ample time, but the crossing guard kept shooing her back. I rode away before I saw what would happen at the next crossing sequence. I wonder what happened. I guess the question I would ask is why the crossing guard is in the business of ensuring that drivers can turn left and not in the business of ensuring that people can safely cross the street. Oh well.
I don't like how the bike lane on Garfield just disappears. It'd be better if it went the entire way to Mass, but it has to stop somewhere, right? I think stuff like this is the saddest reminder that bike facilities in this town as just one-off add-ons and don't seem in any way to be part of a larger, more comprehensive system. I'm all for bike lanes, but I'm more all for a coherent bicycle infrastructure network.
Nothing puts me on edge more than the sound of car horns. I almost rode into the back of an SUV as I swiveled my head to try to figure out what the hell was going on. I always swivel when I hear a honk because if it's something serious I'd rather know what's happening so I can take steps to avoid it. Apparently what was going on was the driver in from of him stopped to allow pedestrians to cross in the crosswalk. Awesome.
This post seems unusually dour. I promise all rainbows and sunshine (figurative) on the way home.
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I feel like I've seen more of the seriously scary cyclist behavior lately, too.ReplyDelete
The other morning someone just HAD to ride across Rhode Island Ave & 14th -- it was a close call. That's a fast, busy intersection.
Though I know it's scofflaw, I'm personally don't feel too bad about jay-riding IF I look both ways and ascertain that nothing is coming, just as I would feel ok in the same situation as a pedestrian. Interestingly, I don't think drivers get upset about pedestrians crossing against a light in the absence of traffic.
I think that one can be a scofflaw and still ride cautiously, just like I think that one can follow all the laws and still be riding dangerously. Following the law is neither a marker nor a substitute for exhibiting good judgment. I read far too many terribly sad things on the internet about bicyclist safety (or lack thereof) and I really hate the idea people might be doing things out there that imperils them needlessly.ReplyDelete


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