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In Barry Sonnenfeld's adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Get Shorty, John Travolta plays Chili Palmer, a practiced loan shark in the Miami mafia and the noir-comedy's main protagonist. He talks a lot to people he likes – friendly colleagues, fellow film buffs, etc. – but most of the time, he is direct, curt, and tries to speak mostly in silences. When he's owed money by someone, he visits them and stares at them as if he "owns" them. This tends to get the job done no matter the zip code. The exception, of course, is Hollywood.
Sonnenfeld uses Travolta's natural charisma and svelte look – circa 1996 – as the centerpiece of his giddily stylized world of criminals and filmmakers, actresses and loan sharks, and much like the book, the character remains largely in the present. There's little in the way of backstory, and the plot remains clear even when characters like Danny DeVito's Martin Weir, a self-obsessed movie star, start stacking up. There's never a feeling like you're waiting around for something to happen or a character to be given…well, character, making the film efficient without being rigid or rushed.
There's no statute that says that Epix's very loose adaptation of the same material had to be similar in any way to what Sonnenfeld did and either way, it would've been wise to do something a bit different. Putting Chris O'Dowd in the lead role of Miles Daly, a loan shark and hitman working for a corrupt criminal organization in Albuquerque, is a good first step in this. Casting Ray Romano as Rick Moreweather, a B-movie producer and Miles' eventual business partner, is another. In fact, most of the casting, including that of Rectify alum Sean Bridgers as Miles' right-hand man and Flaked's Ruth Kearney as a now-successful producer who once worked with Rick, is an indisputable coup. It's the other stuff – writing, direction, editing, etc. – that present a problem for Epix and creator Davey Holmes, he of Showtime's Shameless.
If I had to venture a guess as to how Holmes and his colleagues pitched the adaptation, it probably went something like this: "It's Breaking Bad meets Fargo." You won't find Blue Sky in any of the first six episodes of Get Shorty, but the setting is the same and the view of New Mexico's criminal underground is notably similar. Miles and Bridgers' Louis work under Amara (Lidia Porto), who runs a mid-range racket in gambling and drugs alongside her power-hungry nephew, Yago (Goya Robles). These roles, and many others in the series, are written primarily as types rather than fully rounded-out characters, which has often been the strategy that Noah Hawley prefers in his storytelling. Holmes, unfortunately, does not have the ribald humor and command of pulp language that Mr. Hawley has injected into his series.
There's also a uniformity of aesthetic that is similar to Hawley's vision. The color and light throughout seems to focus on yellows, oranges, browns, and beiges, making the entire series feel like its lost in an eternal desert. That goes as much for New Mexico as it does for Los Angeles, where Miles and Louis are dispatched to collect money from a screenwriter (Paul Sparks), who is inevitably executed by Louis. What he leaves behind is a script, one that Miles thinks could be great and would also help Amara with a money laundering problem that's come up. That's the set-up, more or less, and little of what happens in the first few episodes of the series diverts from the actions taken to get Miles in the same room as Rick and to hammer out a production deal.
The real story of Get Shorty is that of art vs. commerce. Miles wants to make a great movie, but great movies don't really make any serious money. Amara wants her money back, which means the movie must perform up to a certain level to get her clean returns. The struggle is real but Holmes and his writers only show a passing interest in the complex mechanics of getting a movie funded, made, and distributed, which means they are more interested in the money side from the get-go. And even under these circumstances, there's an overall blandness and droning familiarity to how Get Shorty portrays money and power as corruptive to Amara, Yago, and Louis, driving them to become mass murderers to ensure a steady cashflow. Did they want to be anything else? Do they have interest in anything else? As the show is written, Amara's only other passions outside of her business are chicken wings and no-frills sex, whereas Yago enjoys talking shit and clubbing. It's hard to believe that this is all that's really worth knowing about these characters.
This isn't to say that Miles and Louis are depicted any better. O'Dowd's well-meaning tough, who is never seen shooting anyone to keep him an ostensible innocent, is hampered with an ex-wife and a daughter, who are utilized exclusively to give him a reason to get out from under Amara. At one point, Louis says all he needs is a roof over his head, a pool that he can sit by, and a cold drink and for what its worth, it really does seem like that's the extent to which the character cares to feel or think about the world around him. As for Rick, he comes across as little more than a pickled guide into the not-so-convincing world of Hollywood filmmaking, despite the subtle touches of personality that Romano is able to conjure.
For all its cynicism about the movie business, Get Shorty shows exactly no interest in exploring how things got as bad as they are or how the forge to make movies like the New Hollywood wave that Miles adores in the modern era has only helped to suppress genuine visionaries. On the flip side, there's also no sense of the wonder and thrill that many movies released every year still produce for audiences, those who are dedicated cinephiles as much as those who just enjoy a good night out at the movies. By refusing to either challenge their own perspective or get into the weeds of why the big studios are in such dire straits and mostly release market-tested dreck, Get Shorty pigeonholes itself into mediocrity, something that neither Chili Palmer nor Miles Daly can abide by.
Rating: ★★
Get Shorty airs on Sundays at 10 p.m. on Epix


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by "James, for on them also he heaped* honours in abundance (bb); and 'tis certain, that a great many particular persons obtained
but where these are noti or not in a most eminent degiee, it is weakness and imprudence to heap- favours, which will not fail to bring on complaints, uneasinesses, and distresses on the conserrors.
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great wealth, and large possessions from
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all times was taken not to debase so illustrious an order of men by undeserved creations, and that nothing but real merit was the occasion of them. Then would the prince be applauded, the dignity of the peers be preserved, and all due deference paid to their decisions. But when it is known publickly, that undeserving men are advanced to this elevated rank in order to serve a party or please a favourite, then do men murmur at the crown, and pay little respect to those thus distinguished by it. For the public will judge of persons as
him (cc), to the impoverishing of the crown, and the reducing himself in a few years to great want. He soon shewed his gratitude
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Late last night there was a Lawrenceville fire at an assisted living facility for seniors. Thankfully, no one was injured. However, they easily could have been. The fire allegedly broke out in one of the residents' rooms when an electric lamp was overturned. According to the report, the bulb broke when the lamp hit the bed, and the mattress and bedding burst into flames.
This immediately raises questions not only about how securely the lamp was anchored, but also about the suitability of the bedding and mattress for an assisted living facility. After all, residents of personal care homes commonly have issues with mobility and other physical impairments. In this case, an "alert staff member" was able to put out the fire and quickly escort the residents to a safe area. But what if the staff member had not been alert…or even nearby?
Facilities charged with caring for the mobility-impaired often make a point of using flame-retardant bedding and mattresses to prevent such hazards. Also, bulbs that generate limited heat, such as compact fluorescent bulbs, are much more fire-safe than their traditional incandescent counterparts. These are just two simple precautions a conscientious personal care home will take to ensure the safety of its residents.
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Welcome to my "Travel Photo Tuesday" series. Its a place for me to share my favorite travel photographs – and feature some of your best shots – from Instagram each week that have been tagged with @maketimetoseetheworld.
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This week's photo was taken on the way out of the Vatican Museum in Italy. If you have ever visited you will know that the museum is filled with beautiful artwork and sculptures – along with the Sistine Chapel – so much so that you may think there is nothing else to see on the way out. But you would be wrong. Created by Guiseppe Momo in 1932 it is an amazing piece of architecture whereby two staircases overlap to produce a double helix effect so that traffic can proceed in both directions unimpeded.
Momo took great influence from the first double helix stairway cast and designed by Donato Bramante in 1505 at the request of Pope Julius II – who requested a link between Villa Belvedere (his living quarters) and the Apostolic Palace (near St Peter's Bascillica) as well a link between his quarters and the city below. The original staircase still stands within the Vatican but is mostly off limits to visitors – unless you take a private tour – and so we must be content with only being able to view Momo's Staircase. But if you only make an effort to visit a staircase – this one must certainly be at the top of your list.
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TCO is pleased to announce the appointment of Hege Forus as Vice President of Strategic Planning in TCO.
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Cellular automata
The increasing prominence of computers has led to a new way of looking at the world. This view sees nature as a form of computation. That is, we treat objects as simple computers, each obeying its own set of laws.
The "cellular automaton" extends this analogy to provide a way of viewing whole populations of interacting "cells", each of which is itself a computer (automaton). By building appropriate rules into a cellular automaton, we can simulate many kinds of complex behaviour, ranging from the motion of fluids governed by the Navier-Stokes equations to outbreaks of starfish on a coral reef.
In this tutorial:
- Definition
- Example – Fabirc Patterns
- Properties
- The Game of Life
- An Application to simple forest models
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Related tutorial: Critical connectivity in cellular automata.
A cellular automaton is an array of identically programmed automata, or "cells", which interact with one another.
The arrays usually form either a 1-dimensional string of cells, a 2-D grid, or a 3-D solid. Most often the cells are arranged as a simple rectangular grid, but other arrangements, such as a honeycomb, are sometimes used.
The essential features of a cellular automaton ("CA" for short) are:
- its STATE is a variable that takes a different separate for each cell. The state can be either a number or a property. For instance if each cell represents part of a landscape, then the state might represent (say) the number of animals at each location or the type of forest cover growing there.
- its NEIGHBOURHOOD is the set of cells that it interacts with. In a grid these are normally the cells physically closest to the cell in question. Here are some simple neighbourhoods (cells marked n) of a cell (C) in a 2-D grid:
- its PROGRAM is the set of rules that defined how its state changes in response to its current state, and that of its neighbours.
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Example – Fabric patterns
Imagine a CA consisting of a line of cells as follows:
- states: 0 or 1
- neighbourhood: the two adjacent cells N C N
- rules: the following list shows the new state of a cell for each possible local "configuration", i.e. arrangement of states for the cell and its two neighbours. Because there are two possible states (0 or 1) for each of 3 cells, there are 2^3 = 8 rules required. Here they are:
Suppose that we start with just a single cell in state 1. Then here is how the array will change with time (here "." denotes 0 for clarity).
The following figure shows several examples of "fabric patterns" that can be produced by one dimensional cellular automata similar to the above. [ Top ]
- Self-organization. Notice that when we plot the successive states as shown in the above example a pattern emerges. Even if the line of cells starts with a random arrangement of states, the rules force patterns to emerge (Fig. 1).
- Life-like behaviour. Empirical studies by Wolfram and others show that even the simple linear automata above behave in ways reminiscent of complex biological systems. For example, the fate of any initial configuration of a cellular automaton is either:
- to die out;
- become stable or cycle with fixed period;
- to grow indefinitely at a fixed speed;
- to grow and contract irregularly.
- "Thermal" behaviour. In the above example of a linear automaton 6 of the 8 rules forced a change in the state of the cell concerned. In general, models that force a change of state for few configurations tend to "freeze" into fixed patterns, whereas models that change the cell's state in most configurations tend to behave in a more active "gaseous" way. That is fixed patterns do not emerge.
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The game of LIFE
The game LIFE, invented by the Cambridge mathematician John Conway, is a simple 2-D analogue of basic processes in living systems. The game consists in tracing changes through time in the patterns formed by sets of "living" cells arranged in a 2-dimensional grid. Any cell in the grid may be in either of two states: "alive" or "dead". The state of each cell changes from one generation to the next depending on the state of its immediate neighbours. The rules governing these changes are designed to mimic population change: The game LIFE. Some simple patterns that die (left); remain constant (centre); and cycle (right). The pattern at lower right, called a "glider", not only cycles but also glides diagonally across the grid of cells.
Self-organization in the game LIFE. The random initial configuration of cells (left) reduces to constant and cycling elements after 2500 generations (right).
- A living cell with only 0 or 1 living neighbours dies from isolation.
- A living cell with 4 or more living neighbours dies from overcrowding.
- A dead cell with exactly 3 living neighbours becomes alive.
- All other cells remain unchanged.
The behaviour of LIFE is typical of the way in which many cellular automata reproduce features of living systems. That is, regularities in the model tends to produce order: starting from an arbitrary initial configuration, order (i.e. patches of pattern) usually emerges fairly quickly. Ultimately most configurations either disappear entirely or break up into isolated patterns that are either static or else cycle between several different forms with a fixed period.
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An application to simple forest models
Cellular automata models of landscapes consist of fixed arrays in which each cell represents an area of the land surface. The states associated with each cell correspond to environmental features, such as coral cover or topography. This approach is compatible with both pixel-based satellite imagery and with quadrat-based field observations. It also enables processes that involve movement through space (e.g. fire, dispersal) to be modeled in "natural" fashion.
To see how easily the cellular automaton idea can be brought to bear on real systems, consider a system whose states are of the form ( s,t ), where t denotes "time since fire burned out the cell" and stakes one of the values: "bare earth" (E), "grass" (G), "woodland" (W), and "closed forest" (F). Define state transitions rules as follows:
Starting with an arbitrary "landscape", consisting of a 2-D grid of cells in random states, the rules quickly produce patterns (Fig. 3). For instance, "forest zones" quickly develop, even though the model contains no assumptions about the environment or site preferences of the vegetation. Admittedly, this model is a mere caricature of true forest succession, but it is only a short jump to management models taking (say) satellite data as inputs.
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- Use the program Basic 1D CA to look at patterns formed by linear CAs. Select 2 colours and 20 cells. The program forms both the initial row of cells, and the rules, at random.
- What sorts of patterns emerge?
- Try to deduce the rules from the patterns you see.
- Play with the Game of Life.
- Draw some simple configurations and run the model. What happens?
- Try running the model with well-known patterns.
- Run the model a few times starting with a random scatter of "live" cells. Does the model settle down to a fixed pattern? If so, how many generations does it take?
- The program COT shows how the basic CA model can be varied to simulate artificial life. Here the basic CA models corals and water. Overlaid on top of it are Crown of Thorns starfish (COTs) that move around from cell to cell and interact with the coral by eating it.
- First run the reef model (COT.MOD) with the default settings. What happens?
- Change the assumption (under Options) about starfish behaviour. How does this change the movement of starfish?
- Use the options to start the random walk model (WALK.MOD). This model simulates N animals walking at random from a single starting point and is a simple example of "diffusion limited aggregation" or DLA for short. The What happens with just 1 animal?
- Rerun the walk model with 100 animals. How does the area covered differ from that with a single animal?
- The FILL option in the program PIXED illustrates a simple epidemic process in a CA (see Figure 4). At the start all cells are in a single state and a new state spreads outwards from a "seed" by "infecting" its neighbours.
- Try FILL (F) to see the epidemic spread outwards from the centre. Use Undo (U) to reset the grid.
- In a real epidemic, not everyone is infected. The "infection rate" is the proportion of susceptible cells that are actually infected. Use "%" to set the infection rate r (0-100).
- Try a series of runs with r in the range 50-70. How does the size of the epidemic change as you change r? For what value of r is the size of the epidemics most variable?
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How to Visit Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon and Diamond Beach in Iceland
"Iceberg ahead!" I might have said this one too many times as we zipped around the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon on a Saturday morning in early October, but something about the cold air striking against my face and the faint odor drifting from my borrowed flotation suit made the *slightly misquoted and somewhat insensitive* "Titanic" reference seem extra amusing. Luckily, no one could really hear me, given the noise from the motor and the fact we were all donning warm, muffling head wear.
There really were icebergs ahead, though, appearing as works of art in their various shapes and sizes and shades. The bluer ones were older, our guide explained in his charming Icelandic accent. (He also shared some amusing stories about sheep herding in the countryside, since he's a farmer slash glacier boat driver. Double threat!)
If you're considering visiting Jokulsarlon on your Iceland vacation, read on for everything you need to know about this bucket-list experience and scroll to the end for an iceberg slideshow.
What is the Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon?
Formed by the retreat of Breiðamerkurjökull, an outlet of the massive Vatnajökull ice field in southeastern Iceland, Jokulsarlon is a more than 800-foot deep lagoon that flows out to the Atlantic Ocean. Large chunks of ice are constantly breaking off from the glacier, and if you listen closely, you can often hear them cracking. You might even be lucky enough to see one pop up in the water or flip over! As they melt and get smaller, the icebergs will float out to sea with the tide, but some of them also get washed onto the black sand shore (aptly known as Diamond Beach). Which means you can literally play with, touch, take pictures, or sit on a piece of glacier that's been hanging around for hundreds of years. Proximity to the ocean also means that sea critters sometimes make their way into the lagoon, like the adorable (but smelly) seal we saw floating on a chunk of ice.
How do I get to the Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon?
Jokulsarlon is about 230 miles east of Reykjavik right off of Route 1, or about a 5-hour drive, though I recommend taking a couple of days to cruise that stretch of road if you want to take time for excursions and to fully appreciate it. If you rent a car as we did and want to stay nearby, there are a couple of guesthouses in Hof, or you may want to continue on to the town of Höfn for more dining and accommodation options. There also are plenty of guided tours available from Reykjavik, if you prefer to have someone else shuttle you around while you sit back and enjoy the incredible views! Driving this stretch along Route 1 is simple, though, and Jokulsarlon is visible from the road and impossible to miss. You'll know you're getting close when you start seeing glaciers in the distance!
What is there to do at Jokulsarlon?
On the coastal side of the road is Diamond Beach, where you can walk around and check out the ice that has washed up on shore. The landscape is always changing, so you never know what kind of formations you'll encounter. Some are the size of ice cubes, and others might tower over your head! The best views of Jokulsarlon are from the inland side of Route 1, where you can walk along the lagoon or hop on two different types of boat tours to get up close and personal with the icebergs. Amphibian boats drive groups of about 20 straight from land into the water for a 40-minute ride around the icebergs. You'll learn how they formed from an English-speaking guide and have an opportunity to taste a chunk of ice. The zippier Zodiac tours approach the glacier tongue, though as our guide explained, you don't want to get TOO close and risk a freshly flipped iceberg sneaking up on you. Kids must be at 10 years old for these rides, and able to hold on when the boat is speeding along. We opted for the Zodiac excursion and appreciated how it blended a thrilling speed ride through icebergs (à la James Bond, which has filmed here) with plenty of photo stops. Since you sit on the sides of the watercraft, you'll have unobstructed, up-close views of the 'bergs.
How should I dress for the Jokulsarlon boat ride?
You'll cruise along at a relaxed pace on the amphibian ride, so wear as many layers as you need to be comfortable outside for an hour or so. This depends on the weather any particular day, so check this packing guide for what to bring on your Iceland vacation. The Zodiac tour is colder since you're going fast, but you'll be outfitted with a full-body floatation suit that adds quite a bit of warmth. I still wore a puffer jacket, insulated pants, and a knit cap, but my gloves stayed off most of the time because I was snapping so many pictures (my hands were cold though, so definitely bring gloves). You'll don a life vest at all times on both tours.
When should I go to the Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon?
Boat tours on the lagoon typically start in May and run through September (Zodiac) or November (amphibian), though it depends on how the weather is faring. Zodiac excursions were still running in early October when we visited, but don't count on booking one past September. You can visit the lagoon any time of year, though. There are large parking lots on either side of Route 1, right next to the lagoon and Diamond Beach, so you can easily explore both sites. A small cafe and souvenir shop by the lagoon remains open year-round and serves a small menu of soups, sandwiches, and hot drinks. Though the boat tours are an amazing experience, if you're visiting in winter it's still worth the drive just to see and take photos of the amazing ice formations, especially since there are so many incredible stops along the South Coast on the way. Plus, in winter you can join one of the amazing ice cave tours near Vatnajokull that depart from here. Make sure to book Zodiac and ice cave tours ahead of time, as they can sell out. The amphibian tours run more frequently, so you might be able to snag one onsite.


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This dress is my second trip to the Viking Age and is not completely finished yet. On the photos, you can see it in the state I did wear it on the "Slawentage" in the museum in Oldenburg/Holstein in Germany. I used the books about the excavations at Haithabu to make the outfit. However, there is a small mistake on the neckline, which I have to fix soon.
The dress is made of blue and black linen and handsewn with linen thread. In order to make it wider on the hem, I added four gores. The rest is rather tight-fitting. As a result, I needed only 2,2 yards of fabric. Further, the small applications are made with natural-dyed wool, which I buyed. Some time in the future, I want to dye my own wool and fabric. In addition to the basic dress, I wear the sleevesless dress from my first Viking dress, because I ran out of time. I already started a separate overdress of blue linen. To complete the look, I wear a long belt, a bag made by me out of wool, and my Viking shoes, which were made by my boyfriend.
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Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) drugs like Nexium, Prilosec, and Prevacid have been miracle drugs for some people who suffer from serious heartburn. For over the last decade, doctors prescribed these drugs to millions of patients under the belief that there was no risk in taking these drugs, only to find out serious side effects exist.
Although stomach acid is negatively viewed since it causes heartburn, acid reflux symptoms, and other painful conditions, its presence is also necessary to digest food and to act as a first defense against viruses, bacteria, and other harmful organisms entering your body through your mouth. Therefore by reducing stomach acid, heartburn drugs are also reducing one of the body's defense mechanisms against germs that cause pneumonia.
We can now add low magnesium levels to the growing list of side effects caused by Proton Pump Inhibitors like Nexium, Prilosec, Prevacid, and Protonix. While PPIs do an incredible job of controlling chronic acid reflux, many researchers now believe they may also increase the risk of contracting pneumonia, developing bone fractures, and increasing your risk of a heart attack.
While low magnesium levels, called "hypomagnesemia", may not seem like a serious condition, it can lead to muscle spasm, irregular heartbeat, and convulsions or seizures. The FDA is recommending that doctors monitor patients' magnesium levels for those taking PPIs for longer than one year. Furthermore, the FDA has advised that magnesium supplements may not be helpful in many cases, and PPI treatment should be stopped entirely.
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The title of Jake Walker's new exhibition, Time Frame, puns on the potential of the picture frame to enclose and contain time. In this series, the viewer digs through gaps and transparencies to discover an archeology of surfaces. Sometimes a signature or line drawing is spontaneously etched into the final coat of paint – a reminder of the artist's most recent contact with the surface. Walker's ceramic frames carry their own sense of history, carefully revealing stages of the firing process. Their protrusions and appendages evoke instruments of antiquity and pieces of modernist pottery. They subvert their traditional function as window frames and become containers for the painted object, enclosing and charging it with energy. In an age when time is increasingly framed by the shallow flicker of a screen, Walker's art makes us slow down and look back.
Jake Walker received his MFA at Otago School of Fine Art in Dunedin in 1991. Recent solo exhibitions include Geyserland, Dutton Gallery, New York; Suggested Things, Hamish McKay, Wellington, 2016; Unemployment Works, Station, Melbourne, 2016; Sydney Contemporary with Gallery 9, 2015; The Town Belt, City Gallery, Wellington, 2014; Paintings Questions, Gallery 9, Sydney, 2013; Painting and Relief, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary, 2012. Select group exhibitions include 5 Perspectives, The Young, Wellington, 2014; Assembly, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, 2014; Never-Never Land, Roslyn Oxley 9 in collaboration with Utopian Slumps, Sydney, 2014; Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2013.
Walker is represented in the collections of the Wallace Arts Trust, Chartwell Collection (Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki), the Joyce Nissan collection, the Te Papa Tongarewa collection, as well as various private collections in New Zealand, Australia and internationally. Walker was a Gertrude Contemporary resident studio artist from 2011 to 2012. He lives and works in Featherston, New Zealand.


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When I got my hands on this beyond beautiful coat, I couldn't imagine shooting it any where other then the Olin Library at Wesleyan University. The silver and black fur fit perfectly with the gorgeous Carrara marble staircases found in the landscaping here. We took these shots back in December when there was still green grass on the ground. A reminder that spring is on it's way and we will soon have green grass again here in New England.
Thank you Exclusive Fur for this beyond beautiful coat. You can visit Exclusive Fur at their Middletown and West Hartford, Connecticut locations or at this link for contact information. Be prepared to fall in love.
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From TSA agents being our friendly local social terrorist molesting people at airports and railway platforms, to cops who maim and murder the very people they are sworn to protect. One need look no further than our own police-state column to see the reality of the tyranny we now live under.
But this article is not about bad cops or bad laws.
Today I want to talk about the other side of the coin. I want to have a look at the genuine cop-haters. The folks who will, no matter what, always say that the cop is wrong. My friends, this is another hypocrisy I cannot abide. The cop is not always wrong. It does a disservice to those of us who are striving for genuine and positive changes, to pick at justifiable police activity as being some travesty of justice and abuse of authority. The reality is that the job of a police officer is a very difficult one. One that does include justified instances of all sorts of unsavory acts, up to and including the use of deadly force. Just because a cop shoots someone dead, does not mean that a murder has been committed.
I have seen instances in the past of people ripping on the police for simply doing their job. That is no more fair-play than a cop planting a joint in your glovebox.
What got me going on this subject today was the following pic and video which has been splashed across anti-law-enforcement blogs and Facebook pages.
I got completely suckered in by the caption. What is frightening of course, is that the performance of our police forces made this entirely plausible, and I started salivating about the prospect of posting yet another instance of a cop going berserk.
What I got instead though, was a dose of cop-haters going out of their way to be offended by a cop doing his job.
Let's have a look at the video now, before I comment further.
The video starts as the officer engages the suspect vehicle and initiates a traffic stop. The vehicle matches the description given by other motorists who reported a reckless and/or speeding driver. This is confirmed by the suspect himself in his own video description.
"...Pulled over for no reason except someone said I was swerving on the interstate a lil bit because i had broke the stick shift knob and was screwing it back on. Is this a legal traffic stop. I thought officers had to witness me committing a violation but not this case. Someone was pulling some road rage making up that I almost hit them when in fact they cut me off and I had to slam on my breaks because she limited my distance to stop..."
So right here he has admitted that he was indeed swerving. I don't care if he was screwing on a broken shift knob, texting, or getting his knob polished. If you are swerving in traffic, especially at high speed on an interstate, you are putting lives in danger. That is reckless.
Then, another motorist also complains that the subject was driving recklessly, but he claims to be the "victim" of road rage here, and that the second complainant (presumably the female in the video) had actually caused a hazard. I find that claim on his part to be dubious, especially considering other admissions on the part of the suspect.
Regardless, the officer had several complaints of an erratic vehicle. This certainly is enough probable cause to initiate a traffic stop. No, an officer does not have to see an offense in order to investigate a potential crime. (Note that the suspect was never charged with other highway infractions which were not committed in the presence of the officer.) You will also notice in the video, that the suspect vehicle has malfunctioning tail/brake lights, which is also probable cause for a traffic stop.
In short, the officer engages a suspect vehicle that was reportedly, and by later admission of the operator, driving erratically. The reasons were, of course, unknown to the officer and not justified by the suspect anyway.
The officer sees the suspect vehicle lurch forward, against a red light, but with another vehicle in front of the suspect vehicle blocking the path. The suspect tries to explain this by saying that "the light was about to turn green" but this may in fact be another traffic violation, as it is in many jurisdictions, to proceed against a stop light once stopped. That would be yet another point of probable cause, and a ticketable offense committed in the presence of the officer. At the very least, the officer would be right to see this as a sign of anxious or aggressive driving. And for what reason, the officer had yet to determine. Was the suspect attempting to flee, was the vehicle in distress and unsafe for the roadway, or was the operator simply dangerously incompetant?
At that point the suspect vehicle chooses to proceed, rather than remain stopped. Again, by his own admission, the suspect had indeed seen the lights of the police car, was stopped, and chose to proceed anyway. That is a violation of the law. To generally paraphrase most traffic codes, you must stop and pull to the side if possible, when it is safe to do so. The suspect was stopped, there was no danger, and chose to proceed anyway.
"Yes I was stopped but he didn't say to stay there. Its always taught you pull over for emergency vehicles. How is this resisting I need to know? I had never been in trouble and any other time I had been pulled over I get yelled at to pull over to a safer spot. Well not this time."
His muddled self-justification is actually hard to interpret there. But right off the bat he makes a critical error in judgement. The officer most certainly did say to "stay there" through use of his warning beacons and siren. Not only did the suspect fail to yield, but also, willingly chose to proceed after acknowledging the police presence and lawful order to yield. Just because officers in the past had "always" yelled at him to pull over to a safer spot, that was not the case in this instance. The officer issued no such command.
Furthermore, it is hardly reasonable to move an almost completely disabled vehicle from a side street onto a main thoroughfare, as we saw was done in this video. I don't see that as reasonable even without the police presence, which is also something that the officer likely considered.
So at this point the officer sees a suspect vehicle that is stalling out repeatedly, has a broken taillight, is leaking fluid all over the ground, with a driver who has been driving erratically, aggressively proceeding against a red light, and then for some unknown reason chooses to proceed into heavy traffic rather than remain stopped on a side street. The motorist was actually creating a more dangerous situation, not moving to safer ground.
The officer, at this point, is reasonably jacked-up with all sorts of suspicion. Is the person drunk or high? Was the truck damaged from hitting another car or even a pedestrian perhaps? Is the driver simply woefully incompetent? Maybe in emotional distress, or having a medical problem such as a seizure or some sort of dementia? Even a diabetic episode? Is the truck blowing fluid all over the place because the suspect just beat the hell out of the motor fleeing from the scene of an axe murder at a daycare center? Who the hell knows? With all those questions and more, would you walk up to a vehicle like that with a fine "Howdy doo? What seems to be the trouble today?"
Hell no. I would pull my Glock and and give him a straight "what da fuck man?!"
And to break it down even further, ask yourself this. How often would you actually love to pull a Glock on some asshat driver and ask him that very question before you proceed to break his cellphone and knock out his high beams with a lug wrench? I have been tempted to do just that many times. Now imagine it is your job to actually stop that person, but you can't even give him so much as a Three-Stooges eye-poke? That you have to swallow your emotions, protect yourself from a possibly fatal encounter, and act professionally. That takes balls of steel and an almost inhuman sense of humility at the same time.
So to wrap this up here, like I said to start, I have a lot of beef with cops in general. From the laws that they enforce, to how they enforce them. But at the end of the day, fuck that job. Not for me man. I would crack someone in the head.
To my cop-hating buds out there, don't get it twisted my friends. A lot of assholery comes from the thin-blue-line. But don't believe the hype either. Propaganda works both ways. And to my police officer friends, this is for you you blue bastads! Lol. Gotta give you some props once in a while.
And be safe on the roads all my friends. Don't be an asshat. Stay off the fuckin phone. No, you are not special, you cannot use the phone and drive, you are not superhuman. (And this goes for you cops out there too, exempt or not.)
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Here is the full video description by the self-desribed suspect in this matter:
Here is the in dash camera from a police officer in Lebanon, Indiana. While he was behind me at the stop light the truck kept dying because it was old and over heating from being on the interstate the radiator fluid was leaking out. I had borrowed this truck in Lafayette, Indiana and its been sometime since I had driven a clutch. The guy that let me borrow the truck told me it sometimes overheats. It needed a thermostat or something. I got charged Felony Resisting Law Enforcement with a motor vehicle. Is this justified. I pulled over in a safer spot outta of the middle of the road. I had no idea I was being stopped but I noticed during the stop light and waved my hand to signal okay I'll pull over. Yes I was stopped but he didn't say to stay there. Its always taught you pull over for emergency vehicles. How is this resisting I need to know? I had never been in trouble and any other time I had been pulled over I get yelled at to pull over to a safer spot. Well not this time. I need help because I was scared into taking the plea or I would lose the case my attorney Buchanan Law Office Inc: Buchanan Pamela said. She was appointed as my legal counsel since I couldn't afford an attorney. I waiting 1 year going to probation and I even filled to fire her but at court I in the last minute had been convinced by her that I was not going to do any different thru anyone else. Her husband is a Prosecutor for the Town Of Lebanon and I feel that this is all crap. This took place in Lebanon, Indiana. Pulled over for no reason except someone said I was swerving on the interstate a lil bit because i had broke the stick shift knob and was screwing it back on. Is this a legal traffic stop. I thought officers had to witness me committing a violation but not this case. Someone was pulling some road rage making up that I almost hit them when in fact they cut me off and I had to slam on my breaks because she limited my distance to stop. Is there any other options I can pursue to sue the law office or something I just wanted to get the process over with because 2 years was a long time for probation and I figured maybe she was right what do I know I have no other way of fighting it. NEED HELP. THIS IS KEEPING ME FROM HAVING A NORMAL LIFE I CANT GET A CAREER TO TAKE CARE OF MY WIFE AND KID. I AM SO FRUSTRATED WITH THIS.
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I will be doing a book reading/signing at Robot Inside in Cincinnati on Saturday, May 14th. This will be a special, "release party" kind of event. I hope to see you there!
It's going to be a lot of fun, and guaranteed to be much different than your average book reading (for example ... there will be a drummer accompanying me, and plenty of audience interaction). There will also be activities to follow the reading such as "create your own baseball card" and T-B coloring pages. Books will be for sale, of course, with felt pennants being included with every purchase (p.s. -- this also means that more "bases-clearing double bundles" have been stocked in the online store).
And finally, there will be the life-size T-B card photo booths (see below).
Here is the link w/ more event info.
(niece posing as Centipede Cedrick for maximum cuteness)
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Developmental Norms
Criteria to assess if your child's speech and language skills are developing normally.
Please find below a list of criteria, categorised into age groups, which can help you to work out if your child is developing normally. Note that these are approximate indicators only, so try not to be worried if your child isn't able to perform some of the skills listed. After all, children develop at different speeds. If a developmental delay persists, however, then feel free to contact us for professional guidance.
By the age of 12 months, your child should be able to:
- Look at you when you speak to them and call their name.
- Listen carefully, and turn to someone talking on the other side of the room.
- Begin to understand words like "bye bye" and "up" especially when a gesture is used at the same time.
- Understand their own name.
- Understand the names of familiar objects i.e. "teddy" and "mummy".
- Smile at people who are smiling at them.
- Enjoy action songs and rhymes.
- Like to babble strings of sounds, like "no-no" and "go-go".
- Shake their head for "no".
Possible issues to look out for:
- By 6 months never reacts to noise.
- By 6 months doesn´t smile back at someone who smiles at them.
- By 9 months doesn´t turn towards a speaker when their name is called.
- By 1 year never tries to get your attention by pointing, making noise, reaching out or eye contact.
By the age of 18 months, your child should be able to:
- Look with interest at picture books.
- Enjoy games like pat-a-cake.
- Begin to understand a few simple words, such as "Where's your juice?", "bed" and "car". Also simple instructions like "bye bye daddy".
- Say up to 10 - 20 simple words, such as "cup", "daddy" and "car". Only adults familiar with your child may understand the spoken words.
- Copy sounds and words that adults say and gestures that they make.
- Like to gesture or point, often with words or sounds to show what they want.
- Start to enjoy simple pretend play i.e. pretending to pour a drink.
Possible issues to look out for:
- Your child has not started to babble using lots of different sounds.
- He is not saying his first words by 18 months.
- Doesn´t respond to simple commands, i.e. "Where's your hat?".
- Never concentrates on anything for more than a few seconds.
By the age of 2 years old, your child should be able to:
- Understand between 200 and 500 words.
- Sit and listen to simple stories with pictures.
- Concentrate on activities for longer, like playing with a favourite toy.
- Understand simple questions and instructions, i.e. "where is your drink?" and "show me your eyes".
- Start to put short sentences together with 2-3 words, such as "more biscuit please" or "bye mummy".
- Say around 50 single words. Children will also often miss out the ends of words, however they can usually be understood about half of the time.
- Enjoy pretend play with their toys, such as feeding their doll or driving a train to a station.
- Use pronouns such my / you but with some mistakes.
Possible issues to look out for:
- Doesn´t seem to understand the names of everyday familiar objects, i.e. "spoon", "cup", "teddy".
- Has difficulty following simple instructions, i.e. "show me your hands".
- Doesn´t concentrate on an object / activity of own choice.
- Is not able to say recognisable words.
- Doesn´t show any signs of pretend play.
By the age of 3 years old, your child should be able to:
- Enjoy, listen to and remember simple stories with pictures.
- Understand simple "who", "what" and "where" questions.
- Understand longer instructions, such as "open the box" or "where's mummy's coat?"
- Put 4 or 5 words together to make short sentences.
- Use up to 300 words.
- Ask lots of questions.
- May still have problems saying more difficult sounds like sh, ch, th and r. However, people who know them can mostly understand them.
- Use a wider range of speech sounds. However, many children will shorten longer words, such as saying "nana" instead of "banana" or "pider" instead of "spider".
- Start to add on plurals, e.g. "cats".
Possible issues to look out for:
- Chooses to point or show what they want rather than say it.
- Doesn´t seem to understand what you said.
- Says single words.
- You cannot understand what they say.
- Shows no interest in playing with others.
- Attention span is very short.
By the age of 4 years old, your child should be able to:
- Listen to longer stories and answer questions about a storybook they have just read.
- Understand and often use colour, number and time related words, i.e. "red" car, "three" fingers and "yesterday / tomorrow".
- Answer questions about "why" something has happened.
- Use longer sentences and link sentences together.
- Describe events that have already happened, e.g. "we went park".
- Enjoy make-believe play.
- Start to like simple jokes.
- Ask many questions using words like "what" "where" and "why".
- Still make mistakes with tense such as say "runned" for "ran" and "swimmed" for "swam".
- May have difficulties with a small number of sounds for example r, w, l, f, th, sh, ch.
- Be understood by people who are not familiar with them.
- Use social words such as "please" and "thank you".
- Start to be able to plan games with others.
Possible issues to look out for:
- Often looks puzzled as if they don´t understand what you said.
- Speech is very unclear.
- Can´t concentrate on anything for more than a few minutes.
- The language they use is jumbled and difficult to understand.
- They are aware of their non-fluency / stammering.
By the age of 5 years old, your child should be able to:
- Understand spoken instructions without stopping what they are doing to look at the speaker.
- Choose their own friends and play mates.
- Take turns in much longer conversations.
- Understand more complicated language such as "first", "last", "might", "maybe", "above" and "in between".
- Understand words that describe sequences such as "first we are going to the shop, next we will play in the park".
- Use sentences that are well formed. However, they may still have some difficulties with grammar. For example, saying "sheeps" instead of "sheep" or "goed" instead of "went".
- Use most sounds effectively.
Possible issues to look out for:
- Difficulty with abstract ideas such as size or time.
- Not able to use the right words to express themselves.
- Difficulty organising ideas and thoughts in the correct order.
- Missing out some words. For example, saying "kicking ball" instead of "Daddy is playing with the ball".
- Talking about lots of different topics in the same group of sentences.
- Speech is still unclear.
By the age of 7 years old, your child should be able to:
- Use their language skills in learning to read, write and spell.
- Learn that the same word can mean two things, such as "orange" the fruit and "orange" the colour.
- Learn that different words can mean the same thing, such as "minus" and "take away".
- Understand feelings and descriptive words like "carefully", "slowly" or "clever".
- Use language for different purposes such as asking questions, persuading & different social situations.
- Share and discuss more complex ideas.
Possible issues to look out for:
- Find it hard to learn and understand the meanings of words.
- Find it hard to understand language about things in the past or future.
- Struggle to understand phrases that can mean more than one thing, such as "pull your socks up".
- Respond to just part of an instruction, usually the beginning or end.
- Use short sentences, often with words missing or in the wrong order.
- Find it hard to make up stories.
- Is not learning at school, but nobody can explain why.
- Is struggling to make friends.
By the age of 11 years old, your child should be able to:
- Use language to predict and draw conclusions.
- Use long and complex sentences.
- Understand other points of view and show that they agree or disagree.
- Keep a conversation going by giving reasons and explaining choices.
- Start conversations with adults and children they don´t know.
- Understand and use passive sentences e.g. "the thief is chased by the policeman".
Possible issues to look out for:
- They may struggle to join in group conversations. This is because there is too much language.
- They may find it hard to make up stories. This will show in their written work as well as talking.
- Their stories may be muddled, making them difficult to follow.
- They may find it hard to learn and understand the meanings of words.
- They may struggle to understand language about things in the past or future.
- They may find it hard to make predictions.
- They may find it difficult to understand language where the meaning isn´t clearly stated.
- They may be struggling to learn at school.
- They could find it hard to understand what it is they are supposed to be doing, even though they have been told.
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Hip Hop artists not only headline sold-out concerts at Madison Square Gardens, but also feature films replete with A-list actors, and their own film and tech companies.
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Kalling's No.2 Reagent (AKA Kalling's etch, waterless Kalling's) is a metallographic etchant for etching Ni-Cu, nickel-based superalloys, ferritic and martensitic 400 series stainless steels. This etchant will darken martensite, attack ferrite readily and etch austenite slightly. It will not attack carbides.
This product is made with ACS reagent grade cupric chloride, hydrochloric acid, and ethanol. The formula is listed in ASTM standard E 407 as formula number 94 "Kalling's 2". Some people call this solution waterless Kalling's. But in fact, this mixture has a small amount of water in it which comes from the alcohol and hydrochloric acid.
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- Polish the sample surface with diamond slurry or alumina (1 µm or finer) before etching.
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- Use this product under a fume hood. Immerse or swab the polished surface few seconds to a minute.
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Is the Asian "pivot" really dead?
Is the Asian "pivot" really dead?
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Keith B. Richburg
, April 2, 2014
Whatever happened to the Obama administration's "pivot" to Asia?
The strategic refocus was announced with great fanfare, coming first in a
Foreign Policy magazine piece by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
, under the headline "America's Pacific Century." After a decade consumed by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Clinton smartly wrote, America's most important new task would be "to lock in a substantially increased investment — diplomatic, economic, strategic and otherwise — in the Asia-Pacific region."
And Clinton's op-ed came after Obama's 2009 trip to Asia, in his first year in office, in which he declared himself, by virtue of his Hawaiian birth and his boyhood in Indonesia, "America's first Pacific President."
But on the surface at least, events appear to have intervened to keep the administration's foreign policy focus attuned to the very same global trouble spots that have preoccupied past presidencies. There is the continuing concern over Iran's nuclear ambitions. There was the Arab Spring that turned to winter. The bloody civil war in Syria shows no signs of abating. Afghanistan remains a worry, with its violent presidential election and the coming U.S. troop drawdown marred by increasing Taliban attacks. Then this year came the crisis in Ukraine and Russian President Vladimir Putin's annexation of the Crimean peninsula leading to sanctions and talk of a new Cold War with Russia.
Add to that list the perennial problem of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute that has bedeviled presidents past and that remains seemingly intractable, despite Secretary of State John Kerry's frenetic shuttle diplomacy.
The result is the appearance that the Asian pivot was more aspirational than substantive. Or, as Obama's critics might say, an example of naivety being eclipsed by the messy problems of the real world.
And the critics have gleefully pounced in pronouncing the pivot dead.
The National Interest magazine ran an article under the provocative headline
"Forever On The Back Burner; Ukraine Crisis Usurps The Asian Pivot."
Similarly, The Wall Street Journal columnist Michael Auslin wrote last month of
"The Slow Death of the Asian Pivot."
He concluded "Mr. Obama's pivot to Asia is on the rocks."
"Mr. Obama seems to grow less focused by the day on Asia's dangers," Auslin wrote. "It was bad enough that he chose to skip last year's major Association of Southeast Asian Nations meetings due to domestic budget battles back home. Now Secretary of State John Kerry is prioritizing Middle East issues." Auslin was primarily noting the Democratic Senate leader's rejection of the "fast track" trade authority Obama was seeking — a power that was tied to implementing the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact — as an example of how the president was unable to put his pivot into practice.
Not to be outdone, Bill Gertz of The Washington Times weighed in with a March 5 piece claiming the pivot was verbally undermined by Katrina McFarland, the assistant defense secretary for acquisitions, who told a conference "the pivot is being looked at again because, candidly, it can't happen" — remarks she later disavowed. "The rebalance to Asia can and will continue," McFarland said in the clarification.
As evidence of the death of the Asian pivot, Obama critics assert that China has been able to flex its military muscle in the region unchecked, for example when Beijing decided late last year to unilaterally establish a new air defense identification zone in an area of the East China Sea. According to this narrative, China's reach has been expanding, while U.S. power and influence is on a slow, steady decline.
But is the pivot really dead? Is China really rising in the Asia-Pacific region while America is in withdrawal?
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel scoffs at the notion. In a recent
Los Angeles Times interview,
Hagel credits America's "soft tools" of diplomacy, security cooperation and trade with keeping the Asian region largely peaceful, while the Middle East and the former Soviet bloc states are roiling with old-era tensions. "Asia-Pacific has pointed the way," Hagel said.
In addition, Hagel had a retort to those who see the U.S. as a power in retreat. "We've got over 330,000 personnel deployed in the Asia-Pacific, 180 ships, over 2,000 aircraft," he said. "It's the largest combatant command we have in the world."
I agree, for those reasons and more.
For one, China's new military assertiveness has not necessarily translated into increased influence; quite the contrary, China's moves — like the declaration of the air identification zone — have only made its regional neighbors more nervous. Every act of Chinese "expansion," against Japan, against the Philippines, against the countries that claim the same island chain in the South China Sea, pushes those countries more towards the U.S. America is still seen in the region as the best counterweight to a rising China, and that doesn't seem likely to change anytime soon.
It is true that China has been increasing its military budget to historically high levels, to $132 billion for 2014, a 12.2. percent increase over the previous year, as was reported in March. This is on top of an increase of more than 10 percent last year. And that doesn't include "hidden" defense costs that are kept off the books and outside of public view.
But while China's defense spending may be a worry for the longterm, for now some analysts say the overall figures are just commensurate with China's huge economy, currently the world's second largest in overall GDP terms (and that's the same position Chinese military officials take). China's military spending is still dwarfed by that of the U.S., at more than $500 billion, for a country with a quarter the size of the population of China's. And much of China's new spending will be going to modernize its navy and air force, and to provide needed pay raises.
Most importantly, America's global influence — particularly in the Asian region — comes not from its military might, but from the impact of its "soft power," and that includes everything from the lure of its educational institutions to the export of Hollywood movies. Global reach means more than the number of ships, submarines and fighter jets at hand. As Bill Clinton famously put it, we lead by the power of our example, not by the example of our power.
The naysayers should take note; the Asia-Pacific "pivot" was never simply a matter of how many military resources we can deploy to the region — although the U.S. remains unmatched on that score, too. Seen broadly, the repositioning was always more predicated on soft power, including our business links, educational and cultural exchanges, people-to-people ties and trade. On that score, the U.S. remains the dominant power in the region. And it's a position that doesn't appear likely to shift anytime soon.


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Fun Ways To Keep Your Child Interested In Math And Science/
In most cases, math and especially science are a love it or leave it subject. In the past decade or so, there has been a decrease in skill-oriented jobs and an increase in technically centered jobs. Science and math take a lot of brain power to master and thus require students to work hard. According to a study by the University of Chicago in 2012, math and science are similar to physical pain. Most parents, therefore, tend to tell their children that math is hard because most time they are relieving their own terrible experiences with the subject. Those who do not tell their children that math is hard, tend to lie to see if their children are going to excel. However, there are easy ways to make your children learn to enjoy these subjects.
Create gaming activities
Children love games, and there is no way of getting around that. What if as a parent, you could make maths, a skill that is critical to life, a game that they can enjoy playing? Numerous digital gaming apps and websites will help you come up with ideas on how to can create games that will make math fun for your child. If your child is young, you might want to consider using non-digital games like playing cards or board games that require one to calculate. Studies have shown that such games are great for children not because they help pass the time and are fun but because with time, your child learns to enjoy and learn through the games.
Make them real and meaningful
You need to point out to your children that they are surrounded by math and science problems. How plants grow and the way leaves are arranged in a branch, that is science. The distribution of money and how to tell time that is math. Comparing prices at the grocery store and counting mailboxes while driving down the street are all instances of life that are mathematical. You may also offer incentives. For instance, at the checkout counter at the grocery store, let them guess how much the grocery purchased will be and give them a dollar if they are right. This will help make math and science more relatable to them. They will be keener to learn the details and will find that by relating math with real, life situations, they can get answers faster at school.
Start when they are young
Do not just wait to hire a private tutor for them, be their first teacher. Begin when they are toddlers and introduce games and concepts as their brains develop. Introducing patterns, sequences and serration systems will help them have a feel of what to expect in the future. The best thing about the things we develop an interest in when we are young is that we can never outgrow them or lose interest. They almost always seem to come naturally to us. This will be the case for your child even as the challenges become tougher; they will be able to handle what comes their way.
-Jason Phillips is a blogger and writes various articles on education. He also writes for smiletutor who provides home tutors in Singapore. He loves to go swimming and read books in his leisure time.


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Unwritten Stories/
"Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten. ~ Unwritten, Natasha Bedingfield
My son was home for a holiday, and we had the rare occasion to tool around town, having lunch and the chance to walk and shop in the sunshine of the first warm day of the season.
I have no place I have to be, he exclaimed, grateful for such unusual circumstances. There's nothing I have to be doing right now.
We stopped in a refurbished firehouse that was home to a cool, new shoe store. The interior was designed like an old library, and as we sat down on a plush, oversized couch, I pointed out several shelves of blank books, none of which had covers, words or titles.
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The Arc of Greater Plymouth recently provided some special holiday cheer to residents of the New England Center for Homeless Veterans in Boston, delivering a "Giving Tree" that was decorated by students in the Arc's Life Skills program.
PLYMOUTH – The Arc of Greater Plymouth recently provided some special holiday cheer to residents of the New England Center for Homeless Veterans in Boston, delivering a "Giving Tree" that was decorated by students in the Arc's Life Skills program.
The students decided on a theme for the tree, created all the ornaments and designed the tree over a five-week period. The tree was placed in the main hall at the Center Dec. 4 and was decorated by the students during an event that featured music by Chelo Fansua, the founder of Mi Anatolia.
"The Arc of Greater Plymouth's Life Skills class and staff were honored to celebrate the holidays with our veterans who have given so much to our country and its citizens," Jill O'Reilly, community support coordinator at the Arc of Greater Plymouth, said. "We were truly inspired and humbled meeting the veterans, and they will always remain in our thoughts and prayers for a brighter future that they deserve so much."
"We greatly appreciate the Arc of Greater Plymouth honoring our veterans with the gift of this beautiful tree," NECHV President and CEO C. Andrew McCawley said. "It will bring joy throughout the holiday season to those we serve who have served their country."
The Arc of Greater Plymouth is dedicated to providing personalized services, supports and advocacy to children and adults with intellectual and other developmental disabilities. The Arc is committed to changing attitudes, perceptions and legislation so individuals will have the opportunity to choose and realize the goals of where and how they learn, live, work and play. The Arc of Greater Plymouth provides services and supports to more than 1,000 individuals with developmental disabilities and their families in Southeastern Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.thearcofgp.org.
Founded in 1989, the New England Center for Homeless Veterans is a nationally recognized leader in the initiative to end homelessness among veterans and one of the largest and most effective private veteran support organizations in the country. The NECHV is a multi-dimensional service and care provider dedicated to assisting veterans who are facing or at risk of homelessness with a broad array of programs and services that enable success, dignified, meaningful employment and independent living. For more information, visit www.nechv.org.


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Montreal! Â Remember when that's almost all I ever wrote about or talked about? Â haha, I do. Â It's the big return. Â I have my Bixi key revved up. Â I have plans to head to Ashtanga there, and maybe even the new Leed Platinum Planetarium. Â Wandering. Â Dancing. Â Visiting. Â This trip is also reunioning, with the Vancouver and Toronto corners of our crew. Â Not long now!
New school. Â Colour run. Â Where to next? Â New Years somewhere? Â What's up next?


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John Grossman was a noted illustrator living in Des Moins, IA who did art for pulp magazines the 1940s. He was a member of the Fantasy Artisans. He edited Scientifantasy along with Bill Kroll.
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