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Robert Marshall
- To end all wars in the Mideast-- stop bombing and...
- End "War on Drugs" Legalize marijuana on national...
- Test feasibility of single payer healthcare system...
Amanda Howland
- Strengthen the middle class by reforming the tax code...
- Protecting Social Security for future generations
- Reduce secondary education costs and reform student...
Mis 3 prioridades principales
- To end all wars in the Mideast-- stop bombing and bring troops now
- End "War on Drugs" Legalize marijuana on national basis
- Test feasibility of single payer healthcare system by slowly lowering Medicare age down
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moderately progressive with libertarian leanings. I am supporting Sanders for Pres. but do not go as far to the left as he is. I am a free enterpriser supporting generous governmental safety nets.
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Women's Issues
My name is Dr. Robert Marshall, I am a candidate for Congress in the Democratic Primary in your district.
The following is an excerpt of a speech I gave at the DuPage County Democratic Women's Organization on Saturday, January 23.
I am a physician and a private citizen, I am not a career politician. I am a Vietnam veteran and I am running for this office because my experience in Vietnam taught me that we are making the same mistake in the Mideast that we made in Vietnam 50 years ago. We must do the same thing in the Mideast as we did in Vietnam, that is, cease the bombing that we are doing there now and withdraw all of our troops as soon as possible. Only in this way will we avoid further terrorist acts in our country.
I am also interested in many women's issues. The most important ones are:
1. Extending the statute of limitations for rape. I would not be opposed to making it for life as it is for murder.
2. Women should be believed in cases of rape, instead of, as it is now where they are not believed.
3. I have always been pro-choice on the issue of abortion. I was a Republican for many years but even then I was pro-choice. You do not get far in the Republican Party if you are pro-choice on abortion and one of the reasons I left that party was because of the abortion issue.
I did my training in the 1960's prior to when abortion was made legal. The abortion situation is no joke. Women do die if they do not get proper abortion care and if they do not die, they get horrible infections and become sterile for life.
I believe that we should continue to fund Planned Parenthood as we have been doing.
4. We need reasonable gun laws to decrease the level of gun violence in this country. We also need to end the "War on Drugs" since at least 50% of the gun violence is related to gang activity involving the drug trade. We should legalize marijuana on a nationwide basis and make drug treatment more available and affordable.
5. We should continue to support mammography for all eligible women in this country.
Mammography, by the way, is my specialty as a Radiologist. I calculate that I have interpreted between 80,000 to 100,000 mammograms throughout my career for the past 42 years. If we save 1 to 3 lives per 1,000 mammograms examinations, I calculate that I have saved the lives of approximately 200 to 300 women over the course of my career.
6. I support the ERA Amendment. I believe that most of the discrimination that women experience could be solved if we could pass this amendment. The amendment did not pass 30 years ago because it was voted down by this State. It seems appropriate that we re-start our attempts to pass this amendment by beginning here in Illinois.
If you would like to help in my campaign my website is citizensforrobertmarshall.com. The telephone number for the campaign office is 708-795-1655. We need telephone canvassers and hostesses for in home meet and greets.
Lake County Speech
Lake County Speech
The following is a speech I gave at the Lake County Democratic Central Committee meeting on February 25.
My name is Dr. Robert Marshall, M.D. I am a candidate for Congress in the 6th District. I am a physician, I live in Burr Ridge and I am a father of four. I am not a career politician, I am just a private citizen like you.
I am a Vietnam Veteran. One of the main reasons I am running for this office is to oppose these wars that we are involved in, in the Mideast. We are making the same mistake there as we did in Vietnam. I think we should end our involvement there now and bring our troops home.
I also want to end the "War on Drugs" in this country. We should legalize marijuana nationally.
In this country, there is a small percentage of people that control more than 50% of the total wealth of the country. This is unacceptable. If we then permit these people to spend as much as they want on political campaigns, then all of us are in serious trouble. We have an oligarchy and not a democracy. We must make millionaires and billionaires pay more of their fair share.
The concentration of wealth and power in a small number of corporations, including the banks in New York City is a similar problem. When you then allow these corporations to be equal to people and allow them to spend as much as they want on political campaigns, then we are all in deeper trouble. I hope to reverse all of these two terrible trends. We must break up the banks in New York City and repeal Citizens United.
Can we have a single payer health system? I don't know but we can move towards that goal by slowly lowering the Medicare age down to 62 or 60 or allowing people age 55 to 65 to pay into Medicare. This way we can begin to achieve single payer without raising taxes.
Can we have free college education in this country? No one knows for certain but we can move towards this goal by increasing PELL Grants but in order to do this we must eliminate our involvement in all of these wars throughout this world. The Federal Government has only so much money and if we are spending money on foreign wars, then there is less for domestic programs.
I believe I can win the upcoming race against Mr. Roskam. How? By promoting the platform that I have just enunciated. We now know that Mr. Trump now will be at the top of their ticket and we know exactly where he is coming from. We also know the platform and philosophy of Senator Sanders is the key to winning over the type of voters that Trump is appealing to. This is the only way that we can win the upcoming race. If we try to duplicate the previous two campaigns, we will lose again as we did in 2014 and 2012.
Website: citizensforrobertmarshall.com Phone: 630-479-1665 or 708-795-1655
Candidate Comparison
Comparison of the two candiates for the 6th District
My name is Dr. Robert Marshall, M.D. I am a candidate for Congress in the 6th District in the Democratic Primary. I am a physician. I live in Burr Ridge and I am a father of four. I am not a career politician. I am just a private citizen like you.
I am a Vietnam Veteran. The main reason I am running for this office is to oppose these wars that we are involved in, in the Mideast. We are making the same mistake there as we did in Vietnam. I think we should end our involvement there now and bring our troops home.
The following is a comparison with me and my opponent, Amanda Howland.
Robert Marshall, M.D. Amanda Howland
Mideast Wars Stop bombing immediately Continue to stay there to
and withdraw all troops from support our" Allies", wants
Iraq and Afghanistan to expand involvement there
with "strong military action"
Marijuana Legalize nationally Opposed
Single Payer Healthcare
System Test feasibility of single payer Opposed
by decreasing Medicare age to
Middleclass and
Working Man Issues Strong supporter of AFL-CIO No difference
and AFT issues. 100% opposed
to right to work laws
Minimum Wage Increase to $15.00 per hour Unknown
Break up NYC Banks Yes No
Presidential Preference Sanders Unknown
Reason for Running To oppose Mideast Wars Recruited by several
unknown persons with
unknown motives
I ask for your support and vote on March 15.
Website: citizensforrobertmarshall.com Phone: 708-795-1655
Paid for by the Committee to Elect Robert Marshall
Información de contacto del candidato
Mis 3 prioridades principales
- Strengthen the middle class by reforming the tax code and bringing jobs back from foreign countries. Our current tax system favors those individuals and corporations wealthy enough to exploit its loopholes
- Protecting Social Security for future generations
- Reduce secondary education costs and reform student loans
Actividades comunitarias
Amanda Howland is an elected community college trustee, former Chairman of the College of Lake County board, an attorney, and a pragmatic progressive candidate for the United States House of Representatives from the Sixth District of Illinois in 2016.
Amanda has lived in Lake Zurich for more than 20 years. She began her career teaching behavior-disordered teens, initially at Allendale School for Boys, a residential facility in Lake Villa. She moved on to North Junior High (now Bernotas Junior High) in Crystal Lake while working on her Master's degree in administration. She was hired by U-46 and became an administrator in the largest elementary school in the district (1400 students in Bartlett, K-6). Along the way, building on her own competitive experience as a teen, she became a nationally ranked gymnastics judge, who still officiates at tournaments in the district and throughout Northern Illinois.
As a school administrator, Amanda became fascinated by the legal issues in education and decided to attend law school. As a result, she is still paying off student loans and so understands the burdens faced by students and their families who know that education is the key to success. As a current College of Lake County trustee, she has witnessed the struggles that students go through to afford college and believes that all students should be able to have access to college education.
Amanda's law practice is devoted to protecting the rights of people in both civil rights cases and employment law. She has a great deal of experience negotiating fair settlements and is eager to take that experience to Congress to keep fighting for a fair shake for the middle class. It's time to get to work and get the people's business done.
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Replication is the significant data sync and consensus mechanism in MongoDB, and it's only used for a single ReplicaSet deployment. Data between multi ReplicaSet or even cluster are separated and couldn't being accessed each other. In some scenarios the entire data syncing among the cluster is required that we can access data at any Mongo instance. Inspired by this, we have develop "Lamda" system in order to syncing data from one Mongo cluster to another cluster or other clusters, mirror all Mongo instances' data look just the same. Imagine we establish many data-pipeline between MongoDB instance (or cluster). Our use case for Lamda system include: Backup and mirror, Geographic based data distribution and sync, offline data analysis. We have successfully deployed more than tens Lamda on many MongoDB data centers which are hundred miles apart for disaster recovery and loading balance. We also addressed the data center traffic flow switching and remote transmission problem. On the failure of one data center, we can forward the network traffic to others easily since we have the equivalent data between the seperated cluster.
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Amy and the Old Madrone Tree: Why Become a Member?
Amy Robinson does many things. She's a mother of elementary-age kids and a poet and writer and an editor and a social activist and lives in a collectively-owned rural community. Until she began practicing with PZI, though, she kept the "poet and writer" part of all that to herself.
She came to the Santa Rosa Creek Zen Center in the spring of 2013 after a year of organizing with the Occupy movement, burnt out and searching. She attended a koan class with Rachel Boughton, and began having a regular meditation and koan practice (as regular as a parent of young children can have). If she was too busy carpooling and doing laundry and wondering how she would ever make money, she would at least sit for ten minutes at the very end of the night, and take a koan with her to sleep. Some movement towards freedom and confidence led her to begin to submit her work for publication. Now she is a Contributing Editor of PZI's online magazine of Zen and the arts, Uncertainty Club. Here's a piece she wrote a few years back, that has something to do with why she's a member of PZI.
Peach Blossoms/Madrone
On Monday night at the Santa Rosa zendo we sat with the koan about peach blossoms. It went pretty much like this: A woman wandered in the mountains, and became lost. As she rounded a bend, she saw peach blossoms on the other side of the valley, and woke up. Later she wrote this poem:
For thirty years I have searched for a master swordsman.
How many time did the leaves fall?
How many times did the buds break open?
Yet once I saw the peach blossoms, I had no doubts.
On Tuesday afternoon my husband and I went for a walk to a hilltop on our land, a sweeping view to the west, the fog drifting in and grasshoppers hopping. As we walked back down the steep fire road, I looked up and saw a giant old madrone tree across the small valley. It was laden with clusters of red berries. It glowed among the firs. It shed its orange leaves into a skirt beneath its boughs.
It can be anything, I thought Monday night, sitting at the zendo. The peach blossom can be anything. The ticking clock. The sighs and creaks in the air around me. The madrone.
In the evening yesterday my three-year-old son and I drove down at dusk to collect eggs from our chickens. As we rounded a curve of road and passed our neighbor's house he sucked in his breath and said, "Oh! Look at those purple clouds!" He paused. "And the moon! It's morning!"
"It's evening," I said, a little sad about correcting him.
"Oh! Yeah. Eve-enn-ing. Evening."
At the chicken coop he shined a flashlight into the boxes to see if there were eggs. We found nineteen, blue and taupe and peachy. I told him that to keep the chickens from bugging him he didn't need to yell, that he just needed to be big, strong Milo. So he planted his feet and stretched his arms out wide, turning in beautiful jerky circles inside the dark of the coop, chickens regarding him from their perches above.
He ran through the garden under the darkening pink and orange sky, looking for sorrel leaves and the "big, bigpath" that he likes to take between the garden beds. He helped me pick one of the summer's last zucchini, its flower still damp and folded at the tip.
I called him mountain boy as we walked down the road to the car. He said, "I'm not mountain boy. I need a rocket ship to climb a mountain."
After dinner he wore his spaceship pajamas and climbed up on my lap on our old green sofa with the stuffing coming out. I told him he was my peach blossom boy. He didn't argue with that.
Today a five-year-old girl I know is recovering from brain surgery.
Today a friend is remembering a baby he lost.
Today families are searching, aching, lifting the weight of the dead with their own hands, washed by sadness and also by silver light.
Today I had food on the table, a roof over my head, and a peach blossom boy who rubbed his snotty nose on my arm after refusing to eat his dinner. I had a six-year-old girl who found it physically impossible to be nice to anyone in her immediate family. I had more than a few moments in a locked dark room, recovering my patience, my sense of proportion, my center. Today I was generous. Today I yelled. Today I felt blessed, and also a little crazy inside my conditional skin. I had peach blossoms and madrone berries in the distance. I have many doubts, but I think I also have a little courage. And the patience to stay, most of the time, with what is here. And I see the love and dignity all around me, inside the things we carry, and inside the things we have to let go.
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You can read more of Amy's work–both poetry and prose– over at Uncertainty Club.
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From: The Jakarta PostPast economic crises have served as a constant reminder that observance of modern corporate governance principles continues to be a clear reflection of corporate commitment to responsible citizenship.
By Stefan S. Handoyo, Contributor, Jakarta
By Stefan S. Handoyo, Contributor, Jakarta
Both corporate governance and responsible citizenship draw inspiration from the fundamental principles of fairness, transparency and accountability.
While the principles of, and the culture behind, corporate governance are fundamentally the same everywhere, the practices and approaches to improving those practices do vary from one country to another.
The traditional approach taken to raise the standards of corporate governance practice has been to empower the corporate board. Corporate governance, therefore, is about shaping the leadership of the corporate board.
Board empowerment has assumed a high priority in many industrialized countries, where there has been an "agency problem". However, in many other emerging economies, including Indonesia, the corporate governance problem has not been a Western-style "agency problem". Where controlling owners take on the prerogatives of the board as well as the reins of management there may not be much of an agency problem.
The problem may well be one of checks and balances to prevent owners from committing self-dealing and related abuses. These problems have been more significant and widespread in countries where the majority of businesses is owned and controlled by families or groups of close friends.
Family-owned corporations are one of the foundations of the business community. Their creation, growth and longevity are critical to the success of the national and global economy. In Indonesia, more than 90 percent of businesses are family-owned and controlled corporations. Although facing many of the same day-to-day management issues as publicly owned companies, they must also manage many issues specific to their status.
Many of the issues faced in family businesses are akin to those faced by many ordinary citizens in their day-to-day family life. Thus, there is a close inter-relationship between how a family nurtures and upholds its values and how a family-owned corporation shapes and upholds its corporate culture.
In fact, in many cases it is the family as the oldest formal institution in man's history that actually defines the future and direction of any human secular activities, including business undertakings; not the other way around. When the families (values) are breaking down, sooner or later the future of the businesses they own will be at risk.
But, family members come and go. The corporations, on the other hand, are built to last for many generations to come. It is very crucial, therefore, that these corporations are built upon a solid foundation that is laid and created by the first generation of the families.
It is the first generations that actually set the tone at the top for the future and sustainability of many successful family-owned corporations. They can do this by creating a "Family Constitution or Charter" where the path of good corporate governance and family business principles cross each other and a clear guideline on how the family and business matters are treated is drawn.
Family corporations have to strive to be as well-managed as the best of their competitors. The need for a professional business approach is in fact greater in a family than in a non-family corporation. Family corporations also have distinctive characteristics from which they can derive a significant competitive advantage.
A long-term perspective comes from building a business for future generations while the strength of most family corporations' founding values give them a clear identity in an increasingly faceless corporate world.
But there are also risks associated with this type of corporation, most notably the dissension that may arise within families, particularly between family members who are actively working in the business vs those who are solely shareholders.
Thus, four key issues related to family business corporate governance need to be highlighted: (1) Recruitment system that allows willing family members to be employed should be balanced with a performance-based promotion that is resolutely the same for both family and non-family managers; (2) fairness and transparency in financial and non-financial perks and reward systems, particularly within the family, to avoid tensions over perceived injustices; (3) more formal organizational structures to clarify roles and to separate the day-to-day management from the strategic direction of the business; and (4) a regular and proper channel of communication among family members to keep the integrity and unity of the family.
A well-functioning corporate governance system also needs the expertise of non-family executives. Successful family corporations need to establish a board devoted to strategic business issues and ideally comprise members ñ family and non-family ñ with a balanced skills and expertise. The family, on the other hand, needs to be constantly involved and informed, preferably through a family council or family office.
A board allows a family corporation to establish clear lines of authority for different areas of the business. It ensures the stability and continuity of the policies and values that distinguish the firm. It also makes a necessary distinction between matters of day-to-day management and issues of strategy. Boards allow the infusion of new ideas and a broader range of experience from having outside directors/commissioners included.
Corporate boards need to be deeply conscious of their fiduciary duties. They need to ensure that all shareholders and other stakeholders as well are treated fairly. Boards need to be in a position where they can exercise independent judgment for the best interest of the corporation as a whole.
To live up to its role as a responsible corporate citizen, an effective board, a logical organizational structure, fair and transparent recruiting and promotion policies and open and free communication among family members are the key drivers to ensuring the longevity and success of a family corporation.
Finally, a family-owned corporation must also be able to go beyond the future of its own business and welfare of its own family. It must be able to address two important challenges: Grow the business and at the same time increase stakeholders' values through their positive contributions to a wider community.
The writer is a vice president of PT Asia Select Indonesia and senior advisor of the Family Business Network in Indonesia.


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The members of same-sex and unmarried couples live together, raise children, save money and care for each other just as married spouses do. Unfortunately, the legal protections extended to these couples are not the same as those enjoyed by couples considered married under Missouri law.
The best time to meet with an attorney is before an issue arises. Same-sex and unmarried couples who wait to put their wishes in legal form run the risk of being denied access to a loved one in the healthcare setting. When same-sex parents dissolve a union, one parent may be denied access to the child the couple has raised together. If one of the partners dies, the other may not receive the assets and property the couple worked together to accumulate over the course of a lifetime together.
An attorney can give you the legal tools you need to protect your loved one, yourself and your family. At The Center for Family Law, our representation of unmarried and same-sex partners includes:
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Review: Elixir Nanoweb Electric Bass Strings
When Elixir debuted its coated strings over a decade ago, it represented a paradigm shift, immediately adding an entirely new category for the bass-string buyer to consider. Now, in addition to the primal difference between roundwounds, flatwounds, groundwounds, tapewounds, and other arcane "wounds," a player could choose between coated and uncoated strings. The coating in question was a thin polymer layer over the string to prevent the deadening impact of finger oil, dirt, and grime. Since bass strings aren't cheap, the promise of a longer-lasting string—even one that came at an initial price premium—seemed like a win.
As a string ages, it loses its capacity to vibrate at higher overtones (harmonics) relative to the fundamental frequencies. We perceive this as a string being "dead." The original Elixirs did a good job of extending string life, but there was a catch: the coating had a tendency to rub off over extended use, giving the string a sort of furry look and feel. Elixir's latest design uses an ultrathin "Nanoweb" coating, designed to look and feel more like a traditional string than the older "Polyweb" coating, which is still available for those who dug the original models' warmer vibe.
The Nanoweb coating isn't visible. In my hand, directly next to a another brand's standard set, I couldn't differentiate between the two. Under the hand, however, it's a different story, and it's entirely subjective whether the strings' feel is a bug or a benefit. Even the stainless steel set felt slick and smooth compared to an uncoated stainless set. Personally, I don't see the downside of this. I found that the coating helped to prevent string noise when shifting, and it also added a minute but perceptible boost in the efficiency of my playing. Out of the box, the Elixirs sounded great, with the stainless set delivering edgier highs and a boomier bottom than the more midrange-focused 5-string nickel set. They didn't distinguish themselves strongly from other top-notch uncoated sets, which is high praise considering the promise that these strings will last appreciably longer in the bright period of their life cycle. Indeed, I've had them on a bass for about six weeks of solid playing, a part of which included frequent use from a friend whose acidic sweat is notorious. As of writing this piece, they're still going strong, with perhaps only a ten percent brightness reduction compared to the day they made it to my bass. I'm also happy to report that they haven't begun to shed like the old designs.
The big question with coated strings is whether brightness is in fact an objectively superior quality for bass strings. I'd certainly argue that it isn't, but it's nice knowing there's a smooth-playing, long-lasting, shed-free option out there for players who think that it is.
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text: blastvortex Posted January 13, 2018 (edited) Started doing new rips of old games because at least one had some errors due to a corrupted drive, but found that some won't rip now (coincidentally including the bad one). It gets always gets stuck on the second track (always an "audio" one) and won't proceed to the next track, regardless of disc condition, even though they play well on system and most of them are still excellent to pristine. At first, I was thinking that it's because the handful that won't rip are older PS1, but plenty of others around the same era worked too, and at least one of the non-rippers is very late PS1 era (2000+). NOTE: I could've left it going for 10+ minutes, the result would've been the same. Wondering what the problem is. All of them are those black discs, if that matters. Edited January 13, 2018 by blastvortex Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


text: Raffles Girls SchoolToday Phil and I visited Raffles Girls School in Singapore and were overwhelmed with gifts. So many letters and drawings and packages! I couldn't scan all of them, but these were some of my favorite. The top is a folder that a bunch of girls made for me, taken from a line of "Postcards." The second is a drawing by Hu Jun Yi which is exciting because I've never been an anime character before. The bottom two are both by Sophia Kim Chi, and I love them. I especially love how creepy the one without faces is, and how accurate the hair is. The line that is quoted is from our duet poem, "An Origin Story." Plus, a personalized Pokemon cartoon? Too cool. (Although in real life, I'm the same height as Phil, despite my Pokemon avatar's diminutive size!)


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text: How To Email & Messaging Change Your GoDaddy Email Password Share Pin Email Print Prasit photo / Getty Images Email & Messaging Tips & Tricks Gmail Tips & Tricks Yahoo Tips & Tricks Outlook Tips & Tricks Basics Guides & Tutorials Installing & Upgrading Key Concepts VoIP by Heinz Tschabitscher A former freelance contributor who has reviewed hundreds of email programs and services since 1997. Updated August 14, 2019 If passwords are a nuisance, they are a useful — and necessary — one at least. The secret and most hard-to-guess password are the most useful, of course, and so changing the password to your GoDaddy email password can be necessary at times. Imagine you have detected malware that may capture passwords on your computer, for example, or a security break-in at another website could have revealed a similar password you used there. Fortunately, changing a GoDaddy Email password is easy in GoDaddy Webmail — easy enough to do it with some regularity and further ensure your email account's security. Change Your GoDaddy Email Password To update the password to your GoDaddy Email account using GoDaddy Webmail: Open and log in to GoDaddy Webmail.Click the Settings gear in the toolbar.Select More settings… from the menu that appears.Open the Account tab.Type your soon to be old GoDaddy Email password under Current password.Enter the desired new password under New password.Make sure, of course, your new password is strong.Type the new password under Confirm new password: as well.Click Save. Change Your GoDaddy Email Password Using GoDaddy Webmail Classic To change your GoDaddy Email password in GoDaddy Webmail Classic: Click Settings in the GoDaddy Webmail Classic menu bar.Select Personal Settings from the menu.Open the Security tab.Enter your current GoDaddy Email password under Current Password.Type the password you want to use from now on under New Password.Enter the new password under Confirm New Password: as well.Click OK. Continue Reading


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So ALTC is over for another year, and how did the network look for the entire conference?
When reduced to just people who sent over 5 tweets, the network is much smaller, and the white lines indicate people talking to each other (red means a tweet went in one direction, but not vice versa). Does this suggest a core of ALT tweeters?
And the time plot for the conference – peaking during keynotes as ever
Thursday's 5 or more tweeters diagram was smaller than previous days – perhaps as people ebb home
and the most retweeted person wasn't the keynote – @czernie
A second boost of tweets as people reflect and go home?
and the most retweet overall – note a keynote speaker


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Steep Theatre Company presents the U.S. Premiere of POSH.
The down and dirty description of this show is Downton Abbey meets Jackass -The Movie. Playwright Laura Wade has penned a tale that is equally posh and revolting. On the surface, ten Oxford University students are determined to continue the antics of the historic and exclusive Riot Club. Clad in formal tails, they dine in the private room of a village pub. Their elegant attire is designated by the elite members from past generations. In this case, the clothes don't make the man. Despite their well-dressed appearance and their sophisticated airs, the guys quickly reveal they are assholes.
Director Jonathan Berry has his hands full with these frat boys. The bulk of the show is the ten guys at a dinner party. Berry impressively orchestrates this talented ensemble through ritualistic toasts and boozy debauchery. At first, I wondered how I'd keep all these white guys straight. They seemed so collectively like a homogeneous gaggle of spoiled douchebags. And it would be easy to solely focus on the truly nasty deeds of these bad boys. On one level, this is a show definitely about partiers spiraling out-of-control. That's the Jackass-The Movie aspect. The guys goad each other into acts of escalating wickedness.
Yet, I believe Wade has a higher purpose here. She wants us to understand the backstory of each character. She wants us to experience the struggle of a brotherhood founded on the crumbling pillars of noble birth. That's the Downton Abbey part. Although we meet these guys as a mob, between Berry's direction and Wade's dialogue layered with subtle distinction, we catch glimpses of their individual circumstances.
From the start, we know Sean Wiberg (Guy) is desperate to be the club president. He begs his godfather (played by the aloof Will Kinnear), a legacy club member, for tips on making an impression. The anxious Wiberg works hard to impress his peers. He and Ryan Hallahan (Dimitri) continually butt heads during their campaigning for presidency. A flashy Hallahan tries to buy his way to acceptance. In grandiose style, Hallahan tries to lead a toast only to have Colin Sphar (Hugo) quickly cut him off. A poised Sphar reminds him a noble title is required to make a speech. Hallahan has the money but not the pedigree. Some of the others have the opposite problem. They complain their large estates are tourist attractions or film sites to bring in much needed revenue. The earnest Michael Kurowski (Ed) reveals his brother – a former club big shot – is starting a food truck. His companions react repulsed at this latest example of the indignity that the upper class is having to face.
The noteworthy Eric Staves (George) displays the naivety and unconcern of a son from both good lineage and wealth. Staves hilariously describes his encounter with a drug dealer. Christopher Borek (Toby) is the club member being punished for an infraction. Borek delivers a realistic hot-mess of a performance that made me gag. Both Dash Barber (Harry) and Michael Holding (Alistair) are the rabble-rousers. As charismatic rogues, Barber and Holding try to incite the fellas to protest the oppression of the upper class. A dignified Japhet Balaban (James) presides over the dinner with diplomacy. During the drunken evening, Balaban becomes visibly shaken in uncertainty. The newbie Matthew Garry (Miles) tries to align with whomever is speaking the loudest. Then he memorably confronts Bryce Gangel (Rachel) with 'you don't want to kiss me.' It is this terrific mix of pompous surprise, sad vulnerability and being totally wasted.
I enjoyed POSH! I found the first act riveting with the introduction of distinct characters and the merriment and havoc that ensued. The second act had a big head-scratching moment involving Borek. It seemed a weird addition to this particular party. Still, I found the ending evocative as line blurs between the Riot Club and the 'boys club' running the real world.
Running Time: Two hours and thirty minutes include one intermission
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Professional hockey fans in Newfoundland and Labrador now have another local to cheer for in the National Hockey League.
St. John's native James Melindy was invited to the NHL Draft Combine and ranked 63rd amongst North American skaters in Central Scouting's final rankings prior to the 2012 NHL Draft. His hard work and talent paid off this weekend when he was offered a spot with the Phoenix Coyotes.
The six foot-two defenseman is known to mix it up, is a great passer and is known as a two-way defender who makes for a solid option offensively.
The boys know him from Xtreme Hockey.
They are so excited!
The boys know him from Xtreme Hockey.
They are so excited!
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Recession-weary server buyers return to Dell
Dell was among the first companies to suffer from the recession, but its server business is coming back with a vengeance, surveys show.
After being hammered by the recession, Dell appears to be re-emerging as a strong data center player, with two separate surveys of data center buyers showing increased demand for its x86 servers compared with HP and IBM, its primary competition.
A SearchDataCenter.com survey of data center professionals found that Dell gained significant market share for servers against its primary competitor Hewlett-Packard, going from second place at 29.9% of the server market versus HP's 38% in 2009, to first place with 35.1% versus HP's 34.1%.
When it came to one-processor systems, Dell tied HP for the top spot in 2010 at 37.4% share. It also displaced IBM for the No. 2 spot in eight- and 16-core systems, with 29.3% share, up from 22.4% a year earlier.
And for the first time, Dell figured prominently as a vendor of large SMP machines. Just one year earlier, IBM dominated that segment with 43.9% of the market, followed by HP with 30.9%, while Dell barely registered at 2%. In 2010, Dell stormed onto the scene with 17.9% of the market, while IBM and HP shares dwindled to 35% and 27.6%, respectively.
Of course, part of Dell's success with larger systems is a trickle-down effect of new multi-core chips from Intel and AMD. However, there's little doubt that data center buyers are entrusting Dell with denser systems than they would have in the past.
Demand for Dell blades also increased, taking market share away from IBM. In 2009, HP and IBM dominated the blade space with 35.2% and 33.2% of the market, respectively, to Dell's 21.6%. In 2010, HP cemented its position at 39.1%, but Dell chipped away at IBM's position, moving to 24.6% share compared with IBM's 26.6%.
Dell's strength does not surprise some data center pros who say cost is what matters to cash-strapped companies.
"It still comes down to Dell pricing. When it comes to the most cost-effective way to upgrade your data center, folks now might opt for increasing processor capacity, but up to a limit. If I have single-processor pizza boxes, maybe I go to a dual-processor box, not an eight-processor box," said Pete Sclafani, CIO of 6Connect, a San Jose, Calif.-based data center consultancy.
"What's interesting here is that if you look at the Dell r710s, they have a whole boatload of RAM, and if you're doing virtualization, you don't have to go for big four-processor beasts to see that value. You can do well with two processors and take advantage of that RAM to provide some future proofing," Sclafani said.
New Mind, a U.K.-based developer of hosted software, likewise finds Dell prices unbeatable.
"We used to use HP, but we switched two or three years ago to Dell because we found that they could compete very well in terms of price -- they gave really good discounts off of list price," said John Fox, senior network engineer. At the same time, Fox thinks Dell competes well in terms of reliability as support.
New Mind runs VMware on a handful of Dell servers, and Fox said the company would most likely turn to Dell for its next server purchase
Dell's changing fortunes
Market research firm TheInfoPro detected a similar dynamic in its latest server study. Despite weak server spending overall, Dell fared well relative to its competition."Customer ratings improved in every category; the number of respondents indicating they were planning to make a switch was cut in half, and Dell is listed as in plan for a number of x86 groups, indicating that the company is gaining new consideration among 'mature' tech companies," according to a statement by TheInfoPro.
Bob Gill, TheInfoPro managing director for server research, attributes Dell's relative success to the psychological profile of its customers.
When times get tough, "Dell customers are more likely to be price-conscious and take the economy to heart and lower hardware demand," Gill said. Conversely, Dell customers start spending again at the first glimmer of hope.
"When the market started to tank 18 months ago, Dell and HP were the first to take a dive in terms of hardware demand," Gill said, but it took longer for the recession to impact demand for IBM and Sun products. "Budgets are still negatively inclined for 2010 going into 2011, but that plays into Dell's favor because people are still price sensitive," he said.
TheInfoPro has yet to detect a bounce-back for HP, Gill added.
Open vs. proprietary all over again
If Dell is seeing an uptick in sales, it probably has nothing to do with improved products. Even longstanding Dell customers are hard-pressed to show too much enthusiasm for Dell servers.
"We went with Dell for the same reason I suspect everybody else does: price," said Stan Horwitz, a data protection professional at a large Northeastern university. For several years now, the school has been using "dozens" of Dell blade servers, whose quality Horwitz described as "OK."
"In my humble opinion, all these servers are the same," Horwitz said. "Dell doesn't really make anything that stands out, and neither does HP, really, so they have to go on price and customer service."
Meanwhile, Dell's competition is looking to take customers down the road to proprietary systems again, Cisco with its UCS and HP with the BladeSystem Matrix. In response, Dell continues to repeat its "open, capable, affordable" mantra as its answer to the appeal of converged infrastructure. On some level, Dell's resurgence could be read as a rebuke by IT buyers of this proprietary strategy that many see as an attempt by large vendors to lock customers into one solution stack for servers, networking and storage.
At the same time, Dell appears to want to move up-market into IBM/HP/Oracle territory, with an expanding portfolio of sophisticated data center management technologies. For instance, this summer Dell acquired Scalent, a maker of automated deployment and provisioning software. Dell plans to integrate that technology into its Advanced Infrastructure Manager suite. Scalent competes with automated deployment software like CA's Spectrum Automation Manager, which the company picked up from Cassatt last year.
But it remains to be seen whether Dell will succeed with the mid-to-large enterprise that solutions like Scalent are designed for. Thus far, Dell has had limited success there, said TheInfoPro's Gill. When it comes to servers, Dell's bread and butter comes from two ends of the spectrum: SMBs and the truly gigantic -- Internet service providers and high performance computing customers where Dell is "good enough" and competes with whitebox manufacturers like Supermicro, he said. For Dell, "the fairly large enterprise is a no man's land that belongs to HP," he said.
Barbara Darrow contributed to this report.
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Feel the Bern?
Started by aussiebear, Mar 13 2016 04:41 PM
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Posted 13 March 2016 - 04:41 PM
So the reaction to Trump will elect Sanders. Discuss
"When the people lose faith, they do not then believe in nothing. They believe in anything."
Posted 16 March 2016 - 08:02 AM
over the past few years on the news we have seen the pictures of political unrest in streets.
Greece, Egypt,
Ferguson USA, ( with the surplus military equipment in the street and guns pointed at its people,)
The Trump/Sanders discuss.
Political unrest and dissatisfaction will hit the polls. Here we are.
I like the discuss.
Posted 16 March 2016 - 09:55 AM
Last night's election results indicate that Bernie has burned out. Hillary has eliminated any chance that he will get enough delegates (If you had any doubts). Trump came close, but failed to eliminate Kasich - so he must continue his campaign to get enough delegates for a first ballot win. If he is as strong as he thinks in NY and he takes CA, he will win the
Republican nomination. He will then release the hatred of the American people on Hillary, and she will try to do the same to him. We know that Hillary will be a "third term" for Obama's policies. We don't know what Trump really can or will do. I think
Posted 10 April 2016 - 02:30 AM
Bernie hasn't burnt out.
"When the people lose faith, they do not then believe in nothing. They believe in anything."
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You know you are a big snail mail fan when even Bisto gravy tubs appear to you as post boxes! I had the idea to turn a Bisto gravy granules tub into a post (money) box and this is how it turned out.
Why a post box you ask? Well, I love sending letters just as much as receiving them and enjoy my trips to the post box. Sending the letters, notes and little parcels that I have enthusiastically put together, on their adventure to a person who is either waiting for them or will be surprised to get them (and hopefully have their day brightened a little) gives me such a happy and contented feeling. For me, it never gets boring to go and post a letter into one of those big regally red post boxes. I am still filled with wonder and amazement that letters manage to get to their right destinations at all, especially so quickly. So, I usually walk away (trying not to skip) from posting a letter into a post box with a big smile on my face. Having a smaller version of my own at home just made sense (just me?). A Bisto gravy tub seemed like the perfect thing to use to recreate a mini post box with it's shape and lid the perfect colour.
I intended to make the post box into a money box, as I am always trying to save for something. I debated for a while whether to have the lid as the opening where the money would go in or to make an aperture just like a real post box where the letters (in this case money) usually go. I decided to go for the latter.
I know the detail proportions on my little post box are not exactly to scale, but it is just a bit of fun. If you would like to make one of your own you will need:
- An empty Bisto gravy tub/ or similar size tub (As they are cardboard be careful not to get them to wet when cleaning the inside. I suggest using a slightly damp sponge/cloth or wet wipe)
- Red card
- White paper
- Scissors
- Craft knife
- A pencil, black biro pen, white pen/pencil and a marker pen
- PVA glue and glue stick
1. Mark on you red card the width and height of the tub. Then cut out using scissors.
2. Draw the letter box opening onto the card and cut out opening. Then wrap the card around the tub again and mark out the opening onto that.
3. Using a craft knife cut out the letter box opening. Tip: If you do not have a craft knife or would prefer not to cut an opening, still draw the small rectangle. Instead of cutting the rectangle out though, colour it in black with a marker pen. Just remove the lid when you want to put money in or out.
4. Draw post box details onto the red card. Use a small rectangle of white paper for the post box collection time details. Write on and then stick the paper onto the red card using a glue stick. As its difficult to write that small you may just want to doodle instead of writing word for word or use my cheat option below instead.5. Glue the finished card onto the tub using PVA glue, matching up the letterbox openings
6. Place the lid on top and start saving!
Cheat option: If you don't like drawing why not use a picture off the internet. I confess, I found it tricky writing really small for the collection time info (the white rectangle) so instead I used a photo. I just searched Google images for a post box image and scaled it down to the size I wanted when I printed it off. I then cut out the bit I wanted to use. I realised though, I could have used an image for the whole door of the post box. So if you want to recreate this money box my time saving tip would be to find a good quality, straight and face on image of a post box. Scale to size when printing off (this may take a few tries) and then cut out the door section of the picture. Then all you will need to do is stick the image onto the red card that you have measured and cut out and draw the black rim along the bottom with a marker to give it a 3D effect.
So how is my saving going? Erm... well money wise not great, but note wise fantastic! It turns out my children really LOVE the post (money) box, they are also big mail fans. They haven't stopped playing with it and have been posting lots of little notes for me inside. It didn't occur to me that it would be something children would like (duh!), so I am happy that it has a multi-purpose use now. My lovely surprise notes certainly make up for the lack of savings!


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Greece interrupted its ongoing negotiations with the troika of lenders on Thursday to hold talks with its eurozone counterparts amid a row over its 2014 budget projections.
Officials in Athens were quoted by AFP as saying talks to unlock a one billion euro installment of aid may last until Christmas.
Its international creditors estimate next year's budget gap will be from 2.0 to 2.5 billion euros.
Athens says it will be just over 500 million euros.
Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras told reporters in Brussels that "nobody can deny the progress that Greece has achieved so far".
Greece has rejected new tax hikes and further wage or pension cuts, our correspondent in Brussels says.
"A big problem for the negotiations between Greece and the troika is the way of financing the fiscal gap of 2014," reports Euronews' Efi Koutsokosta.
"Athens points to its primary surplus, saying it cannot afford any other measures."
But there was good news for Dublin.
Ireland will exit its bailout program without a precautionary credit line, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said on Thursday.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said the move proved that "our policy of stabilising and defence of the single currency was successful and correct".
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Angelina Jolie PoW film Unbroken finally opens in Japan
Angelina Jolie's new movie Unbroken has finally opened in Japan, where the main character endures torture as a prisoner of war and where some have called for a boycott of the film.
There were concerns right-wing extremists may try to disrupt the opening, which is taking place more than a year after the movie was released in the rest of the world.
The crowd at the Theatre Image Forum in Tokyo appeared engrossed in the production , flinching at the torture scenes and sympathising with the hero, Louis Zamperini, played by British actor Jack O'Connell.
The distributor said it decided to go ahead, as it felt that various views on war should be expressed.
Unbroken, produced and directed by Jolie, is based on the true story of Louis "Louie" Zamperini, an Olympic athlete from the US who was tortured in Second World War prison camps in Japan.
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Hamas and Fatah in unity talks, says Khaled Meshaal
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal has told the BBC he is in talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas about forming a national unity government.
Mr Meshaal also said preparations were being made for presidential and parliamentary elections.
The split between the militant group and Mr Abbas's Fatah party has led to Palestinian elections being postponed for several years.
Hamas controls Gaza while Fatah remains dominant in the West Bank.
In May 2011 the two Palestinian factions signed a reconciliation deal but it has not yet been implemented.
However, in recent months there have been signs of a closer relationship between the two.
"We are forging ahead with the reconciliation," Mr Meshaal told the BBC's Hardtalk programme.
"We are consulting about forming a government of national accord. Preparations for presidential, parliamentary and executive council elections are under way. We are reinvigorating the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) and organising its meetings until new national council and executive committee are elected."
In relation to Syria - a long-time ally of Hamas - Mr Meshaal said the party had been forced out of Damascus because it disagreed with how President Bashar al-Assad was dealing with the conflict.
"There is no doubt that we have disagreed with the Syrian regime on the manner with which they managed the crisis, and their resorting to the security-military option," he said.
"The massacre taking place in Syria pains us very much. We were forced to leave Damascus even though the regime used to support us. We also had differences with Iran on what goes on in Syria."
He added: "We are keen on having good relations with all countries of the Arab and Muslim community, and the international community, with those who support our cause."
In 2006 Hamas won Palestinian parliamentary elections, sparking a bitter conflict with Fatah.
Clashes erupted in Gaza between the two factions and Hamas violently forced Fatah from Gaza in June 2007.
Hamas is designated a terrorist group by Israel, the US and EU due to its long record of attacks and its refusal to renounce violence.
But its supporters say it is a legitimate resistance movement and a democratically elected government.
Correction: This report has been amended to remove a line saying that Khaled Meshaal said President Assad continued to support Hamas.


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Special Back to Back Edition!
So I spent the last weekend in April running two races back in Ohio – The Gold Jacket 5k at the Canton Football Hall of Fame and was on a relay team for The Glass City Marathon in Toledo.
While I enjoyed seeing everyone back in Ohio the allergies and as a result temporarily losing the hearing in my left ear for 24 hours, the cat peeing IN my suitcase and me rolling my ankle during my second race I could have done without.
My relay team did the 5k together and we had coordinating running outfits. We were more interested in just walking the race together and having a good time than about trying to PR. I'd say our outfits were a huge hit based on the amount of pictures we had taken of us and how many compliments we got.
The next day was our first relay race ever. Overall it was a positive experience but as I said above I managed to roll my ankle somewhere between mile 2 and 3 of my 6 mile relay leg. It dropped my time a ton and I was pretty discouraged but tried my best to not let it get me down.
I came back to San Antonio ready to get back into CrossFit. I came back during "1 rep max" week. So we focused on finding our 1 rep max on various movements. The WODs each day were less than fun and very much gave me a run for my money.
This week I've made it through two workouts (switched to a M-W-F schedule) and am proud to say that I was able to complete both of them before their time cap. I am feeling it today though – yesterday we did wall balls and toes to bar (knees to chest for me). I will say that I am starting to surprise myself by lifting heavier weights than I previously thought I could.
The weather hasn't be cooperating with my other sports. We've been having daily rain (which in Texas is something we welcome) so I have been just relying on CrossFit but I'm sure the rain will end soon enough and I'll be out running and biking again. I did stop in at a local bike shop and got some resources about mountain biking in the area. Now to find a group to road ride with and I'll be set!
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The Search for Structure: A Report on American Youth Today
By Francis A.J. Ianni
The Free Press, A Division of Macmillan Inc., 866 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022; 336 pp., $22.95 cloth.
America, as has often been remarked, is a nation obsessed with youth, and at best it is a rather ambivalent obsession. On the one hand, we glamorize--and try hard to emulate--the beauty, grace, and adventuresome spirit of the young. On the other hand, we decry their ignorance and apparent lack of purpose.
Recent popular writings have given the negative view an upper hand. We have come to see today's adolescents as sexually irresponsible, suicidal, often criminal, and culturally illiterate to the point of philistinism.
Francis A.J. Ianni's The Search for Structure is a balanced and hopeful treatment of the nation's young people. It avoids alarmist warnings, caricatures, and easy answers. Instead, it tries to grapple with the full complexity of teenage lives as they are played out in today's multifaceted society.
Through interview data, anecdotal case material, and assorted national statistics, Mr. Ianni--who is professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and director of the Institute of Social Analysis--takes on the formidable task of representing the full story. It is a story too rich and too untidy for glib generalizations.
Mr. Ianni's main database is a series of interviews conducted with more than 300 adolescents between 1979 and 1985. The interviews covered subjects' self-conceptions, their relations with family and friends, their aspirations for the future, and their attitudes toward work.
In addition, extensive ethnographic fieldwork brought him into the homes, schools, and peer communities of his adolescent subjects. He sampled a wide variety of social and economic settings, from affluent suburbia to rural farmland to inner-city melting pots.
In each setting, Mr. Ianni analyzed the intertwining influences of the adolescents' family, peer, school, and work relations. His overriding theme is that we must look at all of these factors together if we are to gain any insight into the adolescent experience.
He rejects models that emphasize the dominance of one or another particular relation during any period of life--for example, those that assume the family is the key influence in childhood and the school or peer group during later years.
Instead, Mr. Ianni stresses the "synergistic association" of all the relationships in a young person's life. It is the special pattern of these associations within each community, he argues, that gives shape and texture to the adolescent's experience and developmental outlook.
Of course, communities differ greatly in the support and opportunities that they offer for young people. In some of Mr. Ianni's communities--predictably, the more affluent ones--parents, teachers, and civic leaders guide adolescents into productive activities and guard vigilantly against dangerous or illicit associations. In such communities, parental and peer values are largely in synchrony.
There also may be support from other institutions, such as church or civic groups. Mr. Ianni uses the psychoanalytic phrase "good enough environment" to capture the Continued on Page 29
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ideal of a community whose various constituents work together toward the nurturing of character in the young.
The problem is that many communities in America do not operate this way. In some cases, there is a general failure of support for the young. There may be no one who is willing or able to express care in any consistent fashion. Or there may be discord in the messages that young people receive from those who do care.
Parents and teachers may feel alien from one another, and both may be objects of antagonism from the peer community. Under such conditions, the web of supportive relationships needed by every adolescent fails to form. Teenagers are left in a state of isolation trying to sort through a bewildering array of mixed messages.
Mr. Ianni introduces the notion of "youth charter" to express his view of how communities ought to function in their relations with the young. The "youth charter" of a community is the totality of its norms, standards, and expectations for conduct among adolescents. This charter, he says, exists nowhere in writing but is widely known and shared by most members of the community.
The youth charter provides an essential structure for the playing out of an adolescent's goals and aspirations. Naturally, it works best when it is coherent and internally consistent.
Mr. Ianni calls on each community in America self-consciously to examine the youth charter it presents to its young people. He also cites programs--in particular, one in Seattle--where parents and community leaders are doing just that. In such programs, adults work to promote communitywide agreement on the goals that parents, schools, and other organizations hold for youths. Young people are then brought into activities that reflect these goals.
The book's most appealing quality is its steady focus on the trials and missteps of today's young. Mr. Ianni acknowledges contemporary problems but works hard to set them in a context of universal developmental patterns.
He clearly believes that communities always have it within their power to improve their relations with adolescents. Along with his many reasonable recommendations, this belief gives Mr. Ianni's book its underlying current of optimism.
This is a serious and responsible effort, and I hesitate to detract from it, even for the critical function of a book review. Yet one cannot read the newspapers these days without wondering whether the whole story can indeed be captured through a psychological framework that inevitably normalizes problems of character and conduct.
There is a disturbing tenor to the times that cannot be found in Mr. Ianni's book. Many observers have remarked on rising cynicism and shiftlessness in affluent as well as inner-city adolescents; on renewed racism among "skinheads" and college-bound students alike; on rampant materialism and anti-intellectualism; and on a host of other tendencies that one can only describe as a generalized demoralization of youth. The Search for Structure does not take up these widely cited phenomena.
Reading Mr. Ianni, one comes away with the sense that such problems may be nothing more than aberrant versions of perennial disturbances among young people--and eminently curable ones at that. I hope he is right.
William Damon, professor of psychology and chairman of the education department at Clark University, is the author of The Moral Child: Nurturing Children's Natural Moral Growth.
Vol. 08, Issue 32
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In an age of information, high stakes testing, standards based learning and meeting AYP, we are forgetting to teach the whole child. The arts are the first to get cut when a budget needs trimming and yet are the most valuable to our rearing of whole children. They teach our students invaluable lessons in determination, team work and communication. They allow us to think critically about the world around us, pose difficult questions, and find our own place in the world.
Assessment of the arts is difficult and the outcome of their teaching is not immediate, but that is the point. Education in the arts stays with you, it is long term, it buries itself into the guts of who you are as an individual striving to succeed in an ever changing society.
Teachers need to find the times and places in their classrooms to make the arts a vital part of their day. This type of education, where arts are taught both for their own value as well as integrated into other disciplines, brings out the innovation, creativity, thoughtfulness and depth of learning that no other can.
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What are the goals of arts integration?
- To allow teachers who may or may not be artistic the opportunity to use the arts in their classroom in a comfortable manner.
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What art skills do I need in order to do a quality job?
As you being to integrate the arts into your classroom, you may want to stick with an art form with which you are more familiar whether it be writing poetry or sculpting with popsicle sticks. In time, you may want to learn some new skills. For example, you may want to pick up a book on basic drawing principles or ask your musical friend what tempo means. Just as with anything else you decide to do or use in your classroom, as you work with arts integration and become more comfortable with what you are doing, your repertoire of ideas, activities and skills will increase.
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Hi. This week I will be making 2 different sounds originating from a simple cymbal sample. First one will be somewhat similar to the original and the other totally different. While the tutorials I've been doing generally tries to morph the input sounds totally into different outputs, I also appreciate minimally processed sounds that are somewhat reminiscent of the original. So I'll try to cover it both this week.
Here is the cymbal sample we're using. Randomly picked from my library.
First comes the filter envelope. It's a bandpass filter and I'm controlling both the cutoff frequency and the bandwidth of the filter with the envelope. A simple step but it will influence the result quite a bit.
Next up, a comb filter. Renoise has a simple one that usually gets the job done. The purpose of this step to add some harmonic content to the cymbal. Note that a lot more textures possible by changing the comb filters frequency. This is the result:
To turn this into an atmospheric sound we obviously need reverb. I'm not sure but I think I've used Valhalla VintageVerb this time. Love that plugin.
To give them a twist you can always reverse sounds. I find that most things sound better when reversed! To mask the abrupt ending I also add a delay here.
And this concludes the first part of this tutorial. As you can hear, the cymbal ambience is still there. As I've said above, I really appreciate when the final sound is different but still has a connection to the original. And this sound just accomplishes that, in my opinion.
Now for the second part. To make things otherworldly, you can always call up CDP. This time I'm using one of the filterbanks and it's setup like this. The possibilites here are just endless as all kinds of interactions possible between frequencies. I also like "scatter" paramater with which you can slightly randomize the harmony you've generated. Here's how that sounds like:
That's basically it but here's one step further with a few simple tricks. It's a 2 note fifth chord (base and +7 semitones), some reverb and delay. To add more movement I automate the rate of an LFO which is connected to a highpass filter's cutoff. There's also some automation on the depth of this modulation to give it a more organic feel. Finally some compression and EQ to make it sound prettier. And here it is:
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Since this card is probably the first X700Pro AGP to arrive, we took the
extra effort to take the card apart and a take a closer look at what's
underneath those large heatsinks.
The first sample that we received came with a fan that did not spin at all. A
closer check with the fan connection revealed that it was actually connected in
a wrong way. Flipping the connections made the fan spin into live again. The
second sample is fine. One recommendation is that Gecube could put a keyed plastic holder, instead of just 2 bare pins,
on the card to prevent this from happening. To those whom are interested, the 2
bare power pins for the fan is located on the top, beside the top right RAM
The card when it is totally stripped of its heatsink. From the looks of it,
this card is pretty complex.
A picture of the core. Do note that the core, unlike the X700Pro PCI-E cards is no longer
labeled as X700XT. Instead, it's simply labeled as "X700".
The RAMs on this card is the 2.0ns GDDR3 from Infineon capable of a
theoretical maximum clock speed of 500MHz (1GHz DDR). This particular card
comes with a total of 128MB of Video RAM.
Like the 6600GT AGP, the X700 Pro AGP comes with a power connector since the
AGP slot on the motherboard doesn't provide enough power to the graphics card. Gecube uses the 4 pin mini power connector like the Radeon 9700 series instead of the conventional 4 pin power connector found on other graphic cards.
The rear of the card. Unlike NVIDIA solutions, the PCIe to AGP bridge chip is
located behind. This is a better idea since it would mean better cooling
solutions could be implemented to the core. For NVIDIA cards especially, adding
a bigger after market heatsink is near impossible, because the bridge chip needs
a heatsink as it usually gets into the way. ATi's solution would not face
this problem at least. Well done!
A close up of the Rialto PCIe to AGP bridge. Pretty much unlike the NVIDIA
bridge, Rialto runs so cool that it does not need large heatsinks like what
NVIDIA uses. ATi did a really good job in this field.
The heatsink of the card. Judging from the weight, this heatsink is probably a
copper plated aluminum heatsink. Although the fan was rated at 0.26A (DC12V), it
was surprisingly quiet throughout the test.
The back heat spreader. It seems like GeCube even added thermal pads to cool
the rear of the core. Not too bad.
One of the largest flaw on this card is that the thick layers of thermal pad
between the heatsinks and the components. From the Rialto bridge,
you can actually see 2 pieces of thermal pad stacking on top of
each other. It would be better if GeCube could have specially design the
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Elextrolux anounced a new version of the Trilobite. The green-metallic Trilobite 2.0 is programmable like a VCR and can clean at pre-set times. Its new sensors lets it deal with stairs. The metallic silver-green Trilobite 2.0 can be found in shops from the middle of May in Europe. Its recommended retail price is around 1400 EUR.
The first model, the Electrolux EL520A Trilobite Robotic Vacuum is starting to ship on Amazon.com June 1st with a hefty price tag of $1,799.99.
We reported about the Electrolux Trilobite Vacuum Robot last year in June.
There is already another Vacuum robot on the US market for quite a while, the iRobot Roomba.
Unless Amazon's Trilobite Price-tag of $1,799.99 is a typo (which it is not), why is this robot 10 times more expensive than the Roomba ($159.99) ?
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The only big feature difference I found is that the Trilobite can recharge itself. The robot finds its way back to the charging station and automatically docks-on. On the technical side the Roomba uses a combination bumper sensors and a infrared sensor to detect it's surroundings. The Trilobite uses ultrasound like a bat at 60khz as a sensor.
Both vacuum robots look pretty similar, maybe the Electrolux one looks a bit slicker, but is it worth 10 times more money? If you know a good reason for the price difference please email us.
So Amazon.com is not even starting to sell the latest version. They offer the orange Trilobite, which is the first model.
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