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Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic stand among his greatest achievements. These televised programs introduced an entire generation to the joys of classical music.
Bernstein conducted his first Young People's Concert on January 18, 1958, just two weeks after becoming Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. Such programs were already a Philharmonic tradition when Bernstein arrived, but he made them a centerpiece of his work, part of what he described as his "educational mission." Looking back on the concerts years later, he referred to them as being "among my favorite, most highly prized activities of my life." When he took a sabbatical season from the orchestra in 1964-65, he still came back to lead the Young People's Concerts. He continued to lead these programs until 1972, even though he had stepped down as director of the Philharmonic in 1969.
Bernstein led a total of fifty-three Young People's Concerts during those fourteen years, and covered a broad range of subjects. The works of the great composers were explored, including tributes to modern masters such as Dmitri Shostakovich, Paul Hindemith, Gustav Holst, Aaron Copland and Charles Ives. Bernstein discussed "Jazz in the Concert Hall," "Folk Music in the Concert Hall," and "The Latin-American Spirit." He explained the intricacies of Music Theory in programs such as "Musical Atoms: A Study of Intervals" and "What is a Mode?" He broached complex aesthetic issues such as "What Does Music Mean?" (his first program) with clarity and without condescension. Bernstein also used the Young People's Concerts to introduce young performers to the musical world. The sixteen year-old pianist André Watts made his debut in the concert of January 15, 1963.
Loving opera is such a simple thing. And yet the conventional wisdom seems to strive to make it complicated. Opera, and classical music, are elitist and arcane: This view is held both by people who don't care for them, and by many of those who do. How many fans have you heard using words like "passaggio," "portamento," "tessitura," as if to signal their insider knowledge? Even an innocuous mention of "Beethoven's Op. 111," which seems like a perfectly reasonable way to refer to that composer's final piano sonata, earned me a snort of suppressed laughter from a non-specialist friend the other week during a discussion of whether classical music can ever really rock.
So how do people actually become fans of such off-putting stuff? If you look through a bookstore, you can find an entire literature of classical-music introductions and "Opera 101s," most of it at least tacitly based on the idea that you need to grasp this specialized knowledge to enjoy, or even to partake of, this refined fare. Well, you need specialized knowledge to watch a baseball game, too, but people don't generally seek out books called "An Introduction to Baseball" to understand what they're supposed to be getting out of a game.
Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts
One of my favorites. This one is like the telling of a sad, sad story: Moonlight Sonata
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|This website is the result of around 17 years of work by one (somewhat eccentric) person collecting information on the European royal families and on the British Peerage, and then entering it into a range of various genealogy programs. Along the way I have changed the way I have presented information, and adjusted the formatting to reflect the strengths of each new generation of software. I continue to find conflicting info while expanding it.
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Qayyum, F., Hemstra, N., and Singh, R., 2013, A modern approach to build a 3D sequence stratigraphic framework, Oil and Gas Journal, Oct 7, 22-34.
Qayyum, F., Catuneanu, O., and de Groot, P., 2013, Developments and Future Trends in Wheeler Diagrams, 75th EAGE Conference & Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC, London, UK, 10-13 June.
On the horizon, de Groot, P., Qayyum, F., Oilfield Technology, January 2013.
Attributes play important role in seismic interpretation, de Groot, P., Qayyum, F., Hart's E&P Magazine, p. 31-34, October 2012.
From 2D to 4D Wheeler Diagrams, F. Qayyum, P. de Groot, and N. Hemstra, William Smith Meeting 2012, London.
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mbp speaks of the inability to prove that a program is free from bugs. this is broadly asserted, yet I feel a little twinge of annoyance every time I hear it, perhaps because it is so imprecise.
a bug is a subset of machine state space which you do not want to be reachable by implication from your program's text. a test is a single path through machine state space, either leading into a bug region (a test you want to see fail) or avoiding bug regions (a test you want to see pass).
there are far more possible tests than you can ever write or run, so you must choose "good" paths towards "important" bugs. the problem of a test writer is to determine which areas are important, and it can require deep insight into what the program is intended for.
but note: a bug, a test, and a program are all completely formal objects from this viewpoint.
a proof, on the other hand, is another formal object in a much larger "space" (a linguistic space in which machine state spaces, and some parts of your preferred maths or logics are basic terms). the sort of proof you are interested in is one which relates your program's text residing in memory at one point, to a (good or bad) region of machine state space which is implied by the program, via a logic whose rules you like.
any test can be translated into a proof in a silly logic easily: the proof is simply the trace of your processor executing your program's code on your test's input, and the logic is one in which each machine transition that happened is an axiom. but that proof is boring.
an interesting proof is one which is much smaller, when written down, than the sum of all the tests which you would need to write to fill the machine state space bounded by the proof. in this sense, I really believe Chaitin is onto something when he talks about proofs as nothing more than a form of "higher order data compression", and the value of a given formal system as the amount of compression it commonly admits over interesting data.
so, getting back to mbp's comment, certainly you can produce a very large set of (formal) bugs which nobody's compressed inside a proof yet, for any program you care to mention. but I do not think this means that all, or even a sizeable majority of those bugs will admit "no further compression" if the author puts their mind to it.
raph's suggestion that we design programs "the way we'd want to prove things about them" is, seen in this light, a suggestion that we design programs "in a way which admits a lot of compression". I think this fact is at the heart of the programmer aesthetic for "small and simple" programs. "larger" is often equivalent to "less provable", or similarly the feeling that any test you run explores too little of the state space to be helpful. you lose any confidence you have that a large system will do what you want, unless you can carve up the state space with type systems, modules, processes, etc.
as a final note: people often try to express test quality in terms of "code coverage", but this is only slightly useful, and less so as the quality of the program being tested improves. good programs parameterize much of their behavior on their input. their machine state space massively outweighs the size of their program text, so you learn very little about exercizable machine states by knowing that all the code was exercized.


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One day, Gurrmirringu was carrying home the fruits of a good day's hunting when he rested by a waterhole in the shade of a wurrumbuku [white berry tree] to cook some of his catch. Some stories record that an evil spirit lurked in the trees roots causing a king brown snake to rise from the roots and bite Gurrmirringu, killing him.
The evil tree spirit was an occasional subject of Malangi's. The evil connotation was expressed in painting by a beaked and clawed diagonal figure and jagged forms merging with the gnarled tree forms.


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April jobs report: 165K jobs created, 7.5% unemployment rate; Update: Reuters: "Consistent with a slowdown"
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The April jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics beat expectations, with job growth at 165,000 net, and an unemployment rate of 7.5%. The BLS also upwardly revised the previous two months — adding 64,000 to February to bring it to 332K jobs added, and 50,000 to March to raise it to 138K:
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 165,000 in April, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 7.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment increased in professional and business services, food services and drinking places, retail trade, and health care.
The unemployment rate, at 7.5 percent, changed little in April but has declined by 0.4 percentage point since January. The number of unemployed persons, at 11.7 million, was also little changed over the month; however,
unemployment has decreased by 673,000 since January. …
The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for February was revised from +268,000 to +332,000, and the change for March was revised from +88,000 to +138,000. With these revisions, employment gains in February and March combined were 114,000 higher than previously reported.
The civilian workforce participation rate remained at a 34-year low of 63.3%. However, the number of people not in the workforce declined slightly in the Household data from March by 31,000. It's still 632,000 higher than in February. Discouraged workers rose by 32,000 and marginally-attached workers rose by 21,000, both of which are relatively narrow shifts.
The drop in the U-3 or nominal unemployment rate to 7.5% is one tenth of a point from March, but four-tenths from January. The U-6 total unemployed rate actually rose a tenth of a point in April to 13.9%, but that's also a half-percent lower than January.
The 165K jobs growth figure beat expectations across the board — but let's not turn that into better news than it is. At 165K, the US economy generated slightly more jobs than it needs to keep up with population growth (~150K). The civilian workforce participation rate makes it clear that we're not putting people back to work — at best, we're treading water. The revised February numbers are what we need as an average to make a dent in the massive number of people shut out of the jobs market. This is about the average we've seen for the recovery.
CNBC seems pleased by the results, but points out the workforce woes:
Job creation accelerated in April, with the U.S. economy adding 165,000 new positions and the unemployment rate edging lower, quelling worries of a spring slowdown.
New figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated that a light March payrolls report may have been an aberration, as higher taxes and reduced spending due to the fiscal stalemate in Washington failed to deter growth.
The unemployment rate edged lower to 7.5 percent, due partly to the jobs gains and to a labor-force participation rate that remains at a 35-year low.
Reuters, however, takes a more pessimistic view:
Still, details of the report remained consistent with a slowdown in economic activity. Construction employment fell for the first time since May, while manufacturing payrolls were flat. The average workweek pulled off a nine-month high, but average hourly earnings rose four cents[.]
Beating expectations is not the same as a good jobs report. This one is a treading-water report, nothing more, and the revisions to March only move it up from poor to stagnation.
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MIT is amazing. I'm super inspired. I have lots of big news to post, but haven't had time. Big stuff coming soon.
Some little other stuff:
* I'm speaking at HOPE Number Six. Let me know if you're going to be there and you wanna grab a beer.
* I have some new LDP stuff/HOWTO's coming out soon
* Bill Gates is wicked freakin' awesome
* Bank of America sucks. I got hit with an overdraft because MIT messed up my first paycheck and it took BoA four days to clear a check from them to them! Four days for their own check! grrr
* I'm walking in the Autism Research Walk on June 17th (tomorrow). It's an issue that obviously very close to my heart. If you could sponsor/give a few bucks, and even consider walking in on of their other walks this year I'd really appreciate it. Click here to contribute.


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Concert celebrates African-American music and poetry, Dec. 8
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Cook, the Israel Evans Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres at Dartmouth College, will present a free concert at 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 8, in Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall.
The concert, titled "The Aim Was Song: The Poetry and Music of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Scott Joplin and Colleagues," is part of a series of events celebrating the contributions of African Americans to the liberal arts. James Tatum, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton, has organized this series and will provide piano accompaniment to Cook.
Cook is a member of Actors' Equity and an accomplished director and theater voice coach. He has published two volumes of poetry with I. Reed Books and has served in many offices in national teachers' organizations, including the National Conference of the Teachers of English, of which he was president.
A native of Trenton, N.J., Cook has taught at every level of education, from primary school through high school to undergraduate and graduate students. Before joining the Dartmouth faculty in 1973, he was for many years a teacher of English and theater at Princeton High School. Among his students there were Christopher Reeve and John Lithgow.
Cook and Tatum have collaborated on a number of projects, including translating of the ancient comedies of Plautus. Tatum is the Aaron Lawrence Professor of Classics at Dartmouth.
The concert is sponsored by the University Center for Human Values , the Program in African-American Studies and the Department of Classics . For more information, contact the University Center for Human Values at (609) 258-4798.
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Nice jump Alex, you're improving, one day you may be able to do a 360 like me! Was that you James doing the jump! Do you get your own rooms now that everyone else has been sacked! Take video of your work and work mates - but don't get in trouble, only if it is ok.
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There is a point in every amateur first-time travel bloggist's life that he realizes that everything is not as it seems, one day everything is snowflakes and pinecones and the next it's blizzards and grizzly bears; his readers have called for his head. Even his own father has told him to move on, perhaps to a far away town in middle-Canada. And who do they call to replace the king? None other then the jester; apparently informative cutting edge journalism is just about laughing and clapping your hands. Of course, you can only imagine what this sudden introduction of competitiveness has done to the settled down life of two clueless cousins
My hiatus in writing was not because of James hilarious entry, but because the past week has been action packed and time to write has been sparse, and the loss of the use of my left hand was partly due to blame.
Last saturday while taking out the trash at work i was unfortunate enough to slip over and severely bruise my left arm, putting it in a splint for a few days. There were fears that it was broken due to an odd looking curve at the centre of the ulnar and radius but after x-rays at banff hospital all fears were cleared, apparently the slight curve is from the last time i broke my arm 7 years ago and the good people at canberra hospital didnt set it back perfectly straight. Nonetheless i have been out of action for a few days while James has been holding up the financial end of our house hold.
However this wasnt the main source of drama in our lives over the past two days. I'm not sure whether we divulged that one of our housemates Basile (french guy) was living in the basement behind a wall as he had been fired from deer lodge two months ago and that he wasn't paying rent
He was squatting here well before James and I moved in and was good friends with everyone living here so we weren't in the position to ask him to move on, it didn't bother us because Basile was a fantastic guy and where he was living was nothing to be envious of. Of course Basile was not supposed to be living there under deer lodges rules.
When we signed up with deer lodge and entered into their staff rental agreement we didnt realise we were signing away all our rights as human beings. They entitle themselves to inspecting our houses weekly and the contradictions and problems that come with this, and the hypocrisy of certain managers are too complicated and long-winded to put in here. James and I have no concerns with the weekly inspections as we aren't breaking any rules and while our room is messy it isn't defying the deer lodge charter.
Basile had been able to live in secrecy in the basement for some time, managing to avoid the inspections by boarding up the wall. (To get more information from a similiar story see: the diary of Anne Frank)
At 10.30am on Tuesday while James and I were in a deep slumber there was a raid on our house, Basile was found and evicted and the sh*t hit the fan
Other than that the snow has been melting and the powder is sparse, kindly reminding us of New Zealand. We are both enjoying the terrain park and hanging out for some more snow.
Well that concludes another update, I have included a few videos and photos, some related and some not to this entry. When the Jester returns from work i'll enjoy watching him make dinner which he'll be doing for the next week as he lost a bet (he bet he could touch his tongue to his elbow) so until then, ciao for now.
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I could not understand your blog at first but I am glad you are having a good time. Glad your arm is getting better Alex. We had a lovely sail yesterday around Lion Island. I am on a train going into the city for Niall's induction into his new job.
Sorry to hear about your arm Alex, hope it is better by now and you are back working and snowboarding. The videos and photos are very good and your blogs are excellent, very creative, you should consider journalism. Katrina and Xavier are with us at the moment, they go home on Wednesday. Keep well and happy and safe. Love you, Nanny and Grandpa.


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Alvin, Simon and Theodore are hitting the high seas in their latest big-screen adventure. In Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, opening December 16, the furry trio and their gal pals, The Chipettes, set sail on a luxury cruise. But the trip goes south when Alvin's usual antics accidentally get them tossed overboard and stuck on a desert island.
Actor/singer Jesse McCartney returns as the voice of youngest Chipmunk Theodore. What does McCartney think Theodore would do if he were in charge, instead of Alvin? Learn the answer to this and other questions TFK had for the star in the Q&A below.
How does it feel to step into Theodore's shoes again?
It's great. Growing up, I was a huge fan of the Chipmunks. Every Saturday morning, I would sit down with my cereal and watch the Chipmunks on television. It's kind of crazy that I'm the voice of Theodore now. I'm just so excited to be a part of this for the third time around.
In Chipwrecked, the Chipmunks go on a cruise. What's Theodore most looking forward to?
Theodore is most looking forward to going on the cruise and looking for lost treasure. I think he's also excited to hang out with Eleanor. He's still trying to win her heart.
What kinds of adventures do the Chipmunks go on in the movie?
Well, without giving too much away, they're looking to retrieve Simon, whom they lose for a while on the ship. Theodore's biggest thing is making sure that he always has his family. Alvin is the one who's always causing trouble, and Simon is the brain of the family. But Theodore is there to make sure everyone sticks together. He's the glue.
How do you think Theodore would do as the leader?
Well, there would be a lot of eating. I think the other two Chipmunks would be a lot fatter, if it were up to Theodore! He secretly wants them to be called Theo's Trio. He would have a big letter "T" on his shirt, and he would give Alvin the green shirt.
After voicing Theodore for three films now, do you find you're still learning new things about him?
I'm pretty tapped into him now as far as knowing the character. But from a technical standpoint, it never gets easier. When you're recording, there's a fine line between doing a chipmunk voice and sounding like an old grandma. You have to have a certain tone, pitch and speed when you speak. There's a certain rhythm to the voice. You have to speak really slowly, but with the same emphasis and intensity that you would a normal conversation. It's funny. You sound like a crazy person until they speed it up.
Do you think the Chipmunks will be singing one of your songs some day?
I don't know. That remains to be seen, but hopefully! It would be an honor. The Chipmunks are way bigger than any of my songs.
Who was your favorite Chipmunk when you were growing up?
My favorite Chipmunk was definitely Theodore, but I'm probably a little biased now that I'm playing him.
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Steve Cook has a particularly interesting blog post on UML and semantics. Steve points out that UML has no objective semantics, but that each team should decide on a shared semantics for their own diagrams. That semantics is usually written in prose.
All very sensible, but it makes me wonder (again) what using UML really buys you. I guess if you could write a formal semantics for the diagramming elements you planned to use, it might be possible to generate more sensible code from the diagrams. Steve points out, though, that such a formal semantics clashes with the way people think. And that, I reckon, is the whole problem with UML. In the past (and the present, for some of us) we all used to write whatever gibberish we liked, not necessarily consistently, and it meant whatever we wanted it to mean. Now we have a universal syntax (though no universal semantics), life's a bit different, and diagrams are no longer thoughts written out loud. Now our diagrams have to serve several purposes: to help us clarify design thoughts, to communicate designs to others, to generate stubs, and loads of other stuff. Can one syntax or tool really do all this? I suspect not, and I think Steve's point is the reason why: people don't think unconsciously like they do maths consciously; and that's always been a problem for Computer Science.
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I've been writing some nice Python code for work and come across the single weirdest bug I've ever seen or heard about -- maybe I'm just naive! All my Python files are scripts, just so I can run each file to do it's unit testing. I usually say #!/bin/env python at the top of each file, but #!/usr/bin/python replicates the bug just as well.
The bug is this: for one of my files (and only one) if I type at the command line $ python filename everything works fine, but if I type $ ./filename I get this error message: : No such file or directory and nothing else.
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- Since posting this a bunch of extremely nice people have emailed me to say that this bug is caused by 'doze-like new line characters at the end of the #! directive. D'OH! Thanks to everyone who wrote to me...
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- Er, life's all right atm although nothing wildly exciting's happened. Maybe that's a good thing ;) This Christmas John and I are going to be visiting friends, which should be excellent. It's amazing how long it's been since we saw anyone outside Coventry. Eek!


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|Yes.. part of the discussion was the removal of the dams and the important emphasis was on expanding these river ways which would expand the spaning areas in the smaller tributaries.
|Good to hear ASF is talking about the Kennebec. My brother and I kayaked it in November to look for Salmon Redds, it's a bittersweet trip. We drifted over acres and acres of nice spawning habitat that is now exposed and available due to the dam removal. Unfortunatly we didn't see any redds, but it's a very big river. Every year some fish do seem to return. This summer DMR found a couple in the ledge pools below Ticonic Falls. One was a Penobscot fish the other was a Wild Kennebec Salmon. This summer I saw one leap below five mile island. Theres light at the end of the tunnel I believe, buts it's still a very long tunnel.
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I attended a presentation by Andrew Good of the ASF at a dinner last night with the Boston Flyfishers Club at St. Botoph's club. He indicated that the conservation efforts as well a numerous other factors including weather patterns in the north Atlantic should show a big Up spike in Salmon in the Kenebec region. Efforts are still underway to open the larger water shed rivers to salmon which will have a positive benefit as well. Just FYI
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According to Politico's Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, President Obama doesn't have a "broad mandate" because……not enough uneducated white men voted for him?
If President Barack Obama wins, he will be the popular choice of Hispanics, African-Americans, single women and highly educated urban whites. That's what the polling has consistently shown in the final days of the campaign. It looks more likely than not that he will lose independents, and it's possible he will get a lower percentage of white voters than George W. Bush got of Hispanic voters in 2000.
A broad mandate this is not.
In 2004, George W. Bush claimed a mandate (despite the fact that his administration spent so much time scaring the crap out of people & many people voted for his second term only on that basis):
Bush staked his claim to a broad mandate and announced his top priorities at a post-election news conference, saying his 3.5 million vote victory had won him political capital that he would spend enacting his conservative agenda.
"I earned capital in this campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it," Bush told reporters. "It is my style.
President Obama won with a very broad mandate (332 to 206 electoral votes and by 3.2 million votes in the popular vote) with a majority of women, hispanics, African Americans, and educated white men, and the right wing can whine and bitch all they want, but it won't change the facts.
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I view a lot of Fox Business. Geri Willis, Cavuto, Lou Dobbs & John Stossel in MHO do the best at presenting stories and opinion. They are not bombastic, let their interesting guest talk and they don't fudge and sensationalize like Fox News, MSNBC, CNN etc. They also stick to the important issues and don't spend much time on magazine style journalism with stories like the Zimmerman case, other murder trials, celebrity news and general fluff. They are more apt to be talking about events that are shaping the world.


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To work off some of the calories we consumed, Austin and I decided to take a late night swim at the indoor heated swimming pool. We spent almost 2 hours in the pool and spa and practically had the place to ourselves.
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Gabe Kapler, Cam Neely Among Pro Athletes Investing in CoachUp
The president of the Boston Bruins, Cam Neely, invested in a sports tech startup called CoachUp, the company revealed Wednesday. And he's not the only big name in sports involved with the Boston startup.
CoachUp helps private coaches connect with and sell their services to parents and young athletes who seek to improve their fitness, skills and success in a given sport.
According to the founder and chief executive of CoachUp, Jordan Fliegel, many notable professional athletes use the site to sell sessions today.
Among current coaches on the site are: a three-time Olympic swimming competitor for South Korea, Bryan Kim; a current WNBA basketball player, LaToya Bond (Charlotte Sting, Indiana Fever); two Super Bowl-winning, ex-NFL players Travis Taylor (Baltimore Ravens) and Daniel Wilcox (Tampa Bay Buccaneers); and a former Olympic track team member, Jonathan Johnson.
Major League Baseball's Gabe Kapler, perhaps best known for his stint with the 2004 World Series Championship-winning Boston Red Sox, is also an investor in the company's earlier seed round.
Why would brand-name athletes need help selling their services? Fliegel says they like being able to manage everything from payments to scheduling and the signing of waivers through a single interface.
They also like the trust factors provided by a site like CoachUp which background-checks coaches before allowing them to sell on the platform.
With about 7,000 professional coaches in 60 sports–ranging from soccer and lacrosse, to artistic roller dancing–operating in all 50 states, CoachUp has sold more than 1,400 sessions since launching in May 2012 with just 50 trainers.
Sessions typically cost between $39 and $100, depending on a coach's experience. A coach sets his or her own rate per session, and CoachUp takes a cut.
In November, the company raised $2.2 million in a Series A venture investment led by General Catalyst Partners and Breakaway Ventures with angel investors Dharmesh Shah, Ty Danco and Walt Winshall.
Cam Neely and Founder Collective also invested in the Series A.
Neely says he invested because parents were constantly asking him who could help their kids with individualized hockey training. "I know parents are looking for [help with] all sports," he says. He also sees demand on the coaching side.
Finding a new, trustworthy client can be as hard as deciding to hire a new coach for your kid, Fliegel suggests.
Bucking the geeky, tech entrepreneur stereotype, the CEO is an ex-pro basketball player–once a forward with Hapoel Jerusalem in the EuroCup league. He still trains, and coaches on the weekends.
Off the court, Fliegel worked at Zintro, an site that connects business and technical experts with people who want a consultation, quickly.
Zintro and other "marketplace" concepts in tech–especially Care.com, which sells home services from senior- and child-care to housekeeping and pet sitting–convinced Fliegel he could attain growth capital for his business, and scale it up, quickly.
He enlisted the CEO of Care.com, Sheila Lirio Marcelo, as an equity-holder in and adviser to CoachUp.
In the U.S. alone, according to CoachUp's own estimates, families spend upwards of $5 billion annually on private coaching. CoachUp can be a kind of Linkedin for professional trainers, or Airbnb for sports and fitness, the CEO believes.
A managing partner with Founder Collective, Eric Paley, who also backed Skillshare, Custommade and other marketplaces, sees the CoachUp concept as a timely one:
"Right now people hire coaches, but only by word of mouth, not by fit to the need, skill level, geography, price…customers give up. We love marketplaces were there is demonstrated demand for services, but incredible inefficiency [around] that demand finding and trusting the supply."
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In 2013, says Baldwin, a former chief marketing officer for Reebok, CoachUp should continue to focus on young athletes. "If the company can capture the youth market, they can more broadly become the leader in private sports coaching, including for adults," he says.
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Kippah: A Blessing On Your HeadFebruary 20th, 2008
It is perhaps the most instantly identifiable mark of a Jew.
In the Western world, it is customary to remove one's head covering when meeting an important person. In Judaism, putting on a head covering is a sign of respect.
The uniqueness of a Jewish head covering is hinted at in the blessing we say every morning, thanking God for "crowning Israel with splendor" (Talmud - Brachot 60b)
The Talmud says that the purpose of wearing a kippah is to remind us of God, who is the Higher Authority "above us" (Kiddushin 31a). External actions create internal awareness; wearing a symbolic, tangible "something above us" reinforces that idea that God is always watching. The kippah is a means to draw out one's inner sense of respect for God.
It's easy to remember God while at the synagogue or around the Shabbat table. But Jewish consciousness is meant to pervade all aspects of our lives — how we treat others, how we conduct business, and how we look at the world.
Appropriately, the Yiddish word for head covering, "yarmulke," comes from the Aramaic, yira malka, which means "awe of the King."
In Hebrew, the head covering is called "kippah" — literally "dome."
To wear a kippah is to proclaim "I am a proud Jew." There is a fascinating phenomenon whereby non-observant Jews visiting Israel will wear a kippah for the duration of their stay. It may be out of a sense that the entire Land of Israel is holy like a synagogue. Or it may be the removal of any self-consciousness that can often accompany public expression of Jewishness in the diaspora.
Indeed, wearing a kippah is a big statement, and obligates the wearer to live up to a certain standard of behavior. A person has to think twice before cutting in line at the bank, or berating an incompetent waiter. Wearing a kippah makes one a Torah ambassador and reflects on all Jews. The actions of someone wearing a kippah can create a Kiddush Hashem (sanctification of God's name) or conversely a Chillul Hashem (desecration of His name).
Of course, putting on a kippah does not automatically confer "role model" status. Sometimes we unfortunately hear of a religious person caught in some indiscretion. I recall one time in Los Angeles, noticing that a drunken, disheveled man was walking down the street — wearing a kippah! He wasn't Jewish, but he'd found an old kippah and thought it helped him fit in with the neighborhood atmosphere. For me, it drove home the idea that it's not fair to "judge Judaism" based on someone displaying the outer trappings of observance.
From a biblical standpoint, only the Kohanim serving in the Temple were required to cover their heads (see Exodus 28:4). Yet for many centuries, the obligatory custom has been for Jewish men to wear a kippah all the time, as the Code of Jewish Law says, "It is forbidden to walk four cubits without a head covering."
Does a kippah have to be worn while playing sports? This issue came to the fore recently with the publicity surrounding Tamir Goodman, the basketball sensation who is an observant Jew.
The answer is that it is preferable to wear even a small kippah, pinned to the hair. (Velcro works great!) If it is impossible because of the game conditions or rules, it is okay to play without a kippah.
When bathing or swimming, one does not wear a kippah.
Certainly, a head covering is obligatory while engaged in prayer and Torah study.
What kind of head covering qualifies? Basically anything — including a baseball cap or a scarf tied around one's head. Of course, in the synagogue, it is more respectful to use a regular kippah.
How large must a kippah be? Rabbi Moshe Feinstein states that the minimum measure is that "which would be called a head covering." Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef says the kippah should be large enough to be seen from all sides.
The style of kippah worn can reflect an interesting sociological phenomena, often denoting a person's group affiliation. For example, yeshivah-style Jews wear a black velvet kippah. Modern Orthodox Jews often wear a knitted, colored kippah. Many Chassidic Jews wear a fur hat (shtreimel) on Shabbat and holidays.
Additionally, many also wear a hat when they pray to increase awareness of the Almighty as they stand before Him. (Mishne Brura 183:11)
What about instances where wearing a kippah conflicts with business and career interests?
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein writes that in certain cases, there is room to be lenient. For example, a trial lawyer might not be properly serving his client if the jury will be distracted by the kippah. U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman may use a similar line of reasoning.
Of course this can cut both ways. A prominent businssman once told me that for every client "lost" because of his kippah, there were two clients gained, who respected his display of integrity and courage in wearing a kippah.
The story goes that Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev once saw a man running. "Where are you running to?" the rabbi asked.
"I have to get to my job," the man said.
The rabbi retorted: "Perhaps your livelihood is in the other direction — and you're running away from it!"
For many seeking to express their Jewish identity, "to kippah or not to kippah?" — that is the question. Here are two fascinating first-person accounts of how to deal with this issue:
- "The Kippah Quandary" by Ross Hirschmann
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What if you used vanishing trick to reposition so you were then in a flanking position, then make the sneak attack, wouldnt all stars then be sneak attacks?
You can't flank with ranged attacks, but if you made a full melee attack from flanking, your attacks would all be sneak attacks regardless of being invisible or not.
what about that new feat in UC (cant recall the name of it) that lets you "range in melee" so lets say you were actually adjacent to the target (so there for were flanking) but you were using flurry of stars, coupled with that feat?
Edit: close quarters thrower
No, that feat makes it so you don't provoke an AoO for throwing in melee. It does nothing in regards to flanking.
If there were a way to flank with a ranged weapon (some niche feat I'm not remembering or whatever), then yes, all your shurikens would deal sneak attack damage.
But it would again be due to the flank--it would have nothing to do with being invisible.
All close quarters thrower does is allow you to avoid the AoO when throwing. The rules for flanking specifically state "When making a melee attack, you get a +2 flanking bonus if your opponent is threatened by another enemy character or creature on its opposite border or opposite corner."
I don't particularly like that and if I designed the game it would be different but I'm not and it is in there lol
not looking to get a +2 from flanking, looking for a way to get sneak attacks on all shuriken.
The rule technically doesn't make any sense, if a target is already flanked say by two other combatants how would the target be any more aware of additional shuriken than he was of the first one? (or a follow up bow shot for example)
The rule technically doesn't make any sense, if a target is already flanked say by two other combatants how would the target be any more aware of additional shuriken than he was of the first one? (or a follow up bow shot for example)
The first one isn't because of flanking, it's because of invisibility.
An invisible rogue can ignore his opponents Dex to AC. The first time he stabs someone, or shoots someone, or throws something at someone, invisibility drops, and he no longer ignores Dex to AC for the rest of his attacks.
I'm with you Pendagast about it not making sense but the rules specifically state:
"The rogue's attack deals extra damage anytime her target would be denied a Dexterity bonus to AC (whether the target actually has a Dexterity bonus or not), or when the rogue flanks her target."
So the rogue actually has to be flanking and the rogue can't flank with a ranged weapon.
Ok, lets expand the question a bit. If my Ninja, who has improved unarmed strike, and an ally are on opposite sides of and adjacent to an opponent. Therefore, my Ninja could make unarmed strikes and get the flanking bonus and the ally is getting the flanking bonus. Could he then do a flurry of stars and all of them be sneak attacks?
What about the case where the attacking rogue has a level of monk, allowing it to threaten with unarmed strikes. Would not the enemy be "flanked" satisfying the condition for sneak attack (but not providing the +2 to because theI attacker is making a ranged attack not a melee attack)?
The attack must be flanking to sneak attack.
Being invisible allows sneak attacking by virtue of denying them Dex to AC, but attacking removes invisibility, so they'd only be denied Dex for the first attack you make from invisibility.
But I am not going to say I don't miss the days when Backstabs were actually from behind the enemy (i.e. in their actual back) and they multiplied your base damage instead of adding these anemic little d6s.
But I am not going to say I don't miss the days when Backstabs were actually from behind the enemy (i.e. in their actual back) and they multiplied your base damage instead of adding these anemic little d6s.
Yeah! Those were the days. *sniffle* <wipes a little tear from the corner of his eye>
The rule doesn't say the attack must be a flanking attack, only that the rogue must be flanking. Does that matter?
Flanking is a +2 bonus on melee attacks made under certain circumstances.
If you're not getting the flanking bonus, you're not flanking.
If you're not making a melee attack, you're not flanking.
You can't vanish between throw 1 and throw 2, since vanishing and activating flurry of stars both require a swift action.
In other editions of D&D, you can use your Move action as a Swift action instead. I honestly don't know if that's the case in Pathfinder or not, but it at least explains why he thought one could do that.
I'm not really sure what's going on here and what are you trying to wrangle out of this? Vanishing Trick is just not going to get you multiple Sneak Attacks. It's not designed that way.
In all practical terms, there are three core ways that people deal sneak attack multiple times per turn:
1) Flanking with melee attacks
2) Greater Invisibility
3) Shatter Defenses with someone in the party (perhaps even the rogue themselves) with lots of demoralizing effects and abilities.
Ranged characters with Sneak Attack kind of don't really work unless they're also spellcasters or have one as a best friend (see #2 above). It's just an unfortunately side effect of the rules.
Well, there's False Opening. Requires Close Quarters Thrower, and let's you choose to provoke an opportunity attack and you get +4 AC against it. If they miss they're flat-footed to you until the end of your turn. That would let you full-attack with shuriken and get sneak attacks on all of them... if you dodge the AoO.
Fight defensively (possibly with Crane Style) to make it more reliable?
Would throw left hand vanish throw right hand work?
Full-Round Action: "A full-round action consumes all your effort during a round. The only movement you can take during a full-round action is a 5-foot step before, during, or after the action. You can also perform free actions and swift actions (see below)."
Free Action: "Free actions consume a very small amount of time and effort. You can perform one or more free actions while taking another action normally."
Swift Actions: "You can take a swift action anytime you would normally be allowed to take a free action."
So as long as you're not using your swift action to use Flurry of Stars, you can use it in between attacks in a full-attack to trigger Vanishing Trick.
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It is stated in the trick's description how fluryr of stars works. Flurry of Stars works like a full attack action, but allows for extra attacks to be made as part of it. That means it is multiple atatcks, not just one. You have to roll a d20 for each attack and your attack bonus drops by 5 for iterative attacks (except for the extra two granted by the ability). This means only the first will be a sneak attack out of vanish since invisbility will drop afterwards.
To clarify this, since there are many points being made here...
I'm a 10th Level Ninja. I have:
1. Flurry of Stars
2. Invisible Blade (Vanishing Trick too, to get Invisible Blade)
I have a +21 to Stealth.
I'm 10' away from my target. I use a ki point to activate Vanishing Trick. Hopefully I have been hidden via "stealth". Now for 10 rounds I'm invisible and I can attack and remain invisible.
I activate Flurry of Stars and conduct 3 attacks against my target, each with Sneak Attack damage piled on for a successful hit.
Am I correct in the above?
I just noticed that my ranged attack bonus is only +4. Yikes. I may not be hitting that often as it is. Hmm...I wonder how I can improve that...
Just to nitpick, False Opening denies the opponent their Dex bonus, so yes, you could Sneak Attack them with a full attack--however, they are not flatfooted. Being flatfooted is something very specific and I think it's one of the most commonly misused game terms.
Just double-checking, if the OP has initiative before his foe, the foe is flat-footed right?
So, on the first round, if the OP goes first, all three shuriken would count as sneak attacks, right? No invisibility required (yet)?
And... did you really add your 10th level BAB together with your dex bonus (for ranged attacks) and only come up with 4?
Am I correct in the above?
Yes, as long as you don't try to activate invisible blade and flurry of stars in the same turn (both require swift actions to activate). So, if you activate invisible blade on turn 1, you can use flurry of stars with sneak attack on all attacks on turns 2-10 without losing your invisibility.
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As far as I'm aware, there is no feat that lets you flank at range. Nothing actually gets over the "When making a melee attack..." portion of flanking.
This third party feat, Ranged Flank, allows you to make ranged attacks with the flanking bonuses, and it also allows you to make sneak attacks with it. Seeing as how it's third party stuff, the GM would have to allow it to be used for their campaign.


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On the heels of a great JLT weekend and Troop elections, it is fitting that Clarke Green, fellow blogger and podcaster posted an article today that nailed my thoughts. The article was written by Larry Geiger, a contributor to Clarke's blog and regular commenter here on the Scoutmaster Minute Blog.
So rather than me rewrite what Larry has so succinctly said..
Go to his blog and read this. Well done Clarke/ Larry… Bravo!… and thanks!.
Have a Great Scouting Day!