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10th September 2012 06:32 PM #1
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I need help! I have been worried about my 1-year-old daughter who ha been experiencing nightmares especially in the wee hours of the morning. She tends to wake up at around 1 or 2 AM and starts to cry hysterically that all of us at home wake up to comfort her. We tried everything: from picking her up to giving her milk, and even playing soothing music. Still, nothing works. We just wait for her to get tired. What should we do?
10th September 2012 10:24 PM #2
Hi Venus,
I wonder if your little one is experiencing 'night terrors'? With a night terror the baby will be crying hysterically but won't be able to be comforted easily and may even not recognise their parents/surroundings/toys at the time. Although the babies eyes may be open when they are crying hysterically they are not really fully awake. The good news is that babies and children don't seem to be affected in the daytime by having had a night terror at night-time.
For most babies, night terrors do not go on for long. How long has this been happening? When it happens you should stay close to your child. For some babies it helps to move them to another room as this wakes them up and they can then fall back asleep. You could continue trying to offer milk. It sounds like you are doing the right things although I know it is upsetting when your child cannot be easily comforted.
It may not be a night terror; it could be just a nightmare or your child feeling unsettled/insecure. This is more likely if you have recently changed something in her sleeping routine. Is this the case? e.g. if you have recently moved her to her own room then she may be feeling insecure about this in which case you could try sleeping in the new room with her for a week or so.
I hope some of this information helps.
Let me know how you are getting on.
Best wishes,
16th September 2012 01:30 PM #3
Hi Venus,
Is your daughter sleeping with you? If not, this can be a comfort to her. Also, I would definitely be very careful about what you are allowing her to see and hear during the day. Is she seeing age appropriate things on TV? (i.e. things appropriate for a 1 year old) If you are watching TV during the day, and she is exposed to programs that have violence or anger in them, she will be affected by this and it could contribute to nightmares.
Try no TV during the day, and playing soothing music during the day and see if this makes a difference. Be sure that any interaction between the baby and others is positive and that her siblings or caregivers are not doing things to her that would be scary.
Please post back and let us know how she is doing.
Warm Regards,
17th September 2012 11:41 AM #4
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Hi, LJ!
Thanks a lot for your response! It could be night terrors that she's been having. I will try to move her to another room and sleep with her to make her feel more secured. ^^
17th September 2012 11:55 AM #5
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Hi, Kate!
Thank you so much for taking time to answer my question. Yes, my daughter is sleeping with me and the rest of the family members. Regarding watching TV shows, we always see to it that she watches only those which are "child-friendly", like Barney and Friends, Teletubbies, Dora the Explorer and Mickey Mouse Club House. I will keep your advice in mind and try not to turn on the TV all day to see if it will make some difference.
One thing that my 72-year-old mum-in-law said was that playing a very active or exciting game like hide-and-seek could also be a factor that affects her. She said that my child might be dreaming of the games she played throughout the day, and is too young to distinguish between her dream world and the real world. What do you think about my mum-in-law's insight?
17th September 2012 02:05 PM #6
Being that your child is not even 2 years of age yet, if you are playing hide and seek, this could cause feelings of insecurity and fear in her. If you take her with you to hide, and you don't hide in a dark place, then she would probably be fine. But if she cannot see you during the game, she could think that you've left her. Little ones think this way. If they can't see something, then it's not there.
Something I used to play a lot with my 1 year olds was peek a boo. Sometimes I would just hold a towel up in front of my face, and then I would lower it and say "peek a boo". They loved this. They could see the rest of my body, so I wasn't "gone", but they couldn't see my face until I lowered the towel. It made for a very fun game and I did it every day for awhile because they loved it so much.
Hope this helps.
Warm Regards,
19th September 2012 07:13 AM #7
Ah yes my little lad loved peek-a-boo when he was younger too!
Sometimes even TV programmes which are aimed at children can frighten them. My toddler has been upset at seeing a man dressed up as humpty dumpty on TV so we too have limited that activity.
But I do feel that the most likely explanations for your daughter having these episodes is that they are either night terrors or she is feeling insecure at night-time. Ensuring she has a bed-time routine and that she knows you are near at night (and responding to her quickly) should help with these.
I do hope things improve for you and your family in the night.
Best wishes,
20th September 2012 01:53 PM #8
Hi Venus,
LJ mentioned that having a bedtime routine could help. Here's a thread where we talk about various types of bedtime routines.
I also wanted to mention that I had a very sensitive child who did not like clowns (in much the same way that LJ's little boy doesn't like costumes or people dressed in a humpty dumpty costume). He did not like clowns for many years. He found them to be scary.
So watch our little one's reactions closely and see if there is anything that is making her anxious.
Please post back and let us know how your 1 year old is doing.
Warm Regards,
24th September 2012 06:42 PM #9
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Peek-a-boo is a classic. My two kids love it.
We do have a bedtime routine. She usually sleeps at 9 PM, so we start the routine by 7. First, we eat dinner. Second, we take a bit of rest by watching baby-proof shows on TV. We still do fun activities at times, but we choose to do those more calming like reading books, singing nursery rhymes, drawing and coloring.
I failed to completely eliminate watching TV shows. However, I was very strict when it comes to which programs my daughter should watch. It's been a week, and there was no more loud crying ever. She occasionally wakes up to ask for milk, but that's it.
25th September 2012 12:39 AM #10
Hi Venus,
That sounds like you are getting on well. I'm very glad your daughter has not been distressed at night recently. When my son was 1 year old I was still breastfeeding him in the night - this is not unusual as a 12 month old is still able to get the majority of their nutrients from the breast milk.
The No Cry Sleep Solution (by Elizabeth Pantley) discusses the benefits of starting a bedtime routine so that your baby/toddler can be asleep between 7 and 8pm. Of course, it is entirely your choice if a later bedtime routine works best for your daughter, but I have found that moving my son's bedtime routine to this significantly earlier time (for us - previously he was going to bed with us) has helped him to sleep more soundly at night.
Best wishes to you and your daughter,
26th September 2012 07:46 AM #11
Moving the bedtime routine up so that baby is going to bed earlier can also benefit mum and dad. Mum may just need some extra "quiet and relax" time, or mum and dad may need some bonding time (which is difficult to do when little ones are up).
Also, it might benefit everyone to eat a little earlier in the evening. I understand this may not be possible if you are working, but dinner by 6PM each night is healthy to aim for.
Venus, I'm so glad you saw a change in your daughter after making some changes. Sounds like you're well on your way to a happier, calmer household, and more rest for you!
Warm Regards,
26th September 2012 08:28 PM #12
I agree that since my toddler has been going to bed earlier it has been nice to have some time in the evening with my husband. Although I miss my little boy loads even though he is only upstairs sleeping!
Best wishes,


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Here's something you don't hear all that often: a giant Lego man washed up on a Florida beach a couple weeks ago. That in itself is pretty odd, but this is actually the third such sculpture to be discovered since 2007.
The first giant Lego man found in 2007 washed up around Zandvoort, in the Netherlands. This mysterious giant figure had the equally mysterious phrase "No Real Than You Are" printed across its chest, leaving people baffled as to what it could mean, as well as the name "Ego Leonard" written on its back. The next year, in 2008, a second figure, sporting the same cryptic logo and name, was found in Brighton, United Kingdom.
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The 2015/2016 Free Concert Series kicks off on September 22 with a performance featuring the COC's Ensemble Studio members. Spanning six sub-series (Vocal, Chamber Music, Jazz, Dance, World, and Piano Virtuoso), the 15/16 season is comprised of 72 concerts from September to May. We spoke with new Program Manager Claire Morley to learn more about the upcoming season.
The fact that we are able to offer over 70 concerts which feature an incredible array of world-class artists, for free—that is, in a broad sense, what makes the series so special. Our audiences are also amazingly diverse and they lend a unique energy to each and every performance, and the performers can feel that and can be very moved by it. And there's a real sense of discovery within the series—I have spoken with numerous people who might have gone into the concert knowing nothing about the repertoire, and have come away with a newfound love for it. On the other hand, we have audience members who come to hear music they might have known for decades, and they rediscover their passion for it. I think the series allows and encourages audience members to make it a very personal experience.
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I'd say some of my highlights include baritone Quinn Kelsey's recital on October 27, when he'll be performing Vaughan Williams' Songs of Travel and Finzi's Let Us Garlands Bring as well as a few Brahms Lieder. Here's a clip of him singing "O du mein Holder Abendstern" from Wagner's Tannhäuser (get your tissues ready!).
The Eric St-Laurent Quintet on January 12 will kick some serious butt. He's got such an incredible technique—his playing is spellbinding.
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Young dynamite pianist Kara Huber returns to the series on April 14. Kara is a stellar performer, and has a special love for contemporary music. This program will feature a world premiere by David Rakowski, written specifically for Kara. Here she is playing one of his etudes, Fists of Fury.
In May, mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili sings a program of some of her favourite recital repertoire, including some rarely heard songs from her native Georgia. She's a powerhouse!
I think it does. I've spoken to audience members who have told me that the series opened their eyes to something new, something unexpected, and it has led them to try out opera for the first time. Whether or not it "hooks" them is up to them, but it's wonderful to know that they feel welcome in the Four Seasons Centre and encouraged to try out something new. Both the artists on the mainstage at the COC and the artists in the Free Concert Series all have a story to tell, no matter the art form. The Front of House team at the Four Seasons Centre has to be commended—they are a remarkable group of people who make it a top priority that everyone who walks through the front doors of our opera house feels welcome.
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This fall we're excited to present the world premiere of Canadian composer Barbara Monk Feldman's Pyramus and Thisbe in a brand new Canadian Opera Company production. We took a field trip up to the COC Scene Shop to give you an exclusive first look as the sets are being constructed in anticipation of opening night on October 20, 2015!
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In order to see this stunning set in its full glory (and populated with singers!), buy your tickets today for this innovative program, featuring the world premiere of Canadian composer Barbara Monk Feldman's Pyramus and Thisbe along with Claudio Monteverdi's Baroque classics Lamento d'Arianna and Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. See you at the opera!
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Take a peek into Violetta's wardrobe! Costume designer Cait O'Connor talks about how Violetta's clothes reflect her place in society and her personal choices. Catch La Traviata this fall from October 8 to November 6, 2015 to see the costumes in their full glory!
"Violetta is incredibly charismatic and bewitching. She possesses an effortless glamour. At the same time she is a fragile girl, trapped within an opulence of her own creation. She has to costume herself as a manifestation of decadence in order to survive in her world."
"When Violetta meets Alfredo their connection is immediate, deep and honest. We see Violetta in their country house, truly at home for the first time. Her presence and ease is palpable. I referenced 19th century pre-Raphaelite photography and sepia colors as an inspiration for this look."
"As Violetta is ripped away from Alfredo, she loses her dream of love. She returns to Paris armored in an enormous gown representing the frantic ecstasy which she must return to."
Image Credits (top-bottom): A scene from La Traviata (Lyric Opera of Chicago, 2013). Photo: Todd Rosenberg; Preliminary costume sketches by designer Cait O'Connor.
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TUPELO – Thanks to a recently announced $20,000 grant from Toyota Manufacturing Mississippi Inc., the Lee County Library will purchase about 500 items aimed at children and young adults.
The grant will increase digital reading materials by about 25 percent, add about 250 books and expand equipment. Jeff Tomlinson, director of the Lee County Library, said books, e-books, DVDs, audiobooks and other resources will add hundreds more reasons for young readers to visit the library.
"It's going to make a huge impact," Tomlinson said.
The library has set a goal of increasing by 20 percent the number of registered children and young adults using the library, along with size of collections for them by the same percentage.
Among the materials planned with the grant, the library will add about 150 e-books, a significant increase to the 400 e-books already at the library.
The grant also will cover some equipment with larger monitors for group demonstrations and training.
"These new computers will make it much easier for staff to show patrons how to create an account to download the library's e-book app," said Beverly Edwards, reference librarian. "We're very excited and thankful that Toyota is part of the community."
Emily Holland, spokeswoman for Toyota Motora Manufacturing Mississippi Inc. in Blue Springs, said the library grant is part of $459,000 the automotive manufacturing company has provided to educational and nonprofit organizations in Lee, Pontotoc and Union counties from April 1, 2012, to March 31.
"It's very important for us to give back to the community," Holland said.
With limited funding for library resources, Tomlinson said community partners like Toyota help the Lee County Library provide resources that help younger residents develop a lifelong curiosity and love for reading.
With more younger readers choosing mobile devices, iPads and other tablets as their reading mediums, Tomlinson said the library must adapt.
"We're providing content, including digital content, to the next generation – and all generations," he said. "This private funding partnership is making that happen."


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Binghamton University Alumni Association, Athletics to sponsor Winter Madness
The Binghamton University Alumni Association and Athletics Department are sponsoring Winter Madness on Saturday, January 31. An indoor tailgate party will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the West Gym Lobby. A men's basketball game vs. the Maine Black Bears will follow at 2 p.m. at the Events Center.
This event will be a gathering for students, faculty, staff, alumni and Bearcats season ticket holders, and will mark the 5th anniversary of the first game played at the Events Center in 2004. Admission to the tailgate party is free; however, pre-registration is required. All pre-registrants are eligible to win one of two GPS units donated by State Farm agents Jim Rollo, a member of the Class of 1984, and John Paulin, a member of the Class of 1992.
The party will include music, food and giveaways. Alumni and their guests can purchase bench seats at a discounted price of $4, and chair-back seats at a reduced price of $10.
The registration deadline is Thursday, January 29. To RSVP, call the Alumni Office at (607) 777-2424 or visit www.bconnectalumni.binghamton.edu .


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Three members of the Hope women's basketball team have been presented conference honors by coaches in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA).
Juniors Liz Ellis (Grand Rapids/East Grand Rapids HS) and Courtney Kust (Cincinnati, Ohio/Cincinnati Hills Christian HS) have been named to the All-MIAA first team while senior Maddie Burnett (Grand Rapids/Northview HS) has been presented second team honors.
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After getting the tyes we headed off to Palm Cove. Nice, nothing special, have heard a lot of people raving about it but maybe we got it on a bad day (its cloudy and wet here at the moment). There are a lot of resorts there which are nice and a caravan park on the beach but its only about 20 mins from Cairns (not much of a journey for us) and the beach has stinger and crocodile signs all around it so I dont think we would stop there for a swim.
We headed onto Port Douglas and drove one of the best coastal drives we have been on - its up there with the Great Ocean Road and pretty much the same thing - a winding road on the edge of a mountain right next to the ocean
We were going to stop at Port Douglas since we had a pretty late start. The caravan parks were packed and for the very first time we were turned away from all available caravan parks! We considered staying in the street but Port Douglas itself was not that great either. Its clean and pretty but pretty much the same as Noosa (with no surrounding suburbs that have no pretentious residents for you to stay). It has massive hotels and a lot of them, and the main street has lovely shops, but looks exactly the same as Noosa (minus the surf). Once again the water looked awful but it would probably be nice in good weather.
So we decided to continue to on to Atherton. Interesting decision. The GPS told us the quickest road wasnt the way we had come but to head North a little more and cut through to Atherton. The biggest and windiest hill we have conquered yet. Leaves the hill in Canberra for dead. The Kombi did not enjoy the journey (and neither did John - there were a couple of expletives coming from his lovely mouth) she started to heat up (and so did John), but she conquered with ease and enjoyed the big run down hill! I think she was happy with the new shoes! It was a much quicker journey km wise and we ended up in Atherton this afternoon. It is raining (but I dont think it ever stops up in these hills) and we have got a few things on the agenda tomorrow to get the Atherton Tablelands conquered.


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Technology so pervades our culture that it's sobering to consider how poorly we understand it. How do new tools and techniques arise? What principles guide their evolution? And how does their existence inform the larger economy?
In The Nature of Technology (Free Press, $27), economist W. Brian Arthur sets out to establish a coherent theory describing fundamentally what technology is, how it evolves, and how it spurs innovation and industry. Technology, he finds, "builds itself organically from itself" in a process that resembles chemistry and in some ways even recalls life itself.
Currently a professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Arthur taught economics at Stanford for 13 years. His work has won the Schumpeter Prize in economics and the Lagrange Prize in complexity science. American Scientist Online managing editor Greg Ross spoke with him in August 2009.
What inspired you to explore this subject?
I'm known mainly as an economist, but my first degree was in engineering, and my interest has always been in high tech. I was well aware that the economy really grows out of its technologies, and that if we want to understand where the economy comes from, we'd better understand where technology comes from. So I was curious: Where does technology come from? Where does invention come from? What really is innovation? And when I started to dig deeper, I discovered there weren't really good answers to these questions.
There are plenty of studies on the adoption and diffusion of technology, and on how individual technologies got started, like the Internet or the jet engine. But I couldn't find anything you could describe as a coherent framework for thinking about technology, any theory of technology. Also I couldn't find any plausible theory of evolution for technology, though I suspected one was possible.
Why should we be interested in technology as a subject to explore?
Well, if you think about it, our lives—our sense of well-being, our health and longevity, our jobs—arise from how we solve our human problems. They arise from technology. So I wanted to draw attention to this thing that forms our lives, and to ask some hard questions about it. We've looked a lot at science; but we haven't looked much at technology, and it deserves a really good, hard look.
It's hard even to define what technology is. How do you conceive it?
I discovered there was a great confusion about what "technology" meant. I wound up realizing that three different definitions were simultaneously needed. One is that individual technologies are just means to purposes, things like MRI machines or oil refining. Then there are bodies of technology, such as nanotechnology, biotechnology and electronics. And then there's technology as a whole, where we say a culture possesses a certain collective we can call its technology. I began to realize that each one of those moves forward in time in a different way. The means to purposes are like individual species, the bodies of technology are like local ecosystems, and the whole collective is like the biosphere.
I think a lot of other researchers have gotten into trouble because they didn't stop to make those distinctions. There's a big difference between radio engineering and a radio receiver. Both are "technologies," but they are not the same types of thing at all.
Technologies evolve, but how far does the analogy go with Darwin's ideas? Does it hold up pretty well, or have you had to adapt it?
Attempts to create a theory of evolution for technology have failed because they have tried to import Darwin's mechanism of the gradual accumulation of changes through variation and selection. That works pretty well once a technology exists—the helicopter, say, or the steam engine. It exists in many variants, the better ones are selected, and progress happens. That's what Darwin would have called descent with modification, and that does apply in technology.
But the difficult part comes in the question that Darwin himself asked for biology: How do new species originate? The counterpart question is "How do radically new technologies originate, such as jet engines or laser printers?" It's pretty clear that a different mechanism is at work, and I came upon the idea—it's by no means totally new—that these radically new technologies are created by putting together combinations of what already exists. That doesn't mean you throw technologies up into the air and randomly watch what combines. The human mind is extraordinarily important, and human beings are essential to how new technologies originate. Still, when someone comes up with an invention, it turns out to have been put together from existing components.
A GPS system is a combination of computer processors, satellites, atomic clocks, radio transmitters and receivers. Whoever invented that did not say, "I am going to combine existing technologies"; they're basically saying, "What is it going to take to solve a problem here—the one of finding a point's location on the earth?" And that combination resulted. So technology evolves by combination, and once the technology's in place, then the Darwinian mechanisms of variation and selection set in.
We tend to think of inventors as inspired geniuses who work largely alone and then bring forth their creations fully formed. How accurate is that conception?
I don't believe that creating novel technologies is an act of genius. There's nothing special about invention—it's really problem solving, and we do that routinely in standard life. If I work in San Francisco and live in Palo Alto and my car's in the shop, I've a problem. How do I get to work? I could take the train, but then I'd have to solve the sub-problem of getting to the railroad station and getting a taxi at the other end. Or perhaps a friend could pick me up, but I'd have to get up earlier. What I'm doing is working from a toolkit of actions I could take.
Engineers do exactly the same thing. They face a difficult problem and run through possible ways they can solve it. They may ultimately say, "If I put this together with that and that with this, I think I could achieve that purpose." What counts in innovation and invention is having a huge quiver of technologies or methods at your disposal and being able to use them. The reason invention looks like genius is that most technical areas are unfamiliar to laypeople, so the solution looks arcane—a work of genius.
It sounds as though, on a large scale, technological progress resembles geological layers being put down—each one builds on what's come before.
That's right. What happens is that big bodies of technology build around discoveries of phenomena: Electronics builds around phenomena to do with electron movement. What happens is that when a new body of technology comes along, parts of the economy start to use it, and old tasks in the economy start to pick up this new body of technology and use it for their own purposes. So a new layer of technology lays itself down on what went before, as the old purposes start to be carried out by the new body of technology.
How deterministic is this? If we rewound history and started over again, would we get a similar outcome?
No! I would hate to think the world was deterministic. I've been saying that novel technologies are built out of existing technologies, and they're also built out of natural phenomena that are understood and uncovered by existing technologies. If the timing in either of those lines of descent were slightly different, then everything would be different. If different phenomena had been discovered in a different sequence, or if technologies had been developed in a different sequence, our world would have been different, and we would have come up with different ways of doing things.
You can see this if you look at Japan in 1650, where there hadn't been much Western influence yet, and Prussia in the same year. They had to solve many of the same problems, but their methods were somewhat different. It's this way in history. If small events had been different, we would have wound up with different technologies.
In our own time, technological change is exploding and seems to be continually accelerating. Where do you think that's headed? It would seem it can't accelerate forever.
I don't know if it can accelerate forever, but I don't see an end to this explosion. A sociologist named William Fielding Ogburn in 1922 pointed out that the more technologies we have to invent with, the more inventions there will be. That's exactly what I'm saying—we have more pieces and parts, more Lego blocks, to make things out of, far, far more than we had a century ago. And the more elements you have to combine, the more combinations you can make. And I don't see any halt to human desires.
I'm also not sure we have discovered all the possible phenomena that we can. In 1860 you could have said, "Well, we know about all these chemical phenomena, we know quite a bit about electricity," and then in 1886 Hertz shows the existence of radio waves. So I'm not sure we're going to exhaust physical phenomena anytime soon, and that gives us new fields of phenomena to harness and potentially to use.
I was interested in your idea that technology itself qualifies as a living thing in many ways.
Well, I wanted to put an argument out there that technology is alive and let people debate that. Technology passes all the tests for being a living organism—it reproduces itself, it takes in energy and so on. But so far it requires the agency of human beings. One could say, "How could something be living if it requires other organisms for its life?" But human beings are living entities, and we require other organisms ourselves to maintain life.
Has writing the book changed your perspective on your own daily life? Do you view technology differently now?
Yes, I do, because it became clear to me that every technology is based upon what I call the orchestration of phenomena, natural effects working together. If you look at any new technology as a whole symphony orchestra of working phenomena, it becomes a huge wonder. I have a sense of wonder far, far greater than I had before. As human beings, we're using these things unthinkingly every day—it's like having magic carpets at our disposal, and we have no idea how they fly.
Let me add one last thing. I'm an enthusiast about technology, but I am also suspicious of it and what it's doing to us. It intrudes in our lives, it causes us problems such as climate change, and it's taken away a lot of our deep connection with nature. But at the same time it's an incredible wonder.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/an-interview-with-w-brian-arthur
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Pros: Balanced sound, comfortable fit, fantastic cable, great build quality
Cons: Does not come with a hard case
I received my GR07 MK2 a few weeks back, and they have gone through the hundreds of hours supposedly required for burning in their bio-cellulase drivers. Having gotten over my new toy effect, I still enjoy them immensely, so I figured it's time for my first review. This is modeled after the reviews of legends like |Joker| and Swimsonny. I hope this helps you as much as they have helped me. Enjoy!
Packaging and Accessories
As you may have heard, Vsonic has dropped the heavy packing that arrived with the GR04's and early first-gen GR07's. The new case is slim and minimalistic, and distinctly classy. I got mines used from a fellow head-fier Stevenlongs, so it had been opened already.
The headphones themselves come plugged into a pretty faux velour holder. Vsonic was also kind enough to include an attractive pleather pouch, a pair of earguides, and plenty of eartips stuffed into small zip bags. I have found that the pouch, while pretty, is difficult to use, and does not actually protect the GR07 very well. As a result, I tend to use another case I received from Steven.
The tips, the tips! It really is like a double rainbow. You get two of most colors, three of some, and one of others. I'm not really sure what happened here, but there are enough that the discrepancies don't really matter. Two pairs of foamies and a pair of double flanges are included as well. While bursting in quantity, the tips themselves are not super soft, and are obviously not of the finest quality. Though you probably will have no problem finding one that fits, you may want to try the GR07 Tips thread for suggestions on improving the sound you get from these. I'm still using the red stock tips, as they fit perfectly and are comfortable enough.
I have not used the ear guides at all, as I've found that they are unnecessary. More on that later.
Build Quality
For some reason, there is a strange rumor floating around that the GR07 are fragile and liable to break easily. Must have been someone's lemon. They are not fragile at all in my experience. Many owners have been using them for over a year without complaints of breakage. The GR07 MK2 are no different. The cable is properly strain-relieved in all locations, and the housing of the drivers are a solid black plastic rock. I don't see myself breaking this anytime soon from regular use, unless I step on it or something. The nozzle swivels smoothly, and feels plenty durable.
That brings me to the cable. Vsonic has updated it over the original version, claiming to have added extra silver. Regardless of what actually happened, this new cable is drop-dead gorgeous. There is a subtle braided pattern that shimmers in the light like droplets off a waterfall. It is one of the reasons I waited to buy the MK2 instead of going for the MKI. Even discounting looks, the cable is one of the finest I have ever used. It is tangle-resistant, yet still very flexible. It has a silky feel, and feels very durable. Hopefully it does not have the same problem of oxidation as the MK1 does. As I mentioned above, I have yet found a need to use the cable guides because the cable stays put by itself.
Fit and Usability
With such a myriad of tips included, it is unlikely that you will find one that does not fit. That being said, there have been a few cases where the shapes of the housings have been uncomfortable in the ears of some. Those cases are far and few though, and I can confidently say most will have no problem finding the right tip and achieving a comfortable fit.
The GR07 are of about medium weight, and stay put in your ear even with moderate movement. This is helped by the over-ear cable routing. By sliding a cable cinch up, you can keep the cable behind your ears extremely securely. Isolation is slightly above average, but nothing amazing. The cable is terminated in a right-angle 3.5mm gold-plated plug, which makes it convenient for portable use. With a narrow barrel, it should fit through most iPhone cases.
Now here comes the most important part. For any IEM to be worth its salt, it must sound good. And good the GR07 does sound. The first word that comes to mind is realistic. With a beautifully balanced frequency response, the GR07 portray everything extremely accurately.
I'll break the sound down into parts below.
This is where a dynamic driver tends to outperform BA drivers. The bass on the GR07 goes low and rumbles a bit. However, at the lowest frequencies, it appears to lose a touch of control. Luckily, this is completely resolved as you go higher. There is a slight mid-bass hump, but the GR07 hits fast and hard, and you never get the feeling of muddiness. The bass is also exquisitely textured, and helps the lows shine in a whole new light.
My view on mids is a bit skewed, since I came from the YH-3 orthodynamic. What I can say is that the GR07 is very smooth in the midrange. It is neither excessively forward, nor terribly recessed. Vocals are clear, and balanced with the instruments around them. I did not hear any peaks or valleys.
The highs of the GR07 are extremely well done. Smooth and non-fatiguing, they extend endlessly upwards. The GR07 also has a slight treble peak, which allows it to do cymbal crashes like no other. However, this is a double-edged sword, as there is a bit of sibilance too. This issue is fine for most songs, but there will be some problems with already treble-happy songs, especially if they are poorly recorded or too compressed.
The GR07 is very quick for a dynamic. However, it doesn't stand a chance in terms of speed compared to similarly-priced balanced armatures. The soundstage is wide and expansive, but lacks depth. As with most IEM's, don't expect the soundstage from a full-sized headphone. However, among its peers, the GR07 performs quite well. My personal favorite trait however, is its sheer realism. This is especially noticeable in orchestral pieces such as instrumentals, where you feel like you are actually in a concert hall. With piano pieces, each key is crisp and well defined, and you feel like you are sitting right next to the pianist. They have a very natural timbre.
The GR07 has become my go-to headphone in and outside the house. With a remarkably balanced sound signature well suited for many different genres, it is hard not to like this IEM. The build quality is stellar, and comfort is great as well. Perhaps due to their bio-cellulase drivers, they play music much more naturally than any headphone I have ever heard before. I highly recommend the GR07 MK2 to anyone looking to hear music just as it was recorded.
Footnote: My impressions are mainly conducted with an iPod Touch 1g, and headphone out on a computer. I apologize for the lack of objective measurements, as I lack the gear to take high quality measurements. I have not heard too many IEM's of similar quality, so I skipped the comparison.


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Highly Anticipated Sequel to The Longest Journey to be Released Spring 2006
Durham , NC (Jan 04, 2006) í¢â'¬" Funcom announced today that it has signed an exclusive publishing agreement with Aspyr Media to publish Dreamfall: The Longest Journey in North America .
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey , winner of multiple E3 awards as the best game in its genre, is the continuation of a saga that began in the award-winning The Longest Journey , considered to be one of the finest adventure games ever made. In Dreamfall , players are taken on an epic journey of exploration and adventure as they venture through a thrilling and emotional storyline. Dreamfall features a fully interactive world where beautiful music, stunning graphics, fascinating characters and unparalleled gameplay variety promises to bring the adventure genre into a new era. The game is to be released for Xbox and Windows in spring 2006.
í¢â'¬�…"Aspyr's enthusiasm and dedication to the game combined with their historic focus on quality made them a perfect partner for Funcom when it came to Dreamfall , and we feel certain we have found a publishing partner which will aid us in greatly expanding our sales reach in USA and Canada,í¢â'¬? said Trond Arne Aas, CEO of Funcom. í¢â'¬�…"We firmly believe that gamers are craving fantastic stories in games. The amazing feedback we have received on Dreamfall so far shows that it's one of the most anticipated adventure games in years, and we truly look forward to delivering the entire journey this spring.í¢â'¬?
"The first time we saw Dreamfall , we were captivated by the art direction, pulled in by the gripping storyline, and impressed by its sophisticated gameplay variety" said Michael Rogers, president of Aspyr Media. "There is nothing like it in the market place. It is the next generation of adventure games."
In The Longest Journey players took on the role of April Ryan, an 18-year-old girl whose destiny was foretold in the prophecies. Having to save the balance between the twin worlds of science and magic, April`s journey took the genre by storm and redefined what an adventure game could be. In Dreamfall , which takes place a decade after The Longest Journey , players can finally revisit the epic universe. Not only will those who enjoyed the first game find out what really happened to April, new players can start afresh by following the new protagonist, Zoë Castillo, as she becomes involved in a conspiracy threatening the very future of mankind.
Dreamfall has already received numerous awards including í¢â'¬�…"Best Adventure Game of E3í¢â'¬? from Gamespot.com, Gamespy.com and IGN.com. More information about the game can be found on the official website http://www.dreamfall.com .
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The weather while we were at Ko Phi Phi wasn't great, we had a lot of rain, but even in the rain the islands are still beautiful! I have never seen sea as blue before - it was like it was off a post card!
On our first day there we took a long tail boat to a near by island which is their main town and it had lots of shops and stuff. It was a bit like Phuket, but a lot smaller. When we got back we did some snorkeling by the hotel, but there wasn't too much to see and I nearly drowned lots of times and accidently hit sam on the head with my snorkel (which made me giggle so much I nearly drowned again!).
The next day we went on a boat trip around the islands, and we went snorkeling again, and this time there were loads of brightly coloured fish that bite
I had heard Ko Phi Phi was beautiful, but because we have been to so many amazing places, I didn't think it would beat them - especially Telunas, but the islands are just stunning! The most fantastic place!


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Technically the bolded statement is correct - at least for the first dog. I wonder if this is not a question of letter vs. intent. There are no marks down when the dog is sent for the blind, but there sure is a lot of scent out there on both sides whereas it is usually only on one side. So while the rules as written don't seem to disallow the up-the-middle blind, I wonder if this is what was intended.
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Obongolo's response typical of a failed presidency. What else would you expect from a Kenyan muslim?
So, what would be the correct response to this situation?
But it's probably ok for the poor 'folk' to eat it since they don't really matter to Genocide Ben anyway. Eating an industrial synthetic resin probably isn't real good for you...but hey, we're talking poor people that are too ignorant to understand keynesian theory and all the good it does for the rest of us.
We live in Cuba now.
HOLY MACKEREL! That guy is totally paranoid delusional!
This Egyptian uprising is a conspiracy between Obama, Hardline Russian communists, and extreme Muslims!
The best explanation I heard was his tv ratings for January were his lowest ever on Fox, so he's trying to stir the fruit cake batter a little harder!
Hew: tell me where in your hallucinogenic world I defended Obama on his handling of Egypt? Please? I'd really like to know. Or is this just another baseless attack? Yep, I thought so. Enjoy your crow sandwich.
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The US response should always be to back those who are allies and are supportive of stability and the US. In the case of Egypt and Mubarak, they have been our allies and a peaceful influence in the Middle East since the historic treaty with Israel. With that said, if we object to the oppression in Egypt (or elsewhere among US allies), the most effective approach would be to bring influence, even behind-the-scenes pressure to help bring about reforms as conditions for our aid. The absolute worse things we could do is to publically encourage instablility like the Obama government has done by encouraging the unrest. Obama has essentially called out publically the very government we back with billions of aid. And he has done this having no plan or influence over what might replace it. We have empowered a movement, yet have no ability to positively influence the outcome, not unlike Iran and other Middle East countries. And like Iran, if a governement results that is hostile toward the US, we will have lost any influence for positive reform. The enivitable outcome will be less influence in a very unstable region of the world where we are inordinately dependent for our critical fuel needs.
And bottom line we have to understand, we cannot impose our model of democracy on cultures that have no understanding of it. We should always exercise positive influence where we can when it comes to the plight of people but never undermind our allies when there is no plan or reasonable expectation for improved conditions with a new government.
David Didier, GA
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Hey, good thing happened today. Leaving the hospital in an uncomfortable suit and tie, climbing into the truck, when I felt something hit me on the chest. Digging in the flask pocket, I pulled out a baby-Macanudo, in a sealed tube!
Nothing like an unexpected treat for the ride home. So much for the new truck smell.
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Description Aequorea victoria, also sometimes called the crystal jelly, is a bioluminescent hydrozoan jellyfish, or hydromedusa, that is found off the west coast of North America. This species is thought to be synonymous with Aequorea aequorea of Osamu Shimomura, the discoverer of green fluorescent protein (GFP). Shimomura together with Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien were awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of this protein as an important biological research tool. Originally the victoria species was supposed to designate the variant found in the Pacific, and the aequorea designation was used for specimens found in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. The species name used in GFP purification was later disputed by M.N. Arai and A. Brinckmann-Voss (1980), who decided to separate them on the basis of 40 specimens collected from around Vancouver Island. Osamu Shimomura notes that this species in general shows great variation: from 1961 to 1988 he collected around 1 million individuals in the waters surrounding the Friday Harbor Laboratories of University of Washington, and in many cases there were pronounced variations in the form of the jellyfish. In September 2009, Aequorea victoria was spotted in the Moray Firth, an unusual occurrence, as crystal jellies had never been seen or reported in British waters. The specimen is now on display in Macduff Marine Aquarium in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Habitat Open ocean.
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Fashion House of Death
A beautiful young model is murdered by a mysterious masked figure in a raging storm outside the tres chic fashion house where she worked. When her boyfriend is suspected of the killing, her diary - which contains incriminating evidence linking her to the killer - mysteriously vanishes. The masked killer begins violently murderlising all the models at the house in an attempt to find the diary and keep their identity a secret. Surely someone will be able to stop them before its too late and the fashion house of models becomes a terror house of blood!!
Blood and Black Lace really cemented the conventions of the giallo with its overwhelmingly stylish and chic design and it's opulent depictions of various beauties falling victim to a black gloved, sharp-implement wielding sadistic lunatic. Essentially just a really stylish 'body count' movie, Blood and Black Lace really marks the first time that Bava would take this approach to his storytelling, paying little attention to plot or characterisation. Unlike his prior venture into the embryonic giallo genre, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, the emphasis in Blood and Black Lace is not placed on the mystery and the process of solving it - like almost every ensuing giallo movie, more significance was placed on the murders themselves as the increasingly convoluted and lightweight narratives took a back seat. Bava would take this approach to its logical and minimalist conclusion with films such as Bay of Blood - a film designed solely around it's baroque death scenes.
With Blood and Black Lace Bava has created an insanely lush and gorgeous looking film - every frame is draped in style and elegance. Even the name evokes sensual and daring imagery. The lighting scheme would become quite typical for Bava - certainly not naturalistic but undeniably atmospheric, and he has created a rich and stunning looking world in which dark fantasies and bloody murders are carried out with theatrical aplomb. Of course it is all shot in glorious close up and seemingly lit by something altogether infernal, seething and raging just off screen, in reds, blues and throbbing greens. Elsewhere the film is impossibly glamorous, seductively lit and resplendent in its grandiose set design.
As with later thrillers such as 5 Dolls for an August Moon and the aforementioned Bay of Blood, Bava has orchestrated, a stylish, elegantly lensed and deliriously kitsch murder mystery film - with the emphasis placed firmly on the murders, and not so much the mystery. The director composes his shots much like an artist would create pictures on a canvas and he seats, stands and perfectly poses his actors within the frame of each shot as though they were models in a life drawing class, resplendent and chic. And really rather wooden! Bava even goes as far as highlighting the fact that the characters and plot and have been pushed to the background in favour of shocks and chills, in the beautifully kitsch and strangely moving opening credits.
The lead actors are all filmed standing beside dress-makers dummies and spooky wicker mannequins lit in a livid red light - they are themselves merely 'dummies' that Bava moves around his exquisitely shot film - they are only there to be killed in glorious and colourful close-up. The 'actor as prop' ethos would also be picked up later by Dario Argento, as his films also increasingly lost interest in plotting and characterisation. His actors were there simply to act as objects around which he could move his camera in ever imaginative ways. Again, as in 5 Dolls for an August Moon, Bay of Blood and The Girl Who Knew Too Much - Bava exhibits a pitch black sense of humour that perfectly matches the dastardly deeds of corruption within the story.
The 'whodunnit' aspects of the story consist mainly of every character looking shifty and having some sort of motive at least once throughout the film. Knowing looks and sly glances are exchanged and people do things that initially seem suspicious but are then revealed to be completely innocent a few scenes later. The mystery is retained until about three quarters of the way through the running time before Bava just simply reveals who the culprit is and what their motives are. Voila! He is still able to ratchet up the tension though by throwing another twist into the mix and he also has some fun and produces a couple of well timed jump moments, with the film's elaborate mise en scene as there is usually something bizarre, such as a mannequin, in the forefront of various shots that prove quite striking and startling when revealed.
The killer in Blood and Black Lace, while exhibiting what would become the required uniform for all future giallo killers: black leather gloves, fedora and rather fetching jacket (well they are bumping people off in fashion house!), also boasts an alarmingly blank white face-mask. Unusually though, this killer is spurned to bloody action by greed and lust, not by some dark and deranged Freudian past trauma.
One particularly striking and ominous moment comes when one of the models walks through a dark antique shop in the middle of the night, a blue-green light from a neon street sign outside slowly pulses on and off, like some sort of ethereally silent siren. The attack on her is particularly vicious and Bava even references one of his own most iconic cinematic moments with the use of a bizarre medieval type glove with spikes on the inside of it. The sight of this spiked thing advancing towards the all too fragile visage of the imperiled beauty echoes Barbara Steele's fate in the opening scenes of Black Sunday.
With Blood and Black Lace, Mario Bava further fleshed out the infant giallo flick and with it he laid down the gauntlet to filmmakers such as Dario Argento, Sergio Martino, Lucio Fulci and Aldo Lado. The gauntlet would of course be picked up, doused in blood, effortlessly sexualised fervor and stunningly elaborate violence and bandied about for some time to come…
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CARTER FOSTER: So this drawing is a study for Hopper's painting, Route 6, Eastham, from 1941. What's amazing about it is this conceptual balance you have between the architectural details and the space of the road and this house on it and all these color notations that Hopper made.
It's full of color notations, very specific ones that describe, in interesting adjectives, different shades of gray and how carefully Hopper wanted to remember the colors that he was actually seeing, so that when he went to make the painting back in the studio, he clearly used this as a memory aid.So it shows this tension between the real and the imagined that was really at the heart of Hopper's art.


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BTW, GW is no longer POTUS & I believe the lefty's supported much of his spending which real R's were not happy with. I believe we have all stated that on the various threads.
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With respect to the first, it is a matter of basic economics. In a stable economy -- meaning one that is growing at a steady pace sufficient to support population growth without significant inflation -- deficits have the effect of adding to the money supply creating stimulation that will add to inflationary pressures. In addition, the debt created to finance the deficit competes in the credit markets with efforts to raise capital to support private production, increasing the costs of capital. As debt is purchased off-shore, as has been the case with the U.S., we concentrate more and more effective leverage over our economy into foreign hands.
- Once the economy is stabilized, the budget must be balanaced.
- The deficit is too big to balance with out a mix of spending cuts and tax increases.
When the economy is stagnant and productive resources are underused, deficits can help stimulate growth and restart the economy. When the economy is growing faster than our productive resources, government surpluses can help reduce capital in the economy and slow growth to curb inflationary pressures.
Under Keynesian economics, fiscal policy -- meaning the manipulation of deficits and surpluses -- was the primary tool for controlling inflation and growth. The genius of Milton Friedman lay in his understanding of the importance of monetary policy in achieving these same objectives with greater finesse. However, monetary policy cannot help outside of a relatively normal range of variation in economic activity. Thus, we now have target rates for interest pegged at 0-0.25% and an economy that still requires more stimulation. We can't go lower unless we pay people to take our money.
To help combat the recession following the Internet bubble collapse in 2000/2001, the Fed reduced interest rates dramatically, helping to stimulate growth at a time when the budget was in surplus. However, the rapid and massive shift to deficit financing by the government created inflationary pressures that were addressed through substantial devaluation of the dollar in a manner that undermined foreign investor confidence and to moves by the Fed to increase interest rates by eliminating their accommodating policies. Of course, the increases in interest rates triggered resets on variable rate mortgages and contributed to the real estate collapse. All of these were direct consequences of the deficit.
With respect to the question of whether the deficit is too great to close without a mix of both tax and spending changes, our current deficit is now somewhere between $500-$1,000 billion -- we don't know for sure because of the size and uncertainty of the various bailout actions. Assuming that when the economy stabilizes we are looking at a "hard" deficit of $400-600 billion, I cannot conceive of a way to meet that with only spending cuts unless we are willing to accept actions at the level of eliminating the defense department. The deficit originated with unfunded tax cuts that were back-weighted so that the biggest dollar cuts happened in the later years, combined with a war that was never included in the budget. The projections of the future deficit by the Bush administration never incorporated the costs of making the tax cuts permanent. To do so would add several hundred billion dollars per year of new deficits.
How big will the deficit be by the time the economy stabilizes? I suspect somewhere around $11.5 - $12.5 trillion, or more than 80% of GDP, a level not seen since Truman was President, as compared with 60% under Clinton. The big question, however, is who will buy that debt? I do not believe we can count on China to keep carrying our load. As a consequence, we will face a tremendous risk of inflation that will act as a de facto tax on all of us. For that reason, actions need to be taken to reduce the deficit as quickly as possible even at the risk of slowing the recovery. That too argues for a mix of tax and spending strategies.
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Jeff, I had hoped that you would give me a period in time when the statements you made were actually applied - words mean little to me, Deeds & numbers do.
Non value added continue to be placed into existence it will never happen. Sort of a disorganized chaos.
The deficit & debt in existence today will continue to exist as the incentive to excel is not written into the above statement. I believe spending could be contained by:
- The deficit is too big to balance with out a mix of spending cuts and tax increases.
1) Eliminating all programs which create a disincentive to be self sufficient.
2) Eliminate all programs in which the Federal government should not be involved. Some examples - The Farm Bill, The Dept. of Education, the Dept. of Housing, Are just some.
3) Privatize functions such as all airports, & I am sure there are other candidates, just haven't looked that hard.
4) Does it not bother you that 3 of the first 6 kids of the octuplets breeder are on Medicare. Does that indicate a program out of control?
As for taxes, scrap the AMT, eliminate the deals, institute a FLAT TAX & forget about raising taxes. Just make sure that everyone pays them including some very illustrious members of your own party.
That would work - you have to understand the Risk Reward ratio needs to be properly balanced so those who take the risk receive the proper reward. 39.6% for taking no risk vs. 60.4 % for taking all the risk is not a proper balance.
& beyond that, I do not believe someone should be able to die & avoid estate taxes, I believe all gains should be taxed at the Capital Gains in effect at the time, but also believe Capital Gains should never be above 15% in any income bracket, nor below 5%.
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