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"Tyler, what color?"
Jodi Chapman peered from the blue card to the psychologist crouched before her autistic four-year-old, holding her breath. Please get this, Ty. A good evaluation meant entrance to this specialized school that would help him talk again.
But instead of responding, her towheaded only child yanked off his eyeglasses band and threw them at his feet. Her hopes fell with them.
"I'm sorry." Jodi slung an arm around Tyler before he bolted for the train table. She'd known it'd be hard for him to focus when he'd pointed to it after entering Wonders Primary's playroom. Her mouth felt like a desert as Beth's pen scratched across the evaluation sheet. After an hour of assessments, Tyler wanted out when they desperately needed in.
"May I ask what you're writing, Beth?" She struggled to put on Tyler's glasses with one hand while holding him in place with the other.
"Tyler, you can play with the trains in a little bit." As a single mom, she wished she had three arms instead of two. Yet even that wouldn't be enough some days. If only this wasn't one of them.
"Keeping his glasses on will be a behavior goal if he attends school here this fall." Beth lowered her clipboard, her khaki pants and green polo shirt lacking the wrinkles embedded in Jodi's suit.
Jodi dragged in a deep breath and held Tyler tighter as he escalated from resistance to flailing.
If. Beth had said "if." Jodi inhaled the childhood smells of crayons, apple juice and glue, her gaze darting around the vibrant room that'd be perfect for her son. Warm sunlight streamed from a round skylight, illuminating a large foam-sided circle that resembled a kiddie pool, filled with books and toys. A child-size cardboard castle stood beside a trunk overflowing with dress-up clothes. Floor puzzle pieces lead to its entrance. It was a far cry from the small apartment where her kind neighbor cared for Tyler.
Six children rocked and fidgeted on a circle of colored rug squares while their teacher read them a story. Aides walked the group's perimeter, pulling some of the children's hands away from their ears while others applied shoulder pressure to those flapping their hands.
"Show me the blue train, Tyler." The psychologist pointed to the table and held out a hand, but Tyler batted it away.
"No hitting, Ty." Jodi felt her lower eyelid twitch. The break in Tyler's daily routine unsettled and overexcited him, the perfect storm for lashing out, poor baby.
"Do you want to play trains?" Beth tried again.
The psychologist tucked her clipboard under her arm at Tyler's nod and headed toward the table. Before following, he squeezed Jodi's knees, the sweet, unexpected gesture catching at her heart.
She blinked back tears when he wobbled on tiptoe after Beth and picked up a green train instead of the blue. Green was his favorite color. It might be the wrong answer for the evaluation, but it was right for him. Her chest tightened when the psychologist frowned and scribbled something on her clipboard, a brief glimpse showing a heavily marked page. Jodi imagined the comments. If only Wonders Primary knew the boy who patted her cheek until he fell asleep, the one who dressed Ollie, his stuffed elephant, in different outfits every day, the child who'd cried for a week after his father had walked out, and then never spoke again. Guilt churned in her stomach like a live thing.
"Mrs. Chapman?"
Jodi turned and smiled unevenly at a distinguished woman with close-cropped brown hair and an arched nose, her picture familiar from the school's website.
She discreetly brushed her damp palm against her skirt and held out her hand. "It's Ms. actually."
"Ms. Chapman. Welcome. I'm Mrs. Garcia, school director." Her hand was gripped, then released. "Thank you for coming in so quickly. Hopefully our last-minute opening for this fall will work out. You've been on the waiting list for-"
"Tyler's doctor referred him a year ago," she answered, though it'd felt longer than that. It'd been an anxious twelve-month involuntary wait to see if her application would be approved. Given the number of children around the country who attended this highly recognized school, she'd been told Tyler might not have this chance for three years. Or at all.
"If you'll meet me in my office, I'll join you once I've spoken with Beth. It's the last door down the hall."
Jodi glanced at the train table where her son ripped up tracks and smashed bridges. "Should I take Tyler with me?" Without her around, he might act out, give the wrong impression. Her heartbeat hammered.
"Our aides will watch him while Beth and I consult. Then Beth will take over when I join you." Mrs. Garcia studied Jodi over rimless bifocals. "He'll be in good hands."
Jodi hesitated, then nodded, feeling helpless. There was nothing more she could do. Fate had taken the wheel and would steer them where it would.
At the door, she called, "Mommy will be right back, Ty." But he continued playing without looking up and missed her reassuring smile. When he noticed she was gone, would he feel scared? Alone? With difficulty, she kept herself from running back to him.
She watched Beth hand Mrs. Garcia the clipboard, and their heads bent together. Jodi's grip tightened on the doorknob. What verdict were they reaching?
"I'll see you later, Tyler," she yelled, louder now. Several children in the reading circle looked up, but not her son. Her chest squeezed as he zoomed the green train around a wooden building. Did he care that she was leaving? The harsh truth was that she honestly didn't know.
She trudged down the hall and gave herself a pep talk. From everything she'd read, Wonders Primary excelled at working with challenged students. Hopefully they'd see Tyler's potential. Believe in him the way she did.
Inside the wood-paneled office, she paced to the window and peered out at the foggy Chicago skyline, grateful to be here. Until now, the path to Tyler's recovery had seemed as murky as the weather, her despair darker still. She rested her head against the cool windowpane and tried not to worry.
"Thank you for waiting, Ms. Chapman," Mrs. Garcia spoke behind her a couple minutes later. "Would you have a seat?"
Jodi strode to a leather chair in front of an imposing desk and sat, her white knuckles contrasting against the brown upholstered arms. "How's Tyler?"
"He's in the right place at the right time." Mrs. Garcia smiled, her red lipstick matching her manicured fingernails, which were splayed against the desk calendar. "We'd be happy to welcome him at Wonders Primary this coming fall."
Jodi sagged in her seat. Finally. She wasn't alone anymore and she wouldn't fail Tyler. His care would have the order and predictability they both needed.
"Beth and the rest of the assessment team recommended that Tyler receive physical therapy, sensory-integration occupational therapy, speech therapy, social-skills training and behavioral training. We have every confidence that he'll make solid gains with us."
The news knocked the wind out of Jodi. She knew her son needed help. His therapist and doctor had said as much. But hearing the long list made his condition seem graver and more severe than she'd let herself imagine. She clamped a hand over her jittering knee. It was unfair. Tyler hadn't asked for this.
"I see," she managed at last.
"I realize this is short notice." Mrs. Garcia poured two cups of tea from an electric kettle on her credenza. "However, we'll need a ten percent tuition deposit to hold the spot." She offered Jodi a steaming mug. "Cream and sugar?"
Jodi shook her head and stared at the dark liquid, her wide eyes reflected back at her. In the excitement surrounding yesterday's surprise call from Wonders Primary, she hadn't asked about the cost.
She gulped her tea and the scalding liquid splashed down her throat. "And how much is tuition?"
Mrs. Garcia's brows met over her prominent nose. "Sixteen thousand. We don't provide that information on our website, but our secretary should have informed you when she called."
"She might have," Jodi admitted, her pulse thumping. Sixteen thousand? That couldn't be the price. "Tyler was having a tough time over well something and I'm afraid I only wrote down the appointment time. Did you say sixteen thousand a year?"
Mrs. Garcia scooped out her tea bag and laid it on her saucer. "No."
Air escaped Jodi in a rush. Thank goodness she'd heard that wrong. Her salary wouldn't cover such a large fee, even if her ex-husband contributed. And that was a big if
"It's sixteen thousand a semester," the Wonders Primary director corrected, "and each semester runs six months."
Jodi splashed tea on her hand, too shocked to feel the burn when she set down her mug.
"But that seems high." And impossible.
"Yes." The administrator's spoon clanked against the sides of her cup as she stirred in a packet of sweetener. "However, our board feels the fee is justified given our specialized work and reputation. Nevertheless, I understand if this is more than you expected and wish to look elsewhere."
Elsewhere? She'd tried everything and had nowhere left to turn. Jodi's hands twisted. She was failing Tyler and she couldn't let that happen. Not again. Disappointment settled around her slumped shoulders.
"I'm sorry to pressure you, Ms. Chapman, but there are many anxious families that would appreciate the chance to attend if you plan to withdraw."
"Please. A moment." Jodi strove to keep the panic out of her voice. She opened her purse to search for her calculator and found a Post-it note with her optimistic reminder: "Wonders Primary 10 a.m. J." How could she have been so naive? Expert care like this didn't come cheap. For people like her and Tyler, it might not come at all.
Her fingers encountered her cell phone and her screen saver flashed on. It was a picture of her and Tyler as she held him on her hip while he pointed at a hot air balloon. The festival had been a wonderful day, one of his better ones. They needed more of those after a year spent struggling through nightly therapy that ended with both of them in tears. Somehow this had to work.
"I'll take the spot," she blurted, then pressed her phone to her chest. What had she done?
Where Tyler was concerned, she tended to think with her heart.
"A wise choice," said Mrs. Garcia, her selfassured voice doing little to soothe Jodi's worries. "We'll need your deposit by the end of this week and the balance of the first half at the start of the fall semester. We split our tuition into biannual payments to make it more accessible to families."
"Yes," Jodi agreed, her voice faint. Her body felt limp and light, as though she could blend with the white clouds billowing by the Tribune building across the street.
"Excellent. We'll look forward to seeing Tyler in September."
Despite Mrs. Garcia's warm tone, Jodi shivered. September. Only three months to raise twice her current savings balance.


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Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo was Portuguese by birth and was born sometime late in the fifteenth century or early in the sixteenth century. We know little of his early life but, in 1520 he landed at Vera Cruz, Mexico, a soldier in Panfilo de Narvaez's expedition which had been sent to punish Hernan Cortes for overstepping his authority. Cortes managed to defeat Narvaez and Cabrillo was absorbed into Cortes's army. Cabrilio distinguished himself in subsequent fighting with Indians in and around Tenochtitlan.
After the conquest of Tenochtitlan, Cabrillo accompanied Pedro de Alvarado and Francisco de Orozco in their campaigns in southern Mexico and Central America. Again he distinguished himself and was given considerable recognition and monetary reward. In 1524 he was listed as one of the principal founders of the first capitol in Guatemala - Santiago de Guatemala. Cabrillo traveled to Spain to marry Dona Beatriz Sanchez de Ortega and returned to Guatemala to settle and raise his family. He was appointed Governor of Xicalpa and Comitlan.
Among Cabrillo's many activities in Guatemala was shipbuilding for himself and for Alvarado, then Governor of Guatemala. Cabrillo built three galleons of 200 tons each, seven ships of 100 tons each, and three smaller vessels. (Cabrillo was paid for his services with new land grants in Honduras.) Alvarado planned to use these ships for exploration and conquest in unexplored regions of the Pacific Ocean. Alvarado was listed as Captain General and Cabrillo was listed as Admiral in the planned expedition.
In 1540 the fleet sailed from Acajutla, El Salvador, and reached Navidad, Mexico, on Christmas Day. While in Mexico Alvarado went to the assistance of the town of Jalisco which was under siege by hostile Indians. He was killed when his horse fell on him. Following Alvardo's death the Viceroy of Mexico took possession of Alvarado's fleet. Part of the fleet was sent off to the Philippine Islands under Ruy Lopez de Villalobos and two of the ships were sent north under the command of Cabrillo.
Cabrillo sailed from Navidad on June 27, 1542, with the San Salvador and the Victoria (both thought to have been caravels). On September 28, 1542 Cabrillo sailed into a bay which he named San Miguel. He went ashore and formally claimed it for Spain. It is today known by the name a later explorer (Vizcaino) gave it - San Diego. While ashore Cabrillo met with Indians who, using sign language, explained that "in the interior men like us were traveling about..." (These were probably members of the Coronado expedition.)
Cabrillo sailed north out of San Diego Bay on October 3, 1542. While visiting an island which he named La Posesion (Vizcaino's San Miguel Island) Cabrillo fell and broke his arm (some say his leg). In spite of his injury, the ships continued sailing north into November in the face of the onset of winter and increasingly difficult weather conditions. Cabrillo's injury got worse (gangrene is suspected) and the two ships returned to San Miguel Island to rest and refit. Cabrillo died there on January 3, 1543. Following Cabrillo's death the two ships, under the command of Bartolome Ferrello, sailed north again probably as far as Southern Oregon before returning safely to Navidad.
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On this week's podcast: DnA DJ (design journalist) Maura Lucking talks to independent fashion designer and business owner Bryan Sanderson. He talks about his experience moving high-fashion clothing store Weltenbuerger from his hometown of Stuttgart, Germany to Los Angeles and starting his own clothing and accessories line. How does the West Coast respond to his minimalist yet spirited European aesthetic?
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UNICEF Billboards Use Natural Silhouettes to Shed Light On Domestic Violence
A small cutout figure shines a larger light on an important social issue in this day-to-night ad.
One of the great things about advertisements is how they have evolved from just selling products into a platform for social issues, and few issues are more prevalent than domestic violence. In the past, an artist has transformed Barbies into domestic violence victims and a fashion designer used battered mannequins in her storefront to shed light on the problem, but these tactics, like the large majority, are focused on domestic violence against women. So far little has been offered to enlighten the public about the effects of domestic violence against children, a large problem even in industrialized nations.
According to Child Help, each year there are more than three-million child abuse cases reported in the United States, involving more than six-million children, resulting in four-to-seven fatalities a day. While people generally think of home as a place where one can relax and feel safe, many children wait in terror for their parents to come home each day. This is the subject of a new UNICEF billboard that uses a small cutout to make a big impact.
By day, the UNICEF billboard shows a child hunched over in the left-hand corner covering her face. Unless you are right in front of the billboard you won't likely see the miniature cutout of a human silhouette at the bottom right. As the sun starts to set and street lights come on in the evening, the shadow casted by the cutout grows in size, until it falls upon the right side of the billboard, making it appear as if an oppressor has a hand raised towards the child.
Though the advertisement is simple, its strategically placed silhouette makes a huge statement. There are child victims of domestic violence and they deserve as much or an audience and support as any other kind of victim.
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Hello MathGroup:
As a result of some help from WRI support, the behavior is much more
clear to me now. I actually am not sure if it is a bug and I don't
know if it can be fixed in a subsequent release.
Basically what is happening is that the result of the earlier
invocations are always in Out[n]. This is designed this way (from the
first Mathematica version, I guess) in order to support the "%-m" construct.
This is (of course) controlled by the $HistoryLength system variable.
Since this application does not need to use "%-100" or "%-1000" (which
are fully supported by Mathematica) it can run with a much smaller
$HistoryLength setting. In fact, I will probably use 1 or 2 since I
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I cannot imagine I could get this to work without help from the
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Getting closer: Glenn McGrath is congratulated after removing Rahul Dravid for 21 as India folded under pressure on day two of the third Test in Nagpur.
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Australia will be confident of pushing towards a breakthrough series win in India on Thursday after a superb start to his 100th Test by Glenn McGrath helped the tourists to a seemingly unbeatable position on day two.
Chasing Australia's first-innings 398, the depleted Indians were reduced to 5-103 in the last session and limped to stumps at 5-146 off 77 overs of testing, pressure-building bowling from the visitors' attack. Still trailing by 252, India face an enormous challenge to stop Australia winning this third Test and a series for the first time here since 1969.
India were relieved to take Australia's last three wickets for 36 in 10.2 overs, with Michael Clarke the last man out for a bittersweet 91. But as McGrath and Jason Gillespie punched holes through the locals' top order with two early wickets each, absent captain Sourav Ganguly will have had a dose of depression to exacerbate his thigh injury as he watched from the dressing room.
McGrath struck first by removing the dangerous Virender Sehwag for a threatening 22, and when he ended some stoic resistance from Rahul Dravid to leave India five wickets down, he had 2-12 from 16 intense overs. He was well assisted by Gillespie, who had been blasted for 16 runs by Sehwag in his first over but came back to claim Aakash Chopra for nine and Sachin Tendulkar for eight.
Nothing can be ruled out in this country, and Mohammad Kaif (47) and Parthiv Patel (16) will resume hoping for a stand like the 102 they produced in Chennai.
But India's heroics of past series against the world's best team appear a million miles away, as evidenced on a slow second day in which only 182 runs were scored. With a pitch offering helpful seam to the pacemen, Australia will have been confident on Wednesday night of taking a 2-0 lead into the fourth and final Test in Mumbai, especially with Harbhajan Singh one of three first-choice Indians ruled out of this match.
India were probably denied an equalising win by the rain in Chennai but any success there might have been a false dawn. While their spin bowlers have troubled Australia, most of India's batsmen have hit some abject form at the wrong time, as was shown again yesterday by the meek contributions of VVS Laxman and Dravid. The Indians have not shown their usual steel, and have been pressured into mistakes by Australia's repressive, Victorian-era fields.
Though the new ball is due in three overs on Thursday, McGrath said Australia were not yet ordering any champagne, with memories fresh of how India - albeit a very different India - rescued a previous series here from a dire situation.
"I haven't really considered it. We were in a pretty strong position in 2001 and the rest is history. We'll just try to knock them over here, get a good first-innings lead and bat again, and then have plenty of time to bowl them out on a wicket that's starting to go up and down," said McGrath, who ended with 2-18 from 20 overs and had Kaif caught off a no-ball on 25.
"It would've been nice to have them six down but we'll just start off tomorrow in the same way. Hopefully we can get an early wicket and get stuck into them with the new ball."
India began midway through the first session realistically needing 400 but looking like they wanted them before tea. Gillespie had 0-24 from his first three overs before a toilet break but with McGrath and Michael Kasprowicz bowling tight lines the runs dried up until Sehwag was cleverly dismissed in the ninth over. Showing increasing impatience, Sehwag was beaten by one ball outside off from the smiling McGrath, and from the next - in a similar line but with more bounce - he played a slash with no footwork and was well caught by Adam Gilchrist.
A relieved Gillespie replaced McGrath and after two balls he made it 2-34, with Chopra caught at first slip for a 42-ball nine, attempting a push to cover.
This heralded Tendulkar's arrival, but there would be no messianic comeback, rather a mortal failure that might have been anticipated from someone with only brief net practice since his previous game on August 1. Gillespie removed him for a 35-ball eight, angling a ball into his pads and gaining the lbw decision from Pakistani umpire Aleem Dar.
At 3-49, Laxman joined Dravid for only the second time in the series. They have inflicted the unbelievable upon Australia on occasion but the main memories on Wednesday were of their ordinary form in this series. Shane Warne was not brought on until the 36th over but it took him only two balls to remove Laxman for the third time in the series, through a short leg-break which Laxman should have hit for four but cut to Clarke at point. Laxman has hit only 51 runs in four innings.
Dravid and Kaif embarked on a slow recovery but after 28 runs from 17 overs McGrath snared Dravid for a 140-ball 21, an off-cutter cramping the prodding batsman and giving Warne a second catch at slip. Dravid has 107 runs for the series. After Kaif's reprieve, Patel was put down on six by Matthew Hayden in a difficult gully chance off Kasprowicz.
INDIA v AUSTRALIA
At the VCA Ground, Nagpur
Stumps, day two
AUSTRALIA - 1st Innings 398
INDIA - 1st Innings
A CHOPRA c Warne b Gillespie 9
V SEHWAG c Gilchrist b McGrath 22
R DRAVID c Warne b McGrath 21
S TENDULKAR lbw b Gillespie 8
VVS LAXMAN c Clarke b Warne 13
M KAIF not out 47
P PATEL not out 16
Sundries (9lb 1nb) 10
Five wickets for 146
Fall: 31 (Sehwag) 34 (Chopra) 49 (Tendulkar) 75 (Laxman) 103 (Dravid).
Bowling: G McGrath 20-12-18-2 (1nb), J Gillespie 18-7-47-2, M Kasprowicz 18-3-37-0, S Warne 21-8-35-1.
Batting time: 308 mins. Overs: 77.
Umpires: D Shepherd (Eng) and A Dar (Pak)


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And seriously, these games get into your head; I had to quit playing both CandyCrush and Farmville because they started invading my dreams. They are still occasionally in my dreams now, months later. A friend had to quit playing Plants vs. Zombies because it took up all of her time and kept her up at night. She was completely addicted.
If you reward too often and without making the woman work for it, she will get bored and lose interest; if you make her work too hard for it, she will give up and find someone easier; if you make her work for it just enough and reward unevenly, sometimes huge exciting rewards for little work, sometimes small rewards for a ton of hard work, she gets hooked.
It's the push/pull that addicts. The games start out easy, way too easy, teaching you how to play; they are fun, light, don't require much thought: a mindless distraction. Then the game gets a little harder, and the rewards don't necessarily line up with the amount of work done. As you advance each level, it gets harder and harder, some levels it's almost impossible to reach your goal, and then it inexplicably gets super easy, rewarding you handsomely for minimum effort. There's an almost euphoric feeling of pleasure when rewarded enormously for very little effort after working so hard for so little; it's like a sumptuous banquet after starving for a week.
It's like Game in ways much like how RP instructs men to answer every three texts with one. Make her work for it. Even in flirting the push/pull is crazy effective; that's all a "neg" is: a compliment wrapped in a subtle tease; it raises her hopes while lowering them at the same time. They mess with her emotions. Pay her a lot of attention at some times, and ignore her at others. The more you make her emotions rollercoaster, the more hooked she gets. You have to play like CandyCrush though, start small and work your way up; just like a real rollercoaster.
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A new Apple patent filing published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reveals that the company is working on different methods for gifting of iTunes content, one method also employs the use of NFC, which is currently not found on any Apple mobile device.
Apple's mobile devices have long ignored NFC or near-field communication technology, which is widely used for payments and content transfer. The technology is present on almost all mobile devices that run on rival platforms, but Apple is yet to incorporate it in its devices. There have been rumors that the next generation iPhone will come with NFC, and if the methods described in this patent are ever to become a part of reality, then Apple would definitely have to add the technology to its future devices.
The patent lists three methods through which iTunes users can gift content such as movies, TV shows, music and books to each other. There's one method where the gifter selects content to be gifted on iTunes, their account is charged and the giftee receives a notification to download that content from iTunes free of cost. A gifter can also gift content that they already have in their iTunes library, this method is similar to the previous one, in this case also the gifter's iTunes account gets immediately charged and the giftee receives a notification to download the content. For both of these methods to work, the gifter needs to have an internet connection. The method that depends upon NFC partially eliminates this requirement.
A gifter would be able to gift content from their iTunes library to a giftee through NFC, the giftee will immediately receive the content over that NFC connection but it would be locked. Once the gifter's device is connected to the internet, their account will be charged and the giftee's device will automatically receive "keys" which will unlock the content. At this point in time no Apple device has NFC, though it should be kept in mind that virtually all of Apple's mobile devices are expected to be upgraded in the next few months. New iPhones are expected in September and new iPads in November, if the iPhones come with NFC then there would be a huge possibility that the iPads would have this technology as well. Only then we might be able to see the methods described in the patent become widely usable.
Source: [iClarified]