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The lights are on
I'm sure there were other games besides God of War shown at
Sony's Santa Monica Gamer's Day in 2004. I should know; I was there. But I
couldn't tell you if I tried. That was the day that Dave Jaffe unleashed Kratos
on the world, and I still remember the impact it had on me.
"Gamer's days" are a long tradition in the game industry,
though they are becoming less common. Basically, they were large cattle calls,
with press from around the world assembled to see a publisher's upcoming lineup
of titles. Generally, you'd see presentations and trailers for various titles
(think of a smaller-scale version of what you'd see onstage at an E3
conference), then later there would be time for developer interviews and (hopefully)
hands-on gameplay.
I attended Sony Santa Monica's Gamers Day in 2004 (I had to
do a little online searching to find the date, the years tend to run together
after a while). I'm sure we were shown a lot of games. I probably wrote stories
on all of them. However, all I remember now is the last presentation of the
day, where we were called back into the Santa Monica studio's small theater for
a surprise announcement.
We crowded into the theater and took our seats. Dave Jaffe,
the creator of the Twisted Metal series and one of Sony's most high profile
(and outspoken) internal producers, took the stage In his usual
over-caffeinated manner and started expounding on his newfound love of
Greek mythology and his desire to create an completely over-the-top action
experience. It was Jaffe, so this went on a bit. Though I know he can be
controversial sometimes, in person his enthusiasm for the games that he's
making is infectious.
Thankfully, this was one of the rare times when the game
that was shown not only lived up to but exceeded the hype - Jaffe had a
hit on his hands, and he knew it. There have been times in my career when I was
certain I was looking at a blockbuster. This was one of them. Though there were
elements of games like Devil May Cry and Rygar, God of War seemed to take these
influences and craft them into something bigger, grander, and more violent. I'm
not even sure if all the footage we saw made the final game, but watching
Kratos rip the head off a Medusa or toss enemies into oblivion by the ankle
while climbing was like nothing I'd seen before. The game, already in
development for two years, looked every bit a polished, triple-A hit -- action
on a scale that we hadn't witnessed before.
I don't think there's anything better about this job than those
times when you feel like you're witnessing game history. That day in Santa
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A large bird
soars overhead, as if surveying the group below. One student leans forward on the
metal guardrail and looks over the edge into the depths of the Grand Canyon.
"Oh, wow,"
he says, taking a sharp breath. He is seeing the Canyon for the first time, but
it's a typical reaction for even the Northern Arizona University students in
this group who have been here before.
Their guide
today is philosophy lecturer Matthew Goodwin. This trip isn't an excuse to get
out of the classroom. Goodwin organized the trip around the curriculum of his environmental ethics course, which focuses on the ways in which
people can generate emotions as a result of
experiencing their education, not just absorbing it.
The trip
began with an idea Goodwin had when he requested to teach environmental ethics
this past spring.
"You cannot
learn about environmental ethics without being in the environment," Goodwin
says. "Going to the Grand Canyon, because of its proximity to the Flagstaff
campus, was a natural choice."
To achieve
this goal, Goodwin received a grant from the Northern Arizona University Parent Leadership Council, which, in addition to advocating on
behalf of the parents of students, uses donations to fund projects that enhance
learning on campus.
"It gave
students a great opportunity to think more deeply about things we have
discussed in the classroom," Goodwin says. "We can bring it full-circle out
here and make it relevant for them. This class is thinking about a lot of
environmental concepts. In the classroom, this can be very abstract, so by
bringing them out here, they can not only visualize nature — hey can also feel it.
explains that too many people incorrectly believe that seeing something through
technological means – television, pictures, or the internet – is an adequate substitute
for experiencing it themselves.
"You cannot
anticipate what the Grand Canyon is by looking at pictures," Goodwin explains. "It's
just a small glimpse of what it truly is. Too often, people get their idea of
nature from the Nature Channel. When you get out into nature, it is so much
more beautiful."
Even those
who have been to the park multiple times cannot compete with the knowledge and
insight of Bruce Aiken, an Honors Faculty in Residence who
accompanied Goodwin and the students on the trip. His time at Northern Arizona
University partially funded by a grant from the Arizona Public Service, Aiken
and his family lived in the canyon for more than 30 years.
During this
time, he worked for the National Park Service, while painting what are widely
considered to be the some of the most vivid depictions of the chasm ever
captured by an artist.
The Canyon
is more than just a vista in a painting for Aiken. The world-famous artist
considers it his home. Goodwin says he didn't have to ask Aiken twice – or even
once – to come.
"Bruce was
very excited about sharing what he knew about the Grand Canyon, including his
experiences and his insights," Goodwin says. "I had originally just asked him
to come speak to the class, but when I told him that we planned on driving up
here, he asked to go."
The students
were afforded a chance to spend the day listening and learning from Aiken, who
has had his works featured in the White House and by NASA.
talks were amazing," Goodwin says. "I was blown away by what he said – he
really brought the issues the Grand Canyon faces to the students and made them
relevant. He was able to point out things about the Canyon that most wouldn't
have seen. He was tremendously inspirational for the students."
Goodwin was
glad that his students were able to see the Canyon and marvel at the incredible
rock formations through a scope he brought along. However, much of the
education that took place at the Canyon was not about geology, but about how
the environmental protection of the national park has been breached in the past
and may be violated in the future.
The class
hiked out to Maricopa Point, where a pier of the Canyon wall juts out into the
abyss. Here, Goodwin showed the class the Orphan Mine, where uranium was mined
out of the wall of the Grand Canyon for almost twenty years until the shaft's
closure in 1972, when such mining became politically unpopular. The cleanup of
the mine is still ongoing, and has cost the federal government millions of
dollars thus far.
"In class,
we've been talking about environmental issues, which includes mining in the
Grand Canyon," Goodwin says. "There is still contamination from mining here. We
can talk all the time about environmental degradation in the Grand Canyon, but,
when students actually go out there, they can see the smog and haze. It becomes
a real thing – that's part of the experience."
Goodwin says
the goal of his class is to get students to think about ethics as more than
just the way people treat one another – both now, and after the class is over.
"Fifty years
ago, ethics was always just about ethics between people," Goodwin says. "Then,
we started thinking about other forms of ethics. An entire generation said,
'You know, we need to think about the responsibilities we have.' It's thinking about global issues with regard to nature, animals,
habitats, future generations, and the health of the world, as a whole."

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President Obama, whose last visit to Los Angeles included a fundraising extravaganza at the home of George Clooney, is scheduled to return Wednesday evening for a guest appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." On his next visit, it might be nice if he could pull himself away from celebrities long enough to drop by the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus, which seems unable to provide beds to veterans who sleep on nearby streets.
Several times in Monday night's debate with Mitt Romney, Obama mentioned his desire to make sure "our veterans have the kind of support they need when they come home." That was more of a mention than the vets got from Romney, but still, if the president wants to help, I'd like to take him to the VA and show him Building 209, which has sat vacant for years despite plans to open it for rehabilitative services and housing. Rep. Henry Waxman, who represents the area, told me again Monday morning that he has no idea why the VA doesn't get moving on the project.
Maybe Obama can get to the bottom of the matter, given that we've got about 8,000 homeless veterans in greater L.A. Otherwise, his alleged commitment to those who sacrificed for their country rings hollow, don't you think?


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coondoggie writes "If you have ever wanted to go torpedo-to-torpedo with a submariner, now is your chance. The crowdsource-minded folks at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency rolled out an online game that lets players try to catch elusive, quiet enemy submarines. According to DARPA the Sonalysts Combat Simulations Dangerous Waters software was written to simulate actual evasion techniques used by submarines, challenging each player to track them successfully."


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Archives for: February 2013, 19
Screaming quadsFebruary 19th, 2013 , by Suzanne
It has been a long time since I have had really sore muscles.
I think I'm in pretty good shape. In fact, I think I'm in above average shape for a woman my age. After spending the first 23 years of my life sitting on sofas reading books, I discovered that I liked to run and swim. When I found the Blood Type Diet in 2003 and read that Type Os need "intense physical exercise" I could identify.
I exercise between 45 minutes and an hour 5-6 days a week. I let my body rest one day a week. For me it is a good Biblical principal, but I find it interesting that every physical trainers agree. Women my age are prone to lose muscle mass and replace it with fat. I fight that tendency continuously.
For all of these reasons, it has been a long time since I have had really sore muscles.
Saturday I photographed 17 basketball teams. I had been hired by a children's basketball league. The players were aged 5-12. I shot pictures from 7:30 in the morning until 4:30 that afternoon.
If you want good pictures, you do not stand when you photograph children. You get down on their level. So I was up and down; up and down; up and down all day long. While I was working, I felt great. But, oh my! Sunday morning when I got out of bed, my quads were screaming. I hobbled into the bathroom. I had trouble getting dressed. I walked around all day like an old lady.
Monday was a little better. If I had been sitting for a while - at the computer or in a meeting - when I first stood up my quads were stiff and painful. However, once I started moving around, they loosened up. Today is a little better, but still noticeably painful.
I'm disappointed and dismayed. How could someone who exercises as much as I do have muscles this sore? I know the answer, while I exercise up to an hour a day, I don't work my leg muscles all day the way I did on Saturday.
What I have learned from this experience is that the exercise I'm doing is not pushing my muscles anywhere close to their limits. I may be in better shape than most women my age, but there is a lot of room for improvement.


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Skip to comments.Fedexed, Other Illegal Hairy Crabs To Be Destroyed
Posted on 09/22/2007 7:24:22 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
(TAIPEI, Taiwan) -- The Taipei customs yesterday confiscated three kilograms of hairy crabs illegally imported from China in an express package and will destroy the imports in accordance with the law, according to Cheng Hui-wen, director of the Bureau of Food Sanitation (BFS) under the Cabinet-level Department of Health.
The package, imported under the name of "plastic products," bears a product origin of "Yang Cheng Lake," the exact production base of the famous Dazha crabs that are much sought-after by local gourmets, Cheng said.
Cheng continued the illegally imported hairy crabs will be destroyed immediately, as they have yet to undergo any inspection and quarantine procedures and may seriously undermine the health of consumers.
She urged nationals not to illegally deliver Dazha hairy crabs from China via postal or courier services, as such crabs may contain the banned antibiotic nitrofuran, which is detrimental to human health.
Last year's Chinese hairy crab season was marred by BFS tests showing that some crabs contained the said cancer-causing substance, forcing the DOH to tighten inspections on imports of hairy crabs from China, and ban inbound tourists from bringing in Dazha hairy crabs.
The DOH has come up with a set of 16 inspection criteria for Yang Cheng Lake hairy crabs from China, which are tighter than the existing World Trade Organization (WTO) inspection standards adopted by Chinese quarantine authorities.
Accordingly, DOH officials said that there has not yet been any applications from crab importers seeking to bring crabs into Taiwan, although the brief hairy crab season has already begun.
They said the sticking point for importers seems to be the new BFS requirement that an animal health certificate from Chinese quarantine authorities must accompany every crab shipment.
Until the Chinese authorities issue the certificates, vendors cannot submit their import applications, the officials continued.
Meanwhile, in order to prevent Chinese hairy crabs from being smuggled into the island, the Cabinet-level Coast Guard Administration will step up its patrol operations and will ruin any and all smuggled agricultural and fishery products to better secure food sanitation for local consumers.
I guess they broke their promise:
> I guess they [PRC] broke their promise:
Doesn't appear so. It looks like they neglected to
obtain an animal health certificate for the crabs.
The ROC guys aren't saying the crabs are tainted,
just that they didn't present proper papers.
LOL Since when has not presenting proper papers or no papers prevented anyone or anything from entering the USA?
I dunno if I want more details about this!
How 'bout this hairy crab ? Can we destroy him too ?
In any event, eating hairy crabs doesn't sound too healthful or appetizing.
Hairy crabs sounds like an STD you dont want....
Is there an STD somebody would want ?
hairy crabs—yikes—like everyone wants crabs? I don't think so.
Somehow this doesn't sound like a dish anyone sober would order.
"Put on that old blue ointment, the crabs' disappointment,
And we'll slay them b****rs where they lay . . . "
>> In any event, eating hairy crabs doesnt sound too healthful or appetizing.
I can't vouch for healthful... but they are VERY appetizing! Even a delicacy, even. Those suckers are GOOD.
I'll bet whoever confiscated them "destroys" them in a boiling pot of broth.
Hairy Crabs? That is just so wrong!
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The New Orleans Hornets have won three of their last four and will try to keep the momentum going when they host the Portland Trail Blazers.
The Hornets completed a three-game road trip 2-1 and defeated the Phoenix Suns before they left on their trek. New Orleans' most recent victory came in Detroit on Sunday, 105-86.
Eric Gordon sat out against the Pistons as it was the second of a back-to- back, but Robin Lopez handled the scoring. Lopez netted 23 points and 10 rebounds on 9-for-13 shooting, but his head coach was impressed with his defensive prowess.
"The way he played in the paint defensively was tremendous," Hornets head coach Monty Williams said of Lopez.
Lopez, first-overall pick Anthony Davis and Al-Farouq Aminu, the starting frontcourt for the Hornets, combined for eight blocks against a very physically strong group of bigs for the Pistons.
Wednesday is the Hornets' last game before the break, then play seven of their next nine in the Big Easy.
The Blazers are finishing a six-game road trip before the All-Star break. LaMarcus Aldridge is headed to Houston for his second appearance in the All- Star game, but things haven't gone well on this sojourn.
Portland is 1-4 after a Tuesday night loss in Miami to the defending champion Heat. The lone victory on this trek came in the opener in Minnesota and the Trail Blazers have dropped four in a row.
The Blazers hung tough with the Heat through three quarters, but Miami pulled away in the fourth to win 117-104. It was an impressive performance in defeat, especially coming after a terrible loss to the Orlando Magic on Sunday.
"I like the way we came back after the way we played against the Orlando Magic," said head coach Terry Stotts. "I think it showed some of our resolve and some of our resiliency. It is disappointing to come up with a loss but we lost to a great team."
It was a fantastic bounceback from presumptive Rookie of the Year, Damian Lillard. After a four-point performance in Orlando, Lillard scored 33 points in the loss to the Heat.
"I wasn't worried. He doesn't lose any confidence. I knew he would come back strong tonight," said Aldridge, who had 29 Tuesday.
Portland couldn't stop the Heat on Tuesday. The Blazers allowed Miami to shoot 58 percent from the field and 42 percent from the 3-point arc. During this road trip, the Blazers have surrendered 100 points or more in every game but the Timberwolves victory. Minnesota had 98 on Feb. 4.
The Blazers won this season's only a matchup with New Orleans, a 95-94 decision in Portland on Dec. 16. Portland has won five in a row in this series and is 5-2 in its last seven in New Orleans.


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State Police: Drunk checks Wednesday in Whitley
State Police to Conduct Sobriety CheckpointIn Whitley CountyWhitley County, IN-The Fort Wayne District of the Indiana State Police will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint in Whitley County during the late evening hours on Wednesday, November 23rd and continuing into the early morning hours of Thursday, November 24th. In an effort to reduce the number of alcohol-related automobile crashes, the sobriety checkpoint will target the impaired driver and will be utilized in an area identified as having a high number of alcohol related crashes.Corporal Jason House is reminding motorists to have their driver's license and vehicle registrations readily available when entering the checkpoint, so as to minimize the amount of time that they are delayed. House also offers the following tips: * Plan ahead and always designate someone as a designated driver. * Don't get behind the wheel of a vehicle if you've been consuming alcoholic beverages. * If you are impaired, please call a taxi or call a sober friend or family member to come and get you. * If you are hosting a party, always offer alcohol-free beverages, and make sure that all of your guests leave with a sober driver.Remember, Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk. Take the keys and never let a friend leave your sight if you think that they are about to drive while impaired.


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Until the February shutdown, online multiplayer for the action-RPG will continue to be free as a "further gesture of support" from Namco Bandai.
Namco Bandai saved the game's servers back in July as the failure of the once-anticipated Hellgate predicated the collapse of Flagship. Much of the studio's staff has gone on to form Runic Games in order to continue making action RPGs.


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A Rotorua man jailed for life for the brutal murder of Polish tourist Roman Skorek has been forever scarred by the killing, a court has heard.
Rawiri James Samuel, 22, was sentenced in the High Court at Rotorua yesterday to life imprisonment, with a minimum non-parole period of 12 years for the murder of 64-year-old Mr Skorek in Kuirau Park on January 29 this year.
Samuel pleaded guilty in March. However, his alleged co-offenders Simon Meka Herewini, 20, William Karauna Edwards, 15, and Leslie McKay Glen, 14, have all pleaded not guilty to murder and will stand trial on February 11.
When sentencing Samuel, Justice Mary Peters said according to the police summary of facts Samuel and others met Mr Skorek at the park's hot pools and drank with him. At one point, Samuel thought Mr Skorek was making sexual advances towards one of the people he was with and assaulted him, punching him in the face and head. When Mr Skorek fell to the ground Samuel kicked him and jumped on his chest.
Samuel and associates then left, with Samuel taking a knife with a five-inch blade and money from Mr Skorek's bag.
He went back to Mr Skorek, who was unconscious and making a snoring sound. Samuel stabbed him once in the face and once in the upper chest. Mr Skorek also received another stab wound to the chest, a six-inch open wound on his throat and suffered a fractured skull.
Rotorua Crown prosecutor Amanda Gordon said the murder was committed in an attempt to avoid detection for the earlier assault and was aggravated by the fact Mr Skorek was unconscious and vulnerable at the time.
Samuel's lawyer Martin Hine said his client had asked him to express his remorse for his involvement in the "tragedy''.
"He views it very much as a tragedy. It has scarred his soul and will do so for the rest of his life. He will do everything in his power to try and put right in any practical way what he has been embroiled in as a central figure.
"His family has been with him and supported him and they also express deep remorse for what has happened."
Justice Peters said until recently Samuel denied he stabbed Mr Skorek, but had now acknowledged he stabbed the man twice.
She said when he committed the murder Samuel was drunk and was acting to protect his friend from Mr Skorek's perceived sexual advances.
"Those advances are irrelevant. They could not have in any way warranted that sort of reaction."
Justice Peters said at the time of the pre-sentence report Samuel was on medication for schizophrenia, depression and high blood pressure. She said he had attempted suicide in 2008 and at Christmas 2011.
In reaching the sentence, which she described as the "minimum that was open to her" she took into account his remorse and early guilty plea.


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What you need to know about Florida today
Who controls water standard levels in Florida?
Behind a Florida waterway – behind the turtle sunbathing atop the limestone rock, the water control structure and layers of sawgrass – there's a backstage of political and business interests. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has control, but the state's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) wants it. [Source: WLRN]
When a Falcon 20commercial jet flying over Canada's capital city of Ottawa recently logged the first-ever civilian flight powered by 100% renewable biofuel, the trip marked a triumphant conclusion to six years of research at the Panama City offices of Applied Research Associates.
Popular Science called the flight one of 2012's most-important science events. Biofuels Digest presented its 2012 Best New Fuel award to the company.
Gulf Power wants to start program to attract businesses
Gulf Power plans to launch a new initiative next month to make Northwest Florida more aggressive in attracting businesses to the region. Hundreds of acres are waiting to be developed by companies looking to open, move or expand in industrial parks and other locations. [Source: Northwest Florida Daily News]
JAXUSA pursuing Chinese business
The JAXUSA Partnership has hired a consultant to pursue business in China looking to expand to the U.S., according to Mike Breen, JAXUSA Partnership International Department senior director. "The Chinese government is encouraging its businesses to expand outside of the country and become more globalized, so there are opportunities there and we want to be a player in that," said Breen. [Source: Jacksonville Daily Record]
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You'll notice his little fur "spurs." He used to grow them out, then they'd fall off. It's been a while since he's had them, though.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Mario wants to get in on the 'Tocktober action by posting an oldie-but-a-goodie bunny 'tock photo:
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6 comments:
- furrybutts said...
LOL! I never knew bunnies get fur spurs on their feet! Mario's a real cowboy! err.. Cowbun!!
- October 22, 2008 at 11:05 PM
- d. moll, l.ac. said...
Fur spurs, very nice and great furry 'tocks you got there, Mario.
- October 23, 2008 at 6:52 AM
- FrecklesandDeb said...
The fur spurs look cool! Wish I had some!
- October 23, 2008 at 8:11 AM
- losangelesdaze said...
So cute!!
- October 23, 2008 at 11:10 AM
- furrybutts said...
Mawio, we haz award for you on our blog!
- October 23, 2008 at 6:18 PM
- The Bunns said...
We get 'em too ... RG just cuts them off. He should let us keep them! We could be Cow-Bunns too!
- October 23, 2008 at 7:59 PM
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im in java programing 1 and anyone can help me with this
"make a sample log-in program which prompts if a user is a legitimate member or not. the existing users and thier corresponding passwords are as follows
Account name: jeff kenneth pucan / username: jeff / passwords: kent or felix
Account name: laila fortu / username:LAI / password: forio
Account name: dexter cruz / username: Dex / passwords: fort or light
Display "Welcome <Account name>" if the user enter a correct username and password. display "log-in failed" if otherwise.


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Wordgirl Makes A Mistake: Part 1 - Newsflash: WordGirl is mispronouncing words! Realizing her weakened state, Mr. Big captures WordGirl and plans to set up a mind control ray on the moon. Can the city and the entire planet be saved without her? (To be continued. . . ) Vocabulary Words: Flawless, Dominate. Wordgirl Makes A Mistake: Part 2 - Mr. Big has captured WordGirl by exploiting her weakness to Lexonite. He's building a mind control device on the moon to achieve total global domination. WordGirl is forced to battle Mr. Big in outer space but will she be able to save the Earth? Vocabulary Words: Potent, Mission.
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This morning I saw an online review of the new ipod nano and something in the review stuck out to me. The writer of the article is saying that anyone with a smart phone has no point owning a stand alone MP3 player anymore.
Immediately I had to disagree with the guy. My wife and I both have ipods and smart phones and we don't use our phones as music players. The main reason for me is that I often run my ipod through my home stereo and I use my phone quite a bit for its main purpose...as a phone. Right now I have my ipod running through the stereo and I don't want to stop the music every time the phone rings. I guess I can see where if you're out walking and you might need to take a call where it could be handy to have it all on one device, but when I'm going to the gym I leave my phone in the locker and take the iPod so I can have an hour or two away from the phone.
Anyone think MP3 players are going the way of CD players or that there will always be a place for them because of people like me who don't want a phone call to interrupt the music? Just curious if I'm the odd man out here.


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Whenever I see a company refer to their own Inc, it bugs me terribly. It's really bad for marketing for two reasons.-People who know what Inc really means are going to assume that you do not-People who do not know what Inc means are going to find your company to be a bit uptight.
What is funny is that if you have a long, awkward name and dicate that it not be shortened, people are going to shorten it anyway. It is better that you control what it is shortened to so it is reasonable and consistent.For example, our product used to have a short name, like netProduct*. But it didn't really indicate what it did, so the PTB decided all our product names should indicate what they did and do what they say. Sounds reasonable...new customers could get an idea what it was faster. So it was changed to Network Processing Provisioning Manager. We were told NOT to abbreviate/acronymize it. Never. But nobody is going to say that every time! Too long, too awkward. They did persist in the no abbreviations for a while, but then reasonableness took over and we would start with Network Processing Provisioning Manager in a document/presentation and then after that refer to it as NPPM.*names changed to protect innocent software
Random Aside- Isn't ALS the acronym for lou gehrig disease? I could see the longer name in this case.
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ST. CHARLES, Ill. — Mrs. Mary M. Currie, 59, of St. Charles, Ill., passed away peacefully with her loving family surrounding her at home on Friday, April 26, 2013.
She was born Aug.18, 1953 in Morris, Ill., the daughter of Russel and Virginia (Wilkinson) Philips. She received her elementary education at Hume School in Wauponsee Township, and graduated from Morris Community High School in 1971. She received her associate's degree from Joliet Junior College in 1973, her bachelor's degree from Illinois State University in 1975, and her master's degree from Northern Illinois University in 1986.
Mary married the love of her life, Bruce B. Currie, on June 28, 1975, at the First Congregational Church in Mazon, Ill.
Mary spent 36 years in education. She taught 10 years at various school districts —Geneva, Glendale Heights, Kaneland, and Batavia — teaching a variety of grade levels. Mary then moved into administration, working in Kaneland and Sycamore. She spent her last 18 years in education as principal of Sycamore's West Elementary School. Her passion and love for the students, staff, and curriculum was evident.
She is survived by her loving husband, Bruce; one son, Robert; of St. Charles; three sisters, Ruth Ann (Jim) Benson of Morris, Kathy (Larry) Gibbons of Montgomery, Ill., and Patti (Don) Anderson of Unionville, Mo.; two brothers, Kenneth Phillips and Rodney (Chris) Phillips, both of Morris; her brother-in-law, Donald Sterritt of Morris; her sister-in-law, Jean Phillips of Dwight, Ill.; along with numerous nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.
Mary was preceded in death by her parents, Russel A. and Virginia A. Phillips; a brother, Thomas L. Phillips; a sister, Betty J. Sterritt; her parents-in-law, Samuel B. and Jeanne L. Currie; brother-in-law Paul Baker; sister-in-law Vicky Phillips; nephew Dylan Baker; and a great nephew, Ean Phillips.
Memorial Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at Yurs Funeral Home, 1771 West State Street (U.S. 38), Geneva, followed by a memorial service at 2 p.m. at the funeral home. Officiating is Clark Blade. Interment will be private.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Betty J. Steritt Nursing Fund of the Morris Hospital, 150 West High Street, Morris, Illinois 60450.
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Friday, 21 October 2011
Suqqu fall 2011: Komorebi eye look
or slightly more graduated,
Hopefully you can see the colours, sunlight is fleeting and these were the most realistic I could get.
I bought the palette from Selfridges.com, my original review is here
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WOW both looks are amazing. You are totally a poster girl for SUQQU :-)ReplyDelete
Gorgeous eye look. The shadows have taken on a beautiful, almost iridescent quality, it seems. I love iridescence! Lovely. xxReplyDelete
gorgeous eye makeup! i really like how the colors blend together. AH~ another lemming added to the list! :PReplyDelete
Beautiful! I love how the Suqqu shades layer -- far better than LMdB's without making a big hue and cry about it...ReplyDelete
I love how it looks with the colours blended together. Thank you for sharing! xxReplyDelete
Gorgeous! Both look amazing against your blue eyes :-)ReplyDelete
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LOL, I wish ;) So glad you like the looks :)
Hi Nazia,
Thanks :) Your spot on, it does give a iridescent look, the colours combine quite different to what I was expecting them to going on how they look in the pan.
Hi Georgina,
Thank you :) I know what you mean, I am forever adding an item to my wish list after looking at blogs :)
Hi Kate,
Thank you, I really like how lightweight the shades are and the colours pair so well, have to say that I am a fan of LMdB though ;)
Hi Jane,
Thank you, I know you weren't too sure about these colours on you from my original post but I can see them really working for you xx
Hi Rei,
Thank you so much, I'm always in awe of your beautiful eye looks so I'll take that as a big compliment :)
This makes your eyes look even more gorgeous! I love it :)ReplyDelete
I love it. What a perfect, everyday look.ReplyDelete
Hi Vintage Makeup,ReplyDelete
Thank you, what a lovely thing to say :)
Hello Zuzu's Petals,
Thank you so much :)
These colours are gorgeous on your eyes, and I love the silky sheen.ReplyDelete
Hi Jen,ReplyDelete
Thank you :) Suqqu really have a nice finish to their shadows.


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Income is wealth (as much as anything else can be called wealth anyway).
No. An automobile is wealth. An airplane is wealth. A book is wealth. Income is just an IOU based on your contribution to creating wealth.
"Creating wealth" is all about producing things of value. "Free" software is wealth if it has value. The fact that people use it demonstrates nicely that it has value. The fact that it costs nothing to use is irrelevant to its "value".
Only if electrical current is charge. Wealth is measured in dollars or pounds, income in dollars or pounds per time period.Income is wealth
I believe the parent poster was referring to the fact that I make a good salary supporting Microsoft installations, along with Oracle software, Sonicwall, and the thousands of other programs are out there. Furthermore, our business couldn't make as much money as it does if we went the all paper route. The automation that the software tools give us save us a ton of both time and money allowing us to grow faster which is illustrated by the fact that our workforce has doubled now in three years. I would defini
I make a good salary supporting Microsoft installations, along with Oracle software, Sonicwall, and the thousands of other programs are out there. Furthermore, our business couldn't make as much money as it does if we went the all paper route. The automation that the software tools give us save us a ton of both time and money
That makes a good argument for the notion that software generates wealth. I don't think you've established that we need Microsoft, or proprietary software from any vendor in order to have these benefits. You could make just as much money supporting free software. Granted, the ubiquity of Microsoft products means that your customer base is larger for MS kit, but that still doesn't make proprietary software a necessary part of the business model. And the office automation you describe can be done as well using free software solutions.
I don't see how FOSS is like communism at all actually. Does the government strictly control the creation and supply of software?
"Communism is a socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of a classless, stateless society based on common ownership of the means of production." (from the (reasonable) Wikipedia defintion [wikipedia.org]) Nothing in this definition mentions the government. FOSS really is quite communistic in that everyone owns the means of production and the product. Up the irons!
I don't see how FOSS is like communism at all actually.
Because "communist" used to be the insult that "terrorist" is now. Metcalfe use to throw that insult around in his columns whenever open software of any kind was the topic. Open software is really just a subset of the sharing of information that got our science to the point where it is today.
Not that my Spanish is perfect, but he doesn't want higher barriers of entry to programmers. He seems to be saying that free software exists simply to destroy business opportunities that would otherwise serve to be making money and providing for-pay jobs. (An interesting but unrelated thought: if open-source contributors are mostly professional programmers, what happens when the market for for-profit software dies?)
I think he misses the flip side of this, though: although no programmers got paid for the
Chair throwing, and dancing like a monkey. You?
In reality, the "free" stuff is not really all that competitive with products that are expensive. [...] There are some exceptions, of course, like apache, and linux is obviously successful in the server market.
All you see is the desktop, but the desktop is the exception. You mentioned Linux being competitive on the server market, yes, and what about Linux on appliances: wireless access points, NAS, network printers, network cameras, mobile phones, etc ? Linux devices probably outnumber Windows devices by
Of course the irony is that he is from a country where piracy is (and has been) running crazy rampant.
Because he was employed by the Soviet government,
Pajitnov did not receive royalties. Pajitnov, together with
Vladimir Pokhilko, moved to the United States in 1991
and founded the Tetris Company with Henk Rogers.
Didn't realize that free air is made by an intense effort of people applying their talents.
Funny, I thought it was photosynthesis and plants. Now, if you meant hot air
OSS is supposed to be about innovation and new ideas
Huh? Says who? I've never heard that before. OSS isn't "supposed" to be about anything other than exactly what each contributor wants it to be. The only thing it's "about" is allowing everyone to share the product, whatever that might be, but it most certainly does not have to be original, nor is there any compulsion/pressure to that effect. Heck, that would require an authority of some sort, of which there is none operating specifically for open source.
GIMP and OpenOffice are perfect examples.
I don't know which proprietary Linux paint program GIMP replaced.
OpenOffice is an even worse example, it was a non-free program (StarOffice) until it was "liberated" by Sun in order to spite a corporate enemy. If anything, StarOffice is an example of the duplication going on in the non-free world.
Unfortunately, apart from a few apps (Apache, maybe Linux), I don't see where
much has been "created" with the open source methodology...I just see programs that offer rough approximations of the apps they are trying to mimic.
The keyword is "I see" because it just tells about the path you have gone. Some of us have traveled a different path, and seen more. The Internet and the Web started from "open source methodologies". The comm
From the GNU Manifesto:
If your business is selling an operating system, you will not like GNU, but that's tough on you. If your business is something else, GNU can save you from being pushed into the expensive business of selling operating systems.
I'm reminded of this quote every time I see hospitals, schools, etc. deal with deployments of expensive (usually Oracle-based) database software. There are hundreds of very similar organizations around the country that could get together and commission a world-c
Why, exactly? At the worst it would mean a return to a world in which corporations had to design their own applications from scratch, and in which expert programmers moved from job to job and moved the skills around. Before long big corporations in different but related business areas would get together and say, OK guys,
Wrong. Increasing profit can also come from reduction in costs.
90% of software is written within organisations and never sees light of day outside of the organisations that create it. This is in spite of many organisations sharing some common problems/needs, even if much is specific/unique to them. Most of these organisations are not in the business of selling programs, they run factories, trains, banks,
What Open Source does is to liberate a little of this 90%, the bits which other organisations might find useful and can easily adopt into their IT systems. The companies that release it get: feedback, bug fixes and enhacements. The guys who receive/use the software send their patches back because doing so is less (long term) work than putting the patches into each new release that comes out.
This is how Open Source works. It does not depend on software houses to sell to users, the profit does not come from software sales, it comes from cost reduction by those who use the software.
Yes, there are those who make a living from support, from the big guys like Red Hat to the small ones like myself; but the greatest profit from Open Source is the cost reduction in the users.
Actually I can answer it simply: it makes my job as a programmer easier. I'm one of the vast majority of programmers who do not work for a company writing software for others. I write software for internal use at my company. We aren't going to sell it. We aren't going to give it away. It's never going to leave the confines of the company. And F/OSS gives me easy options. I need an HTTP library? Grab Curl. I need a SOAP library? Grab gSOAP. SSL? Grab OpenSSL. Printing? CUPS. XML/XSLT parsing/processing? Xerces and Xalan. And having gotten that utility software out of the way, I can proceed on to the business-specific stuff that my company really wants me to be working on.
Yes, we could buy commercial libraries for all those things. But those commercial libraries come with hefty costs for things we aren't going to use, have license restrictions attached like how many copies we can have installed that have to be managed, and have very poor support when it comes to bug-fixes and support for exotic hardware/OS platforms. F/OSS simply gives us far fewer headaches and costs us fewer dollars to use. When we need it somewhere, we just install another copy and we're good to go. All we have to watch out for is redistribution of our software outside the company, and that's easy since it's not supposed to happen.
Yes, F/OSS is very bad for programmers who make their living selling software commercially to others to use. But that's like saying that the advent of the automobile was very bad for the people who made horse-drawn wagons, carriages and such, and the people who bred and sold horses to pull them: it pretty much meant the end of most of their business. But those people were a small minority compared to the number of people who merely used wagons and carriages, and now trucks and automobiles, to move cargo and people around.
Old Microsofty attacking Free software, I am surprised.In the soviet union, the state kept the rights and Pazhitnov could not recover them until hi emigrated to the United States to work at Microsoft
I guess this is the issue, once upon a time a game with sub par graphics and repetitive gameplay used to make good business, but then the Atari market collapsed, 3d shooters and RTS came, and now it is just not as interesting anymore, what's worse is that games made by fun tend to be very funny to the few casual gamers that would still miss Pazhitnov's idea for a game (i.e. me) I think you could blame FOSS for that, but it is just one of the factors.He currently works at WildSnake Software, a company dedicated to the creation of new puzzle games.
Regardless, if companies cannot cope with change, their end is all we can hope for, that's a free market, if we were to protect companies from competition that would be death to our free market and wealth.
I think competition is what keeps the market alive, then he doesn't sound too much like a capitalist to me.He declares himself a convinced capitalist and opines free software "is something that destroys the market"
Seriously, this guy has created one of my favorite games and all, but this paragraph is quite ridiculous. Has free software ever killed a company? Is free software all about copying stuff? Is free software anti-business? (Let's forget all those companies, even MS making money out of these things...) Does free software prevent innovation (I could say 'firefox' and prove the opposite is true) . Really, this paragraph is so lame, perhaps he thought no one was going to find out he was saying these ridiculous things because it was a Spanish interview, that's about the only explanation for this piece of non-sense.So, I'll tell you my opinion about free software: that should have never existed and today it shouldn't exist. And I'll tell you why: Free software destroys market. There where with the efforts of groups of people market, wealth, and prosperity possibilities are built, irresponsible people come and create alternative developments that sink the companies. And this is not good for the development of technology, free software doesn't have a market projection, doesn't create wealth, it is only proof of sterile rebellion.
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Title: Blaze of Winter
Author: Elisabeth Barrett
Publisher: Random House
May Contain Spoilers
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Winter heats up in this hot new Star Harbor romance, as another sexy Grayson brother, a wickedly handsome writer, plots his happily ever after with a sweet stranger.
Frustrated with her job in Boston, social worker Avery Newbridge welcomes the opportunity to reassess her life when family asks her to help manage the Star Harbor Inn. Trying to figure out her future is overwhelming enough, but she doesn't count on distraction in the form of one Theo Grayson, the gorgeous, green-eyed author who she knows is trouble from the moment he saunters into the inn.
Not only does he have a talent for writing swashbuckling adventures, but Theo also has a soft spot for big-hearted damsels in distress, especially a woman who's great at helping everyone—except herself. Avery's demons challenge him, but for desire this hot, he isn't backing down. With every kiss and heated whisper Theo promises her his heart . . . if only Avery is willing to open up and accept it.
I have mixed feelings about Blaze of Fire, and most of them are because I have a love-hate relationship with Theo. Of all the Grayson brothers, he somehow ended up my least favorite. I don't know why, exactly. Maybe I don't find bespectacled authors of historical yarns intriguing. Maybe I'm jealous that he was able to live in a bed and breakfast indefinitely, never having to worry about making his bed or cleaning the bathroom. Or maybe it's because I found him a bit too inconsistent. For most of the book, he is sweet and mild-mannered, with infinite amounts of patience to support Avery during her moments of insecurity. But like Clark Kent, once those glasses come off, he changes, but not always for the better. He could be a smug jerk, and I didn't feel quite so fond of him then.
I did enjoy the tempo and tone of this story. Avery is emotionally bruised after finding one of her therapy patients dead from an overdose. Upset with herself for not realizing that she was being lied to and not able to forgive herself for not being able to keep Mia from harming herself, Avery is hiding out in Star Harbor. Helping run her aunt's business while the older woman recovers from her battle with breast cancer, Avery is moving from one day to the next, trying to stay on the fringes of Star Harbor society. It drives her nuts that everyone in the small community knows everyone else's business, and she doesn't like feeling like she's under a microscope. She just needs to be left alone so she can come to terms with her feelings of inadequacy, and figure out what to do with the rest of her life.
Theo is struggling, too, but his internal strife is based on his inability to write. He's under pressure to complete the next volume in his privateer adventure series, but he's stuck. He can't write a word. He has no inspiration, and he feels empty. Leaving his meaningless life in San Francisco behind, he heads back to his childhood home to rediscover his writing roots. Instead, he discovers Avery, and one glimpse of her vibrantly hued hair has him captivated. He has discovered his muse, and he's not going to let her out of his sight.
I liked Theo when he was gently wooing Avery, giving her the emotional support she needed so desperately, but backing away when she needed space. He taught her how to have fun and take risks, while teaching himself how to open his heart at the same time. His courtship methods were occasionally questionable, and I didn't know whether to be amused or appalled as he basically stalked her to her favorite hangout in Boston. That was a little creepy. He also showed an epic lapse in judgment that almost destroys his relationship with Avery, and for such a smart guy, I was disappointed with his behavior. Of course it's all set up so the good folk of Star Harbor could meddle in his business, but for him to completely disregard everything he knew about Avery and to push back like he did didn't make sense to me.
The drug runner plot thread had a bigger role in Blaze of Winter than in the previous book in the series, and I am assuming it will be played up even more in Val and Cole's books. They are my favorite characters, but they didn't get much page time here, only serving as backup for Theo. I was a little disappointed that they didn't get to play a bigger part in the story, but that just gives me something to look forward to in the future when they get their own 200 pages. Bring those on!
Blaze of Winter is a quick read with a (mostly) sweet hero who occasionally displays a lack of common sense. Avery is an emotionally wounded heroine who needs a lot of handholding to get through the train wreck in her past that has her questioning every decision she makes. It was gratifying to see her finally set her fear aside and embrace the love Theo, and her own family, were desperate to give her.
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AESOP'S FABLES Tuckers' Tales will tickle your funny bone and pay homage to Aesop, a storytelling tickler. In this interactive show you'll meet the Fox & the Crow, the Ant & the Grasshopper, and the Tortoise & the Hare. Nov. 8 at 10:30 a.m. (through Nov. 12). $12 (recommended for ages 4 and older). Puppet Showplace Theatre, 32 Station St., Brookline. 866-811-4111. www.puppetshowplace.org
BELMONT WORLD FILM FAMILY FILM FESTIVAL After "The Magic Piano" and "The Chopin Shorts," the opening films for this annual event, there will be a live performance by Leonard Solomon and his "Bellowphone."
Nov. 9 at
7 p.m. (Nov. 10 at 10:30 a.m.; Nov. 16-18 at Studio Cinema in Belmont). Nov. 9 opening-night tickets are $11, $9 students and seniors, $7 kids. Museum of Fine Arts Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Ave., Boston. 617-484-3980. www.belmontworld
PETER AND THE WOLF Former Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Federico Cortese wields the baton with his Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra at this BSO Youth and Family Concert. Prokofiev's piece will be narrated by actor Bill Barclay while the young musicians, ages 11-18, will musically tell the story of Peter, the cat, bird, and duck. Nov. 10 at noon (pre-concert activities from 10:30-11:30 a.m.). $20, free under 19 (four per family). Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Ave., Boston. 617-266-1200. www.bso.org


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DENVER (AP) - Jabril Banks recorded 20 points and seven rebounds in Northern Colorado's 71-66 overtime victory over the University of Denver on Wednesday night.
Will Figures and John Pena also scored in double figures for the Bears, with 17 and 11 points respectively. Robert Palacios pulled down nine rebounds for Northern Colorado (1-2), which led 26-23 at halftime.
Nate Rohnert led Denver (0-3) with a career-high 24 points. He also recorded seven rebounds, two assists, one block and one steal.
Rob Lewis added 15 points, nine rebounds and four assists for Denver, while Andrew Hooper posted 11 points, four rebounds, two assists and one block.
Denver shot 13-22 from the field in the second half and went 2-5 in overtime.
Nnorthern Colorado went 12-22 in the second half and sunk 1-1 from the field and all eight free-throw attemps in overtime.
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CentralityOften, regardless of the industry or organization performing social networking analysis, it is important to understand which models govern their specific target network. It is also critical to understand the smaller, local relationships between the actors (nodes). For example, for intelligence analysis purposes, it is critical to identify how information flows through the network and which nodes are the most active in collecting or sharing information. As such, a centrality of a network describes how important/influential a node is to a network.
Highly central networks operate similar to highly centralized governments such as theocracies or monarchies while least centralized networks mimic democratic system of governments. The centralization of a network is approximately an average of the maximum centrality of a single node over the entire network and can be calculated by Freeman's general formula. For practical purposes, it is not always required to calculate this number to be able to realize the centrality of a network. For example, comparing today's terrorist groups to traditional ones it can be observed without going through the calculations that today's groups are much less centralized and hence harder to target. Low centralized networks, though sometimes not as effective in terms of governance and implementation of an overall strategy, are much more resilient ('anti-fragile') to shocks. For example, it's much easier to contain a virus in a highly centralized network than it is in a low centralized network. The other concepts of centrality: 'Closeness' and 'Betweenness' attempt to measure the minimum number of nodes information or a meme would have to travel to get from one node to another. A very close network with many well-connected nodes ('Betweenness') would be much better and faster in communicating certain information, virus, knowledge, tradition, and meme across its entire network. A network with a very low 'Closeness' would hence be less effective and efficient in doing the same.
InfluenceOne of the most important outcomes of SNA is determining influencers across a network, as well as their level of influence. There are various ways to locate influencers such as number of followers, friends or connections as well as level of activity on social media. However more models are needed to better locate influencers.


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Lenovo, in what it considers to be one of its largest and most significant product launches to date, unveiled Monday its new IdeaPad U310 and U410 Ultrabooks.
The PC maker also kicked off an accompanying multi-million dollar marketing campaign, dubbed the "Book of Do," to pique consumer interest and highlight the unique journal-like form factor introduced with the devices.
Both of the new Ultrabooks, which are part of Lenovo's larger U Series, run on Intel's third-generation Ivy Bridge processors and tout the industry-standard lineup of Ultrabook features, including faster boot-up times and instant-on capabilities. The lower-end 13.3-inch U310 measures 0.7 inches thick and weighs in at 3.74 pounds, while the 14-inch U410 is slightly larger, measuring 0.83 inches thick and weighing 4.18 pounds.
[Related: Lenovo Announces IdeaTab S2109 Tablet]
The new Ultrabooks deliver up to 1 TB of storage and run Nvidia GeForce GPUs. Users can expect up to seven hours of battery life with the U310 and up to nine hours with the U410, Lenovo said.
The "Book of Do" campaign, which is launching this week in seven countries, hones in primarily on the new Ultrabooks' design, explained Nick Reynolds, director of marketing and strategy at Lenovo. The U310 and U410 are intended to resemble an actual journal rather than a laptop -- a design characteristic Lenovo hopes will set them apart from the slew of competing Ultrabooks on the market today.
"The product itself, if we just look at the product, it is different from the competition. And the reason that it's different is that it doesn't look like everyone else's Ultrabook," Reynolds told CRN. "In fact, if you line up all the competition, it's very hard to tell the difference. They largely all look the same."
In Lenovo's "Book of Do" TV advertisements, users are shown sliding the Ultrabooks under doors, onto already-packed bookshelves, and into crowded backpacks.
"The machine itself does all the things you'd expect it to, but it's unique in its design," Reynolds continued.
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The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest reaching" system for developing intelligence from the internet.
This is not PRISM - but a different system. The slides are damning, as always.
It validates claims made by Edward Snowden, and makes it clear that US government officials have been lying all along. There's no court order required for any of this - in a supposedly modern democracy. Crazy.
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Quote from: DaDancingPsych on January 09, 2013, 02:33:06 PMPolite or not, I am at a loss of what more you could have done. This woman was not qualified, it was not working, and no one was listening.This is where I'm at. I think that, regardless of whether it was rude, it was justified. The OP tried all the proper channels, more than once, and that got her nowhere. If the OP had used name-calling or insults or violence, that would be wrong. But aside from that, I think the OP is in the right, and should put the situation behind her.
Polite or not, I am at a loss of what more you could have done. This woman was not qualified, it was not working, and no one was listening.
But I don't think that is completely true. Wanting to be director and not having previous experience does not mean there is/was no interest. It means that there were limits on what she knrw and managed to learn. I think the assumption made by OP and then here would be what migjt require the apology. It is fine.to ask for what DD needs - to make assumptions and insults about character and motivation really don't achieve anything and are not re ally reasonable, IMO. If OP had wanted to say she would go to a lawyer to assure that her DD was getting appropriate services that would make a lot.more sense to me.
Thanks for everyone's insights. I actually meant emotional= crying, not yelling. I was probably yelling in that way where someone says "stop yelling at me" and you think "I'm not yelling, I'm just mad!". I certainly wasn't yelling in terms of volume- the entire administrative staff was right outside the door, and I'm sure they would have stuck their heads in if they heard raised voices.
Whatever interest/motivation the teacher had in effectively teaching OP's son, and/or eventually being a director, is not the the issue so much as her lack of knowledge specifically required to do her current assignment, failure or inability to pursue training for the full year she did teach OP's son, and inability to plan appropriately for the following year absent such training. Maybe she will get such training, and then be wonderful with "purple" students. Whether or not she does, OP was making no assumptions regarding the fact that this teacher already had been, in effect, experimenting with OP's son in the absence of having trained in appropriate and effective "purple" teaching methods.
wait - let me get this straight - old teacher has clearly been discussing your interaction with others, and you feel as though this is affecting how you and your son are viewed? SHE is the one being massively unprofessional and personal there. To me, the important point here is that after a year of working with your son she STILL hadn't done the training required to properly care for him. Then, when you rightly called her on that, she has left no stone unturned in her quest to make you the bad guy. I wouldn't apologise. You had one moment of weakness versus her having a year of incompetence. Personally I wouldn't be above a little effort to state my case. I wouldn't bring it up, ever, but if someone says"0h yes, teacher A told me about your little breakdown. You shouldn't make things personal." then I would be completely happy to reply "l complained about a teacher with inadequate training and the effect that was having on my son. I really don't know what you've been told, but I don't recall a personal attack at all."
Parents and teachers must work TOGETHER, not against each other. It's a two-way street. I doubt that teacher wants to have any further interactions with you, and would likely take great pains to avoid you, even. I think it's best to move on and try really hard to stay professional in the future. Keep the focus on your child and you will get the best results in return.
If the teacher wasn't following the IEP, yes, that's an ENORMOUS problem. Any other issue is completely secondary. I think it is a massive assumption to think that the teacher in question had all this free time to pursue specialized training- this is an administrative issue to the highest degree. Teachers get stupid assignments from administrators all the time that don't match their qualifications, right or wrong. Even after voicing their grave concerns and ethics about such circumstances, teachers have no power to do anything about that, other than try as hard as they can to do right by those students. Should this teacher have done better? Possibly, probably- I wasn't there- but I don't think that gives you the right to pull random, secondhand heresay about her career goals into that conversation. That is, frankly, none of your business and has no bearing on the teacher's performance (or lack of performance) in the classroom with your child. Just because she had to be professional and not respond to that personal attack in kind doesn't make it right that you did that. I have never met a teacher who aspired to utilize their students as guinea pigs in their quest to climb the career ladder. Actually, there's not much of a ladder to climb in education, as much as it may be a lateral transfer of sorts.
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I know this is like choosing what type of animal turd you would rather step into. But this is deep into the off season and topics of conversation are thin.
I pick the Browns.
I've been to Cincy way too many times for the Steelers/Bengals games, I hate their fans.
I hate Ray Lewis so no to the Ravens.
If you put Brady Quinn (eye for the straight guy) in as the starter in Cleveland, then I change my pick to the Ravens.


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Motorcycle guys are more than willing to defend the merits of their specific brands, but it's not often that you get fair, unbiased testing conducted by
a state agency that actually lays out money for the vehicles. The Michigan State Police recently made such testing public, as it embarked upon an evaluation program for its upcoming purchase of a fleet of motorcycles.
The Harley Davidson Road King and FLHTP were evaluated against the BMW R1200RT-P. All three bikes are the most commonly used police machines in the country. Michigan State Police evaluated the motorcycles' performance in
handling, braking, acceleration and top speed, as well as the ability to
cope with all the special communications and emergency warning needs of the Michigan State Police. Tests were conducted at the DaimlerChrysler Proving Grounds in Chelsea, Michigan.
The results of the testing were dramatic. The BMW was able to negotiate the nine-turn, six-lap handling course as much as 32 seconds faster than the FLHTP Electra Glide. Acceleration and top speed tests also went to the BMW,
which achieved a top speed of 130 mph, vs. Harley Davidson's 103 and 107 top speeds. In the quarter mile, the BMW accelerated at least a second and a
half faster than the Harley, at a speed 8-mph faster. From 60 miles per hour, the BMW stopped an amazing 21 feet sooner than either of the
Harley Davidsons, or approximately a car-length and a half.
Full results of the test are available on the state of Michgan's Web site.
(This post originally appeared in the March 1, 2007, issue of the Hemmings eWeekly Newsletter.)


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Fuel pump issues... I hope
Posted 27 June 2010 - 09:38 AM
First symptom was a morning start up... cranked, started and died. Turned the key and it fired right back up.
Two days later, full tank of gas, sitting in 90+ degree weather after driving for 30 minutes... starts and dies, won't restart. I thought vaguely of vapor lock but had no time to dwell on it. I took the other car and went to my appointment.
Later that day; still won't start.
In the cool of the next morning, it started right up.
Drove it casually for the next day or two.
Yesterday, drove some in the morning and it was fine. Did a quick errand in the heat of the afternoon (90 degrees plus again) and it won't start when I am ready to head home.
Waited over two hours for wrecker. I did disconnect fuel line at filter and determined I'm not getting fuel.
Loosened fuel cap, no change --- not vapor lock (though I didn't really think that was the problem).
When the wrecker arrives, it does start and run to pull out of parking space but then dies and won't restart. Later at home, starts, runs for a few seconds and dies.
This morning, as a test, it starts and seems fine.
I've been to a U Pull it and scored a complete "in the tank" assembly for $5.
I meant to snag the relay also but was so sun baked from wandering thru two yards, I forgot all about it.
Because it's reacting to heat and use, I'm thinking component malfunction. What I can see of the harness and connectors all look good. Nothing burned or loose.
I come back here and post whatever results I get. Any remarks are welcome.
Thx in advance
Posted 27 June 2010 - 03:26 PM
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Posted 28 June 2010 - 01:41 AM
Get it warmed up, get it to quit and not start, then check the fuel pump harness for 12v before replacing the pump.
What change will removing the filler cap make? This isn't an old Ford truck with a mechanical pump. These electric pumps produce ~50psi, I think the tank would implode at 50in Hg.
Posted 28 June 2010 - 10:54 AM
I did loosen the cap but it didn't change anything.
I've put in the jy replacement. It does start and run. I'm gonna wait til the heat of the day and let it run a good while then shut it off. After a few minutes sitting in the heat, I'll then see if it restarts.
Why blame the "poor little fuel pump"?
Because reading here on the forum it pops up often enough to be a suspect.
Because replacing the fuel pump is much much easier than replaciing an ecu... not a common problem but it's in the discussion... let's start with the easier stuff.
Because the car has over 200K.... any mechanical component is well due for suspicion.
Because (as stated earlier) the wiring isn't showing wear, signs of heat at the connectors or any sort of loose fit.
Because it's presenting the symptoms under a defined set of circumstances... loose connections or worn contacts would be more erratic in their symptoms.
Are the ecu or relay off the hook? No... at this point I've taken a calculated shot at it and 'spun the wheel'. Only time will tell if this simple fix has taken care of the problem.
Posted 28 June 2010 - 11:17 AM
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Posted 28 June 2010 - 11:48 AM
Isn't there a warm or hot start sensor that feeds an imput into the ECU? If so, I would suspect that. A fuel pump that performs fine when cold should still be good.
I'll plead guilty to shooting for the easy fix but again I'll reference the age of the car and the fact the forums here indicate an ongoing failure rate for these pumps.
Replacing an engine sensor isn't necessarily tough but isolating it as the problem can be dicey.
I'm here to share and learn. If there is something else I should be aware of for a fuel pump not running, I'll heed it.
Searching the forums here have indicated the pump is the most common fix but the relay and ecu are also suspect. Some had harness repairs that fixed them up but they indicated burned or loose connections and I've found none of that.
Posted 28 June 2010 - 12:01 PM
Maybe a long shot, but could it be the coolant temperature sensor? Bad temp info to the ECU can cause poor running/stalling issues.
At no point does it stall in mid trip. I drive somewhere, shut it off, then find it won't restart when I'm ready to leave.
While waiting for the tow on Saturday, after two hours it did start and then die after just a few seconds but wouldn't restart. It wasn't until it had completely cooled down the next morning that things seemed back to normal.
I'll assess where I am with the jy unit I've installed and take it from there.
I don't want to be 'right. I want it fixed... I'll keep ya'll posted.
Posted 28 June 2010 - 12:26 PM
Maybe a long shot, but could it be the coolant temperature sensor? Bad temp info to the ECU can cause poor running/stalling issues.
This was actually my first thought.
All those fuel pump problems were not all fuel pumps.
Vapor lock doesn't exist on fuel injected cars as the fuel is constantly circulating keeping it relativly cool.
There is also the fuel pressure regulator as a possibility
Posted 28 June 2010 - 01:02 PM
At no point does it stall in mid trip.
That's a good sign. It indicates, as Rooster noted, that the fuel pump is working.
It wasn't until it had completely cooled down the next morning that things seemed back to normal.
That would indicate a temperature related problem somewhere in the system (not just in the fuel pump.) The ECTS--coolant temperature sensor--provides temperature information to the ECU.
ECTSs are known to fail, probably more often than fuel pumps. I drive a '95 Legacy and had to replace mine a while back--was having warm restart issues.
Just some random thoughts to consider!
I do hope the jy pump solves your problem. Good luck and keep us posted.
Posted 28 June 2010 - 02:01 PM
Just trying to think this through with you:
That would indicate a temperature related problem somewhere in the system (not just in the fuel pump.) The ECTS--coolant temperature sensor--provides temperature information to the ECU.
ECTSs are known to fail, probably more often than fuel pumps. I drive a '95 Legacy and had to replace mine a while back--was having warm restart issues.
Just some random thoughts to consider!
I do hope the jy pump solves your problem. Good luck and keep us posted.
Hey.... good to know. Type "fuel pump" into the search, even limit it to the New Gen forum, and there are lots of hits. Hard to read them all... and ECTS problems would be easily overlooked by that kind of search.
If I get stung by this again, that will be a good one to check. I'll look in my manual now and see what I can find for testing it.
Posted 28 June 2010 - 02:06 PM
the coolant temp sensor is on the water crossover pipe under the intake on the passenger side, accessible from the rear i think.
Posted 28 June 2010 - 02:51 PM
USMB is the bomb! Thx guys!
Posted 29 June 2010 - 11:46 AM
The sensors are around $20 at the various only subaru dealerships, so most of the time it's usually a good idea to just replace it if there's any doubt it may be bad.
Posted 27 July 2010 - 03:24 PM
It's been nearly a month since I dropped in that JY Fuel Pump assembly and I've had no more problem.
Thanks for the feedback.
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Is there no possible way that it has a final digit?
He even proved a stronger result,
$\displaystyle \pi ^2$ is irrational.
Yes, Loiville 1882 (I believe).not algebraic?
It was not proven geometrical. It was proven based on an integration that produces $\displaystyle \pi$ as a result.Geometrically, if we were drawing a circle, the ends must touch? (Even at the very small value level?)
Here's my little conjecture (since I don't know how to prove it and excel says it doesn't work, but after 200 terms I don't know how accurate excel can be)
$\displaystyle \lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{\sqrt8}{n}\cdot\sum_{a=0}^n \sqrt{n^2-a^2+a-\sqrt{a^2\left(a-1\right)^2+2an^2(1-a)+n^2(n^2-1)}}=\pi$
This shows that the closer you get to infinity, the more decimal places will be in pi, but what if you reach infinity (which you obviously can't do)? You would get infinite decimal places, and it would equal pi...
Does this mean that the ends of a circle do not touch at all? (Apart from at infinity)
How can you calculate that in excel??
The best I can get for calculating pi is doing the sum of about 100000 inverse squares!
If Pi has infinite decimal places then it must never be closed circle as there must be a space somewhere on the circle that is infinitely small and can not be filled.
What I'm thinking is usually hard to understand so think of it like this...
Pretend your drawing a circle with an incredibly fine pencil and your drawing of the circle is literally perfect.
The diameter of the circle is 1cm so the circumference is Pi. You start at a point and draw 3cm. The circle is not yet complete as there is 0.14159..cm left so you draw 0.1cm but there's still 0.0415926...cm left to draw! You get closer and closer but since pi has infinite decimal places (that aren't all 0s) you will never reach the starting point of the circle!
I hope thats easy enough to follow!
It's clear what you mean, but mathematically there's no problem and practically, there's no difference with other numbers.
Take a diameter of 1/pi, then you have to draw the circle with circumference 1. You have your fine pencil and you start drawing, already at 0.9, then 0.95, then 0.9997, then... Stopping at exactly 1, isn't fysically/practially "easier" than stopping at pi.
The circle is closed, because pi is what it is, it's not 3.14 and not 3.141592653, but pi.
My mistake was assuming pi would be drawn from a meaurable point of view when really "it is what it is".
So in theory - no problem. Pi has its value and thats the value in the ratio from diameter to circumference. However, on paper it can be a problem as if you draw a perfect closed circle (ie. no errors in drawing it whatsoever) there will always be an infinitesimally small gap!
Why still the gap? The paper doesn't know about real numbers, nor about our concept of 'meters'.
The only problem which we practically encounter is our inability to draw so perfectly.
For us, it's not harder/easier to draw a perfect 3-4-5 (5² = 3²+4²) right triangle, than to draw a 1,1,sqrt(2) (sqrt(2)² = 1²+2²) right triangle, although this last one has a side which has an irrational number as length!
A number $\displaystyle a$ is said to be constructable when we can using Euclidean toys (striaghtedge and compass) construct $\displaystyle |a|$. This is an algebra question but the important fact about the set of all constructable numbers is that $\displaystyle \mathbb{Q} \subset \mathbb{F}$. Meaning the it contains all rational numbers. Thus, what you need to show is that you cannot constuct $\displaystyle \pi$ and hence show it is irrational (note, not transcendental! this does not show this). The problem with this approach is that these concepts was purposely created to simplify construcability problems but we are going backwards meaning from this approach making more difficult.


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Posted 24 March 2006 - 03:53 PM
A section of pipe (about a foot) was intentionally "crushed" to less than 1 and a quarter inch!:cool:
So the mechanic did this with a REAL 2 inch...
He bypassed old flange entirely, and was confident about it....
theres also a 24 inch glasspack after new section of pipe (flow tech red hots). ECM is takin awhile to adjust but it is doing so. The most unique sound I have had yet from an EA82 besides duals.
Posted 24 March 2006 - 05:38 PM
on my car its a cat
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Posted 24 March 2006 - 10:04 PM
i dont know your states rules. federally perhaps
The flange seems to be necessary (even tho mine was stuck for years). I broke the y pipe on a short trip just an hour ago. There is a way to make original flange to work with new pipe without bottlenecking. I just can't get away without it. I had no idea that was a second cat, that was replaced by glasspack, all i find is "sound resonator" (resignator) or "center muffler" ... I wonder if I am illegal exhaust :-\
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Posted 25 March 2006 - 07:28 AM
Another point is the 9.5:1 on spfi getting same exhaust as lower compression EA82.Mass production's "who cares, we saved a buck" attitiude is in alot of cars. I got a better look this morning, it is simply broken and not dangling (hung well), i wonder if welding smoke excited convertor into too hot for the 13 year old y-pipe. These things can be dangerously tricky... Give .25 more on pipe, and all kinds of little thinks had to be changed (including idle/air mix, reset ECM, maybe even timing).
It broke climbing a rather bumpy steep hill, I'd swear the sound was like 20 ft in back of the car before pipe broke (odd to comprehend). It was probably on fire
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Posted 25 March 2006 - 03:37 PM
Give an inch, fall apart for miles .. Darn those famous sayings.
Posted 27 March 2006 - 05:32 PM
The y-pipe or another exhaust peice will break without it.The new 2 inch pipe fit exactly over remains of flange for tight easy weld (cheap upgrade!)
Here is pic:
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