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When it comes to tipping, there's the decent people who do it, and the jerks who don't. Right? I mean, we all have our own reasons for tipping at restaurants, but they all pretty much amount to the same thing: It's the "right" thing to do. But what if it's not? What if it turns out that tipping is (gulp!) unfair?!?
A former restaurant owner says we need to totally rethink tipping. Bruce McAdams has done just about every job you can do at a restaurant: He's cooked, waited tables, bussed, managed, and owned them. And after years of experience, he's concluded that tipping is just plain unfair. And you know what? His argument makes sense.
If you have time, McAdams' whole TEDx Talk is thought-provoking. But one of the main points he makes is that tipping is unfair to the cooks and everyone else working at a restaurant besides the servers. When you factor in tips, servers make WAY more than cooks do. And a lot of those cooks spend years and tens of thousands of dollars at cooking school. They work just as hard. But they make peanuts compared to the waiters.
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So what -- should we be tipping the cooks, too? McAdams doesn't really offer solutions for solving this. But he does mention that some restaurants actually collect the tips and divide them evenly among the entire restaurant staff. So there's an idea! Would you tip differently if you knew your tips would be shared with the dishwasher?
Eh, probably not. Here's the other thing McAdams says -- study after study proves that except in extreme cases, we don't tip based on performance, anyway. Most of us tip based on whatever we usually tip.
So what's the point?!? What if we said "no more tipping!" and just raised everyone's restaurant bill by 15 to 20 percent? Then the owner could decide where all the money goes, hopefully fairly -- ugh, if only restaurant profit margins weren't so teeny. But that's probably never going to happen. Still, I will ponder this the next time I eat out ... just before I sign my name under that same tip I give every damn time no matter what the service was like.
Do you think tipping is unfair to the rest of the restaurant staff?
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Global Sports GSIC E-commerce systems
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Lending Tree TREE Online mortgage exchange
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Net2Phone NTOP Net communications
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Overture Servicesk OVER Net search service
Priceline.com PCLN Travel reservations
SkillSoft SKIL Web-based training
Terra Networks TRLY Web content
University of Phoenix-Online UOPX Education content
WebEx WEBX Multimedia communications
Yahoo! YHOO Web guide
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BEA Systems BEAS Software/aps
Broadcom BRCM Integrated circuits
Checkpoint Software CHKP Software/apps
Cisco Systems CSCO Switches, routers
Corning GLW Fiber-optic equipment
Dell Computer DELL Web hosting, PC manufacturer
DoubleClick DCLK Advertising
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The market for blood cancer multiple myeloma is on track to nearly double in the coming years. Analyst forecasts are now topping $7 billion by 2020—from just $4 billion today. And Takeda Millennium—whose Velcade is facing fresh competition—isn't resting on its laurels.
The company has rolled out the unbranded website, mymultiplemyeloma.com, "an information resource to help create a patient community that educates and supports patients and caregivers," they told MM&M in a statement.
MyMultipleMyeloma.com was designed in-house but executed with help from Klick Health, who developed the site's back-end platform for content management.
"We knew it was important to make certain the structure of the site is conducive to a variety of users, both young and old," said Millennium PR. "We are interested in creating a unique online experience that helps people learn about multiple myeloma and how to cope with living with a disease."
To inform viewers "both young and old", they have split their website into four calls to action—LEARN, LIVE, FIGHT, SHARE—in an effort to broaden their audience and "mirror the patient journey."
"Our hope is to bring greater awareness for multiple myeloma to patients and caregivers along with being able to share stories and make connections between people impacted by the disease," the company said of their hopes for the site, "We have made a long-term commitment to providing up-to-date, relevant information to this patient population."
Multiple myleoma is a category Millennium has a lot riding on. They currently run the show with Velcade (bortezomib) which Barclays analysts estimate could hit $990 million in sales for 2013—but the treatment faces patent expiration in 2017.
Farther down the road, their late stage protease inhibitor MLN9708 has shown promise as an oral follow-on to Velcade. Data presented at the American Society of Hematology from its Phase I and Phase II clinical trials showed comparable efficacy, as well as greater convenience and tolerability, than bortezomib.
The presenter of the findings, Shaji K. Kumar, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, noted: "The improvements are convenience; that the combination appears to be less toxic; and that it appears to have the same efficacy as we would have expected. That will translate into patients being able to stay on it longer-term, which might give more benefits than we have seen with other therapies."
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BetterPlace, an electric vehicle charging company, has announced its withdrawal from the North American and Australian markets, deciding to instead refocus on its original investment regions, Israel and Denmark.
The San Francisco Business Times is reporting that the Palo Alto-based EV company will be closing up shop in order to pare down its scope and stem its current losses.
At its core, the company seemed like a brilliant idea. Focusing on EV recharging stations, EV battery swaps, and pay-by-the-mile EV usage – much like a cell phone plan – seemed ingenious. However, after accruing nearly $750-million in investments and losing more than a half billion of that, BetterPlace has proved that the marketplace is perhaps not quite ready for such a service.
Green Car Reports is reporting that BetterPlace had agreed to support the fledgling Renault EV sedan called the "Fluence" for the Australian market. Now that BetterPlace has abandoned those plans, it's unclear what will be Renault's next move for the Fluence.
Current BetterPlace CEO Dan Cohen – the third CEO in four months – said in a prepared statement, "We have demonstrated that Better Place works as a concept. We need to prove to our customers, suppliers and investors that we have a sustainable, scalable model."
We doubt very much that this is the last time we'll hear glum news from BetterPlace, given its track record. It's a real shame, though. We had hoped that battery swapping could become a new way forward for EVs. We thought battery swapping might prove a viable alternative in the EV marketplace, that is, until battery technology improves, providing customers with longer ranges. Until a bigger name than BetterPlace picks up on it, the concept seems to be DOA.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Yale concludes its fall schedule this weekend by hosting the 2005 Nutmeg Invitational. The meet brings a total of nine teams to the RJ Kiphuth Exhibition Pool for two days of competition in the NCAA/Ivy League Championship format. The sessions on Saturday, December 3rd start at noon and at 7 p.m. On Sunday, December 4th the 1650 Freestyle event will be held at 9 am, with the balance of that day's events starting at noon. The diving sessions will start Saturday at 4:30 pm (3 meter) and on Sunday at 10 am (1 meter).
The meet draws teams from both in and outside of Connecticut. Although no team score will be kept, area swimmers from Central Connecticut State University and the University of Bridgeport will be contesting the 40-event program along with the swimmers and divers from Yale. The Yale squad will be missing six swimmers from the men's squad who will be at the US Open at Auburn.
As was the case two weekends ago when the Bulldogs traveled to Virginia for the Patriot Invitational, this home meet brings a group of schools representing a wide range of major conferences including Fordham University (Atlantic 10), Syracuse University (Big East), Boston College (Atlantic Coast), and Williams College (NESCAC).


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Here's a good way to spice up your lunch hour, sample some exotic dishes and eat until you can't go on: Ladle your way through an Indian buffet. These six offer a cross-section of what's available on Long Island. --JOAN REMINICK, firstname.lastname@example.com
KIRAN PALACE, Commack: This strip-mall eatery serves an assortment of vegetarian and nonvegetarian dishes out of pretty copper kettles. Standards include chicken tikka masala, tandoori chicken and dal (lentils), along with gulab jaman (honey balls) for dessert. Nan is brought to your table. (Monday to Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., $9.95; Saturday and Sunday, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., $10.95) (March 19, 2013)
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Kiran Palace's turkey tikka masala.
RAGA, East Setauket: At this attractive Indian spot, the buffet assortment changes daily but usually includes chicken tikka masala (tandoor-roasted boneless chicken pieces in a spicy, creamy sauce), as well as a juicy mixed (white- and dark-meat chicken) malai kebab (tandoor-grilled marinated chicken). Vegetarian standards include dum aloo Kashmiri (potato with onion, peppers, tomato and cream), saag paneer and yellow dal (lentils). Nan is brought to the table. (Tuesday to Sunday, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., $9.99; closed Monday) (March 20, 2013)
Raga's naan, a soft, leavened bread baked in a clay oven. (March 20, 2013)
Buffet items offered at Raga includes chana pindi, (chick peas in cumin), chicken malai kebab, dum aloo hasmiri (potatoes cooked in a tomato based mustard sauce and saag paneer (stewed spinach). (March 20, 2013)
THE CURRY CLUB, East Setauket: A hungry lunch crowd from the nearby university and hospital keeps this gracious spot hopping. On the buffet, you'll usually see chicken tikka masala, tandoori chicken and rice. Although there's naan on the table, you can request yours made to order. A star among the vegetarian offerings is the fluffy malai kofta, mixed vegetable balls in a creamy coconut sauce.(Monday to Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., $ 10.99; Saturday and Sunday, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., $12.99) (March 20, 2013)
The Curry Club's all-you-can-eat buffet. (March 20, 2013)
The Curry Club offers malai kofta (mixed vegetable balls) on its lunch buffet.
ROYAL BUKHARA GRILL, Hicksville: At this light-filled Indian spot, the buffet showcases about 20 dishes. A highlight is a table with the makings of chaat, a street snack of potatoes and chickpeas with crispy bread, sauces and spices, to be put together to taste. Other popular items include a supremely juicy, smoky tandoori chicken, chicken makhani (in a creamy tomato-butter sauce), as well as vegetarian palak paneer (curried spinach with fried cheese). Your choice of bread (garlic nan, plain naan or onion roti) is brought to the table. (Monday to Friday, noon to 3 p.m., $7.99, Saturday and Sunday, $9.99) (March 20, 2013)
As part of its lunch buffet, Royal Bukhara Grill serves a do-it-yourself chaat, a savory snack of potatoes and chickpeas garnished with crispy bread, sauces and spices typically served at stalls and food carts in India. (March 20, 2013)
Royal Bukhara Grill's buffet includes some 10 different curries and dals, rice, fresh-baked naan, and four different desserts. (March 20, 2013)
COTILLION LOUNGE, Jericho: This elegant little Indian-Chinese spot within a catering hall offers one of the area's most vibrant buffets. In the daily changing assortment of about 12 dishes, it's a good bet you'll find chicken tandoori and an amazingly tender white meat chicken tikka (marinated grilled chicken pieces), as well as a great goat curry. Among vegetarian choices, there's usually saag paneer (creamed spiced spinach with fried cheese). One afternoon, an okra dish excelled. Naan is delivered to your table. ($11.95, daily, noon to 3 p.m.; price includes a soft drink). (March 20, 2013)
Among the lunch buffet offerings at Cotillion Lounge are, left, pakoras (spiced vegetable fritters) and chicken served three ways. (March 20, 2013)
Deserts offered on Cotillion Lounge's buffet include gulab jamun, left, and gajar halwa, a carrot pudding flavored with cardamon. (March 20, 2013)
CHENNAI DOSAS, Hicksville: Even carnivores will appreciate the bright, confidently spiced assortment at this South Indian vegetarian restaurant, whose sign still reads "Dosa Diner." Standouts include light, fluffy idli (steamed doughnuts) as well as made-to-order dosas (potato-filled rice-lentil pancakes), chapati (wheat bread) and the airy-foamy uttapam (dosa batter with filling baked inside); for a real kick, get yours with onions, chilies and peas. ($8.95 Monday to Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.; $9.95 Saturday and Sunday, 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.) (March 14, 2013)
Customers line up to serve South Indian specialties to themselves at Chennai Dosas. (March 14, 2013)
Chennai Dosas offers vegetarian buffet options. (March 14, 2013)
Chennai Dosas head chef and owner Muthu Adhimoolam. (March 14, 2013)
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A winner was selected from 121 designs submitted by 37 freelance designers.
We send our subscribers a daily motivational quote and image - like motivational art. We are associated with Ready2Go Marketing Solutions, http://www.Ready2GoMarketingSolutions.com, so while it will be a separate site with it's own URL, it will link to the Ready2Go site. So I would like the logo to be similar colors - red, gold and black - plus you can add one more color for differentiation if necessary - blue, green, etc.
We like swirly or using a paint brush to start the logo or make it look like brush strokes. We like this web template a lot (but probably won't use it because we don't want the website header to compete with the pictures.
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Why I picked this recipe: Why eat corned beef and cabbage on St. Patty's when you can dig into a rich, hearty lamb stew?
What worked: Cooking the lamb on the bone gave the stew extra body and kept the lamb extra succulent.
What didn't: The carrots turned pretty mushy by the end of cooking, so I'd remove them after browning and then add them back after the first 30-45 minutes of cooking next time. Allen doesn't instruct to brown the meat in batches, but you'll need to do so in order to avoid steaming.
Suggested tweaks: Turnips, parsnips, rutabaga, or any other hearty root vegetable would be a worthwhile addition here.
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Richard Joseph, 87
Richard Joseph, 87, died at 9:05 p.m. Saturday, March 10, 2012, at his residence.
He was born on Sept. 14,1924, in Hardin County, the only child of Lillian (Hicks) and Warney Joseph. His parents died before he was two years old, so his maternal grandparents raised him. He had been married to Betty L. (Tackett) Joseph for more than 60 years and she preceded him in death on Dec. 30, 2010.
Two daughters survive him, Patricia A. (John H.) Johnson, of Lima and Debra K. (Kenneth) Nester, of Wapakoneta. He is survived by two granddaughters, Angela Nicole Nester (Kevin) McGlothen and Kelli Ann Nester (Austin) Fisher, both of Wapakoneta, and a step-granddaughter, Mindi Hoge, of Las Vegas, Nevada. A grandson, John Richard Joseph Johnson, of Lima, better known as J.J, survives him. Five great-granddaughters also survive, Karsyn, Rilyn, and Lynex McGlothen and Berkley and Lauryn Fisher.
A veteran of World War II, Richard served in the Navy where he was honorably discharged, having served in the Pacific Theatre. He retired in 1986 as a foreman from Teledyne/Ohio Steel where he had worked for over 40 years.
Special thanks to his loving caregivers, Barb Dawson, of Van Wert, Judy Miller, of Wapakoneta, Rheanne Halker, of Elida and Shani Spencer,of Waynesfield.
Arrangements are by Bayliff and Son in Cridersville. Burial will be in Preston Cemetery in Alger. There will be no visitation or public services.
Contributions may be made to Lima Memorial Health Systems Foundation, 1001 Bellefontaine Avenue, Lima.


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Ford F650 Truck - The Ultimate
From Hauler To Base Camp, This Truck Does It All
Let's all admit it right here and now, towing isn't fun. It's a necessity sometimes, but even with the nicest one-ton diesel tow rig the stress of driving with a trailer takes all the fun out of the open road. What if your track car, show truck, or rock crawler could just drive into the bed of your truck so you didn't have to worry about trailer weight distribution and driving in the slow lane? What if that same vehicle could double as a motorhome once you got back from the show, race, or trail? What if that vehicle could also take you where no ordinary motorhome could go? The guys at Dunkel Industries wondered all of those "what ifs" and decided there was a market for one amazing pickup.
Starting with a Ford F-650, the entire cab was split in three sections, widened a total of 22 inches, and lengthened 104 inches. Custom body sides were built and the cab behind the front seats got extra headroom, with a sleeper loft built over the front passengers. Topnotch, real wood cabinetry in the kitchen and bedroom along with hidden LED lighting proves that no expense was spared.
All the comforts of home were included, from a shower and bathroom to dual refrigerators, two-burner stove, microwave, and 18,000-BTU heater/air conditioner, all powered by an onboard 4,000-watt Cummins/Onan quiet diesel generator.
Thanks to the widened cab, the front passenger seat is practically a bench, and the seatback can rotate to double as a tabletop, or lower to serve as a bed. To ensure that occupants are treated to a smooth ride, the entire cab is mounted on two 15,000-pound airbags to isolate the passengers from the suspension.
The F-650 was lengthened to match the cab and a Fabco 4WD conversion with 3-inch King shocks keeps the rig crawling up the trail while other motorhomes are stuck in a campground. It takes torque to move such a big beast, but the 7.2L Caterpillar diesel engine makes 800 lb-ft of and a six-speed Allison transmission and 5.29 gears in the axles work together to get it up to speed. Just in case the need arises, the truck is equipped with a 18,000-pound Warn winch and is capable of towing 16,000 pounds on its own.
Equipped with an Omnex wireless remote that does just about everything but drive the truck, the user can deploy and retract an awning and level or lift the tires off the ground to install snow chains or swap a flat tire thanks to four 24,000-pound hydraulic rams. The remote also tilts the bed, via a huge 17,000-pound hydraulic piston. Once the bed is fully lifted, the forward bulkhead hinges down to allow for the loading of up to two quads or a handful of motorcycles. If you're not toting anything up top, the "upper deck" can be raised to allow for more headroom in the rear bedroom/seating area of the cab. The tilt function also allows for the loading and unloading of a Jeep, UTV, or even a sports car into the diamond-plate flat load floor of the custom bed.
We can't imagine any other vehicle that combines all of the attributes of the Dunkel Industries truck. It's a far cry from anything we've ever seen. With luxury amenities inside, all of your toys on the outside, and the world at your doorstep, what more could anyone ask for?


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This week I'm having a tough time deciding who to start in my flex spot, I have...
Brandon Jacobs @ SEA, Obviously as a Seahawk fan I don't like the matchup, but he has scored in double digits 4 straight weeks and if their ahead by a couple of scores in the second half they will be running the ball a ton.
Fred Jackson vs CHI, Clear #1 RB in Buffalo these days and has seen 20+ carries in each of the past 2 games, unfortunately that workload has only amounted to 8.7 and 10.5 points.
Shonn Greene @ DET, I can see him having a big day if the Jets are up by a couple of scores in the second half, but the Lions are 6th in the league in points per game and have shown they can stay in it especially at home.
I haven't seen any updates on Romo in a while and I would love to free up a roster spot as I have 3 QB's right now, Romo, Orton and Fitzpatrick. Anyone have any idea when he is expected to be back? Romo's opponents for week's 14, 15, 16 look like good matchups, PHI @ DAL, WAS @ DAL and DAL @ ARI.
What would you do, keep him or drop him?


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Announcing the Make Play Live Partner Network
In the wake of the announcement of the first ever KDE powered tablet, quite a few interesting things are happening in the background. One of them is the formation of a professional Partner Network for devices such as the Vivaldi tablet. Let's look at this Partner Network in more detail.
The Make Play Live Partner Program is designed to build and support a collaborative business and economic network. Members work together to provide comprehensive professional service and product offerings around Plasma Active and devices such as Vivaldi. Professional support options make it easier to convince potential parties, such as users, clients, customers and partners, bringing KDE software to a larger group of users.
As not all services needs are the same, a way to identify the right companies is important. The Make Play Live Partner Network therefore defines four different types of partners:
Partners may be represented in one or more segments of the program. All partners work together in a collaborative fashion that allows them to deliver more sophisticated and complete offerings than any individual partner could on their own. The partners also share a commitment to supporting the Free software communities and products behind the technologies, with a dual focus on direct contribution and the long-term sustainability of these communities.
John Blanford of VAULTechnology says, "As we do more computing with mobile devices, the long term trend is towards closed platforms where the software, the hardware and the available services are proprietary and locked down. We are headed for a future of closed platforms. Vivaldi is all about the ecosystem! Tablet development today is dominated by some of the world's largest companies. If we hope to play in this arena, to make a real difference in the world, we can only do it as a community. Alone we are small, but together as partners, we have a chance."
Coherent Theory LLC, the company orchestrating the Vivaldi and Make Play Live efforts, is facilitating the creation and development of this Partner Network. Companies and groups that are interesting in participating are encouraged to contact Coherent Theory via email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
The following members of the Make Play Live Partner Network have already joined:
...and so can your organization.
Add-ons Partners
Sebastian, is it safe to say that Add-ons Partners include hardware peripheral makers?
By Randall Arnold at Tue, 2012/05/22 - 7:04pm
We don't have any partners working on hardware peripherals at this time (just haven't gotten to that point in developing the ecosystem and projects around it) ... but if/when we do, then yes, they would slot into the Add-ons Partner category. At least that's the thinking right now. If combining both hardware and software initiatives in the same partner category becomes clumsy, we can always add another one :)
By Aaron Seigo at Tue, 2012/05/22 - 7:46pm
More info about Coherent Theory LLC
Is there any information about that company?
By Anonymous at Wed, 2012/05/23 - 2:45pm
Coherent Theory LLC
At the bottom of the makeplaylive.com homepage there is information that MakePlayLive is a trademark of Coherent Theory LLC. MakePlayLive is the public face of the Vivaldi Project.
In the activities associated with the Plasma Active project, there has been almost nothing said about Coherent. They are coordinating the various tasks and activities associated with the Vivaldi tablet and encouraging people to take part.
Searching the web for additional information will lead to http://aseigo.blogspot.com/ where there is plenty of information.
By Carl Symons at Wed, 2012/05/23 - 4:55pm
what do you wish to know?
i understand curiosity; in return, i hope people can respect the desire for privacy. we really don't think Coherent Theory is a very important or interesting thing. it's a legal entity that lets us take on the financial and legal risks of making things like Vivaldi and a place to coordinate things like this partner network and to pay hackers to work on Free sofware.
the company is privately owned by myself and another free software hacker (whom you probably also know by name), and it has so far been funded from our own pockets. (*gulp!*)
not very exciting, i know, but that's sort of the point :)
the exciting bits are Make·Play·Live, a collaborative brand, the products built with Free software and how we are using those efforts to in turn support Free software in a sort of virtuous circle.
i really do not wish to make a company that is somehow "important" in the Free software world. there are enough of those already. i want the Free software world to do amazing things, and so that is where the focus belongs, and where ours is. the company is a legal entity that helps us achieve that, and if we could do all these things without it we would :)
cheers ...
By Aaron Seigo at Wed, 2012/05/23 - 5:09pm


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The driver of a Spanish train that flew off the rails last week, killing 79 people and injuring at least 130 more told a judge he had been reckless.
Francisco José Garzon, 52, was provisionally charged with 79 counts of reckless homicide after failing to brake in time ahead of a bend in the track, instead taking the curve at more than twice the appropriate speed.
Court officials said Garzon testified he thought he was on a different stretch of track, and by the time he realized where he was, it was too late to slow down from the 190 km/h speeds (118 mph) to 80 km/h.
The president of Spanish rail network administrator Adif said Garzon should have started braking about 4 km (2.5 miles) before the spot where the accident occurred.
Although Garzon has been charged in the deaths and injuries of the passengers, the investigation that will reveal his culpability is in its earliest stages. Investigators are working through the recordings in the train's black box to determine if mechanical failure played a role in the crash, or if it was a fatal oversight.
A judge has had the audio recording since Wednesday, the day of the crash, and is expected to examine them in full in court Tuesday. A few moments of audio from after the crash have been made public, including Garzon's lamentations.
"Poor travelers," he can be heard saying in Spanish. "I hope there are no dead because they will fall on my conscience."
Judge Luis Alaez revoked Garzon's passport and his license to drive a train for six months. Garzon was released from custody Sunday but must also appear in court weekly through February 2014.
Garzon has 30 years of experience driving trains, and has been on the route between Madrid and the port city Ferrol for a year.
A funeral mass for the dead was scheduled for Monday afternoon in Santiago de Compostela, the city where the deadly accident occurred. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, as well as several ministers and the king's children, Prince Felipe and Infanta Elena, are expected to attend.


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Self-Adaptive Systems for Machine Intelligence
Self-Adaptive Systems for Machine Intelligence
ISBN: 978-1-118-02559-8 September 2011 250 Pages
DescriptionThis book will advance the understanding and application of self-adaptive intelligent systems; therefore it will potentially benefit the long-term goal of replicating certain levels of brain-like intelligence in complex and networked engineering systems. It will provide new approaches for adaptive systems within uncertain environments. This will provide an opportunity to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the current state-of-the-art of knowledge, give rise to new research directions, and educate future professionals in this domain.
Self-adaptive intelligent systems have wide applications from military security systems to civilian daily life. In this book, different application problems, including pattern recognition, classification, image recovery, and sequence learning, will be presented to show the capability of the proposed systems in learning, memory, and prediction. Therefore, this book will also provide potential new solutions to many real-world applications.
Chapter 1. Introduction.
1.1 The Machine Intelligence Research.
1.2 The Two-Fold Objectives: Data-Driven and Biologically-Inspired Approaches.
1.3 How to Read this Book.
1.4 Summary and Further Reading.
Chapter 2. Incremental Learning.
2.1 Introduction.
2.2 Problem Foundation.
2.3 An Adaptive Incremental Learning Framework.
2.4 Design of the Mapping Function.
2.5 Case Study.
2.6 Summary.
Chapter 3. Imbalanced Learning.
3.1 Introduction.
3.2 Nature of the Imbalanced Learning.
3.3 Solutions for Imbalanced Learning.
3.4 Assessment Metrics for Imbalanced Learning.
3.5 Opportunities and Challenges.
3.6 Case Study.
3.7 Summary.
Chapter 4. Ensemble Learning.
4.1 Introduction.
4.2 Hypothesis Diversity.
4.3 Developing Multiple Hypotheses.
4.4 Integrating Multiple Hypotheses.
4.5 Case Study.
4.6 Summary.
Chapter 5. Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Machine Intelligence.
5.1 Introduction.
5.2 Fundamental Objectives: Optimization and Prediction.
5.3 ADP for Machine Intelligence.
5.4 Case Study.
5.5 Summary.
Chapter 6. Associative Learning.
6.1 Introduction.
6.2 Associative Learning Mechanism.
6.3 Associative Learning in Hierarchical Neural Networks.
6.4 Case Study.
6.5 Summary.
Chapter 7. Sequence Learning.
7.1 Introduction.
7.2 Foundations for Sequence Learning.
7.3 Sequence Learning in Hierarchical Neural Structure.
7.4 Level 0: A Modified Hebbian Learning Architecture.
7.5 Level 1 to Level N: Sequence Storage, Prediction and Retrieval.
7.6 Memory Requirement.
7.7 Learning and Anticipation of Multiple Sequences.
7.8 Case Study.
7.9 Summary.
Chapter 8. Hardware Design for Machine Intelligence.
8.1 A Final Comment.


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Catherine BeckerMeet Catherine Becker, this year's Lorena Bobbit. The 48-year-old California woman drugged her husband so he'd be sleepy, tied him to the bed, and then waited for him to wake up. When he did, she cut his penis off, put it in the garbage disposal, and turned it on. Then she called 911.
Police found her husband, 51, bleeding from the crotch and rushed him to the hospital. He is in critical condition. Becker has been charged with aggravated mayhem, false imprisonment, assault with a deadly weapon, administering a drug with intent to commit a felony, poisoning, and spousal abuse. That's a lot of charges.
What would inspire someone to do such a thing?
When Lorena Bobbit severed her husband John's penis in the infamous 1993 case, she said it was because he raped her and had sexually, physically, and emotionally abused her throughout their marriage. She accused him of infidelity and of forcing her to have an abortion. She was found not guilty at trial by reason of temporary insanity.
John Bobbit's penis was not put through a garbage disposal and was surgically reattached. And he tried to use the notoriety of the case to make a buck -- he started a band called The Severed Parts and he appeared in a porn movie. In 2007, Lorena Bobbit founded Lorena's Red Wagon, which helps to prevent domestic violence through family-oriented activities.
There's not much news out there on why Catherine Becker cut her estranged husband's penis off, but she seems to have had "a plan." She had the poison available to drug him and seems to have thought the whole thing out. The couple were getting divorced and Becker supposedly told police that her husband "deserved it."
Which raises the question:
Are there any circumstances under which a man "deserves" to have his penis cut off?


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An old application from the 1950s had a "John George Hess" buried in Lebanon, PA. I was familiar with the Daughters of the American Revolution but not the companion organization for men. How sexist of me!
Since that time I have learned more of his birth (orphaned within 2 weeks of his birth), his service (several stints starting as a replacement for others) and his family, life and death.
What a wonderful celebration of Independence Day weekend 2011! Thank you, John George Hess and to all your fellow comrades in arms for helping to establish this fine country we are so blessed in which to live.


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Governor's Race By The Issues
A look at key issues in the New Jersey governor's race between Republican incumbent Chris Christie and Democrat Barbara Buono.
Buono supports a higher income-tax rate on the state's highest earners and restoring funding for the state's earned income-tax credits for the working poor and increasing property tax credits for lower-income homeowners.
Christie favors a broad-based tax cut that would reduce income taxes for most New Jersey residents in amounts based on their property tax bills. Under a plan he endorsed last year, all but the state's highest earners would be eligible.
Christie's administration is focusing on using tax incentives approved by the Legislature to lure businesses to the state or keep them. Under Christie, the state has set up a center to help small businesses get help with permits and other regulatory issues.
Buono said she pull back on incentives for big companies and concentrate on education and worker training.
Buono supports a referendum that's also on Tuesday's ballot to increase the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $8.25 and increase it automatically in the future along with the cost of living.
Christie opposes the automatic increases and said the $1 hike at once is too fast and could hurt businesses. He supported a phased-in increase. He also says a ballot measure is the wrong way to set the minimum wage.
Christie signed several gun control measures into law this year but vetoed two of the most sweeping and contentious ones passed by the Legislature. One would have banned the sale of .50-caliber rifles. The other, to which he gave a conditional veto, would have linked firearm purchases and law enforcement records into a digital card maintained by the state police, Motor Vehicle Commission, mental health facilities and ammunition retailers.
Buono supports the two measures he vetoed and wants to limit ammunition magazines to 10 rounds instead of the current 15, require background checks for most private gun sales and ban online and mail-order ammunition sales.
Buono wants to fully fund — over time — a 2008 formula for distributing state taxpayer money to local school districts. She also calls for expanding public preschool programs and full-day kindergarten. She opposes a plan that would use taxpayer money to send students in some school districts to private schools.
Christie cut state subsidies for schools in his first year in office but has increased them each year since. He also imposed a 2 percent cap on annual property tax increases. His campaign criticized Buono's education plans as too costly and said Buono is too closely aligned with the state's biggest teachers union, the New Jersey Education Association. Christie has championed the push for publicly funded scholarships that students could use at private schools.
Christie signed a law to reorganize New Jersey's public universities, giving Rutgers control of two medical schools with the idea that the state's flagship university can become a leader in biomedical research, an area important to a state that houses several of the nation's largest pharmaceutical companies. He is also overseeing a $1.3 billion program to expand academic facilities at the state's public and private universities.
Buono says she would work on making the state's public universities more affordable for students. Two measures include offering tax incentives for parents to save for their children's college educations and using a formula to distribute state tax money to state universities.
In October, Christie withdrew the state's appeal of a judicial ruling that made gay marriage legal in New Jersey. But Christie still says he opposes gay marriage and believes allowing it should be done only through a vote of the people, not a judicial ruling. In 2012, he vetoed a bill that would have made the state recognize same-sex marriage. He support civil unions.
Buono, who has a gay daughter, supports same-sex marriage.
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved)


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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Power to More Pillows
mini quilt I made a few weeks back.
I had a few half-triangle squares leftover from that project and rather than find a completely different home for them, I opted to re-imagine the mini quilt as a pillow.
I added this little beauty to my shop yesterday, so I'm on track (so far) for regularly introducing new goodies to my store this month.
8 comments:
- Vanesa said...
Beautiful! I love that bit of selvage on the front, it's like signing your artwork!
- December 7, 2011 at 1:37:00 PM CST
- carol fun said...
Great pillow! I can't wait till your fabric hits the quilt stores - I just LOVE it!
- December 7, 2011 at 5:01:00 PM CST
- house on hill road said...
i really love your bits of improv piecing, malka. stunning!
- December 7, 2011 at 6:50:00 PM CST
- Miss Sews-it-all said...
Wow - I am so amazed at your sense of color and how you mix and pair colors that I never would have guessed would look so good together. Fabulous!
- December 7, 2011 at 8:38:00 PM CST
- MulticoloredPieces said...
Hi, Malka. Marvelous work, as usual! Really like the preceding pillow as well. The idea of circular quilting on a pillow is great.
best, nadia
- December 11, 2011 at 11:41:00 AM CST
- susanj said...
Beautiful creative pillows. i have your stitch in color jelly rolls, and want to match them up with moda solids to make 4 quilts for 4grandsons. Could you suggest which solids would bethe best please. I don't want to use white for boys.
Thank you. Susan
- December 17, 2011 at 6:45:00 PM CST
- pasqueflower said...
Love the colors and the whimsical feel of the pillow. And I also love the typewriter keys fabric on the back. Great project.
- January 2, 2012 at 11:11:00 AM CST
- angela said...
I love this cover. I've experimented with quilting spirals and I just don't get it. Would you consider doing a post about how you quilt spirals? Thank you. P.S. I just got your book and I'm so excited about the projects!I live up the road 60 miles in Temple and am considering taking one of your classes at the Stitch Lab.
- January 8, 2012 at 12:55:00 PM CST


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
By the way, there was no problem in my database -- but one of the scripts that produced the page for the admin interface had been bollixed by the crashed install and thus I was seeing what was referenced below. Everything now works as intended and I'm going to seriously rethink my approach to upgrading this time.So the "minor detail" wasn't in any way the cause of the problem but was, in fact, another symptom. So you're right, I should have mentioned it. But it wasn't the cause....As for running random scripts, I ran the prepare script, which in the case of an Internet download has no code that refers to rebooting to continue the upgrade -- that code is under the DVD branch of the if. I naturally assumed I'd have to take manual steps to start the upgrade.Bret
The update caused my system to be corrupt. Did you read that last post or are you just so convinced that I must be an ignoramus that you can't be bothered?Manually reverting everything back to the pre-upgrade state has resulted in a perfectly functioning 0704 system again. I repeat: THE UPGRADE CAUSED MY PROBLEM, IT DIDN'T RESULT FROM A CORRUPT SYSTEM!
...So, how is one supposed to perform an upgrade using the gutsy-upgrade-scripts package?


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Yixing Teaware
Teapot: Yixing Clay: Millenium
Clay deposits from the Yixing region have been used in the making of teapots since the Song Dynasty (960 - 1279). The clay is prized for its porousness and ability to absorb the flavour subtleties of teas over time. It is said that with a well seasoned Yixing teapot you can make a pot simply by pouring hot water in it. This charming Yixing tea set is handcrafted and made outside of the city of Yixing in China.


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Place a small tray or a plate in the freezer. Remove the gelato from the freezer to soften, about 5 minutes. Remove the chilled tray from the freezer. Scoop out 16 bite-sized balls of gelato and place in the freezer for at least 1 hour. Remove from the freezer and quickly insert a wooden popstick into each gelato ball. Return them to the freezer for at least 1 hour.
When the gelato balls have frozen with their sticks in place, place the chocolate in a double-boiler over very gently simmering water until melted. Next to the pot of chocolate, place the toasted, chopped hazelnuts in a shallow bowl.
Remove the gelato balls from the freezer, 4 at a time. Working quickly, hold the gelato ball by the stick and dip into the melted chocolate, then dredge it in the hazelnuts. Return them to the freezer and continue with 4 more gelato balls, until all the gelato balls are covered in chocolate and nuts. Freeze the chocolate-and-nut-covered gelato for at least 1 hour.
These are very fun, festive, and tasty. The ice cream scoop I used is a number 40 (holds 1 tablespoon, is 1 1/2 inches in diameter.)


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Global Education Digest 2011
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Governments are struggling to meet the rising demand for secondary education, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where there are enough school places for just 36% of children of age to enrol, according the latest edition of the Global Education Digest.
Globally, secondary schools have been accommodating almost one hundred million more students each decade, with the total number growing by 60% between 1990 and 2009. But the supply is dwarfed by demand as more countries approach universal primary education.
In 2009, 88% of children enrolled in primary school reached the last grade of this level of education, compared to 81%. Yet, in 20 countries -- mostly in sub-Saharan Africa -- a child in the last grade of primary school has a 75% chance at best of making the transition to lower


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Police: Intoxicated driver hits earlier wreck on South Loop
An alleged drunk driver injured a woman who had stopped to help a driver involved in another wreck early Sunday, Houston Police Department spokesman John Cannon said.
About 1:15 a.m., Cannon said a red Mitsubishi Monterro traveled east in the 5000 block of the South Loop feeder road near Jutland. The Monterro jumped the curb onto the freeway, swerved out of control into a retaining wall and rolled to a stop on the driver's side.
Cannon said several witnesses had stopped to help the Monterro driver when a green Toyota Previa hit the Monterro, knocking it into a 32-year-old woman. He described injuries to the woman as non-life threatening and said she was transported to an area hospital.
Authorities originally said the 46-year-old Monterro driver, whose name has not yet been released, was pronounced dead on the scene by paramedics and that Jose Eliseo Guevara-Palma, who drove the Previa, would be charged with intoxication manslaughter for that death. An HPD news release Monday clarified that the Monterro driver was in the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Guevara-Palma, 27, was charged Monday with intoxication assault for the injuries to the witness, according to the release.


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Carol A. Kennedy-Armbruster & Mary M. Yoke
When skilled instructors teach, their moves flow seamlessly from one to the other, making the choreography easier to cue and easier for participants to follow, thus enhancing participant success. Spend some time on the drills in this section to build your skill at connecting moves. For the smoothest transitions, keep it simple. It's best if you change only one thing at a time-change only the arms or only the legs or only the lead foot.
Some moves just naturally transition into other moves. Most of the elements of variation provide for smooth transitions: Executing a plane change from a front kick to a side kick is an example of a smooth lower-body transition. The subtle change from a front kick with a front raise to a side kick with a lateral raise is easy for almost every participant to grasp and requires a minimum of cueing. Notice that each move has a starting point and an end point. The smoothest transitions connect moves that have one of these points in common. For example, a bilateral front raise (a 2-count move) starts with the arms down and ends with the arms up at shoulder height in the sagittal plane. A lateral raise (another 2-count move) also starts with the arms down but ends with the arms up at shoulder height in the frontal plane. These two moves flow together well because they share a common starting point: arms down. It's easy and natural to go back and forth between these two moves; in fact, you could even create a combination 4-count upper-body move by putting these two moves together. You could then repeat the 4 counts over and over.
See the DVD for a drill demonstrating smooth transitions.
Another factor in creating smooth transitions and easy-to-follow choreography is to maintain an awareness of which foot is leading at all times (this is important!). In other words, you'll enhance your participants' success if you always lead with the same foot in each move throughout a combination. So, if you start with a step touch to the right (right foot leads off on the 1st count, or downbeat), then you should also start your grapevine to the right, if that's your next move. Starting a grapevine to the left after leading right in a step touch will confuse your participants and make the combination harder to follow. In addition to constantly hearing the downbeat in the back of your mind, stay aware of your lead foot and make sure it contacts the floor on the downbeats of the music. After performing a combination all the way through with the right foot leading, balance your body's neuromuscular and biomechanical systems by performing the entire combo with the left foot leading.
You may have noticed that in some lower-body moves, both feet do the same thing at the same time; examples include pliés, jumping jacks, and double-time bouncy heel lifts (see figure 4.4). These symmetrical moves are valuable as filler moves and can help you switch your leading foot if you haven't built a lead change into your combination. Because both feet are doing the same thing at the same time, it's easy to start the next move on either the right foot or the left foot.
Other types of moves are so basic that they can be used over and over as fillers to ease transitions between other moves and to create participant security. A walk, march, or jog is a good filler. A good beginner combo might be walk 8 counts, perform four knee lifts (8 counts), walk 8 counts, step touch four times (8 counts), walk 8 counts, perform four hamstring curls (8 counts), walk 8 counts, perform four kicks (8 counts). This adds up to two 32-count phrases, or 64 counts. The 8-count walk interspersed between all the other moves can enhance participant confidence and provide a psychological break from complex choreography. (Incidentally, these 8-count walks could be made more interesting by traveling, adding impact, changing the style, or adding arm variations.) Once participants become comfortable with the combination, try removing all the filler moves (the walks). What you'll have left is a 32-count combination that is more complex: four knee lifts, four step touches, four hamstring curls, and four kicks.
Every instructor needs filler moves as reliable standbys for those times when the brain seems to stop working and you simply can't remember what's supposed to come next! If this happens, you can always return to the safety of a walk, march, or jog.
Some moves simply don't fit well together. When designing a combination, you may have to incorporate one or two transition moves to make the choreography smoother and easier to follow. For example, moving from a plié to a front kick is awkward; transition moves are needed for a more natural flow. A possible solution could be plié (8 counts), step toe touch side (8 counts), step toe touch front (8 counts), and then step kick front (8 counts).
This is an excerpt from Methods of Group Exercise Instruction, Second Edition.
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The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) has announced that the chocolate Labrador retriever will be featured in the "Retrievers Save Game" series for the 2007 Louisiana Waterfowl Conservation Stamp, or Louisiana duck stamp competition.
The chocolate lab must be prominent in the design and each entry must also include live waterfowl selected by the artist. Artists may also choose to include harvested waterfowl, duck decoys, hunting scenes and other backgrounds along with wetland habitats.
After 16 years of featuring waterfowl, the program switched to the retrievers series two years ago, because all of the popular waterfowl species had already been used.
"Instead of repeating one of the previously used ducks or geese, we decided on this new approach," Robert Helm, LDWF waterfowl program manager, said. "We were encouraged by last year's participation in the new retriever series and look forward to additional entries this year."
Labradors come in black, yellow and chocolate color phases. Only the chocolate lab will be allowed on entries this year, following the black and yellow labs the first two years. Labradors came from Canada in the most eastern province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It has been said that fishermen from this area carried these hardy retrievers in boats to retrieve fish coming off the trawls in the north Atlantic. The Labrador's hunting and swimming ability, and his good disposition did not go unnoticed by English sportsmen, who introduced these dogs to Europe in the mid-1800s.
American sportsmen adopted the breed from England and subsequently developed and trained the dog to fulfill the hunting needs of this country. Today, as in the past, the versatile Labrador will eagerly enter in ice-cold water to retrieve a duck and work all day in the heat of a dove field. They are very adaptable and their mild temperament makes them ideal family companions.
"Retrievers are very popular among Louisiana sportsmen and we think that some people who might not be attracted to the more traditional duck stamp art might consider purchasing a print featuring a dog," Helm said.
The Louisiana Legislature authorized the Louisiana Waterfowl Conservation Stamp program in 1988. The program was created to generate revenues for conservation and enhancement of waterfowl populations and habitats in Louisiana. During the last 18 years, more than $8.5 million has been generated for wetland conservation with approximately $5 million spent on land acquisition.
The Louisiana Waterfowl Program, a cooperative endeavor between LDWF, Ducks Unlimited and the Federal Natural Resources Conservation Service has also benefited private lands.
Entries for the competition will be accepted from Oct. 16 to Oct. 20. To enter, an artist must submit an original, unpublished work of art, along with a signed and notarized artist's agreement and a $50 entry fee. Entries should be addressed to Robert Helm, Louisiana Waterfowl Conservation Stamp Program, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, 2000 Quail Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, or P.O. Box 98000, Baton Rouge, LA 70898.
Judging for the art competition will be based on the following criteria:
1. Accuracy of form, size, proportion, color and posture.
2. Level and accuracy of detail in all aspects of the anatomy of both the retriever and waterfowl.
3. Appropriateness, accuracy and detail in depiction of the habitat.
4. Attractiveness and creativity in composition, subject, background and lighting.
5. Suitability for reproduction as stamps and prints.
A panel of judges with experience in waterfowl biology and/or artistic method will select the winning design. Judging will take place on Oct. 25, at LDWF headquarters in Baton Rouge.
The competition is open to all artists 18 years of age and older. Employees of LDWF and members of their immediate families are ineligible.
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Ultrasonic welding is extremely versatile and can be used for both soft and hard plastics, and the machines performing this kind of plastic welding are increasingly powerful. As technology makes giant leaps forward, so does the equipment, and the latest machines have increased processing power and can deliver flawless welding. It comes as no surprise that the scientists are trying to push the boundaries and use the ultrasonic welding technology even for light metals.
While ultrasonic welding is an ever growing field, this is not the only welding technology that is perfected year after year. By using frictional heat, spin welding is the ideal solution for joining together objects made of plastic in a way that is not only durable but also environmentally friendly. Regardless of how small or large the assembly might be, this type of welding is increasingly popular due to the fact that it guarantees hermetic sealing.
Whenever there is a need for thermoplastic welding, the best approach is to employ machines that perform spin welding, and it can also be a more effective alternative to ultrasonic welding. Compared to the aforementioned technique, this one doesn't require the same expensive equipment and the welding itself is performed at lower costs as there is no need for expensive and maintenance intensive ventilation systems. In order to join cylindrical or spherical components, it is safe to resort to spin welding because there is no trade-off in quality in exchange for lower welding costs.


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Tiago Splitter wrote:kalvano wrote:Danger Zone wrote:Do you have access to a 401k? If not, open a deductible IRA account. You need to start copping dem sweet pre-tax benefits.
Once you hit a certain income level, you don't get full credit for the $5,500 IRA contribution. At that point, I'd rather stick it in a Roth and take the future benefits.
If you don't have an employer plan (and your spouse doesn't either) you can always get the full IRA deduction.
I can take the deduction, but deducting the whole $5,500 only saves like $1700 on my taxes. I'd rather go with a Roth and not have to pay taxes later on. That's more a personal call for me as I like that certainty that comes with tax-free withdrawals. I know for a fact I can take a $1700 hit right now, but I don't know what the future holds.


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Reviewed by Judy K. (age 8) and Mariko S. (age 8)
We enjoyed this book because the book reminded us of when we wanted to lose our first teeth. We liked it when Olivia said, "It will be the day the dinosaurs come back when this tooth falls out!" We also liked the part when Olivia looked out her window and she thought she saw the moon with a missing tooth. She fell asleep and dreamt of a polar bear with a missing tooth, a squirrel with a missng tooth, a mouse with a missing tooth, her cat Ferdi with a missing tooth, and her dog Petey with no front tooth. We liked these parts because she exaggerated. We like the book because she tries funny tricks to get into The Lost Tooth Club, like when she grabbed a piece of licorice and put it on her tooth and took a little white pebble and pretended that the pebble was her tooth, and the licorice was the space. The book reminded us of the book, Earrings! because in that book, the girl wants earrings, and in The Lost Tooth Club, the girl wants to lose her tooth.
We recommend this book to readers who want to lose their first teeth because in the book, the girl wants to lose her first tooth and the readers can relate to the book. We recommend this book to all ages. If you enjoy friendship stories, you will enjoy this book.


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Microsoft is virtually doing the unthinkable in India it is planning to share the Windows source code. Not with one and all, as Linux does, but with a specific government body which, in turn, will share it with others for the purposes of e-governance and education.
Microsoft has already made a proposal to the ministry of information technology for sharing the Windows source code with one government body. The nature of the body has not been spelt out; it will presumably be worked out after discussions between the company and the government officials. Interestingly, the offer comes at a time when state governments are showing interest in rival Linux operating system as the latter's source code is free and downloadable from the internet.
When contacted by ET, Microsoft India president Rajiv Nair was somewhat cagey. Although he didn't deny the move, he merely said, "We are evaluating the idea (of sharing the source code)." However, sources in the company said that MS is already in talks with the government to work out the modalities of sharing the source code. It's learnt that MS worldwide program manager for shared source program, Jason Matusow, was recently in India to work out the modalities.
Microsoft is exceedingly secretive about its Windows source code the company has so far shared it with only a few big clients and developers. In Asia. MS has shared the Windows source code with select clients in Japan, Korea and Singapore. What appears to have persuaded it to extend the same privilege to the Indian government is the growing attraction here for the Linux OS, which is seen by some state governments as a cheaper alternative to Windows.
Microsoft officials are, of course, playing down the Linux threat. They insisted that Linux wasn't a big issue while selling to the governments in India. Says Peter Hayes, industry vice-president, Microsoft Government: "OS software is merely 1-3% of the total cost of an IT project, and studies have shown that total cost can be lower with Microsoft technologies compared to Linux. The open source software has been grabbing headlines recently as the debate on open versus proprietary software has gained momentum in government circles here.
Says MS boss for shared source program, Jason Matusow, "There has been a lot of hype about open source code in the software industry as well as in the media. Linux might grab headlines, but being able to look at source code doesn't bring any benefits to an average end-user, though it might increase the trust level.
The basic idea behind open source is very simple. When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. While open source community believes that this process produces better software than the traditional closed model, proponents of proprietary software argue that this model can't work in the commercial world.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
The Bu$ine$$ of Illu$tration: Advertising
Fifty-plus years later, Rodewald's words still apply, thank goodness. Now, as then, children who love to doodle dream of growing up and getting paid to make pictures. If not for the needs of businesses, those kids would have only the fine arts/gallery circuit as an potential source of income... and the term "starving artist" didn't come from nowhere!
But times do change - and markets for illustration are not what they used to be. Fred C. Rodewald set out to tell "where to look for art jobs and what to expect of them." I thought it might be instructive for those of us who illustrate for a living (and those who hope to) to consider what the business was like then and how it compares to the business today.
Is this a great time to be an artist... or were we born fifty years too late?
Today, let's look at what Rodewald had to say about illustrating for the ad industry:
"Advertising agencies constitute the largest and perhaps the most lucrative sales outlet for commercial artists of all kinds. However, this is also the most competitive field. It is with the agencies that the practice of the so-called "package deal" - that is, selling design, illustration, lettering, and so on, as a single unit instead of separately - has become most prevalent. This has given studios and artists' representatives a tremendous and still growing competitive advantage over the individual free-lance."
"On the other hand, since the agencies usually have qualified art directors to do the art buying, the difficulties of inefficient buying practices are reduced to a minimum. Furthermore, the agencies have been in the van of the movement for improved ethical standards, as witness their sponsorship of the two codes of ethics."
"For the artist seeking salaried employment, the agencies offer opportunities to layout designers and renderers, and frequently, in the case of smaller agencies, also to letterers, illustrators, retouchers, and what is known as "good all-around artists."
Rodewald does not discuss pricing, but I think its important to have some idea what illustrators were paid for advertising work for the sake of modern day comparison. Mitchell Hooks, whom we looked at a couple of weeks ago, told us that several thousand dollars for one major magazine ad illustration, like the Joe De Mers Pepsi ad below, was not uncommon during the 1950's.
Confiming this amount is a great little anecdote told to interviewer Rob Stolzer by cartoonist Bud Blake in the 13th issue of Hogan's Alley magazine. During the early 50's, Blake was working as an art director for the Kudner Advertising Agency in New York. On a 1952 campaign for Good Year Tires, Blake insisted on hiring Albert Dorne and several other top illustrators to do the art chores.
Blake provided the layouts for the ads and says, "I got four of the best guys in the field to do the finishes. And you have to realize that these guys weren't always anxious to work for you. They were making pretty good money. When Al Dorne came in he wanted 2,000 bucks apiece, which at the time was big money."
Blake describes how the account manager balked at Dorne's price, claiming it was too high, but, says Blake, "Al said, 'It'll take this long. I make this much. That's what I charge.' He got his money."
I wasn't able to locate the tire ad Blake spoke of, but this 1947 Revere ad by Dorne serves well enough as an example of Dorne's work from around that time. Of course not every illustrator was Albert Dorne, Joe De Mers or Mitchell Hooks -- still, they were hardly exceptions... dozens, perhaps hundreds of top illustrators across the U.S. could command similar prices for their work. And many were doing several pieces a month, month after month, for advertising clients.
Rodewald quotes the 1950 U.S. Census Report which provided the following amazing statistics:
"Of the approximately 80,000 artists in the United States, nearly 20,000 are to be found in and near New York, 7,000 in Chicago, 6,000 in Los Angeles, with the total in other cities rarely exceeding 2,500. However, since the average income of artists in the large centers is usually only slightly higher than it is in the smaller cities and in the country as a whole, opportunities for artists may be said to exist anywhere."
I can only speak from personal experience and anecdotally from the experience of my illustrator friends, but I think I can safely say that advertising illustration today is a pale shadow of its counterpart from half a century ago.
Tomorrow: Illustrating for the magazines.
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I'd have to say we were born too late. Really, the pay for illustration work has barely changed in the last 50 years! What is worse is that the government is looking for ways to take away protections that artists currently have (ie. The Orphan Works Act).ReplyDelete
Howard Pyle was getting a $1000 a book if I remember correctly, then built a 3000 sq ft addition to his home to start an art school for a cost of $8000. I couldn't build a 3000 sq ft addition on my home for what 8 book covers would pay nowadays!
When I did my first bookcover, it paid $3000. By the time I did my second, the going rate was $2500. Inflation goes up; illustrator pay goes down.
Advertising art still pays the best, but the field as a whole, is under-respected and under-paid.
You nailed it, innisart - if advertising paid the modern equivalent of the $2,000 Al Dorne insisted on in 1952, it would be typical to get - I dunno - ten to twenty thousand dollars per assignment today?ReplyDelete
And print was lousy with illustration back then. Today, I think you can get through most magazines and never see a single illustrated ad (I'm not counting graphics that were vectorized by the designer/art director, but actual illustrations.
harley; I knew I wouldn't be alone in my love for that Brite White ad :-)
I want Al Dorne's eyebrows.ReplyDelete
That to me would be the same as money.
Bud Blake described Dorne in that Hogan's Alley interview as "a tough guy", "looking like a gangster" and "a real New Yorker" - and i think those eyebrows had a lot to do with that - they're magnificent!
In high school I worked on a farm, and when they decided to tear down an old barn, we pulled out years and years of old magazines from the attic. Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, Harpers, you name it. Almost every page had an illustration! By the time you got to the back of the magazine, where there were more advertisements, there were like 3-5 illustrations per page! It must have been great to work back then.ReplyDelete
Dorne looks quite a bit like Boris Karloff with a little Marty Scorsese thrown in there. And yes, that Brite White ad in very nice looking.ReplyDelete
Indeed the artstars of the Golden Age were handsomely paid (if not always handsome ;-) ), and exorbitantly so, if you compare to what top illustrators make now. (That money now goes to the ad agency, not their "hired help"). But let's not forget that these men were at the top of the field - there are plenty of tales of people starting out who scraped by just as some of us do today. Including the stars, before that got famous. Not to mention the stars who blew their money as fast as they made it (Leyendecker!) and wound up broke. And then there's the women, who weren't hired in bullpens and who were handed spot illustrations for years.ReplyDelete


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John Weisbrod certainly doesn't mean to come off as ho-hum.
Getting him to rave — yet again — about Calgary Flames prospect Johnny Gaudreau is easy, sure.
But Weisbrod, the Flames' assistant general manager, is hardly shocked by the wee winger's performance at the world junior hockey championship. Even if Gaudreau has erupted for seven goals in the past three outings for the Americans.
"Johnny is a known entity to us," Weisbrod, chuckling, said Thursday afternoon. "We know how good this guy is. We know what he's capable of. I've been thrilled — especially after him getting cut last year and knowing how much that hurt him — that he's been able to have so much personal success and, to this point, team success.
"In a lot of ways, it'll serve to boost his confidence even further that he can play on that stage. So it's been a great experience for Johnny. But it's not new learning for us to see that he's capable of those things.
"You keep seeing him take the next step and the next step and the next step. It's obviously gratifying, but once you get to know the kid . . . I can't say it's super surprising."
Gaudreau scorched Team Canada with two goals in Thursday's 5-1 semifinal victory, giving him a tourney-high seven tallies.
"Those are the kind of guys that succeed," Weisbrod said of the Carneys Point, N.J., native. "You take a guy with high skill, high hockey sense, then put it in a human being that loves the game to death . . . these are the kind of results you get."
Now a star sophomore at Boston College, Gaudreau had been selected with the 104th overall pick in 2011. He'd been great in BC's run to the NCAA championship last year — and even better this year.
"We're thrilled," said Weisbrod, "but nothing this guy does will shock me anymore. Johnny is Johnny — we know what to expect from him."
Gaudreau, of course, isn't the only Flames commodity in Ufa, Russia.
Here's a rundown on the others:
* Finnish C Markus Granlund (nine points in five games, drafted 45th in 2011)
Weisbrod had been looking forward to seeing Granlund, a regular in the Finnish men's league. "It's tough to scout the youngest kid in a pro league and get a real good assessment."
Against his peers, Granlund thrived. Only Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, with 11, has registered more points.
"His game has grown and matured steadily since the draft," said Weisbrod. "Style-wise, he's similar in a lot of ways to Johnny Gaudreau. He's not a big guy, not a physically overpowering guy, not a real open-ice skater in terms of speed. They're both guys that rely on quickness and hockey sense and hand skill and creativity and the ability to do things with the puck."
* Canadian D Tyler Wotherspoon (two points in five games, drafted 57th in 2011)
"This is a first-time experience, sort of rare air for him, in terms of playing on one of those elite teams in an elite tournament," said Weisbrod. "He obviously played in big games and went deep into the playoffs with Portland (of the Western Hockey League). He's shown well in those environments, but this is a whole other animal. For him to get this opportunity, from a confidence standpoint . . . realizing that he's in that group and deemed one of the best players to make that team in the first place."
* American D Patrick Sieloff (zero points in five games, drafted 42nd in 2012)
Team USA's roster was not short on grittiness, but the Ann Arbor, Mich., native, an old-school basher, still made the grade.
"I think they took a guy like him because he's so unique as a competitor," said Weisbrod. "His physical commitment is so over the top, it's tough to not want a guy like that on your team. The degree to which they used him in any given game, in any given situation, was sort of icing on the cake for me. He's progressing very nicely."
* American G Jon Gillies (no goals-against in 20 minutes, drafted 75th in 2012)
"He's gotten what he's earned," Weisbrod said of the 18-year-old. "He had such a great start to his freshman year in (NCAA) Providence and turned so many heads that he was able to get himself into that (national-team) mix. It's clear that he has immense, immense physical ability — to be six-foot-five and have the athleticism that he has . . . and the physical skill for the art of goaltending, which he has in spades."
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The list includes the genus and species of 12,000 species, including over 4,000 fish, 4,000 invertebrates, and all known marine turtles, rays, skates, marine reptiles, and marine mammals… The first thing I did was to try to find any absentees. It is not easy. The coverage is fantastic… … keywording is an essential part of workflow for anyone who supplies their images to photo stock libraries. MLKL was built for these tasks and having tasted it I could never give it up. It is often said that time is money. I can't think of many other products, designed for underwater photographers, which will save you as much time for so little money. A highly recommended purchase.
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Booknotes (November '09)
1. Defending South Carolina's Coast: The Civil War from Georgetown to Little River by Rick Simmons (The History Press, 2009).
The comparatively little that is written about the Civil War along South Carolina's coast overwhelmingly focuses on the Charleston environs and the area to the south between that city and Savannah. What makes this book so interesting is that it shifts the attention in the opposite direction, up the coast. I admit I had to look up Georgetown and Little River on Google maps. If Georgetown's historical location is roughly the same as the current one, then the town was and is situated approximately halfway between Charleston and the South Carolina/North Carolina border (with the current Little River Inlet located just south of the state line) -- think Myrtle Beach and you're right in the middle of it. Can't wait to read it.
2. The Tygarts Valley Line June - July 1861 by Eva Margaret Carnes (McClain Publishing, 2003 3rd ed.).
This one was the subject of an earlier snapshot review, but I haven't held a copy of the newest edition until now. It's a softcover facsimile reprint of the staple bound 1961 original, with no new material. Focusing on June 3 battle at Philippi and the Belington skirmishes fought during the second week in July, this remains a very worthwhile study of the early stages of the 1861 western Virginia campaign.
3. The Battle of Franklin: When the Devil had Full Possession of the Earth by James R. Knight (The History Press, 2009).
This short battle history is also part of THP's Civil War Sesquicentennial series. I haven't cracked it open yet, so it's too early to tell if the Hoodites will flip out over it.
1 comment:
- Chris EvansNovember 04, 2009
I tend to think that it wasn't all Hood's fault, he was put in a impossible situation at Atlanta but the charge at Franklin was no more useful than Lee at Gettysburg on July 3rd or Burnside at Fredericksburg. I don't believe Hood was 'drugged up' as the legend goes but he had to be in much pain and the Tennessee campaign was not one of the greatest campaigns in military history. I know hindsight is 20/20 but I think Hood should have stayed in Georgia living off the land like Sherman did and sniping at the flanks of Sherman's armies. To get a army completely destroyed in front of Nashville did not benefit the Southern cause but Jefferson Davis was as much to blame. John Bell Hood was a very brave man but not the stuff army commanders are made of. He was truly one of the excellent division commanders of the war. He wanted to flank at Gettysburg but not Franklin. I have always thought that very strange.
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