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Growing with your baby
As the months go by and your baby grows, you also grow into your new role as a dad.
|Hello world!
That was a hell of a ride! After about 9 months of turning from a tiny cell into a baby, your newborn child needs to adapt to life outside the womb. Everything you consider trivial, from sleeping to grasping objects or eating, is new to him. And in a very short time, what seems impossible and complex will become a part of his daily routine and everyday life.
|Grasp reflex
In the first few weeks when you put an object in baby's hand, he flexes his palm and holds the object. This is done by reflex rather than consciously.
|Involuntary smile
Smiles appear around the age of 4-10 weeks in response to external stimulus such as your voice, other familiar voices, or music.
|I have hands!
Towards the age of 8 weeks baby becomes aware of his own hands. He starts putting them in his mouth to explore this new found discovery.
|Eye muscles are strengthened
Around the age of 2-2.5 months, baby's ability to focus improves and he starts to follow objects with his eyes. At the age of 3 months, baby starts to recognize colors.
|Hand - Eye coordination
Around the age of 2-3 months, baby starts to master the movement of his hands, reaching out for objects that he sees.
|Welcome toyour new life
Ok, so you're a father.
Breathe again.
In the first days of your baby's life, you'll find comfort in the notion that nobody becomes a dad overnight. You might look at your bundle of joy and think, "Now what?" or "How many diaper changes could one tiny baby need?" At the same time, you'll know that this baby is the love of your life, your pride and joy, your everything…
Soon, you'll be watching the Wiggles instead of Sunday football. You'll be eating cheerios for breakfast with baby instead of bacon and eggs with your buds. You'll be sleep deprived, in love and learning each day along with baby. Your baby's fascination with the world will be contagious. His or her ability to learn new things, from grasping objects to crawling, will take center stage in your new life as a Dad.
Yes, things will be different. But no matter what you're thinking at 4 a.m., rocking your baby who still has yet to sleep a wink, you wouldn't trade this for the world!
So for now breathe, and know that the ride is beyond worth it. You'll look back and smile about those late nights someday
Good luck, Dad. And cherish the moments!
|The no sleeproutine
You will find that sleep is a huge privilege. Not a part of your constitutional rights as a father (although they really should have put it there!). The good news is that you get used to it, start to cherish short breaks and indulge yourself in afternoon naps on the weekends, because that never happened before… right?
|Who's driving that car?
Remember "fast and furious"? Well, forget it!
You are now one of the really slow cars you used to moan about. And that's a good thing.
|All you need is a smile
Who would have thought – the things you're gonna do just to earn a tiny little smile: singing in Falsetto, dancing when you really can't dance. Oh, and watch out – your baby's smile is addictive.
|Practice Practice Practice
Those dads at the park that change diapers with only one hand are just show-offs who practiced all day back at home! It takes a lot of practice, but – yes , you can prepare a bottle of formula within a minute, you will become immune to the smells and sights that come from your baby's diaper and you will manage to fold the stroller without reading the manual over and over. Practice.
|Picking the pace up
Your baby starts to roll over from stomach to the back. He's able to lean on one hand as he raises up the other. He can lie on his belly and raise his arms and legs in a swimming movement.
|Discovering the world by mouth
Around the age of 3-4 months, the mouth becomes crucial in exploring new things: it helps baby identify different textures and attributes.
|Depth perception
Around the age of 3-5 months babies develop depth perception.
|"Baby Talk"
Babies love listening to sounds and voices. Talking to your baby in a high "baby like" tone of voice will draw her attention. It's easier for her to identify higher voices.
|Your new playlist
Throughout the years, you've managed to establish a very distinctive taste in music-made your own playlists, looked for rare bootlegs …And now you find yourself humming "Itsy Bitsy Spider" while reading the paper. Really?
|Alter ego
Meet your new alter ego. Once you become a dad, your GQ mirror poses turn into Elmo impersonations.
|That's my baby!
Showing off comes with the territory, but watch out dad – in front of an audience your baby may want to do his thing, and not necessarily yours. Yes, he will take the spotlight, but in the end, you'll always be laughing the hardest and clapping the loudest!
|That's my name
By the age of 6 months, baby recognizes the sound of his name and turns his head when called.
|Let's crawl!
Baby starts to stand on all fours and move back and forth.
Around the age of 8 months, baby begins to look for objects that vanish from her sight Peek-a-boo games are common at this stage.
|Toy Tossing
At the age of 8 to 9 months, baby controls the ability to grasp and release objects. During this time he starts throwing objects and enjoys getting them back – only to throw them again.
Baby's nutrition expands to solid foods.
|Little investigator
Baby starts to explore the world around her by grasping, shaking, pressing, pulling and crushing objects.
|Where's my….
ABRA CADABRA!!! Welcome to an amazing show where things keep disappearing! Your phone ? Gone! Your keys? Gone ! The remote control ? Gone! Let's all give a round of applause to the amazing magician who is… YOUR BABY!
|Minister of defense
As your baby starts crawling and moving around the house, your need to protect him is bigger than ever. Making the house safe for your baby will become your number one priority.
|Back on track
GOOD NEWS! You and your wife are starting to get used to your new family life and routine. This is when your relationship gets back on track.
Baby sits confidently on his own and crawls freely. With some support, baby begins to stand and walk around furniture.
|Pincer Grasp
Around the age of 9 months baby can hold small objects with only her finger and thumb. As a result, baby also begins to use her index finger to point at objects.
|Field experiment
Baby starts learning things through experiments. For example, he throws a rattle to see if it makes a sound when it hits the floor.
|Past experience
Baby starts to learn from past experience. For example, she avoids toys or objects that make a lot of noise.
|Get in shape!
Remember all the times you said you'd go to the gym?
Well guess what – now you have a brand new training program: Baby boot camp! You find yourself running back and forth after your baby, who is crawling like a pro and taking his first steps.
|Baby toys
Call it "quality time", call it "development or enrichment time"…we all know you JUST LOVE playing with your baby's toys…
|Being a dad
Being a dad allows you to act foolish and be childish…which is what your wife claims you do anyhow…
|The paradox
You're so proud when he calls you "dad" way before he says "mom". What better proof of your amazing parental skills!!! And then he calls "DAD!" in the middle of the night, and you feel a bit cheated.
|And yes you're still tired...
Yet you learn to live with little sleep and still be a happy man and one incredible dad, if you don't say so yourself.


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ZAZEN TOMORROW (January 20, 2007)
I just wanted to make sure everyone knows there will be Zazen at the Hill Street Center in Santa Monica on Saturday January 20, 2007 at the regularly scheduled time. But I will not be there. There's a link to your right with all the detials.
Thanks again for all the messages of support.

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Sending Email from your PHP Applications
Communicating with website users via email is crucial to the success of any online service. The ability to deliver registration confirmations and newsletters, provide a convenient and relatively secure password recovery tool, and keep clients updated with shipping status reports are just a few of the reasons for incorporating email-based features into your website infrastructure. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to incorporate email delivery capabilities into your PHP applications via both its native mail command and a great third-party extension called HTML Mime Mail. I'll conclude the article with a few pointers regarding how to most efficiently carry out bulk email delivery.
The mail() Function
Sending email via a PHP script is easy because PHP offers a native function called mail(). It accepts five parameters, three of which are required and the other two optional. The required parameters include the intended recipient, subject, and message. The optional parameters include additional mail headers and execution options for the mail delivery service. On Unix-based systems this service is by default Sendmail, although you can use other email services such as postfix or qmail, provided that you use sendmail wrappers available to each package. You can specify the location of this service by modifying the configuration directive sendmail_path. On Windows-based systems PHP requires the address of an SMTP server, specified with the SMTP configuration directive. The mail() function looks like this:
boolean mail(string to, string subject, string message [, string addl_headers [, string addl_params]])Let's consider a simple example using the mail() function. The following script sends an email to firstname.lastname@example.com:
<?php $to = "email@example.com"; $from = "email@example.com"; $title = "Support subscription confirmation"; $body = <<< emailbody Dear subscriber, This email confirms your purchase of a 30 day email support subscription. Please direct all requests to firstname.lastname@example.com. Thank you, The Example.com support staff emailbody; $success = mail($to,$from,$title,$body, "From:$from\r\nReply-To:email@example.com"); ?>
When taking advantage of the addl_headers parameter, keep in mind you'll need to Note that if you neglect to include the From header, the email will be sent by the Web server daemon owner. When using the Apache Web server, it's standard practice to use the user nobody or create a new user named apache or www for specifically this purpose. Therefore the above email sender address might look something like email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com. Therefore, be sure to set this header value to lessen the possibility of confusion or accidental spam filtering.
The mail() function works great when you want to send just a simple email. However what about sending to multiple recipients? Sending HTML mail? Also, what about sending attachments? While you could use mail(), additional headers, and some additional programming to perform such tasks, there's another readily available solution that I'd like to introduce.
HTML Mime Mail
HTML Mime Mail is a very useful PHP class created and maintained by Richard Heyes (http://www.phpguru.org/). Available for free download and use under the BSD license, it's a fantastic class for sending MIME-based email. Offering an intuitive OOP syntax for managing email submissions, it's capable of executing all of the email-specific tasks discussed thus far, in addition to features such as handling attachments, sending plain-text emails, and sending HTML emails with embedded images. In this article I'll show you how to take advantage of this great tool.
Installing Mime Mail
HTML Mime Mail is available for download from Richard Heyes' website:
Uncompress the file to a location preferably accessible by PHP's include_path setting. If this setting isn't available to you (for instance, you're using a shared server ISP), then uncompress it to a convenient location. Then include the class in your script using the REQUIRE_ONCE statement. In the following example I've placed the HTML Mime Mail directory in the same directory as my script:
require_once("htmlMimeMail5/htmlMimeMail5.php");For this tutorial I'm using HTML Mime Mail version 2.5.1, which was rewritten for PHP 5. Take note that if you're still running PHP 4, you'll need to use an earlier version of the class.
Sending an Email
HTML Mime Mail's object-oriented interface makes sending email quite intuitive. In this first example I'll assign the sender address, subject, body text, and finally submit the message for delivery:
<?php require_once("htmlMimeMail5/htmlMimeMail5.php"); // Instantiate a new HTML Mime Mail object $mail = new htmlMimeMail5(); // Set the sender address $mail->setFrom("email@example.com"); // Set the reply-to address $mail->setReturnPath("email@example.com"); // Set the mail subject $mail->setSubject("Test HTML Mime Mail"); // Set the mail body text $mail->setText("This is the body of the test email."); // Send the email! $mail->send(array("email@example.com")); ?>As you can see, HTML Mime Mail offers a much more convenient means for creating and sending email messages than PHP's native interface. But this is just a sampling of this useful class's capabilities. Read on to learn more.
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Mississippi Graduate Criminal Justice & Legal Studies Programs | Grad Schools
Graduate Criminal Justice and Legal Studies programs offer a myriad of options for students exploring advanced degrees in fascinating areas that span criminalistics, criminology, forensic science, law enforcement, legal and paralegal studies and more! Whether you are oriented to researching the law, analyzing policy, investigating crime, understanding criminal behavior or protecting national security, there are a variety of Criminal Justice Graduate schools to choose from for your education. Studying on campus has some unique features that might suit the type of degree you are interested in, so read on to explore!
Graduate Criminal Justice & Legal Studies Program: Essentials
Graduate Criminal Justice and Legal Studies Graduate Program has appeal whether you are looking for extra credentials and expertise to prepare you for specific career, advancement in a current field, or to address building a more comprehensive knowledge base. Many graduate certificate programs are geared as post-baccalaureate programs, so if you are coming straight from an undergraduate degree, you might choose that route or a Masters in Criminal Justice and Legal Studies Program. Doctorate degrees are also available, and in an array of tracks- often you can find PhD, PsyD and Doctor of Management programs. Knowing what type of degree you are seeking might help you find an appropriate Criminal Justice School, as they may be known for different specializations.
Criminal Justice & Legal Studies Programs: Find a Graduate School
GradSchools.com makes it easy to find Criminal Justice Schools to fit your needs. If you start by choosing your subject, then your degree level, you can then look into campus-based programs by location. There are settings for city, state and country that will each yield results to select from. Then you can visit the college or university's site, request info and basically start refining your search process.
What are the potential advantages to studying on campus?
Access to facilities: In fact many graduate programs in Criminal Justice and Legal Studies actually involve some on-site work. In programs such as Forensic Science or Cybersecurity for instance, you might have to do some laboratory work, and being on campus means access to these facilities.
Learning in real-time: In programs where the focus is on law enforcement, management, or defense, there may be some programs that require the hands-on learning component that involves building interpersonal or leadership skills, so again, being at graduate school rather than on your computer may be beneficial.
Access: In terms of commuting, while you do have to 'get to class', many Criminal Justice colleges are factoring in the needs of their working professional students, with classes that may be scheduled evenings or weekends.
Interactions: Many students benefit from the social learning atmosphere and being able to meet their faculty and network with other students.
Choice: It may be harder to find online law degree programs that are accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA). Also, as stated above, some graduate programs involve fieldwork, internship, or other involved practical experience beyond the classroom, so your choices in certain fields may be greater for campus-based learning than online. (You can gage this in your own search).
Accreditation: Accreditation for Criminal Justice Colleges is important. Also, some programs may be run from Business Schools, so accreditation is equally vital. Many graduate programs will actually not admit students from unaccredited schools. There are two basic types of accreditation: institutional and special, or program accreditation.
- Institutional accreditation is the most common- it means that the college or university is accredited as a whole (credibility!). There is national and regional accreditation.
- The other type of accreditation is program accreditation (endorsed by the United States Department of Education.)
What Type of Graduate Criminal Justice and Legal Studies is right for you?
GradSchools.com has a great directory to help you find the program that aligns with your interests. Are you interested in law enforcement? Some programs might offer preparation to work as border patrol agent, crime scene investigator, FBI agent, federal air marshal, forensic engineer, fraud investigator, police officer, private detective, or surveillance officer.
Interested in behavior? Some programs blend sociology with criminal justice, (criminologist, criminalist, psychological profiler, penologist, or forensic psychologist).
Interested in Legal Studies and research? Law degree programs might prepare you to work as bailiffs, court reporters, judges, magistrates, lawyers, district attorneys, medical examiners, legal assistants, and paralegals.
Are you more interested in enforcing punishments against offenders? Try a program that might lead to working as corrections officers, correctional treatment specialists, probation officers, prison wardens, and substance abuse counselors in prisons.
Here is a mini-guide:
Criminal Justice and Criminalistics:
- Corrections
- Criminal Justice
- Criminal Psychology
- Criminology
Forensic Science
Homeland Security
National Defense
Law Enforcement, Policing and Investigation
- Security Management
Legal Studies
Environmental Law
- Health Care law
- Intellectual Property Law
- International Law
- JD/Law Programs
- LLM's –Masters of Law
- Taxation-Law
Types of Graduate Criminal Justice and Legal Studies Degrees
It is a good idea to verify what credentials are required for the specific career you have in mind. Sometimes an undergraduate degree is sufficient for entry-level positions, while other times a masters or PhD is preferred. Graduate Criminal Justice and Legal Studies degrees are available in:
Masters programs, such as Master of Public Administration: Criminal Justice Concentration, Master of Arts in Criminal Justice, Master of Science in Management-Homeland Security and many other choices. While undergraduate degrees are generalized, most masters programs entail research and are more specialized.
Doctorate Programs, such as Doctorate of Management-Homeland Security, Juris Doctor (J.D.), Criminology PhD, and J.D./PhD program amongst others. These establish one's expertise in their field.
Graduate Certificates, such as National Security Affairs Grad Certificate, Paralegal Studies program Certificate, or LL.M. in environmental and national Resources Law are designed as either post-masters or post-bachelor's programs.
Ready for the next step?
Whether you are seeking a Graduate Criminal Justice and Legal Studies program near you or prefer to relocate, studying on a college campus may be an unparalleled experience to learn and grow amongst others with the same or similar goals. Why not take the next step and let GradSchools.com help you find the graduate school that aligns with your goals?
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Players upgraded highlight the end-of-week list
The Revolution athletic training staff released the end-of-week injury list on Friday morning ahead of the final training session in Seattle before tomorrow night's match against Sounders FC.
Five players have been upgraded from the early week list, while a full complement of 19 players made the trip to Seattle, meaning the Revs will dress 18 players on Saturday for the first time since May 1 against Dallas.
NE Injury List - June 4, 2010
PROBABLE: Nico Colaluca (L knee sprain), Kheli Dube (R hamstring strain), Cory Gibbs (R hamstring strain)
QUESTIONABLE: Mike Videira (L ankle Os Trigonum)
DOUBTFUL: Matt Reis (L shoulder/knee surgeries)
OUT: Darrius Barnes (R ankle sprain), Preston Burpo (R leg surgery), Taylor Twellman (concussion)
Starting with who is not on the list, both Kevin Alston and Emmanuel Osei have been upgraded off of the list, where they were both listed as PROBABLE on Tuesday. Both also traveled to Seattle.
Three other players - Nico Colaluca, Kheli Dube and Cory Gibbs - have all been upgraded to PROBABLE from QUESTIONABLE on Tuesday's list. All three had varying degrees of participation this week at training, with Dube and Gibbs making the travel squad.
The rest of the list - Mike Videira (QUESTIONABLE), Matt Reis (DOUBTFUL) and Darrius Barnes, Preston Burpo and Taylor Twellman (all OUT) - remains the same from Tuesday.


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It had to happen — all the hype about Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe has given Batman a splitting headache. Or maybe it's just a visual metaphor for the clash of the two franchises in the cover art for the "Kollector's Edition" of the much anticipated upcoming game. The full image, and more details, under the jump.
The cover for this special North American-only version of the game — which will also include a print of the artwork and "exclusive video content" — was created by fan-favorite comic book artist Alex Ross, painter of Marvels and Kingdom Come. Kotaku has video of Ross creating the cover, giving you the chance to be impressed and confused by his method (Seriously, why does he do everything in black ink first if he's just going to paint over it anyway?). Alternatively, you can just spend as much time as we have nitpicking what's going on with the DC heroes' outfits — What's going on with Green Lantern's shoulder padding? What's with the Flash's armbands? Is that the post-Flash: Rebirth costume (in which case, which Flash is that?)? In case you're as anal as we are about these things, Comic Book Resources are reporting that DC will publish a tie-in comic that leads into the game's release, as created by Mortal Kombat co-creator John Tobias. Crisis On Infinite Modes, anyone?


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They look like torpedoes, but their mission isn't destruction.
In the mid-1990s, the Navy began funding research for small, robotic vehicles to perform unmanned reconnaissance in coastal waters. At WHOI, that helped spark the development of REMUS (Remote Environmental Monitoring UnitS), designed and built by Chris von Alt, Ben Allen, and colleagues in the Oceanographic Systems Laboratory.
Launched on pre-programmed underwater flight patterns and equipped with a changeable array of sensors, REMUS can map the seafloor or collect data on temperature, salinity, currents, phytoplankton abundance, and other seawater properties. The 5-foot-long, 80-pound vehicle can be launched and recovered by two people from a small boat, without a crane or special handling equipment. Easily programmed, REMUS can work alone for more than 20 hours before its batteries need recharging. It can travel at speeds up to 2.5 meters per second and to depths of 100 meters.
REMUS has proved a remarkable scientific tool, expanding researchers' ability to explore previously inaccessible regions. The Navy also gained a valuable tool: Sailors used several REMUS vehicles to detect mines in the Persian Gulf harbor of Umm Qasr in 2002. Navy officials said that each REMUS could do the work of 12 to 16 human divers, and the vehicles were "undeterred by cold temperatures, murky water, sharks, or hunger."
The Office of Naval Research also has funded Dave Fratantoni and colleagues at WHOI to develop another small, easy-to-deploy surveying technology—the glider. Gliders employ an internal displacement piston or an oil bladder to change their buoyancy. They now sink up to 200 meters (656 feet) in the ocean and then rise again to the surface, but vehicles under development will be able to dive ten times deeper.
Gliders fly in a saw-tooth pattern, measuring ocean properties and surfacing periodically to transmit data via satellite to scientists on ship or shore. They are slower than REMUS, but they can remain on the job for several months.
Valuable to the Navy, these new-generation undersea robots are also having productive non-military careers in the service of scientists exploring a wide range of ocean phenomena.
GLIDER READY FOR TAKE OFFWHOI Research Associate John Lund worked with naval personnel aboard USNS Bruce C. Heezen to deploy one of seven WHOI gliders used in an experiment in the western tropical Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Brett Merrill, 3rd Mate, Bruce C. Heezen)
UNDERWATER RECONNAISSANCEWHOI Senior Engineering Assistant Greg Packard puts a REMUS 600 autonomous underwater vehicle through a series of pre-launch checks on the WHOI dock before it is tested in the waters near Woods Hole. Crane operator Doug Handy stands by. The REMUS 600 can carry a variety of sensors for underwater surveying and mapping and, not incidentally, can be deployed through submarine torpedo tubes. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


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Serenity's affection
Check out the cover of German magazine Bunte. I don't think we've ever seen pictures of her looking so happy. And affectionate.
These were apparently taken in the Caribbean. Not sure who these dudes are. Maybe relatives? I'm considering that as a possibility because they're old and, to be honest, I don't want to picture her having sex with them. Just like I don't want to picture her having sex with her royal husband, though there are some similarities. All of these men have that senior citizen playboy air about them, non?
Whoever they are and whatever it is, she seems delighted. And how can we deny some delight in her life when, well, you know.
Here's Charlene with Prince Albert, that giant dork, on Day 2 of the Olympics watching Alpine skiing.
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Azar Nafisi on The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
Azar Nafisi talks with host Rich Fahle about her latest novel, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books, at the 2017 AWP Book Fair.
Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her multimillion-copy bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics of English and American literature to her eager students in Iran. In this electrifying follow-up, she argues that fiction is just as threatened—and just as invaluable—in America today.
Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination. Nafisi invites committed readers everywhere to join her as citizens of what she calls the Republic of Imagination, a country with no borders and few restrictions, where the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.
"No, Socialism Isn't Just More Government," with Chris Maisano
Part 4 of the "ABCs of Socialism" series, sponsored by Verso Books and Jacobin, featuring lectures and discussions with contributors of the "ABCs of Socialism" book.
You've probably seen the memes purporting to show just how socialist the United States already is by listing a bunch of government programs, services, and agencies.
The idea that any government activity is synonymous with socialism has major political and strategic implications. After all, if our country were already at least partly socialist, then all we would have to do is keep gradually expanding government.
Simply electing politicians to office or watching the government expand by its own momentum has never been, and never will be, enough. Economic power is political power, and under capitalism the owners of capital will always have the capacity to undermine popular democracy—no matter who's in Congress or the White House.
About the speaker:
Chris Maisano is a contributing editor at Jacobin and a union staffer in New York.
Neoliberalism, Climate Change, Migration: George Monbiot in conversation
An interview covering neoliberalism, migration, Brexit, Trump, community-building, climate change, democracy, power, globalization, and lots more.
George Monbiot's bestselling book How Did We Get Into This Mess? is now out in paperback.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
(Tim Duggan Books, 2017)
With Professor Tim Snyder, Yale University
From one of this generation's leading historians, this timely new book serves as a warning for 21st century threats to democracy. Snyder dissects the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the implementation of their catastrophic policies.
How Terry McDonell got Kurt Vonnegut to write for Rolling Stone
Legendary editor Terry McDonell on courting Kurt Vonnegut to write for Rolling Stone.
National Book Foundation head aims to be a cheerleader for literature
National Book Foundation executive director Lisa Lucas is the first woman and African-American to lead the non-profit that hands out the National Book Awards every year. Her aim is to promote a love of writing. James Brown reports.
Cheech Marin: "Cheech is Not My Real Name... But Don't Call Me Chong!"
The long-awaited memoir from a counterculture legend.
Cheech Marin came of age at an interesting time in America and became a self-made counterculture legend with his other half, Tommy Chong. This insightful memoir delves into how Cheech dodged the draft, formed one of the most successful comedy duos of all time, became the face of the recreational drug movement with the film Up in Smoke, forged a successful solo career with roles in The Lion King and, more recently, Jane the Virgin, and became the owner of the most renowned collection of Chicano art in the world.
Written in Cheech's uniquely hilarious voice, this memoir will take you to new highs.
Marilynne Robinson: "Fiction, Faith and the Imagination"
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelists Geraldine Brooks and Paul Harding will join physicist and best-selling novelist Alan Lightman to discuss the myriad ways faith informs the work of 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction winner Marilynne Robinson. The conversation will be moderated by Steven Knapp, president of George Washington University. Robinson will join the panel discussion for its conclusion.
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A major holiday airport has been shut as the first snow of the winter to hit southern England caused havoc with road, rail and air travel.
Stansted Airport in Essex, where the snow was particularly heavy, had to close at 6am on Wednesday, just as the first flights were due to operate.
Aberdeen and Luton were among other airports where the wintry conditions caused delays, while a number of main line rail services and Tube trains were delayed.
A Stansted spokesman said: "Northern Essex seems to have got the worst of the snow and we had to shut the airport at 6am. The roads round here are treacherous."
Aberdeen airport said there was snow overnight and there could be delays to flights, while Luton airport in Bedfordshire also warned of possible delays.
On the railways, where passengers have endured floods and a series of non weather-related problems of late, there were a number of routes that were snow-affected. No trains were able to run between Watford Junction in Hertfordshire and Harrow and Wealdstone in north-west London, while snow caused disruption between London and Reading in Berkshire.
Trains were unable to run between Barnes and Hounslow via Brentford in west London, while there were delays between London and Ashford International in Kent and also between Sevenoaks in Kent and Hither Green in south-east London.
Stansted was able to open again just before 8.30am, but a spokesman for the Essex airport warned passengers that some flights had been cancelled and others would be delayed.
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Christmas is right around the corner, which means it's time for the annual sports writer tradition of announcing our sports wishes for the coming year.
Christmas is right around the corner, which means it's time for the annual sports writer tradition of announcing our sports wishes for the coming year.
Yes, it's a little cheesy, but I think some light-hearted cheese is needed right now.
Let's start with the team that needs the most positive vibes right now, the Kansas City Chiefs. For Romeo Crennel and his players, the past 12 months have probably been one of the most trying any program could hope to go through. I don't think anyone would blame Crennel if he stepped down at the end of this season, and that's not even taking into account the circumstances surrounding the murder/suicide of Jovan Belcher.
Rumors going around the Internet Wednesday afternoon, however, suggested the decision may be taken out of Crennel's hands, which may be a blessing for the beleaguered coach. But one can't help but wish everyone involved with the Chiefs some much-needed time to grieve and come together as a family in the face of so much strife.
For the Kansas City Royals, I offer the hope their blockbuster trade that sent several players, including starting outfielder Wil Myers, to Tampa Bay for pitchers James Shields and Wade Davis turns out to be beneficial.
While some doubts as to the long-term benefits of the trade for the Royals have been voiced, it has gotten the fans excited for the coming season. For a team that's been 'rebuilding' for much of the 2000s, that is a good thing.
To NHL fans, I wish for your pain to quickly be over and for the players and owners to work out their differences and get everyone back on the ice ASAP. And, of course, if you are jonesing for some hockey action, the Wichita Thunder are at the top of the Berry Conference with a 17-7-2 record and well worth the trip down Interstate 135.
Bill Snyder and the Kansas State football team would likely roll their collective eyes at any wish of a Fiesta Bowl win against Oregon. After all, wishes don't win football games; hard work, sweat, and Collin Klein's bloody elbows do.
To K-State basketball fans, especially the ones on the message boards, I wish for you to take a step back from the keyboard, breathe and realize Frank Martin's teams struggled before conference play, also. Bruce Weber deserves a full season to either crash or succeed, not a month and a half.
For KU football fans, I offer my sincere wish that this year's recruiting class does, indeed, live up to their self-appointed "Dream Team 2013" monicker. The Jayhawks have been the weak link in an otherwise stacked Big 12 the past several seasons, and a conference that boasts bowl eligible teams top-to-bottom can only benefit everyone in the conference.
To all of the area sports teams, college and high school, I wish for your holidays to be restful, as the crazy really begins starting Jan. 3.
And to you, the reader, I offer my sincerest hopes of happiness this holiday season. We began this journey together barely more than two months ago, and I thank you all for your continued support.
I close with some heavy sap, warranted, I feel after the past few weeks. Whatever you celebrate this season, I truly wish for us all to embrace one another. Life is far too fleeting to waste it on hate.


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I put this article in the category Info, but I don't know whether this is ok. I'd appreciate, if there where ideas for another or for a new category, where such articles fit better. Suggestions which other articles should be in such a category are welcome, too. --Erik Krause 21:23, 30 April 2008 (CEST)
Hmm, I'd say it seems like a school lesson explaining how things work. I can imagine at least 2 subclasses fort this kind: Lessons explaining how it technically works and lessons explaining how to shoot/choose a composition. These are not tutorials, because a tutorial tells you step by step how to do a job. Possible titles for the category that come to mind are: Classroom, Lectures, Primers, Howitworks, Understanding. A native english speaker could probably come up with the word that says it all. So you'd get something like:
- Classroom:Stitcher technology
- Classroom:Panorama photography
This page would be in the first category. The second category would be good for e.g. composition tips and tips on setting up your camera. --Serge 13:18, 1 May 2008 (CEST)
I'd say it is an introduction to stitching, and the almost top of a pyramid. Prior to it is shooting, and after it is publishing. This one is Stitching. I second Serge's idea. I'm no native language speaker and have no alternative keywords to offer. I'd prefer "HowItWorks".
IMO it would make sense to add list of links under each step of the process (remapping, exposure, blending), to
- related tutorials/"HowTo"
- more detailed HowItWorks
- software used or, better, to a comparison of them
If the above exist.
I would remove the time element from it (2008). If a time element is needed, I'd put it into a blog, and just keep here the latest version. Could be interesting to have a "historical" timeline of stitching later on.
Last but not least, I'd link this page, once it is the top of the pyramid described above, on the Main Page, where there are three automated site overviews (which I'd rather put in the end, like books have their (automated) index at the end and link this page inside "Working with the Panorama Tools". This page shows to the new reader what advantage he will get if he dwelves into reading the details of the wiki and belongs IMO even before the "Getting started" page.
--Yuval 14:03, 1 May 2008 (CEST)
What does a native speaker think about Background? Or is How it works better? --Erik Krause 20:18, 1 May 2008 (CEST)
I am certainly happy to have this writeup interlinked with other pages. On purpose I did not mention that I used hugin and enblend for this work, as I thought that it should be a generic write-up. Nevertheless I am happy to have this discussed if one feels to add a footnote telling about the tools used.
Regarding the year, I feel it is worth to have this as a snapshot in time (as well). Although I do not mention it, the alignment is to subpixels but not perfect (I believe it is not parallax error). The seam finding of enblend is non-perfect - if one knows where to look on sees an offset in a vertical line. I would not rename this page, but I would be more than happy to have to contents copied to another page. Maybe State of the Art Stitching? Not 100% sure about the name.
Obviously one can complement this page with a (how this was achieved)-page, but that would come close to duplicating the already existing two images tutorials. I also could show the result of the intelligent seam finding and so on, as I do have these images on file back at home.
I have added:
At the time of photography, a few points have been observed that make these photos good raw material for proper stitching.
which should link to concise guidelines of what is necessary - and what not - for images to be stitched. Maybe I find some time to start such a page. --Klaus 17:12, 2 May 2008 (CEST)
Overall picture
I am wondering about a top-of-pyramid page.
Making panoramas is about:
- Photo Shooting - How to obtain suitable photos.
- Stitching - The stitching process.
- Viewing and Publishing - What to do with a panoramic image.
So far my thoughts
I have reworked this article into How Stitching Works. It is the page to show if I want to explain how stitching works. This page here is if I need to make the point why not to use simple photoshopping. -- Klaus 01:42, 3 May 2008 (CEST)
And I note that so far there is no wiki page here called Stitching. -- Klaus 23:48, 2 May 2008 (CEST)


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A few hours after the Rolling Stones announced their first North American tour since 2006, including a date May 28 at the United Center, Mick Jagger called and answered a few quick questions.
Q: After the Stones came off the road the last time, did you think another tour was inevitable?
A: They're never inevitable. Everyone had a really good time in the five shows before Christmas (in London, New Jersey and New York). We wanted to see how the band was playing, how people were reacting. We didn't get too much moaning or complaining. What was quite good is that we set a small goal. We rehearsed for a long time, as if we were doing 100 gigs. But it's helpful to do these things in bite-size pieces, so you're not feeling there's this dreadful endless thing of being on the road. You knew it was going to be done. Similarly, this tour has modest demands. At the beginning of the summer you're done. We're not going crazy, so everyone was up for that.
Q: Why did you book arenas instead of stadiums?
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Q: Your old guitarist, Mick Taylor, will be touring with you for the first time since the '70s. How did that come about?
A: He played very well as a guest in the shows last year, though he only played on one song. We had a lot of guest guitarists. It was fun trying to keep track of all of them. I was scared of announcing the wrong guy, like introducing Jeff Beck instead of Eric Clapton or something. I had to have cue cards in front of me with so many guests. Ronnie (Wood) would stand behind me saying, "You've got the wrong one!" But Mick Taylor played well, and he's going to do a guest spot on this tour. I don't know how many songs it will be.
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Live Report by Luigi "Gee" Anzalone – Photos by Marita Mirabella
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After seeing the PRIMORDIAL Rock'n'roll Romagnano Sesia in late February, I find myself in the same venue almost three weeks later to see another big band with a historical big name, SOILWORK. I also feel obliged to be present at the show, mainly because with the headliner of the night there were two bands that attract me a lot and I've never had the opportunity to see them live: the Swedish DARKANE and SYSTEM DIVIDE, a new band which is known because the drummer of Fear Factory Mike Heller, was their drummer, and having listened to their new single Ephemera, I had been impressed by the work of Mike on that song. So I promised myself to go and see them the first time I had the opportunity.
Unfortunately, being able to get to Romagnano only around 10pm due to a mishap, I completely missed the opening band and I get in to the club when DARKANE were beginning their show. I slide in the direction of the stage and someone told me that SYSTEM DIVIDE have had to give up the whole tour due to personal problems of some members of the band, and the opening act was by the Italians LOGICAL TERROR, who I have not had the opportunity to see.
And that's how I came to look closely at the performance of DARKANE. I was amazed by the energy that could be unleashed from their songs, powerful riffs without frills, a war machine driven by Swedish Peter Wildoer on the drums. At the same time there was the frontman Lawrence Mackrory, ready to almost charge the half thousand people (in my opinion) present in front of the stage. Despite the Italian crowd, they initially took a good half hour to warm up. I also saw that the band members had no co-ordination on stage, which helps to make the show even more spontaneous, perfectly in line with the type of music played.
Once DARKANE ended the show we waited for the stage techs to finish arranging the SOILWORK equipment on stage. When all was done I could see the six members of SOILWORK from Helsingborg, getting on stage and take place behind their instruments. Once the intro finished they started immediately fast-paced, with a powerful song list composed mostly from their last album released in 2013; "The Living Infinite", beautiful melodic death metal with synth inserts, melodic chorus and verses sung in a vitriolic style .. to see Dirk Verbeuren behind the drumheads is always impressive, so precise in the timing like a Swiss clock and as powerful as a tank.
I admired the performance of singer Björn Strid most of all, for having sung at full capacity for more than 90 minutes without stop, alternating changes of voice without any fail. In my opinion SOILWORK is very underrated, they are close to 20 years of existence and they have never experienced the success that they deserve in my opinion. Their live performance was very high quality, and each song was played and sung with perfection, almost as if it was the album being played in stereo. I certainly appreciated the work of their audio engineers who work with them on tour. I happened to hear some criticism at the end of the show, belittling their last studio album, comparing the product to an album for "metalcore teenagers." But I think that after 9 albums and nearly 20 years of activity, a band like this also need to experiment and change some aspects of their sound, adapting it to the actual times we are living in. Even though I still prefer SOILWORK's "A Predator 's Portrait", I agree with the music choices of the band.


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The yet-to-be-published findings reveal that 25 percent of executives outside of IT are directly selecting vendor tools entirely on their own or more than IT executives. Also, 25 percent of executives are negotiating directly with vendors or managing relationships with those providers.
A number of factors play into this shift, according to Bobby Cameron, vice president and principal analyst with Forrester. IT departments today, mired in major projects like systems planning and architecting, have a difficult time meeting the needs of their various business units, he says. And with the continued rise of software-as-a-service and business process outsourcing, executives outside of IT can more easily buy into tools and services they don't have to manage in-house. "The business executives aren't hiring dweebs who come into the IT organization--they're hiring dweebs to do the work that delivers on business," says Cameron, who's heading the research.
Those figures are expected to drop to 18 percent for both by 2010, he says, adding that businesses would much rather have IT handle purchasing responsibilities. "That's what they want, because it's a pain," Cameron says. "If they could get someone out to do it, they would."
Still, when leaving others to manage critical software or processes, businesses need to worry about risks to security, compliance, performance and data integrity.
So how can CIOs respond? Cameron sees two possibilities. The wrong choice is for IT to try to pull control back into the department. Barring the door won't stop everyone from bringing in new technologies; in today's Web-centric world, IT officers would literally have to block Internet access to achieve total control.
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Brandy Jo Guyer, 29, of Kuhn Road, Greencastle, died suddenly on Thursday, May 2, 2013. Born Sunday, Nov. 13, 1983, in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of Todd Eugene Guyer and Kimberly A. Johnson, both of Newburg. Brandy was of the Lutheran Faith. She was a United States Army Veteran serving in the Iraq War as a Combat Medic. She was a 2001 graduate of Chambersburg Senior High School and was presently attending classes at HACC. Brandy was employed at Pinnacle Health Harrisburg as a Surgical Processor. She loved and cherished her children and family. In addition to her parents, she is survived by her two children, Ariyana Nikole and Carter Joseph, her fiance, of two years, Joshua M. Statler of Greencastle, two half brothers, Tucker Rae Guyer and Shane Williams and one half sister, Shian Lea Guyer, stepmother, Lori Ann Guyer, stepfather, Anthony W. Johnson Jr. all of Newburg; maternal grandfather, Thomas A. Graham Jr. of Orrstown, paternal stepgrandparents, Lester and Polly Bryan of Newburg; and maternal stepgrandparents, Anthony and Kathryn Johnson of Upper Strasburg; and David and Joan Kauffman of Chambersburg. Brandy was preceded in death by her maternal grandmother, Dorothy M. Graham and one cousin, Lori M. Adams. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, May 7, 2013, at 2 p.m. in the Fogelsanger-Bricker Funeral Home Inc. with Pastor Dennis Adams officiating. Burial will be in Parklawns Memorial Gardens with military honors conducted by the Shippensburg Veterans Council. A viewing will be held Monday, from 6 until 8 p.m. and one hour prior to the service on Tuesday in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, Franklin and Fulton Unit, 384 Floral Ave., Chambersburg, Pa. 17201. Online condolences may be expressed at: www.fogelsanger-brickerfuneralhome.com �


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I'm reorganizing some of the booklets that I keep discs in. I'm trying to group the discs roughly by producer and then by era/time. I know many producers went over a broad period of time, so I'm trying to roughly arrange them in some sort of order based on their prime or when they first caught their stride.
What kind of a sequence would you put these producers in?
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's top securities regulator said on Tuesday it would take no action against the developer of the Trump International Hotel in Toronto after looking into complaints by investors who bought condos in the troubled project.
"After a thorough review of the matter, we have determined not to pursue regulatory action," the Ontario Securities Commission said in a statement.
The brief investigation by the OSC had prompted Talon International Inc, which developed the 65-story granite and glass hotel-condominium tower, to delay its closing date for final payments on condos by two weeks to December 13 as it cooperated with the inquiry.
With the OSC's decision, disgruntled investors who are trying to get out of their contracts to buy luxury condos in the project are left scrambling to find financing for their purchases.
More than a dozen buyers are suing Talon to get out of the deals, while the developer is suing others who filed notice earlier in the year of their refusal to close.
While real estate mogul and TV personality Donald Trump's company did not develop the property, the Trump Hotel Collection manages the property, which opened this year in Toronto's business district. A lawyer for the Trump Organization has said the lawsuits are a simple case of buyer's remorse.
Buyers, many of them foreign investors, have complained the project has been far costlier and less profitable than the developers promised and argued Talon sold them an investment rather than a condominium. The property contains 118 residential condos and 261 hotel-condos that go into a rental pool.
Investors have also struggled to secure mortgages on the units, which are to be rented out to hotel guests as part of a pool of privately owned units. A lawyer for several buyers said banks and tax authorities view the units as commercial rather than residential properties, subject to far higher tax rates and riskier and more expensive lending rates.
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- The Zeller family (of Luke, Tyler, and Cody fame) runs "DistinXion," which is, as they call it, "a basketball/cheerleading and character training camp." Yesterday, new Indiana signee Cody posted on the organization's website his 10 favorite NCAA recruiting rules, with personal tidbits on how he and his family have dealt with them as coaches have made their cases to the boys over the years. It's definitely worth a read, if only to hear Cody explain how programs can get around the phone-call restrictions, how some schools sent him empty envelopes in the mail, how Old Dominion made a great impression, and why everything he's written for his family's site has to be removed after he enrolls at IU.
- Yesterday it was player pinball, today it's more of the coaching carousel. With Billy Kennedy off to Texas A&M, Murray State decided to promote from within and move assistant coach Steve Prohm into the honcho position. While we're sure Prohm has his own way of runnin' things, we'd say future Racer teams will look similar to those under Kennedy, since Prohm had a 12-season association with Kennedy over three schools. Why mess with success?
- The move that turned some heads yesterday was Ed DeChellis leaving Penn State and going to…Navy. Yes, that Navy. Why would a coach at a major-conference program that made the Big Ten Tournament title game and the NCAA Tournament last season leave his alma mater for a place that has virtually no hoops tradition, offers a smaller salary, and possesses admissions criteria that make it near impossible to put together a team that can win at the D1 level? Despite this past season's "success," next year was going to be another tough one for PSU, a place that barely acknowledges its basketball program, anyway, so perhaps DeChellis was just getting out a little early on his own terms to a place that genuinely wants him.
- Maryland, it's your tax dollars at work. The Baltimore Sun offered a breakdown of the highest-paid state employees yesterday, an interesting discussion for a couple of reasons. Most of the people who make more than the governor (who makes $150K) work for the university system, or are doctors employed by the state's (rather alarmingly named) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The highest-paid state employee in 2010? Gary Williams, who pocketed $2.3 million, though most of that came from endorsements/appearances, etc, added onto a base of over $450,ooo.
- Let's give a shout to Kenneth Lyons of the University of North Texas. Not familiar? Well, he's the all-time leading scorer for the Mean Green and he's in the school's athletics hall of fame. He left the program after four years in 1983 without a degree, and the Philadelphia 76ers drafted him, but he never played a single game in the NBA. In 2000, he returned to UNT (it was North Texas State when he played hoops there) — not as a coach or a graduate assistant, but as a student. Tuition money has been hard to come by at times, but two weeks ago, 32 years after he started it, Lyons finished his degree in sociology. If you think college basketball has changed a lot in 32 years, just consider how different life in a classroom is now compared to then.


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Colonie assemblyman weathers challenge by Republican newcomer
ALBANY -- More than a week after the election ended, Bob Reilly officially won a fourth term in the Assembly, representing the 109th district.
After Albany County finished counting absentee ballots Friday, the incumbent Democrat led Republican newcomer Jennifer Whalen by a total of 542 votes.
Whalen was at the Board of Elections Friday morning but left shortly after the completion of counting for the first 44 election districts in the Assembly district, which includes Colonie, Clifton Park and Halfmoon. Reilly was not present.
Reached by phone, Reilly said he was pleased to survive politically when other suburban Democrats in the Assembly were defeated.
"For me, given the mood of the electorate, I think it was a vote of confidence in what I've done and what my staff has done," he said.
Reilly said he expected a challenging year ahead.
"It's going to require a lot of sacrifice," he said, but he aimed to make sure that any cuts made were fair.
Whalen called Reilly to graciously concede around 3 p.m. Friday, he said.
Whalen said she was satisfied with her efforts.
"I can't be happier with the fact I'm a newcomer and I almost unseated an incumbent," she said.
Whalen said she really wanted the job and could run for office again.
"I loved every minute of it," she said. "I wish I could have closed the gap, but 542 votes is a pretty great accomplishment."
A lawyer and real-estate agent, Whalen said she is struck by how few people are even looking at homes now.
"People don't even have hope right now. They are not even dreaming," she said. "I'm looking forward to change quickly. I'll continue to be active in the community. It's been a really great run. I've really enjoyed the people I've met. I'm going to watch to see what happens. I want to make sure the state rises up from the ashes."
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As for the topics -- drug use, Lamar's troubled marriage to Khloe Kardashian and his future in basketball.
Oprah and Lamar have history ... during her Kardashian special, she spoke with everyone in the family including Lamar. He's been skittish about doing interviews with anyone, but O seems to be an exception.