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Review that is possitive but didn't sit right with me personally...
Review that is possitive but didn't sit right with me personally...
perhaps its the old ad agency maxim "any publicity is good publicity"? I too found it pretty lame. She is NOT a top tier journalist IMO.
It's true about handling, maybe not for every BMW but comparable models - 5-series. The weight of the car plays a role in it.
Tesla's acceleration is superb but handling is not as tight, although it does give you enough feedback.
They know there's a way to improve it, Elon's car apparently has an upgraded suspension and wider tires on the back, they are thinking of making a performance plus version.
Cruise control on top is annoying, that was common feedback at AMP events, but it's something from Daimler, just takes getting used to.
I don't think it's available yet, other than on Elon's car.
Don't get me wrong, it still has great handling, I was able to test it extensively since it was the first AMP event and they had almost no restrictions.
I hope they will offer it as an upgrade later.
I can say that the feel, handling and performance is similar to what you would experience with an 8-series BMW. Although, the Tesla is superior in handling in many aspects.
That's why I loved it!
I thought the 4G comment was silly. If you have 4G capable phone that tethers to your Tesla, isn't that a 4G connection? Granted, it's not Tesla's own 4G connection, but I would think that's an easy way to overcome that 'limitation'.
Also, the comment about visibility was a new one. Has anyone else commented that visibility was poor? I can't recall this, and when I test drove, I didn't notice this either. I wonder if she was referring to the rear window?
she was referring to the rear window, but I didn't notice that, felt normal to me.
"She also commented on visibility and the cruise control being "annoyingly" above the turn signals." I have to agree with her on these. The slope of the hatchback does restrict the field of view out the window (not in an unsafe way IMO) and the location of the cruise control stalk is where the turn signal is in a lot of other cars.
The perception on the handling is highly subjective and individual. If they modified the car to please her, some others would complain they liked it better before.
Not having driven any other high-performance cars really, I'm more than happy (ecstatic, actually) with the handling, acceleration and everything else about the car. The cruise control location will take getting used to, but so will the ginormous touch screen, the acceleration, the vast storage space, etc, etc. I look forward to getting used to all of that :)
When she was complaining about the visibility, I think she was also concerned about size of the B pillars
Well, I drove the Tesla Model S at the Santana Row last weekend. (performance model) I currently own 325i and an Acura TSX, both class leaders in their own right in the handling department. I tend to favor nimble handling, great steering feedback and lightness over raw power. I have also driven many BMWs and Porsches. I know a lot of about automobiles, from the ride/ handling compromises, to thickness of anti-roll bars and how it affects roll in a car, for example.
My feedback about the Model S is this:
Steering: very neutral, solid, good feedback, nice and thick wheel.
Handling: bit ponderous at slow speeds, as expected, glued to the road in twisties, a bit harsh over uneven pavement. My benchmark here is the BMW M5, and I think it compares very favorably with it.
Acceleration: beyond awesome, blows everything away.
NVH: negligible, but not as quiet as I was anticipating, owing in small part to the 21" wheels and sports tires.
Interior: decent. Could be more well appointed, with more lux, and better, more comfortable seats, but not a deal breaker for me.
I put down my deposit.
Molly wood is a bit dingy but charming personality. She often gets the facts wrong so this is nothing new.
@reach (sorry, a little OT)
Thanks for your opinions on the handling. Do you AutoX? If so, do you think the Model S could compete with the BMW's?
Also, what was the deciding factor for the deposit?
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Only thing that really bothered me with the review was the 0-60 time, 5.6 vs. 4.4 performance is at least a $30k difference in any vehicle line. Everything else is pretty much non-professional driver opinion (except MB control stalks, why doesn't this stand out as much on MBs own reviews?).
They should have just let her play with the 17" display and ended it there. I was a little surprised that she was so impressed as a regular tech journalist.
They have a more accurate review by brian in the car tech section, Molly Wood just wanted an excuse to drive the car. http://cnettv.cnet.com/cnet-road-tesla-model/9742-1_53-50132356.html
I don't auto-x, but I have been advised by some of my friends to take (!) my little Bimmer to the track. Now these guys are automotive engineers, who I happened to have befriended at auto exhibitions ( some GM, some BMW). I would not abuse my Bimmer to that extent. Heh heh.
Anyways, Tesla Model S is tailor made to compete. It's charge should hold up to others, is all. I am sure Elon and company are hard at work on a competitive racing build of the Model S.
I'd like to say some thing about CNET . They best review technology. Cars, they should honestly not review. Couple of years back, they had ranked the Lexus LS 4xx as the best car they had ever reviewed, or something to that effect. While a good car, it's handling and feel is that of a sofa on wheels. It's laughable how CNET and Consumer Reports feel they can review cars. ( one can do tech reviews well, the other, Kitchenaid mixers, and their reliability) in that aspect, Car and Driver, Automobile do much better job.
My decision came down to this: this is really a pure bred 4 door sports sedan. I mean, who gives me a rear engine, rear drive, sedan, with rear-biased static weight distribution? No one else! Sure it could stand to lose, say 1000 lbs, but the weight is so low to the ground, you only feel it when making slow turns or slalom.
Who is Molly Wood???
The 4G comment is completely valid. I have yet to get an answer whether the Model S is 4G/LTE capable (and not enabled) or if it is just 3G and will need a hardware upgrade in the future.
I can say from personal history and driving experience; having owned a M5 BMW (500hp, V10), driven Merc AMG S65, Audi R6 and R4, unless you are driving pass 150 mph, handling is far tighter and more responsive on the performance Model S. What surprised me the most with the model s, was not the technology, but the acceleration and torque out put.
Versus the E60 platform M5: both are grippy, fast, and a bit ponderous, but for the feel :Model S does not suffer the higher CG, or the yaw created by the longitudinal mass of the front engine in the M5, or for that matter, I-6 in my Bimmer. That translates to a composed, flat cornering behavior, sans the ride compromises that usually accompany such rewards in a conventional sports sedan/car.
I would not mind having in the Tesla, the 'active' sports seats from the M5, though. ;-)
She also complimented the rear and side view camera views. Unfortunately, the latter do not exist.
About the 4G, etc., GB's hints about ongoing negotiations leave room for some surprises.
Yup, the reporter comes off as a poster-child for the notion that women are dumb as hell, when it comes to knowledge about cars. I was suprised when she didn't complain about the sun-visor not having proper vanity mirror...LOL!
Nah, she did all right; she just missed a few curves. ;)
It's just funny because how many other cars have 3G web browsers let alone 4g? What a silly comment.
Also, I would take the S to the BMWs I've driven any day! 6 series, 8 series, 3 series, and newer 645ci
I had a BMW 760 Li (V12 engine) and my Model S drives much better! Just received my Signature today and it is OUTSTANDING! Thank you Tesla! S351...
I don't have much experience with the cars being compared, but from brief test drives I would say the Model S has better acceleration and less body roll, but you do feel the extra weight in the corners. But, I think this is a subjective measurement and people are going to care about different things - personally I would greatly prefer the Model S, but I am sure there are drivers who like the cornering of a lighter car better.
I took a test drive this week and I have to agree with some of her comments.
I still love the car and am very happy to have one on order.
1. Rear view out the mirror is horrible. Good enough to see a car behind you but not good enough for backing up.
2. The rear window glass distortion is bad.
3. Blind spot is kind of big as well.
I backed into parking spot when done. This was in a garage with a white pated floor and wall. I found it very hard to judge how far back the wall was. I revered to using the camera but even with this it was hard since there was no depth perception.
The sun visor is the smallest one I have ever seen. Being I was driving at night I do not know how affective it is.
a. Need radar in back like BMW's
b. Need radar and auto break in front
c. blind spot detector
Final observation - when in parking deck going slowly we could hear some sort of buzz going on in the front. Was for sure not supposed to be there. Almost sounded like static on radio but this was off.
With a rear cam you never look behind you while backing up anyway. They just need to add guide lines. Sensor for the front would be nice.
Paint a few markers on the white floor and wall. Any design will do.
@BYT - since the battery weighs 1300 pounds, it would be really hard to shave a ton off via lighter batteries :).
450 kg + cooling etc. IIRC. The crash-proofing structure is mostly steel, I believe. And the "light" aluminum is not weightless.
@BYT, actual batteries weight even less than that 1300 lbs.
There are approx 8000 batteries in the battery pack. (8000 * 3.1Ah * 3.6V = 89kWh) Panasonic 3.1Ah batteries weight 46g each. That adds up 368kg which is only about 811 lbs. A big and heavy ICE drivetrain with automatic transmission probably weights easily the same or even more.
Wiring probably adds up some 100 lbs easily and structure and cooling fluids the remaining 400 lbs.
I was surprised as well about the actual car weight. I was expecting under 4000 lbs vehicle, not 4600+ lbs one. Apparently that aluminum body does not save weight that much after all. Car itself is quite heavy, even considering it's size. Five star safety rating probably causes big portion of that weight.
OTOH, similar-sized premium ICE cars weight about same.
I currently drive a MB S550, so everything was very familiar to me when I test-drove the "S". In fact, it is annoying to me when I drive any other car that the cruise control isn't in the top left spot.
@William9 | OCTOBER 6, 2012: I currently drive a MB S550, so everything was very familiar to me when I test-drove the "S". In fact, it is annoying to me when I drive any other car that the cruise control isn't in the top left spot.
I think Mercedes designed the cruise control and multifunction switch based on customer feedback. It's hard to image customers actually asking for it in this configuration.
Her complaints all seemed pretty trivial, given all the extraordinary features of what is clearly a revolutionary car. Perhaps she or her editor felt compelled to include some complaints, however small, so the review would be taken seriously. To me, these nitpicks are akin to complaining about the color of Michael Phelps' bathing suit.


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SAN JOSE — It was about winning any way to play another day.
Backed by the superlative goaltending of Cory Schneider and third-period goals by Alex Burrows and Alex Edler, the Vancouver Canucks appeared ready to take a bold step away from the playoff ledge that wouldn't plunge them into an early offseason of criticism and change.
A victory over the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday — the first in the Western Conference quarterfinal series and the first this season — was less than five minutes away when elements that have defined the matchup came into play. Kevin Bieksa took a cross-checking penalty, the vaunted Sharks power play went to work and Joe Pavelski's backhander atthe side of the net, his fifth goal of the series, forced overtime.
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"I don't know if I should right now — but it's a bullsh-t call," said captain Henrik Sedin. "I think it was shoulder-to-shoulder. We've got to keep working the referees like we do every year and we're going to get some calls in the future. We're not getting them now. We're going to get the benefit of the doubt sometimes.
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"We didn't play good enough to win the series," said Bieksa. "We just didn't get the job done. I'm not going to complain because the series is over, but both those calls were tough calls for me. They felt they were penalties and they were tough calls. Two guys battling on the wall and one goes hard into the boards. You see that every 30 seconds in the St. Louis- L.A. series, but we put ourselves in this situation.
"One bad call cost us the game."
It was looking like a snapshot of a season gone awry when Daniel Sedin put a Jannik Hansen rebound off the far post early in the third period while staring at nothing but net and the Canucks staring at a 2-1 deficit. Hansen was then hurt on a hit by Raffi Torres. But they didn't go quietly into the night and pressed the issue until Burrows took a backhand feed from Daniel Sedin in the crease and flipped it past Niemi at 9:12 to make it 2-2. Less than two minutes later, Edler unloaded a heavy snapshot from the point. The flurry was more encouraging than a bad first-period scurry by Derek Roy.
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The Canucks pushed back harder in Game 4 because of better balance and familiarity in their first three lines to start the night. Zack Kassian with Henrik and Daniel Sedin was decent and Ryan Kesler between Mason Raymond and Burrows was better. Roy with Chris Higgins and Hansen at least had some potential. And when Hansen aligned with the twins in the third period, there was a consistency of effort that had long been lacking.
A Burns deflection in the slot of a Scott Hannan wrist shot from the point — with Galiardi providing a partial screen — opened scoring at 2:41 of the first period. And when the Sharks kept coming Schneider had to make a power-play save off Torres before a Mason Raymond floater from the point hit Brad Stuart and found the net. The goal injected some life into the Canucks. Kesler drew a hooking minor and Raymond then forced Niemi to make a tough right pad save on the power play. Still, the great saves weren't enough.
A four-minute Sharks power play in the second period was crucial. Schneider foiled T.J. Galiardi, stopped two backhand attempts in tight off Raffi Torres and then dove across to stop Burns off a rebound kept the Sharks from building on a 2-1 lead. But even that wasn't enough.
"Very disappointing," summed up Henrik Sedin. "Last year, was a different feeling. We played a good team and they were very hard-fought games. We have to battle like this every night."
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|Clay Shirky's Writings About the Internet
Half the WorldJune 30, 2002
A good deal has been written about the digital divide, the technological gap that exists between the developed and developing world. If you wanted a striking illustration of the problem, you could turn to Thabo Mbeki's speech at the Information Society and Development Conference in 1996, where he told the delegates "Half of humanity has not yet made a phone call."
Or, if you prefer, Kofi Annan's speech to the ITU in 1998, where he said "Half the world's population has never made or received a phone call." Or Thomas Homer-Dixon's version, from a speech in 2001: "...half the people on the planet have never made a phone call." Greg LeVert of MCI said it at a telecom conference in 1994; Richard Klugman of PaineWebber said it in The Economist in 1995; Jeffery Sachs and Al Gore both said it in 1998; Carly Fiorina said it in 1999; Reed Hundt said it 2000; Michael Moore and Newt Gingrich both said it in 2001; and not content with merely half, Tatang Razak of Indonesia told the UN's Committee on Information "After all, most of the people in the world have never made a phone call...", in speech from April of this year.
The phrase "Half the world has never made a phone call" or some variation thereof has become an urban legend, a widely believed but unsubstantiated story about the nature of the world. It has appeared countless times over the last decade, in essentially the same form and always without attribution. Where did that phrase come from? How did it take on such a life of its own? And, most importantly, why has it gotten so much airtime in the debate over the digital divide when it is so obviously wrong?
You Can't Keep A Good Factoid Down
The Phrase is such a serious and important statistic that only the boorish would question its accuracy. There is a kind of magical resonance in advancing arguments on behalf of half the world's people, and it allows the speaker to chide the listener for harboring any lingering techno-optimism ("You think there's a revolution going on? Half the world has never made a phone call!") The Phrase establishes telecommunications access as a Big Problem and, by extension, validates the speaker as a Thinker-About-Big-Problems.
But saying "Half the world has never made a phone call" makes no more sense than saying "My car goes from 0 to 60" or "It rained 15 inches." Without including the element of time, you cannot talk about rate, and it is rate that matters in dynamic systems. Half the world had never made a phone call on what date? And what has the rate of telecom growth been since that date? Because it is that calculation and only that calculation which could tell us anything important about the digital divide.
Static Statements About Dynamic Systems
Virginia Postrel, in her book "The Future and Its Enemies", (ISBN: 0684862697) suggests that the old distinctions of right and left are now less important than a distinction between statists and dynamists. Statists are people who believe that the world either is or should be a controlled, predictable place. Dynamists, by contrast, see the world as a set of dynamic processes. This distinction is the key to The Phrase. Anyone who uses it is affirming the statist point of view, even if unconsciously, because they are treating telecommunications infrastructure as if it were frozen in time.
To think about rate, we need three things: original time, elapsed time, and speed of change. The figure first appeared in print in late 1994, when the Toronto Sun quoted it as part of Greg LeVert's speech at TeleCon '94. (Mr. LeVert was no statist -- though he seems to have accidentally bequeathed us The Phrase, no one now remembers that he introduced it as a way of dramatizing the magnitude of the coming change, and went on to predict a billion new phones by 2000.) Therefore we can restore the question of rate by asking what has happened to the number of telephones in the world between the beginning of 1995 and now.
Restoring Rate
The ITU estimates that there were approximately 689 million land lines in 1995, and a little over 1 billion in 2001. This is an average annual growth rate of just over 7%, and a cumulative improvement in that period of over 50%, meaning that the first two-thirds of the world's phone lines were run between 1876 and 1994, and the remaining third were run between 1995 and today. Put another way, half again as many land lines have been run in the last 7 years as were run in the whole previous history of telephony. So much for stasis.
Of course not all of this growth touches the problem at hand -- a new phone line in a teenager's room may increase several sorts of telecom statistics, but the number of people making their first phone call isn't one of them. Since The Phrase concerns the digital divide, we should concentrate on telecom growth in the less developed world.
From 1995 to 2001, 8 countries achieved compound average growth rates of 20% or more for land lines per 100 people (against a world average of 7%), meaning they at least tripled the number of land lines over the whole period. They were, in order of rate, Sudan (which improved six-fold), Albania, China, Sri Lanka, Viet Nam, Ghana, Nepal, and Cambodia -- not exactly the G8. China alone went from 41 million land lines to 179 million in those 7 years. And there were 35 additional countries, including India, Indonesia, and Brazil, with annual growth of between 10 and 20% from 1995 to 2001, meaning they at least doubled the number of land lines in that period.
And mobile telephony makes the change in land lines look tectonic. In 1995, there were roughly 91 million cellular subscribers. By 2001, the number had risen to 946 million, a ten-fold increase. Thirty countries had growth rates of over 100% annually, meaning that, at a minimum, they doubled and doubled again, 7 times, achieving better than hundred-fold cumulative growth. Senegal went from around 100 subscribers (not 100 thousand subscribers, 100 subscribers) to 390 thousand. Egypt went from 7 thousand to almost 3 million. Romania went from 9 thousand to almost 4 million.
Because wireless infrastructure does not require painstaking building-by-building connectivity, nor is it as hampered by state-owned monopolies, it offers a way for a country to increase its telephone penetration extremely quickly. By 2001, there were 25 countries where cell phone users made up between two-thirds and nine-tenths of the connected populace. In these countries, none of them wealthy, a new telecommunications infrastructure was deployed from scratch, during the same years that keynote speakers and commencement invitees were busily and erroneously informing their listeners that half the world had never made a phone call.
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So, in 2002, what can we conclude about the percentage of the world that has made a phone call?
The first, and less important answer to that question goes like this: Between 1995 and 2001, the world's population rose by about 8%. Meanwhile, the number of land lines rose by 50%, and the number of cellular subscribers by over 1000%. Contrary to the hopelessness conveyed by The Phrase, telephone penetration is growing much faster than population. It is also growing faster in the developing world than in the developed world. Outside the OECD, growth was about 230% for land lines and over 2,400% for cellular phones -- 14 million subscribers in 1995 and 342 million by 2001. If we assume that LeVert's original guess of half was right in 1994 (a big if), the new figure would be "Around two-thirds and still rising."
There is another answer to that question though, which is much more important: It doesn't matter. No snapshot of telephone penetration matters, because the issue is not amount but rate. If you care about the digital divide, and you believe that access to communications can help poor countries to grow, then pontificating about who has or hasn't made a phone call is worse than a waste of time, it actively distorts your view of the possible solutions because it emphasizes a statist attitude.
Though a one-time improvement of 5% is better in the short run than a change that improves annual growth by 1%, the latter solution is better in the medium run, and much better in the long run. As as everything from investment theory to Moore's Law has shown, it's hard to beat compound growth, and improving compound growth in the spread of telephones requires reducing the barriers between demand and supply. Some countries have had enormously favorable rates of growth in the last decade, so we should ask what has gone right in those countries. It turns out that money is less important than you might expect.
Examples from the Real World
In 1995, Brunei had almost twice as many land lines and 50 times as many cell phones per capita as Poland, not to mention more than twice the per capita GDP. By 2001, Poland exceeded Brunei in land lines, and had even matched it in cell phone penetration. Brunei is smaller, easier to wire, and much much richer, but Poland has something that all Brunei's money can't buy -- a dynamic economy. Ireland similarly outgrew Denmark and Egypt outgrew Kuwait, even though the faster growing countries were the poorer ones.
The Democratic Republic of Congo lost 16 thousand of its 36 thousand fixed lines but grew overall, because it added 140 thousand cell phones. Its unsurprising that people would abandon the state as a provider of telephones in a country riven by civil war. What is surprising is that Venezuela had the same pattern. Venezuela, with a monopoly telecom provider, saw its per capita penetration of land lines fall by 0.3% annually, while cell phone use exploded. In both cases, the state was an obstacle to telephone usage, but the presence of a private alternative meant that telephone penetration could nevertheless increase.
Bangladesh, with a per capita GDP of $1,570, has had annual cellular growth of nearly 150%, in part because of programs like the Grameen Bank's Village Phone, which loans a phone, collateral free, to women in Bangladeshi villages, who in turn resell the service to their neighbors. This is double leverage, as it not only increases the number of phones in use, but also increases the number of users per phone.
These examples demonstrate what makes The Phrase so pernicious. Something incredibly good is happening in parts of the world with dynamic economies, and that is what people concerned with the digital divide should be thinking about. If the world's poor are to be served by better telecommunications infrastructure, there are obvious things to be done. Make sure individuals have access to a market for telephone service. Privatize state telecom companies, introduce competition, and reduce corruption. And perhaps most importantly, help stamp out static thinking about telecommunications wherever it appears. Economic dynamism is a far better tool for improving telephone use than any amount of erroneous and incomplete assertions on behalf of half the world's population, because while The Phrase has remained static for the last decade or so, the world hasn't.
NOTES: The statistics on teledensity used here are drawn from the International Telecommunication Union (www.itu.int/). The statistics page is at www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/, and the documents concerning compound and overall growth in main telephone lines and cellular subscribers between 1995 and 2001 are at www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/at_glance/main01.pdf and www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/at_glance/cellular01.pdf respectively.
The estimates for the developing world were derived by treating the membership of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD, www.oecd.org) as a proxy for the developed world. Growth in the developing world was then derived by recalculating the totals from the ITU documents after removing the 30 countries in the OECD.
The figure for population growth was derived from the US Census Bureau's estimates of world population in 1995 and 2001. www.census.gov/ipc/www/worldpop.html
The original Toronto Sun piece, from the Business section of October 13th of 1994) read:
So you think the world is wired? Half the world's population -- an astounding three billion people -- has never made a phone call, a telecommunications conference was told Wednesday. "Most people on Earth live more than two hours from a telephone," Greg LeVert, president of U.S. giant MCI's Integrated Client Services Division, told delegates to TeleCon '94 in Toronto. Things are changing fast, though. "Nearly a billion more people will have access to a telephone by 2000," LeVert said.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Ode to My Family's History: Through the Lens of Gilbert and Sullivan
Jasia of Creative Gene has issued one of the most intriguing and difficult challenges of any Carnival of Genealogy for the 89th COG: The topic for the next edition of the Carnival of Genealogy will be: Ode to My Family's History! This time around we'll be composing a poem that tells our family's history. It can be long or short, rhyme or not rhyme, funny or serious, illustrated or not... you choose, but make it appropriate as an introduction for a book or video on your family history.
My choice of form for my "ode" to my family's history was dictated by two incontestable truths:
1. I cannot write poetry. It always turns into drivel and doggerel. However, the irresistible songs of Gilbert and Sullivan are an inspiring model, and thinking of the words as lyrics rather than poetry makes the words flow much more easily.
2. I do want to leave our family history to my children, but so far they have resisted becoming the least bit interested in it, so how can I pique their interest? Since I want to put the history in video form, what kind of videos would be sure to capture their interest (and my husband's interest as well)? What kind of videos have we all watched and enjoyed together since the children were little and do we still enjoy watching together? Gilbert and Sullivan, of course. And there is that tiny little fact that a huge role in the plot lines of Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas is played by genealogy and family lines.
Imagine that what follows is a short "act" or introductory scene for a very minor Gilbert and Sullivan operetta entitled "The (Not So) Humble Researcher." The casts consists of the Humble Researcher (HR), Chorus of Ancestors (COA), and the Faithful Guide (FG).
I apologize to the following:
- To W.S. and Sir Arthur, for mauling their music and mangling their lyrics.
- To Jasia, for stretching the concept of this Carnival of Genealogy 'til it screamed.
- To all my ancestors for casting aspersions on them.
- To you, my readers, for foisting this on you.
On with the show!
1. I Am the Queen of Ancestry (to the tune of "I Am the Monarch of the Sea")
(By HR, backed up by COA)
I am the queen of An-ces-try
The explorer of the fam'ly tree
Who looks up wills and schedules and grants.
And we are her uncles and her cousins and her aunts!
And we are her uncles and her cousins and her aunts!
Whenever I find a line
I must make sure it's mine
So I cite my sources and do the happy dance!
And we are her uncles and her cousins and her aunts!
And we are her uncles and her cousins and her aunts!
When an ancestor wants to hide,
I will not be denied
I examine all the angles, leaving nothing to chance!
And we are her uncles and her cousins and her aunts!
And we are her uncles and her cousins – she finds us by the dozens – all the wives, in-laws, and husbands – and her aunts!
2. We Are the Forbears of a Very Stubborn Family Seeker (to the tune of "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General")
(By COA, with slow solo by FG)
We are the forebears of a very stubborn family seeker
Who won't stop even when the scent is faint and getting weaker,
Our names are legion: Moore and Floyd and Brinlee, Dodd and McElroy
Norman, Matlock, Poore and Boyd and Finley, Todd and Pomeroy!
We've hidden in the census and we've dodged behind a muster roll
Found refuge in taxation lists and such assorted folderol,
But when we really want to hide, we choose to do it in plain sight
Just making sure our names are never EVER fully spelled quite right!
Just making sure our names are never EVER fully spelled quite right!
Just making sure our names are never EVER fully spelled quite right!
Just making sure our names are never EVER EVER EVER fully spelled quite right!
In fact when she knows what is meant by chart of consanguinity
When she can differentiate between close kinship and affinity
When she can calculate the probability of paternity
You'll say her research will endure intact for all eternity.
You'll say her research will endure intact for all eternity.
You'll say her research will endure intact for all eternity.
You'll say her research will endure intact for all eterni-terni-ternity.
(As fast as possible)
For all her family knowledge, though she's plucky and adventurey
Has only gone as far back as the tenth or eleventh century,
But still in matters historical, heraldic, and nonsensical
You'll say that she's an expert who's completely common-sensical.
3. With Eyes Sore and Red (to the tune of "With Catlike Tread")
With eyes sore and red, we climb the family tree,
No sleep at all, we're staying up 'til three.
Don't stop the search, you'll never find that heir
You'll end up without a prayer!
Hail, hail, the gang's all here:
GenWeb, Footnote, NARA,
Cyndi's, D-A-R – yeah!
Let's do demography -
And a proper bibliography!
Hail, hail, the gang's all here:
Hiram, Ebenezer,
Hopestill, Jane, Louisa.
Let's find that plat book:
At metes and bounds let's take a look!
Here's your white gloves and your flashlight!
Here's your Shown Mills – you may want to cite!
Take this census form, show due diligence.
Check the Guion Miller Roll, and maybe find the 'rents!
4. If Someday It May Happen (to the tune of "If Someday It May Happen" aka "I've Got a Little List")
If someday it may happen that a culprit must be found
I've got a little list, I've got a little list
Of genealogy's offenders whose research is never sound
Who never would be missed, who never would be missed.
There's Jaded Gedcom Grabbers who've never done a search
And when you ask them for their sources, leave you in the lurch,
Or the gent who must invent his lineage – purely fabrications
He's never checked a date of birth or counted generations.
But when you tell him, "Do the math!" or "Cease, cur, and desist!"
He'll flip you off and huff and puff
And end up on the list, he'll end up on the list.
And Random Searchers, Crass Collectors, even cousins twice removed
Without whose constant importuning life would be much improved!
Who must regale you with the numbers of their ahnentafel lists.
They'd none of them be missed, nor their bloody awful lists.
And even our own ancestors are not above reproach;
They might be on the list, just might be on the list.
Murderers, swindlers, gamblers, gangsters, some who like to poach -
They'll anyway be missed, we know they would be missed.
There's Hiram Brinlee, tried for murder, who relied on gun and fist
He's on the Wanted List – oh, yes, the Wanted List!
For dubious land speculation take Charles Augustus Floyd.
Delinquent taxes everywhere – I really am annoyed!
Oh, yes, he's on the list, the tax delinquents' list!
Sorry. I just couldn't help myself.
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Brilliant! Outstanding! WOW!!!ReplyDelete
Me thinks I am skipping this one! I cannot even begin! LOL
Bravo Greta! My ears are ringing a bit from all that stretching but I gotta give you credit for creativity! You did a fine job of telling your family history. :-)ReplyDelete
This is great, Greta! WonderfulReplyDelete
Wonderful! You get a standing ovation! Applause! Applause! Applause! Wish I had a bit of your creativity!!ReplyDelete
Absolutely brilliant!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 21, 2010 at 10:34 AM
Oh my gosh, Greta, these are EPIC!ReplyDelete
*standing ovation*
FANTASTIC!!!!!! :-)ReplyDelete
Greta, the Great! Very clever! And I laughed and giggled my way through the sets. Definitely a grabber for hubby and children.ReplyDelete
Greta -ReplyDelete
#1 - Yes, you CAN write poetry (and very well).
#2 - These are so entertaining - I'm waiting for the Broadway show!
100 Years in America
Small-leaved Shamrock
A light that shines again
Carnival of Irish Heritage & Culture
Absolutely delightful!!!!ReplyDelete
That is an incredibly creative way to grab your family's attention. Fantastic job.ReplyDelete
Thank you all so much for your generous comments. And Lisa, you know, if a bunch of the genea-poets put their collective efforts together, I could see it: Ode to My Family's History - Coming to a Genealogy Convention near You!ReplyDelete
That was awesome! I loved the way you set it to music!ReplyDelete
Very good job!
Just awesome! Loved it ever so much!!!ReplyDelete
Hi, Greta - as a G & S fan who has in my days put my own words to their compositions, I loved your posting. Brilliant. Susan.ReplyDelete
Susan - Thank you so much! I think Sir Arthur was especially brilliant to write the melodies to which it is so much fun to put the words!ReplyDelete
HAH!! G & S got nothin' on you, Greta! So glad you gave this an iGene award, 'cuz I missed it the first time around. It's a riot!ReplyDelete
Aw, T.K. - I am so flattered to hear this from you, the master of getting every word right!ReplyDelete


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Distributions will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Harriman Church of God at 3106 Roane State Hwy., Midtown.
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The Korean War was a hard fought war that lasted from June 1950 to July 1953. This war claimed the lives of 36,574 American soldiers, another 103,284 were wounded and 7,800 are still unaccounted for.
A few of the Korean War veterans of Roane County that were present for this ceremony are Cecil Johnson, Clyde Jones, James Little and Eugene Cozart.
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JUSTIN Thomas can't believe he's won The Shuttle's Sports Personality of the Year.
The Kidderminster-based fourth dan karate master topped the poll on our website with 66 per cent.
In the end it was a comfortable victory, but only after a late surge of votes saw off the challenge of Bewdley Olympic sailor Alison Young, who completed the competition in second place with 30 per cent.
Paralympic swimming star and World Championships gold medallist Claire Cashmore, triathlete Jacqui Phillips and Olympic archer Naomi Folkard all shared the rest of the votes.
Overall the search for our Sports Personality of the Year was a big success with more than 8,000 votes in a two-week period.
Thomas believes his success was down to the goodwill he has generated raising money for children's charities.
Over the last ten years he and Young Glove Karate Club have made more than £33,000 for good causes.
He said: "I can't believe I have won the competition, I did not realise I had been nominated but there were one or two members of the club who said they had tried.
"The charity fundraising makes a different and people remember you because of that."
Young Gloves raised more than £5,000 last year when 300 students attempted the world's biggest kata demonstration, but before their attempt could be ratified by The Guiness Book of Records they were pipped to it by a group in India.
Thomas added: "It was a great attempt by our members but unfortunately the attempt in India just beat us to it.
"If we had said the most juniors performing a kata we would have set a new world record."
Thomas has trained himself for more than 30 years and helped countless students achieve black belt status.
At the end of last year, the Wyre Forest martial artist received his fourth black belt and a coaching award which means he can teach anywhere in the UK.
He founded Young Gloves a decade ago to teach traditional karate and has seen the club branch out to Kidderminster, Stourport, Cookley and Stourbridge, with 350 students.
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Your next job interview may be mismanaged by the employer. The problem is, it will reflect poorly on YOU!
Your next job interview may be mismanaged by the employer. The problem is, it will reflect poorly on YOU!
Bad interviewers typically talk too much. They tell you endless details about the job and the company. They may give you all the reasons why the last person did not work out in the job and the top goals a potential employee must reach in a certain time period to be considered successful.
You end up nodding your head, smiling, complimenting the interviewer on such impressive goals and promising you can meet each one.
Neither side benefits from this monologue. It may discourage you from joining the company. You learned only what they wanted you to hear and they know nothing useful about you. As the candidate, you should talk most of the time during the interview � not the interviewer. You have been asked to an interview for one reason � to discover whether you will be successful in this role and this organization.
Be prepared to assert yourself if your interviewer talks too much. Have a short list of points you need to make that show off your unique abilities and experiences. This is your chance to stand out. Why do you want this job? What makes you want to work for this company? What do you plan to do with your career and how does this role fit those goals? If you are not prepared, a more assertive candidate may end up winning the job you want.
Avoid rudeness or talking too much about yourself, of course. Make your points and stop. Invite questions and real dialogue.
Let your positive attitude and genuine enthusiasm for the job shine through. The truth is that many interviewers decide in the first five minutes whether they will move that candidate forward to the next stage in the hiring process.
If an interviewer asks you improper or discriminatory questions, just assume they do not know any better and help them get past their mistake by answering a different question. Politicians do it all the time. You have nothing to win by making a legal point with a poor interviewer.
Sometimes an interviewer will ask you a strange, off-the-wall question, such as, �If you could choose to be any animal, which would you be and why?� What the interviewer is really looking for is an insight into your personality. Be yourself, think out loud, and try to relate the question back to performance on the job.
Many businesses do not have expert interviewers and simply do the best they can. Assert yourself calmly and professionally to turn a poor interview to your advantage. The interviewer may thank you later after he or she hires you and sees the great work you can do.
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Texas Fizz
The Juice of 1/4 Orange. (Juice 1/2 Tangerine)
The Juice of 1/4 Lemon. (Juice 1/2 Lime)
1 Teaspoonful Powdered Sugar. (Generous teaspoon Rich Simple Syrup)
1 Glass Dry Gin. (2 oz North Shore Distiller's Gin No. 6)
Shake well, strain into medium size glass and fill with syphon soda water.
I am not quite sure why exactly this is a "Texas" Fizz. I guess they do grow a fair amount of citrus there, though I more strongly associate them with Grapefruit.
I massaged it a bit, using the juice of half a Tangerine and half a lime, instead of the 1/4 Lemon and 1/4 Orange it calls for. Ended up pretty tasty.
When I started making these I was still using water from a Britta Pitcher and often found the ice had off flavors. We recently invested in a new more effective filter which attaches to the faucet. The ice is way better. It's funny, you generally think of cocktails as having fairly big flavors, a little off flavor from the ice isn't going to ruin anything. Most modern, over driven cocktails probably fall into that category, there's so much going on you probably wouldn't notice some off flavor from the ice. On the other hand, with a four ingredient, fairly subtle drink like this and these fizzes, any off flavors from ice, or anything else, are right up there in front.
The easiest way I've ever found to find out what your ice tastes like is to pour a few ounces of cold water into your cocktail shaker. Add ice. Shake and strain it into a glass just as if you were making a cocktail. Does the chilled water taste good? If it doesn't, that same ice isn't going to be contributing anything good to your cocktails either.
So how about the Texas Fizz?
It's kind of good, refreshing and light. It's not a mind blowing cocktail, but it's also not blowing out your taste buds with your first sip. You drink it and think, "That was nice, what's next?"
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the drinks in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, the, uh, Sauterne Cup.


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It postmodifies boys and girls.
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What role is both playing in the above sentence? What part of speech is it and what is itmodifying? Can you also diagram thesentence?
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It postmodifies boys and girls.
OK, but both can be used as an adjective, pronoun, or conjunction, how is it being used here? From the dictionary, it states that both as an adjective is used to indicate that two things or people are being referred to rather than just one. Then as a conjunction, both is used before two words or phrases connected with and to stress that each is included. I see that in this sentence both comes after the two words conneted by and. If it is a conjunction, would it be diagramm like the file attached but if it's an adjective, how would it be diagrammed?
To my mind 'both' is a pronoun in apposition to 'boys and girls'.


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GREEN BAY, Wis., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Aaron Rodgers fired four touchdown passes Sunday and the Green Bay Packers headed into a bye week with a fourth straight victory, 31-17 over Arizona.
Rodgers found Randall Cobb for a pair of scores, finishing the game 14-of-30 through the air for 218 yards with an interception.
His 72-yard TD pass to Tom Crabtree in the third quarter blunted an Arizona comeback bid and all but sealed the victory.
The Packers (6-3) are expecting to use the week off to help heal injuries to such as key players as linebacker Clay Matthews (hamstring), wide receiver Jordy Nelson (ankle) and offensive tackle Bryan Bulaga (hip).
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New Canaan boys hockey team eliminates Greenwich in FCIAC quarterfinals
STAMFORD -- Since losing to rival Darien in the FCIAC semifinals last year, getting back to, and winning, the conference championship game has been the New Canaan High School boys hockey team's main goal this season.
Thanks to their dynamic duo, the Rams moved a step closer toward reaching both of their goals on Saturday.
Continuing their standout seasons, Harry Stanton registered two goals and one assist, while Puck Richardson had one goal and two assists for third-seeded New Canaan in its 4-2 win over sixth-seeded Greenwich in the quarterfinals of the FCIAC Tournament.
The Rams (13-6-2) advanced to Wednesday's semifinals, where they will face St. Joseph.
"We lost last year in the semifinals, so we wanted to come back with a vengeance this year and make it back to the finals," said Stanton, a junior forward. "We knew we had a tough game today and we couldn't afford to look too far ahead."
Greenwich (12-9), which lost New Canaan during the regular season, received goals from forwards Alex Bastone and Luke Finneran in what was a gritty effort.
"Our team competed hard and didn't quit," said Cardinals coach Bob Russel, who saw his squad qualify for the conference tournament after missing it a year ago. "This was the first time a lot of players in this group have been in the playoffs, so it was a great experience for them."
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The Rams kept the pressure on for long stretches during the opening period and struck first, scoring at the 6:01 mark. Stanton sent a pass from behind to Richardson, who put a one-timer past Greenwich sophomore goalie Bryan Archino, giving New Canaan a 1-0 lead.
"In our last two games against Darien and Notre Dame-Fairfield (both losses) we came out to slow starts, so we wanted to start this game strong," Richardson said. We knew it was important to get out to an early lead."
Greenwich's first scoring chance came with 6:23 remaining in the first period, but a shot from senior forward Reed Brady off a 2-on-1 was just high. However, the Cardinals scored the equalizer 1:03 later. Sophomore forward Decker Curran's slap shot deflected off the pads of New Canaan senior goalie Chris Koennecke, and Bastone dove on the ice and knocked home the rebound.
"We came out kind of slow at the beginning of the game, but we picked it up later in the first period," Bastone said. "We have 10 sophomores, so I think next year we will be a lot better. Our coach has really helped out our young kids."
The Cardinals matched the Rams' from the midway point of the first period on, but New Canaan seized some momentum going into the second period. With Greenwich on a power play after a New Canaan tripping penalty and the Cardinals on the attack in the Rams zone, Stanton caused a turnover at the blue line, skated down the ice on a breakaway and scored, making it a 2-1 game with :33.5 left in the first period.
"That was a huge goal for us," Richardson said. "Being a man down then scoring in a situation like that provided some momentum for us. We've had about 10 shorthanded goals this year."
Said New Canaan coach Bo Hickey: "There aren't many combinations in the state that are better than No. 19 (Stanton) and 18 (Richardson). They have both been playing steady, consistent hockey."
Both squads had their moments during an up tempo second period. Archino, who recorded 26 saves, kept it a 2-1 game, making four saves during a two-minute stretch early in the period. Meanwhile, Koennecke (15 saves) also stood tall in goal, stopping shots from Finneran and Curran. The Rams took a 3-1 lead with 5:20 remaining in the second period, as Richardson found Stanton alone in front and Stanton finished, putting the puck through the 5-hole.
"That third goal was huge because during that stretch it could have either been 2-2 or 3-1," Stanton said. "Getting that third goal, which was the deciding goal, was important."
Sophomore Davis Bruch scored off a scramble in front of the net 3:57 into the third period, putting GHS in a 4-1 hole. Finneran kept the Cards in the hunt, scoring a power play goal off a feed from senior Paul Macken with 6:51 left to play.
"I thought we played well tonight, especially in the second period," Finneran said. "New Canaan is a good team and they showed it tonight. They are older than us, so next year we'll be better."
Said Russel: "We still have the state playoffs to look forward to and we're going to be ready for it."
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New Canaan 4, Greenwich 2
Goals: NC -- Harry Stanton 2, Puck Richardson, Davis Bruch; G -- Alex Bastone, Luke Finneran; Assists: NC -- Patrick Hompe, Stanton, Richardson 2; G -- Decker Curran, Paul Macken, Jack Corrigan. Goalies: NC -- Chris Koennecke (15 saves); G -- Bryan Archino (26 saves).
Records: New Canaan (13-6-2); Greenwich (12-9).


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Common-Core Tech Requirements Outlined
One of the two consortia designing tests for the Common Core State Standards recently released new guidance on the minimum technology standards states will need to meet to give those tests, beginning in 2014-15.
The Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, says the guidance is meant to provide direction to states and districts on the extent to which current technology meets testing standards, or whether upgrades will be required.
The document offers both "minimum specifications," which would satisfy the consortium's tech guidelines at least through 2014-15, and "recommended" ones, which would be expected to meet the group's standards through the 2018-19 school year.
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium has released an updated guide to technology requirements and recommendations for member states planning to implement the common-core assessment system the consortium is developing for the 2014-15 school year.
Under the framework, most schools should be able to implement the assessments, the organization says.
1. Move away from Windows XP (which is used by more than half of schools today) to Windows 7. Windows 8 might be acceptable, but further testing is needed. However, the assessments will work with Windows XP.
2. Upgrade computers to at least 1 gigabyte of internal memory. Most schools have already implemented this recommendation (63 percent, to be exact).
3. Ensure that all screens being used for the assessments have a visual display of no less than 9.5 inches, with at least a 1024 x 768 resolution. About 88 percent of schools have already met this recommendation. The assessments could work with an 8-inch screen, but 9.5 inches is the recommended width, the document says.
4. Student testing sites must operate on secure browsers. While data reports from the assessments can be accessed through Google Chrome, Safari on iOS, Firefox, and Internet Explorer 8, the organization will identify secure browsers each year that will be required for the actual test-taking. Those browsers will prevent students from being able to access anything except the exam.
5. The assessment requires about 5 to 10 kilobytes per second of bandwidth per student. The amount of bandwidth needed will depend on the specific assessments, some of which include animations, recorded audio, and other technology-enhanced items. Schools should estimate about 1 megabyte per second for every 100 students taking the assessment.
—Katie Ash
The other group leading states toward the development of tests to match the common core, the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, has also released its own list of technology requirements and recommendations for 2014-15. (See box, this page.)
The new PARCC guidelines are "very similar" to the Smarter Balanced requirements, says Susan Van Gundy, the associate director for assessment technology for Achieve, an organization that is managing the partnership consortium's work.
One of the requirements focuses on test security. All devices used during the tests—whether laptops, netbooks, or tablets—and operating systems must have the capability to "lock down" and temporarily disable features that present a security risk while exams are being given. Certain features would also need to be controlled during test administration, including unlimited Internet access, certain types of cameras, screen captures, email, and instant-messaging, the requirements say.
Some of the PARCC requirements are still to come. Minimum bandwidth requirements won't be determined until next year, according to PARCC. But the group is setting the recommended bandwidth for external connections to the Internet at 100 kilobytes per second, per student, or faster, and the minimum for internal school networks at least at 1000 kilobytes per second, per student.
Desktop and laptop computers, netbooks, and thin clients are among the allowable testing devices. Smartphones will not be allowed for 2014-15, because they do not meet the minimum 9.5-inch screen size, Van Gundy says. Tablets that meet the standards will be allowed. (Smarter Balanced has also said a 9.5-inch screen should be the standard.)
Standards for operating systems vary. The minimum standards for Windows, for instance, is Windows XP/Service Pack 3, though looking ahead, Windows 7 or newer is recommended.
Douglas Levin, the executive director of the State Educational Technology Directors Association, says the PARCC guidelines "do a good job of conveying that this is going to be an ongoing process."
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As always, find a quiet time and place to pray... take a few deep breaths... be still... and know that God is near...
A word to reflect on:
I wait for the Lord...
My soul waits and I hope for his word.
More than sentries wait for the dawn,
my soul waits for the Lord... - Psalm 130
I wait for you, Lord,
not just in these 10 minutes each day
but sometimes all through the night
and past the dawn,
I wait for you...
I wait for you...
I'm not even altogether sure what I expect
or what it is I'm waiting for...
Will you appear and let me see you?
Will you speak and let me hear you?
Will you touch and let me feel you?
Will you heal what's hurt and broken,
refresh what's tired and weary,
grant me what I pray for?
(Oh yes, Lord, I'd be very pleased
if you'd do all of the above!)
Still, I wait for you, Lord...
My soul waits and hopes for your face,
your word, your touch, your healing,
your peace, your gift:
I wait for you, Lord...
Sometimes I wonder:
have you appeared and I've not noticed you?
have you spoken a word I haven't heard?
have you touched and I've not felt your hand upon me?
have you offered healing I've ignored or just refused?
have you offered joy I've turned from in self-pity?
have you heard my prayer and given me an answer
I'd not hoped for or expected?
I wait for an answer to my prayer.
I wait in silence, in patience, in tears,
in fear and frustration
and even in anger that you're not listening -
and even in anger that you're not listening -
or so it sometimes seems...
Sometimes I wait... and then give up... and turn away:
"So there, Lord! If you won't hear me,
won't answer, won't show me -
then I'll pray no more!"
And I wait again...
I wait some more...
And I wait again...
I wait some more...
And then I hear you call me back
or I return to you because your love, your presence,
your patience with my needs and tears are sometimes
all I have
all I have
and when all I have is you then I have so much more
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I pray and wait... for an answer to my prayer.
More than sentries wait for the dawn,
my soul waits for you, O Lord,
and for an answer to my prayer...
In this place where I pray today, Lord -
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Whether or not I hear you,
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Whether or not I feel your touch,
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your peace still seeks me out...
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you never fail to answer every prayer I offer you...
In the stillness of these moments, Lord, help me trust
that you are near, that you are here,
and that you are hear my every prayer...
To ponder and pray over...
For what prayer am I waiting an answer?
Of all that I pray for, what is most important?
What will I ask of the Lord today?
From this prayer time, what word or phrase will I keep with me
to carry through the rest of my day?
From this prayer time, what word or phrase will I keep with me
to carry through the rest of my day?
(After you spend some time with these questions,
pray the reflection above one more time...)
Here are some tips for praying 10 minutes a day. If you find these daily prayer reminders helpful, please let me know - and share them with others. You'll find an archive of these daily posts here.
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ANKARA, Turkey, April 17 (UPI) -- Turkey's parliament voted Thursday to increase the powers of the National Intelligence Agency.
The controversial new law gives the MIT broader authorities to conduct eavesdropping and foreign operations, and grants immunity to senior operatives. It also sanctions prison terms as punishment for leaking classified information.
Critics claim the legislation is as attempt by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to enhance his powers. Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) wields significant influence in parliament and was able to push the legislation through after heated debate.
Opposition parties expressed concern that the empowered MIT would transform Turkey into a surveillance state. Rights group Freedom for Journalists Platform argued that Erdogan was attempting to privatize the intelligence agency for his own use.
The expanded spy powers comes as Erdogan and his power have been under investigation in a far-reaching corruption probe that began in December 2013.
Erdogan has denied involvement in the graft scandal and asserted that he and his party are the victims of the police department's and judiciary's "parallel state," and has accused them of orchestrating the probe.
The opposition parties said they would seek the repeal of the law from the Constitutional Court.
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The Gold Standard: Predicting the best picture race
With late-arriving prestige pictures "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" (Stephen Daldry!) and "War Horse" (sentimental Steven Spielberg!) and the looming shadow of Oscar magnet Meryl Streep playing England's "Iron Lady" Margaret Thatcher, the award season, at its outset, sported an air of uncertainty all but absent from last year's front-loaded race.
Or it did, until right about the time we handed out candy to a kid dressed up like J. Edgar Hoover (the angry old guy version) and realized that, yes, some spots continue to be up for grabs, but in terms of who'll get the nominations, the major races have already narrowed into focus. The good news: Outside of maybe "The Help's" Viola Davis for lead actress, there's plenty of jockeying to be done before an actual winner can be pegged.
As the season progresses, the Gold Standard column will handicap the current state of the key award races in The Envelope and at 24 Frames — ranking them by likelihood of a nomination — and will update often as the holdout contenders screen and events transpire (George Clooney rescued a dog from a burning house? Really?) that change the course of the various races. Let's dig in, shall we?
1. "The Artist"
2. "The Descendants"
3. "The Help"
4. "Midnight in Paris"
5. "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"
6. "War Horse"
7. "Moneyball"
8. "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
9. "The Tree of Life"
10. "J. Edgar"
Bubbling under: "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," "Hugo," "Young Adult," "Shame," "The Ides of March," "The Iron Lady," "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2"
For your consideration: "50/50." We realize that academy members don't like to vote for comedies here. But we also know they love movies featuring a potentially life-threatening illness. "50/50" combines both in a rule-breaking manner that pivots between gravity and hilarity with seamless ease.
Analysis: We probably won't have 10 nominees again. But eight seems likely. We've seen late-season "sure things" crash and burn every year ("Up in the Air," "The Social Network"), so we're going to hold off going all in on "War Horse" and "Extremely Loud." But the top four? Voters love them truly, madly, deeply.
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CBS is looking to expand the successful "NCIS" franchise with a spinoff set in New Orleans, sources confirm to E! News. The project, executive produced by "NCIS" showrunner Gary Glasberg and series star Mark Harmon, will be introduced in a two-part backdoor pilot, which will air in the spring.
According to Deadline, who first reported the news of CBS' plans for the spinoff, "NCIS: New Orleans" (we assume that would be the title!) would center on NCIS New Orleans office which handles cases from Pensacola through Mississippi and Louisiana, as well as the Texas panhandle.
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The "character-driven" project, which will film in February, will be written by Glasberg. This wouldn't be NCIS' first spinoff attempt: The popular "NCIS: Los Angeles" starring LL Cool J and Chris O'Donnell launched in 2009 (after being introduced via a backdoor pilot on NCIS in 2008) and will hit its 100th episode this year. Last season, CBS introduced "NCIS: Red" as a backdoor pilot on NCIS: Los Angeles. The project, which starred John Corbett and Kim Raver, was not picked up to series.
Spinoff fever seems to have hit Hollywood as of late: The CW is launching "The Vampire Diaries'" offshoot "The Originals," which is also set in New Orleans, while ABC's "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland," a "Once Upon a Time" spinoff, is also debuting this fall. AMC just announced plans for a "Breaking Bad" spinoff, as well an offshoot of "The Walking Dead." NBC is also launching a "Chicago Fire" spinoff, "Chicago PD," later this year. Other series eyeing spinoffs include "Arrow" and "Supernatural."
Of course, spinoffs have a rich and successful history at CBS: In addition to "NCIS: Los Angeles," the network had three hit "CSI" series, including "CSI," "CSI: Miami" and "CSI: NY."
"NCIS" returns for its 11th season on Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 9 p.m. on CBS.
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