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The International Educator
STEPHEN DEXTER, a native of New England, has been a teacher and administrator since 1994. He finally discovered that the Swiss stay thin on a diet of chocolate, cheese and wine by walking a lot and not eating or drinking to excess. He is currently taking a gap year in the Swiss Alps to rediscover his passion for education and to understand what chief innovation officers really do.
KRISTEN MACCONNELL has a diverse educational background that includes teaching children with learning difficulties, school counseling, school psychology, university teaching, and school leadership. Kristen spent 8 years as an educator in the US before moving overseas to Chile in 2010. She worked at Nido de Aguilas in Santiago, Chile as a School Counselor, a Literacy Specialist, Assistant Director of Teaching and Learning in the Early Years School and finally as the PK-12 Director of Curriculum and Professional Development. Currently, Kristen serves as the Director of the Teacher Training center Programs at the PTC.
DANIEL KERR is now Lower School Director at the American School of Paris. He previously served as Intermediate Division Principal at Academia Cotopaxi American International School in Quito, Ecuador, and prior to that was the Middle School Principal at SCIS in Shanghai, China. Dan has also worked at JIS in Jakarta, Indonesia and he began his International career in Abu Dhabi. Dan is thrilled to be joining the ASP family and will be accompanied by his wife, Jocelyn, who will be working as a counselor, and his two children, Max and Gabby.
KASSI COWLES is an IB English and TOK teacher currently based in Shanghai. She has worked in international education for the last 8 years in Canada, Togo and China. Her writing explores issues of educational reform and how to create authentic and creative learning communities.
MATTHEW GOOD & NIAMH CONWAY are international school teachers who met while working at the British School of Lome, in Togo, West Africa. They later moved to Uzbekistan, where they spent four years at Tashkent International School, each summer exploring another slice of the world by bike. Their Pedalgogy website allows users to follow the touring teachers on their two-year bike trip around the world.
BARRY DEQUANNE is currently working as the Director at the International School of Zug and Luzern (ISZL). His blog explores topics in K-12 education and school leadership within the framework of five focus areas: Academics, Activities, Arts, Leadership, and Service. The blog also explores professional articles and highlights recently read books.
EMILY MEADOWS is an alumni of international schools and has worked as a professional educator and counselor across the world, serving children and families in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. She holds master's degrees in the fields of Counseling and Sexual Health, and is a PhD candidate researching inclusive policy and practice for LGBTQ+ students. Emily is a consultant on gender and sexual diversity and inclusion in international schools: www.emilymeadows.org
SHWETANGNA CHAKRABARTY is the IBDP Coordinator and University Counsellor at Guangzhou Nanfang International School, China. She has 15 years of experience in teaching three different curricula in four countries. She has taught mathematics and business management to the International GCSE and International Baccalaureate (IB) students. She has had multiple responsibility positions including pedagogical leader, DP, Extended Essay, MYP Personal Project, CIS/NEASC accreditation coordinator and IB Examiner. She has a degree in education and an MBA, she is also a college counsellor certified by TripleA learning, U.K.
DAVID PENBERG is an urban and international educational leader/consultant with a deep commitment to progressive education, understanding global mindedness, and new school creation. He abides by the dictum of E.E. Cummings who said: " I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing, than teach ten thousand stars not to dance." He is presently the Head of School of Innovate Manhattan Charter School in New York City.
PROSERPINA DHLAMINI-FISHER is the Founding CEO of Educational Aspirations Ltd, a Global Educational Consultancy. She has studied and worked in international schools and organisations (IBO and UWCI) in Eswatini, USA, France, South Africa, Switzerland, Germany, Dubai and the UK in diverse roles. She is passionate about cultural diversity, teaching and learning, inclusion as well as leadership in international education. She is an advocate for student and teacher agency and shares her thoughts and her experiences as an African female school leader and educator in the international and global educational space. She is interested in the historical development of international education and the place people of colour hold in these institutions in the 21st century.
SHANNON FEHSE Shannon Fehse has spent her entire teaching career overseas, having lived and worked in China, Mexico, Colombia, Taiwan, and presently, the UAE. As a textbook definition extrovert, she talks to anyone, and enjoys listening to stories and different perspectives on life. Shannon has a somewhat faulty filter and often says what other people are thinking, but this typically works out favorably. She offers opinions and insight into the benefits and challenges of job hunting, dating overseas, and general issues that affect international educators.
MIKE SIMPSON is the Director of Curriculum and Learning at The International School Yangon. Originally a lawyer from New Zealand, Mike has also worked in schools in Qatar, Venezuela, and Lesotho. Mike has a particular interest in the development of collaborative and innovative learning communities. He hopes that his blog might be of interest to other teachers and school leaders as they nurture these communities in their own schools.
GREGORY HEDGER Dr. Gregory Hedger has recently been appointed to be the head of the International School Yangon, in Myanmar, beginning in fall 2016. A native of Minnesota, Greg has served in education for over 25 years, including 13 years in the role of School Director at Cayman International School, Qatar Academy, and most recently as Superintendent at Escuela Campo Alegre in Venezuela. Greg promotes international education through his service on the boards of AAIE, AASSA, and his work with the International Task Force for Child Protection, his contributions to various periodicals, and his work to promote the next generation of leaders through workshops and teaching.
LINDSAY LYON is a seasoned English and Theory of Knowledge teacher currently working at JIS. She and her husband have taught abroad as a teaching team for fifteen years in Venezuela, Thailand, China, Saudi Arabia, and now Indonesia. They write about expat life with a focus on money and savings in their blog The Haggard Lyon. Here you will find some of the same, and other musings from Lindsay on life overseas with kids, teaching, technology, and staying balanced in a busy world.
NICHOLAS ALCHIN is High School Principal at the United World College of SE Asia, East Campus. A sino-celtic Brit who has lived and taught in the UK, Switzerland, Kenya, and Singapore, he has also held a number of roles with the IB and writes and speaks widely on educational matters. He enjoys traveling with wife Ellie, and kids Tom (10), Millie (13) and Ruth (16).
TONY DEPRATO Tony DePrato has a Master's Degree in Educational Technology from Pepperdine University and has been working as a Director of Educational Technology since 2009. He has worked in the United Arab Emirates and China where he has consulted with schools in both regions on various technology topics. In 2013, Tony DePrato released The BYOD Playbook a free guide for schools looking to discuss or plan a Bring Your Own Device program. Tony is originally from the US, and worked in multimedia, website development, and freelance video production. Tony is married to Kendra Perkins, who is a librarian.
ETTIE ZILBER is a consultant to International School Communities and Families in Transition and a veteran international school educator and school leader. She has served in independent international schools in Israel, Singapore, Spain, Guatemala, China, and most recently in the USA. Her expertise extends to such topics as international school models, second/foreign language acquisition, communicating between diverse groups, the impact of international mobility and relocation on children, parents and staff, the special family experience of the educators' children, the orientation of newcomers, multi-cultural communities, catalysts for teaching internationally, and marketing of international schools. She is the author of Third Culture Kids: The Children of International School Educators. She can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com
HELEN KELLY has taught in and led schools in Africa, Europe and Asia over the last twenty years. She has led educational technology teams in three schools. Helen is currently the Lower School Principal at Canadian International School of Hong Kong, where she leads Project Innovate, a Pre-K-12 initiative to bring future-ready learning to the school. Helen completed her Ed.D in 2017 on the emotional challenges that school leaders face in the course of their role. She leads workshops on improving the wellbeing of leaders and educators in international schools.
TRAE HOLLAND is the Director of Academia Cotopaxi's The ONE Institute, has been a leader in both the non-profit and business sectors, and has 19 years experience teaching both in the US and in international schools, with a specialization in learning differentiation. You can reach his website at www.traeholland.com.
JOHN MIKTON currently is the Head of Education and Media Technology / Deputy Principal at the International School of Luxembourg . Previously he was the Director of eLearning at the Inter Community School Zurich, Switzerland and the Director of Information Technology at the International School of Prague, Czech Republic. John is an Apple Distinguished Educator, Google Trainer, Principal Training Center facilitator, Appsevents summit speaker and Learning 2.0 Community Coach. John blogs @ https://beyonddigital.org
FREDERIC BORDAGUIBEL-LABAYLE is the High School Principal at Academia Cotopaxi American International School in Quito, Ecuador. Fred was born and raised in the southwest of France; he finished his studies and started teaching in the UK, then went on to Istanbul and he is currently in Quito. Fred likes to pause, reflect, and share his experience as an international educator and administrator.
SUE EASTON is the Director of the Teacher Training Center. She has worked with international schools for the past eleven years, on four continents, in roles focused on enhancing teaching and learning practices. This experience has made her passionate about the topic of change and how to best make change to support students and student learning. Her blog will explore this topic through the lens of PTC, TTC and CTC trainers' words of wisdom.
ALLISON POIROT is currently teaching IB History, Modern World History, and Psychology at Asociación Escuelas Lincoln in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She taught previously at King's Academy in Madaba, Jordan, and at public and charter schools in and around Boston, Massachusetts. She has a deep interest in progressive pedagogy and believes in fostering student autonomy and empowerment.
MEADOW DIBBLE is editor of The International Educator newspaper. Originally from Cape Cod, she lived for six years on Senegal's Cape Verde Peninsula, where she published a cultural magazine from 1996–2000. Specializing in the literary expression of 20th-century liberation movements, she received her PhD from Brown University's Department of French Studies and taught at Colby College from 2005–08. In 2018, Meadow launched Atlantic Black Box, a public history initiative devoted to researching and reckoning with New England's role in the slave trade.
MATT BRADY has been creating digital ecosystems that organize, inform and inspire for two decades. He writes as a curatorial journalist- connecting related stories across disciplines often beyond "Education"- to examine and understand educational leadership in a more adaptive and predictive way. Currently, he leads and supports schools through techno-social transformations and is constructing an autodidactic launchpad for his four year old daughter.
Several years ago, PAUL MAGNUSON founded a research center at the high school level in collaboration with colleagues at Leysin American School. The center supports professional learning through a variety of programs, including year-long action research projects by faculty who receive competitive resident scholarships. In addition, the center works with schools and universities around the world, hosting 10 to 15 visiting scholars annually, and consulting and presenting at schools and other organizations.
The International Educator (TIE) is a non-profit organization committed to matching the best educators with the best international schools around the world.
Monthly Archives: August 2019
being 'home'
so what is it like to move back to the States after 6 years of living and teaching abroad? it's basically wonderful. but that may be because i moved 'back' to the greatest city on Earth. for me, this is … Continue reading
Plagiarism When TurnItIn Cannot Help
By: Tony DePrato | Follow me on LinkedIn Plagiarism is serious issue for most high schools. It is rare to find a school without a detailed plagiarism policy. Most of these policies have a few tiers, because it is common … Continue reading
Your Brain on a New Job
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Reframing The Lens
Reframing the Lens We go home to Minnesota every summer. We have a cabin on a lake. Really, in Minnesota, who doesn't have a cabin on the lake, after all, it is the land of 10,000 lakes. You can't drive … Continue reading
A Positive Start Matters
By: Tony DePrato | Follow me on LinkedIn Stress at the start of the school year is normal. I firmly believe that a positive start leads to a positive year. Here are some suggestions I like to give to people … Continue reading
Just wondering about Turning the Tide
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In the second inning, Hunter became the hunted as the Red Sox said "Fair Warning" and, lord, they struck that poor boy down:
Youkilis (bfbb) singled to leftDice (7-6-0-5-5, 115) worked out of several mild jams (bases loaded/2 outs in the 2nd, 1st & 3rd/1 out in the 3rd, 1st & 2nd/2 outs in the 7th) and then watched as Manny Delcarman and Mike Timlin each tossed a perfect inning of relief.
Bay (ccfb) flied to CF in left-center
Lowrie (bbc) singled to right, Youkilis to 3rd
Varitek (bsbfb) walked, Lowrie to 2nd
Crisp singled to left, Youkilis scored, Lowrie to 3rd, Varitek to 2nd
Cora (bb) hit by pitch, Lowrie scored, Varitek to 3rd, Crisp to 2nd
Drew (b) grounded into FC, Varitek scored, Crisp to 3rd, Cora out 4-6
Pedroia (cfb) doubled to left, Crisp scored, Drew to 3rd
Ortiz (b) homered to right, Drew, Pedroia and Ortiz scored
Youkilis (c) doubled off left wall
Bay (cbbbf) singled to left, Youkilis scored
Madrigal relieved Hunter
Lowrie (bcbsb) doubled to left, Bay scored
Varitek (bcbc) struck out swinging
Tampa Bay outlasted Oakland 7-6 in 12 innings. The idle Yankees are now 9.5 GB.
Tommy Hunter (10.61, 40 ERA+) / Daisuke Matsuzaka (2.90, 154 ERA+)
Vicente Padilla had been the scheduled starter, but was scratched after receiving a cortisone shot for an inflamed muscle joint in the right side of his neck.
This is Hunter's third major league game. The 22-year-old RHP has allowed 16 hits (including three HR) and 11 runs in 9.1 innings. The leadoff batter has reached base in six of the 10 innings he has begun and opposing batters have a 1.261 OPS against Hunter with men on base.
Josh Hamilton will not be in tonight's lineup. He is back in Dallas with his wife, who will soon give birth to their third child.
Also: Rays/Athletics at 4 PM. The Yankees have the day off.

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Debugging is the hardest part of programming to describe systematically, because its very purpose is to deal with unsystematic behavior. A programmer plans for a program to behave in a particular way; debugging is what happens after the programmer discovers that the program is not behaving as planned. As a result, it is hard to write — or even think — about debugging in general. Every bug is different, so saying something that applies to the act of debugging requires finding something general to say about a bunch of unrelated specific cases that defy generalization by their very nature.
From this description, it is easy to see why debugging is like art. Art takes a part of our experience and distills it in a way that expresses the artist's personality. Different programmers will attack the same debugging problem differently, just as two different artists will portray the same scene differently. Moreover, although art encompasses many techniques that can be described in detail, written about, and taught, there is an inspirational core that is an essential part of each artist. Similarly, highly skilled debuggers often have difficulty describing how they came up with the idea that ultimately led them to the bug they were hunting.
Despite these similarities, I think that debugging is more science than art. To explain this viewpoint, I'd like to start with a particular view of what science is.
At its core, science is the process of modeling the physical world. Here, I am using model as a physicist or mathematician might: to describe an intellectual structure (such as a collection of equations) that behaves in ways that match some (but not all) of the properties of the physical world. There is much art in choosing such models in the first place, so it is fair to say that there is much art in science. However, where science differs from art is in how it deals with a model that does not match reality.
A work of art is always inaccurate; that's its point. If you set out to make a statue of an elephant, there's no art in simply using an elephant for the purpose. Yet nothing is as much like an elephant as an elephant is; which means that there will always be differences between any artistic representation of an elephant and an actual elephant. A model, however, is not an artistic representation. Although it is most useful if it is accurate, it does not attempt to be complete. Its purpose is only to explain — or predict — some aspects of the behavior of what is being modeled. So, for example, if someone can come up with a robot that behaves similarly to an elephant, but happens to be small enough to fit in the palm of one's hand, the size discrepancy is not relevant to the model's purpose. For the purpose of validating a model, it might not even be necessary to build a physical robot. The software itself might suffice.
In short, discrepancies between the world and its representation are a necessary part of art. In contrast, such discrepancies in scientific models are either irrelevant or something to be studied and reduced. This study and reduction is a fundamental difference between art and science.
A program is like a scientific model. We have an idea of what we would like that program to do; when we write a program, we want to make it behave as much as possible according to that idea. When our program does not behave that way (i.e., when we encounter a bug), we follow what is essentially a scientific process:
- Is the difference between the model (i.e., the program) and reality (i.e., how we want the program to behave) what we think it is? For example, are we running the right program? Can we reproduce the misbehavior consistently?
- Can we come up with a hypothesis that explains the difference between the model and reality? This step is probably the most creative part of debugging, just as it is the most creative part of science.
- Once we have a hypothesis, how do we construct an experiment to test the hypothesis?
If our experiment shows that the hypothesis is correct, our debugging task is finished — at least for now. If not, the failed experiment may reveal how we were incorrect about the first step, namely finding the difference between the model and reality. After understanding how our hypothesis was incorrect, we can repeat the process with a new hypothesis.
There is no question that this analogy between debugging and scientific experimentation allows for much creativity, especially in the area of forming hypotheses. However, not all creativity is art, and there is more creativity in systematic experimentation than may appear at first glance. As a result, despite the creativity that so often goes into debugging, I think that debugging is more science than art.


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The decision by Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp to close the Georgia Department of Archives and History to the public has sparked outrage and concern across the nation. Here are a few responses to this decision.
The post that tipped me off to the closure came from Michael Hait, a professional genealogist working out of the Maryland-Delaware area.
Here's an oldie, but a goody: a January 2012 document laying out exactly Why the Georgia Archives is Critical to the Citizens of Georgia, courtesy of the Friends of Georgia Archives & History (FOGAH), which also produced a more recent document with details of funding and staff cuts over the years, as well as non-genealogical uses of the Archives.
President Jackie M. Dooley of the Society of American Archivists wrote a letter to Governor Deal, posted on the Society's web site. President Dooley explains the potential legal and other consequences of closing the Archives.
Judy G. Russell, affectionately and professionally known as The Legal Genealogist, published Archives and ancestors highlighting how the research into her Georgia ancestors will be affected by the Archives closing.
The National Coalition for History has placed a long post online, Action Alert: Help Save the Georgia Archives, detailing exactly what actions concerned citizens should take toward keeping the Archives open, and why. See also NCH Letter Urging Georgia Governor to Keep State Archives Open.
Kristina Torres at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution writes that Deal pledges to keep Georgia Archives open. Meanwhile, on the same day, Shannon McCaffrey at the AJC published a piece about Governor Deal approving $4.5 million in funding for a private resort run by a campaign donor. The money will fund the building of a well to be used primarily by the resort.
There's also a facebook page, Georgians Against Closing State Archives. Don't worry. Non-Georgians are welcome. The page's administrators take great pains to link to all the latest news on this issue, making it probably the best source for updates on this situation.
Finally, if you haven't already, don't forget to sign the petition and contact Georgia's various governmental officials with your support for the Archives.


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PlayStation 4 won't play PS3 games, will stream classics through Gaikai
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New details about the PlayStation 3's successor: First, Orbis isn't the final name, but PlayStation 4 is out. Second, games will look like Lucasarts' Star Wars: 1313. Finally, no backwards compatibility in the new console but classics will be in the cloud.
While the PlayStation 3 celebrates a major milestone even as its sun starts to fade, rumors about the heir to the PlayStation throne continue to leak out of the game development world. The latest details about the fourth generation machine come from Europe, shedding new light on how the PlayStation 4 or Orbis will support 4K resolution output, how used games will be handled by the console, and just how Sony will leverage the recently purchased Gaikai cloud-gaming service in its machine.
British magazine PSM3 (the details of which were reprinted by German website The G Net) provides a wealth of new information to supplement a recent story about the console that confirmed Sony will not call its console PlayStation 4. The reason: The Japanese word for 4 is "shi," which also happens to mean death. While it might seem silly to break from nearly two decades of successful branding because a two words sound alike, it's important to remember how branding has negatively affected the Xbox and Xbox 360 in Japan. Where "X" marks the spot in the US, it's a negative sign in Japanese culture. (Hence why the circle button on PlayStation controllers is used to confirm most actions in Japanese games, not the X button like in the US.)
PSM3's source claims that the device, which Sony refers to by the codename Orbis, will play games that look similar to recent tech demos for games like Star Wars 1313 and Square-Enix's Agni's Philosophy demo. These games, however, will not run in 4K resolution as has been hinted at in the past. If 4K playback support does make it into the final version of the fourth generation PlayStation, it will be for video.
Sony will be taking more severe measures against piracy. Previous rumors about the Orbis suggested that Sony might try to block used, disc-based games from working on the console. This new report claims that it will do so by linking each individual game to a specific PlayStation Network account.
Unlike past Sony consoles, Orbis will not have backwards compatibility with PlayStation 3, at least not with Blu-ray disc games. Sony will instead offer classic games through a cloud-based streaming service run through Gaikai's infrastructure.
Of all the rumors surrounding the next PlayStation, its lack of backwards compatibility is the most disappointing. PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi was insistent that every PlayStation made be able to play the previous consoles' discs at a hardware level. Obviously Sony started moving away from this philosophy swiftly with the very first hardware revisions of the PlayStation 3, but it's still sad.
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Can you imagine walking into a dinner party tonight and being able, with an uncompromising straight face, to sit down, smooth out a napkin on your lap, have a sip of pinot noir and say with an icy grin, "Well, I guess I showed that monkey who's boss"?
We Americans have plenty to worry about these days, what with the lingering specter of terror attacks, dark prophecies of ecological breakdown, constant and horrifying presidential scandals and Nicole Richie. But I submit to you today that none of these matter one little squirty bit, because I am happy to tell you that in India, there are monkeys who steal things, and that you can sic The Law on these monkeys.
Last week, the police force in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi found themselves in search of a monkey accused of swiping a pair of glasses out of the hotel room of what had to be the comically bewildered head of a South Korean tourist, who -- and I think this'll be a delightful precedent for our nation's tragically undernourished lawyer community -- filed a formal complaint against the monkey. "It is difficult to trace the monkey, but I am trying my best to locate the rogue," said investigating officer Govind Singh, who if he lives to be 300 years old will never live down the day he pulled Monkey Duty.
This, to paraphrase an ancient Hindu proverb, is TOTALLY AWESOME. Can you imagine walking into a dinner party tonight and being able, with an uncompromising straight face, to sit down, smooth out a napkin on your lap, have a sip of pinot noir and say with an icy grin, "Well, I guess I showed that monkey who's boss"?
The current Angriest Guy In The World At A Monkey is named Kim Dang Hoon, and he claims that the monkey broke into his hotel room, lifted the spectacles and then vamoosed. And, OK, listen, humor writing is not a particularly thoughtful or meaningful endeavor, and I don't want to spend a lot of time talking shop here, but this is exactly the sort of sentence that makes my heart leap out from my chest and engage in something approaching a palpitation festival. Kim Dang Hoon asserts that the monkey broke into his hotel room (it's best to now imagine a monkey in a black ski mask jimmying the lock with a credit card), tiptoeing around the room with a tiny monkey flash light, locating the glasses, squealing "Ah HA!" to himself, pinching the pilfered item and fleeing like a ninja out of the room into the dead of night, cackling the whole time. "FOOL!" the monkey snivels in my increasingly lively, Sherlock Holmes-ian monkey fantasy. "The glasses, they are MINE!" Then he scratches his genitals and eats four apples really fast.
But actually what happened, according to the world's most festive police report, is that Kim opened his hotel room window and the monkey "headed straight to the table were my glasses were kept and took it away."
But for his part, officer Singh said -- this is entirely true -- there wasn't much his men could do if they caught the thieving scoundrel, because there are no laws under which a monkey can be charged (Varanasi is, for all intents, a monkey town, where thousands of monkeys eat and steal from the millions of tourists who visit its holy sites every year).
This may sound ridiculous to you, or your family, or anybody, but I sympathize with Kim Dang Hoon, because I too am easily agitated and far too needlessly quick to embarass myself by dragging a professional agency into an unfortunate but entirely random problem, so I too have a number of complaints about monkeys, and they are as follows:
1. Always take the good bananas.
2. Not always as funny and personable in person as they are in cartoons.
3. Weird red butts, sometimes.
4. This one time, at the zoo with my son, I am reasonably sure I saw a monkey engage in an uncomfortably romantic-looking act with a rock in his enclosure, or possibly a toy, I don't know, it was hard to see because of the ferocity with which I tried to shuttle my 3-year-old son out of there before he started asking questions or making hilarious loud proclamations such as, "Daddy, the monkey is fighting the teddy bear, right?"
5. Peter Gabriel's "Shock The Monkey" is kind of annoying. However, George Michael's "Monkey" has been growing on me of late. So, push.
I am wagering that, with the right legal team and the considerable might of the Indian police force behind me, if I can track down the monkeys who are responsible for these various ills, I can be in line for a settlement on the order of several hundred million dollars, which sounds like a lot, but I've arranged for half of it to be paid in bananas, partly because of the delicious Dante-esque ironic punishment involved in such a maneuver, but also because I really, really like bananas.
Jeff Vrabel is a freelance writer; in his fantasy, the monkey also has a black top hat and cape and a handlebar mustache. He can be reached at www.jeffvrabel.com.


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And the winner is . . . Torii's Storiis
Man, you took me seriously when I asked you to get creative with some ideas for giving the blog a new title. There are far too many great suggestions to include here — it would take up the whole blog — but I really want to commend you.
Afte sorting through the long and impressive list with my wife, Katrina, we settled on "Torii's Storiis" from Scooter. Katrina told me she really liked it, how catchy it is, and I'm smart enough to agree with my wife. Truth is, I like it too.
So there it is: Torii's Storiis.
Today I'd like to talk about the World Baseball Classic. It's a great event, and I'm definitely for it. I think it's awesome, what it has done for our game. You'd never think Netherlands would beat the Dominican Republic — and it happened twice. Baseball is international now. It's America's pastime, but the whole world is playing it now.
I made a comment about the Classic in 2006 when it got started. I said I wouldn't play if they asked me, because I liked the chemistry with my team, the Twins, and I didn't want to do anything to mess with it. I'm not old, but I'm old-school, and I knew it would be hard on my front office and manager knowing how I play and worrying about me crashing into a wall, getting hurt, missing some time. I can onlly play one way, and I knew that I'd be diving for balls, going all-out.
I wasn't asked to play on Team USA this time, and I think those comments I made might have had something to do with it. I have the same mindset I've always had, If they had asked me to play, I'd have thought long and hard about it. It would be a great honor to play for my country and to be part of that whole experience.
On the other hand, I'm not sure our owner, Arte Moreno, or our manager, Mike Scioscia, would have been too crazy about it. I wouldn't want that panic about me running into a wall and getting hurt. I just wish they could play the Classic at another time, so it doesn't disrupt the chemistry you're building with your team for the season ahead.
I've been watching as much of the Classic as I can, and I love what I've seen. Japan is impressive, man. I've liked the way those guys play since 2002 when I went over after the season for a series of games with an all-star team. They play the game right. They're fundamentally sound, play good defense, and they've got athletes, Pitching and defense — that wins games. Everybody hits line drives, lots of doubles, running the bases hard. They play the game we do with the Angels.
As much as I'd love to be in the Classic, I need to be here with my team, doing everything we can to win a World Series. It's all about the World Series, and that's how it should be. From the day you sign, it's not about MVPs and Gold Gloves, individual stuff. It's about winning the World Series.
Camaraderie, chemistry, leadership . . . all those things are so important to developing a winning atmosphere. I love what we have going here with the Angels. I can't wait to get the season started.
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No offense, but that name is Joe Torres, Torre's Stories?
Way to listen to Katrina! And btw Joe's MLBlog is inactive, was just for last year, so no issue there gomets1010. Thanks for blogging with us, Torii.
I agree with you Torii, crashing into a wall at home is so much sweeter. Plus much softer. See you opening day!
Thank you for understanding who you are and protecting yourself for the season. We can see that you do play hard and WE LOVE IT!! I do hope that the season is GREAT!!
Good Luck and we will all be there supporting you and the team.
WOW! VERY ORIGINAL!!! You know Joe Torre had a series of blogs and such last season called Torre's Stories right…
Way to go.
I love it!!! Thanks Torii for picking mine. I read the blog the night before and was laying in bed not able to sleep and Torii's Storiis just hit me. Can I get an autographed bat or ball for winning? Please?
And about the WBC….I went to all the games here in SD, and boy was it empty!!! I would love to be able to pick the team, but I know players have different reasons for not playing, which I understand. I would have loved to see you out there Torii. I think the team USA had was good, but the pitching wasnt there.
Good Luck this season Torii, stay healthy and have fun.
Enjoy the season. Looking forward to reading your updates!
My buddy and I have been going to spring training for the past 15 years to root on the Halos. I just got back from my annual trip and told my wife the story of me getting to meet you in Scottsdale on Sunday night. Even though we've been married for 10 years, she has accused me of having a"man crush" on you. I just think you are the coolest cat on the Angels and a hell of a player. Thanks for taking the time to talk to me the other night. Good luck on the upcoming season.
You really do know what's best for you Torii! Very smart move on listening to the wifey! 🙂 And YES! It is all about the World Series!! I mean, where would we be without The World Series?? This is our year for the World Series Torii!! Let's make it happen!! GO ANGELS!!! Thanks for always making us laugh.
-Irma Martinez
Torii's Storii's – – Torii – – – you kind of like it, awwww yea!!!!!! Hittin 5th tonight against the Dodgers, let's get there . . . ok, i can relax now, haha!!!!!
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Sometimes, Making a Program Clearer Makes It Faster
Last week, I mentioned three kinds of optimizations and said I'd discuss the last kind this week:
- Optimizations that are really ways of avoiding needless pessimization;
- Optimizations that make an enormous difference with little effort, and
- Optimizations that are really ways of making the code clearer.
One kind of clarifying optimization is something that compilers often do automatically: replacing a subscript with a pointer. For example, suppose we have a
vector<int> named
v, and we want to compute the sum of its elements. We might write
int sum = 0; for (auto n = 0; n != v.size(); ++n) sum += v[n];
Some programmers might argue that it is faster to write this code as
int sum = 0; for (auto p = v.cbegin(); p != v.cend(); ++p) sum += *p;
Others might argue that a good compiler will generate pretty much the same machine code for both versions of this code, so the optimization is unnecessary.
However, optimization is not the real reason to prefer the second version of this code. Rather, the second version accesses
v's elements only sequentially, which means that the same code will work for containers such as
list<int>> that do not support random access. Of course, both of these examples are so simple that there isn't much practical difference between the two forms: Rewriting the first form if necessary takes only a few seconds. However, these examples illustrate a useful principle: You should avoid making assumptions about the data structures you use.
Here is another example of this principle. Suppose we have a function
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This is not a good strategy, because it initializes
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MakeThing. This initialization is a bad idea — and not just because it is needless work: It assumes implicitly that a default
Thing value exists. If, instead, we combine the initial definition with the initialization by writing
Thing t = MakeThing();
then there is no need to assume that a default
Thing value exists. Instead, this code will work even if
Thing has no default constructor. The fact that it avoids creating and then overwriting a default value is just a bonus. Another bonus is that we don't need to remember the type that
MakeThing returns:
auto t = MakeThing();
We can generalize this suggestion: If we create a
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vector<Thing> vt(n);
Thing must have a default constructor in order to supply initial values to the
vector's elements. The same restriction applies to constructing arrays of
Things. If, in contrast, we construct an empty
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We have now seen two examples of how we can "optimize" our code by removing requests for operations that our data structures do not really need to support. I invite discussion of these examples, along with other examples that readers might find interesting.


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Housing in Cherry Creek has experienced an unprecedented revival during the last decade, with many modest-size, pre-World-War-II homes supplanted by luxury condominiums, townhomes, and single-family homes in an amazing array of architectural styles, from stunningly Contemporary to more traditional Tuscan and French County. Almost magically, the diverse newcomers conspire to complement one another while enhancing the community's serene ambiance.
Already an inviting, pedestrian-friendly neighborhood, Cherry Creek keeps getting better as new families, businesses, and upscale shops move in, drawn by the area's irresistible charms. Sidewalk cafés, quiet plazas graced by trees and fountains, and streetscapes featuring colorful plantings and comfortable seating make this a great place to hang out, visit with neighbors, discover new friends, and revel in Denver's annual allotment of 300 sunshiny days.


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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Photo: Suspected Gay Men Stripped Naked in Imo State
84 comments:
- QWERTY16 January, 2013 17:11
What kind of nonsense is this? Who made them judges over gay people. I am not gay but I tolerate them and I don't support this kind of treatment on them. This is just violation of their human rights. This should stop before people get the idea to start carrying out jungle justice on innocent people just because of their sexual preferences.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 17:11
Oh gosh! We've started again! Why not let the law take its course? Why do they have to strip them naked even though they committed a crime? Hand them over to the relevant authorities, simple. Is that so hard to understand? *sighs*ReplyDelete
Have you guys met Linda Ikeji's lookalike onGISTville?
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 17:14
This is unfair! Mans inhumanity to man. Why take laws into ones hands? It's just wrong! Allow people be! "He who is without sin cast the first stone"ReplyDelete
Am sure that old yellow fool with folded arms will be the initiator! See that mumu with 6 packs wasting his muscle on a fellow man. Urghhhh!! Bt I don't think they deserve such treatment!Delete
Igbo men being gay?ReplyDelete
But seriously, this isn't right not like they were seen robbing from people.
C wat dey luk lik......shamless foolsReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 17:19
please show us d koko abeg! Smelling old fools!!! If we are even talking about gays , i tot guys are some sort of clean and posh guys *confused* ahhhhReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 17:21
The one in the centre has a 6 pack. :DReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 17:25
lmao. the are obviously very gay.see the one folding his hand very unrepentant. see the other small black one looking the part.nonsense……they should put them in prison.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 18:50
Who are u to be the Judge here, ur sexual preference gives u no right to see something like this being done to ur fellow man and encourage it. Its pple like the perpetrators of this pic and you that keeps nigeria in the place where it is today. jungle justice is not, has not and will never be the way forward.Delete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 17:45
misplaced priorities in this country ,,,,,have they tied up their local govt chairman who may have diverted all the allocation into his pocket???.....we should focus on more important thingsReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 17:51
OMG OMG Luca are you there...... Raise your hand so we can see you and rescue you .ReplyDelete
Oya Yinka be infront of the rescue mission, ladun stand next inline , any more takers ???? ..we need to bring Luca back safelyReplies
- Lagos is my home16 January, 2013 18:33
hahhahahhahahah...... you no seriousDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 18:38
lol. I will join this rescue ooo. Bring Lucabracee safely back , by the way he is yoruba and not ibo .Delete
Naija we hailed thee oo, I tire for this useless country and their priorities
Ha ha ha ha I'm falling off my chairDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 20:36
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 22:34
gays calling someone else gay. you know your type now.Delete
Anon 17:51 O ma ga! You haff keed me!!! Bwahahahahaha.Delete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 17:52
all those men gawking at their fellow men's things are equally gay. kai i tire for nigeria. what mentality.ReplyDelete
- Lagos is my Home16 January, 2013 17:52
Wow this is so sad, in 2013 Nigeria is still very barbaric ...... While I don't support been Gay and will strangle any of my child if I hear such nonsense mainly because of my religious belief, I don't think it is right to parade them naked.ReplyDelete
Shaking my head, its sad looking at this picture. This is where their power reach, why can't they go and parade all those thieving politicians who are robbing Nigeria blindly .
- Deekay16 January, 2013 17:52
Nice packs!ReplyDelete
When will Nigeria realise there are more important issues than who is fkin who or what?! Go and tie the thieving politicians and corrupt business men. The child molesters. The evil madam and Oga that abuse their house helps, etc. I'm sick and tired of this topic!Replies
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:13
So trueDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:23
So they can stop wasting our time wit irrevelant issues!
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 18:04
Omg!!!! ( -̩̩̩͡˛ -̩̩̩͡ ) dis na ma village ooooo!! I have never seen my village in any type of news before, na 4 dis kind tin we take enter news!! ** weeping profusely** Chineke meeeeehhhhhhh. - OgeReplyDelete
I pray they don't kill them. Homosexuality is evil but then just because u sin differently from another doesn't make u any better.ReplyDelete
We like taking law into our hands in this country. I personally dont support gayism but this is just too much, everyman is entitled to live his life the way he chooses. They really went too far, do they really have to parade them naked like that?ReplyDelete
'Nakedly'!?..aargh..dats definitely a new one.ReplyDelete
Buh c dz papaz doing gay tnz,2 much cable tv(˘̯˘ )Replies
- Ginika16 January, 2013 22:54
It's correct Neks.Delete
Lol!!..my bad Ginika,I actually had to google dat up..hehehe.I shoulda paid more attention in english class,or wait,I tnk dat word came in2 d dictionary after I left skool(˘̯˘ )..LOLDelete
I don learn am sha.tnx
- bintin laye lomo16 January, 2013 18:16
they should learn their lessons. stupid bumbum fuckersReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 18:18
Abeg remove dat marker ,make I see prick naaaReplyDelete
Really is that enough reason to stripe them naked ?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 18:28
They wer suspected NOT CAUGHT IND ACTReplyDelete
#rock gurl#
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 18:29
see that mumu with sixpack, oh what a waste.ReplyDeleteReplies
lmaooooooo..its not a waste o,he might be batting for both sides besides he was alleged not actually caught according to the articleDelete
although i dont support any sexual deviance or aberration but jungle justice in whatever guise is totally wrong and barbaric,thank GOD they didn't set them on fire already,i am particularly concerned about the boy on the let of the picture he looks to be in his early teens and this whole experience might affect him psychologically much more than the adultsDelete
Sounds more like a personal trauma / experience Lucabree That's why you are particularly concerned. Please share by sending to laduns mail. Gay warrior!Delete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 23:17
@ Luca I wonder whether he will have the emotional strength to handle such an embarrassment.Delete
and you that you have psychotic episodes why have you refused to identify with your minions roaming under apongbon bridge
Gay lord!!!Delete
Gay lord and apongbon bridge have me in stitches.Delete
this is why there are so many insane people(lemma included) parading the streets in nigeria…
whatever happens to them the adults will sort themselves out the boy will be ostracised from the community this iw with the added trauma of this ordeal imagine how that ll affect him long term…he might end up as a serial killer or armed robber without any conscience…most people who commit violent crimes in nigeria do so against the rich,and their no 1 reason for targeting them apart from money is the resentment that the rich have stolen our money even those who are not in govt
Soo damn wrong! Who made them judges????! Nonsense!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:12
Its funny (not" hahaha" funny)how a lot of peeps have condemned them witout a trail or proof of homosxuality.we should all note they are only suspects untill proven guilty &the act of humiliating them by d community is dehumanizing & uncalled for.so sad that we have double standards wen our fellow man commits a crime & take mttrs into our hands in Nig.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:14
Its funny (not" hahaha" funny)how a lot of peeps have condemned them witout a trail or proof of homosxuality.we should all note they are only suspects untill proven guilty &the act of humiliating them by d community is dehumanizing & uncalled for.so sad that we have double standards wen our fellow man commits a crime & take mttrs into our hands in Nig.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:16
Chai chai chai!!! Ibo peeps sef.Anyway,ova to luca nd coffee guy.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 09:44
Chai Chai Chai!!! Yoruba peeps sef. Anyway, ova to luca nd coffee guy.Delete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:39
You people can condone and encourage Your male gay Fathers,brothers,sons etc in your life's. Let it develop among ur kith and kins frm now till eternity. We frown against it and will try to discourage it. Gay na bad tin.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:42
This is uncalled forReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:44
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:46
Woah not againReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:48
This is injusticeReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:55
Na wa for my country. When are we going to learnReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:56
But why????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????ReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 19:57
CHAI NOT AGAINReplyDelete
- dr van bay16 January, 2013 20:00
Jide be warned! Banana island won't save you?ReplyDeleteReplies
- Fatimah16 January, 2013 23:00
Ha! Alakoba.Delete
Jide? Banana Island? #tellmemoreDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 13:12
Jide ke? Omo olowo?Delete
Pls doctor spill spill spill !!!Delete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 20:07
This is not right,am not Guy but this is absolutly rubbish.smh for nigeriaReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 20:37
Its not right at all, gay tin is really bad! But I tink d villagers went too far, Wy parading them necked? We have hundreds of politicians that are gay in the name of politics, I think they should go fetch them instead of punishing dis old ppl! Nigerians, we are too local abeg!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 20:41
All d gay activist in 9ja r all yorubas. Stop judging odas nd tribalismReplyDeleteReplies
you caution someone for judging by tribe yet you added your own thats being an hypocriteDelete
anon20:07 keep shaking ur head till it falls off so we can have 1 less fool in dis countryReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 21:04
Some people are gay,get use 2 it. I wonder wen our country will develope. U won't go and catch thief and all d poltician,is this pple. Haven't u heard a lot of our politicians and big nigerian guys are gay. Y not go and start from them than showcasing ur little power on d minors. Rubbbish pple and rubbish local govt. May God deliver who ever tat set thgis up. RUBBISHReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 22:12
Seriously though Ladun, what the hell is 'NAKEDLY'??????ReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 January, 2013 22:33
Nakedly? Ladunsky!ReplyDelete
If they know how to play their cards well, this incidence can grant all three homosexuals, assylum in the US.
- Ginika16 January, 2013 22:53
In this case, Ladun is correct. Nakedly is an adverb. To those who called her out, please update your vocabulary.ReplyDelete
What have they gained by doing this?
Come Ginika,which kain padded insult b dis sef..wich one b update vocabulary again..LolDelete
i hail you madam obaiagbon lol me too i v learnt now and will keep it in mind
- Ginika17 January, 2013 18:10
Ndo Nne Neks. I replied you directly.Delete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 00:06
I HOPE THEY SURVIVE THIS COS THIS PICS AND VIDEOS WILL BE THEIR TICKET FOR AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP, INFACT ALL GAYS OR NONE GAYS SHOULD QUICKLY USE THIS MEDIUM TO SEEK FOR ASYLUM. FREE LEGAL ADVICE BE DIS DON'T PAY ME.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 08:24
But if na yoruba man do this kain thing, IGBO monkeys here for don dey spray their gutter mouth anyhow..... More than 98% of igbo men are eida gay or swing both ways. Google the naija drag queens abroad, before u see 1 yoruba, u don see 10 igbos. Nansense.ReplyDelete
Am ibo, i also do not support the gay thing but am soooo against what dis community did. I mean did they catch the men molesting younger guys? Child molestation is d worst crime for me really. we shouldnt take law into our hands, though the Nigerian police force no dey help matter sef.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 January, 2013 10:59
Is being gay ok or not. The bible frowns against it in totality. Or is the bible a book of complete balderdash. Seems so from d comments here. Book of contradictions and confusion. Sodom and Gomorrah Was a figment of a delusional miscreant. Ha! Ha! Gay on guys.ReplyDelete


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You might want to bring your sunglasses if you visit this beautiful modern residence, as there may not be a brighter, more naturally lit domicile in the entire city of Montreal.
Located at 265 Mont-Royal, the south-facing condominium shines like polished ivory, with its huge, 6,313 sq. ft of living space covered wallto-wall with white Bianca Carrara Marble. Long, oversized windows allow copious amounts of natural light and warmth to beam in and bounce off the marble, white walls and high coffered ceilings.
Upon entering the domicile for the first time, the visitor might believe they are walking on a cloud, a very heavenly cloud that hovers above Jeanne-Mance and Mount-Royal Parks. But this is no fleeting cumulus mirage.
Situated on the top second floor level of the former Sir Mortimer B. Davis YMHA Building (built in 1929), this immense space was entirely rebuilt in 2010 and now takes up the entire floor as one apartment. The space was originally intended for 5 condominium units.
Part of the renovation project included the construction of a second-floor solarium and an expansive private terrace offering sweeping panoramic views of both parklands.
Upon entering through the arched sandstone doorway of the 11-unit building, the main foyer spills open into a large English hall-like space, with a staircase made of local Philipsburg marble, and the original oak wainscotting and mouldings on the walls and borderlines.
The building is a great example of the recycling of a former public building into modern conceptual living spaces, with the sandstone and yellow brick exterior maintaining the ambience and character of a neighbourhood that is nothing short of a volcano of inspiration to anyone interested in architecture.
This residence with four bedrooms and four bathrooms is being co-listed for sale by Sotheby's International Realty Quebec for $5.9 million. Cyrille Girard and Liza Kaufman are the Sotheby's brokers for the residence.
"In Montreal, we don't see that many large units on one floor that are more than 4,500 square feet. It's really, really rare and is on the same luxury and space level as Paris, Chicago and New York. It's also the nicest park-side apartment that I've ever seen for sale in Montreal," stated Girard. "It's also the most expensive condominium presently for sale in the Plateau."
The broker explained that, "it's usually $350 up to $400 a square foot average on the Plateau. Downtown it is from $650 to $700, except high-end condominiums that can go for $1,000 or more a square foot, depending on location and desirability."
This condominium has a kind of loft feeling to it because it's so large, with a spattering of super-clean, industrial chic. For example, the original coffered ceilings are constructed of cement. This approach to building is often found in architecture from the invigorating Art Deco Movement of the 1920s, '30s and '40s. "The finishing has a bit of a rough edge to it, as it's from the Art Deco era, when things were built to last. But it's very beautiful isn't it?," asked Girard.
The layout of the residence is wide open and very minimalistic, with everything having a time and space, without emphasizing empty space. The layout of rich wood furnishings, the strategic placement of carpets and vivid, modern wall art, makes the former recreation and office space come alive in a 21st century way.
The luscious digs also come with a semi-private elevator, original mouldings, three gas fireplaces, radiant-heated floors, vaulted and coffered ceilings, a huge gourmet kitchen, professional highend stainless steel appliances, ensuite bathroom, library, marble countertops, security system, solarium, underground parking, walkin shower, a hot tub and spa.
A rarity is the beautifully restored 25-metre, four-lane indoor swimming pool. It is only one of two such pools in a residential building in Canada. This is a serious pool where you can do laps without feeling as though you are swimming in a shoebox. So after an afternoon of cross country skiing, or a walk in the park, your pool will be waiting.
The renovation was conceived and designed by developer, Mario Di Palma of Jutras Developement Immobilier, who is the owner of the property along with his wife Ulrika Wrese.
"Mario can go into a space and feel its atmosphere and develop it. He doesn't have an architectural background but is self-taught and mixes his artistic side with his business side. He likes to combine new and traditional," explained his wife, who is a real-estate broker for Jutras.
"We had originally thought about designing two apartments with lots of little rooms on the second floor but we decided to take that space for ourselves and live here. It's a great place for social gatherings and it's in a great location, close to downtown; I love that," concluded Wrese.
For more information contact Cyrille Girard at firstname.lastname@example.com 514.582.2810 or Liza Kaufman at firstname.lastname@example.com 514.933.4777.
MLS#8626917. $18,000 a year in school and municipal taxes.


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I'm a big fan of Jeffrey Rowland's surreal diary comic Overcompensating. It took me a while to read through the archives when I first started, but I thought it was worth it, especially since I think it's gotten better as it goes along. Like Achewood, I think Overcompensating has a wonderful way of using language - even if most of the time it's Weedmaster P calling someone a dick ass in a new and fun way. Rowland is able to write dialect in a way that still feels authentic - that's really difficult to do. But when you read the characters in Overcompensating, they sound like real people.
I also like the fact that his characters will be wearing shirts that change text randomly or they will all be wearing costumes, and no one will comment on this.
None of that is particularly relevant here, I just want to establish that I like Overcompensating a lot, and have high hopes for Mr. Rowland's future both with his comic and with the TopatoCo empire he has forged with his own robot arms.
Point being, when I heard he was making an Overcompensating book, I was very excited. Then I thought to myself, "why did this take so long? he has about 6 years of archives - he could have released a book years ago." Then I went back to being excited.
Thanks to David Malki, I got myself a copy of the book (THANKS DAVID MALKI!) and then proceeded to wait several weeks before writing a review, because I was lazy. But also because I realized the review was going to be very long. For example, we are several paragraphs in and I have still told you nothing about the Overcompensating Book except that it is a book.
Here's the deal with the book: I was disappointed. Some of this was the fact that this book, being Volume I, was full of the early comics - from the first (a classic example of forcing a bad punchline on a not-as-bad comic) to the one where Jeffrey moves from Oklahoma to Massachusetts. The fact is, they aren't great comics - yet. The later comics are better. It roughly corresponds to the quality of the art - which has a flat, far more cartoonish look to it at the beginning. It's also true that putting the comic into black and white takes away some of the energy and fun of the full color comics. I recognize that color printing would seriously increase the cost of the book, but it's also true that it would increase the quality of the final work. Would it be worth it? I don't know - I don't know what the costs would be.
But my real problem is this: The comics themselves are overrun with extra text. Here - I'll show you the image they have on the product description page:
Now, I realize that this is the exact opposite of the criticism I had for Kate Beaton's Never Learn Anything From History. In that case, I wrote that I was disappointed by how little she wrote about her comics. Nonetheless, I feel like I'm justified here - the problem with A Dangerous Obsession isn't so much the amount of text - though really, it's pretty crazy - it's that it's not all that interesting or relevant. It's mostly just random conspiracy theories of the sort that are occasionally funny in very small doses but are present here by the dozen. The stories just get boring after a while, and distract from the comic - especially when they are physically breaking up the comic itself, as in the left-most example in the image above. At some point I just wanted Rowland to leave his comics alone and let me read them, and not interrupt to tell me about the original version of Ghostbusters and how it was a documentary that made viewers go mad. I think a good example of the right balance to strike - both in tone and quantity - was the way Chris Onstad did it in the Achewood book.
All that said, the quality of Overcompensating: A Dangerous Obsession is made to look far better when compared with the atrocious introduction by one "Andrew W. K." The introduction actually goes for the middle school trick of "I don't know what to write about so I am going to write this introduction about writing this introduction." Mr. W. K. comes off as a huge tool here and in his other portrayals in the comic, and I hope to never have to deal with him again.
Also, just a caveat emptor sort of thing here: there is a picture of Rowland's horrible spider bite necrosis, and it is towards the beginning, and it is not as bad in black and white.
Final grade: C+. It pains me to write it, and I still love the comic - but for now, I'd say to stick with the online version. forgive me jeffrey.


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RunRev Ltd has announced the release of an update to its flagship programming environment, LiveCode. Version 6.1.2 adds support for the latest iOS 7 SDK and Xcode 5.0, as well as over 30 other enhancements.
LiveCode is a rapid app development platform for app developers wanting to create cross platform apps on iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux. This update ensures continued support for the popular iOS platform, comprising apps running on iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touch.
LiveCode Community can be downloaded free here and LiveCode is known for being the first Scottish technology company to raise half a million pounds via Kickstarter to fund the LiveCode Open Source project in February of this year.
Kevin Miller, CEO of RunRev Ltd, said, "This release demonstrates the continued success of the open source model, which is allowing us to develop faster than ever before. We are now able with the help of the community to maintain two simultaneous strands of development, so 6.1.2 has been released with essential support for iOS 7, whilst our team are still working on the next exciting release, which will deliver more of our Kickstarter goals."


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Dr. Grumpy: "May I ask why?"
Mr. Shakes: "Because I didn't have Parkinson's Disease before I came here! Then you told me I have it, and now I do, and I don't like having it! It's your fault!"
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
Should have thought twice before giving him Parkinsons Doc. Most people appreciate it, but you know, no accounting for taste.
That was rotten, giving the man Parkinson's! Is part of a big Pharma? neurologists plan to get patients on their meds?
It never occurred to me that it was my GI doc's fault that I have Crohn's Disease. Now I'm really mad at him! ;-)
family of ill patients will frequently act as if we caused the disease. scary sometimes.
Shame on you, Dr. G!!!
Unbelievable, simply amazing. What kind of quack are you?! Poor man, he likely would not have become symptomatic if you hadn't diagnosed him. You should hang your head and scrap your future plans. LOL what a dummy!
I diagnosed my severe headaches, which started in 1965 when I was 8, all by myself 15 years later as being migraines. No doctor ever bothered to diagnose them, even when the pain sent me to the ER. Now I'm trying hard to think of a way to fire myself. --Vikya
I'm thinking this entry should have gone under the heading of the previous post! ::eye roll::
Did you tell him he was lucky that he got Parkinson's from coming in. If you'd hit him with the magic reflex hammer and said a different spell, he might have had a stroke or epilepsy?
Opens up a whole new world of litigation, doesn't it?
i can blame the nephrologist for being on dialysis?
hmmmm ... what a novel idea.
you go to a doc to get a diagnosis ... not avoid it.
Wow, if he didn't have Parkinson's disease before he came to see you, then why did he go to you at all??
You should tell him that he should be happy you didn't give him ALS.
i too need to fire myself since I self dx'ed my neurogenetic disorder before a real neurologist confirmed it. Though, maybe I can still blame him? I did stop seeing him... (though, it was due to graduating and moving after college)
Good gravy. Sometimes you have to laugh.
Awwww... they're so *cute* when they confuse correlation and causality.
That'll teach you to ask why. You rose to bait he was obviously desperate for you to take. In future, just smile and say "Of course, that's your right. Let Mary know the name and address of your new neurologist, and we'll send your case notes right over."
Maybe I should fire my pulmonologist for giving me moderate asthma... XD
I knew it. You are giving your patients MPTP in order to boost your practise.
I'm calling my lawyer. I'm going to sue my doctors for all the diseases and illness that they've given me. I'm going to sue the pharmacists for all the side effects I've ever experienced from the drugs they dispensed.
I guess you really can't fix stupid.
Does this rule extend to all services? The auto repair guy just diagnosed a radiator problem...oh..and the electrician diagnosed some faulty wiring issues..I bet for that one I could also sue for compensation on my higher electric bill. All these years I kept thinking there must be an easier and cheaper way to take care of all these things..
oy vey. Did he have a stroke, too???
I see so many stages of grief, and the progression is so fast, too! Denial, Anger, and a hint of depression. If he tried to offer you his wife to take back the parkinson's, we'd be one step closer to acceptance.
Is Parkinson's known to be associated with Inductive Logical Reasoning Deficit Syndrome?
You might be able to get a paper out of this patient!
To make matters worse, I'll bet his Parkinson's actually has gotten worse since he started seeing you too :-P
I also love it when a patient blames a doctor when they have an allergic reaction to a medicine that they prescribed. I can't tell you how many times I have heard "so-and-so's doctor tried to kill them!, so he changed doctors". Yes sir, I prescribed this medication because I somehow KNEW you had a sulfa allergy, despite the fact that you have never really taken any medications before and listed NO KNOWN ALLERGIES on your chart. I am psychic and this was a plot to kill you....I guess patients think that when we look in their ears we are reading the magic label attached to their eardrum that lists their allergies and medical conditions
Haha, then you should have just chased her out of your office screaming, "correlation does not imply causation!" over and over!
phew...I'm so relieved! I'll just switch rheumatologists and my RA will clear up!
p.s. did you check for FTD? ;-)
Little Calf Creamery. Delicious homemade ice cream and food in Thousand Oaks!


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Mint Cork Clutch & Crossbody Bag Gold Handle
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StudioCork was founded in 2017 by a close relationship with "Artipel", a Cork Accessories Portuguese Brand. "Artipel" has years of know-how in the cork sector.
Sara, one of the Co-Founders, worked for Artipel Cork as a Fashion Designer and since the beginning that makes part of the family. After two years, together with Tiago Piriquito with a great background in e-commerce, design and web, saw a huge potential in selling those Cork Bags Worldwide by founding "STUDIOCORK". The main goal of this project is to spread "Cork" around the world as an alternative to genuine leather and also by giving a different approach to the Fashion World, providing trendy bags and wallets without compromising nature.
StudioCork wants to rise the cork accessories to the international fashion market and is here to stay, with orders from more than 15 countries and 4 different continents in the first year after launching. The top markets are the United States of America, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and Australia.
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A new twist is coming to long-term care insurance: gender-based pricing, and women can expect to pay 20% to 40% more for coverage than men.
So says Michael Kitces, an AdvisorOne contributor, in his Wednesday Nerd's Eye View blog post. Kitces notes that the LTC industry is moving toward gender-based pricing in order to help "restore stability and regain profitability."
Genworth, the market leader in LTC coverage, will be the first to venture down the gender-based pricing path, and is "anticipated to begin receiving approvals to issue new policies with gender-distinct costs as soon as April," Kitces writes.
"Once the changes take effect, it's likely that most other major LTC insurance companies will follow suit as well," Kitces says, "and the new cost structure may be an industry standard by the end of the year."
A Genworth spokesperson told AdvisorOne on Wednesday that Genworth will launch in April its newest long-term care insurance product, Privileged Choice Flex 2. Genworth, the spokesperson said, "will be among the first major carriers to implement gender-distinct pricing with this product."
Women applying for coverage individually will receive higher rates than men applying individually, the spokesperson said, and for both individual rates, the applicant will receive higher rates than couples. "Approximately 80% of all Genworth LTCI applicants are couples; approximately 10% of Genworth applicants are individual women," the spokesperson said. The change will not impact current policyholders, the spokesperson said. "Two states require unisex rates: Montana and Colorado."
"The change is being made now to reflect our actual claims experience and help stabilize pricing," the spokesperson added. "The percentage increase will vary by issue age and the benefits selected by the applicant. The changes will go into effect as states approve the product beginning in the first half of 2013."
While gender-based cost differences occur in life insurance, until now the LTCI industry has avoided charging men and women different premiums.
Rob Cohen, executive vice president for the American Association for Long-Term Care (ACSIA), one of the nation's leading marketers of long-term care insurance, agreed in a recent statement that's about to change.
Cohen notes that research performed by ACSIA shows that women represent 2/3 of all new claims. "Considering the industry has paid out a projected $7 billion in benefits, this represents a significant larger risk for insurance companies. Soon, at least the majority, if not virtually all insurance companies, will begin charging premiums which represent the individual risk based on gender." Women, Cohen said, "live longer than men and thus require extended long-term health care more often and longer than men do. While this does not diminish the impact and risk of long-term care for men, this risk is larger for women. Premiums will soon reflect this fact."
The primary impact of the cost change will be on women who apply for a policy as an individual, Kitces says. "Premiums are anticipated to be as much as 20% to 40% higher than for men when purchasing a comparable policy at a comparable age."
In the near term, Kitces says that those considering getting a new LTC policy should act before the rate hikes take effect. Once the new pricing is in place, Kitces warns that the only options may be to "adjust the selected benefits to try to get premiums down to an affordable point, consider a hybrid LTC policy as an alternative—although such policies have challenges of their own—or wait to see if the latest commission on LTC—required as a part of the fiscal cliff legislation—can come up with a new national solution to the country's LTC woes."
Read Kitces' latest blog for AdvisorOne, Impressions From the T3 Conference: The Future Is Bright (Part One).