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"Do Something Healthy" with Derek Hough
You'll have to fly to Tacoma to do it, though. 🙂 According to MultiCare.org, you can register now to Do Something Healthy:
He's sambaed with Shannon, jived with Jennie and rumbaed with Ricki. Now Derek Hough is set to tango with Tacoma. And you can be a part of it!
Hough, who has danced his way into the hearts of viewers nation-wide on ABC's Dancing With the Stars (DWTS), is the featured speaker at MultiCare's 2013 "Do Something Healthy" event.
Hough is a master dancer and choreographer. With a different partner each season, he's won the DWTS competition multiple times. He's also been nominated for three Emmy awards and played the male lead in the critically acclaimed London stage version of Footloose.
But according to Dorn, it's more than Hough's talent that makes him a perfect speaker for "Do Something Healthy." "He's just so encouraging and so positive," she says. "I think he'll be very popular."Hough will take part in a moderated discussion, addressing issues such as being active, reaching your goals and finding inspiration.
But he won't spend all of his time behind a microphone. He'll put on his dancing shoes too! And at some point, he'll trip the light fantastic and woo the crowd with his musical moves. Before his presentation, he'll act as a judge for a MultiCare dance competition for teens as well. Groups of local teens have spent the past few weeks filming audition videos for a panel of judges to review. The top three groups will be selected to compete live at the event.
Sounds fantastic!! Who volunteers to go, get healthy and take all important pictures of Derek? 😉 Click the link above for more information.

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When we were down 8 with about 5 min left that was the time to run some sets for post ups, but we did the same thing that hadnt been working for much of the game.
I agree that if it aint broke dont fix it, but this should be a game to game thing. A quarter to quarter thing.
Linsanity didnt work tonight. We should have gone with the MeloDrama in the 4th...
This team needs to stop playing down to its competition, sheesh....
Looking at it positively though, not much time all practicing together. Not gonna make excuses for this BAD loss, and I'm certainly not gonna come to terms with EVER losing to the Nets, but in the grand scheme of things I think we'll be okay after this one.
Let's come back big against Atlanta and then even more so, Miami.
You guys remind me of the history books I read growing up. I hope I'm remembering this correctly.
The British (you guys) during wartime were absolutely demolishing the colonies (me). They used to both fight war by standing in line and shooting at one another until one side won. The British had better guns a shooters at that time. But someone on the colonies side came up with the bright idea of hiding behind rocks and trees while shooting.
Well you know how that turned out.
Like I said if it's working, fine. If not doing something different might lead to more victories...
http://testicle.com is House of Dong
Very disappointed by this loss.
Let's leave it behind and win the last 2 games before the ASG!
I'm sure our players are as disappointed as we are, **** the Nets, long season only god knows how it'll end.
If we can't attain home court advantage - so be it, we've done it before from 8th seed, we can do it again.
The most important thing is to stay positive and not get depressed like early in the season when we looked like a failed project.
It's a chaotic lockout-season, with injuries and lineup changes right, left and center. We can worry about a 0.700 record next year, this year it's all about fighting through the setbacks and struggles and still beeing successfull in the end.
Jesus buys were acting like we just lost the Finals.
It was a terrible loss but just that, a loss.
Melo was **** yesterday I agree but he will get alittle better, Melo is out of his prime and im starting to see why Crazy8 said we gave up too much for Melo.
STAT is a problem all in his one, he's not the STAT of last year nor will he probably be again. All I see is people blow by him as he stands and watches.
I understand that with the talent on this team,we want instant production but that just isn't going to happen.
Hopefully we want a real surge for the playoffs towards the end
They lost because of 2 reasons....
1. Gelling issues due to the return of Stat, Melo, and new team mates in B.Davis and Smith...none of the 4 have yet to practice with each other or the other new guy J-Lin... it's to be expected.
2. DWill had a point to prove.
Actually, I think Shump would have been the difference if he played.


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THE GLEE PROJECT – 9:00PM Sunday (Oxygen) But the musical attractions don't stop there! Set your DVR during the Tonys and save the premiere of this brand new reality show featuring a dozen contestants all vying for a seven-episode stint on "Glee." Show creator Ryan Murphy will be on hand to judge the wannabes personally, which means plenty of tears, and that Kings of Leon won't be welcome. But no Sue Sylvester on the panel, which is what I was direly hoping for. ANTICIPATION: EXTRA GLEE!
2011 GUYS CHOICE AWARDS – 9:00PM Tonight (SpikeTV) Spike, also known as the Ed Hardy channel, hosts an award show for guys who like their beer cold and their women HAWT. Jennifer Aniston is on hand to receive a "Decade of Hotness" award. But will it ever make up for her lack of a husband? ANTICIPATION: BURRRRNNNN!
FIELD OF VISION – 8:00PM Saturday (NBC) Faith Ford stars in this movie about a kid who finds an old video camera with top secret footage on it. Like "Super 8," only you didn't spend ten bucks to experience crushing disappointment. ANTICIPATION: KNOCKOFFERIFFIC!
MCENROE/BORG: FIRE & ICE – 10:00PM Saturday (HBO) Explore one of the great tennis rivalries of all time. I wonder if McEnroe agreed to be interviewed for this. He seems so camera-shy. ANTICIPATION: VICIOUS BACKHANDS!
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The drone paused, motionless, blacker than the night about it, its rain-slick, light-absorbent coat sucking in the photons from the smudgy fires which might otherwise have reflected from it. The turret mounted on its bottom rotated smoothly, turning sensors and lenses towards whatever had attracted its attention. Wind sighed wearily in the branches of sugar pine, crab poplar, and imported Terran white pine and hickory, something shifted in one of the piles of rubble, throwing up sparks and cinders. A burning rafter burned through and collapsed and water dripped from rain-heavy limbs with the patient, uncaring persistence of nature, but otherwise all was still, silent.
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Intense search turns up financial records from Lincoln's
congressional career
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[December 10, 2012]
-- Even Honest Abe had to fill out paperwork to collect his
salary and mileage money.
Researchers with the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
have tracked down records signed by Abraham Lincoln, then a member
of Congress, to get his money from the federal government: $8 a day
and $8 for every 20 miles he traveled to and from his home in
The documents were found at the National Archives in
Washington, D.C., by David J. Gerleman, assistant editor with the
Papers of Abraham Lincoln project. Nineteenth-century pay records
from the House of Representatives are scarce, but Gerleman came
across an 1848 pay voucher for Lincoln rival Stephen A. Douglas
while examining Treasury Department documents.
This small discovery sparked a targeted search of other Treasury
account records to try to pinpoint where other members' pay files
might be located, or if they even still existed.
After exhausting virtually every option, Gerleman ran across a
single entry of House records in an often-overlooked section of
Treasury Department records. Contained within several battered
volumes was exactly the information sought: Lincoln's official
signed pay and mileage accounts, complete with check numbers, date
of issue, amounts and miles traveled.
One entry shows Lincoln collected a total of $2,024 in salary for
January through August of 1848 and got an additional 1,300.80 for
travel. This and other Lincoln documents are available at
The volumes were likely kept by the House sergeant at arms, and
individual members had to sign off on their accounts at the close of
each session.
"I was excited to finally track down these records, and it was an
extra thrill to see that these volumes contain signatures of the
majority of House members from 1813 to 1889," Gerleman said.
"Unfortunately, the 1840s are a known gap for House salary and
spending information," he said. "One of the most difficult tasks was
trying to first reassemble the exact process of how members of
Congress were paid during the period."
Persistent research revealed that the speaker of the House had to
request warrants through the secretary of the Treasury. The speaker
signed individual pay vouchers and distributed them to members, who
could cash them at the Corcoran & Riggs Bank, the only federal
depository in Washington.
Representatives were paid according to an 1818 law fixing
compensation at $8 a day plus $8 per 20 miles traveled. The
legislation did not specify the shortest route, a fact that came
under scrutiny when congressman-turned-journalist Horace Greeley
publicly reproached members for taking less-than-direct routes home.
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With Steven Spielberg's film spotlighting Lincoln's political
skills and an upcoming book examining his House career, these
records provide a timely link to the future president's two years as
a Whig congressman. Those years gave Lincoln a valuable education on
policy and politicking at the national level. They also brought him
into contact with politicians who would either fight with or against
him during the Civil War, including both his vice presidents,
Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson, Cabinet secretaries Simon
Cameron and Caleb B. Smith, and a host of future Confederate
The Papers of Abraham Lincoln is a long-term documentary editing
project funded in part by the National Historical Publications and
Records Commission and is dedicated to identifying, imaging,
transcribing, annotating and publishing all documents written by or
to Abraham Lincoln during his lifetime.
"These exciting new discoveries demonstrate the value of our
careful and thorough approach," said Daniel W. Stowell, director of
the Papers of Abraham Lincoln. "David Gerleman and our other
colleagues are searching tens of thousands of records with
incredible skill and tenacity to ensure we have the fullest possible
understanding of Lincoln's life."
David Ferriero, archivist of the United States, said: "I was very
excited to learn that once again researchers have mined the National
Archives to discover important documentation. This is just the
latest of many finds by the staff of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln
project. Their work adds to the historical record and will help
future researchers develop new insights."
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Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
file received from the
Illinois Historic
Preservation Agency]
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An exclusive first look at the October issue of FASHION Magazine featuring the She Wolf herself Shakira.
LOVE Shaki. And the body. Is. Sick.
If I were Jennifer Lopez I wouldn't want to be anywhere near Shaki. Wonder if this happened at the VMAs on Sunday. Sure, sure, I'm sure they're civil. She Wolf is the video JLo wishes she made. Pure cheese sex.
I have tried to bend myself in the ways that Shaki manipulates her body in the cage. Am Asian and still I can't do it.
Shaki tells FASHION that "the album is about the woman who knows what she wants, a woman who is in touch with her subconscious desires, and she fights for them with teeth and claws like a wild beast. I have always felt that I am not completely human, in a way. I've always felt this other animal inside me. This other animal that doesn't make a lot of sense; it's just primitive".
What's primitive is the designer who f-cked up and put both Shaki and Pink in the same dress at the VMAs.
Shakira's October issue of FASHION hits newsstands next month.
FASHION Magazine: Shakira Shakira
An exclusive first look at the October issue of FASHION Magazine featuring the She Wolf herself Shakira.


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NC House passes bill forbidding Islamic Sharia law in some cases
A bill prohibiting the application of Islamic Sharia law in certain cases has cleared the North Carolina House.
The bill passed Thursday would prohibit judges and agencies from applying part of any foreign legal system that would lead to violations of constitutional rights in domestic and child custody cases.
The bill was narrowed to keep it alive as a looming deadline threatened to remove it from consideration through the end of the session in 2014. A similar but broader bill cleared a House committee in 2011 but went no further.
Supporters argued there are examples of Sharia law being used in other states, and the bill ensures that won't happen in North Carolina. Opponents argued it is unconstitutionally narrow and unnecessary.
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Sometimes, I love watching home improvement shows on TLC and HGTV. I like thinking about how to make spaces more useful, more beautiful. I think functional spaces inform and inspire good work. My office at Hampshire has been an evolving project towards functionality and beauty, or as much beauty as concrete and Styrofoam walls can offer. And those home shows inspire me to think about low-cost solutions to dysfunctional spaces. Discussions about space informed much of my thinking about my work and teaching during the past year. From decisions about teaching with my iPad rather than my laptop, to visiting our new classrooms in Emily Dickinson Hall, to the ISIS session we recently hosted about classrooms, space remains at the forefront of my thoughts about the library.
At Hampshire, we don't have a lot of money to make major changes. However, that's not to say we couldn't make any changes, something I realized after the ISIS session where Nick Baker from Mount Holyoke College talked about the pop-up media lab he created in the art building. That space was built on the idea of flexible, transient spaces that meet immediate needs as opposed to long term and possibly unknowable needs. With all of this percolating in my mind, a couple of things transpired simultaneously at Hampshire:
- It was time to weed print reference. It was clear from the amount of dust on the books in our reference collection that it was time to do some weeding. And those texts took up valuable real estate on the first floor; space that can eventfully be used for student study space.
- Our outer office was a mess. Over the course of my first year at Hampshire, I sometimes wondered if the dysfunctional outer office made students less likely to come into our space to ask questions. In addition, the space was dysfunctional for the librarians. We didn't have a place where the team to could sit together and meet. We didn't have a functional space to sit with students if they needed advice from more than 1 librarian at a time. And it was sad. We needed to do something with that space.
At some point during the summer - probably while putting books on trucks and coughing up dust - we decided that the core reference books that will help us help more students should live near our offices. When that decision was made, we put in work orders for shelving (wouldn't you know we had extra ones in the storage closet in the basement?) and to paint the walls. Our director ordered some Eames chairs over the summer to replace old carrel chairs, and we threw in some spare chairs and a table we commandeered from other parts of the library. The Facilities staff removed the door to our suite. Voila! Instant interdisciplinary consultation space!


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Benefiting a good cause, digesting some delicious food, and walking leisurely through some of Charlottesville more interesting downtown houses seems like a recipe for success. Curiosity seekers, gourmands, and history and architectural buffs can indulge themselves while contributing to the internationally renowned, non-profit volunteer organization, Meals on Wheels.
In the 25 years since Church Women United founded our local chapter, Community Meals on Wheels has delivered more than 500,000 hot and cold nutritious meals in the Charlottesville area, and they have recently expanded to Scottsville and Crozet. Bringing prepared meals to the elderly, poor, and to those housebound for medical or other reasons, Meals on Wheels does not discriminate. Where a need arises, volunteers deliver.
To supplement their philanthropic endeavors this year, Meals on Wheels is sponsoring a historic Park Street Kitchen Tour. Six of the most interesting kitchens on the street (as well as parlors, studies, and great rooms) will be open for tours. Four generations of recipes will issue forth from these kitchens, further complementing the historic walkabout.
Traditional, remodeled, or brand new, each of the six houses is within easy walking distance on or near Park Street. The kitchens range from Lloyd Smith's antique-filled traditional one, in which Ashlin Smith has arranged a special display of favorite cookware and small appliances inherited from her mother, to Ed and Jane Ford's "urban leftover" house with a through-the-wall table completed in 2001. Kitchens are the focal point of the tour, but the owners will open other rooms as well. Well-informed volunteer guides in each home will point out features and answer questions.
The purpose of a fundraiser of this magnitude is not to raise money to support existing programs, but also to enable expansion of the territory that Meals on Wheels can reach and to raise awareness of its mission. Many people in the county have limited access to help and/or neighbors when things go awry. A primary sponsor of the tour is Better Living, with individual house sponsorships coming from Ace Construction and Brooks Construction as well as Luck Stone Corporation.
Community-inspired and community driven, Meals on Wheels delivers.
Tickets for the six-house tour are $15 when purchased in advance from Albemarle Baking Company, Foods of All Nations, Hotcakes, Market Street Wine Shop (both locations), New Dominion Book Store, and the Senior Center. On the days of the tour they may be purchased for $20 from the Meals on Wheels table in the parking lot of First Presbyterian Church where free parking is available. Each attendee will receive a program containing the owners' descriptions of their homes and their favorite recipes. The kitchens will be open from 1-5pm on September 13, 14, and 15. For more information about the houses, sample recipes, and quotes from homeowners, contact Nancy Essig, Kitchen Tour Chairperson, at 434-295-1282.


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The physical contact that takes place during an NBA game pales in comparision to that of the gridiron, but this week, two NBA alumni admitted that bounty-like practices occurred in the sport during their careers.
Cedric Maxwell, a sharp-shooting forward who spent most of his career with the Boston Celtics and led the NBA in field goal percentage in '79 and '80, said teams put bounties on players who liked to take charges. He mentioned current CBS analyst Len Elmore as one of them.
"Every time he tried to take a charge and you stepped on him, you got paid," Maxwell told CSNNE.com. "What are they going to do, come back and fine me now?"
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NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley was on the Dan Patrick Radio Show on Monday and said he'd go after players who ran up scores during blowouts. He even admitted to putting a $5,000 bounty on a player once.
In other sports such as pro hockey, bounties have existed as well, parodied and brought to light in films such as "Slapshot and Youngblood," but have largely been unspoken of in mainstream media.


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Baruch College Ranks # 3 in "The Future Zuckerbergs" 2013 College Rankings by Her Campus.com
NEW YORK, NY - September 17, 2013 - Baruch College is ranked #3 in "The Future Zuckerbergs" 2013 College Rankings conducted by HerCampus.com. This list recognizes the schools that support "their Zuckerbergs-in-the-making and boast a roster of successful alumni who made it big in the risky business of start-up companies."
Besting Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and others, Baruch College was recognized for ensuring "its students have fine-tuned their business know-how before jumping into the real world."
The College earned high marks for:
- The establishment of a joint Business Ph.D. degree program that will now include the Baruch College name, alongside CUNY's Graduate Center.
- Zicklin School of Business' bachelor's and master's degree programs in entrepreneurship, earning national recognition by The Princeton Review in its "Top 25 Undergraduate Programs for Entrepreneurship."
- Preparing students for start-up success in local business contests, by offering opportunities such as fast pitch competitions, where students have a short amount of time to present their company to investors. (22 percent of recent graduates start their own business soon after graduation.)
- Going above and beyond to foster a strong entrepreneurial community for students with resources like Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship, where student entrepreneurs can seek support from other students and faculty from the Zicklin School of Business, among other alumni and volunteers.
Her Campus.com is an online community for college women, written entirely by the nation's top college journalists, with more than 3,000 contributors from more than 200 colleges and universities in the United States.
About Baruch College:
Baruch College is a senior college in the City University of New York (CUNY) with a total enrollment of more than 17,000 students, who represent 160 countries and speak more than 100 languages. Ranked among the top 15% of U.S. colleges and the No. 4 public regional university, Baruch College is regularly recognized as among the most ethnically diverse colleges in the country. As a public institution with a tradition of academic excellence, Baruch College offers accessibility and opportunity for students from every corner of New York City and from around the world. For more about Baruch College, go to http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/.
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Check the front page- I interviewed Vic Mignogna (aka Junpei from P3)
You know, in doing these voice actor interviews, I'm always struck by how vividly distinct their personalities all are and how they bring out different feelings in me. Like, Jill Melancon is someone I'd want to collaborate on an audiobook with. Erin Fitzgerald is someone I'd want to have a beer with (even though I don't drink.) If Vic Mignogna was teaching a class, I would love to take it. And Kira is someone I'd want to wreak espresso-fueled havoc at a convention with while wearing my Gambit costume.


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MWC 15 Special
At yesterday's Web 2.0 Summit, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, showed a yet unannounced Android smartphone from a yet unannounced manufacture which seems to be the rumored Samsung Nexus S, Google's next smartphone following its very own Nexus One. Furthermore he talked about Gingebread aka Android 2.3, Google's next Android version which comes out - according to Schmidt - "in the next few weeks". According to different sources, the Samsung Nexus S/ Samsung GT-I9020 is featuring 2G and 3G bands, WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth as well as a 5 megapixel camera. Furthermore it seems to be confirmed by Schmidt, that the Nexus S will feature NFC (Near Field Communication).
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks ended little changed and European equities slipped on Wednesday as investors paused after recent rallies, while the euro fell before a European Central Bank meeting that could reveal concerns about the currency's strength.
Traders awaited fresh incentives to push markets higher after boosting the S&P 500 index to five-year highs and euro zone equities to 1-1/2-year peaks.
Disagreement between Germany and France over the exchange rate for the euro stoked concern about stability in the euro zone, adding to uncertainty over the outcome of upcoming Italian elections and a corruption scandal in Spain.
The ECB is widely forecast to keep rates at a record low 0.75 percent when it meets on Thursday, but policymakers may examine whether the strength of the euro is undermining a recovery in troubled economies.
"Overall, we believe that the next near-term market dip should provide an opportunity to buy stocks ahead of rallies higher in the coming months, but we are skeptical about the long-term sustainability of these gains due to the maturing age of the bull market," said Ari Wald, equity research analyst at C&Co\PrinceRidge in New York.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI closed up 7.22 points, or 0.05 percent, at 13,986.52. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX ended up 0.83 point, or 0.05 percent, at 1,512.12. The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC dropped 3.10 points, or 0.10 percent, to 3,168.48.
Transportation stocks were among the worst performers. Shares of CH Robinson Worldwide (CHRW.O) fell 9.7 percent to $60.50 and was the biggest percentage loser on the Nasdaq 100 after the freight transport company posted a lower-than-expected adjusted quarterly profit.
The S&P 500 has gained 6 percent so far this year, lifting the benchmark equity index to highs last seen in December 2007. The Dow briefly climbed above 14,000 for the first time in more than five years during the rally.
The EuroSTOXX 50 gauge of euro zone blue chips fell 1.3 percent to 2,617.35 .STOXX50E, its weakest finish since early December and further retreating from a 1-1/2 year peak of 2,754.80 set last week.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst slipped 0.2 percent to 1,152.12 .FTEU3, its losses tempered by a solid performance from UK blue chips .FTSE.
MSCI's all-country world equity index .MIWD00000PUS was up 0.1 percent at 355.45.
After France complained about the euro's level, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said the currency was not over-valued and that competitiveness could not be achieved via exchange rates.
The euro was 0.5 percent lower against the dollar at $1.3517 and lost 0.6 percent to 126.47 yen.
"The focus is speculation over tomorrow's ECB statement and President (Mario) Draghi's press conference," said Camilla Sutton, chief currency strategist at Scotia Capital in Toronto. "We expect President Draghi to sound notably cautious and EUR to weaken on the back of it."
Japan's yen, at the center of concerns that some countries are trying to devalue their currencies to boost growth, hit a near-three-year low earlier in the day on the view a new Bank of Japan governor will ease policy aggressively once in office.
The yen fell 0.1 percent to 93.54.
The yen's decline spurred Japan's Nikkei index .N225 to climb to its highest in more than four years.
In oil markets, Brent settled up 21 cents at $116.73 a barrel but remained below the previous day's session high, the highest point since mid-September.
U.S. crude dropped 2 cents to settle at $96.62.
U.S. government debt prices rose on weaker stocks, while nagging worries about possible political shake-ups in Italy and Spain also rekindled demand for safe-haven bonds. The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note was up 12/32 in price to yield 1.9621 percent.
Bond prices also climbed as traders sought to profit from the Federal Reserve's latest purchase of Treasuries, which was part its $44 billion monthly program aimed at lowering borrowing costs and unemployment.
"There are still a lot of possible disruptive currents coming from Europe," said Lou Brien, market strategist at DRW Trading in Chicago. "The problems there have not gone away, but the market had just ignored them until this week."
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Be sure to check out Sita-ji's fantastic tribute to Ganesha. Here is my favorite related song, from Don (2006) -- see number eight in this review:
PS: The first picture is from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999) -- see number one in this review. And speaking of a Salman Khan film, here's a piece on Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations at his home.


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Willow, fortunately, is fully recovered now, but she and I were both struck ill at almost exactly the same time, and were both VERY unhappy girls for a couple of days. Matt did as much as he could within his work deadlines, even skipping his drawing class when it became clear that I was NOT going to be able to cope, but Syd, my pampered, spoiled, sweet little baby of the family, was not only left to her own devices quite a bit (something that she is not used to, what with having a constant sister-in-crime at her disposal), but was also needed to help out quite a bit, and she made good.
While I was barely able to move, myself, in the next room, Sydney kept Willow supplied with water, dry cereal, Netflix, and plenty of snuggles:
I staggered into the room during one interlude to find Willow sound asleep leaning on Sydney, with Sydney still watching their movie and absent-mindedly stroking Willow's hair. When she saw me, she said, "Momma, can I get a blanket to keep Willow not cold?"
By Friday night, at least, Willow and I were well enough to be planted on the bleachers at the ice rink, holding each other up and swathed in blankets from home, while Matt handled all the preschooler-corralling so that Sydney could shine in another capacity:
The smallest skater in the Spring Ice Show may not have remembered her choreography, or consented to wear her costume (in the car later, Matt was baffled as to why Syd started to throw a tantrum when he tried to put on her duck outfit. I said, "I can guess. Sydney, was your costume pretty?" Sydney, from her carseat in the back, shouted, "NO!" Mystery solved), or even stayed upright for the entire time, but she does claim that she could see me in the darkened audience, waving frantically at her.
And I could not be prouder.


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One day last year I was sitting in my kitchen at 5:00 pm checking email while dinner was cooking. The house was quiet and I had a disconcerting realization: no one needed me. Each of my four children was in their own "cave," doing homework (I hoped), while simultaneously surfing YouTube (unfortunately) and video chatting with friends (perhaps about homework?).
My job had shifted from being the pilot who transported everyone everywhere, from being asked to fulfill every need, to just making sure everyone was busy doing what he or she was supposed to be doing. My job description had shifted from flying the planes to directing them. I had become an air-traffic controller. I had to make sure the planes were clean, fueled, de-iced and fully stocked. I supplied the flight plan while they just had to periodically call in their location and status. Sometimes the planes would fly off for a few hours, sometimes for days and then for weeks in the summer, when they are parked in Camp Ramah's hangar in Palmer, Massachusetts. There the planes get a tune up socially, athletically and Judaically.
I soon learned the best way to bring in the planes: homemade desserts. When the planes are at the airport in their separate hangars, nothing brings the pilots into the control tower faster than chocolate desserts, such as the Chocolate, Zucchini and Walnut Muffins below. The pilots sit around the tower and discuss each version of the muffins. Are they sweet enough? Do they need more or less walnuts? Their input has always been valuable. They also discuss their trips, where they are going next, whether they found a better route they want to share or give support to a fellow pilot who got a little lost on their last flight. Sometimes they even want to paint their planes a new color and I assist with that too.
When they are properly fueled, the planes go off again. As my daughter prepares to go to college next year, I accept that it is time for her to direct her plane to a new airport. She is ready. She has gone through the pilot training program and graduated with honors.
Soon the planes are ready to fly off again. They submit new flight plans for approval. I fill out the paperwork and I stand in the control tower and watch the jets go off on their separate ways, marveling at how independent they are. Off they go, until the next batch of muffins.
Chocolate, Zucchini and Walnut Muffins
makes 18 muffins
These muffins are healthy enough for breakfast. They have whole grain flour, a vegetable and protein from the walnuts. You really do not even have to tell anyone that there is zucchini inside as they will never know; the zucchini strands melt into the batter when baked and just add moistness to the muffins.
1 1/3 cups white whole-wheat flour
1 ½ cups sugar
1 cup dark unsweetened cocoa
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup orange juice (no pulp)
1/3 cup canola oil
½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1/3 cup boiling water
¾ cup shredded zucchini (from about 6 ounces zucchini), unpeeled, shredded on the small holes of a box grater
1 ½ cups walnut halves, chopped into ½ inch pieces, and ¼ cup chopped walnuts separated out to sprinkle on top
Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Place paper cups in muffin tins for 17 muffins.
In a large bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add the orange juice, oil, vanilla, eggs, and boiling water and first stir with a silicone spatula (so water does not splatter) and then use the mixer to mix for one minute, until everything is thoroughly combined, scraping down the bowl as needed. Add the shredded zucchini and mix in well to distribute. Add the walnuts and mix in.
Use a 1/3 cup measuring cup to scoop up batter and divide among the 18 cups, filling no more than ¾ full. Bake for 30 - 33 minutes, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Let cool for 10 minutes in the pan and then turn muffins out onto a rack to cool to room temperature. Store covered at room temperature for up to 5 days or freeze for up to three months.


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Designer Spotlight: Laura Zukaite
Laura Zukaite is an independent knitwear designer with an impossible-to-miss style and yen for luxury fibers and sophisticated looks. Her patterns are often thoughtful and well designed, with feminine details and a touch of the unexpected. Take a look at the Magnolia Swirl Cowl, a free pattern published in our weekly Web Letter. It is a tapered cabled strip that is joined in a coil of sorts, not with regular seams, but with a spiralling silk ribbon, integrating the finishing into the design.
Laura is already familiar with Magnolia, having used it in her Golden Girl Cardigan, another clever, feminine piece from her independently published collection at LauraZukaite.com.
She is the author of two books, Luxe Knits and Luxe Accessories, both featuring sophisticated designs in luxury yarns, and is also a frequent contributor to various online and print magazines, like Knitting, Vogue Knitting, and Knitty. She was kind enough to do an interview with us here at the blog.
How long have you been designing?
I have been knitting since I was five. All of my knits and later sweaters came out of just my imagination. Back then I never thought of what I was doing as "designing". But now when I think about it- I was designing all along.
How did you get started?
Actually, I do not remember. As far as my memory goes, I have always been knitting. My mother is an excellent knitter, so I assume that she taught me somewhere along the way. But I do not have a recollection of my first project or yarn that I used.
What's the first piece you ever designed (not necessarily for CEY)?
I think that the first piece that I have intentionally designed was when I was about 14 or 15. My mom bought me a cone of a beautiful Gray Heather Alpaca yarn and I knit myself an Aran Turtleneck. I still have it and wear it to this day: it became my favorite skiing sweater.
What pieces did you design in the Fall Collection?
For CEY Fall Collection I have designed two pieces in Kumara: Afternoon Light (off-shoulder top) and Landscape (ribbed hat), a piece in Ariosa: Glacier (ribbed cardigan), and an accessories set in Giselle: Merry and Bright (Hat and Cowl).
What is the timeline for one of your designs, from swatch to pattern to sample?
Depending on a complexity of a design- it could take anywhere from one to three weeks to turn around a sweater piece.
Approximately how many patterns do you publish a year?
Do you use test knitters?
What is your "design process"?
I usually start with the yarn and swatch. After I have the fabric created- then I move into sketching. I usually sketch-up a few ideas for one swatch and then pick my favorites. After that, I select colors and start the knitting process. I like to take notes as I knit and write the pattern afterwards.
Where do you do your design work? What does your "creative space" look like?
I usually design at home and execute "on-the-go". But sometimes I would come up with ideas while just walking around and then only put it on paper when I get back to my studio. I knit pretty much anywhere (subway, train, waiting for doctor's appointment…etc) but rarely at home.
What is your favorite piece you designed for the Fall Collection? What was your inspiration? My favorite piece is Afternoon Light (off-shoulder top) in Kumara. I remember at that time I was obsessed with subtle little ways of exposing the skin- and the piece just came to life naturally.
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
February 17, 2011 - Foggy Day!
'February Fog' - oil on linen - 8x10 © Marc R. Hanson '11
'Backyard Fog' - oil on linen - 9x16 © Marc R. Hanson '11
14 comments:
- Kristin said...
I love these two paintings! The colors that you used are perfect for painting fog!
- February 17, 2011 at 6:37 PM
- Sonya Johnson said...
These are both great, but the second one is...wow! Your ability to portray such simple scenes in such an engaging way says everything about your aesthetic and technical expertise.
Thanks for sharing these.
- February 17, 2011 at 7:24 PM
- Kim VanDerHoek said...
I can't believe that I know what the painting on top is supposed to be of. How on earth did you pull it off? I'm analyzing the details (like the scale indicators) to try to figure it out.
- February 17, 2011 at 8:21 PM
- Marian Fortunati said...
Amazing... The paintings ...
and the fact that 40 is up for you. It was 40 today in SoCal and we thought it was cold.
- February 17, 2011 at 9:31 PM
- Angus Wilson Studio said...
Liking the last one Backyard Fog! I agree with the last post N. California has turned me soft - 40 sounds cold! ;-)
- February 17, 2011 at 10:36 PM
- Typh said...
Backyard Fog is the master piece!
Bravo Marc!
Frank - Italy
- February 18, 2011 at 2:15 AM
- Lorna said...
Backyard Fog is a totally beautiful work. You can feel the cold, sense the softness of the atmosphere and hear the quietness of the moment.
Its totally breathtaking!!
- February 18, 2011 at 2:18 PM
Your control of tonal values and hue is incredible Marc. You can feel the cold air! Our daffodils are up here in Southwest France.
- February 19, 2011 at 2:36 AM
- Nancy Laliberte said...
Beautifully atmospheric. You nailed 'em Marc.
- February 19, 2011 at 10:39 PM
- Nanny said...
Yes. Yet another one. Sara M.
- February 20, 2011 at 11:57 AM
- Daroo said...
I agree, these are both great. Specific, yet poetic.
I've wanted to paint something similar but so far have only managed to fill up a couple of CF cards with photos of Snowy Fog -- This weather phenomenon doesn't seem to last that long and even though the temp is warmer and there is no wind, the moisture in the air has a penetrating chill.
You've captured that in these paintings -- well done!
- February 20, 2011 at 1:22 PM
- Jala Pfaff said...
I love these neutral-color scenes.
- February 21, 2011 at 9:35 PM
- kousalya said...
Hi, nice blog & good post. You have beautifully maintained it,Its really helpful for me, hope u have a wonderful day & awaiting for more new post. Keep Blogging!
oil Painting
- February 22, 2011 at 5:17 AM
- Marc R. Hanson said...
Thank you all very much for your comments. Since painting that, the snow melted and then came back! I was thinking that a T shirt would be my attire for this week. But it sounds like long underwear and boots again.
- February 23, 2011 at 9:47 PM


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Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Burnout: Quenching the Fire?
In two ways, I'm feeling a little guilty. First, I doubt I've provided any new insights in this burnout mini-series. And second, since I began by saying I'd heard from a few people that I've gotten them interested in a career in surgery, I don't want to have turned them off or discouraged them. So let's see what I can do about that.
In my core, I always loved doing surgery, and being surgeon to my patients. As I hope I've made clear in this blog, I was always amazed that I was allowed to do it, and awed at the mysterious beauty of it all. As much of a responsibility as it is, it's also an inexplicably wondrous honor and privilege. Those words aren't lightly written. But in a diabolical combination of being constitutionally unable to cut back, being hyper-demanding of perfection in myself and only slightly less so in those who touched my patients, mixed with a certain degree of paranoia which made me see any imperfection as an accusation, I got to a point where some sort of line was crossed. Every ring of the phone at home became a gut-shot; the emergency room was like a stalker, a heavy-breathing relentless destroyer of plans, a stealer of sleep, a wielder of a fearsome disrupter ray. Klingons, the lot of 'em.
The cold shower of new rules, the deluge of self-fertilizing forms, the insults and veiled threats of the latest memo from some bureaucrat or other, the inverted logic of convincing some insurance cubicle-denizen that I had a legitimate reason for recommending an operation she understood not at all -- I think I might have withstood all that were I better rested, had I not arranged my day for maximum continuous pressure nor added work upon work. So here's the bouquet-toss to future surgeons: don't do it like I did.* Give yourself a goddamn break. Good news: the system doesn't care if you work your ass off or not. So don't. Turns out, the world didn't stop turning, people didn't start dying left and right when I sheathed my scalpel.
That's, I suppose, the corollary of my obsession: the silly sense that I was indispensable, that only I could render proper care to my patients. Don't get me wrong: I think my judgment, my technique, and my rapport with my patients were above average (OK, OK: way above average!) But so would they have been, had I relaxed a little. I have no doubt that rounding, as I did, three, four times a day made a difference in length of stay. But it seems I was the only one who noticed. I kept office hours four (sometimes five) days a week, wanting to be there if my patients needed to be seen, hating to have someone else see them. That meant I always had pressure to get my operations done by a certain time. I could have arranged it differently. Making things worse, as much as I hated to be late I also hated to make others late. I almost never ran beyond my scheduled OR time. I almost always saw patients in the office EXACTLY at the time of their appointment. I helped move patients on and off their gurneys (I'd recommend that!), cleaned up my exam rooms, whatever it took to keep things going on time. Close to crazy. I never could say no to a request to work in a woman frightened about her mammogram, instead of making her wait a few days. Couple of days? Probably would have still been ok. As I said in the first two posts in this series, US healthcare as currently constituted is -- almost as effectively as if it were deliberate -- selecting against hard work and high quality, at least to the extent that it fails to recognize, encourage, or reward it. Consider it good news: don't kill yourself! I'm serious.
Want to have a better life? Don't schedule yourself into your office half an hour after your last case is expected to end. Cut yourself some slack, in all things. Rounding twice is enough. Letting your partners see your patients on weekends off is ok; I saw theirs, ferchrissakes! Take all the time off you're allowed. Avoid serving on any committee you can wangle your way out of. Get thrown off, if that's your only option. But be civil to the ER doc who calls at three a.m; and to the nurse who overlooks something, explain in non-angry terms how and why you think it could have been different. A "teaching moment," I believe, is what they call it. Chill. Had I done so more often, I might not be blogging.
And here's the happiest secret: there's always one place they can't get to you -- the operating room. (They can call you, of course; but they can't paper you, committee you, disallow you. Not while you're there.) If you love it, that will never change; so if you love it, go for it. The act of doing surgery, distilled to its essence, the condition of being surgeon to a fellow human being -- that will always be honorable and essentially untouchable, immutable. And wonderful. It's even conceivable that if "they" come up with meaningful ways to evaluate the quality of medical care, some sort of global, transferable, reproducible, over-arching and useful method that's neutral and rational (pretty unlikely but not unimaginable), then the piles of paperwork, reams of rules, confabulations of committees might actually become superfluous, and a doctor will once again be allowed to be a doctor. A physician. I like that word. It's almost as good as surgeon.
*Unless your patient is me.
14 comments:
- james gaulte said...
For an internist too, it was a honor and a privilege.And for some of us the irrational drive for pefection,the emotional reaction to the lack of it in myself and others with whom I worked was countered a bit by the satisfaction of taking someone through and out the other end of a serious and sometimes life threatening illnes or sometimes less dramatically just reieving someone's anxiety about a disease they really didn't have at all.
But as the sea changes washed into medicine- the managed care and governmental control,etc,etc the saisfactions seemed fewer and not as sweet and you just wanted to shrug your shoulders and walk away.
If they do come into the operating room, you can always distract them with the machine that goes "ping"!
- Lisa said...
I have on my desk a form that I have to get signed to have our legal department sign a form, so I can send a form to a vendor who is waiting to get paid. I can't tell you why all this is necessary, except to say that the admin who cuts the check has it all over the rest of us. And you think you're burned out.
- FetchingGal said...
Cutbacks, sicker patients, fewer staff and more BS paperwork and staffing issues... it's bad enough in the nursing corner of the circus... cannot wait to get the OR course done so I can come dabble in the greens in the comfort of a teeny, tight room with bright lights. 5 more weeks... I can live through anything in 12 hour increments for the next 5 weeks.
- MedStudentGod (MSG) said...
Thanks for this post. You were really worrying me about considering this career path.
- SeaSpray said...
Good post.
I had to wait THREE weeks last October to see a surgeon for a follow-up regarding a breast exam per gynecologist's request. It was a looooong 3 weeks. So, 2 days - not such a big deal.
It does seem you burned yourself out, but given how you like to do things - the standards you set - do you think knowing all that you know now that you really would do it any differently?
As you stated (kind of), if you hadn't been so perfectionistic, we wouldn't have your blog, or your book. So thanks for being a perfectionist.
- Greg P said...
Some observations:
You may have done the same thing with your explanation that you've done with your career. It's a closed loop. No one else is good enough for you. You don't need anyone to figure out what you did wrong in surgery, what you did wrong with your career, you've figured it out yourself. Characterizations like being too much a perfectionist, working too hard sound valiant, but everyone has darker sides to these things. If you never let go of control, your mistakes can hide from others, if you're too busy, you legitimize pushing people away.
In other words you don't play well with others, my guess a lifelong trait.
It may be you're in a honeymoon period, you've turned your back on your former self, turned the corner to something new, but get real, you're still you.
I could easily be wrong in one or many ways, but these are still things worth thinking about.
- Sid Schwab said...
Right. Easy as pie to hide mistakes in a hospital. Not as if anyone else is involved in care.
Writing = thinking. I'm not done with either.
It's always amused me when professional psychologists go on TV and analyze someone from afar. One can only be glad not to be in the care of one who'd do it. Admittedly, blogging is better than TV. But still...
- Lynn Price said...
So, like, is it tacky to swoon? You're a good guy, Sid. I nearly finished your book while Daughter was in surgery this week. I've said it once, I'll say it again. Everyone MUST buy Sid's book. In typical Sid fashion, he goes for the heart and never lets go.
I'm glad you're blogging.
- Bongi said...
for so many reasons this post really spoke to me. i realise the danger of burnout in myself, despite how much i love my job. i plan on sitting down and seeing if i can act proactively to avoid it.
- Coffee Addict said...
Hello from Australia... Am currently on my surgical internship. This post saved me from a sleepless night.
- JP said...
Your description of burn-out, paranoia, etc., explains a LOT about my recent surgeon. He's top-notch and maxed out, and my straight-forward questions seemed to trip the annoyometer repeatedly - even though I am quite benign. Things didn't add up. Once again, Dr. Schwab, you reassure and you validate. I'll keep these crumbs - nay, these loaves! - of knowledge.
- Dragonfly said...
Thanks for that! It is an honor and a privilege, but I know that being mindful of the risks of burnout is really important. I've had enough of a brush with it not to want to again. It is really sad when I see experienced doctors being so obviously burnt out.


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Comes up big for the second straight game.
One thing's for sure. Illinois redshirt sophomore guard Joe Bertrand wasn't a one-hit wonder.
Bertand scored all but two of his career-high 19 points in the second half to rally the Illinois from a double-digit deficit in the Braggin' Rights loss to Missouri while making all nine of his shots, and he sank his first four attempts and scored 13 in the 81-72 double-overtime win over Minnesota in the Big Ten Conference basketball opener Tuesday.
In the process, Bertrand made a strong case for a starting spot when Illinois (12-2 overall, 1-0 in the Big Ten) plays at Purdue Saturday (3 p.m., ESPN2).
"I'm happy for him,'' said Illini coach Bruce Weber. "Now you go to Purdue and small ball.''
If playing four guards and one big man is the plan, the 6-foot-5 Bertrand is the obvious option. While power forward Tyler Griffey struggled defensively against athletic, mobile matchups and hasn't become a threat offensively, Weber may have found something in Bertrand, who was 6 of 10 from the field in 31 minutes against the Gophers.
"Joe stayed to what he can do well, the straight drives to the basket and the little pullups,'' Weber said. "You have to feel good for the kid. He's been very patient.
"He definitely adds to our team. We're better offensively because you've got more weapons to get to the basket.''
While Weber wasn't sure if the Big Ten is a small-ball league, "around the country, it's coming to that,'' he said.
Purdue often goes small, with senior Robbie Hummel logging some time at power forward and center. Meanwhile, the 13 consecutive field goals without a miss isn't a school record, but it's a game-changer for Bertrand.
"I feel comfortable on the court,'' he said. "At the beginning (of the year), I was kind of tight. I didn't want to make a mistake instead of playing my game.
"I don't want to try to do too much. That's when I make a turnover and get down on myself.''
Defensively, he can matchup with mobile forwards, such as Minnesota's Rodney Williams and Missouri's Kim English. Yet his contribution appears more offensively.
"We're a good transition team when I'm on the court,'' Bertrand said. "It's another athletic guard who can run.''
While Illinois also went with Twin Towers, playing center Meyers Leonard and power forward Nnanna Egwu together, Griffey saw his minutes drastically cut. Egwu logged 20 but Griffey had only 7 against the Gophers.
Griffey could learn something from Bertrand, who bounced back from a slump after a strong start in October and November. Griffey scored more than eight points in three games this season and only once after the season's first two games. Griffey scored two points combined in the last two games.
"He's got to come with some emotion,'' Weber said. "I told him that with Missouri. You can play hard. He's our strongest player. Use your body. Be physical.
"I still remember him against Ohio State as a freshman in the Big Ten Tournament. He's picking and popping, shooting the 3 with confidence and playing a lot of minutes. Joe fought through it. It would be nice to get Tyler to fight through it and be productive for us.''
John Supinie can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @JohnSupinie.


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A couple of days ago I quoted from Elder John A Widstoe about the power of temple worship and yesterday about the importance of sealings. Here is another good one (the last one from this talk):
I believe the busy person on the farm, in the shop, in the office, or in the household, who has his worries and troubles, can solve his problems better and more quickly in the house of the Lord than anywhere else. If he will leave his problems behind and in the temple work for himself and for his dead, he will confer a mighty blessing up on those who have gone before, and quite as large a blessing will come to him, for at the most unexpected moments, in or out of the temple, will come to him, as a revelation, the solution of the problems that vex his life. That is the gift that comes to those who enter the temple properly, because it is a place where revelation may be expected. I bear my personal testimony that this is so.
Widstoe, John A. "Temple Worship." Genealogical Society of Utah. Assembly Hall, Salt Lake City. 12 Oct. 1920.


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You may or may not know, but in JavaScript all tables (associative arrays) are indexed by strings, and nothing else. So what happens when you go
a[0] = thing, isn't that indexing the table a with the number 0? Well, yes and no. The number gets converted to a string, so
a[0] is equivalent to
a['0']. In fact all values, of any type, get converted to a string when used as a table key, but I'm only concerned about numbers here (see ECMA 262 section 11.2.1).
Note that this is only how the language is specified, not implemented. Given the importance of arrays in JavaScript, routinely indexed by integers, I would expect that special representations in the implementation would allow efficient indexing by integers.
So with (small) integer keys there are few possible problems. 113 gets converted to '113' without ambiguity, so
a[113] and
a['113'] are equivalent. What about other number values, like 1.5 or 98.4 (Aside: when I say "98.4" what I mean is the double precision floating point number that is closest to 98.4, this will be a little bit different from exactly 98.4 (see my article on printing floating point numbers))? It would be embarrassing if
a[98.4] were equivalent to
a['98.400000000000006']. It would be even more embarrassing if the equivalence was allowed to vary between implementations. Well, it's not. The JavaScript programmer has every right to expect the body of the
if in this code to be executed:
a={'98.4':true} if(a[98.4]) { ... }
However, there is a problem. Sometimes there is more than one possible shortest string. An obvious example is the smallest positive double precision float: 5e-324 (see the smallest number). This number can be represented in decimal as 3e-324, 4e-324, …, 7e-324. These are representations of the floating point number in the sense that the nearest floating point to each of these decimals is in each case the same floating point number, the smallest positive double precision float. There are other numbers.
nextafter(1, 2) is one such number: 1.0000000000000002. This number can equally well be represented by the decimal 1.0000000000000003.
So the problem is that when there is more than one possible shortest decimal string the implementation is free to choose amongst them (so my "no variance between implementations", above, was a small lie). In principle a JavaScript implementation could make a different choice each time it performed the conversion. So
a[5e-324] could index up to 5 different keys in the table a. It would of course be insanity for an implementation to do that, but it's still a loophole in the specification, and it should be closed.
In the 3rd edition of ECMA 262 there's a note about this at the end of section 9.8.1; the note is "not part of the normative requirements". The note specifies additional requirements on the choice of the decimal string (namely "nearest", and, if still ambiguous, "even") that ensure a unique conversion is performed. So the text that specifies the requirements we need is already written, it should be a simple matter to make this note normative in the next revision, and this should be done.
I thought Java got this right, but on close inspection I see that it also permits the same variation when there is more than one shortest decimal string. In fact, for the smallest positive double precision float 2 decimal digits are required by Java (because a decimal point is required), so permitting many more options for 5e-324. In this case I wouldn't even like to say whether "4.9E-324" or "5.0E-324" should (in the moral sense) be returned. The former has the virtue of being closest to the floating point number, the latter has the virtue of not misleading about available precision.


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Since I have so (ridiculously!) many I-Spy-type fabrics, I started thinking of more projects to use them in, and this alphabet quiet book emerged. Each page has a letter of the alphabet made out of a fabric with objects that start with the same letter: a=ants, b=balls, c=cars, etc. My boys are already loving it and figuring out which letters are which by looking at the pictures. (They've known the capital letters for AGES, so this will be great for learning their lowercase letters!)
Here are some detailed photos:
Ants, Balls, Cars, Ducks, Elephant, Frogs, Giraffes, Hot air balloons, Ice cream, Jigsaw puzzle, Kids, Ladybugs, Moon, Numbers, Ostrich, Princess, Quilt, Rabbits, Scissors, Turtles, Utensils, Vegetables, Wagon, eXit sign, Yarn, Zebra
Now, on to the GOOD STUFF!!
While I was going through my fabrics and cutting pieces out for my quiet book, I cut out some extra sets as well. For my FIRST EVER GIVEAWAY, I have TWO SETS up for grabs for TWO WINNERS:
For WINNER #1: A set of 26 4 1/2" I-Spy Squares -- one for each letter of the alphabet! -- plus two different fat quarters of letter fabric. (The orange is not super good quality, but the print is just too cute!)
Includes: Ants, Balls, Corn, Dogs, Eggs, Frogs, Glasses, Hot air balloons, Ice cream, Jigsaw puzzle, Kids, Ladybugs, Mittens, Numbers, Octopus, Pigs, Quilt, Rabbits, Scissors, Turtles, Unicorn, Vegetables, Watches, X-Ray, Yarn, Zebra
Includes: Ants, Balls, Cars, Dogs, Eggs, Fish, Glasses, Hot air balloons, Ice cream, Jigsaw puzzle, Kids, Ladybugs, Measuring tapes, Numbers, Octopus, Pigs, Quilt, Rabbits, Scissors, Turtles, Utensils, Vegetables, Watches, X-ray, Yarn, Zebra
~These sets would make a super cute quiet book or quilt!~
Here are the rules:
1. Leave a comment to enter. Make sure I have a way to contact you in the event that you win!
2. If you are one of my OFFICIAL FOLLOWERS, leave a SECOND comment telling me so!
3. If you post something about my giveaway on your blog, leave ANOTHER comment telling me so, and include a link!
4. I will close comments on Friday, August 21st at NOON (or the first moment I have after that!)
5. I will pick the winners through the Random Number Generator and post results as soon as I have them ready.