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More than a year ago, I had the opportunity to take a week-long repertory workshop at Yasmeen Godder's studio. I found the intensive enriching both as a dancer and as a dance researcher, and I recounted my experience on The Winger on April 4, 2008; that article is posted below.
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It's been more than seven months since I have learned new repertory, and while I'm loving my dance classes and improvisational projects, I do miss the process of absorbing and living in a piece of choreography. So even though my body feels a bit tired now, my spirit is extremely happy after tasting a bit of Yasmeen Godder's work!
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May 1st - Fig Glazed Pork Tenderloin (Home Chef Meal)
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Friday, March 27, 2009
I then sat back and thought about the little exchange that just took place. Isn't it totally weird? Why did I feel so compelled to "bless" this stranger? I mean, I'm pretty sure this woman is not coming down with the bubonic plague any time soon. Right?
But then I remembered my upbringing...
Growing up, my dad was always extremely offended if his sneeze was met with silence.
Dad: ACHOOO!
Me: [silence]
Sister: [silence]
Mom: [silence]
awkward silence....
Dad: WELL, GOD FORBID ANYONE SHOULD BLESS ME!
The moral of the story is, if you ever meet my dad and ignore his sneeze--you better not ask him for any favors.
18 comments:
- Maxie said...
people here at work are bless you happy! it's like every little sneeze gets a HUGE bless you. Even if there are a bunch in a row. so annoying.
- March 27, 2009 at 10:09 AM
- rachaelgking said...
Until I was 6 I thought it was "Bleshoo."
My Uncle made fun of me FOREVER when he figured out what I was saying.
- March 27, 2009 at 10:11 AM
- Andrea said...
I sneeze so much that people at work have stopped blessing me. I guess I used them all up.
- March 27, 2009 at 10:18 AM
- B said...
I stick to gesundheit. Always.
- March 27, 2009 at 10:24 AM
- Lacey Bean said...
My fiance won't say bless you, so instead he says Chester. Or Swimmies. Yeah we're weird.
- March 27, 2009 at 12:18 PM
- Sh. said...
I wish there was a different saying for it...because I'm not a fan of "blessing" anyone. Maybe I'll try "Chester" :)
- March 27, 2009 at 12:24 PM
- Melissa Maris said...
Hahaha I think I'd like your dad.
I believe saying bless you is just good juju. Your goodness will totally come back atcha now.
- March 27, 2009 at 12:29 PM
- Hillary said...
I work in an office of men so there is no blessing after sneezing. Instead, the guys rates the sneezes. For example: "that one sounded wet!" or "that was a loaded one!"
Yeah, allergy season is fun.
- March 27, 2009 at 12:33 PM
- Drew Eisenbeis said...
I'm a gesundheit-er. I blessed someone one time and they said that they weren't religious. That ended that.
- March 27, 2009 at 1:44 PM
lol i do that to C all the time. if he doesn't bless me after i sneeze i make a big deal about it :)
- March 27, 2009 at 2:10 PM
according to milhouse, when you sneeze your soul shoots out your nose and when someone says 'bless you' it shoves it back in. makes sense to me!
- March 27, 2009 at 3:13 PM
- Katelin said...
haha. i don't expect people to say bless you to me any more since i sneeze all the time, it's kind of ridiculous.
- March 27, 2009 at 4:04 PM
- alyssa said...
I get sad if nobody says bless you, haha! I always remember to say it...even if the person is far away and I have to yell it :x
- March 27, 2009 at 5:13 PM
- .jimaie.marie. said...
I'm like your dad...it SERIOUSLY bugs me when nobody says Bless You, Ive even gotten annoyed with my kids when they don't say Bless You to me when I sneeze in their presence LOL I can't help it! I need all the blessings I can get! ;D
- March 27, 2009 at 10:49 PM
- Room 209 said...
I just found your blog...love it! :)
Anyway, I get extra annoyed if I am not "blessed" after I sneeze. I have been known to bless myself out loud occasionally. It's sad, but true.
- March 28, 2009 at 12:53 PM
- Unknown said...
your dads reaction made me laugh like a crazy. I'm not sure why.
- March 30, 2009 at 4:57 PM
- rambleicious said...
I always say "bless you" and I always feel silly (yet more polite) for saying it.
- March 31, 2009 at 1:07 AM
Ha! That's funny. I actually like it when people say "bless you" when I sneeze to.
- April 5, 2009 at 4:17 PM


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Today I testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission during a hearing on China's Global Quest for Resources and Implications for the United States. In my testimony, I described the prospects for shale gas in China and its implications for the United States. Considering the speed with which shale gas has shifted the U.S. energy outlook, this is an important moment to consider the implications of the development of China's shale gas resources. China appears to have significant reserves of natural gas trapped in shale. According to a 2011 EIA study, China overlays eight basins containing 1,275 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of technically recoverable resources, which is larger than the study's estimate for the U.S. (862 Tcf).
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President Musharraf's address begins at 7:30 p.m. Friday, October 2, in the Elmen Center, located at 2505 S. Grange Avenue on the Augustana campus. Mr. Musharraf served as President of Pakistan from 2001-2008, and Chief Executive of Pakistan from 1999-2001. The title of his talk is "The Internal and External Dynamics of Pakistan."
The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are required for admission. All seating is general admission by section.
There are three options for obtaining tickets for President Musharraf's appearance:
ONLINE: Tickets may be ordered online at www.augietickets.com. Online orders will be mailed for a $3.50 handling fee or they may be picked up at "will call" at no extra charge at the Center for Western Studies, 2121 S. Summit Avenue, beginning September 21.
BY MAIL: Tickets are available by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to The Center for Western Studies, 2001 S. Summit Avenue, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD, 57197.
IN PERSON: Beginning September 21, any remaining tickets may be obtained at the Center for Western Studies, 2121 S. Summit Avenue, from 9:00 a.m. to noon and 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. For questions, call 605.274.4007.
The Center for Western Studies
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The battle over same-sex marriage in the United States enters a new legal front on Thursday when a federal appeals court hears oral arguments on a Utah state law forbidding gays and lesbians from marrying.
The hearing in an ornate century-old building in Denver is the first at a regional U.S. appeals court since a Supreme Court ruling last June forced the federal government to extend benefits to same-sex married couples in states where gay marriage is legal.
In cases since, eight federal judges have used that decision to rule in favor of same-sex couples.
This new round at the next tier of the federal bench could alter that trend as cases move closer to resolution at the ideologically divided U.S. Supreme Court.
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Unlike the landmark ruling on federal benefits, the cases making their way through the courts now raise a more fundamental question: Does the U.S. Constitution extend to same-sex couples the same right to marry opposite-sex couples have?
Hearing Thursday's case is a panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals consisting of two Republican-appointed judges and one Democratic appointee.
Rapid Progress Through Courts
The legal fight over same-sex marriage has proceeded rapidly. In 2003 Massachusetts' top court declared a state constitutional right to same-sex marriage, and the next year Massachusetts became the first of the 50 states to begin issuing licenses to gay couples. A total of 17 states plus the District of Columbia now permit same-sex marriage; 33 states do not.
This new battle testing whether the U.S. Constitution covers gay unions appears to be moving even faster. The 10th Circuit will hear a challenge to an Oklahoma same-sex marriage ban on April 17 and, separately, the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in May is scheduled to take up a Virginia same-sex marriage ban.
By the end of the year the Supreme Court is likely to face several appeals from lower courts, including from the 10th Circuit, testing a nationwide right to same-sex marriage.
Before the judges on Thursday is a law adopted by Utah voters in 2004 defining marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman. Three couples, one gay and two lesbian, challenged the law. The lead plaintiffs are Derek Kitchen and Moudi Sbeity, who were denied a marriage license by the Salt Lake County clerk's office last year.
A decision in the case, and in the Oklahoma dispute, could take months.
The Kitchen case started in March 2013 and was among a handful of lawsuits seeking marriage rights pending when the Supreme Court last year granted federal tax and other benefits in U.S. v. Windsor. Most of the estimated 50 lawsuits now working their way through the courts were filed since.
Constitutional Questions
In December, U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby struck down the Utah law, saying it violated the U.S. Constitution's guarantees of equal protection and due process of law. Relying on the high court's reasoning favoring gays and lesbians, Shelby wrote that Utah's law known as Amendment 3 "places same-sex couples in an unstable position of being in a second-tier relationship.
Utah's appeal will be argued by Gene Schaerr, among a group of private lawyers hired by the state. He is a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative who last June bitterly protested the 5-4 decision in U.S. v. Windsor.
In Schaerr's brief to the 10th Circuit, he argues the sociological value of opposite-sex couples, emphasizing "that moms and dads are different, not interchangeable, and that the diversity of having both a mom and dad is the ideal parenting environment."
Representing the gay couples and urging the 10th Circuit to affirm Shelby's decision will be Peggy Tomsic, a lawyer in a Salt Lake City firm. Her team is being aided by the National Center on Lesbian Rights, which like the ACLU and Lambda Legal have been coordinating much of the new nationwide litigation.
More than 200 groups and individuals have submitted "friend of the court" briefs, hoping to influence the judges.
The case is Kitchen, et al v. Herbert, et al in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 13-4178
Reporting by Joan Biskupic; Editing by Howard Goller and Grant McCool
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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - How big a dog in Beijing? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in How big a dog in Beijing? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Pets View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message teacher-simonJoined: 15 Jan 2009Posts: 18Location: Beijing, China Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:18 pm Post subject: How big a dog in Beijing? I am wondering what the size limit is on having a dog in Beijing? I thought it was quite small, but I saw some people sometimes have big dogs (but not very often). Does anybody know what the rules are for having a dog in Beijing?_________________Simon English Teacher and Avid Fan of Chinese Cooking http://www.damn-english.com Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Pets All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


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Welcome to the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology at the Center for Child and Adolescent Medicine
We perform diagnostic procedures, provide therapy, and aim for the early detection of the many kinds of congenital and acquired hormone disorders in this specialized division of the Center for Child and Adolescent Medicine. Our team, consisting of pediatricians specializing in endocrinology and diabetology, diabetes consultants, dieticians, psychologists, social workers, and specially trained nursing staff, treats about 3,000 patients a year.
Hormone disorders can lead to severe organ damage, physical or mental disabilities, and even death if left untreated. Most hormone disorders can be treated successfully if they are diagnosed in time.
In the Pediatric Endocrinology section, our interdisciplinary team headed by Professor Dr. Markus Bettendorf treats about 2,800 children and adolescents with congenital and acquired hormone disorders every year, both on an outpatient and on a partially or fully inpatient basis.
Our focus is on
- growth disorders (excessively short or tall stature),
- obesity,
- thyroid disorders (underactive = hypothyroidism, overactive = hyperthyroidism, inflammation = thyroiditis, goiter = struma),
- disorders of the parathyroid glands (overactive = hyperparathyroidism, underactive = hypoparathyroidism, and pseudohypoparathyroidism),
- disorders of bone metabolism and malformations of the skeletal system (osteodysplasia, calcium, phosphate, Vitamin D),
- disorders of the adrenal glands (adrenogenital syndrome, Addison's disease, Cushing syndrome),
- disorders of puberty (premature or delayed / absent / stagnant puberty),
- disorders of sexual development (DSD), malformation of the urethral opening (hypospadias),
- disorders of the pituitary gland (hypophysis), including congenital and acquired hormone deficits (deficits in growth hormone, thyroid, adrenal gland, puberty, accompanying brain tumors and after radiation and operations),
- disorders of fluid regulation (diabetes insipidus),
- undescended testicle (retractile testis, gliding and inguinal testis, cryptorchism),
- and chromosomal anomalies (e.g., Ullrich-Turner syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, Prader-Willi syndrome, Marfan syndrome).
The special hormone diagnostic procedures for children and adolescents are conducted and analyzed in our own hormone laboratory.
- Thyroid: TSH, T4, fT4, T3, rT3, thyroglobulin
- Growth: growth hormone, IGF-I, IGFBP3
- Puberty: LH, FSH
- Failure to thrive: gliadin antibodies and transglutaminase antibodies
- Newborn screening (confirmation diagnosis) for hypothyroidism and adrenogenital syndrome
One of the largest diabetes centers for children in Germany
Some 260 children and adolescents with diabetes mellitus and genetically determined forms of diabetes mellitus are treated every year by the interdisciplinary team headed by Dr. Jürgen Grulich-Henn in the Diabetology section, both on an outpatient and on a partially or fully inpatient basis. This makes us one of the largest diabetes centers for children in Germany.
Every year we treat about 30 children with newly diagnosed type I diabetes, sometimes in intensive care if they suffer from acute metabolic imbalance. In addition, we care for those diabetic children and adolescents who are undergoing surgery, both before and afterward.
For patients who have been recently diagnosed with diabetes and their families, we offer structured training sessions in the practical tasks of measuring blood sugar, injecting insulin, and preparing food and calculating nutrients. The training takes place regularly during the treatment period in order to increase the efficacy of the therapy and to prevent long-term consequences.
Our hospital is recognized by the Deutsche Diabetes Gesellschaft ("German Diabetes Society" DDG) as an institution for training and treating children and adolescents with type I diabetes.
Parents can be accommodated right on the ward in their child's room or in a special parent's room. There are also apartments for parents in the immediate vicinity of the hospital.
Parents can be accommodated on the ward in the patient's room or in a parent room. There are also a number of private accommodations available in the vicinity.
You can contact us via the International Office or directly at the hospital director's office (Tel.: ++49-6221-56 4100 or Email: georg.hoffmann). @med.uni-heidelberg.de
Professor Dr. Georg F. Hoffmann
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Football/Lacrosse Fields
1615 Bus. Loop 70 W.Directions Large Map
Football Fields #1-3, irrigated
Football Field #4, irrigated and lighted
Access from Cosmo Park Entrance
Football/Lacrosse Fields #5 & 6, irrigated and lighted
Access from Schwabe Lane
Rainout Hotline: (573) 874-7663
League Field Scheduling: Steve Evers (573) 874-7466
Reservable Fields
Cosmo Park is home to 6 football fields, available for officiated games only. Two of the six fields in Cosmo Park are designated as football/lacrosse fields, Fields 5 & 6. The shared use of these fields provides the best and most efficient method of meeting the facility needs of groups representing both football and lacrosse while reducing the overall maintenance burden for the department. Both fields are regulation-size football fields measuring 160'x360′. Bleacher seating is available.
To ensure quality fields, football/lacrosse field rules and regulations have been established to allow use of football/lacrosse for game play only and not to be allowed for use of practices, scrimmages, and/or practice games. This policy is key to being able to maintain quality fields for use by Columbia football/lacrosse players.
Football/lacrosse fields can be reserved Mondays thru Sundays beginning at 8 am. Fields #5 & 6 are irrigated and lighted.
The football/lacrosse fields were funded in part by a grant in the amount of $38,668 from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources Landmark Local Parks Program Land and Water Conservation Fund. Additional funding came from the Annual Park Improvement Fund. Field 6 opened in April 2003. Both Fields 5 and 6 were available for use beginning in the fall of 2003.
Field Fee Schedule
Payment for the fields is required at the time of the reservation. No fields will be scheduled until payment is received. A refund will be issued for any games which can not be made up due to weather cancellations.
|Per Game Fee
|Per Day Fee
Football/Lacrosse Fields 1 thru 6
|Special Field Preparation (in addition to rental rate)
Football/Lacrosse Seasons
It is the intent of the Columbia Parks & Recreation Department to allow lacrosse on the fields in the spring and football in the fall.
Spring: mid-March thru mid-May
Fall: first of September thru end of October
Scheduling Priority
The fields are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
The fields may be scheduled eight weeks in advance of the first game. A copy of the entire season's schedule is required. Only games will be scheduled on the fields.
Football/lacrosse fields are closed for renovations and repair from the end of May until the beginning of the Show-Me State Games. At the conclusion of the Show-Me State Games, the fields will be rested and unavailable for play until the start of the fall season.
Field Size
The maximum size for the fields is 70×116 yards. The Parks & Recreation Department will establish a field size at the beginning of the season and it will remain that size for the entire season. Field sizes will be adjusted from season to season in order to minimize wear patterns.
All parking is restricted to the designated parking spaces. Vehicles are not allowed to park on the roads or on any turf areas within the park.
Rainout/Cancellation Policy
The Columbia Parks & Recreation Department will reserve the right to cancel games scheduled on these fields. Cancellation information can be obtained by calling the Parks & Recreation Hotline at (573) 874-7663. If there are special circumstances, such as a visiting team traveling from a long distance that needs notification prior to leaving, the team parent may call Bobby Chick at (573) 874-7706 (Monday-Friday) to make special arrangements for earlier notification.
Cancellation Guidelines for Athletic Fields
Columbia Cosmopolitan Recreation Area Map
Map of Football/Lacrosse Fields
Hotline (573) 874-7663
Weekdays – All cancellations are updated daily by 4pm. Note that only existing cancellations are listed. If conditions change after 4pm, a decision will be made at the field.
Weekends & Holidays – Lacrosse/football cancellations are updated by 7am. If the conditions change to warrant a cancellation, the Hotline will be updated accordingly.


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MILTON — Selectman Chair Bob Srnec is stepping down when his term expires in March and two candidates have thrown their hats into the ring for the open position.
Mike Beaulieu, 57, of Ford Farm Road has been living in Milton over 20 years. He is a self employed contractor.
He and his wife, Rose, have a son, Nikoma, who graduated from Nute High School. Beaulieu ran for school board in 2010 and selectman in 2011. He graduated from high school in Lowell, Mass., and has taken numerous classes for safety, hydraulics and in technical areas.
Beaulieu was a farrier when he lived in Massachusetts. An ad for a horse farm brought him to New Hampshire, and he says he fell in love with the area.
"The interest I have in running for selectman is simple. I would like to be part of what makes Milton work," he said. "In community, town operations that would involve the selectman."
Beaulieu would like to create "a great team atmosphere."
"I'm not looking for any big changes, just what should be a good flow," he added.
He supports the proposed fire department, but is leery of the $2.7 million price tag.
Chip Gehres, 66, of Rocky Point Road, moved to Milton in 1991. He has been married to his wife, Barbara since 1987, and they have a daughter who is a U.S. Navy veteran. He ran for selectman in 2012 and in the early 1990s as well.
Gehres graduated from Van Wert High School, in Ohio, in 1964. He attended Purdue and is a graduate of the General Electric Tool and Die Apprentice Program. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1966-68, leaving with a rank of Second Class Ensign. He now works for Ashland Electric Products in Rochester.
A big part of the upcoming work for the selectman, Gehres said, is selecting a new town administrator. He added he would work to hold down taxes.
"If the town approves the fire station, I hope to be part of implementing that, if the town gives a positive vote," he said. "If not I hope to get it going for the future."
Gehres added that he is concerned about the cost of the fire station.


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RICHVALE — A chunk of Highway 99 between Highways 149 and 162 was closed most of Friday, after a big rig wreck took place at about 11:45 p.m. Thursday.
The California Highway Patrol reported both the northbound and southbound lanes of Highway 99 were closed after the semi crashed near Nelson Avenue.
While there were no injuries, power lines were down, and a large section of guard rail and the posts that support the railing were destroyed.
Caltrans reopened the highway around 5:15 p.m. Friday.


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West African Dwarf Crocodile
Osteolaemus t. tetraspis
About This Animal
SIZE: 6.3 ft (1.9 m)
RANGE: West and west-central Africa
HABITAT: Permanent pools in swamps and areas of slow-moving freshwater in rain forests
DIET: Fish, amphibians, crustaceans, and possibly other terrestrial prey
ON EXHIBIT: Rivers of the World
The dwarf crocodile is the world's smallest crocodile. This crocodile feeds primarily on fish during the wet season when the floods connect ponds and marshes to larger rivers. During the dry season they are forced to eat crustaceans and mollusks and their food intake is greatly reduced.
They are designated as a vulnerable species in the wild. They are vulnerable to habitat change and hunting. They are often killed for food.


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Teddy's First Haircut
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The Heart of Life
Today marks one year since we first met with Teddy's neurologist and received news that his illness may be fatal.
Those words -- THAT word, the F word -- it's a hard one to type, even 365 days later. At the time, the neurologist was unsure of Teddy's diagnosis. It could have been a life-threatening genetic disease or a bad virus. Even though we now know that his illness was an enterovirus that caused the encephalitis.
The day of finding out that the results of our son's brain MRI contained massive white matter. I type that and can't even come up with a comprehensive sentence because I can't get past the prepositional part of it. I guess the verb is that it was the scariest moment of our lives, one I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy, one where I'm glad I married my best friend and had him right at my side to get through the terror.
That moment that led up to many more moments of waiting has bruised my heart forever, I must admit. That bruise, though, is also surrounded by a toughness that I never knew was there. I wish I could say it was all me, that me, myself and I am just some super strong force that can't be reckoned with, but that's a lie. The truth is, there's a circle of people, friends and family and even complete strangers, who prayed and prayed for our son's well being. Countless thoughts and prayers later, here we are at a year. Teddy is alive and well. Thank you, God.
There's a song that I sang to Teddy while he was in the hospital. It's not ever played on mainstream radio so many may not know it. It's John Mayer's Heart of Life. I've copied the song's lyrics below. It says exactly so many things that I thought and felt and still think and feel. Pain threw our hearts to the ground, and it hasn't all gone away even though it should. Bad news never did have good timing, no; but Eric and I have a circle of friends who've defended the silver lining. For them, I am forever grateful. There are no words for me to ever adequately thank each person, but I hope you can hear it in the sincerity of my voice and the lingering embrace of my hug. Only life is good. And THAT is because of our circle of friends and family.
So, tonight, when I say bedtime prayers, my first and foremost will be for Teddy's health, closely followed by thanksgiving for all of you.
I hate to see you cry
Laying there in that position
There's things you need to hear
So turn off your tears and listen
Pain throws you heart to the ground
Love turns the whole thing around
No, it won't all go the way, it should
But I know the heart of life is good
You know it's nothing new
Bad news never had good timing
But then the circle of your firends
Will defend the silver lining
Pain throws your heart to the ground
Love turns the whole thing around
No, it won't all go the way, it should
But I know the heart of life is good
Pain throws your heart to the ground
Love turns the whole thing around
Fear is a friend who's misunderstood
But I know the heart of life is good
I know it's good.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Earlier this year, the U.S. Golf Association, the golf turfgrass industry and the Penn State turfgrass program lost a friend and colleague, Stanley Zontek. To honor his contributions to the golf-turf industry and his love for the University, Pennsylvania Turfgrass Research Inc. and Penn State have named a new endowment the Stanley J. Zontek Turfgrass Endowment.
Several years ago, a dedicated group of volunteer turf professionals formed a trust, Pennsylvania Turfgrass Research Inc., and launched a campaign to raise funds for turfgrass research in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. This campaign culminated in 2011 with the creation of a $300,000 endowment at Penn State.
Following the death of Zontek on Aug. 28, the board of the research trust and Penn State faculty asked the University to name the new endowment the Stanley J. Zontek Turfgrass Endowment.
A 1970 Penn State graduate, Zontek held several positions in the golf-turf industry. Most recently, he was director of the U.S. Golf Association Green Section's mid-Atlantic region. In 2007, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences.
"No graduate from the Penn State turfgrass program had a bigger impact on our industry, and no one has been a better ambassador for the program around the world than Stanley Zontek," said Jerred Golden, chairman of Pennsylvania Turfgrass Research Inc. "We have all felt his loss, but honoring him through the naming of the endowment will keep his name forever associated with the school he loved."
Golden noted that the endowment provides critical financial support for faculty and students to perform research and provide solutions to turf problems in Pennsylvania and in other areas of the United States. "Naming the endowment after Stanley will ensure that all of his contributions to the industry will live on through continued research and discovery," he said.


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Geez, I'm a lucky guy to bring to your attention Not 1, Not 2, but 3 awesome competitions that are running right now.
Normally I am just pimping Mage blogs, but this time round there is something in it for you beyond awesome reading.
Yep, we are talking awesome prizes!
I figure this is a good place to pimp these competitions, after all you will need to do something magical to win, and if there is one thing Mages are full of (apart from Tauren droppings), it's magic!
I feel particularly good about this after you folk gave so much to Brigwyn's child's play charity auction. *
Competition #1
- Did you get your Blizzcon ticket… No?
- Didn't bother because you couldn't afford accommodation or airfares?
Well here's the competition for you!
Spooner from Spooncraft is running an awesome competition with 1st prize being a Blizzcon ticket, accommodation with the Spooncraft crew and $500 towards your airfare!
Seriously, if I had a creative bone in my body, I would be entering this… $500 towards airfares would come close to paying my airfare… FROM AUSTRALIA!
Of course you have to earn your spot… Spooner is looking for a T-Shirt design, so get your crayons out folks and get to Blizzcon!
PS: Don't mention the typo in the WoW screenshot to Spooner… Don't know what it is, but I have to write Sppon?!?! Maybe it was the early, early time of the day that I got his message and grabbed the screenshot…
PPS: Spooner has been having a few issues with his site today… competition interest maybe? So be patient, if you don't get through, try and try again!
Competition #2
Speaking of T-Shirt competitions, all WoW Blogger's favorite podcasters, The Twisted Nether, are also having a T-Shirt design competition.
The winner will get a 60 day WoW game card and the joy of knowing their design will be gracing Blizzcon on the bodies of those Twisted by the Nether!
I love these folks, so while you have your crayons out, knock up another design.
Nibuca wants a Gnome involved…
I bet she was thinking Gnome Warlock, but I reckon you should give her your friendly green haired fireball throwing Gnome…
Maybe, just maybe, I will make am extra effort to have my voice heard on the podcast if you get me on Nib's chest!
Competition #3
Final competition pimpage (for today anyway) goes to Xoxide's World of Warcraft Video Contest.
You have 3 opportunities to win gaming mice and gaming prize packs through this competition, here's a quote to save me typing…
Xoxide is proud to kick off the summer season with the launch of its latest contest, the World of Warcraft Video Contest. Contestants will submit entries in three separate video categories that pay tribute to the legendary Blizzard game. The categories will include LARP'ing your favorite WoW sequence, a WoW Celebrity Commercial Parody, or a Comedic Dubbed In-Game Sequence in the style of Red Vs Blue. The more ridiculous it is, the greater the chance of winning!
3 Winners Will Receive a World of Warcraft Gaming Mouse & an Exclusive Xoxide Gaming Gear Prize Package.
Contest Ends June 30th, 2009. Winners will be announced the following day.
Be sure to hit up Xoxide's Official Contest Page for all the details on How to Enter:
Of course you will need to get more than your crayons out for this one. Make a video in one of the three categories, win and then send me your prize…
No that's a bit unfair, just send me a link to your entry so I can pimp your awesome video skills along with your DPS!
For Teh Gnome!
Am I entering….?
Naaah… My drawing skills do involve crayons, and one day I will work my way up to stick figures. As it is, I do Odin's drawing homework as I draw as well as a 3 year old.
The only competitions I win are those where you submit your name (and throw out the rest of the entry book so no one else can enter).
I mean my highly original and very tasty bacon recipe earned me no prize, so there really isn't much hope for my drawing ability…
Gnomer and Out!
* ohh, I haven't mentioned who the winning bidder of the swagdog code was….
Before I do, I just want to mention the wonderful chain that this code went through.
- I win it in a WoWDawgs competition.
- Someone won it with an awesome bid of $35.99 from the charity auction.
- That awesome someone then passed it on to a guildy!
That awesome someone has been previously mentioned as one of my favorite bloggers, and a Warlock Blogger at that!
Thanks Syrana for your awesome charity, not only donated your own prize to the auction, but bid, won and gave away (at least) one other auction item!
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Recent News
March 18, 2014
Fannie May Recalls 19 Boxes of 14.0 Oz. Spring Wrapped Assorted Chocolate Box Due to Undeclared Peanuts
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services received information regarding a recall of Fannie May 14.0 oz., rectangle box of spring wrapped assorted chocolates because the box includes one piece of candy that contains peanuts, a known allergen. The food ingredient label on the box did not state that the product contained peanuts.
The product being recalled is a 14.0 oz., rectangular gift box measuring 9 1/2" by 7" in size that contains 24 pieces of assorted chocolates including one caramel/peanut candy. The light purple with spring flowers-wrapped rectangular-shaped box contains an orange-striped band. In the center of the orange-striped band is a white rectangle with a picture of 5 chocolate pieces and the name "Fannie May", product type "Assorted Chocolates", and product description "rich dark & milk chocolates & pastels with an assortment of decadent fillings" in brown lettering on the band around the box. Also, the front-bottom of the orange-striped band states "NET WT. 14 OZ. (396g)".
The back of the box has a full nutritional label which also states: "This product has been produced on equipment shared with peanuts, tree nuts, soybeans, milk, eggs and wheat". The item is identified as SKU #75032 with the UPC number on the label of 0 52745 72804 6. Lot information on this product is 14058 or 14059. Fannie May Confections Brands, Inc. determined that the 19 boxes of chocolates were available for sale beginning March 3 in specific retailers in seven (7) states: Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin and Arizona. Retailers that sold the product include, but are not limited to, Walgreens, Hallmark Gift Shops, CVS and other independent retailers.
The full recall can be found at www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm389402.htm?source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery.


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TOWNSEND, Tenn. (AP) -- Crews spent Friday clearing trees and reaching stranded visitors at Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, a day after violent thunderstorms swept through the popular tourist spot, killing at least two people and injuring several others.
The storms hit Thursday evening at the west end of the 500,000-acre, densely forested reserve on the Tennessee-North Carolina line. The storms then moved down the mountains to the Tennessee River Valley.
At Abrams Creek Campground, a tree fell into a swimming hole, killing 41-year-old Rachael Burkhart, of Corryton, Tenn., park officials said.
The same tree struck a family, including a 7-year-old girl, who was unconscious when pulled from the water, but revived after her mother performed CPR. The father suffered vertebrae fractures, multiple broken ribs and a collapsed lung and the mother was injured less seriously.
Carole Cooper came upon the scene when she was returning to her private cabin nearby after swimming with friends.
Campers helped bring the 7-year-old to Cooper's SUV, where Cooper performed first aid. Meanwhile Cooper's friends, one of whom is a physician, went to the creek to try to help Burkhart and the girl's father.
Cooper used her OnStar satellite communications service to call for help, but with the roads blocked, emergency workers had to walk in to the campsite, she said. Her vehicle became a makeshift command post as the rescue workers used her OnStar to communicate with other first responders.
"We were many hours with the injured because we couldn't get them out," she said.
After about four or five hours, enough trees had been cleared that emergency workers could drive Cooper's SUV partway out of the park, but they still had to walk the injured on stretchers to waiting ambulances.
The girl and her father were airlifted to a Knoxville hospital. Their conditions were not available Friday.
Also killed in the park was Ralph Frazier, 50, of Buford, Ga., who was riding a motorcycle when a falling limb struck him in the head, park officials said. His passenger was uninjured.
Most of the damage appeared to be in the popular Cades Cove area of the park and in communities just outside the park boundaries.
"At Cade's Cove we had three medical emergencies, we had a cardiac involving a woman, we had a man struck by a tree who sustained a back injury and we had a third male who was injured by shattered windshield glass when the vehicle was struck by a tree," Chief Ranger Clayton Jordan said. "It took us up to six hours to be able to gain access for ambulances to get into Cades Cove and evacuate the injured there."
On Friday, the first priority was to establish an emergency path to reach stranded vehicles.
"All through the night we were finding these pockets of stranded motorists and freeing them up" he said. Rangers also were trying to account for all the occupants of the unoccupied vehicles they found along the roads and checking back-country camping permits.
"We're trying to work through all of those to make sure we don't have anyone still out there unaccounted for," he said. ..."We don't have any reports of anyone in distress or any reports of overdue campers at this point."
Marc Elder, of Winter Haven, Fla., was at Cades Cove with his children for a day hike when the storm hit, and they ended up getting stranded in his vehicle for about five hours. Given the destruction of the storm, he said it was amazing the wait was so short.
"We literally drove through just a tunnel of debris with trees across the road and over it," he said.
Linda Nguyen, a producer at WATE-TV in Knoxville, was at Cades Cove working on a special program about the Smokies when the storm hit and she also got stuck inside the park.
"There were thousands of trees that had fallen," she said. "It looked like a tornado had touched down. ...It was really kind of scary because there were areas where we were parked under downed trees that were still hanging. We thought, 'If one more storm comes through, we're going to get crushed."'
Meanwhile, others, like Eric Breidenstein, his wife and five children, including 1-year-old twins, were trapped outside the park with only a couple of diapers after going into town for dinner.
The family spent the night in an emergency shelter set up at Tuckaleechee United Methodist Church in the small town of Townsend, which bills itself as "the backdoor to Cades Cove."
On Friday afternoon, they were waiting to go back into the park to collect their belongings.
"All our stuff is there," he said. "Well, we don't know whether it's there or whether something happened to it."
Sandy Headrick, who has owned the Highland Manor Inn in Townsend for 30 years, said the storm was very unusual in that it blew out of the north and east. The wind usually comes out of the west, she said.
"There was a lot of rain, a lot of wind. A lot of people lost power," she said.
"We had some friends who had a tree hit their home," she said. "They're all right, but the house is gone. It came through the roof and took out the kitchen, the bedroom, the living room."
Although multiple injuries were reported in the park, Headrick said she believes everyone in the town is OK.
"Everyone's out picking up branches and pulling tree limbs out of their pools. ... We got a lot of cleanup to do."
National Weather Service meteorologist Derek Eisentrout in Morristown said Friday that the severe heat that has gripped the region set up the intensity of the storms that struck Thursday.
"It was so hot and began to get humid," Eisentrout said. "The storms had a pool of cold air, which met up with that hot, humid air."
The same storm system killed a child and her grandmother in Chattanooga when high winds overturned a 30-foot double-decker pontoon boat she was on in Chickamauga Lake.
Dan Hicks, spokesman for the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency, said the other 10 people on the boat survived.
In Blount County, a woman had to be rescued from her car when a tree blew down onto the vehicle.
Associated Press reporters Travis Loller and Lucas Johnson III contributed to this report from Nashville.


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Auto Racing News - Racing Around
Regional News, Industry Updates, & Items Of Interest From Around The Country
Promoters Of The Year - Post Falls, ID
Two other awards were presented during the ceremonies. John McKarns, whose motor-sports ventures have included ARTGO promotions and MotorSports Management Services which operates the weekly racing program at the LaCrosse (WI) Fairgrounds Speedway was awarded the Tenth Annual Stew Reamer Service Award, recognizing lifetime service to the weekly auto racing industry. National Speed Sport News, presented the Nineteenth Annual National Speed Sport News Award for outstanding annual short-track event to the Dirt Track World Championships.
For more information, visit www.racingpromotionmonthly.net. -RPM
Grays Harbor Goes ASA - Elma, WAGrays Harbor Raceway located in Elma, WA, has joined the growing number of ASA Member Tracks. The 3/8-mile clay oval hosts six weekly divisions throughout the season on Saturday nights. The 6,500-seat facility also hosts some of the best touring dirt series as well, including the World of Outlaw Sprint Cars. The 2009 seson opens on Saturday, April 25, with 360 Sprint Cars, Modifieds, Hobby Stocks, Midgets, and Cruisers in action. For more information, visit www.graysharborraceway.net or www.ASA-Racing.com. -john fletcher
Back To Pavement - Lebanon, MOThe Lebanon I-44 Speedway will once again return to Asphalt Racing for the 2009 season. The Speedway which was pavement from 1989-2002 was the hotbed for Saturday night short-track racing during those years. In 2003, the track was converted to a dirt surface, while the Asphalt surface still remained under the dirt.
Kool Kids Shirts - Memphis, TNBring your future racers up right with the COMP Cams "Never Too Little to Think Big" T-shirt. Younger kids will love these shirts, which sport "crayon" style car graphics on the front and the words "Never Too Little To Think Big." Available in three youth sizes: XS (2-4), S (6-8), and M (10-12). For older kids, the new "Horsepower Never Goes Out of Style" shirt is perfect and comes in L (14-16) and XL (18-20). For more information, visit www.compcams.com. -Comp Cams
Coleman Inducted - Menominee, MIGene Coleman, the founder and owner of Coleman Racing Products and Coleman Machine was recently inducted into the Michigan Motorsports Hall of Fame. Coleman, 67, began racing in 1964 and plans to race this upcoming season. While he has accumulated feature wins and track championships both as a racer and car owner/sponsor too numerous to list, Coleman is probably best known for innovative racing products such as a brake activated engine kill switch, directional vane brake rotors, internal axle seals, and many more-some of which have received patents. Coleman is now semi-retired and resides part-time in Daytona Beach, Florida, where he keeps tabs on the racing industry while pursuing his second passion, flying. Congrats Gene! -Coleman Machine
New Super Late Series - Huntsville, ALLegendary race promoter B.J. Parker has formed a new Super Late Model asphalt short-track series in the South. The Southern Super Stars will kick off its season at Sayre Speedway and Huntsville Speedway in Alabama and will include races at Montgomery (AL) Motor Speedway as well as Senoia Raceway in Georgia. Races will be 100 laps with no tire purchase requirement. A driver can use take-offs for practice or run the race on used tires. Races will pay $1,500-to-win and $200-to-start. The season finale will be a bigger race with details to come. The 2009 rules are posted at www.superstarsracing.com. -Southern Superstars
ARCA Race Moves To Mansfield - Mansfield, OHThe doors were barely shut on Mansfield Motorsports Park in Ohio when it was announced that the ARCA RE/Max Series race on June 20 originally scheduled to take place at the Music City Motorplex in Nashville, TN, will be moved to the 3/8-mile asphalt of Mansfield.The change in venue was approved by ARCA officials after promoter Joe Mattioli III reached an agreement with Mansfield Motorsports Park owner Mike Dzurilla to run the event at Mansfield. For more info, visit www.mansfieldmotorsportsonline.com. -Phil Cavali
A Place To Race - Concord, NCUSARacing, formerly known as the Hooters Pro Cup Series, announced a 14-race schedule for 2009 with the first race at Concord Speedway, in Concord, NC. That means John Gibson, Circle Track's Tech Editor, now has a place to race! The events will be held in a seven state geographical region and will include return visits to Winchester Speedway in Winchester, IN, for the first time since 2003, and Rockingham, NC, in conjunction with the Automobile Racing Series of America (ARCA) season finale on October 10. For more information, visit www.usarprocup.com. -John Gibson
R.I.P. Crane - Daytona Beach, FLCrane Cams, the 56-year-old icon of the auto racing and hot rod enthusiast markets, closed its doors during the last week of February. At press time, Crane had already laid off all of its employees. Crane Cams and Crane Technologies Group were founded by Harvey J. Crane Jr. in 1953 as Crane Engineering Inc. in Hallandale, FL. The company was well known for its line of camshafts and engine valvetrain components.
In 1979, Crane became an employee-owned company. More recently, Crane fell on hard times. In 2006 Mikronite, an industrial technology firm based in New Jersey, bought Crane and attempted to rejuvenate the brand to no avail. -Circle Track Archives
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Given a string s1, find all occurrences of the single quote character and replace them with two occurrences of the single quote character.
If there are n such occurrences in s1, then s2 will be n characters longer than s1.
This problem description would benefit from an example of the kind of input that could be expected (as well as the correct output).
Based on the description, I thought that I had to replace the string 'o'clock' with the string 'o''clock' (so making it usable in MATLAB.). And no, I did not manage to create input like that.
Instead, you want to replace every single quote with a double quote EXCEPT for the start-and-end quotes.
So 'o''clock' ==> 'o''''clock'
an example would make it clearer
I am not getting it .... Its always showing wrong
so weird!!!
I've found no matter how many '''' I add, it will only show one additional.
My answers are coming correct in MATLAB 2017b but not on this site.
The intention was to make a correct preallocation and the fill it without needing to extend the string or reshuffle its content. It would be good to gain more insight into how the size is calculated. Criteria for evaluating code is not only code size but memory and time efficiency, and efficiency in writing and maintaining the code.
I look forward to discerning what that output really is supposed to be. Running into difficulty.
Least common multiple of many numbers
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Reverse the Words (not letters) of a String
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First of all, I'm ticked at my favorite "Saturday Night Live" comedian, Jason Sudeikis, for dating January Jones since she was arguably the worst SNL host of all time.
Do you read Lainey Gossip? Lainey also loved January's Emmys dress and hates January's lack of personality. She is gorgeous — and probably should've won an Emmy for playing Betty Draper on the best show on TV — but there's no there there.
Having said that, I was grateful for her dress after the darkness the Emmys dropped on us — long navy and black evening gowns.
Why? It's August.
If I had a ticket to the Emmys and any style at all, I would've done what January did with this bold royal blue Versace. But I would've done something equally bold with my hair, instead of her casual California surfer girl look.
E! online did its glam or sham poll and they also called out January for her hair and boring pumps. Readers voted her 39.9% Glam and 60.1% Sham.
Hey, I liked it — a lot more than what my favorite "Mad Men" actress, Christina Hendricks, wore. Those are some ugly purple feathers. She's one of those beautiful-in-a-paper-bag types, but this lavender Zac Posen dress is testing that theory.
Christina is my #1 girl on the show and Elisabeth Moss is my second favorite. Elisabeth stays in that position fashion-wise with her not-great-but-not-bad Donna Karan gown.
Speaking of "Mad Men," I just saw this story about how the cast of "True Blood" — including Alexander Skarsgard — ditched the HBO party to hang out at AMC's cooler "Mad Men" party at the Soho House. Poor HBO! At least they have all those Emmys to keep them happy.


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The Europe-v-Facebook campaign organized by Austrian law student Max Schrems is claiming victory after the social networking giant announced it is holding a vote on updates to its operating policy.
"Today we are asking you to join our second global site governance vote," said Elliot Schrage, VP of communications and public policy on the company blog. "Voting will be facilitated by an application developed on Facebook Platform by Wildfire, and an independent auditor will examine the vote tabulation to further ensure accurate results. We strongly encourage you to participate in the vote on our new revised documents."
Schrems, 24, has been waging a personal crusade against Facebook's data policies and made a succession of complaints about their breaking of EU law to the Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland, where Facebook has its European headquarters. This led to an audit by the authorities and in response Facebook made alterations to both its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and Data Use Policy and submitted them for public comment.
Under Facebook's own rules, if more than 7,000 people comment on policy revisions then they are put to a vote, and if more than 30 per cent of the world user base votes then that result is binding, rather than advisory. Schrems set up Europe-v-Facebook to try and trigger a vote and claims that English users have filed over 7,000 comments and German customers more than 30,000, forcing Facebook to the ballot box.
"The user does not really get to vote on the content of the 40,000 comments. Right now we would suggest to rather vote for the old policy, since this would force Facebook to take another attempt to comply with the Irish regulators," Schrems told El Reg in a statement. "At the same time we are wondering how long Facebook wants to keep on playing this tiring game. It's time that they simply comply with the law, just like any other company."
Schrems said his objective was to make all data collection and advertising opt-in rather than collection by default. He's posted up a list of suggestions but, unsurprisingly, says Facebook isn't interested in discussing the issue further and certainly isn't promoting the voting process other than via a link on its corporate pages. This makes a successful turnout of 30 per cent of its 901 million users highly unlikely before the vote ends on June 8.
Facebook raised the threshold of user voting to 30 per cent in the wake of the fuss caused in 2009 over changes to its terms and conditions, giving it ownership of all user data on its servers. Zuckerberg pleaded that he needed a license to use content properly but then the company backtracked and reinstated the old terms. This latest kerfuffle may cause Facebook to reexamine its corporate democracy policies once more.
"Personally we would understand if Facebook is amending this mechanism, even though it has that bitter taste of 'democracy is only respected if it brings the right results,'" Schrems said. "We think it perfectly shows how this platform is changing from a user based system to a money-driven cooperation." ®


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Kashmir Hill, Forbes Staff
Welcome to The Not-So Private Parts where technology & privacy collide
The term "Crackberry" seems silly today — and not just because consumers OD'ed on Blackberry and moved on to iDealers. The term arose in an earlier "aughts" time when Blackberry dominated the smartphone market and lawyers and execs were nearly the only ones who had them, due to their need to be able to respond to email immediately. Things have changed. Now we all need to be able to respond to email immediately. And to tweet. And to instantly share our photos on Facebook. We're all addicted to technology now, and not just to the Blackberry. We're "addicted" to our iPhones, and Facebook, and Twitter, and Android, and Pinterest, and iPads, and Word with Friends, and fill-in-the-blank-with-your-digital-dope-of-choice.
The sudden and dramatic advent of social-media-enabling technologies into our lives seems to be causing some mid-digital-life crises. Not only has Silicon Valley developed a guilty conscience about addicting us to screens, we the users are starting to question how technology is changing us: making us fat, making us unhealthy, making us depressed, making us lonely, making us narcissistic, and making us waste time worrying about whether it's making us fat, unhealthy, depressed, narcissistic and/or lonely. That's leading some users to consider abandoning the whole enterprise. My colleague Haydn Shaughnessy gave up his smartphone last year. Now, inspired by the example of former Facebooker Katherine Losse, he's considering giving up Facebook.
I am writing with some words of caution. I used to say that "if you're not on Facebook, it's possible you don't actually exist." I think it's time to update that, courtesy of Slashdot: Facebook abstainers will be labeled suspicious.
Slashdot flagged a German news story in which an expert noted that mass murderers Anders Breivik and James Holmes both lacked much of a social media presence, leading to the conclusion, in Slashdot's phrasing, that "not having a Facebook account could be the first sign that you are a mass murderer."
That's a tad extreme, but I'm seeing the suggestion more and more often that a missing Facebook account raises red flags. After a woman found out via Facebook that a man who'd 'poked' her in real life had a long term girlfriend, she turned to digital manners advice givers Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe of Slate to ask whether she should tell the girlfriend. They said she should and then went on a digression about transparent romances in the age of Facebook:
Farhad: I think we've mentioned it before that if you are going out with someone and they don't have a Facebook profile, you should be suspicious.
Emily: Wait a minute. You may have mentioned that.
Farhad: I think I've recommended that. You know why, though? Imagine if this guy didn't have a Facebook profile. That's why. You should be suspicious of someone who is not making your relationship known publicly on a site like Facebook. I'm going to go on record with that.
Emily: I'm fine with people not having a Facebook page if they don't want one. However, I think you're right. If you're of a certain age and you meet someone who you are about to go to bed with, and that person doesn't have a Facebook page, you may be getting a false name. It could be some kind of red flag.
via Transcript: Facebook stalker: Should I tell a cheating guy's girlfriend that we hooked up? – Slate Magazine.
It's not just love seekers who worry about what the lack of a Facebook account means. Anecdotally, I've heard both job seekers and employers wonder aloud about what it means if a job candidate doesn't have a Facebook account. Does it mean they deactivated it because it was full of red flags? Are they hiding something?
The idea that a Facebook resister is a potential mass murderer, flaky employee, and/or person who struggles with fidelity is obviously flawed. There are people who choose not to be Facebookers for myriad non-psychopathic reasons: because they find it too addictive, or because they hold their privacy dear, or because they don't actually want to know what their old high school buddies are up to. My own boyfriend isn't on Facebook and I don't hold it against him (too much).
But it does seem that increasingly, it's expected that everyone is on Facebook in some capacity, and that a negative assumption is starting to arise about those who reject the Big Blue Giant's siren call. Continuing to navigate life without having this digital form of identification may be like trying to get into a bar without a driver's license.
Case in point: Katherine Losse, the ex-Facebook employee that quit the company and the social network after cashing in her stock options, and who inspired my colleague to consider UnFacebooking, couldn't stay off Facebookfor long. She wound up opening a new account.
"You can't get away from it. It's everything. It's everywhere," she told the Washington Post. "The moment we're in now is about trying to deal with all this technology rather than rejecting it, because obviously we can't reject it entirely."
Well, you can, but it might lead to your being rejected down the line too.
* Updated August 7 to include some reasons why a person might choose not to be on Facebook, beyond being too busy planning commando attacks.
* Another update: Haydn responds (and critiques)!
* And another update: A follow-up story from me, "You Don't Need A Facebook Account To Be Considered 'Normal' (But It Helps)"
Read more:
What Facebook Hands Over To The Police When A User Is Suspected Of Murder
Using Twitter To Identify Psychopaths
Is Facebook Making You Lonely? Don't Be Stupid


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MWC 15 Special
I really like good and useful accessories and I like to listen to music on my smartphones. Being it while commuting or travelling, using headsets, or in the office where I prefer to listen via the device's loudspeakers. However, most smartphones have the loudspeakers for hands-free phone calls and audio playback on the backside. That's pretty annoying since you either have the phone in your hand, where the loudspeaker is then covered by your palm, or you put in on your table, with the display up where the device covers the loudspeaker then. And yesterday's launched Huawei Ascend P1 isn't anything different but also has the loudspeaker on the backside.
However, Huawei was so kind to give away a funn(k)y accessory to the participants of yesterday's press event in Munich, the so called "Loudspeaker for Huawei Ascend P1". It simply redirects the sound from the back to the front of the device and, as a nice side effect, it's acting as a stand which can be used either portrait or landscape, making it also useful for watching videos!
This gramophone looking accessory is made of some kind of gum, fits nicely around the bottom of the device, covers the loudspeaker on the back and transports the sound to the front tube. It even has a hole for the microphone which allows to use it for hands-free voice and video telephony. Kind of clever and useful, as long as the loudspeakers are not back to the front, as the very first PDAs had it.
The packaging said "Gift Only" and therefore I have no idea if this "loudspeaker adapter" will ever make it to the market or if it is just a marketing gag. But hopefully it's coming to the market or even better, will become a standard package content of the Ascend P1.
Cheers ~ Arne
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How to see a Model X in person?
How to see a Model X in person?
I posed this same question to a representative at a Tesla showroom two weeks ago in southern California. At the time, the best answer he could offer was that I visit the Hawthorne location, where I could see a (clay?) scale model of the Model X. Aside from that, he also showed me a pretty wide selection of highly detailed photographs that I haven't been able to find online yet.
The Tesla Model X was on display in Detroit in January. And I believe that it will also be on display in Geneva in March. I am not sure if it will be the same beautiful white EV as the one that was on display in Detroit. Besides of that the only thing you can see is photo's on the internet. But in the summer there will be Tesla Model X EV's in the showrooms, I hope.
I wonder if any/all drivable X betas are out in "the wild" being banged around at the moment. I'd assume as many as possible are "taking advantage" of the snow.
We can only hope so.
I'd be surprised to see any X's in stores before 2014. I hope I'm wrong though.
Goneskiian - You're right, Tesla's already moved those goalposts back to the 2nd half of 2014.
The focus must be fully on the targets of the Tesla Model S for 2013, I think.
I would love to see one as soon as possible, but the only thing that. I heard that there was one at the Garden State Plaza mall in NJ but it was gone by the time I was in the area. I live in Virginia and the Tyson's store is already more than 3 months behind schedule. (Not due to Tesla but dues to Virginia Red Tape anti Tesla lobbying by Virginia Dealers). Having to wait a few months longer than anticipated simply gives me more time to save for all the options that I want such as the largest available battery pack. While we wait, a lot will be learned from the S. Still, it would be nice to see the Model X in person soon.
March - Geneva
April - New York
I guess that you can see the white Tesla Model X which was on display in January in Detroit.
New York International Auto Show (Jacob Javits Center, NYC).
March 29th - April 7th
I am sure that the Tesla Model X will be displayed in Geneva, Switzerland. And in New York it would be obvious that the Tesla Model X will be displayed, but I am not sure about that.
Bummer. I was hoping to have one in 2014. Presuming, of course, that I can get my wife over her absolute repulsion of falcon wing doors. ;-) That's looking more and more like 2015. Ugh. Might have to buy an S in the meantime. ;-)