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Recent Grad Working in London as Olympic Volunteer
Last summer Megan Erspamer, a 2012 graduate from Madison, Wis., worked as an intern for the U.S. Olympic's Emerging Sport Program in Colorado Springs, Colo.
This summer, she's in London working as a volunteer for Team USA at the 2012 Olympics.
"We are unofficially called the Welcoming Committee for Team USA. For most athletes, we're the first stop on their Olympic journey once they arrive in London. [We're the spot] where more than 1,000 athletes pick up all their gear including ceremony clothing, medal stand outfits and various commemorative items. They also get their photos taken and fill out important medical information. It has been an incredible experience! I have met so many great people, and it has been very cool (and interesting) to see what goes on behind the scenes at the Olympics," said Erspamer, a business administration major.
She's hoping for more Olympic experiences in the future.
"I am already looking ahead at how I could get myself to Sochi in 2014 and/or Rio in 2016. It's been a great educational experience, as well – I've rotated between shipping, packing athlete bags in the warehouse, being a "runner" for athletes (making sure clothing and shoes fit and are comfortable), processing paperwork, welcoming athletes at the front desk and preparing ceremonies clothing. Overall, it's just an incredible atmosphere and culture to be in," she said.
Class of 2012 graduate Megan Erspamer and fellow Team USA Olympic volunteers pose in London near one of the city's signature red telephone booths.


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Human chorionic gonadotropin urine test, urine pregnancy test
This test measures the amount of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) in your urine.
When you get pregnant, your body makes HCG. In a healthy pregnancy, the amount of HCG in the blood increases a lot over a short time, usually doubling every two days. HCG can be found in your urine 2 to 3 days after it can be measured in your blood. This is often about the same time that you notice a missed period.
Except for very early in a pregnancy, this test can show if you are pregnant within days of a missed period.
You may need this test to find out whether you are pregnant. This test is much like home pregnancy tests, which also measure the amount of HCG in your urine.
You may need this test to help plan your pregnancy care or as part of an exam to figure out the cause of symptoms you've been having.
Your healthcare provider may also order other tests, including:
HCG blood tests
Blood tests to measure estradiol and progesterone levels
Test results may vary depending on your age, gender, health history, the method used for the test, and other things. Your test results may not mean you have a problem. Ask your healthcare provider what your test results mean for you.
Results are given in milli-international units per milliliter (mIU/mL). A positive result is usually more than 20 mIU/mL of HCG, meaning that you are pregnant.
Results of less than 5 mIU/mL of HCG are negative, meaning that it's unlikely you are pregnant.
If the results are unclear, or if your healthcare provider has reason to believe you're pregnant, you may need to repeat this test every two days until you have a clear result.
The test needs a urine sample. Your healthcare provider will tell you how to collect it.
This test poses no known risks.
Medicines that contain HCG may affect your results.
You don't need to prepare for this test. Be sure your healthcare provider knows about all medicines, herbs, vitamins, and supplements you are taking. This includes medicines that don't need a prescription and any illicit drugs you may use.

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Any favorites?
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Potential paint colors
Any favorites?
15 comments:
I love the sun kissed yellow - it's so fresh and bright!!ReplyDelete
I love the south beach...but I'm a blue/aqua kind of girl!ReplyDelete
Rumba orange might be my favorite color in the whole Ben Moore deck, I am obsessed with it!ReplyDelete
It'd be south beach for me as well. Blues will win out every time!ReplyDelete
They are all gorgeous tho and you have such good tastes that I am sure you will do great
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I love them all! Top two: Sun Kissed Yellow & South Beach :-)ReplyDelete
I love the south beach and rumba orange!ReplyDelete
I'm loving Salsa!!! loved the video of you on the girls with glasses!ReplyDelete
I love that Salsa!ReplyDelete
Sun-kissed yellow and silver lake!ReplyDelete
I love the orangey-reds and greys... can't wait to see them!ReplyDelete
I have an old dresser that would look fab bright orange!ReplyDelete
I love all of those! It'll be fun to see your finished pieces. Your work is beautiful, Natty.ReplyDelete
i love salsa... can't get enough of coral right now.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 11, 2012
I love the Silver Lake but I do tend to go for the neutrals! If I were brave enough to try a color, I think the South Beach is gorgeous.ReplyDelete
Usually Id pick something like South Beach but Im really loving the Rumba Orange! Cant wait to see what you do with the new colors. New follower. I'm loving it here. Stop by and give us a visit some time :)ReplyDelete


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Morrissey: The social dog: The golden age of learning
special to the daily
Before the holidays I started this series about the "social dog" in which I will explore how to best help a dog adapt to our human world, whether you adopted him as a puppy or as an adult. We last went over the importance of socialization of puppies. Now on to that wonderful age of 3 to 8 months: the golden age of learning.
As soon as your puppy comes home, he begins to learn. He learns what to do to get what he needs and wants: food, play, attention, exercise, chewing and the chance to relieve himself outside. This is the best time to teach your puppy, soon-to-be adolescent dog, what the house rules are and to lay the foundations for good manners. Attention is only given when your puppy is on the ground, not jumping. Establish this from Day 1! Walking happens when the leash is loose, not tight. Jumping up on the counters is never rewarded (keep your counters clean!) Sit, down and stay are very easy for a dog to learn during this time. These skills are the basis for all obedience, manners and self-control. This is the best time to teach your puppy that coming to you s fun and means something good will happen.
All of these rules, manners and skills can be taught with either rewarding your puppy when he does something you want him to do, or withdrawing rewards when he does something you do not want him to do. It is a fact of behavioral science that behavior that is rewarded grows stronger while behavior that is not fades away. It helps to keep in mind what a reward is from your puppy's point of view. Food is obviously a reward and a great way to feed your puppy his dinner is by hand, asking for sit, down and stay. Not only is your puppy learning skills in a highly motivating environment, he is also learning that human hands deliver food. This is an important concept for a dog and one that prevents food and resource guarding in the future. Also, it is a great way to teach him that human hands deliver food only when he takes it gently and does not bite. Attention, play, toys and praise are also very important rewards. The most important reward is, "if I do this, I get what I want." By controlling the resources, we can shape a puppy's behavior so that he does what we want him to do to get what he wants.
Use praise, games and food rewards every time your puppy looks at you while on a walk. This teaches him to check in with you. Play "hide and seek" and have a big party when your puppy finds you. Run away from your puppy and teach him to chase you, rather than you chasing him. Make this a fun game with lots of rewards and praise and you will be laying the foundation for a fast and motivated recall in future months.
Puppies have no way of knowing what is OK to chew on and what is not. Pick up as many valuable items you do not want chewed on as possible, only leaving lots of puppy toys on the floor. Trade out for things you do not want in your puppy's mouth by offering him something equally as enticing to him, but something he can chew on. Play "take it" and "drop it" games with him using two equally enticing toys and trading out. Teach him to play with you using toys rather than human body parts.
This is also a great period in your puppy's life to continue socialization. Introduce him to neutral-tempered dogs of all sizes. Take him for car rides and to stores that allow dogs. Introduce him to calm, gentle people and children in a variety of outfits, coats, hats and backpacks. In our mountain environment, let him get used to people on skis and snowshoes. Continue to expose him to a variety of different sounds and surfaces in ways that will not scare him, but let him gain confidence in all of these new environments.
Most of all, take the time to form a trusting, loving relationship with your puppy. Teach him that you and other humans are trustworthy rather than unpredictable and scary. The effort you put into your puppy now will pay off quickly, for adolescence is just around the corner!
Louisa Morrissey is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA) and owner of Skijor n-More. She is also a professional member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers and a licensed Victoria Stilwell Positively Dog Trainer. http://www.skijornmore.com
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Rather than calling 9-Toolbox "an†app, I would consider this a collection of apps; grouped together into one icon on the Home Screen of my iDevice, and allowing me to access nine different applications, all with different functionalities.
I kind of like this idea a lot; I really hate to have to search through many pages on my Home Screen to look for that particular app (although this will change with iPhone OS 3.0, but in the meantime it's a pain). I now know that I only need to look for this particular app, and I can have access to "eight†useful utilities.


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Schedule gives Astros early look at A's, Mariners
HOUSTON -- Even so far as division opponents go, the Astros are getting extra familiar with the A's and Mariners these days.
Houston is in the midst of 13 out of 15 games against Oakland and Seattle, with Thursday's series opener the seventh game of that stretch.
While so many games against division opponents is nothing new in baseball, almost exclusively playing two teams for two weeks is still an oddity.
One Astro who is happy with the familiarity is prospect George Springer, who is playing only his fourth series since being called up.
"It's an advantage to play the same teams and understand how they work and how they operate," he said. "At the same time, it's also a completely different series. They could be approaching us differently."
But with 162 total games and only four days since the teams last met, catcher Carlos Corporan said it's far more likely that the teams will have a similar approach.
"When you play a team over and over, you start getting comfortable with them, both the pitchers and hitters," Corporan said. "We've played great baseball against the Mariners and need to do better against the A's. There's no surprises."
Houston manager Bo Porter said the condensed time between series against the A's and Mariners streamlines scouting for the teams.
"We have less meetings -- no sense in meeting about a team you just played three days ago," Porter said. "We know this team pretty well. From a scouting standpoint, when you're playing the same teams in a short time frame, their pitchers are going to know our guys and our pitchers are going to know their guys and vice versa. It's less work watching film."
Corporan did say the A's and Mariners are a unique pair, though, because both teams will adjust their play from home to away due to the spacious ballparks they call home.
"[The A's] field is kind of weird with all the foul territory, and they're used to it and they play like it," Corporan said. "Then, Safeco is cold this time of year, and the ballpark plays big up there.
"There's some baserunning and defensive adjustments that will be different, but they're the same teams, still."
That would be both a good and bad thing for the Astros. Oakland is a dominant 18-4 against Houston since the two became American League West rivals last season, while the Astros are 11-11 against the Mariners dating back to 2013.


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Public Comment
Charlie and Down Syndrome
When shopping at the large Safeway Store at College and Claremont, the first person I usually encounter is Charlie, the self-appointed welcome committee at that store. Due to his distinct facial features, Charlie clearly has Down Syndrome. This syndrome is a genetic abnormality, the most common single cause of birth defects in the United States. The syndrome occurs because of an extra copy of chromosome 21. It causes life long developmental delays that can range from moderate to severe but can be managed so that people with this syndrome live a long life -- many past the age of 50.
Charlie could care less about this medical diagnosis. He loves his job and works like a beaver, helping customers with shopping carts and directing them to the items they're looking for. Customers return his courtesy with friendly smiles. Safeway Stores should be commended for their long practice of hiring people with disabilities. In doing so they give these people pride in their work and a sense of worth.


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ARTISTS WANTED! Bionicle Retelling Art Wishlist Updates
Entry posted by bonesiii ·
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My retelling of the entire Bionicle history is fast approaching completion. I have only 15 (planned) chapters (of 90) to go now; the Toa Mahri are entering Mahri Nui for the first (rather unfortunate) time.
The biggest hurdle left for my story is missing artwork for many things. I'm doing some of it myself, but continue to have some that I'm offering for any artist out there to do and send me. It'll have to be quick now as I want to get this posting soon. Here's the current (updated from previous entry) main wishlist:
-original Vorox/Zesk forms
-unidentified Order Agent (you decide, as long as male, titan) Done by Disciple
-civil war scene? (probably not necessary)
-Toa Naho
-giant jellyfish Rahi
-Matoro Mahri's death scene with quality Ignika
-humanoid Miserix
-Karzahni plant
-EP entity
-Tahtorak on home island, Keetonguan riding
-Toa Chiara (unsure if will have room to include; if I do it'll have to be an epilogue only type thing)
NuvaTube has expressed interest in doing some things from the list, so unsure if I should still list those on the main list or not:
-Annona (peering out of a hole in the ground in daylight ideally)
-original Glatorian form of Jungle Element Lord (ideally holding a mysterious-looking orb that has a plot purpose)
-weird mutant scorpion Rahi from Maze of Shadows (your choice of interpretation)
I think he or someone else also mentioned maybe doing the Avohkah, I forget, and I think the EP entity, but regardless, I have yet to be given any of these, so unsure.
I'm now planning to do a few of the things from my original list myself, like the "young Xian mountain" pic. But there's a few more I might not have time to get to that maybe other artists could help with:
-Toa Orde (I have asked an artist for permission for one, who appears to be inactive and I don't know how else to contact, so if someone else wants to try and beats them to it, I'll use that)
-serpent forms of Piraka (have failed to find any; for now I'm just using some Rahi snake pics from, I think, the VNOG, to suffice, but they're pretty lame; I would need these just swimming in a stream or pond on Voya Nui for now (or leave out the setting), unsure if I'll have time to include "Zaktan in a fishbowl" later.)
-buildings in Mahri Nui?? It seems to be the only location in Bionicle's main plot where you only vaguely see the Matoran buildings, although the huts of Karda Nui are only briefly seen too. Weird after all that emphasis on the huts and skyscrapers of Mata and Metru Nui, and thanks to the VNOG even buildings on Voya Nui are shown.
-"razor crabs" (stated to be tamed guardians of Mahri Nui, as far as I know not pictured anywhere; they breathe water so live outside the giant bubbles, and live amongst some kind of thorny vine plant that also helps guard)
-maybe another image of Karzahni the titan, in gold armor? There's one image already I might request for, but haven't decided (the chapter this would be for is already at the 20 page maximum I'm trying to impose, but I might make an exception -- this is when Jaller and company are going through; book says armor is gold, but most artists use green incorrectly due to the rebuilt intermediate form seen in the atlas)
Anybody? Pretty please?
While I'm at it, don't forget to check out the BZP YouTube Banner contest! Deadline for that is Jan 30, so it's fast approaching!
If you want to do that plus what I'm asking for here, do the contest first, as with proofreading and everything I'll have more time for the "deadline" on art for the retelling. Now it looks like I might begin posting the early chapters in late Feb, or early March, if I can get enough art for that (Annona, the jungle Glat, and maybe original Vorox/Zesk are the main things I would need for that, plus a few spoiler things I'll have to do myself), regardless of the status of the final chapters.


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First, it seems a little weird to reallocate $white to some other color; and especially weird that neither of them are actually white.
Secondly, if you deallocate a color, you remove it from the images color table, which means any pixels drawn in that color would now be displayed in whatever new color you allocate to that entry, which is going to produce weird results.
If you insist on using paletted images, you should chose all your colors, allocate them to different variables and then use them. Not reallocate or deallocate them.
But paletted images are just a pain in the butt and relics of a bygone era. You'd be much better off using TrueColor (24-bits per perl) images, then you can forget about allocating colors completely and just use the rgb value converted to a suitable integer. I use the following simple function for this:
See ColorRamp1785 for usage.
With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
In reply to Re: allocating/deallocating colors with GD module.
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by Andrew Davis
Neils Albert took the win in the GP Mario De Clercq, at the first round of the bpost bank Trofee series, ahead of a resurgent Kevin Pauwels in a close finish Sunday while Nys struggles early before fighting back for third.
With a potential 35,000 Euros on the line for the overall win, the first round of the bpost bank Trofee series opened up in Ronse, Belgium to similar conditions to last week's Superprestige in Ruddervoorde. After being mugged at the start line, Sven Nys was notably absent from the front-runners, languishing mid-pack throughout the first few laps. Klaas Vantornhout took an early lead and pushed the pace up front until a dramatic fall in a muddy corner derailed his chances for a win.
By lap two, Rob Peeters, Kevin Pauwels, and an unlikely Thijs van Amerongen had a small gap across the line with Albert quickly bridging to the trio. Nys had quickly lost a quarter of a minute while fighting back through the throng of riders in the field. Nys pushed hard and came as close to 10 seconds to the leaders, but that was as far as he could go as the leaders kept up the pace on the front.
By mid-race, Albert and Pauwels distanced themselves from the rest by cleaning a difficult off camber corner throughout the race that many were resigned to run, and claimed Klaas Vantornhout for a second crash in the race. The technical course with drastic elevation changes allowed for gaps to open as the riders with solid technical skills were allowed to shine.
While the race clock wound down, Albert surged and gapped Pauwels with three laps to go. As Albert's lead stretched to 11 seconds over Pauwels, Nys began to fade after a hard drawn out chase dropping to a minute down with a strong looking Bart Arnouts in tow. Arnout put in a solid dig trying to drop Nys, who clung on, countered, and finally shed Anouts for good, cementing a solid points haul for the overall series.
As the bell rang for the "laatste ronde," Pauwels put in some dramatic heroics in a final attempt to pull back Albert. Pauwels clearly buried himself to close the distance between the two riders, and managed to come within three seconds of Albert at the line, falling just short of a spectacular comeback. With this win, world champion Albert fired a shot across the bow of his rivals, letting his intentions for the series win be known early.
Full Results:
Rank Name Nat. Age* Result PaR PcR
1 Niels ALBERT BEL 27 57:31:00 40 40
2 Kevin PAUWELS BEL 29 57:35:00 30 30
3 Sven NYS BEL 37 58:40:00 20 20
4 Bart AERNOUTS BEL 31 58:53:00 15 15
5 Klaas VANTORNOUT BEL 31 59:23:00 10 10
6 Thijs VAN AMERONGEN NED 27 59:29:00 8 8
7 Bart WELLENS BEL 35 59:38:00 6 6
8 Lars VAN DER HAAR NED 22 1:00:09 4 4
9 Philipp WALSLEBEN GER 26 1:00:23 2 2
10 Rob PEETERS BEL 28 1:00:28 1 1
11 Marcel MEISEN GER 24 1:00:39 12 Simon ZAHNER SUI 30 1:00:44 13 Niels WUBBEN NED 25 1:00:49 14 Lubomir PETRUS CZE 23 1:00:51 15 Sven VANTHOURENHOUT BEL 32 1:00:57 16 Mariusz GIL POL 30 1:01:00 17 Twan VAN DEN BRAND NED 24 1:01:01 18 Jonathan PAGE USA 37 1:01:02 19 Patrick VAN LEEUWEN NED 28 1:01:23 20 Joeri ADAMS BEL 24 1:01:39 21 Aurelien DUVAL FRA 25 1:02:14 22 Gerben DE KNEGT NED 38 1:02:32 23 Dave DE CLEYN BEL 25 1:02:37 24 Tom VAN DEN BOSCH BEL 28 1:02:39 25 Bart HOFMAN BEL 28 1:02:39 26 Egoitz MURGOITIO REKALDE ESP 30 1:02:41 27 Thijs AL NED 33 1:02:44 28 Kenneth VAN COMPERNOLLE BEL 25 1:02:50 29 Kevin EECKHOUT BEL 24 1:03:14 30 Jan DENUWELAERE BEL 25 1:04:24 31 Micki VAN EMPEL NED 23 32 Radomir SIMUNEK CZE 30 33 Stijn HUYS BEL 27 34 Stef BODEN BEL 23 35 Mathieu WILLEMYNS BEL 23 36 Gianni DENOLF BEL 26 37 Alexander REVELL NZL 28
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In my recent Priest changes announcement post, Kivassha posed some excellent questions that I wanted to share.
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Hi Matticus
In my mind disc priests are topping up absorbing the damage on Tanks, almost like druid heals are for raid, helping with spike damage until the big chain heals (shammy) and POH (holy priest) lands.
My concern?
I wonder if getting Disc priests to focus on MT will make it boring. I like how classes compliments each other and the unity that forms when everyone gets to know each other's play stile and can on the fly make the right decision and heal where it is needed. It feels like the synergy will be lost between classes.
With the holy priest changes a priest will be able to heal a little bit more like a druid does with all the hot changes. Again how will the synergy between classes work? How would druids feels about this?
How boring will it be if everyone can do what every other healer class can do? Holy can main tank heal, can do big raid heals and will now be able to do really good HOT's. Even Shammies will now have a HOT. So I wonder if Druids will get big long casting spells like POH, Chain heal?
To me it looks like they are giving each healer class similar capabilities to make them more like all round healers. Will this take away from each class the niche they have?
Yes the email sound negative, but I am curious and excited to work out how things will work in future.
I can't say whether or not Discipline healing will be boring. Different healers I talk to just love healing. If you love what you do, you're never going to find it boring. As for class synergy, there's no reason for it to go away. Don't forget that this is just a class preview of what they intend to do. There is still a long wait before Cataclysm is installed on our computers. If you look at the different things that healers can excel at, Discipline Priests are optimized best for tank healing. Does that mean it's the only thing they can do? Nah, far from it. That's what I've always liked about the game is that I can mix and match healers and not have to worry too much at all about it.
Druids should have nothing to worry about at all. We still heal in fairly different styles. While some of the mechanics might blend together, the numbers still need to be tuned and adjusted accordingly. I suspect that will help narrow the gap a bit between Priest and Druid healing.
Going back to healing styles again, I don't think it's going to be boring for healers. Each healing class can do something similar to each other. That's good though. While you want to encourage a variety of healers in your raids, it doesn't mean that you have to always have a Shaman or have to always have a Paladin. Each healing class has their own strengths and weaknesses. At the very minimum, each class can fire off some AoE heals. Each class has a large heal, a fast heal, and an efficient heal. It just so happens that their extra healing spells are done in a different way. Priests have group based healing in Prayer of Healing and Circle of Healing. Shamans have that new Healing Rain which hits everyone in a certain area. Paladins come out at the end of the week so we're not sure what they get yet.
As far as the healing niche goes though, you are right that each class will have similar capabilities. How much would it suck if a Druid healer who loves to play a Druid has to re-roll to a Priest to heal a particularly difficult encounter because the Priest can heal a certain encounter way better than a Druid can? During Sunwell, I heard many top end guilds had to bench Paladins and some Druids for the Twins encounter. They ended up bringing in Shaman alts and Holy Priest alts for Circle of Healing and Chain Heal. The philosophy of Blizzard has always been to bring the player and not the class. A Druid should be able to heal an encounter just as well as a Priest, Shaman, or Paladin and I agree with that.
The identities of each healing class won't be lost though. Just because each class can keep players up doesn't mean they'll lost their own unique style or method of doing it.
Let's not forget what Ghostcrawler said:
We'd rather make healing fun for the players who like to heal rather than make healing easy for the players who hate to heal but do it anyway.
And I'm sure they'll find ways to make it entertaining.


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This course will introduce students to a practice-oriented approach to interviewing and counseling. Although we will use a standard legal text, we also will rely on materials and guests from other disciplines. The overall objective of the course is to enable students to effectively interview and represent clients. Class work will include demonstration, critique, discussion, and practical exercises.
Course topics will explore: 1) recognizing legal and non-legal dimensions of a client's problems; 2) developing fundamental skills, including effective listening and questioning; 3) gathering information; and 4) understanding the decision-making process and helping clients make appropriate decisions.
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Twitter said it hasn't agreed to block extremist accounts in Russia, rebutting earlier statements by the country that access was being restricted.
Instead, the San Francisco-based microblogging service said it's been showing Russian officials how to report illegal content so that it could be withheld in the country, without committing to remove any specific accounts.
Colin Crowell, Twitter's public policy chief, met with Alexander Zharov, head of Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor, on Sunday. Russia is seeking to block content that it considers extremist, such as that of Ukrainian national groups. Zharov told reporters after the meeting that Twitter had agreed to prevent access to 10 accounts.
"That claim is inaccurate, as we did not agree to remove the accounts," Nu Wexler, a spokesman for Twitter, said in a statement. The company about a month ago blocked the account of Ukraine's Pravyi Sektor group in Russia, but hasn't removed other political accounts.
Internet services from outside Russia are trying to navigate stricter rules to remain in Europe's biggest Web market by users. President Vladimir Putin, facing sanctions by the U.S. and the European Union over his annexation of Crimea, said in April his government needs to impose greater control over information flows through the Web, which the former KGB colonel called a creation of U.S. spy agencies.
Russia introduced a rule in February that gives authorities the power to block without a court ruling websites deemed either extremist or a threat to public order.
Twitter is eager to discuss Russia's new rules with regulators, Crowell told reporters ahead of the meeting with Roskomnadzor during what was the first official visit to the country by the company's executives.
Twitter has about 8 million Russian users, according to Zharov. Globally, Twitter's monthly active users reached 255 million in the first quarter.
While not having direct authority over global companies that have no offices in Russia, Roskomnadzor threatened to block access to Twitter and Facebook if they don't comply with the new regulations, the Izvestia newspaper reported last month, citing an official from the agency. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev rebuked the official for his comments the next day, after saying that both users and networks should obey Russian legislation.
Russia is also introducing a law requiring Internet companies to locate servers handling Russian traffic inside the country, similar to Chinese rules, and store user data for six months. The legislation, set to become law Aug. 1, also classifies bloggers with 3,000 or more readers — about 30,000 people — as akin to media outlets, making them and their hosts liable for content and subject to regulation.
That means Twitter will need to keep all Russian user logs — the data on when a user is logged in and to whom he or she sends messages, though not the content of the communications — on servers located in the country, Zharov said.
In order to comply with global laws while not over-censoring the site, Twitter has a policy of withholding banned content only in the country where it is illegal and report the removal to Chilling Effects, a site that keeps track of censorship.
On March 13, Roskomnadzor temporarily shut access to half a dozen sites, including opposition leader Alexei Navalny's, to impede efforts to hold unsanctioned rallies against Putin's annexation of Crimea. The regulator also closed 13 Ukrainian groups on VKontakte, a Russian site similar to Facebook.
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said last year that Russia was "on the path" toward China's model of Internet censorship.


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Saturday, December 14, 2013
First Records from Ancestry.com on FamilySearch directly
Here is the image of the 1930 Mexico Census showing the notation courtesy of Ancestry.com
I suppose this could have been here a long time, but this was the first time we had seen this notation.
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1930 New Jersey census, today!!ReplyDelete
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We were all wondering if the Mexican Census stuff was just some sort of test and that it might disappear in a day or two.Delete
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2013 at 6:06 PM
Just a note here James: I recently visited a FHC (like 3hrs travel there and back) at that center I could not access xxxxDelete
why because I was a volunteer and not a LDS enrollment but one who was there was kind enough to open their account and I was able to see what I was looking for so whether I tried to look via my comp or the FHC comp I had no access unless I had a LDS account.


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Yeshe Tsogyal Pilgrimage 2010 Oct 10-29
The pilgrimage destinations of Yeshe Tsogyal's life story are intimately connected with the renowned spiritual hermitages of the Tibetan heartlands — from her birthplace at Drakda Latso, to the sanctuaries of Yamalung, Chimphu, and Zhoto Tidro where she perfected her practices; to the Crystal Cave of Yarlung Sheldrak, one of her foremost repositories of hidden teachings (terma), and finally to the remote hermitage of Zabbulung in Western Tibet where she attained the supreme transformation of the rainbow body.
Along the way, the pilgrimage also visits places and temples associated with the Nyingma lineage and the life of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche such as Mindroling, Dorje Drak, Longchenpa's hermitage of Gangri Tokar, Draksum Tsodzong, and Lamaling.
The concept for this pilgrimage was developed by Lama Dechen Yeshe Wangmo. After careful research and planning with Dr. Gyurme Dorje of Trans Himalaya, the first pilgrimage took place in May, 2009. Free of major obstacles and filled with blessings, we discovered that pilgrimage begins the moment you decide to go and after that, it never ends--your experiences and the blessings of those sacred places remain with you forever, inspiring and guiding you to the culmination of the Vajrayana path. During the pilgrimage, there is time for touring and hiking as well as teachings, meditation, and other Dharma activities.
Chengdu, China (1,640 feet) This city of 11 million, is the capital of Sichuan in Western China and an important economic center. On arrival at the international airport, each person will be met by a Trans Himalaya staff member.Our hotel is the Zen Buddha Hotel adjacent to the famous thousands-year old Wenshuyuan Buddhist Temple. Zen Buddha offers vegetarian cuisine and affordable spa services. There will be a Welcome Dinner.
Fly to Gongkar, Southern Tibet: (11,000 feet) This is a truly memorable flight, crossing the great snow ranges of Eastern Tibet and the mighty river gorges of the Yangtze, Mekong and Salween. 1 hour 45 minutes; tickets arranged by Trans Himalaya.
Dorje Drak Monastery, the seat of the Northern Treasures founded in the 14th century. Revered copper-colored Mountain int he background.
Drakda Tsogyal Latso: In the Seu valley of Drak adjoining the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra river, near the small village of Drakda, Yeshe Tsogyal was born amid several miraculous signs. Amid a grove of tall silver oaks, we will find the Tsogyal Latso, spring-fed pond which manifested at the time of Tsogyal's birth. It is regarded as her talismanic or life-energy lake and considered to be prophetic, revealing the secrets of past and future events. During the Cultural Revolution, much was destroyed here and the Latso itself was used as a cess pool. The Latso has been cleaned several times and the whole area is being restoration. Nearby, is the birthplace of Nubchen Sangye Yeshe, one of the foremost disciples of Guru Rinpoche and custodian of the Anuyoga teachings in Tibet.
Next to the Latso, the Life-Energy lake of Yeshe Tsogyal, is Kazhima Lhakhang, a small temple containing images of Guru Rinpoche, Vajrayogini, and Yeshe Tsogyal, as well as several Yeshe Tsogyal stone imprints of her hands. The temple serves as the focal point for a small group of twelve nuns. Nearby, a newly restored stupa commemorates Yeshe Tsogyal's birth, and next to the stupa, there is tree believed to be Tsogyal's energy life-force tree offered to her at the time of her birth by the nagas. There is also a large uterine shaped spring bubbling with the secret breast milk of Yeshe Tsogyal.Camping in a scenic and beautiful valley.
Tsogyal Latso: We remain at the Latso. Same campsite.
Zurkhardo: After we have spent the morning and lunched at the Latso, we will drive to Samye, stopping along the way at the Zurkhardo stupas built by Shantaraksita to commemorate the place where King Drison Detsen first met Guru Rinpoche. There are five resplendent stupas representing the Five Lineages of Enlightenment.
New Samye Monastery Hotel
Our hotel is the new Samye Monastery Hotel. Trans-Himalaya will cook in the courtyard where our dinning tents will be pitched.
Yamalung, 13,400 feet: This is an important place for Guru Rinpoche, Bairotsana and Yeshe Tsogyal that we did not visit last year. It is here, when Tsogyal was 16 years old, that Guru Rinpoche taught her the Tripitaka, the basics of Buddhism, and bestowed the first tantric empowerments along with the sacred commitments. Afterwards, Tsogyal meditated here, assimilated the teachings, and achieved a high degree of understanding. The goddess Saraswasti appeared to her in a vision and graced her with complete retention of what ever she was taught. Guru Rinpoche concealed many treasures (terma).
Reflecting on her experiences at Yamalung, Yeshe Tsogyal said, "I received all the teachings as if the contents of one vessel were being transferred into another". At the end of this period, Tsogyal returned to Samye and then journeyed to Zhoto Tidro which was to become her principal place of practice. She returned to Yamalung several times and hides secret treasures.We spend our second night at the New Samye Monastery Hotel.
Samye Mandala: This was the first Buddhist monastery built in Tibet during the reign of King Trisong Detsen (8th century). The complex is a representation of the Buddhist universe with the main temple and its surrounding branch temples representing Mt. Meru and the continents that surround it. The original buildings have been re-constructed throughout the centuries. Today there are four gates, four stupas, the central temple and several secondary temples.
We have the entire day to visit the temples, circumambulate, and visit Hepori Hill, revered throughout Tibet as an important geomantic power-place, from which Guru Rinpoche brought the inimical forces under allegiance to Buddhism at the time of the monastery's original construction. Climbing to the summit of Hepori offers a bird's eye view of the entire Samye complex. Hepori is where a Bon queen attempted to poison Tsogyal.
When King Trisong Detsen, an emanation of Manjushri, rescued Yeshe Tsogyal from her suitors, he brought her to his court at Samye. Then he invited Guru Rinpoche who had appeared in the hills above Samye to come to his court. On this occasion, both he King and Yeshe Tsogyal became disciples of Guru Rinpoche. Yeshe Tsogyal returned to Samye many times to play an active role in the politics of her day and as such contributed significantly to transforming Tibet into a Buddhist country. One of her most outstanding feats occured at the Great Debate, during which she performed miracles surpassing those of her the non-Buddhists. The temple of the Great Debate can be visited.We will spend our third night at the new Samye Monastery Hotel.
Chimphu Hermitage: This mountain retreat above Samye is revered as the sacred place of Guru Rinpoche's speech. This is where he taught the Twenty-Five Disciples and where numerous disciples had profound realizations. Today, there are a hundred or more yogis, men and women, living there in retreat. As we hike through Chimphu, there are many occasions to meet with them and make personal offerings.
The topography of Chimphu has a profound outer, inner, and secret meaning in Vajrayana. It boasts many significant sites, such as a 15 meter-high Copper-Coloured Mountain rock, rock-impressions of Guru Rinpoche's hat and Yeshe Tsogyal's foot. The cave of Drakmar Keutsang is where Guru Rinpoche bestowed the first Vajrayana empowerment to his eight disciples including Yeshe Tsogyal. It is also here that Jigme Lingpa, through a series of visions, received the Longchen Nying-thik transmission in the 18th century.
In the upper reaches of Chimphu, one finds Longchenpa's cave and Tsogyal Zimpuk where Tsogyal practiced with her consort, Atsara Sale. On the descent, we pass the funerary stupa marking the place where Longchen Rabjampa passed away in 1365.
Yeshe Tsogyal took her first Buddhist vows at Chimphu in the presence of Guru Rinpoche and returned there many times throughout her life. We will visit her southern cave where she spent twelve years in retreat. Later in her life, after concealing countless treasures all over the Himalayan region, she returned to Chimphu, teaching and bestowing empowerments. While she was there, she invoked Guru Rinpoche who appeared from the southwest in the midst of a brilliant light and predicted Tibet's future as well as Tsogyal's passing from the world.
Yarlung River HotelTsetang 11,650 feet: Leaving Chimphu, we drive to Tsetang on the south bank of the Yarlung Tsangpo River. Tsetang was the fourteenth and fifteenth century capital of Tibet. Today it is the fourth largest city in Tibet and the springboard for visiting the sacred sites of the Yarlung Valley.Our hotel is the Yarlung River Hotel.
Sheldrak Crystal Cave 14,750 feet: Leaving Tsetang on the way to Sheldrak, we will circumambulate the stupa called Tsechu Bumpa, Vessel of Longevity Water, one of the three sacred stupas of Yarlung. It is said to have at its core, a rock-crystal Buddha image from India, which was presented to King Trisong Detsen. Some believe it contains the armour of King Songtsen Gampo. On full moon days the stupa is said to exude the water of life. Circumambulation of this stupa has long marked the beginning or end of a pilgrimage to Sheldrak
Sheldrak is the sacred place of Guru Rinpoche's attributes, nestled high in the craggy summits. Founded in the 14th century by the treasure-finder Sangye Lingpa, it contains images of Guru Rinpoche with his two foremost consorts, the Eight Manifestations, and Karmapa Rangjung Dorje. The crystal of this site is a highly polished blackish green rock onthe cave floor. Above the temple, there are three important cave hermitages: the main one is Sheldrak Drubpuk, the first of Guru Rinpoche's meditation caves in Tibet, from where the indigenous hostile forces and demons were bound under an oath of allegiance to Buddhism.
Some beings are born lucky! Sheldrak the hermitage here offers a panoramic view of the entire Yarlung valley, with the sacred snow peak of Mount Yarlha Shampo in the distance. Nearby is Pema Shelpuk, the celebrated site where Orgyen Lingpa revealed Yeshe Tsogyal's biography of Guru Rinpoche, Pema Katang, and the spring containing water of accomplishment reputedly brought forth by Nyak Jnanakumara, one of the Twenty-Five disciples. Tsogyel Sangpuk, a secret meditation cave of Yeshe Tsogyal, is identified by a distant prayer flag to the south. Tsogyal hid five sky treasures at Sheldrak and meditated here for thirteen months.
Tradruk: Tibet's oldest geomantic temple, dating from the reign of King Songtsen Gampo built in order to press down the limbs of the supine body of an ogress on which Tibet is believed to be situated.Return to the Yarlung River Hotel for the second night.
Mindroling Temple: Leaving Tsetang, we will visit Mindroling, one of the six main Nyingma temples in Tibet, founded in 1670 by Terdak Lingpa who authored the well known verse of Pure Vision. His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche spent much time at Mindroling. He practiced the ritual tradition of Mindroling, famed for its sacred art and quality incense. Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche also studied there for nine years. The ritual tradition of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche is also Mindroling.
Zabbulung: Guru Rinpoche is said to have consecrated five entire valleys for Buddhist practice in each of the four cardinal directions and one at their centre. Zabbulung valley (15, 000 ft.) lies in the middle of this grand design, and as such is the most revered power place of Western Tibet. The topography of Zabbulung is said to have twelve special features which represent the Master, the King and so forth. Jnanasukha is now translating the Pilgrimage Guide to Zabbulung, so we will know even more about this wonderful place this year that we did last year.
Tsogyal came here after Guru Rinpoche left this world, initially for a twelve-month period to hide treasures. Later, she returned with her disciples, meditated here for another ten years to complete her Ati Great Perfection training, and then left this world for Guru Rinpoche's Copper-Coloured Mountain from the peak of Zabbu. The main temple provides easy access to the extraordinary hands-in-prayer-mudra cave in which both Yeshe Tsogyal and Atsara Sale attained the rainbow body.
The inner sanctum of the temple houses a "speaking" image of Guru Rinpoche (Guru Sungjonma), which in the 18thcentury is said to have advised the hermits to flee and escape death at the hands of the zealous Mongols. Throughout history, important Nyingmapa masters have undergone profound spiritual experiences here: Dorje Lingpa (1346-1405) and Lhatsun Namka Jigme (b 1597) among them. Currently there are about sixty yogis in residence at Zabbulung.Camping in view of the temple and the Copper-Colored Rock.
We will remain at Zabbulung. Same campsite.
Zhigatse: Spending our last morning at Zabbulung, we will drive to Zhigatse, 12, 664 feet. The second largest city in Tibet, Zhigatse is simple a stop-over to our next destination.Arrivng in the afternoon, we will be staying at the Manasarovar Hotel with Tibetan, Chinese, and Western cuisine!
Shugseb: This important Nyingma nunnery was originally constructed by Machik Labron in the eleventh century. The female incarnations of Shugseb are considered emanations of Yeshe Tsogyal. There are currently 250 nuns living there.
Gangri Tokar
Gangri Tokar: A one-hour hike from Shugseb Nunnery, this area is said to represent the contours of Vajravarahi. The great Nyingma master, Longchenpa, meditated here, edited his termas, and composed The Seven Treasuries and the Three Trilogies here. There is a temple and further uphill various hermitages favorable for the practice of Thogal.
Lhasa. Potala; In the evening, we arrive at Lhasa, 12,000 feet. Along the way we will stop at the famous hot springs at the entry of Zabbulung which were inaccessible last year. Lhasa is the capital of Tibet in ancient, medieval, and modern times. It dates back to the 7th century when King Songtsen Gampo moved his capital from the Yarlung valley to Lhasa after unifying Tibet. Located on the north bank of Kyichu river, it is the cultural centre of Tibet.Our hotel in Lhasa will be the Heritage or Himalaya Hotel.
Jokhang Temple: Tibet's most sacred Buddhist shrine and geomantic temple containing a renowned image of Jowo Shakyamuni.Barkhor is Tibet's largest traditional marketplace, through which throngs of pilgrims continue to circumambulate the Jokhang. Provides an opportunity to mingle with devout Tibetan pilgrims who converge here from all remote areas of the plateau.Our second night at the Heritage or Himalaya Hotel.
Potala Palace: The enormous thirteen-storied winter residence of the Dalai Lamas was reconstructed in its present form during the seventeenth century. It is considered one of the great wonders of the world.Lukhang Temple: Located on an island behind the Potala Palace, which contains a unique series of murals illustrating themes from Tibetan operas and esoteric yoga practices.Our third night at the Heritage or Himalaya Hotel.
Zhoto Tidro, 14,750 feet: From Lhasa, we drive to the upper reaches of the Kyi-chu valley to the sanctuary of Zhoto Tidro, also known as Terdrom, among the most favored of YesheTsogyal's hermitages—the place where she secretly hid with Guru Rinpoche in order to escape banishment from the kingdom, the place where she received most of her empowerments and instructions and then practised the yoga of the inner heart and naked austerities for many years. She also practiced here with Atsara Sale.
Zhoto Tidro Today there is a large nunnery with their abbess, the elderly Khandroma, an emanation of Yeshe Tsogyal. Nearby there are medicinal hot-springs created by Guru Rinpoche. The average temperature of the water is 40°C.
An arduous hike which takes about 10-12 hours for a round trip, takes one to Kiri Yangdzong, an immense cavern with active hermitages and important meditation caves, the most significant being the Tsogyal Sangpuk, where Yeshe Tsogyel practiced and spent many years in retreat. This hike will be optional.
Dramatically located in the cliff of two mountains with hot springs, this sacred site is known as a gathering place of dakinis. "Opened" by Guru Rinpoche, it is the chief place where Yeshe Tsogyal meditated and emerged a great siddha. She also concealed important treasures here. This is the most significant of all the sites associated with Yeshe Tsogyal whether in Tibet, Bhutan, or Nepal.
Guru Rinpoche and Yeshe Tsogyal first came to Zhoto Tidro to escape the hostile political forces around Samye. In this protected safe-haven, Guru Rinpoche bestowed empowerments and teachings in what is called Tsogyal's secret cave, Kiri Yangdzong.
Here, Tsogyal received the Khandro Nying Thig and was instructed in the outer and inner practices (Mahayoga and Anuyoga). During the empowerments, she underwent a series of exceptional experiential transformations and was given special names, such as Tsogyal of Great Bliss, to mark her purifications and transitions.
Many years later, Tsogyal returned to Tidro for six more years just to practice the path of Atiyoga's Thogal. As predicted, at Tidro, she attained three of the four manifest appearances of this consummate path. Tsogyal's final training, taking on the suffering of others, also began at Tidro. According to her biography, this period was marked withmany examples of outstanding compassion, such as giving her knee caps to three beggars and making love with a lonely leper.
Guru Rinpoche gave many prophecies at Tidro including that Tsogyal would have five incarnations and thirty times would prolong the existence of the Dharma in the world.We will be camping a short drive from the site.
TsodzongDraksum Tsodzong: Driving to the south and coming down in elevation, we arrive at this sacred site of the Nyingma, an island in the midst of Draksum, an emerald alpine lake surrounded by 19,000 ft. mountains. Tsodzong (Lake Dharma Fortress) is the birthplace of the 14th century treasure revealer, Sangye Lingpa. There are many earlier associations with Padmasambhava, King Trisong Detsen, and Gesar of Ling. Many sacred artefacts still remain including images, self-manifest syllables, stone prints, and manuscripts. His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche taught at Tsodzong and his personal hermitage remains. Rinpoche restored the Tsodzong temple statues that were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and his family continued to care for Tsodzong after he left Tibet.We overnight at the Tsodzong Hotel.
Bayi: In the morning, we will visit Tsodzong and in the afternoon drive further south to Bayi, 9,827 feet.Our hotel is the Shambhala.
Buchu Sergyi Lhakhang: Buchu is one of the four border-taming temples built in the 7th century according to geomantic theory. This temple was restored by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche. Yeshe Tsogyal hid one hundred fifty treasures in the area of Buchu.
Temple Lamaling, 10,000 feet, is the seat of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, the former head of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, now under the guidance of his son-in-law Chonyi Rinpoche. The main temple is Zangdok Palri, a Copper-Colored Mountain style temple with exquisite statues and beautiful wooden floors. The gardens of Lamaling are paradisiacal compared to central Tibet. There are several areas to visit here besides the temple, including Dechenteng, a site donated to Dudjom Rinpoche by Midnroling. This is also where Lama Tharchin Rinpoche studied with His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche in the course of a three-year group retreat and a five-year solitary retreat nearby.Return to the Shambhala Hotel. Farewell dinner.
Chengdu Drive to Nyangtri Airport and fly to Chengdu, arriving by noon to catch connecting flights home or optionally, stay over at the Zen Buddha Hotel (extra $59). Since there can be delays on the Gongkar-Chengdu flight, leave lots of time for your connection or plan to stay over until the next day.
The upcoming Jnanasukha pilgrimage in October is a rare and unique opportunity to create a personal connection with our larger Sangha in Tibet, to whom we are eternally grateful. Like all Buddhist practices, the power of pilgrimage depends on faith. If we have faith, then certainly, participating in a pilgrimage in any way, shape, or form brings great benefit to oneself and others. Our itinerary brings us into close contact with lamas, hermit-yogins, and monastics at Chimphu, Tsogyal Latso, Yarlung Sheldrak, Zabbulung, and Terdrom Zhoto Tidro. These are isolated places where offerings are especially important and where individuals can greatly benefit from an offering of $15. In addition, we will be making offerings at Samye and other significant Nyingma temples such as Mindroling, Dorje Drak, and Lamaling, residence of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche.


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Modern investing owes a lot to behavioral finance research, the scientific study of how we make choices, particularly about money.
Nevertheless, and with apologies to baseball great Casey Stengel, investing can be pretty well understood by thinking about just five of the longtime manager's classic quotes, from the Baseball Almanac:
1) "Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before."
Money managers counsel against owning a stock you doesn't understand. Then they proceed to recommend dozens of shares that almost nobody understands, including themselves. Small investors try to reduce complexity by owning only a few stocks of well-known brands, usually based in their own country. Worse, they hold cash and shares in their own employers' firms and nothing else. Meanwhile, increased complexity has led the big pension funds to hire outside guns to keep track of it all.
Bottom line: You can know your own business inside out and still lose your shirt overnight. Owning someone else's business is orders of magnitude more complicated. Diversify with indexes and your risk subsides.
2) "Can't anybody here play this game?"
Mark Hulbert, the newsletter tracker, recently wrote about how the newsletters were "beating up" on hedge funds this year, returning 9% through November vs. just 5.5% for the fancy funds. Surely he must realize that the S&P 500 returned 12.61% in the same period, right? Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal's David Weidner points out that a lot of stock pickers followed in the media took a bath in 2012. You can blame volatility, if you like, but volatility is not exactly news. In fact, up-and-down markets are supposed to favor the gurus. So why are the pundits' picks no better than flipping a coin?
Bottom line: You can lose a lot of money following gurus. Once you blow through your capital, there's no easy way back.
3) "I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three."
If you've ever seen a mutual fund prospectus, you've seen the performance table. It spells out how well the fund has done over several time frames, usually year-to-date, one year, three years and five years. Then big database companies will average comparable funds, giving you a look at "typical" performance. Only it's not typical. The averages suffer from a statistical quirk known as "survivorship bias." By eliminating the funds that go bust, the remaining funds contribute to a rising average return.
Bottom line: Remember that averaged returns are goosed up to look good by conveniently forgetting dead funds that have closed down. A passive fund, however, will be accurate since it reflects the benchmark, not a selection of winners.
4) "Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits."
Parents understand this moment intimately: After raising, feeding, clothing and educating a child, at some point he or she gets up, leaves your home and begins to make adult decisions well beyond your view and without the slightest thought of your guidance or approval. Awful, right? And yet, if you did your part, totally harmless. Yes, your kids will make some bad choices. That's what life lessons are about. Investing is no different. You're much better off saving more and paying attention to asset classes than trying to micromanage the past.
Bottom line: The less you pay attention to the details of the market's moves, the more likely you are to collect the gains that occur over time.
5) "Most ball games are lost, not won."
Markets go up and markets go down. You can't affect it in any way, and least of all by watching. The trick, as Charley Ellis points out, is to make fewer mistakes.
Bottom line: Passive investing and rebalancing is as close to a free lunch as you will find in your investing life.


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Hey guys.
I have to build a library management system and i've run into problems while trying to implement user types. I've already got a superclass user and two other subclasses of User, Student and Teacher, each with their own "characteristics". The thing is i have to implement 7 types of users (5 types of students and 2 types of clerks) based on the number of books they can borrow and the amount of time they can keep the books until they have to return them. Those are the only 2 differences between the classes.
How would you implement this? Inheritance? I'm looking for a clever way to implement this and i would love to hear your thoughts on this.
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So it's nearly the middle of June, s'what? Johnny Foreigner don't follow your rules. They're too busy following their rock dreams, out on the road, playing parties and hanging with stage-ignoring LA dudes. With debut LP Waited Up 'Til It Was Light out right now, this is where things get s-e-r-i-o-u-s for our Brummie threesome. Work, rest, play? Skip the middle one and we'll talk.
Words, as always, from frontman Alexei Berrow. Check out past instalments as follows:
May 1
Manchester, Jabez Clegg. We make a brief stop in Liverpool (best city) to fill out new passport forms (see the entry for April 26 – Ed). We tried before to get same-day replacements but every phone call we made ended in a categorical denial and a lecture on international safety... Of course, Liverpool is awesome, so we walk in and order four-hour replacements without so much as showing ID. Slight bummer because we already spent stupid money on train and ferry tickets, but at least we get to go on an aeroplane instead of peasant land transport. The passport man, having spent years touring with bands himself (because everyone in Liverpool is awesome), is sympathetic but there's nothing we can do. "If you lose them again you know where to come…" Ahahaha… [Tour manager and driver] Lea also makes us stop in some shady garage somewhere and talks mechanic talk to some men who swap some wheels on [the band's tour van] Maddy. Garages scare me slightly because I have no idea what anything does, even though I'm a man. The gig is pretty fun, the stage is a load of tables pulled together and one of the support bands has come all the way from the mid '90s, which is a fair old trek, but [bassist] Kelly still refuses to "get 'em out" for them. There's a clear divide between those hear to see us and the Britpop lad contingent, we do some fun heckles and hang around talking to Manchester peoples. The first-on band, City Lights, are pretty special… they do the post-punk thing only with a cello and extra drums and they're about 15. We drive back to Liverpool for the night and stay at our friend Simon's. He's the best drunk ever.
May 2
Darlington, Club Strut @ Inside Out. Weirdy club night, we soundcheck in the afternoon and the soundman leaves us to our own devices for the rest of the day. Once the novelty of wandering round an empty club has passed, we start writing new songs, yayerzzz. The gig is bit pathetic; people just gawp at us, freak show style. One particular zombie just stands right in front of the stage. I scream in his face and I whack my guitar on his head (accident!) and he still stands there. In between songs he mutters stuff about marrying Kelly. Goodnight Darlington. When we get back the DJs have left us a message saying they enjoyed our set. Good manners, I guess…
May 4
Belfast, Spring & Airbreak. Yay, aeroplanes!! I'd never flown Ryanair before. It's like the Netto of the airline industry. We're pretty practised for the customs strip but it's still completely annoying. Junior gets told he can't take jack leads on as hand luggage in case he strangles someone. We reason with the customs dragon, "he's never done it before ma'am", until she relents. Racist. We get to Belfast about six hours too early and eat a really slow Wetherspoon's breakfast. The show has been amazingly hyped, it's like a Jack Daniels promo gig and we've had a ridiculous amount of good press. And about eight people turn up, most of them journalists who'd written glowing pieces on us. Oooops! One boy wins a guitar signed by us; he's probably the only person to enter the draw but he's super happy. Everyone we meet in Belfast is beautiful and polite. We stay at our old friend Stu's house, which was pretty lucky - we didn't know he'd moved and we were going to sleep in the airport. Bass flight case makes a good mattress if yr tired enough…
May 5
Day off. After our flight got called we went thru ticket control and joined the line, and we get told we can't board because a stewardess has fallen ill on the plane. We stand in the holding pen watching suits and medics jog on and off the plane, then after about an hour said stewardess walks off like the healthiest person in the world to a jetplane's worth of black stares from tired passengers. I have an aisle seat and every time I fall asleep my head leans over and I get banged by the drinks trolley. We get reunited with Maddy and our weed box, rest of day spent in a pleasant daze.
May 6
Cambridge, Graduate, DiS tour. Day starts with the police, badmans! Seriously, an inspector is at Lea's door in the morning asking to see inside Maddy! On one of the walls we have an epic, never-finished collage/drawing, with a few newspaper headlines stuck up around. One of them, from The Mirror a few weeks back, says "I'd like to kill them myself", and some anonymous but clearly gifted citizen had seen inside at Tebay Services last week, realised that we were obviously mass murderers stopping for coffee and ice cream, and grassed us up. Luckily Maddy just smells of petrol and boy, instead of severed limbs, or more plausibly weed, so inspector useless sees the funny side and leaves. I think this means some kind of double jeopardy situation where we can get away with at least one murder, which is a pretty sweet feeling. Then we go and start the DrownedinSound tour. Woot. We play pretty sloppily, I break a string for the first time in about six months and realise my spare guitar is louder than my normal one... Cambridge is always kind to us tho, it's like Oxford only with nice people. Zing. The Mae Shi are amazing, they keep all the pop of the new album but it's way more raaaaaaaah. And, predictably, they're super nice and get us straight away: so, Chicago art rock, yeah? Were swapping mix CDs and phone numbers within half an hour of starting up a conversation.
May 7
York, Fibbers, DiS tour. I know I said that they were amazing but what I meant was, it's the most fun happy show I have ever seen ever, ever. They treat the stage as a suggestion, they give their instruments to the audience, they cover everyone in a big white sheet, it's fantastic. We played too, it was fun… I like Fibbers, everyone parks their vans outside and it's like a little community.
May 8
Aberdeen, Snafu, DiS tour. Maddy traditionally gives up halfway to Scotland, so we pull over by a field and wait for the RAC man to come with a replacement Flux Capacitor. It's a nice day, so we're not that bothered about missing soundcheck; we watch some sheep and I kill my DS battery having the brightness up because Lea won't let me sit in the van on the hard shoulder. We get to the venue ten minutes before our stage time and it's predictably empty. Still, both our bands are on guarantees, and the few that come don't leave disappointed. We stay at Richard Haho's flat and stink it out with smelly weed. Sorry!
May 9
Glasgow, Barfly, DiS tour. A slightly bigger audience, woot. Gemma and Fiona come and do merch for us as well as making us confectionary. Have gin, nicely drunk gig, go back with The Mae Shi to Kunal from This July's luxury flat. I fall asleep to the sound of some MDMA'd voice in from Bill Mae Shi all about the Twin Towers and how it was a big conspiracy. This is my absolute worst party nightmare. We get slightly raped in the amount of booze we drink and the amount we pay for, but still manage to wake up with evil hangovers.
May 10
Liverpool, Barfly – LOFT. Liverpool is a great place to arrive after a party gig. The staff are super relaxed about how late and shambolic everyone is. A couple of kidzzzzz sneak into the soundcheck and we put them on the guestlist. Jeff Mae Shi tries to have the crush barrier removed - "there's going to be more health and safety issues if it has to stay there" - but the security man stands his ground. So The Mae Shi just wait until they're about a song in and move them themselves.
May 12
Birmingham, The Place I Love. Right, yeah, you know how we hate our Barfly yeah? Imagine how pleased we were to see a different Birmingham venue on our dates. Then, imagine our disappointment to find they share the same staff… The Lionheart Brothers, the first band on for this tour, turn up slightly too late and the staff tell them they can only play without a soundcheck, lie to them about door times, and tell them their engineer can't use their desk. Lionhearts go back to hotel, another band disgusted with my home town... The Place I Love is a rubbish-sounding room but it looks lovely, like a preserved school hall. Our friend Heather is responsible for the décor, she got sacked a week ago… A load of our friends come down, the gig only serves to sober me slightly and we sit outside in the car park/smoking garden. I find a tenner on the pavement and pay for drinks without the 'cheaper in off license' alarm going off in my head. I also have my traditional dispute with the security hassling our friends who stay to help load out; my heart's not in it but I still win. Practice, that is.
May 13
London, King's College. Massive venue! There's nuff people there but the room still dwarfs us all. The Mae Shi rule as usual, their sheet seems to expand to cover the whole audience and the barman won't let me pay for my drinks. Woot. Loads of people apologise to us for not dancing. Yeah London, feel the shame… gigs are becoming a bit weird in that we'll recognise people at our shows that we converse with on The Internet fairly regularly, but they never talk to us when they see us. Either they're all shy or we let them down when they see us. Unfortunately, we're shy and paranoid. Meh. There's an aftershow with amazing views but we don't stick around save to say some goodbyes.
May 14
I steal wireless of my unsecure neighbours, spend the day in bed working thru stansdad.com and catching up on the new Battlestar series. No more Cally!?
Live photography by Lucy Johnston
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May 15
Brighton, The Great Escape. We're at Audio supporting Young Knives. Spend the day doing promo like a real band. Interviews in pubs and clubs and hotels. We do some TV thing for a Japanese station, the name of the program translates (apparently) as 'pop music!' and they give us a selection of logo stickers to stick on our guitars like we're on Japanese TV all the time.. realise that we can't even slightly master the Japanese accent, we do a load of takes but were so inept compared to their English skills it's pretty embarrassing. We also get given the first copies of our actual album, much relief and joy that the cards have come out like what we wanted. Our bass amp blows and we borrow Ida Maria's. The Laurel Collective open and they're dead good. The gig is awesome, a capacity room and everyone dancing and me not being that much more sweat-drenched than anyone else. We have to leave straight after to go do a radio interview on the other side of town, people keep stopping us on the walk back to say nice things, and when we arrive Lea and our pressganged roadie Louis have pretty much packed everything up, yayzzzzz. We drive to our friend Henning's, end up parking nearer the venue, fail to find anything fun in town and predictably end up on the beach.
May 16
Brighton, The Great Escape. We're at the Honeyclub supporting The Teenagers. We do a photoshoot for some dodgy t-shirt company; I make faces and keep my hoodie on until we get offered free badges. We trek up the pier to see Tubelord but they're running late so we go back and play. It's another packed show. The Teenagers let us borrow their bass amp without asking Kelly for sexy favours, shamesss. The venue won't let us take any drinks in after soundcheck (like, not even our water) so we have to result in drinking emergency gin from my guitar case on stage. At the end of the gig, I try seeing which lead is longer, guitar or mic, by running out of the fire escape. Both were pretty long, I manage to get to the beach. I look back and see I've managed to pick up almost every drum mic on my exit and they're all merrily scattered over the pavement. Best gig ending ever. The soundman, bless him, is more amused than annoyed, and gives us his card. When we're packing away, we lend the gin to Joe Tubelord who immediately gets it confiscated by lousy Honeyclub bar woman. Shit venue, nice gig. Joe buys more gin, we all head back up the pier for The Mae Shi and Hot Club de Paris. We get there as Mae Shi are loading out. Joe smashes gin, disaster. Him and Kelly back up into off licence land. I'm outside when the venue reaches capacity, but one of the barmaids recognises me and pretends to the security that I'm in The Mae Shi. Hot Club's new songs are awesome, everyone's in festival-happy mode, we declare a beach party and drag as many people as we can to sit in front of Maddy on the stones. Later on we declare ourselves too drunk to do anything. Lea reverts to three-word sentences, "lea go bed", "go bed now", and we fall asleep in the van like trampies.
May 17
Brighton, The Great Escape. I don't remember much about this day. Whatever we did, we did it slowly. We went and watched some friends' bands, sat on the beach for a while throwing stones at the sea, and got trapped at some industry awards ceremony whilst raiding a hotel free bar. The award presenter has a bit of dig at our label boss, "Anthony, stop talking at the back there…", like he's a naughty schoolboy, and we find this bizarrely reassuring. Went for a curry, Lea made another aviator, end.
May 18
Return to van, van gone. Panic. Brighton awash with Minis (Mini convention). Ask Mini man, where's our van gone? "Put it over there." He points to distant road, like moving a four-tonne Hi-Cube van around to make space for Minis is part of the everyday. Oh, we say. Cheers. Find van, drive home, sleep in real bed.
Video: Johnny Foreigner at The Great Escape
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May 20
Sheffield, DQ. Yay, Mae Shi time again. These last two gigs are independently organised, so we're assured to play to a decent crowd. The rider is super special, fridge overflowing with various spirits and snacks. Sound engineer says to Kelly: "Can you turn down the feedback, love?" Sound engineer = idiot. We find out after soundcheck that Manchester has been cancelled because the promoter's scared of football-related rioting. So this is our last gig with The Mae Shi, Gutted. We had plans for Manchester… still, there are a load of people, we're out of touring rhythm and a bit sloppy… Mae Shi are hungover and exhausted and sloppy but still magical. We say sad goodbyes and listen to HLLLYH really loudly on the way home knowing there're couches and drink and weed and parties waiting for us should we ever get to LA…
May 21
Manchester, Moho Live. We stay at home, Manchester stays unburnt.
May 23, 24
We spend a couple of days rehearsing for upcoming tour, trying to remember how to play old songs and working out how to do new ones. It's well fun; it's been a long time since we just played to ourselves. I also tidy my room and put a giant TV at the end of my bed, yip.
May 25
Hereford, with I Was a Cub Scout. All-dayer kind of thing, but there's nobody we particularly want to see so we sit in the van in the shitty rain and panic over who to get to do sound for our tour. We've wanted a soundman for ageeeeeees and now we can sort of afford it, the one we'd asked drops out at the last minute. Meh. The gig is pretty ropey, my guitar keeps cutting out and the monitors don't work so we don't know what we sound like at all. We sell a load of merchy on the floor after tho, we have stickers and badges, and sometimes people like stickers and badges more than music.
May 26
Xfm session, Cardiff. We went and did recorded some songs for Xfm Wales. We did three songs, including a proper loud version of 'Salt, Pepa & Spinderella'. They came out pretty well, a nice man called Luke came in on bank holiday especially to do it. Four days later the station got shut down and the staff made redundant. Shame, we've always been treated well when we've been there, even if I have said rude things about Nicky Wire's 'speech' on the big plaque in there.
May 29
I scav the internet and read the reviews of our album. In one of those weird, nice for a change situations, the best written is NME and the worst is DiS. (In My Opinion.) The general tone of the music press seems to be: we made an 8/10 record. Safe. I really want to start the next one, like, nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww…
May 30
Northampton, Roadmender. First gig of our tour, gin on the rider, yayersssssss. We're the first band to play the venue, usually something to dread, but it's a decent loud room and the soundman knows his, um, sound. He makes me turn my amp away from the audience, which at first seems wrong, but means I can turn it up well loud. Decide I want a backwards amp. The NME press, I'm guessing, has lead to proper likkle pop kidzz turning up to shows. They're dead excitable and keep running over to the merch stand to ask us questions and take pictures of us. It's pretty sweet. Later Kelly talks to one of them on The Internet; he's 14 with a pink and blue quiff and wants me to know he thinks I'm scrummy.
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm no.
May 31
Bradford Music Week. We turn up in Bradford to find the town having a mini Great Escape-style festival that we seem to be headlining. There's people drinking on the streets and the rider gets delivered to our van. No gin, black marks for Bradford, but everything else runs to plan. The gig is well fun, no soundcheck and we sound huge, yay, Despite me being mostly sober. We go for a super cheap curry. It's super awful. Then we go sneak ourselves into a Travelodge. Luxury is not having to ask someone where the toilet is.
Next month: the mighty Tubelord and Dananananaykroyd join our tour, I buy a radio-controlled plane, and we start the festival season proper in Cornwall. On a Tuesday. Yip!
Find Johnny Foreigner on MySpace here. They play live as follows:
12 Kingston The Works
15 Bristol Thekla
6 Ashford Zoo Festival
10 Wrexham Central Station
12 Canterbury Lounge on the Farm Festival
13 Balado T In The Park
18 Suffolk Latitude Festival
19 London Lovebox Festival
20 Oxfordshire Truck Festival
24 Dublin Button Factory
1 Hertfordshire Standon Calling Festival
2 Manchester New Century House Festival
9 Tokyo Summersonic Festival
29-30 St Agnes Surfstock Festival


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In China, Another Argument for Peeing in Public
While peeing in public may be frowned upon in many places, mainlanders apparently take a slightly more tolerant attitude to the practice. In Hong Kong, this cultural clash has led to a number of altercations after mainland parents let their children relieve themselves in the territory's streets.
But at times, evacuating one's bladder in public apparently can have its upside. According to local media in the southwestern city of Chengdu (in Chinese), there is at least one young man who now believes that when the call of nature is heard, just go with the flow.
Xu Yuanguang was riding home from work on his motorcycle last week, the Chengdu Business News reports (in Chinese), when he felt a sudden urge. The 29-year-old shop employee pulled off the road on the outskirts of Chengdu and took aim at a nearby pile of dirt.
After completing his task, he spotted a colorful object that had been uncovered by the sudden flow. Intrigued, he dug it out, only to find a terracotta figurine. He and co-worker Yi Zhimin – who had been riding with him -- reported the find to the local Bureau of Cultural Relics.
Tan Ying of the Cultural Relics Bureau told the Wall Street Journal that the find – which stood 10 centimeters high and measured 17-18 centimeters in length -- was a "three-color" terracotta figure that probably dated to the Song dynasty (960 – 1279). It may have been a burial object taken from a tomb, he said – though the tomb was not in the place where the figurine was found.
It won't make Mr. Xu rich. There are many such discoveries in Sichuan, and anyway Mr. Xu has agreed to leave it with the state (he was presented with a certification of appreciation in return).
But it does suggest that there are exceptions to most rules. And there is another reason why Mr. Xu's act was understandable – at the time he was in Pi county.
-- William Kazer and Li Jie


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Johanna Bohoy
June roses, mixer, Bohoy
Contact Me
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About This Painting
My friend, the consummate baker, wanted her workhorse mixer to look less like a horse and more like art sitting on her counter. I painted trailing red roses on the pony and now it's a "show horse".
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Buyer can purchase thru a link to paypal (which accepts all credit cards), by emailing the artist, or going to her site: Lightcaught.com
About Johanna Bohoy
Johanna Bohoy is a professional designer/illustrator and paints to complete her life of art. "My motivation is to capture this life, to give beauty to the world, and leave something behind when I leave this earth." LIGHTCAUGHT is named for a show she had at Boston City Hall of paintings that captured light from dawn to dusk. "Everyday we encounter simple things, people, places that affect our lives. I capture them." These pastel, watercolor, and mixed media paintings span the seasons and focus on simplicity, mood, and serenity. She has exhibited her paintings at Boston City Hall, Clark Art Institute, Phillips Andover, various galleries, and other public venues. Her paintings and commissioned pieces are in private collections across the US, from the East Coast to Hawaii & Alaska, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Recently she was interviewed for BNN Boston Neighborhood Network about her self portrait, and her "rose" painting was chosen as the banners to line the main streets of Beverly, MA. She has authored and illustrated a children's book, and her artwork has been used by numerous companies. She has been invited to lecture at the Smithsonian and other organizations, judged numerous design shows, and has been the featured designer in the professional 'design bibles'– CA and Print Magazine. Her award-winning work is in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, NYC, and the Amity Art Foundation, and has won numerous awards. Johanna lives in an 1860s gatekeeper's cottage in an ocean town with her husband, dog, and cat and paints in their studio– a converted duck house. Along with painting– photography, her gardens, discovery and ballet/dance are her passions.


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French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech to magistrates and policemen who took part in the investigations in the shooting of seven persons and the siege of the gunman Mohamed Merah in Toulouse, at the Elysee palace in Paris, Tuesday, March, 27, 2012. Al-Jazeera has received video footage that appears to show the deadly attacks on soldiers and a Jewish school in southwestern France, including the cries of the victims and the voice of the perpetrator. French President Nicolas Sarkozy said it should not be broadcast.(AP Photo/Kenzo Tribouillard, Pool)
PARIS (AP) — Al-Jazeera decided Tuesday not to air a video that appears to show the attacks on soldiers and a Jewish school in southwestern France from the killer's point of view, including the cries of his victims.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, other French officials and family members of the victims had asked that it not be broadcast.
The footage was contained on a USB key sent with a letter to the Paris office of the Qatar-based television company, Zied Tarrouche, the station's Paris bureau chief, said Tuesday on the French TV station BFM. The letter, written in poor French with spelling and grammar errors, claimed the shootings were carried out in the name of al-Qaida.
Later Tuesday, a brief statement posted on the station's website said: "Al-Jazeera will not air video of French shootings." It said they would have more details soon.
Police traced the attacks to Mohamed Merah, a 23-year-old Frenchman, who was killed last week after a more than 30-hour standoff with police at his apartment building. Merah had claimed to police that he had links to al-Qaida, traveled to Afghanistan and received weapons training in the militant-riddled Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan. But authorities have questioned some of Merah's claims.
Prosecutors have said that Merah filmed all of his attacks, which began March 11 with the murder of a French soldier. Before the spree ended, two more soldiers and three Jewish children and a rabbi were killed.
Tarrouche said the images appear to have been taken from the point of view of the killer, perhaps from a camera hung around his neck. He said they were a bit shaky but of a high technical quality.
The video had clearly been manipulated after the fact, according to Tarrouche, with religious songs and recitations of Quranic verses laid over the footage.
"You can hear gunshots at the moment of the killings. You can hear the voice of this person who has committed these assassinations. You can hear also the cries of the victims, and the voices were distorted," Tarrouche said.
In an address to police officers and judges earlier Tuesday, Sarkozy had asked that the images not be broadcast.
"I ask the managers of all television stations that might have these images not to broadcast them in any circumstances, out of respect for the victims — out of respect for the Republic," Sarkozy said.
There was no indication that other stations have the images.
Tarrouche said the Paris prosecutor, whose office is leading the investigation, had also called to explain the consequences of disseminating the images. But Tarrouche said the prosecutor said he would not prohibit the channel from "doing its work as journalists."
"We are not a sensationalist channel. We're not looking to broadcast images without weighing the risks and the consequences. That's why the management will decide today after meeting at headquarters in Qatar," Tarrouche said.
The decision not to broadcast the images came a few hours later.
Tarrouche said investigators spent Monday interviewing employees at the Paris bureau about the video. It was not immediately clear when the footage was received or who had sent it.
Associated Press writer Jamey Keaten in Paris contributed to this story.


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This piece for the New York Times book review will be in tomorrow aka New Year's day 's paper! Not a bad way to start the year, eh?
The review is for "How it all began" by Penelope Lively. (Read online here) A retired schoolteacher, Charlotte Rainsford, has been mugged on a London street. Her hip has been broken and her bag stolen by someone who, Penelope Lively briskly informs us in her 20th work of fiction, will disappear from the rest of Charlotte's story. This casual nastiness sends Charlotte to her daughter's house while she recuperates, thus disrupting many of the characters' routines — to trace the relationships among an assortment of relatives, employers, students and illicit lovers.
Big thanks to AD Nicholas Blechman!
2011 has been a great year, thanks to all of you! Happy New Year!


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CALIFORNIA, MO -- Curtis Atwell goes to every California football game, home and away, varsity and JV.
"It's the most wonderful thing you can do when you can sit out here and watch these young men grow," Atwell said.
In fact, in the past two decades, Atwell has been to every game, but one. "I missed one game when my mom passed away," Atwell said.
Not only does he go to every game, the man goes to every single practice. "I'm out here rain or shine for the practices," Atwell explained.
He doesn't even have a son on the team.
"He graduated in 2000," Atwell said, but that doesn't matter to him. "I've got a lot people that say, 'how many kids do you have?' and I say I've got 43 cause I claim all of them."
Atwell's wife has been running a daycare in California for 26 years, so he and his wife have known many of the players since they were babies.
"I think of Curt, well, as a second dad, kind of. I've always been close to him." Ryan Korte said.
Curtis's wife understands the relationship between her husband and the players very well.
"The boys love him. He's the taxi driver for them, he's the doctor. If they forget something or they need something, Curtis will make sure they get it," Betty Atwell, his wife, said.
Whether it's practice or game night, Atwell is always there for the team.