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I was reading principles of mathematical analysis by Walter Rudin chapter 2 when a confusion about the definition of a function cropped up. (Read definition in comment below) I had thought that functions were maps from a set called the domain to another called the codomain. From what i knew before, these maps should not be one-many. Otherwise it would simply be a Relation not a function. But the book in its definition does not talk about the fact that functions should not be one-many. Infact it doesnt differentiate between a general mapping and a function and puts no restriction on what a function can be. So my question is where exactly is the mistake?
UPDATE: The discussion till now points that maybe the "an" word in the definition points towards uniqueness of image $f(x)$ of an element $x$ in the domain. I have also commented below regarding "well-defined functions" and "not well-defined functions". I think the notion of "well-defined"ness has got to do with differences in the output for the same input in various "forms" rather than just an element in the domain mapping to various elements in the range. Hence it does not in anyway interfere with the notion that a "function" cannot be one-many. Also to make things clear, Rudin uses the word "or" in conjunction with the word "mapping" and "function". Hence he is essentially saying that the mapping is a function and a function is a mapping. Which also implies that relations in general are not mapping. Please correct me if I've been wrong.


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1001 Inventions in LA extended for ten weeks
Blockbuster show about science and technology in Muslim Civilization has already attracted 400,000 visitors to LA's Premier Science Center
Los Angeles, 2nd January 2012: Due to popular demand, the award-winning 1001 inventions exhibition, will continue it's run at the California Science Center (CSC) for an additional ten weeks. More than 400,000 people have already visited the blockbuster show which highlights the enormous contribution to science and technology made by men and women of many different faiths in Muslim Civilization.
California Science Center (CSC), Los Angeles
Since it launched in London in January 2010, the 1001 Inventions exhibition has attracted more than 2 million visitors during its continuing journey across Europe and the United States. The exhibition opened at the world-renowned California Science Center on the 27th of May 2011 and was scheduled to exhibit there until the end of the year. During that time it attracted enormous interest from different communities across the region as well as attention from local and national media channels.
Speaking on behalf of 1001 Inventions, Prof. Mohamed El-Gomati OBE, said: "1001 Inventions has enjoyed enormous success over the last 12 months, and the cornerstone of that has been our exhibition's very successful residency at the leading science center in California. We're delighted to announce that, due to popular demand, the 1001 Inventions exhibition will be staying in Los Angeles for an additional ten weeks, allowing even more people in the Golden State to experience our interactive science history show."
Jeffrey N. Rudolph, President and CEO of California Science Center (CSC)
Speaking on behalf of California Science Center, President Jeff Rudolph, commented: "We are pleased to host 1001 Inventions for an additional ten weeks. The exhibition brings to life important achievements and timeless, historical innovations from the Muslim world - spanning the fields of engineering, medicine and design."
1001 Inventions will be open at the California Science Center until the 11th of March 2012, free of charge, seven days a week. After its time in Los Angeles, the exhibition travels to Washington, DC, where it will open on the 3rd August 2012 for a 6-month residency at the National Geographic Museum.

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UN: 60 staffers remain detained or in captivity
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is marking a day of solidarity with the dozens of staffers around the world who remain in detention or in the hands of their abductors.
The U.N. on Tuesday recognized 60 staffers, most of them locally recruited, who were detained or in captivity as of March 21. That's according to a statement by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who says he is "especially worried" about staffers in conflict-ripped Syria. The U.N. has said 22 staffers are detained or presumed detained there, with another three missing.
"It is now clear that the United Nations flag has increasingly become a target instead of a shield," Ian Richards, vice president of the United Nations Staff-Management Committee, said in a statement.
The U.N. Staff Union says 138 civilian personnel were detained or arrested by authorities in member states last year.


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Governor Scott Offers Assistance to States Impacted by Hurricane Sandy
Governor Rick Scott made the following statement today offering assistance to states that could potentially be impacted by Hurricane Sandy.
"Florida's emergency managers are experienced in protecting our 19 million residents and millions of visitors each year. Our emergency management staff, National Guard, emergency response equipment and resources are on standby to support our fellow East Coast states, in the event they are needed. Many of Florida's private-sector companies are also answering the call to help fellow Americans. The thoughts and prayers of our state are with those in the storm's path."
For more information on Florida's response to Hurricane Sandy, please contact the Florida Division of Emergency Management at (850) 921-0217.


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Check out this TechCrunch article on concept demos released by Google of a possible Chromium-based tablet.
Hot on Apple's heels: Concept demo pics and vid of a Google tablet
Article No :475 | February 8, 2011 | by Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine
April 26, 2011
I think it is great that Apple has competition. It is best if Google puts there possibilities through multivariate testing to find the perfect tablet for the right audience. I think the Chromium-based tablet would be a hit, especially if the price is right.


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by Chuck Israels
Lesson 16 - Writing for 4 or More Voices (Cont.)
Adding More Voices (Cont.):
There is no way that line thickening harmony can overcome shortcomings in the melody, so the first level of attention should address this issue. The melodic line should contain enough repetition to be coherent and establish the expectations that prepare for developmental surprises. These repetitive elements need to be apparent in both pitch and rhythm and then need to be manipulated so that there is enough new material to maintain interest and variety without going over the line into chaos. If there is a given melody, the most effective element that the arranger can work with is its rhythm. Balancing expectation and surprise in the beginnings and endings of phrases can change a boring melody into an interesting one.
Lead sheets are notorious for the limited rhythmic representation of their melodies, and it is a safe bet that changing the rhythms is the first and most important step in creating a personal version of a piece. Here are some hints:
- Remember: the rhythms of jazz are the rhythms of the English language as spoken by Americans, and more specifically, as it is sung by those American popular singers who have modeled a large part of their styles, consciously or unconsciously, on Louis Armstrongs monumental creative legacy. If you want to be inspired to write ensemble rhythms that create an illusion of evolving spontaneously from the music, there is no better example than the way Joe Williams controls the rhythmic placement and phrasing of his singing (some of which is so subtle that it defies notation).
- If the melody is from a song with words, then the way the words are normally spoken, their prosody, can suggest a variety of rhythms that enliven the music. If the words change, usually the rhythms with which they are spoken change too, adding more variety. If there is a memorable title line, it is counterproductive to give the music that goes with that line a rhythm that would be unnatural if spoken. Every time that line appears in an instrumental version, the listener is subconsciously hearing those words, and they must line up with a rational speech-like interpretation, or the result is distracting. This is somewhat less true with more obscure words, but sticking to spoken rhythm logic can lead to attractive syncopation as the spoken rhythm is juxtaposed against the steady underpinning of the accompanying background. A lot of mileage can be extracted from this trick, and new rhythms can even be found by mentally adding words to instrumental passages and phrases.
- Once the lead line has been arranged, and a key has been chosen that puts it within the range of the lead instrument in a register that will be appropriate for a harmonized version (for instance, the lower notes of the alto saxophone are below a practical range for adding parallel harmony), examine its main notes to see how they relate to the changing harmonies. Look for important occurrences of either the roots or 5ths of chords. Those are the notes that should be harmonized first.
- Analyze the harmony to see what chord qualities predominate, and make an assessment about the character of the passage; rhythmically active, slow and sensual, bluesy, etc., and choose a suitable harmonic style. Active passages usually move more smoothly with less complex harmony and often need octave doubling for melodic clarity. The harmonic interest comes more from the chromaticism in the passing chords than it does from individual voicings. Slower passages can handle more complex sounds, and sometimes more open voicings. Closed voicings obscure the movement of individual parts while open voicings make the voice leading of lower parts more apparent. Parallel motion should be the predominant texture (to keep the music swinging) with occasional short passages of contrary motion for contrast.
Then the real fun starts, and its something like doing a crossword puzzle. The chords built downwards from the melody are the down words, and the horizontal lines in each part are the across words. However, theres an essential difference: horizontal always trumps vertical, - always! The best results come from the best individual lines. There is no exception to this. It is the way our ears and brains process music. Even when we are not conscious of the individual contours of the lower parts, we experience the vertical alignments as momentary instances of the convergence of horizontal lines. Invariably, the best harmonies come as a result of satisfying lines in all the parts. Remember this, and avoid falling too much in love with vertical sounds that last a short time in a passage, lest that infatuation prevent you from hearing the voice leading clearly and evaluating its priorities correctly. Dont worry. Good voice leading produces good chords! (This is another Music Fact.)
This is another instance where the piano can be misleading in its similarity of sound in all registers and parts, and in its ability to hide entrances and exits of voices. Winds and bowed string sounds behave quite differently, and care must be exercised when using the piano to test passages written for these instruments. Even a keyboard with organ-like sounds will not demonstrate entrances and exits of voices as clearly as they will be heard in a group of individual instruments. When I have come to the point where I think I have finished writing a passage in four or five voice harmony at the piano, I pick out each individual part, from the top down, and check it for melodic coherence and balance, and I sometimes find errors hidden in the sonority of the piano chords.
Music writing software and Garritan sounds can be useful in counteracting the blur of keyboard sounds in testing line thickened passages. Once the passage has been entered into separate parts, individual lower voices can be played back alone, or in conjunction with only the lead voice, in order to hear the voice leading and judge the effectiveness of each part.
Here is a short excerpt from a sax ensemble section that demonstrates some of these techniques.
The example is shown first in a transposed score.
Score References & Musical Examples Using JABB:
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Here is a condensed version and analysis of this excerpt:
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There are 45 harmonized notes in this excerpt, each one with 4 pitch choices in each chord. That makes 180 notes to choose for this relatively short (though complex) passage. A mathematician could come up with a formula for how those variables change as some of those notes are selected, but it doesnt take a mathematician to understand that the process is painstaking and difficult, or to realize why this line thickening technique occupies so much of the arrangers time and attention.
Remember to consider the contour of the lower parts. This style requires that they remain subservient to the lead voice, and that means that their intervallic movement must not be noticeably greater than that of the lead voice. If those intervals are kept within the span of no more than a minor third greater than the movement of the lead voice, that will satisfy most arrangers. In the case of my music, when I want the maximum forward motion, I am usually more rigorous in my insistence that the lower parts move no further than the lead part and that they move by equal or smaller intervals whenever possible. In other words, the shape outlined by the lower parts is a more compact version of the shape outlined by the lead voice. There is usually a solution that can be found that will satisfy this requirement, but it sometimes takes time. Bill Evans said that when he found two equally good ways to harmonize a passage, then he knew he had yet to find a more satisfying third way.
In some cases, it is possible to apply mechanical formulas that will produce acceptable results, but a personal and individual style takes time to develop, and the application of that style to complex passages can consume hours of an arrangers time.
Here is an example of a saxophone ensemble that shows a variety of techniques: 5 note voicings, short passages of contrary motion, and how to move in and out of unison passages.(A concert score reduction follows the two next examples.)
Score References & Musical Examples Using JABB:
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N. B. When moving from a harmonized passage to a unison passage, the most graceful transition takes place when the preceding chord does not contain the first unison note and, conversely, when going from unison to harmony the most graceful transition occurs when the following chord does not contain the last unison note.
Here is an example of the same material arranged for a small band with 5 horns.
The trumpet now plays the soprano sax part, and the trombone plays what was the second tenor part. The choice of putting the trombone below the tenor was made, in this case, because the original tenor 1 part was too high for the trombone. This choice can often go the other way in passages with this instrumentation with the trombone as the 3rd voice and the tenor and baritone as the bottom two voices, as long as the 3rd voice stays below A or B flat above middle C.
What were originally brass parts are now played by the piano, which can assume a more effective and prominent role in an ensemble of this size than it normally has in a big band.
Score References & Musical Examples Using JABB:
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Here is a condensed short score version of the passage with notations that help direct attention to the techniques and principles used in each instance.
Some of the active principles in operations are:
- Harmonizing roots and 5ths in the lead line with the real chord of the moment.
- Using a related dominant chord (marked with asterisks) whose root is a minor 3rd from the real chord when the voicing is open and the lead line note is either the 3rd or 7th of the real chord.
- Compressing or expanding voicings according to the range of the lead line or the need to manage voice leading.
- Chromatic planing whenever notes are approached by half step.
- Using dominant approach chord(s) that lead to the main chord of the moment.
- Constant structure (completely parallel) passages that create interesting momentary chromatic conflicts.
- Harmonizing anticipations with the chord that belongs on the following beat.
- Substitute dominant chords containing essential pitches from the basic harmony of the measure (meas. 6).
- Use of interjected secondary dominant or subdominant harmony in order to maintain tension and interest by delaying the arrival of the real dominant chord of the moment (meas. 7 10).
- Occasional use of interesting contrary motion.
- No adjustment of bass notes to accommodate substitute, passing, or approach harmonies that last less than 2 full beats.
- No duplication of pitches in chords 5 voice texture maintained except for one instance, governed by contrary motion voice leading priorities. Passing octave approached in contrary motion (meas. 10, 3rd beat).
This passage is arranged in a complex personal style using a 5-voice texture throughout. The problems of this kind of line thickening can be considerably simplified by doubling the lead at the lower octave, reducing the texture to 4 real voices
Example 9-13 (score only)
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Medieval Latin Manuscript Transmission in a Digital Environment: The Elbing Convent Library and its Hypertexts
Principal Investigators: Lucie Doležalová, Charles University, Prague; Gábor Farkas Kiss, ELTE University of Budapest; Rafał Wójcik, University Library, Poznań; Eyal Poleg, The University of Edinburgh.
Description: The project has two principal aims. The primary core of the project is exploring the application of digital resources to four case studies (one by each investigator) on textual transmission of specific and widely diffused texts (two of them found in the Elbing convent library). Two of them (Summarium Biblicum and Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum) are biblical tools frequently used by preachers, while the other two (Historia passionis and Nota hanc figuram...), although closely linked to the Bible as well, tie-in with personal and communal meditation and devotion. Most importantly, each of these texts was extremely popular and widely diffused throughout the late Middle Ages.
Despite the fact that each of them exists in several medieval versions, recensions, and appropriations; however, there are no modern critical editions, attesting to a gap between their wide diffusion in the Middle Ages, and an all-but-complete neglect in the modern era. This side of the project would examine the problems arising from editing texts in a digital environment, with multiple pictorial and textual variants, e.g. where images are inherent part of the text, but iconographically they vary from one manuscript to other; or the problem of presenting critical opinion on disfigured word-forms, false etymologies, and inaccurate meanings within an edition.
Our primary aim is not documentary history; we do not intend to merely update the library catalogue and describe in detail the contents of the library, although this will certainly be one of the side-products of our research. Instead, we take the case of a particular late medieval convent library as a starting point of an inquiry into late medieval devotion, text transmission, and intellectual history.
The contents of the collection thus directly concern the relationship of the university, itinerant preachers, and monastic communities. Although this part of our research concerns the history of medieval libraries, too, its primary focus would be to provide an occasion to examine the possibility of looping two parallel interfaces of digital presentation: the Parker on the web, and the editions and studies connected to it. Potentially, we would like consider the feasibility of a text-based digital reconstruction of a medieval library, both in its philological and socio-historical context.


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My Defection Story
This is the second of a series of blogs based on excerpts adapted from the 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth. I wrote Agenda to spur a national conversation on economic policy issues and options that are otherwise largely ignored. This blog series is intended to contribute to that conversation. —DK
Many people are intrigued by the story of my defection from my establishment roots to becoming a rebel voice challenging the legitimacy of the institutions I once served. It is the story of a lifelong journey filled with an uncommonly rich and varied collection of experiences. Here are some highlights:
I grew up in a conservative small town where I learned to value family, community, and nature. I was raised to believe in the special character of America as a middle-class democracy, free from the extremes of wealth and poverty that supposedly characterized the world's less advanced nations. In my childhood, my dad, a local retail merchant, taught me that if your primary business purpose is not to serve your customers and community, then you have no business being in business.
My Stanford Business School education taught me to look for the big picture. My doctoral dissertation research on cultural change in Ethiopia and its impact on modern organizations taught me the power of culture in shaping collective behavior.
From my experience as an Air Force captain on the faculty of the Special Air Warfare School and as a military aide in the Office of the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War, I learned how the world's most powerful military was thwarted by the self-organizing networks of an ill-equipped peasant army motivated by a vision of independence and self-rule. That experience helped me later recognize the potential of a committed citizenry to likewise thwart the seemingly invincible power of Wall Street and gave me insights into how that resistance might self-organize.
While academic director of the Central American Institute for Business Administration in Managua, Nicaragua, I witnessed the extreme gap between the super-rich and the super-poor.
While a professor on the organization faculty at the Harvard Business School, I learned how the structures of large-scale institutional systems shape behavior and how system structures can be designed to support intended outcomes.
During fifteen years in Asia with the Ford Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development, I experienced the positive power and potential of local community self-organization and the importance of the local control and management of essential natural resources and participated in many experiences in large-scale organizational change. These were the years of my awakening to the terrible truth that development models centered on economic growth almost inevitably make a few people fabulously wealthy at an enormous social and environmental cost to the substantial majority.
In 1992, Fran (my wife) and I returned to the United States and settled in New York City near Union Square between Madison Avenue and Wall Street and engaged the inquiry into the nature of the publicly traded limited liability, private-benefit corporation as an inherently destructive anti-market business form that produced When Corporations Rule the World.
As a founding member of the International Forum on Globalization, I learned about the power of a new story propagated through global citizen networks to thwart the agenda of the world's most powerful corporations and reshape the course of history.
As the co-founder and board chair of YES! Magazine, I have come to realize that every act of resistance against what we don't want must be paired with a positive vision of what we do want.
The Missing Vision
David Korten begins a blog series outlining his Agenda for a New Economy
Writing The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism drew me into in the study of the incredible reality of life's capacity for creative, cooperative self-organization and the implications for the design of economies that mimic healthy living systems.
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community drew me into an examination of contemporary impact of five thousand years of organizing human societies as hierarchies of domination governed by institutions that nurture and reward moral, emotional, and behavioral dysfunction.
My experience as a founding board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies has immersed me in the experience of communities all across the United States and Canada that are taking control of their economic future by rebuilding their local economies.
These are a few of the experiences and lessons that inform and find expression in Agenda for a New Economy and the blogs I will be sharing here in the next few months.
[Next The Illusion of Money]
The ideas presented here are developed in greater detail in Agenda for a New Economy available from the YES! Magazine web store – where there are 3 WAYS TO GET THE BOOK and a 22% discount!
- Agenda for a New Economy available from the YES! Magazine web store.
David Korten and David Brancaccio discuss what economic transformation has to do with building stronger, happier communities.
All across the United States and Canada people are rebuilding their local economies to restore community and regain control of their economic lives. How do these local efforts add up to global economic transformation?.


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websplashpeter necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 305 diseños de 46 diseñadores freelance.
Disclosed in a link to a PDF
This is a new company started up by an Irish solicitors firm to help people gain visa's to stay and work within the country of Canada Legally.
The age demographic for this logo is 21-49. The company generally targets 4 groups of people.
1) Foriegn nationals that cant gain permanent residency in Ireland and wish to do so in Canada.
2) Post graduate students that cant find jobs in Ireland that relate to their desired career and wish to find this career in Ireland.
3) Families that are struggling to get by with their current income and wish to find a new life in Canada.
4) Qualifed professionals that have just been made redundant and cant find work in their field within Ireland and wish to try seek employment in Canada.
THE LOGO MUST NOT BE CANADIAN SPECIFIC (E.G. NO MAPLE LEAFS) as the company wants to be able to rebrand the logo for different countries at a later stage.
Attached to this breif is a PDF of a sample brochure which should help give the feel for the logo. Email firstname.lastname@example.com if there is trouble.
When creating the logo a number of attributes must be taken into account. The logo used in the brochure is simply a placeholder logo.
1) The company likes the red wine colour used in the brochure.
2) Visual elements that represent travel e.g.a passport or Visa, can be incorporated aswell.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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On July 7, 2009, the Executive Board announced its preliminary decision to name Weiner as Fehr's successor. The Board directed then that the matter be put to a vote of the full membership -- players, managers, coaches and trainers. Weiner spent the next several weeks traveling around the country to meet with the Union's members on every club, where he explained his vision, answered questions and discussed the tasks and challenges facing the Union.
The Executive Board intends to take a formal vote to finalize the succession in Union leadership during its annual meeting, scheduled for November 30 December 3, 2009, in Scottsdale, AZ. Fehr announced on June 22, his intention to step down as Executive Director, a position he has held since December, 1983.
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Bell leaves Pirates to become Reds' bench coach
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- A year ago, Jay Bell got to go home, returning to the crucible of his baseball career as batting coach of the Pirates.
This time, as the newly hired bench coach of the Cincinnati Reds, the Arizona resident gets to stay home, both in the spiritual -- working alongside close friend Bryan Price, the Reds' new manager -- and, for a significant slice of the baseball year, literal sense.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- A year ago, Jay Bell got to go home, returning to the crucible of his baseball career as batting coach of the Pirates.
This time, as the newly hired bench coach of the Cincinnati Reds, the Arizona resident gets to stay home, both in the spiritual -- working alongside close friend Bryan Price, the Reds' new manager -- and, for a significant slice of the baseball year, literal sense.
In three months, the Reds will open Spring Training in Goodyear, a short commute from Bell's home and family and a long way from the Bucs' Bradenton, Fla., complex.
"It will be awfully nice to have that, to be able to see Brock's games. I haven't seen him play in two years," Bell said of his son, a high school junior. "That's not the main reason I made this move, but it works out all the better."
The Reds have yet to make an announcement. At the General Managers Meeting in Orlando, Fla., Cincinnati's Walt Jocketty told MLB.com, "We're getting close. I want to complete it before we announce it."
In characterizing how he wants to see the new manager's staff take shape, Jocketty certainly made Bell sound like a good fit.
"A lot of it is guys Bryan will be comfortable with," Jocketty said. "Guys who will help him in putting the program together. We're looking for guys who are good teachers and hard workers, and they will help change some of the things we are doing."
The main reason Bell left the Pirates after one year is the opportunity to again join forces with Price. Bell and Price were Arizona manager Bob Melvin's bench and pitching coach, respectively, in 2006 and altogether shared four years in the D-backs organization.
"I'm really excited about working for Bryan. It's going to be a really good thing," Bell said. "I'll miss being in Pittsburgh, for sure; there's such a great group of men in that clubhouse I have a lot of respect for. But this opportunity was really nice."
In Pittsburgh, manager Clint Hurdle now has to find his third different batting coach in three years, Gregg Ritchie having preceded Bell. Such lack of continuity in an important role is potentially detrimental, and the Pirates could make the best of it by giving the job to Jeff Branson, who served as an assistant last season to Bell, who called Branson the Pirates' "best hire of the offseason."
"He's extremely capable, and he made my job easier and extra enjoyable," Bell said. "He has a great relationship with the players and could do a great job. [General manager] Neal Huntington knows how I feel about him."
As both a player (1998-2002) and later coach with the D-backs, Bell recalled "pulling from afar" for the Pirates, for whom he was a two-time All-Star shortstop from 1989-96. He tried to put a similar spin on this separation before realizing it can't be the same. The Reds and Pirates have a deep competitive history, and the rivalry was revived last season when both fought for the National League Central title.
"But being in the same division can't negate the fact I made so many friends over there [in Pittsburgh]," said Bell, pleased that his one return season with the Pirates coincided with their own return to the postseason. "Clint and Neal get the vast majority of the credit for that. They had a great vision and saw it through by doing a fantastic job. And the players are extraordinary men, a great group to have been associated with.
"But you don't get an opportunity every day to work with a great friend," Bell added.
Due to that friendship, Bell almost never made it back to Pittsburgh. He revealed having been all set to join Price last season in Miami -- until Mike Redmond instead became the Marlins' new manager.
"Now Bryan has that opportunity to manage, and we're both excited about it."
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer.


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People usually say, "I am home" which means to say, "I have reached home."
But you have to say, "I am at home" to the question, "Where are you?"
Hence, I am home means that I have reached home from work/from somewhere else.
I am at office and I am at home to be used for the question: "where are you?"
Hope the above clarifies.
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How Do I Find Out The Contents Of A Will? Benson
After somebody dies, "How do I find out the contents of a will?" is a common question. A common reason is that someone suspects they named as a beneficiary of the estate, although there are many potential reasons, including pure curiosity.
The prospect of tracking down a copy of the will might initially seem daunting, but to find contents of a will is in many cases a simple process.
The first point to establish is that you can only view the will of someone who is deceased. If a person is still living, the will is considered their personal property, and you have no legal right to see it.
The owner of the will may choose to share a copy with you or tell you what the contents of it are, but it is entirely at their discretion. Once someone is deceased, anyone can view their will provided it has been granted probate. Probate is the legal process of sorting out a deceased person's estate, and most (though not all!) estates will require the executor getting a grant of probate.
Once this application has been granted by the probate registry, the will is considered a court document and is legally accessible by anyone. This means you can easily find contents of a will.
In England and Wales, the easiest way to access a copy of a will that has been granted probate is online. You can search the records for the will you wish to see, and order a copy of it from there. Each copy costs £10 and can take up to 10 working days to arrive.
It is also possible to perform the search by post, using a form called PA1S. The postal search costs £10 regardless of whether it results in a will, although the cost of a copy of the will is included if one is found, and a response can take up to 4 weeks.
If the death occurred within the last six months and probate has not yet been granted, you can apply for something known as a "standing search".
This means that if a grant of representation is issued in the following six months, you will automatically receive a copy of it. The standing search can be extended if the grant is not issued within the following six months. Sometimes probate is not needed.
This is often the case for estates of a very low value, and estates that are comprised entirely of joint assets. In these cases, only the executor of the estate has the legal right to view the will. The executor may choose to tell you the contents of the will, or even share a copy of it, but if you are not an executor you have no guaranteed right to the knowledge of what the will entails.
If you're asking yourself, "How do I find out the contents of a will?" it is important to remember that the process is usually straightforward, though a bit slow.
The vast majority of estates will be registered for probate, and in this case, anybody can view a copy of the will. In some cases, probate is not necessary, and in these cases, you may not have a right to see the will at all.
However, these cases are the exception, and even if you suspect probate was unnecessary, it is worth checking the probate register online to be certain.


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Beautiful day for a Reef Tour
Ready for the crowd -
Tank is looking good...
Anybody else completely remove their sump and clean it out this morning?
But it is sparkling clean now -
And... the hot dogs are ready!
The tunes are pumpin'
The sign is up!
And I got my first visitors!!!


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I am hosting, along with Pádraig Fagan, two stop-motion workshops and one thaumatrope workshop as part of the Sound + Vision Music Film Festival, which runs from 16th-27th of November.The festival is organised by the Model in Sligo in co-operation with Cinema North West.
Here's some info about the festival:
This exciting new festival features concert films, musical documentaries, films which popularised major movements in music history, films defined by their soundtracks and landmark moments of musical and cinema history. We also have a special children's programme with dress-up and sing along family screenings and animation workshops.
|A full programme is available here: link
Saturday 19th of November @ The Model Sligo
10.00-13.00 Stop-motion workshop, ages: 9-13 years old.
14.00-17.00 Stop-motion workshop, ages: 9-13 years old.
Sunday 20th of November @ The Model Sligo
13.00-14.00 Spinner/Thaumatrope workshop, ages: 5-7 years old..
The resulting films will be screened on Saturday the 26th of November before the Studio Ghibli film "Arriety: the Borrower" at 15.00.
For booking details please contact the Model at: 071 91 41405
the International Fund For Ireland and the support of Cinema North West and the Model Sligo.


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Story highlights
- Man who attached fake collar bomb to Sydney teen sentenced
- Paul Douglas Peters to serve at least 10 years of 13-year sentence
- Police took 10 hours to dismantle the device around Madeleine Pulver's neck
- During sentencing, Judge Peter Zahra said Peters' motivation was extortion
Madeleine Pulver's ordeal started last August when a man burst into her room and tied a fake bomb around her neck, and ended on Tuesday when he was sentenced to at least 10 years in jail.
The Australian teenager was studying for her final year exams when 52-year-old Paul Douglas Peters broke into her suburban Sydney home and carried out what the prosecution called an act of "urban terrorism."
"The terror instilled can only be described as unimaginable," Judge Peter Zahra told the District Court in Sydney during sentencing Tuesday.
Pulver was in the courtroom, as were her parents, and the man who, on a Wednesday afternoon, pushed open their unlocked front door and found the 18-year-old student alone in her bedroom.
Armed with a baseball bat and wearing a multi-colored balaclava, he told the frightened teenager to sit on the bed while he fixed a bicycle lock attached to a black box around her neck.
According to court documents, as Peters walked away, Pulver asked him where we was going.
"Count to two hundred ... I'll be back ...if you move I can see you, I'll be right here," he replied.
She waited.
Around her neck was also two-page typed note and a USB stick in a plastic sleeve.
After a few minutes Pulver yelled out. There was no response. She texted her parents: Call the police.
Then she read the note.
"Powerful new technology plastic explosives are located inside the small black combination case delivered to you. The case is booby trapped. It can ONLY be opened safely, if you follow the instructions and comply with its terms and conditions."
With one look at the word "explosives" she knew what was around her neck. She phoned her father. Call the police, she begged.
The note went on:
"If you disclose these Instructions, future instructions, any correspondence, Remittance instructions enclosures, direction or any other relevant fact outlined here or elsewhere, to any Federal or State agency, the Police or FBI, or to any non-family member, it will trigger an immediate BRIAN DOUGLAS WELLS event."
Pulver phoned her father back. Don't call the police. It was too late.
Sitting alone in her bedroom, Pulver was presumably waiting for what would come first, the police or the blast. When officers arrived they "found the victim in a hysterical state and crying uncontrollably," court documents state.
It's not clear whether the name Brian Douglas Wells meant anything to the Australian schoolgirl, but Peters had borrowed the name of an American pizza delivery man who was killed after a collar bomb fixed to his neck exploded in 2003. He was forced to wear the device by co-conspirators in a bank heist. It exploded as he sat in a parking lot soon after being stopped by police.
Peters was only in the house for a matter of minutes, but it would take police nine hours to determine that the box contained no explosives, and 10 hours to remove it. The entire time Pulver supported the box with her hands for fear it may explode.
Outside the court Tuesday, Pulver expressed relief at the sentencing.
"I am pleased with today's outcome and that I can now look to a future without Paul Peters' name being linked to mine," she told the assembled media.
Behind the events of that day is the tragic unraveling of a once successful man's life, from an international career in finance to divorce and a heavy drinking problem, where the lines between fact and fiction became increasingly blurred.
According to court documents, Peters was an above average student who left university with a double degree in law and economics. He had a successful career in Hong Kong, where he grew up, before moving to the U.S. with his second wife and young family to take a high-level position with a U.S. firm. Promoted to be managing director of the same firm, he "achieved substantial financial rewards and maintained a high lifestyle."
However, around six years ago, his marriage broke down. His wife filed for divorce and told him that he wouldn't see his children again. According to court documents, Peters told one of three psychiatrists asked to examine him that "that is where the story really starts."
Disillusioned with the banking industry, Peters moved back to Asia and started writing a book. Initially it was a historical novel set in Hong Kong, but morphed into a tale of revenge featuring a character called "John Chan."
Peters told the examining psychiatrist that he as became more involved in his book he took on Chan's persona. According to court documents, "he said the suburb of Mosman was like the Hong Kong peak and he wanted to create in his own mind what the nemesis in his book could have been doing."
During sentencing, the judge debunked suggestions that Peters was motivated by a confused reality and said the motive, beyond reasonable doubt, was extortion.
"The offender intended to place the very young victim in fear that she was going to be killed in order to ensure compliance with the directions in the demand. The offender did so in order to extort money from the victim," Judge Zahra said.
The plan ultimately failed, the judge said, because police were called, the media was alerted, and Peters decided to abandon his efforts to extort money.
Five days after entering the house, Peters flew from Sydney to Los Angeles before boarding a connecting flight to Louisville, Kentucky. He was arrested there on August 15 and later extradited to Australia.
It remains unclear why Peters targeted an 18-year-old girl and it would be "unproductive to speculate," said Judge Zahra.
Outside the court, Bill Pulver said of his daughter: "Maddie Pulver is a very, very special young lady who has handled herself with incredible poise and dignity. We're unbelievably proud of her."
Peters was sentenced to 13 years and six months in prison, with a non-parole period of 10 years.


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A notepad test: take a pen and a piece of paper or notepad and write a few words or your name. Easy, isn't it? Now what about doing that on your iPad, but add the ability to carry with you many pens and paper types, preprepared perfect shapes, highlighter pens and a virtually unlimited reference book that you could cut and paste from (the Internet). Sound a little bit better than the pad and pencil? You'd like to think so.
Here's the ultimate question: can you replace a notebook in college or your workplace with an iPad and some good software? Well, lets take a look at some of the best offerings out there and see how well they match or exceed your notepad test. (more…)


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From Wattzon, an even more improved product label along the lines of the nutrition facts labels found on food products. The entire slideset is worth the time and puts a solution to our global energy dilemma in a practical, attainable (albeit challenging) light.
On the left, today's required nutrition label. On the right, a proposed label containing the energy used to create the product and how much it would add to your energy consumption footprint. Click the image for the full-size version on the Wattzon site. Someday this sort of labeling will be required on all products sold.


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late last week, Mellow Mushroom has finally rolled out their new Gluten Free pizzas. I had the opportunity today to meet the folks behind the pizza, see how it is prepared and cooked and most importantly taste the new pie. I'd like to start off with a big thanks to Triangle Mellow Mushroom owner Casey (Raleigh, Durham and Wake Forest locations) for inviting me in to see the process and taste the product. Also, thanks to the two members of MM corporate (John and Eric) for providing all the pertinent information so that I could properly share this exciting news with you. And to Fred Lybrand of Juno Nutrition for again having great connections.
Here are the important points to remember...
- Mellow Mushroom is using a frozen pizza crust product from Still Riding Pizza. The crusts are made in a dedicated GF facility and shipped to each MM location frozen.
- MM is bringing in nearly 50 GFCO certified Gluten Free toppings/ingredients for it's GF pizza. All these ingredients are kept in a separate preparation area away from the main prep line for wheat pizzas.
- MM has developed an extensive preparation procedure that will be used by "certified Gluten Free pizza makers" to deliver safe pizzas to those who cannot tolerate Gluten. I saw this procedure in writing and will try to get a copy to share with you.
- MM only uses corn meal in their restaurants when preparing wheat pizza, thus no atmospheric gluten.
- MM keeps all GF toppings, supplies and crusts in a dedicated area. All GF pizzas will be prepared in this dedicated location. They use separate utensils as well.
- MM will be using dedicated GF screens to cook the GF pizzas in a shared oven (wheat pizzas are placed directly on the oven stone itself) to avoid cross-contamination while baking.
As per the Gluten Free Raleigh "Paul Seelig" Product Testing Policy, I did perform an EZ-Gluten test on a sample of my pepperoni/mushroom pizza. See the pictures for more information but I'm happy to report that the result was negative (actual test strip on the far left).
Mellow Mushroom is looking for your feedback on their new Gluten Free Pizzas and preparation/cooking procedure. Please visit their Contact Us Web site to let them know your thoughts and be sure to give this new Gluten Free Pizza option a try.


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Rapids saving by waiving Amarikwa, LaBauex and Ababio at MLS deadline
The Rapids on Thursday jettisoned three players from their roster, including Quincy Amarikwa, in a budget-boosting move. Amarikwa, Ross LaBauex and Eddie Ababio were waived as part of 18 cuts around the MLS.
After July 1, MLS player contracts are guaranteed, making it more difficult for teams to match contracts under the league salary cap if they want to make a roster move later in the season.
Amarikwa was a standby reserve a year ago with former coach Gary Smith, playing in 15 games including five starts. This season, he seemed to fall out of favor with coach Oscar Pareja, playing in just three games. But he did score a head-turning goal in the Rapids' season-opening, 2-0 victory over Columbus in March.


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Hero Complex has just dropped a bombshell - Watchmen director Zack Snyder will direct the Superman reboot, which is tentatively titled The Man of Steel.
This will partner Snyder with producers Chris Nolan and Emma Thomas, as well as screenwriters David S. Goyer and Jonathan Nolan (the latter of whom was rumored for the director's chair himself).
[Update: THR is reporting that Zod will be the villain of The Man of Steel and that Snyder says to Variety that Brandon Routh will not likely return]
Is this a match made in comic book movie heaven? Or a mismatch that will lead to Superman movie hell?
Snyder comes with an impressive resume - His work on 300 and Watchmen has made him a beloved favorite among the fanboy nation (I even saw him win an award for it during a party at the 2009 Comic-Con). In addition to having earned the adoration of the comic geek crowd, Snyder is also a genuinely impressive filmmaker, one who may even be worthy of the title "auteur" given his signature style of cinematic storytelling, which has already redefined conventional film genres like the sword-and-sandals epic (300), or even children's animated adventures, as our own Vic Holtreman acknowledged in his review of Snyder's most recent film, Legend of the Guardians.
(And by the way, if you didn't know, our own Rob Keyes pointed out all of these redeeming qualities just a few weeks ago when he picked Zack Snyder as the top choice amongst Warner Bros.' shortlist of Superman reboot directors. We need to give that man his own crystal ball!)
However, as is the case with any comic book movie, there are going to be fans who claim that Snyder is all wrong for this Superman movie. There will be those who say that Snyder's slow-motion action sequences, or slavish loyalty to his comic book source material are going to bog down this Superman movie rather than enhance it - and those are fair concerns to raise, truthfully speaking. However, this is going to be Zack Snyder working under the supervision of Christopher Nolan - a pairing that I don't think anybody would've seen coming a year ago. Having two of film's most visionary and talented directors putting their heads together to bring a new vision of the most iconic comic book character there is to the big screen is one experiment that I think most of us can admit at least piques our interests, no?
Now that we know who will be sitting in the director's chair, I guess we can watch the debate unfold about how good or bad this decision is. Once we've exhausted that argument discussion, we'll move on to the other big points of contention, such as who should play Superman, What story this reboot should focus on and which villains should be included in it (to Lex or not to Lex, that is the question...)
Sound off about this epic decision in the comments below.
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text: Today AT&T is holding their Developer Summit Keynote and the action is about to kick off live as Ralph de la Vega takes the stage. AT&T has a tradition of announcing multiple Android devices during these presentations, so tune in if you can. The video player is embedded after the break or you can watch live on Livestream.


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Education observers were split Tuesday on whether the city's school board should launch a nationwide search to replace schools CEO Andrés Alonso or give the job of taking on the district's daunting challenges to his hand-picked successor.
Some, such as principals union president Jimmy Gittings, said they'll push for the board to name interim CEO Tisha Edwards as permanent superintendent. School officials said late Tuesday that Edwards, Alonso's chief of staff, would not have to obtain a state waiver despite lacking the teaching experience typically required by state law for the post.
"Ms. Edwards would be the best choice of anyone, nationwide or local," Gittings said. "She works closely with the unions to make sure that individuals are treated fairly and respectfully. She's come up through the system. It concerns me when we go outside the system to find individuals who come here to get a reputation on the backs of our children and then leave."
But others, such as former school board member Kalman R. "Buzzy" Hettleman, said searching far and wide for top talent can pay off.
"We were criticized then for conducting a national search, and it turned out to be the right decision," said Hettleman, who was on the board that hired Alonso. "They should be looking for another Alonso. We need somebody who has the same skills that Dr. Alonso had, meaning he or she puts the kids first. They should be not afraid to challenge the education establishment, open to doing things in a different way and smart as hell."
The school board plans to conduct a yearlong, nationwide search to replace Alonso, who announced his resignation Monday after leading the district for six years. Alonso, 55, the longest-serving city superintendent in nearly two decades, said he is leaving to spend more time with his elderly parents in New Jersey and to teach part time at Harvard University. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has said she wants the board to have a permanent superintendent in place by the start of the school year in 2014.
The next permanent superintendent will face many challenges, including following through on Alonso's 10-year facilities plan, pumping more money into city schools, and attracting and retaining qualified principals, officials say.
Former state Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick noted that the district opened last school year with numerous principal vacancies.
"Principals are really, in my opinion, the instructional leaders of schools; you're not going to see student performance improve dramatically without a strong principal" who attracts talented teachers, Grasmick said. "My hope is that Baltimore City could become a magnet for great principals."
Alonso's resignation comes in the aftermath of a historic victory shared by the school system, education advocates and city political leaders — passage by the state legislature last month of a measure to help finance a $1 billion plan to upgrade Baltimore's decrepit school infrastructure, while closing a number of schools.
City Councilman Brandon Scott said the next schools CEO will have to pick up Alonso's battle to construct 21st-century school facilities.
"They're going to have to carry out the construction plan; it will be hotly contested," Scott said. "There will be a lot of feelings and emotions that people have."
City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke, who heads the education committee, praised Alonso for his Fair Student Funding program that gives principals autonomy over their budgets and hiring. She said Alonso's successor must continue to "squeeze the North Avenue bureaucracy and pump more money directly into the schools."
As the board conducts its search, Edwards, 42, Alonso's chief of staff since 2009, will serve as interim superintendent through the 2013-2014 school year. Maryland law requires that school superintendents have three years of teaching experience, but city officials said they do not believe the law applies to their jurisdiction. While Edwards has served as a Baltimore principal, she has never taught.
Though superintendents of most Maryland jurisdictions must adhere to state teaching requirements, Baltimore's situation is unique, said Bill Reinhard, a spokesman for the Maryland State Department of Education. Baltimore's school system and its CEO position fall under a different portion of state law that does not require its school chief to have teaching experience, he said.
Last year, Baltimore County Superintendent Dallas Dance received a waiver from the teaching requirement on the condition that he complete guest teaching hours in a middle school and high school. It was the first time the state had granted such a waiver in 20 years.
Neil E. Duke, the city school board chairman, said Edwards' one-year contract will require that she comply with the state requirements.
"Subsequent to our earlier conversation, the board was informed late afternoon by [the State Department of Education] that a waiver was not required" for Edwards to serve as interim schools CEO, said Edie House Foster, a city schools spokeswoman.
Jane Sundius, education director at the Open Society Institute–Baltimore, said she doesn't see Edwards' lack of teaching experience as a "huge concern" for an interim job.
"It would concern me, perhaps, if she was going to be the permanent candidate," Sundius said. "But for this upcoming year, she has to coordinate and manage to keep the district moving forward. It's incredibly important to have that teaching experience, but I'm not sure it's essential right now. She is definitely an educator even without that experience."
Gittings emphasized that Edwards has experience as a principal in Baltimore and as Alonso's right-hand woman for most of his tenure. She is credited with implementing the details of some of the district's high-profile changes, such as its pay-for-performance union contracts, central office reorganizations and opening new schools.
"She was a principal for four years, and she's been in the administration for six years," Gittings said. "She has my full support."
City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young also is backing Edwards.
"When you bring in a new CEO, you have to be starting all over again and we don't need to be starting all over again," Young said. "We need to be able to keep moving this system along."
A native of Meridian, Miss., Edwards began serving as Alonso's special assistant in January 2008. She started her tenure in the district as the founding principal of the Baltimore Freedom Academy High School, which the school board voted to close this year during charter contract renewals.
Before entering education, Edwards, who studied social work and law, had a career in social work and serving at-risk youth.
She has two sons, Nevan and Nicholas, whom she credits with inspiring her work in education.
"They are my inspiration," she said. "It is the love that I have for them that helps me to love 85,000 other children."
Grasmick said the school board should be "very discerning" when choosing a new CEO. She recommended that members select a "person who has in their DNA this sense of 'not businesses as usual,' [and] certainly innovation that is supported by research."
She praised Edwards as someone who is "going to stabilize the system. She is very capable."
Another former Maryland superintendent, David Hornbeck, agreed that consistency is important for the district.
"Not starting all over is very important," he said. "There's a little bit of a tendency in urban school districts for somebody to come in and go in a new direction, and it becomes a lurching apparatus. The average tenure of a big-city school superintendent is two years. If you lurch every two years, you're in trouble."
Alonso's last day will be June 30. Edwards' one-year contract with the school board has not been signed.
Baltimore Sun reporter Yvonne Wenger contributed to this article.


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Be a burden to your kids
We owe it to ourselves--and our adult children--to rely on their help when we reach our golden years.
By Patrick Lynch, managing director of Lynch & Sons Funeral Directors in Clawson, Michigan, and past president of the Michigan Funeral Directors Association and the National Funeral Directors Association.
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My father came home from his service in the Marines in the South Pacific to marry the redheaded girl of his dreams he'd met at St. Francis De Sales in the fifth grade. She'd written to him daily and he'd written her back, making plans for the future they hoped for together. They moved into an apartment over a funeral home in Detroit and he went to mortuary school, working evenings while she began to raise the inevitable family.
There would be nine of us in all, six sons and three daughters, a living testament to their love of children and their lifelong romance with each other. Both of them saw us through all the burdens of parenting—little league games and dance classes, measles and poxes, mumps and flues, heartbreaks and curiosities, triumphs and tantrums. They saw us through first days at school, first dates, first mortgages, and last details. Each of us was a burden to them and the bearing of those multiple burdens defined them and shaped what would become their lives.
By their own testimony we were the greatest blessings of their lives, the surest sign of God's grace, and for all the trouble we most certainly gave them, we never doubted they regarded us as gifts.
Since my wife and I have become parents ourselves, the mystery by which our greatest burdens become our greatest blessings has made itself manifest. That is why I have always mistrusted the conventional wisdom that we should not be a burden to our children. If bearing the burdens of our children's lives has given blessed meaning to ours, why oughtn't bearing the burdens of our age and infirmity and eventual deaths give meaning and purpose and its special tuition to them?
The celebration of life's joyful mysteries, births, baptisms, weddings, and reunions brings an accentuated beauty to those events. Likewise the bearing of life's burdens, including sadness, sickness, and even death gives perspective to our human experience.
Of course, sometimes not wanting to "be a burden" stands in for the less noble truth that we can't bear the wound to our pride involved in sharing decisions about our lives and circumstances with those who care most deeply about our welfare. Possibly it is God's wry-humored reversal of circumstance that toddlers and teenagers who must submit to parental guidance, scrutiny, and loving care grow into adult children who must negotiate how to guide, advise, and lovingly care for parents who resist—with the same outrage as teenagers—their sons' and daughters' efforts to lovingly assist.
When to quit driving after dark, climbing the stairs, patching the roof, living alone. How to ask for help, how to be more grateful than begrudging. These are all stages in the fullness of time by which we negotiate the balance between autonomy and family.
Following a career path that eventually led my father to ownership of several funeral homes, partnership with his sons, and the recognition that the burdens he bore to make his dreams realities were well worth it, he enjoyed a semiretirement at Mullett Lake in the section of Michigan known as the "tip of the Mitt," just south of the bridge that separates the lower and upper peninsulas. He and our mother were living the dream until she was stricken with lung cancer, which in 18 months left her dead and him widowed. The father of nine, grandfather of 20, and friend to hundreds suddenly felt very much alone.
I made an extra effort to spend more time with my dad following my mother's death. It never felt like a burden. Two years into widowhood, following a major heart attack, my dad ended up in the ER of the local hospital. I arrived there within minutes. Looking through his glazed-over beautiful blue eyes he removed the oxygen mask to utter these instructions: "You'll know what to do."
He was correct. I felt blessed that he had enough confidence in me that the decisions that were being faced as to his medical care and even his possible funeral arrangements would be handled properly at my direction.
Though a funeral director for over 40 years, our father never felt compelled to tell his children how to handle his funeral. We knew what to do. We embalmed our dad, arranged the newspaper notifications, contacted the church to work out the liturgical details, secured the Marine Corp to provide military honors for one of their own, ordered the casket and burial vault, and saw to the grave opening at the cemetery.
These were the basics. Then we set out to the finer details, such as how to involve the grandchildren, who would speak at his funeral, who would serve as pallbearers, which songs to choose for the Mass, and all the other details surrounding the Roman Catholic burial rite.
My father's experience taught him that family members bearing the burdens of grief by actively involving themselves in the rituals of mourning makes grief more bearable and gives our mourning rituals a deeper meaning. In my own experience as a funeral director for nearly 40 years now, his wisdom has become more and more clear to me.
The preplanning for the inevitable reality of death has been around for a long time. People bought family plots at the cemetery. They purchased insurance policies or established funeral funds at the bank. Husbands and wives certainly discussed their thoughts on the matter: "Will we be buried with your people or mine?"
Then in the 1970s through the 1990s, coincidental to the aging of the greatest generation, cemeteries and funeral homes began actively marketing prearranged funerals. Marketing bromides like "Spare your family the grief," "Don't be a burden to your children," and "Prepay now to lock in prices" popped up in church bulletins, newspapers, and yellow pages everywhere. People of the targeted demographic were telemarketed, junk-mailed, and cold-called into the belief that preplanning and prepaying their own funerals was the correct thing to do.
By making all the decisions surrounding one's death and funeral, families would be spared grief and unburdened. "It's your funeral, have it your way" was part of the pitch.
The problem with all of this is that often arrangements were made without consultation with or consideration of family members. And while the intentions were usually well meaning, things didn't always turn out the way people had hoped. Husbands insisted that no fuss be made. Wives felt compelled to abide by instructions, which were sometimes not in their best interests. And children and grandchildren were completely excluded from the discussion.
Family members were left to abide by arrangements that might be unsatisfying to them. Or they had to go against the wishes of the deceased to meet their own needs. Neither of these unintended results is preferable to an open dialogue prior to or during the completion of advance plans.
What has been learned from this is that the involvement of family members who will survive to experience the arrangements is critically important. Thus when our funeral homes are contacted to assist an individual or couple with their advance planning needs, we always encourage them to include their extended family in the conversation.
This shared conversation is a wonderful opportunity to discuss the wants and needs, joys and sorrows, hurts and hopes of all parties involved. People making advance funeral plans for themselves are best advised to offer thoughts and suggestions rather than demands and requirements.
Conversations about our mortality can be difficult, even burdensome. But like the conversations generations of parents have had with their children about life and love, heartache and happiness, these are the conversations that give our lives meaning and substance and a deep sense of purpose.
End-of-life preparations for aging parents are multifaceted. When is it appropriate to discuss the immobility associated with no longer being able to drive, or the confinement of assisted living, or the resentment which often follows dependence on others?
Members of the sandwich generation, who feel responsible for the generation before them and the one behind them, are faced with similar concerns surrounding their parents and children, principally when to push back and when to give in. The occupancy of this place is both burdensome and blessed.
The best way to make a decision that will be life-altering is to think about it, pray about it, talk with your family about it, and seek the good counsel of trusted professionals. Having done all these things, "You'll know what to do."


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|Ethnicity and Power in the Contemporary World (United Nations University, 1996, 298 p.)
This is the final volume to emerge from a five-year research and training programme conducted by the United Nations University on governance and conflict resolution. The programme examined the underlying conditions giving rise to internal conflicts, particularly where they are manifested through direct violence. It also focused on the conceptual and theoretical problems related to such conflicts, early warning of potential conflicts, and conflict transformation.
This volume investigates the causes and consequences of violent conflict and the options for its prevention, resolution, and transformation in regions as diverse as Africa, the former Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland, and certain Soviet successor states. The chapters, written by multicultural scholars, are based on revised versions of papers originally presented at a UNU symposium held in cooperation with the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in March 1992. The companion volume, entitled The Culture of Violence, was published by the UNU Press in 1994.


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LONDON (Reuters) - Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron has failed to hold on to a boost in popularity which followed his decision to opt out of a new European economic pact late last year, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos MORI Political Monitor.
February's poll of voting intentions, published on Wednesday, puts the Labour opposition in front on 41 percent, with the Conservatives on 35 percent and the Liberal Democrats on 12 percent.
Those figures reveal a three point drop since January for the Conservatives, senior partners in a coalition government with the smaller Liberal Democrats, taking their popularity rating to around the level it was before Cameron vetoed an accord designed to stabilise the crisis-hit euro zone.
His surprise decision had won support from Britons who are largely sceptical about closer integration with the continent.
Only four in 10 are now satisfied with Cameron's performance, putting his "net satisfaction rating" at minus 11, down 10 points from January, although the Conservative leader remains the most popular of the main three party leaders.
One reason for the decline could be the state of the economy, with nearly half of respondents thinking economic conditions will get worse over the next 12 months, although fewer think this than did in January.
The economy shrank by 0.2 percent at the end of last year, raising concerns Britain could be heading back into recession. The opposition and other critics have blamed that lacklustre performance in part on the government's austerity measures.
The government has also struggled with pushing through controversial health and welfare reforms this year.
"It has been a difficult week for the government with the continuing debate over their reforms to the NHS (state-run National Health Service) and welfare system, reflected in their drop in support," said Gideon Skinner, head of political research at Ipsos MORI.
"But during this economic gloom the public don't seem particularly enthusiastic about any of the parties."
Labour's improvement in the poll has not been matched by the party's leader Ed Miliband, who replaced Gordon Brown after the 2010 election ended 13 years of Labour rule.
Miliband's approval rating remains at its lowest ebb, a further sign that the new Labour leader has failed to galvanise his party, despite a contracting economy and fears over the social and economic impact of big government spending cuts.
With a parliamentary election not due until 2015, the coalition government is banking on a return to steady and stable economic growth over the next few years to convince voters its austerity measures were the right medicine for the economy.
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It takes a Big Band sound to battle the disco, punk, thrash rock, heavy metal and country-pop now dominating national soundtracks.
But that's exactly what the Zim Zemarel Band has done in the greater Baltimore area for the better part of 50 years.
And even though Zemarel himself died in 1999, at age 82, his former band mates Gene Bonner, 77, of Perry Hall, and Wayne Hudson, 68, of Pasadena, are still carrying the torch for the band, and for Tommy Dorsey- and Benny Goodman-style 1940s Big Band music itself.
They are also quick to admit that, because of the whimsies of changing musical tastes and the rising cost of booking a crackerjack 15-to-20 piece Big Band, the full Zim Zemarel Band isn't nearly as busy anymore as it was in its glory days in the 1970s and 1980s.
These days, more often than not, Bonner and Hudson perform in smaller configurations of the original band, such as the three-to-eight-piece Zim Zemarel Combo, the four-man Zim Zemarel Dixieland Band and the five-piece Bay Field Brass Band.
But throughout the 1970s, 1980s and the early 1990s Zemarel, Bonner, the band's saxophone/clarinet player and business manager, and Hudson (who plays drums and serves as sound man and road manager) seemed to be everywhere and anywhere, often playing three, four or more well-paying gigs in a weekend.
Zemarel "was quite an outstanding guy," said Bonner, who joined the Zim Zemarel Band in the 1960s and, along with Hudson, took over the band at Zemarel's request when the bandleader's health began to fail.
"When Zim walked into a room it just exploded," added Hudson, a longtime drum and percussion teacher at McDonogh School. "He was the life of the party; he just had that way about him."
'So many places, for so many people'
Year after year, Zemarel and his band were fixtures at the Baltimore City Fair, the Maryland State Fair, the annual Dundalk Heritage Festival and at swank Preakness parties and upscale weddings and birthdays at posh settings such as the Baltimore Hilton and the Baltimore Country Club.
Time and time again, William Donald Schaefer, Baltimore City's former mayor and, later, Maryland's governor, called upon the band to provide the sounds at political fundraisers, receptions and grand openings at the Maryland Science Center, the Baltimore Arena and Memorial Stadium.
It was Zim and his boys who played at the official opening of the Baltimore Museum of Industry in 1981, and in 1971 at the new visitors center at what was then Friendship International Airport. The band even accompanied the Disney on Ice extravaganza a time or two when it swung through Baltimore.
Along the way, the band recorded a half dozen albums (some for CBS Records, where Zemarel served for years as a regional promotion director) and performed in a pair of Barry Levinson movies, "Avalon" and "Park Heights."
"For our scene in 'Avalon,' we were there all day and all night, for take after take of the same thing," Hudson recalls. "It was brutal, man."
More recently, Bonner had a cameo on the TV series "Homicide," playing saxophone in the New Orleans-style funeral procession for the character, Crosetti.
"That was a lot of fun," Bonner said.
And when touring pop and comedic stars such as Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Cab Calloway, Mel Torme, Red Skelton, Al Martino and Jack Jones appeared at The Lyric or the old Morris Mechanic Theater, the Zim Zemarel Band was frequently recruited as the backup band. They also backed Gladys Knight and the Pips and The Temptations at Ocean City's annual Sun Fest.
"They played so many places, for so many people, it was amazing," says Shirley Bonner, Gene's wife of 55 years, who met her future husband at Mount St. Joseph High School when she was 17. "They went everywhere."
Bonner and Hudson agree that the Turtle Creek, Pa.-born Zim Zemarel was one of a kind, and the tireless dynamo who drove the band's success during in those heady days. More than a decade after Zemarel's death, his former band mates still speak of him with fondness and a slight sense of awe.
"Zim just knew how to treat the guys in his band and how to get the best out of us all," Bonner said. "He knew who the best players were, and he got them. We had fun, and great camaraderie."
"And talk about a salesman! " Hudson added. "He could talk his own grandmother into taking dancing lessons with someone who'd never danced before."
Big Band music a passion
On a recent Saturday afternoon, at Bonner's Perry Hall house, he and Hudson had the perfect occasion for reminiscing as they hung out in Bonner's club basement, which is a veritable shrine to the Zim Zemarel Band's long, colorful career. The two of them pored intently over a scrapbook assembled by Bonner's daughter, Sharon Nicolary, who has spent months unearthing old Baltimore Sun articles and photos of the band.
It was a the perfect time to roll out the vast repertoire of inside jokes (some printable, some not), quips and good-natured jibes the two men have developed on the grandstand since their musical paths first crossed back in the 1960s.
"Oh my God, I don't even remember playing this show," Hudson laughed as he stared intently at one of the old black-and-white photos. "But I guess I did, since I'm in the picture." He glances at the photo again and grins at Bonner: "Hey Gene, I'd forgotten you did have hair at one time, didn't you?"
A few of the articles that Nicolary found go back even further. Her scrapbook includes a 1955 Baltimore Sun write-up about her dad and the Dixieland band he fronted in his pre-Zim Zemarel days, as a student at Mount St. Joseph Catholic High School and later at the University of Baltimore. For a while, he even had a regular slot on WAAM, one of the first television stations in Baltimore.
Bonner was just a youngster when he fell under the spell of Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey, who he heard on the radio. Big Band music soon became his passion. But, unlike Hudson, he always kept a day job — mostly as an insurance underwriter — even during the Zemarel Band's golden years.
"(But) all the way through those years I usually had the horn in my mouth almost constantly," Bonner recalled. "Practice is very important."
"I never gave a darn about my day job; I just loved the music," he said.
"But I also had a very deep concern about getting too deep into the booze," he said. "And I had a good friend who chose that (full-time musical) route and more or less ended up a pauper."
Even so, the money was good up there on the bandstand when the band was in its prime, playing almost nonstop. "Gene's saxophone put all four of our kids through college," Shirley said proudly.
You can see and hear the Zim Zemarel Band in its prime in video clips from TV shows and concerts that Nicolary and her husband recently posted on Youtube. In these clips, the band looks, and sounds, smooth, confident, masterful, mellow and refined as they deliver 1940s-style big band jazz that's just about as good as it gets. One of the keys to the band's proficiency, according to Bonner, was Zemarel's penchant for recruiting both active and retired members of the U.S. Navy and Army bands.
"We were never a rehearsal-type band," Hudson said.
"That's 'cause you're so good," Shirley added.
"I realize that," Hudson said. . "Even if somebody came in with a new song arrangement, all we had to do was pass it out and run through it a couple of times, and there you go."
Do it all over the same way
But in recent years, the Zim Zemarel Band has felt the impact of a weak economy, changing demographics and shifting musical tastes. It's not cheap to mobilize, or book, such a large ensemble of talented players. At the same time, many of the band's devoted fans have gotten older and somewhat less agile on the dance floor.
Bonner says the band's present hiatus is a result of "all of the above ... These days, at weddings and things like that, a lot of people are going with deejays and they can get all their hip-hop music or whatever that way, for a lot less money. People don't want to spend the money (to book a Big Band)."
Bonner keeps his chops up by occasionally sitting in with a friend's band, Sophisticated Swing, at Player's, a nightclub restaurant near the Turf Valley Resort, near Ellicott City.
But both he and Hudson yearn for those heady times in the late 1970s and the 1980s when the "double-Z" band was "everywhere and anywhere."
"Oh yeah, I miss all that, said Hudson. "I miss the money, I miss the music. ... Not being able to do that every day is tough, because we enjoyed it so much, and we had so much fun.
"Put it this way: it was a great way to make an insubstantial living," he added with laugh. "But if I had it to do over again I'd do it the same way."
Bonner grins and nods. "It's a big change, not to be playing very much. I wish we were playing more, because, first of all, to be proficient on your instrument you have to be playing quite often. That's just the way that it is."
Gene Bonner and Wayne Hudson will be performing at Nordstrom department store, Annapolis Mall, from noon to 4 p.m., on , with the Zim Zemarel Combo, a slimmed down, five-piece version of the Zim Zemarel Band.


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Thomas Cox necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 107 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
Dirigo Benefits Group, LLC.
1. Dirigo Benefits Group, LLC. is a new venture
2. Company will be engaged in insurance consulting / brokerage with a focus on employers
3. Dirigo is Latin for "I lead" or "I Guide", which is our consulting approach--we lead our clients through a thorough process to assist them in developing and implementing cost effective, practical solutions for their insurance needs.
4. We are professional, highly experienced and experts in our field, but not at all stuffy or pretentious.
5. Our role is one of trusted advisor to our clients.
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