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Canadians Riot After Losing Stanley Cup
The Vancouver Canucks (hint: hockey) lost the Stanley Cup Finals on Wednesday night, falling to the Boston Bruins 4-0 in the seventh game. This is a big deal in Canada, where hockey is basically their version of American Idol. And so they've decided to riot.
This is the second time Vancouver has erupted into a most un-Canadian chaos over hockey; in 1994, the Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the New York Rangers (also in seven games), and rioters ended up doing over $1 million in damage. (Canadian dollars, that is.) So why not do it again?
Police fired both tear gas and pepper spray in attempts to disperse angry Canucks fans, who had spent much of the day well-behaved before climbing light poles, getting into fistfights and setting fire to vehicles.
Images from a news helicopter flying above Georgia Street in downtown Vancouver showed a silver car turned over on its hood, with fans jumping up and down on its underside. Moments later, the car was set ablaze, but firefighters quickly put out the inferno.
Not far away, angry fans tried to flip over a truck, while another car was seen resting on its hood at Nelson and Granville Streets.
Apparently they're also setting jerseys on fire, as you can see to your left.

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A veterans group wants the Supreme Court to end a decades-long legal dispute over a memorial cross on a San Diego mountaintop that a lower court has found unconstitutional.
"Only this Court can bring an end to this litigation," the Mt. Soledad Memorial Association wrote in its petition to have the case heard by the high court.
At issue is a 43-foot-tall cross that has been on a hillside looking over La Jolla and Mission Bay since 1954. It is part of the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial.
In December, a federal judge ordered the cross must come down because it violates the Establishment Cause of the Constitution, unlawfully endorsing one religion over others. Opponents of the cross have argued that it is a religious symbol on government land and violates the constitutional separation of church and state.
In their petition, however, the veterans group asks Supreme Court justices to step in and review the decision, explaining that there are hundreds of plaques honoring veterans of all religions surrounding the base of the cross.
"The context and history of the Memorial make clear that its primary purpose and effect is not to endorse religion, but to honor veterans," the petition states.
In 2011, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the cross violated the First Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, and it was sent back to federal court in San Diego, where the December ruling was issued.
Veterans warned justices that by refusing to hear the case, they could be putting other war memorials in the same legal quandary.
"As long as the Ninth Circuit's decision stands, it puts into question the legality of hundreds, if not thousands, of veterans' memorials across the country," the petition states.
If the Supreme Court does not review the case, it lets the lower court's ruling stand. The order states the cross must be moved within 90 days.


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Guide hunts, gun giveaway to highlight event; application deadline March 30
HIAWATHA — The Thundering Toms Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) — representing Northeast Kansas and Southeast Nebraska with headquarters in Hiawatha, Kan. — will sponsor a guided youth turkey hunt on Saturday, April 7. Hunters, parents/sponsors, and guides will meet at the Hiawatha National Guard Armory the evening of April 6 for a safety meeting and to introduce and assign each hunter a guide. The guides will have written permission to hunt private land and will arrange with hunters and parents or sponsors on the time and place to meet on April 7, before departing to the designated hunting location.
After the hunt all hunters, parents or sponsors, and guides will meet at the shelter house at Hiawatha City Lake for a noon meal. After the meal, birds will be scored, pictures will be taken, prizes will be awarded, and a gun will be given away to one of the young hunters.
All young hunters who are interested in participating in the youth hunt must complete an application, available from Larry West at firstname.lastname@example.com. The hunt will be limited to 15 participants, and the application deadline is March 30. Successful applicants will be sent an agenda for the day(s) of the hunt, meeting times, and other information.
For more information, contact West at the above email address.


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This weeks picks for historically interesting telly:
Monday 12 October 2009 – The start of a new series, Coal House at War (BBC2, 7pm)
Also on Monday – In Saving Britain's past Tom Dyckhoff looks at the history of Brick Lane in London (BBC2, 7.30pm)
Why did my son die? looks at protecting troops on the battlefield (ITV, 8pm)
Tuesday 13 October 2009 – In Heir Hunters we see the search for relatives of a man who left £350,000 (BBC2, 7.30pm, also same time on Wednesday)
Wednesday 14 October 2009 – Labour MP John Prescott looks at the North/South Divide (BBC2, 9pm).
Thursday 15 October – In The Red Lion Sue Bourne investigates the role of Pubs in British Society (C4, 9pm)


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Is it possible to change the projection used in OSM2PO? I used the following command to generate a
SQL file which I loaded into my database:
java -jar osm2po-core-4.2.30-signed.jar prefix=at "filename.osm.pbf.pbf"
This produce the file
at_2po_4pgr.sql. I then loaded this file into my postgres database:
psql -U postgres -d routing -a -f at_2po_4pgr.sql
As this table is based on SRID:4326, I wondered if there was any way of changing it so that I can use a different projection system. The columns in the table are as follows:
id integer NOT NULL,
osm_id bigint,
osm_name character varying,
osm_source_id bigint,
osm_target_id bigint,
clazz integer,
flags integer,
source integer,
target integer,
km double precision,
kmh integer,
cost double precision,
reverse_cost double precision,
x1 double precision,
y1 double precision,
x2 double precision,
y2 double precision,
geom_way geometry(LineString,4326),
CONSTRAINT pkey_at_2po_4pgr PRIMARY KEY (id)
I know that I can use
ST_Transform to convertgeom_way` into a different projection but I was unsure how to update any of the other values as I presumed some were based on the initial projection.


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Haven't been to the board meeting. Wasn't on the special grand jury. Don't put any stock in WaPo or the Times Mirror (read projectionists) but I do know the story of the aides. The only thing Delgaudio was guilty of was hiring the questionable individuals but that's what happens when you try to help others out….they end up screwing you. We all have stories of helping others where the hand was bitten that fed. I have even been on the receiving end once. This is what turns people off by trying to help out, but let's continue.
Jury duty is a civic service. Have you ever noticed that it is actually like the draft? If it was all volunteer, why do you receive a notice that you have been selected to appear….. Now you do have those people that have nothing better to do than serve on jury duty. I have been with those clowns and know of some on grand juries. You would call them "busy-bodies" and "meddlers" in your community and they volunteer for these positions. They also come from the county.
Now the stage is set. Delgaudio haters have been trying to hang Delgaudio for something ever since he has been on the board. Can you think of ANY board members in the last 4 terms you think should be scrutinized? See what I mean. So those haters conspire and conjure and push until someone(s) decides to listen and the small gears turn. Nothing happens cause there's nothing there. Injustice, friendship, conspiracy is shouted from the roof tops so that something more must be done. This time it's a grand jury. No, this isn't the Zimmerman case. And after the grand jury? Nothing……….because of a technicality. What? WHAT? W-H-A-T? Here is the grand jury report. If you think that only a technicality is what stopped the AG or ANYONE else from pursuing charges against Delgaudio, not only cannot you read and comprehend, you are also dumber than a rock. Speculation, circumstantial, innuendo are the words used for this report. No smoking gun. No hard proof. Matter o fact, no proof at all. I see some perjury here and not just about donors.
So are we satisfied yet? Nope. Same shit being yelled from the rooftops, and guess who comes to the rescue? Those fellow board members who most are also Delgaudio haters. What they had the audacity to do was to castrate OUR Sterling supervisor. Read that story here. But fear not because York and the other board members will be looking out for those Sterling residents, just like they always have. I'm miffed by Volpe's vote and may have to re-assess what type conservative she really is. I'm a Sterling resident, a Delgaudio fan and a believer in justice. Needless to say, I am pissed over this abomination of so called justice.


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Before we can apply the 80/20 rule, we need a clear picture of what it actually is and a basic idea of where it originated.
In the early 1900's, Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto observed that twenty percent of the people in Italy owned eighty percent of the wealth. Over 30 years later, Dr. Joseph M. Juran, who worked in the field of Quality Management in the United States, recognized a similar occurrence, namely, that many things in life are unevenly distributed.
He referred to this trend as Pareto's 80/20 Principle, which is otherwise known as the 80/20 rule. Basically this means that a small percentage (roughly 20%) of the overall activity yields a larger percentage (roughly 80%) of the result.
Applying the 80/20 rule to your personal productivity will help you to prioritize your work from most important to least important and then to budget your time accordingly. To make prioritizing your tasks a bit easier, estimate the amount of time you will need to complete each task. You will be more productive if you focus on completing the most important tasks first and if you finish time-sensitive projects before tackling other tasks.
One survey revealed that while people spend 60 hours a week in their offices, they do less than 20 hours of actual work. Applying the 80/20 rule, using the aforementioned suggestions, could send the average office-worker soaring to employee of the month in no time flat!
With your priorities set and a definite plan in place as to what work you need to complete and the time-frame you have to complete it, you are well on your way to improved personal productivity. Again, the 80/20 rule suggests that in a small amount time you can be very productive. Therefore, beware of becoming side-tracked by non-essential intruders like procrastination.
Keep in mind the old adage, "why put off tomorrow what you can do today!" Also, be mindful that in the course of a day, unexpected things do come up and require our time. However, this is usually the exception and not the rule. If you really want your productivity to soar, stay focused on the goal of completing your tasks on-time!
Now that you know where you want to be, it's a good time to ask yourself where you are now in relation to reaching your goal. Are you already in the 20% of efficient, productive workers, are you in the 80% of not-so-productive workers, or are you somewhere in-between?
What does your annual or quarterly review reveal about your personal productivity? What do your peer reviews show? Regardless of your current standing, take an honest look at the work you've done lately. You may not need a full overhaul of your work habits but instead you may just need to fine-tune a few areas.
Don't hesitate. Why not start today? Apply the 80/20 rule at work and even at home and just watch your personal productivity soar!


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My Parents' Experiences as Polish Slave Laborers in Nazi Germany and Displaced Persons after the War
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
November 11, 1918--The Day World War I Ended
Our landlord was a veteran of the First World War. He was a Polish American named Ponchek. He was also a drunk, but that wasn't anything special. There were a lot of drunks around. What made Ponchek special was that he had a steel plate in his head. As a kid and a recent immigrant to America, he had been drafted and sent to France to stop the Germans who were trying to rip France apart and shove it into the Atlantic. He ended up in the trenches in France in late October fighting the Germans, and a bullet took off the top of his head. The doctors cut away what bone they could, cleaned out the wound, and screwed a steel plate into the skull bone.
This fascinated me when I was a kid. I wondered about that plate, and what it felt like. Did Ponchek always feel a weight pressing down on his head? Was it like wearing a steel hat? A steel helmet? And I wondered what they covered the plate with. Skin? And where did it come from? Was it his skin or someone else's? I never could ask.
Like a lot of the veterans I knew, he was frightening. He wasn't a guy you wanted to spend a lot of time talking to.
Veterans were men who limped. They dragged their legs behind them like Lon Chaney in the Mummy movie. They were men who had wooden legs that creaked when they walked past you and the other kids sitting on the stoop. These veterans had no arms or only one arm, or were missing fingers or hands, or ears.
My dad, a guy who lost his left eye when he was clubbed by a Nazi guard in a concentration camp, used to go to a bar where the owner had a black, shiny rubber hand. He lost his real hand during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 when he shoved a homemade grenade into the steel treads of a German tank. The black rubber hand was like some kind of weird toy. Sometimes, it looked like a black fist, sometimes it looked like an eight ball.
Sometimes, a vet without arms or legs sat on the sidewalk in front of this bar. He had a cloth hat in front of him, and he was selling pencils. He'd sit there smiling, making chit chat with the guys walking in and out of the bar. You'd toss him a nickel, and you could take a pencil, but most guys didn't. Who needs a pencil?
Veterans were frightening. Some of them beat their kids and got drunk and had trouble getting through the day. They had trouble getting through the night too. There were these two little girls who lived two doors away, Patty and Cathy. Their dad was a Korean War veteran, and he would come home from his job at about midnight. The kids and their mom had to be out of their basement apartment then. He would beat and curse all of them if they weren't. They'd have to walk around the neighborhood until he was safely in bed, asleep. This veteran didn't like to fall asleep with people in the house. Everyone knew he was crazy.
Ponchek was a veteran too, and -- like I said -- he was a drunk and a man with a steel plate in his head. One time he and his two buddies got so drunk that they all came down to our basement apartment and tried to force my mother into giving them money for whiskey. There she was alone in a house with her two little kids, and this drunk and his two drunk buddies came around trying to take money from her. They told her that she hadn't paid the rent, and that if she didn't paid them, they would throw her out on the street. What kind of guys would do that? She pushed Poncheck down and kicked him, and took a broom and beat him and his friends as they tried to get away from her. My mom was a veteran too; she spent two and a half years in a Nazi slave labor camp.
Three or four years later, my mom and dad and my sister and me visited Ponchek in the big Veterans Administration hospital on the south side of Chicago. We didn't have a car, and so we had to take buses, and it seemed like it took forever to get to the hospital. This must have been about 1956 or 1957. The hospital was full of veterans, men from World War I and World War II and the Korean War. Ponchek was dying from some kind of stomach cancer, and he was in a lot of pain. We came to say goodbye to him. We found him in a bed in the corridor because there were no available rooms.
He was happy to see us. My parents had brought him some cigarettes, and my dad gave him one, and lit it for him. My sister and I stood there watching my mom and dad and Ponchek smoke and talk. They talked about those days on Hamilton, and the good times they had.
They didn't mention his steel plate and his drinking and his craziness.
PS: Before I sign off, let me say something about Veterans Day.
It grows out of Armistice Day, the day the carnage of World War I ended. It ended on the 11th hour of the 11 th day of the 11th month.
Here's a poem by John McCrae called "In Flanders Field." He was a doctor who wrote the poem in 1915 for a friend who died in the Battle for Flanders Field. The battle lasted 100 days and cost 400,000 Allied and German casualties. The war went on for another 3 years after that, and millions of people died in those years.
Here's McCrae's poem:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
When I told my daughter Lillian that I was going to use the Flanders Field poem, she suggested another poem.
Here's what Lillian wrote:
"Personally, I like the Ode of Remembrance (the 3rd and 4th stanzas of Binyon's "For the Fallen") that they use throughout the "British Empire" at Remembrance Day commemorations. I think Binyon's poem, at least the following two stanzas, is more universal. It could be any war, any century, any side; and I think that is what Remembrance Day is for, remembering every fallen soldier--every kid who is too naive or too idealistic or too stupid or too gullible and so they join up for all of the right and all of the wrong reasons and then they die, painfully and horribly and wastefully, but bravely and nobly."
And here's Binyon's poem:
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
PPS: Let me say just one more thing:
War comes to us, and we weep at our losses and pray for our delivery. And then peace comes and then peace goes, and wars come and come and come.
29 comments:
- Jen said...
That's a great entry, Jon. So vivid! You should turn it into a story. I really like the part about taking the bus. I think a lot of story arc could take place there, in the narrator's head.
- November 7, 2007 at 6:07 AM
- Marty said...
Vonnegut railed against changing Armistice Day to Veteran's Day, and he was right. Someday I'll have to tell you the story of the Pole with a steel plate in his head who saved my life.
- November 7, 2007 at 3:05 PM
- John Guzlowski said...
Lisa Childress sent me a note I want to share. It's about the singer/writer Eric Bogle:
Very moving post, John. Do you know of Eric Bogle's songs? He wrote two about WWI that fit in with your selections there. I don't know if you can post them on your blog, he is pretty proprietary about his work, as he should be. But if you go to his website, ericbogle.com, he has, or had the last time I checked, his lyrics in pdf format for viewing. The two I am thinking of are And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, and one that goes by three different names. He actually named it No Man's Land, but it is also called Willie McBride and The Green Fields of France. It is actually about Flanders fields. If you want to hear him singing the songs, that is even a better introduction to them, and to him. Both songs are overwhelming.
- November 7, 2007 at 5:03 PM
Thanks for this John, I think the horrors suffered by the young men of so many nations during WW1 is often forgotten nowadays.
And what was it all for?
What was the point of any of it?
I think that Baldrick's explanation (in Blackadder Goes Forth) makes as much sense as any other I have heard.
He said that he heard the war started when "a man called Archie Duke shot an ostrich because he was hungry".
Here are links to two poems that I hope match the two lovely ones you and your daughter have chosen.
Firstly, Randall Jarrell's poem: "A War":
And secondly that famous poem by Kipling, Tommy:
regards Sue
- November 10, 2007 at 8:44 AM
- Chris said...
What was the point of this missive? That all veterans are drunks, or crazy, or horribly disfigured, or some combination of these?
The shallowness of this post does nothing to illustrate the purported title. I fail to understand what any of these anecdotes have to do with Armistice Day, or Veterans Day, or indeed with anything at all.
This day was set aside to remember those who sacrificed, not denigrate and belittle them. I don't know what you set out to do, but that is what you have accomplished.
- November 12, 2007 at 10:45 AM
- John Guzlowski said...
Hi, Chris, I didn't mean any disrespect to veterans. I was trying to write about the veterans I knew as a kid of 4 and 5 years. Veterans were scary people to me. When you're that age and you see someone without a leg or a hand, you don't know what to think.
I also tried to suggest that I learned something from my parents about how to see veterans and appreciate and respect them.
- November 12, 2007 at 1:19 PM
John, I didn't see this as a belittling post at all. I think you made these veterans and their sufferings vividly palpable, and I appreciate that.
- November 14, 2007 at 9:37 AM
- The Accidental Existentialist said...
You have a new and devoted reader. Your skill at painting a picture, even one so personal as this, is masterful.
Keith Olbermann commented on the over-politicization of Veterans Day on Monday night. He, (and this notion comes completely from the Flanders Field poem), along with Richard Wolffe of Newsweek, seemed to pine longingly for a rememberence in the style of Englands. Understated. Unspoken. A single poppy worn on the lapel to acknowldedge those that gave their lives in service to whichever nation they fought, whether through conscription or volunteer service.
- November 14, 2007 at 2:25 PM
- Steve said...
My Uncle never said anything about his service during the war. In fact, upon his return, he forbade everyone to ever ask him about what he did while he was in the ETO. Only recently, as I searched for info on him did I find out anything. Bits and pieces really; but one thing struck me and stayed with me. My cousin says that about 10 years ago, as he was being xrayed for the spread of cancer, the doctors found a suspicious lump in his knee that they wanted to (I guess) do a biopsy of. he told them he'd save them the trouble, it was shrapnel from Bastogne. thats always struck me as the type of man he was. he carried that chunk of metal for almost 60 years, and never once complained about it.
Just felt like sharing.....
- December 15, 2007 at 10:04 PM
Hi, I was just wondering about the first picture, is it from the world war I, and where did you get it?
- January 14, 2008 at 9:58 AM
- John Guzlowski said...
Hi, Anonymous,
I found the image on the web. It came from http://www.stephentaylor.ca/archives/inflandersfields.jpg
- January 14, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Okey, thanks!
So you don't know what war the picture is from then?
- January 15, 2008 at 10:00 AM
- John Guzlowski said...
Sorry, it's WWI. The photo caption is "In Flanders Field."
Flanders Field of course is a place fought over during the First World War.
- January 15, 2008 at 10:48 AM
Thank you very much!
- January 29, 2008 at 9:14 AM
- wnygrl585 said...
Hello John, Thanks for sharing this great post. I don't agree with the other Chris...I think he/she missed the whole point. I don't usually comment on the blogs but do read and enjoy them. Keep them coming. Thank you.
- November 10, 2008 at 11:35 AM
- Zizou Alphonse Corder, PhD said...
Flanders Field is not actually a particular place. It refers in general to fields in Flanders, which is an area in the north of Belgium. This picture is from the Third Battle of Ypres (modern name Ieper) in 1917. The word Flanders means Drowned Lands - much of the are is actually below sea level, and drained by canals. The battlefield was reduced to appalling mud by the destruction of the drainage system by constant shelling and barrage.
- March 13, 2009 at 3:46 PM
- Zizou Alphonse Corder, PhD said...
Flanders Field is not actually a particular place. It refers in general to fields in Flanders, which is an area in the north of Belgium. This picture is from the Third Battle of Ypres (modern name Ieper) in 1917. The word Flanders means Drowned Lands - much of the are is actually below sea level, and drained by canals. The battlefield was reduced to appalling mud by the destruction of the drainage system by constant shelling and barrage.
- March 13, 2009 at 3:47 PM
- John Guzlowski said...
Hi, Zizou, thanks for the comment. Sounds like you're a historian. Take a look at my entry about history and numbers.
- March 14, 2009 at 1:03 PM
- Kristi said...
Wow, John. That was really moving and powerful. It strikes how you point out how your mother was a veteran too, having fought and fighting her own war. Thank you for sharing this enlightened piece.
- May 24, 2010 at 8:40 PM
"Po tee weet." Did I ever tell you about the Vietnam veterans I meet and lived next to the summer after I graduated from high school? One would talk for hours by the lurid glow of a old antique lantern while swilling Early Times whiskey out of a gallon jug, and chased it with a can of Busch. Perhaps the most memorable moments of my life where listening to his war stories as the night wained, and the clock over the kitchen table slipped to its highest point, I would wander across the yard, to begin the night of debauchery with my age appropriate pals. Ironically I yearned for the next time I would hear Jimmie's stories and the look from his partner Paul Tennes, his eyes seemed to warp back to that time (he was in the same regiment as Jim) the difference was he could not speak about it; he would nod occasionally or shake his head, sometimes laugh, and most poignantly often tear up and look the other way as myself and my two buddies were enthralled to the point that he could not bear to look at us in his rawness.
thanks John for the post, awesome as always. Ron Lybarger
- November 11, 2010 at 7:12 AM
- John Guzlowski said...
Ron, thanks for your war story. I think what you point out is that we all are touched by war, the veterans and the now veterans.
- November 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM
- oriana said...
A fabulous post. I did not feel you belittled veterans -- only showed their suffering to point out what war can do to the participants, disabling them for the rest of their lives. Ponchek was likely brain-damaged, as were probably quite a few of them.
WWI also gave us the emergence of the Soviet Union. It's often called "Europe's suicide," and I can see why.
Finally, I find the last stanza of "In Flanders Fields" simply revolting. It calls for the perpetuation of warfare. It goes back to the primitive belief that the ghosts call for revenge. An example of a poem that is lovely yet pernicious. Lyrical poison.
- November 15, 2010 at 7:22 PM
- oriana said...
I want to add just this: I admire your mother for having fended off the drunk attackers who wanted to extort money from her. What a strong woman! I know she had her problems, but given what she'd survived, wow . . . I admire this woman, who reminds me of the strong women in my family, esp my grandmother who survived Auschwitz and was likewise a proverbial tower of strength. It's not a sweet personality, but certainly not a meek doormat.
- November 15, 2010 at 7:40 PM
- John Guzlowski said...
My friend Sue Knight wrote me a letter about this blog that I am posting:
Thanks very much for reminding me of this post John. And of all those traumatised young men. I see I did manage to comment on your blog, so I must try again. It must be possible.
We were made to love each other, not to fight and kill each other. So when we do go to war, we not only damage the other, but we damage ourselves. And you are right to record that damage.
There was a quote I read many years ago from a veteran of the trenches of WW1 - the horror of which I suspect we can barely begin to imagine. His description was so vivid that it stayed in my head.
He said: "We cowered in our trenches as if angry demons were stamping overhead."
I couldn't forget those words, but it wasn't until years later when I began to study the Bible and came to understand the Book of Revelation that i realised how truly he described it.
This is an extract from "The World", which, in 1914, was a leading newspaper in New York City:
"The terrific war outbreak in Europe has fulfilled an extraordinary prophecy... 'Look out for 1914!' has been the cry of the hundreds of travelling evangelists, who representing this strange creed (associated with Russell), have gone up and down the country enunciating the doctrine that 'the Kingdom of God is at hand'" - The World Magazine, August 30th, 1914
The people of the 'strange creed' were the Earnest Bible Students (sometimes known as Russellites), now known as Jehovah's Witnesses.
1914 is a very significant date in Bible prophecy. And Revelation explains simply and clearly why it marks a time of terrible trouble for the world - and why that young soldier said what he did.
If you want to know John, obviously I am more than happy to tell you.
all the best Sue
My Blog: http://sueknight2000.blogspot.com/
- November 25, 2010 at 5:01 PM
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- November 25, 2010 at 5:02 PM
Im in 7th grade... and this article and info helped me sooo much on my test that I'm taking tomorrow... I used this to study WWI and the time period of Eleanor Roosevelt!
Thanks soooooo much!!!
- January 4, 2011 at 4:19 PM
Hi Jon,
I was very happy to stumble upon your blog. I am currently writing a history paper about displaced persons camps and was looking for pictures of them when I found you. I don't know how much you have read or are interested in the history of displaced persons' camps after World War II, but I would recommend reading "Jews, Germans, and Allies" by Atina Grossmann if you are. She discusses the significance of the high birth rate within the camps, which you might find particularly interesting. You might also like Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe's Families, which comes out this month.
- May 4, 2011 at 5:52 PM
- John Guzlowski said...
Thanks, Anonymous. I'm very much interested in the DP camps and will check out the two books you mentioned. I have photos of the camps and would be happy to pass them on to you.
- May 4, 2011 at 6:46 PM
- Stuart Vail said...
Your mother... what a pistol! Great post, John. Everyone has a story, and no true story is to be discounted. There's gold in them there tales, so have at it!
I love the poem that your daughter submitted as well.
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Bill King trots out another old favorite, conservative chestnut this week by once again suggesting that perhaps people who show up at the polls to vote should bring along some sort of identification. And, anticipating the normal progressive push-back, offers a suggestion to Democrats. Get over it.
[W]e are regularly required to produce identification for matters far more trivial than exercising our right to vote, such as cashing a check or using a credit card. So some reasonable requirement to produce proof of your identification at the poll hardly seems overly burdensome in the context of today's society…
I would respectfully suggest to my Democratic friends that it is time to punt on this issue and get it behind us.
Bill's assumption that Democrats would object – and precisely why they might – seems to have been summoned immediately into existence. Greg's Opinion:
No thanks, Bill. You can respectfully ask me to give up as many rights as I'm warranted, but my answer won't change…
The fact of the matter is that there's a principle involved here. It's called the right to vote. Increasing the number of impediments in front of that is not something I am willing to consider punting over. Regardless of polls, regardless of the fact that there are 99 GOP State Reps that their constituents can't name. Regardless of anything. My position is clear: let eligible voters vote. It seems that's not enough of a principle for Bill King.
On the one hand, both Bill and Greg start out agreeing on one point which muddles this entire discussion. Leaving all hyperbole and hyperventilating aside, there has probably not been any significant amount of voter fraud in sufficient quantity to alter the outcome of a state or congressional level election in living memory, to say nothing of a presidential race. Mobilizing that many people to act in concert without being apprehended seems unlikely in the extreme.
But that's only if you're talking about the efforts of one person or group spread out across a massive playing field. What about at the micro level? Plenty of state and county legislative elections frequently go into recounts and are decided by a margin of 100 votes or less. (They're still counting two races in my county as this is being written.) Shenanigans in the election process at that level can have a profound effect, and if they happen often enough across the state and nation, even if not coming from one central command center, the outcome may become suspect.
But the idea of ID cards always sets off multiple firestorms. On the one hand, as Bill King notes, it's a rather flagrantly partisan and shallow argument.
Of course, the debate over voter ID is completely disingenuous on both sides. Republicans speculate that their likely voters will have an easier time producing an ID than Democratic voters and thereby gain some infinitesimal electoral advantage. This, of course, is precisely the same reason Democrats oppose it. Neither side really gives two hoots and a holler about whether there is really any voter fraud going on or not, just whether the system (current or proposed) favors their side.
Oddly enough, some of the same Republicans and conservatives who like the idea of ID for voting are frequently the first to stand up and oppose the idea of a national ID card which could significantly assist in immigration and law enforcement efforts.
But let's say we could get something like this organized. What would you need to make sure it was not only effective, but legal? Well, first of all, if you're going to use such an ID for voting, it's going to have to be free. (If it's not and the government charges you a fee for it, that's effectively a tax. This then opens up a line of argument that it's a Poll Tax and it becomes constitutionally problematic.) And this means that it's going to have to be paid for with tax revenue.
Could such an ID be pushed further? (On a strictly optional basis, of course.) Could travelers offer to go through a lengthy screening process such as one undertakes if they want a job with the government, and get themselves pre-approved for security concerns, helping out with those nasty TSA lines at the airport? Honestly, I don't see the problem with it.
Then again, in total disregard for my more libertarian roots, I'm one of those strange ducks who doesn't have a big problem with a national database of ID for everyone living in our borders, up to and including photographs, fingerprints, retinal scans and DNA. A healthy amount of suspicion of the government is one thing, but if you're going to have a government and a law enforcement structure, it would be nice to have them actually be able to catch the real bad guys a bit more efficiently.
So what do you think? Yea or nay on ID requirements for voting? National ID cards if they're not mandatory? Or shall we scrap them all, including drivers licenses, and put everyone on the honor system?


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By Ben Golliver and Rob Mahoney
Every single bit of momentum that the Lakers have been able to generate this season has been swallowed whole by bad breaks and poor chemistry, making it no surprise that L.A.'s recent success would inevitably lead to some unfortunate news.
The latest gut punch comes courtesy of the ever-reliable Ken Berger of CBS Sports, who is reporting that Pau Gasol -- last seen exiting Tuesday night's game on crutches after collapsing to the floor late in the fourth quarter -- is due to miss at least six weeks of game action due to a partially torn plantar fascia. The injury was confirmed by the Lakers, but the team was unwilling to provide a timetable before Gasol was examined by team doctors in L.A. on Thursday. Winners of three straight and six of their last seven, the Lakers now will have to radically change their approach and rotation to account for this critical blow to their lineup.
According to Berger, Gasol and the Lakers will have a crucial decision to make regarding the most sensible course of action going forward:
The rehab timeline would put Gasol's recovery somewhere in the projected range of March 20-April 3, assuming no additional setbacks and not including his acclimation to the timing and conditioning of the NBA game. The surgery timeline would almost assuredly put Gasol out of action through the end of the regular season (L.A. plays its final game on April 17) and likely through even a potential first round series. The Lakers had no margin for error in their efforts to make the postseason cut, and now figure to see their playoff chances slashed significantly by the absence of so crucial a player.
There are no optimal solutions at this point, just the management of disappointing options. Gasol's injury only compounds those faced by Dwight Howard (who may be ailing and limited for the rest of the season) and reserve big man Jordan Hill (who is ruled out for the year with a labral tear), virtually stripping the Lakers of their entire rotation of bigs.
This season has been one nightmare after another for Gasol. He's missed time due to knee tendinitis and a concussion and he's averaging a career-low 13.4 points and 8.01 rebounds per game while shooting a career-low 45.3 percent from the field. But this latest blow occurred when Gasol was forced from action with a little more than four minutes remaining in regulation on Tuesday. Gasol attempted to defend a drive by Nets center Brook Lopez, and as he rose to contest the running shot, Gasol pulled up in mid-air, falling to the ground in pain. Replays showed that there was no contact between the players and that the injury appeared to occur as Gasol lifted off the ground.
Gasol initially attempted to walk off the injury but eventually went to the locker room with the assistance of the Lakers' medical team. He departed with 15 points (on 6-for-16 shooting), four rebounds and two blocks in 34 minutes.
Dave McMenamin of ESPNLA reported that Gasol said he "felt a pop" and that he was "worried" about his foot. Berger also originally reported that Lakers guard Kobe Bryant was "very, very concerned, to say the least," about Gasol's injury.
Earlier this week, Gasol indicated that he would not request a trade in advance of the Feb. 21 deadline despite frustration with his role and playing time under coach Mike D'Antoni, and now it appears that the Lakers will have no choice but to hold on to Gasol despite his underwhelming play and the dismal trajectory of their season. L.A.'s top-heavy construction is as problematic at the negotiating table as it is on the court; the team has committed to a core of Bryant, Howard and Steve Nash, making Gasol the one expendable piece. Now even Gasol seems likely to be a Laker -- if only in name -- through the end of the season, despite any previous urges to deal him before the deadline.Video via YouTube user nbaus3030


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Katherine Appelbe was one of three Harvard players to drive in two runs against Miami (Ohio) (Harvard Athletic Communications).
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Day 2 at the San Diego Classic II brought similar results for the Harvard softball team, as the Crimson fell in a tight, 3-2, contest with Long Beach State before slugging its way past Miami (Ohio), 7-2, Saturday on its annual spring break trip. Harvard's record moves to 5-8 heading into the final day of competition at the event.
The 49ers got off to a hot start in Game 1, blasting back-to-back homeruns with one out in the first to jump out to a 3-0 lead. Harvard starter Jamie Halula settled in nicely after the rocky first, holding Long Beach State without a run for the remainder of the game and scattering three hits. The Crimson hitters had good at-bats, picking up a hit each in the second, third and fourth innings, but Harvard was unable to cut into the LBSU lead.
Harvard was finally able to get on the board in the top of the sixth when Zoe Galindo led off with a single and Kasey Lange picked up a base hit after two Crimson batters went down via strikeout. Katherine Lantz got the big hit for Harvard, driving a single through the middle that brought home Galindo and Lange to make it a one-run game. Emily Gusse was next up, but couldn't plate the tying run as Harvard suffered its third strikeout of the frame. A seventh-inning double play killed the Harvard hopes after the leadoff batter reach, and the 49ers sealed the 3-2 win with one final strikeout.
Lantz led the Harvard offense with a 3-for-3 performance from the plate, driving in both Harvard runs and accounting for half of the team's hits. Halula went the distance for the Crimson, allowing three runs and five hits while fanning a pair of LBSU batters.
The first inning and a half of Game 2 went by without incident and Harvard took a 1-0 lead in the second thanks to solid execution. Gusse was the first batter of the inning and poked a single to left field, and advanced to second on a Jessica Ferri sacrifice bunt. After a groundout that did not allow Gusse to advance, Adrienne Hume knocked a single to left, bringing home Gusse for the 1-0 lead. The lead was short-lived, however, as the Red Hawks came back with two of their own in the third, taking advantage of an error by the Crimson and a timely RBI double.
Miami (Ohio) held tight to the 2-1 lead through the top of the fifth, but Harvard recaptured the lead for good in the bottom of the frame. After Hume was hit by a pitch and Katherine Appelbe reached base via error, Andrea Del Conte knocked a single that brought two runs in, swinging the lead back to Harvard, 3-2. Lantz was the next player up for Harvard and the sophomore pounded a two-run homer to stretch the lead to 5-2. Appelbe was responsible for two more runs in the next inning, picking up a two-run single to cap the 7-2 Harvard victory.
Rookie Morgan Groom continued to show poise in the circle for Harvard, going the distance against the Red Hawks to pick up her second win of the season. Groom scattered three hits in seven innings of work, fanned three batters and didn't allow an earned run on the day. Seven different Harvard players collected hits against Miami (Ohio), with Del Conte, Lantz and Appelbe picking up a pair of RBI each in the game.
Harvard finishes it stay at the San Diego Classic II Sunday with a game against San Diego.


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Club Burwood RSL provides a great safe meeting place right in the middle of your local community where you can meet new friends and get involved in some friendly competition. You don't need experience as our sports clubs welcome new members and are more than happy to teach you.
Come along for social games and even join in on the annual Club Championships where cash and prizes are won. Once you join a club you can even try your hand a other sports if you wish via our annual inter-sports day, a very popular social day where teams from all clubs compete against each other in each of the different sports.
Members are eligable to join our 7 popular sports clubs who meet and play regularly. All sports clubs are based at the RSL. Outdoor Bowls are played at Greenlees Park Bowling Club. Please see directory for contact details.
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Lyall Bills & Young's secluded water recycling plant in the Olympic Park sets the standard for similar utilities, says Amanda Birch
Just past the manicured lawns surrounding the Olympic Stadium in London's Stratford is a large sign to the 'Old Ford Water Recycling Plant'. Pass through the gates into a woodland setting and it's like entering another world. Mature trees and wild grasses grow unhindered, bees buzz and newts bob under the water of a small pond. Instead of the frenetic noise of the last-minute preparations for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, bird song pierces the air in this enclave, which retains the ambience of pre-Olympic east London. The contrast between the controlled and pristine appearance of the Olympic Park and this wild idyll is dramatic.
A simple, rectilinear building sits to one side of this 1.66ha serene oasis. Clad in larch and gabion baskets, this is a building designed to blend in with its woodland location. Its use isn't immediately apparent but the presence of two large circular water tanks and Cor-ten steel loading bay doors suggest that this is an industrial facility.
The Old Ford Water Recycling Plant is the largest community wastewater recycling facility in the UK. The plant, which went on stream on 1 April, takes raw sewage from the Northern Outfall Sewer and cleans it through a multi-layered process before the water is fed into a non-potable network in the Olympic Park. This supply will flush the toilets of the Media Centre, the Handball Arena and Eton Manor and irrigate the plants around the main stadium as well as numerous green spaces in the park.
Jointly funded by the Olympic Delivery Authority and Thames Water, the Old Ford Water Recycling Plant was a pilot research project set up as part of the ODA's sustainable water strategy, which had a target of reducing potable water use in the Park by 40 per cent. But this project is more than a vehicle for the ODA to meet its sustainability targets during the Games and into the Olympic Park's legacy. It is also a platform for detailed research into reclaimed water that will be of national interest and will contribute to a growing body of work on this subject.
Designed by Lyall Bills & Young Architects, the recycling plant is one of four infrastructure buildings by the practice in the vicinity of the Olympic Park (AJ 12.08.10). One of these, the Old Ford Ground Water Pumping >> Station is on the same site: a collection of five striking cubes with a similar palette of materials. Cor-ten steel, the cladding material for the cubes, is referenced on the water recycling plant's doors and both facilities have green roofs to encourage biodiversity – a given for all new infrastructure buildings on the Olympic Park.
The architects worked hard to design a water recycling plant that was sympathetic to its surroundings. The Old Ford location is a Site of Nature Conservation Importance and the land is leased to the London Wildlife Trust. To minimise its visual impact, the 45m x 13m building is largely single-storey. The exception is a double-height 10m-tall section at the eastern end or 'dirty' zone of the linear water treatment process (see page 79), to allow for emergency access and a 15m-tall odour stack, the verticality of the flue counterbalancing the horizontal building. The 'clean' zone is at the west end of the building and houses the office, visitors' area and toilets. The height of the building therefore responds to the processes within.
The cladding materials were carefully considered. A robust material was needed for the base to cope with the risk of flooding and impact. As an alternative to concrete, gabion baskets were employed – a treatment that provides a ready-made habitat for plants and wildlife. Crushed Somerset stone was used in the gabions as it was considered to be a more refined finish by the planners, despite the ODA's aim that material from the Olympic Park site, in this case crushed concrete, should be re-used where possible. At the eastern end of the building, the gabion baskets extend half-way up the building wrapping around to the southern elevation, where they drop to a low plinth before the building becomes single-storey. The north elevation follows a similar pattern.
The cladding of the upper section is larch boarding, which blends in with the mature trees encircling the building. Over time, the larch will weather to silver and merge with the grey gabion baskets below. This is not a building for people to look out of. Daylight is needed, but with minimal glare and solar gain. Rooflights were avoided for maintenance reasons. Instead, discreet, narrow windows are deployed where machinery isn't located.
This is a carefully considered facility that will age gracefully. As the green roof matures, the materials fade and the trees and grasses grow even taller and wilder, this building will merge into the landscape, as intended.
The Old Ford Water Recycling Plant could easily have been just another brick utility shed with a tin roof. But, in response to the Olympic Delivery Authority's aspiration for design quality, championed by Kay Hughes, the architects have delivered more than that through careful consideration of massing and materials. Whether future infrastructure buildings will employ a similar high quality is debatable. But if heavy technology continues to be brought back to dense areas near to where people live, then the stakes are raised. Taking a cue from the Victorians,more infrastructure buildings which celebrate their technologies and cloak them in materials sympathetic to their environs would be welcome.
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See full project data, photographs and drawings for the Old Ford Water Recycling Plant
How it works
Unique on this scale in the UK, the Old Ford Water Recycling Plant houses an innovative treatment process that produces 600,000 litres per day of reclaimed water for non-potable applications. With the exception of BedZED's wastewater reclamation plant, there are currently no membrane bioreactors in the UK for urban reuse. However, the BedZED plant only treats and recycles domestic sewage for toilet flushing. The Old Ford plant is 20 times larger and is linked to an extensive metered reuse network on the Olympic Park with multiple end-users.
Raw sewage passes into two underground septic tanks located outside the building, which provide flow equalisation and primary settling. The effluent then passes through a 1mm screen inside the facility to remove small fibres and hair that could clog the membranes. Influent is then treated by a membrane bioreactor (MBR) process, which combines biological treatment with a membrane filtration step. To ensure consistent reuse quality, the MBR product is further treated to remove any residual colour. Chlorine dosing ensures disinfection and suppresses bacterial re-growth in the distribution network. Finally, the reclaimed water flows into the outdoor larch-clad storage tank, from where it is pumped into a dedicated non-potable network when demand requires.
Future of the technology
After the Games, the London Legacy Development Corporation will operate the Park. Some venues will retain the reused water supply, while others will use the data generated by the Old Ford plant to determine whether they will utilise reclaimed water in the future for other purposes, such as cooling. Thames Water has a commitment to run the plant for seven years and will actively seek users for the water generated by the facility.
On-going research at the Old Ford plant will investigate process optimisation and energy minimisation, as well as support the development of standards and guidelines for water recycling systems. Also crucial will be gauging public perception about the use of recycled sewer water.
The majority of full-scale MBR plants for urban reuse are situated in the US and Japan, but their use is rapidly increasing in Europe, China and Australia.
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(CNN) -- There is optimism, and hope, that the Egyptian-brokered three-day "humanitarian cease-fire" between the Israel Defense Forces and Hamas will turn into a longer-term cessation of hostilities -- with good reason.
Why? Militarily speaking, Hamas is on the ropes. Although the group has survived an IDF aerial, naval and ground onslaught, it has suffered a severe blow. Despite its somewhat successful attempts to portray itself and all Gaza as victims of a disproportionate Israeli military campaign, in the end it failed to prevent the IDF from achieving almost all its military goals, while achieving very little on its part.
The Israelis stated early on in the campaign that their objectives were to find and destroy Hamas' networks of tunnels constructed under the Gaza border with Israel, tunnels designed to be used for offensive attacks on Israeli cities and kibbutzim in southern Israel.
At the outset of hostilities, the IDF believed there were over 20 tunnels. At the end of the fighting, they had destroyed 32 tunnels, some almost 2 miles in length and demonstrating surprising engineering capabilities. Granted, it is impossible to know if the IDF has found all the tunnels.
Opinion: Bring Hamas to the table
Let's look at the situation as it appeared on the day after the last rockets were fired, the last bombs were dropped and the last tunnels were destroyed.
Hamas has lost most if not all its offensive tunnels. These tunnels were constructed over several years at great expense, not only in terms of resources expended, but in terms of diversion of those resources from the construction of infrastructure projects, including schools, hospitals, mosques and housing.
As for casualties, the overwhelming numbers of dead and wounded were Palestinians. The death toll among the Gazans reached almost 1,900, according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.
There are differing claims by human rights organizations and the Israeli government about how many of the dead were Hamas fighters versus innocent civilians. The human rights groups say 80% of the dead were civilians, while the Israelis counter with a figure of just under 50%.
Assuming the human rights groups are correct, Hamas has lost fewer than 400 fighters; if we are to accept the Israeli figure, Hamas losses would be over 900. Given its suspected strength of more than 10,000 fighters, Hamas can absorb this level of manpower losses.
If past conflicts are a guide, Hamas recruitment will soar in the wake of the fighting as young men are drawn to the organization that, at least in their own minds, successfully stood up to the vaunted Israel Defense Forces. Personnel losses will not affect the ability of Hamas to survive.
That said, in addition to the loss of the tunnels, much of Hamas' rocket inventory has been depleted or destroyed. According to a spokesman for the Israeli military, Hamas started the conflict with an arsenal of about 10,000 rockets. One-third of those were fired at Israel, albeit with limited effect, and another third were destroyed in Israeli strikes.
If those figures are accurate, that leaves Hamas with over 3,000 rockets. The numbers can be deceiving, since we do not have a breakdown of how many of which type remain in the inventory -- do they have a large number of the more capable Syrian-made M-302 (100 mile range) or locally made M-75 (50 mile range) rockets, or more of the less capable, locally made short-range al-Qassam rockets? In any case, Hamas still has thousands of rockets.
However, of the thousands of rockets fired by Hamas (as well as some launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad) at Israel, few caused significant damage. There have been three civilian deaths in Israel thus far in the conflict.
The primary reason for the low number of deaths and injuries in Israel, aside from the inherent inaccuracy of the rockets, is the effectiveness of Israel's Iron Dome anti-rocket/missile system.
After similar conflicts in the past, Hamas has been re-armed and resupplied by its supporters, primarily Iran and to some extent Syria. The most efficient method for the re-arming and resupply effort has been via the large number of smuggling tunnels between Gaza and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
That is not likely to be the case this time -- another blow to Hamas, which it must factor in to its assessment of this conflict as well as its future planning.
The new government in Egypt under former defense chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is not a friend of Hamas. Al-Sisi considers Hamas to be nothing more than a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which he has outlawed in Egypt. He has increased the Egyptian military and police presence on the Gaza border and destroyed many of the smuggling tunnels formerly used to import weapons into Gaza. Hamas cannot expect to be fully re-armed and resupplied via Sinai as it has in the past.
This conflict ended, at least for a while, as most of the past wars have. Israel dominated the battlefield, possessing complete control of the air and sea, and took the ground fighting deep into Gaza, Hamas' home turf. The much more powerful Israeli armed forces did enormous damage to the public and civilian infrastructure while mostly achieving its military objectives.
I said earlier in this conflict that Israel would pursue its objectives despite the inevitable world condemnation of its so-called disproportionate use of military force, and would stop its operations when it had achieved those objectives. We appear to be at that point.
There has been far too much loss of life in Gaza. It is time to stop the fighting and seek a solution to this current crisis and establish a framework for a long-term solution. We have a chance to do just that. In this particular instance, the catalyst for that search may just be the serious military defeat suffered by Hamas.
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Amazing young athletes have been going viral lately. Did you see the video of the 11-year-old star of the Downey Christian high school varsity basketball team, who recently performed at halftime of an Orlando Magic game? How about the 9-year-old girl running around and over the boys in her youth football league, who was invited to sit next to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell at last month's Super Bowl? Then there's the 10th grader who is currently starting for the Erie Otters, a major junior hockey team with an average age of 19, whose agent is Hall of Famer Bobby Orr and who NHL star Sidney Crosby compares to himself.
These young YouTube sensations, Julian Newman, Sam Gordon and Connor McDavid, have all been dealing with the crush of recent media attention thanks to their incredible athletic skills. Certainly, there are more like them across the country waiting to be discovered, but the stories of these three give us a chance to look behind the highlights for similarities and clues of early athletic achievement. According to two new studies, it is all about their mind-set.
To most kids, making their high school varsity basketball team when they're only in 6th grade and 4' 5" tall would sound impossible. Many young girls (and their parents) wouldn't think of playing in a boys football league assuming they could never compete. And a 16 year old hockey player is often told that the odds of him ever playing in college or the pros is a long shot unless you were born with just the right set of skills.
Carol Dweck, Stanford University psychology professor, calls this a fixed mind-set, believing that the skills you were born with define the upper limits of your success in life. Conversely, those students with a growth mind-set are driven by their desire to learn new things and look at failure as just part of the process. A fixed mind-set dwells on performance goals; only trying new tasks that they believe fall within their innate gifts. A growth mind-set thrives on learning goals and can't wait to take on the next challenge even it means a struggle.
In most cases, researchers believe we can thank our parents for giving us our current mind-set. Two new studies have confirmed that how parents praise their children can have a lasting effect on how their kids face new challenges.
Dweck and a team from Stanford, Temple and the University of Chicago videotaped mothers with their toddlers at ages 1, 2 and 3 as they accomplished everyday play activities. Some moms used what the researchers call "person praise", saying things like "you're so smart" and "you're good at hockey." Other moms used "process praise" with phrases like, "you figured it out" or "you learned how to make that shot."
Five years later, the team revisited the kids and asked them if they would like to tackle some tough learning problems like math or complicated skill movements. As expected, those kids who had been praised with fixed "you're smart" phrases were afraid to try new challenges in fear they would fail, ruining their reputation for being "smart." On the other hand, process-praised children took on the new tasks knowing their only failure would be to not try.
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Their research was just published in the journal, Child Development.
Praising the wrong way seems intuitive to most parents. In a similar experiment, Dutch researchers asked 357 adults to write down the encouragement that they would give to six different children, three with high self-esteem and three with low self esteem, for completing an activity. Sample descriptions of the hypothetical kids were either, "Lisa usually likes the kind of person she is" or "Sarah is often unhappy with herself."
The adults used person praise twice as often as process praise for the low-esteem children. "Adults may feel that praising children for their inherent qualities helps combat low self-esteem, but it might convey to children that they are valued as a person only when they succeed," lead author Eddie Brummelman of Utrecht University said. "When children subsequently fail, they may infer they are unworthy."
The study appears in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Eduardo Briceño, Co-Founder and CEO of Mindset Works, a company that helps schools and teachers adopt the growth mind-set, explains Dweck's research in this recent TED talk:
Connor McDavid clearly has a growth mind-set. Sherry Bassin, general manager of the Otters, described McDavid's attitude in a recent USA Today article, "First guy on the ice for practice, last guy off. He just loves it. He's like those doctors who can't leave the hospital for 18 hours. He is honing his skills like a top surgeon."
As for Julian and Sam, if they see walls in front of them, they have learned to either dribble or sprint around them.
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Galatasaray are reportedly considering a January bid for Liverpool forward Dirk Kuyt.
According to Metro, the Turkish giants are willing to part with £10 million in order to land Kuyt and, in turn, boost the 31-year-old's chances of playing at Euro 2012.
The Holland international is no longer a guaranteed starter at Anfield, and has started 11 of Liverpool's 20 league fixtures this season.
The summer acquisitions of Charlie Adam, Jordan Henderson and Stewart Downing having limited Kuyt's opportunities in midfield, while Luis Suarez is Kenny Dalglish's preferred option up-front.
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Colorado TechFair necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 31 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
Colorado TechFair 2009
The Colorado TechFair is a state-wide technology fair created to 1. Promote the creative use of technology by schoolchildern and 2. Raise funds and awareness for the host organization OpenWorld Learning. We are a local nonprofit that hosts technology based afterschool programs for youth. We hope the fair will turn out to be a fun and engaging experience, and are looking for a logo that reflects that!
We are targeting a varied audiance. The logo will need to be appealing to the students, 3-12 grade. I would like it to reflect some of the energy of OpenWorld Learnings color scheme, as the event is also to expand community awareness of the nonprofit (http://www.openworldlearning.org). Further though, we are marketing to businesses for sponsorhip and will be having a prestigious aray of host judges hopefully including Colorado governmental officials.
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Writing band logos
1-Have you ever spray painted a band logo somewhere? If so then what band?
2-Did you ever write a band logo on a book? (I mean the book not a remmovable cover)
If so then what band was it?
1. Yes, painted Van Halen's on the side of a car wash.
2. didn't write on books, too afraid of the nuns. ;)
I wasn't going to be the first to admit to doing this so now I can write.
1-I wrote Metal Church, GBH, the Exploited and Megadeth on the side of a bridge and I wrote Venom under a different bridge.
2-I don't think I did. I used paper grocery bags to make book covers so I could just put logos all over them.
I've always like Twisted Sisters logo, especially with bones so I would draw that everywhere. I was never brave enough for spray paint.
I have written band logos on my school books before. The Van Halen one was pretty easy. Of course I had to do Twisted Sister because it was, again, easy. Um, and then I uh, did the Duran Duran one a few times. :)
We used paperbag book covers too, and in that case, mostly had Kiss, AC/DC, and VH - obviously, I wasn't much of an artist. :)
No to both questions but I do have a band logo tat. That is more permanent than a tag.
Krokus? Of all the bands inspiring the kind of loyalty and love that would drive such a monumental tribute, Krokus is probably in the second or third hundred.
I have seen huge Metallica and GnR and Van Halen logos spray painted on various bridges/sidewalks. But not Krokus.
I don't think I ever defaced a book COVER. The pages inside often have scribbling and scrawling all over them, though.
-- david
1. I admit to doing a huge KISS logo with some friends under a bridge back in high school. It has since been painted over. I also drew a decent sized KISS logo on the back wall of my stockroom at Pier One Imports about 15 years ago. I was a mgr there so I knew where to put it so my boss wouldn't see it.
2. I had nuns so paper bags covered the books. I used to do dead on logos of KISS, Priest, Maiden, Twisted Sister, Van Halen, Scorpions, etc.
I gotta say that seeing a huge Krokus logo on a rock would be odd. Aside from myself, I never knew anyone into Krokus back in the day. I did write their name on my textbook covers though.
onmywatch-It sounds like nuns were scary in school.
dpth-I like the spraypaint TS they had on the Comeout and play sleeve where it takes up a whole wall.
Beckeye-I drew many a VH and TS in high school.
Fuzz-It is a KISS army logo?
David and Steve-Looking back I am surprised it was Krokus as well. Just one loyal fan I guess.
Mark - It might not have been a loyal fan but Krokus themselves! Imagine them hitting the streets to promote the band, spraypaint cans in hand, to the music of HEADHUNTER.
Steve-That would have made a good video in 1983.
On the train tracks I walked to work on, someone had spray painted a large "JP" in the Judas Priest letters on the back of a warehouse that I really loved. I never really did anything with spray paint except for a fort we'd made. I remember when you spray-painted those logos!
And you and I always made a sport out of decorating our book covers with band names. It was fashionable to try and get the TS Twisted Sister logo down right, and the Metallica logo was always hip... I even decorated my big blue binders with band logos...I used to write every band I could think of on my books....if I couldn't do their logo, I just wrote the band name. I remember some of my textbooks had the imprints from the cover...that was awesome.
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