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Most of us who have delivered more than one app know that the majority of these turn into applications. That transition from 'app' to 'application' brings new challenges from the initial prototype and deliver process. Adding all of those extra features requires us to slow down our velocity a bit to test all of the new inter-connectivity. In this post I want to share with you my perspectives on what it means to transition an 'app' into an 'application'.
First, let me define the difference between what an app is versus an application. For me, a business app typically has a limited amount of features that execute on some core functionality whereas a business application has to consider all of the exceptions to the business process, thus becoming feature-rich.
Often times the idea for a new app comes about because the business realizes that they need to capture some data. They might need it to help them make decisions but more often they realize that the captured data needs to route somewhere due to business processes. Using a tool like Mendix, we realize that we can capture and move data around with some basic workflow parameters in a very quick turnabout. When you see the performance claims of turning around an app in days or weeks as opposed to months or years, this is the kind of functionality you are talking about. Get it built, make it good enough, and get it out there to be used. Benefits are immediately realized and everyone wins in terms of time and money saved and processes being optimized.
At some point in your app's life-cycle, the business is going to suddenly "realize" all of the exceptions to the process that the app is supposed to help manage. People that get data routed to them might be sick or on vacation, they might bring their own device instead of using a PC or Mac, or certain cost accounts always need to route to a specific person or department. Whatever it is, that core feature to capture and move data in your app suddenly isn't sufficient for all of the exceptions to a business process.
There isn't a set number of features that changes an 'app' into an 'application' but people tend to think of apps as lightweight and applications as fully-featured. These features that address the work-arounds, exceptions, and "nice-to-have's" are really the tipping point that transitions an app into an application. The challenges now shift from how quickly you can enhance and respond to the changing needs of the business to considering how the new features might impact the already-in-production app and its user base.
You see, RAD (Rapid Application Development) coupled with SCRUM is excellent at taking an idea, prototyping it, and deploying it as an app. But the iterative process is also inherently buggy. Your team isn't going to spend as much time regression testing in order to get the app "good enough" and out the door. When you start to transition a production app into an application, you have to start considering all of the regression effects of a design feature and test accordingly. This grinds the speed of innovation drastically.
The way to deal with this is to be prepared and communicate early and often. Set the expectations that during the prototyping phase bugs are going to likely be rampant, but once you get it working and out into production and these "new feature needs" are uncovered, the process is not going to run as quickly as it did during the build phase. Since most users are accustomed to Waterfall, where they sit in some requirements gathering sessions and go away until something is delivered only to be disappointed, you have to educate them how this process differs from that one. Yes, there will potentially be more bugs in the build phase because it's all about the pace of change, but they'll be getting what they need at a much faster rate and be on-target.
Your lightweight apps have a good chance of becoming fully-featured applications. Be aware that each feature multiplies the potential bugs because of how the features inter-connect. I don't have the sure-fire way that you'll avoid bugs, but I share this to help coach you to communicate early and often with your business owners the differences between how they were used to interacting with IT and how this new RAD process will meet their needs faster with the caveat that it might be a bit more buggy along the way. If your users know what they want and bugs are not tolerated well, then RAD probably isn't the right approach. But no matter what approach you take, know that your app is likely to become an application at some point so consider that during your design and prepare your business owners with constant communication about this paradigm shift.


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It is becoming a drumbeat of supporters of the F-22 and the F-35: We built them. Let's use them when conditions are right.
When Iran appeared to be on track for developing a nuclear weapon, F-22 advocates wondered why they weren't deployed to the Mideast. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was accused of holding them back so he wouldn't give the F-22 ammunition to prove its worth soon after he capped the buy at 187.
Now advocates are arguing that the world's most capable tactical aircraft should be used to enforce a no-fly zone in Libya. It can, advocates note, survive in an area defended by the best opposing anti-aircraft systems and it can destroy them. This is being linked with calls -- mostly from Republicans but Democrats are speaking out as well -- to do something to help the Libyan opposition against the badly tailored and worse coiffed man who sort of leads the country: Muammar Gaddafi.
In a piece titled, "U.S. Fifth Generation Fighters Could Enforce No-Fly Zones," the Lexington Institute's Dan Goure argues for the plane's deployment: "Apparently, the Secretary forgot that he has an airplane specifically designed to operate in contested airspace, full of hostile SAMs and aircraft."
Goure is certainly not alone in his sentiment but few others are willing to take the public stage yet to argue for the F-22's use over Libya. Some airpower advocates would like to see the first F-35s used over Libya to prove just how capable they are. And Goure notes that F-35 would be even more useful in Libya, especially the F-35B, the vertical take-off plane being built for the Marines.
This argument is being played out not only in terms of aircraft, but also in terms of national will, decisiveness and the fact that power unexercised is irrelevant. If the Obama administration -- and Defense Secretary Robert Gates -- shies away from a fight as good as this one appears to be, then when will America use its enormous power for good.
Goure opens his piece this way: "The debate over the imposition of a no-fly zone is paralyzed by the specter of the U.S. having to attack Libyan surface to air missile (SAM) sites as a precursor to such an operation. Secretary of Defense Gates effectively shut down discussion of the no-fly option when he asserted in testimony that such an operation would begin with attacks on Libyan SAM sites."
And he ends it with this argument for the muscular use of power: "The idea that the will of the Free World and the ability of the U.S. military to operate where and when it chooses can be stymied by the threat from the obsolescent, poorly-maintained and badly trained Libyan air defense system is ludicrous."
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The European Commission and the Swiss government announced on 12 September that they have reached a technical agreement on Swiss participation in HORIZON 2020. From today until December 2016, Switzerland will again participate with an associated country status in actions under the "Excellent Science" pillar containing the ERC grants, Future Emerging Technologies, Research Infrastructures and Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions.
Switzerland can also participate as an associated country in HORIZON 2020 actions under the specific objective "Spreading excellence and widening participation", as well the Euratom programme and activities carried out by the European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion for Energy. In all other aspects of HORIZON 2020, Switzerland will have the status as a "third country".
Switzerland had lost its associated country status following the result of the referendum "Against mass immigration" in February 2014. Patrick Aebischer, President of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and current Chair of the EuroTech Universities Alliance, welcomed this development as "better than no agreement".


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Welsh festival ends with two big, slow concertos, superbly played
Apart from festivals like the BBC Proms that do everything, the best festivals have always been the ones that cut a distinctive profile. They might not offer the best music. Those old French festivals of modern music – Royan, La Rochelle, Metz – were a nightmare of clichéd avant-gardism. But you got what was written on the tin, and if you didn't like it, serve you right for going.
Something similar is true of the Vale of Glamorgan Festival, except for the clichéd avant-gardism. John Metcalf, who founded the festival no fewer than 47 years ago when barely (perhaps not even) out of college, threw all that overboard two or three decades ago and decided to include only the music he personally liked, which was broadly neo-tonal, new age, new simplicity, always by living composers – Tavener, Pärt, and, yes, Metcalf, because the same decision affected his own music, or maybe it was the music that affected the decision. The remarkable consequence anyway was a new audience, not of music critics, publishers, and strange men in raincoats, but of people who bought tickets because this was what they wanted to hear.
Even when the music dances, it often seems anchoredAt least, that has been my impression over many years of on-and-off attendance. This isn't always exactly my kind of music – or rather, it usually starts by being and then becomes less so. In Friday's closing concert of this year's festival in Cardiff's Hoddinott Hall there were two big new works, one by the Latvian Pēteris Vasks, one by Metcalf, both celebrating their 70th birthdays this year. I found them both beautiful and clear in their aims; and both, for me, outstayed their welcome.
Vasks composes intricate music that is, by and large, harmonically static. Both in his short string work, Cantabile, which opened the concert, and in the new work, a viola concerto with string orchestra, wonderfully played by Maxim Rysanov, he builds up elaborate textures without shifting the mode or changing key. The melodic writing and scoring are exquisite, but even when the music dances, as in the second movement of the concerto, it often seems to be anchored either by slow-moving pedal notes in the bass or by a fixed harmonic field.
Over 40 minutes this can be a problem, or it can be the whole point of a pacific mentality. Vasks includes two hugely long solo cadenzas, brilliantly written for the instrument. But they overbalance the form, and require a too-long final slow movement to ensure an adequate conclusion. And since the music, with all its beauties of sound, is very tightly knit motivically, it seems to me in the end to risk monotony. However, to judge by the cheers, I was in a minority of one on this point.
John Metcalf's half-hour Cello Symphony is no less beautiful in its elements. It starts with a long, eloquent meditation on the "Dies irae" plainsong or something like it, and – just like the Vasks concerto – gradually builds up an intensity of feeling through expansion of the texture, but always in terms of this initial melody. Flashes of woodwind and brass break in from time to time, and a trumpet solo cuts through the rather dense string sound. These are striking moments.
Metcalf (pictured above right) controls his material skilfully, but he seems reluctant to write properly quick music, so that in the long run the piece threatens to languish and, when the end approaches, it seems to resist ending. Like Vasks, it achieves inner mobility rather than forward movement. It's as if the composer has looked deeply into the sonority, exploring its detail, perfecting its balance, but hasn't looked so carefully along the music's surface from start to finish. This is probably not the case. But for whatever reason, the result is a certain tonal inertia, and a chain of lovely episodes with a structure that, for me, lacks definite direction. But after all, a lovely episode is a lovely episode. I don't remember many of those at Royan or La Rochelle.
Alice Neary played the symphony with complete conviction and technical mastery, and gorgeous singing tone, and both soloists were brilliantly accompanied by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under a young American new to me, Edwin Outwater.
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This proposal describes a 5-year training program to facilitate the transition to an independent academic position. The principal investigator has completed 4 years of post-doctoral training at the University of California, Los Angeles, and now, will expand upon his scientific skills by developing an integrative career development program consisting of both a rigorous research plan and detailed career development plan. This program will further develop several unique integrative genetics approaches to cardiovascular disease. Aldons J. Lusis will continue to mentor the principal investigator's scientific development. Dr. Lusis is a recognized leader in mouse genetics and has made several significant contributions to the understanding of atherosclerosis and lipid biology. More importantly, Dr. Lusis has successfully trained a number of investigators who have become independent academic scientist. Cardiovascular disease, CVD, remains the leading cause of death in the United States accounting for almost 1 million deaths in 2002 and an estimated economic impact in excess of 393 billion dollars in 2005. There remains limited understanding of the genes predisposing a person to death from CVD. The primary aim of this proposal is designed to use a high-resolution mapping approach recently developed in out laboratory to identify genes associated with both atherosclerotic lesion size and cellular composition. Several of these novel variants will be investigated after the trainee transitions to an independent position. In addition to gene identification, several experiments are described that characterize and test a genetic network associated with lesion size in a model of advanced atherosclerosis in the mouse.
The third aim tests a novel candidate for a novel metabolite associated with atherosclerosis. The methods and analyses used in Aims 2 and 3 are the basis for gene selection and validation of novel targets identified in Aim 1 as the candidate transitions to an independent position. A long-term goal of studies proposed in this application is the identification of novel therapeutic targets for cardiovascular disease by using a systems genetics approach where mouse genetics is integrated with gene expression, small molecule metabolite profiling and extensive atherosclerotic lesion phenotyping.
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To them, speaking out in favor or against a hot-button issue might be seen as an opportunity to relate to the general population. Doing so can make the celebs appear as if they are "just like us," and shows that they have some awareness of the world outside of their Hollywood bubble. However, this isn't always well-received by the average Joe. Celebrity activism is often taken as condescension, dismissed as uninformed, or assumed to be motivated by a paycheck.
A popular opinion is that singers should sing, not talk about politics. Likewise, actors should act, and basketball players should barely even speak. Entertainers shouldn't get involved in presidential elections, humanitarian issues, environmental causes or basically anything else outside of their professional scope. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this "shut up and entertain" argument also often comes from people who don't agree with their political views.


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A little bit about Jimmy Lee...
I am a photographer based in East London where I have lived all my life. It's a very diverse area with plenty of hustle and bustle & real characters!
My journey into photography was not through University, College or expensive classes but through misfortune,fate,hard graft and of course...a touch of good fortune and good people. Call it what you will, but I wish it had happened a lot sooner in my life.
I would call my style a visual storytelling no matter what the subject .
The feeling I get when I know without even looking at the camera I have something special,the moment I see the image for the first time i smile or get a tear in my eye ...this is why i make images.
Whether it is wandering the streets,an event,party, festival, family celebration, documenting a place of work for clients both large & small or capturing more sensitive subjects such as care homes,it is all about blending in and trying to become as invisible as possible in that environment.
I have had 3 London exhibitions in the past 12 months ,my first exhibition was a large immersive street photography installation at the Boathouse Creative Studios in Barking. Consisting of over 30 street images, it showed a journey through London streets printed on weatherproof PVC. The images were mounted in a way that made you feel part of the exhibition and also included some pieces to create interaction with the visitors. Legendary photographer David Bailey along with his wife Catherine and his son Fenton came to visit twice and spent some time walking the exhibition with me. What great people - very down to earth and up for a laugh. They were very impressed by both the images and the whole experience I had created … there can be no bigger compliment than that for my work and first exhibition !!
For my most recent Exhibition i was privileged to be given an opportunity by the amazing people at Studio 3 Arts in East London to exhibit at the excellent gallery they have in Boundary Road Barking.
The exhibition consisted of images i have made while documenting a local care home for the past year, a place where many of the residents suffer from dementia on many different levels , a difficult subject at times but so humbling & rewarding. I love to get very involved in projects,they are very important to me and a reason why i love my job ,. You can read more about the "HOME" project here https://jimmylphotography.com/home/
I have had my work featured on many social media platforms as well as being featured in publications including London Assembly, Bold magazine,a world street photography book ,voted one of the street photographers to watch out for in 2017 on Street hunters poll ,among the 10 finalists from 3000 for London Live photography competitionI was also interviewed on the hugely popular street focus podcast by Valerie Jardin.
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No shame in the aging game.
I'm an open book. I think we know this given my career of choice - social media. It should come as no surprise to you that I am also very much an advocate of BOTOX and aging gracefully. I don't see it as taboo. I'm not ashamed and it makes me feel good. And isn't that what counts?
No one wants to get old or at least appear old. That's just my perception so why not celebrate it? I don't want to give off the illusion that I'm pining to be 25 again because that was a tumultuous time in my life BUT I would like to give off the illusion that I look a little less stressed, a little less haggard and maybe five years younger. Is that so wrong? I have no problem telling you my age -- I just want you to be shocked when I tell you the truth!
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This luxurious office suite is located right off the Mag Mile in Chicago away from the chaos down below. It's one of the most well appointed doctor's offices I've been to in a long time. Most invasive procedures take place down the street in the 900 North Building but this location houses a bevy of noninvasive treatments ranging from body contouring to facial sculpting to injectables; my service of choice.
So what about BOTOX? What do you need to know and what are the results? I can help with that! Below are the before and afters of that glorious, giant, wrinkly forehead of mine...behold! Or shall I say...shield your eyes!
Here's what you need to know. I show signs of age in my forehead as I furrow my eyebrows quite a bit when I concentrate. I've been told I have an expressive face. Mhhhmmmmm...
Dr. Sinno gave me injections at several points in my forehead and two injections alongside my crow's feet for good measure. I should mention that this is not my first time at the rodeo. I've been receiving BOTOX for many years on and off. This is the first time, though, that we attended to my crow's feet and it was just enough to make a big impact!
You can tell I am no spring chicken but I do have laugh lines and creases. I think this is the sign of a life well lived...no intention of messing with that!
The appearance of my forehead is now smooth vs the deep creases that nestled between my 11's (affectionally coined after the two wrinkles that form an "11" between your eyebrows) and above my brows. There's also a slightly youthful arch to my eyebrows again. To me, it looks like I took a giant nap. (I wish!)
Here are a couple questions I get when I share my BOTOX-loving habits with others:
- Does it hurt?
- It feels like a slight pinch and lasts for a nano second. Dr. Sinno uses micro-fine needles which soften the pinch significantly.
- How do I know if I need it?
- You know when you have wrinkles. But it should all start with a consult. Dr. Sinno spent a LOT of time with me examining and explaining whether I needed it, in what areas and how much.
- How long does it take to see results?
- My procedure took a full six days to show completely. I never felt like I couldn't move my forehead, which, is how I usually feel. Whether or not that was visible to all - I actually felt like I had complete mobility.
- Who should be handling my injections?
- I always prefer a physician, specifically a cosmetic surgeon to handle my injections. It's a personal preference and something that is widely talked about. Again, this is just my opinion.
- Is there anything I should know or stay away from post treatment?
- Yes! You should not workout for a full 24 hours and stay away from alcohol to reduce swelling. You also need to sleep somewhat upright for a total of 48 hours to let the BOTOX settle. After that, it's back to your normal routine. Occasionally people experience headaches from the treatment but this is not the case for me. I've always had a pleasant experience post-procedure.
- How long with the effects last?
- Dr. Sinno advised me to come in again right around the 4-6 month mark for a touch up. This is pretty custom and something that I am totally onboard with.
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Florida Holidays May 2019 – Half-Term May 2019 in Lake Buena Vista
- Fly Virgin to Orlando for half term May 2019
- Fly direct from London, Manchester or Glasgow
- Based on a party of 3 adults and 3 children
- Stay for two weeks at Blue Heron Beach Resort
- Van hire with Alamo Gold insurance included
- Book with a deposit of £100 each
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May 2019 Florida Holidays - Half-Term May 2019 at Blue Heron Resort
May 2019 Orlando holidays from £875 per person
Planning your Florida holiday May 2019? Looking to fly during busy half-term dates? For best value, aim to depart the weekend before the schools break up (typically the last week of May).
Our May 2019 Florida holiday is based on a party of 3 adults and 3 children travelling together and staying in a 2-bedroom apartment at Blue Heron Resort in Lake Buena Vista. The holiday includes Virgin flights direct to Orlando from Gatwick, Manchester or Glasgow and a fully-insured vehicle hire.
If your May 2019 Orlando holiday plans are different, don't worry. Just let us know your requirements on our online enquiry form for a written quote by email. We can put together the perfect May 2019 Florida holiday to suit you.
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Virgin are a popular choice for Orlando flights, and rightly so. Check-in online and select your seat in advance to save time at the airport. The baggage drop is typically well-staffed and efficient. Once onboard you'll be well looked after by Virgin's friendly crew - meals and drinks are included. In-flight entertainment screens on every seatback will keep you amused – choose from a wide variety of films and games. Children will even receive a KiD backpack of goodies to help pass the time on the long flight. Read more about Virgin's child-friendly flights.
Virgin fly direct to Orlando from Gatwick, Manchester and Glasgow. If you would rather fly from your local airport, let us know. Depart Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness, Belfast, Exeter or Newquay with a short connecting flight. These additional flights are typically less than £50 per person. Your luggage will be checked straight through to Orlando.
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Ring Pommel Sword (prototype)
This Sword is built on a refurbished albion bare blade which I cleaned of rust, heat treated and finish ground and hand sanded. Some light pitting remains on the blade. The guard and pommel are bronze, with the pommel being hot penned to the tang. The grip has a wood core with leather wrap.
Overall length:
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Blade length:
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Google just announced that they are allowing advertisers to target both gender and age in AdWords starting today. This is an important feature that I'm sure advertisers will be very happy to start using.
It makes a lot of sense to consider your target gender and age when paying for clicks -- if you are selling will kits or something, you probably don't want to bother showing your ads to people under 40. Since you are showing your ads to fewer people, you can now theoretically raise your bids to get better placement without paying anything extra.
I'm not sure where Google gets this demographic information for ads appearing on their search engine, but for content network sites (that display AdSense) like MySpace or Friendster, they provide the relevant demographics.


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Hello to everyone for Arizona!
Just a quick update:
My new companions (yes, plural) are Elders Brose and Burr. Elder Brose is hard of hearing but knows sign language really well and is a really happy and upbeat Elder. Elder Burr is kind of like me except he's been out for a while so he knows more. Next week, Elder Brose will be transferred to another area to start proselyting in English so Elder Walker will be his replacement. I have only just met him, but he's a nice guy.
My mission president is nothing like I expected and really neither is his wife, but they're really nice people.
Surprisingly enough, my first day in Scottsdale is a cloudy one with a decent amount of rain. I've seen several different Cacti that I've never seen before in my life and it is so strange down here with all of the sandstone colored buildings everywhere.
Less than an hour in the state and they had me take a driving test to see if I would be worthy enough to drive one of their cars. I have yet to meet any deaf investigators or to meeting any members in the branch, but I am so looking forward to it.
I'm going to be in a car for my entire mission (from what my Mission President told me) so I won't need to buy a bike, but I will be staying in Arizona, mostly hopping back and forth between Phoenix and Scottsdale.
Elder Sands
Monday, February 23, 2015
I just want to let you know Elder Sands has safely arrived. What a great missionary! We are so excited to have him. President and Sister Sweeney picked him up at the airport. He has already met his ASL companions, interviewed with President Sweeney, taken his driving test with our Vehicle Coordinator and received his MSF card from the Finance Secretary. He is glad to be getting into the swing of things! We have a large group of new missionaries arriving next Monday. At that time, pictures will be taken and I will send you copies. Monday is generally preparation day, but it will be Wednesday next week due to the transfer cycle. I don't know if he will get to email today. If you don't hear from him today, you will next Wednesday March 4th.
Thank you for raising such a fine young man to serve the Lord. We promise to keep him busy! And take good care of him.
From the Arizona Scottsdale Mission
Thank you for raising such a fine young man to serve the Lord. We promise to keep him busy! And take good care of him.
From the Arizona Scottsdale Mission
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Friday, February 13, 2015
So I got a letter from Levi/Julie last week and let me just share something I noticed:
Levi wrote 4 lines in 2 paragraphs and this was his reason why: "I have to go do taxes"
May I recall to your memory "Dating 911" by John Bytheway where he share the story about the top 10 things women do to avoid going on a date.
"Hey, Susie. Would you like to go out with me?"
"Umm....sorry, I would love to but I have to...um...wash my hair"
"Oh, well, how about next week?"
"Well you see, I can't do it then either because...I think I'm going shopping."
"Shucks, how about 2 weeks from now?"
"Sorry, but I think I have to do taxes then..."
Catch my drift?
But then I read Julie's Letter, it is nice and long and detailed. Several paragraphs long and shares her testimony. Let me just say Levi: You are EXTREMELY lucky :)
Thank you Julie!!!
Oh yeah: HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYONE!!!
Sebring and Steph:
Thanks for writing me so consistently and nicely and sharing things about your life (*cough* Levi *cough*). I wish you both the best of luck as you bring a little terror...Soul, I mean, into the world. Just kidding, I hope you have fun though.
Sorry guys, I labored so hard to get the few pictures I did; by the sweat of my brow did I take those pictures, and there are not very many of them and they're not the best, but I have a hard time getting good shots. You should see the pictures I have of my companion. They're so much better than the ones he takes of me. I wish I could take a picture of myself, oh wait, that's a selfie. I'll keep trying, and I might want to wait till I get to Arizona and see if there's any good opportunities for good pictures there.
Wow I have run out of time about 45 minutes ago, I just have so much I need to do.
Now all of you would be so surprised how much talent is here at the MTC. The Spirit of the lord is definitely part of it. There's always just enough singers and piano players and all of them are very talented. I was able to find someone, practice with them for a half an hour and then audition the next, and perform the next after that and we sounded great. This singer, Sister Bell, was so good, she could hit the A-flat 2 octaves above middle C. For those musically inclined are probably going "oh wow" right now.
Wow, Dad thanks for sharing that spiritual experience-that was just really so cool that that happened-your right, Heavenly Father is always waiting to help us in His work.
Also for all of you: here are 3 songs you really need to look up, they are amazing:
- The Battle of Jericho - by MOTAB
- Morning has Broken - by MOTAB
- Homeward Bound - by MOTAB
They are so amazing and spiritual (well, the Jericho one a little less, but it's still amazing)
Now for all of you:
Here at the MTC. Every meeting that involves more than 1 zone has to have a special musical number. Now why do you think that is? A little strange right? But let me tell you something. Music, something that I've just recently learned, brings something into a meeting that nothing else does. And to add to its wonder, the Lord is always with those to play and bring the spirit. We often have less than a week to prepare and song for the entire MTC and it always turns out great. After every SMN there's a sweet feeling no speaker could bring. Please keep this in mind the next time you sing in a church meeting or listen to another's performance, you will notice a difference when you start to pay attention to it.
As for my past week, everything is going great. The language is a little tough but I'm getting used to it fast. I recently found out that while our teachers are signing, they mouth the words, and some of them even whisper while they do so. I've found that instead of getting better at signing, I've been getting really good at reading mouths. So when we got another teacher this past week, and she started signing without mouthing I was thinking "That is not the language they have been teaching me these past few weeks." Thankfully I'm still in the MTC and can fix that...hopefully. I've been talking with the teachers to see if we can find a more deaf-like way of teaching.
Thank you all for all your prayers and support. Until next week
-Elder Sands-
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Friday, February 6, 2015
May I first begin by giving a nice warm, friendly, nice, long, good, kindhearted, cheerful, wishful, well-wishing, comforting, funny, annoyingly-long, detailed, warm-hearted, happy, loving HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Uncle David, and Amber! I miss you guys and wish you a...well, you get the idea.
May I first begin by giving a nice warm, friendly, nice, long, good, kindhearted, cheerful, wishful, well-wishing, comforting, funny, annoyingly-long, detailed, warm-hearted, happy, loving HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Uncle David, and Amber! I miss you guys and wish you a...well, you get the idea.
Happy Birthday!
Also, to all who read this letter, please read ALL the things I write, regardless of who it's addressed to. Things meant to apply to other people can still apply to others in unforeseen ways. I also like to think I make some pretty good jokes every now and then (or at least make you look down and shake your head thinking "my goodness").
Sebring and Steph:
Seriously though, last week I really wanted to ask you guys...
Oh, "Jesu, joy of man's desiring". Nice.
Sorry, I'm listening to the MOTAB music stream. It's one of the few approved music sources at the MTC.
Anyways...I was about to ask you "is Stephanie pregnant yet?" but then I remembered Sebring getting super blushy and angry the last time I asked him that so I decided not to :) (Love you Sebring *thumbs up*)
I'm super excited for both of you. One of my teachers got married about the exact same time you guys did and they're going through similar things so don't sweat it too much.
But is vomiting out of a moving car considered littering...?
Levi + Julie (mostly Levi):
You remember when you said that a mission would be good for me why? It would help me become tactful, but let me tell you, it's doing almost the exact opposite. The deaf community is not one known for tact. I'm becoming more and more blunt, and the greatest part is that it makes learning and speaking the language so much easier, and it makes it easier for other people to understand you. (Oh wow, I just noticed my ASL grammar is seeping through to my writing [see the first line of this paragraph])
I remember just yesterday my companion and I were watching Br. Featherstone (our only deaf teacher [and the best]) teach one of us on a one on one basis. He was talking about attending church and how important it is and he was SO DIRECT it was kind of scary, but that's the way the language works and it turned out really well. I guess with the spirit, even the blunt can be sharpened into a sword to piercing even the hardest hearts.
Since I'm the only accompanist, I get special privileges of being able to request music from my personal archive (AKA: you dad) whenever I'm out of class.
I will send some pictures in some emails, to give you an idea of what my zone looks like. Ugh, English is difficult. I keep messing up my grammar. ASL is so different. It's also really bad when you're writing something and when you get to something like "first vision" or "for example", this is what my thought process is:
I don't want to write all of that! I'll just sign it and write the rest of it"
"Wait, how to you write the sign for 'for example'?"
"Ugh, I guess you can't write sign language. That's annoying"
"Okay, I guess I'll have to write it all out..."
Even as I write I'll hesitate on big words or phrases and will want to sign it, because it's like, 100x faster to sign than write it.
I bought a shoulder bag here, it has been recommended that I have it, and a CamelBak for my mission so I just bought it here at the MTC. I also purchased a card reader. Let's see if it works.
As for all the music I'm doing, the Lord is totally incredible. He helps me learn all these things fast enough to play them perfectly in front of 1000 missionaries and General Authorities every Sunday with only an hour of practice. It's pretty awesome.
I apologize for the short letter last week, as I was short on time but I just wanted to share something with you all that I learned this week that I thought was really nifty, useful, powerful, and something I have seen work firsthand.
Close your eyes (well, I guess you have to read this, don't you...) and imagine yourselves in a lesson with an investigator. Just you, your companion, and the investigator. I want to discuss the 4th person there with you. As you all know, the spirit is a constant presence but you don't feel his presence constantly at one level, it fluctuates as your speed in a car in the city, it always going up and down.
When teaching a lesson, the spirit will touch their hearts, but there is always one point in a lesson (if the spirit is with you) where the spirit will be the strongest. This is called the Peak. The goal should be to quickly get the spirit into the room, teach the lesson, bear your testimony, and then get them to commit to something such as baptism or prayer or church. The spirit will fluctuate a bit, but when you bear your testimony, it will skyrocket, this is the time when the investigator will think and ponder, and most importantly, feel the spirit the strongest. Just a few seconds after this point is reached and a few seconds of silence have been observed, that is when you invite them to come closer to Christ (via commitments).
This happened in a lesson we had a few days ago. The spirit was there, and we felt the spirit, and we reached what we felt was a peak near the end of the lesson, but we decided not to act on it. We continued to teach for a bit, and then, when all 6 of us bore our testimonies, we reached the true pinnacle of the influence of the spirit far overpowering the feeling we had before. Using this power and feeling, we invited the investigator to be baptized, and he accepted.
The spirit then, was possibly the strongest I have ever felt in my life, in that moment erased any possibility of doubt that this work is the work of god. His work. This truly is his work.
I wish you all well in the week to come and you will hear from me next week.
Until then, God be with you.
-Elder Sands-
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Sister District Project MA & RI invites you to meet a rising star in the Democratic Party: Anton Andrew! Anton, one of our candidates for the Pennsylvania State House, is visiting us for three receptions on Tuesday, September 25. RSVP below for the reception that is most convenient for you:
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Anton is running to unseat a well-funded, ten-term Republican in a notoriously gerrymandered state. He has over two decades of experience fighting for poor and working families as a lawyer, executive, educator and community activist, and has been an environmental champion and member of the Board of Trustees of the Nature Conservancy. Pennsylvania House District 160 has been deemed an excellent flip opportunity. Your donation is important and incredibly helpful!


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5 Steps to Creating a Relaxing Homeschool Summer
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Creating a summer curriculum is easy! By just having a few tools and knowing what is important to you and your family, you can have a plan made for the summer in just a short time. For this, you will need Google Calenders, your libraries summer newsletter or calendar, a way to take notes and a way to show your family what to expect like a whiteboard.


text: Our annual Santa Run through Cheltenham Village and Rowland Park will start with the sound of the house siren this Saturday December 15th at 6pm. (MOVED TO DEC 22 AT 6PM) Please listen up as Santa makes his way through town on an antique fire truck. Come out and say "hi" to Santa and his elves. Remember, he's always watching and knows who is naughty and who is nice!


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Greenworks is helping plasterers and renderers gain their PAS 2030 qualification.
Gaining a PAS 2030 qualification with Greenworks
Published: 10 May, 2013
Greenworks is one of the first merchant training providers to offer trade professionals an EWI (External Wall Insulation) Upskill course, giving existing plasterers and renderers the opportunity to gain an NVQ Level 2 Diploma and reach the minimum standards required for PAS 2030.
The new EWI Upskill course combines practical and classroom-based learning and is open to candidates who already hold existing related trade skills. The course takes place at the Birmingham-based Greenworks Training Academy – the result of investment from Jewson, Graham, Gibbs & Dandy and Minster.
The comprehensive EWI training ensures candidates have the knowledge and skills to carry out pre-site surveys, installation and wet applications. Completion of the course and successful on-site assessment results in the NVQ Level 2 Diploma and the minimum standards required for the PAS 2030 qualification, to ensure companies can take advantage of the Green Deal.
One such company is Taylor Building & Construction, which attended the first course at the Greenworks Training Academy. Company owner Ryan Taylor commented: "Due to the Green Deal coming in, we wanted to get ahead of the game and get our NVQ qualification so we could install EWI. There was a vast skill-set of those taking the course, from renderers to bricklayers and carpenters, which was great in terms of working with other trades. I've taken a lot away from the course, which was very good and really informative."


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Women don't make good researchers. Feminism needs re-branding. Education will only give girls a misplaced sense of power. These are just some of the judgements pedalled in recent debates about the gender gap.
The common denominator seems to be the idea that women are neither capable nor worthy of changing the social landscape which, according to those harbouring such archaic views, they should simply accept as their lot. Thankfully, the many who disagree have something far more interesting to say.
One of the groups challenging the stereotypes in the academic world is Soapbox Science. Run by two research biologists, what started out as an annual public science forum on London's Southbank has fast become a critically acclaimed network of remarkable scientists telling it like it is.
Their events in London aim to bring science to all people, irrespective of background, experience or prior scientific knowledge. The events have proved hugely popular and the associated blog, which features female scientists from across the world sharing their experiences in the lab and in life, offers an inimitable insight into the reality of working in a hugely competitive and demanding field.
It's a much needed approach if we're to buck the trend where only 13% of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) jobs in the UK are occupied by women. According to the 2012 report from the WISE campaign, while equal numbers of girls and boys are taking science at GCSE, the numbers gradually dwindle the further up the academic and career ladder you look.
Yet counter to the proactive lobbying by groups such as Soapbox Science and WISE, there is still a disturbingly prevalent myth that science is a no-go zone for women. I was alarmed to hear about a report published recently that declared that women prefer teaching while men favour research. Can that really be true? Not at all, when you look at the number of highly successful female scientists and advocates. The issue is more to do with the challenges in overturning institutional prejudices and male-orientated hierarchies.
Education, education, education
Education is an absolute necessity to changing the narrative about women's success. And not only in the sense of informing and engaging people, but also in terms of the right to it in the first place. Because if you deny a child an education, you block their path to any kind of progress; it's a calculated conceit aimed at denying them a future.
Education makes women powerful, and nothing poses such a defiant threat to fiercely preserved corruption than a confident woman with the knowledge and the power to oppose it – something that Malala Yousafazi knows too well, the Pakistani teenager who survived an attack by the Taliban only to become their worst nightmare and Pakistan's greatest champion for women's rights. Malala's story was easily the most inspiring of all those in the news this week about women's on-going battle against a patriarchal agenda.
Pakistan is an extreme example, though of a pernicious and widespread problem. The gender gap is still an expansive one that it takes years of graft, determination, resilience and sacrifice to overcome. And even then, only a few do. According to the 2012 Global Gender Gap Report the majority of countries out of 111 surveyed over the past seven years have made slow progress – the global economic gender gap stands at 60%.
The language of power
The Guardian recently listed "the world's most powerful women", prompted by the anticipated appointment of Janet Yellen to Chairman of the US Federal Reserve. Yellen was noted for deftly "straddling" academia and public office. Others in the list were similarly highlighted for their capacity to influence and shape the corporate or public agenda in ways that demonstrate how they have managed the seemingly Sisyphean challenge of both being a woman and a success in a man's world.
The response to lists such as these is predictably mixed. On the one hand there is applause for the fact that these lists recognise accomplishment and inspire others to follow suit; on the other, there is irritation that women are still credited by their gender first and their merit second.
Is it ever possible to separate a woman's gender identity from her professional status? It's as much about the language and the pitch as it is about the substance of the story. But that's for another post, in which I'm interested to explore how journalists, PR and influential thinkers choose to talk about women.
The narrative voice has undoubtedly changed, but there's still a long way to go.


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Talking About Yogi Berra: NYC, July 1
I'm proud to be on the program for the national convention of SABR, the invaluable baseball research group, on June 28-July 2, in New York City.
I'll be on a panel about Yogi Berra – aptly titled "It Aint Over" -- with Dave Kaplan, Harvey Araton and Lindsay Berra, the oldest grand-daughter of Yogi and Carmen.
This means I can sit back and listen to Lindsay, a compelling presence who tells lovely stories about Yogi.
Kaplan, who founded the valuable Yogi Berra Museum in Montclair, N.J., and my pal Harvey, still writing great stuff in the Times in "retirement," also knew Yogi well.
I'm sure I can talk a bit about being a young reporter and asking a question of Yogi. Every so often my friend Big Al sends me an email, out of nowhere:
"Tell me, was Yoggalah some kind of clutch hitter?"
Just to rub it in to an aging Brooklyn fan.
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Carmen and Yogi. They met when she was a waitress at Stan Musial's restaurant in St. Louis. But what was Yogi wearing that one might not wear to a restaurant? It's in my Musial biography, and I will be glad to tell the story if somebody asks at the panel.
Honoring Heroes Who Served Their Country
On the Memorial Day weekend, it is only right to suspend hostilities and remember the people who served.
I'm thinking of the story Harold Grundy tells us every time we visit Maine. My wife's uncle was a master carpenter working for the military during "the war," mostly on ships delivering goods and ammunition.
On one mission in the South Pacific, the closest ship was hit by a bomb or torpedo and split in two sections, both doomed.
One half floated in his direction.
"The men were on deck, waving to us," he says. "They knew they were going down. The only thing we could do was wave back."
Think of it – dozens, perhaps hundreds, of doomed sailors, hailing their comrades.
They all served. I think of two West Point football teammates who came home from Vietnam and discovered they had been serving (in different branches) way up north, during murderous fighting. Later, they learned the civilian government had figured out the war was not winnable, but did not bother telling anybody.
"Their little epiphany," one called it. He may be visiting the Academy this weekend, to honor classmates who died over there.
I think of a man I did not know, a fraternity brother of sorts, buried in the military cemetery on Long Island. A friend of his from college visits the grave on the day he died in Vietnam, and organizes a scholarship in his name.
I think of a journalist pal, Jim Smith, who served on the Stars and Stripes. For decades, he did not talk about Vietnam but now he has written a very nice book about what he saw, and gives the proceeds to veterans' causes.
I think about John Fernandez, the West Point lacrosse player who lost the lower parts of his legs in in Iraq --"bad day at the office," he called it. Later, he played in alumni lacrosse games, on prosthetic feet and worked for veterans' causes.
I think about Tammy Duckworth, the pilot who lost parts of both legs on a mission in Iraq. She is now a senator from Illinois.
I think about John McCain, who crashed in Vietnam and spent a few years in prison in Hanoi. I interviewed him once and told him my wife had learned McCain and his buddies quietly ran a pipeline of goods into Vietnam.
Why? I asked him. His answer was a highly eloquent shrug with his broken arms and shoulders.
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I think about heroes who served, not civilians who did not (like me), or ones who think people who get captured or shot down are not heroes, or ones who shove their way to the front of the pack and preen, as if they had done something mighty. This is the weekend for heroes.
Labor-Saving Device, My Bot! (*)
(*-I actually don't know what a "bot" is. But it sounds good for the purposes of this rant.)
The modern electronic age has turned me into a cat burglar, on my hands and knees, messing with wires and cords and plugs.
I like to think this is not merely a young-old chasm as everybody scrambles to keep up with new developments with cellphones and computers and all these
so-called labor-saving devices.
The good side is that I managed to slip inside the velvet rope of minimal competence. The Internet and the gadgets allow me to do things and learn things that were impossible in my first two decades in journalism.
I have older friends of sound mind who stare blankly when I say "web site" or "emails." They missed the Last Train to Clarksville for all the little stupidities that so captivate me.
When I broke into the business, we used typewriters and paper. With the help of technology mentors at the Times like Howard Angione ("If Vecsey can learn this, anybody can") and Charlie Competello and Walt Baranger, I learned some stuff.
In the early '80's, a union electrician turned off the press-box power at the stroke of midnight and blow out my portable computer. In Barcelona! But the next day I was able to find the right tubes in a growing technology block in that grand old city.
In the early days, I crawled around musty hotel rooms, unscrewing stuff and attaching primitive wires or clips. (One reporter risked his life splicing his bulky Kaypro computer to live wires from a dripping air conditioner in his hotel room.)
Later, I had to explain to dubious hotel clerks why I needed to borrow a dedicated 800 fax line for 30 seconds to transmit an article from my laptop. Nowadays, I call help centers when the wi-fi doesn't work in my hotel room. This is called progress.
Somehow, I manage this personal therapy web site – photos, copy, headlines, type size – after training-wheels tutorials from my patient friend Becky Collet.
Labor-saving devices? A good friend (older than me) and I compare notes about constantly updating our contacts.
In my house we have three – count 'em, three – clickers for one TV set and one sound bar. If my finger hits the wrong button, my wife has to reprogram the whole thing.
At times I dutifully try to diagnose the problems that pop up from having, oh, just a few cable boxes around the house.
Recently, a TV went dead. We ran around for days trying to sort it out. We exchanged boxes. Then we drove a TV to a throwback reputable repair place my wife discovered half an hour east of us. Nope. TV worked. And the guy waved off a bench charge. Can you imagine?
Ultimately, the problem was a faulty gizmo in the cable coming into the house, installed by our local company.
"No way you would know," the technician told us before the office tried to bill us $80 for fixing their faulty piece they installed.
I keep blaming that cable company for the twin blights of Carmelo Anthony and Madison Square Garden, but it seems the cable portion has been sold to some Dutch company. Somebody smart sorted out the problem; maybe it was Amsterdam or maybe it was Long Island. Either way, this is also called progress.
(*- I made a list of recent words I do not fully understand, even if I may actually use them: meme, avatar, Siri, Sirius (are they related?), bluetooth, bitcoin, millennials, hipsters, (wait, whatever became of yuppies?), apps, cookies, streaming, podcasts, spotify, plus new baseball statistics with strange initials that I totally reject. I have my limits.)
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I forgot to include this stanza from Loudon Wainwright III's "Last Man on Earth:"
Everybody's got a website
But that's all Greek to me
I don't own a computer
I hate that letter "e"
I don't pack a cell phone
Or drive an SUV
Yes, I'm the last man on Earth
That's what the matter is with me
I counted on them. Just the thought of them got me through a horrible winter.
Every fan knows what I am saying: the unique place of baseball -- seasonally correct, holding promise of a new spring.
My team happens to be the Mets, already sinking toward the lower depths, but fans of other teams will recognize the angst: for this I dreamed all winter?
I see Curtis Granderson floundering and I see Asdrubal Cabrera falling apart – two of my favorite players, with intelligence and humor and a fine body of work, who were so fine last season. This is hard to watch.
I am allowed to root. One of the liberations of retirement is shucking professional neutrality. I obsessed about the Mets' pitching staff, all those talented kids, and I saw the Mets beating out the under-achieving Nationals.
I needed the Mets to thrive, particularly since that sickening night in November when a candidate we New Yorkers knew as a damaged charlatan was elected, ick, but I cannot say it.
I tried to get through the winter with partisan television news -- squirmed through rude interruptions of guests, daydreamed through 20-minute rambles with two minutes of content, rolled my eyes at the harmless repetitions of the word "lies," as if they did any good.
Everybody reacts differently. People I know are developing a cursing syndrome when McConnell and Ryan ooze into view. Tim Egan called Ryan an "Irish undertaker." I think he meant unctuous. With my Irish passport, I laughed out loud. Felt good. For 30 seconds.
I tried behavior modification. I cannot listen to my large collection of rock and folk and country and jazz on my iPod. No mood for The Band or Stevie Wonder or Iris Dement or The Dead.
Songs of lost love and rolling down the highway don't do it right now.
In mid-winter I listened to chamber music and waited for DeGrom and Céspedes and Familia, when his mini-suspension was over.
Here comes the sun. Here comes the sun. Here comes the sun. It's all right.
But now we are a month and a half into this season, and the Mets look done. This is not their year. I know, I know, this is not the loyalty of a true fan, but I covered a zillion games of baseball and I can tell a team that has too many flaws. What's up with the Alleged Dark Knight?
In the same way that I assess my broken ball team, I assess my homeland. I thought the damaged goods would be returned to sender, like some bad Amazon purchase, within 18 months, and it could happen sooner.
But the Democrats look like an expansion team – too old, too callow, no core. I scan the prospects among the majority party for enlightened, idealistic action: I see stirrings of conscience in Graham and Collins. I really like John McCain from having interviewed him once; if you spot him approaching 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with a couple of cohorts, let me know.
I watched Ben Sasse – a fresh face, a note of hope, like Michael Conforto of the Mets -- during the hearings the other day and thought, this guy could actually have intelligence and courage.
But I've been wrong before. I thought my ball team would give me spring-to-autumn diversion.
Now I peek at them, through spread fingers, like a child, for an inning here or an inning there. (I'm even happy for Yankee fans. First time in my life.)
It's mid-May and I have lost hope for my team.
A lovely article by Edan Lepucki in the Times this week had women considering photos of their mothers' vibrant youth.
Can a son do the same? I would think so.
I went scurrying to the digital files I am assembling of our diverse family. My siblings and others have contributed photos they squirreled away in boxes or scrapbooks.
May Spencer Vecsey passed late in 2002, at nearly 92. It is bittersweet to look back at the serious young woman in the old black-and-whites – the student with so much promise, the daughter permanently mourning a beloved father who died in her early teens.
She does not strut her stuff for the camera. There is precious little smiling, even when her father was moving the family from Southampton, England, to Coxsackie, New York, with enough money saved for a large house in town and a farm just outside.
The father is English (via Australia) and the mother is Irish and they are now upstate bourgeoisie, until her father hits a tree protruding onto an old country road now used for automobiles.
This is the great tragedy of her life. (I saw her sob when Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in 1945; he was her surrogate father.)
She apparently was always serious – a top student at Jamaica High School after her mother moved to Queens. A good friend of mine from high school says her mom used to talk with respect about May Spencer, writer and scholar.
The college photos are the same: the photo with the hat depicts a sober young lady at the College of New Rochelle, a star in academics, yearbook, essays. Her classmates and the nuns said she would go far, even in the growing Depression.
As Edan Lepucki notes in her sweet article in the Times, these young women in the photos cannot imagine what lies ahead. My mom would become a social worker, then a reporter for the Long Island Press, then society editor, where she would meet my father. ("They met at the water cooler," my brother Pete has said. "Pop was buying.")
They would share a belief, a passion, if you will, for The Left; they were management but they would go on strike with the workers, facing the Cossacks on 168th St., and would never get back in that building again.
Could she envision hard times during the War, my father fearing a blacklist but always having work in the newspaper business? Could she see herself learning to cook, clean, wash and iron, to care for five children within 10 years, to care for her dying mother, to go through hard times in the family and then get whacked by multiple sclerosis – and fight it off with long daily walks up to Cunningham Park with her loyal dog Taffy?
She was strong. I find no evidence of her mugging for the camera, no frivolous outfits. But I remember once, in a casual aside, my father compared her to a movie actress. Pop knew movies as well as he knew his Brooklyn Dodgers and politics and books, but I cannot remember which actress it was. His attraction was real. That's all I know.
She put her seriousness and her morality and her intelligence into her family. All five of us are doing well. That studious young woman in the hat made sure we did.
The other day I wrote about watching the Champions League match from Monaco -- in Brooklyn.
Young fans in Israel watched the most recent Clasico from Spain, on April 23 -- projected from a laptop onto canvas, resting on an artist's easel.
The host, Mendel Horowitz, does not have a TV in his house. (What a great idea. Except for soccer and baseball.) The young people improvised.
This was the match won by Leo Messi, two minutes into stoppage time.
My friend Horowitz, originally from Queens, insists Messi is the greatest active player in the world.
One thing I have learned over the years is, never argue with a rabbi.
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A few months ago, Rory Smith wrote a prescient piece in the Times saying the Champions League was becoming same-old, same-old.
That could also be said about many American events like the Final Four or Super Bowl, when a new Destiny's Darling rarely wins out, but he was basically right.
The disparity in soccer is continued during the first leg of the semifinals this week, with Real Madrid humiliating cross-town rival Atlético, 3-0, on Tuesday in their annual Champions League encounter and Juventus pretty much annihilating Monaco, 2-0, on Wednesday.
For me, the utter one-sidedness of both matches was made tolerable by people I have seen in uniform in the past couple of decades -- great moments and abject failures by Diego Simeone, Zinedine Zidane, Cristiano Ronaldo and Gigi Buffon, dominant players, dominant personalities.
And, really, isn't that the essence of sport – the past adding to the present? This gigantic youth with the Yankees – Aaron Judge – has already hit 13 homers this season, bringing comparison to Ruth and A-Rod, to say nothing of Mantle and Maris.
Sports fans watch two things at once – live action and mental replay.
On Tuesday, I saw two trim gents on the sidelines, just a few yards apart. I envisioned Simeone, stalwart defender for Argentina, provoking David Beckham into the worst moment of his career, a petulant kick of Simeone in plain view of everybody in St. Etienne, France, during the 1998 World Cup, for which Beckham was ejected.
And speaking of ejections, I could see Zidane gliding and dancing and leaping for two header goals in what I consider the greatest (or at least most beautiful) World Cup final performance, ever in the Stade de France, 1998, the whole nation chanting Zee-dahn! Zee-dahn!
Then of course I could see Zidane, provoked by a former opponent, from Serie A, head-butting Marco Materazzi of Italy, late in the final of the World Cup, and trudging off impassively after being ejected.
There they were on Tuesday, two great players involved in historic meltdowns, watching Atlético being destroyed by Real Madrid – or should I say by Cristiano Ronaldo?
CR7 willed himself to three goals, the second one, into the upper left corner, about as vicious and accurate a missile as any of us will ever see.
I have referred to Ronaldo as a pretty boy with tinted hair and supercilious smirk, but now I see him as the best player of his time. My two Arsenal pals, with whom I watched Wednesday's match, say Leo Messi is the best but for me Messi excels in a pattern whereas Ronaldo is a force unto himself.
The fourth familiar face this week was the expressive Buffon, who shows more emotion at singing the Italian anthem than most people muster up for the biggest events of their lives. He and Juve seem to have been doing this forever, interrupted briefly by scandal a decade ago.
Buffon is 38, still able to flick away just about anything and then find time to socialize with opponents. He shut down Radamel Falcao Wednesday and greeted his opponent as he departed.
Later Buffon fell to the ground to smother a loose ball and Monaco's 18-year-old Kylian Mbappé chose to leap over him, rather than raking his cleats on Buffon's ancient spine. Buffon gave him a toothy smile and a collegial pat on the head.
Don't be fooled by this show of brava figura. Italian defenders often smile and schmooze – like lanky Giorgio Ciellini of Juventus, who cold-cocked a Monaco opponent with his elbow Wednesday and then knelt over him solicitously, as if he were some kind of genial paramedic.
It's always good to see people I recognize, to have their past exploits hovering over the field. But good enough to invest time on the second leg next week? Not so sure about that.
(below: the most beautiful WC final by one player, ever.)
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Opencv load tensorflow Style Transfer Model Failed
Hello Guys, I Use lengstrom's fast-style-transfer Train one Model, and success to use this model to style image by python, like this python evaluate.py --checkpoint path/to/style/model.ckpt \ --in-path dir/of/test/imgs/ \ --out-path dir/for/results/
now, i want to use opencv load this model,then transform model to pb file.
I use follow code to read pb file: cv::dnn::Net cvMaskObjectNet = cv::dnn::readNetFromTensorflow("D:/opt_graph.pb"); but, cv::dnn::readNetFromTensorflow read this model failed(throw exception).
this link is my trained style model:
Could anyone help me? https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZcK...
Well somone has the same problem like - external model with opencv fails. This time its yolo and not tensorflow but same problem.
I left some comment on this and how it can be solved in general , maybe it helps. http://answers.opencv.org/question/20...
@VonChenpPlus, you need to convert your checkpoint to
.pb file first. Try to find a guide of how to do it in TensorFlow.
@dkurt, i'm convert checkpoint to pb file already.
@holger ok,thanks. i will try thiese.
@VonChenpPlus, please help us solving you problem. Add it to your drive.
@dkurt,i upload pb file to my https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HHU... please look at it, thanks.
hello,@dkurt, any update?