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In 1962, an international film critics' poll organized by the British magazine "Sight And Sound" voted this film (by a wide margin) the best film ever made. The magazine holds this poll once every ten years. "Citizen Kane" also topped the poll in 1972, 1982, 1992 and 2002. In 2012, it was very narrowly defeated for first place by Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo".
The unknown Alan Ladd had an uncredited bit part in the film, appearing as a pipe-smoking reporter in the final scene.
In addition to Alan Ladd's unbilled appearance, other reporters in the film are played by the young Arthur O'Connell, Orson Welles's assistant Richard Wilson (a future director), and the film's legendary cinematographer, Gregg Toland, who can be seen in the "News On The March" sequence. They are not credited. Orson Welles's secretary, Katherine Trosper, also briefly appears.
Despite its overwhelming critical success, "Citizen Kane" won only one of the several Oscars for which it was nominated, that for Best Original Screenplay. Orson Welles, who shared the award with the veteran Herman Mankiewicz, later insisted that his name was booed whenever it was read out that night.
The pianist in the "El Rancho" scenes is an uncredited (and pre-fame) Nat King Cole.
The singing voice of "Susan Alexander Kane" was dubbed by Jean Forward.
The gossip columnist Louella Parsons insisted on seeing the film at a private showing before its official opening and arrived at RKO Studios accompanied by her chauffeur. Before the film was half-over, Parsons, realising it was a veiled and highly critical portrait of her boss, William Randolph Hearst, stormed out of the projection room. Her chauffeur, however, insisted on staying to the end, and, on leaving, was heard to say, "Very good picture!" in a most enthusiastic tone.
The actors playing the reporters sitting in the dark in the projection-room scene near the beginning of the film also turn up in quite different roles elsewhere in the film; their faces are in shadow, but several (including Joseph Cotten) are nonetheless recognisable.
Although Orson Welles was attacked throughout his career for over-extravagence, he worked hard to bring his films in on time and on budget. Despite its lavish appearance and epic storyline, Citizen Kane was completed ahead of schedule and on a budget of only $842,000, considerably less than such recent RKO films of the period as Bringing Up Baby or Gunga Din.
Charles Foster Kane: Rosebud!
Jedediah Leland: I guess I was what you'd nowadays call a stooge, huh?
Boss Jim Gettys: You're making a bigger fool of yourself than I thought you would, Mr. Kane.
Walter Parks Thatcher: Mr. Charles Foster Kane, in every essence of his social beliefs, and by the dangerous manner in which he has persistently attacked the American traditions of private property, initiative and opportunity for advancement is, in fact, nothing more or less than a Communist.
Jerry Thompson: (sarcastically, to Raymond): Sentimental fellow, aren't you?
Raymond: Yes and no.
Emily Kane: Sometimes, I think I'd prefer a rival of flesh and blood.
Charles Foster Kane: You buy a bag of peanuts in this town, you get a song written about you.
Mr. Bernstein: It's no trick to make a lot of money - if all you want is to make a lot of money.
Charles Foster Kane: [dictating telegram]: Dear Wheeler. You provide the prose poems, I'll provide the war.
Mr. Bernstein: That's fine, Mr.Kane.
Charles Foster Kane : Yes, I rather like it myself.
Charles Foster Kane: I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?
Jedediah Leland: When I was a young man, there was an impression around that nurses were pretty. Well, it was no truer then than it is today.
Charles Foster Kane: If I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.
Mr. Bernstein: Who's a busy man? Me? I'm the Chairman of the Board. I got nothing but time.
Susan Alexander Kane: Come around and tell me the story of your life sometime.
Boss Jim Gettys: You're going to need more than one lesson. And you're going to get more than one lesson.
Charles Foster Kane: Hello, Jedediah.
Jedediah Leland: Hello, Charlie. I didn't know we were speaking.
Charles Foster Kane: Sure, we're speaking. You're fired.
Kane Jr. : Is Pop governor yet, Mother?
Emily Kane: Not yet, Junior.
Charles Foster Kane: I had no idea you had this flair for melodrama, Emily.
Mr. Bernstein: One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and, as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress, she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since when I haven't thought of that girl.
This was the first feature film to be directed by Orson Welles, whose 26th birthday fell in the month of the film's opening in May of 1941.
The elaborate make-up used in the film to depict its leading characters over a 45-year period was designed by Maurice Seiderman, who had hitherto been a lowly assistant in the RKO make-up department. The head of the department, Mel Berns, was contractually allowed sole make-up credit on all RKO films, and refused to share the credit with Seiderman when Welles requested he do so - even though he had himself contributed almost nothing to the film. As a result, the film carried no make-up credit at all, although Welles always credited his friend Seiderman in interviews about the film, as well as using him on many subsequent movies.
The film had several openings across the USA in the first week of May, 1941; its Chicago opening occurred on May 6th, Orson Welles's 26th birthday.
The film won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
It was widely thought that all the leading actors in this film were making their movie debuts in it, but Fortunio Bonanova and Dorothy Comingore had both been in previous films, the latter under a different name ("Linda Winters"). George Coulouris has recounted that the delays in starting "Citizen Kane" led him to take a small role first in "All This And Heaven Too", both as a way of occupying his time and making some money.
Before the official start of shooting, Orson Welles spent two weeks allegedly making "camera tests"; he was actually filming scenes which made their way, as he always intended, into the final movie. It was a way of appearing to be ahead of schedule, thus keeping RKO executives happy with him.
The "News On The March" newsreel in the film is an obvious parody of the "March Of Time" newsreels popular in US cinemas at the time of the film's release.
The voice heard in the "News On The March" newsreel is actually that of William Alland, who plays the reporter, Thompson. He got the job because of his ability to imitate the voice of Westbrook Van Vorhees, the famous narrator of the "March Of Time" newsreels.
In the "News On The March" newsreel early in the film, we briefly hear that Kane's first wife and son were both killed in a car crash near Trenton, New Jersey. In Orson Welles's most famous radio broadcast, the 1938 adaptation of "The War Of The Worlds", the Martian invaders are said to land on Earth outside the same town. There may be a veiled allusion to the same broadcast in the scene where Kane tells an interviewer, "Don't believe everything you hear on the radio!"
Although, for obvious reasons, Citizen Kane is usually regarded as a film a clef about William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies, the sub-plot concerning Susan Alexander Kane's operatic career is more likely inspired by the activities of Jules Brulatour, the Eastman Kodak millionaire, who spent a fortune trying (with disastrous lack of success) to make a singing star out of his wife.
The character of Jedediah Leland was chiefly based on a real-life drama critic, Ashton Stevens, who had been a friend of Orson Welles's family. The character of Mr. Bernstein takes his name (though little else) from Dr. Maurice Bernstein, who was the Welles family doctor when Orson Welles was a child and later became his guardian after both his parents had died. Everett Sloane, who plays Mr. Bernstein, bore quite a noticeable facial resemblance to the doctor.
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Definition of dynamo in English:
noun (plural dynamos)
1A machine for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy; a generator.
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Charlie White skates and plays the violin.
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On Monday, Charlie White won a gold medal in ice dancing. And apparently, one talent isn't enough . . . because yesterday he went on the "Today" show and played the VIOLIN.
Apparently he promised them a few months back that if he won gold, he'd come on their show and perform. (NBC Olympics)
(Here's a short clip and you can watch the full video at both NBCOlympics.com and Today.com.)


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Definition of ciao in English:
Used as a greeting at meeting or parting.
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1920s: Italian, dialect alteration of schiavo '(I am your) slave', from medieval Latin sclavus 'slave'.
Words that rhyme with ciaoallow, avow, Bilbao, Bissau, bough, bow, bow-wow, brow, cacao, chow, cow, dhow, Dow, endow, Foochow, Frau, Hangzhou, Hough, how, Howe, kowtow, Lao, Liao, Macao, Macau, miaow, Mindanao, mow, now, ow, Palau, plough (US plow), pow, prow, row, scow, Slough, sough, sow, Tao, thou, vow, wow, Yangshao
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We present a theoretical and numerical study of wave-induced particle dispersion due to random waves in the rotating shallow-water system, as part of an ongoing study of particle dispersion in the ocean. Specifically, the effective particle diffusivities in the sense of Taylor (Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., vol. 20, 1921, p. 196) are computed for a small-amplitude wave field modelled as a stationary homogeneous isotropic Gaussian random field whose frequency spectrum is bounded away from zero. In this case, the leading-order diffusivity depends crucially on the nonlinear, second-order corrections to the linear velocity field, which can be computed using the methods of wave–mean interaction theory. A closed-form analytic expression for the effective diffusivity is derived and carefully tested against numerical Monte Carlo simulations. The main conclusions are that Coriolis forces in shallow water invariably decrease the effective particle diffusivity and that there is a peculiar choking effect for the second-order particle flow in the limit of strong rotation.
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Here are the videos from last Robot Party! You can view them all in the playlist here!
Check it out to see people like Chris the Carpenter, Ro-Bot-X, patrickmccabe and albert la (can't remember his user name) :D They have great robots and knowledge!
The Robot Party is every Thursday at 8PM ET! Lots of people from LMR come to the Robot Party, so if you have a robot then it would be really cool to see it at the party! :)
The videos from the October 6th Robot Party are now live! :) You can view them all in this YouTube playlist.
Embedded are snippets from Lenore from EMSL showing the Egg Bots, Eric Relson's Mech Warfare robot, and Che Edoga's humanoid!
At last night's Robot Party the theme was motion & distance sensing! We had a great turnout with some really fantastic knowledge shared about ultrasonic and IR sensors. You can see all the video clips in this playlist, also see some screenshots in this flickr set.
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I haven't been on LMR in a long time... here's a video of my robot mesh network working. It's been a while in development. ;)
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Attention, students: Summer vacation is canceled!
Not really, but if President Obama has his way, the American school year for grades K-12 will be prolonged by 20 days, which is the equivalent of an entire month of school. Under this proposal, known as year-round education, the month of July will no longer be a time for students to sleep in, swim and procrastinate on summer reading assignments. July will be an additional month for students to complete homework, take tests and hit the snooze buttons on their alarm clocks.
In an interview with NBC in September, the president formally announced his plan to extend the school year in the United States. In support of this proposition, Obama said, "We can no longer afford an academic calendar where America was a nation of farmers who needed their children at home plowing the land at the end of each day. That calendar may have once made sense, but today, it puts us at a competitive disadvantage. Our children spend over a month less in school than children in South Korea. That is no way to prepare them for the 21st century economy."
On average, American students spend 180 days in school, which is low compared to other developed nations. Japan has the longest school year in the world, with 243 days of rigorous academic work. Not far behind is South Korea (220 days), followed by Israel (216 days) and Luxembourg (216 days). The Netherlands, Scotland and Thailand have all adopted the 200-day school year that Obama wishes to implement. Although an extended school year may be unpopular among students, both Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan are devoted to a cause they believe is necessary for the success of the future leaders of the United States. Obama hopes to have 10 percent of American students, 5 million individuals, on a year-round education plan by 2012.
Though many education advocates support Obama's proposal, many parents, students and administrators are opposed to it. In a poll taken at Immaculata Academy, 90 percent of students opposed the idea of an extended school year. Students value their summer vacation as a time to unwind from 10 months of stress from academics and rest their brains for another school year.
Immaculata senior Katie Szwejbka said, "I don't agree with this proposal because if you don't give students a break, you're not only taking away their childhood, you could also be pushing them to a mental breaking point."
Critics of Obama's plan have said that school costs would increase exponentially if the school year is lengthened. The need to cover additional expenses associated with teachers' salaries and school utility bills could cause the government to raise taxes, which would place a financial burden on Americans in an already tumultuous economy.
Others say Obama should lengthen the school day rather than the school year, but advocates of the plan to extend the school year believe that increasing the number of hours in a school day would lower students' ability to retain information.
Two teachers at Immaculata Academy chimed in with their thoughts on Obama's proposal for an extended school year.
"A longer school year would allow for elaboration on particular topics, but the proposal will only be successful if students buy into the program," said Edward Bogdan, a science teacher of 13 years.
Jo Ann Wiatrowski, an English and French teacher for 28 years, agrees that year-round school "would allow students to retain more information and investigate topics more deeply" but also believes "that students with high stress levels deserve a break."
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FRESNO, Calif. -- UC Davis' Allison Whitson (14) and Devon Damelio (14) combined for 28 of the team's 50 kills as the Aggies defeated Sacramento State, 3-1 (19-25, 25-13, 25-23, 25-20), in the third and final round of the Fresno State Volleyball Classic Saturday evening at the Save Mart Center.
With the loss, Sacramento State (4-5 overall) concluded the two-day tournament with a 1-2 record. The Hornets completed a dramatic 3-2 victory over host Fresno State last night, but fell to both Utah Valley (3-0) and UC Davis today.
Sacramento State posted its two lowest hitting percentages of the season today, comprised of a .079 mark against Utah Valley and .092 against the Aggies. The Hornets entered the tournament with a respectable .237 team hitting percentage, but combined to hit just .115 during the tournament.
After the Hornets and Aggies split the first two sets, the third frame was close the entire way as neither squad held larger than a three point advantage. After a kill from Jessie Genger saved a set point and cut the Aggie lead to 24-23, a heartbreaking service error gave the Aggies a victorious third set. In the fourth, Sacramento State held a 17-15 lead, but the Aggies closed on a 10-3 run to take the match.
Although Sacramento State had just 42 kills and hit .092, the team did have 66 digs, 15.0 team blocks and 10 aces. However, that was not enough against a UC Davis squad that hit .220 and finished with eight more kills than the Hornets.
Sacramento State was led by senior Janelle Currey, who posted match highs in both kills (16) and digs (21). Currey was named to the all-tournament team along with rightside hitter Kiley Mansfield, who had an instrumental role in Friday night's win over Fresno State.
Genger added 11 kills and 15 digs, and libero Sydney Kordic had 14 digs. Of the Hornets' 15.0 team blocks, a career-high nine came from Ashley Newcomb while Kayla Beal (4), Olivia Moss (4), Genger (3) and Hannah Hettinga (3) all posted at least three stuffs. Of the Hornets' 10 aces, three came from Genger, and two each from Hettinga, Beal and Sloan Lovett.
Tonight marked the final non-conference tune-up for the Hornets, as they host Eastern Washington on Thursday night at 7 p.m. in the Big Sky Conference opener.


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Everyone experiences stress, but how you interpret stress determines how stressed you feel. This process is often referred to as the "ABCs of stress":
Activating event + Beliefs = Consequences
When you experience an event, you interpret that "Activating event" according to your "Beliefs"—the lens through which you view the world. Generally, your interpretation is what causes your feelings of stress—that is, the "Consequences." This is why two people can go through the same event and be affected in very different ways. If your interpretation of events leads to high levels of stress, you can manage your stress by finding ways to reframe your interpretation.
Afterdeployment.org suggests making a "Stress Toolkit" in which you identify helpful coping strategies. These could be strategies that ignite your relaxation response or reframe your thinking (see above) and/or behavioral methods such as deep breathing.
Another way to help you manage stress is to think through future stressful situations to be better prepared. Afterdeployment.org suggests: 1. Visualize potential stressful situations. 2. Determine how much of the situation you can control. 3. Problem-solve what you can control (using coping methods that work for you), and 4. Remember to lean on your friends and family for support.
For more information and ideas, visit HPRC's Stress Management section.
The American Psychological Association just released an article suggesting that trial judges make better decisions when they do "STOP" meditations:
- Stop what you are doing
- Take a few deep breaths and focus on the experience of breathing
- Observe your thoughts, feelings, and actions
- Proceed with new awareness
Like Warfighters, judges make very important decisions that affect peoples' lives, but judges also are not immune to impacts of stress. Like everyone else under stress, they can thoughtlessly make quick decisions based on "rules of thumb," but because we are human biases creep in, sometimes leading to bad decisions.
So, the STOP technique can be important too for Warfighters, spouses, parents, or anyone else looking to make good decisions when it matters. STOP-ping allows you to monitor and adjust your current stress in order to make good decisions.
Think of stress as a balance scale. All the situations you find stressful are heaped up on one side. How you deal with them is on the other side. The trick is learning to balance the two sides (or even better, having your coping resources outweigh the causes of your stress).
Everyone feels overloaded at times, when stress seems too much to handle. This can be compounded with multiple family demands—from finances, children's needs, managing work and family demands, and fostering your relationships. Here are two suggestions to help you find balance:
- Find out what practical needs are causing your stress and come up with possible ways to address them using HPRC's problem-solving tips. For example, you know that you need seven to eight hours of sleep a night, but you and your partner seem to manage only five hours or so. So discuss possible solutions with your partner. For example, set a bedtime and stick to it no matter what chores aren't done; put the kids to bed at an earlier time; create a wind-down routine 30 minutes before bedtime in order to get that eight hours—and stick to it! Then pick one of these possible solutions, try it out for a week, and then re-assess. If it doesn't work, pick another; or if it does work, maybe tweak it a little to make it even better.
- Once you have plans to deal with the sources of your stress, then you can focus on managing your stressful feelings. There's no need to continue feeling stressed out while you put your plan into action. Try some of the "behavioral strategies" in HPRC's Managing Emotions that you can do anywhere with minimum fuss, such as deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, or other relaxation strategies. You can even teach them your children and do them together as a family. Learn how in "Calming & Grounding Activities" from the FOCUS Family Resiliency Training Manual, which describes several shared activities.
And check out HPRC's Mind-Body Skills section for resources that are geared more for you as an individual.
HPRC has strategies to help you focus your attention, so that it goes to the right place at the right time. By honing these approaches, you will find that habits are so well formed that you are able to efficiently maintain an external focus without having to use as much internal focus to guide your actions, allowing you to be more aware of your environment and able to do more. In other words, you can "get out of your own head" so that you experience automatic and smooth movements and avoid "paralysis by analysis." In other words, you can make quick and accurate judgments—as a parent or as a Warfighter—without having to think about them deliberately. For the complete "how-to," visit HPRC's "Performance Strategies: Develop routines to optimize attention."
You have probably noticed that people tend to be happy when they're successful. But did you know that it can also work the other way—that happiness can lead to success? Happier people tend to get more excited about chasing after opportunities. Happy people tend to interpret, remember, and even experience life events differently than unhappy people. For example, happy people tend to like other people more readily (leading to positive interactions). And when they are faced with adversity, they tend to use humor and focus on what has gone well recently. Across studies, researchers have found evidence that in marriage, friendship, income, work performance, and health, there is a two-way street: Success leads to happiness and happiness leads to success! Want to experience the successes of a happy person? One strategy is to be sure to somehow experience positive emotions frequently.
"Heart rate variability," a way to track how your heart rate rhythmically goes up and down, helps you objectively assess your mind-body optimization. When your heart rate varies more, it's good for your health and performance. Breathing at certain paces has a big impact on heart rate variability and—in turn—the mind-body connection and performance. And because you can learn to control your breathing, you can also improve your HRV. For more information about HRV and breathing to increase your HRV, read HPRC's "Vary Your Heart Rate to Perform Your Best."
Sleep is essential for optimal performance. Especially Warfighters, though, it can be hard to come by. Lack of adequate sleep, called "sleep debt," can result in reduced mental and physical performance (see HPRC's "The impact of sleep loss on total fitness"). Use HPRC's "Sleep & Warfighters" infographic to learn how sleep impacts your health and performance, as well as tips to get your best rest. For more in-depth information on optimizing sleep, visit our Sleep Optimization page.
The "relaxation response" is your body's natural reaction against the negative effects of stress; it shuts off the "stress response" when the need for it is over. Recent research has shown that the relaxation response can decrease the harmful effects of chronic stress even at the gene level. Learn about your body's natural stress and relaxation responses, when they are and aren't helpful, and how to control them when their natural operations fail in HPRC's "Influence Your Body's Stress & Relaxation Responses."
Wanting some holistic strategies to enhance your performance? Check out the "One Shot One Kill (OSOK) Performance Enhancement Program" that shows Warfighters how to set up and manage their own performance-enhancement system. OSOK is designed not only to enhance performance but also to jumpstart Warfighter resilience. It builds on the skills that Warfighters already possess and then teaches new ones as needed.
There are two ways you can use OSOK: as an individual through "OSOK Solo" and as a unit/group through "OSOK-IP Unit." Both highlight "10 Rules of Engagement" and provide seven core modules: Controlled Response, Mind Tactics, Performance-Based Nutrition, Primal Fitness, Purpose, Code, and Recharge. OSOK also provides self-assessment forms so you can track your progress over time.
For other performance-enhancement programs and information about holistic (total) fitness, check out HPRC's Total Force Fitness domain.
Some intense military training, such as in the Special Operations Forces, screens personnel by ultimately selecting those who can handle extreme adversity. In fact, how you view stress can have a big impact on whether the stress you experience is helpful or not. When you have a positive interpretation of your stress—that is, "eustress"—you may feel "amped up" enough to perform your best without experiencing any negative effects.
How do you experience stress in a positive manner? Try reframing it. Your situation doesn't have to "suck"—it can just be a challenge that ultimately helps you grow more resilient. When you use this approach, it's easier to take on whatever comes your way instead of engaging in unhelpful practices that may just increase your stress. Learn to find meaning in what's difficult with your word choices. Here are some examples of statements you may find helpful:
- "Go beyond!"
- "I can!"
- "I am!"
- "Makes me stronger."
- "For my buddies."
- "For good." (Or if you are spiritual, "For God.")
- "Feel it!"
- "Dig deep."
- "You got it!"
- "It's all good."
The list goes on. Figure out what words or phrases help you switch from seeing stress as a negative to feeling it's just another challenge to tackle.
For more information on how to handle stress, check out HPRC's Stress Management section.


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Mom pleads guilty to drowning autistic son
SAN DIEGO A mother pleaded guilty to murder Thursday for drowning her autistic 4-year-old son in a bathtub at the family's Carmel Valley condominium in March.
Patricia Corby, 37, was so distraught during a morning hearing that Superior Court Judge Charles Gill stopped the proceedings to allow her to compose herself.
Deputy District Attorney Dino Paraskevopoulos said that Corby was sobbing almost uncontrollably but eventually was able to stop and plead guilty to a charge of second degree murder.
She faces a sentence of 15 years to life in prison. Sentencing was set for Jan. 28.
The plea closes a case that began on March 31, when Corby drove to a San Diego police station and told authorities she had killed her son, Daniel.
A sergeant found the child's wet and lifeless body wrapped in a blanket in the back seat of Corby's SUV.
When the boy was a year old, he had been diagnosed with being at a high risk for autism, according to testimony at his mother's preliminary hearing in September.
Walter Escobar, an investigator with the District Attorney's Office, testified at the hearing that after the mother's arrest Corby told him she had no life because her whole existence was dedicated to her child.
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T he City of Charlevoix wants to expand its marina to help accommodate larger boats and yachts.
Monday, the city council consider ed four different options and g o t feedback from the public.
I f the council moves forward with an expansion , it would cost thousands of dollars. But city leaders believe it would pay for itself within a few years.
C ity planners first introduced a 150 - foot dock extension back in January that would cost more than $360,000 to build.
S ince then the council has asked for more options.
N ow they have two more plans that are smaller in size and cheaper , and of course they have the option of not making any changes at all.
T here has been a lot of feedback from the community , both positive and negative , but the city is looking to reach a compromise that would benefit the whole community.
"W e think there are strong economic drivers in creating dock space for some of the bigger boats that come into the harbor , but also we want to balance that with preserving the character and the view s on Round Lake," Rob Straebel, Charlevoix City Manager said.
C ity leaders say the expansion would allow more boats to park at the marina on Round Lake.
P lanners say the expansion would help the downtown area , by bringing an economic boost each summer.


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Thank the heavens, we change. If we're willing to learn, to grow, we can undergo a kind of metamorphosis. We can shift from asshole caterpillars to thinking, compassionate butterflies. Yes, there is a point to this long-winded metaphor. Stick with me. A few days ago, I realized I had been a caterpillar for a good chunk of my life; and like caterpillars are wont to do, I was convinced I was in the right, or that at least it was my right to entertain any kind of idea, particularly that idea. Arrogant and stubborn, I thought that my life experience and usually analytic attitude gave me an edge, that everyone else was just emotional and conformist, not willing to look at the reality in which we live. I was wrong. This piece is my way of saying, sorry for ever thinking like that.
My crime, you ask? This is how I used to think about suicide. Many of us have fought to get a shot at life; we ate dirt and shat blood for it. If someone can't handle life, let them end theirs and be done with it.
Now, I could go on and start building a case for myself. Provide context, soften your heart, and beg to be understood. But that's not why I'm here today. The intent of this post is to share my transformation, and hope that if you think the way I used to, my words will help you shift your perspective.
We have all heard of the usual suspects. People who kill themselves are selfish. Suicide is for the weak. It was the work of the Devil! (yes, with a capital D!) Well, I don't hold a PhD in psychology or anything, but here's what I think. We tend to marginalize people who decide to end their lives for several reasons. Here's a short list off the top of my head.
1) Suicide makes us feel vulnerable, especially when we knew the person who died. We realize that we knew their problems and sometimes have similar ones, that any day, it could get just that little worse for us as well. So we get angry, and in losing ourselves to that anger, we forget that it is not about us.
2) We mourn. Someone was taken from us. It's unfair. Once again, we squeeze the world tightly around us as if it were a blanket, and only remember the departed when trash-talking the way the chose to go. Because we're the ones suffering, right?
3) Guilt. This also is especially relevant if we were close. Maybe we could have done something — if only she had come to us, if only he had let me see his pain. Maybe, maybe, maybe.
I notice a trend in those excuses supposed to justify the unjustifiable way we regard people who have commited suicide. It's got very little to do with the dead and everything to do with the living. The pain left behind, the loneliness, the betrayal. And I think it's sad that we can get so self-obsessed we forget that those who decided to kill themselves were people too; people with histories, lives, lovers; people who'd cried and laughed and fucked around in every sense of the word; people who mattered.
No one decides to blow their brains out because they're bored. No one just goes, oh fuck that! People kill themselves because there's no other way. No exit. No loophole. No fucking hope. From their perspective. When too much is too much, it's too much.
So, it's not okay to parade around shouting how those people are weaklings who didn't deserve life to begin with. It's not akay to think that because the void they left overwhelms us, we can taint the lives they led with accusations of selfishness, trivializing the pain that led them to tragedy. And it is most definitely not okay to put a mirror where they bled and stare at our own tears and red-eyed guilt, all the while thinking, if only they… Point is, we didn't see it coming. Maybe we could have, maybe not. Doesn't change a thing, but let's not put it on them. And for the love of whatever-you-hold-dear, will you just leave the Devil alone? He's got enough on his plate already!
Ask yourself this! Have you ever thought about suicide? I know it's a heavy question and a heavy subject. I know that by default, Society would rather forget about those grim conversations. If we don't talk about it, we don't think about it, right? But guess what, life — or death, if you want to be morbidly accurate — doesn't forget about shit.
I have never considered ending my life. But I have been in situations where I thought, yeah not that impossible to think about, after all. Then I sat down and really thought about suicide. About the people behind the ugly word. About what would happen if I was one of those people and my loved ones and/or acquaintances spoke of me with so little regard and so much pompous self-righteousness.
Well, I'd fucking hate it. I started to realize how big a dick I'd been my entire life. I understood that one doesn't 'give up', one is simply overwhelmed and washed away by relentless waves. One day, you just can't fight it anymore. It can happen over a lifetime; it can happen over the course of a few weeks; it can happen overnight.
If you have never thought about suicide, it might be a good idea to do so. Not about comitting suicide, but thinking of those who do; try to understand them or at least to see things from their point of view. I guarantee it; lessons will be learned.
If you have thought about doing it, if you're thinking about doing it, or if you ever find yourself in a place so dark that the idea of suicide seems appealing, please don't go through it. I don't want to sound condescending, or worse like a character out of a hollywood flick with a ton of violins playing in the background, but here it is: there's always a way out. Always. No matter how deep the well, how dark the pit, or how hot the furnace, there's always a way out.
In spite of the pain, the shame, or the fear, you matter too much to let go.


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We did get a fan page with lots of likes, a twitter page with many followers, it looks like the likes and followers are all bogus. All these likes and no comments from any of the people liking our fan page. I was promised the likes and followers would have a general interest in our business.
I ended up going to big time operators fan page and they must use the same fake likes for their fan page too because they are the only one posting to their fan page with very little interest in anything they are sharing or promoting.
The bottom line is this: Do we have a nice fan page with lots of likes..yes. Do we have a nice twitter page with lots of followers...yes. Did any of this social media branding by Jason Dehnert increase our volume of business...NO!!!
My recommendation to you if you are reading this. Ask to speak with some of their clients on how their social media has increased their volume of business. I also would recommend talking to clients who haven't given testimonials as my assumption with them is they are fake too.
I've been doing a lot of research about this as we have spent thousands of dollars with Jason and not seen any increase or return to our sales volume. Like I've said earlier, we've been successful in business for 9 years so we know what we are doing outside of the virtual world but unfortunately we found the wrong "experts" it seems to promote our business online.
It looks like Jason lives a pretty extravagant lifestyle ripping people off. https://www.facebook.com/JasonBigTimeOperators
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2013: Started42 games while appearing in a total of 43 during her junior campaign ... Finished the season with 109 at-bats, 20 singles, one home run, 12 runs scored and eight runs batted in ... Drew 13 walks and was hit by 3 pitches to add to her .296 on-base percentage.
2012:Started 31 games while appearing in 41 total ... Recorded 15 hits over her 81 at-bats, two of which went for doubles ... Scored six runs while knocking in an additional seven.
2011: Started three of 17 games played for Georgetown, one at pitcher, one at first base, and two as the designated hitter...Tallied three hits in 18 at bats.
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It's not the first time we ve watch him disrepect and discriminate against people. he must think he is the owner. Worst experience ever. DONT JOIN LA FITNESS. We just realized it was the best decision. They ve been sucking us and making us pay more. Now we brought the whole family somewhere else where they appreciate us and treat us like people. No ego. No BS. No Henry W. I think if more people did this, maybe LA fitness would make better decisions at who they pick to manage their clubs.
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This is podcast I don't listen to enough. The PHP Roundtable episode on PHP-FIG (with so many of the team) is a really interesting one. They cover the dark times of the FIG as well as the cool times.
Two Player Dungeons and Dragons
I'll preface this by saying I've never actually played Dungeons and Dragons, but I've always really liked the idea. The big downside for me is that it's very tricky to get a group of friends together who are willing to, well, act silly for a good chunk of time. So with that I decided I'd try and build something which one might be able to call "two player DnD".
On Saturday I wrote about 5000 words of this game, which has turned into more of a choose you own adventure RPG. This game, A Winding Road I've taken to calling it, is a demo of my idea. Something small so that I can actually finish it. Once finished, I'm planning on printing it all off and grabbing a few friends to play test it with – it's really something I can only know if it's any good by watching someone have a go. This demo is highlighting a bunch of mechanics I've thought up so far, to see how they play and what I should change (or ditch).
Another thing that has gotten me quite excited about this idea is my discovery of print on demand board game manufacturers. I'm shocked there's a market big enough for that to be profitable, but I'm glad it exists! The Game Crafter is one that has piqued my attention. As it's print on demand, it requires no investment up front (from what I can see) since you pay for the materials of your game – you buy each component separately – and then have your art printed onto them. Then you add in how much you want to mark it up by, The Game Crafter gets a small percentage and you get the rest. It sounds like a really good system.
Really excited about the idea of a game of mine actually being completed, printed, and played by people.
Accessing your MySQL server: "Network is unreachable"
This has been a very sysadmin-y week for me, and I've mixed feelings about that. For now though, I'd like to tell the story of how I debugged why I couldn't access my MySQL server.
My standard MO would be to have MySQL and the app running on the same machine. This time though, since I've built my app using Docker (which I'm deploying with Docker Cloud) I can't have the MySQL server on the same box.
I do have a box already with MySQL running, however that box is smartly locked down with all sorts of iptables voodoo. Very few things are allowed to talk out from the server, and even fewer are allowed to talk to the server. Here are the steps I took while learning how to open that box up.
First, on the MySQL box figure out what port it's running on. The default is 3306, but you can confirm that like so:
sudo netstat --tcp --listening --program --numeric-ports | grep 'mysql'
The number in the forth column, which looks a bunch like an IP address with a port, is the port you're looking for.
Now we know that, we can check if our app server has access to the database server.
telnet yourhost.com 3306
Hopefully, you won't get anything back but a quick message about it "Trying" to connect, and eventually "Network is unreachable". If this command does actually connect you to your MySQL server then you should focus on locking that down as soon as you can.
Assuming that you've already got your server locked down via iptables though, you'll want to open it up so that you app server (and only your app server's IP) can get access to this port. I don't know enough about system administration to get dirty with real iptables conf files though, so I much prefer to install webmin which will give you a lovely interface for it.
You want to be setting up rules which look like this:
- Source address: [Your app's IP address]
- Source port: 3306
And then the defaults are largely good enough. Let me know in the comments if there are even more things that I could lock down – I think have the IP address locked to one I'm expecting should be safe enough though.
Once you've saved and applied those new rules, you may be able to telnet to your MySQL server now. You'll see what definitely looks like a MySQL prompt.
If not, there's another debug tool you can use: tshark. I've found this to be super helpful when trying to track down malicious looking traffic I had one time on a server of mine. In this case though, you can run it on your MySQL server and see if the server is even spotting the
telnet request.
tshark -ta -n port 3306
This'll show you data being sent to that port. Try and telnet again, you should see some traffic. If not, your iptables rules are wrong, or you're mistaken about your IP address.
If all is going well though, you should see the traffic from your
telnet request.
This is where I got stuck for a little while, but eventually found that MySQL doesn't listen to the wider network – only internal network comms. You can fix this in your my.cnf file (likely
bind-address = 0.0.0.0
Restart MySQL, and you should be able to access it all you need.
Twilight Struggle
Twilight Struggle is a two person board game which my boyfriend and I played for the second time this weekend.
I suppose you'd actually say it was the first time, since the first time we got the rules completely wrong. Realising half way into our first play through, we changed the rules to what we thought they were. It wasn't until the second time, this Sunday, that I feel we really cracked it.
The game struggles from the age old problem of board games – any board game – in that the rules often seem impenetrable. Your first play through will take half a weekend up, I'm sure. Fortunately there are some guides around which do a much better job at explaining the rules than the rules do. I'd strongly recommend that those, or taking a look around Youtube first of all.
The game is supposed to take around three hours, but we were finding that each turn (we ended up playing 7 of 10 turns before Tim won) was taking between 30 to 45 minutes. It took a very long time to play but certainly never became boring.
The game works around cards which you can play one-per-turn. There's a couple of ways to play the cards, but almost always will have a benefit to you as well as a disadvantage. Sometimes the disadvantage is quite extreme, so you end up spending a lot of time weighing up the trade off. This doesn't feel like it slows down the game play because you'll be looking at your cards deciding what to do next whilst your opponent is doing the same.
In a similar vein to Risk, the game gives points at certain stages based on how much of a continent you control. These points are scored when someone plays a score card: "Score Europe", or "Score South America". As at any time half the cards in play are being held by your opponent, you've no idea which scoring card is likely to come up soon. You need to take slight cues from them, whilst they're simultaneously trying to throw you off the scent (but this forces them to potentially be wasting one of their precious few turns). If they're putting a lot of effort into Asia, maybe they have that scoring card.
Annoyingly though, it's possible they don't have a scoring card in their hand. And neither might you. I think this is the situation I found myself in for at least a turn or two. Falling into the situation just leaves you with nothing to focus on. It actually takes away from the game quite a lot. Should I put my guys in Europe or Middle East? At this point, does it matter… Maybe expert players never get that feeling, but without guidance the game sometimes felt like I was waiting to get more cards.
There may be too much luck to this game for some people, but I certainly felt like I was enough in control that it was my intelligence that was keeping me afloat, and not a few lucky dice throws.
There is a certain level of stress that comes with this game though. Tim, my partner, was moments from winning. Mere points from a USSR victory, but later told me that it was stressful as all hell. He needed the exact combination of cards, and for me not to steal a very specific card, in order to solidify his win – which he did, but the stress soiled the feeling a little.
Nonetheless, I'm excited for him to get home so we can start playing again! Definitely a game to lose yourself in, worthy of a good amount of concentration.
The economy is too messy to base your opinion of the EU on
I'd like to put this out there: any ideas you have about Brexit making us better or worse off economically are flat out guesses. Moulding your ideas around economic arguments is, quite frankly, stupid and wrong.
Taking a look at three sets of numbers: the Telegraph's worst case losing Britain £40 billion, and the best case giving us £16 billion; the Centre for European reform saying we'll be better off by £42 billion but potentially worse off by £16 billion, whilst the London School of economics thinks the worst case leaves us £254 billion out of pocket, and their best guess being a loss of £58 billion.
[Side note: I took the GDP from 2013, as that's what Google gave me fastest. The BBC articles talks in terms of GDP, not real money.]
That's a range between minus £254 billion (similar to the 2009 recession) which we'd struggle recover from, or positive £42 billion – enough to have the country be debt free wonderfully faster.
Quite a big range there, by incredibly smart people. Does that sound like science? Minus £106 billion, plus or minus £148 billion.
We have no idea what we're talking about when we talk about economics. This referendum should be about freedom not money.


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Someone who twitters constantly, usually about insignificant or trifling events.
I took Bob off my twitter email alerts, because he twitters about everything, every second. Honestly, do I need to know when he's taking a dump? He's a straight up twidiot.
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An idiot that tweets way too much about stuff no one cares about all day long. Can be found retweeting the most mundane things and @ing two or more times per tweet.
"Just have some peanuts Lol #peanutsareawesome @foxnews @otherpeople #StuffIDo" Why do I keep reading about this Twidiot?
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A person who tweets their crimes.
Definitely knocked a cyclist off his bike earlier - I have right of way he doesn't even pay toad tax! #bloodycyclists - I'm a total twidiot
johnflesh tarafından 25 Mayıs 2013, Cumartesi
"Twitter idiot" usually a self absorbed millineal who incessantly tweets for no good reason.
Oh look, another Twidiot taking pictures of their dinner.
Oppo69 tarafından 26 Temmuz 2015, Pazar
People who tweet.
I refuse to engage in tweeting like those other twidiots.
DaveWsanmateo tarafından 10 Ağustos 2011, Çarşamba
One who spends too much time tweeting, too little living.
Bob: Did you hear how Mike almost missed his plane/wedding/job interview because he fell off a curb while tweeting about his jog/facebook page/morning coffee?
Tom: He is such a twidiot!
Tom: He is such a twidiot!
KatieKakes tarafından 29 Eylül 2009, Salı
Twidiots means twitter and idiot online cyber thugs who likes to argue, troll, and spam you for stupid reasons.
foolish cyber internet thugs that thinks they're tuff behind computers and thinks they can get away with anything because they live in different regions them twidiots are menacing
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The Parable of the snake whose tail wanted to be its head.
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Great idea! Let's ride that head and never look back.
I really like this composition and concept! It feels fresh and exciting, nice work and keep it up!
Great Job!
Our present system follows that same desire; the whole thing is ass-backwards.
You are completely right. Although I´m not saying the head should lead, we are caught between the two extremes and the whole thing is a snake! And we know snakes are up to no good.
At least the vipers are. and the world is full of vipers. Whom I usually call Republicans and give such specifics as the Koch brothers, who look like supporters of good things on one level, but do cringeworthy things on the stuff that matters to them most. Carry on with the great work, sir.


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Modern Electrics was a technical magazine for the amateur radio experimenter. It was created by Hugo Gernsback and began publication in April 1908. The magazine was initially intended to provide mail-order information for radio parts and to promote the amateur radio hobby, but it later became a vehicle for technology-based fiction stories. The first fiction appeared in the April, 1911 issue, and the series of 12 installments by Hugo Gernsback would later be published as the science fiction novel Ralph 124C 41+.
The circulation for this magazine increased rapidly, starting at 2,000 and increasing to 52,000 in 1911. In 1908, the magazine announced the "wireless registry", a listing of radio owners, their call letters, and the type of equipment they owned and how it was operated.
The magazine was sold in 1913, and ceased publication with the December 1913 issue. It then merged with Electrician and Mechanic to become Modern Electrics and Mechanics. The experience Gernsback gained with Modern Electrics led him to introduce Electrical Experimenter magazine in 1913 and pulp science fiction magazine Amazing Stories in 1926.
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When appointing the Judges on the proposal of the committee, the Council ensures a balanced composition of the Civil Service Tribunal on as broad a geographical basis and as broad a representation of the national legal systems as possible.The Judges of the Civil Service Tribunal elect their President from among their number for a term of 3 years which may be renewed. The Civil Service Tribunal sits in Chambers of three Judges. However, whenever the difficulty or importance of the questions of law raised justifies it, a case may be referred to the full court. Furthermore, in certain cases determined by its Rules of Procedure, the Civil Service Tribunal may sit in a Chamber of five Judges or as a single Judge. The Judges appoint a Registrar for a term of 6 years. The Civil Service Tribunal has its own Registry, but makes use of the services of the Court of Justice for its other administrative and linguistic needs.
Within the judicial institution of the European Union, it is the Civil Service Tribunal whose special field is the sphere of disputes involving the European Union civil service, this jurisdiction having previously been exercised by the Court of Justice and then, following its creation in 1989, by the Court of First Instance (now the General Court).
It has jurisdiction to hear and determine at first instance disputes between the European Union and its servants pursuant to Article 270 TFEU, which as a result represents some 150 cases a year for approximately 40 000 members of staff of the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the European Union. These disputes concern
It also has jurisdiction in cases concerning certain specific employees, in particular, those of Eurojust, Europol, the European Central Bank, the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) and the European External Action Service. On the other hand, it may not hear and determine cases between national administrations and their employees. The decisions given by the Civil Service Tribunal may, within 2 months, be subject to an appeal, limited to questions of law, to the General Court. The decisions on appeal by the General Court may in turn be re-examined before the Court of Justice, in exceptional circumstances.
The procedure before the Civil Service Tribunal is governed by provisions of the Statute of the Court of Justice, in particular those contained in Annex I thereto, by its Rules of Procedure and by related texts (all the texts are to be found at http://www.curia.europa.eu).
As a rule, the proceedings include a written phase and an oral phase.
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An application, drawn up by a lawyer and sent to the Registry, opens the proceedings. That document may be lodged by electronic means using the e-Curia application. The Registrar sends the application to the opposing party. The latter has a period of 2 months to file a defence. The Civil Service Tribunal may decide that a second exchange of written pleadings is necessary.
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The oral phaseDuring the oral phase a public hearing is usually held. During the hearing, the Judges can put questions to the parties' representatives and, where appropriate, to the parties themselves. The Judge-Rapporteur draws up a preparatory report for the hearing, containing the essential elements of the case and indicating the points on which the parties are to focus their oral arguments. This document is available to the public in the language of the case. The Judges deliberate on the basis of draft grounds prepared by the Judge-Rapporteur. The judgment is delivered at a public hearing.
The procedure before the Civil Service Tribunal is free of court fees. On the other hand, the costs of the lawyer entitled to appear before a court in a Member State, by whom the parties must be represented, are not paid by the Civil Service Tribunal. A party who is not able to meet the costs of the case may, however, apply for legal aid.
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