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The Screen Savor: A 'Break-Up' that's Weighed Down
by Kimberly Gadette
It's a shame that Vince Vaughn went to such great lengths to gain 50 pounds in order to portray the character of Gary. Redundant, really. The script of the "The Break-Up" is so ponderous, no one needed to add so much as a feather to this elephantine creation. Go on a diet, Vince, but first things first: Lose this flick.
"The Break-Up" is billed as a comedy. Wrong. Comedies about couples inflicting punishment upon each other, such as "War of the Roses," need to be clever yet dark. Comedies about couples at verbal odds with each other, such as "The Odd Couple," need to be extremely witty. This film is neither dark nor witty. We've all had to suffer through an occasion in which a favorite couple suddenly transforms a perfectly civil time into a highly uncivil war. Occasions that make ice-pick lobotomies pale in comparison. Consider "The Break-Up" one of these occasions. Consider yourself warned. This "comedy" is anything but.
Opening with a Cub game in progress at Wrigley Stadium, the film shows Gary (Vaughn) doing a meet-cute with Brooke (Jennifer Aniston). The audience is then treated to opening credits over a long montage of photographs of the happy couple•dozens upon dozens of snaps of them kissing, laughing, with friends, at holidays, at home, in bed, as giddy as a couple could be on this earth, this southside of heaven. The problem: That couple is NEVER seen again. Instead, there's an immediate breakup, followed by the decision to stay together for the happiness of their condo. If Neil Simon had been the screenwriter, instead of Garelick & Lavender and Vaughn, the premise might have worked. Especially if there were an ensuing story, instead of scene after scene of "you hurt me," and "you don't appreciate me." Per director Peyton Reed, on finding the right tone for the film's ending: "We shot a lot of stuff. We shot a lot of different versions, with the assumption that we'd find it in the editing room." Note to Mr. Reed: If it ain't in the script, it's probably not gonna be among any celluloid slop on some cutting room floor. Next thing, you'll be looking for that proverbial pony in a room full of manure.
A subplot would have been nice. Especially since the production attracted the likes of Judy Davis, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jason Bateman, John Michael Higgins ("Best of Show") and Joey Lauren Adams. Heck, even Ann-Margret showed up for a scene, and never returned. Maybe she changed her mind. As Marilyn Dean (a crimson-dipped, Cruella DeVille-esque art gallery boss), Ms. Davis warns her employee, the depressed Brooke, that she dare not "blaspheme in the synagogue of Marilyn Dean." Ah, how I wished for more luminescent Davis, and less mopey Aniston!
Playing siblings, John Michael Higgins as Richard, the sexually-confused chorus boy and D'Onofrio as Dennis, the anal business partner sporting suits two sizes too small, these superb actors were treated more like props than flesh-and-blood characters who might have added some virtual poundage to this lightweight minor-piece. Ditto for the marvelous Joey Lauren Adams as Brooke's best friend and confidante.
On the other gland, Jon Favreau as Gary's best friend, Johnny O, is simply a muddle. In one scene, he's a Neanderthal reflection of Gary, hating Brooke. In another scene, he's a Dr. Phil-esque therapist. In yet another scene (the only decent spark between Favreau and Vaughn), he's out for Soprano-like blood. The creative team needed to make a decision. But since they couldn't decide on a tone, a plot or an ending, how could we expect more from the lumpy character of Johnny O?
As for our star couple: Oops. Vaughn forgot that childlike lout or no, the audience needed to care about Gary. There were such few glimpses of the funny, wonderful man that Brooke supposedly fell in love with, I was clueless as to why she was clueless about moving on. And then there's Aniston. As Vaughn said in an interview "… she was the only actor that I had in mind because she's so good with comedy." Treated as if she were a doll, the filmmakers dressed her up in skin-tight clothes and paraded her out to pose in front of the cameras in pretty-girl make-up, hair and sky-high heels. What happened to her brilliant comedy? This was, once again, another hefty helping of squandered opportunity. (Catty aside: No matter what the season, though every other actor showed up in skin tones of white to ghostly pale, Aniston glowed with a deep, dark tan, as if she'd just returned from a month-long, naked photo shoot in Hawaii. Perhaps her Coppertone coating might have worked if her day job were changed from art gallery manager to outdoor water park hostess. Yeah, that's it. In Chicago, in the middle of winter. Given all the other nonsensical plot turns, this would have fit right in.
Vince's added weight is over. So's the wait for a good comedy called "The Break-Up." With a heavy heart, I'm suggesting that this is a 105-minute exercise that's all pain, no gain.
Grading this movie on the curve of the Deschutes River: D
Production Credits"The Break-Up"Cast: Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Aniston, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Favreau, John Michael Higgins, Vince D'Onofrio, Judy Davis, Jason Bateman, Ann-MargretDirected by Peyton Reed. Screenplay by Jeremy Garelick & Jay LavenderStory by Vince Vaughn & Jeremy Garelick & Jay LavenderRated: PG-13Running Time: 105 minutes Bend Oregon Central Oregon


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Pope Francis: 'Why do you seek the living among the dead?'
April 23, 2014
In his April 23 general audience, Pope Francis reflected on the words spoken by the angels at Christ's tomb: "Why do you seek the living among the dead?" (Lk. 24:5)
These words are "a milestone in history, but also a stumbling block, if we do not open ourselves to the Good News," the Pope said, as he asked "how many times we seek the living among the dead," among "things that cannot give life," among "things that exist today and tomorrow will no longer exist."
We need to hear the question of the angels, he continued, when we fall prey to "any form of selfishness or self-complacency; when we let ourselves be seduced by earthly powers and the things of this world, forgetting God and neighbor; when we place our hopes in worldly vanities, in money, in success."
"Jesus is not in the tomb, He is the Risen One!" the Pope added. "He is the Living One, the One who always renews his body, which is the Church."
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Amazon to offer unlimited space for music [limited time only]
July 6, 2011 | by Charles West
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Amazon just delivered some great news for both Android and iOS users. Today, the e-commerce company just announced its plans to enhance its Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player. The company said new improvements will come in three areas: storage plans that include unlimited space for music, free storage for all Amazon MP3 purchases and Cloud Player for Web — which iPad users have been deprived of for months.
As a music fan, the most striking enhancement is unlimited space for music. Amazon is giving its customers this cool opportunity to capitalize on unlimited space if said customer purchases a Cloud Drive storage plan, but for a limited time only. Don't worry, if you're the penny pinching type, this offer is available for even the lowest price plan ($20/year for 20 GB of file storage).
For those of you out there who don't know much of anything about Amazon's Cloud Drive and Cloud Player, be sure to catch-up. All customers automatically start with 5 GB of free Cloud Drive storage to begin uploading their digital music library. With this latest development Amazon users can really take advantage by indulging in unlimited storage heaven.
Discussing the company's new plans, Craig Pape Director of Amazon Music said, "Customers are already enjoying Cloud Drive and Cloud Player and now for just $20 a year, customers can get unlimited space for music."
I admit, this is a pretty gaudy move on the part of Amazon; this without a doubt separates them even further away from the competition when it comes to the Cloud wars. What are your thoughts out there? Are you going to purchase a Cloud Drive to before the limited time offer ends? If not, why?
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Most economists tell us that another great depression cannot possibly happen in America. They say that 'modern' state-of-the-art Government will be able to save us from this deadly downward spiral through interest rate reductions and tax relief. However, powerful counter forces are at work. American wages, adjusted for inflation, have been in decline since 1997. The economic principal of Globalization will not accept an America where our workers take home ever fatter paychecks relative to the rest of the world. The ultimate capitalistic goal of Globalization is to bring all wages in line with the lowest common denominator worldwide. The playing field has traditionally been tilted in America's favor, but that is changing rapidly.
A nation that started out with high wages that now steadily descend while its productivity is steadily on the increase is a nation in peril of slipping into depression. America currently fits this description. Real wages have been falling for almost a decade while productivity has steadily improved to an all time high. We are now producing the greatest amount of goods and services ever seen per man-hour worked. Yet the American worker has not reaped any financial benefit of her awesome productivity. The only so-called improvement in our standard of living has come from steadily cheaper goods from China. Falling wages and ever decreasing prices could mean that depression is in our future.
I don't believe that America's standard of living should be measured through Wal-Mart inventory availability and smiley faced "roll-back" pricing. I want American productivity gains to translate into higher wages for Born in America workers. Only through higher real wages can our standard of living truly improve. With higher real wages comes the personal freedom of choice to buy what you want, when and from where you want. Wal-Mart's Chinese inventory should not define the state of American happiness. What's in your wallet? Less real money.


text: WHITEyy118 0 Posted December 10, 2010 I mentioned this problem before and didn't really get an answer. My problem is occasionally after the car has just started the steering feels heavy and like there is resistance when turning right, while turning left is fine. But the problem isn't always noticeable and most of the time doesn't occur. Like the video below but I'm pretty sure it doesn't happen when stationary (as not really tested). I've thought maybe its the steering rack or the pump but could it be anything else? I'm thinking that because it's not constant and all the time that it may just be a sign of early pump failure or maybe dodgy pipes. Now having spent money recently on 4 new glow plugs (plus labour), a new shock absorber (plus labour) and a service (mainly labour) I'm nearly all spent out with my wallet considerably lighter and so was wondering about costs. Obviously it depends on the problem as to the cost but what are people's ideas? PS. Also is there anything I could look for that is obvious signs of the problem under the bonnet or will it require a closer inspection, and I hate to say it, by a FORD dealer? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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A federal judge on Friday denied bail for 27-year-old Conrad Barrett as he awaits trial, charged with a hate crime punishable by 10 years in federal prison,
Barrett is accused of videotaping himself punching a 79-year-old black man after spending a week "hunting for African-Americans to prey on," prosecutors said in court.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Frances Stacy said she was concerned about Barrett being free after hearing about the "vicious" crime.
George Parnham, Barrett's attorney, had argued that the Katy man has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was off his medication when he used his cell phone to record an apparently random attack.
Barrett, dressed in an orange jail uniform and wearing handcuffs and leg irons, did not speak at Friday's hearing.
Investigators said Barrett can be heard on the video he recorded laughing and saying "knockout" after hitting the victim, who has not been identified.
Barrett was found out after he showed the video to random strangers in a Fulshear restaurant, one of whom was an off-duty arson investigator.
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Hi, I realize that my time it too short to maintain these packages. Therefore I request help from somebody else or somebody who is going to take over these packages. What has to be done: a) Package Pike 0.6 b) Include Bugfixes for it c) Split Pike in Pike and Pike-non-free (msql plus mysql modules) d) Re-package Roxen to use the native Pike package and disable the included pike e) Re-package Roxen-ssl, same rules as e) plus include the ssl3fix.tgz package. Problems: . Roxen does not always compile right out of the box . Just adding the ssl3fix to the roxen source tree results in a non-existant roxen-pike package. Dunno why. . Compiling Roxen takes 20min - 30min on a pII-233/64MB . Roxen source is 13MB uncompressed . Roxen's makefiles are scary . Excluding Pike from the Roxen package might be difficult. . Applying the SSL3 fix to Roxen/Pike might need some knowledge of Pike (it's C-like) Regards, Joey -- If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country. -- motd of irc.funet.fi
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Even though war is bad, I love video games, strategy games involving it. So, what would be the most awesome faceoff in todays world, WorldWar III. I think it would be an Alliance of China, Russia and India, versus an Alliance of European States, and US. that would be epic
Wait, are you talking about in real life you would want WWIII or in a video game?If it's for a video game that would be pretty cool.
I think It would be as well real-Life Realistik (Like the Test of Anti-Rocket Rockets on an U.S Sataleite from the U.S Goverment, and the reaction of Russia and China, who did excactly the same thing showed), as it would be interresting.But im not so sure of India beeing in that alliance.I think a game of WWI would be interrestingSorry for the long scentence in the middle of the other, and the "anti-rocket Rocket", but I didnt know a better description.
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well i was just doing some strange thing and i would like to know what it is. im not even sure if its a trick or not. didnt land it.

skip the first 2 minutes please. pointless warm up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Nk7oETje4
oh and if you have any advice on how to do a backroll it would be appreciated
I'm no expert but It looked like an extremely misspun 360 attempt ha. I couldnt tell ya if thats a trick or not. It looked like you sorts initiated the spin at the wake, and in the air you must have done something funky with the rope causing some sorta roll or flip.

But that just what it LOOKS like to me.
Wait I take that back, It sorta looks like you tried to backflip or something. Like tip over tail, but not cartwheel style, like the nose was pointing torwards the boat and you tried a backflip.
I would guess the most laid out Roll-2-Revert I have ever scene
haha thanks. i think ill try to work on whatever it is. maybe something good will come of it...
That looked a lot like my first few attempts at a backroll. Mine looked like an off axis 3 attempt.

If you are in fact trying a backroll, here is what I did differently. I'm still not landing them, but getting really close and spinning correctly now. Trying lifting your lead shoulder (left) upwards, while tilting your head towards your trailing shoulder (right).

Also, check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ponTdgycYV8
Hey Scott I live in Niceville and Ride Rocky Bayou all the time.. I sent you a PM. We should go ride sometime.
I have no clue what that is you were attempting and i dont think it is a trick but it looked kind of cool. On the backroll just make sure you take a mellow edge towards the wake, then when you get about 3-4 ft from the wake build you edge. When you get to the wake maintain a strong edge all the way through the wake and when you get to the top of the wake combine it with a tall standing position. Wait for the pop and then look over your lead shoulder and make sure the handle is close your body with elbows at the sides. Then hold on for the ride.
Hey Scott I live in Niceville and Ride Rocky Bayou all the time.. I sent you a PM. We should go ride sometime.
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Kevin Nash wrote the following via his Twitter account: "I have a 5 year contract with the WWE. I'm sure in the next 5 years, You All will hear the Diesel engine again. Trust me."
Scheduled to air tonight on WGN America's WWE Superstars include Santino vs. Tyson Kidd, WWE U.S. Champion Daniel Bryan vs. Ted DiBiase, WWE Tag Team Champions Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel vs. JTG and Trent Barreta, and Chris Masters vs. Tyler Reks.


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As I mentioned over coffee the other day, I've been going round in circles on my race calendar. And, while the fall still pretty fuzzy, I've got the first half of the year pinned down.
Super Sunday 5 Miler — This race is being billed in part as a celebration of completing the Winter Challenge. There will be live music, food and beer post-race, with all proceeds going to the Race Cancer Foundation. Plus many of my BGR teammates will be there – sounds like a good way to kick off Super Bowl Sunday!
The Old Fashioned 10 Miler — This is a great local race that I've missed the past couple of years. I love 10 milers and this is a challenging course.
NYC Half Marathon — Running through Central Park, Times Square and finishing in Battery Park – what's not to love?!
Boston's Run to Remember Half Marathon — I opted for the 5 miler at last year's race because I was far from "half marathon" shape. This is one of my favorite Boston races and will be my goal race for the spring!
Finish at the 50 5K/10K — While I'm not a fan of summer racing, this race has such a fun vibe, with a finish at the 50 yard line at Gillette Stadium, followed by 4th of July fireworks. Added bonus, this will a family affair with both my sons and husband all running!
As for the fall….
I know I'd like to run at least one half marathon…maybe two…the wish list is all over the place, including:
B.A.A. Half — Boston Athletic Association always does a great race and this half sells out in record time. The year I "ran" it I was injured and was out there to be moral support for a friend who was running her first.
RnR Montreal and/or RnR Savannah — Both cities are on my "must see" city list.
Newport Half — Such a pretty course!
And, given my goal to mix-up the distances, there are also a bunch of great 10Ks within driving distances to consider.
Decisions, decisions…guess I'll see how the spring goes and then figure it out from there.
Have you run any of these races? Got a suggestion for me for the fall?
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I love Green Toys dearly as a company (anyone who can make awesome kids' toys out of recycled milk jugs is a winner in my book), but, really, are all of these pink toys a good idea? Yes, I'm bringing this up again. I just don't think it is necessary–or wise, for that matter–to entice girls to playing with trucks, tools and the like by making them pink. What do you think?
Pink Dump Truck ("Stay pretty in pink while getting down and dirty!") and Pink Tool Set at Green Toys.
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I bought my 16 month old daughter this dump truck for Hannukah more for the fact that my four year old and seven year old sons got a kick out of the fact that it was was a pink dump truck. I do not see any problem with the fact the truck is pink. As for the tools, I am not running to buy them but who cares what color they are.
Real dump trucks are yellow…'nuf said.
I generally agree with your thoughts, however when I think back to getting a pink Tonka Truck when I was young I remember being in 7th heaven! I loved that it distinguished my truck from my brother's truck, and I still talk about it.
I think it's cute. My daughter likes to pretend that she is fixing things with tools and would love to have have a girly set.
I just don't understand why toys need to be pink in order for girls to play with them. I have a son and now a daughter. She has some pink toys that were given as gifts (a doll house, strollers, ride on toy), but she doesn't like them just because they are pink. She just as quickly takes her brother's blue stroller or yellow truck. She loves his tool set and it is the Home Depot set in orange. Even my 5 yr old questions why "girl toys" are pink. It is just a way for toy companies to make more money. As a preschool teacher, I think it sends the wrong message. In my classroom I would never have toys divided into "boy toys" or "girl toys" so why should I do that at home? All of our toys at home are for both of my children to play with. I am not buying pink toys for my daughter. She is perfectly happy playing with "real" cars, trucks, tools and Legos! This family prefers the originals.
As a preschool teacher, I'm not for or against. However, I do know that many of my girls will spend their free time in the art center or pretend play- all great skills to practice. But if just changing the color of a truck or tool set can entice them to try the block area and create a road or construct a building, I can only see the benefits of them engaging in new types of play to support different developmental domains.


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I saw Brave last week with my mother, sister, son, two nieces, and nephew. It was a fairly wild crew, but fun. Much like Merida's family in Brave, we all have our moments.
I've actually read mixed reviews of the movie, which surprised me. I think people have come to have such an exalted view of Pixar that nothing but perfection will do for some. I loved Brave. Was it perfect? Probably not, but I'm having a hard time pin-pointing things I didn't like. The plot was compelling, the characters—particularly Merida and Elinor—were relatable, and it was technically brilliant.
So, without further ado, here are Five Things I Love about Brave:
- The hair. Call me shallow, but I'm a curly girl. I've had curls sprouting from my head since I was a baby. Not tame, soft curls. We're talking mane-like thick curls with a mind of their own. Straightening works… oh, for about three hours (yes, professional straightening) so I don't bother. And really, I don't want to. These curls have become a signature that I love, so I'm very happy to say that FOR ONCE, a princess does not have luxurious softly waving tresses. Merida has HAIR. Bless those curls.
- The setting. Ah, Scotland. The movie is visually arresting partly because of the wild setting the Scottish highlands are. It's gorgeous. If you're a person who debates seeing things on the big screen or waiting for the DVD, take my advice, see this one in the theater. You'll be glad you did with all that scenery.
- The family. Like most Pixar films, this movie has family plastered all over it. No character exists in a vacuum, especially not Merida. She has a clan of loving and diverse people around her. None of them are perfect, but they love each other anyway. The relationship between Merida and her mother, Elinor is spot on and captures the particular tension that exists between mothers and their daughters on the verge of adulthood. Well done there, writers!
- No romance. For you die-hard romantics out there, you may be a little disappointed, but I don't think so. It's refreshing to see a female protagonist in a children's movie not end up with a suitor at the end. Frankly, it's become commonplace to insert romance into movies aimed at all ages and it doesn't need to be. I love romance. I write romance! But it doesn't need to be in everything, and it was refreshing to watch a story about a teenage girl that didn't focus on her love life.
- Merida! She was… a brat. She was bold. She was reckless and passionate and fearless and real. She was a girl who started the movie in one place that often (from an adult perspective) made me roll my eyes, and she ended the movie in a different place. She grew and matured through her adventures. She was forced to see the consequences of her actions and view her world in a broader context than she had before. And growing that way is brave.
On a kid note, every one of them was riveted. Don't tell me that little boys don't like movies with female protagonists, they love them if the characters are more than cut-out princesses who take up space on the screen and twirl. Go. Take the kids. Take the husband for a date night. Pixar makes family films, so everyone in the family will enjoy this one.
And if you have curly hair, wear it bravely.
P.S. I've posted the new cover and synopsis for the first short story in my new series, Cambio Springs, here if you want to take a look. The short should be out at the end of this month if all goes according to plan.


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PRX, the nonprofit organization that operates a marketplace for public radio programming like This American Life, announced today that it's spinning out a for-profit company, RadioPublic. For public radio fans, this means you'll soon get mobile apps that offer access to the full PRX catalog, including The Moth Radio Hour and the Radiotopia podcast network. And even if you're… Read More
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Hard Like Heroic
8 comments:
- Hydra said...
Congrats! Nexus is one of my favorite dungeons.
- December 24, 2008 at 1:21 AM
- Lady Jess said...
*nods* it was very hard having to end her life.
Grats on completing a heroic:)
- December 24, 2008 at 2:30 AM
- Khol Drake said...
Even I felt a little guilty having to kill her...
- December 24, 2008 at 10:33 AM
- zwinglisblog said...
Yah, it just seems wrong. But, her enslavement is ended; and her spirit has you to thank.
I bet that you'll have a fresh Keri-kiss waiting for you when you see her on the other side!
- December 24, 2008 at 12:28 PM
On a side note, what do you use for the party frames? Those look awesome!
- December 24, 2008 at 12:56 PM
- Khol Drake said...
Those are the X-Perl unit frames.
- December 24, 2008 at 2:55 PM
- Sarai said...
Nexus was my favorite instance at lvl 70, and it's my favorite heroic so far too. ^.^
Of course, it's the only heroic I've been in so far. heh
And I hated killing her too, poor Keri. :(
- December 24, 2008 at 7:01 PM
I, um, kinda killed her. And then released her from the cube. And then crushed... saragosa, is it? And then malygos kidnapped her. Then I killed her again.
*sigh* Messed up, eh...
- December 26, 2008 at 8:17 PM


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This example shows how to estimate a seasonal ARIMA model:
Model the seasonal effects using a multiplicative seasonal model.
Use indicator variables as a regression component for the seasonal effects, called seasonal dummies.
Subsequently, their forecasts show that the methods produce similar results. The time series is monthly international airline passenger numbers from 1949 to 1960.
Load the data set
Data_Airline, and plot the natural log of the monthly passenger totals counts.
load(fullfile(matlabroot,'examples','econ','Data_Airline.mat')) dat = log(Data); % Transform to logarithmic scale T = size(dat,1); y = dat(1:103); % estimation sample
y is the part of
dat used for estimation, and the rest of
dat is the holdout sample to compare the two models' forecasts.
Create an model
where is an independent and identically distributed normally distributed series with mean 0 and variance . Use
estimate to fit
model1 to
model1 = arima('MALags', 1, 'D', 1, 'SMALags', 12,... 'Seasonality',12, 'Constant', 0); fit1 = estimate(model1,y);
ARIMA(0,1,1) Model Seasonally Integrated with Seasonal MA(12): --------------------------------------------------------------- Conditional Probability Distribution: Gaussian Standard t Parameter Value Error Statistic ----------- ----------- ------------ ----------- Constant 0 Fixed Fixed MA{1} -0.357317 0.088031 -4.05899 SMA{12} -0.614685 0.0962493 -6.38639 Variance 0.00130504 0.000152696 8.54666
The fitted model is
where is an iid normally distributed series with mean 0 and variance 0.0013.
Create an ARIMAX(0,1,1) model with period 12 seasonal differencing and a regression component,
is a series of T column vectors having length 12 that indicate in which month observation was measured. A 1 in row i of indicates that the observation was measured in month i, the rest of the elements are 0s.
Note that if you include an additive constant in the model, then the T rows of the design matrix
X are composed of the row vectors . Therefore,
X is rank deficient, and one regression coefficient is not identifiable. A constant is left out of this example to avoid distraction from the main purpose. Format the in-sample X matrix
X = dummyvar(repmat((1:12)', 12, 1)); % Format the presample X matrix X0 = [zeros(1,11) 1 ; dummyvar((1:12)')]; model2 = arima('MALags', 1, 'D', 1, 'Seasonality',... 12, 'Constant', 0); fit2 = estimate(model2,y, 'X', [X0 ; X]);
ARIMAX(0,1,1) Model Seasonally Integrated: ------------------------------------------- Conditional Probability Distribution: Gaussian Standard t Parameter Value Error Statistic ----------- ----------- ------------ ----------- Constant 0 Fixed Fixed MA{1} -0.407106 0.0843875 -4.82425 Beta1 -0.00257697 0.0251683 -0.10239 Beta2 -0.00577689 0.0318848 -0.18118 Beta3 -0.00220339 0.0305268 -0.0721787 Beta4 0.000947374 0.0198667 0.0476865 Beta5 -0.0012146 0.0179806 -0.0675507 Beta6 0.00486998 0.018374 0.265047 Beta7 -0.00879439 0.0152852 -0.575354 Beta8 0.00483464 0.0124836 0.387279 Beta9 0.00143697 0.0182453 0.0787582 Beta10 0.00927403 0.0147513 0.628693 Beta11 0.00736654 0.0105 0.701577 Beta12 0.000988407 0.0142945 0.0691458 Variance 0.00177152 0.000246566 7.18475
The fitted model is
where is an iid normally distributed series with mean 0 and variance 0.0017 and is a column vector with the values
Beta1 -
Beta12. Note that the estimates
MA{1} and
Variance between
model1 and
model2 are not equal.
forecast to forecast both models 41 periods into the future from July 1957. Plot the holdout sample using these forecasts.
yF1 = forecast(fit1,41,'Y0',y); yF2 = forecast(fit2,41,'Y0',y,'X0',X(1:103,:),... 'XF',X(104:end,:)); l1 = plot(100:T,dat(100:end),'k','LineWidth',3); hold on l2 = plot(104:144,yF1,'-r','LineWidth',2); l3 = plot(104:144,yF2,'-b','LineWidth',2); hold off title('Passenger Data: Actual vs. Forecasts') xlabel('Month') ylabel('Logarithm of Monthly Passenger Data') legend({'Actual Data','Polynomial Forecast',... 'Regression Forecast'},'Location','NorthWest')
Though they overpredict the holdout observations, the forecasts of both models are almost equivalent. One main difference between the models is that
model1 is more parsimonious than
Box, G. E. P., G. M. Jenkins, and G. C. Reinsel. Time Series Analysis: Forecasting and Control. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994.
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Such double standards
It's difficult to feel hope in a nation that worships women and yet prays for the blessings of 'a hundred sons' for mothers. Let's accept it is we the people who are part of the problem, writes Barkha Dutt.columns Updated: Jan 04, 2013 23:11 IST
All of us navigate our pasts, especially the unforgettable, tumultuous journey from adolescence to young adulthood, using milestones to mark our memories. The first crush, the first kiss, the first scrape on the basketball courts, the first 100-metre dash, the first time you stayed out past curfew hour and the first time you spoke on stage, your knees knocking in excitement and anxiety.
But growing up as a female in India, there's another 'First' that blots your nostalgia with insidious persistence. It's the memory of being violated. It's that day in the calendar of your evolution that your physical space and emotional security was first trespassed by a pawing hand, a groping fist, an abusive catcall or the unzipped trousers of a man coercing you to look at him on the bus going home from school. If you're lucky, that's the worst that happens to you.
Did I just say that? Are we so brutalised by the commonplace frequency of sexual abuse that an unwanted touch, a leering whistle or a stranger's body forcibly rubbing against yours is placed in the category of 'not so bad' because elsewhere iron rods are being used to wrench open a young woman's innards?
Yes, and that is exactly the crisis that stems from violence being coded into the very DNA of an essentially misogynistic culture. In our society, sexual molestation is treated either as a minor irritant or the inevitable consequence of being a girl. The ingrained tolerance for it as some sort of twisted rites of passage — to be ignored when it can't be fought — explains why an offensive, feeble and idiotically underwhelming phrase like 'eve teasing' is still used as a respectable euphemism for abuse.
As teenage girls, as young adults and even as battle-weary middle-aged women, we have all fought sexual violation in the ways we know how. Even today, sometimes when I walk down the leafy lanes of the Delhi neighbourhood that has been my home for four decades, I feel I'm going to meet them right around the bend, just as I first did when I was 15 — those foul-mouthed louts who would relentlessly stalk me on their two-wheeler, screeching their brakes to a grinding halt as they lunged to grope and pinch, then sped off just as quickly, their full-throated laughter taunting me into tears of rage. Of course I went to the police, but nothing much came of it.
From that instance to every time it happened again — on the road, on a bus, in a cinema hall — I retaliated, as most of us do — by shouting back, hurling a shoe on the odd occasion and quite often reaching out to slap the offender as hard as I could without endangering myself. But like most girls, I understood, that if my spirit were not to be fettered by a cocoon of over-protection, if I wanted to do after-school drama and debate lessons and fall and run and fall again on the basketball courts — if I wanted to be an independent woman with big dreams — I would just have to accept that this was going to be part of my life.
The reason I find it difficult to share the optimism that the outpouring of street rage after the Delhi gang rape will be some sort of inflection point in our discourse on gender-rights is because elitism and privilege have created a widening gap between the struggles of the 'aam-aurat' and the political establishment. Unlike the great cities of the world — where the mayor and the hot-dog seller may ride the subway together to work — not one of our policy-makers ever uses public transport. How can they ever understand what the daily violation of one's private space feels like? I doubt if they ever need to even step out for a walk outside of the manicured lawns of their lavish (taxpayer-financed) bungalows and if they do, how often is it without security?
The other reason the present debate seems to fall short of honesty is because of the shroud of silence that hangs over uncomfortable and unspoken truths. By focusing (correctly) on law-enforcement and safer cities are we averting our gaze from the enemy within? What of sexual violence inflicted by a husband on his wife? One survey says one in every five men admitted to forcing his partner to have sex. What about child sexual abuse — most often by a trusted uncle or a friendly cousin or a seemingly genial friend of the family whom we may chide gently when caught or, at best, socially shun but never ever hand over to the police? Instead, in pursuit of some warped notion of respectability, we implore our daughters and sons to pretend it never happened and become co-conspirators in an unforgivable silence. What about all the times we have accepted violence in our personal relationships, making excuses while knowing better? Remember, in more than 90% of rape and sexual abuse cases the abuser is not a stranger.
The truth is that in a country where little girls are killed before they are born, it is difficult to feel hope. The fact that we pray for the blessings of 'a hundred sons' for young mothers while claiming to be a country that worships women says it all. We The People are part of the problem.
Barkha Dutt is Group Editor, NDTV and currently a Visiting Fellow at Brown University's India Initiative
The views expressed by the author are personal


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197 pounds
A few months ago, The Globe and Mail ran a story I've been wanting to talk about for a while called "We're having a fat moment: Go ahead and have another slice of pumpkin pie. Thin's not so in any more."
A few months ago, The Globe and Mail ran a story I've been wanting to talk about for a while called "We're having a fat moment: Go ahead and have another slice of pumpkin pie. Thin's not so in any more."
The article asserts that there is currently "a backlash against a culture that has long perpetuated futile strict diets and impossible exercise regimes. People are finally tired of the yo-yo meal plans that help them melt off pounds but also pack them back on. And the media are making more efforts to reflect a public with ever-expanding waistlines."
Though I'm not sure I agree that there really is a backlash as big as this article implies, I do think things are beginning to change.
In fact, just yesterday, my copy of Glamour magazine arrived with this cover:
The one on the left is a "plus-size" model: Crystal Renn, author of Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition, and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves. Though it's somewhat hard to tell in this image, Renn is actually a size twelve, and her body does look real. Meaning it does look like she eats from time to time.
Sure, Renn appeared next to two more traditional sized models here, but this is progress, people. A woman who wears a size twelve is on the cover of Glamour! This is huge.
An article called "Real is the New Sexy" appears in the same issue, and in that article another "plus-size" model—Jennie Runk, who is 5'10" and around 175 pounds—says, "I used to compare myself to others, until I realized it's better if I don't look like everyone else . . . my curves make me feel sexy . . . Every woman, of every body type, should be able to stand up and say she's beautiful."
Words to live by.
Even some fashion designers are using larger models on the runway. No, they're not overweight, but they're not underweight either. And I've never advocated that we idolize overweight women—just woman who have real bodies, which is exactly what's beginning to happen in some magazines, with some fashion designers, and on some television shows.
Case in point: on tonight's episode of Glee, Mercedes was pursued by one of the "popular" boys, Puck, and no mention was made of her body size except that Puck said he liked "curvy" girls. Unlike other actresses her size, Mercedes isn't being relegated to playing the BFF of the girl who got the guy.
There's no denying that things are changing. Changing for the better. The only question is how far will it go? And will it be far enough?


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For Toni Braxton, lupus continues to be a challenge to, not only her personal health, but also her professional and financial life. This grammy-award singer/ musician had battled with the decision to 'come out of the closet' with lupus – but in the end, she was relieved and she continues to inspire hope among those who are afflicted with this mysterious disease.
Lupus is classified as an autoimmune disorder. The immune system 'over-reacts' when it encounters a foreign invader, and begins to rapidly produce antibodies to destroy the toxins and attacks healthy tissues in the process. Research shows that lupus is genetically linked. Toni Braxton admits that lupus does run her family.
Toni Braxton Has Lupus, and Boldness.
No illness is glamorous, but the symptoms of lupus may be extremely detrimental to a celebrity. Skin rashes are typical and may be disfiguring. Toni Braxton has lupus but that does not seem to take away from her beauty and passion for life. Lupus may come with fatigue, low-grade fever, joint pain and inflammation of the kidneys and other organs of the body. Some people go on to lead normal lives with the right blend of treatments, and for others, the complications of lupus may cause death.
Braxton wanted to fully-disclose her condition to the public, as a survivor who takes a proactive role toward her health and healing, as she expressed to Billboard Magazine this year. When her fans began to ask 'Does Toni Braxton have lupus?', she boldly announced at an awareness event: 'This is what lupus looks like.' Although she exposed her disease, she also revealed her courage and fighting spirit.
Toni Braxton Does Have Lupus – And Victory!
Toni Braxton was honored at the 8th Annual Lupus LA Bag Ladies Luncheon where she was given the 'Woman in Achievement Award.' About 90% of those who suffer from lupus are women, so Braxton is really stepping up to bat for these women.
Braxton told The Chigago Holistic Health Examiner (Nov 2010) that her condition inspired her to study natural alternatives for lupus. She shared her story on how she was diagnosed with Lupus. She went on a natural colon cleanse and herbal regimen – and she switched to a wholesome diet. She told The Chicago Holistic Health Examiner that she 'praises God for her health and the knowledge she gained in natural alternatives for Lupus which helped her avoid medications and all their side effects.'
The million or more people with lupus in this country are told there is no cure for the disease. However, there are those, who refuse to take that answer. Instead, they go and find a way to live well and to reclaim their health. Toni Braxton is a shining example to them, and to all of us, of 'unbreakable' courage in times of adversity.


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Guadalupe River State Park: Bird in the Hand, an up-close look at the birds of the park, including cardinals, chickadees and painted buntings, while being netted and banded, Discovery Center, 9 a.m.-noon. Free with admission to park. Call (830) 438-2656.
Friends of Government Canyon SNA: Haiku Hike, a three-mile walk with quiet time led by poet Mobi Warren combining natural world and short poem forms at the state natural area, 8:30 a.m.-noon. Entrance fee. RSVP required: firstname.lastname@example.com or 210-688-9055, Ext. 289. Click on friendsofgc.org.
Alamo Area Moderators: Monthly match of the cowboy action shooting club, 8 a.m., Culebra Road/FM 471 at Gass Road. 210-493-9320 or alamoareamoderators.com.
South Texas Pistoleros: Monthly match of the cowboy action shooting club, 8 a.m., Cowboy Action Shooting Range at A Place To Shoot, 13250 Pleasanton Road. Nonmembers welcome. Call 210-661-3550 or 210-628-1888 or visit aplacetoshoot.com.
Alamo Arms Collectors Association: Monthly meeting, 6:30 p.m., San Pedro Church of Christ, 311 Jackson-Keller Road. Nonmembers welcome. Call George Stenzel, 210-523-5540.
San Antonio Audubon Society: Linda Weisenmiller of SeaWorld San Antonio will speak about the puffin project in Maine at the monthly meeting, 7 p.m., The First Tee, 915 E. Mulberry Ave. Nonmembers welcome. Call 210-308-6788 or visit saaudubon.org.
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Kerr Wildlife Management Area: Second of three-part first Friday tours will focus on critical issues in the Edwards Plateau. Part 3 on Oct. 5 will be on ecosystems management. All 1-5 p.m. Call 830-238-4484.
New Braunfels Schuetzen Verein: Practice shoot, 7 p.m., NBSV range in New Braunfels. Click on home.roadrunner.com/˜nbsv or call Scott McCash, 830-237-2376.
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Texas Outdoor Family: Hands-on basics of camping for those with little or no experience with tent, gear provided, Inks Lake State Park. $65 for family of up to six. Call 512-389-8903 or email email@example.com.
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In the late 1990′s Web and Logs started becoming popular and informative discussion pages posted on the internet began to gain ground. A new word was phrased renaming web and logs into "Blogs!" As the internet grew, graphics, and computer technology continued to grow and people started using blogs to inform the world of just about everything from political events to worldwide news. The cost over expensive computers over time become more affordable to the general public. Computers like laptops and Ipads also became popular and gave the public an opportunity to leave the desktop behind. Desktops where bulky computers that confined us to a desk and were not mobile.Well now cell phones are taking over the web and consumers are now finding themselves browsing popular blogs at all hours of the day.It has even become popular for consumers to read there favorite blogs during work hours and on vacations.With internet access going wireless and global, blogs have become the fastest form of communications on the planet. If you want to learn anything now days you Google a blog that has that information.
People blog about medical issues and new inventions everyday. Many informative facts exist online and the general public can learn whatever they need to know almost immediately! Blogs have become very powerful centers of information. Advertisers have also taken notice. There are statistics that show growing numbers of advertisers are leaving traditional forms of media such as television and printed news to cover blogs.There are also companies that have developed to help bloggers and advertisers to come together such as BlogSkinny.com. Blogs are gaining millions of more readers each year. The statistics show that television and printed media are all transferring onto the internet. Just about all media will be digitized, viewed and read online.
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Te'o's role in girlfriend hoax still unclear
CTVNews.ca Staff
Published Friday, January 18, 2013 7:35AM EST
Last Updated Friday, January 18, 2013 9:07AM EST
Two days after the story broke of Notre Dame University football star Manti Te'o and a girlfriend who never actually existed, it's still unclear whether Te'o himself was in on the hoax.
Sports gossip website Deadspin.com unravelled the tale Wednesday, revealing that Lennay Kekua, the girlfriend whom Te'o spoke of so lovingly to sports journalists, never existed.
It reported that Kekua, who supposedly died of leukemia, appears to be a fabricated character whose Twitter profile bore the photo of another woman apparently not involved in the scam. Deadspin's story suggests that one of Te'o's friends created the fake girlfriend.
There are now suspicions that Te'o may have been in on the hoax, although in a statement Wednesday, he insisted he was nothing but a victim in the scheme.
The plot thickened Thursday when The Associated Press discovered that Te'o had talked about Kekua in interviews on Dec. 8 and Dec. 11 – even though Te'o told Notre Dame officials on Dec. 26 that he found out about the hoax on Dec. 6.
The AP found that Te'o talked about his doomed love in a Dec. 8 interview with the website for WSBT.com, a TV outlet in South Bend, Ind., and again in an interview published in The Los Angeles Times on Dec. 10.
In the online interview, Te'o spoke to WSBT.com, the website for a South Bend TV station, and said: "I don't like cancer at all. I lost both my grandparents and my girlfriend to cancer. So I've really tried to go to children's hospitals and see, you know, children."
Then, in a column that first ran in The Los Angeles Times on Dec. 10, Te'o recounted why he played a few days after he found out Kekua died in September, and the day she was supposedly buried.
"She made me promise, when it happened, that I would stay and play," he said on Dec. 9 while attending a ceremony in Newport Beach, Calif., for the Lott Impact Awards.
When asked for comment, Te'o's agent, Tom Condon, said his client had no plans to make any public statements.
Toronto-based psychotherapist Kimberly Moffit says the whole story is bizarre, but she says it's possible that Te'o was simply desperate for publicity.
"We can never really know the kind of pressure that superstar athletes are under to create that kind of hero persona for themselves," she told CTV's Canada AM Friday.
"He might have felt pressure to create this persona for himself and this dramatic love story to get viewers on his side."
Moffit says online dating can be a great way to way to meet someone and she's seen a lot of people use it successfully. But she doesn't believe anyone can fall truly in love unless they've met each other face to face.
"You need a physical relationship in a relationship as well as open dialogue," Moffitt says.
Notre Dame's athletic director Jack Swarbrick said the school hired investigators to look into the Te'o situation and insisted Wednesday that he was victimized in this case.
The investigators "were able to discover online chatter among the perpetrators that was certainly the ultimate proof of this, the joy they were taking," Swarbrick said. He said the perpetrators of the hoax "didn't limit themselves to Manti in the targets."
Many have likened the situation to "catfishing," a term used to describe a person who deliberately fakes an online persona to dupe someone. Moffitt says she hasn't heard of that happening much but says it's possible.
"These are people who may have deeper psychological issues that they would do this as a prank and that it gives them some kind of satisfaction in some kind of way. But there are people like this who exist not just online but in the real world," she said.
She advises those who are dating online to do their own investigating of new people they meet, Googling their name to find out what they can, and to use as much common sense as they would in any other dating situation.


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Knowing the HSK grammar forms you'll likely to find on a given level of the HSK can improve the probabilities that you pass the exam. Though speaking with the native Chinese language speakers can help you implicitly know HSK grammar, learning the true and tested forms of the HSK grammar is a better strategy. In addition, if you only rely on your life experience, learning grammar from native speakers, you're just as likely to learn common habits of breaking grammar rules, which will hurt your HSK grammar knowledge.
Nowadays, learning Mandarin is less rote memorization and more interactive. The Internet is one reason for this. Nevertheless, grammar is not interactive. It is a set of rules. But the academic sector seems to lack the rulebook, not knowing what to teach students about HSK grammar. Not knowing the HSK grammar rules will be a huge impediment to your HSK preparation process. But things do not have to be so difficult, not anymore. Even f you don't have a teacher with a background in Chinese literature, you can get our HSK grammar guide when you download the HSK comprehensive guide for your level. Each level (elementary, intermediate, and advanced) has a different HSK grammar guide that lists all the important grammar for each level of the test.
Studying grammar seems to be a mystery, both among students of Chinese and among teachers of Chinese. There's a rumor going around that you'll never know the true Chinese grammar unless you move to China. That's bunk. The HSK grammar is a list of set rules. You don't need to go to China to get these rules. Simply studying on your own will often be enough, though studying and practicing these grammar forms with a tutor will definitely help you internalize the HSK grammar. Often, writing essays is the best way to practice, review, and test your knowledge of HSK grammar. Through writing practice, you will discovered what aspects you are missing in grammar. People who excel at writing tend to have the best grammar, if you haven't noticed, regardless of their native language. So the short of it is, you can learn all the grammar you need while still in your home country. No need to buy a plane ticket to Beijing.
Lots of students hold the notion that HSK grammar is hard to master. This is likely due to previous experiences with grammar in English class. But HSK grammar, Chinese grammar, is easier than English grammar. A lot of people don't even bother learning Chinese grammar because it seems so easy. Of course, for the HSK, you need to know the HSK grammar, because you're being tested on formal Chinese, not "the way people speak" (which is usually based on habit, not rules). If you already know your native language's grammar, you'll find learning HSK grammar to be a troublefree process.


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Everyone is doing such beautiful work! I love the mug rugs. I finally got a little sewing done, the first since I got back from Leavenworth, can't believe my bad health has lasted so long. I made this fun apron for my sister for Christmas.
I haven't had much a chance the last few days to actually do any quilting, although I have been working on the binding to my MQ7.
Thursday we had to drive down to Sacramento to visit my father before going down to Modesto (about 75 miles south of Sacramento) for the beginning work on two tooth implants for DH. Our dentist was using him as a patient for a class he was taking on implants so that is why we had to travel the 230 miles just to go to a dentist. We spent the night at my Dad's and headed out Friday morning for Modesto. Spent almost all day at the dentist's office in Modesto (I had time to handsew the binding, got at least 3/4 of it done). We left Modesto at 2:30 and headed back up the hill. It was a long and miserable drive as it was blizzard conditions crossing Donner Pass, and in one 2-1/2 hour stretch we only made it 3 miles as they were holding traffic back. What a drag...it took us 8 hours to get home and the ice and traffic going down the hill on the Reno side was very nerve wracking for me, as I was the driver. I was glad to make it home at 10:30 pm but I have been so tired today.
Today, I am babysitting 3 of the grandsons, including the baby, who is very fussy because he is teething. I really think that I'm too old to tackle all three of the boys at one time. I'm hoping my DD and SIL are on their way home. Trying to cook dinner with a fussy baby and 2 other young ones under foot was enough to try the little bit of patience I had left. Now the 7 and 9 year olds want to have a sleepover and I'm just not sure I can handle it as I am so tired and sore from all of the time spent in the car. I've had a headache all day (I think from the stress of trying to see the lines on the icy road and avoid all of the other cars. Naturally it's the holiday weekend and all of the skiers with their brand new 4WD's were on the road. I wish they would learn that just because they have 4WD it doesn't make them invincible. I have 4WD and it was all I could do to keep from sliding all over at 30 mph, and some of these fools were passing me at 60 mph. Saw several of them spun out in the snow banks as we passed them later.
I think I will go to bed early tonight....
I completed my "WInter Wonderland" top. I'm off to bed now but will begin quilting it later when I'm back on this side of the world.
I took a photo but the lighting was poor so the colours are off. Will get a better photo after it's quilted (and I have daylight):
I completed my "WInter Wonderland" top. I'm off to bed now but will begin quilting it later when I'm back on this side of the world.
I took a photo but the lighting was poor so the colours are off. Will get a better photo after it's quilted (and I have daylight):
Kris this is fantastic, such a wonderful job.
Marsha-SM:Kris, this top must have been fun to do with all the different blocks. Your embroidery is beautiful.
Thanks Agnes,
it was fun. I made the pieced blocks in two weekends. The embroidery I took to work with me and I got some of it done at the retreat in Washington.
My needle just broke so I'm taking a break from quilting. I'm halfway there.
I love your Winter Wonderland quilt. I knew after seeing the embroidery blocks at retreat that it was going to be stunning.
Vinton, Virginia
Karla, I think you need a long vacation, by yourself, you are way to busy all the time, it sounds like you have no time for yourself. get some rest (((HUGS)))))
[Ava, Missouri
I love your apron! This is so beautiful. She is going to love wearing it. I have been making aprons this last few months, between quilting. Using a pair of old jeans, you get 2 aprons out of each pair. The legs make the apron and I cut the pockets out of the back to put on the aprons, then trim in fun colors. I even tried a bit of embroidery on the ones I made for Christmas. I will try to figure out how to post pics on this site.
Elizabeth ,I love the aparon. very pretty .Barbara
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Karla, I think you need a long vacation, by yourself, you are way to busy all the time, it sounds like you have no time for yourself. get some rest (((HUGS)))))
My vacation is going to be my trip to Branson in March. This weekend's drive in the snow was just practice for the drive I'll be making from Nevada to Missouri in February/March.
My first quilting since surgery. Boy did it feel good even though it was down and dirty style...LOL.
Table topper made from wildlife panel with turkey fabric on the back. Crosshatch quilting.
And 4 mug rugs made from leftover panel pieces.
Way to go Nana, glad to see you're getting your mojo back! But do remember, to take it nice and easy there girl...lol!
Winthrop, WA
I do have one quilt in progress( still) for a Christmas gift, but since they will not be here until next weekend, I have a few extra days to get it finished. In the meantime, I have finished a few "other" things. Some of you may remember the "hunky guy" fabric... I did an apron and matching potholders for my granddaughter who just moved into her first apartment on her own. Thought it will be a big surprise for her to get it from her grandmother...lol!
I also have been sewing fabric and upholstery trims on bath-towels to make "fancy" guest towels for family gifts:
Those Costco towels are wonderful! Put a pair of the bath-towels, a set of hand-towels & washcloths together,gussy them up a bit and you have a very nice gift. (I only took a picture of one of each of the bath-towels...to fit in the picture.)
Elizabeth: I made this fun apron for my sister for Christmas.
It's so cute. Nice work Elizabeth.


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Garmin may be keeping quiet about opencaching.com but they are definitely up to something. I started receiving reports of the mascot showing up on the opencaching.com homepage last week. I though just thought "oh isn't that cute" but didn't think anymore of it. Then I started seeing all the forum posts. The arrival of the mascot is apparently big news to the geocaching community.
So I guess Garmin understands their market a little better than I do.


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When you see your dog vomiting all over your car, your furniture and your carpet, you know you'll lose sleep because you have to continuously clean up your dog's puke… and even if you know the cause of your dog's nausea, you probably have no clue how long it will take to make your dog feel better before you're forced to bring your sick dog to your veterinarian for medical help to stop your dog from vomiting.
This news brief gives you 10 tips to uncover causes for your dog's vomiting. You'll also find 8 safe home remedies for any budget to quickly stop your dog from vomiting which could save you the expense of a vet visit.
Dog Vomiting Causes and Cures
If you already know what causes your dog to vomit you can scan down to the home remedies.
If the cause of your dog's vomiting is unknown, you need to put on your detective hat. Maybe the list below will help you uncover the reason why your dog vomited in the first place.
10 Causes of Your Dog's Vomiting
- Motion Sickness – Puppies are more prone to motion sickness because their ear structure for balance may not be fully developed. If your dog thinks a ride in the car means she's out for an unpleasant vet visit, she may be anxious enough to whine, yawn or drool which could lead to vomiting.
- Change of Diet – Your dog may not digest new dog food, treats or table food and become sick enough to make her vomit. The best approach to diet change is to mix any new food with your dog's regular food and monitor your dog's reaction. It may take a week to introduce a new food item safely to your dog's diet.
- Gulping Food – When your dog eats too fast there's always a chance she may throw up undigested food right away. A simple solution to dog vomiting is to reduce the amount of food in your dog's bowl so she has smaller, easier to digest meals and fewer chances to gulp her food.
- Allergies – Your dog may have an allergic reaction to something she ate or things like mold, cigarette smoke, dander, dust, pollen and household cleaners. Allergies often result in itchy skin, diarrhea and vomiting so you may need to do research to find the cause for your dog's allergic reaction.
- Chemotherapy – If your dog with cancer goes through chemotherapy there's a good chance she may have nausea and vomit after her treatments. You may be able to reduce her discomfort with some of the home remedies in the next section below. Check with your vet and choose treatments that won't conflict with your dog's condition and cancer medications.
- Toxic Substances – Your dog may have eaten spoiled food, a poisonous plant or licked antifreeze on the street which can result in your dog vomiting. Bring your dog to your local animal emergency hospital whenever you suspect she's eaten toxic substances.
- Upset Tummy – Your dog's tummy may be sensitive to things like new food, treats, heat or too much exercise after meals. If your dog vomits regularly, you may want to change her diet and wait one hour after meals before any exercise so she can digest her food.
- Parasites – Parvo and Rabies are examples of parasites that can cause your dog to vomit. Other symptoms that go along with these diseases are bloody diarrhea with a foul odor. Bring your dog to your vet or local animal hospital when your dog has these symptoms.
- Dehydration – Your dog could be dehydrated which often results in dog vomiting. Pinch your dog's skin on her shoulder into a tent shape and release it. If your dog's skin flattens right away, your dog is well hydrated. If the "tent" shape stays up for more than 5 seconds, your dog may be dehydrated and you should bring her to your local animal hospital immediately.
- Health Conditions – Pancreatitis, liver or kidney disease and bloat are 4 health conditions that can cause dog vomiting. Bring your dog to your vet or local animal hospital if your dog is lethargic, has diarrhea and continues to vomit for 24 hours.
8 Home Remedies for Dog Vomiting
If your dog only vomits a few times and acts bright and alert you can choose home remedies from the list below to stop her vomiting. Bring your dog to your veterinarian if your dog continues to throw up for more than 24 hours.
- Withhold Food – You may want to stop your dog's meals for 12-24 hours when she vomits unless she throws up yellow bile which is a sign that your dog's stomach is empty or she has an intestinal issue. Bring your dog to your vet when she throws up yellow bile.
- Ice Chips – You can give your dog 2 or 3 ice chips at a time which cools her stomach and helps prevent dehydration. Your dog may also have trouble keeping water down because her stomach muscles will automatically contract and bring the water right back up. Ice chips are the least expensive home remedy to help stop dog vomiting.
- Bland Diet – After your dog calms down and stops vomiting you can give her a small amount of bland food. Combine 1 cup of cooked white rice with 1/4 cup canned coconut milk or lean cooked hamburger. Replace your dog's regular meal with 1/4 cup of this room temperature rice mixture until your dog stops vomiting. When your dog is back to normal you can give her regular food. This home remedy may be the most expensive one because of the price of rice, ground beef and coconut milk.
- Chicken Broth – You can speed up your dog's recovery from dog vomiting with chicken broth. There's nothing better than chicken broth to help hydrate and heal your dog. Boil boneless chicken with 2 chicken bouillon cubes until the chicken is cooked and the cubes dissolve. Give your dog small portions of room temperature broth 3 times daily.
- Plain Greek Yogurt – If your dog suffers from a bacterial infection, plain Greek yogurt adds healthy bacteria to your dog's digestive system. Give your small dog 1 teaspoon per hour until she stops vomiting. Dosage for your medium or large dog is 1-2 tablespoons per hour.
- Coconut Water – The electrolytes in coconut water help prevent dehydration from dog vomiting. Give your small dog 1 teaspoon of plain coconut water every 2 hours until your dog stops vomiting. Dosage for your medium or large dog is 2-3 teaspoons of coconut water every 2 hours.
- Ginger – Add a pinch of ginger to your dog's food to help calm her upset stomach, dizziness and nausea. You can use ginger for your dog with motion sickness or if your dog has cancer and goes through chemotherapy. Since nausea can be a side effect from medications, ginger is a perfect home remedy to help your dog feel better. Make a cool ginger tea and add up to 1/2 cup to your dog's water or food daily. Ginger can reduce gas in your dog's stomach and help your dog stop vomiting.
- Peppermint Oil – Use high-quality therapeutic-grade peppermint essential oil for your dog who suffers from motion sickness to help calm her tummy and reduce dog vomiting. Mix 7 drops of peppermint essential oil in 1 tablespoon of sweet almond oil. Put 1-3 drops of this mixture on your dog's tongue no more than once daily.
Note: Keep your dog in a cool place and turn on a fan or air-conditioner if needed. Your dog's body temperature may be higher if she's sick and her condition will get worse if she's too hot.
You know, it's not uncommon for dogs to vomit occasionally. I hope this article helps you find the cause of your dog's vomiting so you can find the best home remedy to stop it quickly.
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The role of a stand-alone ICT course in a Malaysian Public University: How effective is it for student teachers?
Wong, Su Luan and Abu Bakar, Kamariah and Atan, Hanafi (2009) The role of a stand-alone ICT course in a Malaysian Public University: How effective is it for student teachers? The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, 5 (1). pp. 89-98. ISSN 1832-3669
Official URL: http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.547
This research attempts to measure student teachers' confidence toward ICT and their perceived ICT skills after completing a stand-alone ICT course at Universiti Putra Malaysia. Two separate paired samples t-tests results revealed that there was a positive shift in the student teachers' confidence toward ICT as well as an improvement in their perceived ICT skills towards the end of the course. The pre-test result showed that participants with lower prior ICT experience were as confident as those with higher experience before enrolling in the course. They, however, had much lower perceived ICT skills. The post test results showed that those with lower prior ICT experience still had similar confidence level toward ICT compared to those with higher prior computer experience but the gap between their perceived ICT skills had reduced. The responses obtained from interviewing six student teachers showed that participants were more confident with ICT related tools and felt that their ICT skills improved towards the end of the stand-alone course. The study offered some evidence that stand-alone ICT courses can benefit student teachers.
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ALP Online Registration
To participate in the course you need to do three things:
1. Register online before Wednesday, April 11, 17:00
Tip for step 1. below: In the "Username of Informatik account" field you should enter
- only the user name (not a full e-mail address)
- nothing, if you do not have a Computer Science account yet. In this case choose the "Nebenfach (Pflichtübungen)" option in the bottom-most field.
- Wait for the notification message with your password for the registration system.
If you try to register after the assignment of students to groups has already been completed, the registration system will not show the course anymore. Then please contact your lecturer. Late registration must be explicitly activated by the lecturer.
2. Activate your Windows Account in A106
Use the "Computer Science IT Service card"1) to enter the terminal pool A106 and Activate your Windows-account.
3. Activate your SVN Account
When you get an e-mail that requires you to activate your SVN account, do so within two days! If you fail to meet the deadline, your SVN account will be invalidated and you will not be able to participate in the exercises (which depend on SVN)!
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- David Henry Sterry
- John Millington Synge
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- E. B. White
- Patrick White
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about Edward St. Aubyn 2013-04-20 21:33:48
St. Aubyn is a brilliant author, honest, incisively observant, an extraordinary stylist, witty in an angry, even vicious way, ruthless in the very best tradition of literature. His books are engaging on both a visceral and intellectual level; they appall and delight and are breathtakingly written.
Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk and At Last are all linked by their protagonist, Patrick Melrose, who ages from early childhood to well into adulthood through the five books. It's a tour de force--and clearly, one should start at the beginning, with Never Mind.
about Kate Atkinson 2013-04-20 21:24:27
I love most of Kate Atkinson's witty, sharply observed, deeply imaginative books. The four "Jackson Brodie" ones (Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News, and Started Early, Took My Dog) are essentially detective stories but with fully dimensional characters, absorbing situations, and a classically appealing detective. If these interest you, read them in chronological order (starting with Case Histories).
Her other works are mainstream literary novels. Emotionally Weird is my favorite, a book with a strong emotional pull and a couple of deeply strange characters. But if it doesn't grab you, try another.
The only one I would NOT recommend starting with is Life After Life. It's received many enthusiastic reviews, but I found it very disappointing. It's also very long. Start elsewhere...but do try her, she's terrific.
about Julia Jones 2011-10-29 16:01:50
The Salt-Stained Book, the first volume in Julia Jones Strong Winds trilogy, is a thumping great sea tale of smart, sensitive Donny Walker, who at 13 is taken away from his mute, dyslexic mother and thrown upon the tender mercies of the English child welfare system. Donny is kept from bitterness and despair by a new passion for all things nautical, and new friends who share his enchantment.
The Salt-Stained Book is definitely the place to start reading Jones savvy, energetic, deeply imagined trilogy, which continues with the newly published "A Ravelled Flag."
about Stieg Larsson 2010-02-24 21:21:57
The three books whose English titles begin with "The Girl" comprise the late Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. Start with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, since it was the first of the three. The [much better] Swedish title, by the way, was "Men Who Hate Women."
about Stieg Larsson 2010-02-24 21:17:04
Stieg Larsson (1954-2004) was a Swedish writer and journalist.
Prior to his sudden death of a heart attack in November 2004 he finished three detective novels in his trilogy "The Millenium-series" which were published posthumously; "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo", "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest". Altogether, his trilogy has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide (summer of 2009), and he was the second bestselling author in the world 2008.
Before his career as a writer, Stieg Larsson was mostly known for his struggle against racism and right-wing extremism. Starting in the late 1970's, he combined his work as a graphic designer with holding lectures on right-wing extremism for the Scotland Yard. During the following years he became an expert on the subject and has held many lectures as well as written many novels on the subject. In 1995, when 8 persons were killed by neo-Nazis I Sweden, he was the main force behind the founding of the Expo-foundation, a group intended on exposing neo-Nazi activity in Sweden. From 1999 and on, he was appointed chief editor of the magazine Expo.
During the last 15 years of his life, he and his life companion Eva Gabrielsson lived under constant threat from right-wing violence.
--from StiegLarsson.com
about Arthur Conan Doyle 2010-02-16 14:20:06
I agree with the comments above--the short stories are the place to start. Don't worry much about which collection you get or which story you start with. As long as John Watson is narrating what you're reading, you're in the right place. If you don't enjoy one, try the next. If you don't enjoy two--probably the Sherlock Holmes opus is not for you.
about David Henry Sterry 2010-02-13 15:31:17
Sterry writes very entertainingly and vividly, with a lot of humor.
about Wally Lamb 2010-02-08 10:15:40
I just FINALLY started reading my first Wally Lamb book ("She's Come Undone"). It is good enough to make me wonder why I waited all this time. I have such resistance even to glancing at certain very successful books. Why is that? Snobbism? In part, maybe. But also painful experience, because I find many widely-read books so bitterly disappointing.
about Elizabeth Taylor 2009-04-19 22:31:02
I just read my first Elizabeth Taylor, so I can't recommend which is best to read first--but I can say that the first one I read, "In a Summer Season," made me want to read all of them. Her sentences are pungent, strong, and her observations are so sharp they remind me of Barbara Pym. The domestic microsphere in which "In a Summer Season" is set also made me think of Pym. And the sheer pleasure of keeping company with her intelligent, wry and compassionate mind.
about Katharine Weber 2008-08-05 12:07:38
The Little Women is a terrific book--very witty, dry, closely observed--about sisters, growing up and family.
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about The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 2010-02-16 14:17:23
This is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories. Okay, "duh," but if you are really unfamiliar with Doyle, the short stories are the place to start. There are now many editions of them, so don't worry about the title of the collection you happen upon first (or can afford, or find to download), just get a nice fat one and dig in.
about The Four Temperaments by Yona McDonough 2008-07-21 08:18:14
From: PEOPLE, September 2, 2002
Happily married Oscar, a first violinist with the New York City Ballet, is smitten by Ginny, an ambitious young dancer in the corps. Oscar's wife, Ruth, senses that her husband is having an affair. And if that's not enough heartbreak for one woman, Ruth later walks in on their son embracing Gabriel. Gabriel is also married, of course. Farcical elements aside, this is a story about ordinary people blindsided by powerful emotions. Telling a complex from five points of view, McDonough effectively limns the inner turmoil of richly developed characters. Dance lovers will swoon over the setting, but you don't need to know a battement from a releve to enjoy this fascinating, deeply human novel.
Bottom Line: Raises the Barre.


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In Spain, dinner is typically served between 9pm and 11pm, which has contributed to the popularity of tapas. Often accompanied by wine, tapas are small savory dishes consisting of a wide variety of appetizers, snacks or finger food. If you are curious about the history and definition of tapas food, continue reading to explore this Spanish culinary tradition.
What Is Tapas Food?
Tapas foods are finger foods that are served in cafes and bars. The word tapas comes from the Spanish word, tapar, which means, "to cover." Coming in various different forms, tapas fare can be hot, cold or marinated. Tapas are usually flavored with cumin, salt, pepper, garlic, chilies, paprika, saffron or olive oil. Possible dishes include olives, Serrano ham, chorizo, salt cod, Spanish omelets, rings of battered squid, meatballs with sauce, stuffed mussels, stuffed piquillo peppers, and much more. In many parts of Spain, if you order a drink at a bar, a tapa is served with it for free.
What Are Tapas Bars?
Tapas bars are dining and drinking establishments that typically serve 8 to 12 different types of tapas. The selection often includes one or more types of vegetarian, meat, and bread dishes. Tapas may be served in warming trays with glass partition or featured on an a la carte menu of small plate items.
What Makes Tapas Popular?
Tapas are the perfect introduction to Spanish cuisine, because they allow you to sample many different types of dishes in one meal. Tapas go great with wine, sherry, beer or cider. Sharing tapas is also a social activity and bonding experience that brings diners together and encourages conversation.
Where Does Tapas Come From?
Andalusian Taverns
There are many different stories told about the origin and history of tapas. According to the Joy of Cooking, the first tapas were slices of bread or meat used to cover glasses of sherry in between sips at Andalusian taverns to prevent fruit flies from hovering over the sherry.
Castilian Taverns
According to another story, King Alfonso X, who was known as the "wise one," made sure that Castilian taverns served wine along with something to eat so that the wine would not go straight to clients' heads.
Ventorillo del Chato
Another story claims that King Alfonso was traveling and stopped to rest in a town called Ventorillo del Chato, where he ordered a glass of sherry. The innkeeper served him a glass of sherry covered with a slice of ham to prevent the sherry from getting dirty. King Alfonso liked it and asked for another "tapa," or cover.
Different Cultures Have Helped Tapas to Evolve
Tapas have evolved throughout history and have come to incorporate influences from many different cultures and regions. When the Romans invaded the Iberian Peninsula, they brought olives. The North African Moors brought citrus fruits, spices, and almonds. With the discovery of the New World, tomatoes, corn, potatoes, and sweet and chili peppers were introduced.
The Tapas Trend Today
Today, tapas food is no longer limited to Spanish cuisine and can encompass a variety of different food cultures. The small plate trend has also taken off in the United States, and upmarket tapas bars and restaurants are common in many American cities, including New York City, Miami, San Francisco, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Bartenders embrace this trend, because salty tapas often spur beverage sales.
Giving Tapas a Try
Sharing small plates and tasty bits accompanied by wine while laughing and conversing with friends is a great way to unwind after a long day. Now that you know the tapas definition, consider giving tapas a try the next time you want to enjoy a delicious meal and a memorable dining experience!


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The European Commission welcomed a US decision on Feb. 2 to repeal a contentious antidumping trade law, known as the 'Byrd Amendment,' but expressed anger that the repeal was effective from September 2007, not immediately.
The US House of Representatives approved a budget bill on Feb. 1 that will end the Byrd amendment in October next year. Under the Byrd amendment, government revenues from anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties are given to US companies that brought the complaints.
In 2002, the World Trade Organization ruled the Byrd amendment, named for its sponsor Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.VA, violated international trade rules and authorized Canada, the EU, Japan, and Mexico to retaliate with tariffs on US exports of several categories of food products. Disbursements, which have totaled almost $1.3 billion since the law went into effect in 2001, will continue only up to Oct. 1, 2007.
'That means that distribution of collected anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties to US companies will continue to distort the conditions of competition on the US market at the expense of imported goods for a number of years,' the Commission said in a statement.
The Commission said it will review the details of the US action. 'I think that this is a constructive step, although I regret that the US has chosen to provide a transition period rather than ending these payments at once,' said EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson. (Dow Jones)


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Unlike other iPhone bike mounts on the market, the GoRide was designed for cyclists who want to have access to their iPhone during rides without sacrificing safety and convenience, and without having some bulky contraption attached to their bike.
Great for iPhone bike apps: Not only can you stay in touch with the outside world by having your iPhone with you on the trails, you can map your trips on the fly and track your progress with cool apps such as iMapMyRide, EveryTrail, Trail Blazer, Cychosis, RunKeeper and MotionX-GPS
"The GoRide holds my iPhone at the correct angle so that I can read the display without having to move my head, this is a huge improvement over the other mounts I have tried in the past. Also, the case holds firmly in place so which allows me to actually use the touch screen to navigate through the apps I use w/out shifting around."
-- C. Corrado, New York
"I have this mount and it is very solid. The biggest advantage is that it holds the phone firmly in place without being big and bulky looking - it is like your iPhone is floating on your handlebars.
I use free running software to track my cycling - and it works great, I used to have to have the iPhone in one of my bottle pockets in the of my shirt to ensure good GPS reception. Now I can finally see the display while cycling. "
-- C. Villumsen, Denmark