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Yellow Point SlumlordsAugust 5th, 2006 · stk
We may be moving to a forested, 5-acre hideaway on Vancouver Island. The bidding war has begun for a 2400-sq.ft. home in Yellow Point. Find out more!
From the Packs on our Back, to a Big House, 5 Acres, Landlords, a Kid & (Deeply in Debt) in Less than 4 Years!
In 2002, all our "stuff" was in storage and we spent six months trekking from Mexico to Canada, along the Pacific Crest Trail. Everything we needed we carried on our backs.
Fast forward to 2006. After a house-hunting trip to Vancouver Island, in early August, we fell in love with a 2400 square-foot home in Yellow Point, a rural area just south of Nanaimo. The house is on a 5 acre parcel that includes part of a beaver pond, clearings and many tall, second-growth Douglas fir trees. There's also a mobile home that's currently being rented, which has it's own address, driveway and cannot be seen from the main house. The property is than a quarter of a mile from the ocean and there's a 14 hectare Provincial Park a stone's throw away. There are a number of resort lodges along the main road, "Yellow Point Road". The property is private (cannot be seen from the road), on a dead-end spur which receives little traffic.
We've put in an offer and are in the midst of the offer-counter offer bidding process. Wow, we may be living in our own little slice of heaven!
To find out more, read on ...
The Poop on the Place
We flew from Edmonton to Vancouver, took public buses to the Pilley house, where we picked up the family car and then boarded a ferry for the 1.5-hour ship-ride to Vancouver Island. We were on the island by early afternoon and we took a drive by all 12 of the homes we had on our list. Most we scratched off from the curb. They were on busy roads, corner lots, or in dubious areas. Discouraged, we met briefly with our realtor and then made our way back to our hotel in Nanaimo, just across the street from nearby docks.
It was a long day, especially for Alex, but she held up well and we stopped a couple of times near parks, so she could ride in the swing and let off a little toddler steam. (She's also smack dab in the middle of potty training, so we brought along her little plastic potty, which garnered a number of knowing smiles and quizzical looks from fellow travelers. When she had to "go", she'd climb into the back of the Pilley Jeep and do her business. We're happy to report only one "accident" the entire trip and especially happy that is was a less-smelly, wet variety!
Finding a house to rent in Nanaimo was tough. The climate is mild enough that not many of the homes even had a carport, let alone a garage. (Rachel was heard to curse Scott for having so many tools, which necessitated that we find a rental with a garage.) After looking at one 3-bedroom, 2-bath, 2-car garage rental for $1,300 a month ( it did have sweeping ocean views ), we decided to scale back a tad. After two days of rental hunting, we only turned up two prospective places. A too-tiny, 2-bedroom place just off the docks, for $850 per month and a nice-sized, 3-bedroom, 1-bath basement suite, with a garage and workshop. The only drawback to the basement suite was the single mom living above, with two teenagers and a pair of dogs to match. We weren't too keen on barking pooches and teens dancing on our ceiling, especially with Rachel working night shifts and trying to sleep sometimes, during the day.
We met up with our realtor again, who showed us six homes. Three we quickly scratched off the list. One was a tad too suburban, which left only two in which we were interested. Both were five acre parcels, but one already had an offer made on it. (The home was nothing and even at that, needed a LOT of work to bring it up to a livable nothing).
The other, had a much nicer home and included a mobile home (separate address and driveway), which has been rented to the same person for 15 years. The home was in fairly good condition, had enough rooms and an eclectic enough layout that we saw a number of potential changes. It's also old enough that we're not afraid to put a couple of dents or scratches in the walls. (The first home we were shown was a "Better Homes and Gardens" show home, which was pretty to look at, but no normal person could actually live in the thing, unless you want to be constantly tidying up after yourself. Do people really "live" like that?)
In any case, the location of the home is perfect. It's about a 20-30 minute commute for Rachel (under the 45 minute limit we had set for ourselves). It's a private, quiet setting. On a dead-end spur road off the main drag, which keeps traffic down. It cannot be seen from the road and is nestled in amongst the tall Douglas fir trees (no shedding pine needles, yay!) With five acres in total, there is more than enough elbow-room for Scott. There's even a beaver pond in the back part, a couple of clearings (one a potential building site that can be used when the mobile home eventually becomes uninhabitable).
The home is a generous 2,400 square feet, with 4 bedrooms (3 up and 1 down). There's a 4-piece bathroom on each level. The upper bath has a bright, louvered skylight, which can be opened. There's a formal dining room and large living room, with a galley kitchen in between. It's missing an informal dining room, something we could rectify in the years to come, as there is space to add on. It has a large patio area off the dining room and an attached garage/workshop on the opposite side. There are a number of outbuildings ... pump-house, chicken coop, children's playhouse, woodshed and electric connection shed.
The best part, beside the tranquil, quiet, treed setting, is the immediate area. Yellow Point is a pastoral and picturesque area between Nanaimo and Ladysmith. It's on a bit of a peninsula and off of the main Coastal Highway. Made up of small farms and rural acreages, it's unlikely to change much in the face of all the development that's taking place in the surrounding cities. (This bodes well for our "20-year plan", as we're looking for a home we'll be in for a long, long time.)
Though the property isn't on the water (we can't afford that!), it is less than a half a mile from the ocean, with access via a Provincial Park that is within walking distance. There are a number of multi-million dollar homes along the shoreline, so it's in a great neighborhood. There are also a number of resorts, just a mile or so south, on Yellow Point Road.
Why reinvent the wheel? For information about Yellow Point, have a look at this page. It's informative!
The price tag for all of this? Over $400,000.00 CAD, which has us reaching deeply into our pockets and signing multiple dotted lines. It's a stretch, but we think the property will be a great place to raise Alex and will, ultimately, appreciate in value!
We're still batting the offer ball back and forth, but we're honing in on a deal and we're hoping that we can come to terms.
With any luck, our 5th year wedding anniversary (October 6th), will be in our new, dream home in Yellow Point!
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Fortunately, Canada has a higher broadband penetration rate than the US. (source)
It appears that cable and ADSL are available. We've had both and I prefer the ADSL, though I'd like the "A" part to be user-changeable.
I see you've had a nice family vacation in Washington D.C. and filled yer head full of training facts! Welcome back!!
Thanks! We're looking forward to our new digs. Pretty spot too.
If you and Tina are ever in the 'hood, you better stop by.
Looks like I'm gonna SEE that rug too, as I might be headed stateside, to visit my folks, early in October. I'll be afraid to walk on it tho.


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The Three-Thousand-Year-Old Toads of Hector of Troy? November 11, 2010Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Modern , trackback
Beachcombing greatly enjoyed, a month ago, looking at one of the world's oldest surviving animals – the tortoise Harry/Harriet that Darwin brought away on the Beagle and who – bless her – died in 2006. He received, from readers, notice of several other historical tortoises that he hopes to come to in time. However, he thought that for today he would satisfy himself with this extraordinary tale of Homeric reptiles from a science magazine dating to 1876.
Can any [readers] throw any light upon the following passage, which is taken from Dr. Schliemann's interesting work on Troy and its Remains published last year?
'Among the huge blocks of stone at a depth of from 12 to 16 metres, I found two toads; and at a depth of 39 ½ feet, a small but very poisonous snake, with a scutiform head. The snake may have found its way down form above, but this is an impossibility in the case of the large toads, they must have spent 3, 000 years in these depths. It is very interesting to find in the relics of Troy living creatures form the times of Hector and Andromache, even though these creatures are but toads.'
I [the correspondent] have often before seen somewhat similar statements vouched for as facts by some, and as confidently declared impossible by others: if true, how do these toads manage to get enclosed alive in such places? I presume they are not bricked up in them for misconduct by the brother-toads, as used to be done to poor nuns who broke their vows… And how do they live on, even if torpid, for so long without air, breathing not oxygen, but carbonic acid? I confess I am much puzzled, and would thankfully be enlightened in some way. G.N.W. 12/191
Beachcombing would normally start with a character assassination of Heinrich Schliemann (obit 1890). After all, Schliemann was both romantic and fantasist, having, Beachcombing would say, a 'difficult relationship' with the truth, be it the truth about his personal life or about the ruins of Troy.
However, in this particular case it would be premature because Beachcombing has not been able to find this passage in Schliemann's books. Neither the English nor the German editions seem to contain the quotation above. Either it was cut out in a very early edition – for understandable reasons – or Beachcombing is no longer as good at skim reading as he once was, or it has been ascribed to Schliemann by a practical joker of a kind all too common in nineteenth-century journal letter pages.
Having said that G.N.W., apart from his lame crack about toads getting angry with each other, does not appear the type. Do the letters GNW contain a Victorian pun that has escaped Beachcombing?
Of course, there have been claims for animals surviving buried in the earth over the years: particularly reptiles. And reports of such animals reached epidemic levels in the nineteenth century. Indeed, Beachcombing has one fabulous example from the 1800s of a group of craftsmen who used to bake toads into clay pots to make a profit out of overtrusting and curious naturalists!
This is how seriously Beachcombing would take the report, be it by Schliemann or otherwise. Still he must admit to having been trasported for a moment…
It is early evening and two toads are exchanging comments on that afternoon's scrap between Achilles and a – now dead – Trojan. There is a lot of shouting about men in their generations being like leaves on the trees. A bloke called Homer walks past and then the toads get a fabulous sunset. Life is good.
'But listen', says toad senior to toad junior, 'winter is coming and soon we'll have to find a nice hole for the winter. Just a few months…'
Any thoughts on this account and its provenance? drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com
Dec 1, 2010: Beachcombing was particularly honoured to get this email from Ashley over at Sedition: 'It's not a toad but the lung fish can do this. Even out of water they live quite a good while… The Queensland lungfish at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago has been part of the permanent live collection since 1933. The official story seems to be that they can be dormant for about 3 years. I don't know what species it was but I saw a documentary as a kid where they chiseled one of these things out of a block of tightly packed dirt that was just about sandstone. They put it in water – it looked like a crooked stick – and it revived and 'swam' – limped/drifted is more like it – around for a few minutes before dying. They had supposedly dated the thing at… I can't remember. It was 2,000 years or more I think and I want to say 5,000 years old but my memory is hazy and I saw it 20+ years ago (looked around for it but there is a band called Lungfish which makes the searching not much fun). I don't know how reliable it was, etc, and so forth. [The link] wasn't described in the article it but it certainly looks like what I remember from the documentary [1], [2].' Thanks a million Ashley!
31 Mar 2015: Bob Skinner has written 'For over 30 years I have taken a particular interest in the "Toad in the Hole phenomenon" and I was intrigued to read your blog entry from 2010 about the alleged discovery by Dr Schliemann of two living toads during his excavation of the ruins of Troy. You quoted a Victorian Journal which cited a passage allegedly from Schliemann's book on Troy, but stated that you had been unable to find this in the book. I don't have the source I read to hand (perhaps the same Victorian Journal?), but I have located the original passage in the 1875 edition of Henry Schliemann's book "Troy and Its Remains: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries Made on the Site of Ilium, and in the Trojan Plain" The relevant passage appears on p. 157, which from the head of the chapter (p.144) is shown to be part of Dr Schliemann's report written "On the Hill of Hissarlik,18th June 1872". On the page, a footnote is provided to this passage by the book's editor, Philip Smith B.A.: "We believe that naturalists are now agreed that such appearances of toads imprisoned for long periods are deceptive. Into what depths cannot a tadpole (whether literal or metaphorical) wriggle himself down? – [ED.]" Despite this sceptical commentary, the phrase "- Live toads coeval with Troy! -" appears in the summary of contents of the chapter at its head, and at the start of the book. Interestingly, Schliemann makes a further brief reference to finding toads in the ruins of Troy later in the book, p. 194 (in Chapter 11, which is dated 13th July 1872) : "Yesterday, at a depth of 13 meters (43 1/2 feet) between the stones of the oldest city, I again came upon two toads, which hopped off as soon as they found themselves free!"

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2009 Remasters
The Beatles
As for what's become available, the choices are quite fetching. Audiophiles purists, self-described completists, Beatlologists, and borderline anal-retentive types who have been screaming about superior mono mixes over what's out and additional mono mixes of what's not out, have finally gotten their wish. The Beatles In Mono box set features 10 albums in their original monaural mixes, plus a couple of discs worth of miscellaneous songs, including four from Yellow Submarine, also mixed in mono (think the Past Masters discs from 1987).
This is the first time mono mixes of Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour, and The Beatles have been released on CD. The original 1965 stereo mixes of Help! and Rubber Soul also make their debut on CD, following the mono mixes on their respective discs.
For the rest of us (and I count myself among them) where the stereo mixes are every bit as cool and coveted as the mono mixes, there's some decision-making. You can get the 14-CD box set or choose any of the 14 titles individually. The individual discs are enhanced with QuickTime mini documentaries about the making of each album. Unless you get the box set, which has a DVD packed with all the mini documentaries, you'll have to watch the video on your computer.
The individual discs are housed in colorful digipaks — eco-friendly packaging with its own advantages and disadvantages. It really comes down to whether you want to stare endlessly at the cover art or extract the CD from a tight-fitting pocket inviting future abrasion. The box set, by contrast, does a better job protecting the CD. Any shortcomings are more than compensated for with the liner notes and groves of new, unseen photos. The aesthetics politely put aside, let's have a listen.
Remastering the Beatles catalog was an extensive and time-consuming process. It involved teams of recording, mastering and restoration engineers. After a series of tests, the original analog master tapes were transferred to digital with a Pro Tools workstation via an analog-to-digital converter. One song was transferred at a time, and tape heads were cleaned afterwards, but work on the actual audio was minimized to preserve "the original integrity of the songs." Digital technology was employed to reduce noise sparingly, yet effectively, as well as to pump up the EQ and overall dynamics.
Logic would dictate one start from the beginning, but logic is overrated, especially these days, so instead, I went backwards and unwrapped Abbey Road. First released on Friday, September 26, 1969, Abbey Road would document the Beatles' last stand in the studio. There is no question they went out on top by recording a tight and cohesive album. George Harrison contributed "Something" and "Here Comes The Sun," arguably his two greatest songs. Both register incredibly big and bright on the remaster. To clearly hear the Moog synthesizer and guitar through the Leslie on "Because" and 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer" is a godsend. After an A/B comparison of the famed medley, I'm ready to sell off my 87 model and let the remaster guide the way.
Next up was the big daddy, The Beatles widely known as The White Album. The packaging of the remaster doesn't quite match that of the 30th anniversary limited edition, which was far more true to the original LP. The tunes, however, are another story. Eric Clapton's ax cries out a lead on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," and Paul McCartney's bass is thumping everywhere like nobody's business. It's even impressive on "Martha My Dear." The orchestration, the brass, the acoustic guitars — all given a face-lift. The syncopation and snorting may be frightening on "Piggies," but the guitars on "Yer Blues" and "Helter Skelter" have never been more gutturally realized. So I peruse lyrics and recording notes in the booklet, pull out the mini Richard Hamilton collage (remembering my original full-size poster fell apart from over-folding) for a gaze, and think about Christmas 1968 when my parents gave me a new stereo and a fresh copy of The Beatles.
The booklet that comes with the Magical Mystery Tour remaster is reproduced from the original EP and subsequent Capitol LP. Like the 1987 CD, The songs replicate the Capitol version, which contained six songs from the Magical Mystery Tour TV show, and five additional tracks, including "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane." All it took was one spin through the instrumental "Flying," and a couple of clicks over to "I Am The Walrus," and I knew this was a keeper.
The film and songs on Yellow Submarine fell somewhere between the period of The Beatles and Magical Mystery Tour; the soundtrack album wouldn't appear until early 1969. Out of all the remasters, this may be the most expendable. The title track is on Revolver and "All You Need Is Love" is on Magical Mystery Tour. Which leaves four Beatles tracks and the film's score, composed and orchestrated by George Martin. Harrison's "Only A Northern Song" and "It's All Too Much," along with Lennon-McCartney's "All Together Now" and "Hey Bulldog," are good enough to make this record an essential piece of the puzzle.
Spending time with Rubber Soul and Revolver, one truly gets a sense of how the Beatles were developing as recording artists. Certainly, Help! is surging with growth — the title track and "You've Got Hide Your Love Away" are two of John Lennon's most eloquent songs. That momentum would carry over to Rubber Soul where Lennon pulled away the blinds on "Norwegian Wood," exorcised his demons on "Nowhere Man" and took a step back on "In My Life."
The subtleties and nuances come alive on these two CDs. The sitar dances and leaps on "Norwegian Wood" but becomes more integral on the next album. Revolver would be the initial step away from the normal range of songs and sounds, utilizing a menagerie of ideas, effects, percussion devices and loops to spectacular effect. McCartney worked it on a few different fronts — going long with more sophisticated material like "Eleanor Rigby" and "For No One," while turning out light-hearted fare such as "Good Day Sunshine" and "Got To Get You Into My Life" that sparkle with optimistic charm. Lennon was more intent on instilling a hallucinogenic spin via "She Said She Said," "Doctor Robert" and "Tomorrow Never Knows." Sequenced and stitched together, these songs gloriously parade a polish unmatched by even today's high recording standards.
"Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" and "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!" once again found Lennon pushing the bounds of imagination. "Within You Without You" whetted Harrison's appetite for Indian music to a startling beautiful degree. For their one of their most ambitious statements, Lennon and McCartney married two pieces of music to create the epic "A Day In The Life." To hear this one in all its pristine glory is truly a highlight of all the remasters.
There will undoubtedly be dissension among Beatle hardcores with regard to the mono mixes and stereo mixes. The new stereo mixes of Please Please Me, With The Beatles, A Hard Day's Night and Beatles For Sale may be the line in the sand, but for the casual fan with a passing interest in the songs that put the group on the map, any one of these may do the trick. Here in the States, those first few albums were much different in appearance and content. Once the hardcores jump into the fray, it's as if the Capitol versions never existed (unless you have an early copy of Yesterday And Today). On play back, you can definitely pick up on the differences between the 1987 monos and the stereo remasters. Which means, you can keep the old versions, upgrade to the stereo versions, and buy the mono box set for another perspective.
Future mongers and format naysayers may have their opinions on fanciful CD packages like the 2009 Remasters in the age of the digital download. Indeed, as numbers increase for the convenience and impersonality that come with the iTunes lifestyle, remastering CD collections like this could become an obsolete practice. Can one sonically asphyxiated by the low fidelity of an MP3 ever learn to love the superior sound and accouterments associated with the CD? Perhaps the Beatles' 2009 Remasters can show the way…
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There were a few hitches at last night's weigh-ins. Four fighters failed to make weight: Ryan McGillivray, Ryan Jimmo, Chris Camozzi and Carlos Espinosa. All of them are expected to be docked 25% of their purse as punishment.
All of their opponents agreed to a catch-weight bout except for Craig Zellner, who forced Jimmo to lose an additional two pounds in order to make the light heavyweight limit.
Two bouts were also scrapped: Marcus Hicks failed a pre-fight medical examination, leaving him unable to go up against Steve Steinbess; Jeremy Martin suffered an undisclosed injury while training for his bout against Trevor Daley and was forced to withdraw from the fight. Neither fighter will receive a replacement opponent.
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When last we heard from Christopher Tignor, it was in the days immediately following the release of Tomorrow Becomes You, the third studio release under the Slow Six moniker. For most of the 21st century's first decade, the New York-based band deftly towed the line between classical and popular music, taking the experimental dash of composers like Harry Partch and Karlheinz Stockhausen and suffusing it with the hypnotic ambience of 20th century minimalists like Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt. For those of us whose musical cultivation is as steeped in Brian Eno as it is in Beethoven, the idea of a group like Slow Six seemed positively utopian; classical training and technical mastery meets pioneering innovation and rock n' roll cool.
At the beginning of 2010, Slow Six was gearing up to take their electroacoustic compositions on the road in support of their innovative new LP, hopefully increasing their fanbase beyond its New York roots. Then the fire marshal showed up at Tignor's door and everything changed. The sudden need to up and leave after thirteen years of living and creating music in one space brought about a sea change for Tignor, who left the hipster enclave of Greenpoint, Brooklyn for the uncompromising environs of Mott Haven, Bronx. Like any musician whose life experiences parallels his work, Tignor formed a new group that was born out of the circumstances surrounding his move, vividly named Wires Under Tension.
Despite only possessing two core members – Tignor and longtime drummer Theo Metz – Wires Under Tension is a more inclusive affair than Slow Six, with guest appearances from a half dozen musicians that perform on a spectrum of brass and woodwind instruments. The resulting seven tunes on their debut possess the same dizzying layers of texture and melodic tension that were foundational ingredients of the Slow Six sound, but the music of Wires Under Tension is appropriately more wary and paranoid, thanks in no small part to Metz's positively seismic performance on the drum kit. If Slow Six brought about some of the most storied variances between classical and rock music, then Wires Under Tension is truly a study in dichotomy; the compositions on Light Science waver between acoustic and electronic, funky and brooding, organic and processed, primitive and visionary. The resulting experience cannot be pigeonholed into any one genre or style – this is music far too circuitous to fit neatly into any post-rock definition.
The aptly named "Electricity Turns Them On" opens with the warped sounds of Tignor's violin and a Fender Rhodes that are almost entirely camouflaged by liberal amounts of digital processing. An asymmetrical groove in 13/8 is established, with Metz employing everything from Indonesian bells to large plastic storage containers in his execution. The mood is one of bewildered urgency until the bridge arrives, when a change back to 4/4 ushers in momentary strains of relief and comfort. "Irreversible Machines" flirts with both 6/4 and 7/4 time signatures and introduces guest musician Phil Rodriguez, whose trumpet playing brings adds just a pinch of spice to a song which would otherwise come off as doleful. Metz's drumming is mesmerizing from beginning to end, robotic in its precision but organic in its warmth.
The middle third of the album is its finest; "A List of Things to Light on Fire" is a composite of Tool's "Ticks & Leeches" drum part, brass section riffing that recalls 1970's funk, and jittery violin textures that approximate musical static. "Wood, Metal, Bone," though the album's shortest track at just two and a half minutes, is among the most stuffed with ideas – skittering string loops, bowed vibraphone bars, microphone percussion, and Metz's best John Bonham impression. "Position and Hold" finds old samples of air traffic controllers mingling with nightmarish videogame sound effects, glockenspiel melodies, and a straightforward but no less intimidating moderate rock cadence from Metz.
Tignor throws a curveball with the final track, "Сказал, Сказал," a title which, in his own words, is a "euphemism for 'he said she said' chit-chat." For an album so frenzied and anxious, the song's first half is shockingly devoid of steady rhythm; only the occasional thud of Metz's bass drum and echoing chords from a harmonium provide a sense of movement. As the tune progresses however, it devolves into some of the most emotionally wracked ambience to be found anywhere on the album, with Metz's drums going off like machine guns until nothing remains but the serene timbres of the harmonium.
Those who feel that vocal melodies, conventional songwriting habits, and arena-sized choruses are essential components of good music will likely be unsatisfied by Wires Under Tension – this is a cerebral and quixotic display of what can be accomplished when the focus shifts away from big hooks and pop music orthodoxy. Like their name, Wires Under Tension's music is fraught with restlessness, and in a music industry that still generally rewards and promotes the familiar and commonplace, a little agitation might be just what we need.


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They wisely left it short but sweet. Titled "Does it matter?" the I received the following text: "Your photo, uahhh…. , you are naked!" with with some jibber-jabber zipfile that I left alone. But anonymous spammer, thank you, that's the best piece I've ever received. On another note, I think most spammers should be imprisoned, fined, and despised, especially for the nasty nasty things they send to people they've never met, including children and nuns! But also for being inconsiderate, resource wasting, greedy, scamming, lying pigs.
Archives for April 2004
housing bubble
Don't recall where I got this link, it was up on my browser when I came into work this morning, but it's a pretty interesting and dark observation on the state of the housing market and its relation to the economy. I hope that the fears are exagerated, but there's no telling. I wonder what a bubble burst in the housing market would do to the Pearl District and proposed Macadam development projects? My guess is near disaster since the condos seem to be riding the wave to me.
I need to learn a lot more about economics tho. What happens when housing prices drop to the individual? To the market? To related markets, such as investor markets? My thought is this. On the surface if the value of my house drops it shouldn't affect me too much because I am already making payments. But then, if I have to sell, it'll be a lot trickier because I won't be able to cover the loan with the sale, so I'd get out with debt. But the bigger question isn't what happens to me, but what happens to the bigfish. The ones who hold mortgage guarantees, and have their fingers in a lot of different pies. The ones that make up a lot of the nonconsumer- and nongovernment-spending portion of our economy. If suddenly they start bankrupting, and need to be bailed out, consumer confidence is down, international investments go down, house pricing, stock market, it all goes down. Just trying to think through some big ideas that I don't understand too well here, so if you get it, let me know.
Well, the autonomous race, while cool and scary, can only lead to one thing. Autonomous mobile beverage refrigeration units. I need one of these for my next party. And just to get through the pressures of everyday life. So, if y'all are interested in helping out, let me know in the comments and I'll setup a paypal account or just figure out a way for you to send me a check. Does anyone know if the post office is still in business? via deetor.
worst songs
It's been awhile. I've had this one in my pocket for a day or two, but the steady stream at my cube has prohibited posting. So, a couple weeks ago, Hox and I grabbed lunch out at some west-side Tex-Mex joint, Cactus Jack's or Willie's or somesuch. Anyway, the radio was playing a nice 70s-80s selection of tunes, including Heart, Loggins, and then, the crux, Starship's We Built This City. Hox insisted that WBTC (on Rock and Roll) was the worst song ever. Well, according to Blender he's right. Some other baddies include classics such as Eddie Murphy's 'My Girl Like to Party All the Time' (Party all the Ti-ime), and anything by Huey Lewis and the News (except the Back to the Future songs) including Richard Marx. oops, I think my own feelings bled into that one. By the way, if anyone can find the whole list, please post it in the comments.
so, I've decided to learn a new sport this year. I'd originally thought kiteboarding, because it looks awesome (like the funnest thing in the world), but after much deliberation I'm leaning 90% towards windsurfing. Right now I'm planning to take a lesson on mid-late May. So, if anyone has any tips for me, or opinions, or just feels like typing something, leave a comment. Particularly useful would be lesson experiences, equipment buying experiences, and general woes and elations. Also, I'm looking for other novice surfing buddies to share rides/pain/pitchers with. Cheers, and happy friday.


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Pros: Understandable, lucid, readable, accessible, and well-written.
Cons: Definitely biased toward Christian theism.
Every once in a while, I find myself on the periphery of a discussion among friends that touches on the topic of world religions. Now, I acknowledge that I am no expert at all on any religion, let alone the one I profess, but at times like those, I feel as though my multicultural literacy, so to speak, is sadly lacking. I suppose the thing to do would be to pick up a decent treatise on philosophy and religion worldwide, but that sounds like way too much effort. What I did was less an active searching out of information on other cultures than a simple movement forward in the bookcase I am currently reading my way through. Despite my startling lack of initiative, though, what I got was quite an interesting education in worldviews, from James W. Sires appropriately titled The Universe Next Door: A Guide Book to World Views.
The Content
Sire has four basic goals in mind for his book, which he makes clear in the Introduction. He aims to examine the basic worldviews prevalent in the Western world, to trace the historical progression of worldviews in the West, to show how postmodernism puts a twist on these worldviews; and to encourage [readers] to think with a consciousness or not only our own way of though but also that of other people, so that we can genuinely communicate with others in our pluralistic society. To these ends, he proposes seven basic questions that help to encapsulate the tenets of a consistent worldview:
1. What is prime realitythe really real?
2. What is the nature of external reality, that is, the world around us?
3. What is a human being?
4. What happens to a person at death?
5. Why is it possible to know anything at all?
6. How do we know what is right and wrong?
7. What is the meaning of human history?
The answers to these questions, according to Sire, may be implicit, or assumed, but one thing is certain, we all have a worldview (though often it is an unspoken, unexamined view). After all, even refusing to adopt an explicit worldview will turn out to be itself a worldview
Following this introduction, the remainder of the book is divided into chapters treating the various major world religions and philosophies. First, A Universe Charged with the Grandeur of God looks at Christian theism. This worldview will be one of the most familiar to a Western audience, and the answers to the seven questions are somewhat unsurprising. Following on the heels of theism, The Clockwork Universe introduces deism, which effectively removes God from any current role in the workings of the cosmos. The philosophy of Alexander Pope informs this chapter greatly, but deism receives short shrift, as Sire considers it a rather ephemeral worldview, prevalent mainly in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
What replaced deism, then? None other than naturalism, of course, termed by Sire The Silence of Finite Space. The philosophies of secular humanism and even Marxism are linked here to the naturalistic worldview, which enjoys widespread acceptance in our current culture. Moving from naturalism, modern thought progresses to Zero Point, or nihilism. Drawing on the monolithic work of Nietzsche, and citing a broad range of examples from literatureJoseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Douglas Adams, Samuel Beckett, and morethe discussion encompasses both the essentials of nihilism and its inherent contradictions. Then, moving Beyond Nihilism, the next stop on the philosophical train of thought becomes existentialism. Sartre, Camus, and Kierkegaard appear in this chapter, which further differentiates the existential movement into theistic and atheistic branches.
Having driven the Western thought progression through to its conclusion in existentialism, Sire then takes a Journey to the East, and eastern pantheistic monism. Hinduism, Buddhism, and Zen Bhuddism are discussed in this chapter, and it is hard to mistake the fact that eastern modes of thought are particularly foreign to our western mindset. Following this, a synthesis of eastern and western thought becomes the focus in A Separate Universe, a treatment of the New Age movement. This draws largely on the works and philosophies of Shirley MacLaine, Aldous Huxley, and John Lilly, and is probably the least cohesive of the worldviews treated. The final chapter in the books main section deals with postmodernism, and is titled The Vanished Horizon. Key to this examination are the concepts of language and story, where relativism and pluralism become central.
The conclusion of the book, The Examined Life, reveals both the authors own worldview (though it was quite clear throughout all the earlier discussions) and why the knowledge of and choice of a worldview is important. Christian theism, having begun the book, now ends it. Sire maintains, at the last, that to be personally committed to the infinite-personal Lord of the Universe leads to an examined life that is well worth living.
The Analysis
The Universe Next Door is quite helpful as a basic primer on worldviews. For those who do not know what their worldview is, the discussion can be helpful in highlighting what one does and does not believe in, whether explicitly or implicitly. Most convincing in the worldview summaries is the authors reliance on the source material; that is, the writings of those who best embody, or who have contributed to the generation of certain philosophies. From Alexander Pope to Friedrich Nietzsche to Shirley MacLaine, Sire allows the proponents of the various viewpoints to speak for themselves. Some, of course, are more convincing than others.
To be sure, the bias of the author is firmly in the Christian theistic camp. This diminishes the books status as a primer on worldviews somewhat, as Sire frequently ends his chapters with sections highlighting the perceived inconsistencies and shortcomings of all non-theistic philosophies. He does acknowledge this bias, though, and he himself points out the fact that the seven questions he applies to each worldview were generated from within his own worldview, so are slightly biased to begin with.
This bias, however, is my major problem with The Universe Next Door. When Sire critiques certain worldviews, he tends to push them to their most extreme before deconstructing them. For example, when discussing deism, he relies heavily on Alexander Popes modes of thought, which is a fairly rigid and uncompromising deism, barely a step away from naturalism. I cannot agree with the authors assertion that deism as a worldview was limited to a short period of time about two centuries ago. In point of fact, I make it my business to read as much as I can at the intersection of science and religion, and I find that many scientists nowadays are turning to deism, if not outright theism as a means to explain the unexplainable at the foundation of the universe. I believe that, in the case of deism at least, Sires bias has led him to marginalize a worldview that probably deserves a more extensive treatment. All of this is not to say that the book is bad, or fatally flawed. I merely find the authors stances somewhat limiting in certain cases.
The Finale
So now I am a little bit wiser concerning worldviews. Perhaps after reading The Universe Next Door I can jump into my friends conversations about philosophy and religion for a sentence or two before retiring to the comfort of my beer (I am assuming here that the discussion takes place in a pub, as all good discussions of philosophy and religion should). All right, I suppose I am only marginally more educated about worldviews than I was a few days ago, but I do feel as though I have broadened my intellectual horizons somewhat. Now if someone brings up the subject of nihilism in art, I can laugh knowledgeably and spout off a line from Douglas Adams or Samuel Beckett. This will make me look rather intellectual, Im sure, at least until I laugh too loudly and spill beer on my shoes. Despite having to stand in rapidly warming Guinness, I will then have to salvage my pride and mention the fact that nihilistic art is in fact a contradiction in terms, as nihilism admits no meaning, whereas art presupposes meaning. Wont I look clever then? And I will owe it all (or at least some of it) to James Sire.


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Traces the origin of Vialog Corp.--from its founding in 1996 through a roll-up of several independent teleconferencing companies in 1997 and its initial public offering (1999) and eventually to a potential merger or acquisition in June 2000. The company has grown rapidly and has the option of merging with an Internet company or another strategic partner, or selling to a European strategic partner.
To understand industry roll-ups, sources of financing, and alternatives for early-stage ventures.
Entrepreneurship; IPO; Mergers & acquisitions
John Hassett, Founder, and Kim Mayyasi, CEO, Vialog Corp.
Richard G. Hamermesh
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Kim Mayyasi and John Hassett discuss the issues at Vialog Corporation. The company had grown rapidly and could merge with an Internet company, merge with another strategic partner, or sell to a European strategic partner. Hassett distinguishes between "bad roll-ups" and "good roll-ups," and he and Mayyasi provide an update of subsequent events.


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Guest post written by
Michael McDevitt
Cofounder and CEO of Tandem Legal Group, a law and business advisory firm.
I don't like getting punched in the gut. However, for years, I let myself get punched every morning when I created my to-do list. There was always that one task, the task that refuses to do itself, which I would feel at the bottom of my stomach as I copied it from one day's to-do list to the next. From having a difficult conversation with an employee to informing the Board of Directors that we did not win a proposal, the topics had a wide range, however the feeling was the same.
"You're a failure," it would say as it hit me. "I'm going to explode like a bomb," it would warn.
I would take the hit, and then I would dodge behind the rest of my task list. "I'm the CEO of a public company," I'd remind myself. "I'm a busy person. Our sales are up 50% this year." Success can be dangerous that way as profit can hide a wealth of sin. I was capable of completing this one distasteful task, and really it wouldn't even take much time, but I simply didn't want to face it. Instead, I stayed busy.
Day after day, list after list, I was copying over that one item that made my stomach burn.
Then one day I received an email from my mom with the title "Mark Twain." My mom has always had an uncanny ability to send me a message that unknowingly provided me the exact wisdom I needed for that day. The message in this email simply said, "Eat a live frog first thing every morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day."
I was certain that I'd heard the quote before, but this time the words glowed before my eyes. Right then and there I declared that I was going to tackle my most difficult task first thing each morning.
By the end of the week, I was 0 for 7.
Some days I would wait until I got to the office and ended up diving into email. Other days, somebody would ambush me with a burning issue as soon as I stepped in the door. Habits are hard to break and maybe even harder to start.
"I need to do a little more prep before I tackle that thing," I'd tell myself.
I read books on time management, I read books on forming habits, I read books on how to have difficult conversations. While these were all good reminders of best practices, the fact remained that it was easier to read books than to change my own behavior.
Next, I reached out to mentors and colleagues. These were people who had achieved tremendous success in business, professional sports, and entertainment – surely they had unlocked the secret to self-discipline. Instead, each and every one of them had one uncomfortable task that was kicking their ass.
We decided to unite against the Thing. (I imagined it like a comic book monster: The Thing That Would Not Do Itself.) Four of us set out to create a system and a community. We were a CEO of a fast-growing company, a star athlete, an FBI agent, and a famous drummer. We each had at least one Thing, from telling employees that they were terminated to discussing pre-nuptial agreements to leaving the band. All of these had dragged on long enough, so after much discussion we decided to let the IRS do it.
Let The IRS Do It
The only IRS that will make your life easier is Identify-Rank-Schedule. This is now the rule I live by.
First, I make two columns: Personal and Business. Under Personal, I might put "thank-you cards, dinner with family, workout, meditate."
Next, I rank each line for that day. I'm not ranking the list in absolute terms, in which case anything family-related would always come first. Instead, after creating the days to do list, I would simply read the items aloud, the one that made me feel the most uncomfortable was deemed my frog to eat for the day. Each ranking is specific to that day, so if I haven't worked out for three days in a row, I know that "workout" needs to pop up to Priority 1. It's fine for thank-you cards to languish at the bottom for a few days, but if I've been copying it over day after day, those cards are climbing the ranks.


text: Have you considered foil tape? It's definitely, totally, completely light tight. -J. On 4 Jun 2010, at 00:56, Kelly wrote: > Sounds awesome! Thanks Sean! I'll be by NB on Sat to work on stuff. We > should check in before then so I can coordinate with what you're > working on. We'll probably want to use some combination of opaque > caulk, paint, and gaff tape to re-light-seal around the vent. Duct > tape is definitely the right choice for, well, ducts, but it often > isn't light-tight anymore as it starts to dry. We've been using > guaranteed light-tight substances just to be safe. It's really > annoying when a room becomes gradually and subtly less light-tight. > > As far as the bathroom, I generally check with Zedd or Scott. We > should chat them up this weekend. > > -K > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 01:14, Sean Cusack <sean.p.cusack at gmail.com> wrote: >> 'Evening campers! >> >> So, the fan is tied into the darkroom really nicely right now. The fan is >> firmly attached through a 4" flexible dryer hose through an angled adapter >> on the ceiling which then connects into a series of 6" hoses. As of now, >> there are 2x 8' lengths connected (2 more 8' lengths are available, and that >> should be all we need. I'm missing 1 6" duct connector...must have forgotten >> to buy it). Right now, light sealing is decent - in fact, it may be good >> enough, but I'll leave that for the group to decide. There is a little bit >> of leaking around the adapter on the roof, but this can definitely be fixed >> by layering over my duct taped leak points with some more duct tape. I left >> the rest of my roll on top of the roof in case anyone gets inspired and >> wants to make it perfect before I get to it next. I tested the fan, and it >> blows super hard and doesn't have any leaks through the run of the vent >> path...win! >> >> Before completing the run of the 6" dryer hose to the window by the >> bathroom, I wanted to talk to the cool kid who is working on the room next >> door to make sure I don't drop the vent path right in his way. Can anyone >> let me know who it is? Also, which outlet does the "vent" switch connect to? >> >> As I was walking home, I realized that it would also probably be a good idea >> to bolt the fan to the shelf in the darkroom so we don't accidentally rip >> the dryer hose if the fan gets knocked around a little bit. A clamp is >> already on the side of the fan to make this happen - I just forgot to do it >> before I left tonite. I updated the wiki as well to show construction >> progress...yay! (https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Darkroom) >> >> The next step is going to be to install an intake for the fan. I think Ben >> mentioned the plan was to have 2 non-concentric holes in a wall to prevent >> light from getting through. We'd put a dust filter on the inner hole to >> prevent crap from outside blowing in. I was thinking it probably makes the >> most sense to put the holes in the wall with the enlarger and whatnot in >> front of it. I've still got a jigsaw, but won't be able to make it to the >> rehab hootenanny on Saturday. Sound good? If so, I can probably get this >> done next week. If someone wants to do it earlier, let me know and I can >> loan you the tools. >> >> BTW, I actually used duct tape today to tape some ducts for the first time >> ever......craaaaaaaaazy! >> Sean >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Darkroom mailing list >> Darkroom at lists.noisebridge.net >> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/darkroom >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Darkroom mailing list > Darkroom at lists.noisebridge.net > https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/darkroom >


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Pick your cliche for the Bruins this week: Do or die. Backs against the wall. Put up or shut up. Talk is cheap. I could go on, but you get the point. It has come down to facing elimination at home in game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals.
We will have an entire summer to rehash this Bruins run, whether it ends up with another Stanley Cup ring or a runner-up finish. But as I was thinking back over the last two months, it occurred to me that this has been unlike any other deep playoff run the Bruins have had.
I'm not talking about the epic comeback in game 7 vs. Toronto. I'm not talking about the B's uncharacteristically making things look easy against the Rangers and Penguins. What we haven't had that we're used to seeing, or feeling: Genuine hate for the opponent.
Sure, there have been hard fought battles. That's just what comes with the Stanley Cup territory. But have you really hated an opponent yet? I haven't.
OK, the Penguins aren't anyone's favorite around here, but it's hard to rile up as much hate for a team with no pushback. The Maple Leafs won a good chunk of respect from B's fans with the way they battled. The Rangers just didn't have it, but not for lack of effort. And the Blackhawks are the very definition of an honorable opponent that play the game the right way.
There has been no pointing fingers, or biting them. There have been few complaints about officiating from coaches in post game press conferences. We didn't have to deal with the diving Canadiens. And yet the playoff run has been just as fun in it's own way. Here's hoping the Bruins have another comeback effort and Cup-winning performance on the road this week, but whether we end the season with a parade or a near-miss, a stick tap to B's opponents is called for.
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text: Id love something like this: 1st - Dre Kirkpatrick, CB, Bama 2nd - Mike Martin, DT, Michigan 3rd - C: Ben Jones, Brewster, Blake, Molk 4th - Nick Toon, WR, Wisconsin 5th- Cam Johnson, DE, Virginia Now i know the Titans are known for their late round CBs and developing them into something solid. But we need an impact player, out of all those late round CBs - only Finnegan and possibly McCourty turned into a good pro. We need someone who can help right away. Kirkpatrick has the speed, toughness, and size to be an unstoppable CB... his biggest bust is motivation - but hopefully Munch can fix that. The way the NFL is now, you need a secondary with all the passing teams. Mike Martin is one of my favorite DTs, Martin-Casey-Klug will be solid for year. Munch gets to handpick his franchise center from everyone available [besides Klug]. I'm sure the FO has done a crazy amount of scouting on centers; hopefully they chose a Day 1 Starter. Nick Toon has ALL the tools to be a star in the NFL... like his dad. He's got good size, speed, and route running. If he wouldnt of tweaked his ankle, he likely would be a 2nd round pick. This guy can play. Cam Johnson adds depth at DE. With Wimbley, Morgan, Ball, Douzable, Egboh, and Sheppard we have depth. Johnson will fight for the 4th/5th DE spot, and will hopefully be our KLUG with the later round selection.


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Skip to comments.Using Immigrants to Save Detroit?
Posted on 08/05/2013 9:12:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
For the open-borders crowd, immigration is a patent medicine, able to cure whatever ails you.
The latest pitch is that requiring immigrants to live in Detroit is the solution to that city's many ills -- see here and here, for instance. The second link, from National Journal, is aptly titled "A Modest Proposal", because it's no more real than Jonathan Swift's 18th century essay by the same name calling for the Irish to escape poverty by selling their children as food to the rich. The problem is that the Detroit suggestions do not seem to be intended as satire.
And yet, what they're suggesting is serfdom - legally tying people to a particular place on pain of expulsion (not that expulsion would ever happen anyway, since people would just leave Detroit as soon as they could and become illegals elsewhere). When Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was governor of Iowa he suggested a similar effort to make up for all the Americans leaving Iowa.
All proposals like this have one thing in common -- they objectify immigrants, imagining them to be something other than human beings, nothing but variables in an economist's fanciful equation. It's the geographic version of the "Jobs Americans Won't Do" fallacy - "Places Americans Won't Live", if you will.
In fact, immigrants have the same motivations and goals as the rest of us. And if Detroit is so badly governed, or Iowa is so remote and frigid, that Americans don't want to live there, why would immigrants? The same factors that lead Americans to move elsewhere will lead immigrants to do the same. Immigration-as-magic-bullet ideas are just cop-outs, a means to avoid facing the underlying problems of such places, either because there's no way to change those problems (bad weather) or because it's just easier to weave fairy tales than to deal with crooked politicians, grasping unions, and a degraded electorate.
What it boils down to is this -- immigrants go where the jobs are, not the other way around. Detroit can only be fixed by Detroiters (if at all), not by the intervention of magical foreigners.
The Progressive agenda is based on selling fairy tales as reality.
It would be great if immigrants did go there, though, because the biggest problem in Detroit is the current power elite, who can be perfectly successful despite the failure of their city and citizens. Immigrants would upset the demographics, and would give voters a chance to break up the power structures in a way that could help the city.
If you repopulate detroit with chinese immigrants, within 15 years you will see a new shining city on the hill.
These are the type of dumb ideas that kids have when they play : 'how would you fix things if you had magic'
Completely un-workable.
Yep the Professionals do indeed call it "magical thinking"..
while it may be entertaining coming from kids...its truly stunning when we hear it from leftist....children.
OneTV plays the Roots series every so often and towards the end of the original set 1977 after the civil war the Southern Farmers come up a with sharecropping and some more evil ones come up with the idea keeping the ex-slaves prisoners of debt by paying them less than what they were charging them so they had to remain and live and work the same farms forever, as slaves.
For fear of jail.
This idea is similar.
Assuming you can vote out the leftists
With the Chinese looking to snap up the best of the cheapest houses, I got to thinking, what if they decide that it might be feasible to open up shop in Detroit and move workers there?
Next thing you know they are going to be demanding better schools and better laws in which to conduct business.
Outlaw Motorcycle Clubhouses of Detroit
How evil is it? The Hell's Angels don't have a presence there. They were kept out by the combined forces of the Outlaws and the Highwaymen. And those two clubs hate each other. But still, priorities.
These are mostly White gangs, some of the few White people who survive in Detroit. You don't really want to know about the Black gangs, they are much worse.
Errol Flynns Clever name, scary guys. East side.
Black Killers, or BK's East side.
Young Boys Inc. ... invented the modern crack trade. West side.
And, hey, the Italian's have their piece of the pie: The Detroit Partnership
Even the music fans are considered street gangs by the FBI.
Juggalos, fans of the Insane Clown Posse.
Even the Somali's would meet their match in Detroit, which is why THERE AREN'T ANY! Despite their domination of crime elsewhere in the Midwest.
The gangs of Detroit grew up playing here. This was what they had instead of playgrounds.
Detroit had 411 homicides in 2012. Detroit has a population of about 700,000.
For comparison Chicago had 532 homicides in 2012. Chicago has a population of 2.7 million. Detroit has four time as many killings per capita as Chicago, a city synonymous with violent death.
Chicago is more dangerous than Kabul, Afghanistan.
Detroit has it's own category. Detroit is a HARD, HARD place. The current residents would make short work of immigrants, I'm pretty sure.
Using immigrants to save Detroit is like using gasoline to put out a fire.
Not to mention the fact that we here in Michigan have worked long and hard to put the state in GOP hands and don't need anyone telling us to hand it back over to the democrats.
similar situation in Dearborn? How's that working out.
The only thing Detroit needs is a match..
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Vatican statement on China repeats: illicit ordination means excommunication
July 12, 2011
The Congregation for Evangelization has explained why the Vatican issued a public statement announcing the excommunication of Father Lei Shiyin after he was ordained as a bishop without Vatican approval.
The new Vatican statement—issued as Chinese officials prepare for another illicit ordination—makes it clear that even if the excommunication is eventually lifted, Lei Shiyin will not be authorized to act as a Catholic bishop.
The Vatican also reiterates that any bishops who participate in an illicit episcopal ordination are themselves excommunicated, unless they can demonstrate that they were acting under compulsion.
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Hi there MHF
I've got this problem which I'm stuck on. I'm generating random uniformly distributed numbers between 0 and 1, and I need to transform these numbers into numbers governed by the probability density function
Apologies for not knowing LaTex, here's a picture :).Code:
f(y) = 0.2 for 0 < y ≤ 2
0.8y - 1.4 for 2 < y ≤ 3
0 elsewhere
I believe the first thing I need to do is figure out the cumulative distribution function F(y), for this I came up with
Next I think I need to find the transformation functions for 0 < y ≤ 2 and 2 < y ≤ 3. So by substituting the uniform variable U in I can get for the first segment, however for the second segment (2 < y ≤ 3) I get two quadratics here (wolfram link) so I'm not sure if this is the right track or not.Code:
f(y) = 0.2y for 0 < y ≤ 2
0.4y^2 - 1.4y + 1.6 for 2 < y ≤ 3
1 3 < y
Basically my understanding of how transforming these variables works goes like this
1) Generate uniform random variable U
2) If U is less than 0.4 (which I got from subbing y=2 into 0.2y), it is transformed using . Otherwise if U is greater than 0.4 it is transformed using one of the quadratics in the above link.
Anyone able to help me out here? Much appreciated (Happy)


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BRATTEN, John Robert, Jr(CHS Class of '71)- age 58 of Nashville, TN. John Bratten, retired partner/owner of Buena Vista Funeral Home and past master of BVEN Lodge 560 died Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. He spent his adult life serving and caring for grieving families and felt it was his ministry. His loves in life were his God, his family, his funeral home, and his Masonic Lodge. He is survived by wife, Sandra; son Jason (Mandy Lee); daughter Lauren (Nick); step-daughter, Christina; brothers Steve (Sue) and David (Ruth) ; and 4 step-grandchildren. He is preceded in death by his parents John Sr. and Joyce Bratten; grandparents and nephew, Scotty. Visitation will be Wednesday, from 11-8PM and on Thursday from 10 till time of service; Masonic Service will be Wednesday at 7PM; Funeral Service will be Thursday, Sept. 22 at 2:45PM in the chapel of Spring Hill Funeral Home with burial to follow in Historic Spring Hill Cemetery. Services will be conducted by Rev. Paul Gardner. Friends and members of BVEN Lodge 560 will serve as pall bearers. In leiu of flowers, please make donations to Cancer Relay for Life/ team Portland Gateview Elem., or to the Kidney Foundation 2120 Crestmoor Road Nashville, TN 37215-2654 (615) 383-3887. Arrangements by: Spring Hill Funeral Home and Cemetery 5110 Gallatin Pike, Nashville, TN 37216. 615-865-1101. springhillfh.com


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We're down to the wire! You are now considered full-term and could deliver at any time. Sometime this month, your baby's head will begin to settle downward, deep inside the pelvis, ready for birth. This is called "lightening," and you will find it easier to breathe when this happens because there will be less pressure on your upper abdomen. However, the increased pressure on your bladder will make you want to urinate more often, if that's possible!
Your Braxton Hicks contractions will become more frequent this month as the uterus makes its final preparations for birth. Electrical buzzes may run along your legs and vagina, caused by the baby hitting your nerves when she settles into the pelvis. You may feel heavy and weary, or you could get a sudden burst of energy and want to clean and decorate. The urge to get the house ready for your new arrival is called the "nesting instinct."
You will notice changes in your baby's activity because there is little room left in the uterus. There will be more squirming, less kicking, and a few hiccoughs! You may feel jabs from her feet and knees. You might feel sharp kicks under your ribs at one side or the other.
It is recommended that you keep track of your unborn baby's kick counts from about six months of pregnancy, as a way of making sure that she is OK. Each day, record how long it takes for your baby to make 10 kicks, flutters, swishes, or rolls. You should feel at least 10 movements within two hours, but you will probably feel that many movements in a much shorter amount of time. Alternately, time how long it takes your baby to make three movements. You should feel at least three movements in a half hour.
You may start to notice patterns and a general length of time that baby usually takes to make a certain number of movements. If you notice major deviations from the pattern, check with your health care provider.
This month, you will have a medical visit once each week. Your health care provider will check the following:
It is recommended that all pregnant women between 35 and 37 weeks' gestation undergo screening for group B streptococcus infection. This is a simple and painless test, where the doctor will swab your vagina and rectum to check for the presence of the bacteria.
For information about group B strep, see "Bacterial Infections in Pregnancy."
Your due date is expected to fall within the 40th week of pregnancy. However, only 4% of women actually give birth on their due date. Most women deliver their babies in the two weeks before or after their due date. Keep aware of the early signs of labour:
Bleeding this month may be a true emergency. Bleeding may be very mild or extremely heavy, and might be accompanied by abdominal pain. Causes of late pregnancy bleeding include problems with the placenta such as placenta previa, where the placenta covers the opening to the cervix, and placenta abruption, where the placenta comes away from the walls of the uterus. Another cause of bleeding in late pregnancy is rupture of the uterus. All of these conditions are very dangerous if not treated immediately. If you notice bleeding, which is more than spotting or blood on the toilet tissue when wiping, or abdominal pain this month, contact your health care provider right away.
If your baby has not arrived by the 40 th week of pregnancy, you may start to worry about overdue pregnancy. Rest assured that, usually, an overdue pregnancy is just the result of a miscalculated due date. You may feel heavy and weary at this point, so make sure to get lots of rest. Remember to do your kick counts as they can help you monitor your baby's health. If your baby is truly overdue, you may need a nonstress test and/or an ultrasound to make sure the baby is still doing well, and your health care provider may need to induce labour.
You may be apprehensive about your upcoming labour and delivery. Many times, educating yourself about the unknown can help ease your fears. If you have not already done so, you should take the time to learn about the three phases of labour and the basics about childbirth. Also find out about the possible interventions that may be needed during labour and delivery, such as:
This is a trimester of pride, fulfillment, and anxious anticipation of the unknown. Thoughts about your baby are ever present, and you will probably talk constantly about her. You may ache to hold your baby. You might still worry about losing her.
The reality of pregnancy is inescapable now and your protruding belly will bring lots of attention. You will feel quite special, as strangers will want to give you their chair or help you in other ways. Some women appreciate these gestures, while others may feel annoyed if they are treated as though they are helpless.
You may need to stop working at some point this trimester. If work has been important to your self-esteem, you may find this to be a very difficult adjustment. Add to this the fact that you will have renewed energy this trimester, with an intense urge to bustle around and do things. You may wonder what you will do with your time if you stop working before your due date. There are lots of last-minute preparations to be made, though, and these should keep you occupied.
Body image is a major issue in the third trimester. Your belly may swell larger than you thought it would. You may feel unattractive and sloppy, and will need lots of reassurance from your partner.
If you are a first-time mother, the unknowns of labour and delivery may be frightening and worrisome. You might be concerned about "losing control" during the labour process. You may worry about unexpectedly having to deliver your baby at home. If you have had children before, you might be concerned about reliving the pain of childbirth or any previous complications you may have had.
The physical symptoms of pregnancy can lead to irritability, mood swings, and impatience to get on with the birth. These feelings are perfectly normal. However, if you feel continuously sad, hopeless, and resentful of the pregnancy, you could be depressed and you should seek help from your doctor. Depression symptoms in late pregnancy often carry over into the postpartum period, so it is important to get these feelings checked out.
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Flashback Class Divided
November 7, 2008
"Brown-eyed people are better than blue-eyed people. They are smarter than blue-eyed people and if you don't believe it, look at Brian."
The day after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, in April 1968, a young Iowa schoolteacher devised an ingenious way for her all-white third-grade class to understand how a person could be murdered for the color of his skin. A Class Divided is the story of that experiment, and the deep and enduring impact it had on all who participated.
First shown in 1985, the film was re-broadcast and made available online in 2003; since then, it has become the most requested FRONTLINE ever.
This brief excerpt picks up the experiment on the second day, and affords a sobering look at how easily intolerance can be taught.
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Ann Redfield is destined to follow her brother Jesse through life - two years behind him - all the way. Jesse is a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and Ann follows him there as well. Quakers filled with a conviction as hard as Pennsylvania limestone that slavery is an abomination to be resisted with any means available, the Redfield brother and sister lie, sneak, masquerade, and defy their way past would-be enforcers of the hated Fugitive Slave Law.
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