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I share many treats and desserts on my blog, but it's the family recipes that I look forward to sharing the most. Growing up, I lived in the same town for many years as my extended family, so we all became very close. Holiday gatherings have always featured trays of desserts. As me and my siblings and cousins got older, the responsibility to bring the treats to family holidays shifted to us. Often, I bring my own creations, but occasionally I love baking a childhood recipe!
These peppermint puff cookies are one of the delicious cookies that always made their way onto the holiday cookie platter, thanks to my maternal grandma, who I am so fortunate to still have in my life. They're so deceivingly delicious!
The crunchy sugar coating (that gets an extra crunch from whipped egg whites) makes you *think* you will be biting into a crunchy cookie. Then you get to the center—the soft, buttery peppermint center! Oh my word.
The single chocolate chip gives just the right amount of sweetness to these cookies, without overtaking the peppermint flavor! I love that I was able to find these red and green chocolate chip morsels, and I sure hope grandma will approve of my deviant nature. I'm pretty sure when she sees these cookies on this year's holiday cookie platter, she will be delighted, especially since she didn't have to make them!
I am so thankful that my children are blessed to have their great-grandma in their lives as well. I tell them stories of all the great treats she made through my childhood years! They are so fortunate to have this time to learn about another generation, and to someday be able to pass these stories on to their own children.
Hopefully they will pass on these great recipes as well!
Grandma's Peppermint Puff Cookies
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup granulated sugar, divided
- 1 egg, divided
- 2 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup crushed peppermint candy canes
- 3-4 dozen semi sweet chocolate morsels
- In a mixing bowl, cream butter until smooth, about 2 minutes. Add vanilla and 1/4 cup granulated sugar. Beat until creamy. Add in egg YOLK. Slowly add flour and crushed candy canes.
- Mixture will be VERY crumbly at this point.
- Taking about 2 tablespoons of CRUMBS, press in palm of hand to shape into a 1" ball. Repeat for remaining dough.
- In small bowl, whip egg whites for about 30 seconds until foamy. Put remaining 3/4 cup sugar in a separate bowl.
- Dip each ball into egg whites comletely coating, then letting the excess drip off. Then roll in sugar carefully. Lay cookies on a parchment paper lined baking sheet, about 2 inches apart.
- Press a chocolate chip onto the top gently (it will adhere during the cooking).
- Bake cookies in a 350 degree oven for 15 minutes.
- Remove and cool 10 minutes on pan before transferring to a wire rack. The bottoms will have extra egg white crisps that you can break off when you transfer to the rack. Cool completely.
- Store cookies in air tight container for one week. ENJOY
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By Chris Wright
"Wilshere is a great player who we have met playing against Arsenal and without doubt he can reach the height of the players we have here at Barcelona like Xavi and Iniesta.
"He has a lot of quality and a great personality. If I was given the chance to choose, he is a player that I would sign for Barcelona."
The words, there, of Barcelona's premier Quark impersonator and right-back Dani Alves.
*Tap tap tap*
Wilshere lives and breaths Arsenal and signed a bumper new contract last year therefore it's almost entirely certain he won't be going anywhere soon, but you all know the drill by now:
One of Barca's interchangeable talking heads dims the lights, scatters a few rose petals, lights some scented candles, spritzes the air with Sex Panther, reclines on the bed and starts gently purring his 'come hither' sweet nothings while the dulcet tones of 'The Very Best of Michael Bolton' work their seductive magic in the background.
It starts as nothing more than a mention in passing but soon you've got great globs of Barca DNA all over your nice clean sheets.
Dirty buggers.

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I think I get what the writer is trying to do with Trevor. And to a certain extent, I think they succeeded. The writer is trying to alleviate the case of ludonarrative dissonance the series suffers from. The story tells us one thing, and the mechanics tell us the opposite. This dissonance peaked in GTA IV, and here in GTA V the designer is finally taking some steps to smooth this out.
On one hand the story is telling us that the protagonist is a generally sane and reasonable criminal and not a mass-murdering supervillain. But then all of the mechanics, the missions, and the player's own desire to have fun work against this, turning our otherwise relatable protagonist into a madman. Even if we ignore the player's behavior in the the open world and their crazy driving, the scripted missions themselves require the player character to kill literally hundreds of people. That would be fine, except the cutscenes then depict the character as a much more grounded person. And that would be fine if this was some absurd romp, but the cutscenes usually demand that we take this melodrama seriously.
But Shamus, you don't have to overthink this. Just understand that the story and gameplay are separate, or that gameplay is exaggerated for the sake of fun.
Yeah, that's what ludonarrative dissonance is. We have to mentally compartmentalize parts of the experience because they don't quite fit together. Dissonance doesn't mean "automatically bad", but a work where all the elements are in harmony is often better. It's fine if you can enjoy the gameplay and the cutscenes despite the harsh seams between them. I usually do. But it's frequently distracting. It can also cause confusion when we find ourselves in the semi-scripted gameplay moments when it's not clear if the content in front of us is taking place using the movie logic or the gameplay logic.
Trevor doesn't fix this problem, but he does mitigate it.
This is usually portrayed as a conflict between gameplay and story, but you can also think of it as a conflict between the designer and the audience. The player wants to play with all of these systems and enjoy the empowerment of running rampant in this simulated world. The writer wants to take a bunch of scenes out of different Scorsese movies and string them together into a crime drama mixtape. They want the player to inhabit this story as one of the characters, and not as an outsized god of mischief. The player wants chaos and the writer wants restraint.
Don't Judge Me
Lots of players casually engage in absurd levels of violence. Confession: I'm one of them. When I get a little tired of the story mode and find myself becoming restless, I sort of default to blowing things up and seeing how far I can go before the police catch up with me.
This activity can look pretty shocking to people unfamiliar with the hobby. They see the resulting carnage and imagine that this is an exercise in sadism. The assumption seems to be that the player is acting out some sort of fantasy about hurting others. I can't speak for everyone, but this is very much not the case for me.
For contrast, Hatred is a game about shooting innocent civilians. Just watching the Hatred trailer made me physically ill. I can't endure the Hatred trailer even as a passive viewer, yet I can gleefully blow up the neighborhood in GTA V? This is despite the fact that Hatred has a more distant camera and surreal design, and late-period Grand Theft Auto has far more realistic graphics and presentation. What's going on here?
As always, context is everything. In Se7en, the entirely bloodless off-screen death of one character was traumatic for a lot of people in the audience, while the on-screen death of the Lawyer GuyI don't remember his name and neither do you. So let's just call him Lawyer Guy. in Jurassic Park was played for laughs. Everyone cringed when Tom Hanks had to bash out his own tooth in Cast Away, even though that injury is completely trivial compared to the grievously hilarious damage that befalls poor Nordberg in Naked Gun. We know Elmer Fudd and we sorta like him, but we still laugh when Bugs Bunny hits him with a hammer and gives him an amusing lump on his head. Meanwhile, it's pretty disturbing when the Mute Girl bashes up all those guys with a claw hammer in The Raid 2, even though they're nameless mooks we don't care about.
Our emotional reaction to a work doesn't just come from the mechanical representation we see on the screen, but from the tone of the world, the stakes of the story, and our own genre expectations. Sometimes a murder is the inciting incident for an entire work of fiction and sometimes it's a quasi-slapstick joke to lighten the dark mood.
If you were an adult when you saw Jurassic Park then you probably saw Lawyer Guy's death coming a mile away. Spielberg wanted to kill a character in order to establish the the T-Rex as a serious threat. At the same time, he didn't want to ruin the mood of this popcorn movie by killing a sympathetic character, which could easily carry the film too far into horror movie territory. So he made Lawer Guy annoying and unlikable. For those of us who've seen our share of blockbusters, this firmly telegraphed Lawyer Guy's purpose within the story. To us he was basically wearing a sandwich board sign saying, "I AM GOING TO DIE AND YOU SHOULDN'T FEEL SORRY FOR ME." On the other hand, if you were a kid then that moment probably took you by surpriseDid it? I dunno. Kids seem to be a lot more genre-savvy in the internet age, and I'm not sure when that shift took place..
In Monty Python and the Holy Grail there's a scene where "A Famous Historian" comes out and begins explaining the plot of the movie. It's framed and presented as a documentary. Halfway through his explanation, a knight rides into the shot and cuts him down. It's an absurdist subversion of expectations. "Hey! That's not how documentaries work!" But as a kid I remember feeling literally horrified by that moment. I was feeling unintended empathy for the historian because I didn't yet understand the cultural cues the filmmaker was usingI was also really scared for Sir Galahad at Castle Anthrax. I had no idea what those women were trying to do to him, and I had no idea why he wanted to stay..
Obviously in real life a guy getting brutally devoured by a T-Rex would be a horrible, shocking, and even traumatizing thing to witness, even if he was a bit of a jerk. But in movies our emotional reactions are different. The creator has the ability to signal to the audience how much we're supposed to empathize with the characters and their situation. It's the same thing in videogames. Like a kid being caught off-guard in Jurassic Park, non-gamers can easily misunderstand the intended mood of the piece.
A lot of these emotional cues come from the characters themselves. If the characters run in terror, beg for mercy, and weep over the slain, then it will probably engender a lot of empathy. If they roll their eyes as if to say, "Oh no, a maniac is blowing up the city again", then this keeps the world at a distance by making it seem farcical and absurd. While the tone of GTA V is really bad for making us care about the characters at the center of the story, it works really well for reducing the inhabitants of the world to gameplay abstractions.
When non-gamers recoil in horror at Grand Theft Auto and call it a "murder simulator", it's like a child feeling sorry for Lawyer Guy. They don't understand the medium, so they incorrectly interpret the tone and purpose of the scene.
Obviously there isn't a clear line between these two extremes. I've known people to express empathy for your vile little minions in Dungeon Keeper, who are deliberately designed to be disposable cannon fodder. At the other extreme I've seen comments from people who found the Hatred trailer "hilarious". We're definitely dealing with a gradient here, and everyone is going to have a different point where they cross over from feeling detachment to empathy.
Despite all my whinging about how the series has evolved, I think the designers have been really good about maintaining just the right amount of abstraction when the player begins misbehaving. The inhabitants of the world are just obnoxious and absurd enough to make it amusing to enact violence against them.
The Need For Trevor
The writer really wants us to invest in the story of these characters, while the gameplay is encouraging us to take our protagonist out on the town for some recreational warfare. The gameplay and story are dissonant, and this maybe hurts the story.
The Mafia games solve this conflict by curtailing both the player's ability and desireBy generally making the combat more grounded and less empowering / fun. to create mayhem. The Saints Row games go the other direction and embrace the mayhem as a central part of the character and their world. But GTA has never been able to choose which of these two masters it wants to serve, and so the internal dissonance has grown as the games have become more "cinematic".
As far as I can tell, Trevor is the designer's attempt to balance out this contradiction. If the player is going to behave like a madman during the gameplay bits, then why not just make the main character a literal madman? The writer gives us three main characters. We have two "normal" peopleBy the standards of the world. Michael and Franklin are still dangerous and violent criminals. who can do the drama stuff, and then we have Trevor to embody the player's inherent desire to engage in pointless violence. He's an answer to the question, "If we took the player's actions literally, what sort of character would behave that way?"
The Problem with Trevor
There are two Trevors in this game. Or perhaps they're the same Trevor, but they exist in tonally distinct contexts. Story Trevor is repulsive. He's less of a fun-loving mass-murderer along the lines of The Joker and more like a smelly hobo crossed with Charles Manson. He's not witty or likable. He's not handsome or clever. His creepiness modulates from scene to scene, but on the whole he's disturbing. On top of this, he's a quasi-antagonist for much of the story.
Meanwhile, Open-world Trevor is more like the Boss from Saints Row. He's still a psychotic murderer, but the world around him is so preposterous that his killing feels more like a joke than a massacre.
Back in the old Grand Theft Auto games, you could find rampage icons around the map. Pick one up, and the game would give you a single weapon (say, a rocket launcher) a goal (kill 25 people) and a timer (45 seconds) and let you go to town. Those rampages vanished in GTA IV when the game committed itself to being less fun and more "cinematic". But here in Grand Theft Auto V they make a return. They're only available to Trevor, but they're integrated with the character and they seem to contain a shot of over-the-top comedy that's lacking elsewhere in the game.
In one rampage, Trevor gets into an argument with some stereotypical hipsters. Flannel-wearing urbanites arrive en masse via mopeds and bicycles, armed to the teeth and shouting about first-world problems. It's wonderfully ridiculous, and reminds me of the bits in Saints Row where you have to fight waves of people dressed up in furry mascot costumes.
Open-world Trevor is funny, ridiculous, and in harmony with the mechanics. I found Story Trevor to be grotesque, unsettling, and occasionally frightening. And then we get to the torture sequence, where Story Trevor is nonsensical, frustrating, sanctimonious, and completely disgusting.
We'll talk about that next week.
[1] I don't remember his name and neither do you. So let's just call him Lawyer Guy.
[2] Did it? I dunno. Kids seem to be a lot more genre-savvy in the internet age, and I'm not sure when that shift took place.
[3] I was also really scared for Sir Galahad at Castle Anthrax. I had no idea what those women were trying to do to him, and I had no idea why he wanted to stay.
[4] By generally making the combat more grounded and less empowering / fun.
[5] By the standards of the world. Michael and Franklin are still dangerous and violent criminals.
Civilization VI
I'm a very casual fan of the series, but I gave Civilization VI a look to see what was up with this nuclear war simulator.
The Dumbest Cutscene
This is it. This is the dumbest cutscene ever created for a AAA game. It's so bad it's simultaneously hilarious and painful. This is "The Room" of video game cutscenes.
Are Lootboxes Gambling?
Obviously they are. Right? Actually, is this another one of those sneaky hard-to-define things?
Object-Disoriented Programming
C++ is a wonderful language for making horrible code.
Fable II
The plot of this game isn't just dumb, it's actively hostile to the player. This game hates you and thinks you are stupid.


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Last week I asked readers to respond to the Empire magazine list, which listed EMMA WATSON and BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH as the sexiest people in movie history.
I asked readers to come up with their own suggestions, but I told them to limit their responses to people making movies today, for the simple reason that the Empire list, though maintaining a pretense of spanning the whole of history . . . well, it placed Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly near or at the bottom and Carey Mulligan at #27. I thought to have something truly comparable, it would be best to keep things contemporary. Also our annual alluring women poll takes into account all of history, and that will arrive in December.
I expected suggestions for a male list . . . but there were next to none. Nobody cares about the men.
So what we have above is a gallery of mainly viewer suggestions, either by comments or email, augmented with a handful of my own. There's no ranking here. I think our readers came up with a better list than the Empire readers, but you can decide for yourself.
Feel free to offer your suggestions in the comments or by email.
And it's not too late to get started on the men, if anybody is interested.


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Description: Well, since I submitted a lesson on something fun, I decided the next tutorial I will upload is going to be on something exciting. Now, my father's birthday is coming up pretty soon, and I wanted to draw a character that he is a fan of, and I bet a lot of you guys are too. For my second lesson for the day, I will show you "how to draw Scarface", step by step. For those of you that are familiar with this movie character, you already know who exactly Scarface is. He is known as the infamous, and no nonsense Cuban named Tony Montana. Montana is played by one of the greatest actors in the world which is Al Pacino. Pacino is by far one of my favorite actors, and there is so many other movies that I loved him in like Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Devils Advocate, Carlito's Way, Heat, Donnie Brasco, and yes, even The Godfather I, II, and III. Although I have to say that part three didn't really do anything for me, but his acting was superior. Anyways, Tony Montana comes to America with his buddy Manolo, or Manny Ribera which is played by Steven Bauer. The flick surrounds the life of Tony Montana, who back in the early eighties, built up an incredible drug, and crime empire in just a short amount of time. The movie was directed by the very talented Brian De Palma, and the screenplay was written by Oliver Stone. The movie itself is a recreation of the thirties version of Scarface, and back then a movie such as this was unheard of, and talked about. There are some subtle changes in the storyline like, Tony Montana was originally an Italian immigrant instead of Cuban, and the last names are also changed. Instead of being a drug and criminal lord, the original Tony is hired to take out another criminal, but then he decides to go big time as well and starts becoming a threat to Johnny Lovo. Even though the thirties version of Scarface is awesome, nothing can touch Oliver Stones recreation, and I think it has a lot to do with AL Pacino, and the storyline of the eighties version of one of the worlds most fictional notorious crime bosses ever. Some f the most famous criminal names and characters are in this movie like Chi Chi, Mel the dirty cop, and of course Robert Loggia as Frank Lopez. I know for a fact that you guys will enjoy learning "how to draw Scarface", step by step. I also include a helpful tip that will enable you to understand how to sketch out the face of Tony Montana in a simple way. Until next tome folks, have fun with this tutorial, and be sure to come back or stick around to see what else I will upload. Peace peeps!


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The next episode that continues Telltale's intriguing take on The Walking Dead is releasing tomorrow, the developer/publisher announced today.
Well, sort of. PSN users get first dibs with its release tomorrow. Everyone else in NA will have to wait for Wednesday (shucks). From the official release:
The Walking Dead: Episode Four - Around Every Corner will release Tuesday, October 9th on PlayStation Network in North America for $4.99 or as part of the Season Pass option for $19.99 which includes all five episodes. The episode will also be available on Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday, October 10th for 400 MS Points as DLC within the original The Walking Dead XBLA release, and also on PC/MAC as part of a Season Pass on the Telltale Games Store, as well as through our partners on Steam, Origin, Amazon PC Downloads, GameStop, and GameFly. European and international release dates for PlayStation Network are still to be confirmed. The title is in submission with our international partners at SCEE, and as soon as Telltale Games receives a release confirmation, a date will be announced.
We were also sent two new screenshots and one piece of art (featured above) for you to enjoy. As usual, the group of survivors sees themselves in some tricky situations. But most frigthening is Clementine's look of hope as she leads Lee to what I guess she expects will be a reunion with her parents. Poor Clementine. If only it would be that easy. 'Cause you know it won't be.


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On View: from October 8 through December 31
June Wayne, a celebrated American artist and founder of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, will exhibit The Dorothy Series from October 8 through December 31. The suite of twenty lithographs presents the story of the artist's mother, an immigrant from Russia, and her life as a traveling saleswoman in the corset business. Curator Judy Lucas explains, "These works reflect the struggles of an immigrant and single mother, working to succeed as an American woman."
The exhibition features a video narrated by the artist, who had an immense impact on American printmaking through her promotion of collaborations between artists and master printmakers. Until June Wayne founded Tamarind, there were no centers in America where one coul receive a comprehensive education in printmaking. Tamarind brought worldwide attention to American printmaking. This exhibition is presented as part of a Cincinnati-wide consortium of museums celebrating 200 years of lithography.
Call (513) 221-1875, ext. 358 for hours, location, and details.
On View: October 14 - February 12: The Joseph Gallery at the New York School
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion will be exhibiting over sixty photographs of Jewish artists, composers, critics and playwrights in a retrospective of the portraiture of Arthur Mones. Mones spent decades capturing the singular intensity of individual artists among their notable work. Leonard Bernstein, Roy Lichtenstein, and Stephen Sondheim are among the many luminaries on view at the College-Institute from October 14 to February 12 at 1 W. 4th Street, New York City.
The photographs, many of which have become the best-recognized public "face" of an artist, are accompanied by biographical details about the artists and their work. Mones states that "a successful portrait captures many aspects of the subject's personality, places the subject within the world he has created, and must have a universality to raise it above being a good likeness into the realm of acceptance as a good photograph."
Arthur Mones, a graduate of the New York Institute of Photography in 1939, served as a U.S. Army Air Force photographer from 1941 through 1945. His travels in Sicily in 1978 resulted in his project, "Ruins," and throughout Spain in the following year for his project, "Doorways." Mr. Mones's photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Carnegie Institute, New York University Art Collection, and the New Orleans Museum of Art, among others.
Admission: Free
Hours: Monday-Thursday, 9:00 AM-6:00 PM and Fridays until 3:00 PM. Selected Sundays (Oct.18, Nov.1, Nov.15, Dec.6, Dec.20, Jan.10, Jan.24, Feb.7 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM)
Group Tours: please call (212) 824-8284 and leave group name, number, and contact person. A museum docent will return your call.
On View: November 22-February 12
Petrie Great Hall, at the New York School
In celebration of the jubilee year of the School of Sacred Music, the College-Institute will present A Treasury of Sacred Melodies, the first international exhibition of unique and rare vocal scores and materials preserved in the The Eduard Birnbaum Collection of HUC-JIR's Klau Library in Cincinnati.
The exhibition will feature original works never before shown to the public. Music manuscripts for the Sabbath and Jewish holidays from Germany's vanished Jewish communities will be displayed together with photographs, memorabilia, artifacts and text panels illustrating the cultural and historical context of the music. The role of Eduard Birnbaum as collector, cantor and composer, as well as the influence of secular and church music on the development of 18th and 19th century Jewish liturgical music will be presented. The important role played by the SSM and the modern cantorate in perpetuating the rich legacy of Jewish music will be highlighted.
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A strong rumor is going around the net that David Wenham might play the role of Prince Arthas Menethil in the upcoming Warcraft The Movie to be directed by Sam Raimi.
Though Blizzard Entertainment originally said the movie wouldn't feature Arthas, this was said back on 2007 at Blizzcon when Gary Whitta was secretly the script writer.
With Gary Whitta out of the picture and his script scrapped, I don't doubt Arthas would be in the new script. However, It is unknown if Wenham will be the actor to characterize him.
He doesn't look too bad for the role, what do you think?
I like him. That's cool. He could probably do an awesome evil Arthas.


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I thought we should collate all our ideas for the Anvil MQ into thread for easy access and for discussion.
Already Agreed
1) The questline will include pirates.
2) There will be a ship battle with explosions and stuff.
3) Possibly a pirate attack on Anvil?
A few thoughts I had
1) Competition between the EEC and independent merchants. I imagine that many merchants resent the EEC because it has a state-sponsored monopoly on the trade in Dwemer goods, ebony etc.
2) Perhaps merchants like the son of Theseus Caperno are prepared to use dubious methods to get an advantage?
3) Or perhaps the EEC is organising the pirates to drive small merchants out of business and increase its stranglehold on trade?
One thing I'm not sure about is including factions in a MQ, especially if there's going to be the option to take different sides.


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Olajuwon to pass skills to big men in first camp
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With a wealth of knowledge and techniques to spare, Hakeem Olajuwon is conducting his first Big Man Camp
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Hakeem Olajuwon is conducting his first Big Man Camp
Another year, another summer, another morning inside a gym.
Hakeem Olajuwon always knew he never wanted to carry a clipboard, sit on a bench or kneel in a huddle drawing up plays.
But this is different. It's not coaching as much as it is teaching. It's not drilling as much as it is shining a path.
A year ago, the former Rockets icon spent a week or so working one-on-one with Emeka Okafor, the former Bellaire High product who plays for the Charlotte Bobcats.
Twelve months later, Olajuwon is back from his home in Jordan for his annual sojourn to Houston to take care of business, touch base with old friends and conduct his first Big Man Camp.
Okafor has returned, and this time he has been accompanied by Ndudi Ebi, who went from Westbury Christian Academy to the pros as a 2003 first-round draft choice of the Minnesota Timberwolves, and a handful of other young up-and-comers. Also expected next week on the court of The Wellness Center at Memorial Hermann-HBU are DeSagana Diop and D.J. Mbenga of the Dallas Mavericks, Ike Diogu of the Golden State Warriors, Luol Deng of the Chicago Bulls and free agent Mamadou N'diaye. The Nigerian national team will spend two days in camp en route to playing in the World Basketball Championship in Japan.
"I was a little bit surprised last year at how much I enjoyed the experience with Emeka, and it made me want to expand on it," Olajuwon said. "I began to think of different things that I show to young players. I began to think of different ways I get the message across.
"I have never had an interest in becoming a traditional coach. Those X's and O's are for others to figure out. What interests me is showing the next generation of big men how they can take their game to a higher level."
Olajuwon is not collecting an appearance fee. There is no financial gain.
"If these kids want to come here and take the time to listen and to work, if they're willing, it is my honor to help," Olajuwon said. "This is my way of giving back to the game."
So for a solid two hours, he puts them through a workout that emphasizes speed, quickness and flexibility. He challenges them to change the way they view almost every move they make in the low post or out on the wings. Even little things, such as pivoting on the balls of one's feet, rather than flat-footed. It allows one to explode more toward the hoop and puts less overall strain on the foot.
"Last year was really the first time in my life that I ever had to try to break down the moves that I used in my playing career and explain them to someone else," Olajuwon said. "I've spent time since then thinking about how I can expand the message and show it to a whole group."
He demonstrates a move — whirling, spinning, dipping, twirling with the ball — and you can almost see his pupils' minds working in overdrive trying to comprehend. They want to make connections from A to B to C to D. And what he's trying to achieve is for them to get from A to B and then consider an infinite world of possibilities and combinations. His game in winning two NBA titles, an MVP award, five All-NBA honors and a dozen All-Star nods was always more reactive to the defense.
"Don't try to go through," Olajuwon said. "Find a way around. It's easier."
Okafor, the NBA's 2004 Rookie of the Year, struggled with a series of injuries last season and never could develop a steady rhythm.
"I wish I could have used more of what Hakeem taught me, but I couldn't stay on the court long enough," he said. "There were a couple of times early in the season when I used a move in practice and somebody might say, 'Where did that come from?' I want to build on that."
Ebi was waived by the Timberwolves after two frustrating years of sitting on the bench and played last season for Fort Worth in the NBA Development League.
"This is going to help me," he said. "I'm just trying to get in there, get a fresh chance, a fresh start. I'm starting again, but I've got the right guy to show me. That's the Dream. He's taught lessons to Michael Jordan and Shaquille O'Neal. I know he can teach me."
Olajuwon watches the 6-9, 22-year-old Ebi use strong head fakes to get his defender up in the air, then lean in for a finger-roll basket.
"I think Ndudi was too young, too unprepared for the NBA the first time," Olajuwon said. "Now I see stronger, more confident moves. I tell him something one day, and he comes back the next day and uses it. I think he's ready."
Olajuwon hears the talk about the NBA being guard-oriented in the 21st century, that big men are being de-emphasized, even phased out, and he shakes his head.
"For a big man who is just big, maybe," he said. "But not if you play with speed, with agility. It will always be a big man's game if the big man plays the right way. On defense, the big man can rebound and block shots. On offense, he draws double-teams and creates opportunities. He can add so much, make it easier for the entire team."
At 43, Olajuwon still has the moves, the polish, the satin feel to his game. His body is still lean and taut, his large brown eyes still filled with confidence, perhaps the only trace of age a gray strand or two in his closely cropped hair.
"I like to be able to be out on the court with the guys when I'm explaining," he said. "It's still easy for me to make the plays and hold my own on offense and defense. But I know that eventually time will catch up, and I'll have to do it all with words."
Before that time comes, Olajuwon would like to spend time working with one particular student.
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"It is more of a mental picture for him to get in his mind and then extend out to other teams. 'Oh no, we have to face the Rockets and Yao Ming! We have so much to worry about!' He needs that mentality. Everybody talks about his skills. But he is a gentleman on the court. No. It is not a place for gentlemen. Not in the lane. He must be a force.
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"Maybe you say it is cultural. I don't know. But he can change. He can be taught. Let him see how it's done. I know he has obligations this year (in China) with the world tournament. But next year, maybe he is free. I plan to be here. Hopefully, with a bigger camp. I would like to work with him."
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Are you attending the Mac IT conference this week? You know the one, the one that is part of the iWorld event in San Francisco. What is iWorld? Remember MacWorld? Well they dropped the "Mac" bit and now it is just "i" saving tons of money in printing costs by dropping two letters. Do note the "W" is now capitalized, which it had not been in the past. The "i" is small. Got all that?
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In an early scene in Instinct, released by Disney's Buena Vista Films, we're told that a brilliant primatologist named Ethan Powell (played by Anthony Hopkins) is being brought back to the United States from Rwanda, where for several years he has been engaged in a close study of mountain gorillas. Actually, his study has gone a bit beyond close: For the past four years, Powell has done what no other scientist -- indeed, what no other man -- has ever done. (Except, of course, for Tarzan, who, quite coincidentally, is featured in another Disney picture that opens only two weeks from now.) Powell has abandoned human society to eat, sleep, and live exclusively in the wild with an extended family of great apes. During this time, he has had no contact whatsoever with humankind -- not with his scientific colleagues or even his own daughter, Lyn (Maura Tierney).
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Director Jon Turteltaub and screenwriter Gerald DiPego teamed up earlier on the equally dubious Phenomenon; what they set up here is a comparison between this "jungle" of a prison, where the strong tyrannize the weak, and the real jungles of Africa.
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Twenty-Five Years of Groups St Andrews Conferences
by Colin M Campbell and Edmund F Robertson
In 1979 we held a small meeting in St Andrews at which Joachim Neubüser from RWTH Aachen spoke on Counterexamples to the class-breadth conjecture. At this time we discussed the possibility of organising a much larger group theory meeting in St Andrews in 1981. Preliminary dates were suggested to fit the German school holidays. Indeed choosing dates for all the meetings has proved an interesting task: fitting in with the end of the English academic year, the start of the American academic year, the Galway races (Galway 1993), the Open University Summer School (Bath 1997), the Open Golf Championship (St Andrews 2005). For Groups 1981 we invited main speakers whose mathematical interests were close to our own. By chance, three of the four - Joachim Neubüser (RWTH Aachen), Sean Tobin (Galway), and Jim Wiegold (Cardiff) - had been friends from postgraduate days in Manchester. The fourth, Derek Robinson (Urbana), was originally from Montrose (visible on a good day across the Tay estuary from the Mathematical Institute in St Andrews). Despite our planning of the 1981 dates, the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana was announced to take place during the period of the conference. Residences provided only packed lunches on the wedding day. However Jim Wiegold, the 'Mathematical Prince of Wales', provided our own star attraction! We had intended the conference to last a week but some participants wanted to stay in St Andrews for a further week. Thus began our style of a two-week conference, the main speakers giving lecture courses in the first week with a more informal seminar programme taking place in the second week.
During the 1981 conference, carried away by the excitement of the moment, we discussed, while we were driving participants round the Highlands (actually on a stop at Killin), holding another meeting in four years time. The 1985 meeting proved the largest of all the Groups St Andrews meetings with 366 participants from 43 countries. For this meeting we tried to make the topics broader to cover as much of group theory as possible. With this aim in mind we invited Seymour Bachmuth (Santa Barbara), Gilbert Baumslag (CUNY), Peter Neumann (Oxford), Jim Roseblade (Cambridge) and Jacques Tits (Paris) to be the main speakers. It is always a challenge to people to ask them what is wrong with the photograph of the main speakers, and ourselves, as it appears in the Conference Proceedings. (Clue: does it look better in a mirror?) Again, carried away by the vitality of the Conference, we announced another meeting to be held in 1989.
Following the 1985 Conference we asked a number of the participants which group theorists they would like to see as main speakers for 1989. Taking their advice we invited Sandy Green (Warwick), Narain Gupta (Manitoba), Otto Kegel (Freiburg), Sasha Ol'shanskii (Moscow), and John Thompson (Cambridge). Typical of problems organisers have to face, there was a "heightening of tension" between the UK and the Soviet Union in the spring of 1989. Consulates were closed, as was the British Airways Office in Moscow. The Principal of St Andrews University, Professor Struther Arnott, wrote to his colleague, the Rector of Moscow State University, in an attempt to make Sasha Ol'shanskii's visit possible. It was a great surprise and pleasure when Sasha achieved what we thought was impossible at that time, and actually arrived in St Andrews. So many of the participants were, by this time, friends we were delighted to meet again. Indeed it was (and is) great to see so many people from so many different countries renewing friendships and mathematical contacts at our conferences.
After three conferences in St Andrews, we thought that a change of scene might be appropriate. We had enjoyed a very successful mathematical collaboration between RWTH Aachen, Galway and St Andrews (with an EU twinning grant for three twins!) and our Galway colleagues had (and still have) such a successful annual Group Theory meeting, that we were happy to accept their invitation to hold Groups St Andrews 1993 in Galway. We now became part of an organising committee of five (us together with Ted Hurley, Sean Tobin and James Ward from Galway). The five organisers met at a Warwick conference in March 1991, and decided to invite as principal speakers Jon Alperin (Chicago), Michel Broué (Paris), Peter Kropholler (Queen Mary College, London), Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Efim Zelmanov (Wisconsin-Madison). (We were especially delighted when Efim was awarded a Fields Medal exactly one year later at the 1994 ICM in Zurich.) We also invited our Aachen twin Joachim Neubüser to organise a GAP workshop at the 1993 conference. The workshop became effectively a fully-fledged parallel meeting throughout the second week, with over thirty hours of lectures by experts together with practical sessions. Another unusual feature of this conference was the setting aside of one day for a special programme of lectures to honour the 65th birthday of Karl Gruenberg (London), in recognition of his many contributions to group theory.
In 1989, at the conference, Geoff Smith (Bath) said that he would be interested in hosting a future Groups St Andrews meeting. At the 1993 conference Peter Neumann (Oxford) asked if Oxford might be considered as a venue for 1997 (to coincide with Graham Higman's 80th birthday). By this time, however, we had already accepted the invitation to hold the 1997 Conference in Bath, but it was agreed that Oxford would be the venue for 2001. For the Bath Conference Geoff Smith joined us on the organising committee. The main speakers for the 1997 conference were Laszlo Babai (Chicago), Martin Bridson (Oxford), Chris Brookes (Cambridge), Cheryl Praeger (Western Australia) and Aner Shalev (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). This time the second week featured two special days, a Burnside Day and a Lyndon Day, organised by Efim Zelmanov (now at Yale) and Chuck Miller III (Melbourne), respectively. An interesting innovation at this conference was twelve editions of The Daily Group Theorift providing details of lectures, seminars, the social programme together with other items of interest.
The organizing committee for Groups St Andrews 2001 in Oxford consisted of the two of us together with Danny Groves (Merton, Oxford), Patrick Martineau (Wadham, Oxford), Peter Neumann (Queen's, Oxford), Geoff Smith (Bath), Brian Stewart (Exeter, Oxford) and Gabrielle Stoy (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford). For the Oxford Conference the main speakers were Marston Conder (Auckland), Persi Diaconis (Stanford), Peter Palfy (Eötvös Loránd, Budapest), Marcus du Sautoy (Cambridge), and Mike Vaughan-Lee (Christ Church, Oxford). In the second week there was a day of special lectures in celebration of Daniel Gorenstein coordinated by Richard Lyons (Rutgers) and a "Groups and Sets" day coordinated by Simon Thomas (Rutgers). Again the The Daily Group Theorift provided entertaining and informative reporting items such as "Punting tragedy", "News from the Netherlands", "Dancing in a group", and "Editor in Bath ... pictures follow".
We realised that Groups 2005 would be the last of the series that we would organise before retiring so we made the decision to bring the conference 'home'. Unlike the earlier St Andrews conferences we had an extended organising committee, being joined by Nick Gilbert (Heriot-Watt), Steve Linton (St Andrews), John O'Connor (St Andrews), Nik Ruskuc (St Andrews), and Geoff Smith (Bath). We also reverted to the format of the 1981 conference and put the whole programme into a week. The main speakers were Peter Cameron (Queen Mary, London), Slava Grigorchuk (Texas A&M), John Meakin (Nebraska-Lincoln) and Akos Seress (Ohio State). Additionally there were seven one-hour invited speakers together with an extensive programme of over a hundred seminars; a lot to fit into a week!
The seven conferences have contained a wide selection of social events. "Groups St Andrews tourism" has taken us to a variety of interesting and scenic venues in Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales. Bus trips have included Kellie Castle, Loch Earn and Loch Tay, Falkland Palace and Hill of Tarvit, Crathes Castle and Deeside, Loch Katrine and the Trossachs, House of Dun, Connemara and Kylemore Abbey, the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher, Tintern Abbey and Welsh Valleys, the Roman Baths in Bath, Salisbury Cathedral, Rufus Stone and the New Forest, Stonehenge, Wells Cathedral and the Cheddar Gorge, Blenheim Palace, Glamis Castle. We have been on boats on Loch Katrine, the Thames, and Galway Bay to the Aran Islands. There have also been: musical events with participants as the musicians, Scottish Country Dance evenings, barn dances, piano recitals, organ recitals, theatre trips, whisky tasting, putting, chess, walks along the Fife Coast, walks round Bath, walks round Oxford, and there would have been a cricket match in Bath but it was rained off. All these have provided opportunities for relaxation, but also opportunities to continue mathematical discussions. For example after the trip to Falkland Palace we collected from the buses several copies of the guidebook, each filled with fascinating group theory theorems. Conference dinners have taken place in David Russell Hall (old and new) in St Andrews, the Corrib Great Southern Galway, the Ardilaun House Hotel Galway, the Assembly Rooms in Bath ("a grand Georgian affair with chandeliers etc."), Cumberwell Park Golf Club (in Bradford-on-Avon and not St Andrews!) and Lady Margaret Hall Oxford.
The twenty-five years since 1981 have been an important period in the development of group theory following the classification of finite simple groups. Although attempting wide coverage of group theory topics, we made a conscious decision for the early conferences not to have a lecture series devoted to the classification. Despite the intervening twenty-five years, the papers from the first conference are still proving influential and hence the appearance of this second edition of the Groups St Andrews 1981 Proceedings. The main speakers at this conference spoke on: An elementary introduction to coset table methods in computational group theory; Applications of cohomology to the theory of groups; Groups with exponent four; and The Schur multiplier: an elementary approach. The topics of the lectures given at the conferences show the development of group theory during the quarter century. This is illustrated by the themes of the main speakers at the last two conferences. At Groups St Andrews 2001 the lecture series were: Group actions on graphs, maps and surfaces with maximum symmetry; An introduction to random walks on finite groups - character theory and geometry; Groups and Lattices; Zeta functions of groups and counting p-groups; and Lie methods in group theory, and at Groups St Andrews 2005: Aspects of infinite permutation groups; On self-similarity and branching in group theory; Interactions between group theory and semigroup theory; and Graphs, automorphisms, and product action. The influence of the series of conferences is, we believe, illustrated by the fact that 'Groups St Andrews' is mentioned in 285 reviews in MathSciNet and over 1500 papers in a beta version of the Google Scholar search.
None of this would have been possible without the support of many people and organisations. Research students and colleagues have provided invaluable help in running each of the conferences. The British Council, the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, the London Mathematical Society, the Royal Society of London have provided grants, while the universities of St Andrews, Galway, Bath and Oxford have all contributed in financial and other ways to the success of the conferences. Of course the bulk of the funding has come from universities and other organisations worldwide that have supported the participation of the delegates.
We are grateful to Cambridge University Press, in particular to David Tranah and Roger Astley, for the care and expertise with which they have published the Proceedings. The Proceedings of each of the first six conferences have been published by CUP as numbers 71, 121, 159 & 160, 211 & 212, 260 & 261, 304 & 305 in the London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series. The Proceedings of Groups St Andrews 2005 will again be published in two volumes in the same series. Additionally there was a special part (Volume 30 Part I) of the Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society consisting of sixteen of the papers presented at Groups St Andrews 1985, together with an introduction.
We have enjoyed the twenty-five years of Groups St Andrews conferences and look forward to the continuation of the series. We hope to meet many of our friends at Groups St Andrews in Bath in August 2009.
We give the dates, main speakers and titles of the talks for the conferences at THIS LINK.
The Proceedings of each of the conferences were published by Cambridge University Press. You can see the Introductions to these proceedings at THIS LINK.
A list of social events for each of the conferences is at THIS LINK.
A paper by C M Campbell about the Groups St Andrews Conferences and the Galway Group meetings is at THIS LINK.
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The Hirasaka Clan (比良坂一族, Hirasaka Ichizoku) is one of the three clans that hail from Yumegakure.
A defining trait of the Hirasaka clan is that all its members wear large hoods over their heads and some have it covering their mouths too. They are the only clan in Yumegakure to not have any facial markings or, at least, none have been seen.
Some techniques in this clan include sealing the opponent's chakra or confusing them to the point where they attack their own allies. Some members carry scrolls that can dispel confusion and/or chakra sealing. Some chūnin-level shinobi have been shown to use the Shadow Clone Technique and bombs that release electricity when they explode. Many shinobi are also fairly skilled in taijutsu.
- The name Hirasaka might be a reference to Yomotsu Hirasaka (黄泉平坂 or 黄泉比良坂) from Shinto mythology, which is the slope that descends into Yomi, the underworld.
- Even though Yomito Hirasaka is the only named character from this clan, there are times in this video game where the player has to face groups of unnamed Hirasaka ninja. There is also a level boss that is named Hirasaka chūnin, referring to his clan and rank.
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August 02, 2011
Living with the Frenchman has been a wonderful experience so far. And just like I dreaded, it has changed our relationship radically. But I've recognized that that isn't a horrible thing. It's interesting how we have progressed from the enjoyable stage of being completely enamored and mushy all over each other to the random damning moments of frustration. What's even nicer is the fact that we can snap at each other and not feel like the whole world is being lost.
Being around each other day-to-day has just given us the chance to see each other in uncomplimentary lights – and continue to love each other. In fact, from time to time I think the unappealing fragments are what help us to love each other plenty more. It allows us to be honest on a much deeper level, shedding away our need to always look flawless and unspoiled to the other and just be 100% of ourselves. The person that feels particularly lazy on a weekend or when she has a feminist moment or does something thoroughly unladylike and absolutely humiliating? She is the same creature that wakes up next to the Frenchman every day. And he knows it (and still loves me!).
Now in spells when our affectionate attitudes are swapped with slicing sentences that are uttered out of anger or sadness, it hurts less than it would have earlier. So he snapped at me over something I said, or I teasingly made sure he'll never repeat certain behaviours. The comfort we have come into with this new chapter of our bond has permitted there to be flawed chunks while still retaining essential tendencies of love and admiration. Our link isn't weak. And we can walk away from those horrid moments and move on with the rest of our day.....of course there is always music to be had.
"Hold you in my arms" is this stunning, gorgeous effort by Ray LaMontagne. And for whatever reason it's been months and I still find myself coming back to this captivating track. It has been my favorite song to sing along to (alone, at work, at home, in the bathroom). It captures the essence of the vocalist. There is something throughout this song that speaks a familiar language with enough nuance and substance to keep you listening as it unfolds.
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- ku2 said...
heyyy :) Reading your blog makes me want to get married! Solidarity despite funky morning breath, mood swings, strewn clothes, soapy faucets and sweat pants, yay! And funnily enough, Ive been mooning over this same Lamontagne song every night this week. And a little bit of Joshua Radin as well. They just make you fall in love all over again, dont they? :)
- August 07, 2011
- iAmCha said...
It's interesting how you have progressed from the enjoyable "Perfectly Lonely" stage of being completely disillusioned to this complete mushy and enamored "Hold You In My Arms". :)
It's not even fair that you have become less active here, considering that the French man is also a certified concert Pianist? (Yeah! Oreo texted me 3 months ago) It's not fair. After all the previous pangs and features on your blog, I demand that you do a feature of him. I DEMAND. Without pic is even fine, but something about him, your muse and your music. How has meeting him changed your sensibilities in whatever way? Has he already wrote you a piece of music? If Oreo is Tom, who plays Jerry in the house? The 'Charles-Valentin Alkan' who senerades you every evening over Darjeeling tea?
Gosh! Send me tickets to Blore already!
- November 02, 2011


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As a little girl all I did was worry about my all red nikes and little jean jacket while carrying around a shitload of Dr. Suess books, I had no time for Barbie lol. However my younger cousin made me play with the wretched things and I took a liking to them. If I remember correctly I fell in love with the really fancy ones that you kept in the box, but playing with them 24/7 was a huge NO-all I wanted was to make their clothes lifesize! (In hindsight Barbie had to be a cokewhore because her body was so perfect and she never ate!) Patricia Field has re-created the Barbie glam (minus the coke lol) by making an entire line dedicated to the glory of the perfect DD breasted doll. Now we can all take the spirit of Matel's plastic goddess everywhere we go! The line includes an array of shirts, tight ass dresses, hoodies, jewlery, and purses. She basically hooded Barbie up with the jewlery, giving her name earings and a necklace, how sweet is that? Get your Barbie hookup at http://www.patriciafield.com/ . Sorry fellas, maybe she'll make something for penis-less Ken next season. lol.
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i hate to do this and advertise other blogs, but hey who cares right? right. Well as online obsessions go I am obsessed with Around the Way Girls! It is the TRUTH, an interesting mix of street and Hollywood glam and of course NY flava from regular ass super hot females. The good thing about this blog is that it can give you a good laugh and the writing is pretty damn good so check it out after you check Queenie V of course, i mean we did kind of put you on...duh
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B and Jay tie the knot
Apparently our friends Jay and B have tied the knot. Of course all they do is deny deny deny everything and swear its a rumor, but if you both have on wedding rings how can it be false? They allegedly got married in France sometime before Christmas while celebrating Hov's 38th birthday (damn he's old). Anywho the two are basically insperable and if the rumors are false it shouldn't matter either way. The best of both worlds matrimony style...we all know whose getting B's buns!
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For a long time, I've had this yearning to get involoved with my community and "give back" in a sense...so many people searched for me when I was missing, sent me cards or letters with words of encouragement while I was in the hospital, and there were fundraisers to help with medical bills, and, I have, at times, felt like there's a piece missing from my life...for some reason, I just haven't necessarily felt completely....complete. So, when I saw an ad in my local newspaper for The Citizen's Police Academy, I joined, and I LOVE IT! The class is so much fun so far, and very interesting, and makes me feel as though I'm doing something great within my community. We meet once a week for 15 weeks, and go over a different topic each time, relating to police work. I recommend it to all of you that are interested in seeing what police go through on a daily basis, if your community offers such a program. =)
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Saturday, March 06, 2010
Random Thoughts While Travelling
We have Satellite radio in the car so we've been listening to this station that's playing Oscar nominated songs. Most of the movies we've seen and we've been playing 'guess the movie' and even 'sing a long'. A couple of times I've noticed people looking into the car at us, aghast, noticing a couple of old men carrying on like teenagers.
Well, that's not true. Teenagers are, or at least when we were teenagers, so earnest and things are so powerful and meaningful and you avoided doing anything that someone might have thought silly or 'fruity'. But that's the joy of being older, who gives a hoot about any of that, singing along with Barbara on 'Evergreen' or shouting 'Opa' from Melina Mecuri (sp?) as she sings the Greek song from Never on Sunday - that's just fun.
At one point I reached into the back seat to get some Louisiana Hot Sauce potato chips and noticed the wheelchair in the back seat. Joe uses the seat belt strap to secure it into place. I swear it was enjoying the ride. Like it was fun to be the passenger rather than the vehicle - well, I guess we all need time off.
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- Suelle said...
Where you lecturing in Missouri, Dave? I saw you last time you were here & I've been following your blog ever since! I can honestly say that experiencing your presentation changed the way I felt about my son's disability & made me more aware of & thankful for the people of different abilitles around me.
- 6 March 2010 at 09:12
- Kristin said...
I love your ability to embrace life.
- 6 March 2010 at 09:29
- D. said...
1. It's "Mercouri." (Melina, that is.)
2. Yes, it's long, but you'll be able to see spring seeping into the countryside up close, and teeny green shoots and buds (particularly after this winter's storms) are awesome.
3. I take it you'll be breaking the trip for sleep and rejuvenation--
Wait, you're already on the road.
Never mind.
- 6 March 2010 at 10:35
- Dave Hingsburger said...
Suelle, I'm in Columbia and Saint Louis, are either of those places near you?
- 6 March 2010 at 18:11
- Suelle said...
I'm in St. Louis! When & where will you be here? You can email me at suelle10 at yahoo.com if you like, or just steer me to a website that might have that info. Thanks Dave!
- 6 March 2010 at 22:38
- Jo's Corner said...
Love the line about the chair "enjoying the ride"! I just found your Blog today and will be a regular follower. Peace ~ Jo
- 7 March 2010 at 13:39
Reminds me of a trip I took with a friend. We sang and wore fake glasses and noses. Boy, did we get some funny looks - which only made us laugh harder!
- 8 March 2010 at 12:20
Hi Dave- Kind of a weird comment, but I am recently (since trip to New Orleans in 2008) a little bit obsessed with Louisiana Hot Sauce. It's the only kind I buy now. I was so excited to see that there is a potato chip with that flavoring. I don't believe they have them in CA, but saw that there is an online store. I swear, it's that little things that make me :). Are they as good as I imagine? Thanks for your wonderful blog. I so enjoy reading it each day!
- 8 March 2010 at 18:20
- Dave Hingsburger said...
Kali, the lousiana hot sauce chips are awesome. They are thick cut ... if you'd like email us your address and we'll send you a bag. These are only available in canada as they are of the president's choice brand. (that will mean nothing to you as an American)
- 9 March 2010 at 07:29
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Very interesting thoughts. Charming blog.
- 12 March 2010 at 13:58
- Ann said...
Ain't nothing like a 'sing along' while travelling in your car. Great Blog!
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Apple Gets Serious About Social: Facebook Sharing All Over iOS and iTunes Updates
Apple announced a slew of social updates to its products at the iPhone 5 event in San Francisco on Wednesday, incorporating Facebook sharing features into multiple parts of the Apple ecosystem.
For one, Apple's Siri digital assistant will be integrated with Facebook in iOS 6. That means that users can post status updates to their Facebook pages by merely speaking to their iPhone.
To boot, Facebook "Likes" will now be seen in the App Store inside of iTunes, which has also been completely redesigned.
And, of course, there's the slew of other Facebook integration updates that Apple previously announced at WWDC in July, sticking Facebook neatly inside of apps like Calendar, Contacts, direct photo sharing and integration within the iOS notification bar. There's also sharing built into Mountain Lion for the Mac products, so it's not just on mobile.
In other words, Apple is finally starting to amend its serious deficiencies in social.
For one thing, each and every time a user "Likes" an app inside of the App Store, that will trace back to a user's Facebook page, which means any and all of their friends can follow that thread back to Apple's site. That's huge potential for a new avenue of app downloads for Apple.
It's also a boon for App Developers, who now don't have to rely solely on the front door of iTunes for app discovery, which has always been the kingmaker of apps. Prominent iTunes real estate is valuable, as it's seen by the millions of people who visit the service daily. But it's scarce, which means there's only so much room to promote apps — and the hundreds of thousands of other applications are left out in the cold.
That's good for Apple, but what is Facebook getting out of the deal?
My guess is Facebook will continue to push app developers to create Open Graph integrated apps, which work better with Facebook and produce higher quality content for the stream. The additional likes inside of iTunes could increase that awareness.
The bigger win for Facebook, however, seems to be the Siri integration. Imagine the deluge of new status updates and content for the stream that Facebook will be fed from users (that is, if Siri use is strong). More content potentially means more engagement, and that, of course, means more Facebook ads served.
Of course, there's a quality control issue — hopefully Siri will be able to deliver cogent, translatable status updates, and fewer "Damn you, auto-correct!" moments.
In all, it seems good for both companies that they've finally found agreeable terms to work with one another.
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Nationally-Known Band Buckcherry Headlines SUNY Canton's Fall Concert Oct. 14Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
Los Angeles-based hard-rockers Buckcherry will headline a multi-band concert at SUNY Canton. Doors open for the concert at 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14, at the Dana Hall Gym.
Amp Entertainment and the SUNY Canton Student Activities Office are presenting the fall concert.
"This concert is the latest in a string of well-known acts that Amp Entertainment has helped bring to the College," said Michael J. Perry, SUNY Canton College Association executive director, who oversees the Student Activities Office. "During the past year, they have secured national recording artists Gym Class Heroes and Red Jumpsuit Apparatus to perform live for our students."
Formed in 1995, Buckcherry, who are known for hits like "Lit Up" and "Check Your Head," have had mass appeal. Their 2006 album "15" went platinum and contained their first Billboard Hot 100 top-ten hit, "Sorry." During their career, they have opened for artists like AC/DC and KISS. They are currently on tour in preparation for a release of their sixth album later this year.
The band will be performing following Lit, Charm City Devils and local favorite Tyrade.
Lit is best known for their 1999 No. 1 hit "My Own Worst Enemy." The California-based group has had other hits such as "Miserable," "Zip-Lock," "Over My Head," "Lipstick and Bruises" and "Addicted." They recently released their fifth album, "The View from the Bottom," on June 19, 2012.
Charm City Devils were formed in Baltimore, Md., in 2007. They were named Best New Rock Band by iTunes for 2009, and their sophomore album, "Sins," was released April 10, 2012. The single "Man of Constant Sorrow" from that album reached No. 20 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
Tyrade is one of the most popular bands in Northern New York. It consists of Matt Farrell of Saranac Lake, Tim Anson of Canton, Thomas Arquitt of Saranac Lake, and Ronn Simser of Renesselaer Falls. Their style ranges from melodic ballads to metal anthems. Their top hits include "Outburst II" and "Scud Missile," according to the band's MySpace page.
Tickets are on sale through the Student Activities Office in the Richard W. Miller Campus Center. The show costs $15 for SUNY Canton students, and $25 for the public. For more information, contact the Student Activities Office at 315-386-7315.
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