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Weekly Standard: Gehry's Ike Memorial Is "Appalling"
In The Weekly Standard, Andrew Ferguson demolishes the planned design for the Eisenhower Memorial:
Re-Gendered Ike
Andrew FergusonMarch 12, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 25Last week the chairman of the House administration committee, Dan Lungren of California, sent a letter to the National Capital Planning Commission, one of the many administrative bodies charged with safeguarding Washington's "memorial core." Lungren's tone was polite but firm. Soon the commission will decide whether to approve a design, concocted by the très chic architect Frank Gehry, for a memorial to Dwight Eisenhower in the nation's capital. "The memorial, as currently envisioned," Lungren and a colleague wrote, "does not adequately commemorate [Eisenhower's] accomplishments nor does it enjoy the necessary level of support to be accepted as a national tribute to General and President Eisenhower." Lungren is a powerful chairman with some say over $100 million in taxpayer money being spent on the memorial, and reading the letter we liked to think that we detected beneath the good manners the slightest undercurrent of menace: "Gee, that's a nice appropriation you got there. Hate to see something happen to it." Perhaps our imagination was overheating again. But we can hope.
For without some kind of serious intervention, by Congress or an outraged public, Gehry's appalling design will become a reality, rising unpleasantly at the foot of Capitol Hill, adjacent to the National Mall, for years to come. How appalling is it? For a clue, consider the rave review it received in an unintentionally comical notice from [Philip Kennicott] the (always unintentionally comical) art critic for the Washington Post. He praised Gehry for de-emphasizing the "masculine power" that has traditionally marred Washington's memorial architecture. (And you thought the Washington monument was just an obelisk?) Gehry, the critic discovered, "has 're-gendered' the vocabulary of memorialization, giving it new life and vitality." A re-gendered Ike! Don't anyone tell Mamie.
Gehry is a clever fellow—along with guile, cleverness is his most conspicuous gift—and his design, after a fashion, is improbably ingenious, which is to say that it manages to be at once grandiose and pointless, offensive and vague, pretentious and kitschy. It's hard to describe because it's hard to decide what it is, precisely. The plan calls for closing down a span of Maryland Avenue in Southwest D.C., one of the original spokes in L'Enfant's grand scheme of crisscrossing streets and avenues, and laying out a four-acre public square in its place. Is the square itself the memorial, or does it merely contain the memorial? Hard to say. Two sides of the square will be defined by a series of unadorned columns. These aren't any of those fussy old classical columns, the kind with a base and a shaft and a capital like you see holding up the roof in those other fuddy-duddy memorials on the National Mall. These are Gehry columns, plain shafts rising 80 feet high, which, as visitors will discover, is very high. Unexpectedly and refreshingly, given the purposeless elaboration in most of Gehry's work, the columns do serve a function. Unfortunately their function is to hoist between them giant screens of metal mesh depicting winter scenes of Kansas prairie.
"As Eisenhower did," say the publicity materials too cutely, the wire mesh screens with their forbidding images of bare trees and lonesome farmhouses "bring a bit of the heartland to our nation's capital."
But what about Eisenhower? Good of you to ask. He will be there, too, depicted in a diminutive statue as a "barefoot farm boy." This will serve to illustrate a point that Gehry and his supporters find unusually compelling, for some reason—that the man who did as much as any other to save Western civilization at its moment of maximum peril got his start wearing overalls on a farm. The statue of little Eisenhower, this Ike tyke, will be casting a plaintive gaze at twin bas reliefs of his older self, as both president and general, mounted on two enormous stone boxes. Quotations from two of Eisenhower's speeches will be carved back there somewhere too. And trees. The design calls for trees.
Among the many articulations of horror at Gehry's handiwork, the most poignant come from Eisen-hower's son and grandchildren. David Eisenhower recently resigned in disgust from the Eisenhower Memorial Commission, which recruited Gehry and approved his design. In a recent letter, the family said they are puzzled at the design's emphasis on Eisenhower's early life over his years as general and president, which were, after all, the proving ground of his greatness and the reason he deserves a memorial. They question the durability of Gehry's gimmicks—the big wire screens and an inevitable array of hard-to-maintain and soon-to-be-obsolete "interactive technology" for children of all ages. (The devices are in keeping with the current requirement that any public work involving history be relentlessly pedagogical rather than celebratory or commemorative.) It doesn't take an overheated imagination to see what will likely become of Gehry's square 10 or 15 years hence: an acre here or there under repair and cordoned off by cyclone fencing, leaves tumbling across the empty plaza and gathering in remote corners, interactive displays broken and untended, and a handful of puzzled tourists wondering what they're supposed to be looking at. This is not a memorial for the ages.
Indeed, as the family points out, it's not really a memorial at all. But it is many other things. It's an advertisement for the self-conscious quirkiness of an overpraised architect and a shrine to the pathetic intellectual insecurity of the commission that hired him. It's a testimony to postmodernism's ability to corrupt everything it touches. It's an expression of the contempt one class of people feels for another far larger but less powerful class of people.
Listen again to the Post's critic in his rave review: "The effect will be that of a giant stage set enveloping a relatively small representation of Eisenhower, yet another inversion of traditional hierarchies that suggests a powerful sense of the finitude of man and the vastness of history, nature, and fate."
And here are the Eisenhowers, from their recent letter: "Great monuments to our leaders are simple in design and made of durable stone for a reason. This memorial must speak to the ages and last just as long."
We side with the Eisenhowers. The National Capital Planning Commission should too.


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Recreation and Parks getting audit after pool party
Agency refused councilman's request to see contract
Changes underway at the Baltimore City agency that runs recreation and parks come after one of its officials told a community group to mind its own business, the WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team has learned.
At issue is what happened leading up to a private pool party over the weekend.
WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team lead investigative reporter Jayne Miller reported this is an agency that hadn't been audited in years, and this story is an example of why critics said one was so badly needed.
Ordinarily, the public gets to know the "who, what, when and where" of the private use of city-owned facilities that are frequently rented out for private events and parties.
But leading up to a Saturday night private party at Riverside Pool in south Baltimore -- billed as the prequel to South Beach at $20 a pop -- the public was kept mostly in the dark because of the way the event was handled by the city's Director of Aquatics.
"If you looked at the contract, that is the only person that signed off on it, which is a little bit troubling that you could have just a random city employee signing contracts," said Baltimore City Councilman Bill Cole in reference to the contract for the event, which is the only paperwork on file -- there's no city permit and no one else from the agency signed off.
Cole said he had to demand to see the contract because the aquatics director had refused to provide it. When a community representative asked for it, an email from the director's city address replied: "I'm not sure why you deem it necessary for you to have that information."
When the councilman first asked for it, an email from the same address said: "Our customers have a right to confidentiality ... I will not give you that information."
In response, Recreation and Parks Director Ernest Burkeen said that's not the policy of this agency and that the representative "made a mistake and he realizes that."
Burkeen said the agency was lacking consistent policies for facility rentals, a problem now being corrected at Cole's request. The problems exposed by the event come as the agency is being audited for the first time in many years.
"The hope is that during this audit process, we will find out what we are doing right and wrong, and what we are doing wrong, we will correct it," Burkeen said.
The party went off mostly without incident Saturday night. Police did receive two complaints for loud music that required only minimal response.

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Amazon drops MN affiliate websites over sales tax
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Amazon.com says it will drop its Minnesota-based affiliate websites before the state's online sales tax becomes law July 1.
The websites receive a fee for referring shoppers to Amazon's online store. The new law requires certain online businesses with a physical presence or affiliates in Minnesota to charge a sales tax on items it sells to state residents.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that in an email to affiliates, Amazon said it's not opposed to collecting an online sales tax, but not on a state-by-state basis. Amazon says federal legislation is the only way to create a simplified framework for an interstate sales tax.
About 5,200 affiliates in Minnesota make money from online advertising by working with Internet retailers.


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Political suicide...um..I mean correctness
I'll be under a big rock if anyone need me.
Given the direction that the world seems to be heading, you may very well find me under the neighbouring one...Thinkpad4by3 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 9:34 am
I'll be under a big rock if anyone need me.
It appears that many of the residents don't like being associated with lesbians, hence greater use of the "v". So yes, they are either contributing to the fall of Western civilization, or, you could argue, getting back to a more correct version of the name of the island. I read this on the internet, so I cannot vouch for its veracity.ajkula66 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 9:30 amAhem...that very island of Lesbos has its name in the root of the word "lesbian"...so I guess something has changed for reasons unknown.
Linguistics aside, the story just shows - once and again - that the Western civilization is hellbent on committing suicide....
Good to know, thanks. So it's then more about the islanders not wanting to be associated with lesBians, which is their right. As it is the right of lesbians to b ... lesbians. (No pun intended).dr_st wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:07 amAccording to this, the pronunciation of β was changed from sounding like an English 'B' in Ancient Greek to sounding like English 'V' in Modern Greek. Thus we established that there is at least one historical process which is unrelated to the Western civilization's gallop towards suicide.
ahhh, puppy.. i like puppy even though he's a (maybe fabian) socialist..coolcat37 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 24, 2018 3:06 ami must say we didn't let them in. this was fostered from way up. try noticing how hard you're being effed by the upper echelons/decision makers or organizing yourselves while working fulltime. it's impossible. and that's by design. you think people had a say in this?BillMorrow wrote: ↑Sat Sep 22, 2018 5:32 pmwell, you guys let "them" in..
btw puppy has been inactive the past few weeks, but for those who care: more deaths in germany and france in immigration related crimes. also, more r4pes but don't forget to go out and get that frappucino at starbucks and upload your newest selfie online
I've heard similar stories from people that I've known all of my life, and it doesn't seem that there's enough of political will anywhere to get these issues resolved. Depressing.GrifterGuru wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 6:41 am
Well, at least that is how it is on the streets in Greater London anyway. Most won't admit it is there, or otherwise they are blind to it.
Well, there's a reason why so-sorely-missed George Harrison wrote what he did back in 1966...GrifterGuru wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 6:43 pm
It's about to get far worse with Brexit looming!!
So true.GomJabbar wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:22 am(some) Muslims aren't the only extremists in the pot here. There are zealots of various stripes seeking to impose their will on the masses. It is always: "The end, justifies the means", and "power at all costs". It is unfortunate when people cannot tolerate one another, but really they are being stoked by authoritarian leaders, religious and political, all over the world.
Oftentimes, but not always, the religious authority is the political authority. Religion is often used to achieve political aims. If someone can be convinced that God is on their side and that their leader has God's backing, they can be led to perform any manner of atrocity. Of course this does not mean that God really is on their side, only that they believe so.
uhmm, ok grifter pray tell what "race" are muslims..?GrifterGuru wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 3:25 amFree speech is free speech, but lest not forget the many lives that were lost along the way to getting free speech eh?
And as for the Muslims, if they do not like "Free speech", then they should stay within the bounds of their own country where they do not have to "Worry" about such a thing.
Just sayin' is all. Not being a racist (I grew up in a multi-cultural area) and I intend no racist under/over tones here. Just pointing something out.
I am not sure. Can you tell me what race Jews are?BillMorrow wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 2:47 ampray tell what "race" are muslims..?
Of course, you can be a racist for disliking Muslims. Racism is motivated by the sense of belonging to a group, which then translates to hating people who are not part of this group.BillMorrow wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 2:47 amthus you can't be a racist for disliking muslims, IMO..
Well, you are, but freedom of speech also means that others are free to disagree with you and call you a racist if they want. Freedom of speech doesn't mean that others have to agree or accept your opinion, only that you are allowed to share it.BillMorrow wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 2:47 amin fact we are, or were, free to dislike anyone for any reason..
Yes, this is definitely true. The whole problem of political extremism from domestic and foreign terrorists is also connected. Islamism, an ideology created in response to the total domination of the Islamic world by the West, has managed to attack the foundation of Western society through terrorism. In response to Islamism, now there are Nazis and other domestic terrorists in the West, who are practically the other side of the same coin. Both are attacking the liberal democratic system. So in a way, Nazis/Fascists and Islamists are both worst enemies and best allies at the same time.
Well, that's not strictly true. The original definition of 'racism' was specifically tied to the "scientific" theory that the person's race determines their character and ability, that certain races are inherently inferior to others, and the political doctrine (used, e.g., in the Nazi Germany) which, based on that "scientific" theory determined that different races should have different position in society (or no position at all). That same doctrine, incidentally, considered Jews to be a "race", however true or untrue it may be biologically.
I think you are muddying the waters here a bit. While it is true that if "Muslim" is such a dog-whistle, then negative feelings towards Muslims would be based in racism, you have not established that it is, in fact, a dog-whistle. I think it may be true in some cases, but is not universally true.Ibthink wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 6:31 amIn this sense, Muslim is a dog-whistle for people from the Middle East or Africa who aren't White (or rather native European). Hating and generalizing Muslims absolutely stems from racism.
Not by any stretch of imagination.
Second Amendment is there to protect all the others...jcvjcvjcvjcv wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:15 am
And oh, in most (if not all..) European countries we have no such thing as what Americans get with their 1st amendment, let alone a 2nd...
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Individual letters can be at the business, or the receiving, end of an eggcorn transaction. Here are some hits I'm aware of from the forum (ok, some are only glancing blows):
There are surely others.
Q — gets into the origin of the Q-tip.
They give the etymology of Q-tip as "the initial letter of QUALITY n. + TIP n." and then add in small type: "The product was app. invented in 1923 by Leo Gerstenzang, a Polish-born American, who initially named them Baby Gays. In 1926 the name was changed to Q-tips Baby Gays, and later shortened to Q-tips." I'll bet they thank their lucky stars every day that Gerstenzang decided to change the name.
Thousands of hits see the Q-tip as a "cue-tip", as if you were rooting in the cranial side pocket with a pool cue.
U — now that youtube, you can also hang a youturn.
News comment
To do a youturn that costs a persons life is dangerous driving causing death and the officer should be prosecuted
A ... Back in my A Day ... instead of "heyday"
British schoolgirl, picture 4 of 366
It's great how u of t is accessible, but the first time there's a cni dog in one of my classes it was barking in its sleep
Tweet snippet
Bender says "They're my lucky shades. I stole them off some lucky guy while his lucky CNI dog was taking a wiz."
Quoting Futurama
I bought the regular Iphone thinking it would have some sort of braille feature for people such as myself. My CNI dog is typing this for me.
Yahoo questions
When asked what breed of dog she had written on an info sheet the clerk in question stated "When I axed him he said "I don't really knows, my dad be blind and we gots a CNI dog", so thats what I wrote down."......"CNI dog"
Job quote
I've heard people say 'CNI dog' instead of 'seeing-eye dog', 'hip displeasure' instead of 'hip dysplasia', and 'ortopsy' instead of 'autopsy'. Thankfully, I don't hear them often. How prevalent are these incorrect words where you are?
The Straight Dope
Don't let the blind, lead the blind! Get a C.N.I. dog or something!
Blog tag
Edit: Another eggcorn on the reinforced F-feminate sort is "C-change", from 2006.
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We've discussed individual letters in these two cases:
D – "adore" lost its interior "d" in the middle ages and got it back in the Renaissance; amir >> admiral by way of "ad" hypercorrection
N – nadder >> adder and all the other n-droppers and n-losers
But you are looking for cases in which the letter says its own name, yes?
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Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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It is, of course, pretty hard to be sure that people are not doing this kind of thing on purpose, as a shorthand / creative spelling technique. There is plenty of precedent for that.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
L presents an L of a lot of opportunities from words borrowed from the Moors.
Tristan smiled softly as they came around a bed, to a little l-cove on the lake edge. "This is where all the big fish are."
One day someone must needs return to this cove. Alcove and cove do not have the same root, apparently, the one Arabic, the other proto High German, though that really strains one's credulity.
Their love is unbreakable. That might sound some what romantic, but when you see the image of two young teens groping and "snogging"you begin to vomit. Let me just say no one knows this girl very well, but what we do know of her we do not like. Her X boyfriends call her a prude and a slut.
If I pray everyday will my x boyfriend come back?
http://www.ask.com/answers/16027501/ja- … =dir&jss=0
My boyfriend on whose forehead I have drawn a big X.
David Bird quoted:
Her X boyfriends call her a prude and a slut.
These "X" boyfriends sound very confused.
And speaking of "X" boyfriends, here's the example I stumbled upon yesterday:
My X boyfriend has finished school and left for Saudi Arabia.
an 'x'hibitionist's story
Origin of the term 'J-walking' in regards to crossing the street illegally.??? whether it is crossing against the light, in the middle of the block, or whatever. J-walking is against the law most places, but I am not interested in the legal definition. What does the 'J' mean??
In early XXc Kansas City, a jay was a rube, a hick, a bumpkin not wise to city ways, apt to wander out into traffic. The Word Stories blog provides a picture of the eggcornical J-walking version:
Some think that the origin of the word comes from the letter J which alludes to the shape of the route jaywalkers take when crossing the road.
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Poor Marc :(
When I was at school, a lot of people thought that an essay was an S.A., or else they used the abbreviation as a shorthand.
Midnight Summers Dream SA help
hi guys, i found this forum online and i need to write an sa for my gcse soon on a character in a midnight summers dream, i have chooses bottom, i was hoping someone could read over it for me and tell me their thoughts?
http://www.online-literature.com/forums … am-SA-help
I could write an S.A. on here about how great Lucy is but I'll just mention we do a lot of framing for her, amazingly talented local lass, up to all sorts of projects and exhibitions all over the world…
"The teacher told us to write an SA, but I don't know what SA stands for!" (joke)
shows that marijuana was first neck and neck with marihuana. Before that, there's a good chance it was Chinese (see the following source). There are other folk etymological possibilities too.
The Spanish words mejorana or mayorana bear a significant phonetic resemblance to marijuana, which is almost certainly a 'Hobson Jobson' loan word from another language based on similarity of the sound to maria-juana. The name may also have been influenced by folk etymology, where the powers of various herbs are associated in Spanish American culture with the Virgin Mary, among them the psychoactive plant Salvia divinorum, known as ska Maria Pastora, 'herb of Mary the Shepherdess'.
http://www.sino-platonic.org/complete/s … ijuana.pdf
"Ska" is herb? Makes sense. Here's the first point of this post – a hidden letterate eggcorn for J, which I'm pretty sure stands for joint.
I always thought it was spelled marijuana with a 'j' as in Mary-Jane…you know…pass the J…
http://www.sootoday.com/content/news/de … sp?c=37414
The second point is just to displace the spam from the head of the forum. That's just sad. Where is Godot?
David Bird wrote:
shows that marijuana was first neck and neck with marihuana. Before that, there's a good chance it was Chinese (see the following source). There are other folk etymological possibilities too.
fwiw in Spanish marihuana seems to have always been very much than marijuana , and mariguana a distant second but still far more common than marijuana . ( hu and gu are both very close to an English w sound; as far as I know they never clearly contrast, though they are slightly different in some people's speech. ju is like the pre-aspirated English wh of those of us who distinguish e.g. which witch .)
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*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
OP: So Oscar has UV Itis, poor man, he has had every illness possible… frown emoticon
Comments: UV Itis???
Reply: Allergic to the sun….he is going blind in one of his eyes…
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? … 7966441913
Hello, My horse was recently diagnosed with U. V. Itis and I would like to find a mask he can wear all day everyday with the MOST UV protection available…
http://www.equisearch.com/resources/com … /aft/18080
Or is that uveitis, an inflammation of the uvea. The uvea would be something like the inner skin of a grape, if a grape had two skins. The 'vascular tunic' of the eye, which includes the iris. Horses with uveitis must shield their eyes from too much light.
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UVitis. An almost perfect eggcorn. If only we were able to document its frequency. It seems likely that a number of those who write "uveitis" as "uvitis" (and there : a large number) while still pronouncing it "yo͞ovēˈīdəs" are actually seeing the anagram UV in the word.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Uvitis as a spelling for uveitis is a good call, I think, Kem.
Here's a complicated story.
Best moment on the morning flight from Seattle. Flight attendant is coming round offering drinks and taking breakfast orders. There's something involving oats as one of the options and I didn't catch what the other is. But first things first, it's too early for champagne so I'm thinking spicey tomato juice.
"Are aboard?" I ask.
She looks blank, scans her passenger manifest. "Do you mean Mr and Mrs Turner?"
"Um, no, the bloody mary mix."
"Right." She looks at me. "Will you be having AKCD ya?"
WTF? My turn to be blank. Usually my subconscious comes to the rescue with difficult words, but this time it's holding up a white flag.
"Ah, could you say that again, please?"
"Would you like A K C D yeah?" She spells it out slowly for the idiot forrener.
Nope. This must be some code. The universe is getting back at me for torturing my FB friends with AFF and FT jargon.
He finally spells it quesidilla.
"Until I was 32 I believed that a G spot was a 'gee spot,' that perfect rhetorical space where people say, 'Gee, that was great!'" admits Heinrichs, author of "Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion" (Three Rivers Press). "I finally looked up the real meaning after a disastrous presentation to administrators at an Ivy League university. 'Here's how to find the alumni gee spot,' I'd instructed the distinguished group. I think I'd also said something about 'stimulating' alumni engagement. Titters, red faces, awkward silence when I finished."
After three changes of ISP I seem to be able to access the forum again, so bunged this in what seemed the most appropriate thread. What gems there are in here – I've been back to look at those cakes a dozen times already. The G string, just out of interest, was originally "geestring" and may have made the change under the influence of the violin's thickest string. I like to know these things.
For those of you who liked the cake picture in comment #12 on this thread, here are two dozen similar cake decoration fails, including at least one eggcorn that has been discussed here ("valid Victorian" for "valedictorian").
Marc's friend Stephen.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .


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HP Strikes Deal to Buy EDS for $12.6 BlnBy Reuters - Print
Look out IBM, HP is gunning for you.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co has struck a deal to buy Electronic Data Systems Corp for $12.6 billion, seeking to boost its technology services business to better compete against market leader IBM.
Some Wall Street analysts were critical of the deal, which would be HP's biggest since its $19 billion purchase of Compaq in 2002. They said HP was paying a rich premium for a slow-growing business, even if EDS would vault it to second place behind International Business Machines Corp in services.
The deal values EDS at $25.00 per share, a 33 percent premium to its Friday closing price, before reports of talks sent the stock soaring on Monday. Including debt, the deal's enterprise value was $13.9 billion, the companies said.
"I would say the deal, in my view, is a little pricey but we'd have to look at the details," said Jeff Embersits, chief investment officer of Shareholder Value Management, which owns HP shares.
He said the key was how EDS would be integrated to make it a more profitable business.
"Mark's working with a five-year plan. So this will probably look a lot smarter in two or three years, but it could be a tough year," he said about HP Chief Executive Mark Hurd.
HP said it expects the deal to close in the second half of 2008, and boost its adjusted fiscal 2009 earnings and fiscal 2010 net earnings.
HP also reported better-than-expected preliminary quarterly results on Tuesday and raised its fiscal 2008 outlook, which it said did not include any potential impact from the EDS deal.
The acquisition will more than double HP's services revenue, which amounted to $16.6 billion in fiscal 2007. The combined services businesses will have annual revenue of more than $38 billion and 210,000 employees, the companies said.
That compared to IBM's $54.1 billion in services revenue last year.
HP shares fell more than 5 percent to $44.30 in early New York Stock Exchange trading after losing nearly 5 percent on Monday. EDS shares rose 1.5 percent to $24.45 after gaining nearly 28 percent on Monday.
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Annual Report of Deposits & Reservable Liabilities
The FR 2910a is an annual report generally filed by depository institutions that are exempt from reserve requirements under the Garn-St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982 and whose total deposits, measured from depository institutions' December quarterly condition reports, are greater than the exemption amount but less than the reduced reporting limit. The report contains three data items that are to be submitted for a single day, June 30: (1) total transaction accounts, savings deposits, and small time deposits; (2) reservable liabilities; and (3) net transaction accounts.
The data collected on this report serves two purposes. First, the data are used to determine which depository institutions will remain exempt from reserve requirements and consequently eligible for reduced reporting for another year. Second, the data are used in the annual indexation of the low reserve tranche, the exemption amount, the nonexempt deposit cutoff, and the reduced reporting limit.
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In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. if you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them. Maybe you can hire.... The A Team!
The way i finally got to my scan very much reminded me of the A Team!
So I am now 20 weeks pregnant and as you all know I didn't go for my 12 weeks scan. This has been causing me huge problems which include guilt and anxiety. As each day passed it got worse and worse. I just couldn't seem to visualise the drive to the hospital at all. In each scenario in my mind I was screaming and freaking out. I tried practice drives to the hospital but I was under so much pressure and so nervous that I only ever made it half way.
I tried talking about it, relaxation methods, deep breathing, positive thinking etc but nothing as working this time. I told myself to just go for it because the past had proved that DOING the thing was much less stressful than you ever imagined it would be. One of the top midwives at the hospital was in regular contact with me and was very concerned. She even offered to come and pick me up and drive me their herself but I explained that even that was unlikely to work.
Poor Gerry was tearing his hair out with me. He got to the stage he was losing sleep with worry about how the baby would be. I myself couldn't stop thinking about it. What if there was anything wrong with the baby? I would have no idea. What if it needs help and no one knows because I cant get there. On top of that I had people constantly asking after the wee one and asking if I had been for my scan yet. Totally embarrassed I would make up some stupid story as to why it hadn't happened.
The head midwife offered me the solution that instead of having to make an appointment, they could offer me an open door policy that meant I could go anytime at all, if i suddenly felt I could make it. But that didn't work either! Eventually she told me there was no point in going for my 12 week scan. I had totally missed it anyway and there was no point going for a scan at 14 weeks only to return again at 20. And so she told me we would aim for the 20 weeks but it was important that I made it.
In my head I knew this wasn't going to happen. I was starting to dread even seeing the midwives at my local surgery because at my last appointment it was really obvious the midwife did not approve of me at all. In the end the pressure, guilt and anxiety was all so great that it just seemed utterly impossible.
Throughout the whole time I kept moaning saying 'I wish i could just go in an ambulance'. This was because of last year. Remember when I was taken to hospital in the middle of the night via ambulance. It was something that as an agoraphobic, I always worried about happening. But when it DID happen I coped really well. In the back of an ambulance with a fantastic paramedic, I was completely calm. I figured this was down to the fact I couldn't see where I was. Bizarre though because I know the roads so well I KNEW exactly where I was, but not being able to see everything whizzing past made it easier. I find that when I am anxious and hypersensitive, your surroundings can seem to overwhelming. There is too much going on around you and its harder to gather your thoughts and get yourself calm. And so knowing that I couldn't just ring an ambulance since i wasn't in any pain, i worked out another solution.
How about I go in the back of a van!
Gerry who was desperate to get me there, thought this a tad extreme but agreed that if it got me there, he would get us a van. It was planned that he would borrow his dads work van on Thursday and we would attempt the journey. I have to admit but even then I didn't think it would work. But Thursday was a week away so i had bought myself some time.
On Wednesday night Gerry was texting saying he was really excited about the next day and how we would finally see the little one. I told him not to get his hopes up because deep down I didn't believe I would get there, however, i did tell myself I would at least have to TRY it.
Thursday morning came far to quickly and I woke up to find Gerry in my bedroom. He didn't look too pleased at all! Bad News. He explained he had been to collect the van but when he was trying to get in the back to unload some stuff, he had snapped the key in the door! 'Yes'!!! I thought. I don't need to try this now. Gerry on the other hand had had enough. Seriously annoyed about the van car he told me enough was enough. I had to get in the car and just do it. It was far too important to miss. 'Get in the back seat and put a cover over your head', 'If i need to drag you I will'. Well if there is one thing you shouldn't say to an agoraphobic its that! Maybe just maybe, if Gerry had been calm and soothing, he might have talked me round. But standing there shouting and losing his cool he had blown it completely. Absolutely NO WAY was I going near his car. He stormed out of my house screaming all sorts of abuse but I just sat there because at the end of the day, I knew he was right and I was the one in the wrong here. Poor guy just couldn't handle it anymore. I did feel awful, this was all my own doing. My phobia, my issues. But i tried to explain that it was hardly ideal for me too. I never feel sorry for myself and the life agoraphobia has caused me to lead. But for once I did. Do you think i wanted this? Do you think I don't want this scan. Why cant I be normal and enjoy my pregnancy and get excited about these appointments. Its not fair!!
Friday was Gerry's last free day before he started working constant 12 hour shifts. He was gutted that he was going to miss the scan, and although i told him that wouldn't happen, it was looking pretty likely. I woke up on Friday morning with Gerry standing beside my bed again, this time with a big smile on his face 'I got a new Van key, the vans outside'
'Oh s**t' I thought. Ok so he has the van, randomly after weeks of rain the sun was shining and this is his last day off... I need to try this!
He took me out to show me the van and where I would be sitting. Oh my i should have taken a picture. I would be huddled into this van sitting on top of piles of metal pipes. DIRTY metal pipes. Well beggars cant be choosers so I went back indoors and got myself ready. How can you prepare for a journey like this? I decided to take magazines (for distraction), My ipod for music to distract me and also the panic application that helps you control your breathing. Baby wipes for when I get hot and start sweating. A bottle of water for when I need a cool drink. And finally my notebook which has all the helpful phrases I need during panic, for example, 'this will pass', 'breathe', 'Don't let the panic win'. And before leaving the house Gerry was given strict instructions.
- Should i want to stop the drive and turn around you MUST do it.
- If you continue to drive with me after I have asked you to stop I will freak out and who knows what that will do to me and the baby.
- If you ignore me I will call the police and tell them I have been kidnapped and I'm in the back of a transit van (this was all said in jest but i think i would have done it had i felt the need)
- Do not shout at me or lose your cool as it WILL NOT HELP
- If you don't do what i need you to do you will be blowing it completely and the chances are I will never get in a car with you again.
Got myself seated in the van and immediately phoned a friend as Gerry began to drive. It was another distraction method, which usually works for me, but this time it meant I wasn't able to compose my thoughts and it actually just made me more nervous. Oh no I wasn't enjoying this at all! The panic came which was inevitable really after all my over thinking. Grabbed my ipod, with shaking hands I stuck some music on and turned it up LOUD! I realised pretty quickly this wasn't a great idea. Ok i couldn't see round about me, but i didn't like it either. I felt like mentally I needed to know exactly where I was and to deal with each step of the journey. I cant really explain it to be honest. Thankfully I could see into the front of the van and out of the window a little so I kept having a little check now and then. Much to my disappointment, every time I looked out I wasn't as close to the hospital as I had hoped. In my whole experience with panic attacks I have never felt so exposed, so vulnerable and so unsafe. I was aware that I was out of my safety zone, that the journey BACK to my safety zone was going to take a while and every time i thought of this I felt the panic rise. Looking back on it now I realise that even though I was extremely uncomfortable, turning back never entered my head. I knew i was getting that scan done and it was as simple as that. I will say though that the panic never got to that unbearable stage where you just lose it, so maybe had it got that bad, i would have told him to stop but thankfully that never happened.
We made it, we were at the hospital. And what happened then? Same thing that always happens, I went completely calm!
The scan department was on the 3rd floor of the hospital and since I don't do lifts I headed for the stairs. I introduced myself at the desk to some praise for finally making it. Someone was in being scanned before me so i was going to have to wait. But even then I was calm and we all know how much I hate waiting. I walked around alone looking where everything was, the anti natal classes, the birthing suite etc and finally they were ready for me.
Then the maternal nerves took over. As i lay on the bed I couldn't look at the scan monitor. I guess due to my miscarriage last year I as too frightened in case i seen something was wrong. The doctor told me to look at the screen to see my baby but i couldn't look until I knew there was a heartbeat. Within minutes I was told I could look and there it was. My little baby kicking and wriggling inside of me. The images were so clear I couldn't believe it. The little face looked perfect. I just lay there smiling from ear to ear and enjoying every second. The doctor took measurements and I began to worry thinking that something was wrong. But he explained he was checking the baby and this is what they do with everyone. He was so thorough and the whole thing lasted over half an hour. Being as impatient as I am, I asked the babies sex. I am totally delighted with the outcome but I am keeping that a secret until the wee one arrives. To be told that everything was ok was just the most wonderful news ever. In a way I felt so lucky but also that I didn't deserve it! I had been so useless and yet I was totally blessed. I got the scan pictures printed out and was free to go but i ended up chatting and getting bloods taken and weighed etc as for some reason the midwives had never weighed me. (The bloods are to test for down syndrome)
I left the hospital clinging to the scan pictures and headed for the van. I was fine now. I had done it. And I didn't feel like travelling in the back of the van A Team style. I joined Gerry up the front. I chatted to him and wasn't even bothered about where we were and how far from home I was. I realised it was lunchtime and suggested we go have something to eat together, which we did. It was so normal and so good! While at lunch I suggested we go have a look in some shops but Gerry had to be somewhere.
I got home and my mother was white as a sheet, she had obviously been worried sick as we were gone much longer than she thought we would be. I handed her the pictures and her eyes filled with tears. Weeks of worrying about getting me to that scan were gone. The relief on her face was completely obvious and I let her enjoy her moment.
It is horrible to be the cause of so much worry in other people. My agoraphobia had pretty much disappeared for so long, but my constant over thinking and stressing caused it to return when it was most important. I have over come a lot of the problems that agoraphobia caused in my lofe, but this is by far the proudest I have ever been of myself. I am gutted I took so long, and disappointed for allowing myself to believe the bad things my head tells me when I know better. But in one day I killed some demons for sure. I got my buzz back and I want to get out there and do so much more. And now I can enjoy the rest of my pregnancy with no pressure, and when people ask if i have been for my scan I can stop lying and say Yes!!!


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Helsinki, Finland Hogrefe Psykologien Kustannus Oy
Founded in 1965 as Psykologien Kustannus Oy
Part of the Hogrefe Publishing Group since 2013
General Manager Jarkko Ylikoski
About us
Hogrefe Psykologien Kustannus was founded in 1965. Throughout the years we earned a reputation among Finnish psychologists as a trusted provider of high-quality psychological tests, books and training. We work together with the best experts to create tests in printed and digital format, whichever is most suited for the purpose. Our office is located in downtown Helsinki, very close to the railway station.
Core Products and Activities
Hogrefe Psykologien Kustannus has a very strong heritage in clinical psychology. The core products include Finnish adaptations of cognitive ability tests batteries by David Wechsler, Nancy Bayley and such, and original school tests, like Lukilasse and Kesky. We also run various training programs for psychologists and health care professionals, 80-90 training days every year, and publish books covering various areas of psychological expertise.
The Finnish Psychological Association founded Hogrefe Psykologien Kustannus in 1965. Finnish Psychological Association. Over the years, it has built a solid portfolio of original publications and adaptations of international tests in close cooperation with universities and the best experts from each area of psychology. The most remarkable achievement is the neuro-psychological test NEPSY, an original publication that is widely used in several countries.
After joining the Hogrefe Publishing Group, the test offering has expanded to include a broader selection of international tests, like NEO PI-3 personality inventory, and the ADOS-2 for assessing the autism spectrum disorders. In addition, we have started to publish various HR methods, e.g. the Leadership Judgement Indicator.
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Alumna presents keynote at SXSW Interactive
March 06, 2012
Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas
Amber Case '08 will present the keynote speech "Ambient Location and the Future of the Interface" on Sunday, March 11, at the 2012 South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive conference. To follow the conversation about Case's keynote, search Twitter hashtags #sxsw or #AmberCase.
Case founded CyborgCamp and Geoloqi.com. She focuses her work on mobile software, augmented reality, and data visualization. She was named by Fast Company magazine as one of the most influential women in tech in 2010.
Learn more about Case—who credits Deborah Heath, associate professor of anthropology, for introducing her to the concept of cyborg anthropology—in this feature from Lewis & Clark's Chronicle magazine.


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Makes 8 doughnuts
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
2 tablespoons roasted and crushed sesame seeds
1 tube Pillsbury original biscuit dough
4 cups Crisco shortening
Mix the sugar, cinnamon, and sesame seeds in a medium-size bowl. Pop open the tube of dough and pull apart the biscuits—they come preportioned, so this will be easy. In a big, heavy pot, heat the shortening over high heat; you'll know it's ready when a tiny piece of biscuit dough sizzles when added to the oil. Fry the biscuit dough until each piece becomes puffy and brown on all sides, about 2 minutes. Flip the pieces over and fry them for 2 minutes more. Pull out the doughnuts and rest them on paper towels for a minute or two, then toss them immediately in the sugar mixture.
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Reprinted with permission from L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food by Roy Choi. Copyright © 2013 by Roy Choi, Tien Nguyen, and Natasha Phan; photographs © 2013 by Bobby Fisher. Published by Anthony Bourdain Book/Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.
Recipe: Roy Choi's Ghetto Pillsbury Fried Doughnuts
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Miley Cyrus is considering multiple wardrobe changes when she marries fiance Liam Hemsworth because she has been inundated with wedding dress ideas from designers all over the world.
The 19 year old became engaged to The Hunger Games hunk last year and the singeractress has been checking out various collections during New York Fashion Week to help her narrow down her choices.
Cyrus and her mum Tish were front row for the Marchesa presentation on Monday, and the engaged star admits the celebrity favourite is high on her list of wedding dress designers.
She tells People.com, "(Marchesa) is definitely one of our options. (They're) amazing".
However, it seems Cyrus is keen to have several looks for her special day after a slew of top names offered their services to the lucky bride-to-be "I have so many options of different people who want to be involved in it. I'll probably have 30 (dresses)!"
If the young star does settle on a design by Marchesa, she won't be the only bride to wear their fashions - Blake Lively and Nicole Richie also chose the label created by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's wife Georgina Chapman and her pal Keren Craig.
Cyrus may also be interested to learn that designer Marina Toybina, who created looks for the singer to wear on her last tour, is also interested in coming up with something for the big day.
She tells WENN, "I'd love the opportunity. I have created wedding outfits for friends. It's such a privilege and honour to design something for such a special day".


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September 27, 2010
The Honorable John Kerry
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
The Honorable Richard Lugar
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Chairman Kerry and Ranking Member Lugar,
On behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) and the Ecological Society of America (ESA), we encourage you to take action on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, which is currently pending before the committee.
Preservation of genetic and biological diversity is essential, especially in a changing climate. Natural science collections play a key role in this task, acting as a type of insurance against future plant diseases or catastrophic events through the preservation of biological specimens, tissue and cell samples, and genetic information. Collections also underpin global research that is essential for efforts to combat hunger and the impacts of climate change on food supplies.
Unfortunately, many natural science collections are at risk. Lack of funds, loss of technically trained staff, and inadequate protection against natural disasters are jeopardizing these irreplaceable resources worldwide. In a recently issued joint letter (attached), our societies emphasized the importance of preserving these resources around the world:
"Natural science collections are essential infrastructure supporting the global research, development and educational enterprises. The collections gathered and held by many institutions over the past half millennium are fundamental reference points for measuring and monitoring human health, safety, and the state of our planet. Many living collections, for example at agricultural research and experiment stations, are essential to our collective efforts to develop, conserve and cultivate sustainable and nutritious food crops. Unfortunately, too many natural science collections around the world are in danger of being closed or losing the biological resources and data they contain - the knowledge that explains the history of life on earth and will help society advance into the future."
The ratification of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture by the United States is an important step toward the preservation of plant genetic diversity. We welcome your efforts on this important matter and would be happy to work with you on this and other efforts to preserve global genetic and biological diversity.
If our organizations may be of further assistance on this or any other matter, please contact Robert Gropp, AIBS Director of Public Policy at 202-628-1500, or Nadine Lymn, ESA Director of Public Affairs at 202-833-8773.
Richard T. O'Grady, Ph.D.
Executive Director, AIBS
Katherine S. McCarter
Executive Director, ESA
Attachment 1: Joint Statement on Living and Non-living Natural Science Collections
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Readers will be aware that a draconian set of gun control measures has just become law in New York State, after being rammed through the legislature at breakneck speed. (Senators had only a few minutes to read the legislation before being made to vote on it - making it impossible to know what they were voting for!)
Fellow blogger Chris, writing at Arma Borealis, has a suggestion.
I am done supporting companies based on New York.
If the bullshit "SAFE 2013" act stands in the courts then I am closing my financial services accounts with New York businesses, changing my telecommunications (internet/cable) company, and refusing to buy any more Remington products that are made at their Ilion, New York factory. I've shot Core-Lokt for years in my bolt guns, and the Remington 700 is a fine rifle, but there are other brands out there which are manufactured in free states. Likewise, I put a ton of money through New York-based financial institutions but there are other providers.
I wrote key New York state legislators and warned them that I would not spend a penny more in their state if the voted for this crap, so now time to execute that plan.
I will be contacting all of these companies and informing them of the exact reason why I am cutting off my money: I refuse to support the governments of totalitarian shitholes with my dollars. I'm not giving a penny to Remington or a bank or a telecommunications company that will then provide jobs and taxes to New York State. Screw 'em.
There's more at the link.
You know, for the life of me I can't see anything wrong with his suggestion. Certainly, I don't want a single one of my hard-earned dollars going, directly or indirectly, to a state that treats my constitutional rights with such contemptuous disdain. What say you, readers?


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They wanted to suspend him.
A first-time positive test for performance enhancing drugs carries a 50-game suspension, which may be appealed. Baseball knew the appeal process would run through the postseason, so they offered Romero a deal: take a 25-game suspension immediately, which would force him to miss the playoffs, or risk a 50-game suspension in the appeal process.
Romero wasn't about to miss the postseason. He appealed.
"We generally do not negotiate discipline in the drug area," MLB's executive vice president for labor and human resources Rob Manfred said. "If he appealed it would go beyond the World Series. We offered to reduce the suspension to avoid him being in the World Series. ... I think a scientist will tell you that the [banned] substance was no longer in [Romero's] system, but the appearance of it - you prefer to avoid. With any drug program, the goal is to remove the athlete as quickly as possible."
Asked if he believed the Phils' World Series title was tainted, Manfred said, "No."
Romero lost his appeal, which was heard by independent arbitrator Stephen Goldberg before Games 1 and 2 of the World Series. Romero earned the wins in Games 3 and 5 of the World Series. In the entire 2008 postseason, Romero went 2-0 with a 0.00 ERA (no earned runs in 7 1/3 innings) in eight appearances.
But what about that 50-game suspension?
Clearly, Romero wasn't ordering HGH from some quack doctor running an illegal pharmacy. He wasn't injecting anything into his butt. He bought a legal supplement at a retail store in Cherry Hill. I had a conversation a couple years ago with Ryan Madson about what players can and can't take. He said they were told if you buy something at GNC (or a similar store) you should be fine. I'm sure the words "GNC" and "fine" resonated with most players. In fact, I think most people walk into GNC or Vitamin Shoppe not expecting a product they buy could produce a positive drug test. In the same store Romero bought his supplement you can also buy the Myoplex shakes that several Phillies players take every day (Chase Utley is a Myoplex spokesman). Of course, players ultimately are responsible for what goes into their body. And unfortunately for Romero, that was all that mattered.
Jim Salisbury's story about Chan Ho Park and Marcus Giles joining the Phillies.
John Gonzalez, Phil Sheridan and Bob Ford chat about baseball's drug policy.


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Teen's BAC three times legal limit night of crash
Senator, commission want stricter laws on alcohol sales
KETV NewsWatch 7 learned more details on Wednesday about the single-vehicle crash that killed 18-year-old Jacob Dickmeyer and injured 19-year-old Colby Burke.
Prosecutors said Dickmeyer's blood alcohol content was .24 percent, three times the legal limit, when he crashed his friend's car on West Dodge Road on Dec. 3.
Court papers indicate that Dickmeyer and Burke had been drinking at the Fire Barn Bar and Grill in Waterloo hours before the crash, and their friend, Amanda Heiman, 20, was the one who served them.
According to officials, off-duty Fremont police officers were at the Fire Barn that night. Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said they were at their own function and did not do anything criminally wrong.
Surveillance video from the bar is a huge part in the ongoing investigation.
Kleine said the video shows Dickmeyer was first in the passenger seat of the car before he and Burke left the bar.
Fremont's police said the department is reviewing the matter and dealing with it internally.
Heiman will be in court Thursday to face a felony charge of providing alcohol to a minor.
Sen. Bob Krist said he questions why bartenders and servers in Nebraska only have to be 19 years old to sell alcohol.
"So close to high school, it puts them in a situation where peer pressure is going to be there," Krist said.
Krist said he wants to raise the selling of alcohol to age 21.
The Nebraska Liquor Control Commission said there is no law in Nebraska requiring bartenders to be certified, but the commission wants to change that.
"You can serve alcohol at 19 with no supervision. There's something wrong with that," Krist said.
The Fire Barn said their employees are required to go through a safety training course.


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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A 68-year-old man whose son was engaged in a bitter custody battle was identified Tuesday as the gunman who opened fire in a Delaware courthouse lobby, killing his former daughter-in-law and another woman. The gunman also died after exchanging fire with officers.
Delaware State Police said Thomas Matusiewicz (muh-TOO'-suh-wits) of Edcouch, Texas, shot 39-year-old Christine Belford and her 47-year-old friend Laura Mulford on Monday. Two police hit by gunfire were protected by their armored vests.
Investigators were awaiting autopsy results Tuesday to determine whether Matusiewicz was killed by police or shot himself with his .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun.
State police homicide detectives continued interviewing witnesses, viewing surveillance videos and collecting evidence at the New Castle County Courthouse, which remained closed.
Authorities said Belford and Mulford, both from Newark, were at the courthouse to attend a child support arrears hearing for Belford's ex-husband, David Matusiewicz.
State police spokesman Sgt. Paul Shavack said David Matusiewicz, 45, was being questioned and was in custody on a federal probation issue.
David Matusiewicz appeared in court Tuesday afternoon for an initial appearance on the government's request to revoke his probation following his 2009 guilty plea to federal fraud and kidnapping charges. Matusiewicz was led into court wearing an orange prison jumpsuit with his hands cuffed behind his back.
Federal prosecutors say Matusiewicz sought permission on Jan. 8 to travel from Texas to Delaware and told officials he would be staying with an uncle in Bayville, N.J., but that he spent Sunday night, the night before the shooting, at a home in Elkton, Md.,
Prosecutors also say Matusiewicz is behind on child support payments of $2,200 a month and that he has yet to pay $9,674 in restitution and a $200 court assessment from his 2009 criminal case. Another hearing on the probation matter is scheduled for Friday.
Matusiewicz's mother, Lenore, was in the courtroom with another family member for her son's hearing, but they declined to comment after the hearing.
David Matusiewicz, a former optometrist, pleaded guilty to federal fraud and kidnapping charges after fleeing to Nicaragua in a motor home with his mother and three young daughters. Investigators said Matusiewicz, who was released from prison last year, kidnapped the girls after forging his ex-wife's name on a loan document.
According to court records, Matusiewicz took the girls to Central America in 2007 after telling Belford they were going to Disney World for two weeks. The couple was sharing custody at the time. Before their divorce, they'd lived in Middletown together.
Lenore Matusiewicz pleaded guilty to endangering the girls' welfare and was sentenced to 18 months in prison in the kidnapping plot.
Barbara Dixon, who lived next to David Matusiewicz and Belford in Middletown before their divorce, recalled both the parents and grandparents as good neighbors.
"They might have been a little strange," she said. But the parents and grandparents doted on the children and invited her to bring her grandchildren over to use their pool.
Dixon said Thomas Matusiewicz was outgoing and "very nice" and that she often saw him working on the house or yard.
Dixon said she last spoke with Belford about a month ago. She said Belford was not worried about her safety despite her husband's release from prison last fall, perhaps because she had stayed in touch with detectives.
"She said, 'Oh, I think everything will be all right,'" Dixon recalled.
In a Chapter 13 bankruptcy filing in Texas last year, Thomas Matusiewicz noted that he, his wife, son and daughter, Amy Gonzalez, were named as defendants in Delaware Superior Court lawsuit filed by Belford. Matusiewicz also noted in a list of property transfers that he had sold several guns at yard sales in 2010. He listed a single-shot rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun, a Glock 9mm pistol and Glock .45-caliber pistol, with a total value received of $650.
Shavack, the police spokesman, said Matusiewicz used a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol in Monday's shooting, but that he did not know the make and model or whether it could have been the same gun listed in Matusiewicz's bankruptcy filing.
Bill Heriot, a plaintiff in a business dispute that was scheduled for trial Monday, said he was waiting to enter the courthouse when he saw the gunman pull out a pistol and fire a single shot at each of the two women. After the shooting stopped, Heriot said he knelt down beside the first woman who was shot.
"I turned her over and unbuttoned her coat. I saw a single bullet hole in the center of her chest," Heriot said. "I held her hand, told her it was going to be all right. Her pupils dilated. She turned pale and passed away."
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Poll on NHS Reforms
Dr Grumble is not clever enough to do a poll but a colleague has emailed this.
Dr Grumble is not clever enough to do a poll but a colleague has emailed this.
Russell Lutchman was the author of the poll so thanks goes to him.
The QR code is a cunning device of his to enable you to pick up the code on a mobile phone. This is supposed to help those of you who have to contend with hospital IT systems that do not allow you to view such things. Unfortunately you are also unlikely to be able to view Dr Grumble either so in this context it probably doesn't help.
Some criticism from the Guardian:
While Dr Grumble offers a highly unscientific poll on the NHS (sample question: The Coalition is ignoring its own best evidence and expert opinion in order to railroad the changes. Do you agree?)
It's a fair comment but all is fair in love and war. We are not trying to be scientific. Certainly the NHS reforms have no scientific basis.


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"Creating gigapanoramas, a picture made up of billions of pixels, is only possible on powerful hardware with the right amount of RAM as well as fast processors and disks. The FUJITSU CELSIUS R930 Workstations with an NVIDIA K2000 graphics card, which we have been using for the last year, meets the highest requirements of computing power and reliability."
Radosław Piotrowski, Owner, ELBIT
ELBIT R. i M. Piotrowski was set up in 1996 and is involved in advanced photography projects such as FanTag and Pano360. FanTag is a project that creates a marketing solution which allows the organizers and sponsors of events, at both mass events as well as smaller ones, to display very high-resolution images online.
Pano360 is a project that uses VR photography (spherical, cylindrical panoramas, flat gigapanoramas, panoramic coverage, panoramic aerial photography, stereographic photography, 360×180 spherical video). The use of the latest imaging technology enables high-resolution spherical panoramas to be created.
ELBIT specializes in the creation of gigapanoramas – images consisting of billions of pixels, which, thanks to being able to zoom in very close, are ideal for presenting vast scenic panoramas of cities and landscapes. The creation of these images requires the powerful computing power of computers equipped with the most powerful processors, lots of RAM and with huge disk spaces for data storage.
ELBIT uses FUJITSU CELSIUS R930 Workstations – an efficient, dual processor computer with an Nvidia K2000 graphics card, four RAID 1TB drives and 128GB of RAM. The latest technology and the best components make this model ideal for particularly demanding applications such as Autopano Giga that is used in ELBIT.
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Parkdale Street Writers are back!
We here at Shameless are big fans of the Parkdale Street Writers, a fantastic forum for youth writers (some of which we've been very lucky to reprint in the magazine). And a new set of workshops are about to begin. In addition to workshops with some amazing Toronto artists, participants get to try their hand at a wide range of creative writing, including comics, lyrics, poetry, video narratives and storytelling.
Full deets from PSW co-ordinator Emily Pohl-Weary:
Are you 16-25 years old? Do you keep a blog or journal? Constantly update your Facebook page? Write super-long e-mails? Make up stories, films, rants, video game ideas, lyrics and/or poems in your head? Love to read and talk about books? Why not join the… Parkdale Street Writers Free writing workshops led by kick-ass local authors, comics creators, hip hop poets and street artists in Toronto's west-end. www.parkdalewriters.ca Work directly with: Clifton Joseph (dub poet and CBC personality), Mariko Tamaki (graphic novelist, Skim and Emiko Superstar), Mindbender (hip hop M.C. and journalist), Dale Jarvis (storyteller and ghost story writer), Kristyn Dunnion, (author of Moshpit and Big Big Sky), Stro1 (street artist and videographer), Willow Dawson (graphic novelist, 100 Mile House and No Girls Allowed), Jean Yoon (actor, poet and playwright), Emily Pohl-Weary (author of A Girl Like Sugar and Strange Times at Western High) What will we do? * Write about real life * Produce song lyrics and poems * Create your own comics * Interview people * Read/write film scripts * Find and make art * Publish your work * Get advice from professionals * Choose other kinds of writing DATES/TIMES Parkdale Library (basement auditorium) 1303 Queen Street West, Toronto Tuesdays from 5 to 7 p.m. Starts November 3rd, 2009 - but join anytime! FINE PRINT Participants must be 16-25 years old. Workshops are free, but please register! All supplies and snacks are provided for participants. TTC tickets available for people coming from outside the neighborhood. Contact Emily Pohl-Weary (coordinator) to register and get more information: firstname.lastname@example.com or 416-779-1448. (Generously sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Diaspora Dialogues and the Toronto Public Library.) www.parkdalewriters.ca


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From university spin-off to global leader in three decades
QIAGEN was founded by a team of scientists from Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 1984. Within two years they launched a new method of obtaining genetic material from cells for further analysis that was much easier to use, faster and more reliable than previous methods. This ready-to-use kit reduced processing time from several days to a few hours. This enabled molecular biology processes to be conducted in laboratories all over the world, and not just in universities. Since then, QIAGEN has never stopped growing through the development of new sample and assay technologies.
That small team of university scientists has now grown into a global workforce of more than 4,700. Our global headquarters is in Venlo, The Netherlands, and we have over 35 subsidiaries in more than 20 countries and sales offices in 70 countries. With more than 500 products in our portfolio, we market a broad range of consumables and instruments to meet the varied needs of over 500,000 customers across a variety of markets in healthcare and the life sciences. Our success is based, not least, on the fact that we invest around 10% of our sales in R&D to continuously drive innovation and growth.
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Jacobsen Library has built a collection of over 6500 natural history images depicting hundreds of nonhuman primate species. A selection of the "better" images is available here.
We're always interested in donations of high quality images of nonhuman primates, especially for species that are under-represented in our collection. Please contact Joseph Kemnitz at email@example.com for more information.
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- Gorilla (gorilla)
- Hoolock (hoolock gibbon)
- Hylobates (gibbon)
- Nomascus (crested gibbon)
- Pan (chimpanzee)
- Pongo (orangutan)
- Symphalangus (siamang)
All images in the Audiovisual Collection of the Wisconsin Primate Research Center (WPRC) are copyrighted under the copyright laws of U.S. Code Title 17. These images may not be duplicated, reproduced, televised or stored for later retrieval in print or electronic format, in whole or in part, without the written permission of the copyright holder.
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According to the Times, Generation Y nostalgia is currently having a moment. It might seem a little early, but since Gen-Yers are also supposed to be self-centered, I've put together a slideshow of things I'm nostalgic for.
The Times says Gen-Yers, born between the years 1980 and 2003, are looking back longingly at Britney and Eminem (hence their respective comebacks, except they really haven't been away that long). Also ripe for nostalgia: Harry Potter, despite the fact that the final movies haven't even come out yet. And a marketer for Live Nation refers to Blink-182, Limp Bizkit and Creed as "classic rock for the next generation," which make me pretty depressed about the future of oldies stations. Allow me to take you on a tour of the things I actually miss, starting with the oldest and ending with the newest.
Bike Shorts Under A Skirt
Yeah, I know 80s nostalgia has been pretty exhaustively catalogued already. But that doesn't stop me hankering for this combo from time to time. When my mom finally bought me a connected bike-short-and-skirt outfit, my two crushes told me they were going to fight "for the friendship of you." I don't think they ever did it, but it remains the high point of my romantic life to date.
Image via Chictopia.
Alvin and the Chipmunks
As the oldest child, I had pretty strict TV rules (my younger brother was totally watching When Wild Animals Shred Your Face as an infant). So I missed out on Fraggle Rock, Small Wonder, Saved by the Bell, Clarissa Explains It All, and the Nickelodeon universe in general. But I did get to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks, and I ate that shit up. Who can forget the episode wherein Chipette Britney tries on various outfits to the tune of "Material Girl"? Not me.
Creepy Crawlers
Somebody recently told me that these devices, in which you could transform colored goo into small, slightly squishy insects, were supposed to be a boy's version of the Easy Bake Oven. Whatever. They were my version of awesome. I'm pretty sure they had to put warnings all over the box that you couldn't eat the bugs, because, with their candy hues, you wanted to so bad. There was also an accompanying Creepy Crawlers show, featuring animated versions of the bugs and presaging later disturbing toy-media crossovers like Transformers.
The Butthole Surfers
Screw Eminem, I miss the Butthole Surfers. I bought their wittily titled Electiclarryland for the song "Pepper," and quickly learned that when you buy an album because you like one song, you have to listen to a bunch of songs like "My Brother's Wife" (lyrics, if I remember: "I fucked, I fucked, I fucked my brother's wife!"). I don't so much miss their music (which is apparently still on offer) as much as I miss the thrill of buying an album with the word "butthole" on the cover and a picture of a horrifically injured ass-cheek on the inside. Ah, youth.
The Times uses Y2K as an example of the quaint fears of a pre-9/11 world, a world Gen-Yers wish they could return to. But at the time, it was really scary! Maybe because my high school history teacher told us that the Soviet Union had nuclear missiles aimed at the 500 biggest American cities, which would go off in the event of even the smallest computer glitch. Thinking about December of 1999 makes me nostalgic for a time when ill-informed grownups could still strike fear into my heart. Now I have to do it myself.
This Really Great Sandwich I Ate In 2004
It looked kind of like this, except with Havarti cheese and olive tapenade and avocado. I had just come back from a summer in Boston, where I was trying to save money by stretching a can of beans over an entire week, and I was kind of depressed and anxious and hungry, and my friend Max and I bought these huge sandwiches and ate them on the beach in Santa Cruz. A little actual sand got in them. Yeah, you kind of had to be there, but this slideshow isn't about you, it's about me.
Ah, Wednesday. Such an innocent time. I woke up, I wrote about the male brain, I ate some pizza. If only I had taken the time to savor Wednesday, to really revel in a day whose beauty will never come again! Until next week.


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Motorola has just announced a new variant of the world's first-ever Honeycomb tablet XOOM the XOOM family edition.
Hardware wise, there is no difference between the XOOM and the XOOM family edition. The tablet is powered by the same NVidia Tegra 2 processor, packs 1GB of RAM along with 16GB of on-board storage. The 10.1-inch display also has the same quality and resolution as its older sibling.
At the back of the tablet is a 5MP camera, capable of recording videos in 720p HD resolution. There is also a front-facing camera, and Moto promises up to 10 hours of battery life. The usual bunch of sensors and connectivity options including an HDMI port are also present. The tablet runs on Android 3.1 Honeycomb.
The main difference between the XOOM and the XOOM family edition is that the latter comes pre-loaded with some quality apps. Motorola has pre-loaded almost $40 worth of applications along with Zoodles, QuickOffice HD, MotoPrint and Asphalt 6. The Zoodles application will make sure that kids are not displayed any inappropriate content.
The XOOM Family edition will be available exclusively on Best Buy starting from October 16, for a limited time price of $379. Thankfully, unlike the original XOOM, Motorola has managed to get the pricing of the XOOM family edition right on target.


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NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Anthony Davis supplied a double-double of 21 points with 11 rebounds Wednesday and New Orleans stayed hot with a 99-63 pounding of Portland.
Ryan Anderson notched 14 points and seven rebounds for the Hornets, who took their fourth win in five outings.
Jason Smith (13 points) and Greivis Vasquez (10 points, eight assists, five rebounds) also turned in good performances for improving New Orleans.
The Trail Blazers, however, continued in the opposite direction with their fifth straight setback as Damian Lillard was held to 12 points.
Portland also got bad news on the injury front when Wesley Matthews hurt his ankle in the first quarter after running into the Hornets' Austin Rivers.


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Magazine style blog themes seem to be all the rage right now – with sites like TechCrunch moving to more of a magazine/newspaper style approach for their main blog pages.
Even Chris Pearson has a new magazine style theme coming out soon to complement his successful Thesis Theme.
So when is the right time to use a Magazine style blog theme?
Smashing Magazine took a look earlier this week and offered some advice along with some key descriptors of what makes up a Magazine-style theme: [Read more…]


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As Colorado lawmakers debate, once again, the states part in the war on drugs, one of the most ubiquitous claims is that adult recreational drug use (as opposed to sales and trafficking) is a crime without victims.
Research results released this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association soundly refutes that claim.
The number of pregnant women using opiate derivatives increased fivefold in less than a decade, and number of infants born dependent on the opiates their mothers used during pregnancy tripled over the same time period.
The raw numbers still are not large increasing from 1 per 1,000 babies sent home from hospitals in 2000 to more than 3 per 1,000 in 2009 but opiates also are not, by far, the only drugs of abuse in this country.
Theres cocaine; the Denver Post says this is the 21st century version of what was known as the crack baby epidemic of the 1980s. That problem, though no longer visible, still exists.
Theres meth, creating a new problem for a new generation.
Theres the elephant in the room: alcohol, with its well-known effects on fetal development.
This study quantified only the opiate problem (which includes prescription pain medications as well as illegal drugs), but it provides a clear view of a group of innocent victims. The result of their mothers addiction is neonatal abstinence syndrome, and it can cause seizures, breathing difficulties, dehydration, feeding and digestive problems, sleep disruption, irritability and developmental delays. Those are the symptoms health care workers can observe; no one knows what a newborn is feeling.
The cost of treating the infants withdrawal is tremendous, averaging $53,400 per child. Medicaid pays for more than three-fourths of that.
The current political climate, as polarized on reproductive rights as on nearly every other topic possible, mainly encourages everyone to choose up sides, but this should not be framed as an issue of choice. Drugs take away choices and hamper the ability to make good ones. Overwhelmingly, these children are born to mothers who regret the way their addictions have affected their infants but who were unable and yes, perhaps, unwilling to change that trajectory. Stigmatizing their actions does little to prevent or solve the problem.
According to the New York Times, Experts agree that the best approach is to deal with womens drug addictions before they are pregnant. Thats easier said than done, and its a chicken-and-egg dilemma, because women may not be motivated to seek assistance until they learn they are pregnant.
No obvious solutions are visible. Jailing mothers whose infants show signs of withdrawal creates other problems, and despite anti-drug war rhetoric, it has never been a preferred response. Removing infants from their parental custody also does not address the root issue. Fear of legal consequences, though, may deter women from seeking treatment, which is difficult during pregnancy. Under the best of circumstances, rehabilitation programs dont always work.
Education is the idea most often suggested. It may very well be the best one available, which isnt saying much.
Awareness helps, though. Every woman of childbearing age should consider the consequences of chemical dependency on the next generation, because those consequences are severe indeed.


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This page describes the computer cluster used for computational biology and other purposes, commonly known as van-halen. All information regarding the cluster should be put here so that there isn't a single point of user failure. A list of users for the cluster is at CompBioCluster/TrustedUserGroup. To edit these pages, please create an account on the wiki and contact RonanDaly or SimonRogers with your username; this will be added to the CompBioCluster/TrustedUserGroup and you can start editing.
Mailing List
There is a mailing list for the group at firstname.lastname@example.com. The interface to manage this is at https://mr1.dcs.gla.ac.uk/mailman/admin/compbiocluster.
Cluster Hardware
The cluster is located in the server room in Lilybank Gardens. The hardware currently consists of a Netshelter VL Value Line - 42U 600X1070MM rack, an HP V1810G 48 Port Ethernet Switch (model number J9660A) and 7 Intel SR1690WBR Server Systems. One of the servers is designated as a head node, which has a DVD-ROM built in (van-halen) and the rest are compute nodes. Each node has 16GB of RAM and 8 cores, giving roughly 2GB of RAM per process on average.
The cluster is set up so that the connections between the head node and the compute nodes are on a private network, with the head node also connected to the DCS network. For this purpose, the switch has had two VLANs set up, public(1) and private(100). The ports on the switch are untagged, so traffic cannot span the two VLANs. The head node takes care of routing all traffic between the compute nodes and the outside world.
Cluster Setup
On the Intel compute server systems (not the head node), the CMOS settings have been changed to
Always boot on power on
Remove network booting from second ethernet port
Set the boot order to first network port, hard disk, EFI image
Cluster OS
The cluster is running Rocks 6.0, which is based on CentOS 6.2. This distribution is specifically designed for clusters and has the ability to automatically install and update OS images on each of the compute nodes. Details of configuration and administration are in CompBioCluster/ClusterAdministration
Accessing the cluster
The cluster head node is at van-halen.dcs.gla.ac.uk. Each of the compute nodes is at compute-0-{0..n-1}, where n is the number of compute nodes. The cluster can only be accessed using ssh. In particular, the only node that can be accessed is the head node (van-halen), and the connection must be from inside the university network. Files can be copied over to the head node using scp and it is also possible to copy files inward (from a computer on the university network to the current node you are on).
Home directories are at /home/<username>. In particular, the home directories reside on the head node and are NFS mounted to /home on the compute nodes. This means that it is possible to access files from your home directory on any node. However, there is only roughly 460GB available on /home and there are no quotas in place. This means that you must take care with the amount of files you place in home so as to stop it getting too full and blocking other users from using the cluster. When you are finished using data, please delete it from your directory.
If you need more space when running a job or are running jobs that access files a lot, there are also partitions on each of the compute nodes that may be used. These are mounted on /state/partition1. Files can be copied here ahead of processing, or the results of processing can also be stored here. However, it is not possible to access these partitions from outside the node, so when a job is finished it should copy any results out. Files on these partitions should also be considered continually at risk and may disappear at any time. These partitions are also roughly 460GB in size, so again please be careful what you are placing on them. It is worthwhile knowing that NFS can be quite slow, so if you are accessing files on /home a lot, your jobs can slow right down because of network latency.
There are currently no backups of the cluster, so your data may disappear at any time. Please copy important information somewhere else.
Installing Software
Software can of course be installed in a user's home directory and run from there. However, some systems don't make it easy for users to install there. Some hints are at CompBioCluster/InstallingPythonSoftware.
Running jobs on the cluster
Sun Grid Engine (now known as Oracle Grid Engine) version 6.2u5, is used as the job scheduling tool. These tools must be used to run jobs on the cluster; in particular, do not run jobs as standalone processes, either on the head node or on a compute node. This will ensure that cluster resources are shared out fairly and evenly and that a high throughput is maintained. There are more details on running jobs at CompBioCluster/RunningJobs. For a management perspective, have a look at CompBioCluster/ManagingGridEngine.


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2012 Year End Report and Community UpdateAs I enter my third year as your Broward County Commissioner, there's been a great deal of progress made as we move forward to improve the economy, get people back to work, increase opportunities for home ownership, and help those who are still going through difficult times during this economic recovery. I made these commitments to you and want to bring you up to date on the progress that's taking place.
Fiscal Year 2013 BudgetBroward County Commissioners passed the 2013 budget without raising County property taxes for the vast majority of home and business owners. Most importantly, there have been no reductions in the County services that we all depend on like transportation, parks, public libraries and garbage disposal. In fact, this year, I was instrumental in placing garbage disposal services out for a public bid instead of continuing a current contract for another 20 years. It created competition that resulted in the saving of millions of dollars. It's reductions like these that keep the budget in check. County taxes consist of less than one-quarter of your overall tax bill, which also includes local municipal city taxes, school district taxes and special taxing districts. The budget process for Fiscal Year 2014 is already underway. Visit broward.org/budget for more information on upcoming workshops and public hearings.


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Is Stress Just Make Believe?
Stress – constraining force or influence: as
a : a force exerted when one body or body part presses on, pulls on, pushes against, or tends to compress or twist another body or body part; especially : the intensity of this mutual force commonly expressed in pounds per square inch
b : the deformation caused in a body by such a force
c : a physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in disease causation
d : a state resulting from a stress; especially : one of bodily or mental tension resulting from factors that tend to alter an existent equilibrium <job-related stress> (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stress)
What would life be like without stress…even in the face of stressful situations? Could you be more effective at what you do? Would your quality of life change? What would you say if I suggested that all the stress in your life is make believe? I am not talking about the stresses of the physical universe, gravity and such…I am talking about the mental ringer we subject ourselves too, until I recently discovered, needlessly.
That's right, I am saying that if we are in a situation and become "stressed out" we are making it up…the situation is what it is, we MAKE it mean stressful therefore manifesting all that gobily-gook that gives context to the meaning of the word. Are you thinking, "Dude has lost his mind"? I get that. Let me elaborate.
You're at work on a Thursday afternoon, the phone is ringing off the hook, your boss is breathing down your neck for a report that's been put off and put off because she has also been shoving other stuff in front of you, with higher priority; there are about 50 emails that REQUIRE a response before the end of the day and you STILL have a half-hour conference call to fit in somewhere.
On top of this you spilled coffee on your dry-clean only clothes, the letter "R" is un-functional on your keyboard and it's national "My kids are selling something day" at the office. Finally, the workday ends, you get to your car (bear with me I am trying to paint a picture) only to find a flat tire. 3-bloodied knuckles and torn trousers at the knee later you are on your way…to your place in line to get onto a freeway, which is backed up for umpteen miles because of an accident involving a truck carrying string cheese and Greek yogurt, YET you are as happy as can be.
Through all of this you've been nothing but smiles and worry free. You did what you had to do and everyone was happy with you, why? Because the next morning you are leaving on your dream vacation and nothing is going to spoil your day. Now, imagine how much differently that Thursday might have gone if, on Friday, you weren't leaving for your dream vacation, but rather scheduled a job performance evaluation.
Where does the stress come from if we don't make it up? Work is work and a vacation is a vacation, how we feel about them is entirely separate and up to us, in any given moment. Think about how you feel when you are ON vacation and are suddenly reminded that tomorrow you have to go back to the grind…in that moment are you REALLY happy?
If all it takes is looking forward to something, well then I can't think of anything better than riding my bike every day, I always look forward to riding my bike, because it means I get to ride my bike. Make it Happen.
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This weekend LACMA added eight new works to its collection through its annual Collectors Committee events. All week on Unframed our curators will be highlighting the objects just acquired.
This large head was originally part of an eight-foot- tall seated Buddha, probably that of Amida, ruler of the Western Paradise of Ultimate Bliss. Made of cypress wood, it was lacquered in black and covered with gold leaf, traces of which remain. It bears the requisite characteristics of a Buddha: the crystal Urna in the forehead emitting infinite light, the 656 tight curls of hair, and the all-hearing elongated ears. The head of a Buddhist statue is by far its most important element: the power, meaning, and compassion of the Buddha is expressed through its face. The construction of this head is of an ancient type primarily seen in sculpture of the eleventh century, called wari-hagi-zukuri (splitting, carving out, and rejoining). In this technique the head is first carved from a single large block of wood, then split into halves along a vertical line behind the ears, creating a front half and a back half. Both of these halves are then hollowed out using a chisel, and the two halves rejoined. This technique produces a sculpture that is lighter and far less likely to crack due to dryness.
This sculpture has been definitively dated to 1000–1050 AD. There exist three other Heian period (794-1185) sculptures comparable to Head of a Buddha in age and size; all are in Japanese Buddhist temples and all are registered National Treasures—but are inferior in condition and quality to this one.
Next month, Head of a Buddha will join three other eleventh- and twelfth-century (Heian-period) wood sculptures on display, but it will be—by a significant margin—the oldest and finest of them all. Together, the four works will give tremendous depth, quality, and breadth to our display of Heian-period sculptures of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Robert T. Singer, Curator and Department Head, Japanese Art


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