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Have you ever encountered one of those deeply literate people who are able to quote aptly and accurately from a wide range of classical literature? Have you ever met someone who has a prodigious general knowledge? Did you envy that knowledge? Did you think they must be superbly well educated?
Most of us assume that formal education is what imparts useful skills and important knowledge. On the other hand some think formal educational credentials don't signify real knowledge as much as signal pre-existing intelligence, conscientiousness and compliance. Nonetheless it's hard to deny that skill acquisition depends on practice, and that knowledge depends on exposure. A greater amount formal education should leave a person with more skills and knowledge. For example on all 5 science questions in the General Social Survey, both a higher IQ and more education increase the chance of a correct answer. They do so even when the effect of the other (and a number of other variables) is accounted for. Therefore even if formal education doesn't impart as much knowledge as we think it does, it does impart some.
However, by no means all extremely erudite individuals are university educated. Almost half of those in the top 1/3rd of science knowledge, or the top 15% of vocabulary, do not have a formal degree. Still those with lots of formal education are fairly over-represented among the very knowledgeable. I asked myself, just how much knowledge do formal degrees impart, and how much formal education, or independent reading, would one need to be erudite? I hope to answer these questions below.
How much reading is a degree worth?
Recently I read a study done by the National Endowment of the Arts in the
entitled "To Read or Not To Read – a question of national consequence". This study surveyed the amount of reading
done and its relationship to reading scores among children still in school, and
showed there is a very strong connection.
Of more interest to me were two small tables. One looked at the number of books (or
equivalents thereof) required to be read in a typical year in college. The other at the number of hours spent
preparing per week.
Table 1
Percentage of Seniors
Number of assigned textbooks, books or book-length packs of course readings
Table 2
Percentage of Seniors
Preparing for class (studying, reading, writing, doing homework, etc)
0 hrs/week
1-5 hrs/week
6-10 hrs/week
11-15 hrs/week
>15 hrs/week
I calculated (from Table 1) that over the course of a four year degree the median number of assigned books is about 29 books and (using Table 2) that the median senior spends about 11.6 hrs per week in preparation. The academic year is roughly 34.8 weeks long, so the median total time spent in preparation over the full 4 year degree is about 1610 hrs. I also found that it takes around 3¼ min for me to read a page once, and that the typical textbook is about 500 pages long. Therefore it takes 55.5 hrs to read a 500 page book, or 6.7 min per page, implying that each assigned book in college is being read twice on average. This is what one might expect if the material were being studied.
How much reading is a PhD worth?
Now about 30% of college graduates go on to graduate school. Let's assume these are the top 30% of college graduates. The median graduate student would therefore be at the 85th percentile of college seniors. The 85th percentile of assigned books read is 74 books over a 4 year degree. The 85th percentile of time spent preparing is more than 15 hrs so I used the percentiles to work out z scores and from that estimated that the median is 11.57 hrs and standard deviation is 10.354 hrs. Using that information I calculated that the 85th percentile is 22.3 hrs of preparation per week, or 3100 hrs over the full 4 years. That works out 41.9 hrs per book, or 5 min per page. That implies an average of 1.55 readings per book (or perhaps also twice each if the typical 85th percentile student read 30% faster than the 50th percentile student).
Suppose our graduate goes all the way to a PhD and goes through books at the same pace as during college. The average PhD takes 5.5 years to complete. At that rate the PhD candidate will have twice read a total of 102 assigned books after his BA and a total of 176 books since high school. The average professor who gets tenure takes another 8.5 years to get there. That's another 157 books, or a total of 333 books since high school (each read twice on average).
OK, what's that for those of us who aren't at university?
The typical text book is 500 pages long but the average soft cover book in the serious sections of bookstores is only 250 pages long. So let's convert all the above to a number of such ordinary books, read once each.
An associate degree from a junior college is the equivalent of 58 books and 800 hrs of reading.
A basic BA is the equivalent of 116 books or 1610 hrs of reading.
A PhD is the equivalent of 704 books or 7363 hrs of reading.
Academic tenure is the equivalent of 1332 books or 13930 hrs of reading.
Gladwell's ten thousand hour rule for expert level performance is about 956 good books, or maybe 704 like a PhD, and the rest of the time taken up discussing them.
The complete works of Shakespeare come to the equivalent of 11 such books or 1/80th of what it would take to really be part of the literati.
How much time would it take?
How hard would it be to do that amount of reading? Only 4% of adults read as many as one book per week. At that rate it would take 3.7 years to cover 193 books, 16.9 years to cover 704 books (and reach expert level) and 31.9 years to read 1332 books. You could halve that time by reading 2.5hrs per day – less time than most spend watching TV. In addition to that some sort of regular discussion and arguing about the material should be taking place throughout. Still it is easily possible to acquire, by the age of 35, the knowledge equivalent of a PhD on one subject, or of BA degrees in 4 different subjects.
A word on the quality of books read.
These numbers refer to high quality material only, and not to mental chewing gum or cheap thrills. Serious non-fiction books cover aspects of a subject correctly and in depth. Serious novels would be those that might be regarded as part of the classics. Each book should cover new concepts, arguments, facts, angles or points of view, metaphors, new moral choices, and/or involve a fresh or superior style. The material should require you to be intellectually engaged and should stretch you moderately. It shouldn't be no challenge at all (mental chewing gum) or be exceedingly hard to grasp or work through. When pitched at that level, interest is highest and learning is fastest. Books that are currently tough should become only moderately challenging after one builds up a larger concept base and masters the easier material on which understanding depends.
If one is smart and well read then being wrong is usually the result of a confirmation bias i.e. always reading stuff that confirms, and never stuff that challenges, your beliefs. Stepping outside such information bubbles is not really natural for people so one would need to take deliberate steps in that direction. These would involve making a point of seeking out respected writers on each subject with views you don't like. Also in discussing texts it's more productive to seek out bright informed people who will disagree, than people who will agree.
How much formal approved reading is optimum for creative achievement?
Formal education in the form of officially approved prescribed books, to be absorbed in detail, comes at some cost. Studies have shown that creativity scores decline with each year of formal education. Dean Keith Simonton (in his book Genius, Creativity and Leadership) showed that creative eminence has a historically invariant inverse U-shaped relation to amount of formal education. The peak comes just shy of a BA for the humanities and just into the graduate years for the hard sciences. Similarly, measures of dogmatism among elite leaders show a U shaped relationship with formal education. The dogmatism minimum among leaders is at about the same point as the creativity maximum among creators. Leaders with PhDs were even more dogmatic than those who were high school drop outs.
To convert the optimum amount of formal education in those studies into a number of prescribed books read, it makes most sense to confine ourselves to students capable of graduate school. The optimum for creative achievement is therefore 56 for the humanities, and 93 books for the sciences, respectively. The average book would be 500 pages long and would be read twice. This converts to a single reading of 224 and 372 'ordinary' books for the humanities and sciences respectively. That number only refers to the formal approved material in a single subject area. There is evidence that a high level of other reading aids creativity. For example creative adolescents tend to read more than 50 books a year. In other words, the ideal is no more than 224 to 372 solid approved books on one subject area (or the study of no more than 56 to 110 basic text books), and in addition to that the more outside (or unapproved) reading the better. At least 50 total books, approved and unapproved, should be read per year. That's a total of over 1000 books of all kinds in 20 years.
How many books do you need to have read to be erudite?
Let's return to the issue of erudition. To be erudite means to be very widely read and knowledgeable. It would be pretty unusual for a busy person to read as many as 2 'ordinary' books per week or say 2500 by the age of 40. That's the equivalent of three PhDs or 6-7 BA degrees. Such a person would certainly be erudite but is it necessary to cover quite so many books in order to be erudite? Half that number is 30% more than the 10 thousand hours needed for elite performance. That many books would be the equivalent of at least 3 BA degrees, or a PhD plus an extra BA in a different subject. On the other hand it seems highly doubtful that as many as one in twenty 40 year olds could be described as "erudite". I propose we split the difference between the ten thousand hours type of elite performance and the upper limit. That means a reading rate halfway between 50 and 100 books a year for 25 years – or 1875 ordinary books. If one aims to be creative then one should limit the time devoted to officially approved works, or to obtaining a formal qualification. Approved reading should take up no more than 1/8th of one's reading time in the humanities, or 1/5th in the sciences.
It helps to be smart
The numbers above assume an IQ of 110 (73rd percentile) for the average college senior, 125-130 (95th percentile) for a PhD, around 135-140 (99th percentile) for academic tenure, and maybe 140-144 (99.5th percentile) for erudition. By way of compensation lower IQs would require a lot more, or closer, reading. Compensating for an IQ shortage will be tough because smarter people are inclined to read more anyway
How much fact and how much fiction should you read?
The Literati
One might ask what proportion of the reading should be fiction and how much non-fiction. It appears from surveys that people read fiction at six times the rate they read non-fiction. That ratio implies 268 works of non-fiction and 1607 serious literary novels. That's OK if one was aiming to be one of the literati e.g. an English PhD or commentator like Christopher Hitchens or Stephen Fry. One would have made an in depth study of 67 text book length non-fiction works relevant to literature e.g. literary theory, history, philosophy, psychology and biography. One would also know, in quotable detail, 34 times as much good fiction as all of Shakespeare, War & Peace, Don Quixote and both Homer volumes, put altogether.
Alternatively the fiction specialist would read 5-6 good novels per month (going back to each novel once again over the years), and just read through an ordinary non-fiction book once, every month. A 'novel' could also be an equivalent length anthology of poetry or a play.
The Sage
For someone with a non-fiction bent (or career) – Gore Vidal say - a ratio of 6 novels per one non-fiction book is far too high. Since it is appropriate for 6/7ths of a literature specialist's reading to be fiction, a similar focus on non-fiction is appropriate for others. That means 64-65 ordinary books of basic facts, theories and techniques across various subjects, every year. In addition to that a single reading of 10-11 serious books of fiction – equivalent to reading all of Shakespeare, or War & Peace, Don Quixote plus one Homer volume, every year.
Alternatively, a non-fiction specialist would read one good novel through once, and study a good textbook hard (like one needs to pass an exam on it), every month.
The best way to structure reading
There are two extremes with respect to structuring your reading. In the first you could exhaustively cover, or master, a single subject or author, before moving on to another. In the second you dip into subjects and books as you see fit. Which is best for picking up knowledge?
There are experiments that shed some light on this. Studies in sport comparing the performance outcomes of training one sub-skill per session versus training a variety of sub-skills in the same session show that the latter results in better long term performance. This is particularly so with complex skill sets because one is also learning to combine the sub-skills. Creativity requires exactly this sort of combining and integrating concepts from disparate sources. The ideal might be as radical as reading bits of several books per reading session, or as moderate as changing the author or subject after each book or two.
Boredom is the most effective killer of learning so it is essential to keep interest levels high. Reading that is guided by interest ought to be remembered better than reading dictated by a curriculum schedule. That implies moving on before getting bored and that might mean putting a particular book aside before finishing it, and starting to read another.
Learning is better over frequent short sessions than a single long session. It's not just the boredom factor playing a role here. Outside of material that is memorable for other reasons e.g. being vivid or emotionally charged, the first and last bits you focus on are easier to recall than the middle. So it pays to increase the number of starts and ends in your reading. The same effect as having two reading sessions could be achieved by changing the subject or author in the same session.
Not all of us have photographic memories so if we are to recall what we read we will have to read the material again – perhaps more than once. Studies show that repeating the exposure at the point where you are about to forget maximizes long term recall. The first repeat will need to occur quicker than subsequent repeats.
The ten "How to Become Erudite" rules of thumb.
To become erudite the rules of thumb are
- read 6-7 ordinary length books per month – that's on the order of 2½ to 3 hours per day;
- the books should be very high quality;
- deliberately read some materials that challenge your beliefs, or debate them with people who do, whatever those beliefs may be;
- let interest guide your choice of reading matter, even within the official approved list;
- make sure at least 4 to 7 times as much reading outside the official approved list as in it;
- vary the subject matter and the authors as much as possible;
- if you are getting bored with what you are reading change to another book;
- if you need to know a book well return to it at least once, ideally at the point when you are just about to forget its contents;
- engage other knowledgeable people on the subject matter of your reading, or apply it to something;
- keep doing that for 25 years or more.
Erudition isn't everything. Without an experimental and empirical approach to life i.e. life experience, it becomes mere flash.
Reading copiously, while
never leaving a room, will leave large gaps in one's knowledge of life. Such gaps would make it impossible to be wise.


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Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18 1954) is a prominent Canadian-born American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and popular science writer known for his spirited and wide-ranging advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.
- Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
- "Rules of Language," Science (August 2, 1991)
- To a linguist, the phenomenon is familiar: the euphemism treadmill. People invent new "polite" words to refer to emotionally laden or distasteful things, but the euphemism becomes tainted by association and the new one that must be found acquires its own negative connotations. "Water closet" becomes "toilet" (originally a term for any body care, as in "toilet kit"), which becomes "bathroom," which becomes "rest room," which becomes "lavatory." … The euphemism treadmill shows that concepts, not words, are in charge. Give a concept a new name, and the name becomes colored by the concept; the concept does not become freshened by the name. (We will know we have achieved equality and mutual respect when names for minorities stay put.)
- The game of the name (1994-04-03). Archived from the original on 1994-04-06. Retrieved on 2011-01-19.
- I predict it will come to be seen as a turning point in the history of psychology.
- Introduction to The Nurture Assumption, 1998.[1]
- The elegant study... is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience. Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in brain structure and function, including many psychological disorders and, presumably, genius. The study confirms that the brain is a modular system comprising multiple intelligences, mostly nonverbal.
- "On Einstein's brain," The New York Times (June 24, 1999)
- Evolutionary psychology was the organizing framework—the source of "explanatory adequacy" or a "theory of the computation"—that the science of psychology had been missing. Like vision and language, our emotions and cognitive faculties are complex, useful, and nonrandomly organized, which means that they must be a product of the only physical process capable of generating complex, useful, nonrandom organization, namely, natural selection. An appeal to evolution was already implicit in the metatheoretical directives of Marr and Chomsky, with their appeal to the function of a mental faculty, and evolutionary psychology simply shows how to apply that logic to the rest of the mind.
- Steven Pinker, "Foreword" in: Buss, David M., ed. The handbook of evolutionary psychology. John Wiley & Sons, 2005. p. xiv
How the Mind Works (1997)[edit]
- Intelligence, then, is the ability to attain goals in the face of obstacles by means of decisions based on rational (truth-obeying) rules. The computer scientists Allen Newell and Herbert Simon fleshed this idea out further by noting that intelligence consists of specifying a goal, assessing the current situation to see how it differs from the goal, and applying a set of operations that reduce the difference. Perhaps reassuringly, by this definition human beings, not just aliens, are intelligent. We have desires, and we pursue them using beliefs, which, when all goes well, are at least approximately or probabilistically true.
- p. 62
- Stripped to its essentials, every decision in life amounts to choosing which lottery ticket to buy. . . . Most organisms don't buy lottery tickets, but they all choose between gambles every time their bodies can move in more than one way. They should be willing to 'pay' for information---in tissue, energy, and time---if the cost is lower than the expected payoff in food, safety, mating opportunities, and other resources, all ultimately valuated in the expected number of surviving offspring. In multicellular animals the information is gathered and translated into profitable decisions by the nervous system.
- p. 175
- Humans . . . entered the 'cognitive niche.' Remember the definition of intelligence from Chapter 2: using knowledge of how things work to attain goals in the face of obstacles. By learning which manipulations achieve which goals, humans have mastered the art of the surprise attack. They use novel, goal-oriented courses of action to overcome the Maginot Line defenses of other organisms, which can respond only over evolutionary time. The manipulations can be novel because human knowledge is not just couched in concrete instructions like 'how to catch a rabbit.' Humans analyze the world using intuitive theories of objects, forces, paths, places, manners, states, substances, hidden biochemical essences, and, for other animals and people, beliefs and desires. . . . People compose new knowledge and plans by mentally playing out combinatorial interactions among these laws in their mind's eye.
- p. 188
- Suppose the reasoning centers of the brain can get their hands on the mechanisms that plop shapes into the array and that read their locations out of it. Those reasoning demons can exploit the geometry of the array as a surrogate for keeping certain logical constraints in mind. Wealth, like location on a line, is transitive: if A is richer than B, and B is richer than C, then A is richer than C. By using location in an image to symbolize wealth, the thinker takes advantage of the transitivity of location built into the array, and does not have to enter it into a chain of deductive steps. The problem becomes a matter of plop down and look up. It is a fine example of how the form of a mental representation determines what is easy or hard to think.
- p. 291
- Visual thinking is often driven more strongly by the conceptual knowledge we use to organize our images than by the contents of the images themselves. Chess masters are known for their remarkable memory for the pieces on a chessboard. But it's not because people with photographic memories become chess masters. The masters are no better than beginners when remembering a board of randomly arranged pieces. Their memory captures meaningful relations among the pieces, such as threats and defenses, not just their distribution in space.
- p. 295
- Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'
- p. 359
- Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone who would claim to have discovered the opposite. No one needs a scientist to measure whether humans are prone to knavery. The question has been answered in the history books, the newspapers, the ethnographic record, and the letters to Ann Landers. But people treat it like an open question, as if someday science might discover that it's all a bad dream and we will wake up to find that it is human nature to love one another."
- 2009 ed., p. 517
- 'The most common of all follies,' wrote H. L. Mencken, 'is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.' In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints . . . and gods.
- p. 554
- The problem with the religious solution [to philosophical problems] was stated by Mencken when he wrote, 'Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.' For anyone with a persistent intellectual curiosity, religious explanations are not worth knowing because they pile equally baffling enigmas on top of the original ones. What gave God a mind, free will, knowledge, certainty about right and wrong? How does he infuse them into a universe that seems to run just fine according to physical laws? How does he get ghostly souls to interact with hard matter? And most perplexing of all, if the world unfolds according to a wise and merciful plan, why does it contain so much suffering? As the Yiddish expression says, If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
- p. 560
- Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players."
- p. 44
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (Basic Books, 1999)[edit]
- As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores.
- p. 84
The Blank Slate (2002)[edit]
- According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the frontal lobes are not only genetically influenced but are significantly correlated with differences in intelligence.
- p. 44, emphasis added
- [I]n the past two decades anthropologists have gathered data on life and death in pre-state societies rather than accepting the warm and fuzzy stereotypes. What did they find? In a nutshell: Hobbes was right, Rousseau was wrong.
- [E]quality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group. … If we recognize this principle, no one has to spin myths about the indistinguishability of the sexes to justify equality.
- But among many professional women the existence of sex differences is still a source of discomfort. As one colleague said to me, "Look, I know that males and females are not identical. I see it in my kids, I see it in myself, I know about the research. I can't explain it, but when I read claims of sex differences, steam comes out of my ears."
- Kindle location 7549, emphasis in original.
- The three laws of behavioral genetics may be the most important discoveries in the history of psychology. Yet most psychologists have not come to grips with them, and most intellectuals do not understand them … . Here are the three laws:
- The First Law. All human behavioral traits are heritable.
- The Second Law. The effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than the effect of genes.
- The Third Law. A substantial portion of the variation in complex human behavioral traits is not accounted for by the effects of genes or families.
- Kindle locations 8005, 8010.
The Better Angels of our Nature (2011)[edit]
- The world has far too much morality.
- p 474
The Sense of Style (2014)[edit]
- As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline—the illusion of the good old days.
- p 4
Quotes about Steven Pinker[edit]
- While Pinker elects himself the heir of Enlightenment, his whole approach betrays Enlightenment principles. The very past authorities Pinker invokes did not want to hawk psychic uppers for those in doubt and far more openly advertised the ambivalence of their own belief in progress. They neither claimed that progress was universal nor insisted so monotonously on its indefinite continuation.
- Samuel Moyn, "Hype for the Best", The New Republic (March 19, 2018)
- In this piece, Pinker appears to me to change sides almsot completely, from pessimist to optimist and from genetic determinist to social improver. Not only does he present evidence that war and violence are declining in relative importance, his explanation for this seems to be entirely consistent with the Standard Social Science Model he caricatured and debunked in The Blank Slate. He's still got a sort of rational self-interest model in there, but now Hobbes is invoked, not for his 'nasty, brutish and short' state of nature, but for his argument that the Leviathan of social order will suppress violence to the benefit of all.
- John Quiggin, "Is this the same Steven Pinker?" (August 5, 2009)
- There's a noble kernel to Pinker's project. He wants to discourage the kind of fatalism that leads people to think the only way forward is to tear everything down. But he seems surprisingly blind to how he fuels such fatalism by playing to the worst stereotype of the enlightened cosmopolitan: disdainful and condescending — sympathetic to humanity in the abstract but impervious to the suffering of actual human beings.
- Jennifer Szalai, "Steven Pinker Wants You to Know Humanity Is Doing Fine. Just Don't Ask About Individual Humans", The New York Times (Feb. 28, 2018)
External links[edit]
- Pinker's Official Harvard Website
- Steven Pinker's page on Academia.edu
- Time magazine page on Pinker
- Gen Kuroki's Website about Steven Pinker
- Steven Pinker Multimedia. Extensive lists of audio and video files

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IRVING — With tape still wrapped around his bruised throwing hand after practice, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo insists that he will be ready to play in what is essentially a playoff game against the New York Giants.
"Everything's coming together like we thought, just each day it's getting a little bit better," Romo said Thursday. "We'll be good to go this weekend."
Romo wore the protective wrap on his swollen right hand, the one he banged on a defender's helmet on the opening series Saturday against Philadelphia before coming out of the game. The wrap leaves his fingers and thumb free. He wasn't wearing anything on the hand Wednesday.
The Cowboys go on the road to face the Giants on Sunday night, a matchup of 8-7 teams that will decide the NFC East and fill the NFC's last playoff spot.
Romo, who played through a broken rib early this season, said he isn't worried about whether he will feel normal Sunday.
"You have to go out there and practice all week and get yourself ready to go to the game on Sunday. I'm excited that we're in this position and we have an opportunity to go and play in a big game like this," he said. "This is when it gets fun. No matter what, you're not going to sit one of these out."
During the few minutes early in practice open to reporters Thursday, Romo came out of the locker room wearing the protective wrap and made a few soft tosses. He also was bantering with teammates.
"Tony did a little bit more today than he did yesterday. I wouldn't constitute a full practice, but he's making some progress," coach Jason Garrett said. "The swelling still is there. ... All the functional things that a quarterback has to do, he has to be able to do by game time, and he's making progress in all those areas."
Garrett said backup quarterback Stephen McGee, who finished Saturday's game after Romo got hurt, got some work with the first-team offense again Thursday.
Even with the rib injury in Week 2 and not playing much last week against Philadelphia, Romo has already thrown for 3,895 yards and 29 touchdowns. He still has a chance for his third 4,000-yard passing season and his second year with at least 30 TDs. No other Dallas QB has reached 4,000 yards or 30 TDs in a season.
Romo threw for 321 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions in a 37-34 home loss three weeks ago against the Giants, who overcame a 12-point deficit in the final 3½ minutes.
Dallas might have already clinched the division had it won that game.
"It's obvious that this is basically a playoff game. For us, it's been great energy all week. Guys are ready to go, and they're excited," Romo said.
The QB's bruised hand adds another twist to the important game.
"A lot of quarterbacks throughout the league play through stuff every week," Romo said. "Sometimes it can be magnified because you're playing in a game that's like this. ... No one cares, and once you get out there, it's about winning and losing, so that's all it's going to be about."
Romo said he won't decide until later this week about whether to wear tape on his hand during the game. He never said how much pain he was feeling, saying only that, "like anything, you just have to deal with it and overcome it."
Cowboys Notes
Just like last week, the Cowboys are easing Pro Bowl defenders DeMarcus Ware (neck) and Jay Ratliff (ribs) into practice this week. Neither practiced Wednesday, and were limited Thursday ... RB Felix Jones (hamstring tightness) was limited again in practice, but Garrett said he's looking good in the work he's doing. ... LB Sean Lee missed practice for the second day in a row because of illness.


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VND(4) BSD Programmer's Manual VND(4)
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pseudo-device vnd [count]
The vnd driver provides a disk-like interface to a file. This is useful for a variety of applications, including swap files and building miniroot or floppy disk images. There are two variants, the traditional vnd that bypasses the buffercache and thus is suitable for swap on files, but not for building disk-images, and the svnd ("safe" vnd) variant that goes through the buffercache, thereby maintaining cache-coherency after the block-device is closed which makes it suitable for creating disk images. The latter is not good for swapping on, though. This document assumes that you're familiar with how to generate kernels, how to properly configure disks and pseudo-devices in a kernel configura- tion file. In order to compile in support for the vnd, you must add a line similar to the following to your kernel configuration file: pseudo-device vnd 4 # vnode disk driver The count argument is how many vnds memory is allocated for at boot time. In this example, no more than 4 vnds may be configured. There is a run-time utility that is used for configuring vnds. See vnconfig(8) for more information.
/dev/{,r}{,s}vnd* - vnd device special files.
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Community Banking Initiative
FDIC Community Banking Study
The FDIC's Community Banking Study is a data-driven effort to identify and explore issues and questions about community banks. This study is intended to be foundational, providing a platform for future research and analysis by the FDIC and other interested parties.
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Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 - Defining the Community Bank
- Chapter 2 - Structural Change Among Community and Noncommunity Banks
- Chapter 3 - The Geography of Community Banks
- Chapter 4 - Comparative Financial Performance: Community versus Noncommunity Banks
- Chapter 5 - Comparative Performance of Community Bank Lending Specialty Groups
- Chapter 6 - Capital Formation at Community Banks
- Bibliography
- Appendix A - Details of the Research Definition of the Community Bank
- Appendix B - Regulatory Compliance Costs - A Summary of Interviews with Community Bankers
FDIC Targeted Research on Community Banks
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Sugarbush Polo Club returns to Flemer Field in Waitsfield after a four-year hiatus! Club members will play at 1 p.m. on Sunday, July 7, weather permitting. The matches are free and open to the public and tailgating is encouraged.
The familiar sight of polo ponies and players will return to the Flemer Field in Waitsfield this summer when the remnants of the Sugarbush Polo Club return to the field.
Waitsfield polo player Mitch Taylor and Morrisville polo player Jed Lipsky discussed the issue with the Waitsfield Select Board on May 28 and received permission from the board to use the field.
"We came to see if we could use the polo field to practice and play a few games on and, if allowed, we'd clean up after ourselves and put cones along the tree line to make sure nobody rode into the trees. At the end of the season, we'd reseed it," Taylor said.
Lipsky said that the Sugarbush Polo Club would like to have a few tournaments on the field this summer as well as some practices.
"I started playing polo with the Sugarbush club in 1979 with Arthur Williams and Holly Ward. When polo left The Valley it was a loss to The Valley that had an economic as well as social impact. It used to be part of the life here and it went over the ridge to Addison County and Middlebury. And the Stowe Club also faded away and that was a big loss to that community. The idea of using the field to keep the Sugarbush club alive is something we'd like to try, maybe with exhibition matches or charity matches," Lipsky said.
"We're trying to hold on to the experiences of horses and the polo culture in Vermont and encourage some families with younger kids who ride to make polo accessible, not elite," Lipsky explained.
Lipsky, who was on crutches at the meeting, said that his injuries came from logging, not polo, and said polo is the safest thing he does.
The club has a liability policy and has a club policy of replacing their divots and canceling games when the ground is wet or when it is raining, Taylor and Lipsky explained.
Polo players clean up after their horses as well, they said.
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Stockport County Vs Chesterfield, Tue 1 Feb 2011
Rock-bottom Stockport will be without Robbie Williams for the home clash with Chesterfield but new recruit Alan Goodall may come into contention.
Left-back Williams' contract at Edgeley Park has expired but defender Goodall has joined from Rochdale on a contract until the end of the season.
Defenders Daniel O'Donnell and Aaron Brown joined the League Two strugglers last week and made their debuts in Saturday's 4-0 hammering at Rotherham.
Stockport have failed to keep a clean sheet in the last 13 games and have the unenviable record of 65 goals against in just 28 games.
Yet caretaker boss Peter Ward said: "There is still a lot to play for and we owe it to the fans of this club to work hard and turn results around."
Leaders Chesterfield have injury problems to contend with.
Defenders Gregor Robertson and Simon Ford and striker Jack Lester are doubts after sustaining problems during the 2-2 home draw against Bradford on Saturday.
"There are a lot of games coming up and Gregor and Jack both have slight pulls to their hamstrings and Fordy is struggling with a swollen knee, so there could be changes," said assistant manager Tommy Wright.
"On the plus side, we have replacements and a fairly strong squad we can rely on. We will need it in the weeks ahead."
Scott Griffiths and Javan Vidal could return in defence should Robertson and Ford not make it.
Deane Smalley is the likely replacement for Lester, while fellow forward Jordan Bowery is another option for manager John Sheridan.
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Death, la Morte, the final frontier. Tear Drop Memories . Com is devoted to exploring the myriad of mourning mementos and mysteries. Fine funeral fancies, exit strategies and vintage tangible aids to the grieving process abound. Rare cemetery memorial ornaments, antiquarian books and photographic images post mortem, and just plain bizarre mortuary collectibles grace our not so solemn web site. Delicate memento mori jewelry, celebrate past lives lost.
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Seeing video games in a movie these days, or even a movie based on a video game, is nothing out of the ordinary. It's expected. But during the 1970s, it was something to be marvelled at.
This clip collects cameo appearances on the silver screen by the arcade games and home consoles of the 70's, with our cut-off point being the year 1980 (co-incidentally, the year I was born).
Those movies (and a TV series, Starsky & Hutch) are, in chronoligical order, below.
Soylent Green (1973)
The Parallax View (1974)
Ranchero Deluxe (1975)
Starsky and Hutch (1975)
L'Alpagueur (1976)
Dawn: Portrait Of A Teenage Runaway (1976)
Silent Movie (1976)
Airport '77 (1977)
Piranha (1978)
The Fury (1978)
Dawn Of The Dead (1978)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
Beneath The Valley Of The Ultravixens (1979)
Of special note is that last one. Beneath The Valley Of the Ultravixens is a sexploitation flick directed by Russ Meyer, and co-written by one Roger "games can't be art" Ebert.
While you're eventually seeing her play Pong for an eternity, just sitting there, what you miss as she switches the Magnavox off is that her lover is a Nazi. And that he's just climbed into a coffin, puts a sheet over his head and wants her to come have sex with him.
If you haven't seen it, it's a pretty great movie.


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After getting notice that Cathy received the Valentine Exchange, I can show a picture of it now. The designs are taken from "Valentine Wishes" from Blue Ribbon Designs and it's finished off as Fold Up. It was a pleasure to stitch it for Cathy, and I'm glad she likes it.
Valentine Wishes by Blue Ribbon Designs
Finishing technique by Judy Odell (Just A Thought)
Stitched on 28ct hand dyed Jobelan
using the recommended Gentle Art Sampler Threads
Backside of the fold up
And here a picture of the complete exchange. That is not a box of chocolate, but a calendar. I had to save that one from my daughter....lol.
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Scientists taking part in a global Census of Marine Life have discovered off the Cayman Islands the deepest sea-floor hydrothermal vent community yet known.
Researchers have not yet formally published the results of their expedition. But elsewhere, "black smokers" – towering, two-story-tall vents spewing mineral-rich, superheated water into the inky darkness around them – are oases of life for organisms ranging from bacteria to crabs and giant tube worms.
The sight of these vents three miles beneath the surface, as seen through videos from an unmanned submersible dubbed HyBIS, "was awe-inspiring," according to a statement from Jon Copley, a University of Southampton marine scientist and one of the expedition's leaders.
IN PICTURES: Hydrothermal vents
While new species crop up with regularity from tropical rain forests, those discoveries are often incremental. "Invariably, it's going to be an insect, and chances are it's going to be a beetle," says Paul Tyler, another of the leaders of the expedition, during a phone conversation from his cabin aboard the British research vessel RSS James Cook.
By contrast, "in the deep sea, chances are you're going to find something completely new," he says, noting that discoveries in the deep sea during the past century have led scientists to create three new phyla – biological categories for never-before-seen body types.
Other discoveries have pushed the bounds of the exotic: for example, the "yeti crab" discovered in 2005 living at hydrothermal vents 900 miles off Easter Island. National Geographic exclaimed that the feathery limbed crab "is so extraordinary that a new taxonomic family had to be invented for it."
"The deep sea is likely to be the reservoir of highest biodiversity on the planet," says Dr. Tyler
A biological surprise
The newly found black smokers rise from the Cayman Trough. It's an undersea rift valley that runs between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands and forms part of the boundary between the Caribbean and North American Plates.
The location falls into a relatively new category of undersea features of Earth's crust – an ultra-slow spreading center – that only a decade ago seemed of little biological interest.
Ultra-slow spreading ridges replenish the crust with new material, as do their more energetic counterparts. But the new crust is generally much cooler than the crust welling up from other, faster-paced spreading centers such as the East Pacific Rise or the mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Essentially these ultra-slow centers – which include the Arctic's Gakkel Ridge and the Southwest Indian Ridge in the southern Indian Ocean – were thought to be too cool to generate the hydrothermal vents. But during the past decade, expeditions to these locations have found otherwise.
Scientists with the census realized "that we had to understand how the Cayman Trough fit into the biogeography and the chemistry of the global ocean," Tyler says.
The research by Tyler and his colleagues builds on an expedition last fall by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). It conducted an initial cruise to the trough as part of the Census of Marine Life's so-called ChESS project, which aims to catalogue marine organisms at undersea hydrothermal vents.
But the cruise ended with only the tantalyzing chemical fingerprints of hydrothermal activity in water samples brought up from the deep ocean, notes Chris German, a WHOI marine scientist who led that expedition. His team's data isolated the black smokers' location to within a radius of about 800 feet, he explained during a presentation at last fall's meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
Armed with that information, Tyler and his colleagues were able to focus their search on that area.
Understanding the deep-sea world
As scientists find more vent communities, broader questions are emerging, says Ronald D'Or, senior scientist for the census. While some creatures appear to be common among many of these deep-sea ecosystems, others appear to be unique to their locations, he says.
For the Cayman Trough, genetic comparisons between organisms there and those found on the East Pacific Rise might yield insights into organism migration, since roughly 30 million years ago, what is now the Caribbean Sea was a patch of ocean that connected the Atlantic and Pacific.
This week, scientists reported such vent-community migrations – on a much smaller scale. Researchers at WHOI and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Palisades, N.Y., reported the discovery of sea snails at a hydrothermal site on the East Pacific Rise where the snails had never been seen before.
An volcanic eruption had wiped out the previous assembly of organisms at this site. And the nearest known snail population was some 215 miles north.
Modeling studies suggested the otherwise slow-swimming larvae were propelled to their new home by current "jets" along the crest of the ridge. That colonization "radically altered the community structure" at the post-eruption site, according to Lauren Millineaux, a senior scientist at WHOI.
The results appear in yesterday's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.


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text: It's the 3 Little Things: Lining Those Eyes, Making it Sleek, & Tea That's Just Right Happy Friday, friends! I missed sharing this post last week with you, but it was nice to take a break over the 4th of July weekend. There has been so much happening over here that I can't wait to share with you. If you are following me on Instagram, you might have caught a few sneak peeks- this whole '60's home is going through some major transforming this year. We are putting the finishing touches on some home projects that will completely blow your mind. I can't believe this is my house. I can't wait to reveal all of that to you soon! In the meantime, here are some things that are making me happy this week! I Finally Have Frizz-Free Locks I have the coarsest hair and in the summer months, it frizzes up in the heat and humidity. I don't want you to be wondering what that might look like. It looks just like this. I bought this awesome L'Oreal Sleek It Iron Straight Heatspray and I finally have frizz-free locks. It was one of those things that I picked up on a whim and decided to give it a try, but had no expectations that it would work well because it was only around $5. The first day I used it, my girlfriend asked if I had done something different with my hair. It works that good. Although I have never been able to go three days without washing my hair, it holds for that long and does a great job straightening your hair with just a blow dryer or can be used dry with your hair straightener. I highly, highly recommend this for your arsenal of hair tools. Love, Monica in Jamaica Liner That Stays Ever since I first started wearing make-up, I have always worn Cover Girl Eye Liner. I have found though that in the summer, within hours it had faded or had moved under my eyes in other places. I decided to try to find a new eyeliner to help remedy that and discovered Revlon ColorStay Eye Liner. It is the first eyeliner that I have tried that stays on until I go to bed. It goes on creamy, stays on all day, and is easy to remove with a little eye make-up remover. I can't recommend it enough. Perfectly lined eyes in the summer months are definitely making this girl happy! Tea That's Just Right Have you ever had Honest Tea before? This has been one of my favorite treats since I gave up my soda. It's the perfect summer drink and has just the right amount of sweetness in it. I have been a longtime fan and the company emailed and asked if they could send me a box of tea to enjoy this summer- no obligations or anything (which is pretty rare when you are a blogger.) I absolutely love it and I have had so much fun trying all the different varieties. The Pomegranate Blue has been a big family favorite and I have enjoyed the Peach White Tea and Honey Green Tea at the pool this week. I like that these aren't overly sweet and that the real flavors pull through in these drinks. If you love tea, you will love these. Honest. Bonus Happy! And for a bonus happy this week, you can check out this fun dance routine that I got to do with my dance teacher Abbi, from Tu Sei Bella, that was so much fun to do for her YouTube channel. What says summer more than Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It? I mean, seriously. Who wants to go to dance class with me? You can learn all the moves on her channel! They also happen to be running a Groupon this week for the classes so you don't have to spend very much to try it! Just type in "Tu Sei Bella," and the current Groupon should appear. And saving money always makes this girl get jiggy wit' it! If you saw me in dance class, you would witness one of the happiest moments of my week every week. It has been a life-changer for my spirit and confidence not to mention my favorite things to do with my girlfriends. *this post may contain affiliate links- I only recommend what I love though. Check out past editions of It's the 3 Little Things! Now it's your turn, what makes you happy this week? Feel free to share in our link up below and link back to this post to participate or share in our comments below! Share 3 things that are making you happy today! Published July 11, 2014 by: Amy Allen Clark is the founder of MomAdvice.com. You can read all about her here.


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Runner Antoine Tanne with patient partner Michael
Q: What is your name?
My name is Antoine Tanne.
Q: Where are you from?
I am French and I come from a little city in Normandy really close to D-Day beach.
Q: What is your role at Massachusetts General Hospital?
I am a researcher in the Mass General pediatrics department. My research work aims at better understanding innate immunity in infectious diseases and more precisely upon viral and bacterial co-infection.
Q: Why did you choose to run the marathon for MassGeneral Hospital for Children?
In 2010, I was standing by the finish line of the Boston Marathon for the first time. After having seen so many charity runners, I went back home and I read more about the Mass General charity run program created by Dr. Howard Weinstein. After this, there was no doubt that I had to run the Boston Marathon as a member of this team. Running against cancer is for me a way to support my relatives (my aunt and my godfather) and all people who fight against those diseases. Running for children is also a way for me to remember my best friend's brother, who unfortunately died almost 10 years ago.
Finally, I have the chance to participate in the patient/runner program. Being paired with Michael is a unique experience, which gives me the chance to really feel my contribution to the fight against cancer. Working as a researcher, at the bench, does not allow me to easily feel our contribution to making people's lives better. Spending time with Michael and his family gives me this feeling of being useful and being a part of the curing process.
Q: What kind of experience do you have as a runner?
I have been running for a long time and I trained with the Boston Community Running Club since 2010. Running is for me a real passion and it is a way to get rid of bad feelings.
Q: What inspires you as a runner?
Life is like a long run: some parts are hard, some are easy but at the end it is always great and I am always feeling good.
Q: What has been your most memorable moment preparing for the marathon?
I had lots of good moments during this preparation. The really good one was when I did my first run over 20 miles on the marathon race, when I was passing the Heart Break Hill. I was trying to imagine me in the middle of the crowd and being cheered by all the Mass General patients and jumping into Michael's arms. I am really looking forward to the marathon day.
Q: What have you learned about your patient partner and what makes him special?
Mike and his family are for me a big source of inspiration and motivation. My training and my marathon are nothing compared to what they had to face and they manage to get through. Mike is really a strong guy; he is facing his disease with so much courage, maturity and motivation that every time I meet him, it is like having a lesson of life. My problems become nothing and my motivation for the marathon day is 10 times bigger. I am one of the lucky people who never had to face any disease; spending time with Mike and his family at the hospital makes me realize how lucky I am!
Q: What are you most looking forward to about marathon day?
I am looking forward to the moment I will shake hands with Mike and we will both say we made it! I will have done my race and he will have finished his treatment!
Q: Is there anything else you'd like to add?
Dr. Weinstein and all the team who work to make this charity project are really awesome and I truly thank them for letting me be part of their project.
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Ike breaks through to deliver victory for Mets
NEW YORK -- Sometimes, even baseball comes down to divine intervention.
Ike Davis, fresh off a change in attitude, was looking for an opportunity to change his season on Sunday night. And he got it. Davis, mired in a season-long slump, came up with the bases loaded and a tie game against Atlanta, and he came through with the decisive hit in a 4-2 win for the Mets.View Full Game Coverage
NEW YORK -- Sometimes, even baseball comes down to divine intervention.
Ike Davis, fresh off a change in attitude, was looking for an opportunity to change his season on Sunday night. And he got it. Davis, mired in a season-long slump, came up with the bases loaded and a tie game against Atlanta, and he came through with the decisive hit in a 4-2 win for the Mets.View Full Game Coverage
That hit, which crept through the right side of the infield, didn't set any distance records or win Davis any style points, but it did something even more important. It helped restore the first baseman's confidence in himself, and it validated the support that he's gotten from his teammates.
Manager Terry Collins has found himself speaking about Davis on a daily basis this month, and he said Saturday that a demotion to Triple-A Las Vegas might do the hitter some good. But when Davis approached the plate in Sunday's eighth inning, Collins had some other thoughts.
"Get a hit," said Collins. "A couple guys said something during the game that he looked, for some reason, more relaxed the last two days. When he came up with the bases loaded, I said, 'If there's anybody watching that's a baseball God, this kid needs to get a base hit.' And he got it."
Indeed he did. Davis bounced a single through the right side of the infield, and two Mets came around to score the decisive runs. And here's how much Davis needed it: The 26-year-old came into the game batting .148, and he had just one RBI in his last 23 games.
Observant fans may have seen some foreshadowing earlier in the game, as Davis had previously found some luck in the form of an infield single. Davis drilled a ball to second base and watched as Dan Uggla made a diving stop, but the veteran got up and threw wildly while Davis crossed the base safely.
"Standard. Uggla makes an amazing play and I was like, 'Well, that's the way it's going,'" said Davis. "But then he bounced it, and I was safe. I was like, 'There's a little change.'"
The big change came four innings later, complete with some drama. The Mets had given up their one-run lead on a two-run homer by Uggla, but they rallied against the Atlanta bullpen in the eighth inning. Lucas Duda doubled to put runners on second and third, and John Buck singled to tie the game.
Atlanta reliever Cory Gearrin, a sidearmer, hit pinch-hitter Mike Baxter with a pitch, bringing Davis up with one out and the bases loaded. Davis went up looking for a ball he could hit into the air for a sacrifice fly, but he grounded a ball through the right side and the Citi Field crowd erupted.
"I just felt like, 'Finally, I did something productive,'" said Davis. "That's the best feeling, being productive, especially in the late innings and losing like we have been. It definitely feels great. But we've got to go get them tomorrow. I'll probably soak this one in for a couple more hours. A little more smiles, and then we'll wake up tomorrow trying to be happy again."
The Mets snapped a five-game losing streak with the victory, and the result also snapped an eight-game winning streak for the Braves. Atlanta still leads the Mets by 11 games in the National League East standings, but the teams will play 14 more times this season.
The endgame, exciting as it was, overshadowed a pair of fine pitching performances. Shaun Marcum went seven innings and set a career high with 12 strikeouts, but he also gave up the two-run homer to Uggla, a blow that gave the Braves their first lead in the seventh inning.
"It was nice of those guys to play good defense behind me and bail me out there in the late innings," said Marcum, winless in six starts (seven appearances) this season. "Definitely a big game, the way Ike came out and played and swung the bat and got those big hits for us. Great team effort. Great team win."
Atlanta starter Julio Teheran pitched into the seventh inning, allowing five hits and leaving with two outs and a man on base. The Braves' bullpen stranded a runner at first base in the seventh, but Gearrin ramped up the drama by allowing a leadoff single to Justin Turner and Duda's one-out double.
That set up the game-breaking moment for Davis, and it punctuated an eventful weekend. The former first-round draftee said his season had reached a nadir on Friday night, when he went 0-for-4 with four strikeouts in a game suspended by rain. The next day, he got a hit in the game's conclusion.
"It's tough to say I drew the line today," said Davis. "After the 0-for-4 not-finished game -- I actually went 1-for-5 that game with four K's -- I went and hit seriously for probably two hours. The next day, I felt like I tore everything in my side. Right after that game, I thought, 'I can't do this anymore. It's over. I'm changing something. Something's going to change.' So far, with a little change, I think I'm 3-for-5."
The Mets will take that statistic, and they'll take anything that will give Davis peace of mind. Collins engaged the player in a dugout discussion before Sunday's game, and the topic was anything but performance. It was about attitude, about couching everything in the best light possible.
Collins tried to tell Davis to enjoy the game, to tune out some of the extra hitting advice he's been getting and to go back to playing for fun. And while that advice sounds easier offered than absorbed, Davis took it to heart and tried to find a way to lighten his mood while playing the game.
"We had a good conversation before the game started about trying to have fun again," said Davis. "For a while there, it wasn't quite fun. I'll try to smile more and laugh a little bit more on the field, even though most Mets fans probably hate that. It's not going to help me perform better by being miserable and not having fun. The new thought process now is to have fun. Today was fun."
Spencer Fordin is a reporter for MLB.com.


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October 8, 2010
The Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at Loyola University New Orleans kicks off the 2010-11 season with John Cariani's quirky romantic comedy "Almost, Maine" running Oct. 1-9 in Loyola's Lower Depths Theater. This nationally acclaimed play, directed by C. Patrick Gendusa, visiting assistant professor of theatre arts, has charmed audiences from Broadway to the west coast.
The tales unfold in the chill of midwinter in the quiet, remote, sometimes lonely town of Almost, Maine. Love sparkles in many guises under the northern lights in this unofficial town. The play uses the town's wintery backdrop as the common thread that intertwines nine intricate plotlines, where the characters find themselves falling in and out of romantic encounters in unexpected and humorous ways.
"The stories are full of sweet surprises, so human they touch something deep," - The New York Daily News.
"John Cariani aims for the heart by way of the funny bone," - The Star Ledger.
Almost, Maine runs Oct. 8 and 9, at 8 p.m. in Lower Depths Theater, located in the Communications/Music Complex, corner of St. Charles Avenue and Calhoun Street.
Tickets are $12 for general admission and $8 for students, children and senior citizens. Group rates are available. For tickets and information, visit www.montage.loyno.edu or call 504-865-2074.
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Consultants hired to draft a Craven County strategic economic development plan suggest the best way to get jobs is with a multi-government, business and civic nonprofit partnership group.
Consultants hired to draft a Craven County strategic economic development plan suggest the best way to get jobs is with a multi-government, business and civic nonprofit partnership group.
The unexpected conclusion about how to replace the Craven County Economic Development Commission, which was dissolved and its staff eliminated about a year ago, was relayed to Craven County Board of Commissioners last week in a budget work session.
The steering committee got the report from RKG Associates Inc. at a meeting recently and plan to present it more formally to commissioners after they have digested and analyzed its contents more thoroughly, probably in June.
The recommendation for a 501(C)3 nonprofit group comes just as Craven County Manager Jack Veit is set to interview a second round of candidates for a new county staff position for economic development, which is funded in the proposed budget.
Veit told the board that the consultants �recommend creating a new nonprofit entity that the county would participate in and help fund. You would be one vote on the board and would contribute money� based on a per capita formula.
�You would have to concede control for the betterment of working together with New Bern, the base (Cherry Point air station), Havelock, chambers of commerce, Committee of 100,� and assorted issue-oriented advocacy groups like NC-20, etc., he said.
�It would be a pay-to-play autonomous group to implement the strategic plan,� Veit said. �This would be your economic development; the county would not have a function in economic development anymore.�
The job candidates know the county is working on a new strategic plan, but they did not know there was talk of a nonprofit being formed, Veit said.
�I feel like I need to take the temperature of the board on whether we stay the course with a county economic developer or go with a 501(C)3,� Veit said. �I have to know if you can live with it, then I need to go back to the individuals and see if they are still interested.�
�I am extremely uncomfortable hiring someone� until it�s known what job they�ll be hired for because they could have the right skill set for one job but not the other, Veit said.
Commissioner Jeff Taylor, who led the steering committee, said key points made by consultants include that �there is a lot of work to be done in the county based on the trust factor between the various communities and the county. There is no one entity that can control economic development in CravenCounty. We are going to have to work together to make that happen.�
WayneCountyhas had a nonprofit group in operation there for about seven years. Taylor, Commissioner Steve Tyson, steering committee member Chuck Dale, Veit, and Assistant County Manager Gene Hodges, who serves as interim economic developer, met Wednesday in New Bern with some Wayne County leaders familiar with its operation.
Tyson said, �I was opposed initially, but would like to hear more about it.�
After the meeting, he said Wayne County has a nonprofit group that works with a paid county economic development staff, not quite the same model as the strategic plan recommendation for Craven.
Taylorsaid, �This is going to take at least a year even if we get new economic development director. The exercise was needed. We are now trying to build the product that is going to serve the citizens for the foreseeable future.�
Veit said Friday that he plans to proceed with interviews since the 501(C)3 would take a while to set up and because the Wayne County EDC has staff working as well as the citizen-business group.
Sue Book can be reached at 252-635-5665 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter@SueJBook.


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June 25
Canning 101, taught jointly with the Franklin County Extension Office at 5:30 p.m. in Frankfort. Three hands on workshops will be held on July 13: salsa and pickles; July 14: jam and jelly; and July 16: vegetables and meat. Cost is $20 for four classes, including all supplies.
July 22
Lexington Legends Splash Day for youth ages 9 to 18. Cost is $10 and includes child's ticket and chicken strip meal and drink. Deadline for registration is July 1.
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Wednesday, June 3
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Farmers Market coupons
10:30 a.m.: Joan Martin on nutrition and sampling
11:30 a.m.: Lunch
12:30 p.m.: Rook/cards
Thursday, June 4
8:30 a.m.: Breakfast Club
9 a.m.: Yoga/chair exercise
9 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Shopping/errands
Friday, June 5
10:30 a.m.: Ed Curtsinger, karaoke
10:30 a.m.: Diabetes and You with Joan Martin
The Anderson County Senior Center is located at 160 Township Square. For information call 502-839-7520
Wednesday, May 27
10:30 a.m.: Nutrition and sampling with Joan Martin
11 a.m.: Hangman
12:15 p.m.: Rook and cards
Thursday, May 28
9 a.m.: Chair Yoga and exercise
9 a.m. – 2 p.m.: Shopping and errands. Kroger shopping day.
6 – 7 p.m.: Spa evening at the library. Bus transportation offered free.
Friday, May 29
Wednesday, May 20
10:30 a.m. Blood pressure check with Nurses Registry
10:30 a.m. Music with Arnold Clark and Friends
Noon Potluck
1:30 p.m. Rook club
Thursday, May 21
8:30 a.m. Breakfast Club
9 a.m. Chair Yoga and exercise
9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Shopping and errands. Kroger shopping day.
Friday, May 22
10:30 a.m. Taking control of you Diabetes
10:30 a.m. Preparation for Saturday's
11:30 a.m. Lunch
2:30 to 5 p.m. Quilt guild
The Anderson County Senior Center is located at 160 Township Square.
Wednesday, May 6
10:30 a.m. Cinco DeMayo
12:15 p.m. Rook and games
Thursday, May 7
5:30 p.m. Humanities presentation of Mark Twain
Friday, May 8
10:30 a.m. Mom's Day, jewelry style show, purse sale
12:30 p.m. Games
The Anderson Public Library will offer the following free classes in April and May, the library announced.
Pilates Plus
When: Mondays and Wednesday
Time: noon to 1 p.m.
Writer's Group
When: Wednesday, April 29
Time: 6 p.m.
Basic Candle Making
When: Thursday, April 30
DIY Spa Day
When: Tuesday, May 5
Time: 10 a.m.
Wednesday, April 29
10:30 a.m. Bluegrass hearing info
12:30 p.m. Library craft
Thursday, April 30
Friday, May 1
10:30 a.m. Taking control of your diabetes
10;30 a.m. Balloon volleyball
The Anderson Senior Center is located at 106 Township Square.
Wednesday, April 22
10:30 a.m. Drumming with Darlene
12:15 p.m. Rook / games
12:30 p.m. Mystery?
Thursday, April 23
8:30 a.m. Breakfast club
9 a.m. Chair Yoga / exercise
9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Shopping / errands. Kroger shopping day.
7 p.m. Gospel sing at Sand Spring Baptist Church. Will leave the center at 6 p.m. in the bus.
Friday, April 24
Pilates Plus
Time: Noon to 1 p.m.
When: Thursday, April 23
Time: 6 p.m.
Sand Candles
When: Tuesday, April 28
The Anderson Public Library will offer the following free classes in April.
Heirloom Tomato
When: Saturday, April 11
APL Book Club
When: Monday, April 13
When: Tuesday, April 14
When: Wednesday, April 15
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Ladybugs Swarming: Tennessee Valley Residents Suffer Asian Ladybug Infestation
Ladybugs are swarming across the Tennessee Valley, with dozens of residents from the area complaining about the sudden infestation.
The infestation has been caused by Asian Ladybugs, with experts suggesting they are frantically searching for somewhere warm to stay before the colder weather moves in.
It appears as though the Asian Ladybugs have found the warmth from homes in the Tennessee Valley as the best place to settle. The lights from the houses, as well as colored walls and upholstery have attracted them, according to reports.
Scientists insist that the Ladybugs are not harmful at all to humans, but coming in such large numbers they have become a large pest for those living in the region.
Harvey Cotten from the Huntsville Botanical Gardens has said, "One reason I think we may be seeing more of them is that this summer was so cool and we had a lot more rain.
"We had a lot more foliage growing and we had a lot more bugs like aphids and other insects out there. They were the food source of these ladybugs and so they bred more."
Residents are being advised to use a vacuum or bug trap to get rid of them. Experts advise not crushing them, as they leave a bad stain on walls or areas where they have been stomped on.
Kenneth Creel from the Madison County Extension said, "If the only thing it did was attack kudzu, it would be perfect, but it doesn't just do that. It attacks other legumes, though, like soybeans."
Experts have said that the Asian Ladybug infestation should only last a week or two for those in Tennessee Valley.


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I have recently decided that I needed to step up and not just shoot other eplayian's ideas down. Maybe offer suggestions of my own. I have a good working understanding of Gate and exodus. I have read the published contingency plans for BRC. I read the BLM permit and all assorted public info related to that permit (what the exclusion zone is, the laws that will be enforced, etc...). I volunteer with BM and help at the gate. I definitely have opinions.Oso wrote:Oh man, I just shoulda kept my fingers away from thread posting or maybe just quietly posted under another thread, such as "What a effin joke" or "Build a tunnel"!
I'm a dreamer, and we all know that there isn't any place for that here. Anyways, it's just a stupid discussion thread that won't make much of a difference to Burning Man or the world at large. Or.........
Okay, so at the risk of getting toasted:
(A) We all know that there IS enough space to expand the population out on the playa.
(B) There are creative ways of the handling the traffic to enable this expansion - like registering for a specific times to arrive and leave (there will always be a few emergencies and exceptions). Most events, including this one, have immutable start times and end times. Tickets could indicate your "time window" for arrival and departure. I would prefer knowing when I have to arrive and leave rather than no admission at all (the present situation). Anyways, that's one idea.
stretch80: I wasn't criticizing you, I'm with you.
svetlanaxx: Thanks, you're the greatest. And you're sooo right.
For instance, the airport is in its current location because that spot is the least dusty location around BRC. and frankly, in the best weather we have airplanes crash there. So moving the airport is not a good idea.
Having traffic travel from Jungo road to BRC is kinda complicated, due to the fact that there is a FAA approved runway. A) It is illegal to drive across the runway B) when people do, a plane might be landing - not cool (yes, I have seen near misses). So, to make that plan work, the playa would need to be clearly marked with a fence (like Gate road) and the dust would need to miss the airport completely. That would mean that a second gate would have to exist at the east side of the city. (of course it would need to have the same gate infrastructure as the main gate, again not impossible but even if there were two gate entrances you would need 50-75 experienced people to make it work). From my research I believe that Jungo road is not a good option for 98% of the Burners travelling to BRC. So it would need to be improved in order to be used by more burners. Again, not impossible but requiring more thought.
Yes, the playa is huge. There is no problem there. I believe that us, the citizens of BRC can have a LNT (leave no trace) event, no problem. We need workable solutions on getting the burners into and out of the city. A managed solution which will meet the BLM's requirements and that is actually doable. My idea above might work. ?? It would require a lot of planning and at least 100 more trained gate staff and at least 60 exodus staff. (among other things, plus cones, fence, actual physical gate sheds, etc...) Plus it would need approval of the BLM. this might give us 10% more people. I am not sure...
So, what is your idea to get more people on the playa???


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When you are 4 and when you are 7, Christmas is all about the Get: When can we open? What did he bring us? Is there anything more.
Parents try to instill the necessary recognition of those who won't get and can't give. Parents take 4 and 7 to the angel tree. Parents have 4 and 7 choose farm animals for other families. Still, when the eyes open on Dec. 25, 4 and 7 think only of what the wrapping paper obscures.
Parents want 4 and 7 to develop more empathy and awareness of stupendous good fortune, but parents are also immensely grateful that 4 and 7 are immune, at least for today. What on a dark night of the parenting soul appears 21st century pixellated greed, under soft colored retro-round Christmas tree bulbs is revealed as the simple, happy pleasure of receiving.
I'm old, Father William. But not so old that I can't properly receive; not so jaded I can't thrill at the get. This week my friend Danielle reminded me how much joy an unexpected gift can bring. As I sit on my living room couch one minute to 7, I indulge in a little stuff-ery, a small moment of "look what I have!"
A few posts back I wrote Low, during a month when I experienced several challenges on the personal/emotional front and couldn't do much but mope and wring my hands. Good friends did what good friends do: brought meals and chocolate, sent texts and e-mails, babysat my kids. And Danielle made me a gorgeous little box, a visual expression of the words I dramatically splatted up here on your screen.
I'm sure all of you re-read my posts to the extent you can quote them back at me, but in case you've forgotten, I wrote about my excessive editing that week. "If I whittle anymore, I'll be left with five blank sheets and a pile of words on the floor demanding a dustpan."
See the little housewife and her broom? See those words she's sweeping? There I am! Those are my words!
How lovely is that? I mean, seriously. Danielle took my words and made of them an image, three-dimensional and tactile, filling a square and sturdy cigar box. I'm not sure I've ever received a more thoughtful gift, one that made me feel not only appreciated, but also read. Plus it looks cool sitting atop a pile of old books.
I wear a rectangular aquamarine on my wedding finger because I, in typical Batmom/ADD fashion, lost my wedding ring. Down the drain, under the radiator, in the beak of a burglaring crow … god knows. The aquamarine, no second-stringer, substitutes beautifully.
My grandmother gave the ring to my mother when my mother was 21. My mother gave it to me when I was in my 20s. I am not a jewelry kind of a girl (travel travel eat read travel, please!), but I love the ring because I love my mother and I loved my grandmother. Also, it's the birthstone of my felines, The Cat and The Grey.
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This guy swings from the branches of our Christmas tree every year, and while I like him as much as the next ornamental mister, I love what he represents: My friend Rene's devotion to the well-chosen gift. She has given me a number of velvety ornaments from England, all picked with me in mind, as well as excellent reads (The Book Thief, The League of Extraodinary Gentlemen) and personalizedcomic-centric art.
The Monk on the Shelf
Keep your smiley, spying elves! I've got a monk. In one hand, he holds a book. Hidden behind his back, he clutches a bottle of wine. Poet B gave me the monk long ago; the holy brass man once belonged to a professor and now reminds me that the best days include good words and a quaff.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Rich is my self-confidence and my focus. I'm a flibbertigibbet who needs grounding; He grounds me and is relentless about his desire to see me pursue my desires.
When we first moved up to Mass., he tracked down Gertrude Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in its original form: serialized in the Atlantic Monthly in the early 30s. I wrote about the book, and several others, in my graduate school thesis. This gift's exact perfection has always symbolized Rich's belief in what I can do, and his dedication to helping me do it.
Happy New Year. May 2013 bring you great gifts and the grace to receive them well.


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