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Career Journal: How to Get Noticed at Office Meetings
Office meetings are typically meant to provide an opportunity for employees to voice their ideas but not everyone feels comfortable participating.
Meetings can be especially scary for younger employees, who aren't sure of themselves and worry that they might sound stupid.
If you are among those who hesitate to join in, then you're likely doing yourself a disservice. Human-resources experts say employees, especially young ones, should make an extra effort to be noticed at meetings.
By participating actively, employees show that they are excited about the company and its projects. Also, bosses are more likely to think favorably of employees who are active and helpful at meetings rather than silent.
Here are a few tips on how to make yourself heard at office meetings:
Prepare: One of the best ways to sound smart at a meeting is to prepare for it.
Do some research on the topics to be discussed at the meeting, and come up with an idea or two, or some questions to ask.
Think of a meeting as your "opportunity to influence" a project or an important decision, says Sushil Baveja, head of human resources at New Delhi-based conglomerate DCM Shriram Consolidated Don't let the opportunity slip by.
Keep it simple: Don't use big words and long-winded sentences to share your thought or idea, say experts. That puts other people off.
Just get straight to the point and, when possible, back it with evidence about why you are suggesting it and how it will be helpful to the project.
If you are building on someone else's idea, acknowledge that. Mention whose idea it was and say "this is how we could take it forward," says Anil G. Verma, director of personnel at Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Ltd. in Mumbai.
If you are new to the company or the project and are just learning the ropes, you could offer to summarize the main points discussed at the meeting, say experts. Other participants would find that useful and it gives you a chance to speak up.
Act: Even better than suggesting a good idea or project is to volunteer to work on one, even if it's someone else's idea.
This way, you distinguish yourself from other employees who may also be coming to meetings with ideas that theoretically sound good but aren't willing to make the effort to see them through, says Mr. Verma.
Once you develop a reputation of being a "doer" instead of a "talker," in future meetings, managers will likely pay more attention to you.
Question: Asking impromptu questions can be tricky.
You don't want to come across as someone who's not knowledgeable. On the other hand, if you don't understand what others are talking about at the meeting, you can't be very productive.
It's best to restrict yourself to a few questions, because otherwise you could sound pesky. Think through your question thoroughly, wait for the speaker to stop talking, and then ask your question politely.
You could say: this is what I understand from the discussion. Is it right or have I misunderstood?
You can also try questioning as a way of taking the meeting forward, says Aarthi Rajaraman, the Chennai-based director of human resources at outsourcing firm Williams Lea India. She suggests asking questions about how something will be done or what the next steps are to complete a project.
Arguments: At a group meeting, you might not always agree with what a colleague or boss is saying.
While you should present your counterview, don't get aggressive about it.
Wait till your colleague has stopped talking and make notes about why specifically you oppose his or her idea, says Mr. Baveja of DCM.
You could say "that is a unique way of seeing it, but this is how I have always seen the issue," says Ms. Rajaraman. Don't shout or get into a loud argument as that leaves a bad impression on other colleagues.
Also, be open to criticism of your ideas.
Listen: An office meeting is not only about being heard but about hearing others. It can be a great way for you to learn from the knowledge and experience of your colleagues, so pay attention to what they say and make notes.
Being an earnest listener can be a big help to beginners and help endear them to senior managers.
Readers, share your tips for being heard at an office meeting.
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Hmm? PT exits ALWAYS hurt performance? How about Anthony Gardner's tuned up Turtle system in Active Trader magazine (Feb. 2010) which gets a boost from profit targets? (link 1) , (link 2)
Or how about the system shown below (link to SOURCE CODE in the Blox Marketplace)
A prècis of profit target exits:
- Having a position is riskier than having no position
- Said the other way, having no position is less risky than having a position
- Therefore, exiting a position removes risk
- Similarly, exiting a part of a position removes some, but not all, risk
- Therefore, exiting a part of a position when a Profit Target is hit, reduces risk
- Therefore profit target exits reduce risk
- This is especially beneficial when trading many simultaneous positions
The system shown here is a simple 3-moving average trend follower, with a couple of additional parameters that define the profit target exit. I ran it twice; once with the profit target exits enabled, and again with the profit target exits disabled. I adjusted the risk-per-trade until the Max-Drawdown numbers were exactly equal (red circles); this makes comparison of the other performance statistics very easy. Results were:
Code: Select all
Profit Target Exits CAGR (%/yr) MaxDD(%) LongestDD MAR ratio Sharpe ratio
Enabled 43.00% 36.2% 7.8 months 1.19 1.41
Disabled 32.57% 36.2% 11.7 months 0.90 1.36
So there you go, Tommy: a counterexample to your claim that no trendfollowing system benefits from profit targets. Put some garlic on that crow before you eat it.
Edit: formatted prècis using bullet-list

subset: commoncrawl


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Babs & Lady Luck Speak On Why AMIL Aint Down With Them! "We On The Paper Chase, She On The D*ck Chase, She Works At Wal-Mart, She Got Fired"
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Today's news
Quite a game last night. We left here around 1 a.m. and it was truly something cool to watch. In fact, we looked into it this morning and at no point in the 116-year history of the Dodgers have they hit a leadoff homer and walk-off homer in the same game.
Lots of David Wells rumors out there and I'm sorry to say I haven't asked Ned if they're true or not. I can't be of much help there. He's got enough to do than worry about me chirping in his ear.
For the Spanish-speakers (are there any of you on here?), check out the front page feature on Maddux in today's La Opinion. It's very cool.
Also, check out Tom Hoffarth's blog on the Daily News. He took advantage of the Pavilion Party Pack, which has its last one on Sept. 21. That's all-you-can-eat Dodger Dogs, nachos, peanuts, popcorn, Cokes and water, plus your ticket, for $35. More information is here.
Lineup to follow soon…
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At the risk of jinxing it, word from the Typepad GM at Six Apart is that our comments issue once again seems to be resolved at MLBlogs. Anyone can please email me with reports of any continued spam-block filter messages should it happen again, though. Sorry for those inconveniences on this mighty fine blog.
Everyone, Mark from MLB emailed me directly to test the site, as I was still having problems yesterday, and it's working OK now. Thanks for all your help Mark !!
Go Dodgers !!
claro que ay I.T.D. que ablan espanol amigo Josh, the only thing i'm wondering if Maddux spoke espanol or had an interpreter?
Yo tambien hablo espanol.
I thought La Opinion only did soccer, I'm gonna have to check out the print edition at the local barber shop to believe it.
of course theres spanish speaker here….every dodger fan has to know atleast a little …lol
Where is the lineup for tonight? I am dying with anticipation.
Yo habla muy bueno chicarones. Yo lo gusto dodger baseball!
nate tu escrives el espanol como yo escrivo el ingles! pero eres fanatico de los Dodgers, por eso agarras un free pass.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone else speak French? I've always wanted to bring a sign to a game to see if I can get any response from Gagné or Martin.
Allez «LA Bleus» !
Yo hablo espanol bastante bien, entonces yo traduce la entrevista entre Greg Maddux y Carlos Alvarado. Desafortunadamente, La Opinion no escribe mucho sobre beisbol – solo futbol. No se porque, pero estamos tratando a cambiar eso.
Gracias pol.
Josh, tell Ned to pass on Wells, unless he can get him for something other than his top prospects. Let him go to San Diego. He won't make them any better.


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Who Cast the Owl Crop Circle Spell?
Aug 17, 2009
HP References
There is a rather offbeat yet fun Harry Potter reference in the news today as there is a report that a giant owl crop-circle has appeared in a field in England as a tribute to the late pet of Harry, Hedwig. The Telegraph reports that a new series of mysterious crop-circles (patterns cut in farmers fields) have appeared this summer in fields in Wiltshire, the most recent being this 400 foot pattern, perhaps as tribute to the late bird from the Harry Potter series. The paper says: "crop circle specialists are searching for a meaning, and some are
convinced it is a tribute to the teenage wizard. Steve Killick, a Harry Potter fan, said: "It is very exciting to think
that there are fans of Harry from other galaxies. "Most of the world has fallen in love with Harry Potter so it makes sense
that most of the universe will do eventually too."
While no word on who might have cast such a crop circle spell, or is the work perhaps of clever mischievous Muggles wishing to propel the rumor Hedwig lives 😉 others dismiss such a possible tribute:
"Pattern expert Karen Alexander dismissed the claims.She said: "The owl is an ancient symbol of wisdom, so perhaps it is a
message to people that we should be thinking deeper about the world around
us."This is obviously a time of some upheaval in the world so perhaps this is a
sign that we should be looking backwards for some wisdom in how to deal with
today's problems, rather than anything to do with Harry Potter."
What say you: A sign from Dumbledore, a gift in memory from the aliens, work of bored Muggles in the night? Feel free to weigh in below.


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SOUTHBOROUGH � At least one town employee is facing disciplinary action after the Public Works Department was captured on police surveillance video earlier this month piling snow on top of a state vehicle parked at the police station.
"It appears that some good employees made a couple of bad decisions," Town Administrator Mark Purple said of a Feb. 5 incident in which a state�Department of Transportation truck was damaged.
The Daily News observed a truck almost completely covered in a mound of snow in the police station lot on Feb. 6, the day after a�storm dumped about 8 inches of snow on the area.
At the time, Lt. Sean James said the DPW had plowed the lot and that police were looking into what happened. Multiple sources told The Daily News that DPW Director Karen Galligan and another DPW employee plowed snow against the truck.
MassDOT spokesman Michael Verseckes said the truck is owned by the state and driven by a Southborough man who parks it there in accordance with department regulations that prohibit him from taking it home.
Verseckes said the rear driver�s side of the truck was damaged by impact from either a plow or snow being piled up against the truck.
"We are working through the claims process to repair the truck and recover the cost of doing so," he wrote in an email on Feb. 13.
Verseckes said Wednesday the damage to the truck is still being appraised.
James said Wednesday he had completed his investigation of the incident and determined that criminal charges are�not warranted.
He said his investigation consisted of reviewing video of the plowing�from cameras installed in the police�station parking lot. He said he was not instructed to interview anyone from the Public Works department or to determine whether there were witnesses to what happened.
Police Chief Kenneth Paulhus, when asked by the Daily News�for a copy of the police report and for access to the surveillance footage, said Wednesday he would release any public information after speaking with Purple about the status of the town�s investigation.
Purple on Tuesday confirmed he was conducting an investigation. He said he had "no idea" whether police also�were investigating.
Purple said he could not say which employees were being investigated because of laws that protect their privacy.
"I have expressed our apologies (to the state), and told them that the matter would be addressed," he said.
Tuesday evening, selectmen held a closed-door meeting to "discuss the discipline of an employee,"�according to the agenda. Employee discipline is one of 10 exemptions to the�state Open Meeting Law, and allows selectmen to go into executive session unless the employee being disciplined requests it be open to the public.
Public Works Director Karen Galligan was the only person to emerge from the closed-door session after speaking with selectmen for about 20 minutes. She declined to comment on what happened or to say whether she was personally involved in the parking lot plowing.
Selectmen spoke behind closed doors for another 15 minutes before adjourning. Purple said after the session that his investigation was complete.
In an email Wednesday, Purple said that discipline would be forthcoming, but declined�to say what that would entail�or how many people would be punished.
Selectmen Chairman Daniel Kolenda referred comment Wednesday to Purple.
The resident who drives the truck did not respond to a request for comment. Verseckes said he believes�the state employee had�parked the truck there for some time with the town�s knowledge. The truck will no longer be parked in that lot, he said.
Brad Petrishen can be reached at 508-490-7463 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @BPetrishen_MWDN.
Video catches Southborough DPW covering state truck in snow
SOUTHBOROUGH � At least one town employee is facing disciplinary action after the Public Works Department was captured on police surveillance video earlier this month piling snow on top of a state vehicle parked at the police station.


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Tickwomp wrote: »
Thanks guys
Tvidotto: no doubt You did an amazing job yourself
lolthief wrote: »
Why is this forum so censored? I post something and it doesn't show up, needs to be approved first?
lolthief wrote: »
You take Talon from League of Legends, put his hood on a skin, and even give the skin his name.
Blatant theft.


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Dueling no-hit bids turn into a Giants loss
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New York -- Jake Peavy has made two starts for the Giants that ended with the intense right-hander beating himself up for a mistake or two. After 11 straight losses, he has the routine down pat.
It's a shame that Peavy blamed himself for Saturday night's 4-2 loss to the Mets because nobody who takes a perfect game into the seventh inning and loses it on a bad defensive play should be down on himself, even if a four-run rally resulted.
"I've got to make better pitches," Peavy said after falling to 0-2 as a Giant. "That's all there is to it. It's just frustrating because I felt we had a chance to win that game. I know I could have done more."
Yes, Daniel Murphy's one-out drive in the seventh was smoked, but chances are Peavy's perfect game would have remained intact had Gregor Blanco been the left fielder.
Michael Morse was still out there, even though he made the final out in the top of the inning, and misplayed the ball, which sailed over his head for a double. Morse initially took a step in and moved laterally.
David Wright then floated a single in front of Morse to put runners on the corners with one out. Peavy hit Lucas Duda to load the bases before Travis d'Arnaud broke a scoreless tie with a sacrifice fly.
Juan Lagares singled home a second run, and Wilmer Flores fired the coup de grace, a two-run double on a hanging changeup for a 4-0 Mets lead.
The game started as a pitching duel with historic overtones, as Peavy and Jacob deGrom both carried no-hitters into the seventh, then collapsed into a heap of scoring, most of it by New York.
Travis Ishikawa's pinch two-run single in the eighth, his first hit in this tour with the Giants, gave them a shot, but they scored no more.
The Giants lost for the first time in five games against the Mets this season, but a larger issue loomed.
Morse's defense in left field, adequate at best, was acceptable when he was hitting, but now he is not doing that either.
Morse has two home runs in 48 games since June 6. He has grounded into more double plays (nine) than he has RBIs (eight) during that stretch.
Now that Brandon Belt has returned from his concussion - he singled to start the two-run rally in the eighth - Morse returns to left field full time.
Manager Bruce Bochy still views Morse as a threat to opposing pitchers and made that clear when asked if he thought about replacing Morse for defense after he grounded out to end the seventh.
Morse stranded Pablo Sandoval, whose two-out double broke up deGrom's no-hitter.
"We didn't have our best defender out there, but it's hard to take out a big bat in the seventh inning of a tie game," Bochy said.
Morse ascribed the result to where he was positioned on Murphy's drive, saying, "I was playing shallow and he hit it pretty good. It kept going away from me and to the line. It kept carrying, kept going."
Peavy did not point to that ball, though, even if it did end his perfect game. He was more upset about Flores' two-run double that capped the rally and frustrated with the bloop single by Wright after Murphy's double.
"It stinks," Peavy said. "To win a game like that, you need a break like that, and that was probably the one I'd love to have back. You make a good pitch on a good player, and that's what good players do. They get just enough of it to float it over the infield."
Henry Schulman is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @hankschulman


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Good morning lovelies! I hope everyone is having a fantastic Friday. I know I am considering it's the end of the week. It's also the end of the month. Soooo that means the beginning of next month is bringing some awesome new events getting ready for this holiday season. First of all, the Winter Fair is about to begin! The fair runs from December 1 – 15th. I have some great things to show you today that will be available for this event.
First of all, this lovely new skin from Al Vulo! will be a featured item just for the Winter Fair. It's called Jade. This is the Fairy tone with Snow make up. So pretty and soft for the winter. Definitely something you should try if you are in fact a skin lover!
If you have never been to Mayden Couture, they do have some really cute designs available for the Winter Fair! This cropped mesh hoodie and mesh pants are both specials for this event! Another design worth getting your hands on. The hoodie comes with a with or without hair option (here I used my own hair), 3 sizes, and a great fitting alpha. It also is available in 3 colors. The pants also include 3 sizes and are available in gray or brown. These are something you don't want to miss out on.
The last thing I would love to show you today is this gorgeous hair from Truth. It's available at the mainstore or on Marketplace. It came out this past week and it is just gorgeous. I picked up the fades pack and decided to go with a red today for the paleness in the skin =D. Go try this one out. I promise you won't walk away empty handed.
Happy Friday Shopping!
❤ Dani
Skin: Al Vulo! – Jade – Snow – Fairy **Will be available tomorrow at Winter Fair**
Shape: Dani & Co.
Hair: Truth – Jade – Fades – Mesh **NEW**
Hoodie: Mayden Couture – Debby Hoodie – Mesh – Red **Will be available tomorrow at Winter Fair**
Pants: Mayden Couture – Marge Pants – Mesh – Gray **Will be available tomorrow at Winter Fair**
Eyes: Mayfly – Deep Sky Mesh Eyes – Twilight Sea Shadow
Lashes: Redgrave – ExtraLong
Pose: Exposeur – She's Crafty


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UltraViolet, Hollywood's attempt to tie physical media to movie downloads through an online locker, now has more than 5m accounts under its belt, but it's still not ready for prime time: it's key feature, a universal file format, is still not ready to be rolled out.
UV was launched a year ago. By February 2012, it had clocked up some 800,000 accounts, most of them in the US. Eight months on, UV remains a predominantly US affair, but the number of accounts has rocketed by more than 500 per cent, the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE), the company overseeing the technology, claimed this week.
Some 7200 UV-enabled Blu-ray Discs and downloads are available in the shops and online in the UK and the US - the BBC announced earlier this month that it will be contributing more to the total - with five virtual outlets now supplying UV-compatible content.
Brits can make use of Warner's Flixster service, but in the US Walmart's Vudu, Sony, Paramount and Universal also sell UV content and allow you to claim digital copies of UV-branded BDs. Barnes & Noble will be rolling out the UV-compatible Nook Video service over here and over there by the end of the year.
The DECE wants other, big name, suppliers to get on board, but it's easy to say you "hope" Apple, Amazon and Netflix join in, rather more difficult to persuade them to do so, favouring as they do their own, tightly controlled technology and business ecosystems.
However, at an event held in California this week, DECE executives said online stores will be opening and UV discs rolled out in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, France and Germany in 2013.
By then, UV's Common File Format (CFF) might be ready. This technology will allow content bought from one UV retailer to be accessed through another's site and software. It is the download equivalent of a disc - a file that will play in suitable software no matter where you bought it from.
Unfortunately, the DECE people admitted, it's not yet ready. The format is not yet complete, though it is being tested by UV supporting businesses. But no one seemed willing to say when consumer availability will kick off other than a broad "soon".
At the moment, download content is tied to suppliers' own playback apps, or streamed. But if the DECE has defined the infrastructure correctly, rolling out CFF versions of films will be just a matter of replacing one lot of files with another. UV accounts store access rights, not the content itself, so only films already downloaded will need to be replaced if you want full interoperability. ®


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Blurring the lines | Trending
A greater acceptance of gender neutral choices is changing not only a fashion mindset, but also skincare options and styling in general, one that doesn't conform to traditional signifiers.
Non Gender Specific Everything Cleanser, $49. While running a men's skincare business, Andrew Glass realised how segregated the beauty industry had become and so created Non Gender Specific. A brand for everyone, it delivers exceptional results for a wide range of skin types. Available at Priceline.
Free Ivory Knit shoes, $139.95. Combining flexibility and cushioning, the removable contour cushion insole combines the most cushy memory foam with anatomical arch support. hushpuppies.com.au
Elwood backpack, $240. The perfect unisex bag option, it has a luxury padded changing mat, insulated bottle holder, internal laptop pocket, smart phone pocket and roll top grab handle. tibaandmarl.com
Nami bowls, from $80 (set of five). A beautiful new range of porcelain bowls for casual dining, with three size options: a dipping bowl, rice bowl and larger multi-bowl - the perfect canvas for the fresh vibrant ingredients of Asian cuisine. noritake.com.au
Rag & Bone sunglasses, $340. Round frames are the trend du jour at everything from music festivals to Sunday barbecues, worn by anyone and everyone who's across up-to-the-minute style. For stockists, call (02) 9540 0500.
Mambo hoodie, $25. Comfy, oversized jumpers have a decidedly 1990s-vibe about them, loved by boys and girls of all ages as the temperature drops. bigw.com.au
Riga dining suite with Vibe chairs, $499. There's lots to love about this Scandi-inspired dining set, that'd look right at home in a chic apartment. focusonfurniture.com.au
Will & Bear unisex wool beanie, $49.50. There's plenty of headwear that suit people not based on their gender, but personal taste and style. amazon.com.au
Originals Lite hi-waisted trackies, $54.95. A favourite pair of tracksuit pants mightn't be seen by anyone but your family or housemates, but we all love them just the same. bonds.com.au
Water Drench mist, $52. The lightweight formula moisturises and clarifies skin, helping to visibly reduce the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles and pores for a more youthful-looking complexion. Oil-free, alcohol-free and fragrance free for all skin types. sephora.com.au
Ultra light down jacket, $109.90. There's no end to the number of items that can be worn by everyone, and winter jackets and coats have a multitude of options. uniqlo.com/au
Rub Rub Rub shower scrub, from $15.95. An exfoliating shower scrub that can also be used to wash, volumise and add shine to hair. au.lush.com
Amour slipper, $35. These unisex waffle slippers come in small, medium, large and extra large, and can be personalised with embroidery of your initials or an emoji. neueblvd.com.au


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This weekend San Antonio Symphony Principal Bassoonist Sharon Kuster will be featured in the Mozart Bassoon Concerto. The bassoon is rarely a solo instrument, so I thought a bit of information and history would be helpful. The bassoon has a range of over three octaves and it plays the tenor and bass role in the woodwind section. The bassoon weighs about seven pounds and its sound is produced by sealing your lips around a double reed made of cane. The player blows air through the two blades of cane, which causes them to vibrate. It has a dark, rich sound. Perhaps the most famous solo for bassoon is the role of the grandfather in Peter and the Wolf.
Here is a brief history from http://www.bassoonresource.org/…
"The modern bassoon has a colorful and complex past. It evolved from a 16th century instrument known by a variety of names – curtal or curtail (English), basson or fagot (French), dulcian or fagott (German), fagotto (Italian), and bajon (Spanish). This ancestor of the bassoon, which was also played with a double reed, was fashioned out of a single piece of wood rather than the four separate sections common to today's bassoon.
In the early 17th century, the curtal came in six sizes ranging in length from as short as 15″ to as long as 4′ 9". It was the French who later in that same century transformed the one-piece bass curtal into the four-piece instrument.
During the 18th and 19th centuries the bassoon was gradually improved and refined. It evolved from the 1713 three-key model played during the time of Mozart to six keys during Hayden's time to the present 17 to 24 key versions of today. Two schools of bassoon-making arose in the 1880s: the French school under Buffet and the German school under Heckel. Each had it own solutions to tone production, fingering and intonation.
19th century experiments in bassoon construction resulted in many interesting variations. There were bassoons for military bands with globular and other odd-shaped brass and wooden bells, bassoons in F and G called tenoroons, semi contrabassoons, and sub contrabassoons.
When organs were banned from English churches in 1644 as monuments to superstition and idolatry, music was supplied by small groups of instruments including the bassoon. Therefore, one of the earliest places bassoonists performed was in church.
In most early music written for the bassoon, it was used merely to play the bass line and it was usually tied to the continuo part. Then, in 1678, it became part of orchestras for French opera when Lully called for bassoons in his opera, Psyche.
During the 18th century, major solo and orchestral music was written for the bassoon elevating it's importance in the orchestra and it began to break away from just playing the continuo part.
Today the bassoon is used extensively in the symphony orchestra, opera, and most recently in the contemporary musicals of the 20th century, television, and movie soundtracks. Innumerable composers have written for the bassoon, particularly during the 18th century, and the repertoire includes impressive parts in orchestral scores, woodwind ensemble music and many bassoon solo concertos."
Here is a 3-minute video of five bassoonists and one contrabassoon playing the music from The Pink Panther.
Jack Fishman
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A new bill introduced today in the US House of Representatives seeks to require warrants before police can trawl through your e-mail or track your cell phone, reports CNET. The legislation is backed by several technology companies, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter. But given the government's history with privacy bills, it faces a high chance of getting blocked by the Department of Justice.
The bill was introduced by Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and would require officers to get a warrant before accessing e-mail or location information. Access to these data types is a notorious gray area in US courts.
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What is the sketchiest thing you've ever seen done with a machine?3/1
No one needs to admit if they saw it in their own shop and no one is allowed to ask ;) These sort of stories educate, right?
I'll start with one. Worked with a guy that was too lazy to joint rough lumber so he throws it into the table saw, no fence, entirely free hand, to make a straight edge. After seeing this and stopping dead in my tracks, he boasted of being old school, and explained how he's only ever gotten a peice kick back into him once doing this.
I asked how bad the kick back was and he told me it mangled his hand pretty good.
You can't fix stupid but you can one up it.
I had started a new job as a production manager of a completely untrained 5 man shop. My office was a little cube with windows in one corner of a 8,000 s/f room. I had a fair view of things, and a table saw that was used mostly for odd things the pre-hung door shop needed was right in front of one window. This place was full of bent and beaten equipment, and rural farm boys that were trying to figger out how to hang doors and do a few other things. Well intentioned, but inexperienced.
On about my 3rd day, as I was on the phone with a boss, I watched - as I talked - as a guy loaded a molding head into the table saw, and proceeded to stop flute some jambs. He used a fence, but since the flutes were stopped, he would set them onto the running molding head and hit his mark and then hand feed until he got to his second mark that told him to stop. Pick it up off the head, and reset the fence and do it again.
Now this was incredibly inefficient and sloppy, but it was all they knew. It was also very dangerous, since there was no stop block from which the stock could be held against to start the cut. If a guy allowed the part to back up just a hair, it would shoot back at speed. I had just read that these heads were no longer allowed in European shops, due to a high rate of injuries.
I watched and resolved I would to stop the one process and substitute a better one, later that day Well, the boss insisted I come talk to him, so I had to leave the shop hand at his task, with me hoping for the best.
So I get a call at the bosses office, telling me they just took Shop Guy #1 to the hospital. Yep, it was him - he backed up a jamb head a bit and it took off on him, and took off the end of his finger, about 3/4" of an inch. The finger tip was lapped over the far end of the part when it kicked.
There was nothing to recover, so to speak, so he had a long painful recovery. The next day we had a jig to do the fluting and a written process to follow. Two guys were taught to do it, and no one else was allowed. Then we evolved things and changed it over to routers to do it, and then we did the jambs ganged, in a batch of 100 at a time instead of one at a time. Labor on a fluted jamb went from 30 minutes to about 5 minutes, and the quality was much better.
And no bloody messes to clean up on the saw.
I have 2 for you. The first is the company makes a part that requires drilling holes on the edge of a board for wiring. The right handed models have a jig to drill in the right place but the left handed models are rare so no one wanted to make a jig. Instead one of the guys in the shop would take this board about 1-3/4" thick by 4" wide and 15" long and lower it on the table saw blade to cut a slot on the edge that was 2 inches deep but could not go past the ends. I tried to tell them to make the jig but the guy cutting did not mind. For as long as I was there he never got hurt,
The second one was a custom furniture shop where one person forgot to profile the edge before glue up and did it with a handheld router. The bit was larger than a panel raising bit and needed to be run at a slower speed. He used a router that did not have a speed adjustment so this large bit ran at 22000 rpm. A few seconds into the cut we heard a loud cracking sound a went to see. Turns out the bit bent over and hit the router base shattering the bit and throwing pieces everywhere. Surprising he did not get hit but the table top was damaged.
Jim, I caught this response this morning and I've been chuckling at it all day. Should I also tell him that a real man would use a triple chip at full height? Heheh
So here's another doozie... I didn't see it myself but its recorded as the stupidest injury in the history of this shop. A guy wanted to cut some cheese cloth in half so he rolled it up and took it to the table saw. I couldn't even think this stuff up, to make it up, if I tried.
Result was no lost fingers, but lots of deep gauge cuts. The cloth got tangled in the blade and the blade stalled, but drew his two hands in for a fantastic series of cuts all over his two sets of knuckles.
I keep hearing that its hard to find skilled workers in the area... I guess so!
I didn't see it myself, but one of the architects at our outfit was observed cutting loose bundles of odd size rippings into kindling at the radial arm saw by first making a pull cut, then sliding the bundle over and making a push cut. Fortunately he was stopped before it blew up in his face.
It is curious to see how even experienced workers who ought to know better will do unsafe things on machinery. I have seen a carpenter with 15 years experience do a rabbet with two saw cuts in the wrong order, leaving the offcut trapped between the blade and fence. It's important that people feel able to call others out when they see something unsafe going on. The cost of a serious accident in lost productivity, possible fines and increased insurance costs, quite aside from the devastating effect on the injured person and his family can be very tough to deal with.
This guy was doing an install in a second floor apartment and set his saw up on the balcony outdoor. This was Winter (I'm in Norway) so he was wearing mittens. Took his thumb off, threw it into the snow, had to get a K9 to find it. Did not end well.
fun diagrams...
I hate that I have so many of these, but in other sense, open discourse is better than none.
Free hand groove cutting on a 1/2 thick, 5 1/4 height 4 3/4 wide peices with router. In case that is not clear--take your router, flip it over, hold it in one hand, while you free hand glide the other peice along the running bit to stop cut into the side. Was also told that (wait for this) wearing gloves would help me hold the peice down.
I was actually asked to do this 1 week into my apprenticeship at this shop. Told him politely but firmly, uhn-uhn, no, ain't happening. Got a little dump of animosity, was sent to set up my own router table jig to do it, with angry pass-by glances while I figured it out on my own as a newb. Figured it out, but holy crap eh?
At christmas time we used to get turkeys or hams.
One of the guys hauled his frozen turkey to the band saw and sliced it in half.
Said it was to big for just him and his wife.
Side order of mdf with your salmonela?
On my sliding table saw:
It worked - - sort of.
The shop where I worked used to make a table with quarter-round legs with a 3" radius on the outside. The radius would be shaped on a shaper with a 3" radius cutter. It was a massive custom cutter, and it weighed a lot.
I used to have one of those behemoth De Walt radial arm saws, a massive beast that could crosscut 30", and used an 18" blade. It had a crank on the end of the arm with a gear & chain drive attached to the motor so you could advance the blade through thick timbers with some control. I was making a bunch of log beds at the time, and was trying to make a clean cut through 10" diameter logs that wouldn't involve as much grinding & sanding to clean up as a chain saw. So I built a jig to hold the logs securely, took the guard off, and put a 24" blade on it. Obviously, I didn't understand the correlation of motor rpm and blade diameter... When I turned it on, it took almost 30 seconds to reach full speed and sounded like a turbo prop aircraft taking off. It scared the other guy in my shop so much he ran outside. I went ahead and made the cut, which actually came out pretty good. I went ahead and used it for while, but realized it was too dangerous to continue, not to mention inefficient if my crew was going to leave the building every time I turned it on. I came up with another plan, and made a sliding table for my bandsaw to do these crosscuts which worked better in all respects. 25 years later, the saw is long gone, but the blade is stil hanging on the wall to remind me...
Raul--woah!! Please oh please tell me you have a pic of that set-up. I've heard of alaskan mills but that might be a newfie mill :)
Duster--I'm not sure radial arm saws are as dangerous as people think they are. I have one in my home shop and I love that thing. It's me funky angle wood god.
But even my super sketchy shop is afraid of radial arm saws. School I went to as well. I hear they are getting phased out because climbing cuts are dangerous... But simple kinetics--you hold it right and the cut is against piston forced forearm. No finess to it, just proper body placement. plus the thing has a stop--it's not like the cimlbing cut has free range.
Dunno--I'm pretty safety minded and I for sure love my radial arm saw. I'm not sure if general reticence towards the device is based in fact or superstition.
Mel - I agree radial arm saws can useful tools in the right hands, but I wouldn't have in my shop now. Simply too dangerous in the hands of an untrained and/or oblivious employee. Have you ever tried ripping with a radial arm saw? Now, that really scary...
Yeah, I totally I hear you on radial arm ripping. I had a strange grain-match obsession order for a side gig- and ended up having to make my own crown with a radial arm by ripping at an angle. Made inverted arc crown for a mantle with hard stock. Fun as ever, and turned out great, but I think it's one of those things--know your parallels and perpendiculars that makes your machine safe and you're fine.
But you are right--do you want to trust just anyone with it? Probably not.
About 10 years ago we had just moved into a new location. There was a lot of odd constuction projects going on, and a number of temporary workers who were not around for long. I had sent one "downstairs to get a 2x4", and he was gone for a long time. I went to check on him and he was standing at the table saw, ready to make a cut. He was on the outfeed side of the table, with the throat plate removed and the sawblade fully raised and running. I was able to grab him just before he fed the board into the wrong side of the spinning blade. When questioned, he said he could not find a 2 x 4, and was going to make one. He was holding a board of 8/4 x 6" wide teakwood, which was "too wide". Close call. Everyone needs training, even if they claim to have experience!
Come on Scott, you should have grabbed a video camera for that one!
HAH! Jim! I keep thinking I need to pull out the iphone video camera and just document the stupid. For academic reasons, of course....
But wrong side of the blade, I wonder if that would result in the slap stick classic equivalent of stepping on a rack and getting the handle in the face? I seriously wonder how that would go--back blade tooth means force is upwards. Any chance you can get this guy back in the shop for further research? ;)
What would happen? Based on experience with kickbacks and flying wood parts, the board would have launched almost straight away from the operator (standing on the wrong side) at an angle between 15 and 25 degrees above the plane of the table. The blade will start to make a cut, but then the feed speed and upward direction of the blade will combine to both raise and self-feed the wood part. within milliseconds the blade will take larger and larger bites, grabbing the board and accelerating it, depending on how heavy the board is and how much traction the blade can get. The biggest danger would be whether he would be able to let go of the part before it pulled his body into danger, after that it becomes whether the board would richochet off the wall or something else and strike someone. I had estimated before that kickbacks happen at around 90 to 120 miles per hour, and have even seen someone calculate this out. People have told me "Oh I can get out of the way". Not a chance.
Oh right! Forward feed force would suck you in, indeed.
I also got a similar range on speed when I calculated it out, but my upper range was in the 140 mph area, but that is of course depending on horse power.
I love that anyone could think they could even have time to do anything about that on the fly.
Rule of thumb that I like, is when you are performing any machine operation, imagine the stock magically disappears, and think about where your hands are at that momment.
BTW I wish I could make the whole world stop manually pressing stock into dado cuts right over the blade. Feather boards, dudes, feather boards. "Pain in the ass thing to do" is actually 2 minutes of time.
I now realize I have too many responses to your question..... Here is one that shows some people should not be allowed around a table saw.
I once worked for a commercial contractor that started his own wood shop to supply his and other jobs. They would get into some ratty old building and pay low wages to 'apprentices' to tear things out, and build some rudimentary walls and such.
A 10" Sears table saw was on one site and giving them enough problems that the project manager called and demanded I come down to fix it, though it was far from my job description. I asked what the problem was and he said the blade kept coming loose.
When I got there, in the center of a small group of head scratchers was the offending saw. First thing I noticed was that the blade was mounted backwards. I asked them to turn it on. The blade was turning the wrong direction, as a result of the motor rotation being incorrect. Because of this, they had compensated (term?) by mounting the blade backwards and feeding stock into the saw from the back of the machine. This made the blade come loose, of course. Yes, they even walked around to the 'back' of the saw, actually the front, to set the fence, and used the fence on the wrong side of the blade. All this, and it never dawned on any of them what was really wrong.
Turns out it all started when the company electrical apprentice reversed the motor rotation since he thought it wrong to feed the wood into the rotation. The first guy to use the saw, standing in the 'correct' position, had it grab a piece and jerk it from his hands, shooting it across the room, so they all went to the other side. Logical enough, eh?
Woah!!! Now that is completely nuts... I'm putting that one up for the big ribbon winner.
I marvel the most at the guy that had the capacity to reverse motor direction on a machine, yet somehow has no clue about something as basic as directional force.
Or perhaps this man is a genius--it's not a table saw anymore, it's The Lumber Launcher. Inventors convention, here we come. Bring some targets to hang on the wall for our lumber shooting pleasures. Or some sick new variant of dodge ball ;)
Okay, last one.
A former boss, one of the worst I ever encountered, was often complaining about various costs. One day it was the 3-4 diameter bundles of rippings that came off the ripsaw for the molding operation. We generated a bundle about every 12-16 hours, so they could pile up. We would eventually load a flatbed and take them off to the dump, after hoping someone would cart them away for kindling or whatever.
The owner also owned a concrete company, so one day he shows up with a few guys and they proceed to build up a big formwork that is eventually filled with concrete and re-bar to make 10" thick walls. They make a 6 x 18 x 10 tall open top box of concrete on a pad in the lumberyard. Two 8x 10 draft holes below, with three 3/8 x 6 x 6 sheet iron lids on hinges of a sort to cover the top. And a 20 tall chimney with an 8x8 flue. It is an incinerator of epic proportions, detailed out by a man that started his cocktail hour at about 8;30 in the morning.
A few days later, it was time for a test run. I suggested a small bundle to see how it works, he laughs and said to fill it up. We did, and he lit the match through one of the draft doors. It smoked and smoldered for a bit, then it started to spread, and spread, and then roar, and smoke and roar louder, and smoke so intensely that the flue looked like a jet engine gone bad. Thick gray smoke poured out at high velocity. The vents below were loudly, ominously, sucking in air, so he shut them down to limit the draft. Everyone was backing up. 10', 20', 40' and then more. The sheet steel lids curled like potato chips and let more air in. The fire department showed up, alerted by many calls the lumber yard was on fire. It was like watching a small volcano erupt.
Keep in mind all this is taking place in one of the largest lumber retail yards in the State 14 acres of softwoods in open sheds, as well as warehouses full of wood products, without a sprinkler or even a pond in sight.
Panic crossed his face, as it already had on everyone elses, but he stood firm, and refused to put it out. Good thing, since there was nothing but a now very ineffective looking wall mount fire extinguisher on hand. No hose, no nothing else. He held the firemen at bay. He hardly flinched when the concrete (yes, it was green, with lots of water in it) cracked with the sound of stone torn asunder. Then again and again, popping and snapping.
He stood there for hours before he left, watching the smoke curl up into the sky. The next day, before sunup, he had a crew there to haul away the failed experiment. They succeeded in getting it all out except for the black burns deep in the pavement. This they sawed and hammered out and re-poured in the next 2 days, until all trace was removed. Never to be spoken of again.
wait a sec---not sure i get it---why was it so ignitable? Are you saying he stuck his offcut bundles into the concrete structure??
So if we veer off woodworking for a bit but keep on the sketch talk.... I used to manage live event tours. Nothing exciting, mostly marketing events. So one day I get a gig on Vancouver Island to set up a bunch of massive tents. Owner sends me over with his cousin and brother, that I didn't know at the time.
2 5-ton trucks full of gear, two drivers, 2 workers. We show up, I go meet the client, they stay at the hotel, and they proceed to get phenomenally shit-faced.
Not just too many beers shit-faced, but like whiskey shit-faced. I come back so we can bring the trucks in to the venue, and they are a) too sloshed to work b) too sloshed to drive. But it's events--tight deadlines, and out of town at night--no chance for resources.
So I bring them to at least off load the gear at the venue, but they had to ride in the back of the 5 ton. They decided to have a fight-club style drunken brawl in the back while the truck is in motion. The clanging and banging was out of this world. I get to site, middle of the night, luckily no one there, and off leash these morons who are now not only drunk, but full of cuts and bruises.
Then I had to grab a cab to go and get the other truck. I left these two idiots to off load, knowing this could only get worse, but too young and too freaked out to know what one even does with this. Came back to an off loaded truck to my surprise.
We somehow pulled off the show, on time at that, but what it took. And the phone call to the owner to explain that we are banned from the hotel and he has extra cab fees and bruised up relatives--not fun.
Not at my shop, but harvested from a machinery shopping trip. PPE required. Self explanantory.
Holy beast! What is it exactly?
This machine is a pin router. It can be used for many types of pattern work, shaper work, etc. Usually they have 2 speeds, 10,000 and 20,000 rpm. I am assuming that they were using some kind of thin sawblade type tool that was appropriate for the speed, but this type of thing is difficult to guard, and if you lft or mishandle the wood part you were cutting you could probably destroy the saw blade, which might then come to visit you. Even a small blade 3" or 4" diameter could be quite dangerous here. The table is approximately the height of your stomach.
Woah!! Man alive, a blade on that thing??
Sometimes I feel like the whole world has gotten way to overcautious ("This school is a peanut free zone!") but then I look at trades and remember that there are some pretty insane mofos out there :)
What are you going to use it for?
I have a full shop of salvages at home. I once worked for a manufacturer and decided after to never buy anything new again. Except maybe food and underwear.
Maybe not sketchy, maybe not insane, but foolish and stupid-


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jon_12091 wrote:Made of Stars wrote:But the YECs are right in one thing: An old earth, with evolved life, brings the whole thing down, and so creationism is intertwined with and fundamental to Christianity's narrative.
Ahh' the adoption of the most suspect position of those you are ideologically opposed to as a means of attacking them.
You're familiar with the likes of AiG, right? There's nothing unusual in YECs thinking that an old earth and evolution threatens the entire Christian narrative. If you're in any doubt, or haven't looked for yourself, check out Sections 2 and 3 here. Not so much a 'suspect' as a 'core' position for the avid creationist, dontchathink?
jon_12091 wrote:Given your insistence on picking an interpretation of the Bible that has little historical or theological basis I suspect you might be happier here.
I'm sorry? A literal interpretation of the Bible has 'little historical or theological basis'? Perhaps we're talking across each other here... I have to hope so... You might be happy with a 'nonliteral' interpretation of the Bible, but who are you then to say what is allegory and what is not?
jon_12091 wrote:Quite frankly as far as being a 'stakeholder' in UK science education you're on a par with Byers and I suggest you might want to look up "pluralism" as well.
Nice. I've been on this forum less than ten posts and had remarks like this made on two occasions already. Classy.
I may not be in the UK, granted, but I have kids in primary schools where the local Anglicans think they've a divine right to dictate morality, amongst other things. My point is that these people are trying to inject more than cute creation and flood stories into the curriculum, and taking the position that 'we're just interested in keeping creationism out' is somewhat blinkered, if not frankly naive.
It's somewhat cute, yet disturbing, that people have headed off down rabbit holes about homosexuality/homophobia because I make a point that these guys can inject religion into a myriad of topics on which children deserve rational, evidence-based discourse from adults without a religious barrow.
As to pluralism, how far does your pluralism extend? Are you prepared to 'teach the controversy'? A cold hard reality is that some things are right, and some things are wrong. Evolutionary biology is right, creationism is wrong. What would your 'pluralistic' approach be here? Lay the comfortable lies out with the hard truths and let the little darlings choose for themselves?
jon_12091 wrote:Out of curiosity do you believe that 'God' is scientifically testable?
Define 'God', then we can chat. If said God has any interaction with the physical realm, then those interactions are testable. If not, then said God is irrelevant, if it exists at all. What's your view? Are you a happy deist?
At risk of sending someone off down a rabbit hole here, but do you think that homosexuality is 'scientifically testable', as you put it? What does science suggest should be taught in schools about homosexuality? Or is a rational, evidence-based position on this topic not important for kids to hear? Should they just get street smut, or pious pronouncements from the pulpit?
But back to the topic.
I visited this site on the understanding that it was a discussion board for a Centre for Science Education, perhaps one with some academic standing, or association with formal educational bodies. One that might be prepared to make evidence-based position statements on a range of topics in school curricula.
How disappointing.


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I am helping host a baby shower for a sweet lady in my church along with a friend of mine. Of course we are making everything that we can and only buying things that we cannot make!
I got into my scrapbook room this weekend (for some much needed therapy) and came up with a couple of ideas for shower favors. The baby's room will be done in cupcakes which is why our theme for the shower is cupcakes. The main colors are lavender and coral. I bought the sweet tooth cricut projects cartridge several months ago and this is my first time to play with it!
So, what do you think? I think this is my favorite option so far. I still don't have a clue what to put in it???? Later this week I'll post the second favor item that I made.
Check back over the next few weeks. I'm sure that I'll have many more fun projects for this shower to show you. If you have any questions, please let me know. Thanks for stopping by!


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Penally beach is actually an extremity of Tenby's South beach rather than a beach or bay in itself, with dunes at the rear. Behind the dunes at Penally Tenby's 18-hole Golf course was established and the village has also been the location of an army camp and firing range for many years.
Penally is an ancient village which is said to have been the favourite residence of St Teilo, who was born in nearby Gumfreston and buried in Penally. Or was he? The old legend is that when he died there was a dispute between Penally, Llandeilo and Llandaff as to where his body should be laid to rest. After a night of fervent prayers a miracle solved the probem when next morning three identical bodies were found and each parish had the privilege of burying one of the three. Tenby's Roman Catholic Church and School are dedicated to him.
Behind the local hotel are the ruins of the medieval chapel of St Deiniol, once believed to have monastic assocations.
When the railway came to Tenby in 1865, the high embankment built across the dunes backing the resort's South Beach proved the final nail in the coffin of the Ritec estuary which was navigable right up to St Florence in the 11th century.
Quite sizeable ships were able to sail up the Ritec River, into what at high tide was a virtual lagoon cutting through Tenby Marshes and spreading between Penally and Gumfreston. It was still wide enough in 1643 to block the advance of Parliamentary forces making for Tenby from the South.
Land reclamation had started at the turn of the 19th century and in 1811 the embankment was constructed across the valley behind the dunes when the Ritec was culverted and a stone bridge carrying the road was built. The accumulation of sand carried towards Tenby on the south west winds did the rest.
The south beach had already formed a post-glacial bay-bar from Giltar to Tenby, and the works in the valley accelerated this process, blocking the estuary mouth and raising the dunes called The Burrows to protect the reclaimed land inside. While draining the land, traces of early fish-eating men were found near the ruined cottage named 'The Old Quay' just above Hoyle's Mouth Cave, where so many prehistoric remains were unearthed. Halfway between the older embankments on the slope of the hill an ancient boat was also discovered, in fact a dugout hollowed from a single tree.
As late as the 1800's records show that local people remembered a time when vessels sailed for over a mile across what is now pasture land, as far as Holloway Quarry, discharging their cargoes at the bottom of Pill Field. In 'Allen's Guide to Tenby' published in 1868 the author describes how vessels "were laid up high and dry over winter,' during the last 100 years beneath the hill near the station.
Hoyle's Mouth is an ancient limestone stream-cavern which archaeologists said had been a hyena den, later occupied by Neolithic men. Many finds made there are now on display in Tenby Museum.


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Family Photos With Five Boys
A True Story by Emily W.
December 2010
Max, can you get shoes on Gabe? No, not his flip flops. Put his little boots on him. Gabey, GABEY! JUST LET MAX HELP YOU! Hold still and put your feet in! Now go get in the car, boys!
Doug where's Sam? SAM! PUT YOUR PANTS ON AND GET IN THE CAR! Wait, first see if you can get Gray-Gray to laugh while I put him in his car seat.
Doug, do you have the camera? Is it charged?? Are you sure???
Yes, I have the brush. No, Gray isn't wearing that. I have to put his shirt on at the last minute so it's not soaked with slobber for the picture. Yes, I have a different shirt for all the boys.
We're going up to the Gorge, Max. No, you can't bring the DS. We'll only be in the car for an hour, Sammy! You can bring a book, though. No! No DVD player! It's a one hour drive!"
(Ninety minutes and one emergency pit stop later, we arrive at Oirase Gorge.)
"Doug, where's the clean shirt I had out for Sam? No, I took it from him so he wouldn't smush it and gave it to you. You were supposed to take that pile! Oh well! He'll have to wear the one with the hole in it! We can Photoshop it later.
Hey everybody, Can the W's go first 'cause our kids are probably going to fall in the river or a mud puddle in a minute...!? Thank you!!
Okay boys remember what Daddy said!
You're going to be in big trouble if you don't smile!
No, don't look at me, look at the camera! Someone get Gray to look! NO, at the CAMERA!
Sam, come back! You have to be in the picture or no Wii for a week! Gabey, calm down, Daddy's not going to let you fall over the railing! Max, I want a REAL smile! Think of something silly like the time you knocked Mommy off the bed! Yeah, Now smile like THAT!
I did brush his hair but he messed it up again! Can someone get Gray to look? Anyone have a tissue? Can you wipe his face off? Max, that is a fake smile! Smile normal! Sam, quit looking at Gray and look at the camera!
Put your hands down!
Face forward!
Stop touching him!
Don't kick!
Look at the camera!
(Doug, is my hair weird? Is there lipstick on my teeth?)
Okay boys, just a few more! Now, one…two…three…
--The End--
Here's wishing you a calm and peaceful Christmas and relaxing New Year!
Hope you appreciate the picture!!!
Love, The Dub Family
Douglas, Emily, Maxwell (9), Samuel (6),
Gabriel (3), and introducing, Grayson Brandon (8mns)


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Japanese giant Panasonic has said no to netbooks: it's not going to make a Small, Cheap Computer. It's reasoning is that SCCs are consumer products and it's in the business of selling to, well, business.
Clearly it doesn't - for the moment - believe executives and mobile workers want ultra-compact laptops.
Given the battery life of your average SCC - poor, basically - Panasonic's evaluation is probably correct for now.
Never say never, we'd suggest - look at what Asus hopes to achive with the N10 notebook-not-netbook: build an Atom-based laptop that big business will buy into.
Pah! says Panasonic. Right now, Toshi Harada of Panasonic's Kobe factory told local reporters this week, "performance is too low to work with office documents or other applications".
Tell that to all the folk who use SCCs for just that - a lot of journos at shows, for instance. What we think the Panasonic comment really means is that performance is too low to work with Windows Vista. But who wants to work with Vista, anyway?
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Miller Named 2013-14 Faculty Recognition Award Recipient
Dr. Jeffrey Miller, associate professor of English and Journalism and director of Civitas, is the recipient of the 2013-2014 Augustana Student Association (ASA) Faculty Recognition Award. The award recognizes outstanding teaching and contributions to the Augustana Community by a faculty member.
Students nominate professors they feel display one or more of the five core values of the College (Christian, Liberal Arts, Excellence, Community, Service) as well as how those faculty members have positively impacted their experiences at Augustana.
Following are excerpts from Dr. Miller's nominations:
"In establishing Augustana's Civitas Honors Program, Dr. Jeffrey Miller stands as a pertinent example of excellence. Civitas encourages students to embrace all of Augustana's core values; they are the pillars of the program, and Civitas students are encouraged to explore topics directly related to each of them. By spearheading this program and seeing it through, Dr. Miller helped create a legacy at Augustana that will endure for generations to come."
"I firmly believe that this professor is one of the very best and the brightest, most humble and hardworking professors of our already superior staff at Augustana College. This professor has never allowed me an A, but continually pushed me towards my best work with an improvable A-minus. This professor has patiently advised me through discussions of thesis work and the possibility of switching majors. This professor has been there to advise me through difficult classes and difficult seasons in life outside of the classroom, equally thoughtful, professional, and fair in all cases. And although this professor would defer with grace and humility this award to another professor, this professor's personal and professional contributions to Augustana College are worth nothing short of pride and honorable recognition."
"With Dr. Miller's tireless forethought, organization and management, Civitas has instructed and contoured some of the finest students from Augustana College, networking the brightest professors in teamwork from all departments for extraordinary classes in justice, freedom, pertinence, and deputyship."
Miller teaches courses in journalism, as well as foundational courses in composition and literature. He also teaches American film and the capstone course "Cinema, Character and Culture," in addition to the "Reading Augustana" course in the Civitas program. His areas of interest include transnational television and film and American media history. He is the author of "Something Completely Different: British Television and American Culture" (University of Minnesota Press, 2000). He also serves as adviser to the college newspaper, The Mirror. Miller's Ph.D. in American Studies is from Michigan State University.
The ASA Faculty Award recipient is invited to speak at Senior Celebration over Commencement weekend. This year, Senior Celebration is set for Friday, May 23.


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Victorinox has been making Swiss Army knives with USB drives for a while now, but their Swiss Beat MP3 Player has got to be the first gadget that will both let you listen to Michael Bolton's "Time, Love and Tenderness" as well as slit someone's carotid artery.
Swiss Beat is a removable USB flash-based 1GB music player that handles the WMA, WAV, and Ogg formats, has a built-in FM radio as well as a voice recorder that saves to mp3. It works with PCs and Macs, comes with earphones, a remote control, a belt clip and an arm strap for jogging. Oh, and the three most basic of Swiss Army Knife tools: a two inch blade, mini-scissors and a nail file. MSRP is supposed to hover around $250 but ThinkGeek's selling it for $169.99.
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Traffic crash interrupts response to shed fire
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SMELSER TOWNSHIP — Emergency crews responding to a shed fire also found themselves at the scene of a traffic crash Thursday.
The Grant County Sheriff's Office said crews were fighting a fire at 3657 Highway 80 in Smelser Township when at 5:05 p.m. a car rear-ended another car that had been stopped by firefighters controlling traffic at the fire scene.
The car driven by Michael Connolly, 44, of Platteville was traveling north when it struck a car driven by Nieley Daily, 26, of Platteville. Daily's car careened across the oncoming lanes and went into the ditch, according to deputies.
A firefighter dove into a ditch to avoid getting struck, according to investigators.
Highway 80 was closed to traffic for about an hour.
Connolly, Daily and Daily's 6-year-old daughter were transported to Southwest Health Center in Platteville for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
Connolly was cited on suspicion of inattentive driving. Daily was cited on suspicion of not having insurance on her car.


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Seventy-five days ago, Ralph Krueger was named head coach of the Edmonton Oilers. Then, poof, he disappeared from public view.
After months of noisy public debate on the fate of Tom Renney, coverage of Brent Sutter's audition under Kevin Lowe at the world championships and then then revelation in this space that he was going to get the job, complete with detailed backgrounding of the life and times of the former Swiss national coach, Ralph Krueger was press conferenced and then just sort of went away.
Where did he go? What's he been doing? What's he been thinking?
For the most part, Ralph Krueger went and spent the summer consorting with a bunch of bald eagles, black bears and a family of loons.
"After all of this happened to me, going back to nature was a great thing," said Krueger of becoming an NHL head coach for the first time, taking a road seldom traveled to a top job and, after a busy first week on the job, returned to his summer cottage near Kenora, Ont.
"The great thing about nature is that it looks at you exactly the same. The eagles and the bears don't change the way they view you one bit.
"We've got the biggest bald headed eagle population in North America. There are three nests within two miles of my cabin. We've got lots of black bears. And we have the same family of loons on the lake which were there when we bought the cabin in 1996."
Ralph Krueger is back in Edmonton full time, starting today, preparing for training camp as if there were actually going to be one, he has been in and out-of-town a few times for three or four day stretches. And he's found the reaction of the local population to be slightly more interested in him than those bald eagles.
"My recognition has gone up dramatically," was the first thing he noticed.
"When I came back I still did my stairs up from the river valley. I love running the river valley and finishing it by running up those stairs. I did it three times and it was fun to have people recognize me.
"I did it a lot when I was the associate coach. I still kind of smile remembering that a Sun photographer asked if I minded him taking a picture of me out there one day. He had no idea who I was. They didn't run the picture with the river valley stairs story either," he laughed about the photo accompanying this column.
Krueger didn't know what to expect with the reaction to his hiring here.
"My wife Glenda asked me the same question. I told her they've been really nice so far. The people have been very friendly. They wish me good luck and welcome me in the grocery stores. They've just been very warm.
"I haven't lost a game yet, but that's how I hope it stays. I just want to be Ralph. The same guy."
The reaction from Europe which was Krueger's hockey home for two decades, has been different.
"Unbelievable," he said. "Through the roof.
"The media reception in Europe has been very, very strong. Really positive. The Europeans are very excited. My sense is that they feel very proud, like I'm carrying a torch for them."
Krueger said his wife will be here for the season but not until the end of training camp.
"She's never happily with me at training camp. Over the years she's learned that training camp and playoffs are never a time you want to be around a hockey coach."
Krueger said he may have been out there with the bears, loons but his mind seldom left his hockey team.
"While the coaches meetings begin Monday, during the summer I thought about the team non-stop. I always think about my teams non-stop during the summer.
"I'm an early morning person and I like being out there with nature. In the summer I like to do something different ever day. I go running. I go biking. I've taken up stand-up paddle-boarding. I do that for hours. And most of the time I'm doing those things, I'm spending my time thinking about the team and thinking about the players and how I can tap into them.
"Tapping into your players is, I believe, the most important thing you can do. I think most NHL coaches are pretty equal when it comes to the technical side of the game."
Tapping into a player isn't an overnight thing. But it had to be for Krueger the day he signed in the case of one specific player.
While you may picture Krueger as having been signed and press conferenced only to have a long disconnect which may go really long with the lockout looming, it certainly hasn't worked like that. Not from Day 1.
"When it came to the interaction with management, we got to know each other quickly in the Justin Schultz case.
"Very quickly. The day I signed I left you guys at the press conference and went to the airport and got on owner Daryl Katz's private plane and flew to Toronto to work on a very serious project that we were able to win."
It wasn't his first time on Katz's plane.
"They actually sent it to Kenora to pick me up to fly me to Edmonton for the press conference."
Talk to some of the people in the room where the Oilers made their pitch to free agent Wisconsin college star defenceman and they'll tell you Krueger was brilliant. Krueger says the same thing about everybody involved.
"Craig MacTavish was waiting for us in Toronto. We prepared for the meeting that evening," he said of being given an hour and a half to make a presentation.
"The next day was something like I've never experienced.
"Management talked about the big picture, our future and the new downtown arena. Taylor Hall joined us and talked about the players. Paul Coffey called in to talk to Justin on the phone in the middle. I spoke a good 15 to 20 minutes.
"MacT had drawn up a very organized and well thought-out concept that we presented.
"The presentation was very open and very honest. I think that's what Justin felt very comfortable with. Justin felt very connected in that time period. I think that had a lot to do with the decision he made, which I believe will turn out to be a very wise decision."
"I told him it was the responsibility of the head coach to do everything in my power to find his potential, my opportunity, to make him the best player he could be.
"I knew he was a big team player and I really went into what we're all involved with here in trying to create a team growing on a journey. I talked about that from several different directions — athletically, with the human element and the character.
"I came at him pretty philosophical. I tried to explain how I wanted a very compact, very honest, very hard working team environment.
"I found out before we got there that Justin is a first-one-on-the-ice, last-one-off kind of player. I didn't tell him it would be easy. I told him it would be hard. I didn't put any roses on the table. I put the facts. I sensed Justin liked the facts. There was no color coding or icing. Not from me. Not from anybody.
"We explained where we saw his potential. We never guaranteed him a top four defenceman role or ice time or anything like that. It's obvious he wants to earn it. And I'm confident his ability will take him there very quickly."
During the three days it took for other teams to make their presentations, Krueger thought a lot about Schultz and how fortunate he'd be in this situation if they landed him.
"I imagined the kind of defenceman we could most use. I thought of the profile of someone to fit in for the future. And I saw Justin Schultz.
"It was very big moment for me when I received the call from Steve Tambelini. I was at development camp. Justin is an important piece."
Krueger said it felt like being hired one day and getting a second No. 1 pick presented to you three days later.
"For me it was more than another early pick in the draft. He's matured already to an advanced stage. He's further developed than a first pick overall. An 18 year old defencean is almost always a couple of years away."
Ralph Krueger can't wait to coach him and all the top young talent which has been assembled on the team. But he's probably going to have to wait. And maybe quite a while.
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EA's web-based strategy revival of classic RPG series Ultima has entered open beta, with thousands of players fortifying their towns for the inevitable invasion by everyone imaginable. Will you join the fray?
The original Ultima was a series of PC role-playing games with rich stories and deep character development, so disappointment over Lord of Ultima being a strategic kingdom-building simulation more akin to Heroes of Might & Magic is quite understandable. Still, it's a free-to-play persistent-world strategy game that can be played in your web browser, so we can overlook a few missteps, as long as everyone is having a good time.
If you're interested in a way to waste a whole lot of work time without having to install additional programs on your work PC, head over to the Lord of Ultima website and get started on your little slice of heaven, before everyone else comes along and destroys it.
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Raincountry Fly Fishers demonstrate new fly tying innovation
Published: 03/17/2011 12:15:00
Spring is right around the corner, and a lot of folks are beginning to think about fishing, but one group in particular is a little ahead of the game, they think about fishing all winter long. It's a group of local fly fishing enthusiasts known as the Raincountry Fly Fishers, and we attended one of their meetings to see a fly tying demonstration and learn a little about the club. Brad Elfers, one of its members, filled in a few details for us;
VIDEO: Spring is right around the corner, and a lot of folks are beginning to think about fishing, but one group in particular is a little ahead of the game. (Image: Rik Pruett)
"Well the club's been around at least since the 1980's, and they meet in the fall, and in the winter and into early spring, and they meet twice a month. One meeting is generally a presentation, some kind of a topic of interest to local fly fishers, maybe it's where somebody took a trip, maybe it's some local tactics or techniques or things like that. And then the other meeting, the 2nd meeting of the month is generally a fly tying meeting where a new pattern will be presented, a new type of fly, a new type of fly tying material, and then we pass out materials and people can give it a try themselves.
Tonight we're tying with a new little head material that's right on the front here it's called a fish skull, and it replaces lead eyes on a fly and around here for Salmon or Trout a lot of time we want our flies to be weighted so they sink down and get down to where the fish are. And we're tying up patterns like this is a Salmon Fly, would be good for Silver's, would be good for Steelhead. We'll also probably tie up a different version with a different colored fish head here; this'll be more for saltwater silvers, if you're just casting off the beach or casting off of a kelp bed. And then we'll let people choose which one they want to try, this is a smaller one that's supposed to mimic a little salmon fry, a baby salmon, so this would be for sea run dolly's or sea run cutthroat. So we'll be using these fish skulls to tie these other patterns; that have been around a long time, but we've never actually put a fish skull on them before, so that's tonight's meeting."
The next time they meet, you ought to drop by, you might just get hooked.
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MTV has moved up the start of its annual Video Music Awards so its fans won't have to choose between pop stars and President Barack Obama.
The show is airing Thursday, the night Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for another term as president. But MTV says it's running the show an hour earlier than it usually does to not conflict with Obama's speech.
The show will run from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern time. The president is scheduled to speak after 10 p.m.
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The video awards are a considerable draw for young viewers and usually run around Labor Day. Last year's show was seen by 12.4 million people, more than anything on the broadcast networks that week and likely MTV's largest audience ever.
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The god of Thunder showed his power at the box office, raking in an impressive $66 million in its opening weekend.
Grossing a respectable $32 million was "Fast Five," a movie penned by a 5-year-old screenwriter.
The wedding rom-coms ("Jumping the Broom," "Something Borrowed"), much like sour spinsters in the corner at the rehearsal dinner, came in third and fourth, earning around $13 million each.
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Mel Gibson's sluggish comeback flick, "The Beaver," was late to the gravy train. The film—starring the very capable Jody Foster—only grossed $104,000 at 22 theaters over the weekend, according to Vulture.
Lesson learned? Comic book movies directed by Kenneth Branagh and sentimental rom-coms with Kate Hudson tend to win after Oscar season is over. Mel Gibson, take note.
Selected Reading: LA Times, Vulture