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"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."-Douglas Adams
Author(L to R) Herb Ryman, Ken O'Connor, Collin Campbell, Marc Davis, Al Bertino, Wathel Rogers, Mary Blair, T. Hee, Blaine Gibson, X. Atencio, Claude Coats and Yale Gracey
Monday, December 03, 2007
Boy, Do We Need Them Now.
37 comments:
Douglas Adams was an utter genius. Nice use of one of his best quotes.
- December 3, 2007 at 3:59:00 AM PST
How does this relate to the situation in a way that it does not relate to humanity as a whole? I mean, this blog treads a very thin line between a plea for improvement and downright insult, and I enjoy it greatly, but without some additional text (perhaps how this quote applies specifically to WDI), this entry is mere bile.
- December 3, 2007 at 12:56:00 PM PST
- Unknown said...
Whenever change is taking place, inevitably there are people who try to convince us to turn back or else failure. That's how I interpret this thread.
- December 3, 2007 at 2:24:00 PM PST
So what? They're going to add the Mickey wand back to Epcot with 'Don't Panic!' as the words? I think that that would me more appropriate out at Busch Gardens so you can see it from Shekra as you're about to go over the edge. (Now there's an attraction worth talking about, just got to the point where I got over my fear of it and could actually enjoy it. Hmmm...amazing but it was all I could talk about at work. Funny, though, I don't remember the last time I was that excited about a Disney attraction.)
David H
- December 3, 2007 at 5:16:00 PM PST
What's not to understand about this entry? I LOVE Douglas Adams, but it's a sadly true statement about the Walt Disney Company. Obviously WDI has not learned from the brilliant minds of past Imagineers. Just look at the Contemporary refurbishment. If they had learned good design and color theory from Mary Blair, we would not have the postmodern nightmare that has erupted in the past few months in front of her beautiful murals. Nor would we have a circus tent in the middle of Future World, Journey into YOUR Imagination, or a tacky gigantic hat at MGM. The artists of the past might not be "hip and edgy" but anyone who understands Disney and understands design should know that GOOD design should "transcend time." Legends like John Hench understood that. Else, why would our most popular rides STILL be those that were designed in the 1960s and 1970s. Maybe there is something to learn from those who precede us...
- December 3, 2007 at 6:09:00 PM PST
To the above anonymous, thank you.
For those that 'get it' read on. For those that don't you can always return to the comfort of MiceChat.
- December 3, 2007 at 6:21:00 PM PST
- Andrew McFerrin said...
Is it wrong that all of a sudden I'm finding myself wishing that Imagineering would choose to spruce up Tomorrowland with a Swiss Family Treehouse-esque attraction based on Douglas' own Hitchhiker's Guide?
No, really, think about it for a second. During the making of Infocom's Hitchhiker's text adventure and the genre-revivifying Starship Titanic, Adams himself spent a very large amount of time teaching computers how to respond conversationally to human input - or at least recording so many incredibly sharp, funny stock answers that players were hard-pressed to tell the difference.
Imagine a giant walkthrough area with no conveyors, no moving seats to ride on, no plot, no cartoon characters, nothing but beautifully detailed environments full of neurotic robot doors that you could have a chat/argument with.
You guys can have that idea for free - just do good work is all I ask.
- December 3, 2007 at 7:23:00 PM PST
That photo reminds me that for all the great talent today at WDI, there still is NO ONE in charge with the master vision and the corporate position to make it reality.
No one. Plenty of manys, but no ONE.
The key question is who is Disney's (not just WDI's) latter day Walt. John? Tony? Bob Iger? All the above plus a dozen more? Fifty more? A hundred more?
Ever see a movie made by a half-dozen equally creative directors, where every step in the creative processes was approved by financial department heads?
That sort of procedure might get you a film with great individual scenes. Maybe even a great act. But a great thru-line that connects the whole piece? The kind of organic uber-view that made DL a cultural icon in the first place?
Sorry, not a chance.
TL98 isn't what it is because of who made it. It is what it is because of WHAT made it. You can change out Whos until the end of creative time. Spend an infinite amount of money. Hire are all the Walts you want. But so long as you have them work in, thru and under the current system that is Disney, their work won't approach that of the team in the photograph.
- December 4, 2007 at 12:26:00 AM PST
...I quite agree with the comments about archeiture(sp) being timeless and transcending fads.
On the way home, I was thinking about my earlier comment about putting up the wand again, but this time with 'Don't Panic'. It occurred to me that given the general lack of quality in cast members being hired and the general ineptness of management when it comes to service, that the 'Don't Panic' would be a great way of motiving the cast and managers as they deal with problems that to them seem overwheliming due to their lack of skill, training and experience.
(That's not to say that they're aren't quality castmembers & managers who get it, there are - they just number in the minority.)
Yes, you can build the most wonderful theme park in the world, even screw it up and later fix it, but its the people who make it happen.
David H
- December 4, 2007 at 4:25:00 PM PST
OK, so who all is here? From left to right, ?, ?, ?, Marc Davis, ?, ?, Mary Blair, ?, Blaine Gibson, ?, Claude Coates, Yale Gracy
- December 4, 2007 at 6:00:00 PM PST
- Kurt Miller said...
OK, so who all is here? From left to right, ?, ?, ?, Marc Davis, ?, ?, Mary Blair, ?, Blaine Gibson, ?, Claude Coates, Yale Gracy
- December 4, 2007 at 6:01:00 PM PST
- StrangeVoices said...
Let's not give up completely on this generation of imagineers just yet. Looking back, it's easy to see everything they did as absolutely perfect and timeless. They had their share of mis steps as well.
But imagineers are only as good as they are allowed to be. I think there is still plenty of creativity left in this world, and I think today's imagineers can achieve even greater accomplishments. But they need the proper guidance, the proper resources, and most importantly, the proper support and freedom, to accomplish this. The problems Disney faces today aren't ones of a lack of ideas, but a lack of ability to run with those ideas. A slavery to budgets and bottom lines, bureaucracy, and quotas. A struggle against the tenets of merchandising and deal making. It's not the imagineers that are at fault, nor the imagineers who are the solution. It's management that needs to be fixed, and management that is needed, to bring back the magic, and the power, of Disney.
- December 4, 2007 at 6:18:00 PM PST
"What's not to understand about this entry?"
Well, I'd like to know how a good quote and a picture of some WDI oldies are supposed to advance the conversation. Yes, Douglas Adams' quote fits the situation, but what's being said here that we don't already know? I bet if we looked hard enough, there'd be a number of creativity-related quotes by different people that fit the situation and frame it in a unique, insightful light. But...so what? I visit this place for specific opinions & details on specific topics, not just some Livejournal-like quote and picture link.
Look at the comments that are here already. They're longer than the actual entry and have some good points.
- December 4, 2007 at 11:49:00 PM PST
- judi said...
The key question is who is Disney's (not just WDI's) latter day Walt. John? Tony? Bob Iger? All the above plus a dozen more? Fifty more? A hundred more?
Great question. But even two years after the Pixar announcement, I suspect the answer is, "no one."
Ever see a movie made by a half-dozen equally creative directors, where every step in the creative processes was approved by financial department heads?
That sort of procedure might get you a film with great individual scenes. Maybe even a great act. But a great thru-line that connects the whole piece? The kind of organic uber-view that made DL a cultural icon in the first place?
Sorry, not a chance.
This ties in nicely with a comment made by one of Douglas Adams' contemporaries, John Cleese.
He told attendees at a recent writing symposium I attended, that the Pythons could never write with four or more in the room at the same time. Writing in pairs was preferable; three Pythons writing together usually worked as well. But once the number tipped to four, all hell broke loose. Disagreements and arguments over what was funny interfered too much with production.
Is it so difficult to imagine Imagineers in the same predicament? Not at all.
OK, so who all is here? From left to right, ?, ?, ?, Marc Davis, ?, ?, Mary Blair, ?, Blaine Gibson, ?, Claude Coates, Yale Gracy
Don't forget Herbie and X!
The problems Disney faces today aren't ones of a lack of ideas, but a lack of ability to run with those ideas. A slavery to budgets and bottom lines, bureaucracy, and quotas.
I used to believe this as well, until Nemo Subs resurfaced. Well over $100 million to rehab the sub fleet, and repurpose it into a slow-moving underwater Pixar screening room.
Was this money well spent? Depends on your grade for the final product. I would have been much happier with more science-based fiction a la Tomorrowland of Yesterland, and less character-based fiction a la PixieVille. Maybe that's just me.
WDI does indeed require a management overhaul, to be sure. And theme parks are outrageously expensive to design and build. But geez... over $100 million to rehab the subs? Which took almost three years to complete? With overtime?
Most of Glendale's best work, still, came from a leaner crew during WED's salad days. Lack of adequate funding was always a problem for Walt's original Imagineers. But just look at what they accomplished with those limited funds!!
I believe that Imagineering's arteries are still clogged from the EPCOT banquet of bloated and fatty budgets. There are still too many executive cooks in the WDI kitchen, all trying to be the Sous Chef. And just like with the Pythons, too many Imagineering execs attempting to run the show only results in a cacophony of anger and frustration and cost overruns.
- December 5, 2007 at 8:10:00 AM PST
- Lou said...
It seems to me that part of the problem isn't that people don't learn from the past mistakes (and sucesses) of others, but that many creative people these days seem to want to leave their mark.
Now, obviously, the desire to leave a legacy is just as human as the ability to learn from the past mistakes of others.
But there's also a HUGE difference between doing something to make a Disney park great and doing something to make a name for yourself.
When people speak of timeless design, for instance where it concerns architecture, I'll bet that we each think of different things. And the truth is that often the most impressive architecture isn't timeless at all...it's design that was really impressive for its day and its style, and has only become "timeless" because SO many people appreciated it that it becomes known as a genre of architecture.
And that's true whether it's Baroque or Googie.
It seems that often what happens is people are so focused on doing something great, doing something with depth and layers, that they overlook just asking the big "what if" questions.
What if money were no object and all the cool technology we're dreaming about for the future...what if all that was real, now. What would my Tomorrowland look like then?
Are flying cars less cool of an idea now than they were 40 years ago? Are spaceships traveling to other planets any less awe-inspiring? Is the idea of being teleported from one location to another almost instantly not cool anymore? Do we no longer dream of having robots walking among us in everyday life?
We still don't have these things. And they're no less interesting now than they were back then. The only difference is that what technology we do have now has given us more insight as to the reality of how these things might actually work once we get there.
That, coupled with the fact that new styles have emerged in terms of product design, architecture and just good old fashion art & design mean that areas like Tomorrowland should be even more jaw-dropping than they were in the past.
- December 6, 2007 at 9:53:00 PM PST
Are flying cars less cool of an idea now than they were 40 years ago? Are spaceships traveling to other planets any less awe-inspiring? Is the idea of being teleported from one location to another almost instantly not cool anymore? Do we no longer dream of having robots walking among us in everyday life?
We still don't have these things. And they're no less interesting now than they were back then. The only difference is that what technology we do have now has given us more insight as to the reality of how these things might actually work once we get there.
That, coupled with the fact that new styles have emerged in terms of product design, architecture and just good old fashion art & design mean that areas like Tomorrowland should be even more jaw-dropping than they were in the past.
Somebody should paste that up on a billboard where Bob Iger can drive by every day and read it.
- December 6, 2007 at 10:04:00 PM PST
- Tongaroa said...
(L to R) Herb Ryman, Ken O'Connor, Collin Campbell, Marc Davis, Al Bertino, Wathel Rogers, Mary Blair, T. Hee, Blaine Gibson, X. Atencio, Claude Coats and Yale Gracey.
- December 6, 2007 at 10:38:00 PM PST
It seems to me that part of the problem isn't that people don't learn from the past mistakes (and sucesses) of others, but that many creative people these days seem to want to leave their mark.
Maybe there should be a 50 year moratorium on adding names to the Main Street windows.
When ANY group of people is comprised of just one person trying to one-up the others, let alone all of the members in that mind-set, they project suffers because the goal of the project becomes career advancement as opposed to producing a great work.
They loose site of the real goal as they're focusing on 'How can I leverage this project to get the biggest career boast that i can?' as opposed to 'How can I make this a great project?'. As such it becomes all about them and not the project.
Just look at Paul Pressler cutting the DCA budget to shreads for bragging rights and oh look - we're spending how many MILLIONS of dollars to fix that ego trip. I'd be really curious to know how much money he cut from the budget versus how much is now having to be pumped into it to fix it.
Naturally, its also a statement about upper management in that they're failing to recognize or acknowledge the show boaters on a project and to deal with them either by confronting them or booting them off of it. Its amazing how booting of one showboater and casually making an seemingling unrelated comment about team work has a way of dropping the hint to the other problem children.
David H
- December 8, 2007 at 7:30:00 AM PST
Huh, look at the what people are saying about Spaceship Earth's soft openings. Looks like this is more and more true.
- December 8, 2007 at 4:22:00 PM PST
*Let's* disband the current WDI as it has no incentive to innovate and the folks left behind are dead wood.
This is the USA, after all, and market forces will deliver the best much better than Vaughn, Russell, Lasseter, Iger, et al could ever hope to.
- December 9, 2007 at 8:38:00 PM PST
- Unknown said...
With all the purported good things going around at WDI, how did the horrible redo of Spaceship Earth come to pass? Or is the descent portion of the ride going to be completed in the next month? Because if this is finished product, it ranks up there with DCA in terms of WDI misfires.
- December 10, 2007 at 10:18:00 PM PST
- Digital Jedi said...
For the ascent to get such good reviews and the decent to be, by all description, incomplete, we really need to reserve judgement on the Spaceship Earth refurb until it's actually finished. Isn't the whole point of a soft opening to work out any bugs in the system and see the Guest's reaction to the finished aspects of the ride? I'm honestly surprised so many are jumping the gun on this.
- December 13, 2007 at 8:12:00 PM PST
- judi said...
I'm honestly surprised so many are jumping the gun on this.
I'm not. We've been conditioned for such responses for well over a decade. It's knee jerk at this point. We can't help ourselves.
And six weeks isn't a great deal of time to make wholesale changes in any event, when the soft openings end after the holidays.
The "descent into digital hell," as some have described it, is the infamous WDI budgeteers at work. Or the infamous project managers at work, who studied funding allocation and distribution under Baxter: blow the bulk of the budget in the beginning, beg for more towards the end, and blame others when it doesn't come through.
Some additional show fluff could be added around the monitors to "plus" the area. But that's basically all I'm expecting at this point. Whoop-dee-freakin-doo. Seems I won't have to ditch my traditional "SSE power nap" afterall.
- December 14, 2007 at 8:23:00 AM PST
To me, these guys are not Gods. I knew most of them, and worked closely with some of them. They were talented for sure, but did their best work in a benevolent dictatorship apart from the corporate culture. They did not have to fight their boss for quality, they were asked to always make something more or better. They didn't live in fear for their jobs, rather in fear of not making things good enough. Just the opposite of today's culture. To a degree, Walt insulated them from the bean counters and he got the money to make the changes. I loved those guys but I wonder how effective they would be in today's malaise? I miss their talent and in many areas the expertise has been lost. But today's Imagineers have it much tougher. It's not enough to be creative or to draw. To fund a project and protect it's attributes, you have to be part politician, part accountant, part manager, and a few other things and hopefully there is room to be part innovator or artist. The danger is becoming part Heidi Fleiss!
- December 25, 2007 at 12:33:00 PM PST
- judi said...
The danger is becoming part Heidi Fleiss!
Too late. WDI is basically a whore house now. Not until some of more infamous prima donnas are gone, will we see a return to innovation and outside-the-box creative design.
Imagine not having to fight for quality.
Dare to dream...
- December 28, 2007 at 12:31:00 AM PST
- StrangeVoices said...
While we tend to focus primarily upon the show designers, there are a lot more people in Imagineering besides them. All the impact engineering and construction has often times gets overlooked. Projects never run perfectly smoothly, and many times a lot of the real credit has to go to innovations and ideas these normally "non-creative" people had. I think that one issue that has yet to really be discussed is how obsessive bureaucracy and policies have affected those trades, and how that has hampered real innovation for finished products.
- December 28, 2007 at 11:46:00 AM PST
"WDI is basically a whore house now."
Eventually those places get "raided", but it's the "chief of police" being a regular that allows them to exist. IMHO, it's the CEO level kind of directive and futuristic mission from the top that will do the "trick". They'll be anyone that managements wants them to be by the hour. But management needs to have a direction to cull them.Disney must want to "own" the future as a brand attribute as it did in the past.
- December 28, 2007 at 1:15:00 PM PST
- judi said...
Disney must want to "own" the future as a brand attribute as it did in the past.
- December 28, 2007 at 3:41:00 PM PST
I'm not saying that Imagineers are "whores". This is insulting and clearly not true. The point we're crassly exaggerating here is that the atmosphere at WDI since the "old masters" has become one of a "service" business with the operators and corporate as the "client". When you have that as the structure, then creative slaves to and solves for the short term needs of a business as the client sees it. So in order for the work to improve, the "clients" need to have a sustainable vision and challenge the creative staff to "push the envelope". Or the "client" must have the courage to allow the creatives to present that vision. When profit is the vision and show is by product, then the signals get mixed and bad things sometimes get built. The "old masters" had the honor of doing their best work for someone with a vision. At least they knew why they were there.
- December 28, 2007 at 11:16:00 PM PST
Start with the real problem...UnImagineers taking once what was timeless in the Themeparks and turning it into dated material/attractions OR creating attractions that are based on dated stories.
Examples in California:
POTC adding a Depp figure and Barbossa.That is pirate blasphemy.
Adding Indiana Jones ride. Most kids today have no idea who Dr. Jones is. The ride itself is remarkable and a technological wonder, but would have still done well as a generic expedition, like the Haunted Mansion still remains(no stars yet).I'm still waiting for Disney to add the Animatronic Eddie Murphy inside the Haunted Mansion....Why not? Someone screwed with Pirates of the Caribbean already...
Finding Nemo...Once again taking a timeless attraction and putting an expiration date on it.
Painting Tomorrowland all drab gold, since only 2 attractions functioned in that "Toghettoland" waste that has been under developed for years. Maybe someone thought they could hide the deterioration by adding some "bling" to the area. I know that the area has started to appear cleaner since the space mountain refurb and the reinstatement of the subs, but come on, who's responsible for these things happening in the first place?
Tomorrowland used to be a wealth of information of what is to come in the future say 50 years out or so. Why isn't Tomorrowland promoting "Go Green" attractions and rides? The exploration of bio fuels as a possibility or water filtration systems could be interesting and fun if done right. Afterall teaching while entertaining was once what Tomorrowland was all about.
I also have some heartache over the closing of Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, even though it wasn't pulling alot of fanfare. It's Main Street USA, and god forbid someone should learn something about the founding fathers of this Country...It pays great homage to a great President of the United States, and it explains the trials and tribulations in which molded this Country into what it is today(for better or for worse).
That is a staple that should remain unscathed during the parks butcherings of other attractions.
I won't touch too much on the wasted space in DCA, but I can guarantee Walt is rolling over in his grave over that mess! Level the whole thing and cut your losses. Start fresh and EXTEND Disneyland by adding a couple new themed lands in the examples of New Orleans Square or toontown...With all of that wasted water space in DCA lagoon, you could have made Nemo meets Little Mermaid land...Where kids could learn about sealife, fiction and nonfiction...
In Florida:
The removal of a flagship ride, Mr. Toads Wild Ride. That was a downright shame to remove a ride that helped build the foundation of Disney Parks.
The Enchanted Tiki Room. Gilbert Gotfried and the Miami Sound Machine!? Are you nucking futs? What a travesty that happened there...
I know there are some good hearted Imagineers "trapped" in the web of red tape at Disney, that have the talent to turn the parks back in the right direction. I've seen some of the changes starting at the merchandising level with Kevin, Jody, Robert, and Dave for examples...Some of the smallest things in the park make the biggest impressions, and I think thats where the magic still lies.
The park needs Frontierland to have cowboys, in order for it to be a frontierland, the park needs a tribute to the founding fathers of this Country to help understand Main Street USA,
The Park needs hope for the future in Tomorrowland,
And children still need their fantasies nurtured in Fantasyland.
-a Concerned patron of Disneyland Recession
- January 12, 2008 at 1:08:00 PM PST
(to be read in COP Rex Allen dialect)
"Blogging is here and no doubt it will improve but there'll always be the good guys shootin'it out with the bad guys.
Well we've come along way since the turn of the century 8 years ago.. and it looks like we've regressed about as far as we can.. or does that sound like and echo from the past? When I read about the things those research people at the Studio are workin' on..I can be sure of one thing...
(sing) "There's a Great Big merchandised tomorrow.. with gift shops at the end of every ride..
There's a Great Big merchandised tomorrow, seems there's nowhere for a classic show to hide!
A Movie gets made, and thats the start, to ex-ploit the Ride that had a heart, and when it becomes a reality, its been retrofit with synergy!"
So there's a Great, Big Merchandised tomorrow, converting rides to movies every day! There's a Great, Big, Merchandised tomorrow, just.. a... Depp .a-way.
- January 17, 2008 at 6:00:00 PM PST
There is one person not in the photo, that is needed more than anyone else today, Walt. Imagineering and the Disney company as a whole need that visionary leadership that was Walt Disney.
- January 19, 2008 at 5:41:00 PM PST
- theatreman said...
The two preceding posts have put it beautifully: park attractions should not be subjugated into promoting films and second-rate characters like "Stitch."
Attractions should be creative, unique, stand on their own and be sacrosanct, not shilling for films, and not all preambles to unavoidable souvenir-and-ride-photo shops.
In response to Justin, I don't think retaining a classical and successful ride without "modernizing," "character-re-vamping" or "synergyzing" it is "turning back." I think it is recognizing the integrity of a work which has proven its appeal, and refusing to cheapen and compromise it. Revering the untouched attractions like The Haunted Man is not turning back and creating new stand-alone attractions which do not reference films and existing characters is moving forward, not retreating.
- January 19, 2008 at 6:06:00 PM PST
Where are you guys? Did everything at Disney get worked out so things are now humming along like in the days of old? It has been over a month!
- January 21, 2008 at 7:13:00 AM PST
>Did everything at Disney get worked out so things are now humming along like in the days of old?<
No fear of that...
- January 21, 2008 at 11:50:00 AM PST
I believe that the second person from the left is Ken O'Brien, not Ken O'Connor.
- March 20, 2008 at 4:53:00 PM PDT
Just came across this blog. They are sorely missed. There is no comparison, unfortunately.
- March 26, 2008 at 3:14:00 PM PDT


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Indians, McAllister can't hold back Giants
Starter takes first loss after two-run single eludes Kipnis
SAN FRANCISCO -- Jason Kipnis was planning on diving for the ball from the start. That plan changed as the Indians second baseman closed in on the sharply hit ground ball that Hunter Pence sent his way in the fifth inning Saturday afternoon.
Kipnis sprinted to his left, bent down, reached and watched helplessly as the baseball rolled just under his glove and into right field. The AT&T Park crowd roared with delight as two runs scored, spoiling what had been a solid outing from Indians starter Zach McAllister and sending Cleveland on its way to a 5-3 loss to the Giants.
"It cost us pretty much the game and it cost McAllister a good start," Kipnis said. "I could've bailed him out of that inning. It just didn't happen. I don't think he cares to hear that. I don't think he needs to hear that. No one really needs to hear anything. It's just a play that needs to be made."
The missed grounder served as the coup de grace in a four-run outburst in the fifth inning that effectively knocked the Indians to a second straight loss to open this six-game swing through San Francisco and Anaheim. Cleveland appeared in control for the first four frames, chasing Giants starter Tim Lincecum from the game and receiving another solid effort early on from McAllister.
The top of the Tribe's order -- Michael Bourn, Nick Swisher and Kipnis -- were carrying the offensive load, doing their part in getting to San Francisco's bullpen before the end of the fifth inning. Working with a slim lead, McAllister sliced his way through the Giants' lineup, retiring 12 in a row at one point between the first and fourth innings.
In the fifth, things came undone for Cleveland (11-13).
"We had a chance to get one today," McAllister said. "And it would have been nice for me to get out there and get through the fifth and give us an even better chance. But I wasn't able to do that. It's part of the game. If we win this next game and this next series, then it'll be a good road trip. It's still early."
Against Lincecum, Bourn doubled and later scored on a single from Kipnis in the first inning. Swisher led off with a double and then scored on a groundout from Kipnis in the third. Two frames later, Bourn came through with a base hit and scored from first base on another double off the bat of Swisher, whose second two-base hit caromed off the wall in right field.
Lincecum was gone after 98 pitches and 4 2/3 innings, while McAllister stood at 42 pitches through four.
"Early on, his fastball had so much life to it and he was commanding it," Indians manager Terry Francona said of McAllister. "He just didn't command it as well in the fifth. He wasn't missing by a lot."
Michael Morse ignited San Francisco's rally with a leadoff single up the middle, ending McAllister's run through a dozen batters without a hit relinquished. Brandon Crawford later delivered a one-out single and McAllister followed with a free pass to Brandon Hicks to load the bases, prompting a mound visit from pitching coach Mickey Callaway.
The brief chat did little to halt the Giants' rally.
Pinch-hitter Gregor Blanco sent a pitch from McAllister into right for a single that trimmed the Tribe's lead to 3-1. Angel Pagan followed with a sacrifice fly to center field to account for San Francisco's second run. Blanco then stole second base, setting up a game-changing at-bat by Pence.
"I thought I made some pretty good pitches and they went the opposite way," McAllister said. "It happens. You have to deal with that and be able to execute the next pitch, and I couldn't do that."
Pence drove a 1-2 pitch to the right side of the infield, where Kipnis ran to track down the grounder.
The baseball eluded his grasp.
"I was planning on diving the whole time until I kind of gained ground on it," Kipnis said. "I caught up to it and thought I could reach it. It kind of caught me in between steps and it's one of those ones where you just don't know if you can bend down, slide or dive. I went for the reach and it scooted under my glove."
Two runs scored on the play, putting the Giants ahead for good, 4-3.
"That's definitely tough," McAllister said, "when you're out there in that situation, as far as the timing, with another run being able to score. But at the same time, it's part of the game. It's not like [Kipnis] didn't try to go get to it. It's just one of those things where it was the right spot for [Pence]."
San Francisco (14-10) padded its lead by a run in the sixth inning, when Buster Posey crushed a 3-2 pitch from Tribe reliever C.C. Lee into the left-field seats for a leadoff home run. It marked the fifth blast of the season for the Giants catcher.
McAllister (3-1, 3.14 ERA) was subsequently saddled with his first loss of the season after being charged with four runs on five hits in five innings, during which he had six strikeouts and one walk. The big righty had posted a 1.37 ERA in 19 2/3 innings over his previous three outings.
"He's been our best starter so far," Kipnis said. "Probably the last three starts for him, he's been kind of our go-to guy when we need a big win. He started off the game real nice again and was cruising for a while. And then he kind of started to leave some pitches up, but not getting to that ball cost him another quality start."


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Hi All,
I've been helping an Indian student with his English grammar and need to correct his written work. However, its been so long I've forgotten how to do it!
The student was told to write a small paragraph about his past:
I raed a baedikal in IndiaThis translates to:
I want to Jamnagr. This is big city of Gujrat.
I ridin books in Hadiyana.
I want to sieset with my wife.
I ride a bicycle in IndiaHow do i correct this (e.g. cross out his errors? insert words, put a line through incorrect spelling)?
I went to Jamnagr. This is a big city in Gujrat.
I reading books in Hadiyana.
I went to sieset with my wife.
If anyone can recommend a book or website link or tutorial (e.g. you tube) that tackles this problem please let me know.
Thanks for that...
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I'm a firm believer in pre-emptive striking when a legtimate threat is imminent. Who on this forum would probably just deliver a solid haymaker or hook punch to try and stop the threat ? I practice a variety of techniques from shoves, to palm heel strikes, to eye gouges in a variety of ways and circumstances but, I bet I'd throw a right hand shot out of pure instinct when it's for real.
So it got me thinking do I need to practice more so that I will instinctively do something different ? Or does it really matter at all as long as the threat is elimnated ? And if it doesn't matter why am training so hard on other stuff ?
I realize in reality I don't know what I'm really going to do but, the hook punch/haymaker seems the most natural. Thoughts ?


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My story begins at a very young age. In my earliest memories my family, and in particular my father, were very religious. I was initially raised in the Lutheran church. It seems now that the Lutheran church we attended was really quite vanilla and innocuous. However, when I was 12 the church's new youth minister had an idea: Christian Youth Camp. Mom and Dad ponied up the nominal fee and I was sent to a christian bible camp for two weeks in the summer. All my friends went. Heck, we jumped at the opportunity. It was a chance to get out of town and be preteens away from our parents and bond as budding adults.. It was something different for kids my age stuck in a small industrial town of northern Iowa in the stagnant early 70's . Every kid that went to Trinity Lutheran Church looked forward to this excursion. For two weeks we were sent to a rural setting that for the most part, looking back, resembled a military boot camp. Cabins, mess hall, summertime activities, a canteen (yes, they called it that) and "counselors" for each cabin of 6 attendees. Every morning there was a revelry, breakfast, bible study and then you were left to your own devices (supervised of course) until lunch. Then more bible study and then you were again left to entertain yourself with canoeing, swimming, volleyball etc. etc until dinner, followed by another hour of bible study and then were freed to explore the woods, go to the canteen for a snack, or nap if you cared to. At nightfall , however, the nefariousness began. We would all be called to a large hill next to an A-frame chapel. A massive bonfire would be constructed and the proselytizing would intensify. Now it doesn't take a genius to figure out what was going on here was a well orchestrated manipulation of young minds. The glowing fire, the singing, mass recital of prayer…… preteen and teen boys and girls, hormones…… very powerful stuff. Not to violate Godwin's Law, but it was very much a nightly authoritarian rally. Flags flying, drums beating anon anon. Being a child, it took…….. for about two weeks. Then it was back to being a preteen and summer baseball, eating apples from the neighborhood trees and generally coming home only when I was too tired to do anything else. Very, very bucolic.
In the summer of my 14th year, after my third trip to the bible camp, I was forced to spend my Saturdays in a stuffy church school room with our youth minister and 8 or 9 of my contemporaries for Confirmation classes. I detested this. School was one thing, but spending my summer Saturdays in this class, writing out the Lord's Prayer and deciphering it's meaning wasn't how I wanted to spend my time. I refused. Told my mother that I would no longer attend and that Confirmation in the Lutheran faith meant nothing to me. Typical youth rebellion. She surprisingly didn't resist. However there was another reason for my easy escape from this tedium that was going on behind the scenes. Unknown to me, my father had decided that he disagreed with the Lutheran pastor on matters of scripture and "the word of god" and had already left the church.
Let the madness begin.
What started as an exodus from the Lutheran church by my father turned into a mad dash into the deep, deep rabbit hole of a particularly virulent strain of evangelical, charismatic christianity. Prayer meetings began in earnest at our home. People creeped into our home every tuesday and saturday to practice, what to my eyes, was a very strange array of spectacles such as the laying on of hands, speaking in tongues, and taking communion with Mogan David wine and saltine crackers. I remember one peculiar and frightening summer evening. With the thick humid Iowa air hanging low, my father went outside the house with my Aunt and "cast out her demons". I heard a hollering wail like nothing heard before or since. It was truly bizarre. It was here when I started to look at my father with a questioning eye. At the age of 14 I literally questioned his very sanity. It was then I started to silently question the entire enterprise of religion while simultaneously still believing in a loving/loathing god. All of this and puberty too? It was terrifying and confusing.
After graduating high school, I took some community college courses and puttered around town doing what meager jobs available, but it became clear that I had to get out of there. I took up with a local rock and roll band as their front man and off we went. On the road!! I never went back.
My father continued to hold his prayer meetings until he found a church that conformed to his narrow, literal view of the bible. The Dutch Reformation Church.
Anyway, I still held on to the notion of religion while not practicing it at all. Living in fear of an eternal damnation, intellectually crippled by my upbringing, I wandered through my life with no purpose. I made music, but I wasn't driven by anything.
Then, one night while on the road with the band, I came across a television program: Cosmos With Carl Sagan. I was enthralled. I drank it in sumptuously. The vastness of our universe, the magnitude of our natural world. What was my place in it? This was a big question. A deep philosophical debate that has been raging for millennia. The explanation of our natural world and our universe, our place in it presented to me by science was a new "truth" that I didn't know existed. I wasn't interested in science when I was in school. After all, I was told that god had a plan for me. Knowledge was bad. Confine your thinking to serving the lord.
I chucked the entire premise of gods and myths. I started to read Bertrand Russell, Sagan, any book that lent to a rational explanation of our world.
And do you know what happened on the way toward my enlightenment?
The realization that this is the only life I have. To make the most of it and that there are no do-overs, no afterlife, no rewards. There are only rewards here. Leave the place better than I found it.
And I believe that I became a better human being in the process.
Then came Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Prosperity Christianity. The bigotry, the racism, the greed, all of it wrapped up in shiny, tiny teevee shows. It made me sick to my stomach.
It only pushed my untethering from religion further and intensified my thirst for reason deeper.
LIfe Strikes Out.
I lost my father to prostate cancer on September 14th, 2010. On his deathbed he implored me to find Christ. I told him gently not to worry about those things. We would both be fine. And you know, with all of the certainty in his faith, all his devotion to his loving god, I saw a man that was terrified. Terrified of the judgmental, tyrant that he so devoutly worshipped. He was terrified of that which he professed to love so much. Terrified that he didn't do everything right and wouldn't get his reward. I had only 3 of the 5 stages of grief to wade thru. I was angry at religion and the religious for the state of my father's mind at the end. That was my anger stage of grief. I didn't have anything in the way of shock (we all knew what this meant for Dad when he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer at the age of 88) and I had no bartering to do and no one to do it with. All that was left was acceptance and loneliness. I've accepted his absence, but I still miss him and think about him every day. I'm still lonely. But, he is gone.
I hope this hasn't been too rambling, but I am an atheist because reason and thinking has made me a better person. It's made me more accountable. It's made me more loving.
I love human beings. I hate every one of you when I'm driving, but I love you the moment I park the car.
Thanks for reading my tale. Continue your search for knowledge. No matter what the discipline is. Drink deep. Think of each other. Leave the world a better place than you found it.


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A Centuries-old Tradition
Throughout all ages, the most profound impulse of the human spirit has been the longing for perfect love, understanding, joy, completeness — for Truth itself. In all the great religions of the world, there have been those who have chosen to forgo family life and worldly responsibilities in order to give themselves singleheartedly to that divine quest.
Following this centuries-old tradition, monks and nuns of the Self-Realization Fellowship Order embrace a fourfold vow of renunciation: simplicity, celibacy, obedience, and loyalty. In the religious orders of both East and West, such vows are the very foundation of the monastic life.
India's Ancient Swami Order
Paramahansa Yogananda and his guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar, are a part of the ancient monastic Swami Order of India, reordered in its present form centuries ago by Adi Shankaracharya and continuing to the present through an unbroken line of venerable teachers. All monks of the Swami Order trace their spiritual lineage to the first Shankaracharya. They take vows of poverty (nonattachment to possessions), chastity, and obedience to the head or spiritual authority. In many ways the Catholic Christian monastic orders resemble the more ancient Order of Swamis. There are 10 subdivisions of the Swami Order, including the Giri ("mountain") branch to which Swami Sri Yukteswar and Paramahansa Yogananda belong.
Monks and nuns of the Self-Realization Fellowship Order who take their final renunciant vows are also members of the Swami Order. Paramahansa Yogananda established the SRF monastic order in the early 1930s with the arrival of Sri Daya Mata and other dedicated disciples who wished to renounce worldly life and give their lives completely to God. After Paramahansaji's passing in 1952, care and nurturing of the growing monastic order became one of Daya Mata's responsibilities.
As spiritual head of the organization, she personally oversaw the development of the Self-Realization Fellowship Order. Today the Order is comprised of monks and nuns residing in the USA and also in Europe and India, who have felt called to devote their lives to seeking God and serving humanity through the work of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.


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By default, the net_kernel process passes the message to the registered process auth, which is then responsible for taking the appropriate action for the unauthorized message. In the standard system, the default action is to shut down connection to that node. At start-up, the first action of the standard auth server is to read a file named $HOME/erlang.cookie. An atom is created from the contents of this file and the cookie of the node is set to this atom with the use of erlang:set_cookie(node(), CookieAtom). If the file does not exist, it is created. The UNIX permissions mode of the file is set to octal 400 (read-only by owner) and filled with a random string. For this reason, the same user, or group of users with identical cookie files, can have Erlang nodes which can communicate freely and without interference from the Magic Cookie system. Users who want to run nodes on separate file systems must be certain that their cookie files are identical on the different file systems. Initially, each node has a random atom assigned as its magic cookie. Once the procedure described above has been concluded, the cookie is set to the contents of the $HOME/erlang.cookie file. To communicate with another node, the magic cookie of that node must be known. The BIF erlang:set_cookie(Node, Cookie) sets the cookie for Node to Cookie. From then on, all messages will be accompanied by the cookie Cookie. If the cookie is not correct when messages arrive at Node, they are sent to the auth server at Node. The call erlang:set_cookie(node(), CookieAtom) will set the current cookie to CookieAtom. It will, however, also set the cookie of all other unknown nodes to CookieAtom. In the case of the default auth server, this is the first thing done when the system starts. The default then, is to assume that all nodes which communicate have the same cookie. In the case of a single user on a single file system, this is indeed true and no further action is required. The original cookie can also be fetched by the BIF erlang:get_cookie(). If nodes which communicate do not have the same cookie, they can be set explicitly on each node with the aid of erlang:set_cookie(Node, Cookie). All messages sent to the node Node will then be accompanied by the cookie Cookie. Distributed systems with multiple User IDs can be handled in this way. Initially, the system cookie is set to a random atom, and the (assumed) cookie of all other nodes is initially set to the atom nocookie. Thus, an Erlang node is completely unprotected when erlang:set_cookie(node(), nocookie) is run. Sometimes, this may be appropriate for systems which are not normally networked, and it can also be appropriate for maintenance purposes. In the standard system, the default when two nodes are connected is to immediately connect all other involved nodes as well. This way, there is always a fully connected network. If there are nodes with different cookies, this method might be inappropriate and the host OS command line option -connect_all false must be issued to the Erlang runtime system. See global(3). This module uses the two BIFs erlang:get_cookie() which returns the magic cookie of the local node, and erlang:set_cookie(Node, Cookie) which sets the magic cookie of Node to Cookie. If Node is the user's node, the cookie of all other unknown nodes are also set to Cookie by this BIF. EXPORTS start() Starts the auth server. stop() Stops the auth server. open(Name) This function opens up the server with the name Name. If, for example, node N is run with the cookie C, it is impossible for other nodes with other cookies to communicate with node N. The call open/1 opens the server with the registered name Name so it can be accessed by any other node, irrespective of cookie. The call must be executed on both nodes to have any effect. All messages to the server must have the form Name ! Msg and all replies from the server {Name, Reply}, or {Name, Node, Reply}. With this feature, it is possible to perform specific tasks on publicly announced Erlang network servers. is_auth(Node) Returns the value yes if communication with Node is authorized, no if Node does not exist or communication is not authorized. exists(Node) Returns yes if Node exists, otherwise no. cookie() Reads cookie from $HOME/.erlang.cookie and sets it. This function is used by the auth server at start-up. node_cookie(Node, Cookie) If the cookie of Node is known to the user as Cookie but the user's cookie is not known at Node, this function informs Node of the identity of the user's cookie. node_cookie([Node, Cookie]) Another version of the previous function with the arguments in a list which can be given on the host OS command line. cookie([Cookie]) Equivalent to erlang:set_cookie(node(), Cookie), but with the argument in a list so it can be given on the host OS command line. 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An international research team, led from the University of Leeds, has found that a common anti-angina drug could help protect the heart against carbon monoxide poisoning.
Animal studies have shown that the anti-angina drug ranolazine can significantly reduce the number of deaths from arrhythmias irregular or abnormally paced heartbeats that have been triggered by carbon monoxide.
The findings could have important implications for the development of a protective treatment for adults and children who have been exposed to toxic levels of the gas.
"When patients are admitted to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning, the main problem doctors face is preventing damage to the body whilst the body slowly removes the chemical," said University of Leeds' Professor Chris Peers, who led the research. "We've shown that ranolazine can rapidly protect the heart and prevent the kind of cardiac events which threaten patients long after their exposure to the gas."
Carbon monoxide poisoning causes 1.6 million deaths worldwide every year. Many people who have been exposed to the gas develop cardiac arrhythmias, which if left untreated can lead to a fatal cardiac arrest.
Until now, however, the underlying biochemical mechanisms causing damage to the heart have not been fully understood, preventing the development of effective treatments.
Ranolazine, which is sold under the trade name Ranexa, was approved in 2006 in the US for the treatment of angina. The drug works by targeting a sodium channel in the heart - the same channel that can also induce irregular heartbeats.
Researchers at the University of Leeds examined the effect of ranolazine in single cardiac cells, to learn why carbon monoxide can trigger arrhythmias. They found that exposure to the gas caused a key membrane channel carrying sodium ions through the heart to stay open for longer. This in turn caused calcium to build up within cells, with the combined effect altering the heart's regular cycle.
Colleagues at the Universit Montpellier 1 and Universit de Avignon in France then trialled ranozaline on rats exposed to carbon monoxide, to test its protective effects. They found that the drug markedly reduced the chance of arrhythmia in the animals.
"Whilst the link between arrhythmias and carbon monoxide has been known for over 50 years, this is the first piece of research to explain the underlying process," said University of Leeds' Professor Derek Steele, who co-authored the research. "At the molecular level, we have shown that the mechanism underlying this adverse effect of carbon monoxide is a rise in the level of nitric oxide within cells, which in turn alters the function of the sodium channel."
The findings may also help those living in built-up areas or whose work involves daily exposure to lower levels of carbon monoxide, such as firefighters, the researchers believe. A recent and extensive epidemiological study of nine million people in the US1 showed a clear link between environmental carbon monoxide exposure and hospitalisation due to cardiovascular complaints. As ranolazine is a daily medication for angina, the researchers suggest it may be suitable to protect patients from the harmful effects of chronic exposure, though human clinical trials will be required to confirm this.
"The next step will be to replicate these findings in human trials. As the drug has been clinically approved, roll out of this treatment could begin soon after we have these results," said Professor Peers.
Dr Hlne Wilson, Research Advisor at the British Heart Foundation (BHF), which co-funded the study, said:
"This study is a good example of research being used to better understand the underlying causes of an abnormal heart rhythm and in this case it has uncovered the ability of an old drug to perform a new trick. Carbon monoxide poisoning is tragically common but hopefully these promising results can be replicated in people so that it saves lives in the future."
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Randall Grahm is the legendary founder of California's Bonny Doon Vineyard, noted for creating delicious Rhone-style wines. He is an innovator not only in the vineyard, where he fearlessly experiments with different grape varieties, but also in the marketplace, where his eye-catching labels and fondness for outrageous punning have long entertained consumers.
Grahm has his opinions, especially about what makes good wine. He has not been shy about skewering the pretensions of California's wine industry in his writings, a collection of which has just been published under the title "Been Doon So Long: A Randall Grahm Vinthology" ( University of California Press, $34.95). Here, via e-mail, he answers questions about wine and his career.
Q: Why do you make wine?
A: Good question, and my motivations (as the good Dr. Freud will tell us) have certainly been mixed, if not mixed-up, but, in any event, have continued to evolve. I think that when I first started I was relatively naive about what a winemaker actually did (never imagined there would be so much travel and wine-schlepping). I imagined (pretty correctly, as things turned out), that the "lifestyle" of a winemaker would be attractive, not so much due to the gauzy soft-focus vineyard tableaux (which are in fact quite lovely), but rather because one is asked to draw upon one's diverse talents, and is always working in a different, challenging capacity.
I make wine these days for two reasons: 1. It is something that I'm capable of doing well (and probably the most efficient way to remain gainfully employed); and 2. winegrowing, sort of by default, has become my artistic/spiritual path; in other words, this is how I will (if I can) bring some beauty into the world and learn how to become more present with myself.
Q: You've been in the business a long, long time. How do you think your wines have changed? How have you changed as a winemaker? What has been the catalyst for change in your life/career?
A: Certainly the biggest change in my own wines has been the migration from producing wines that were cosmetically attractive (better living through chemistry) to wines produced in a more hands-off, natural fashion, imbued with greater life force, and ultimately, one hopes, capable of evincing some sense of the place from which they derive. Another way of saying this is that I've become aware of the ultimate banality of vins d'effort and of the sublime preciousness of vins de terroir. … For the longest time, I made wines to try to please other people (typically influential wine critics), but I am now making wines to please myself. The catalyst for change in my career has been the gradual apprehension of my own mortality and the desire to: 1. make some sort of real contribution; and 2. leave this earth with minimal regrets for paths untaken.
Q: The wine industry, particularly in California, has often been an object of your scorn. What is the industry doing wrong? What is the industry doing right?
A: The industry on every level has become largely allergic to taking real chances, and from the low-end to the top-end (with a few notable exceptions) has become incredibly cynical and rather formulaic. Rather like big-budget motion pictures, execs are playing it safe, giving the customer what they imagine the customer wants, rather than what the consumer needs (something distinctive and original). What is the industry doing right? Lots of well-designed, clever wine labels, though some of them are just too over-the-top, even for me.
Q: What is your forecast for wine over the next decade?
A: I imagine a number of vineyards and wineries disappearing. The level of competition in the business right now is just absolutely insane and unsustainable. It does appear at least in the near term that wineries that are small and exceptionally well-differentiated as well as those that are monstrously large and fiendishly efficient have the greatest likelihood of viability and success, and virtually everything in the middle will not work so well.
The wines of Randall Grahm
Le Cigare Volant: Flagship Rhone red blend of grenache, mourvedre, syrah and cinsault
Le Cigare Blanc: White blend of grenache blanc and roussanne
Vin Gris de Cigare: Rosé blend of grenache, cinsault, mourvedre, syrah, grenache blanc and roussanne
Le Vol des Anges: A dessert wine made from roussanne grapes
Vinferno: Dessert wine made from a blend of roussanne and grenache blanc
Syrah Le Pousseur: A blend of 96 percent syrah and 4 percent grenache.
Ca' del Solo: A series that includes albarino, muscat, dolcetto, nebbiolo, sangiovese
Randall Grahm is the legendary founder of California's Bonny Doon Vineyard, noted for creating delicious Rhone-style wines. He is an innovator not only in the vineyard, where he fearlessly experiments with different grape varieties, but also in the marketplace, where his eye-catching labels and fondness for outrageous punning have long entertained consumers.


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Michael Dirr was in Charlottesville February 10 to speak at the 28th Annual Central Virginia Landscape Management Seminar, presented by the Piedmont Landscape Association. In the morning, he gave a talk entitled, "In Praise of Noble Trees." Dirr is the author of the Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (6th Edition), the bible of the nursery/landscape industry. Additionally, he has published hundreds of other works and planted thousands of trees.
The reality for trees in this tree city is tough. A year ago, we planted three oaks in a part of our neighborhood that sorely needs trees. One was mowed over by a lawn service guy who couldn't be troubled to steer his lawn chariot around it. A second survived a house fire, but had to be moved when a track-hoe needed access to knock down the burnt house remains. The third still lives.
This is the time of year to be making a list of bare root seedlings to plant early in the spring. The Virginia Department of Forestry has how-to-plant guidelines on their website. The Department of Forestry sells seedlings. Musser Forests is my favorite bare root tree source.
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: : : : : Google throws up http://www.sillyjokes.co.uk/fart_machine/fart_slang.html
: : : : : is response to "more tea vicar" suggesting that the phrase did originate a faux polite response to a public fart. (though I can't find the phrase on the page).
: : : : If I had to choose, "let Polly out of jail" would be my favorite.
: : : Oliver Cromwell might have said "Who farted".
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My favourite "fart coverup" is "Who stepped on the duck"!
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Of the many topics I try to avoid discussing in this blog, chief among them is religion. I find it generally too controversial, which is only exacerbated by my minority, non-conformist views on the subject; it's just more trouble than it's worth, in my opinion. (I just searched the blog and the sole previous invocation, "Yuletidying-up," came last month during the Christmas Blitz.)
Nevertheless, I was struck by an idea that I just had to share. If I were savvy, it's potentially even a lucrative enterprise. Admittedly, this brainstorm isn't particularly religious in nature; it just uses as a touchstone a secular version of an aspect of one religion.
In Judaism, a mitzvah is (1) any of the collection of 613 commandments or precepts in the Bible and additional ones of rabbinic origin that relate chiefly to the religious and moral conduct of Jews.¹ A mitzvah is also (2) a meritorious or charitable act.² The word is most commonly known from the phrases bar/bat/bas mitzvah, which is an initiatory rite into adulthood.
The second, more ecumenical sense is the one I have in mind for this proposal. Ready? Here it is: The Mitzvah Bar: an establishment where one is discouraged from paying for one's own drinks and food. Instead, such niceties should only be accomplished through the magnanimity of others, either your companions or, preferably, strangers. Although there might be some technical snags in getting such a system to operate fluidly, I believe it could make for a rather congenial atmosphere and a popular establishment. Or a whole lot of fistfights.
As a nod to the gimmicky underpinnings of the conceit, some Kosher wines could be available and other products such as He'Brew ("The Chosen Beer," produced by the Shmaltz Brewing Company) would be on hand. I don't even know if there's such a thing as Kosher booze, but there could be some of that in the place, too.
Incidentally, I used a number of web search engines to look up the phrase "mitzvah bar" and, can you believe it, I found zero results (aside from the two words separated by commas or semicolons or in repitition, i.e. none with the phrase's intentional transpositionary sense)!


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David Foster Wallace's name is often linked with those of other innovative postmodernist authors, such as John Barth, Robert Coover, and Thomas Pynchon; however, his writing incorporates the intricate intellectual hilarity of these authors at the same time it includes a postironic sincerity and a puzzlement with the predicament of living in postmodern America. Throughout his writing, Wallace examines themes of loneliness and desire, detachment and self-awareness, and mass culture and spectacle. Claiming that books are saturated with the uniform sameness of the messages in commercial media, Wallace maintained that fiction's role for the contemporary reader is "[to make] the familiar strange again."
Knowledge is learned through language. To this end, Wallace's work foregrounds narrative as an act that mediates the reader's experience of the world through language. His short stories are often fragmented and defy simple summary, while his long fiction involves twisting, multidirectional sentences and interconnecting plots that rely heavily on contingency and uncertainty. His work is uncompromising in its use of multiple points of view and disparate plot lines that are often left unresolved, but rather than merely frustrating readers' expectations, this openness demands that readers collaborate with the author in the experience of taking meaning from the text. One of Wallace's primary achievements as a writer is his ability to develop creative and experimental structures that serve to reflect the themes interwoven throughout the text. In his story "The Soul Is Not a Smithy" (published in the collection Oblivion), for example, the attention deficit disorder of the narrator is reflected in the story's dislocated style. Wallace also makes great use of footnotes continuously in works of both fiction and nonfiction; he manages to delve into multiple, parallel narratives and themes simultaneously through footnotes.
Wallace's first novel, published in 1987, employs diverse viewpoints and narrative styles that foreshadow the same techniques used in his later work, from the short story "Order and Flux in Northampton" to the masterfully encyclopedic Infinite Jest. Set in the near future (around 1990), The Broom of the System is a bizarre quest narrative populated by characters with strange names—Biff Diggerence, Candy Mandible, Clint Roxbee-Cox, Rex Metalman, Judith Prietht—and even stranger events, which have encouraged critical comparisons with Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 (1966).
The central character, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, is emotionally adrift on the edge of the Great Ohio Desert (abbreviated G.O.D.). As Lenore struggles to understand the mysterious disappearance of her grandmother, also named Lenore Beadsman, who has vanished from a Cleveland nursing home with twenty-five other elderly residents, she must also deal with her enigmatic and manipulative family. The elder Lenore and the other patients feel lost in a meaningless, static existence, until Lenore, Sr., manages to persuade the Stonecipheco baby-food company, run by Lenore, Jr.'s father, to develop Infant Accelerant, a drug that is reputed to increase the rate of language acquisition in children. The elder Lenore has learned about the drug from a nurse whose husband researched the product, and she steals the test data from the Stonecipheco corporation, feeding the samples to her granddaughter's pet cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler. The bird develops enhanced speaking abilities and at the end of the novel seems destined for stardom on the Reverend Hart Lee Sykes's Partners with God television program.
Lenore's grandmother was once a student of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) concerns the possibilities and limits of language as a medium for representing things in the world. Significantly, the novel's linguistic system revolves around the relevance of words themselves:...
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In this talk I will discuss a new class of cosmological scalar fields. Similarly to gravity, these theories are described by actions linearly depending on second derivatives. The latter can not be excluded without breaking the generally covariant formulation of the action principle. Despite the presence of these second derivatives the equations of motion are of the second order. Hence there are no new pathological degrees of freedom. Because of this structure of the theory the scalar field kinetically mixes with the metric without direct non-minimal couplings to curvature - the phenomenon we have called Kinetic Gravity Braiding. These theories have rather unusual cosmological dynamics which is useful to model Dark Energy and Inflation. I will discuss an equivalent hydrodynamical formulation of these theories and cosmological applications.


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This visual aura was first described in the 19th century by a Dr. Hubert Airy who had migraine headaches. The visual sparks and flashes are in a zig-zag pattern and they can precede a migraine headache or occur without any pain. The scotoma affects both eyes and closing one or the other does not make it go away. Sometimes the term "ocular migraine" or "retinal migraine" are used to describe this phenomenon but these involve only one eye, not both. The terms are often used interchangeably but they are not the same.
My scintillating scotoma lasted about 15 minutes and it took me awhile to figure out what it was. I went outside and gazed into the distance and it persisted. I closed one eye and then the other and it was still there. I never got a headache or any other symptoms. Then it just went away.
The next time a patient with classic migraine with aura comes in, I will have a better understanding of the prodrome before the headache. I hope I don't have to experience the entire headache. I could do without that.


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The cervix is the lower part of the uterus, where it contacts the vagina. Cancer of the uterine cervix affects over 12,000 women each year in the U.S. Most cases of cervical cancer are actually caused by an infectious agent, the human papillomavirus. It is highly curable when detected early enough.
At the very early stages of cervical cancer, there are usually no symptoms or signs. As the cancer grows, symptoms can include abnormal vaginal bleeding. Abnormal vaginal bleeding is bleeding that occurs between periods, during sex, or after menopause. Pain during sex and vaginal discharge are other possible symptoms.
The human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are a large group of viruses, about 40 of which can infect the human genital tract. Some HPVs are known to cause cervical cancers, while others cause genital warts. Most genital HPV infections go away on their own, but when they become chronic, they can cause precancerous and cancerous changes in the cells that line the uterine cervix. Over 90% of cervical cancers are caused by HPV infection.
The types of HPVs that cause genital warts are different from those that cause cervical cancer. Genital warts are not precancerous lesions and will not develop into cervical cancer. The "high-risk" or potentially cancer causing types of HPV can stay in the body for years without causing symptoms. Most infections, however, go away on their own and do not cause cellular changes.
HPV infection is extremely common. In fact, most men and women who have ever had sex will contract the infection at some point in life. In some people, the infection persists for years, even if they are not sexually active. Condoms may lower the risk of acquiring the infection, but they are not 100% effective. HPV is also known to cause cancers in other areas of the body, including the penis, anal area, vulva, vagina, and oral cavity.
High-risk HPVs lead to cancer because they produce changes in the cells of the cervix. These are initially precancerous changes that can be recognized with screening tests. With time, the precancerous cells can develop into cancer cells. After cancer has developed it spreads within the cervix and eventually to surrounding areas.
Women of Hispanic or African American ethnicity have a higher risk of cervical cancer than Caucasian women. Other factors that increase the risk of cervical cancer include:
The Pap test has been a success in preventing many cases of cervical cancer because it is able to detect abnormal cells often before they turn into cancer cells. A swab is taken of the cervix that is then examined for abnormal cells. Women should have a Pap test every 3 years starting at age 21. From age 30 to 65, women can go up to 5 years between Pap tests if they get both a Pap and HPV test. If you are at higher risk, you may need more frequent testing. Skipping tests increases the risk of cervical cancer. Even if you have received the HPV vaccine, you still need Pap tests, because the vaccine does not protect against all the types of HPV that can cause cancer.
If there are minor changes seen on the cells in a Pap smear, the doctor may order a repeat test. He or she may also suggest a colposcopy, an examination that looks at the cervix through a magnifying device, or a biopsy of the cervix. Abnormal cells can be destroyed before they turn into cancer cells, and this type of treatment is highly effective in preventing cervical cancer.
Testing for the genetic material (DNA) of the HPV viruses is a diagnostic test that can be done in addition to the Pap test. This test identifies the high-risk forms of HPV that are associated with cancer. The test may also be used in women who have had abnormal Pap test results.
A biopsy is the removal of a small piece of tissue for examination in the laboratory. The examination can identify the presence of precancerous changes or cancer cells. Most biopsies can be done in the doctor's office. A cone biopsy is a larger biopsy that removes the area around the cervical opening. It can also show the spread of abnormal cells beneath the surface of the cervix.
The stage of cervical cancer refers to the extent to which it has spread. Stage 0 means that the cancer cells are found on the surface of the cervix, and stage I means the cancer is localized to the cervix. Spread to the upper part of the vagina signals a stage II cancer. Stage III tumors extent to the lower vagina, and in Stage IV, the tumor has spread to the bladder or rectum, or to distant sites in the body.
For cancers up to stage II, surgery is usually done to remove the areas of cancer. This generally means that the uterus is removed (hysterectomy) along with the surrounding tissue. The ovaries, Fallopian tubes, and lymph nodes in the area may also be removed.
External radiation therapy can be used to destroy cancer cells that may remain after surgery. Internal radiation (brachytherapy) involves placement of radioactive material inside the tumor itself to destroy cancer cells. Radiation therapy is often used together with chemotherapy to treat women with cervical cancer. Side effects of radiation therapy can include nausea, vomiting, tiredness, and low blood cell counts.
Chemotherapy may be the main treatment if cervical cancer has spread to distant sites in the body. Chemotherapy is the use of toxic drugs to kill cancer cells. Chemotherapy also has side effects that can include fatigue, hair loss, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, and easy bruising.
Although cancer treatments can make you lose your appetite, it's important to maintain good nutrition and keep up a healthy weight. Being active is also helpful since exercise can increase your energy levels and reduce stress. Your doctor can help you decide what kind of activity is best for you.
Since treatment for cervical cancer can involve removing the uterus and ovaries, future pregnancy may not be possible. However, if the cancer is caught early, there may be an option for future pregnancy with a treatment known as a radical trachelectomy. In this procedure, the cervix and part of the vagina are removed, but the majority of the uterus is left intact.
Surviving cervical cancer depends upon the stage, or extent of spread, at the time it is found. Based upon women diagnosed between 2000 and 2002, 5-year survival rates ranged from 93% for cancers detected early to 15% for cancers that were widespread. But treatments and outlook are constantly improving, and these odds may be better today. And no statistics can predict exactly how one person will respond to treatment.
Since treatment for cervical cancer can involve removing the uterus and ovaries, future pregnancy may not be possible. However, if the cancer is caught early, there may be an option for future pregnancy with a treatment known as a radical trachelectomy. In this procedure, the cervix and part of the vagina are removed, but the majority of the uterus is left intact.
Vaccines are available to prevent infection with the types of HPV most likely to cause cancers. Cervarix and Gardasil are two vaccines that require three shots over a 6-month time period. Gardasil also protects against the two types of HPV that most commonly cause genital warts.
The vaccines do not treat existing HPV infection, but they may prevent it. For best results, they should be given before the individual becomes sexually active. The CDC recommends giving girls the three-vaccine series at age 11 or 12. Girls and women aged 13 to 26 can receive a catch-up vaccine.


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With all the sickness and warm weather, it hasn't seemed much like Christmas around here.
So here is my latest attempt to get into the holiday mood: cookie cottages. And I think my first attempt came out pretty cute!
I basically followed Martha's directions, including making her royal icing, and I think that was helpful with construction. And it wasn't too hard to make.
There are other blank ones in the background, going to try to have JJ and one of his good buddies decorate them tomorrow.
After doing one, it is kind of difficult! Certain requires more coordination and patience than a 2 year old might have. So I suspect there maybe more candy consumption rather than cottage decoration, but that's ok. I think it will be fun and cute! And I have back-up gingerbread men to decorate.


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In the past few years, women's jumpsuits and playsuits have become more popular than they ever were. And this new fashion trend is very much welcome, as these types of women's clothing have been known to win the hearts of ladies of all ages. A jumpsuit is one piece of clothing that we recommend that all women should have in their wardrobes. Why, you might wonder? One, they are very comfortable. If you are a big fan of comfort or convenience while you're walking or out at an event, a jumpsuit would be a perfect idea. It offers you a high level of ease while you're either walking, standing or sitting. Two, they are very fashionable. Jumpsuits come in several attractive designs that would catch the eyes of whoever has the opportunity to set their eyes on you. Three, they are a versatile kind of clothing as they can be worn to a broad range of events, from casual ones to formal ones, depending on how they are styled.
In terms of design, playsuits are very similar to jumpsuits. However, they are shorter and are appropriate for casual events like picnics, parties and beach outings. One thing common to both of them, however, is that they are comfortable to slip in and move in.
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More than 20 years ago my primary computer was a NeXT cube – still among the best computers I have ever owned and many of the features of that computer are still revolutionary. Among those features is one that showed up in the Mac OS many versions ago but which has never been widely used – the concept of Services which are pieces of functionality that one application offers and makes available to all other applications on the computer.
Potentially incredibly powerful both for day to day use and for use inside of scripts to automate routine tasks these services have, however, never been widely used or understood.
So here is my crazy speculation – in response to this recent Google+ post on the future of Context and iOS by Robert Scoble – Apple should make it possible for every iOS application to expose services to other applications on the platform
This has lots of challenges – not least of which is data security and integrity – exposing services means passing data amongst applications on the platform and opens up the device to any number of privacy and security concerns – but the advantages that this could offer are also nearly endless.
Imagine an entire new class of applications – applications that aren't designed to be run directly but instead which enhance every other application on the platform. A few immediate examples:
A public transit application that makes public transit directions available in EVERY application on the device that uses a map
A translation application that offers on the fly translation/language lookup of any bit of text inside any application on the device
A "share to …" service that adds a new service to the core sharing services baked into the OS (i.e. currently Twitter and Facebook but this would be a way to install one core element and get sharing features potentially everywhere on the platform
Today many applications actually bake into their codebases code for various third-party services – web analytics, social network login/sharing features. game score/matching features etc. It may be possible that in the future, should services be widely adopted, that many applications could have a smaller, more nimble codebase by leveraging a single, well updated and maintained codebase for common services (such as ad serving, analytics, etc) much as today they consume core iOS services such as Maps etc)
I should note that while I pay attention to mobile development and iOS development it has been sometime since I was actively and personally involved in the development of an iOS application so I may be misremembering certain details of how to build such applications under the current iOS. And yes there are always problems when 0ne application depends upon a 3rd party application for core services (i.e. an update to that 3rd party service may impact the performance of your application in potentially unforeseen ways)
But equally such a movement away from siloed applications to emphasizing services that one application can offer to other application could open up the iOS platform to countless new opportunities while also enabling smaller and faster applications.
These new Services applications could do all kinds of potentially crazy and innovative things – actions that would then be potentially available inside of every application on the device. From allowing for enhanced auto-completion (i.e. text snippets etc) to on-the-fly translation, to enhanced geographic contextual information to new forms of analytics the possibilities are nearly endless.
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