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The Sippy Crew - Deep Creek Dunk 2011 by Melinda Lipscomb - over 3 years ago
"We planned a long weekend in Deep Creek with friends to celebrate a few birthdays. We found out the Dunk for Special Olympics was happening that weekend so we put together a team and quickly got shirts. They turned out great and got to us fast! Nothing like jumping into water that others are ice fishing on!"

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The summer months are upon us! As a salesperson I can tell you we are so excited to have energy star rated homes to show! The temperature difference is really amazing!
We have been busy and are anxious to show off our new model homes and the new landscaping! Sam decided after 33 years we needed a little face lift. The palm trees and xeriscaping look great; we are looking forward to removing the braces as soon as possible.
I'm reminded every day how much I love what we do! This week two great things happened: Alan and Pam T. from Hawaii sent our office a beautiful orchid as a thank you to all of us! They purchased a new CL250 Karsten from us and were so thrilled with the house, the set-up and the additional construction (we built a garage, deck, porches rock skirting and poured concrete driveway) that he wanted to let us know!
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Hughes edged Ivan Rummel, 7-6, 7-5, at No. 1 singles, but the Bobcats were defeated at No. 2-6 to account for the 5-1 margin. Doubles was not played due to a threat of rain.
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Last week Oprah had Dr. Laura Bergman on her show to discuss how to talk to your kids about sex. Bergman suggests talking to your daughters about self-stimulation so they know they don't need someone else for sexual pleasure. She suggests that when your daughter is 14-15-16 that you could buy her a vibrator.
But it is one thing to present masturbation as a positive facet of nature — even as a healthy positive practice — and another to take Madison sex toy shopping.
Aside from the fact that buying your daughter a vibrator without her input and consent is crossing a boundary and is creepy, Dr. Bergman's suggestion is about a quick-fix. Do you not know how to talk to your kids about sex but feel like you need to? Solution: buy them something! But it is not as easy as a few forced conversations and tossing a vibrator in your teenage's lap. This approach assumes children are things to be managed rather than emotional and sensitive humans.
Getting the Love you Want by Dr. Harville Hendrix contains a segment about how our natural sexuality is typically discouraged. . He paints a picture of a warm sunny day when Chris, a mother of an 11 month old decided to stop by a friends house. It was a gorgeous day in May and they decided to sit on the porch, drinking iced tea. Because it was such a pleasant day, Chris took the child's clothes off to let him sunbathe and fully soak the afternoon. After crawling around on the porch, he got hungry. As she fed him from her breast, the baby got a miniature erection from the wonderful sensation of feeding and instinctively grabbed his penis.
Unlike most mothers Chris did not slap her child's hand away, she allowed him to have this encounter, feeling the warmth of the sun, the satisfaction of the milk and sensations of his body all at once, all natural, sensuous feelings the child should be allowed to experience. The truth is, teaching a child about his or her sexuality and their ability to self-stimulate and enjoy their own bodies begins well over a decade before Dr. Bergman's recommendation.
I think the key is to have an open and honest household that encourages curiosity while developing boundaries between the parents and children. In this home you might not even need to even have scheduled talks about sex, as your children will come to you and ask if and when they need to.
As far as the masturbation talks goes, this "sit down, I want to talk to you about masturbation" technique is unnatural and only temporarily eases the parent's anxiety, erasing the child's preferences completely. Do you have fond memories of being sat down to get "the talk?" All I can recall is fear, anxiety and dissociation.
In a sex positive, open and honest household where children are free to discover their bodies without shame or punishment it would seem that masturbation is a natural and personal discovery. Isn't that precisely what it should be? Quick fixes won't help your teenagers develop positive relationships with their bodies. By age 14, 15, 16 sexuality is a personal issue. Your child has a sex life and aside from answering questions and providing resources you should in no way be putting your self in it.


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Club For Growth Ranks Orrin Hatch In Its Top 10
Salt Lake City, UT – Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, received a nearly perfect rating from the Club For Growth, a national conservative political organization, and he was ranked No. 7 on the organization's list of conservative senators.
The Club For Growth congressional rankings for 2011 were released earlier today, and Hatch joined conservative Senators like Rand Paul, R-KY; Tom Coburn, R-Okla.; Jim DeMint, R-S.C.; Mike Lee, R-Utah; and Marco Rubio, R-Fla. in the organization's top 10.
Senator Hatch said he was pleased but not surprised by his 99 percent rating.
"I have always been a staunch conservative, and it's always gratifying to see that reputation upheld by an organization as prominent as the Club For Growth," he said.
According to their website, www.clubforgrowth.org, the Club For Growth is a national network of Americans who support economic freedom and the prosperity and opportunity such freedoms offer. According to the website, the rankings for members of Congress are determined by their votes on several issues. These include low taxes, limited government spending, expanding free trade and reforming entitlement programs to fiscally sustainable levels.


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Provo • The three people who died as the result of a raging 2011 fire that tore through apartments, incinerating everything in its path, could not run. They could not will themselves out the door, could not move quickly enough to call for help or put out the blaze.
They were disabled, prosecutors said Friday, and that's what made Yvette Kimber's crime all the worse.
"These were vulnerable people," said prosecutor Marianne O'Bryant. "Ms. Kimber knew her neighbors. She knew that."
Kimber, 48, was sentenced Friday to the maximum possible penalty for setting the fire that killed two people instantly and injured one so severely she later died — four to 60 years in the Utah state prison.
Kimber, who pleaded guilty in August to second-degree felony counts of manslaughter, arson and aggravated assault, has come a long way since her arrest, her attorney said Friday.
"When she was arrested, quite frankly, she was bitter, she was angry," said defense attorney Thomas Means. "But she's come a long, long way. It's been a hard emotional journey, and she has changed. She has come to understand the hurt she's caused, and she is remorseful."
When the judge gave Kimber a chance to speak, she asked if she could turn around to face the victims' friends and family, instead of the judge and prosecutors.
Fourth District Judge Lynn Davis nodded.
"I just want to say I'm sorry," Kimber said, clutching a crumpled tissue in her hand. "[The victims] were my friends, too. That makes it hurt even more."
As she spoke, more than two dozen people seated in the courtroom gallery passed around tissues. Several held hands. Sniffles and cries filled the gaps between Kimber's words.
"I was suffering," she said. "I know now that it was the wrong way to do things, but I was desperate. I wish every day I could go back and change what happened."
Upon her arrest, Kimber allegedly told police that the night of the fire, she was suicidal and took pills, drank and smoked marijuana, believing she could fall asleep with a cigarette and start a fire that would kill her. When she woke up and that didn't happen, she tried to light paper, her couch and the pillows of her love seat on fire, court documents state.
Prosecutors said they do not believe Kimber meant to harm anyone when she set the lethal fire on March 14, 2011.
The judge agreed.
But, he said, she must pay for the harm she inevitably caused.
"She will live with this painful tragedy for the rest of her life," Davis said.
Victims' friends and family declined to speak Friday, but the judge refused to allow those who died to remain voiceless. He read each of their names and invoked them again as he handed down Kimber's sentence.
"I pay tribute to them," Davis said. "I do not want [them] to be forever immortalized in the tomb of the unknown victim."
Karen Murray and Catherine Crane were at home when the blaze engulfed eight of 16 units at the Boulders Apartments complex, near 750 South and 650 West.
Jeanette Spahr died at a care facility more than a year later due to complications and injuries she suffered when she leapt from a second-story window to escape the flames.
"Her decision was either stay and die," said Provo City Fire Marshal Lynn Schofield, "or jump and live with the consequences."
Spahr's close friend, Emily Stone, attended Friday's sentencing. She said she felt the punishment was fair, but wished she could have her friend back.
"I'm glad it's finally over," Stone said. "There really isn't any sentence that's fair. There were three lives lost here."
Prosecutors said victims' families largely did not want to see Kimber be sent to prison for the rest of her life. It was part of the reason the state struck a deal that swapped two murder charges, which could have landed Kimber in prison for the rest of her life, for manslaughter.
According to court documents, Kimber has previously been convicted of three misdemeanor crimes — "all non-violent," her lawyer said — and completed mental health court in 2005.
Kimber's family members, who attended Friday's hearing, declined to comment as they left the courtroom.
Several firefighters who responded to the 2011 blaze also attended Friday's sentencing. Schofield said it was a difficult day for his team, and one they will never forget.
"It's hard for a firefighter to go into a home and find victims they weren't able to save," Schofield said. "These are people who will deal with that for the rest of their career."
Kimber will be given credit toward her sentence for the two and a half years she has already served in jail. The judge ordered restitution be determined at a later date.
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Frank R. Akehurst, Emeritus Professor of French; Department of French and Italian; CLA; University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
"To List the current locations of the manuscripts of the
Conseil à un ami of Pierre de Fontaines (13 c)"
The Conseil à un ami is an important treatise on French customary law written by one of Louis IX's judges. The last edition (of the Old French text) was in 1846, and I have translated this text into English. I plan to publish the translation, as a third part of the trio of customary laws consulted by the 18th c. French jurist Montesquieu. I have translated and published the other two customaries. The introduction I plan to write for the Conseil should contain a list of the extant manuscripts, with their current location. One manuscript (allegedly the first to be written) needs to be tracked down: it recently came on the auction market, was sold, and has disappeared. The auction house will not tell me who bought it, but perhaps I can find out. I shall need to go to Paris and perhaps elsewhere in France for about two weeks.
Ronald E. Anderson, Emeritus Professor of Sociology; Department of Sociology; CLA; University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
"Individual and World Suffering"
For several years, I have been investigating personal and global suffering from sociological points of view, including comparison of 123 countries based estimates of trauma, calamities, and negative quality of life. I have extended this comparative work to include narrative analysis of personal and social suffering and statistical analysis of pain and suffering within the United States. This work has been well received and I have signed contracts for two books on these subjects with Springer. This proposal is for assistance to complete the analyses underway, finish writing the books, and to cover some of the costs of travel to international conferences to present papers based upon this work. Not only will this work add to the scientific knowledge of individual and global suffering, but also ultimately, it may help to promote the reduction of major suffering as a central humanitarian goal.
Anna Gerenday, Scientist; Department of Entomology, College of Food,
Agricultural and Natural Resource; University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
"Inventory of Mushrooms in Sphagnum Bogs of Minnesota"
In this proposal funding is requested for salary of an undergraduate assistant and for supplies for a one year mushroom inventory project. Mushrooms will be collected in selected sphagnum bogs during the fruiting season, and they will be identified using standard microscopic and molecular methods. Representative collections will be deposited in the University of Minnesota Fungal Collection at the Bell Museum of Natural History Herbarium. These collections will increase the known diversity of mushrooms in Minnesota, and will contribute to the knowledge of mushroom diversity in North America. Student assistant working on this project will have opportunity to gain knowledge of standard field collections and the process of identification of mushroom specimens.
Richard W. Ojakangas, Emeritus Professor of Geological Sciences; Department of Geological Sciences; College of Science and Engineering; University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
"Ancient (2.7 – Billion-year-old) Glaciation in Southern India: An Uncommon"Mega-event" of Possible Value in Intracontinental and Intercontinental Correlations"
I plan to return to India to continue geological investigations of probable ancient glacial deposits, which two Indian colleagues and I began in 2009. We found convincing exposures of a glacial origin in 2011. This is one of three places on Earth with evidence for such ancient glaciation. Primary evidence in the rock record is the association of diamictite (unsorted sediment containing boulders down to fine claysized material) and "dropstone units" (large stones in fine-grained sedimentary layers). We have verified the presence of these rock types in five schist (metasedimentary) belts. Besides providing data for climate change, this study has the potential to correlate these isolated schist belts on the Dharwar Craton, and even with some in South Africa and Mozambique. As we were preparing two manuscripts for publication over the past year, we realized that additional data are necessary to provide a more convincing case for this rare glaciation.
Nora Plesofsky, Research Associate; Department of Plant Biology; College of Biological Science; University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
"Fungal Resistance to Stress-Induced Cell Death"
The combined stresses of high temperature and carbohydrate deficiency are lethal to wild type cells, but they are survived by os-2, which lacks a functional stress MAP kinase, involved in signaling. Proteomics analysis showed that stressed os-2 cells have large increases in sulfuryielding enzymes. We believe that a sulfur starvation response is triggered in os-2 by stress and that its acquisition of sulfur for incorporation into antioxidants and mitochondrial respiratory components allows the cells to survive. We will determine if this response is regulated at the mRNA level by comparing mRNAs for these proteins in the two strains. To test the importance of oxidative damage to cell death, we will measure reactive oxygen species in wild type and os-2 extracts from cells and mitochondria. Cellular glutathione is a very important sulfur-containing antioxidant that is actively transported into mitochondria. We will measure glutathione in wild type and os-2 cells and mitochondria.
Gerald M. Siegel, Emeritus Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences; Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences; CLA; University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
"Winning Isn't Everything: A collection of stories and essays"
During my academic career I received awards for research, writing, and teaching (see Vita). As an avocation, I also wrote essays and fiction and since retiring have pursued creative writing even more avidly. This past year I self-published You Shoulda Been There, a collection of 53 stories. I have enough material for a second book and, if I receive financial support to defray some of the costs, will proceed as I did with You Shoulda Been There, hiring editors, graphic designers, and a printer. The first book was thematic: about faith and family, celebration and loss, leaving a familiar environs and creating community anew. The proposed volume will be more eclectic, with children's stories, wisdom gained on the handball court, Aesop revisited, flights of fancy.
Gloria M. Williams, Associate Professor Emerita and Barbara P. Heinemann, Honors Program Coordinator Emerita; Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel; College of Design; University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
"Through the Lens of a Scholar: An Intellectual Biography of Joanne Bubolz Eicher"
The commitment to write an intellectual biography of Joanne Bubolz Eicher, a significant woman scholar in the field of textiles and clothing and also a University of Minnesota Regents' Professor Emerita, originated after the release of a 10 volume Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (2010) of which she is the editor-in-chief. An intellectual biography takes into account the interrelations between (1) the person's family life, education, and career positions, (2) the person's intellectual and creative achievements and professional contributions to the specific field or discipline, and (3) the larger context in which the person's work takes on significant meaning. An academic scholar has impact on her field of study (and other disciplines) through her innovative teaching, research and publications, sharing of knowledge in many fora, and her leadership activities. Such were Joanne's contributions and accomplishments, which were recognized by many honors and awards. We tell her story.


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The Jets are a mess...they might as well roll the dice with Tebow.
If it doesn't work out, they get a nice draft pick.
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"We have been watching and waiting, but I wouldn't say we intend to continue to do that. I think you watch and wait to try and assess a situation and act accordingly. It might involve more waiting. It might involve moving in one direction or another. We've done plenty of watching and waiting. If we can move in a particular direction, we might do that."
Sandy Alderson: 2011.
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Cromartie and the whole Jets team are just a bunch of cry babies.
you talk trash then get your *** kicked then you make excuses comical
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PS- Save the spygate response and just answer this- how is what you said here:
not being a hypocrite when you sit there and take pride in having a sig where another player gets injured and having many posts where you wish death upon that same player. So according to you, Bush is classless for saying Revis/Jets deserved his injury but its not classless to sport a sig of a players injury and talk about how you enjoyed that moment and wish death upon him in other instances?he is a punk for his classless comments about revis
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Patriots Forum HOF Class of 2011
How is Reggie's heismen trophy??? Ohh that's rite.. He is a dirtbag..
We got this!!!
how is this not closed yet?
the last 5 pages have all been direct baits on me by all the usual antijet trolls
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Spawn tables- It's a very simple concept that has been used in every persistent game. The only way you could effectively manage monster spawns, without delegating a region of a map (or specific spawn points) to a specific monster, is by this method.
While it's pointless to try to do the math on how many kills it will take to spawn X monster (you don't know the region size, nor the proportion of monsters present, and it's relatively difficult to count without risking double-counting), the article offers the best (and most beneficial) tip: just kill everything you see. Logic dictates that if you're in the right area, you'll have that monster pop on you sooner than later.


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Below is a snapshot of some recent alumni events in your neighborhood and across the globe.
March 12
Rama Chakaki, SEAS BS '90, MS '97, and Shelley Heller, associate dean for Academic Affairs at the Mount Vernon Campus and professor of Computer Science at a Reception for Engineering Alumni in Dubai. Associate Vice President for Alumni Relations and Development Adrienne Rulnick attended the March 12 event and an All-Alumni Reception in Dubai later in the month with George M. Jabbour, MBA '83, PhD '89, director of the Master of Science in Finance program.
March 27
President Knapp met with young alumni in Washington, D.C. to discuss sustainability in higher education. This was the first of many opportunities alumni will have to interact with President Knapp in the Colonial Conversation series. These events, hosted on GW's campus, are one element of the president's effort to meet with and hear from GW alumni around the globe.
April 10
Five alumni received Distinguished Alumni Service Awards for their volunteer efforts in support of the university. Left to right: Kamden Hoffmann, MA '02, MPH '03; Candace G. Kaplan, BA '70; Christopher Young, BBA '80, MAccy '83; Amy Mazur, BA '71, MA '74, EdD '77; (Jane Lingo Distinguished Alumni Service Award recipient); Alexia Morrison, JD '72.


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We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (cover) - Travis Garland
A break up song just turned into baby-making music.
Adorn - Miguel
Just let my love adorn you.
Kris Mark - From Her [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]
Like it, comment it, share it, take it out to lunch
Endlessly - The Cab.
There's no guarantee that this will be easy. It's not a miracle you need, believe me. I'm no angel, I'm just me, but I will love you endlessly.
Near or Far - Carissa Rae
So don't you worry 'bout a thing, or all the miles in between. You had my heart. You had it from the start.
Ordinary People (cover) - Mathai
No Bonnie - Frank Ocean
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First Choice - Gabe Bondoc
I'm awkward, but I'm real.
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Already There - John West ft. Big Sean
You Used to Love Him - Gabe Bondoc
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Better Man - James Morrison
Catching Feelings - Justin Bieber
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Meant To Be - Melissa Polinar.
I can feel it in the summer breeze. Tonight, the world's at ease.
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Friday September 12, 2003
Media ReleaseFor Immediate Release
For Information Contact:Jennifer F. Brislin502.574.4137
Patrick H. Neely502.574.1351
Louisville Metro Councilman Doug Hawkins, R-25, filed Smoke-Free Louisville Coalition's smoking ban ordinance today.
"I believe this issue should be voted on soon – before special interests begin spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to sway public opinion," Hawkins said. "The way people feel right now is a true reflection of community sentiment. Waiting until the political campaign begins advertising, push polling and telemarketers will taint public opinion and give us a false reading of what the community wants. In addition, we should not be spending government money to lobby ourselves. That is exactly what the Health Department is doing by committing $88,000 to this political campaign."
The ordinance, which would take effect July 1, follows the requirements of draft ordinance prepared for the Health Department and Smoke-Free Louisville. The ban would include all restaurants, bars, businesses and nonprofit organizations; prohibit smoking within 25 feet of any entrance to a bar or restaurant; and issue fines of $50 for a person who smokes in prohibited areas as well as fines for owners/operators who fail to comply. The fines would be $100 for a first offense, $250 for a second offense and $500 for all subsequent offenses.
The ordinance will receive its first reading at the Council meeting Thursday and is expected to be assigned to Public Health & Safety Committee.
"The goal of the Smoke-Free Louisville political campaign is to persuade the government to ban smoking, but. I believe that money could be better spent," Hawkins said. "Every dollar spent in this campaign is one dollar less for smoking prevention and cessation efforts. By taking a vote this fall, we can ensure that those dollars are spent to stop illegal activities such as teen smoking. We could help reduce the number of pregnant women who smoke – a problem that is more prevalent in Kentucky than in other states."
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I'm a cat in a dogs body
Do you really have to leave me?
2010 Christmas Card
Merry Christmas!!!
Easy button
This is the look I give when I know I'm going to be home alone
I've been feeling sick but I can always find time to pose for pictures. Say CHEESE!!!!
Happy Thanksgiving
It's tiring being a dog
I stare at my owner until he wakes up
Just got tucked in.
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IHC Movie Reviews: Red Dawn (2012)
Red Dawn, a remake of the 1984 action flick of the same name is in theaters now. The original, released at the height of the Cold War seemed very real, and that's where a lot of the films momentum comes from. Almost 30 years later, with no real threats on the horizon, how can a remake instill the same feelings, or does it fail to do so? Does it carry on the proud name of the Wolverines, or should it have accepted the takeover peacefully?
I saw the original Red Dawn when I was about 8, at the height of my GI Joe/Soldier/I love playing with guns phase. My father thought it was would be a good idea, and boy was it. It inspired months worth of afternoons sulking in the wooded area by my house building forts and repelling attacks. When I got older I watched it again, and it became very clear how such a film released when Cold War paranoia was at a peak, could stir up quite a lot mixed feelings. I'm usually not a fan of remakes in general, but this was one that really got me interested. With no real world threat to the United States, how could the cobble together something even remotely believable as the original? The original had a pretty deep, emotional storyline, something a lot of movies nowadays kind of gloss over. While not completely as effective as the original flick, this one does quite a good job, over all.
So everyone knows the basic story. Out of nowhere, an unknown force starts to invade the northern seaboard one quite morning, and a small group of teenagers lead by the slightly older, military brother try to defend their town and their friends. It's basic. It's straightforward. And most importantly, they really don't stray away from the basic concept, or try to clutter it up with unnecessary crap. Of course there's a love interest in peril, but its not the main driving point of the plot. It could have been really easy to weigh this down with tons of pointless plot points and secondary plots, but the really kept the story pretty lean. The cast is pretty nicely done, with such heavy hitters as Chris Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, and topped up with a very grown up Josh Peck. Filmed before Thor and The Hunger Games, it really shows Hemsworth's chops, and how much Hutcherson has learned in just a couple of years. Hemsworth really pulls his weight, and really feels like a leader. Peck's Matt Eckard is equally as good, with some pretty heartfelt moments between the two.
This is Dan Bradley's directorial debut, but since he's had his hand in tons of action films as either stunt coordinator or second unit director, it was in very well capable hands. His experience in working with blockbuster action films really comes through here, and while some scenes, especially in the film's climax have tons going on and is constantly changing between characters, it actually stays coherent and easy to follow. There's time's where things move a little too fast, but those are few and far between, and what happens is usually recapped later on. What really shows through though is his inexperience with small, personal scenes. While there isn't a lot of these, sometimes they just fall flat. It seems like any scene without Hemsworth or Peck that needs a fair amount of emotion ends up just feeling a little flat. But luckily those are very few and far between, and after the flick you'll be thinking more about the well shot action scenes and how well he handled the rest of the flick.
Here's the thing that bothered me about the flick though. It had tons of studio problems, and ended up shelved for the better part of two years. When it was back on the slate, it was reported that the films main army had been changed from Chinese to North Korean. That got so many people's panties in a twist it wasn't even funny. Just from that one minor change people started bashing the film unapologetically and stirred up quite a bunch of shit because of it. I didn't mind the change. The one thing that everyone kept bring up is that the North Koreans don't have the means to invade us. Well guess what's addressed in the film? They handle that whole issue and the issue of the invading army very well, and in the opening montage. After that, its very clear to see what happened, and guess what? Something like that happening isn't completely impossible. It really ties back into the world politics surrounding the original, and even though it was a stretch, it was still possible, however unlikely. They found a current real world situation that could in fact happen, and expanded on it. I think it was a brilliant way to work around the issues without coming up with some fake country and their generic masses. I wish people would actually give things a chance before smearing them, because I think all the negative press it's gotten for this will really hurt it in the long run.
All in all, while it might not carry the heart of the original, it sure does have a heart of it's own. The story doesn't get cluttered by today's standard action throwaway plots, and it's actually, in my opinion, a standout among the current garbage remakes. It's a fun little action flick that's exciting, looks great, and doesn't grate on you the whole way through. While it's not a summer blockbuster that's going to blow everyone away, its a great date flick or a good way to waste a couple of hours. I guarantee you've sat through worse.
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ReadyMade, Issue 37
So you may not need a carpet square for nap time anymore (ah, we loved that!), but carpet samples are great materials for putting both zany and sophisticated home decor ideas into action. We add artistic wall hangings, place mats, pillows, and pet beds to this starter list from ReadyMade...and whatever else you can suggest below.
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Cute ideas! My roommate got a large sample from his work, and we use it in our small tiled entry as a floormat. It picks up colours from the carpet, and fits perfectly over one tile!
How are these pieces joined together to make a rug? is there a special carpet glue which holds these pieces together?
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EAST HARTFORD, CT - AUGUST 30: Yawin Smallwood #33 of the Univeristy of Connecticut Huskies celebrates with teammates Jesse Joseph #91 and Sio Moore #3 following his sack of Mike Wegzyn #11 of the University of Massachusetts Minutemen during the game on August 30, 2012 at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut. (Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)
Another week, another preseason honor for junior linebacker Yawin Smallwood. On Monday, the Worcester, Mass., native was named to the Watch List for the 2013 Bednarik Award given by the Maxwell Football Club.
The Bednarik Award has been given annually to the nation's college defensive player of the year since 1995. According to the press release, "Chuck Bednarik, former standout at Penn and with the Philadelphia Eagles, is a member of both the College Football Hall of Fame's Class of '69 and the NFL Hall of Fame's Class of '67."
In last season's victory over Maryland, Smallwood was named the Bednarik defensive player of the week after racking up 14 tackles, 3.5 tackles for a loss and 2.5 sacks.
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Posterior Predictive Assessment of Model Fitness Via Realized Discrepancies (1996)
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Abstract: This paper considers Bayesian counterparts of the classical tests for goodness of fit and their use in judging the fit of a single Bayesian model to the observed data. We focus on posterior predictive assessment, in a framework that also includes conditioning on auxiliary statistics. The Bayesian formulation facilitates the construction and calculation of a meaningful reference distribution not only for any (classical) statistic, but also for any parameter-dependent "statistic " or discrepancy. The latter allows us to propose the realized discrepancy assessment of model fitness, which directly measures the true discrepancy between data and the posited model, for any aspect of the model which we want to explore. The computation required for the realized discrepancy assessment is a straightforward byproduct of the posterior simulation used for the original Bayesian analysis. We illustrate with three applied examples. The first example, which serves mainly to motivate the work, illustrates the difficulty of classical tests in assessing the fitness of a Poisson model to a positron emission tomography image that is constrained to be nonnegative. The second and third examples illustrate the details of the posterior predictive approach in two problems: estimation in a model with inequality constraints on the parameters, and estimation in a mixture model. In all three examples, standard test statistics (either a χ 2 or a likelihood ratio) are not pivotal: the difficulty is not just how to compute the reference distribution for the test, but that in the classical framework no such distribution exists, independent of the unknown model parameters. Key words and phrases: Bayesian p-value, χ 2 test, discrepancy, graphical assessment, mixture model, model criticism, posterior predictive p-value, prior predictive


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I PREDICT that by the time you read this, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli will have been anointed the Virginia GOP's nominee for governor. Too easy, I know. Predicting the nominee for lieutenant governor is the real challenge, of course, and I don't even know if there's a front-runner among that motley crew.
But now that Cuccinelli officially heads the Republican ticket, we can go ahead and consider the implications of a race pitting him against Democrat Terry McAuliffe. These guys are polar opposites politically, McAuliffe having been chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Cuccinelli a tea party sweetheart. It promises to be an incredibly nasty, partisan campaign in an incredibly nasty, partisan era.
Recent polls generally favor Cuccinelli, but most telling is that the vast majority of Virginia voters haven't started paying attention yet, much less decided how they'll vote or even how they lean. I get the feeling they are actively procrastinating because they're wary of the choices before them.
The New York Times recently spoke with Roanoke College political scientist Harry L. Wilson, who notes that Virginians elect the candidate they find most likeable, but that this year may be different:
"This may be the first time we don't like our governor the day after the election," he said. Now there's a non-endorsement if I've every heard one.
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Washington, DC
Below you will find a selection of links where you can learn more about the Washington, DC, area.
The Executive Branch
The Legislative Branch
The Judicial Branch
Tourist Information
Getting To and From Washington
Washington is served by three airports and an AMTRAK train station. Washington Reagan National is by far the closest airport to downtown DC and the only airport that is served by METRO.
- Washington Reagan National Airport
- Dulles International Airport
- Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
- Union Station—Served by AMTRAK and regional rail lines
Getting Around Washington
- Public transportation in Washington is outstanding with extensive rail and bus service.
- The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority operates Metrorail and Metrobus service which serves Washington, Virginia and Maryland.
- The D.C. Circulator buses offer routes through various areas of DC including a bus that travels from Capitol Hill to Georgetown.
DC Neighborhoods
You will be living in the 19th-century neighborhood adjacent to the U.S. Capitol known as Capitol Hill. Pierre L'Enfant, designer of Washington selected this area's high ground as the ideal location for the city's capitol building. In addition to this area, which you will undoubtedly explore, there are many interesting neighborhoods throughout the city.
- Downtown, between the Capitol and White House north of Pennsylvania Avenue, newly revitalized with the Convention and MCI Centers, theaters, restaurants, hotels, and stores
- Dupont Circle. a vibrant neighborhood adjacent to downtown and is home to many shops, restaurants and private art galleries
- Georgetown, adjacent west of Dupont Circle, a famous historic district, partly residential and partly commercial, and also a hugely popular nightlife, restaurant, and shopping district
- Adams-Morgan, northeast of Dupont Circle up 18th Street: a popular, nightlife area famous for its wide array of ethnic eateries The Golden Triangle, essentially a business district, adjacent south of Dupont Circle full of offices, shops, and restaurants
- Kalorama, adjacent northwest of Dupont Circle along Massachusetts Avenue's embassy row, Washington's ambassadorial quarter, all beautiful mansions and handsome town houses.
- Foggy Bottom, south of Dupont Circle, home of George Washington University, the Kennedy Center, and international organizations, including the World Bank and the State Department
- Cleveland Park and Woodley Park comprise the Connecticut Avenue corridor, which is home to many shops and restaurants. The National Zoo and Washington National Cathedral are found in these neighborhoods.
- Alexandria, Virginia, with its Old Town, is historically preserved and a strong shopping and nightlife district reachable by Metro.
Local media
- The Washington Post
- The Washington Times
- Washington City Paper
- Washingtonian Magazine
- Washington Monthly
Performing Arts and Entertainment
- The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, with six theaters, is the dominant performing arts organization in the city, and a leading institution in the country. The Kennedy Center offers a wide variety of local, national, and international troupes and performers in over 3300 performances a year. You can find individual performances or examine multiple programs in opera, symphony, jazz, ballet, dance, theater, film, chamber music, humor, and celebratory festivals. Depending on availability, students can obtain half-price tickets. Free performances are offered daily at 6:00 p.m. at the Millennium Stage of the Grand Foyer.
- The MCI Center, for sports, concerts, ice shows, etc.
- The National Theater, historic downtown theater often running Broadway musicals.
- The Warner Theater
- Ford's Theater, for more intimate productions
- The Shakespeare Theatre, plays by the Bard and other classics, in superb productions
- Arena Stage, Washington's premier regional theater, emphasizing classics and major new works
- The Studio Theatre, a small company with edgy contemporary productions
Historic sites and monuments
Washington is home to so many historic sites. You could visit one each day of the semester and many would still remain unseen. Take the time to visit the well known in addition to seeing some of the places that are off the beaten path.
The National Mall holds most of the top sights: The White House, the Washington Monument; the Lincoln, Jefferson, and Roosevelt Memorials; the Vietnam and Korean Memorials, and much more..
The US Capitol, its associated buildings, and surrounding grounds offers lots of history. Across the street are the three buildings of the Library of Congress.
Arlington also hosts a large number of sights, especially Arlington National Cemetery with its Veterans' memorials, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Kennedy grave sites, Iwo Jima Memorial, and Carillon. The Pentagon is nearby.
There are, of course, many other historic sites to visit:
- National Archives, where key government documents are kept and displayed
- Bureau of Printing and Engraving, from where the money comes
- Ford's Theater and Lincoln Museum, site of Abraham Lincoln's assassination
- Dumbarton Oaks, for its eclectic museums and superb gardens
- Hillwood Museum and Garden, the Merriweather Post mansion
- Tudor Place Historic House, an old Georgetown estate
- The Octagon House, one of the earliest homes remaining from the earliest days of the capital, now devoted to architecture and design
- Washington National Cathedral, Episcopalian cathedral, with ecumenical emphases and cultural programs, site of many of Washington's major political-religious ceremonies
- National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, on the campus of Catholic University, the largest Catholic church in America
- US Naval Observatory
- Mount Vernon, plantation home of George Washington, a few miles down the Potomac
Museums and galleries
The Smithsonian Institute is a collection of museums that offer one of the most comprehensive collections of art and artifacts in the world. All Smithsonian museums are free and open to the public.
The Smithsonian map can quickly direct you to your choice of web sites for:
- The Anacostia Museum, focusing on African American culture
- The Freer Gallery and Sackler Gallery for Asian art
- The Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the concrete donut holding modern art, particularly sculpture
- The National Air and Space Museum, the incomparable collection of America's contributions to flying
- The National Museum of African Art
- The National Museum of American History with artifacts from the Star Spangled Banner to Dorothy's ruby slippers Link to http://americanhistory.si.edu/
- The National Museum of the American Indian
- The National Museum of Natural History, great for kids of all ages who like dinosaur bones, giant cockroaches, sparkling gems, and stuffed everything
- The National Portrait Gallery, unfortunately closed for renovation
- The National Postal Museum, holding the nation's amazing collection of stamps
- The National Zoological Park, now with pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian and all their furry friends
- The American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery
Not all of Washington's great museums are associated with the Smithsonian.
- The Newseum explores the history of news and reporting
- The Holocaust Museum comprehensively examines the terrible and systematic genocide of Germany's Nazi regime
- The National Building Museum celebrates architecture, design, planning, and engineering
- The International Spy Museum is the latest addition to the scene
Art museums, in particular, are especially fine.
- The National Gallery of Art has two wings, West for classic and East for modern, both exceptional in terms of collection, architecture, and special exhibits
- The Phillips Collection, America's first modern art museum, is one of the country's best small galleries
- The Corcoran Gallery of Art has an excellent American collection
- The National Museum of Women in the Arts
- The Kreeger Museum of Modern Art
Finally, there are many art galleries in town, with an especially large concentration nearby, organized as Galleries of Dupont Circle.


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Not really back from the dead, just an incredibly prolonged hiatus, for which I gave no warning and I greatly apologize. I'm not sure why I stopped - still trying to figure out whether the holidays make me happy or depressed; white girl problems, amirite? On that note, I think my possible depression had to do with a perfect storm of feelings - I realized I was following a tween boy and not wanting to seem like a pedophile because of the sexually explicit content, I unfollowed and he told me my blog was horrible anyways :(
I also watched Shit Girls Say about 7 times and I was both tormented by my unoriginality and the incredibly stupid things that I spout off on a daily basis.
But that's over now. I have re-filled my xanax prescription, and I am good to gettin' back to you fine people and music to make fucky too (ugh, was that as gross to read as it was to write? whatever, I am a filled with a new confidence and it stays.)
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I'm allergic to beer.
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I would compare that to someone editing their photos in Adobe Lightroom.
Sure, the pictures [clothes] come out nice, and you get to edit a bunch of pictures [clothes] quickly, but there are discrepancies you did not see and/or choose to ignored. There might be some car in the way of your landscape of Yosemite, or some stain in between your teeth at your friend's wedding. But that's okay. It's not a big deal for you, as photography is a commodity to most people, including you. The ease of the UI/UX in the Adobe Lightroom software serves your needs. "A+++ will buy again!" as a typical eBay reviewer would say.
If you were a power user, you would edit each individual photo in Photoshop. You would gain absolute control [to an extend] over the images' final outcome. You take satisfaction in completing a tedious process (when editing multiple pictures) in a somewhat complex software to get the exact results you want, but not all people care to be power users.
Which brings me to my point: handwashing your clothes = photoshop = power user = best clothes washing UX of them all, in my opinion.
Machine washing your clothes is a good experience, but handwashing = BEST. Let me ask you—when talking about a specific task/event that has to be repeated over and over, what makes for acceptable user experience? For the average person and for certain things, the answer might be as long as the [lesser] amount of effort in the process justifies the quality of the end result.
That's average-joe thinking, which is fine. In fact, if everyone was a car expert, beer taster, fitness guru, then businesses would have a lot less things to sell. If you REALLY start thinking about it, like actually take time out of your day to think about it, you know that the stain on that shirt is not coming off without scrubbing it. You know that your sweaters, jeans, and clothes will retain dirt/sweat particles after it comes out the machine wash. If you don't believe that, try dipping a pair of jeans into a large container of water+detergent and see how brown the water becomes after ten minutes. Only when you handwash something over and over again until the water is transparent, then you will know it is truly clean, which is the ultimate satisfaction of all. The knowledge of the problem, the understanding of the amount of effort in the cleaning process that will lead to the amount of cleanliness in your clothes = the ultimate user experience..in handwashing clothes, that is.
To recap (TL;DR):
Photoshop > Lightroom
Organic > GMOs
Handwashing clothes > Machine washing clothes
So I was browsing through some sports blog, and came across this tv segment on youtube. Just wanted to make a quick blog post to say how much I like the way the ESPN show, First Take, laid out this three-way video conference.
The key element here that I find exemplary are the arrow shapes on the borders of each person.
Without it, it would be three separate squares speaking at the tv viewer. Nothing particularly wrong with that, but if you can make something exception, do it. With the arrows around the borders, it helps the tv viewers move their eyes between the three people. Turning a static layout of three heads in three squares talking at you into a slightly more quasi-personal interaction between the four of you. Simple visual element, yet so effective.
Disclaimer: I like the arrow shapes, but do find discrepancies in some of the other visual elements (i.e. the shade of yellow-orange, black outline on everything, and centering of the bottom text).
I've noticed something in web design lately. The UI feature of having a left and right buttons on each side of the browser to indicate the next slide or image. You usually see these in fullscreen image slideshows, blogs, and even some newer version of some news sites (example: USAToday site).
The problem I have with it, is these arrows are css positioned to always stick to the sides of the browser, no matter what the screen resolution is. This works fine for laptops, but for people like me who have monitors at 1920px wide and up, these buttons become a lot less useful.
I'm not too sure why I keep seeing this UI mistake [almost] everywhere but it is not too hard to fix. Perhaps the designers/developers are assuming that the masses are on laptops, so they do not care about the large monitor users, which, by the way, 1920px is not a very big nor expensive monitor now-a-days.
Like my criticism of the tumblr feed a few post back, I will suggest having the position of these two left and right buttons respond to the image/contents max-width, and not the browser's width. Something like a margin-left: 3% and a margin-right: 3% will do.
Not to belabor the point any more than it has to be, but comeon people, let's be weary of these subtle UI/UX things.
Last weekend, I entered a hackathon competition as a team with three developers. This was my first hackathon. We did not win, but it was fun and taught me a few things about workflow, project management, and teamwork.
On the team, aka "Stewie's Friends," there was one back-end developer, one front-end developer, and one front-end/UX developer. My role on the team was the designer, in charge of the product's layout, look & visuals, and overall usability. We also had a market researcher as side support.
The most notable problem: It happened on the first day. We agreed upon a product idea beforehand, but three hours in, our researcher informed us that the product we want to make HAS ALREADY BEEN CREATED, right down to the user flow and features. Needless to say, we were demoralized. Fuck.
Our idea was to create a service where you can ask for items from far destinations to be delivered to you. An example would be asking for some macadamia nuts from Hawaii to be brought to you in San Francisco. Since someone will probably be in Hawaii going to SF, they will get it for you, and you pay them back. You can also send stuff, like if your sister left her t-shirt at your house, and you need it to get back to her in New York quickly. Our intentions was not really to make profit, just mostly for karma points. Too bad it already exist in http://mmmule.com
Three hours of planning, strategizing, sketches and diagram making, down the drain. In hindsight, we should've felt pretty good about ourselves, since we came up with an idea and strategy so quickly, and the mmmule site we didn't know we were ripping off probably took wayyy long to make.
The great thing about this happening, was we picked ourselves back up quickly, and repositioned the concept. The new idea is to be able to get things sent to far away distances for a less expensive way, by letting verified couriers bring it with them. Here's an example, you need send your nephew a skateboard late minute for his birthday. He lives in New York and his birthday is a three days. Speed delivery is expensive, so you need an alternative. What if you can pay a trustable average joe, someone who is planning to fly to New York anyways, to bring the skateboard to New York with them? Your nephew's dad can meet the guy at the airport to get the gift, and all will be well (and that person gets paid). That's our new idea and we stuck with it.
Anyways, back to the hackathon itself. It went more smooth than I anticipated. Everyone knew their roles, and trusted each other to do their best at their respective roles. Of course, things come up in the product's process from getting to Point A to Point Z, where more intense discussions and points were made, but through clear discourse, solutions were found.
I'm not sure if that is how most professional work environments work (not in my professional exprience, at least), but this was great— Discuss with everyone, discuss with inner group (in this case, the UX & Design guys), trusting each individual to not suck, then discussing with everyone again— man, we can start our own company if we had someone who can manage and bring in clients.
Everything went well: product was built, fun product names were made, unhealthy food was eaten for days, and now, a user can get to the start to the end—where you get your package delivered. The last obstacle in this hackathon, was the pitch.
In hindsight, we should've spent more time on the pitch. Since no one had expertise in this area, the discussions about what to say in two minutes got intense. Not many agreements, but agreements had to be made since we were short on time.
Then it came time for the pitch. We chose our most coherent teammate to be the sole speaker at the table of two judges. In my opinion, the pitch went well. The judges look like they're comprehending our product idea while we were demoing the website. I suppose we could've done more to be interesting in the pitch, like add a couple of jokes within our pitch, just to make it more memorable.
We went out to the celebrate inbetween waiting to see who makes it to the next round of judging. We came back, find out we did not win, listen to a couple of finalists speak about their product, then left and celebrate some more. Of course, when I say celebrate, I mean booze at the bars.
Things to take away from this Hackathon:
- Well, I definitely need learn and use SASS. Since hackathons are limited to a few days, styling details are, and should not be a top priority. I know html/css, but since everyone is all up in Rails, I can't really go and add some css3 box-shadows and margin-left negative five pixels without disrupting everyone's workflow.
Also related, gotta use github more to push & pull more (that's what she said).
- We didn't make any of the finalist spots, but I did notice that the finalist projects that were chosen revolved around iPhone apps or self-containing products (our product required human interactions/crowdsourcing). Next time, that will be the kind of project we need to focus on making if we want to win.
- I came to the conclusion that in hackathons, the visuals (and perhaps even userflow) don't matter too much. Yeah, my role probably was not too important for this project, but appreciate the team for feeling otherwise. Judging from the chosen finalists projects, they all do lack pleasing aesthetics to the eye, BUT their products definitely look like there was a lot of code created in two and a half days.
Willing to do this again. Will do this again. WILL WIN.
This reminds me of that inane exercise where some student or bored designer "re-imagines" a movie poster usually by simplifying the hell out of it. What's never added to the oohs and ahhs is that viewers have a history of seeing that movie and are very familiar with the important part the designer is calling attention to. If you saw the same poster without seeing the movie it would tell you nothing.
Same with these. We all know what they are before simplification. Try this effect with a new logo and see how it flies.
And what the hell is with the descriptions below? "Oh my teacher didn't think people would know what the little bird was representing".
Classic? Please."
—Cooper Black - commenter on this design exercise
If you scroll down your Tumblr feed for a bit, you would notice that the back-to-top button appears on the top right corner of your browser. Very useful button, but does not adapt well for large monitors.
On my Macbook Pro (1440px wide), I can reach that button without thinking much about it. But when I'm scrolling through my feed on my 23-inch monitor (1920px wide), that button's location becomes more of a chore than a helpful shortcut.
There are a few solutions to this slight problem: set a @media for the button to change locations depending on screen sizes. Or perhaps change the fixed width of the news feed to respond to screen-size (again with the @media).
The best, quickest, and easiest way to solve this problem would be to just place the back-to-top right closer to the news feed. In the screenshot below, I placed it in the lower right of the feed. This way, the button will be there no-matter how big or small the screen size.
Get on that, Tumblr.
I'm not the biggest fan of Youtube's UI and layout, but I've just noticed something that they did in their video player that I like.
Lets say you are viewing a very long video, think an hour or more. Those movies take a long time to load, and depending on the type of video you're viewing, you might want to move forward in the video timeframe by a minute or two. Since you know there is a fixed width to the Youtube video player, how would you scrub past the intro credits of a two hour movie? Well, Youtube thought of something, see below:
Yep, that is a second (and larger) time bar that appears on top of the original timebar. This secondary bar is a zoomed in portion of that particular timeframe you are hovering your mouse on. It might look a bit dull in the screenshot, but it's actually quite intuitive and not distracting at all. So for once, a tip of the cap to you, good sir [Youtube].
Postscript: Don't ask me about the video in the screenshot, you won't understand (nor do I).
Spotify is a program that lets you listen to a wide selection of music. There is a free and subscription version available. In the free Spotify, you get ad banners and voice advertising between every few songs. Sounds like a good idea, except these voice ads seem to be getting more grating on purpose.
An example of the annoyance would be the Trojan condom voice ads they had running the the second half of December 2011. The ad itself was not bad, it was your usually Trojan condom voice ad. The problem was it was the ONLY ad I heard on Spotify for TWO WEEKS.
I use Spotify everyday, hours on end. I know it was a slick strategy on Trojan's part to target the ads at the end of the year, since New Years was coming up and chances were that a lot of people using Spotify were going to have sex on that night. If they had a series of Trojan ads, that would've ease the annoyance, but they had the exact. Same. One. Every. Single. Time. Joke is on you Trojan, I don't even remember what the ad is about!
Another annoying thing about Spotify voice ads (and ads in general) is how much louder that they are than the songs I'm listening to. Because some ad exec somewhere probably assumed that when I'm listening to mid-tempo songs at night, that it's the perfect time for them not only to turn up the volume, but the compliment it with a screeching chainsaw sound and people screaming in a voice advertisement for yet another [probably terrible] remake of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (this time in 3D!).
Lastly, a lot of the times, the ads don't seem to be specifically targeted, which can cause for some awkward moments if someone happen to come across my vicinity. For example, when I'm listening to Wu Tang or some other rap music, why is Spotify trying to recommend me listen to some teeny pop singer's new album. If I'm listening to electronica or indie rock, why ask me to check out the new album of a country artist I've never heard of?
Fix yo strategy, Spotify. Thanks.
Just want to lay some of my thoughts relating to the 2012 social products out there and how I'm using them. I've also included some hyperlinks within the post. Without further adieu, here are my thoughts:
Facebook: Still the top dog on the web in terms of usage from the businesses and people I "friend," even though not much has changed in terms of UI. They still are screwing with the privacy settings every chance they get, but that's kinda Facebook's M.O.
I think Timeline came out in 2011, but I think it's been out long enough now to say that it's pretty useless for me, the semi-regular user. I feel it works great for fanpages and businesses who have lots of daily content. But for the me, I do not see the need to even look at anyone's timeline. Perhaps the judgement of Timeline comes when in 10 years from now [assuming that Facebook is still relevant], people will look back and conclude if it was a useful time capsule or not. So far: NO IT IS NOT.
Twitter: I've noticed that I've been using/visiting Twitter less often. I find that the real people I follow post very seldomly (except for cross-posting instagram pics), and that I use Twitter nowadays to follow parody accounts, businesses, bots, and other people I have not met in real life. Still, Twitter is useful to see what's trending in the world, sports, and funny hashtags (e.g. #endoftheworldconfession).
Instagram: I must say, I'm late to the Instagram hype, but I've started using it halfway through the year. It is now my favorite product out of this whole blog post at the moment. It works really well for following art & design related things because the people on Instagram likes to show their project process, the finish project, workspace, and their respective personalities. I feel that Instagram is better than all the art & design sites out there (e.g. Behanced, Dribbble) in terms the projects feeling honest and authentic. I guess the only downside is that you can't really see hi-res images, as the current Instagram desktop site UI does not encourage exploration. Fyi, was bought by Facebook so expect more slick privacy ninja attacks.
Pinterest: Supposedly Pinterest is a force to be reckon with. I really don't see it, but then again I am not the target audience who uses it as a shopping-related tool. Instead, I use Pinterest to bookmark cool / inspiring / art & design / photography images around the web, so that I'd have a place to keep in the "cloud." Continue to do yo thang Pinterest, and I'll keep using ya the same way that I've been.
Tumblr: Animated gifs. Sure, I use Tumblr for this blog and I also follow some art & design stuff, but really—animated gifs.
YouTube: I've voiced my opinion about the YouTube UI before. I don't know who the designers at Youtube are, but I do not like them. They change the UI constantly in an inconsistent, "LET US AGILE SYSTEM CUZ IT'S COOL" style. They really need to work on letting the individual users organize their playlists better.
Google+: Apparently they've grown over the year, but I still do not know anyone who uses it. Quite sneaky of Google to force Google Reader users (me) to use the Google+ "like" functionality. Google+ does seem to have some niche communities on the site, but you might as well use Reddit if that's the case (note: I don't use Reddit or Google+).
Myspace: So it's not officially out, but they got invited members using it since early December, and I'm one of them. I like that they took the best UI features from many of the popular social sites and merged them into one place. The biggest problem I have with it so far is that it's a dead zone. I don't really care if regular joes aren't active on the site, but at least have the artist [or their PR team] update their artist page everyday. I also do not find the current system recommending any music/related artist, which is a big deal to me. We shall see how 2013 goes for Myspace.
Short thoughts: dribbble—seems like a circle jerk most of the time, doesn't seem like there is any critiquing being done; UI/UX hasn't really changed all year. I would like them to make some of the images bigger. With that aside, I still haven't figure out how anyone gets an invite without literally asking someone for one. Behanced—great work but I'm not drawn to be on the site too often. Perhaps their comments lacking any real discussions turn me off. Comments like "Great work!" and "Amazing!" is similar to the dribbble circle jerk comments. DeviantArt—no idea why I still visit this site after almost a decade of visiting it. Flickr—stagnant since 2007, yet I keep coming back from time to time, hoping for a major UI/UX overhaul. LinkedIn—pretty sure it's useful for the 24/7 job hunter and recruiters. But for the rest of us, it's just another website to click "accept connection request." Also, their new endorse feature from earlier this year is pretty spammy. Kickstarter—I like that they're trying to crack down on prototype renderings. Overall, I've been using Kickstarter to buy physical products, rather than giving people money for less tangible things (such as making albums, movies, cross-country trips, etc).
Well that's it for 2012. Here's to 2013. /END
I was looking for a mac app to analyze my hard drive's storage space and came across DiskWave. From the article I was viewing about hard drive visualization apps, DiskWave seemed like an app I'd try, so I went ahead to download it.
..annnnndddd I can't find the download button.
I look for the button in the usually places: the navigation bar, the first text section, the bottom of the page, and then the sidebar.
Nope. Nothing.
I proceed to my last resort when I can't find something, which is to command-f and then type in the word "download." I get the result I'm looking for.
Turns out, the button was in the sidebar all along, right under the big DiskWave icon.
The button placement might seem very obvious in the screenshot attached to this post, but keep in mind that I was quickly viewing this webpage on a 1440px with the sidebar not in the center of the page. I'm not sure if the developer strategically chose to give the download link a low visual hierarchy, but here is why I consider the link "hidden" in plainview:
Paypal button: This is what I noticed first and foremost in the sidebar. It is the brightest color and the most stylized element in the sidebar. After seeing this, I innately dismissed the download link being in the sidebar. Me [and most people] would assume that the call-to-action would be to download the app. But for this web page, it seems that the developer wants the viewer to donate some money for the app (understandable).
If that's the case, I don't think emphasizing the donate button before I've ever used the app is going to work that well. Why should I donate when I have not yet experienced the [possible] greatness of this app? A better option would be to have the donate option be embedded in the app's GUI.
The secondary elements are also distractions from the download link—the big icon, the credit cards, the Facebook "like" div, and the MacUpdate star rating. The download link is just a line of text (with no a:link text-decoration css styling). At a quick glance, the download link looks like a text caption for the DiskWave icon.
In closing, I would like to say that this webpage is subtly sneaky in a non-malicious way, unlike those download sites (like mediashare or rapidshare) who allow advertising banners with "download here!" button graphics. Also, the DiskWave app works well for my needs.


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Judge rules drivers have #FirstAmendment right to flash their headlights to warn oncoming vehicles about speed traps: http://t.co/i0ROnIVYV3— Matteo Wyllyamz (@mouselink) February 11, 2014
Today's Scarlet Letter is 'Conspiracy Theorist'
It's time for us to decide if we really want a free Internet. Certainly many of us do. Some of us think we do, but we don't really understand what this entails or what the consequences might be. Then there is a rising tide of increasingly loud voices who do not believe in an unfettered, level playing field for human ideas, who are frightened by the radical extremes of people's opinions, and who would seek to control thought itself. And some of these folks would like to fundamentally change our online lives as we know them.
#Brazil on the #NSA: "Without the right of privacy, there is no real freedom of speech." http://t.co/oQAZG4Bqgv— Matteo Wyllyamz (@mouselink) September 25, 2013
The Associated Press / White House #Twitter Hack | And this is how we lose our free speech online. twitter.com/mouselink/stat…— Matteo Wyllyamz (@mouselink) April 23, 2013
If writing on sidewalks with chalk is vandalism, shouldn't police be contacting @crayola directly? mslnk.bz/TJhdxk— Matteo Wyllyamz (@mouselink) September 28, 2012
As the US Gov criminalizes citizen protest, it's also gutting its so-called democracy mslnk.bz/ODujHW #HR347 suggested by @da_pro— @mouselink (@mouselink) August 5, 2012
#Anaheim: "Suppression and violence has quickly become the defacto police response to first amendment rights" mslnk.bz/OBmWhF— @mouselink (@mouselink) August 1, 2012


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Donald Davie
Donald Alfred Davie (17 July 1922 – 18 September 1995) was an English Movement poet, and literary critic. His poems in general are philosophical and abstract, but often evoke various landscapes.
Davie was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, a son of Baptist parents. He began his education at Barnsley Hogate Grammar School, and he later attended St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. His studies there were interrupted by service during the war in the Royal Navy in Arctic Russia, where he taught himself the language. In the last year of the war, in Devon, he married Doreen John.[1][2] After returning to Cambridge, he continued his studies and received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. He returned to Cambridge in 1958, and in 1964 was made the first Professor of English at the new University of Essex. He taught English at the University of Essex from 1964 until 1968, when he moved to Stanford University, where he succeeded Yvor Winters. In 1978, he relocated to Vanderbilt University, where he taught until his retirement in 1988.
He often wrote on the technique of poetry, both in books such as Purity of Diction in English Verse, and in smaller articles such as 'Some Notes on Rhythm in Verse'. Davie's criticism and poetry are both characterized by his interest in modernist and pre-modernist techniques. 'Davie claimed 'there is no necessary connection between the poetic vocation on the one hand, and on the other exhibitionism, egoism, and licence'.[3] He writes eloquently and sympathetically about British modernist poetry in Under Briggflatts, while in Thomas Hardy and British Poetry he defends a pre-modernist verse tradition. Much of Davie's poetry has been compared to that of the traditionalist Philip Larkin, but other works are more influenced by Ezra Pound. He is featured in the Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse (1980).
Irish literary critic Denis Donoghue described Davie's poetry as "an enforced choice between masturbation and happily wedded love" bereft of drama.[4]
- A Winter Talent and other poems (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1957)
- Events & Wisdoms (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964)
- In the Stopping Train and other poems (Carcanet Press, 1977)
- Selected Poems (Carcanet Press, 1985)
- Trying To Explain (Carcanet Press, 1986)
- To Scorch Or Freeze (Carcanet Press, 1988)
- Under Briggflatts (Carcanet Press, 1989)
- Slavic Excursions (Carcanet Press, 1990)
- These the Companions (Carcanet Press, 1990)
- Ezra Pound (Carcanet Press, 1991)
- Older Masters (Carcanet Press, 1992)
- Purity of Diction In English Verse and Articulate Energy (Carcanet Press, 1994)
- Church Chapel and the Unitarian Conspiracy (Carcanet Press, 1995)
- Poems & Melodramas (Carcanet Press, 1996)
- With The Grain: Essays On Thomas Hardy and British Poetry (Carcanet Press, 1998)
- Two Ways Out Of Whitman:American Essays (Carcanet Press, 2000)
- Collected Poems (Carcanet Press, 2002)
- A Travelling Man: Eighteenth Century Bearings(Carcanet Press, 2003)
- Modernist Essays(Carcanet Press, 2004)
- Purity of Diction In English Verse and Articulate Energy (Carcanet Press, 2006)
- ^ Schmidt, Michael: Lives of the Poets, p 727. Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, 2007.
- ^ Schmidt, Michael: The Great Modern Poets, p149. Quercus, 2006.
- ^ Schmidt, Michael: The Great Modern Poets, p 149. Quercus, 2006.
- ^ Donoghue, Denis. "Ten Poets" (review of the 1985 collection Selected Poems by Donald Davie) in London Review of Book 7:19 (7 November 1985), 20-22.
External links[edit]
- Works by or about Donald Davie in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Collected Poems at GoogleBooks
- Recordings of 24 lectures Donald Davie gave at Stanford in 1975 on W. B. Yeats


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