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Chacun des douze livres de cette boîte présente une histoire amusante, écrite avec des mots et des phrases simples, pour aider les lecteurs débutants à gagner de l'assurance. Grâce au personnages sympathiques de L'autobus magique, les jeunes s'initieront de bon gré à la lecture.
This set comes with 12 book, designed to help beginners learn to read. Each engaging story contains simple words and phrases, allowing new readers to gain confidence and read with the Magic School Bus
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Pourquoi Ciara transporterait-elle son équipement de hockey jusqu'à l'autre bout de la ville alors qu'il y a une rivière gelée tout près de chez elle? Ciara et son équipe désirent jouer un match sur leur propre patinoire, mais pourront-il marquer le but décisif avant que la glace ne casse et parte à la dérive? Humour, ecitation et suspense sont au rendez-vous dans le plus récent album du célèbre tandem Robert Munsch et Michael Martchenko.
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The massive overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system backed by President Barack Obama could face a court challenge if it is ever enacted into law.
Republican Senator Charles Grassley, speaking at the Reuters Washington Summit, said a number of people, including Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, have questioned whether it is constitutional for the government to require U.S. citizens and residents to purchase a product offered by private, for-profit companies.
The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce.
But many conservatives believe that clause does not allow Congress to require U.S. residents to purchase a good or service.
Healthcare reform legislation would require U.S. citizens and residents to purchase healthcare insurance, with the federal government providing subsidies to help low and moderate income people afford it.
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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says she is reviewing recommendations on the color-coded threat alert system and experts are evenly split over its usefulness.
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Grassley grades Obama's performance C to F
We asked Senator Charles Grassley to grade President Barack Obama's performance (close your ears Sasha and Malia) and the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee was a bit of a tough schoolmaster.
"He's still learning an awful lot," Grassley said at a Reuters Washington Summit.
Washington divided, more trouble ahead for Obama?
Washington insiders say that not since the 1890′s have the people that represent the U.S. been so divided. From Gay rights to Afghanistan lawmakers are at polar opposites on issues that are on the Obama administration's agenda. What's next? And, what's likely to get the green light or the stop sign?
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Northern Trust has thought very carefully about how to communicate with its wealthy clients. In the U.S., it says it has people within a 45 minute drive of 50 percent of all of the millionaire households.
It advertises on NPR, CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, and local newspapers.
Now it might start "friending" people on Facebook.
"We had a client earlier this year who asked if we could be a friend to their child on (her) Facebook page because the child is a beneficiary of a trust that we manage and they said what better way to get to know my child when they're awfully remote than to do this through the Facebook page?" said Lee Woolley, President of Northern Trust Bank's Personal Financial Services division in Boston.
Time private bankers got professional
It's hard to imagine that a banker who represents multimillionaires would be anything but professional – but a top executive at a leading global bank thinks that's precisely the wealth management industry's problem.
"There is so much mediocrity in the industry we have to raise the bar here," said Gerard Aquilina, vice chairman of Barclays Wealth, at the Reuters Global Wealth Management Summit in Geneva.
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The U.S. has promised it will hunt down tax evaders.
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Did Beyonce Confirm Jay Z Cheating During Their 'On The Run' Tour? [Video]
Beyonce definitely gave people a reason to think that the Jay Z cheating rumors are true during her performance of 'Resentment' over the weekend.
Beyonce definitely gave people a reason to think that the Jay Z cheating rumors are true during her performance of 'Resentment' over the weekend.
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After being let off of work early, a woman comes home surprised to find her husband in bed with another man. Talk about the surprise of your life.
This picture of a letter written by an angry girlfriend might be the best breakup letter of all time.
This guy's girlfriend decided to stab him in the back with a knife after finding out hes been cheating with another woman. I guess shes just showing him how she feels.
This reminds me of a famous quote, "Hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn". It's pretty scary when you see it actually happen!
The Lakers have recently had suspicious calls in their favor, but the ultimate question is to ask whether or not the NBA is rigged for these super teams to win?
Pure coincidence? Maybe, maybe not. Just take a look at these calls and tell us what you think.
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It's been a while since we left Budapest and I returned home for the summer and during that time I have been able to tell my family and friends stories from my trip and just reflect upon the trip. I sometimes even find myself missing Budapest and the culture there. I never expected to fall in love with the city like I did, I just thought it would be a fun place to visit that I wouldn't visit on my own, but now I find myself wanting to go back.
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Construction - a fact of life
Last Wednesday (the 11th) when I left work, Craft Street/Highway 7 was a mess! I pulled into Liddy's drugstore and wasn't sure if I was going to get in and then it was really nasty getting out of the parking lot.
I imagine all those businesses up and down the road have been very anxious for the construction to be over. I certainly was and I just drive on that street.
Thursday, I was lucky enough to stay home all day and Friday, when I drifted back into town I was amazed!
The road was completely paved, striped and pretty! Driveways looked driveable on and traffic was just moving right along. It was wonderful!
Of course, 78 is still a mess, but now, I have hope that someday it, too, will be driveable.
I truly hate driving between those concrete barriors. I can just see my car ricocheting back and forth between them like a pinball.
And, thanks to a legal notice in the newspaper — bids for a bridge repair somewhere — I now know the proper name for those noisemakers on the side and between lanes on the highways.
"Rumble strips!" As annoying as they are, they are an excellent idea. I've never actually dozed off while driving, although I'm sure I've come closer than I'd like to think about. You doze off and drive over that "rumble strip" and you're going to wake up!
My son is a car sleeper and he swears I do it on purpose — as soon as he starts snoring loudly, he's positive I drift over to one of those strips just to wake him up. I will neither confirm nor deny!
I've noticed while driving down 78 that as you have to drive past the concrete barriors the road crews have very kindly paved a strip off to the side to make the lane almost big enough for your car. It also allows you to drive far enough over so that you're not driving on the "rumble strip."
I've also noticed that more than half of the cars in front of or behind me hug the concrete barrior and drive right smack down the rumble strip. I can only imagine the teeth chattering in those cars!
This Wednesday morning I'm off to the quilt show in Paducah, Kentucky! The way I go to Paducah is mostly two-lane highways and I've never run into major construction before. I hope that record holds!
I have lost a restaurant on that road — we'd stopped one evening at a family style restaurant that was really, really good. I've never been able to find it again.
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Three Big Things I Believe... and One Greater
- Friday, May 15, 2009
The man was about to meet God and he goes out of this world murdering people right and left.
There has to be a hell, otherwise Hitler got off scot-free. We could add a lengthy list of despots who, if this life is all there is, beat the system by paying for millions of deaths with their one life: Stalin, Mussolini, Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, the list goes on and on.
The 73rd Psalm speaks of the fear of exactly this, of wicked people beating the system, of their ignoring God and living their own way and dying in a peaceful sleep at an advanced age. Just when the psalmist was about to give up, he went down to the House of God to worship and suddenly saw something that had eluded him. "Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I understood their end." (73:17)
The Lord, he continues, sets "them in slippery places. You cast them down to destruction...They are utterly consumed with terrors." (73:18-19)
There has to be a hell, otherwise there is no justice.
In her book, "Help My Unbelief," Fleming Rutledge tells of a professor who had a major impact in her life. J. Christian Beker was a premier theologian of his day, his book "Paul the Apostle" a classic for decades to come. Beker was a teenager in Holland when the Nazis arrived in 1940. He was sent to a work camp near Berlin where he contracted typhus. In 1945, during the Allied bombardment of Berlin, while lying on his sickbed, Beker felt he was experiencing the apocalypse and committed his life to God. Rutledge notes, "Thus was born a theologican in the midst of evil and death."
However, the news about Beker was not consistently good. "Never were weeds and wheat more entangled in one human life." While, on the one hand Rutledge calls him "one of the most gifted and inspiring Biblical interpreters I have ever known," on the other hand, he was manic-depressive, given to wildly impulsive behavior, and uncontrolled urges. "He cut himself off from most people near the end, and the circumstances leading to his illness and death suggested failure."
I relate that story to make two points: A) judgement is necessary if the universe is to have order and justice , but B) only God can judge. The issues of life are too complex, our vision too limited, the strands of good and evil too intertwined for myopic humans to unravel them and sort out matters.
I believe in judgement that results in Heaven for some -- I wish it were for all -- and hell for others. Heaven, I'm happy to say, "was prepared for (the righteous) from the foundation of the world," while hell "was prepared for the devil and his angels" (Matthew 25).
The cross of Jesus Christ is the centerpiece of the universe, the focal point of creation. It points skyward to Heaven, extends earthward and downward into man's depths, and reaches outward to all people and all of creation.
The salvation provided in the death of Jesus on the cross is unlike anything offered by any other religious or philosophical system known. While no one doubts occasional teachings of Jesus are paralleled by insights from other religions, no doctrine found anywhere compares to the message of salvation through grace provided by the death of Jesus on the cross for our sins.
This is about the ultimate everything. The love that spans the universe and conquers all, the vision that sees all people of every age and atones for the rebellions and failures of every last one, the hope of eternal life.
This supersedes all other religious offerings. To my knowledge, the competition speaks of earning, growing, learning, achieving oneness with God through human effort. The cross speaks of receiving what God has given and Christ has provided.
All others speak of works, this speaks of grace.
All others offer conditional acceptance and partial improvement; the cross assures us "by one offering He has perfected forever those who are sanctified" (Hebrews 10:14).
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Geneva was a city in Switzerland where the international headquarters for UNIT (TV: Spearhead from Space, et. al.) and for the International Space Command were located (TV: The Tenth Planet). During the Brigadier's tenure with UNIT he consulted frequently by phone with Geneva. (TV: Spearhead from Space) The CIA's files on the Torchwood Institute had referrals going back to Geneva and above. (TV: The New World) During the Toclafane invasion, the population of Geneva was massacred. (TV: The Sound of Drums)
After the Master turned humanity into "The Master Race", he consulted with a UNIT officer in Geneva. (TV: The End of Time)
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In the current world, data is continuously being generated across various layers of organizations and environment due to changes in the system states or due to the occurrence of new events. These changes in the state of the existing system can happen due to the arrival of a new order request, customer service calls for complaints or feedback, changes in the company stock prices, text or multimedia messages, emails, social media posts, traffic reports, weather reports or any other kind of data. Simply producing reports using these data on a pre-defined schedule is not enough. Decision makers need real-time alerts and intelligent insight of all that is happening within and around the organization so that they may take meaningful reactive and proactive action before it is too late based on the new information being continuously generated.
A powerful technique called Complex Event Processing (CEP) is used for analyzing events coming from multiple sources over a specific period of time by detecting complex patterns between events and by making correlations. Apart from CEP, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is also used to model complex relationships between input events data. Both the approaches have their own pros and cons. In this article, we tried to describe a use case in the health care domain with the solution architecture using both CEP and ANN, combining the best capabilities of both the approaches. We have shown how one can use both the techniques together to solve highly complex problems in real or near real time.
The following two sections gives brief introduction about CEP and ANN respectively with their key benefits. In section 4, we have explained the approach which combines both the CEP and the ANN efficiently to provide better solution of complex problems. Section 5 and 6 explains the Health Care: Patient Monitoring System use case with the problem description and proposed solution approach using CEP and ANN, followed by the section with summary and conclusion.
Complex Event Processing
Complex event processing is one of the key Operational Intelligence technology used to process one or more stream of data and information (also known as events) and deriving a meaningful conclusion using them. It allows one to set the request for an analysis or some query and then have it continuously executed and evaluated over time against one or many streams of events in a highly efficient manner. CEP is all about processing events that combines data from many sources to infer events or patterns that suggest more complicated circumstances [1]. For example, CEP can be used as Fraud Detection system, to detect suspicious credit card usage by monitoring credit card activity in real time and relating the current transactions with the historical data about a particular customer. The historical data which can be used by CEP Fraud Detection system can be an average transaction amount, minimum and maximum values of the previous transactions, transaction frequencies, locality etc. On detecting fraudulent activity, CEP system can send an alert via an SMS or email to the customer or the credit card service provider to take quick reaction.
The primary goal of CEP is to (1) detect meaningful events or pattern of events which signifies either threats or opportunities from the series of events being received continuously and (2) send alerts for the same to responsible entity to respond as quickly as possible. The following diagram (as figure-1) describes high level view of the CEP system.
Figure 1: High-level view of the CEP system
As shown in Figure 1, the core of the complex event processing system is made up of set of input adapters, set of output adapters and various event processing modules such as event filtering modules, in-memory caching, aggregation over different windows (time-window, sliding window, tumbling window etc.), database lookups module, database writes module, correlation, joins, event pattern matching, state machines, dynamic queries etc. More the number of I/O adapters supported by the CEP, more flexible and adaptable it is and will be able to cover wide range of use cases as compared to the CEP tool having support for limited set of I/O adapters.
Key Benefits of CEP
The following are some of the key benefits the CEP provides to the business.
- Automatically identifies rare but important relationships between seemingly unrelated events or stream of events and accelerate timely responses to both the threats and opportunities.
- Using sophisticated analysis and event pattern matching techniques, the CEP improves resource allocation and timely problem resolution by prioritize situations that require the most urgent attention in real or near real time based on arrival of events.
- CEP helps organization to reduce operating costs by monitoring end-to-end performance of the system and provide timely alerts to rapidly identify potential SLA violations.
- CEP helps organization to fine tune their business processes by correlating SLA performance with industry metrics e.g. Six Sigma and various Quality metrics, to enhance overall productivity.
Artificial Neural Network
An Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is a computational model which resembles with the way human brain is made up of in structure and the way it works. Similar to human brain which is made up of billions of neurons interconnected by synapses, the ANN can be form as a network of computational nodes connected with each other through links. The ANN needs to be trained repeatedly with specific set of training data before it can be used in production environment. Due to its adaptive nature, the internal structure of the ANN can easily be changed based on external or internal information that flows through the network during the learning phase [2]. The links are assigned weights during training process, which regulate the flow of data from one node to another. ANNs are used to model complex relationships between inputs and outputs data. ANN can efficiently find various patterns in input data or to predict future values of the system parameters. Due to its flexible construct, ANN can be very helpful in modeling complex systems which are very difficult otherwise by using traditional modeling techniques. Artificial neural networks are being applied in diverse of domains and fields. They are extensively used for doing image processing and recognition, speech recognition, credit card fraud detection, for prediction of protein structure in biotechnology and in the field of genetic science.
Artificial neural network consists of two types of interfaces with the external world, the input and the output. Since the ANN is made up of nodes or neurons and the links between them, a subset of total nodes in the ANN act as input nodes, which take data from the external world, a subset of nodes act as output node, which produces result and zero or more hidden nodes act as intermediary nodes, with having only connections with input or output nodes or other hidden nodes. Hence, the ANN is made up of nodes in input layer, nodes in output layer and zero or more internal layers.
Figure 2: High-level view of artificial neural network
The high level view of ANN is shown in figure-2. The diagram shows a typical neural network with total 12 nodes, three nodes in the input layer, seven nodes in the hidden layer and two nodes in the output layer. Before the neural network can be used in actual production environment, it is needed to be trained for particular environment. The process of training of ANN is called learning of neural network, which is generally done in one of the following three ways: (a) supervised learning; (b) unsupervised learning and (c) reinforcement learning. The more details about the ANN learning can be found in [2].
Key Benefits of ANN
Since ANNs can infer a function from inputs, they particularly are used in the applications where the complexity of the input data or system modeling makes the design of such a function impractical using traditional approaches. Following are some of the key benefits ANN provides.
- It is very easy to apply ANN to problem domains where the relationships are quite dynamic or non-linear among the input and output.
- Since ANN is capable of capturing many kind of relationships and complex patterns among data, ANN allows user to easily model the system which otherwise is very difficult or impossible to represent through traditional modeling approaches.
- The training information is not stored in any single element but is distributed in the entire network structure. This makes ANN fault tolerant and it reduces the impact of erroneous input on the result.
CEP and ANN Together
Having seen the key properties and benefits of using both, CEP and ANN, this section describes what if one apply both together for specific set of problems to make the modeling of the system and solution easy and efficient. The CEP is best in accepting data or events from multiple channels and apply various event processing operations on it, such as event filtering, event pattern matching, aggregation etc. Apart from that user can configure alerts based on various thresholds on various system parameters. But the CEP tools lakes the ability to predict future events or determine the values of the system parameters for future events, which can be efficiently done by the ANN. So if we combine best of CEP and best of ANN for a particular problem, the resulting solution could be very effective and efficient. In the following sections, we have described how the CEP and the ANN can be used together to solve a particular problem of patient monitoring system in the domain of Health care and medicines.
Patient Monitoring System
The patient monitoring system monitors and keeps track of various body parameters of the patient and provides the data for analysis to monitoring system. Various body parameters could be blood pressure, the percentage of oxygen in the blood, glucose level in the blood, heart beat rate, change in body temperature etc. Data provided by the patient monitoring system helps to make diagnostic decisions easy and more reliable. The quality of patient treatment and care giving can greatly be improved with the use of patient monitoring systems, since it allows generating alerts in case of sudden changes in the patient body parameters which could be dangerous to the patient's health or could be life threatening some time [3].
A Use Case
Goals of the patient monitoring system are to (1) continuously keeps track of the patient's body parameters and store the data for present or future references, (2) identify life-threatening changes in patient's body and raises timely alarms for the same, and (3) to determine whether patient's health is in normal condition or it is improving or worsening based on the continuously arriving input data from various medical monitors. Since no two human bodies react in a same way against given situation or medication, it is very difficult to derived common rule set which can be applied to all human bodies. Similarly, one person's body also reacts differently in different medical and environmental situations. For example, a particular heart beat rate can be normal in some situation, while the same can be very abnormal in the other situation. So to judge the proper health condition, a trained professional is required, i.e. a specialist doctor, who studies all the observations and determine the correct state of patient's health. If the patient monitoring system is equipped with some intelligent agent who will use patient's medical history and current body parameters observations, then quality of patient care delivery can greatly be improved. We combine CEP and ANN together to propose system architecture which tries to act as an intelligent agent of the patient monitoring system, which is described in the following section.
System Architecture of the intelligent patient monitoring system using CEP and ANN
The following diagram, in Figure 3, shows the architecture of the intelligent patient monitoring system using CEP and ANN. There are total five key components; (1) Medical monitors, (2) CEP, (3) Patient's medical history and diagnosis data store, (4) ANN and (5) ANN output to action message converter.
(1) Medical Monitors
Medical monitors are medical devices used for monitoring patient's body parameters. It can consist of one or more body parameter sensors, processing components, display devices as well as communication links for displaying, recording or transmitting data or results elsewhere through a monitoring network. In the proposed architecture, the data generated by medical monitors are fed into the CEP system. [3]
Figure 3: Architecture of the intelligent patient monitoring system using CEP and ANN
The CEP section of the proposed architecture is one of the key components of the system. It receives all the monitored data and applies various event processing techniques, such as filtering, aggregation etc. over input event streams and provides the data for further processing to ANN module. Various input adapters available in CEP make it possible to collect data from different types of sensors or monitors and process them collectively. In CEP module, various event processing rule are written specific to the patient.
(3) Patient's medical history and diagnosis data store
This is the data store where patient's medical history and diagnosis data is stored. It could be traditional RDBMS storage system. The data stored in this storage are used for ANN training purpose. The new data is continuously added into the same data storage and will be used next time when ANN will be trained again with patient's latest medical and diagnosis data.
The ANN model for the patient is computational neural network specific to the patient and trained using patient's all medical and diagnosis data. This trained ANN model is used for real-time diagnosis and care delivery. The decision is taken based on the input data coming from the CEP output adapters. The patient specific ANN model is trained at regular interval may be daily or on need bases. These regular updates which include latest knowledge about measured body parameters, diagnosis and medication information of the patient, helps ANN model to make accurate predictions. It is also possible to make ANN take biased decision by giving more weight to either historical data or the latest data during training. All these make ANN the most critical component of the system.
(5) ANN output to action message converter
The output generated by the ANN is generally real numbers and they are needed to be mapped to the meaningful information so that appropriate action can be taken. This is done by the ANN output to action message converter. The module not only map ANN output to real world information but it can also sends action data or alerts to devices or human being through email, SMS, alarm system etc. The threshold for various alerts can be configured so it can adapt to the changes happening to the health and body.
Together all these components make a very flexible, intelligent and efficient patient monitoring system. The proposed architecture shows how one can use CEP and ANN together more effectively to model the complex problem and provide efficient solution alternative over the traditional approaches.
Complex event processing and artificial neural network are the two widely used solution techniques for the problems that are very difficult to model using traditional approaches. In this article, we have described both the approaches in brief with their key capabilities. We have also described a use case for intelligent patient monitoring system with the solution architecture using both CEP and ANN and combining the best capabilities of both the approaches. We have shown how one can use both the techniques together to solve highly complex problems in real or near real time.
- Complex event processing, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_event_processing#cite_note-1
- Artificial neural network, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network
- Patient Monitoring Systems - Part 1, http://www.philblock.info/hitkb/p/patient_monitoring_systems.html
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Some of us, inculding me, get shut down by Lupron and can't seem to get the follies going. And then with the added potential suppressing factor of BCPs...and forget it. I know that for me, BCP and Lupron are just not good at all. When I was at Cornell I did EPP twice, and that too shut me down. Did the RE mention stopping the Lupron and seeing what happens in the following days? I'd do that before cancelling the cycle altogether. Good Luck.
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Celebrating Sarah
Sarah Burke's life and legacy is celebrated at Winter X Games Aspen 2012
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Sarah Burke TributeA tribute to women's freeskiing pioneer Sarah Burke at Winter X Games 2012.Tags: ACTIONSPORTS, KITESKIING, EXPN, Sarah Burke, ATHLETES, EXPNEVENTS
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Skiers and Snowboarders Pay Tribute to Sarah BurkeThe pipe went dark and Aspen went silent as friends and family paid tribute to Sarah Burke.Tags: ACTIONSPORTS, SKIING, EXPN, Sarah Burke, ATHLETES, EXPNEVENTS
In the week since Sarah Burke's death, there have been tears. And tributes. Purple ribbons. Red stickers. And more tears. But Thursday night, as her friends and fellow athletes gather in Aspen for the start of the Winter X Games, a celebration begins. For those who knew her best and those who simply knew her by name, Winter X is a four-day opportunity to do exactly as the stickers adorning so many helmets, snowboards and skis here in Aspen instruct: "Celebrate Sarah."
But how do you celebrate the life of a woman whose absence weighs so heavily on hearts this week? Well, for starters, you smile.
"Sarah really liked to smile," skier Sean Pettit said as he accepted his award for Best Male Performance at the Powder magazine awards held Wednesday night at the Hotel Jerome in downtown Aspen, Colo. "So I want to see a smile from everybody." As prompted, the hundreds of people in the room raised huge smiles below tear-filled eyes. A few minutes earlier, they'd paused for "a moment of noise" in Sarah's honor.
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This week in Aspen, the athletes of Winter X Games are celebrating the life of freeskiing pioneer Sarah Burke. Gallery
And that smile might turn into a laugh. Sarah really liked to laugh. And although she had a heart the size of Whistler Mountain, she wasn't always laughing with you.
To that point, there's something she would want you to see: Click off of this story for a moment, open another Internet browser and type scarah.com into your browser. Now watch as she jumps from behind an apartment door to scare her coach, Marc McDonell, as he steps into a stairwell. Or pops out of a hat display at Target after spotting her friend and fellow skier Joe Schuster, innocently shopping in the store.
It's not a sophisticated site, and she'd been working on it for only a few months. But it's funny. An ominous-looking graphic at the top of the page welcomes visitors with the words, "Be afraid of Sarah " And if Sarah had had her way, the site would have been huge. Forget Ken Block's Gymkhana series or those "What Single Girls Say" videos. Scarah.com would have been the biggest thing on the Web. "I hope we can figure out a way to keep it going," superpipe snowboarder Steve Fisher said. "I think she would have liked to see us all posting videos scaring the hell out of one another."
Want to celebrate Sarah Burke? Hide behind a bush in your driveway the next time your best friend comes to pick you up for a movie.
Perhaps you want to glam up for the celebration. Sure, Sarah was tough as nails and had no problem hanging with the boys. But she brought an element of style, glamour and grace to everything she did. "The memory that will make me smile this week is me and Sarah in sequin dresses at the ESPY awards last July," said Kelly Clark, the defending snowboard superpipe gold medalist. "We were both nominated for female action sports athlete of the year, and it was so fun to be on the red carpet with a friend. I'm glad we can celebrate her this week in the place she shined the brightest."
And if someone turns on some tunes: dance. Like, really dance -- in that way you do when you don't think anyone is watching. "I used to call Sarah my stunt dancer," said Kristi Leskinen, a freeskiing pioneer who was one of Sarah's closest friends and by her side in the last week of her life. "We'd get to parties and inevitably someone would pull me onto the dance floor. But I don't like to dance. So I'd say, 'Hold on, I'll get my stunt dancer.' I'd pull Sarah onto the floor and then stand there, just watching her. She was so damn good. I loved going to parties with Sarah, because you knew you were going to get a show."
Especially at a competition. So this week, whether you're a skier, a snowboarder or an elementary school teacher, celebrate Sarah by doing as she would have done this week, and push past whatever limits you set for yourself yesterday.
For many of the athletes here in Aspen, that will be the toughest trick they pull off this week. They will be asked to drop into a halfpipe that is very similar to the one Sarah was riding the day she was injured in Park City. And they will have her on their minds. It will be difficult to stay focused and positive and be all the things Sarah would have wanted them to be.
But then they will dig down deep and do as she would have done. "If she was in pain, she bit her lip," Leskinen said. If she was sad, she would have taken a deep breath, blocked out the emotion and, as her dear friend and Olympic snowboard gold medalist Torah Bright realized, "Sarah would go."
On Thursday night, 39 minutes into the Winter X broadcast (9 p.m. ET, ESPN), there will be a moving tribute in remembrance of Sarah's life. But for the rest of the week, the celebration will continue. It will be subtler, but it will be there. In purple ribbons and red stickers. In dancing and laughing and practical jokes. Oh, and vodka shots.
"If Sarah were here, she would buy a round of vodka shots for everyone," Leskinen says. "She always did. This week, I'm buying them for her."
And then, even though she doesn't like to, she will dance.
Alyssa RoenigkESPN The Magazine senior writer
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Art is doing philosophy? . . .
An interesting set of ideas about art, its context and its relation to philosophy comes from the American philosopher and art critic Arthur Danto. What makes something a work of art is not, says Danto, to be found by looking at its obvious properties. Danto believes that what "makes the difference between a Brillo box and a work of art consisting of a Brillo box is a certain theory of art. It is the theory that takes it up into the world of art, and keeps it from collapsing into the real object which it is."
What are we, however, doing when we ask about the difference between a Brillo box in a supermarket and a Brillo box in an art gallery? Danto's answer is that we are asking a philosophical question. Art now prompts us to do philosophy. Much of art today is about boundary testing of 'art': "Can this object be considered art?", "What is art?" Danto argues that art is doing philosophy; art is collapsing into philosophy.
G.W.F. Hegel in the nineteenth century declared that art would in future no longer be a predominant mode of expression for human beings. Danto seems to agree: Art has nothing left to do. It has run itself out, and has as its only project a philosophical one, the definition of art. And that would much better be left to the philosophers.
From "Aesthetics and Philosophy: A Match Made in Heaven?" by Anja Steinbauer for the September/October 2006 issue of Philosophy Now
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Count me as a reactionary on the question of "what is art." I think the most modern and up-to-date answer to this question is found, paradoxically, at the very beginnings of Western civilization.
People back then simply did not think of art in the way that we do today. We think of art today as primarily a product -- a painting, a printed poem, etc. We think of art, that is, as a "noun."
But ancient peoples thought of art as a verb -- a skill. Any activity that required a great deal of skill and that obeyed agreed upon rules and principles was considered an art.
Geometry was an art. So was astronomy -- or waging war. Like sculpture and architecture, these activities depended upon skill and learning. People who mastered these skills were artists.
Consequently, it took a long time for ancient Greeks to take poetry and music seriously as "art" in this sense because neither appeared to follow rules. Poetry, for instance, appeared to have much more to do with prophecy than with literary skill.
Eventually, of course, Aristotle invented so many rules for poetry that no one could doubt that poetry was indeed an art.
Ancient thinkers came up with many different ways of classifying the arts. But all these classifications have one thing in common: They do not distinguish fine art from craft. That's a distinction that Europeans began to make around 1500.
I think the ancient definition of "art" as a skill has several advantages that might benefit us today.
First, it neatly does away with Danto's perplexities about how to define art. Something is an art if it can be taught and requires a great deal of skill to master.
Second, if art is a skill then it's possible to judge whether this skill has in fact been mastered. In other words, judgments about art aren't simply subjective and arbitrary.
Third, the conception of "art as a skill" is flexible -- a definite asset in a world filled with so many different kinds of cultures and beliefs. We don't have to worry any more about whether there is such a thing as "high art" or "low art." The only real question is what kinds of activities a given culture considers to be highly skilled. We are free to look instead of merely theorize.
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Sunday October 28, 2012 / 5:30pmDracula
2 tickets
Side Orchestra/Front Mezzanine
1100 3rd Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101
How was your experience?
Story told beautifully through dance/ballet. Costumes amazing, dancers amazing, the dancer playing Lucy was 'unbelievable'. Stayed true to G. Stocker's Dracula story. Brought my 8 year old daughter and, altho a couple of parts were borderline 'iffy', overall, we both loved it!


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Charles Cotton
The Morning Quatrains
'Tis time we now dull sleep forego;
Tir'd Nature is by sleep redress'd,
And Labour's overcome by rest.
We have out-done the work of Night,
'Tis time we rise t'attend the Light,
And e'er he shall his beams display,
To plot new bus'ness for the Day.
None but the slothful, or unsound,
Are by the Sun in feathers found,
Nor, without rising with the Sun,
Can the world's bus'ness e'er be done.
Hark! Hark! the watchful Chanticler
Tells us the Day's bright harbinger
Peeps o'er the eastern hills, to awe
And warm night's sov'reign to withdraw.
The morning curtains now are drawn,
And now appears the blushing dawn;
Aurora has her roses shed,
To strew the way Sol's steeds must tread.
Xanthus and Aethon harness'd are,
To roll away the burning car,
And, snorting flame, impatient bear
The dressing of the charioteer.
The sable cheeks of sullen Night
Are streak'd with rosy streams of light,
Whilst she retires away in fear,
To shade the other hemisphere.
The merry lark now takes her wings,
And long'd-for Day's loud welcome sings,
Mounting her body out of sight,
As if she meant to meet the Light.
Now doors and windows are unbarr'd,
Each-where are cheerful voices heard,
And round about 'Good-morrows' fly,
As if Day taught Humanity.
The chimnies now to smoke begin,
And the old wife sits down to spin,
Whilst Kate, taking her pail, does trip
Mull's swoll'n and straddl'ing paps to strip.
Vulcan now makes his anvil ring,
Dick whistles loud, and Maud doth sing,
And Silvio with his bugle horn
Winds an Imprime unto the Morn.
Now through the morning doors behold
Phoebus array'd in burning gold,
Lashing his fiery steeds, displays
His warm and all-enlight'ning rays.
Now each one to his work prepares,
All that have hands are labourers,
And manufactures of each trade
By op'ning shops are open laid.
Hob yokes his oxen to the team,
The angler goes unto the stream,
The woodman to the purlews hies,
And lab'ring bees to load their thighs.
Fair Amarillis drives her flocks,
All night safe-folded from the fox,
To flow'ry downs, where Colin stays,
To court her with his roundelays.
The traveller now leaves his inn
A new day's journey to begin,
As he would post it with the day,
And early rising makes good way.
The slick-fac'd school-boy satchel takes,
And with slow pace small riddance makes;
For why, the haste we make, you know
To Knowledge and to Virtue's slow.
The fore-horse jingles on the road,
The wagoner lugs on his load,
The field with busy people snies,
And city rings with various cries.
The World is now a busy swarm,
All doing good, or doing harm;
But let's take heed our acts be true,
For Heaven's eye sees all we do.
None can that piercing sight evade,
It penetrates the darkest shade,
And sin, though it could 'scape the eye,
Would be discover'd by the cry.
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