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Is it important for young children (4 or 5 years old) in a Spanish language immersion program to be exposed to more than one type of Spanish language accent? If the child only hears one accent for the first two years of learning Spanish, will that make it hard for the child to comprehend and/or adjust his/her own accent later when exposed to other accents?
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I don't think so.
I think a firm grounding in one variety of Spanish is important. I also think that the decision between European vs. Latin American Spanish is important very early on, as the differences are more pronounced and there's more of a dividing line there. But at the end of the day, I think learning the fundamentals and "standard" pronunciation is most important, while a person who dedicates themselves to learning the language will pick up the proper (as in appropriate for where they live) regional color and dialect afterwards anyway.
May be, but in spite of strong accent differences, Spanish people can understand perfectly accents from any part from Spain or from American countries. A child from Madrid understand without problem the Mexican "Chapulin Colorado" series, as well as any children program from the Andalusian TV "Canal Sur" with a strong "seseo".
The problem exist when the supposed "Spanish" is not really Spanish with a particular "habla", but some kind of marginal urban jargon, a strong dialect of some isolated rural areas, or it is plenty of localisms, or when people speak quickly without vocalizing. And IMO all of this should be avoided in an immersion program. Using only words understandable in any Spanish country, the accent does not matter.

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In honor of these bonds, which can be as powerful, meaningful and important as those with family, here are a few excellent books exploring the topic in various ways:
"A Prayer for Owen Meany," by John Irving. John Wheelwright and Owen Meany are children and best friends living in New England. They stay that way during the 1950s and 1960s, even though Owen accidentally kills John's mother (with a foul Little League ball, no less). Incredibly moving, quirky and thoughtful.
"A Map of the World," by Jane Hamilton. In many ways, this is a novel portraying the falling apart of a friendship and how one tragedy sparks another and another. It begins with Alice Goodwin baby-sitting her best friend Theresa's children one afternoon. Alice loses track of the kids for a split second - enough time for Theresa's 2-year-old to drown in Alice's pond. This tragedy sparks a townwide crusade against Alice and her family. Not by any means cheerful, Hamilton's novel is nonetheless profound, if harrowing.
"The Help," by Kathryn Stockett. This novel explores relationships and race relations between interconnected women in Jackson, Miss. Incredibly, 60 literary agents rejected "The Help" before Stockett found one to represent her first novel, which became a huge best-seller that was turned into an award-winning movie.
"Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," by Rebecca Wells. Vivi, Teensy, Necie and Caro grew up together and are as tight as sisters. When the ladies get older, they stay close and wind up meddling in the fraught and complicated relationship between Vivi and her adult daughter, Siddalee Walker. In turns humorous and tragic, this best-seller is a great pick for anyone who still has her childhood circle of friends.
"The Art of Fielding," by Chad Harbach. This debut novel is about an up-and-coming college baseball star named Henry who blows his once-promising career. Revolving around Henry's relationships with four other characters, the story touches on the important issues in one's early adulthood, including friendship. We promise that even if you couldn't care less about baseball, you'll be fine - this book is about so much more than that.
"Edge of Dark Water," by Joe R. Lansdale. Sue Ellen, a 16-year old, takes two friends and her mother on a rafting trip down the river - but this is no pleasure cruise for the quartet, not with stolen money and the ashes of Sue Ellen's friend May Lynn along for the ride, and a killer named Skunk on their trail. Critics are raving about this scary, funny, Texas-set tale by an author many are comparing to a modern-day Mark Twain.
"Last Days of Summer," by Steve Kluger. This tearjerker tells the story of Joey, a bullied young Brooklyn boy who tries to ingratiate himself with a professional third baseman named Charles Banks to prove to the neighborhood kids that he's not such a loser. (Yes, another baseball book that's not really about baseball.) Joey slowly muscles his way into Charles' life as a pen pal, and the two form an unlikely - and touching - bond.
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When choosing some mathematics book to study, is it always the case that one should look for the current edition of the book. Are there any examples when the older edition of some book is clearly better than the latest version?
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Usually a newer edition is something that at least the author and publisher considered an improvement, so any answers are rather subjective. That said,
Hausdorff's book Mengenlehre in the first edition had an appendix, omitted in subsequent editions, on the Banach paradox. (Later made into the Banach-Tarski paradox by Tarski...) Someone once told me this was the best, most elementary, presentation of it -- I haven't compared different versions of the proof myself.
Ian Stewart, Galois theory.
This kind of thing is very subjective, but in my opinion the third edition of Computability and Logic by Boolos and Jeffrey is better than the fourth, at least from the point of view of someone interested in the advanced topics (as opposed to a student encountering the material for the first time). Some of the more interesting advanced topics were cut from the fourth edition.


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5 Logical Fallacies That Make You Wrong More Than You Think
#2. We're Hard-Wired to Have a Double Standard
Here's a good way to ruin your afternoon. Go on the Internet and find any discussion thread that brings up overweight people (like this or this one). Stand back and watch as a crowd absolutely rants about how incredibly easy it is to lose weight, and how incredibly lazy you have to be to get fat. The conclusion will be that being fat is literally a moral failing and the sign of a bad, disgusting human being. It's to the point of actual anger and violence directed toward the overweight in real life -- the fat are one of the last groups people can openly hate.
In at least four states, we can legally hunt this man.
But now take any of those people and try using the same logic with their weaknesses:
"You're struggling to get by on your income? I can't imagine how lazy a person would have to be to not be wealthy. Just go out there and make money! Duh!"
"You don't have a girlfriend? I can't imagine how much of an antisocial dick you have to be to not get a beautiful woman to love you. How hard is it to get off your ass and be a dynamic, sexy, personable human being?"
"Seriously dude, just stop having a micropenis."
"You drink alcohol? Or smoke cigarettes? Or smoke pot? Why don't you try not doing those things?"
"You suffer from depression or anxiety? Uh, have you tried not?"
Now watch as they rattle off ten thousand extenuating circumstances for their embarrassing problem (the economy is bad, women are bitches, I have an addiction) while completely rejecting all of the similar causes of obesity.
"My compulsive, life-shortening habit is completely different from overeating. Namely, it's much sexier."
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It's called the fundamental attribution error.
It's a universal thought process that says when other people screw up, it's because they're stupid or evil. But when we screw up, it's totally circumstantial. Like if you notice a coworker showing up to work high on mescaline, it's because he's an out-of-control peyote hound. But if you show up at work high on mescaline, it's because you had a flat tire and you needed the distraction.
The process feels so obvious when explained -- we simply lack information about the context in which the other person screwed up, and so we fill it in with our own. If we've never been fat, then we assume the fat guy feels the exact same level of hunger as we do, that his metabolism is the same, that his upbringing is the same, that the spare time and energy he can devote to exercise is the same as ours. We think that both of us faced the exact same fork in the road and only one of us chose to eat churros.
About 40 of these a week for two years are all that separate you from that guy who had to be airlifted out of his living room.
The reality is, of course, that you were on completely different roads. The assumption that everyone's circumstances are identical is so plainly wrong as to be borderline insane, but everyone does it. Pundits and politicians alike mock the unemployed as lazy, even though their own data shows that for every five unemployed people, there is only one open job. "I don't understand, can't you all just become radio talk show hosts like me?"
So During Your Next Argument, Remember ...
Forget about talking politics with your crazy shop teacher for a second. If you're consistently doing this when arguing with your significant other, that's a good sign that the relationship is dying. Listen for it -- when you forgot to do the dishes, it was because you had a thousand other things on your mind. When she forgot, it's because she doesn't care. If you find yourself automatically dismissing your partner's explanations as "excuses," you've gone to a bad place from which most relationships do not return.
"You didn't take out the trash this morning. Is it because you don't love me anymore?"
#1. Facts Don't Change Our Minds
Here's how things would work in a perfect world: You and your friend are on opposing sides of an issue. After reaching an impasse, you pull out a piece of information so precise, so compelling, so perfect, that your buddy does a 180 and completely changes his mind. You high five and skip off into the distance.
And this probably has happened ... as long as it was a subject that neither of you particularly cared about. But if it was some emotionally charged issue, like abortion? God help you.
Covering your mouth is the first step in any successful dialogue.
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Let's go back to the beginning for a moment, and the theory that people figured out how to build arguments as a form of verbal bullying rather than a method of spreading correct information. That means that there are actually two reasons somebody might be arguing with you: because they actually want to get you to think the right thing, and because they're trying to establish dominance over you to lower your status in the tribe (or office or forum) and elevate their own. That means there's a pretty severe cost to being on the wrong side of an issue completely separate from the issue itself.
Now think about the way people treat the two sides of a debate like teams. Not just political parties; remember how one side of the Leno vs. Conan debate referred to themselves as "Team Coco," or how Twilight fans refer to their factions as "Team Edward" vs. "Team Jacob."
Team Leatherface?
Then note how may debates involve people jumping into an issue in which they have nothing at stake (only a fraction of the millions of the "Team Coco" people supporting Conan on the Internet actually watch his show), just so they have the chance to join a team.
Now think of how much it would hurt them to have to change teams.
"I looked like a fool on the Internet. This is my only path now."
That is why confirmation bias exists. We read a news article that supports what we believe, and we add it to the "I'm right about this" column. News articles that contradict what we believe are dismissed. We make up a reason -- maybe the source is part of the conspiracy from the other side or whatever it takes to make sure the "I'm wrong about this" column remains empty.
Researchers have done experiments where they hooked up people's brains to scanners and then made them read a story pointing out something stupid their favorite candidate said. The logical parts of the brain stayed quiet, while the emotional parts of the brain lit up. Their brains were weighing the story, not based on what it logically meant for their position, but on the emotional/social consequences of that position being wrong.
"You've pushed me past the breaking point, Snopes.com!"
Then, once the brain had decided that this news story being right would mean pain and humiliation for the reader, it told the logical part, "Figure out a way to use your 'logic' stuff to make this pain go away." The next day, you probably heard those test subjects at the coffee shop going on and on about how biased the press is against their guy.
So During Your Next Argument, Remember ...
You won't remember this. You're hard-wired to remain entrenched, and the Internet makes it worse because your political beliefs are pasted all over Facebook and wherever else you post your opinions. Backing down means going back on all that. It means letting down your team. Every inch of your psychology will fight it.
Technology gives us the power to be wrong forever.
The scary part? The same logical fallacy that prevents that crazy guy who keeps predicting the end of the world over and over from admitting maybe he was full of shit is the same fallacy that drives partisan politics and, therefore, government policy. Sleep tight, voters! Evolution is working against us.
For more things that you're incorrect about, check out 7 Basic Things You Won't Believe You're All Doing Wrong and The 6 (Wrong) Questions Men Love to Ask About Women.


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Those who have learned a second language are guaranteed to consciously think of words and their corresponding meaning in your native language or vice versa.
This is common with more "complex" sentences, like "My favorite color is green.", rather than "Hi" or "Hello, how are you?" (The latter being a common phrase, so it needs no thinking in most languages.).
- Is it possible to stop the conscious act of translating your native language to your second language or vice versa?
- Is it possible to fully "think" in your second language?
Clarification: When you speak your native language you rarely think about the grammar and structure and it comes right out, I'm asking if that's possible with people who learned multiple languages.. can you think as if that language was native to you?
Wow, I love the answers! For clarification: You know how a beginner of a foreign language usually cannot speak rapid-fire and has to think through every word and it's syntax, instead of making a flow of words automatically, you have to 'think' and fill in each word accordingly.
Ex: When a person who natively speaks English talks, they can talk without having to think of word meanings as it is already implicitly processed by your sub-conscious.. but this flow usually stops when you..
Exx: Person A doesn't use the word "condescending" a lot, and has to return to the definition in her memory. She usually doesn't meet condescending people. She has met a person who has this attribute. In an argument she says "You're so --pause--, umm, hmm..", and in her mind she goes through a list of words (Mean, (I had to pause here to find a word for the example..) Defiant, Rude, etc.) until she reaches condescending.
That is the feeling of "thinking" I'm describing. A new learner of a second language has to "think" through everything, and my question is: Can you "think" in a second language without having to find and link words in your native language? Excluding young people exposed to both, but people who took classes and moved to a country to learn.
The interesting replies I've seen are the description of people who sometimes forget their native language, maybe because of thinking in it!
I love all the answers, I am just picky with it! I will +1 all of the relevant answers.


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Now on our homepage. E. J. Dionne Jr. on the change in regulations concerning contraception coverage:
A little more than a year ago, the Obama administration set off a bitter and unnecessary clash with the Roman Catholic Church over rules mandating broad contraception coverage under the Affordable Care Act. The Department of Health and Human Services' announcement of new regulations is a clear statement that President Obama never wanted this fight.The decision ought to be taken by the nation's Catholic bishops as a victory, because it is. Many in their ranks, including some of the country's most prominent prelates, are inclined to do just that -- even if the most conservative bishops seem to want to keep the battle raging.
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How "right wing" the American church has become will be shown by how the USCCB responds. Is there any way the leadership isn't going to criticize an Obama initiative?
The USCCB staff is taking time because they maybe are running it up a Taco Bell flagpole.
Dionne's analysis makes it clear why Catholic hospitals and universities should at least be accommodated if Catholic churches and religious communities are exempt: "the vast charitable work done by religious organizations to help millions, regardless of their faith, is manifestly inspired by religion. The church could not abide the implicit reduction of its role merely to private expressions of faith." But by calling the religious-liberty argument a mistake, Dionne fails to explain why either category of institution should be accommodated or exempted? What, if not religious liberty, would be the grounds for an exemption?
Matthew Boudway,Only Dionne can answer your question, I suppose, but maybe he is criticizing the language more than the substance of the bishops' response. In this country, any claim that one's liberty is being abridged becomes incendiary very quickly. Some people will immediately see tyranny and genocide when others see a mistake caused by insufficient staff work or less than adequate consultation.The Administration did start to backpedal right away and indicated an openness to accommodation. If the bishops had said simply that the original mandate was contrary to Church teaching and would force them to act against their conscience, and if they had carefully avoided the supercharged words liberty and freedom, this might all have been settled with less asperity.And let's not forget that it was an election year.
"How right wing the American church has become will be shown by how the USCCB responds."Beverly --Right. I fully endorsed the bishops' religious right not to pay for other people's contraceptives, but their response to the initial mandate was paranoid and excessive, reflecting their automatically negative response to whatever Obama proposes.The new administration proposal obviously gives them what they want, but still Archb. Dolan says he has to consider it "very carefully" as if there's a trap in it. Sheesh.
Ann: You'd prefer that Cardinal Dolan respond before considering it very carefully?
If the compromise is to work, it will need acceptance by both sides. A piece in the NYT and the comments it draws doesn't sound entirely hopeful. http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/contraception-compromise/On the other hand the NYT's own editorial sees a brighter future.
Rather than wasting all the money on lawsuits against Obama, why don't the bishops simply inform Catholics that they may not use birth control?
The Administration took nearly a year to publish this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.We should let everyone else take at least a couple of days to read through the actual language before responding.Likewise, we ourselves should take a couple of days and read the actual language before rushing to applaud and pat the Administration on the back for coming up with a scheme whereby the bottom line is that, in some convoluted way or fashion, employees of religious organizations will still be provided contraception coverage as a benefit of their employment with such religious organization. That is, religious organizations are still ultimately involved.But then again, some paranoid types might think that that is entirely the point of all of this -- to force religious organizations to be involved.And why would they think that? Maybe because if provision of contraceptives were really the point, then the government could have come up with a less burdensome method that does not involve religious organizations at all -- the government could have simply provided contraception vouchers to any person, employed or not, who wants them. Or, the government could have given a tax credit for contraception costs. Or, the government could have mandated that post offices become contraception dispensaries.There was no need whatsoever to involve any employer, religious or not, in this aggressive scheme to medicate American women to suppress their fertility. The government could do it entirely on its own.
Let's play "what if?" --What if, instead of a requirement of employer provided contraception coverage, we were talking about a requirement of employer provided gun coverage? What if employers were required to either (a) directly provide a gun upon hiring and, each month thereafter, ten bullets, or (b) have some third party administrator to provide the gun and bullets? If the employer objected, would it be sufficient to simply say that an accommodation will be made whereby those employees can be provided coverage through an outside group, like the NRA?Would that be enough to fully insulate the employer who has objections from being involved in the distribution of guns and ammunition that it finds morally wrong? Or would that be seen for the transparent farce of an accommodation that it is?
Bender:Re: your commentThere was no need whatsoever to involve any employer, religious or not, in this aggressive scheme to medicate American women to suppress their fertility.It seems to me that it would be more accurate to say that the birth control pill suppresses ovulation rather than fertility. Fertility is more general and refers to the ability to conceive and bear children.However, there are some who claim that there is some effect on fertility by the long-term use of the pill.
Gerelyn asked at 10:43"Rather than wasting all the money on lawsuits against Obama, why dont the bishops simply inform Catholics that they may not use birth control?"I think the answer is that if they preached against contraception, it would upset everyone.If they use contraception coverage as a stick with which to smack Democrats, they only upset Democrats whilst contraception-using Republicans will even help them swing that stick.Maybe they win the battle, but I can't see how this is helpful for the US Church in the long run.
It's not exactly the smell of napalm in the morning. It is a lack-luster victory that tastes like defeat, because (1) Obama comes across once more as a reasonable and moderate guy, unlike the bishops; (2) the bishops know that the concession will only irritate catholics who want the freedom to use contraceptives even more; (3) the bishops have lost one of their hottest selling-points and rallying-cries as defenders of threatened Religious Freedom.
Obama should know that softness encourages further exactions from bullies.
"this aggressive scheme to medicate American women to suppress their fertility. Today we believe in responsible parenthood, not servitude of the past when priests would pressure overburdened parents to produce their annual baby as if they were mere breeding animals.
JAK --I'd prefer that C. Dolan were more civil to the President of the United States and would encourage the other rude bishops to be more civil. Hitler indeed.
Ann: It is not uncivil to postpone comment until one has considered the object in view.
"Would that be enough to fully insulate the employer who has objections from being involved in the distribution of guns and ammunition that it finds morally wrong?"Yes, it would. If a democratically elected government decided it was a national priority to make sure every citizen who wanted a gun got one without having to pay for it himself, and if, for whatever bizarre reason, this government decided to implement its policy partly by requiring employers to provide guns to their employees, then it would have done enough to satisfy the conscience claims of objecting employers if it found a third party to supply guns to the employees of the conscientious objectors. Your hypothetical scenario may be transparently farcical, but its analogous accommodation is not.
Whether it's a victory depends upon what the goals are. I doubt if all the bishops have the same goals. I haven't had a chance to study it in detail because I moved this past week and have to start teaching tomorrow. So I am sorry I promised more than I delivered thus far. But I will deliver as soon as I can. And I am following Joe K's admonition that it is not good to comment before studying something well. And the only thing I have studied -- but unsuccessfully-- is how to hook Roku up to a Comcast router.
To the extent this is a victory (and it seems as good an outcome as we could hope for), it's important to note that this is a victory, not for the bishops per se, but the bishops in service to the church. It's a victory for the church.
The Militia Act of 1792 required citizens to buy gunsDid it require that employers - such as Commonweal magazine - provide them for their employees, either directly or indirectly through some convoluted scheme that might allow for a wink-and-a-nod for those who want to insist that the employer is not involved in what it might find to be morally wrong, but which is ultimately specious because it is still the case that, but for the employer, the employee would not have the gun and ammo coverage?
Yes, Jim P., it was a smashing victory for the Church. Let us recall some of the highlights: the hilariously overhyped and underattended Fortnight for Freedom; comparisons of the President of the United States with Hitler and Stalin; Holocaust allusions; lawsuits all around; threats of Eucharist denial; and the pretense that the Catholic Church, which has probably never had a more congenial home, was undergoing a persecution not seen since Diocletian's days.And why? Because in putting together a program of preventive medicine, federal officials were insufficiently sensitive about a religious teaching that hardly anyone heeds. They misjudged, but probably not maliciously, and a few phone calls and emails from calm people might have corrected the mistake short of rhetorical Armageddon. But a fight is what was wanted, not an accommodation. At the end of it, Obama will have achieved what he set out to do and looks reasonable and responsive in doing it, and the bishops will have made their point another way. Maybe that's a win of sorts for both.
The "but for the employer" business is not quite right, Bender. The Affordable Care Act has various mechanisms for making sure as many people as possible have health insurance. If an employer decides to pay the penalty instead of offering health insurance, his employees will be able to get insurance on the exchanges authorized by the ACA. Or they may even qualify for the expanded Medicaid coverage. One way or another, they will probably be insured, and all insurance will cover contraception. So the employer is simply providing basic coverage that will be provided anyway; he may opt for the penalty in order to minimize (but not eliminate) his own remote material cooperation, but he should not fool himself that he is saving his employees from the moral peril of contraception coverage simply by refusing to provide it himself.
Jim P. ==Yes, it's a victory but in large measure a Pyrrhic one. The bishops won't have to pay for other people's contraceptives, but they have, by their exaggeration of the issue and the nasty accusations against Obama by some of them, reduced their moral influence even further. In this round they have reminded me of spoiled brats stamping their little feet in an effort to get their own way. Obama, on the other hand, was cool and respectful, and gave in, while Sibelius admitted they had been insensitive.


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Hamburg Ballet in New YorkNeumeier's "Nijinsky"
Posted 21 February 2004 - 12:49 PM
Reports, please!
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Posted 23 February 2004 - 08:40 PM
Whether you liked it or not, please weigh in! Neumeier is an important choreographer. With Forsythe, he's a star in Europe, considered a leading choreographer. I think we need to pay attention to him -- what did you think?
Posted 24 February 2004 - 08:55 AM
Neumeier's Nijinsky is intense enough to stun small animals at a distance ... perhaps our New York friends are still recovering?
Seriously, I agree with you that we need to take these companies and directors seriously. It's eye-opening to me how different in expression, ideas, and execution they are compared to American companies, and will show us many worthwhile things that we won't see (or at least haven't yet seen) with our native companies. I can't even begin to imagine an American company trying to fund a staging of a 2+-hour, complicated, intellectually- and emotionally-demanding ballet that doesn't hide its darker undercurrents and subtexts behind a pretty or innocuous facade.
Posted 24 February 2004 - 09:16 AM
I still want to read what New Yorkers thought of this one -- come on, guys! You went to Eifman.......
Posted 24 February 2004 - 09:50 AM
rom yesterday's Links thread:
Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet's most legendary superstar, is the subject of more than one ballet. But none has the vision, passion and detail that John Neumeier has poured into "Nijinsky," the two-act dramatic spectacular he presented with the Hamburg Ballet over the weekend.
It is a pity that this engagement, with outstanding casts on both Friday and Saturday nights, ended yesterday at City Center, but there is time to catch "Nijinsky" this week at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
It is not a perfect work, but its flaws are swept away by the phantasmagoria, with just the right music, that soars onstage into highly potent imagery.
The ballet "Nijinsky" is a grand, theatrical collage featuring a wealth of dramatic incidents, attractive performers, and high production values including delicately abstracted, period costumes and sets designed by Neumeier himself, with music by Chopin, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Shostakovich. Dancing at the head of a stylish and beautifully rehearsed company are Jirí Bubenícek, who maintains his withdrawn, internal focus as Nijinsky without ever fading in intensity; and Anna Polikarpova, a deliciously subtle dancer-actress who plays Nijinsky's scheming wife, Romola.
People versed in Nijinsky lore will enjoy this ballet most. The uninitiated may be confused, but Neumeier's presentation is so engaging that it will surely prompt them to investigate further, which may be Neumeier's greatest gift to his idol.
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'Nijinsky' Painful Portrait of Genius
There is much that is different and exciting in "Nijinsky," John Neumeier's 2000 creation for the Hamburg Ballet. The ballet is filled with potent and arresting references from the troubled life of this superstar dancer, who was certified insane shortly after that final solo and spent three more decades in sanatoriums before he died.
And that is the ballet's problem, too; it presupposes a knowledge of Nijinsky's life and works. Anyone not familiar with his story or with the characters he danced - the harlequin, the spirit of the rose, the golden slave, the faun - might have a very difficult time understanding the production.
The dancing, though, is first rate, and the choreography is absorbing, although there might be too many fits and twitches, too much frantic rolling around on the floor for some tastes. On Saturday night, in the second of three performances at the City Center, Ukrainian dancer Alexandre Riabko was impressive in his technique and affecting in his acting, providing a moving portrait of a man's descent into insanity.
Gia Kourlas in DanceView Times: (with several photos)
Clichés of Madness
The attempt to shrink a mans life into more than two hours of stream-of-consciousness movement is bewildering and not the only tragedy to be found in Neumeiers endless ballet; its reminds me of the way Boris Eifman arranges the scenes in his cluttered dances. Ballet steps do not constitute a ballet, and Neumeier, like Eifman, has little flair in ordering steps into a dance or offering the viewer a coherent storyline (scenes are either overly simplistic or complex and confused). The staging, when all the characters appear, lacks clarity, and during more intimate pas de deux, is bereft of movement invention and climax. In every solo, pas de deux or group dance, Neumeier only communicates that his ability lies in the delusion of the false endingwhen the real one finally arrives, well, you just dont care.
Music, played on City Centers atrocious sound system is a blaring mess; arranged by Neumeier, it shifts, with little ease, from Chopin to movements from Rimsky-Korsakovs Scheherazade and Shostakovichs Symphony No. 11in G-minor, Op. 103. The chosen selections didnt help to glue the action onstage, and an often-overwhelming excess of characters only helped to muddle the effort. A real control freak, an approach I normally admire given all the failed collaborations of late, Neumeier himself presides over the ballets sets and costumes, which are loosely based on original sketches by Leon Bakst and Alexandre Benois. Again, it all seems a bit cheap.
As Nijinsky, Bubenícek is both a cartoon character whose insanity is indicated in clichéd imageshe rubs his chest in agony, he droops to the floor after a failed pirouette and he greets images of his past roles, all portrayed by other dancers, with the delight of a retarded child. Urbans Diaghilev is dashing and blond, in later scenes, he dons a tuxedo jacket and pants but no shirt (as with many of the male characters, Neumeier proves he is fond of the bare chest) and is more contemporary looking than Nijinsky himself. His cocky attitude conjures Coopers seductive Von Rotbart but his pimp act looks like a big put-on. Polikarpovas Romola (most of the female roles in this ballet seem an afterthought) borders on tawdry; with her over-processed blond hair and heavy makeup, she was less the woman who came between Diaghilev and Nijinsky than the sort of lady you typically encounter at the bar at the Russian Samovar on a Saturday night. Twenty-one going on 90.
Eric Taub reviews Hamburg Ballet's "Nijinsky" for Ballet.co's magazine:
The ballet begins with a realistic-looking re-enactment of Nijinsky's final performance in 1919, a solo, with the modest title "Marriage with God," at a hotel near the sanitarium where he was confined for treatment of his increasingly unmanageable schizophrenia. As Nijinsky starts dancing, he's joined by dancers representing members of his family, his most famous roles, and, of course, Sergei Diaghilev, the impresario of the Ballets Russes, who became Nijinsky's lover as he managed Nijinsky's ever-swelling fame. We see surrealistic depictions of various moments in Nijinsky's life, sometimes refracted through the lens of his signature characters, for instance, his love for Diaghilev is depicted by the Spectre of the Rose, with Diaghilev as the dreamer in the chair, rather than Karsavina (who also makes some cameo appearances), or when his wife-to-be, Romola, infamously seduces him on a steamship trip to South America. As she does so, she watches, not Nijinsky, but his embodiment as the Faun from L'Apres-Midi d'Une Faune. Later (much later), the denizens of his asylum/World-War-One-soldiers (it's all the same, isn't it?) are led by none other than Petrouchka. The Golden Slave from Scheherezade and Harlequin from Carneval also wander in and out of the action (for want of a better word).
Posted 24 February 2004 - 10:42 AM
To clarify, by intellectual, I mean one has to think to make the structural connections, and to understand why they're there, much like any other great art form. The dark human baggage stuff (or indeed any other message) is something that the structure conveys and allows us to grasp, again like any other great art form.
Too often, the great classical ballets (I'm glad you got my implication) are staged and presented just as pretty, shallow spectacles. It's one reason why I appreciate many of Balanchine's works, because they often distill the great classical canon down to their essence.
Posted 24 February 2004 - 11:02 AM
Without having seen this, it isn't fair to lump Eifman and and Neumeier in the same box, but to use Eifman as an example, the great divide is between those who value expressive and theatrical effects above structural ones and those who place structure and form first. What I read about Nijinsky suggests that it's a ballet that expressionists will admire and structuralists won't. The Neumeier I've seen to this point I haven't liked, and found structurally confused, so I ended up passing on it.
Posted 24 February 2004 - 11:12 AM
I guess that because Balanchine was able to do the same in 40 minutes or less in such works as Davidsbundlertanze, Agon, Episodes, Liebeslieder Walzer (pretty perhaps, but not innocuous), Four Temperaments, Symphony in Three Movements, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, etc.
I can't even begin to imagine an American company trying to fund a staging of a 2+-hour, complicated, intellectually- and emotionally-demanding ballet that doesn't hide its darker undercurrents and subtexts behind a pretty or innocuous facade.
Or was this a reference to story ballets only?
Posted 24 February 2004 - 11:32 AM
Ask a large portion of the Paris audience what they thought when they saw Liebeslieder in December. More than one compared it to waltzing in Vienna on New Year's day. If you're looking for effects first, Liebeslieder is going to feel unsatisfactory. If you're looking for form, Tchaikovsky, Red Giselle, or Ivan the Terrible will set your teeth on edge.
Posted 24 February 2004 - 01:01 PM
Looking at Vienna Waltzes, more literally "walzing in Vienna on New Year's Day", you can see the evolution of the waltz in music, from Johann Strauss to Lehar to Richard Strauss, but also the psychic layers of turn-of-the-century Vienna, from the innocence of the young couple in the opening, to the feined innocence of the thespians, to the dandies and trollops of the demimonde on the border of the Vienna woods, to the jaded Merry Widow, to the neurotic woman alone in the Rosenkavalier waltzes. Or you can see a bunch of pretty dancers in a bunch of pretty costumes.
Posted 25 February 2004 - 08:35 AM
New York -- `Nijinsky," the two-act ballet choreographed in 2000 by the
inexplicably acclaimed John Neumeier for his Hamburg Ballet, starts off
with visual promise. The production's first scene confronts the audience as it enters: The house curtain is already raised, showing the stage transformed into what looks like one end of a hotel ballroom; it has two levels of clean and crisp architecture, both bright, cold and white. Eventually some dancers enter, costumed to suggest 1919, the year given in the choreographer's program notes. And as the first few characters enter the scene and mill about, the theatrical authority begins to fade.
Mr. Neumeier explains that his ballet "begins with a realistic re-creation" of an event in the life of his eponymous character's much documented tragic career. Specifically the scene recalls a solo dance performance arranged by the already legendary Nijinsky after a considerable hiatus in his performing career. The phony-baloney carryings on, however, of Hamburg's chit-chatting and haughty-acting dancers, who bear scant resemblance to the real men and women who would have gathered to see the great Nijinsky once again take the stage, rings hopelessly false.
The segment climaxes with the grandiose first entrance of Mr. Neumeier's multiple Nijinsky-figures -- the central one wrapped in what looks like a cross between a down comforter and a kimono. From here on it's all downhill: The setting gets increasingly spare, often to trite effect, as the action gets fractured, jumbled and fraught with artificial emotion.
Posted 25 February 2004 - 08:56 AM
I would perhaps have enjoyed Nijinsky more (well, at all) if there had been something below, or beyond, the surface, but there wasn't, and the whole ballet was little more than an animated program note, with little depth, and less subtlety.
When Neumeier re-enacted Le Spectre de la Rose, with Diaghilev as the "girl" in the chair, I had some hopes that Neumeier might be about to ascend to the rarified heights of kitsch which Bejart and Eifman scale so easily (Oh, how I wanted that "chorus" of guys in tuxes to start tap-dancing!), but, alas, it was not to be.
I also wished I'd seen Bejart's Nijinksy, Clown of God. From what little I've read, it must've been a real barn-burner.
Can anyone compare and contrast?
Posted 25 February 2004 - 10:06 AM
I can't answer your question very precisely about how a performance of Sleeping Beauty, etc. isn't shallow --- otherwise I'd be staging them! Examples of dance I've seen that isn't shallow include those that show me some aspect of the music I hadn't heard or thought about before. For example, Balanchine is great to me because he made me better understand Agon, an otherwise prickly piece of music which I now listen to by itself for pleasure. I was really struck by Bourne's Swan Lake because it dug into all these dark crevices of Tchaikovsky's score (played at notated speed, no less) and showed me something new in the music. It doesn't just have to about the music, but both pieces had an interesting point of view and could communicate it.
As for structuralism and expressionism, classifying works as one or the other strikes me in the same way that comments on other surface features like sets and costumes, or technical dance steps do --- it's not necessarily a useful thing to talk about unless you can tie it in something deeper (there's that word again!) in the work.
Some messages are delivered in 40 minutes, while others require 2 hours. Is Mahler's 9th symphony any less profound than one of Bach's piano sonatas?
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At present, just French textbooks are being used by St. Vincent's students on their iPads.
"The electronic texts can do what their counterparts can't," Mulcahy said. "They have graphics, and the students can touch certain sections to learn more. ... Text books they just read.
The electronic books "are very interactive. They engage and stimulate the student."
New texts also won't have to be purchased on a regular basis, Mulcahy noted. When needed, students would just update them at the app store.
For now, the students are learning to use their iPads, finding and downloading apps, and discussing with their teachers which educational apps are the most beneficial. Mulcahy said school officials hadn't anticipated this dialogue would result in students and teachers recommending apps for each other.
"Technology is so important for the students," Mulcahy said. "If they don't have access to this, they will be shortchanged. It's critical if they advance on to higher education."
Two Hancock County elementary schools have been using iPads for more than a year now. Every fourth grader at Weirton Heights Elementary School in Weirton and Allen T. Allison Elementary School in Chester - about 160 students in all - now has his or her very own iPad to use during the school day. This unusual opportunity was made possible with $100,000 in federal funding.
Teachers there report success in how the students have adapted to the technology.
In the future, the students may find themselves in the classroom of Professor Michael McTeague, associate dean and professor emeritus at Ohio University Eastern.
McTeague calls himself a "luddite" who rejects most technology, and he wonders if technology isn't going to lead to a more cursory education for students.
"They are very much addicted to electronic media," he said of today's youth. "And there's just as strong an addiction to instantaneous gratification and messaging. ...
"I think they are missing features. They don't read much anymore, and there's not an enjoyment of information. They not attracted to what would take serious concentration."
He noted youths are suffering from "tremendous information overload."
"They seem to pick it up and spit it out," McTeague said. "You can't multi-task and be as effective as you think you can.
"If they listen, read and watch TV at the same time - I don't know if they get a lot of insight. If they do, it's superficial insight."
He also believes the English language is diminishing as a result of technology.
"People are talking like they text, and that's not necessarily a good thing," McTeague said.


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15 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
#5. Body Builder, With Flesh Puppet
Yes, the proportions are correct. The tiny man is Aditya "Romeo" Dev, the world's smallest bodybuilder. He stands a towering 2 feet 9 inches tall and weighing in at a whopping 20 pounds.
We'd love to see him and Vern Troyer go at it in a no holds barred cage match. Or, see two huge men get into a cage match using this guy and Vern Troyer as weapons.
#4. Freudian Gummy Candy
As you can see from the package, these are supposed to be lighthouses but may in fact be the most unfortunately shaped product of all time.
#3. "Looks Like Another Neighborhood Got Sucked Into the Vortex Yesterday."
It looks like a city about to get drained out of a giant's bath tub, but it's actually a picture of the world's largest diamond mine outside of Mirny, Russia.
This mine is actually so large that air currents prevent helicopters from flying over it. By the way, the title of World's Second Largest Hole still belongs to your mom.
#2. The "Everything We Could Find" Pizza
This seems to be a Photoshop with some Japanese text thrown on, to mock a culture whose major export seems to be insanity. But the product is real and oh by the way, it's from Pizza Hut.
It's the Double Roll Pizza and comes with a pigs-in-blankets crust. The only thing it's missing is some pork rinds. Maybe sprinkle some tiny cans of beer on there.
#1. A Scene From a Michael Bay Movie About Tennis?
This mile-high tennis match looks like some cheesy special effect from a Nike commercial. But no, it's just Dubai, whose entire economy seems to be based on building enormous things that exist only for the purpose of not making any goddamn sense. In that spirit they hosted this tennis match between Andre Agassi and Roger Federer on a helipad located on top of the Burj Al Arab skyscraper.
Hopefully they brought more than just that one ball.
CONTINUE: 15 MORE Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped...
For pictures of more things that really shouldn't exist in any sort of sane universe check out The 25 Most Disturbing Sex Toys and the The 6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World or enjoy our look at The Top 25 Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians.


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Am mostly liking Lion osx but there are some features that are really annoying to someone who has been using Macs for years. I would really like to know how to turn off some of these new features and it has taken a lot of time to identify what I want to go away and then find the patch.
Could you contribute your "Making Lion behave like Leopard" tips?
For example, the scrolling on the fancy mouse goes the wrong way (to make it compatible with iPad apparently). To fix: Preferences, mouse, Point & Click, unclick Scrolling Direction: natural.
Current problems include: - keeps splitting words automatically eg. username "phoebebright" is displayed as "phoebe bright", stop doing that! - text suddenly appears much bigger and can't find a way to make it shrink back again - stop doing that!


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From my research, many obfuscation/optimization packages include a feature called pruning where the software will remove dead code during processing.
The following packages include both obfuscation and code pruning as a feature (to name a few):
- RedGate SmartAssembly (.NET)
- Preemtive Dotfuscator (.NET)
- Inquartos Obfuscator (.NET)
- ProGuard (Java)
I see the common thread that both operations require scanning and analyzing an assembly, but I'm curious if the two features are or even could be fundamentally related. The reason I am asking is that we are considering disabling code pruning in our environment (unrelated issue), but our concern is that it could potentially decrease the effectiveness of the obfuscation process and thus protect our Intellectual Property less.
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The 12 Most Unintentionally Disturbing Christmas Ads
Christmas is the biggest shopping holiday of the year. So it's no surprise that companies spend every December absolutely bombarding us with ads full of cheerful, wholesome, uplifting messages to capitalize on all that goodwill and turn it into something useful: money. And then there are the ads that seem to want nothing to do with cheer and goodwill, but rather to unsettle you someplace deep in your soul, so that you will never be "right" again. We think that's a pretty good idea because -- we don't know -- there's just something about you we plain don't like. So here, look upon these and despair:
#12. Colt Pistols
No that's not fake. This ad actually ran in newspapers. Making things even worse: It was 1939, when the United States was still in the thrall of the Great Depression. It was a tough, desperate time, and families everywhere were slowly starving to death while facing grim choices and hard realities.
Every picture tells a story, and this one only gets worse the more you think about it. You might assume we've stumbled upon Dad's suicide note while he's off working up the nerve to make it a memorable Christmas. But notice that the note is written in the second person. That can only mean that this note is written to dad, essentially saying: "Look, we're not going to kill you. But if your failure to provide for this family makes you want to kill yourself, well, Merry Christmas. It's a Colt, so even you should be able to do this job.
#11. Coca-Cola's Sprite Boy
Coca-Cola had been brutally pimping Santa out for years by the time this ad came out in 1948. Someone at the top decided that Santa needed a break to recover from the vicious reaming their ad campaigns had given him, so they created a sidekick. What they came up with was Sprite Boy -- a terrifying goddamn albino child with evil in his eyes clearly asking you, the viewer, to be complicit in the murder of Santa Claus by not warning him of the demon that waits for him in the darkness behind.
#10. Griffin Boot Polish
Two things: Nipples, and Santa has hung himself.
First, let's not skirt the issue -- you can clearly see her nipples right through her shirt, and this was a boot polish ad in 1956, when even admitting you had nipples was a federal crime. We think it's safe to assume that if a comedy website in 2010 has to pixelate your 1956 boot polish ad, someone probably lost their job. It's so shocking that you almost miss the dangling boots of Santa's corpse.
There are three possible scenarios on display here: Either Santa is so scandalized that he took his own life rather than endure another moment of gazing at the demon breasts, the woman is extremely turned on by crime scenes and snuck into Santa's suicide to rub one out, or Santa is so sexually jaded that the only way he can get off is to watch a woman satisfy herself with gargantuan, ornate cast-iron dildos while he practices autoerotic asphyxiation.
Whatever the explanation, Merry Christmas, kids! Here are some tits, and Santa is dead.
#9. BVD Underwear
These three fine young specimens are clearly off to their annual Christmas gangbang, and the girl especially seems thrilled at the notion of becoming a human Double Stuf Oreo. Hey, nothing says "Happy Holidays" like dick from both ends.
As crude as that last paragraph is, we honestly can't think of any other circumstances where a lady in a "Sexy Ms Claus" costume winds giggling with two strapping pantsless dudes. Seriously, can you? And don't say they're her brothers because that's much worse.
#8. Scotch Hair Set Tape
This ad is trying to encourage young girls either to look as pretty as their dolls by using the Scotch Hair Set Tape or to start mounting and displaying the heads of their enemies as a warning to others. Little Billy will stop pulling your hair for good when he gets a load of what you did to the babysitter.
#7. Byrrh Wine
It's not the fact that Santa is advertising Byrrh wine that makes this ad disturbing; it's that Santa has clearly gotten so shit-faced that he no longer feels the cold, and God has sent an angel down to ease his transition from life as he slowly freezes to death on somebody's roof.
But you know what's even worse?
Look at his sunken, withered eyes. He's clearly been dead for days. The angel came too late.
Santa died alone.


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Latest developments for ODF 1.2 and Patrick Durusau
By molini on Feb 13, 2008
Noted XML standards expert Patrick Durusau will edit the 1.2 release of the ISO/IEC Open Document Format (ODF), currently being developed in the OASIS standards body. Durusau will be repeating the role he played as editor of ODF 1.0, which was unanimously approved as an International Standard in May 2006. He is also the chair of the Metadata subcommittee in OASIS.
Durusau's contract, sponsored by Sun Microsystems, allows him to continue a role he had during the development of ODF v 1.0 and 1.1 in OASIS, and in the submission of 1.0 to the ISO/IEC fast track process. Both the OASIS and ISO organizations have clear and well developed policies for participation which ensure all interests have input to the specification.
Carl Cargill, Sun's Director of Corporate Standards states, "Patrick has earned the respect of the document standards community for his expertise in editing ODF 1.0 and his fairness in conducting a difficult but thorough US national-body review of DIS 29500 (an alternative document standard). Sun's contribution ensures his continued availability as editor of ODF as that International Standard is updated and maintained by a diverse community of individuals, corporations, and governments."
Durusau said, "I am happy to be able to continue working on ODF, both as the technical editor for the next revision of the specification, but especially in the area of ODF support for metadata."
This revision of the standard retains full backward compatibility with v 1.0 and addresses several enhancements and new features, including formulas. The accessibility improvements in ODF v 1.1, an interim OASIS Standard, will be included in ODF 1.2 submitted to the ISO/IEC approval process, giving ODF one of the richest sets of accessibility features available in any document format.
The enthusiastic reception of ODF as the ISO/IEC standard for XML-based office document formats has been a watershed event for the ITC industry. Customers around the world have seized on the open standard for its stability and the robust ecosystem of suppliers enabled by its vendor-neutral architecture.


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See The Light released today!
"…a fresh take on 70s disco and filtered house with a dash of funk… elevated by Ruiz's smoky, melancholic voice."
– Guardian UK
"[front woman Nomi Ruiz] could be the most alluring pop diva since Aaliyah."
–San Francisco Bay Guardian
"...all plush disco rhythms and elegant romantic angst... Jessica 6 blend disco, soul, house and melodramatic ballads with both skill and affection."
– Uncut
"disco/house revivalists"
"…pop music with a disco feel and a real soulful vibe as well. We love it!"
– PerezHilton
" …one of electronic music's most exquisite practitioners."
– Philadelphia Inquirer
e debut album from Jessica 6 is released today!
Available digitally and on CD. Also available is a limited (500) Enhanced CD with an exclusive bonus track. 2LP and 12" vinyl releases to follow...
Comprised of former members of Hercules and Love Affair, New York City's Jessica 6 has been commanding dance floors for years, globetrotting from London to Miami, San Francisco to Santiago, Bergen to Belgrade, seducing the dancing, sweaty masses with an electrifying blend of disco, soul and R&B. In celebration of their debut album, See The Light (coming June 7 on Peacefrog) the band hits the road once again with their hypnotic live show, hitting NYC and Philadelphia, before heading West for a run that includes a stop at San Francisco's Gay Pride stage.
See The Light opens with a classic-in-waiting, the behemoth of a single, "White Horse", that forces you to move like a witch doctor would. "Champagne Bubbles" is the kind of gritty R&B that isn't afraid to be as angry as it is melancholic, its piano flourishes punctuated with a heavy kick and snare. "Prisoner Of Love," which bridges electro and freestyle, featuring a soaring vocal melody that finds Nomi and guest vocalist Antony weaving their voices around each other to a stunning effect. For a taste of what you'll hear on tour, download the "Prisoner of Love" MP3 here and we encourage you to post and share.
Jessica 6 coming to a venue near you...
6/03: Belgrade, Serbia @ Cultural Centre KC Grad
6/05: St. Petersburg, Russia @ Shater Bar (Sobaka Fashion Awards Aftershow)
6/06: Leipzig, Germany @ Werk II
6/07: Duisburg, Germany @ Steinbruch
6/08: Stuttgart, Germany @ Keller Club
6/09: Köln, Germany @ Luxor
6/10: Berlin, Germany @ Picknick
6/11: Munich, Germany @ Ampere
6/12: Frankfurt, Germany @ Nachtleben
6/14: Athens, Greece @ Mad Video Awards @ Tae Kwan Do Stadium
8/20: Katowice, Poland @ YES! Contemporary Arts Festival5/29: Chicago, IL @ Berlin (NOMI DJ Set)
6/22: Brooklyn, NY @ Cameo (Album Release Show)
6/24: Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
6/25: San Francisco @ Som Bar (NOMI DJ Set w/ JD Sampson)
6/26: San Francisco, CA @ SF Pride
6/27: Los Angeles, CA @ Bardot (NOMI DJ Set @ School Night!)
6/28: Costa Mesa, CA @ MESA
7/01: Los Angeles, CA @ Echo
7/2: Palm Springs, CA @ Ace Hotel
7/06: Seattle, WA @ Nectar Lounge


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It is well known that for every infinite cardinal $\kappa$ the number of non-isomorphic total orders of cardinality $\kappa$ is $2^\kappa$. Who first proved this, and in what context? Was it proved for $\kappa=\aleph_0$ first, and then for uncountable $\kappa$, or for all $\kappa$ right away?
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CSB/SJU Theater Department announces 2013-14 season
The theater department's production schedule ranges from a psychological thriller to romantic comedy. For a description of upcoming shows as well as ticket information please visit the theater department website.
October is depression awareness month
Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS) is focusing on depression awareness in October. We will promote awareness of depression through our monthly Walk-In Wednesday email message to students about our Walk-in-Wednesday mental health screening program.
Anticipate possible changes due to Affordable Care Act
With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, health insurance plans are now required to cover some preventative services, including routine vaccines, without cost sharing. CSB students can access preventative services via CSB Health Services.
Career Services welcomes students back to campus
Welcome back to all parents, and a special welcome to first-year parents! We look forward to the year ahead and partnering with you to inform you about events/resources in Career Services that your student should know about.
Join us Oct. 11-13 for Family Weekend 2013. This annual event celebrates the CSB/SJU community by inviting students to share the campuses with their families.
The weekend is filled with interactive activities, such as the sixth annual Family Weekend Carnival, performances and athletic events. Please visit our site for information, schedules and tickets.
SJU Campus Ministry plans first-year retreat
First Year Retreat Experience (FYRE) is an annual retreat designed for first-year SJU students, focusing on spirituality and community-building.
CSB/SJU aims to minimize flu symptoms this school year. Flu shots will be available to all students between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Oct. 10 in Sexton Commons. All major insurance plans are accepted. Shots will cost $35 without an insurance plan, with checks payable to HealthPartners Saint John's Campus. Flu shots may also be administered by appointment. For more information regarding the walk-in flu clinic or other services, visit the SJU Health Center or call (320) 203-2430.
CSB Campus Ministry Care Package Program
Campus Ministry care packages are still available for purchase. The proceeds support student-led Alternative Break Experiences.
Spring registration holds explained
Registration holds for Spring 2014 have been put on your son or daughter's account if the account is not current. The students have been notified by email that they are on hold for registration in November. If you paid the account in full in August, please check to make sure that your student did not charge their books, educational materials or have other miscellaneous charges after we received that payment.
CSB/SJU Festival of Cultures celebrates diversity
CSB/SJU will celebrate diversity on campus at the 16th annual Festival of Cultures at 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, at Clemens Fieldhouse, CSB. The event, which features student performances and samples of traditional cuisines worldwide, is an opportunity for international students at CSB/SJU to share the cultures of their homelands with fellow students. All are welcome.
Put a smile on your students face
Put a smile on that face you love with an "Always a Smile" gift package available from CSB Culinary Services. Orders are available by calling (320) 363-5112 or online.
Bookstores plan activities for Family Weekend
Stop by CSB/SJU Bookstores during Family Weekend for activities and specials, including a book signing at the CSB store by Annette Atkins, CSB/SJU professor of history and author of Challenging Women Since 1913: The College of Saint Benedict.
Parents of Johnnies: Find answers in J-Book
What rules does your son need to know? Can he drink alcohol? What if he is 21 or older? Can he have candles in his room? What happens if he breaks a rule? Find the answers in J-Book, a student handbook that explains policies and procedures at SJU.


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6 Insane Superstitions That Are Still Shockingly Influential
#3. The Indian Government Declares Astrology to Be Legit
For the record: Astronomy is the science of studying planets and stars through massive telescopes; astrology is that thing that tells you how much ass you're going to get this week based on your birthday. One of them is a respected scientific discipline. We'll leave it to you to figure out which.
"It clearly shows right here that you have to sleep with me. These are facts."
If you live in India, however, the answer might not be the one you expected. As recently as 2011, the Bombay High Court ruled that astrology is a "trusted science" and not mere superstition. And who are you to argue? Not an astronomer, that's for sure, otherwise you would've seen this coming.
The (snicker) gravity of the situation is not lost on the astronomers of India: The former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation has gone on record stating that the country's belief in astrology is preventing them from gaining their due recognition in the field of science. But regardless of the academic opposition, the ruling still stands, which means that respected Indian universities are giving out degrees in astrology right now, alongside such subjects as chemistry and physics. That's right: They offer accreditation in magic. They're essentially one bulk pack of wands short of Hogwarts.
"If I wished to make the right amount of "fuck you" for this, from scratch, I'd first have to create two universes."
#2. The Hong Kong Government Spends Millions on Feng Shui
Feng shui is an ancient Chinese tradition that dictates how you organize your home to maximize life energy -- put a couch in the wrong place, and the "qi" might just bounce off the cushions and fly straight out the window. But feng shui was banned in China back in the 1960s, when Chairman Mao ruled that the only energy permitted to flow through your home was enthusiasm for Chairman Mao.
"But ... our qi!"
"Mao Zedon'tcare."
But the practice has enjoyed a major resurgence, to the point where the Chinese government had to pay out nearly $10 million in compensation to people for disturbing their feng shui.
Apparently, nearby construction projects can wreak substantial havoc on the qi flow, so victims of inconsiderate construction are entitled to compensation for the real damage done to their indefinable auras. Compensation typically comes in the form of "tun fu," a cleansing ritual that involves a feng shui master performing rites at the offending site. As feng shui is a subjective art (to put it mildly), the masters can charge absurd amounts for the services, and the government is all too happy to pay them off.
"I told you, forget about the lead poisoning. This is way more important."
Roads, tunnels, bridges and more have all required cleansing in recent years. One particular rail link between Hong Kong and Guangzhou resulted in at least 17 feng shui compensation payments. The chief executive of the Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation admitted to paying millions of pounds in cleansings, but it was aaaalll worth it, because now all of their trains run on 100 percent good feelings.
#1. You Can't Build on Fairy Land in Ireland and Iceland
Thick, sticky red tape makes construction a damn nightmare pretty much anywhere in the world, but in Ireland, road builders have another hurdle: They have to be sure not to lay roads down through fairy territory.
While most people in Ireland claim that they don't really believe in the wrath of the fairy folk, it's nevertheless fairly common practice to reroute roads and highways if fairy experts insist that a particular patch of land might be a meeting place for the little people. According to folklorist Eddie Lenihan, the consequences for building on fairy land might include brake failures and car crashes -- because even Fairyland has a mafia.
"Those are some nice Lost Boys. It'd be a shame if something ... happened to them."
A similar practice occurs in Iceland, where the majority of Icelanders (we know that's incorrect terminology, but we like it because it sounds like "Highlanders") believe in elves. And although you probably think of "elves" as either tree-bound cookie slaves or sexually ambiguous archers, in Iceland they are vengeful spirits whose houses you certainly don't want to be bulldozing.
That's why roads in Iceland are regularly rerouted to work around angry elf populations. In one case, a project was completely abandoned when equipment failures prevented the crew from removing a large rock. The workers assumed that the elves were trying to send them a message with all the breakdowns and packed up shop, rather than doing what more logical, reasonable construction crews do, which is to fire Gary, their shitty site mechanic.
HR isn't sensitive toward any type of fairy accusations.
Steve Hanley makes sure to never take anything seriously on his Twitter.
For more silly things people still believe, check out 5 Myths That People Don't Realize Are Admitted Hoaxes and 5 Reasons Humanity Desperately Wants Monsters to Be Real.
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HARKER HEIGHTS (January 26, 2012) - The City of Harker Heights is offering a cheaper alternative to buying sports equipment for children.
It's called the City of Harker Heights Equipment Exchange Program.
On Saturday, the program kicked off at the Prospector Self Storage.
Local residents were asked to donate gently-used and/or new sports equipment.
Mellisa Brown and her husband came up with idea and they presented it to Harker Heights Parks and Recreation.
City leaders jumped right on board.
"My husband and I enrolled both of our children in Harker Heights sports so we know how the cost of enrollment can add up very quickly," said Mellisa.
Children tend to outgrow equipment before it loses its value, so Mellisa thought instead of throwing out the item or just handing it over to a friend, why not donate it towards a program that would help young athletes who can't afford supplies.
"We both came from backgrounds where families didn't have a lot of money so we didn't get the opportunity to play a lot of sports," said Mellisa. "We see how it benefits our children emotionally and with their health and we wanted other kids to have the same experience."
C.H.H.E.E.P. is a community donated program run by volunteers.
There will be donation bins set up at the Prospector Self Storage and at the Harker Heights Parks and Recreation facility.
If the C.H.H.E.E.P. program is successful, the city plans to expand it to the surrounding areas, according to Mellisa.
Families will have the chance to get soccer equipment for their kids on a first-come-first-serve basis at the Prospector Self Storage facility on February 16th, from 10 a.m. to noon in Harker Heights.
For more information on the C.H.H.E.E.P program call 254-953-5657


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Company seeks LNG permit in southwest La.
Published: Monday, December 10, 2012 at 6:05 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, December 10, 2012 at 6:05 p.m.
HACKBERRY — San Diego-based Sempra Energy has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for permission to begin building natural gas liquefaction and export facilities at the company's existing Cameron LNG terminal in Hackberry.
Sempra said on Monday the permit request is an important milestone in the company's effort to begin exporting liquefied natural gas.
According to Sempra, the project would create nearly 3,000 construction jobs and about 130 full-time jobs when the facility begins operating.
The federal agency will review the application and conduct an environmental study of the project before acting on the permit. Additional permits and approvals will be required before construction on the Cameron liquefaction project can be completed.
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