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Ohio State Buckeyes Basketball 2015-2016 News and Updates
2014-2015 Season
3/11/15 - The regular season ended with a loss for the Ohio State Buckeyes basketball team. They faced the Big Ten's number one ranked team, the Wisconsin Badgers, who dominated the Buckeyes in the 72-48 loss. The Buckeyes scored the fewest points at home than they have in the past three years. However, the loss is not the final moment for the Buckeyes this season. They head to the Big Ten conference tournament this week ranked sixth, playing the winner of the game between Rutgers and Minnesota during Session 3 of the tournament on March 12. If the Buckeyes do well in the first game, they will head to the quarterfinal of the conference tournament to face Michigan State, number 3 in the conference. Tickets to the Session 3 game are still available, starting at $7.
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3/4/15 - With March Madness just around the corner, the Ohio State Buckeyes basketball team has two final regular season games, one on March 4th against the Penn State Nittany Lions and the final game on Sunday, March 8, against Wisconsin. The Buckeyes head into the game against Penn State tied for fifth in their conference, and they are still without Anthony Lee, who remains out with a groin injury. They have won their last two games against Nebraska and Purdue, so they will be looking to continue the winning streak to help them secure a place in the NCAA Tournament and strengthen their chances of a good seed for the Big Ten tournament. Tickets are still on sale for the final game against Wisconsin, starting at $10.
2/25/15 - The Buckeyes have picked a bad time to start a losing streak. With losses in their last two games to hated rivals Michigan State and Michigan, the Buckeyes have fallen out of the rankings and to the middle of the pack in the Big Ten rankings. Sunday night against Michigan, the Buckeyes just could not get going offensively in the first half, mustering only 10 field goals in that span. On the other side of the ball, the Buckeyes could not stop the Wolverines, who broke down the press with relative ease. Looking forward, Ohio State Buckeyes Basketball has four chances remaining to impress the committee and hopefully improve their seeding. Make sure to come out to the Schottenstein center to cheer on the Buckeyes as they host Nebraska tomorrow and Purdue on March 1st. Razorgator has tickets available starting at just $11.
2/20/15 - A weeklong break is just what the Buckeyes needed following a heartbreaking Valentines' Day loss to rival Michigan State. Though the last second loss to the Spartans was disappointing and dropped the Buckeyes out of the rankings, there are still five games left in the season for Ohio State Buckeyes Basketball to regain their momentum and solidify their NCAA tournament status. That all starts with a road trip to Michigan on February 22nd. Make sure to come out to the Schottenstein Center to catch the Buckeyes when they return home for the last three games of the season: February 26th against Nebraska, March 1st against Purdue, and March 8th in a critical home closer against the fifth-ranked Wisconsin Badgers. Razorgator has tickets still available starting at just $7.
2/11/15 - The Ohio State Buckeyes have done some great things this season. So far, they have won 19 games, and they are the 23rd team in the nation right now. Tonight, they took on Penn State, a competitive game for the first half. Then, in the second, the Buckeyes took over, winning 75-55. A huge reason why Ohio State pulled away at the end was because of Sam Thompson. He ended up scoring 22 points and had 5 rebounds. If he can keep up these efforts for the rest of the season, Ohio State is going to go a long way. D'Angelo Russell, Ohio State's guard, also had a great game. He ended up with 17 points. Up next up for them is a competitive game against Michigan State. Tickets for this game are available now for $31.
2/6/15 - The Ohio State Buckeyes basketball team narrowly missed out on a four-game winning streak when they lost to Purdue 58-60. Most of the game went back and forth between the two teams, but a final drive by Purdue where they outscored Ohio 13-2 gave them an edge that could even a last minute attempt could not overcome. The team was without Marc Loving, who is the second-highest scorer for the team and is on an indefinite suspension due to an off-court issue. Although their offense missed out on potential points from Loving, the defense was the larger problem for the game, and Purdue scored 13 layups out of their 19 field goals. The team will work on their game prior to facing the Rutgers Scarlet Knights on Sunday, Feb. 8. Tickets remain on sale, starting at $128.
1/27/15 - One of the better teams in the Big Ten Conference right now is the Ohio State Buckeyes. They are riding high off a much-needed win against the Indiana Hoosiers. The final score ended up being 82-70, and a huge reason why they did so well was because of the stellar play from D'Angelo Russell. He scored 22 points, and had 10 assists. He found his teammates time and time again down the court, helping facilitate the Buckeyes' offense. It was his second double-double of the season, and if he can keep up these efforts, he's going to do great things for Ohio State. Next up for them is a great game against Maryland, which takes place this Thursday. Tickets are available now for $14.
1/21/15 - It seems the Ohio State Buckeyes basketball team might be having trouble getting their momentum back after their incredibly close loss against the Indiana Hoosiers on Jan. 10th. Things were looking up when they were able to beat the Michigan Wolverines (10-7) by a whopping 19 points, but they have since fallen behind on the court. Even with D'Angelo Russell scoring 27 points, the most for a single player on either team, the Buckeyes lost 67-76 to the Iowa Hawkeyes. They have lost two of their last three games, both losses being away games. Luckily, they have a little break before their next game on Jan. 22nd against the Northwestern Wildcats (10-8), so they have had plenty of time to get their game together and return to dominating.
1/12/15 - Ohio State was still recovering from the neck and neck game against the Indiana Hoosiers last week, where they lost by three tiny points. Fortunately, it looks like the Ohio State Buckeyes basketball team has got their game back as they return to their home court because they simply blew past the Michigan Wolverines on Jan. 13th. They were ahead by a whopping 15 points at the half and then they only added to their lead. When the dust settled, Ohio had 71 points over the Wolverines' 52. This brings the Buckeyes to 14-4. Sadly, they only had one home game before returning to the road. They will be playing the Iowa Hawkeyes next and will return on Jan. 25th to play the Indiana Hoosiers again.
1/9/15 - After having their winning streak taken from them a few games ago, the Ohio State Buckeyes basketball team is well on their way to earning a new streak. However, they very nearly lost to the Minnesota Golden Gophers on Jan. 6th. They earned an impressive 12-point lead early, but they had a dismal second half, only scoring 25 points. In the end, both teams were tied at 66 and the Buckeyes edged out the Golden Gophers 8-6 in overtime to bring the final score to 74-72. Now at 13-3, Ohio State is one of the highest ranked teams, but they need to keep up the pace since they only had one loss before Dec. 20th. They return to Ohio on Jan. 13th to play the Michigan Wolverines.
1/1/15 - The Ohio State Buckeyes basketball team could not get their game together in the first half when they played the Iowa Hawkeyes, and their miserable start hung over them in the second half. Things started out promising enough when they took a lead within the first minute, but they trailed 43-31 by the half. They played much better after that point, scoring 34 more points and a strong defense kept Iowa from scoring more than 28. It simply was not enough, however, and they came up short with 71-65. This loss is right on the heels of their brutal victory over Wright St. on Saturday where they scored nearly double their opponents with a final score of 55-100. Ohio is looking to recapture that energy as they take on the Illinois Illini this coming Saturday.
12/25/14 - After having their four-game winning streak cut short by the North Carolina Tar Heels on Saturday, the Ohio State Buckeyes basketball team was ready to start another winning streak and they brought the matching energy to the court against the Miami Redhawks. Reserve guard Kam Williams scored 18 points and Ohio State got a 26-3 run before the first half was even over. When the dust settled, the Buckeyes were sitting at 93 points while the Redhawks stopped at 55. Ohio State is now 10-2 and all set to dominate once again. They will be playing the Wright State Raiders next as their series of home games continues. If you would like to see if lightning can strike twice this weekend, tickets are available for $15.
12/17/14 - Ohio State took care of business on Saturday, knocking off the Morehead State Eagles 87-71. The Buckeyes led by 19 points at the halftime break, and were never seriously threatened on their way to their eighth victory of the season. Freshman guard D'Angelo Russell scored 15 points and dished seven assists for Ohio State, and senior Amir Williams grabbed nine boards while scoring 12 points on 5-6 shooting. The Buckeyes shot 56 percent as a team and out-rebounded the Eagles 30-19 to improve to 8-1 this season. They will try to win their fourth game in a row when North Carolina A&T comes to town Wednesday night. Razorgator has great seats still available starting at just $3, so come out and support Ohio State Buckeyes basketball!
12/12/14 - The Ohio State Buckeyes basketball team are shooting better than 50 percent this season in each of the four games. Senior Shannon Scott is leading with 11.5 a contest for assists per game. Currently, the Buckeyes are No. 4 in the nation with 21 assists per game on average. Their field goal percentage is nearly at a scoring accuracy of 61 percent and the team has made 144 field goal attempts out of 237. Even Buckeyes rookie D'Angelo Russell, is a leading scorer with a 19-point average per game during his first four games in Columbus. Nationally, he is also among the Top 25 rookie offensive leaders with 22 assists. Tickets for the Buckeyes games are now on sale. The team hopes to capture another win against the Morehead State Eagles at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio. Tickets are as low as $5.
12/4/14 - Coming off their first loss of the season Tuesday night, the Ohio State Buckeyes look to bounce back at home versus Colgate this Saturday. The #5 Louisville Cardinals handed Ohio State the defeat, dropping the Buckeyes to 5-1 on the season. Freshman guard D'Angelo Russell turned in a strong performance for Ohio State, scoring 17 points to go with six rebounds and seven assists. Marc Loving added 13 plus six boards for the Buckeyes, but it wasn't enough to overcome 30 percent shooting from the floor and 14 turnovers as a team. The Buckeyes will try to get back on track versus the Colgate Red Raiders on Saturday afternoon, and Razorgator is your connection for tickets to the game, with seats starting at just $2! Come out and support Ohio State Buckeyes basketball at a great price!
11/25/14 - A perennial power in the Big Ten, your Ohio State Buckeyes Basketball team is already rolling in the young 2014-2015 college basketball season. Sitting at 3-0 and currently leading the nation in field goal percentage, your Buckeyes are poised to make another run at a national championship under Coach Thad Matta. Led by talented freshman guard D'Angelo Russell and savvy senior point guard extraordinaire Shannon Scott, the Buckeyes have a stacked team that is ready to dominate the competition. With upcoming non conference home contests against marquee teams like #6 North Carolina, there is no better time than now to come out to the Schottenstein Center to cheer on your Buckeyes to victory. Razorgator has the best seats and the best prices, starting at under $10.
11/19/14 - Ohio State Buckeyes basketball fans were in for a treat Tuesday night as the Buckeyes beat the Marquette University Golden Eagles 74-63 before an enthusiastic crowd at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus. With both teams heading into Tuesday's matchup with a 1-0 record, the Buckeyes used a 12-2 run early on in the game to take the lead for good. There was no looking back from there, with Ohio State's Kam Williams scoring 15 points and teammate Shannon Scott adding a career-best 14 assists to lead the no. 20 Buckeyes past Marquette. The Buckeyes face the Sacred Heart University Pioneers next Sunday, November 23, at the Schottenstein Center in the first of four games that are part of the Buckeye Classic. Tickets for the 7pm game range from $4 to $337.
11/13/14 - This Friday will be Ohio State Buckeyes Basketball team's first game of the season. Their opponents will be the Massachusetts-Lowell River Hawks on Ohio State's home court in Columbus. They have only four new recruits (Mickey Mitchell, Austin Grandstaff, Daniel Giddens and A.J. Harris), but Buckeyes' coach, Thad Matta , is very confident in their performance, "All four guys have won and have won at a very high level. I think there's an art to winning, and that's why we got them" Ohio State's team is currently rated No. 7 in the nation. This week's game still has tickets available starting as low as $3. The Buckeyes are looking at a mostly home game season, so there are plenty of chances to catch them play.
2013-2014 Season
2/7/14 – After a disappointing 2-4 start to begin Conference play, the Ohio State Buckeyes appear to be getting back on track. Two recent road wins against top 20 teams – No.14 Wisconsin and No.17 Iowa - has helped morale in the locker room after being unranked for the first time in four years. More than halfway through Big Ten play, the Buckeyes will play five of their remaining eight at Schottenstein Center including a rivalry game against No.10 Michigan Wolverines and the season-finale versus No.9 Michigan State. Surprisingly, Michigan Wolverines vs. Ohio State Basketball tickets are the cheapest of remaining home games, averaging just $43 with a get-in price of $15.
1/2/14 - The Ohio State Buckeyes are heading into conference play with a flawless 13-0 start. Coach Thad Matta and the No. 3 Buckeyes will ride this momentum into talented Big Ten games looking to come out on top as conference champs for the 6th time during Matta's tenure. Their first B1G conference game came New Years Eve against the Purdue Boilermakers, where Ohio State's unyielding defense—ranked in the top five in the nation—pinned down their foes 78-69. See them take on
, the Michigan Wolverines, for only $40 at the Schottenstein Center as they try and climb ahead of Arizona and Syracuse in ranking. With this year's squad, laden with an impressive group of veteran players, the B1G title is a foreseeable outcome!
10/25/13 - The Ohio State Buckeyes are leading contenders from the Big Ten, being one of two teams to have made a
NCAA Tournament
run every decade since the 1930s. Under coach Thad Matta, the Buckeyes have twice contended in the Sweet 16, once in the
Final 4
, and finished as runner-ups for the Big Ten (in the Elite 8) last season. Ohio has a great chance spearheading the
Big Ten Tournament
this year, with numerous senior players returning to provide the experience so necessary in games.
The Scarlet and Gray will open their season against
Morgan State
on Nov 9 at
Schottenstein Center
. The OSU-
Michigan State
rivalry will play out on Jan 7 for a big on the road showdown, they will end the season against the Spartans on Mar 9 at home. Ohio will kick-off the Gotham Classic on Dec 21 at Madison Square Garden against
Notre Dame
. Finishing with 13 Big Ten victories last season, the boys are primed for another excellent run, and will start their Big Ten play New Year's Eve, at
The Buckeyes are another elitist team left with a couple gaping holes, due to players leaving for the NBA, namely Deshaun Thomas (19.5 point average) and Evan Ravenel. But watch out for point guard Aaron Craft, a leading defender in the league, and now Ohio's number one scorer. He will look to make even more moves as a seasoned senior, working in tandem with Lenzelle Smith Jr., highest rebound points and second highest scorer on the team, and LaQuinton Ross, a major threat on offense. Key newcomers will be Marc Loving and Kameron Williams.
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text: Isn't she one of the cutest things you ever did see? After I uploaded the tutorial on drawing a chibi version of the Cheshire cat, folks suggested and asked for a lesson on "how to draw chibi Alice from Alice in Wonderland". Of course I was going to fill such a request because I always wanted to turn Alice into a chibi in the past, but I didn't know if people would have liked a tut on her. Now that she is wanted, here she is. I wanted to draw Alice falling down the rabbit hole because as you know that's what she does in the movie. Besides, I didn't want to just have her standing there all bored looking like some of the other chibis I made in the past. This is an ultra cute depiction of Alice, and I think most of you will enjoy drawing chibi Alice. That's all I have to say about this tut, it's your turn now to tackle it. Have fun and be sure to comment, rate, and even fav the lessons that you view today. It's always nice receiving feedback.

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TEMPLE (January 9, 2012)—Only about 6 percent of eligible veterans are taking advantage of the VA's Move! Weight Management Program, which started in Temple in 2006, officials say.
Veterans whose body mass index is in the obese range or who are diabetic or have heart issues are eligible for the free program,
About 1,000 veterans are now using the program and about 5,000 have participated since it started in 2006.
"Within our region, the Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, veterans that are entering the VA have about a 42 per cent chance of obesity and that's predictive of ongoing weight gain in the future," said Rebecca Campbell, with the VA's Health Promotion Disease Prevention.
"If veterans can make a commitment to participate in Move! for a four-month period, coming at least eight visits, then they have a 27 percent chance of losing 5 percent of their body weight in six months."
One local veteran who has seen a positive change from the program is Army veteran Pamela Jamerson.
Jamerson retired from the Army in 2010 after 22 years of service when her knees gave out on her.
"The time I got out of the military, depression pretty much was starting to set in because I missed the military and everything," Jamerson said.
Between not being able to stay active like she used to and overeating, Jamerson grew to a size 16.
Two years ago Jamerson was at her highest weight, 172 pounds.
"I felt fat, disgusted, kind of embarrassed of my body," Jamerson said.
A year ago Jamerson took on the program's challenge to make herself feel better physically and mentally.
Now size 8 and weighing just 137 pounds, Jamerson says her task is not complete.
She wants to inspire others, such as Marine Corps veteran Derek Brinkmann, who just signed up for the program.
"I think it's awesome to sit there and listen to her story the way she had done it, and it's real inspiring," Brinkmann said.


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CEDARVILLE, Ohio -- Finishing off a season of surprisingly rapid development, the Azusa Pacific men's cross country team claimed the program's first national championship at any level by edging Roberts Wesleyan by three points to win the National Christian College Athletic Association title.
The women's team, which won last year's NCCAA title, finished second to Roberts Wesleyan and produced four NCCAA All-American performances. Senior Sarah Higgens wrapped up her cross country career as Azusa Pacific's top finisher, placing sixth overall with a time of 18:33.05. Sophomore Reika Kijima, junior Kristie Sikma, and freshman Kylie Betts placed 11th, 12th, and 14th, respectively, all finishing within 10 seconds of each other to claim All-American honors.
The widest separation between top-five finishers from the first- and second-place teams came at the No. 3 spot, where Cougar sophomore Ryan Phillips placed eight scoring spots ahead of Keith Pease, the third finisher from Roberts Wesleyan. Phillips joined junior Peter Buscheck and sophomore Aaron Potts in the top-15 to earn NCCAA All-American recognition.
"It's been up and down at times this season, and even the past couple of years, so to see them all put it together on the same day and come up with a close victory was pretty special to watch," Azusa Pacific head coach Preston Grey said. "In my 10 years of coaching at Azusa Pacific, this was one of the best team races I've seen our group run."
Buscheck led the way, registering one of four sub-26:00 individual performances for a fourth-place overall finish. Potts was only three spots back with a time of 26:05.89, picking up a crucial point for his team by edging out the eighth-place finisher by eight-hundredths of a second. Buscheck was one spot behind the top Roberts Wesleyan finisher, while Potts was three places ahead of the Raiders' second finisher.
After Phillips' eight-place improvement over Roberts Wesleyan's third, the Raiders' fourth and fifth places came in at 24th and 27th place, respectively. That put the pressure on Azusa Pacific's fourth and fifth spots to both cross the line within the next five scoring spots to have any shot of hanging on for the team championship. Freshman Noah Peña did his part, staying within 2.5 seconds of his target to register the 28th place scoring finish with a season-best time of 26:36.45, and freshman Kyle Bueckert left only one finisher in the three-second gap between himself and Peña to secure the team championship.
The Cougars weren't completely sure if they had done enough to win until the final results were posted, but the strong finish from the pair of true freshmen provided a slim three-point margin over second-place Roberts Wesleyan.
"We knew we were doing well early, but we didn't start getting excited until late," Grey said. "In the last mile, we were able to figure out it was between us and Roberts Wesleyan, so the fight picked up over the last half-mile where both teams knew what was at stake. There was a spot here and there where we caught guys late, and we won just enough of those battles to get that small margin of victory."
Previously, the best finish at a national championship meet by Azusa Pacific men's cross country, which has posted top-five finishes five times prior to Saturday's championship, was a second-place finish at the 2008 NAIA championships.
"Azusa Pacific is known as a track school, but we've also had a lot of success in cross country," Grey said. "We have had podium finishes in the NAIA, so we do have some history there, and even though it's been rocky at times the last few years, this group has really dedicated themselves to getting back to where we want to be as a championship program. Today's performance gives us great momentum going forward."
The Azusa Pacific women's team, which won last year's NCCAA championship with an 80-point total, was actually a point better than its 2012 championship score, registering 79 points in the runner-up finish. The Cougars have now finished in the top-six of its national championship race in seven consecutive seasons.
"We had four All-Americans and lower team score than last year, and even though this wasn't our best race of the, it was still solid," Grey said. "I think the team is a little disappointed, but I still think we had a great season. We only have one senior in that group today, and to be right in the hunt even though we didn't finish on top of the podium was still a good experience for us."
Outside of the top-four who earned All-American honors, Azusa Pacific's fifth, sixth, and seventh finishers placed within six spots and seven seconds of each other, led by sophomore Natalie Koskela who came in 41st overall with a time of 19:29.40. Junior Elle Farrar was 44th overall (19:33.73), and junior Elizabeth Lyons placed 46th (19:35.81).
Azusa Pacific is in the final year of its NCAA Division II membership transition. The Cougars, a provisional member this year, will be eligible to qualify for Division II regional and national championship competition next year.


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I am trying to draw two squares on a 45-degree angle and then merge them using PostGIS to edit. QGIS can draw squares but only on a perpendicular plane (eg, 0, 90, 180), and I need to be able to draw at different angles (eg, 45-degrees).
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I googled "qgis diamond" and found that there is a plugin that will supposedly do this. Go here: http://pyqgis.org/repo/contributed and scroll down to "Rectangles, Ovals, Diamonds : 0.1.7". Haven't tried it though.
That's default QGIS behavior: Editing and PostGIS connections are available in the core application.
What you want to do is called Digitizing or Editing. Have you looked at the digitizing toolbar? Also have a look at the Digitizing an existing layer section from the Qgis user manual.
You can create new features in various types of vector layers, including a PostGIS layer.
You should add your PostGIS data to your map, and then toggle editing. After that you can start digitizing and adding new features.


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Would an anthropomorphic robot who could communicate with and do the bidding of humans qualify Halachicaly as a Golem? Would new rulings have to be devised for their status?
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We actually don't have a huge ton of halachic literature about the status of a Golem (though there is the responsum about counting it for a minyan, as Gershon referenced), so questions about robots will probably be handled one at a time. But read on:
Talmud Sanhedrin 65b
As the late Rabbi Dr Azriel Rosenfeld observed, this artificial humanlike thing didn't pass the Turing Test. When/if we develop machines that can pass it, they would be different in that regards from a Golem.
Much, much more of this is discussed in Loike & Tendler, "Ma Adam Va-Teda-Ehu: Halakhic Criteria for Defining Human Beings", Tradition 37:2 (2003). Rabbi Yaakov Emden (shut Yaavetz II:82) says a Golem lacks the intelligence (see article; is intelligence defined by speech, morality, or both) to be counted for a minyan. R' Gershom Hanokh Leiner, the Radzyner Rebbe, infers (Sidrei Taharos Ohalos 5a) that if a Golem passed some intelligence threshold, it would be considered human; if made by a Jew, it would be treated as a Jew and count for a minyan. (Now a Jew "makes" a Golem out of dust much more than he would "make" a robot out of parts, so that last part would be unclear.)
But that should get you started.
So long as the robot is not Mechuyav in Mitzvos you would be unable to use him for a Minyan.


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The Collezione Automobili Lamborghini website, where fans of the brand can buy items from the collection, has been given a completely new look in the year that Lamborghini celebrates its 50th anniversary. Customers who sign up before 12 April will receive a special welcome gift: 10% off the total amount of their first order.
The new Collezione Automobili Lamborghini online store www.lamborghinistore.com is making its debut today and can also be accessed via the corporate website www.lamborghini.com by clicking the link to the Online Store.
The site's style is essentially Lamborghini and finding your way around is intuitive; what's more, it's fully accessible from both desktop computers and mobile devices.
The new fashion collection for spring and summer 2013 is on sale, as well as the regular products in the Fashion, Accessories, Racing, Collectables, Toys, Home and Office lines.
Deciding what to buy is now even more fun thanks to the addition of advanced features, like the option to zoom in on a detail or play around with the colors available or to share your choice with friends via social networks.
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Collezione Automobili Lamborghini is available online at www.lamborghinistore.com, at Lamborghini dealers, in the Sant'Agata Bolognese store, and from brand resellers around the world.


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Sunday, January 27, 2013
sunday portrait week 146
001. Im back in London! Im still really sick , I've been to the doctors but they insist I just have a virus and all I need to do is rest. Unfortunately I have work commitments this week so I've had to come back. I might go back again but it just depends on how ill I am. I think I'm going to go down the doctors here in London and demand a blood test or something!
002. I ordered a ton on American Candy a few days ago and Im eagerly awaiting its arrival! There are so many things I've been dying to get my grubby little paws on I could resist no longer! Someone on my Facebook page mentioned that Crystal Lite bought out a Mojito flavour and I just needed it in my life! Alongside my new addiction for Iced Tea and my love of all things Reeses!
003. Fashion week preparations are in full swing. Invites are trickling in and outfits are being conjured up in my head. I always whine about London fashion week but I know Im blessed that I actually get to live the dream and attend shows! Fashion week is generally like nothing you'll ever experience ever. It's amazing, intense and overwhelming all at the same time. Im hoping for Felder Felder and Moschino Cheap and Chic again as they were my favourites from last season. I have big plans for this season and Im determined to get a ton of cool content to share on here and my beauty blog! Ill be covering some backstage stuff as well for the first time which is pretty darn exciting!
004. Currently toying with the idea of upgrading my camera to a Canon 650d. I have the 500d at the moment and although I love it I think having a flip screen will help me loads with my YouTube Stuff. I have had my current camera for about a year now and don't know if its worth upgrading or not! Tricky!
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Ohhh you lucky lady getting to go to LFW! :) Very jealous right now! Can't wait to see all your backstage coverage :)ReplyDelete
I hope you feel better soon! ❤
Sad to hear you're still not feeling great, but looking forward to your LFW posts! XReplyDelete
This is going to sound so stupid but what is "Sunday Potrait" ??ReplyDelete
Hope you feel better soon, Lily!ReplyDelete
A flip screen camera is so much easier! Works a ton better with outfit posts aswell, cos you can use it as a mirror aha :-)
Ashleigh xo
Hope you get better soon Lily. So so jealous of your fashion week expeditions!ReplyDelete
Ami x
Those reeces peanut butter cups really do make me go weak at the knees. I want to make some of my own, but they wont be as tasty. I also want to try out that 'fluff' stuff - it's too pricey in selfridges though!ReplyDelete
Hmmm best thing to do is go to a camera shop and perhaps have a play with a 650d, then you'll really know if it's your cup of tea.
you're so lucky getting to go to Fashion Week!:o love your blog btw! xReplyDelete
get well soon..have lots of fun at the LFW!!ReplyDelete
100% go to another doctor! Doctors can be so useless sometimes, hope you feel better soon. Can't wait to see your fashion week stuff, I always love seeing what you've been up to :)ReplyDelete
Chloe x
Hey lovely, i think with being ill you should totally get a blood test,ReplyDelete
i know you've mentioned being tired all the time, and it sounds like what happend with me a couple years ago. i was soo sick for ages, i was exhausted all the time, like seriously exhausted to the point of just sitting down in the street becuase i was too tired to walk any more. i had head aches and sore throats, never wanted to eat, then needing to eat everything but that hurt like loads. the docs kept saying it was just a virus and did nothing, then had some antibiotics which did nothing, so i went to another docs got a blood test and it turned out i had glandular fever! it can be in your system for 6 weeks before it even shows symptoms and then once you have it, you always have it and you get really susceptible to colds and flu so it's best to get it tackled asap.
Sorry this comment sounds like such a bad downer doom and gloom worrier post, but the same happend with my sister and a friend of mine (turns out i passed it on to my friend! oops) so its better safe than sorry! being that ill is just not the one!
on a nicer note -reeses peanut buttercups ftw!! slowly converting all my mates to loving them!
Hope you get sorted and feel better! :) xx
I would love to be in London for fashion week.ReplyDelete
Hope you get better soon.
xx, A!
Looking gorgeous as always. I hope you feel better soon xReplyDelete
Sorry to hear that you're still so ill, I hope you feel better soon though!ReplyDelete
LFW sounds so exciting! I'd love to go if I lived a bit closer x
Don't let doctors fob you off lovely. YOU know your body better than they do. I knew something was up with me for over a year before they finally came up with a diagnosis and that was only after a bullied them and bullied them and DEMANDED they do more tests. In the endi was diagnosed with a chronic illness! (Not saying that's what you've got but definitely keep on at them). So excited for your coverage of LFW. Can't wait to live the dream through your blog haha xxReplyDelete
I love how you write about the amarican candy hehe!ReplyDelete
And I hope you feel better soon!
you are sooo cute!!!ReplyDelete
So jealous about LFW! I'm hoping that I'll get to go next season through being at LCF, still a long shot! I'm also debating a camera update, but I just can't justify spending that much when mine "does the job" hmm..ReplyDelete
I hope you feel better soon, my mums had a virus for over a week and its doing her head in too! XoReplyDelete
Katie xo
Yeah you're sooo lucky to go to LFW! I really want to be able to go! Hope you feel better soon! xxReplyDelete
Hope you feel better soon lovely, I'm so jealous you get to go to LFW!xReplyDelete
This Happy Little Blog
How do you still look amazing upside down...hope you feel better soon lovely xxReplyDelete
love this week's portrait, so adorable. I hope you get better soon xReplyDelete
Ooo there's a shop in Manchester that sells all the american candy if you ever go!ReplyDelete
They have every flavour of pop tart ever!! xx
Hope you feel better soon, Apparently I've had a virus for the past few months but they won't do anything about it so i'm just dealing with it but hopefully your london doctors will sort it out :)Have fun at LFW, hope you have an amazing time :)ReplyDelete
Rosalie x
have fun at London's fashion week!!ReplyDelete
Wow so jealous you get to attend London fashion week!!ReplyDelete
Have a blast for all of us who can't make it!
i'd love to know where you bought the candy from and what you thought of the delivery and prices, i've tried american soda but i know there are others out there.ReplyDelete
hope you feel better soon!
Get better soon. Holly xxReplyDelete
Love this photo, so cute! Sorry to hear you still ill, hope you get better soon! Ah i wish i was going to LFW! xxReplyDelete
how exciting you get to attend LFW shows! can't wait for all the backstage pics! :)ReplyDelete
You're so pretty! & SO jealous that you get to go to LFW, have fun!ReplyDelete
& feel better soon xx
would love to go to LFW, you are so lucky! xxxReplyDelete
Definitely demand blood tests :) always good to know what's going on inside your body.ReplyDelete
In my eperience though, some viruses can take a really long time to get out of your system. Like weeks and weeks! Get lots of rest and try to be as healthy and stress-free as possible.
Hope you feel better soon! xxReplyDelete
I would be interested in your camera if you are willing to sell it!!ReplyDelete
I do really think you should go back to the doctors and get checked out, a blood test wont hurt them, even if it is just a virus and you just need loads of rest, its better to be safe at the end of the day. I hope you feel better soon lovely one! (:ReplyDelete
And btw your so lucky that you get to go to fashion week!
Emmy x x x
Hope you get well soon! I'd love to go to a fashion show but I'm too young to go on my own. <3xoReplyDelete
I'm holding a 'giveaway' for new blogs to be discovered more!
Can't wait to see your photos from LFW!! :)ReplyDelete
Love Scrapbook
The 650d is great, maybe you could consider getting a monitor for your current camera and wait a while?ReplyDelete
hey :) my boyfriend suggested that maybe you could get a monitor to plug into your camera. much cheaper investment and a much bigger screen :DReplyDelete
I would love love love to see backstage of a fashion show! Or even just attend one, be sure to tell us all about it :DReplyDelete
Emily x - prettypleaseprettyplease.blogspot.com
Hope you're feeling better asap! :/ XReplyDelete
hope the candy tasted good :)ReplyDelete
if you have any questions feel free to tweet me @llymlrs!


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I've been getting coupon offers from half a dozen of sites.
Is it possible to use a formula like "If there is a number that is larger than 60, then remove". This means that all coupons which cost over $60 would be removed.
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I need to find $m$ permutations $A_1,..,A_m$ where each $A_i$ is a permutation on $n$ objects such that any of the compositions $A_jA_{j+1}..A_{j+k}$; $1 \leq j \leq n-1$ and $j+k \leq m$ does not have a fixed point.
Does such a sequence of permutation always exist? If yes, is there a good way to generate such permutations? Do we have a name for such a sequence of permutations? Thanks for your time.


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Baseball Outlasts North Greenville with 7-4 Win in 11 InningsApril 2, 2014
TIGERVILLE, S.C. – Despite giving up three unanswered runs in the eighth and ninth innings which forced extra innings, Anderson University baseball held off in-state rival North Greenville in 11 innings with a 7-4 victory in nonconference action Wednesday night at NGU's Ashmore Field.
With the victory, the Trojans have strung together three straight triumphs and improved to 14-23 for the season, with South Atlantic Conference play returning this weekend. The Crusaders stumble to 7-26, as NGU dropped the season-long three-game series to Anderson, with its only win of the series coming on March 25 at Ashmore Field.
AU's offense was led by leadoff hitter Kyle Bailey with three hits, including his second straight leadoff home run against the Crusaders as he jumped on the seventh pitch he saw for his fifth homer of the year. In Anderson's last meeting against the Crusaders, Bailey sent the first pitch of the game over the wall to hand the Trojans an early lead. This time, Anderson took a 2-0 lead into the bottom-half of the first inning when senior Jonathan Zalud walked with the bases loaded.
Following Bailey in the hit category was the middle of the order consisting of sophomore first baseman Steven Cooper and senior outfielder Nathan Galliford. Cooper connected on his second home run in as many games in the seventh inning for Anderson's final run until the 11th inning. For Cooper, the homer was his seventh of the season with all the round trippers coming in his last 14 games.
Galliford recorded two singles on the night to go along with a run scored. For the season, the senior is slugging .597.
Senior catcher Ben Pendleton also posted two hits for the night as he increased his hitting streak to four straight games, while tallying multi-hits in his last three contests. For the campaign, Pendleton is hitting .389 with a hit in all but two appearances.
Junior middle infielder Brett Cash added a first inning single as the Anderson native has recorded a hit in nine of his last 10 games.
On the hill, right-hander Spencer Earle tossed 7.1 innings and struck out eight Crusaders in the no-decision. The eight punch-outs matched his season-high which he set on Feb. 28 against SAC foe Coker.
Junior right-hander Evan Jordan relieved Earle in the seventh and closed the inning with back-to-back strikeouts. Classmate Landon Beck tried for the save opportunity in the ninth inning, but a one-out, solo home run by NGU's Tyler Mitchell knotted the score at 4-4 and sent the game into extra innings. Beck finished the inning with two strikeouts.
Senior right-hander Will Walls pitched the extra frames and earned his first victory of the season, not allowing a hit in the two innings of work and notching one strikeout. Walls faced the minimum, while forcing three ground ball outs.
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Statement at the Second Session Proposed Intervention in Connection to "National Measures" , Nuclear Security Summit
April 12, 2010
President Barak Obama,
Distinguished Heads of State and Heads of Delegations:
I am pleased to join those who preceded me by thanking you, Mr. President, for organizing this important conference. I have the honor on behalf of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, to convey to you his sincere greetings and best wishes for the success of this summit.
The Government of Saudi Arabia took several measures at the national level, including signing and ratifying all treaties and conventions that limit the proliferation of hazardous nuclear materials and radiation sources, the latest of which was the safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency and the nuclear terrorism convention.
This is in addition to other International initiatives, such as the Proliferation Security Initiative and the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism.
I am also pleased to convey to you Mr. President, and to the President of the Russian Federation that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia welcomed the signing of the historic START-2 agreement in Prague last week. The agreement represents an important step towards a World free of nuclear weapons as stated in article (6) of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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I received a bag as a gift and want to take the proper measures to brewing the best cup of coffee possible.
I found someone posted out some suggestions here. http://www.realkopiluwak.com/perfect-cup/
I had it once before as espresso and it's a very smooth coffee. I reckon it isn't too hard to make a good one, but I reckon using siphon may be a good idea. It's best to get its natural flavor out.
My fourth pack of Luwak coffee arrived today, I have a mug full beside me.
Use whichever method you prefer. It's fine and works just the same as other coffee in a percolator or plunger.
However, if you can stay at the stove for about 15 minutes, the best taste by far, in my opinion, is made by brewing in a saucpan.
Use a generous teaspoon of ground coffee for each cup you want to make, plus one for the pot.
For one cup measure one and a half cups of cold water into the pot, and the coffee grounds to the cold water. Heat on medium high, stirring frequently.
WATCH THE SAUCEPAN. As soon as it comes to the boil, remove from the heat. Stir again and allow the coffee grounds to settle to the bottom, 1 - 2 minutes. Pour the coffee carefully into you cup leaving the grounds behind. Enjoy.
With this method you MUST pay attention, if you find the coffee boiling, it's probably spoilt and will taste burnt.


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After an update to 11.04 the fans of my Inspiron 9400 go in overdrive and never lower speed. Is this normal? It did not happen on any of the other Ubuntu releases.
I'd suspect you have one process taking one of your two cores. This raises the frequency to the maximum and this in turn raises the speed of the fans.
So you could can kick off the system monitor (you still have a good response time because the second core is not hogged up).
See if one of your processes takes 50% CPU. If it can be killed, kill it and see if the fan takes a break.
If so then you will still need to figure out why this process is spinning the CPU.
My 1720 has perfectly working fans in 11.04. I did do a new install though. But instead of advising a reinstall have a look at this: http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/packages/show/305155
Install that and see if that daemon works!


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Specifically for when they mean "a little".
In what situations would they be used and are they completely interchangeable without any differences?
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Specifically for when they mean "a little".
It seems to be a lot about nuances.
You have someone talking about it on this page.
It says that you can replace 少し with ちょっと in most cases but it's less common the other way around. Then it lists few examples when the sentence does not convey exactly the same meaning based on which one you use.
One of the example is from a book and it talks about the difference between 「ちょっと待ってね」 and 「少し待ってね」. The first one would be an egoist way of asking the people to wait, a bit vague, term that would be convenient for you. The other one with 少し would be apparently more accurate, easier to rely on and let the other person more likely to feel at ease/trust with you.
An other example is a case when you cannot really use 少し instead if ちょっと. The example is 「ちょっと、わかんない。」.
I am not sure I fully understand myself but what I understood so far is that 少し, compared to ちょっと, is ちゃんとした言葉 compared to ちょっと that would be a bit 適当 (sorry I don't find the words to explain that in english). This difference would be reflected especially when you ask someone to do something.
To a certain extent they are just different levels of politeness. Check the following:
少々(しょうしょう)> 少し > ちょっと
The phrases get longer the more polite they are. Also, I believe ちょっと is more of a spoken phrase than a written phrase.


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I cannot get a Google AdSense ad to show up in a WordPress blog I'm working on. The ads have been approved and I entered the code (and double-checked the code to make sure I had it right). The code is as follows:
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<script type="text/javascript"><!--
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google_ad_width = 120;
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I am stuck with this piece of code here
user@server:~$ TEST="ssh email@example.com 'date; hostname -A; uname -a'"
user@server:~$ $TEST
bash: date; hostname -A; uname -a: Command not found.
I want to use this inside a shell script an don't know what s the problem. Both systems are debian wheezy,
but if execute the command directly:
user@server:~$ ssh email@example.com 'date; hostname -A; uname -a'
Fre Aug 23 20:02:55 CEST 2013
Linux otherserver 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
So whats the big deal here???? I relay am missing out something very trivial, but just cant figure it out... Please help...
The idea behind this, is that i build up a long string inside a script and execute it remotely in a single SSH session (renaming of zfs snapshots all in a row n.0 becomes n.1 and so on)
But its not working a is want it to work...
EDIT/UPDATE: Updated the exaples for beeter understanding of my question (from 'date; date; date' TO 'date; hostname -A; uname -a')
Thanks for all the responses so far. At first eval works but seems to be deprecated as mentioned by Users. So its my job to figure it out again on how to change it.
The string witch hast so be built looks something like this:
echo "Rearanging snapshots..."
RENAME_STRING="'sudo zfs destroy $BACKUP_DATASTORE@n.$last_backup; "
while [ $last_backup -gt $first_backup ]
RENAME_STRING=$RENAME_STRING"sudo zfs rename $BACKUP_DATASTORE@n.$(($last_backup - 1)) $BACKUP_DATASTORE@n.$last_backup"
if [ $(($last_backup - 1 )) -gt $first_backup ]
last_backup=$(($last_backup - 1 ))
#CURRENTLY SOLVED WITH EVAL as this one doesn't work...
#remote_cmd=(/usr/bin/ssh "$BACKUP_USER@$HOST_TO" "$RENAME_STRING")
eval /usr/bin/ssh $BACKUP_USER@$HOST_TO $RENAME_STRING
So maybe you guys will have a more elegant way to solve this?
Is this output "OK"? (OK as in the means of NOT deprecated, and good to work with?
user@server:~$ TEST="date ; hostname -A ; uname -a"
user@server:~$ ssh firstname.lastname@example.com <<< "$(printf '%s ' $TEST)"
Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal.
Linux otherserver 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1 x86_64
The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Fre Aug 23 20:13:53 CEST 2013
Linux otherserver 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
EDI3: Updated/improved (?) while loop eval still used as <<< wont work in the script...


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Beautiful Minimalist Game of Thrones Art
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A willingness to stay late into the night to admit a new resident or to listen to a family's sorrows is one of many reasons Ruth Pyle, director of marketing and sales at Wabash Christian Retirement Center, was selected by her co-workers to receive the Arthur Bohleber Award this year.
The award was established in memory of Arthur L. Bohleber, a Carmi businessman who was one of the original owners of Wilmar Restorium before it was sold to Christian Homes, Inc. in 1974 and renamed Wabash Christian Retirement Center. The annual award recognizes employees who demonstrate consistent commitment to residents, family members and fellow employees.
Those who nominated Pyle, who is a 24-year employee at Wabash Christian, noted her loyalty to the senior living community and her faithfulness to her job.
"The admission process can be tough on families and potential residents," noted Chaplain Mike Fields who presented the award at the Wabash Christian annual Christmas party. "Ruth helps ease the process, providing comfort and reassurance to all involved."
Her tour-guide skills in showing the campus to potential residents and their families were also noted, along with her diligence in promoting the senior living community with the local media, especially through her regular column in the Carmi Times.
Fields, himself a past Bohleber award recipient, also stressed, "She has a very strong faith in God and exhibits it daily. And no matter the circumstance, she always has a smile on her face."
"Her Christian values are always exhibited in her respect and dignity toward the residents, employees and general public," noted a co-worker who nominated her for the award. "She has a God-given talent in the programs she puts on at churches, and a voice that has served many funerals and weddings, and just cheered up residents and staff."
"We love Ruth," the co-worker added. "Well done, thou good and faith servant. Arthur Bohleber would be proud."
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Student emails on Christmas
My phone buzzed with emails on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Aunts and Uncles checking in? Updated directions to a Christmas party? Nope. Students complaining about their grades. This had never happened to me before -- on Christmas! Have we reached some kind of breaking point?When I was a college student -- and it wasn't that long ago -- there was a blissful period of time between December final exams and when I received those semester grades. I would go home for the holidays, just before Christmas, and have a couple weeks of kairos, seasonal time during which I reveled with family and friends. Thoughts of Thermodynamics IIor Cultural Anthropology finals were fleeting, if they came at all. The grades did arrive in the mail, eventually, and there would be a reckoning (especially about Thermodynamics II). But I had at least 10 days of good times with my parents before the grades arrived.Thank God I'm not an undergraduate now. As far as I can tell, students live in a near-constant state of anxiety about grades in late December. Yes, students have always been anxious, but before online grading systems, one could only check the postal mail once per day, there were several mail holidays, and one could be virtually assured grades wouldn't arrive before Christmas.Now I fear that, during the days of the "O" antiphons leading up to the Feast of the Nativity, my good Christian students are incessantlychecking grades andfollowing that "O" with rather less sublime words and phrases.For a while now, several trajectories have been increasing that relate to this issue: mobile connectivity; student anxiety about how their college grades relate to their future success in job-seeking; the rocketing cost of higher education and the concomitant student loan bubble; grade inflation, which invests each incremental difference in GPA with more discriminating value than it used to have; and finally, that favorite of teachers everywhere, a problem with thin-skinned, entitled students. (Note: I don't agree fully with that last one, but it is a common barb.)Despite all of that, I had never received emails about grades on Christmas itself. Multiple emails. From students I know are Christians.I don't know what to make of this, and I'm wondering if all the educators and educated who read and write for this blog have any helpful thoughts. It's not my own email inbox that concerns me. I'm worried about the state of anxiety of my students. I'm sad for the lack of kairos in their lives in general, and now even this widely regarded season of kairosdoes not seem to work for them.My initial thought is thatnext year I will withhold my grades until after Christmas (and tell the students in advance why I am doing so).I know I can't change their whole culture, relationships to their grades ortheir parents, and their sense of time. But maybe we could encourage other teachers -- at least at Christian schools -- to do the same. If so, perhaps the most seasonally appropriate day for uploading the grades would be the Feast of Stephen, the martyr.(Sorry, couldn't resist that one.)
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My daughter received a grad degree in education last May, and she recently finished her first semester teaching mathematics at a community college. One of the courses she taught is required for students hoping to move on to B.A or B.S. programs at other schools. Final grades for that particular course were due yesterday, and she was deluged by emails over the Christmas weekend from students wanting to know their final grade in the course. Some of the students have transfer applications pending for the spring semester, so one can understand to some degree their anxiety about grades, and it's likely the students are from diverse religious backgrounds (or no religious backgrounds to speak of), but my daughter was taken aback by the volume of the emails she received, especially those that pleaded that she respond on Christmas Day. To her credit (a proud father's subjective conclusion), she waited until Monday to respond to the emails.
I have long argued that the Fall semester (especially at schools that celebrate a Christian heritage) should conclude their final exams sometime in early or mid-December, thereby allowing students to spiritually prepare themselves for the Christmas season. As someone who will have (hopefully!) completed doctoral qualifying exams next October, one of the things I look forward to the most is celebrating the Advent season attentively for the first time since I began taking my faith seriously as an undergraduate. This would also give professors time to get grades in well before it would be a problem to get emails on Christmas (which is crazy!).
I received several work emails on Christmas day, in the evening, and I have to admit that I answered one. My daughter commented at the end of the semester that since the beginning of the semester she had been unable to distinguish Sundays from weekdays. It was all a blur of work, work, work. Some assignments were due on the weekend, some on Sunday at 1pm. Teaching assistants had office hours on during the weekend, on both Saturday and Sunday. One course had its final exam on Sunday morning from 9am to 12 noon (although the instructor did say that students would be allowed to take it early if they really really wanted to.) The freedom, due to electronic hand ins, to set deadlines at any time of any day, had changed the weekend days into mere variations of weekdays. The notion of resting on the 7th day is pretty much gone.
While I understand the desire to reduce Christmas angst, I'm not sure prolonging the agony is the right way to go. Nor do I think unilaterally witholding information from a customer is the best way for a business to operate. Can the schedule be arranged so that the grades could be available to customers spending $40k a year or more so that explanations can be provided before Christmas?
Mark, to do that, we'd probably have to start school at the end of July. When I went to college, we started after Labor Day. Classes ended before Christmas, we had a three week holiday, and then a two week reading period. Exams were the second and third week in January. Then we had a week off, and then we started the second semester.It would be interesting to study, say, the three or four Starbucks near a college. The first couple of weeks in December, the seats are filled with students studying for finals. The next couple of weeks are filled with teachers grading them
I would send a polite e-mail to the entire class list stating that you will not be checking your e-mail from 9:00 pm December 24, until 8:00 am December 26, and that they can send as many text, e-mail and voice messages as they please, but you will only answer after Christmas. I suspect that many will be just fine with that -- so long as they know they will have the answer by a date certain. This calls to mind a funny story -- A TA friend and I went back to his apartment to check in with his roommate, who was waiting on pins and needles for a phone call from his dissertation advisor to see if his committee had conferred the degree on him -- Apparently, a student of my friend had been calling the apartment EVERY 15 MINUTES for hours, in an effort to pin down my friend on what his final grade would be. I thought the roommate was going to spontaneously combust when we walked in the door.
Is all that anxiety really necessary, or is it simply contagious, spread from one peer to another? Is everyone frantic simply because it's expected? Much of the angst attributed to the culture and the times is mostly of our own manufacture.
The anxiety over the grade itself is what strikes me as the biggest change in academia, and seems a significant difference from my own memories of college; the desire to see the grade as soon as possible is, to my mind, just a reflection of the desire for instant results, one that's met in other areas of life.When I was applying for an MFA in creative writing a few years ago, I had to dig up my college transcript to send to schools, and there it was--my first semester of college: a B-. In College Writing.
Back in the dark ages when I was an undergrad, the first semester ended after the Christmas holiday. No grades until the end of January--by then, we were already into the second semester (And Horrors: our parents got the report cards!). During the holiday, we studied for exams, finished up term papers, and went to parties, etc. Of course, we weren't paying gazillions of dollars for a Jesuit higher education either. So some suggestions Michael: don't read your e-mail on holidays, get the exams shifted to early January, or let students take their final first week in December and hand out grades on the last day of class. This puts me in mind of my favorite after-Christmas stanza from Auden, "For the Time Being":...But, for the time being, here we all are,Back in the moderate Aristotelian cityOf darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid's geometryAnd Newton's mechanics would account for our experience,And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it.It seems to have shrunk during the holidays. The streetsAre much narrower than we remembered; we had forgottenThe office was as depressing as this. To those who have seenThe Child, however dimly, however incredulouslyThe Time Being is, in a sense, The most trying time of all....
I've read that these days parents don't hesitate to call college profs to see how their darlings are doing. These are the hovering "helicopter" parents who were unheard of in my day. I think that's more than patronizing on the parents' part -- assuming that these college kids can't manage their college days for themselves. So in their anxiety, the kids feel free to be rude to their teachers. As to their anxiety, I think that the job situation probably has something to do with it -- kids think good grades with get them a job. Little do they know that when it is time to get a job that grades -- unless they're cum laude or something -- have little or anything to do with getting a job -- or so I've read, and this confirms my experience working in the employment office a huge, well-paying corporation (granted, that was many years ago). We never checked anybody's grades, nor whether the applicants had *really* graduated cum laude. Sometimes a specialist engineer or someone with very special qualifications was hired without going through the usual process of submitting an application to the employment office. Maybe those specialists' records were checked, but they would be big exceptions. I have long complained that grades don't mean much except in getting into grad school. It was for that reason that I would tell my students that straight As from me would get them a recommendation to the best grad schools, B's meant that I'd recommend them to lower rung grad program. What that meant was that not too many kids got straight As, and that helped solve grade inflation. Of course, i caught hell from my chairman, who thought that I should give 1/4 A's. So goes academe, and the poor kids don't even realize it.
Ditto for me: "Back in the dark ages when I was an undergrad, the first semester ended after the Christmas holiday. No grades until the end of Januaryby then, we were already into the second semester (And Horrors: our parents got the report cards!)."I never knew what my grades were until my parents handed me the letter. And they had NO compunctions about opening it before giving it to me, either.
Exactly! They could blame you for your grades rather than your professors. What is the lesson here?
This issue s just one small part of a larger one: the commodification of education. For an excellent, and well documented study of the problem with American colleges and universities today I recommend Benjamin Ginsberg's The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why it Matters.
That should have been "a small part of a larger problem."
MOS: I went to a Jebbie U (Marquette) and there was NEVER any question in my parents' mind about whose fault any bad grades was. Never. Ever. Ever....
I managed to graduate cum laude. Found myself in boot camp 2 weeks later. Assigned to a river buoy tender for nearly 2 years as a deckhand. After getting out of service, eventually applied to Uncle Sam for civilian job. Got it, working for the very agency (U.S. Civil Service Commission local office) where I had picked up my federal employment application in the first place. I saw my personnel folder for first time about 8 years later and discovered my name was first on list of candidates. Everybody had rating of 100 --- except me with 105 and veterans' preference.College study got me the 100.My time working on the Arkansas River, etc. got me my civilian job!And eventually --- thank God --- my retirement!I'd hate to be facing the job market out of college today.
It just occurred to me -- with all of the privacy laws these days, would it even be legal for employers to write to colleges and ask for verification that an individual student had such-and-such a grade point average or graduated with honors? Hmm.
Ann Olivier,I believe transcripts are public records. Colleges require that they be requested in order to collect revenue for sharing the information. The requirement of a transcript is certainly still part of a graduate or professional school application. If graduate and professional schools can obtain a transcript, why not an employer? The question is why would an employer want one, according to some of the above posts?
Why do you set up your email to buzz into your phone?
Margaret, when I attended the same institution that you did, albeit in the latter part of the dark ages, our semester ended before Christmas break, leaving us scot-free for shopping, family and debauchery for a couple of weeks at home.My freshman year, the CTA (the local transit authority) went on strike, making it impossible for me to get to the downtown campus for a final. The professor let me take it in his office on the very last afternoon before Christmas break. He couldn't sit with me - he had to catch a flight to get home for the holidays. So I took a final in a room by myself with no monitoring. Cheating would have been very easy - he pretty much out-and-out told me to do whatever I needed to do - but as an honest person, or a sucker, I took the exam without opening a book (we didn't cell phones or Internet access in those days).
Prof. Mitchell -- I googled college students' privacy rights and came up with some surprising information. According to the Pacific Union College site, students must sign forms permitting their * parents* to receive their confidential education information -- " students education record, which consists of all records directly related to a student and maintained by Pacific Union College", I assume this include grades There is another form for releasing the information to non-parents, which I assume would include employment offices.Let's see now -- parents have no right to this information even though in many cases they are paying for the tuition, etc., of their children? Hmm. (I always did think that the 18-year-old right-to-vote amendment to the Constitution was a bad idea. (I think it should have covered only 18-year-olds in the military. Going to war grows a kid up fast.) This nonsense seems to be another unintended consequence of that amendment.The Pacific Union address is: http://www.puc.edu/academics/records/ferpa-privacy-laws
"This issue is just one small part of a larger one: the commodification of education"I took a series of financial planning courses a couple of years ago which brought home to me for the first time what bad financial value higher education is in the US. College costs over the past 25 years have increased at more than 2 and half times the inflation rate. I believe it has been the second fastest growing expense after medical costs.I had always assumed my children would go to a private college, as I did, but those numbers give me pause. I can absolutely understand the angst over performance when the financial investment is so huge.
Hi, Irene, I couldn't agree more.
The financial investment need not be so large for private colleges and universities. These schools need to shrink their oversized and overpaid administrations. Some schools inflate their costs to appear to be "worthwhile". If they do not charge fees comparable to elite schools students won't enroll, thinking that a cheaper tuition means that the school is not a good school. It is a vicious circle.
Ann, college students are by and large adults, and their parents pay tuition to varying degrees based on their voluntary decision to do so. Just ask children who have tried to legally require their parents to pay tuition. They don't have to. Even a very large gift does not entitle the giver to have access to personal information about the recipient.
Ann, the federal government cannot obtain personal information on a job applicant or prospective hire without the subject's permission. So far as I can ascertain, there are two basic forms used for this purpose, specifically:+ Declaration for Federal Employment http://www.opm.gov/Forms/pdf_fill/of0306.pdf+ Questionnaire for Non-sensitive Positions http://www.opm.gov/Forms/pdf_fill/SF85.pdf(There are also variants of the SF85 for positions at different security levels.)When I was a civil service examiner years ago, we specified the forms and other information needed for basic qualifications review and, if necessary, ranking. At this stage of the process, we did not ask for or need a certified copy of a transcript. A clear photocopy would suffice. It was up to the agency receiving an application from our office to verify the truthfulness/accuracy of a candidate's application. If there was a discrepancy, the agency, if I recall, could investigate or return the application to us for investigation. In the latter case, we would refer a suspicious application to our Investigations staff (out of state) for followup. There are penalties (fine and/or imprisonment) for knowingly and willingly submitting a false application. If an applicant initially failed to submit required information to our office (at the basic review stage before referral to a federal agency), we could rate the individual as "Ineligible - Failed to reply to official correspondence".Anyway.......
To clarify, if an individual did not submit a complete application, we would ask him/her for the additional information needed by our office. Then, if no response within a specified time frame, we "FROCed" the applicant.In addition, if during *our* review stage, we discovered something seriously amiss from a *suitability* standpoint, we would generally forward the application to our Investigations unit for further review, possible field investigation, and final determination. In certain cases, Uncle Sam can *debar* a person from federal employment as well as remove a federal employee from his/her position.
Barbara 12/30/2011 - 11:34 amAnn, college students are by and large adults, and their parents pay tuition to varying degrees based on their voluntary decision to do so. Just ask children who have tried to legally require their parents to pay tuition. They dont have to. Even a very large gift does not entitle the giver to have access to personal information about the recipient.Barbara, would you say that in the West, the legal concepts behind the terms "parent" and "family" have lost a great deal of importance in the past century - or even the past fifty years? It's my sense that you're saying that so far as children are concerned, there's little legal difference between a parent and a bank or between a parent and an employer.
David, Parents pay out of love and concern and don't require repayment. I would say that's more than a little difference.
Barbara --In my experience college kids were mostly on the way to being adults. Some were childish, some wise beyond their years. The idea that the function of parents is only to give to their children is not even a good idea for the children. Family implies mutuality, or it won't be worth much. And, yes, some parents do need to know their child's grades for the good of the child, for instance, if the little one is goofing off and the parent can't afford tuition for five or six years. Better for the kid to sit out a year or two.There's a simple solution to who gets the grades -- send them to both parents and kids.
Barbara 12/30/2011 - 2:45 pmDavid, Parents pay out of love and concern and dont require repayment. I would say thats more than a little difference.
Yes, Barbara, but that's not a legal difference, is it? How about the law? Does the law no longer privilege parents?
Ann Olivier 12/30/2011 - 3:25 pmBarbara In my experience college kids were mostly on the way to being adults.
Ann, many years ago a wise, experienced, well traveled Russian friend remarked that in America, children do not mature until they're in their thirties.
But Ann, there is nothing that prevents parents from conditioning their largesse on seeing the grades. Nothing but their own inhibitions and fears. And if they are too afraid to lower the boom if they can't even see the grades, what makes you think they will all of a sudden find the productive bravery to do something about bad grades when they see them? Coercion doesn't work well in family relationships of any kind. If your kid turned out to be an ungrateful slacker things won't turn themselves around by threatening to withhold tuition.
Coercion doesnt work well in family relationships of any kind.
Oh, my.
Barbara --Coercion should be a last resort, and it's always painful. But you also seem to think that sometimes the boom should be lowered. True, in most cases college would be too late. But kids differ so much individually it must be hellish to make hard and fast rules.I dunno. Must be hell being a parent these days. Kids are pulled in so many directions by the general culture (as well as being stunted by it in some ways) that I can even sympathize with the hovering parents who try to take the decision-making burden off their kids. But that is lethal for the kids' maturity.There are some good things about being single -- you don't have to deal with such issues.
I wonder why anyone would choose to be a parent in this culture. All pain, no gain. The need to have someone to carry on the family farm is gone. The desire to have someone carry on the family business is probably a seldom thing, since small businesses don't seem to last long any more. The need of a woman to be fulfilled isn't valid any longer - women are told that having children is bound to stunt their growth, and people believe what the culture tells them. On the minus side, parents are held legally responsible for their children's misbehavior and children are valued largely, it seems to me, for their ability to purchase stuff and keep up with their cultural peers, who are locked into cultural models that exclude the family, except as a font of funds. Add to that the most important thing - that a parent's life inevitably, in this culture, is that of a child's compliant assistant, and you're left with very little - I'd say nothing - that's predictably overwhelmingly positive about parenting.So what could be a motive that makes it all worthwhile? The need for a family nest? Do we still feel that? A strong desire to see one's genes slouching away into the future? It's no wonder, I think, that the West is becoming depopulated and will, if current trends continue, soon sink below the waves of history.
"So what could be a motive that makes it all worthwhile?"Love.
David S. -- You list the trivia and leave out the important stuff.
Jack, what are the important stuff?
See Irene B. (7:53am). Especially in the middle of the night or on the 2000th repetition or when you are delightfully surprised by something you never could have imagined.
"get the exams shifted to early January, or let students take their final first week in December and hand out grades on the last day of class."At most schools the professors have very little control over this sort of thing. The semester ending in January, in particular, is dead nearly everywhere and would be impossible to revive.
David S et al: the people I know who choose to be parents, as opposed to those who do so by mistake, do so out of love of children. This is particularly true of those same-sex couples who adopt, a large number of whom adopt children with learning and/or physical difficulties, including such things as fetal alcohol syndrome, ADHD, etc. They aren't out for the perfect blonde, blue-eyed neo-Nordic little darlings. I think their own experience of rejection (society, parents, church) leads them to also seek out some of the rejected ones to try to share their experience of overcoming with their new children.But, of course, we know that they won't be doing this through "Catholic" Charities in so many areas of the good old US of A.


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