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On November 20, 1975 Generalisimo Francisco Franco dies, marking the end of authoritarian rule in Spain and the beginning of an explosion in Spanish arts and culture. Many songs containing religious, political, or sexual messages were banned under the dictatorship for conflicting with Franco's nationalist idea of a unified Spanish culture.
This IHIM contains two playlists: one with songs banned under the dictatorship, and another with bands that flourished after the democratic transition.
- Playlist 1: Discos Censurados
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PTE103: App Tech AB (2013-2014)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Career and Technical Education
COURSE TITLE: Applied Technology AB
COURSE LENGTH: 18 weeks
Major Concepts/Content: The applied technology course provides students an introduction to various forms of technology and technical systems. Career opportunities will also be explored. Students will often work in teams involved in problem solving activities. Activities may include, but are not limited to, agriculture, biotechnology, information, computer, production and manufacturing, robotics, electronics, residential construction, architecture, health services, environmental systems, entrepreneurship, aerospace, transportation, communication, and power and energy technologies. Other activities, listed on the course objectives, will be incorporated to enhance the educational experience.
Major Instructional Activities: This course provides for academic, technical, and social growth. Instructional activities provide hands-on experiences with tools, materials, and state-of-the-art equipment. This modular based program enables all students to broaden their knowledge through practical experience. The course content includes the integration of mathematics, science, humanities and applied engineering concepts.
Major Evaluative Techniques: Students will be evaluated through a variety of methods such as portfolios, rubrics, practical tests, and craftsmanship of final products. Projects will be analyzed and evaluated for meeting the essential objectives, creativity, and presentation quality. In addition, the students will be evaluated on their ability to work cooperatively together, solve problems, and maintain ethical standards.
Course Objectives: Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Define technology and recognize its impact.
- Apply problem-solving strategies to the design process in order to create potential solutions.
- Demonstrate methods of graphic representation of ideas.
- Demonstrate the proper use of metric and customary measuring systems.
- Utilize tools, materials, and processes safely to produce models or prototypes.

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MORGANTOWN - The Morgantown girls soccer team earned a 3-0 win over visiting Brooke High Tuesday on Pony Lewis Field.
The Mohigans' Maggie Shively lit up the scoreboard with two goals. Junior Michaela Hinerman led the way for Brooke with three shots, followed by senior Kirsten Minger and junior Dynah Sayer, who each contributed single shots.
Bruins head coach Lee Weppler felt his players had many great moments, but just couldn't get the job done.
"We played well for periods of the game, possessed the ball well and built up out of the back nicely," he said. "We had a couple of opportunities that we just couldn't capitalize on."
Despite what the score sheet says, Weppler and the Bruins took home important lessons.
"We never give up, we play to the final whistle," he said.
"We'll take that into the next game, get ready for Weir High and go out and just execute the game plan."
Brooke goalkeeper Marena Cline finished with seven saves and Morgantown goalkeeper Erica Yohn totaled five.
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We are currently not accepting volunteer applications at this time.
However the Sunshine Division is always looking for volunteers.
Download: Volunteer Intake Form [PDF]
The purpose of the Portland Police Bureau's Volunteer Program is to provide support for non-enforcement services throughout the Bureau. Volunteers can and do make a difference in our community. With your help, we are able to provide a higher level of service to the community. This program provides an excellent opportunity for you to become involved with your police department and to make a difference in your community.
Volunteer Mission
Portland Police Bureau Volunteers perform a wide range of non-hazardous duties. Volunteers provide many services for the department, such as research, data entry, filing, scanning & archiving, providing updated supplies in patrol vehicles, victim call backs, car prowl flier missions and much more.
Volunteer Goals
The goals of the Volunteer Program are to augment the Portland Police Bureau operations, by using volunteers to increase the availability of police officers and administrative staff, to satisfy many community needs and promote community awareness.
The volunteers strive to enhance community safety and security by promoting good community relations. The volunteers also provide an invaluable source of experience, energy and time to make their communities safer and a better place to live.
Who Are The Volunteers?
Volunteers come from all walks of life. Some are fully employed elsewhere, some have families, some are single, some are students, and some are retired.
Who May Volunteer?
Anyone over 18 years of age is welcome to apply, with a valid Oregon driver's license.
What Can Volunteers Expect When They Apply?
The applicants can expect to be interviewed, fingerprinted, and have a background check completed. The volunteers may elect to work daytime, afternoon or evening hours during a seven day week. Most volunteers have a regular schedule, although some may elect to be available "on call" or for special short-term assignments. Help is needed in nearly every area of the Police Bureau.
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Volunteers will have various responsibilities and duties. However, their main function is to perform non-hazardous duties; scanning & archiving documents into TRIM, patrol car trunk clean up/stocking, victim call backs, posting car prowl fliers on vehicles in mall/shopping lots, admin support for positions that have none – management services, fleet, quartermaster, etc, precinct/Division tours, crosswalk stings, scenarios victims, etc. Volunteers may elect to work in one or more of the following areas:
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First time novelist, long time writer here. I'm looking for creative writing exercises to help with my dialogue. Any ideas?
Get a video recorder and a few friends.
Explain to your friends what the scene is about, and what you want to have happen. (Eliot and Alec walk into a bar and order a drink. They start talking about inconsequential stuff. Their friend Nate walks in and asks Eliot for the $50 Eliot owes him. Eliot says he already paid Nate. Discussion/dispute/argument ensues.)
Have everyone ad-lib until you finish the scene.
Play back the recording. Listen to it. Listen to the rhythm of human speech. Listen to the ums, the ers, the pauses, the stuttering. Listen to how people talk over each other and interrupt. Listen to how a drunk guy repeats himself and slurs his words.
Then watch it. Watch body language. Watch what happens in the silences. Watch facial expressions. Watch how the bartender reacts when Eliot gets a beer and Alec orders a gin and tonic.
Now transcribe what you heard and saw. Write down every um, every glare, every snort and gesture. Have your friends read over it and confirm or edit what you wrote.
You may or may not use exactly what you ad-libbed for the book, but it will give you an idea of how actual people speak to one another and how they move and react when they're talking.
You could do this off TV as well, but sometimes actors are working too hard at acting, and ad-libbing is more of a guarantee that you'll get spontaneous reactions.
A scriptwriting exercise that always helps make a nice shape out of dialogue. Follow the instructions without reading them all the way through the first time. Just do each step one at a time:
1) Take a sheet of paper and write in the margin down 20 lines the letters A and B. They don't have to just swap e.g. ABABABABABAB but you can have no more than two the same in a row so AABABBABABABAAB = fine but AAABABABBBBAAABABBB = wrong.
2) Now on each row that has a letter in the margin you are going to draw some dots and dashes. Sort of like quasi Morse code. You may have a combination of up to any three on each line but you are not compelled to put three on any of them. In the end your shape could look like this:
3) Now, think of some dramatic subject for a scene. Maybe, a doctor breaking it to a patient they have a terminal disease. Or a husband telling his wife he is leaving her. Or a criminal confessing his crimes to a police detective.
4) Finally, you are going to use the plan you have created to create a short script. By now you may have guessed that the A and the B are character assignations e.g. criminal (A) and Detective (B). The dots represent short sentences or single word exclamations. The dashes represent any normal sentence greater than three words. So to give an example:
You can of course, do this deliberately and introduce a character C etc. Try not to think about the random part, assigning the dots and dashes, it makes a natural rhythm that mimics the way people speak as they think.
It's worth reading the whole entry, for student responses.
The key here is that dialogue, and its effect, are heavily dependent on the surrounding description and action. You can play the same dialogue a dozen different ways - and trying to do that is a great exercise for understanding how to choose which way to play yours.
Here's an exercise that my writing group used:
When I want to practice something, I like to identify some key variables and play with them. What are some of the key variables in dialogue? (Maybe: goals and agendas, characters' knowledge of each other, characters' attitudes toward each other, relative status of the characters, ...)
So, starting from a drafted scene with plenty of dialogue, change one of the variables and rewrite the scene:
Perhaps other folks can offer additional variables to play with.
Follow others
Be aware of good dialogue when you find it. If you're working in a genre, find exemplars in that genre.
Conversations are not dialogues
Look at the whole dialogue between two people. Some great dialogues start on page 10 and run to page 300. The entire noir fiction genre lives on great dialogue. Watch how additional parties are included.
If you 'get good at dialogue' without seeing the long haul, you end up packing too much in to each conversation, and they sound camp and clever, pithy.
Dialogues are workhorses
A good dialogue reveals and transforms relationships, offers information (with a personal twist), creates touchstones of insight or humor you can return to, and proves your characters' emotional trajectories.
I spent time practicing and using structures and methods. Like braces, I have grown out of them. You should do them. But I can tell you how I do dialogue now.
Be your characters
Writing dialogue is like playing chess against yourself. You spin the board and try to forget what was at stake for the 'opponent.' But the best dialogues are between whole people with whole views and epxeriences.
Understand who the character is - background and experience, point of view Understand where they came from before this conversation Understand why they're having it (nothing is random) Understand what they want Understand what they're afraid of, or hiding Understand what the underlying relationship is, the judgments, the histories, etc between the speakers
Understand dialogue as a tool, not a necessary hurdle
Dialogue is a powerful tool to move the story forward. (Hopefully, you do this with every damn word.) I try to move descriptive and informational content into dialogue and use my own descriptive phrasing to paint images.
This converts the overbearing narration into something fluid, possibly playful. Instead of an author banging out the course of someone's day, you let them tell someone later in the day. That's cool because you add their personality and perception.
Increase power through abstraction
Better, have someone else describe that person's day in their presence. Now you have two people's personalities and perceptions.
The levels of abstraction are powerful. You can juxtapose relevant aspects of one character's personality (dour, serious cop) against those of their chronicler (angry, footloose son; relaxed, retired father; fun-loving, flamboyant new significant other; loud-mouthed bum on the street corner watching a bust).
After you have written a dialogue, you can try to improve it by switching from direct statements to indirect ones. It can make the dialog more interesting (e.g. ironic or sarcastic), less dull. But don't overdo.
Instead of
A not-so-noble but working approach is to eavesdrop ;) If you don't mind, go sit at a coffee shop or park and listen to the conversations of random people. Write down their dialogues and try to improvise on them. Everyone has their own style of talking. Some people may sound more interesting than others. But, please don't get overexcited and start stalking them! :D
Hope this helps. Cheers!
First choose the genre that you intend to write.
Find a good example of this genre. (even better than the printed page is a movie or tv show)
Pick a scene and transcribe the dialog.
It might sound hokey but it will give you a sense of brevity, pacing, cadence, and interchange.
(Monkey see. Monkey do.)


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ESL for AS&E Graduate Students
CAS 085 Academic English Communication and Accent Reduction
Who is eligible? How much does it cost?
This is a graduate-level course, but others outside of the University of Rochester may be eligible to enroll, space permitting. The cost for the entire semester is $625. Please contact me for more information or to enroll.
Instructor: Rebecca Allen
Course Description:
Specifically for International Graduate Students, this course emphasizes the acquisition of English cultural and linguistic skills needed for clear communication in the university and career environments. Primary areas covered will be accent reduction, pragmatics (culture's role in language), nonverbal communication, public speaking, and academic and business writing.
When and Where:
This ESL class will take place 9/9/15 through 12/07/15 every Monday and Wednesday in Dewey 2110E. There are two sections. Section one (CRN 19057) will meet from 6:15-7:45 PM and Section 2 (CRN 19066) will meet from 7:50-9:20 PM. Please attend the section for which you have registered.
Note: there will be no classes on Monday, October 12 (Fall Break) and Wednesday, November 25 (the day before Thanksgiving), as these are university holidays.
Instructor Contact/Meetings:
Meetings outside of class hours are by appointment; please feel free to contact me to set up a time. Also, I am generally available after class for short, impromptu discussions. Please do not hesitate to talk to me with your questions or concerns; I am here to help you.
Phone - 1 (866) 338-7713 x 3
Email - firstname.lastname@example.com
Skype - accentschool_rebecca
(please feel free to visit me virtually on Skype anytime)
Course Materials:
We will be using two texts for this course:
Clear Speech: Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in North American English (4th Edition)
by Judy Gilbert
Teaching American Students: A Guide for International Faculty and Teaching Assistants in Colleges and Universities (3rd Edition)
by Ellen Sarkisian
ISBN: 0-674-02141-x
These books are available in the bookstore.
These books are placed on reserve in the university library as well.
Many handouts will be given in class. Copies of these handouts are posted on the pages in the side menu of this page.
Course Grades:
This is a "pass or fail course". To receive a grade of "satisfactory" or "S" ("not fail") you must meet the following three requirements:
- Assignments: This course will have eight short assignments; approximately one assignment will be due each week. These assignments are not complex or long in nature; the goals of assigning many short assignments as opposed to fewer longer assignments is to foster frequent practice and instructor feedback. To pass this course you must complete 6 out of 8 assignments with a grade of "pass". Assignments cannot normally be accepted after their due dates, unless you were unable to complete the assignment due to a documented illness or other exceptional circumstances.
- Attendance/participation: Simply put, to improve your English, you must speak English. Hence, attending class is a very important part of the learning process. To pass this course, you must miss no more than three class meetings. Should you need to miss more than three class meetings, please contact the instructor before your absences (or as soon as possible after an unforeseen emergency) to get an exception from this requirement. Exceptions are granted as per the instructor's discretion. Possible reasons for an exception include personal/family emergencies, illnesses, official academic functions/conferences, etc.
- Final Exam: As the goal of this course is primarily to teach speaking, this course will have a "spoken" or oral final exam. To pass this course, you must receive a grade of "pass" on the final exam. A specific preparation guide will be given to help you prepared for this exam.


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gamefreak humblest user 2012
Interesting results. I thank all who voted for me
I should get the award for a nomination in almost every category :3
Credits to myself for the banner and xous54 for the image.
To make it clear, if you PM me, I get an email. I do not use this site anymore.
If you PM me I will do my best to get back to you.
Someone voted me for mod?! Don't think I would be able to take that title myself. I wouldn't mind it but before I do, I have to stop breaking the rules so frequently. No less, expected results are expected with the moderators dominating.
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The Truth About Te'o's Truth
For me, the story of Manti Te'o pushed from the surreal to the absurd last Saturday. I was driving my car, listening to a sports radio show, which was my own mistake—I always have such naive hope there will be a meaningful conversation, but after a while, it inevitably begins to sound like a donkey trapped under a gate. The hosts were talking about the strange particulars of Te'o saga—how the Notre Dame linebacker had seemingly been hoaxed into falling in love with a woman he'd corresponded with via phone—and at some point, one of the hosts said, with great assurance, "I could never fall in love with someone I never met."
I nearly swerved the car into a hydrant. Because of all the truths and semi-truths exposed in this bizarre public unraveling, what the story of Manti Te'o seemed to prove the most was that people are inclined to love what they don't truly know. Never fall for someone you've never met? You have got to be kidding me. That leap is the essence of big-time sports fandom—emotional attachment to strangers wearing familiar uniforms. Sports fans fall in love with people and narratives they don't truly know, understand, or investigate, all the time, to the point that the undressing of sports fables has become a national pastime. Just last week, Oprah Winfrey had confirmed the epic lies of Lance Armstrong on national TV.
This human tendency toward believing is what allows not-so-true tales like Armstrong's and Te'o's to flourish. The basics of Teo's story now seem so overreaching in retrospect—an elite college football player, inspired by a girlfriend rendered comatose by a car accident, only to awaken later and perish from leukemia—it sounds cooked up after 20 Red Bulls in the writers room of General Hospital. But the narrative went down easy. We're conditioned to accept the unbelievable, especially when that unbelievable is presented as a warm back story to a verifiable truth, like Teo's performance on the field, which was extraordinary and real.
Myth-making, of course, has always had a place in sports (especially at Notre Dame, as many have pointed out), but it is easy to see in Te'o's story the treacherous creep of melodrama into sports—the insistence that every good athletic accomplishment be supplemented by a heart-rending tale. This practice reaches a weapons-grade level at events like the Olympics or the Super Bowl; where the deceased relatives and lost dogs of javelin throwers and backup punters are rolled out one after the next, dripping with schmaltz. Te'o's wrenching story fit into this playbook perfectly. (Too perfectly—which should have been a tipoff.) Of course it worked. And it makes perfect sense that the Te'o hoax was busted up by Deadspin.com, a website rigorously devoted to undermining the holy self-regard that often surrounds sports. The revelation wasn't a scandal, at least not in the conventional sense. It was someone turning on the lights.
Answers were demanded, explanations were offered, jokes were made. Notre Dame rushed forward with a stern-faced news conference, describing Te'o as an unwitting victim. Te'o said he'd been hoaxed. The media offered agonized self-examinations. It all got a bit much. I wondered if the right move for Te'o would have immediately been to go to the desk of David Letterman, who would have been able to address the controversy but also puncture all the hot air rushing in. Surely this ordeal has been traumatizing for Te'o, but some levity may have helped.
On Thursday Te'o appeared on Katie Couric's daytime talk show for his first on-air television interview. He wore a white striped cardigan that would have fit nicely on Fred Rogers. Couric was appropriately skeptical, pressing Te'o out on some of the inexplicable details of the story—never seeing "Lennay" in person, never visiting her in the hospital. She got the linebacker to admit he'd propelled the story forward, even after learning he'd been cruelly duped.
"I felt overwhelmed a lot by this whole circus of events," Te'o said. Phone messages from "Lennay" were played for the audience. They sounded like…phone messages. Couric did inject some levity—telling Te'o that she hoped he had rollover minutes to cover all those lengthy phone calls to his girlfriend hoaxer. "Mobile to mobile," Te'o replied.
It was all very odd and the issue still feels unsettled, uneasy. Te'o's parents were summoned and they were tearful and clearly agonized by the whole episode. It is hard for them to accept how this all happened, how their son could fall in love with a woman who didn't exist. But the bizarre story of Manti Te'o shows that human beings are always ready to believe. I couldn't help but notice that the first commercial spot during the Te'o-Couric interview was for Disney World. Apparently, there's a "new Fantasyland." You cannot make this up.
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Firefighters across the nation are hoping to motivate families to practice fire safety.
That's because it's National Fire Prevention Week, with the theme focusing on families and their need to work together when it comes to preventing fires.
Firefighters said they are reminding residents to replace the batteries in their smoke detectors every six months. Besides that, they said to plan a fire escape with everyone in your household and to practice it.
For more information log onto www.sparky.org.
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wiki.ubuntuusers.de says if I want to use TRIM on an encrypted SSD, I need at least cryptsetup 1.4 and kernel 3.1. Do I need this, when creating the partitions and setting up encryption, or is upgrading afterwards enough?
Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric does not ship with cryptsetup 1.4, although Precise does. I don't know whether cryptsetup can be upgraded on Oneiric or not. Since Precise will be released in a month, you can also wait for that release before considering TRIM with encrypted partitions. The kernel can always be upgraded afterwards.
From http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/Cryptsetup140:
As you can see, this feature is not enabled by default because of the degraded security as mentioned in the linked blog. So, if you use cryptsetup on kernel 3.0 (the one shipped with Precise), you won't have TRIM support on your encrypted partitions. After upgrading to 3.1+, you still don't have unless you enable it.
To do so, you have to edit
I have posted a step by step guide to enabling TRIM with LUKS encrypted partitions in Ubuntu 12.04 or any Debian with cryptsetup 1.4+ and Kernel 3.1+. (Feel free to copy it here if some askubuntu guidelines deem it necessary.)
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Hello everybody, I just have a quick question because I am not sure what information I should be looking at.
I have a friend that recently purchased a OLYMPUS SP-565 UZ. Supposedly the lens it comes with has these specifications:
4 Aspherical glass elements
Focal length 4.6 - 92.0mm
Focal length (equiv. 35mm) 26 - 520mm
14 lenses/11 groups
Aperture 2.8 - 4.5
My question is which focal length should I pay attention to in order to take panoramic images? In other words: if I try to use a panorama calculator, which measurement should I use? In other other words: a focal length of 4.6 is great because It means less images need to be taken, but is 4.6 real?
I hope you can understand my question.
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I'm trying to create a template which will read a tag from the page, then display all the custom posts which share that tag. So for example, I have a custom post type called 'block', and a taxonomy on the block which is called 'appearson', and a tag of that taxonomy called 'products'.
I also have a products page, which shares the 'appearson' taxonomy, and also has the tag 'products'.
I want the products page template to read its appearson tag, then find the custom posts associated with that tag.
This is what I'm trying:
<?php $terms = get_the_terms( $post->id, 'AppearsOn' );?>
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'block'
'tax_query' => array(
'taxonomy' => 'appearson',
'field' => 'id',
'terms' => '$terms'
); ?>
<?php $the_query = new WP_Query( $args ); ?>
<?php while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post();?>
It's not happy with this. Any pointers as to what I'm doing wrong? Blindingly obvious, I'm sure, but my 4 month old baby girl has stolen my brain.
Many thanks
Actually ignore some of that. I'm now doing this:
<?php $terms = get_the_terms( $post->id, 'appearson' );?>
query_posts( array( 'post_type' => 'block', 'appearson' => $terms->name ) );
if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
So the bit I'm stuck on is getting 'appearson' => $terms to work. Any idea?
Final edit:
Sorted it:
<?php $blocktaxonomy = wp_get_object_terms($post->ID, 'appearson');
$blocktaxonomy = $blocktaxonomy [0];
query_posts( array( 'post_type' => 'block', 'appearson' => $blocktaxonomy ->name ) );
if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();


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Eat to Lose, Eat to Win: Your Grab-N-Go Action Plan for a Slimmer, Healthier You (Hardcover)
Every year millions of Americans vow to lose weight, but instead of approaching diets in a healthy and sustainable way, many obsess over calories, carbs, and diet fads. The result: frustration and even weight gain. Now Rachel Beller, America's get-real nutritionist, delivers the first book that combines science-based advice with step-by-step action plans for weight loss and optimal health. While most diet books focus on what you can't eat, Eat to Lose, Eat to Win emphasizes what you should eat--putting skinny solutions into shopping carts and onto plates. In her signature fun-to-read style, Rachel shows you how to do it all.Flip your high-calorie meals for skinny successShop to drop pounds with handy Buy This guidesDiscover inside secrets about your favorite foods with Food Autopsy(TM) alertsGet rid of guesswork with recipes for every meal
From meal planning to shopping to eating, Eat to Lose, Eat to Win guides you step by step and bite by bite through the world of real, science-based nutrition.
About the Author
A registered dietitian with a master's degree in nutritional science, Rachel Beller founded the Beller Nutritional Institute in Beverly Hills. You've seen her deliver her get-real advice on NBC's hit series The Biggest Loser, Oxygen Channel's Dance Your A** Off, Dr. Drew's Lifechangers, Extra TV, Dr. Oz, The Rachael Ray Show, and more. She's also the go-to dietitian for Glamour magazine, where she helped design the "Body by Glamour" section. Rachel serves as a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society and sits on numerous professional advisory boards for major health organizations.


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5 Silly Childhood Rituals (That Explain Adult Behaviors)
#2. Hole stuffing
Any baby can tell you that nothing is real until it's been French kissed. As far as toddlers are concerned, life itself is nothing more than a simulated reality computer program until its been thoroughly licked. Fingers, toes, pets, scissors, it's all fair game for babies. And if it were just a matter of brazenly stuffing their pie holes with non food, we'd probably just look the other way and quietly soak ourselves in Purel.
But mouth attacks are just the tip of the inappropriate iceberg when it comes to kid orifice stuffing. Because right around the time you're trying to enlighten your progeny on how not to defecate in the pants he's sitting in, those bastards discover they've got more mouths - two on the sides of the head and two more right in the middle of the face.
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These new head mouths are just the right size for crayon nubs, beans, dog food, insects, batteries and other tiny things that have to be extracted by horrible measures. Try to imagine an adult going through life with the same stubborn insistence on stuffing every hole with whatever he finds laying around.
Actually, scratch that.
The Adult Equivalent
All obvious Freudian sexual parallels aside, the same insatiable curiosity that drove humans into the modern age is probably what compels the more inquisitive among us to plug our noses with nostril-sized objects. And in the same way that kids can't leave well enough alone, there are plenty of adults who feel the same way about the grown up version of their bodies. People who can't stop with a simple piercing or tattoo, people who are going to keep metaphorically shoving raisins into their skulls until a doctor or chronic infection metaphorically makes them stop. So every time you see a guy with earlobes gently scraping his clavicles, picture him as a kid shoving lit cigars into his ears, just to see what would happen.
#1. Make up games
You know Helicopter Slap, right? It's that game where you spin around like Wonder Woman until you knock the face off of your sister or collapse in a dizzy faint, whichever comes first. What about Bathtub Ball? It's that one where you use your wash cloths to cover up your private parts so you can go to the Bathtub Ball with your prince, whose name is Richie Cunningham. Yes? No? How about Sunburn Peel Wars? Poot Party? Ballerina Girls Going to the Beach and Having a Tea Party While Mom is Taking a Nap? None of those? Of course not, they're made up. Kids have the fantastic luck of getting to make up the rules to made up games that wouldn't make sense if you got Rain Man to break them down for you. You know what else? They're awesome.
Once you get past the back scrapings.
When you're a child, you can invent games that have no other purpose than causing violence to others within a socially acceptable framework. You can invent games that are only about your personal glorification - totally ok. You can recruit friends to your messed up, made-up, self-promoting, ugly-kid-ostracizing sport, and they'll play along. At least until they come up with a better one. It all makes sense when you're little.
The Adult Equivalent
Does any of this sound familiar? Not just in the "Oh, I used to do that" sense, in the "Oh, I know adults who do that right now" sense. I don't know about you, but every time I try to follow party politics I get the sense that each side is recruiting players for their made up game. And that no matter how fair, cool or totally reasonable the other guys are in real life, they're always the bad guys in the context of the game. So instead of changing the rules of Three-Legged Kickball so your team is always kicking and the other team has to play while staring at the sun, partisan extremists won't sext her from the Congressional gym. Instead of name-calling, political adults...uh, name call. Stuff that isn't allowed in any other context is totally fine in the world of politics. Which is why I'm calling it here and now, if I see another politician try to pull off a round of Bathtub Ball via my cell phone, someone's going to get Helicopter Slapped in the mouth.
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I'm thinking about running a campaign in Exalted, but I'm not sure that I can handle the multitude of available charms. While players have to know usage tactics only of their own charm sets (which they build gradually), GM has to create powerful characters with a lot of charms from scratch. What is the best way to create tactically good charm sets if I've never played Exalted before?
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This advice is fairly generic to "How do I stat NPCs in a system I don't know" to a large extent.
Sorry I can't be more specific, though :(
The Exalted Storytellers Companion suggests that NPCs do not have to have fully developed charm trees -- just give them them custom charms to do what they need to do, and skip prerequisites.
This is probably entirely unhelpful, but... play. I picked up a ridiculous amount of charm knowledge in my first campaign of Exalted simply because I had back and forth discussions of "oh man, I'm so buying this next" with the entire circle.
Using castes to focus around themes (and, I find, focusing around a small number of main skills), should also help you create NPCs that are really good at that one thing they do. I
Use excelencies a lot and build slowly from there down the more complicated paths.


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The NCOE Board of Education met Tuesday, April 30 to seat the newly elected board and hold an election of officers.
Re-elected members Joe Lane, Bart Henson and Karen Weiss, along with newly elected member Scott Riggs were seated. All members took the Oath of Office.
Joe Lane was again elected president. Karen Weiss will serve the board as vice president and Paul Black as secretary.
The Board then voted to employ Kyle Heckert for high school math, and Joshua Billingsley as the ag teacher. Rachel Roberson was moved from junior high Spanish to Norris City-Omaha Elementary fourth grade teacher.
The next regular meeting of the Board will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 14 due to Baccalaureate on Wednesday evening May 15.
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For my final project in school we have to develop an online shop. This shop should have a cart where items can be placed whether or not you are logged in. If you log out the cart shouldn't empty and should still be shown.
So my question is would it make sense to store the cart as xml in the database(ms sql server)? There is potentially a (relatively)fair amount of data that should be kept, is it possible that this could deliver any performance benefits or am I way off base?


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This question from somebody's job interview made me puzzled:
Design a function f, such that:
$f(f(n)) = -n$ ,
where n is a 32 bit signed integer; you can't use complex numbers arithmetic. If you can't design such a function for the whole range of numbers, design it for the largest range possible.
Do you have any idea how to tackle it?
EDIT: I removed "Real number" from the title, since it just confused readers, but it was meant just to stress that complex numbers are not allowed.


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Auburn University at Montgomery head softball coach Chris Steiner-Wilcoxson has been selected the 2014 NAIA Softball National Coach of the Year.
Steiner-Wilcoxson helped the Warhawks to the first national title in the program's six-year history this past season, as they defeated Southern States Athletic Conference member William Carey for the crown.
"This is a great accomplishment for not only me, but for our players and the entirecoaching staff as well," Steiner-Wilcoxson said. "This award certainly would not have been possible without the dedication of our student-athletes, as well as the support of our administration, both at the University level and within athletics. I think this is one of the highest honors that a coach can receive. It is very humbling that other coaches across the nation felt our program was deserving. This is much more than an individual award. I certainly could not have achieved it by myself, but am very proud and appreciative to receive it."
The only head coach in the tenure of the AUM softball program, Steiner-Wilcoxson led the team to a 44-7 record, including a school-record 24-game winning streak during the season. AUM won the SSAC regular season championship with a 25-1 record, as she earned SSAC Coach of the Year accolades for the second time in her career. She previously garnered the award in 2006 when she was the head coach at former leaguemember Reinhardt.
Additionally, the Warhawks advanced to the NAIA Softball National Championship Tournament for the third consecutive season, earning one of 10 Opening Round host sites and capturing the No. 2 overall seed at the NAIA Softball World Series. AUM spent the entire season ranked inside the top 10 of the NAIA Coaches' Poll, including the top spot in the postseason edition. The Warhawks have been ranked inside the top 10 in 22 consecutive polls.
During their national title run, the Warhawks defeated Lindsey Wilson, Reinhardt and William Carey twice to secure the championship. Needing to be defeated two times, the Warhawks dropped their first game to the Crusaders 7-4, but bounced back and took a 10-6 victory in the deciding game.
As a team, the Warhawks showed great balance during the season, but were led by their strong pitching staff. AUM pitchers ranked in the top 10 nationally in four statistical categories – strikeouts (3rd), innings pitched per game (4th), opponent batting average (5th) and earned run average (7th). Offensively, the Warhawks ranked within the top 50 nationally in home runs per game (31st), hits per game (42nd) and batting average (.322), while ranking third in putouts per game and 27th in fielding percentage.
Individually, several student-athletes flourished under Steiner-Wilcoxson's leadership, as three players earned All-America honors in 2014. Junior hurler Cassie Daniels collected first-team accolades, while sophomore catcher Lauren Shaw was a second teamer. Sophomore pitcher Taylor Powell was an honorable mention selection.
The only coach in the program's six year history, Steiner-Wilcoxson now holds a 234-97-2 record at AUM and sports an overall coaching mark of 318-177-2. In nine seasons as a college head coach, she has suffered just one losing season, her first, and boasts three consecutive 40-win seasons. Earlier this season, she earned her 200th victory at AUM. Following the season, she was selected the SSAC Female Coach of the Year, while she and her staff were also selected the National Coaching Staff of the Year by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.
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To determine the effect of increasing animal source food intake on the nutritional status of Kenyan women and their children.
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Serum samples will be collected by Kenyan staff hired by Indiana University in Kenya. The samples will be analyzed for micronutrient content at the WHNRC, using radioassays and high pressure liquid chromatography.
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text: Here is another version of a horrifying tree that is commonly popular with horror flicks and Halloween. Today I will show you "how to draw a Halloween tree", step by step. These trees are great for background additions when making anything that pertains to being creepy and scary. The inspiration for the tree came from the popular eighties movie Poltergeist, and if you seen the movie you would know what scene I was talking about. Anyways, I do believe that you will all have fun as you tackle the ropes to drawing a Halloween Tree. This is going to be a very fun, and creative object to draw, so make sure you sit back and relax as you prepare for the inevitable. Adios people!


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I use OS X 10.8, I type the following
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killall Finder
but still I cannot see any hidden files like .bash_history, .Trash, .cups, .gem etc. in user directory.
I use OS X 10.8, I type the following
but still I cannot see any hidden files like .bash_history, .Trash, .cups, .gem etc. in user directory.
The bundle identifier is
I had this problem. I tried Lauri's solution, and had intermittent success. I found that my particular problem was that I was sometimes running the command from root. Running it from standard permissions proved consistently successful, where running it from root proved consistently unsuccessful.
I have 2 Macs, both running 10.8.3. I was able to use the
suggestion on my Mac Mini with success, but it did not work on the macbook pro no matter how many times (or which method I used) to restart Finder. When I used the "boolean" method, it worked for the macbook the first time. The macbook is a 2010 unit, and the mini from 2012, but all that should be only in the OS, and not related to hardware. very odd, but thanks very much for posting both options. I was beginning to drive myself crazy trying to see hidden files on the laptop. I even used "sudo" for the "AppleShowAllFiles" method, thinking it was a permissions thing, but that did not help.
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Note that it's different to use command with root user (e.g. sudo) or standard user and use com.apple.finder with Finder in lowercase.
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It's a well-known best practice to not use one key to both encrypt and MAC data. In my application, there are instances where I MAC a piece of data without having encrypted it first. Do I still need a different key than the one used for encryption? Is it OK to use the same key to MAC one piece of data if I'm going to re-use that key to encrypt some other data under the same key?
Generally speaking: no, it is not OK. If you're going to encrypt any data at all with this key, you shouldn't reuse it to MAC other data. Using the same key for two purposes is bad practice and has often led to security problems in the practice.
Encrypting data without MACing it is also bad practice.
Instead, I recommend you use an "authenticated encryption with associated data" (AEAD) scheme. AEAD schemes have two inputs: the message, and the associated data. The confidentiality of the message is protected (by encrypting), while the confidentiality of the associated data is not protected. The integrity of both pieces are protected. If you like, you can think of this as encrypting the message, then MACing the message and associated data -- except done in a very careful way to ensure you are secure. My recommendation is to use an AEAD scheme. When you have some data you need to be kept confidential, input it as the message and encrypt it using the AEAD scheme (without any associated data). When you have some data that doesn't need to be confidential but does need to be integrity-protected, input it as the associated data, with the message part left empty, and encrypt using the AEAD scheme -- this will be the rough equivalent of MACing the data without encrypting anything. If you use the AEAD scheme in this way, you can use the same key for both kinds of data, as long as the nonce never repeats.
It depends on how you encrypt and mac.
If you can still choose then you should use an authenticated encryption with associated data mode (AEAD) like Galois/Counter Mode. If all data you want authenticated in a message has to be transmitted in the clear then just leave the encrypted part empty. These modes have the advantage that they were designed to use just one key and have solid security proofs.
For any other combinations it depends on what algorithms and modes you use for encryption and mac. Mostly this analysis is not worth the trouble, as deriving two keys from one master key is pretty simple (
If you use two algorithms with completely different roots (for example Sha256-HMAC and AES counter mode) you are probably on the safe side, but that is just my feeling with no rigid argumentation behind it.


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WHEELING - It appears a developer will not be dissuaded from doing something with a wooded hillside in Woodsdale....
Sigh......sad reality is, things change, people. "oh, there's too much traffic, Oh, I want to raise my children in a clean environment." Give the generations behind you the same right to earn a living that many of us did, whether it was in a coal mine or steel plant, etc. How would you have reacted to this blather when you were working for a living and trying to support a family? Didn't bother you then, did it?
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The Midrash says (Bereshis Rabbah 49:13 quoted in Rashi Genesis 18:32) that Abraham stopped asking HaShem to save Sodom in the merit of less than 10 people because Noah and his family who were 8 people weren't able to save the world. The question is that from Noah we only see that 8 doesn't work, but not that anything less than 10 doesn't work. So why didn't Avraham daven for the merit of nine people?
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The Chumash Shai LeMorah brings the Be'er Mayim Chaim (A commentary on Rashi written by the Maharal of Prague's brother, R' Chaim of Friedberg) says that once G-d agreed to save the 5 cities if there were 45 righteous people, Avraham understood that G-d was willing to be complete the quorum in order to save the city. (as Rashi 18:28 explains).
Once Avraham understood this, when he asked G-d to spare 3 cities in the merit of 30 righteous people (2 for the sake of 20, etc.) (Rashi 18:29), he was asking G-d to save 3 cities even if there were only 27 righteous individuals, relying on G-d to complete the quorum in each of the 3 cities.
So when Avraham was asking G-d to save 1 city if there were 10 righteous people to be found, he was asking G-d to save the city even if there were only 9 righteous people in the city, with G-d Himself counted as the 10th. (Of course, if there would be 10 without counting G-d, that would work too)
Now we can understand why Rashi jumps from 10 people to 8 people, since asking 10 was also asking 9. This also clarifies why Avraham went from 50 to 45, but went from 40 to 30 to 20 to 10, since 40 includes 36, etc.
Rashi points out G-d had already told Avraham that He would save all five cities if there were 45 righteous people. Hence Avraham knew that one city could be saved by nine righteous people, so there was no need to ask G-d. And because of Noah, he knew that eight wasn't enough even if they were there, so he stopped asking.
When Avraham asked for 45 tsadikim, he meant for nine tsadikim by krachim and Hachem associates to them to have 10 people. Since this ask has not been agreed, Avraham understood that there is no 9 tsadikim in order to save even one krach. See Sifte h'achamim on Rachi.


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WHEELING - The Brooke girls' soccer team has established itself as one of the top teams in the Ohio Valley. Now, the Bruins are looking to take the next step and become one of the top teams in the state of West Virginia.
Brooke showed exactly what it is capable of doing in delivering a dominating performance in the final OVAC Cup Soccer Tournament. Brooke capped the tournament with a 2-0 victory over Linsly Monday at Wheeling Island Stadium.
"We played well in the tournament," Brooke (11-3-1) head coach Lee Weppler said. "We have been in the final in five out of the last six years. The girls have that mentality. They have a lot of confidence. The girls played a great tournament. I have got a great group of kids."
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ISLAND PARADISE — The Brooke girls soccer team defeated rival Linsly, 2-0, Monday to win the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Cup tournament at Wheeling Island Stadium. The Lady Bruins have won four cup championships, two under current coach Lee Weppler.
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Team chemistry is one of the biggest reasons for the Bruins' success this season.
"Our team chemistry has been great," Weppler said. "I have been the head coach for six or seven years, and this team has the best team chemistry any team I have had has had. They are coming together. It is gratifying. The girls enjoy each other. There is no jealousy. They play together as a team.
"It is the strength of the team. They play as a team. They hang out together outside of school. They get along. They enjoy being together."
Senior Michaela Hinerman netted a goal in each half to lead the way for the Bruins.
Dynah Sayre assisted on Hinerman's first goal, which came with 34:39 left to play in the first half.
"The girls were pretty focused," Weppler said." We played well the last two games. They came out ready to play. They had a lot of fun."
Hinerman also scored a goal early in the second stanza. The senior standout sent a cross into the box where the ball was inadvertently knocked into the net by a Linsly defender. The goal gave the Bruins a 2-0 lead with 32:02 left to play in the game.
Brooke goalie Payge Farmer recorded three saves.
"I think winning this tournament will give the girls a great amount of confidence going into the rest of the year," Weppler said. "We played and beat Park. That should give the girls confidence heading into the postseason."
While the Bruins have the postseason to look forward to, the Cadets do not.
"We don't have anything else to look forward to as far as tournaments go," said Linsly (10-5-1) head coach Erica Hall, who coached the Bruins before heading up the Linsly program. "This is it.
"It is a letdown. It's tough. We made the championship game. We made it a lot farther than a lot of other teams. I'm proud of the girls. We overcame a lot of injuries this year."
The victory over the Cadets was the Bruins' fourth cup title, and it was their second under Weppler.
Weppler guided the Bruins to the title in 2009. The title was the second of a back-to-back title run.
Jerod Hall, Erica's brother, coached the Bruins to the title in 2008. Brooke's first tournament title came in the second tournament back in 1996. That Bruins' team was coached by Peter Veltri.
"As a coach, it is rewarding to see the girls put the time in," Weppler said. "They pay attention to detail. They absorb what you tell them. They work hard. They listen. It is great to see them achieve their goals. You love to see them succeed."
Brooke is one of only four schools to win a cup title, with the others being Wheeling Park, Morgantown and Linsly. The Patriots have won 12 titles, the Mohigans two and the Cadets won one.
The Cadets won the title back in 2010 to prevent a Bruins' three-peat. Linsly won the title under the guidance of Erica Hall, a former player and coach at Brooke.
Morgantown won both of its titles in the previous two years. The Mohigans' victories came under the guidance of head coach Ashley Neal, who played soccer at Linsly.
Brooke welcomes Edison at 5 p.m. today.
"Now, we are moving on," Weppler said.
The Bruins, currently ranked No. 12 in the state (7th in Class AAA) have a brutal regional, with, among others, state-ranked Morgantown (No. 5) and Wheeling Park (No. 9).
"We are going to get ready for the state tournament," said Weppler. "We have failed to make it to the state tournament. We haven't gotten out of regionals. That is our next goal. We want to make it down to the state tournament."


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I have a Fedora system with sopcast running two streams. When I watch the stream locally it looks perfectly. But after being processed through my Fedora-box its a bit choppy. I want to set the streams to realtime and prioritize it over everything.
As you can see below I've tried setting it to NICE -20 and the other consuming processes to something higher. It seems like it got worse after.
How do I make it realtime? Could it be better after setting it for RT? The user running my streams is operate. And everything running on my init 5 + root should be prioritized lowest.
top - 02:09:54 up 1:25, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.10, 0.09
Tasks: 185 total, 2 running, 183 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.3%us, 0.9%sy, 1.2%ni, 96.7%id, 0.4%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 5914932k total, 2456904k used, 3458028k free, 68296k buffers
Swap: 8028156k total, 0k used, 8028156k free, 1557048k cached
3775 deluge 39 19 572m 42m 10m S 3.0 0.7 0:50.89 deluged
1826 root 20 0 148m 20m 8544 S 1.0 0.4 0:21.69 Xorg
2436 administ 25 5 225m 2520 1764 S 1.0 0.0 0:07.44 synergyc
1716 operate 0 -20 19596 8244 1884 S 0.7 0.1 0:40.56 sp-so-auth
2367 administ 25 5 572m 15m 9.8m S 0.7 0.3 0:04.47 gnome-terminal
24 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.24 migration/3
824 deluge 39 19 245m 30m 4236 S 0.3 0.5 0:16.45 deluge
Any other sugestions for getting the stream better? Doesn't seem like the processor is struggling processing it, but still. Deluge seems like it takes quite a lot. That one should be NICED positive?
Edit: As a sidenote. My internet-connection is not maxing out. I'm running a BW monitor on the router (DD-WRT). And it shows a upload average of 2Mbit out of 10 Mbit and an average of 0,4 download out of 100Mbit. But the graph itself is behaving really strange. See attached picture. I've been wondering what this could be. Also talked with my provider about MTU and such, but they told everything looked good. As you can see, it's acting strange kind of falling down every other second. Almost as if it hits an maximum window-sizing somewhere. The streams are RTP / HTTP based and is in total 350Kbits + 20Kbits sound.


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BELLAIRE - Matthew D. Coffland and Matthew B. Coffland, owners and operators of The Tiger Pub in Shadyside, were convicted Tuesday on one of three counts of obstructing when they appeared before Judge James Peters and by a jury of their peers.
The jury was limited to six members. Jury questioning saw the elimination of a number of potential jurors but defense co-counsel Patrick Cassidy, representing the elder Coffland, and Kevin Flanagan, representing the younger, gave the OK to proceed with six.
The pair faced three charges stemming from an April 1, 2012, incident at The Tiger Pub on Central Avenue in Shadyside when Ohio liquor control agents conducted an undercover investigation on the premises after receiving reports of underage drinking taking place.
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According to the prosecution and its two witnesses, Agents Sam Love and Christopher Jones:
After all had quieted down that night, Jones testified that he again had talked with Matthew D. Coffland about the civil citations he was given for obstruction. Love filled out the official paperwork and he and Jones submitted it to the prosecutor's office to see what, if any, criminal charges would be filed.
The three charges both Cofflands faced were: obstructing inspection or search of premises prohibited, obstructing justice and obstructing official business. All three are misdemeanor charges.
The defense took issue with a few points of the agents' testimonies:
During cross-examination, Flanagan got Love to admit that the elder Coffland's decision to announce the liquor control's presence could have been done to protect the safety of all involved and that there was no way to prove it was done solely to alert any potential underage drinkers that it was time to vacate the premises.
The defense called several witnesses, including the disc jockey, a bartender, a regular patron who was present that evening, along with both Cofflands.
Defense witnesses testified that:
During cross-examination, Special Prosecutor Thomas Hampton took exception with Coffland's statement that he didn't know that Jones was a liquor control agent, stating that only one of two people would be inquiring about identification: bar staff or liquor control agents. Coffland agreed with that statement.
Peters, who is from Monroe County and presiding over the case on special assignment because of Matt D. Coffland's position as Belmont County commissioner, said that probation officer Jason Harter will be in contact with the two defendants and sentencing will take place at a later date. Like Peters, Hampton too is primarily based in Monroe County and was specially assigned to the case.
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From Our Window
Last night at 1:30 AM (that is, early this morning) a New York City garbage truck pulled up to our building. The last several snow storms have left garbage uncollected and buried not only under a mountain of snow but behind the cars encased in snow.
Amazing performance by two sanitation workers. One clambered over the mountain of snow and began throwing the black garbage bags out to the street; the other grabbed them and threw them into the maw of the garbage truck. Bundeled up, the two looked like the Goodyear tire man, stiff and imoblile. Yet they had a rhythm and a grace, yes, even in 14 degree weather, that was impressive. Bravo!!
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Sanitation workers are so crucial to our way of living. They deserve solid middle class pay. I'll trade any three bankers you want to name for one good garbage worker.
In montreal, garbage collection doesn't really stop due to snow, but that first big snowfall will always cover up a ton of trash that only emerges when the ice thaws thaws (which may happen once or twice before Spring). What I hate the most isn't just the garbage that is revealed, but the piles and piles and piles of dog excrement. It's like the first robin redbreast: a true sign of Spring.
Provided they're dressed in layers of clothing, 14 degrees (F) should not impede the work of able-bodied men. They should have no difficulty in working with rhythm and grace -- except perhaps if they have to work against a strong wind.
Dog excrement: Fortunately NYC has "pick up the poop" laws, mostly enforced by dog owners themselves and the parents of small children. We will not see much of that come the thaw. But yellowed snow (from dog pee) is a regular feature of the landscape.
Do something nice for your sanitation workers Sept. 8, feast day of SS Zeno, Nestulus, and Eusebius, patron saints of sanitation workers on account of their being martyred and burned up on a garbage heap in Gaza.
You city folk make me happy I live in the sticks. We have at least three feet of snow on the ground (another four to six on the way today), but none of it is yellow, and when it melts there's nothing under it but green green grass. Plus in cold temps, the smell from the cow prison to our north abates, and the air is crisp and clear.
And I bet you don't have to dig out your car--not just from the falling snow but from the frozen slush the plows push to the side right up against the car. On the other hand, why would anyone have a car in NYC?
Oh, yeah, people pick up after their dogs (doubt it's as enforced)--somehow, there's still enough around to be revolting. And the only snow that's not black is yellow. Snow is hideous.
Margaret, no, we don't have to dig out the car because we don't have on-street parking. The problem is that just when you get the driveway shoveled, the plows come and shove it all back into the driveway, filling in the approach with hard pack. I still have my ice spud from my ice-fishing days, so I go out there and break it up while The Boy shovels it out. I also have a drywall bucket full of sand and gravel in the back of the Jeep in case I get stuck in a parking lot.
I watched with horror as those folks in Atlanta just kept spinning their wheels and burning rubber off their tires on the ice down there, and not a bag of sand to be seen.
Abe, we don't get the black snow until mid-March, and then I'm ready for it to be over.
The life expectancy of garbage men is significantly lower than average. It'ts truly dirty work, and no doubt that has something to do with it. They deserve good wages.
Mondays like today normally would be a garbage pickup day for us, but It being President's day, I'm not 100% sure they're going to come by today. We're getting the same 4-6" of snow that Jean mentioned above, so I hope they do come by or those bags may not re-emerge until March. The wall of snow along our curb is so mountainous from previous snowfalls and plowings that I can't actually see the garbage bags where I propped them against the snow-cliff this morning.
Even when dog owners are diligent about scooping poop (as most seem to be in Chicago, at least on the North Side when I lived there), there are strays. Apparently nobody knows how many there are, but one number floating about on the Internet suggests there may be as many as 70 million stray cats in the US - a number I find impossible to believe.
Jim, ugh, stray cats. Once spring comes and things start to thaw, it's pretty apparent how many stray cats have been wandering around the neighborhood marking territory. The only product I've found that works on cat pee around doorways and fences is Smells Be Gone.
it's really hard to get a bead on strays, but some years ago, our vet helped my son with a science project to show show how quickly the stray population can get out of hand: Figure every female cat over a year old has four littlers of kittens per year with an average of four kittens per littler. Multiply that by the five years average a stray might be able to survive, and you have a single female cat who produces about 64 kittens over her lifetime. About three quarters of those kittens will die from disease, exposure, accidents, or as prey to larger animals, leaving 16 of those kittens alive. Figure that half of those 16 kittens are females, and you'll have another 126 cats if they reproduce and their offspring survive at the same rate.
While feral cats usually stay clear of people and don't spread diseases to them directly, they can infect pet cats with whom they come in contact. And the toll in animal suffering is very sad.
Why is the life expectancy of garbage men lower than average? Is it related to their work? Do they get run over by cars, or do they get pricked by infected needles in the trash, or what? If they risk getting run over, shouldn't they do their work by daylight? Why 1:30am?
Sanitation workers (that's what they're called in NYC). Not sure about their life expectancy, but it might help their lungs if they wore dust masks. When the great claw at the back of the truck presses on the plastic bages, they pop and puffs of dust explode. Can't be good to breath.
Why 1:30 AM? That's not their usual time, which is usually 7-7:30 AM. I think they're trying to catch up. The SW are also the men (and they are all men; what women would want the job?) who drive the plows and salt trucks.
Abe: Maybe you should move South--how about Michigan! Jean would be a terrific neighbor.
Dogs and Cats: I can't say we have stray dogs in Manhattan because dogs must be leashed; a dog without a leash is jailed. Must be stray cats, but have never seen one. Maybe they live in the sewers with the stray rats. The mice live in our apartments.
Snow? What is that? Here in California there are many stray cats/dogs ... very sad. I'm currently leaving out dry food for three stray cats :(
I couldn't find any figure for the life expectancy of sanitation workers, but here's an interview with the official anthropologist of NY Dept. of Sanitation (yes, anthropologist). Among other interesting facts she says that the average NY dept. worker walks 15 miles per week and lifts 26 (!) tons of garbage. The interview is enough to convert you to environmentalism.
One fascinating point which we seem to naturally repress -- everything you look at will one day be garbage. Everything. The anthropologist says that we represss the evanescence of garbage because it reminds us of our own mortality. Hmm.
Several other articles point out that the average life expectancy for all people started to increase dramatically when cities started to pick up their garbage, and garbage men have saved more lives than doctors by preventing epidemics. We really, realy owe them,
It's 60-70 degrees in San Francisco, outdoor tables in the cafe' are filled with techies.. no rain in sight so heaven may be dry this summer. Our garbage men's coop was bought out and they all became millionaires. .
My recollection - always risky - is that health issues for sanmen were worse before the exhaust pipes on the trucks were raised from underneath the collection rucks to the roofs. That's ancient history; done under Mayor Linsley. (Is that how Mike Q prounced it?) As far as continuing health issues, it's one thing to be throwing those cans when in your 20s and quite anothe to be doing it still in your 40s. Perhaps, especially absent aerobic exercise.
Casual observance of sanitation men at work suggests ages between 25 and 45: no very young men, and no older ones. A minimum 20 years seems to be required for retirment though there are probably age qualifiers, etc. More than other city workers--police, fire, teachers--sanitation workers would seem to have unrelenting physical labors, but I'd be suprised if retirement rules are very different for them.
EG: So drought in San Fran! I'd think all of that fog would lubricate things a bit. New York media is full of stories about how awful SF is: expensive, housing shortage, people living on the streets, smelly buses carting techies off to Mountainville--and now NO WATER. Trouble in Paradise.
Re: retirement age for sanitation workers: one of my wife's neighbors where she grew up, on South Side of Chicago, was able to retire after 20 years, while still in his mid '40s. The Teamsters negotiated that deal for him. It's hard work, often in nasty weather, with very early morning starts. A lot of risks involved, from heavy lifting to getting hit by traffic to getting bitten by dogs. He's worked some other jobs since retirement mostly to stay busy and stay out of his wife's hair. And he has a lot of time for his grandchildren. Good for him, I say.
It seems to me that New York (capitol of the East Coast) and California (capitol of the West Coast) have been competing fto be the cultural/financial capitol of the US. Not surprisingly two of the greatest US industries -- movies and tech -- are now centered in the West Coast, and even Western banking is gaining.
But take heart, New York. The Tonight Show returned last night to Studio 6B at NBC in New York City.
Again trying to recall data from almost 40 years ago may be just plain silly but my recollection isl that back then sanitation men's compensation tracked, with salary being a percentage, the other uniformed services. The argument in contract negotiations was that sanitation was the more dangerous job and that the san men were a bargain in comparison to police and fire. I found nothing online except this tease:
"Sanitation workers, it turns out, have twice the fatality rates of police officers, and nearly seven times the fatality rates of firefighters. And their work has similarly life-or-death consequences in the long term. . . ."
See: The Secret World of 'Garbagemen' - Heather Horn - The Atlantic
Wow! Thanks. Terrific article. The whole idea of "invisible infrastructure" is a fascinating one. The author mentions sewers as one example. In the midst, of the snow pile up here, I am reminded of drains and storm sewers meant to capture water and melting snow. For some reason, in NYC people pile snow on top of them so that the water backs up and blocks the cross walks. It drives me a little crazy! I am thinking of getting a shovel and ice choppers and straightening things out.
The life expectancy of sanitation workers in France is 17 years less than the general population (7 years less than other manual workers). To recognize the fact that they'll spend fewer years in retirement, they get to retire at 57.
Details on the health hazards are in an English-language 300 page thesis: http://www.scd.uhp-nancy.fr/docnum/SCD_T_2010_0008_ALZABADI.pdf
17 years is a lot. Any clues as to the causes? Are they also the workers who sweep the gutters? I remember the intricate dance of turning on the hydrant, using thick rugs to direct the water, and brushing down to the next drain. Maybe the system has changed.
The thesis points to the dangers of handling toxic stuff. Accidents with dangerous trash of various kinds, but also long-term effects, with a much higher incidence of cancer.
Every time I see work(men, which they usually are), digging up streets, taking down buildings, and collecting garbage, I think: they need masks, goggles, ear protectors, heavy work boots, etc. Whether from lax enforcement or their own "tough guy" reluctance, they are all courting cancer, asthma, and other occupational diseases.
One of the articles I read said that sanitation workers in NY get $900 per year for clothing and personal equipment, but it doesn't nearly cover the costs. About buying their own equipment -- I wonder if that is a remnant of the old thinking about skilled workers like electricians, mechanics and plumbers who used to buy their own and still do. (These days that would be sort of like asking the techies to buy their own mega-computers for work.)
Out here in my part of the Left Coast the garbage pickup is almost all automated. One man per truck. The trundles the specially designed bins to the trick, a mechanical arm picks it up, empties by banging the hell out of it, and drops it back on the ground. The man trundles the bin back to the curb. On to the next house.
I have breakfast with a couple of retired garbage men (no, they never claimed to be sanitation workers) and when their private company was sold to Waste Management, each and every employee got an equal share of the sale price. These guys have never told me what the got, but they live well, have big RVs, a couple of houses, drive nice cars and travel a lot.
They are doing better in their retirement than I, a highly exalted White Collar Worker with some work toward a graduate degree, ever hoped to do and have been able to do.
If life is so dangerous for these guys on the East Coast, then their unions aren't doing their jobs or something else is wrong.
Jim McCrea - Perhaps your last sentence is correct. However, I think that parking issues alone as found in NYC would make the comparison between the Big Apple and Shangri La or Sesame Street, where you live, unhelpful. Note, I'm trying to be polite because I believe that you owe me breakfast at Kuleto's. JK


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WHEELING - The coal industry's troubles have been well documented over the past few years, but West Virginia Coal Association Vice President Chris Hamilton said he believes the worldwide need for coal can provide the industry somewhat of a silver lining for decades to come.
"There is a tremendous need for coal to be exported, but there is no guarantee we will be providing it," Hamilton told the Rotary Club of Wheeling on Tuesday.
He cited both positive and negative factors influencing today's coal industry.
"Everyone hasn't experienced the decreases and production cuts like we have here in central Appalachia, and moreover the state of West Virginia," said Hamilton. "There is a positive side. We have just got to weather the current storm."
Hamilton said there are a number of factors that do not favor the industry, including what he termed a "very discriminatory anti-coal" policy in Washington, and the abundance and rise of natural gas in the region.
"These things have converged together and have effectively cut out a percentage of coal in the market, and that has resulted in a lot of layoffs and that has resulted in the state of West Virginia's tax coffers being a little lighter," he said, noting coal production in West Virginia alone has decreased by 25 percent over the past four years.
This has cost about 3,500 West Virginia jobs, he added.
"And those are $70,000 a year jobs, times 3,500," said Hamilton, following the luncheon. "So that reduces spending power ... particularly for your smaller communities that are not as diversified as what we are up here in the Northern Panhandle.
"The positive side is that West Virginia coal is going to be around awhile. I would say for the next three or four decades. ... I am not sure anybody's crystal ball goes much further than that," Hamilton added.
He said there is a chance for West Virginia to send more coal overseas, with a strong opportunity in the export market. He said the state's coal exports have doubled over the past five years because of growth around the globe.
"And as these countries grow, they require and have a greater needs - so that should be sustained over time," said Hamilton, who warned about the extreme amount of international competition in the coal market.
"But, West Virginia, we have great infrastructure, we have got a great work force, the best miners in the world. ... We truly do have the best miners, most confident and skilled miners as found anywhere in the world. We have some of the best mining equipment ... and up in this area we clearly have some of the best mining companies," he said.


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I really want a superflat seed with a ton of useful ores which are easy to find. How do I create a seed, and what programs do I use?
Seeds are not "created", they are found by trying them. The seed is called that because it is the seed for a pseudorandom number generator which is then used to determine all of the attributes of the world; it is not possible to design a seed to produce a desired result.
Type something for the seed, see if you like the world, and if not, try again with a different seed. Or look for seeds other people have tried; there are many web sites which claim to provide such information.
(However, I note that you mention wanting a superflat world. Superflat is a separately chosen option, not determined by the seed, and Minecraft: Pocket Edition does not have an option for superflat world generation.)
Get pocketinveditor off of for shared. Do edit terrain and click slect whole worl replace blocks then click the top browse button and click air. Then the bottom browse button and click what ever youwant to be super flat like diamonds grass sand stone all of that hope this helped!
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AskMen.com has a nice beginners' exercise ball routine including:
The only thing that this workout seems to be missing is a biceps and calves. Your calves can be worked out by sitting on the ball with your feet flat on the ground, knees bent ad at a 90 degree angle, and then rocking up on your toes. This will roll the ball forward, add weight and instability to your calves, requiring you to balance. For biceps, you're going to really need to get a set of dumbbells or do some non-exercise ball related exercise.
Here's another link with some exercise ball workout videos.
I think exercise/swiss balls are a great addition to any program, but don't get into the 'new toy' syndrome and focus on just using that, you'll become bored, your body will get used to the routine(s) and the rest of your body will be neglected. Determine what your goal is and use whatever tools make the most sense.
Besides the answers above, I can also recommend balance exercises where your feet leaves the ground. For example:
Be careful and do the exercises gradually and with care, it is really easy to lose your balance.


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The Cult of Isabel Marant
The French fashion designer's brand of effortless chic is practically a uniform for off-duty models and movie stars in the know. Now, she's taking her vision to the masses in a collaboration with H&M
"BOHEMIAN." The word comes up when discussing the French designer Isabel Marant. She grudgingly accepts the inescapable. "I hate to be put in a box," she says. "It's difficult to accept, but it's not a bad tag. I'm bohemian in spirit."
Although it accurately describes Marant's iconoclastic, freewheeling approach to life, as well as many of her enormously popular creations, from lace minidresses to fringe boots, it minimizes the scope of Marant's designs and her puritanical work ethic. Her attitude toward the business of fashion, however, is distinctly laissez-faire.
"I never dreamed of being a big designer," Marant, 46, says. "I don't care about being known all over the world."
Despite her ambivalence, she has become a runaway fashion success story, born on the back of her trademark look, which can be described as equal parts rock 'n' roll, California surfer girl and insouciant Parisienne. Her line caters to those who aspire to passions beyond clothes but have the means to buy—and buy a lot. Since the inception of her namesake label in 1994, sales have increased at a steady 30 percent each year—even during the economic downturn—allowing her to prosper as an independent label in an era of behemoths like LVMH, Prada Group and Kering. There are 13 of her sparely designed Isabel Marant boutiques in countries from South Korea to Lebanon, and both of her lines (there is also a diffusion label, Isabel Marant Étoile) are carried in 800 retailers worldwide. This November, she will join the ranks of Stella McCartney, Versace, Lanvin and Karl Lagerfeld as the next designer to collaborate with global mass retailer H&M, where she will also debut a men's collection.
It's a long way from her first fashion show in a Paris squat nearly two decades ago, when her designs were sought out by her friends: fashion editors, stylists and the models who walked her runway. Their nonchalant combinations of Marant's casually sexy jeans and T-shirts with a cropped jacket perfectly slung over their shoulders introduced a new fashion vernacular and quickly garnered attention from street-style photographers and beyond. Initially, however, Marant remained largely an insiders-only secret. "I remember when Sofia Coppola and Gwyneth Paltrow came to my shop in Paris and brought stuff back to the States," she says. "It didn't exist anywhere."
Today, 90 percent of the company's sales are outside of France, and 25 percent in the United States. "We have some customers who call every week asking about new deliveries," says Jennifer Sunwoo, an executive vice president at Barneys. "They pore through the lookbook each season to reserve items long before the styles hit the floor."
Marant declines to acknowledge these measures as the standard of success. "I once said that I'm anti-consumerist, and that goes against the work I do," she says. "It caused a scandal: 'Who is she to think that? She is going against her clientele.' But I do fashion because I'm happy when somebody gets joy from a new garment. There is a magic side to this."
ON A GRAY PARIS DAY in late June, Marant is sitting at a gleaming white table in the spacious two-story atrium of her headquarters just off the Place des Victoires. Errant sunbeams pierce the clouds and illuminate the vast concrete-floored space. In front of her is a vase of white peonies and jasmine. She wears a loose sweatshirt with "Mister Freedom" written on it, the frayed collar stretched out and exposing the straps of her black tank. Her look is rounded out with gray corduroys, a studded black leather belt and ballet flats.
"I always wear my own clothes," she says. "My sweatshirt I got in L.A., but the rest is Isabel Marant, like 99 percent of my wardrobe." She laughs and adds, "I get a good discount. She's very nice to me." In fact, Marant always begins her design process with herself and her own desires. "I don't dress up every day. I wear a sweatshirt and a trouser, like most people. From this starting point, [I ask myself], How do I make this silhouette fashionable and stylish?"
"It's about the women surrounding me," she continues. "I look at how women in the street wear things. I've never been inspired by a muse—that's a fantasy."
It's no surprise that Marant doesn't bother doing eveningwear: In punk parlance, she is more Patti Smith than Deborah Harry. Her greatest hit, a clever high-top suede sneaker called the Bobby that camouflages an interior wedge heel (which sells for about $650 and is often marked up to around $850 on eBay), is perhaps the best distillation of her dressed-up version of dressed-down cool. With the Bobby (soon followed by the Bekket, a pumped-up variation with Velcro straps), Marant created a new staple of the women's contemporary wardrobe—and today, seemingly every brand that produces footwear makes a version. When asked about knockoffs, from which she often suffers, Marant exhales and says in a measured tone: "You are super pissed-off, but if you are not copied, it means you are not 'the one.' What I don't like is that it spreads your style everywhere. Something you are doing gets old in a minute. It takes such time to achieve something well and find the right way of doing things. But what can you do?"
Following her instincts has generally served Marant well. "Usually my favorite is what is going to sell," she says. "It's rare that something I really love doesn't sell. It honestly almost never happens. With the sneakers, I knew it was something. I said, 'That's going to be a hit.' I can feel it when I do something right, and I can feel it when I do something only so-so." She continues, "During my entire career I've done maybe five pieces like this. It's rare—when it happens your heart is beating." (The other items she counts in this stratosphere are perennials like the Dicker suede ankle boots, as well as her washed linen T-shirts, embroidered jeans and a men's overcoat that has appeared in many iterations.)
She begins rolling a cigarette. Her process is arduous. "This takes time," she says. "Instead of smoking a pack a day, I smoke four cigarettes. I spend less and smoke less." She doesn't buy loose tobacco, instead buying a pack of Bastos cigarettes. She shreds one and empties the tobacco into a candy tin. She then pulls out the rolling papers. "I quit smoking for a year, and I gained 10 kilos [22 pounds]," she says. "It's not me. I was not feeling myself anymore. It was breaking my brain."
In person, Marant is a strikingly natural beauty. She wears no makeup and her hair, a multitude of varying shades of gray and amber, is pulled back in a messy bun. "I think sometimes I should dye it," she says. "And then I say, 'No, Isabel. That's how it is. Don't worry. That's life.' " When she smiles (which is often), her entire face creases and the ends of her large, toothy mouth almost touch her eyes. She is gracefully slim, and her uniform of menswear staples only serves to heighten her femininity.
Her low-key look seems to be part of her emphatic refusal to partake in the pantomime of the fashion swirl. "I'm not this goddess of fashion—I'm low profile. I look like a delivery guy," she says. "I drive my scooter and always have my helmet on. When people meet me, they think this cannot be her, because I look like a bum."
Her eclectic design ethos had its beginnings in Marant's own family. Her father, a photographer, had already been divorced once before marrying her mother, a German model. (His first marriage didn't last long, but produced a half-brother). After Marant's mother, her father's next wife was a Caribbean émigrée.
"Everybody is linked," Marant says of her large family. "I never understood those people who loved each other for 10 years, and all of a sudden they don't. That wasn't the spirit of my family. We do Christmas with the three wives of my father, even after he died. They are all my mothers."
Their differing personal styles amalgamated into Marant's own vision. "My mother is quite German," she says, "Very bio-ecologique—very respectful to nature. My Caribbean mother is an amazing, beautiful black woman and was dressed head-to-toe in Yves Saint Laurent in the '80s. I think I got the attitude and elegance from her, this kind of French chic."
Marant was raised in the upscale Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine and lived with her father and Caribbean stepmom, whose family she frequently visited in Martinique. "They became my family," says Marant, who learned to speak Creole. "They lived in a very simple way in little wooden houses, and I fell in love with this way of life. They grew their own vegetables and had no electricity. I was always amazed that you don't need a lot to be happy. I am very 'less is more' in my spirit." (She has since replicated that way of life with a weekend cabin near Paris that doesn't have electricity or running water.)
As a teen, Marant made her first strides in fashion by reworking vintage army jackets and her father's silk bathrobes for herself. She'd leave the house dressed demurely, "but I had a plastic bag of stuff and I would go to the next building and change," she says. After high school, she attended the Studio Berçot fashion school in Paris. She started an accessories line in 1989, followed by launching a self-financed womenswear line in a tiny studio in 1994, when she was just 26 years old.
Several years later, she fell in love with accessories designer Jérôme Dreyfuss, who now has stores next to hers in Paris's 6th arrondissement and in New York's Soho. She says the two regard work as a separate endeavor, and don't swap ideas. "It's very restful," she says. "My previous boyfriends all said, 'You spend all the time at the office and don't love me.' I never have to justify myself to Jérôme, and we never talk about fashion. We don't need to have that conversation."
'"It's rare that something I really love doesn't sell. It honestly almost never happens. I can feel it when I do something right."'
Marant is quite content to have those conversations with herself. In recent years, she has mined Americana for her collections—surf, cowgirl, Elvis, Navajo theme, with studs and grommets galore—but her fall/winter 2013 collection was a staid departure. What came down the runway was a back-to-basics collection of solid navy, black, cream and gray, albeit with other instant hits: from a perfectly mannish coat to a black suede and leather knee boot. Marant says she was partially inspired by the increasingly morose 24-hour news cycle of war and disaster. "I had a kind of sadness," she says. "I was a bit gray in my head. What surrounded me were difficult times, all the troubles of the world. I wanted to do something that was clean and clear."
Tomorrow, she is off to her cabin in the woods of Fontainebleau, 35 miles southeast of Paris, where she heads every weekend to shake off the toils of the week. Next door is her mother, with whom her stepmother sometime stays. The Marant-Dreyfusses often entertain: "I have 20 friends coming Sunday for a barbecue," she says. "I love cooking—all of my moms and my father taught me. We love life: good food, good drink, good pleasure, good laughs. We are epicureans." And while others might see the lack of electricity and water as an inconvenience, for Marant, it's the reverse: "If you have a nice house outside of Paris," she explains, "you have to fix the heater or the roof is broken. I don't need that. On weekends I want to empty my head and be surrounded by green nature and breathe. I need balance."
She is still seeking to find that balance in her business—although it's a struggle that would seem like a luxury to many of her rivals. "I don't want to be on every corner. If I open everywhere, then it becomes common. I don't want to overflow the world with Isabel Marant."