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healthy banana, date + orange cookie recipe and kids lunch-box ideas
She's going to love school, I just know it. She's such a busy little bee and loves the constant stimulation school provides which mum doesn't. My only worry is how her little body will cope with five full days of it? The next few months are going to be pretty full I'm guessing, while her body adjusts and adapts. She did only just drop her day sleep late last year after all!
The day after she starts school, my little man is going to be starting kindy *another gulp*. He loves the idea of it all, being able to do more craft projects than we do at home and finally being able to play in what was only ever "Ada's" playground has him super excited. But I fear what will happen when he realises mum's going. He knows it's going to happen in theory, we've talked about it a lot, but I still have my fingers crossed that when it comes time for me to leave, he's okay. There's nothing more heart breaking than your child screaming as you leave, the tears building up in your eyes as you walk out the door.
Now moving onto the other big stress that comes with kids starting school and kindy... lunches. Or gluten-free lunches to be exact.
Growing up I had a love-hate relationship with school lunches. My mum would always pack us amazing healthy vegetarian lunches. I remember lots of fruit, yoghurts, nuts, dried fruit and sandwiches. But I also have memories of trying to hide my "hippy" sandwiches (natural peanut butter and alfalfa sprouts if I remember right, mum?) from my friends by only unwrapping just enough of my sammie to sneak a little bite before anyone looked. I always wished I could have packets of chips or a pie from the tuck-shop for lunch or just regular vegemite or cheese sandwiches on white bread, not brown, wrapped in glad wrap (plastic wrap) not paper. I also remember with great clarity how tomato sandwiches tasted once they'd been sitting in my bag all morning, with their warm limpness wetting the bread making me gag with every mouthful. I vowed to never make my kids have to eat vegetable sandwiches while at school (they eat them at home happily, freshly made). I instead keep their sandwiches simple, spread with my beloved Vegemite (wheat but not gluten-free) or nut butters that I know will get eaten, I then just add loads of vegetable sticks and cherry tomatoes separately for them to snack on. Same ingredients as a vege sandwich, just separate!
I now totally appreciate how determined my parents were to bring us up eating real food, even when no one else around them was doing the same. It was the 80's after all, where mince and cheese pies were considered good food and flavoured milks were just coming into vogue. I'm now just like my mum. (Seriously mum, thank you! I forgive you for those weird sandwich combinations, really). I refuse to buy pre-packaged kids "lunch" foods, preferring to fill the kids lunch boxes instead with fresh, healthy, home made foods with a few naturally sweet treats thrown to keep things exciting. Eating gluten-free doesn't have to be any harder than regular lunches and if your kids know no different they will never complain. (Sure you may get the odd, "I want what Sarah eats mum". But look at me, proof a mums hard work does pay off!).
A few of my favourite lunch box ideas...
- vegetarian sushi. It's my kids favourite and I always make sure I make extra when making it for dinner, leaving plenty for lunches the following day. I save the little soy-sauce squeezies from sushi shops and re-fill with my own tamari or gluten-free soy sauce.
- lightly toasted gluten-free bread spread with peanut/almond or nut-free sunflower seed butter (most schools are nut-free these days) with 1/2 banana for them to squish between the bread when ready to eat.
- boiled eggs, crack the shell a little so they can peel them easily.
- leftover gluten-free pasta salad.
- leftover quinoa and roast vegetables
- yoghurt. Frozen in summer, so that it's lovely and chilled when time to eat.
- a variety of fresh fruit and vegetable sticks
- dried fruit; pears, apple, peach, raisins, sultanas, mango, dates etc...
- stuffed dates (I blitz up almonds and desiccated coconut until paste-like and use this to stuff freshly pitted medjool dates)
- hummus in a little container for dipping vegetable sticks. This can be frozen overnight to keep it from spoiling in their lunch boxes in the warmer months.
- small pieces of fruit-based cakes, slices, a muffin or a few bliss balls.
- home made sugar-free cookies like todays banana and date based ones.
A few weeks back I had the pleasure of being asked by Amy Green and Maggie Savage to be part of a blogging event to launch their new site The Balanced Platter. It's a place where you can go for balanced, healthy gluten-free living with recipes, tips, how-to's and product reviews.
All month gluten-free bloggers from around the world, have been sharing their recipes and tips for living a balanced, healthy gluten-free life. Click here for all the links to their posts and while you're there have a little browse around, I'm sure you'll be impressed with what's on offer!
The recipe I'm sharing today is one I've been making for quite some time. Inspired by this recipe from 101cookbooks, it is the perfect addition to any kids lunch box. Sweetened with only ripe bananas and a handful of dates they are sweet but not sickly and you needn't fear your kids experiencing the sugar-low that comes from eating most other cookies. I've used quinoa flakes for added protein (and to keep things strictly gluten-free) which pairs perfectly with the coconut flavours and citrus notes.
The end result is somewhere between a muesli-bar and cookie, with a golden exterior and moist buttery coconut orange centre. I like to add chopped dates, but I'm thinking almost any other dried fruit would be wonderful; raisins, cranberries, blueberries, apricot, peach....
Their is one upside to the kids both starting kindy/school... I will now have 2 1/2 days a week to myself for the first time in over 5 years! I can hardly believe it, I will now be able to think without the constant nagging of a small child in my ear, do the grocery shopping without battling over what to buy or breaking up fights over who gets to sit in the trolley that day. I can go for a walk/run/swim when I want to, leave the house with little more than a purse and I will be able to cook like a mad woman, music on high without any fears of waking someone from their nap. This might not be so bad after all...
healthy banana, date + orange cookies
As mentioned above I like to use chopped dates, but you could sub in any of your favourite dried fruit. I'm thinking dried blueberry and lemon (zest) would make for a lovely variation too. Heidi's original recipe uses rolled oats in place of quinoa flakes, so if you tolerate use them if preferred.
makes 3 dozen.
- 3 large ripe bananas
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup (60ml) coconut oil, warmed slightly if solid
- zest of 1 orange
- 2 cups (180g) quinoa flakes
- 1/2 cup (55g) almond meal (ground almonds)
- 1/2 cup (45g) desiccated coconut
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder (check it's gluten-free)
- 1 cup (160g) pitted dates, finely chopped
Preheat oven 180 C/350 F. Line 2 trays with baking paper and grease.
Mash bananas in a medium size bowl, you will need approx 1 1/2 cups once mashed. Stir in vanilla, coconut oil and orange zest, mixing well to combine.
Add the rest of the ingredients and mix to form a wet paste-like dough. Take 2 teaspoonfuls of mixture and mould into a cookie shape. Place onto baking trays and bake for 12-14 minutes or until golden around the edges and if you lift one up it is deeply golden on the bottom.
Remove from the oven and cool on the tray 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. Store airtight for 3-4 days, although I like these best if eaten in the first 1-2 days.
Click here to see my vegetarian sushi recipe and sushi making tips...
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OOoo those look so yummy. I just need to find some quinoa flakes and I will be making these. Your school lunch ideas sound really tasty and healthy. Your kiddos are lucky to have such a caring mom. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for your kind words. I hope my kids appreciate it when they are big, like I do now.Delete
Oh also if you tolerate oats (you can buy certified gluten-free oats these days too, although some people still react) Heidi uses them in place of quinoa flakes in her original recipe if you wanted to try that out.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 28, 2012 at 9:53 AM
these look good. is there anything u can substitute for the quinoa flakes as i can't seem to get them locally. i can eat anything so doesn't need to be gluten free or anything..thanksReplyDeleteReplies
Hi, yes Heidi's original recipe uses rolled oats.Delete
I just LOVE LOVE LOVE your beautiful kiddo lunch!!! It is easy to eat this way yourself, but when trying to feed others, that is the challenge...so great job keeping your kiddo's healthy and happy!!!ReplyDelete
wow, great post!!! I am going to print these lunch box ideas off. I struggle every day with making three lunch boxes, one of whom is gluten free.. but my kids all love sushi and veges so its time to make a difference in their lunchboxes!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Leonie, good luck!Delete
yummo! I might make these with the oat variation, they look so tasty :) I'm glad this recipe uses coconut oil, as I've seen to have neglected my jar for too long! xReplyDeleteReplies
Yep any recipe that uses coconut oil and I'm sold too! It adds such a lovely flavour to these cookies.Delete
I'm glad you said that the quinoa flakes can be sub'd with oats. I don't think I'd be able to find quinoa flakes, not even at Commonsense Organics!ReplyDelete
Ada's lunchbox is amazing! It's better than what I would take to work for lunch - which is often just leftovers. Reading your post on what you used to take to school for lunch brought back memories of what my mum used to pack for mine! It was either a salad of some sort (not a lettuce in sight though!) or sandwich of some sort. And a hot flask of milo!Replies
Yeah the (original) oat variation is a winner. Wow a hot flask of Milo, that would have been my dream lunch box addition back in the day!Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 28, 2012 at 4:28 PM
I can totally relate to the warm , squishy tomato sandwiches...still make me feel ill thinking about it! great lunchbox ideas, thanks! Simone.ReplyDelete
Good luck next week- for you, I'm sure the kids will be fine :)ReplyDelete
I am still very cautious with school lunches as they aren't kept in fridges and those little freezer squares aren't real big. Our kiddies bags are kept outside in direct sun, and there are also clever magpies who attack unzipped bags and steal lunches!
My sister us management at a school in Queensland and she bought in a policy of a fridge for every class unit. No more upset tummies in summer!Replies
Well done to her for getting that actioned! I've heard rumours of parents trying to get fridges in the classrooms at our school, but we still don't have them.Delete
I've got two freezer packs per lunchbox and a insulated cover, here's hoping it will be enough. I'm thinking over the next month or so lunches will be very simple (no yoghurts etc) if this past week is anything to go by it's going to be a hot start to the school year (42 C today)!
Ada's bag is under cover but will still be hot (why do they keep the bags outdoors in Australia? They were always in doors in NZ when I was little) and I hope we don't have any cheeky magpies to contend with too!
- Julie PercivalJanuary 29, 2012 at 1:06 AM
Yum!! These look good. What a good idea to add dates. I actually made Heidi's version a few weeks ago, and freezed half of the cookies cos I knew I had a busy few days coming up. They actually thawed pretty well and prvoided a constant supply of yumminess for a few days of uni snacks! Thanks for all the lunch ideas!! Keep the posts coming.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hey cool thanks for letting us know these freeze well Julie! xxDelete
- Nicola McKayJanuary 29, 2012 at 2:29 AM
Hey emsReplyDelete
Awesome ideas I am baking this week to stock up the freezer for lunches!!! Def gonna try that recipe. Awesome ideas, my kiddies love vege sticks Even better with hommus Never thought to freeze it man I'm a nong:) also yeah bags all inside at Kirst and sams school, shesh bad enough to contend with 42 temps with out hot lunches
You're not a nong Nic! I only know you can freeze hummus because when I lived in Byron and had no money I lived off store-bough hummus and corn crackers and the hummus was sometimes still slightly frozen when I bought it! ;-)Delete
So weird they keep the school bags outside over here aye. Silly too!
Those cookies look amazing! I would love that lunch :) Sushi is a great idea. My 5YO likes nori and rice so I might be able to get him to eat it, now I just need to make it. Is it really hard? Do I need to buy the sushi rolling supplies :) Thanks so much for sharing your recipe for our launch. I hope school goes lovely and well for your babes.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Maggie, thanks for inviting me!Delete
Re: sushi, it's super easy to make once you get the hang of it (maybe I should do a post on sushi making? Anyone interested?). You do need to buy a sushi mat to roll them, but that's all. You can buy seasoned sushi vinegar to flavour the rice or mix it up yourself like I do using rice vinegar, sugar and salt. To make things cheaper (we eat a lot of sushi!) I use medium-grain white rice instead of speciality 'sushi' rice. You can fill with whatever you like but I usually go along the lines of... rice, cucumber, avocado, toasted sesame seeds, real egg mayonnaise, caspicum and tofu or sliced egg omelette. Hope that helps? xx
- AnnabelJanuary 31, 2012 at 5:33 PM
Yeah, I would be interested in a sushi-making-post or a veggi-sushi-recipe-post :-)Delete
(Thanks for the Sarah Blasko Link! She made my day, everyday :-))
Okay Annabel I'll work on doing a post in the near future. We only ever eat vege sushi anyways ;-) And how AMAZING is Sarah Blasko?! Insane voice.Delete
Wonderful lunchbox ideas and I love the recipe! Thank you!ReplyDelete
The cookies look great. I admire your determination to provide healthy food for your kids. So often parents cop out because they are too busy with work. You're doing an amazing job.ReplyDeleteReplies
yeah I know, that whole time things a killer. It's all about planning ahead and sticking to your guns :-) Thanks for your kind words xxDelete
The cookies look great, Emm. I'm so sorry I've been absent from the blog visiting world for awhile now. With looking after Oliver and fitting in a bit of work when he's being babysitted, I've been feeling too guilty to enjoy myself with other people's blogs! But that's got to change, and seeing these cookies you posted reminded me how much I have to learn from you, and how much I enjoy your blog. Have a gorgeous, musical, kitchen filled celebration of school aged kids for me!!ReplyDeleteReplies
You don't have to apologise! I know how busy life gets, trust me! Nice to have you back though xxDelete
These look so yummy. I don't know about back to school, but I could definately do with these back to work!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful, healthy lunch box! The cookies look fabulous too! I remember my kids first day at school like it was yesterday...I promised myself I would not cry in front of the kids, but as soon as I left the school...it was Niagra Falls!ReplyDelete
I must make the stuffed date recipe - sounds divine!Replies
Ah yes Ina, I've already had days like that when Ada was just at kindy... it's not looking too good for me now is it? ;-) I'll try my best to keep it together until I'm at least out of the classroom. xxDelete
What a quaint and healthy-looking lunch box :)ReplyDelete
The cookies look amazing and original, I mean, it's not something you would usually find on this side of the world.
Take care! xxx
I just made my 4 lunchbox stuffers for the week, but this looks great for next! It's all about pre-planning and most nutritious snacks are quick to throw together. I let my daughter pick her favorites, we have her own favorite recipes notebook that she picks from, and she often helps me make the items. then all I have left to do is to throw some sort of main course and fresh fruit and veg in her box. It's fun including her in on the process!ReplyDelete
Hi Emma, great lunchbox info! I've been wondering & your probably the right person to ask - at what age can you expect little ones to manage eating salad? I'm regularily puting it in front of our two year old, but without the success of his steamed vege consumption.ReplyDelete
I wouldn't stress, so long as he's getting loads of veges in him somehow. Ada always preferred cooked when she was little whereas Kye's always liked raw. My best advice would be to keep serving him some whether he eats it or not, and you eat it often yourself. When the kids weren't eating it much I used to always make myself (and still do) a huge bowl of salad for lunch and eat it in front of them, they quickly started asking for a try... then quickly moved onto a whole bowlful each. Kids would much prefer to eat what mums eating I've found, so use that to your advantage! xxDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 1, 2012 at 4:07 PM
I just read this post and was so pleased. I made an amost identical lunch box for my very own daughter Ada who is just starting kindy. My mother was unsure such a lunch would go down well with a toddler, but I showed her this page and she agreed.
I have today bought my husband the same lunch box with the intention of filling it with same lunches as our Ada.Replies
How cool that you have a Ada as well! Can't say I've come across many others :-) And well done you for sticking to your guns even with your mum doubting you. Kids are pretty clever and when given the chance most love healthy food.Delete
I sent off my husband with a healthy lunch box one day - he went out and bought sandwiches and a muffin. I give in. Seeing that cool lunch pack made me want to pack one for myself though even though I work at home!ReplyDeleteReplies
Ah yes, getting your kids to eat healthy food is one thing. Trying to work your magic on the hubby is another thing altogether ;-) I'm still trying...Delete
Good post exploring some lunch box ideas. The banana, date and orange cookies sound great.ReplyDelete
Yum Emm these are delicious! I have just made a batch this morning while our girls are out on a Kiwi adventure with Dad. I hope there are some left for their return! This is such an inspiring post. Kaea is only two so still a wait for school, however because she is such an explorer I often have to pack lunches as we are often out at playcentre, play group or just out!ReplyDelete
I am new to making sushi and Kaea is just getting into it and wondered if it can be made the evening before and refrigerated?
And please could you publish a book? Your recipes are devine and photos amazing. I would buy it and give them away as pressies too.
Was it your brother at the Mount Little Big Markets yesterday with his shoes?
Happy Waitangi weekendReplies
Hi Rochelle, yep that would have been my brother Ben at the Little Big markets! Say hi from me next time you see him :-)Delete
I do make sushi the night before, we eat some for dinner and the leftovers for lunch the next day, it's not ideal as the rice firms up somewhat. I wouldn't recommend making it the night before if you are planning on impressing guests with your sushi making skills, but for kids lunches etc it's fine!
Thanks for your kind words, I do hope to publish a book one day... :-)
Hi Emma,ReplyDelete
These look amazing, However, I've recently developed a nut allergy so I'm thinking of making them with ground flax seeds, (as I can't think of another flour with similar properties to ground almonds) do you think this would work?Replies
Hi Jen, I'd try wizzing up some sunflower seeds until finely ground. I find they are pretty damn close to ground almond meal. Or try using a combo of the ground flaxseeds and more desiccated coconut? Let me know how you go.Delete
Thanks heaps Emma! I made them last week using the flaxseeds and more coconut combo (as I'm yet to find sunflower seeds etc that do not have traces of nuts!)It worked really well and they have definitley been a tasty addition to my workplace lunches!Delete
Awesome Jen, so glad they worked out and you like them. Good to know the flaxseed/more coconut combo works xxDelete
I'm definitely going to try these cookies. What a super lunch that looks! Seriously, what a fantastic thing you're doing for your kids, giving them real food like that! So not easy. But so great. Kellie xxReplyDelete
This is another fabulous recipe. The kids were a little unsure till they tasted them - and then asked for more in their school lunches. This recipe will be added to my baking list. Next up I'll be trying the chocolate brownie recipe with black beans (as soon as I can lay my hands on some dried black beans).ReplyDelete
Ha, I quite like warm squishy tomato sandwiches! :-) I still got pie, fizzy drink and crisp envy occasionally though!ReplyDelete
In my case I made my own lunch everyday though from when I started primary school, unless there were leftovers from the night before available. Same with all my siblings. I always wonder why parents make lunch for their children to take to school - so many excellent and useful skills to be learnt from making their own lunches. :-)
This week on Food on Friday, we are collecting ideas for using bananas. Would you be happy to link this in? Here is the link .ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2014 at 7:00 AM
any idea what the nutritional information is firstname.lastname@example.com
I'm sorry I have no idea? I'm sure there are website you could use to find out though. Do a google search. Good luck!Delete
These are great - both kids (aged 3 and 20 months) and adults loved these.ReplyDelete
A slightly random question - do you happen to know the brand of lunch box pictured above? Many thanks!Replies
Ah great to hear you all enjoyed them :-)Delete
The lunchboxes we use are called Nude Food Movers (they're great as they eliminate the need for lunch wrap!). http://www.nudefoodmovers.com.au/


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Oracle purchased Stellent in November 2006. Soon the Stellent Content Server product became the Oracle Content Server, then Oracle UCM and finally it became the Oracle WebCenter Content. As you see, the product name has changed 3 times in the past 7 years. However, the user interface hasn't changed that much. Oracle rebranded it in 10gR3 version and has given the software only minor updates ever since. The interface is functional, but perhaps too complex for some end users and lacks the look and feel of modern web applications.
In Spring 2013, it became known that Release 220.127.116.11 was going to feature a new user interface. Some time in September, I decided to download and install it. I connected to the home page URL, logged in and the good old UI came up:
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- The new UI communicates with the content server by using the RIDC protocol (There's a dedicated port open for that protocol on the content server side)
The setup is fully explained in the documentation, so we're not going to get into the details. I'd rather perform a functionality analysis of the new UI. As mentioned before, it's end user-oriented.
First of all, let's login. After logging in, this is the main screen:
It's quite obvious that it has just a few options and the main screen displays, by default, a blank search result. Let's click the "Upload Button" to check in new content:
Nice. A pop-up window opens and we can either browse the file system or drag-and-drop some content from a file explorer window. When we add a file, the "Metadata" section expands automatically and we can enter data:
We're redirected to the main screen, and after waiting a few seconds for the search index to be updated, we can click the "refresh" button and then the new document appears in the search:
If we click it, a new tab/window opens displaying this preview screen:
This one is a beautiful design, in my opinion. On the left side we see the document content and more importantly, the tabs to navigate between revisions. On the left side, we can see metadata values , the menu to check out the content, and some other options as "Favorite", "Follow", and "File Document" which will be discussed a bit later. By now, let's check out some content and create a new revision. Please note that a new tab is created:
You can "Follow" pieces of content , which is similar to the old "Subscribe" option, that is, the user wants to be notified every time a new revision is generated for that content item. You can also can mark content as Favorite, which is something new, and finally, you can arrange content into "Libraries", that are just an evolution of folders. That's the use of the "File Document" option: to put content into libraries:
There's little else to say about the interface, as we've discussed all of its functionality. Now I hope you have the information to make the decision of using it or not. The benefits for end users are obvious and the cost is also obvious: an extra WLS domain and more memory consumption on the server side.
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Times Regrets 'Slave Mistress' in Julian Bond's Obituary
Readers complained, rightly, that the expression was offensive.
August 20, 2015, Thursday
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The civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel calls Mr. Bond "an eloquent, inspiring and iconic figure."
August 18, 2015, Tuesday
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Mr. Bond was also a lightning rod of the anti-Vietnam War campaign and a former chairman of the N.A.A.C.P.
August 17, 2015, Monday
In Ferguson, Photographs as Powerful Agents
The history of black representation has resonated with the types of images now prevalent in social media. Whether in 1950s Mississippi or Ferguson today, the camera has served as witness, provocateur and agent of change.
August 20, 2014, Wednesday
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Freedom Summer: Looking Beyond Racial Lines
Marshall Ganz and Julian Bond disagree with an Op-Ed's writer's analysis of a landmark civil rights effort 50 years ago.
July 4, 2014, Friday
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Over the course of his photographic career, Danny Lyon has seen his role as coaxing his fellow man to pursue justice and freedom, whether or not it's popular or lucrative.
January 21, 2014, Tuesday
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Students' Knowledge of Civil Rights History Has Deteriorated, Study Finds
Ignorance by American students of the basic history of the civil rights movement has worsened, according to a new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
September 28, 2011, Wednesday
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A new play and a children's book revisit the "Green Book," a guide for black motorists in the Jim Crow era.
August 23, 2010, Monday
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Eric Cantor & the Tea Party Purge
In 1961, John F. Kennedy said: "In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside."
In November of 2010, Eric Cantor said: "The Tea Party are ... an organic movement that played a tremendously positive role in this election. I mean, certainly, it produced an outcome beneficial to our party when you're picking up at least sixty-some seats."
Yes, Republican leaders happily rode the Tea Party tiger when doing so was convenient. Now, Cantor has fallen to the very forces he and his colleagues unleashed and encouraged. After an electoral earthquake that shocked the party's system, the GOP's top brass will be scrambling to figure out what lessons they should draw.
Unfortunately, they'll probably absorb the wrong ones. Rather than taking on the Tea Party and battling for a more moderate and popular form of conservatism, they are likely to cower and accommodate even more.
Because immigration was a central issue used against Cantor by David Brat, the insurgent professor who defeated him by 11 points, the immediate betting is that House leaders will once and for all declare immigration reform dead for this session of Congress. Governing is likely to become even less important, if that's possible, to House Speaker John Boehner. Just holding a fearful and fractious GOP caucus together will become an even greater preoccupation.
It might usefully occur to some Republicans that Cantor was not their party's only incumbent challenged by the Tea Party in a primary on Tuesday. In South Carolina, Sen. Lindsey Graham overwhelmed six Tea Party challengers, securing 57 percent of the vote and avoiding a runoff.
While it's true that Graham did what he could to satisfy his party's ultras -- for long stretches, it seemed that not a day went by when he didn't use the word "Benghazi" -- he did not, as Cantor did, twist this way and that on the immigration question. On the contrary, Graham defended his support of immigration reform and his vote for a bipartisan Senate bill.
We'll never know if Cantor would have done better if he had held steady on the subject. What we do know is that sending out campaign literature bragging about a news story that declared him "the No. 1 guy standing between the American people and immigration reform" did nothing to placate or persuade those who were out to defeat him.
Republicans who simply want to keep tacking right to maintain their power should also note that if the Tea Party helped mobilize support for them in 2010, it now threatens to reduce the party to a right-wing sect.
The movement is very good at organizing its own, but it is doing little to attract new voters the GOP's way. If anything, the party's rightward drift is pushing people out. In December 2010, 33 percent of Americans told Gallup's pollsters they considered themselves Republicans. Last month only 24 percent did. Although the turnout was up in the Brat-Cantor race, participation has been low in most of this year's Republican primaries.
Appeasing the Tea Party could create a vicious cycle: the more the party is defined by a hard core, the easier it will be for the most conservative voters to dominate it in primaries involving only the most ardent.
Cantor actually showed signs of understanding this. He gave speeches, including his "Making Life Work" address in February 2013, that at least acknowledged the need to address the practical worries of Americans who are not particularly ideological and don't wave "Don't Tread on Me" flags.
Politicians, he said, needed to respond to citizens' "real life concerns." These included such basics as "where can you find an affordable home in a good neighborhood to raise your kids?" and "which health-care plan can I afford?" and "will the children make it through high school and get into a college of their choice, and if so, can you afford it?"
Yet Cantor may have been most comfortable on safe conservative ground. He tried to start a practical policy conversation but did not take bold next steps to modify the direction the party took in 2010.
What the Tea Party giveth, the Tea Party taketh away. Its energy in 2010 was directed against President Obama and helped Cantor become House majority leader. Now its sights are set on purifying and purging the Republican Party. But purges, as Cantor has learned, are painful. They can also be dangerous to a party's long-term well-being.
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E. J. Dionne Jr. is a syndicated columnist, professor of government at Georgetown University, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His most recent book is Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent (Bloomsbury Press).
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Time mag has an article about Bratt attending a Catholic Church along with a few other Protestant churches which is his denomination and education. Sounds like an old San Franciscan pol who attend 2-3 Churches every Sunday and shook hands outside on the sidewalk. He attended most of his districts funerals , waiting as the priest started to get up to say the rosary and then walked fast down the isle to kneel at the coffin.... to whispers of 'That's the assemblyman'.
Lot better than social media on the local scene. ?
And I say don't underestimate that Cantor being a Jew did not register well for right wing rural Virginians especially that this was Cantor's first primary election.. he was picked to run initially by the Chamber GOP.
Why can't I find out if legal baby killing had anything to do with this election?
Mr. Dionne used the term "Tea Party" as a pejorative in the title of his article and 10 or more times in the article itself despite the fact that Mr.Brat received little or no financial or material support from any "Tea Party" organization.
Perhaps Mr.Dionne can connect whatever dots he imagines exists between Mr. Brat and the "Tea Party' as love of country, disgust with scandals, the failure to close the borders and the lies upon lies by this administration seem to be the only possible connections.
For the uninformed Mr Brat posted and ran on these these six points:
"That the free enterprise system is the most productive supplier of human needs and economic justice,
"That all individuals are entitled to equal rights, justice, and opportunities and should assume their responsibilities as citizens in a free society,
"That fiscal responsibility and budgetary restraints must be exercised at all levels of government,
"That the Federal Government must preserve individual liberty by observing Constitutional limitations,
"That peace is best preserved through a strong national defense,
"That faith in God, as recognized by our Founding Fathers is essential to the
moral fiber of the Nation."
It would be interesting to learn which of Mr Brat's position on these time tested ideals Mr Dionne disagrees with or objects to.
Ed: sounds like "Uncle Miltie" Marks ... and subsequently his wife Carolyn ... to me.
Use your Google, dear.
Because the Tea Party is such a shining example of fact-based reason?
E. Patrick Mossman
The only thing you have demonstrated about Brat and the Tea Party is that the candidate did not have "official" Tea Party support, watever that means, since the Tea Party is not a legitimate politcal party in this country. What you claim does not mean that Brat was not elected by Tea Partiers. The conservative WSJ had two article attributing Cantor's defeat to the Tea Party. And this article from the Washington Examiner shows that the Tea Party is now thrilled with Cantor's upset and is taking credit for it http://washex.am/1mHl46u So Dionne is hardly wrong to identitfy the role fo the Tea Party in Brat's victory.
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Mr. Brat's platform is long on platitudes and short on details where, as always, the devil resides.
Country-club Republicans vehemently tout the merits of the free enterprise system. They never admit that we don't HAVE a true free enterprise system--we have corporate welfare. If you ever try to pin down a Big Oil CEO on whether his company should give up its tax breaks in the pursuit of pure free enterprise, lots of luck to you.
Nor do I think that CEO--or you either--want to live in a country so committed to free enterprise that it would have no regulations guaranteeing the safety of our air, water, and food.
Probably because the fact that you phrased your question that way implies you really don't much understand the issue.
Well, point number one is meaningless, there hasn't been a 'free enterprise' system in the world in historical times. Private enterprise and free enterprise are not exactly the same.
Point number 5 is wrong, peace is best insured by promoting democracy, and freedom, throughout the world. In the short term, however, it has a point.
The other points are pretty much meaningless soud bites or, where actually meaningful, more suited to the democratic party.
The Tea Party deserves the pejorative slant. While Brat may not have gotten overt Tea Party support, he got large sums spent on his behalf by the Tea Party backers.
The love of country and scandals, are on both sides of the aisle. The lies involving this administration are far more in the lies told about the administration.
Probably because the fact that you phrased your question that way implies you really don't much understand the issue.
Sorry, didn't note, that was addressed to Margaret Dunkle.


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I play mostly 4v4 games (as random with random people) and I'm stuck in the gold league with 765 wins. I'm looking for any guides or tips, how to progress in 4v4. Progamers usually stream only 1v1 games and the majority of tutorials are dedicated to 1v1 as well. Are there any tutorials focused on teamplay?
4v4 games are considered "fun" games, so usually everybody tries to cheese somehow. The game is definitely not balanced for 4v4s.
You should stop playing this mode competitively and go for 2v2 if you really like team games.
The problem with huge games like 4v4 is that there are way too many permutations to consider. In 1v1 there are 3 matchups you have to learn, if your race remains the same. In 2v2 there are already 6 or even more if you play random team. You get the idea.
But if you really want to progress in 4v4 here are some tips:
Learning something new works best like this:
Most of the 1v1 mechanics work also in 4v4.
To be a better player means to be able to play reactively to the situation in the game. In 1v1, this means scouting your opponent and preparing for what's coming, or playing more greedy because you know you can get away with it. In 4v4, knowing what your teammates are doing is almost as important as knowing what your opponent is doing. Fortunately you have complete vision of your teammates, and thus playing "reactively" in 4v4 is much easier. This will make you a better teammate, and give you some control over your success in random 4v4.
It can be annoying to cooperate with bad players ("battlecruiser rush" for example), but in the interest of winning, it's necessary to swallow your pride and proactively carry the game for your team.
4v4 is extremely volatile, where luck is more of a factor than skill (getting good teammates, chemistry between teammates, map positioning, 4v1 rushes...). If you want to have control over your success, you should stick to 1v1, 2v2, or make a predefined 4v4 team with 3 friends (instead of having random teammates). I honestly don't even know how battle.net can give an accurate MMR for the 4v4 format.
1v1 is really the place where you improve as a player though. If I were you, I would play 1v1 to get better, and 4v4 to put that skill to use. Maybe set a rule for yourself, like you always warm up with a couple 1v1 matches before going to 4v4.


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Is there any relation that tells whether the number of ones in a binary representation of an integer is an even or an odd number?
If you're trying to do this on a computer, you can use some of the clever algorithms here.
You could take $$f(x) = (-1)^{\displaystyle \sum_{j=0}^{\lfloor \log_2(x) \rfloor} \lfloor x/2^j \rfloor}$$ for positive integers $x$. Then $f(x) = -1$ if the number of ones is odd, $1$ if it is even.
Call $p(n)$ the parity of the number of 1's in the binary representation of $n$, ie $p(n) = 0$ if it is even or $p(n)=1$ if it is odd. Then if you represent your integer in base $B=2^{32}$ (or $2^{64}$ depending on the word size of your computer) as $$ a_k B^k + a_{k-1}B^{k-1} + \dots + a_0 $$ then $p(n)$ is equal to $p(b)$ where $$ b=a_k \wedge a_{k-1} \wedge \dots \wedge a_0 $$ where $\wedge$ stands for bitwise exclusive or. Now you can use the same principle to compute $$ \begin{align}b' &= b/2^{16} \wedge (b\,\mathrm{mod} \,2^{16}),\\ b'' &= b''/2^{8} \wedge (b''\,\mathrm{mod} \,2^{8}),\\ & \dots \\ b^{(5} &= b^{(4}/2^{1} \wedge (b^{(4}\,\mathrm{mod} \,2^{1}) \end{align}$$ and $p(n) = p(b) = \dots = p(b^{(5})$ so you can find $p(n)$ in $k+4$ 32-bit xors. Note that this is not better than Robert Israel's answer from the point of view of complexity, but it is probably more efficient.


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Morton Feldman
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Classical Music This Week: A Maverick Fourth, Netrebko's Newest and Twyla
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July 1, 2015, Wednesday
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Classical Playlist: Gluck, Jonathan Biss, Morton Feldman and More
Times critics share what they've been listening to lately.
August 29, 2014, Friday
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A Marathon Performance (Aches, Too)
The Flux Quartet performed Morton Feldman's String Quartet No. 2 for approximately six hours, without pause, at the Park Avenue Armory on Saturday afternoon.
April 30, 2014, Wednesday
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The Feldman Soloists. Frozen Reeds fr 1/2; two CDs.
September 30, 2012, Sunday
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By the Numbers: Cage's 'Seven' and 'Music for Nine'
The Flux Quartet celebrated John Cage's centenary by capturing his introspective side, in subdued, slow-moving works at Bargemusic.
July 21, 2012, Saturday
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Whisper and Repeat. Meditate a Little, Then Just Whisper and Repeat.
The Eclipse Quartet and the pianist Vicki Ray performed pieces by Morton Feldman at Roulette on Monday evening.
May 23, 2012, Wednesday
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Midair Surprises, and Other Special Effects
Pam Tanowitz's new piece, "Untitled (the Blue Ballet)," featuring Ashley Tuttle, is being performed this weekend at the Kitchen.
March 10, 2012, Saturday
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The program in the second concert in the TullyScope series consisted of works by Morton Feldman and Gyorgy Kurtag.
February 26, 2011, Saturday
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In the opening concert of the new Tully Scope festival at Lincoln Center, the conductor Nathan Davis asked that attendees not just leave their cellphones on, but use them.
February 24, 2011, Thursday
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Amniotic Rocking, Broken by Morton Feldman's Whisper Quiet
The new-music ensemble Flux Quartet performed works by Morton Feldman at Bargemusic.
June 7, 2010, Monday
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Paul Graham argues that:
It would be great if a startup could give us something of the old Moore's Law back, by writing software that could make a large number of CPUs look to the developer like one very fast CPU. ... The most ambitious is to try to do it automatically: to write a compiler that will parallelize our code for us. There's a name for this compiler, the sufficiently smart compiler, and it is a byword for impossibility. But is it really impossible?
Can someone provide a concrete example where a paralellizing compiler would solve a pain point? Web-apps don't appear to be a problem: just run a bunch of Node processes. Real-time raytracing isn't a problem: the programmers are writing multi-threaded, SIMD assembly language quite happily (indeed, some might complain if we make it easier!). The holy grail is to be able to accelerate any program, be it MySQL, Garage Band, or Quicken. I'm looking for a middle ground: is there a real-world problem that you have experienced where a "smart-enough" compiler would have provided a real benefit, i.e that someone would pay for?
A good answer is one where there is a process where the computer runs at 100% CPU on a single core for a painful period of time. That time might be 10 seconds, if the task is meant to be quick. It might be 500ms if the task is meant to be interactive. It might be 10 hours. Please describe such a problem.
Really, that's all I'm looking for: candidate areas for further investigation. (Hence, raytracing is off the list because all the low-hanging fruit have been feasted upon.)
I am not interested in why it cannot be done. There are a million people willing to point to the sound reasons why it cannot be done. Such answers are not useful.


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The number of positive West Nile cases continues to grow. Six more cases have been discovered in south-central Kentucky, bringing the total to 18 cases in our area and possibly more to come.
Barren County
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Hart County
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Russell County
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Statewide, 73 birds including robins and crows have tested positive, while 19 horses have contracted the West Nile virus. A vaccine is available which can protect horses for up to six months. There's currently no vaccine for humans.
Thus far, there have been no reports of human infection here in the Commonwealth. Nationwide, 211 people have died from the virus.
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Still wearing your same old subtle highlights? It's time to upgrade with one of these hair color ideas that are guaranteed to be huge this year
Even if you were wary of the pastel color trend, it's still worth considering a bold streak of royal blue or bright orange in 2013. "Streaks of vibrant color are actually much easier to maintain, and so they're more practical," Dumas says. "The washed out, pastel shades really only work on icy or baby blondes, but bold color is a great option for a brunette who wants to try something fun." And you can always try clip-in extensions or wash out color if you're not ready to fully commit.
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I'm currently trying to build up some speed and accuracy in my technique, and I was told a while back that a great way to do this was to play fingering permutations to a metrenome. Has anyone had any experience practicing using this method? Would it be wiser to practice standard scales instead? I can see that permutations are basically just terrible sounding scales, but would learning standard scales offer any advantages? A better understanding in music theory would be a good reason, I think, but if permutations are going to help me more... Any thoughts?
I would recommend you practice with scales. You state a very good point, learning scales is a great way to start off on the music theory path. Using them for practice also provides some benefits;
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There are two kinds of fast: Ripping through scales and Playing the notes quickly - what does that mean? Playing a scale fast is not always playing music, but just having the muscle memory to move your fingers and wrist quickly over a pattern that you've practiced over/over/over. If that is the kind of speed you want to build up, cool - it sounds good, feels good, and will probably get you laid - just keep practicing the scales over and over and take time each day to just see how fast you can play through them for 15-20 minutes. Think of how runners do those quick sprints before running the 100 yard dash - you are just training your muscles to go a little faster each day and eventually you will break through different speed barriers if you keep pushing.
If you want to play fast, accurate notes that are a little more mindful of each individual note - learn melodies that aren't guitar melodies: Sax and Trumpet are a good start. Take a slow solo from Miles Davis, Tom Scott (Tom Cat w/robben ford) and learn it. You will be surprised how your accuracy and speed will build because you are breaking out of your comfort zone, muscle memory wise. Listen to Herb Ellis, Early George Benson (Prodigal Son) to get a good idea of what "fast" is, that doesn't really sound fast until you try to play it....
You should be practicing it all. Small scale fragments, motives, scales, chords, etc! Everything! Do you wanna only play fast scales? Or do you wanna make music?


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Vandalism: Two tires slashed and side mirror ripped from vehicle in the 200 block of Wilshire Boulevard, Monday.
Vandalism: Windshield of van broken in the 300 block of Summit Avenue, Monday.
Arrested: Willis Stackhouse, 24, 104 Wilma Ave., bench warrant out of municipal court, Monday.
Theft: Jewelry taken from residence in the 3000 block of Glendwell Road during the past month.
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Cited: Cheyne D. Forte, 23, 106 Columbus Way, Weirton, failure to signal turn.
Arrested: Wilbin Santiago, 29, 1426 Oregon Ave., domestic violence, today.
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Theft: Tools taken from house on state Route 152, Richmond, Monday.
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Supporting Your Gay Teen
In This Article:
- Do listen to what your child has to say about his or her life and experiences.
- Do take the time to seek information about the lives of GLBT people from parents of GLBT people, friends of your child, literature, and, most of all, directly from your child.
- Do get professional help for anyone in the family, including yourself, who becomes severely depressed over your child's sexuality or gender identity.
- Do accept that you are responsible for your negative reactions.
- Do respect your child's right to engage in loving relationships.
- Do try to develop trust and openness by allowing your child to be who she or he is without pressure.
- Do be proud of your child's capacity for having loving relationships.
- Do look for the injured feelings underneath the anger and respond to them.
- Do defend your child against discrimination.
- Do support your child's individual goals, even though they may differ drastically from your own.
- Do say "I love you."
PFLAG offers a free Q&A booklet for the parents of gay, lesbian, and bisexual children on their website; you can download it here.


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Hi all, I am interested in the following question (which is quite similar to one I posed a long while ago): Let $P_{N}(t)=\underset{k=-N}{\overset{N}{\sum}}c_{k}e^{ikt}$ be a unit norm trigonometric polynomial, we look at it as a function of $L^{2}\left(\mathbb{T}\right)$. I'd like to find a direct proof to the fact that there exists $\varepsilon>0$ such that for every $N$ and every such polynomial $P_{N}$ we have $\underset{E}{\int}|{P_{N}( t)}|^{2}dt\leq1-\varepsilon$ whenever $E\subset\mathbb{T}$ of measure $|E|=\frac{c}{N}$, and $c>0$ is some absolute constant. I would be happy with a proof only in the case $E$ is an interval, if it is any different than the general case. To rephrase the statement; one cannot concentrate the norm of a trigonometric polynomial of degree $N$ on an interval (or any measurable set) of length (measure) of the order of magnitude $\frac{1}{N}$. Let me comment that there is a result by Nazarov which implies this but it is way too general for my purposes.
Let's talk about algebraic polynomials (just multiply by $z^N$). Let $P$ be a polynomial of degree $N$. Let $\max|P|=1$ and assume that this maximum is attained at some point $p$. Take the disk $D$ of radius $10C/N$ centered at $p$. Note that $z^{-N}P(z)$ satisfies the maximum principle in the complement of the unit disk and $P(z)$ satisfies the maximum principle in the disk itself, so $|P|<e^{10C}$ in $D$. Rescale $D$ to the unit disk $\mathbb D$ and divide by $e^C$. You'll get a bounded by $1$ function $F$ that is $e^{-10C}$ at the center.
Now it is the usual story about subharmonicity of the logarithm of an analytic function. Let $H$ be any closed set on the circular arc passing through the origin on which $F$ is very small. Suppose that the length of $H$ is $1/2$ or more. Consider the function $$ U(z)=\int_H\log \frac{|z-w|}{|1-\bar wz|}d\ell(w) $$ It is easy to see that $U\ge -A$ in $\mathbb D$, harmonic in $\mathbb D\setminus H$, $U=0$ on the unit circumference, and $U(0)\le -a$ for some absolute $a,A>0$. If $|F|\le e^{-10CA/a}$ everywhere on $H$, then $\log|F|\le (10C/a)U$ on the boundary of $\mathbb D\setminus H$ and, thereby, $\log|F(0)|\le -10C$, which is not the case. Thus, the minimum of $|F|$ over every set $H$ of length $1/2$ or more is bounded from below. Coming back to the original problem, we see that $|P|$ is bounded from below by some constant depending on $C$ on at least half of the arc of length $10C/N$, so we have plenty of noticeable values outside any set of measure $C/N$.
This trick is pretty old and goes back to Bernstein. There is also another approach due to Remez (moving zeroes and looking at the level sets). You are 100% right when saying that you do not need the Turan type bounds and the related fancy techniques for this problem. :)


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This page describes the average impact of positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) events on Australian rainfall patterns. A positive IOD year is characterised by cooler than normal water in the tropical eastern Indian Ocean, near Indonesia, and warmer than normal water in the tropical western Indian Ocean, near Africa. A positive IOD sea surface temperature pattern often results in a decrease of rainfall over parts of Australia.
Eleven years since 1958 have been identified that have general acceptance as positive IOD years. The eleven IOD years selected are 1961, 1963, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1983, 1994, 1997, 2006 and 2007. Maps of rainfall amounts and rainfall deciles for these and other years are freely available from our archives.
An IOD event usually starts around May or June, peaks between August and October and then rapidly decays. Hence the focus of this article is on the austral winter and spring (June to November). In the last section, a display of overlapping three-month rainfall patterns is used to show the evolution of typical positive IOD events.
Figure 1 shows the mean rainfall deciles for total winter-spring (June to November) rainfall for the eleven positive IOD years listed above. For each of the eleven years, the rainfall deciles for the winter-spring period were calculated against all years between 1900 and 2007. These deciles were then averaged for each point in Australia, and the result mapped.
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The map above shows that during positive IOD years, the mean winter-spring rainfall is below average (that is, in deciles 2 or 3 and indicated by red shades on the map) across much of central and southern Australia. It should be noted that in no part of the country is there a consistent tendency towards above average (decile 8 or higher) rainfall in positive IOD years.
It should not be expected that winter-spring rainfall in any given
positive IOD year will follow the pattern of Figure 1,
nor should it be expected that "above average" rainfalls will not
occur during an IOD year.
To see what happened as regards to total winter-spring rainfall in
each of these positive IOD years, click on the
appropriate year
Some positive IOD events, but not all, occur during the same year as an El Niño. In 2007 a positive IOD occurred in the same year as a La Niña. This is the only clear occurance of a positive IOD event coinciding with a La Niña; 1967 showed a weak La Niña like pattern in the Pacific Ocean after August, but was clearly neutral in the atmosphere. The relationship between El Niño and the IOD is complicated, with the level of dependence of the two phenomenon an area of active research.
Figure 2 shows the mean rainfall deciles for total winter-spring rainfall for seven of the recent positive IOD years that also occurred during an El Niño event. The seven positive IOD/El Niño years used are 1963, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1994, 1997 and 2006.
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The map above shows that during positive IOD/El Niño years, the mean winter-spring rainfall is below average across nearly all of Australia. There is a significant shift in the pattern of Figure 2 towards dry conditions in the east of Australia. The shift towards the east of the country is in line with the impact expected in an El Niño year (see map of Australian rainfall patterns during El Niño events), however, there is still a signal of reduced rainfall across central Australia, which is not usual when we look at El Niño years on their own. Once again, in no part of the country is there a consistent tendency towards above average (decile 8 or higher) rainfall.
Since 1958 only three positive IOD events have occurred during ENSO neutral years. The three positive IOD/neutral ENSO years are 1961, 1967 and 1983. As three years is a small sample size, mean rainfall deciles for total winter-spring rainfall has not been plotted. However, the maps below are included so that rainfall patterns from each individual year can be viewed seperately.
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Figure 3: Australian winter-spring mean rainfall deciles for 1961, 1967 and 1983.
The maps show that during the neutral ENSO/positive IOD years analysed here, winter-spring rainfall patterns have similarities to that in Figure 1, with below average rainfall across central and parts of southern Australia. Both 1961 and 1967 show a particularly strong trend of below average rainfall over central and southern Australia. In contrast to 1961 and 1967, 1983 was wetter than average over much of southeast Australia as well as over southwest Western Australia. All three years share in common above average rainfall along the east coast of Australia.
Figure 4 below shows the evolution of three-month rainfall deciles averaged over the eleven positive IOD events. Each overlapping 3-month period is shown from April (April to June) to December, to encompass a typical event from start to finish.
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Figure 4: Three month rainfall deciles for Australia averaged over all eleven positive IOD events.
An animation of the above composites is available here.
Further sources of information:
Meyers G., McIntosh P., Pigot L., Pook M., 2007: The Years of El Niño, La Niña, and Interactions with the Tropical Indian Ocean, Journal of Climate, 20, 2872-2880.
Saji N.H., Goswami B.N., Vinayachandran P.N., Yamagata T., 1999: A dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean, Nature, 401, 360-363.
Saji N.H., T. Yamagata, 2003: Structure of SST and Surface Wind Variablity during Indian Ocean Dipole Mode Events: COADS Observations, American Meteorological Society, 16, 2735-2751.
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'The President's Marriage Agenda': How to reduce suffering for children and strengthen families
Largely unnoticed and unaddressed, "middle America" is abandoning marriage, with harsh ramifications for children, stability and the future, according to a just-released national report. However, specific family- and marriage-friendly steps can turn it around, marriage proponents say.
They outline their proposal in "The President's Marriage Agenda for the Forgotten Sixty Percent," the latest of the annual "The State of Our Unions" reports by the Center for Marriage and Families, which is part of the Institute for American Values. It produced the report, which came out Sunday, with The National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.
The proposals for improvement include dumping marriage penalties and disincentives that discourage unwed mothers, the poor and those who are older from marrying; increasing the child tax credit; helping young men achieve and thus become more marriageable; offering marriage education for new stepfamilies; and generally investing in relationships. Those initiatives, the report said, "would save taxpayers money and reduce suffering for children and their families."
They define middle America as the nearly 60 percent who have high school diplomas but are not college educated. It is in that large segment of the nation's population that marriage has declined, while it has stayed stable among college graduates. As marriage rates have declined, more babies have been born to unmarried moms, poverty has increased and more.
"The decline of marriage in middle America has been tracking with the decline of the middle class," said one of the authors, Elizabeth Marquardt of FamilyScholars.org, in an interview with the Deseret News. Out-of-wedlock births have "shot up." Decline threatens children "who are already pretty vulnerable," she warned.
What marriage does
"Marriage fosters small cooperative unions — also known as stable families — that enable children to thrive, shore up communities and help family members to succeed during good times and to weather the bad times." If the middle class disappears, the report warned, so does the American dream.
The healthiest families are those where mom and dad married before having kids and where parents are well educated, which provides more financial stability. Marriage, the literal promise between moms and dads, anchors families, Marquardt said. Without good educations and that marriage bond, families are more unstable and the parents more vulnerable to economic forces.
With marriage, studies show family finances tend to improve, as do other indicators of well-being.
"It is true that economic success does put you in a better position to marry and people focus on that," said Robert I. Lerman, fellow at the Urban Institute and a professor of economics at American University and one of the report authors. "I think people should focus at least equally on the fact that marriage helps you gain economic success," including building up assets over time.
The fix
Vanishing marriage is a problem that national leaders have met with "silence, tentativeness or, worse, despair," the report said, adding that taking the suggested steps could alter that. Marquardt said accomplishing it would require "finding our marriage voice — a way to start talking about marriage again without it derailing into a heated debate about gay marriage." The report, she noted, takes no position on gay marriage.
"The reward is that for even incremental improvements, there are hundreds of thousands of children whose lives could benefit."
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Off to Paris: Life of Calvin, Part 2
It was 1523, and Calvin was 14 years old when he went off to university in Paris—70 miles south of his native city of Noyon. Providentially, he didn't need to leave home alone, but went with two of the De Montmor sons, a wealthy family in Noyon that had afforded Calvin the opportunity for a private education.
In Paris, Calvin learned Latin from the respected Mathurin Cordier, who decades later would teach at the academy Calvin would found in Geneva. Under Cordier's instruction, the young Calvin became aware of John Wycliffe, Jon Hus, Martin Luther, and the ongoing Reformation. At Paris he earned both a B.A. and M.A.
Meanwhile back in Noyon, his father Gerard's relationship with the dioceses was strained to the breaking point. Stiff-armed by the church, Gerard, who had originally encouraged his son toward a career in the ministry, now prodded his son away from theological studies toward law.
In 1528, at his father's request, Calvin left his theological studies in Paris to pursue law at Orleans. He was there almost a year, then left for Bourges for three more years of study in law. In Bourges, Calvin was surrounded by the best of humanism, but church historian Justo Gonzalez writes,
At the very time when he was profoundly imbued in the spirit of humanism, Calvin felt no admiration for the vacuous elegance that characterized some of the most famous humanists. (The Story of Christianity, Vol. 2, 62)
Calvin's growing disillusionment with humanism brought him to the brink of his conversion. Church historians argue for when he experienced the new birth—a debate we don't need to enter here. Suffice it to say Calvin seems to have been converted sometime between 1528 and 1532.
In 1531, his father Gerard died, and Calvin found himself free from his father's request that he study law. Calvin was 22 years old, and his desires seemed to be changing. So he returned to Paris to study theology. But soon he would be on the run.
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This is part 2 of our 9-part series tracing some key contours of the story of Calvin's life.
- Part 1: Born to Gerard (1509-1523)
- Part 2: Off to Paris (1523–1532)
- Part 3: De Clementia, Conversion, and Cop (1532–33)
- Part 4: Institutes (1535–1536)
- Part 5: A Night's Stay in Geneva (1536–1538)
- Part 6: The Golden Years (1538–1541)
- Part 7: Return to Geneva (1541–1553)
- Part 8: The Fateful Years (1553–1554)
- Part 9: An Unmarked Grave (1554–1564)


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Let $f:X\rightarrow Y$ be a morphism of schemes.
When $PicY\rightarrow PicX$ is an embedding and $f_{*}\mathscr{O}_{X}$ is invertible, it is the structure sheaf of $Y$.
In the proof of Zariski's Main Theorem, we have: If $f$ is birational, finite, integral, and $Y$ is normal, then $f_{*}\mathscr{O}_{X}$ is the structure sheaf of $Y$.
My questions are
1) What exactly prevent $f_{*}\mathscr{O}_{X}$ to be a structure sheaf?
2) Is there any necessary and sufficient condition(s) guarantee that $f_{*}\mathscr{O}_{X}$ is a structure sheaf?


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Child Abuse
Child Abuse Introduction
Child abuse is defined as a variety of harmful behaviors directed against children. It can take many forms. Child abuse in general is a psychological problem or perversion of the abuser. The abuser is referred to as the perpetrator of abuse.
The descriptions of child abuse in the next section are intended for people who have questions about abuse, what it is, and how it may present itself. Although some cases of child abuse are obvious, many are not. Early recognition of child abuse tendencies and intervention at the point of recognition is the only way to avoid the liability of criminal prosecution.
These descriptions may help you identify abuse in its various forms. You will also find information about what you can do if you observe child abuse or if you are a parent dealing with problems that are straining your capacity to cope with the parenting experience.
If you think you are acting in an abusive way or are having a difficult time with your children or yourself as a parent, you may have identified a tendency to be abusive. These tendencies can include the following:
Tendencies can be treated more effectively than the frank abusive behavior that can evolve from a tendency. You will want to seek help early to avoid the tendency evolving into an act of abuse.
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I'm currently using a NN3 with an arca-swiss compatible clamp on the upper rail, so I can easily mount and dismount my camera from the pano head.
I'd like to switch to an arca-swiss compatible system that clamps the camera in the exact same place each time. I want the system to be accurate enough that it could be used for batch stitching with a better pano head in the future.
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In the Searching Pose
To say that yoga has gone mainstream in this town is an understatement. These days, we've got babies, pets and prisoners practicing their poses. Saturday mornings, the sidewalks are clogged with students marching to class clutching rolled-up mats, the way you used to see factory men trudging to work with their lunch pails.
In certain circles, in fact, it's a bit of a conversation stopper to admit you don't do yoga, particularly if you're female. It's like declaring, back in 1842, that you don't like to sew. You're somehow less of a woman—out of touch with your essential nature/inner goddess/eternal pretzel.
My own pose-free existence wasn't for lack of trying. Inspired by yoga-crazed pals who gushed about how they felt relaxed yet invigorated yet serene yet totally high, I'd take a class and leave feeling itchy yet profoundly annoyed. Folks insisted I just hadn't found the right teacher—to keep shopping around! After all, New York has more than 300 studios offering everything from hot yoga to classes for vets, nudes and depressives.
The cheapest game in town seemed like a good place to reboot my search for 2013. With class fees topping $20 in Manhattan, after all, yoga can be an expensive habit. But at Yoga to the People, a mini-chain founded by Greg Gumucio, who is sort of the Martin Luther of the yoga world, classes cost just $5 to $10.
It's a bare-bones business model. At the chain's Third Avenue and 23rd Street location, the instructor doubled as a fee collector, making change from a metal cash box—it reminded me of those tiny Central American airports where the baggage handler turns out to be the pilot. The changing room consisted of a curtain rod on the wall. And the class packed in 36 students; our mats were so closely spaced, I nearly stuck my head up my neighbor's behind.
The instructor, a gentle young lady with a musical voice, did a nice job demonstrating basic poses along with variations for advanced students. But there was no way she could offer personalized instruction. Which I loved. No one noticed my tangled poses.
I got plenty of attention at Exhale, a national spa chain charging $26. With just three students in the spa's cavernous studio at the swanky Hotel Gansevoort, the class felt like a private lesson—the instructor stood over my mat and (ach!) literally told me how to breathe. She even stayed 15 minutes after class to answer my questions and give me a little pep talk.
Class sizes at Exhale vary by time and location, of course. What you're really paying for here is amenities: Exhale offers posh changing rooms with lockers, showers and, in some NYC locations, a steam room or gym. Plus, there were tons of freebies. I helped myself to fresh fruit, razors and shower caps, and sampled the delicious house mouthwash. If I were a hobo, this would be my new crash pad.
Exhale's polar opposite may well be the Brooklyn Yoga School, a tiny outfit housed in a charming Park Slope brownstone space with a big bay window. It's funded entirely by donations: Students slip what they wish into a contribution box.
The biggest expense for any yoga school is rent, followed by instruction. Many studios base teacher pay on attendance. A quarter of the standard $20 class fee typically goes to the instructor. But the Brooklyn Yoga School has a great deal on a long-term sublease from the café downstairs, says co-founder Lily Cushman, and its teachers work for unusually modest pay: "It's more a labor of love."
Not surprisingly, the place is wildly popular, especially with the neighborhood's nanny set. It's first come, first served, and students are often turned away when the tiny studio fills up.
It's also aggressively Eastern in feel—lots of incense, sitar music and chanting, accompanied by a droning harmonium. Even before class, the aura was hushed; folks whispered and tip-toed. When one student blew her nose, it echoed like a gunshot.
Perhaps it was the atmosphere, or the length of the class, but halfway through, I was hit by the overwhelming urge to escape—perhaps by hurling myself through that beautiful window. I sat on my mat and fumed. I prayed the instructor wouldn't come over to inquire; I was afraid I'd bite him.
It wasn't until the next day that I realized what was bothering me. Reading in Carl Jung's memoir about his childhood loathing for gym class, the great psychiatrist summed it up perfectly: "I could not endure having others tell me how to move."
One more class to go: I chose the studio closest to home, Cobble Hill's Mala Yoga, where sessions cost $14 to $18. Nothing glamorous here. The place was decorated a bit like a teenage girl's bedroom, with paper lanterns, gauzy pink window treatments and purple mats. But the studio's website offered online reservations by credit card, and I appreciated the free hairbands at the bathroom sink—cooties, schmooties!
I also liked the teacher, whose manner had a tart, Mary Poppins feel. "I get the distinct impression you all want to be lying on your backs looking at your navels," she sniffed at one point. But she was smiling. Here was an instructor who seemed more like a real person than an ethereal yoga angel. And the class responded in kind. Students were puffing, gasping and laughing.
Was this my yoga home? I still wasn't hooked, but later, a Mala co-owner offered a revelatory suggestion. My beef wasn't really with yoga, Steph Creaturo observed, but with group instruction: "So practice at home."
Yes, Virginia, you can do yoga alone. In fact, Ms. Creaturo assured me, yoga was originally developed as a DIY practice. I could go solo and take an occasional class to learn new postures and ask questions.
This morning, I practiced downward dog at home with my dog. Bingo! It felt great, it was free—and nobody told me how to breathe.
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Although there is already a question on how judges were appointed during the period after the First Temple was built, that question did not cover the period of the Judges, following the time of Joshua. How were they appointed? Did they have to be prophets, as Devorah was? Were they appointed by committee or by a single leader, or by concensus? Were there other women judges? And was the appointment of a woman, Devorah, controversial in its day? I don't know if there answers to any of the above, but I find the questions fascinating.
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Rabbi Shlomoh Aviner writes this in regards to how Devorah was appointed:
Many shoftim (in sefer shoftim) were chosen by Hashem, or an angel, or by becoming a prophet. It is explicitly mentioned for some others that they were strong, and therefore it would seem that they came to judge Israel because they seized leadership. Other times it just says "He judged Israel for [insert years] years, and then he died."
Because of the nature of the time period for Israel, that there was no centralized leadership and everyone kind of did whatever they wanted, it would seem that shoftim were not elected or appointed, but rather chosen by Hashem, or just came forth to save Israel in a time of crisis, which is the role of the shofet in the cycle throughout the sefer.