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His unique, rhythmic, acoustic guitar stylings and calls for unity and brotherhood sprung Havens from the Greenwich Village '60s folk scene that nurtured his burgeoning talent and catapulted him into the national consciousness.
Born and bred in Brooklyn, N.Y., Havens actually started out in doo-wop, singing with neighborhood friends on street corners, and, then, lending his voice to The McCrea Gospel Singers at age 16.
Lured to Greenwich Village four years later by the promise of freedom of expression, Havens found a place where he could grow artistically. Though he scratched out only a meager living doing portraits and playing gigs, Havens would hook up with famed manager Albert Grossman.
A record deal with the Verve label soon followed, and Havens made his mark with his stunning 1967 debut, Mixed Bag. Songs like "Handsome Johnny," co-written by Havens and actor Louis Gossett Jr., and "Follow" would establish Havens as an artist worth watching. And his cover of "Just Like A Woman" earned him a reputation as a sublime interpreter of Bob Dylan's work.
Havens was, and still is, prolific, recording five more albums by the time 1969 rolled around, with 1968's Something Else Again becoming his first to crack the Billboard charts.
But it was his electrifying performance at Woodstock that made him a household name. Television appearances, acting work -- he was in the original 1972 staging of The Who's "Tommy" -- and ecological education projects broadened his horizons. But, he's continued recording over the years, and in 2008, he released a new album of timeless folk entreaties titled Nobody Left To Crown.
I read an interesting quote from you in which you said, "I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business." Is it harder to reach the audience you're attempting to communicate with with all the technological advancements and hustle and bustle of modern living?
Richie Havens: To tell you the honest truth, it all works for me. It really does, yes.
When I said that -- to put it into a certain context -- we were talking about the music I was interested in before I went to Greenwich Village, and of course, that was doo-wop with all my friends. You know, singing on the street corner, and trying to get into The Apollo to the contest and all that stuff, and so to me, that was show business. And it is what it is.
Although, the music of our times, belonging to us, called rock 'n' roll was not touted as much as it could have been as a social folk scene. But, we were trying to grow out of a certain non-voice situation into expanding the voice we had from rock 'n' roll, the support we had. I mean, I tell people it was embarrassing in those days when you had to write a song called "No, no, no, I'm not a juvenile delinquent" (laughs). But, we had to sing stuff like that, and of course, the older guys were singing the other half of that -- the dilemma was "bup, bup, bup, bup dum/ bang, bang, bang, bang ... get a job" (laughs).
Every parent in the world was telling me kids do that at that point. But, you know, what comes out of it is that when I went to Greewich Village, the first six or seven songs that really captured me... it was a different kind of song. It was an all-inclusive song.
I wasn't just talking about my friends in doo-wop, but here I am talking about the world and the people in it. And these songs really turned me on as to how to present what I saw and what people wanted me to see and what people don't want me to see as an individual. So, on that level, I'm in the communications business. Because all the covers or the songs that I sing, it's something that nurtured me, something where I could sing these better songs.
These more clear information, social involvement and all that was part of the communications I spoke about.
The name of your latest album is Nobody Left To Crown. For you, that sounds awfully pessimistic, or is it a kind of call to arms for people to not look to leaders to help themselves out of whatever predicament they're in but to look inward?
RH: No, actually, it may... it really doesn't. It meant there's nobody left to crown except ourselves for being able to survive the craziness that they put us through when they jammed us underground.
It was great for Woodstock to occur, because it brought us above ground, and they couldn't hide us. So, for me, that privilege [was] to be able to sing for people songs that they wouldn't have heard in their lives had they not passed Greenwich Village at the time, and the people who were singing them were very, very professional.
And then, what they did, from Peter, Paul and Mary to Fred Neil to Joan Baez to all these singers that had some sense of where their concerns all came together... we called it protest music, although it wasn't really protest music. It was songs that had been sung by folk people all throughout the ages. These happened to be singer-songwriters of our age at that point, using that system to sing the songs necessary for us in our time.
I suppose that title, and you probably already touched on this, is a call for people to maybe look inward and be their own leaders, instead of looking to our leaders to dig us out of the hole we're in.
RH: Exactly. That's exactly what it means.
You do soulful covers of Jackson Browne's "Lives In The Balance" and "The Great Mandela (The Wheel of Life)" by Peter Yarrow of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary on this new record. What did you want to bring to those songs to make them Richie Havens' songs?
RH: I don't think about that. I don't ever think I'm making anything into Richie Havens' songs (laughs) in music. For me, it's like, "God, they've pushed me again."
I feel this wonderful energy of information that comes from these songs, and that, you know, I ... you know, like I said, the songs that I cover, people who would sit who would be on the outside of this knowledge would not know that I'm not singing just to cover them because I might think that I could sing them. But I was singing them in order for me to express what the writer had given to me hearing that song.
And all the songs that I've covered are songs that the writers were very important in, in terms of they were living in the same world I was. There were many ways to see the center, and all of these people contributed to that in me. So, I never really think about that, you know?
It is interesting, because when I write a song, I don't actually claim to own the song. But I did write it. You know, when I write it, it basically ... it comes out of me, comes through me. I hear a title whiz through my mind in a taxi cab. I write it down, and by the time I get back, it reverses already, because that's the way it comes. And by the time I get up the elevator to wherever I'm going, the song is done. And I have this wonderful... I don't know what to call it... gift of being able to hear a song being sung to me.
The whole melody and the lyrics come from that same time, and I would say that the melody is sung to me. I hear someone singing these words, and when I hear them singing those words, I am an audience.
So, even the songs I sing, I'm the audience as well as the audience that's before me... right there singing, I'm singing to them. Just like I sang to some of the guys that as singer-songwriters... matter of fact is how I got my first guitar thrust into my hands. Freddie Neil ... he sang about three of those songs that I mentioned that I ended up singing onstage at first.
Oh yeah? Talk about that.
RH: He came to me one day, while I'm in the Village doing portraits and doing poetry -- that was how I was staying alive at the time -- and I had the wonderful privilege to go to any coffeehouse and sit down and listen to everyone who sang for years.
So, Freddie Neil... he came up to me one day, and he says, "Hey, Richie, you've been singing my songs for about six months now offstage and in harmony no less, you know. Take this guitar and go home and learn how to play it." So, I got this first guitar to be able to use, a real guitar. And you know, prior to that, doo-wop had no instruments, and here I am now. I would have never been onstage to sing by myself if I didn't have the support I needed -- since I wasn't one of the upfront guys in all the doo-wop bands that I was ever in.
I was the guy doing the baritone voice, but I was also doing the choreography, and I was also keeping everybody on note (laughs). I wrote some of the songs. Every day I wrote three or 10 songs, you know (laughs), whatever. But, I took a guitar home, and I didn't know how to tune it. So, this is where I drop off from doo-wop to folk. I use doo-wop in terms of the fact that all of the voices are singing a chord.
So, I tune my guitar to the chord. So, it's open tuning. It's D-A-D-F#-A-D, from the top to the bottom. And this became my support to allow me to even get up on the stage and sing. So, three days later, I was back there, and I was not only singing his two songs, or three songs, but I was singing songs from Dino Valente, another person in Greenwich Village who inspired me, and Bob Gibson, who inspired me. People like that. And there I was, in the middle of them now.
They were my ancestors sitting right on stage with me (laughs). You've really done well, guys (laughs). They got me. They recruited me and threw me in the great divide. But, it really allowed me to be able to express many things inside of myself that I couldn't have done in doo-wop, in that sense, because I don't think most of the people that heard doo-wop realized that it was a commercial approach to social issues.
You went to Greenwich Village at the age of 20 looking for artistic inspiration. What do you remember about your arrival?
RH: How I got there, this is very interesting, because it turns out one of my doo-wop friends who I sang with in the doo-wop band, the last one I was in, before I sort of moved across the bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan... we were poets. We wrote poetry, me and my friend, Michael Kroeger. He was our second tenor in the band.
And Michael, he was an incredible writer, poet. He was really what I would have called ... like he's the real poet. I'm just the guy trying to put poetry down on paper. He was really a wonderful writer, and so, we wrote poetry, and somehow or other, it got around in the neighborhood,you know, and the other guys, the big guys, were calling me and Michael "beatniks." We didn't know what a beatnik was. We had no clue.
And what happened was we went... my friend came running over to my house one day and he goes, "Richie, look... beatniks in Greenwich Village in Manhattan (laughs)." "Really? What do they say they are?" "I don't know. They just talk about a lot of different people and the stuff they're doing." I said, "Okay, let's go and see who we are. Let's go find out (laughs) who they're saying we are."
And we went to Greenwich Village and heard poets. And we heard singer-songwriters. We heard traditional folk singers. We saw painters paint in the streets. It was like being in circus heaven. Everybody had their act, and everybody contributed to the whole of being there... really amazing. And that's what attracted me to being in Greenwich Village... I was an audience.
I was listening to that poetry. I was listening to those songs in between drawing portraits in the street to stay alive. It awakened something in me... that atmosphere of possibilities, you know, so many possibilities we could exercise at this point. We'd been working hard singing it, so far, and now maybe some duets will show up in our musical world. Maybe some trios. Because I started singing with a conga drummer and another kid who I went to school with his brothers and sisters. He was the young one of us. He was like 13 years old.
When I went up on stage in Greenwich Village, he was there. He played maracas, and he sang the third voice. We sang in a trio since. We had the conga drummer, him and myself. And so, in the early days, we did some real trio music with really interesting approaches. We had some jazz harmonies in the way we sang and all of that kind of stuff, because I had tuned my guitar the way I play it and have all the support I needed, and boy, we had a good time singing together. That's the way it started.
Looking back, was that move absolutely necessary for you to become the artist you would become?
RH: I would have to say so. In hindsight, I would have to say so, because it was definitely a crossing of the bridge into another land, another mountain, another conclave, you know... commune-ism.
It was a really great gathering of so many people who became famous. Ninety percent of them became famous in the world, the people I saw in Greenwich Village when I first went there. Some did records.
I found that a lot of those singer-songwriters made albums out of protest, that they didn't want to be making albums (laughs). They wanted to be onstage playing music for people. They didn't want to get hooked up in this business, which came along with the package.
I wasn't running around looking to be recorded. I was having a darn good time singing songs and getting feedback from people from all over the world. That was my thing when I did portraits. I was able to sit out in front of the café and do portraits and then run downstairs and sing a few songs (laughs).
What do you remember about first walking out onstage at Woodstock?
RH: Oh, God. It just so happened that they had to catch me first. I was on the run, because I wanted to be over at the field, but they actually couldn't get anybody over to the field.
The concert actually was five hours late from what it advertised what it was going to be doing. There was over the 250,000 people they said was going to be there. It was more like 520,000 people who were there. They didn't have any way to get any of the bands or the equipment to the backstage area at all.
There was nothing to bring them through the roads that weren't there. Roads of cars parked all the way back to 17, which is the off road to the turnpike down there, the New York throughway. Thirty miles of people sitting on top of their cars, having their own Woodstock because they couldn't get the car off the road. It had all stopped completely and shut down.
So, they were stuck on the road, and we got there early enough, but nothing was happening. All of a sudden, it's now 5:30 p.m. in the evening, and I hear a loud noise, and it's a helicopter coming down in the field right behind me in the hotel parking lot. And it was a bubble helicopter, one of those glass bubble things. Turns out, it belonged to a farmer down the road, who they asked to take people over.
Then they knocked on my door in the hotel and said, "Richie, would you go over now?" I said, "No problem." I wanted to be over there. "What happened?" [asked Richie] They said, "Oh, we couldn't get anybody to get us there."
So, we get on. I have two guys playing with me. [If}my bass player had come, we wouldn't have been so electively different from anybody else, but he came with other people, so he got stuck on the road. So it left me and the conga drummer and my guitarist and basically, that was like a "Oh, boy" in and of itself, being just the three of us.
And so they go, "Hey, Richie, would you go on?" I said, "Wait a minute. It says I'm No. 4 (laughs)." They go, "Yeah, but there's nobody here to go on." I said, "Oh, my God." This is like 520,000 people. If something doesn't get thrown up on the stage, I'm going to die (laughs).
So, what happens is, I go, "Oh, no. I don't want to go on first." And I sort of disappeared (laughs) into the crowd. And then here I am talking to somebody, and they catch me again. So, after catching me three times, I decided I've got to do something or else it's going to be, you know, a riot out here, and they may blame it on me (laughs).
So, I did. I went up onstage, and of course, everybody wanted something to be happening, and I got up on the stage and I realized how many people were there, 'cause I flew over them. They were under my feet in the helicopter, and the weirdest thing is, the helicopter brought us and went back to the motel. And by the time he got back, there was a pile of amplifiers and stuff sitting there, and the guy goes, "I can't carry that off of there in my helicopter. What are you guys, nuts?"
So, he gets in his helicopter, and he takes off and goes home (laughs). So, now they're stuck with all this stuff sitting out in front of the door and not knowing what to do, and as it turns out, that's why I was onstage for two hours and 45 minutes.
After doing my 40 that I was supposed to do, I walked off, and they go, "Richie, can you do four more?" And I said, "OK. I'll do four more." [Then, growing more exasperated and scared] "Richie, can you do four more?" "Okay." Well, by the seventh time they are doing this to me, seven times, I didn't have a song to sing.
I did every song I knew that I played on the guitar. And all of a sudden I'm going, "Oh, my God."
I remember, you know, interestingly enough, I wasn't as afraid, in reality, of being on the stage as much as I was scared to death of the first Newport I ever went to. I didn't even have a record out. I was, this was 1966... um, '65, [and] I did a workshop. I wasn't even on the main stage, but I had the same manager as Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul & Mary, and basically, he got me sort of like a little gig in the workshop area, when the two other people turned out to be Bob Dylan and Donovan (laughs), who everyone in America was meeting for the first time.
And it was great, because, you know, there was a little rivalry thing going on without, of course, without the knowledge of Donovan -- he was the same -- but people were scaring the hell out of Bob saying, this guy is the Bob Dylan of England (laughs). He didn't know what that meant.
When we sat down to play, it was very obvious that we liked each other, that it wasn't going to be as hard as, or mystical as, people made us think. It was what we did. And that was great. Now, here I am, and the next year I'm going out on the main stage, and I look out, and there's 9,000 people. I'm going, "Oh, my God. There's 9,000 people out there. How the heck do I get out of this one?" with my knees wobbling and I'm looking for a stool to sit down (laughs).
I sit down and this is what goes through my mind: I go, "This is a giant, and he's laying on his back. His feet are right up here in front of the stage, and his head is all the way back by the fence back there. And if I can get him to just peek up, and look at what I'm doing, I will feel a helluva lot more comfortable than I do now."
And, of course, the giant was the audience, you know, and the giant not only lifted his head, he sat up, and I went, "Oh, boy, this is fun now." So, when I got to Woodstock, even though it was three years later, the numbers only meant to me that we had come out of the concern; we were born out of the concern... everybody, you know, and that this is something we all had input in way before it happens to us. But, you know, the folk festival, being traditional as it was, there were only certain songs that I could sing, and I sang what I sang.
They happened to just allow me to... I did some hymns that I sang, like "Motherless Child" for instance. I hadn't sung that song in about 13 or 14 years. I sang it early on in Greenwich Village. Before that, I started with my doo-wop buddy, who sang lead [and] was a young kid who was about 12, and his mother actually ran the church, and she had had a family choir there, and she said, "If he's going to be playing rock 'n' roll with you, you guys are going to be in here singing for God (laughs)."
So, we said, "No problem." We needed our lead singer. She made a deal with us, which was a really wonderful deal, you know, and I learned a lot of stuff. "Motherless Child" was one of the songs we sang together. -- Goldmine Magazine, November 20, 2008


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Unfortunately, spam has increased again in the past weeks, with one notorious spammer being kelisi007. Please remove this account and all the spam images and text she/he pestered this website with. I even offer to do such cleanup from time to time, if the existing team is short on cleaning time.
Otherwise, thank you very much for kdenlive; I already did more than a dozen small projects and more and more people are beginning to ask what tool I'm using for editing and processing: kdenlive!
Fri, 08/31/2012 - 16:55
Second that!!!
Sometimes I have a quick peek in the morning, take one look at the Forum List, swear to myself and just go away. Dump them! please.
Tue, 09/04/2012 - 08:24
User "kyo" is also a spammer.
Tue, 09/04/2012 - 12:14
kelisi007 - gone
Tue, 09/04/2012 - 19:49
Total agreement with Dive0, thanks.
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 09:20
Removed kyo just now. Are you saying kelisi007 is back? I definitely deleted them on the day I posted about it. SO this is pretty sad. Do they have a capcha reading bot?
edit: yes kelisi007 was back. But they are now deleted again.
I wonder if IP blocking is available on this sort of site.
Thu, 09/06/2012 - 11:08
So j-b-m kindly granted me spam deletion privliges. And I have been making use of them.
But just now I saw a new option at the bottom of posts - "Report to Mollom". I googled this and found http://www.tcrcm.org/content/report-mollom from which I learn that the Mollom service is an anti-spam service. I also learn't from this site that "Organized Crime are using people, mostly children at about $1 per day, to cruise for websites to attack. and create new accounts so they can load the forums" - thus beating CAPCHA verification.
"Every piece of content that is created is checked against the world-wide Mollom database. If it matches something that has been reported from another site, or from a known spam account, it is denied."
So I will be using this in future.
Do only members with spam deltion privliges see this link I wonder? Obviously you don't want people flaging non-spam as spam so it might be good to keep this out of general usage.
Fri, 09/07/2012 - 11:27
"put each new member under moderation for its first five or ten posts"
I dunno if Drupal has this facility. But you are right. That might help.
Who is the new spammer
Fri, 09/07/2012 - 13:21
Yesterday afternoon it was a kelly345, I think. Sounds a lot like kelisi007
EDIT: Looks like you can add billjhonson to your list.
Thu, 09/13/2012 - 19:33
I have also reported many spammers over the past months.
Most forum software package have an option that the first post from a new user goes into a moderation queue. Once it is approved, that user then has normal posting rights.
Of course this makes it less user friendly for first time users as it will take (a little) longer before their first post shows up in the forum but it keeps spam almost 100% under control.
I know it from many forums I attend and have attended and it works fine.
Fri, 09/14/2012 - 18:02
The spam pressure has really increased horribly in recent times.
I take a peek at this forum several times daily, and almost always there is some new spam.
But now I found that under "View abuse history" there is a "Ban" option, and it seems to help better than just deleting replies and flagging the new topics which have no "delete" button.
Mon, 09/17/2012 - 08:08
Should messages like
be treated as spam and deleted?
I'm not sure because the links coud be interpreted (by a very permissive person!) as "self introduction", but I smell a rat anyway!
OK, I have deleted these two.
Mon, 09/17/2012 - 09:21
Well those type of links are the ones I report here on kdenlive forums on a near daily basis, they cleverly take a plausible quote from somewhere else on the forum and add their link, but simple hovering over the link establishes the real url, I'd suggest that surely even basic forum protection should be able to check the first section if a href mark up with the displayed text and if not the same then stands good chance its spam. Thats what a human visual check does eithet hovering on the link or view html source. Could at least flag it as so and put it in a spam folder for checking first.
Is this avaiable in the forum software I wonder?
Mon, 09/17/2012 - 10:36
That's first thing I always check, if the links don't match or look suspicious I leave it well alone.
On a happier note, I see kelisi700 was on here this morning but quietly left without posting.
Ha, possibly due to his name being "up there in lights".
Mon, 09/17/2012 - 13:26
vivian58's another regular. That account needs closing.
Tue, 09/18/2012 - 08:52
I log on here and clean stuff about twice a day - however, spammers are active 24h/day...
I've banned vivian and kelisi (someone with a similar nick twice already) but they keep coming back.
I do what I can, and I think the others do the same, but unless you can hire someone to be on the watch 24/7, it will be impossible to prevent spam 100%
Thu, 09/20/2012 - 19:12
You cleared them out this morning, thanks, but now the whole list is full of them.
What a battle, eh?
Fri, 09/21/2012 - 10:04
Deleted 7 messages yesterday evening, banned 3 users this morning...
Tue, 11/20/2012 - 19:49
Maybe an efficient solution would be to block every new user automatically if his first post contains a link, hide the post and then put the user on a moderation queue for review. This should affect most spammers but will hold the misalerts down.
Or turn the verification into some questions that can only be googled using phrases that are banned from google in China? ^-^ (Joking)
Wed, 11/21/2012 - 22:04
From my recent experince in removing spam from this site I would concur that most of teh spam fit the criteria listed in his post. But we need to have the forum coded up to implement this algorithm. I dunno if such a config is possible with the current code of the forum.
Are we still getting a high volume of spam? I delete about 1 spam post every 2 or 3 days on average. I am thinking this is not that much.
Thu, 11/22/2012 - 13:08
You're right ttguy, It has been a hell of a lot better. Many thanks to all the "Sweepers"
PS Only two Spams on here at the moment.
Mon, 12/03/2012 - 09:02
katherine1203 was on for 23 mins and made 4 spam posts before I disabled its account. I think we are probably winning the spam war with having an army of admins with banning powers.
Tue, 12/04/2012 - 09:34
New record - weiwei12 member for 16 mins - 11 spam posts. Gone
Tue, 01/08/2013 - 09:15
New record - member deleted for spam after existing for 4 mins and 1 second. Bazinga
Tue, 01/08/2013 - 09:25
for you hehe, so you actually wait for them to spam before taking them down? jk
I'm having a go for a few months now 3 or 4 each and every morning actually on when I log in. :-) Some are so blatently named I delete their account before they post.
Rather than disable I delete account and any / all posts. :-)
Like getting up early on holiday to take in the streets empty of holiday makers and seeing the street cleaners clearing the garbage and dog s**t off the streets preparing for a new day.
Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:36
I disable the account and delete all posts. I keep the account so that they get the account blocked message if they ever try and log in again. I guess this eats user names though.
Wed, 01/09/2013 - 08:36
"Like getting up early on holiday to take in the streets empty of holiday makers and seeing the street cleaners clearing the garbage and dog s**t off the streets preparing for a new day."
What a piece of cristmass-ive-consummation poetry ;-)
If one day you are in a lack of some ,
you can travel to http://thebestspam.tumblr.com/
Happy New y**r dear spambusters!
Thu, 04/25/2013 - 11:24
Beat my old record by one second !!!
Wed, 05/15/2013 - 07:25
Recently, we've been flooded by "kitchen" spam, every morning I ban about 5 to 10 users...
I've noticed a change in the behavior of the forum engine. In the past the offending posts disappeared immediately after banning the user, now they seem to linger for some time. Is that intentional?
Also, since the "kitchen" spammers mention cities in the UK, and the links are also in the UK domain, maybe there is an authority in the UK where this could be reported?
Wed, 05/15/2013 - 08:17
Yeah. Yellow and I delete a bucket load of kitchen spam every day too.
I find their posts disappear straight away - choose the "Delete the account and all content." option when I delete the account.
I have been in contact with the hosting service of some of the kitchen sites and they are trying to work with the owner of the sites to make this stop. But to no avail so far by the looks.
Yellow and I have been reporting the content to Molum for a week or so now. So it appears that the molum automatic moderation is not working.
Yellow and I would like JBM to investigate if it would be possible to stop very new users posting URLs. Like what the JREF forum does. But we have not heard from him on that.
You could report sites to the web of trust. I have reported a few of the kitchen sites to that. But there are so many.
I am going to retire from spam cleanup for a while so that other users can see how bad it really is - might motivate JBM to look in to other measures.
Wed, 05/15/2013 - 14:32
Post removed... Same here as ttguy.
Thu, 05/16/2013 - 03:00
I am working on a Greasemonkey user script that adds a "Ban User" button underneath users with only 1 post to their name. This button will take you straight to the delete user page ready for you to delete them.
Prototype version is working. Just a few things to sort out.
Fri, 05/17/2013 - 07:38
Only real solution will be updating/switching the forum software (somewhere in the distant future). A good measure would be to have the posts of first time users be manually allowed by moderators, saw this on another spam-free forum. This is however, very annoying for the new good user.
Fri, 05/17/2013 - 07:51
Exactly what I asked j-b-m earlier this week(but no reply so far), like ttguy I've been clearing this s**t kitchen spam for freaking months everyday 30 or so at a time, I only stopped early this week so that's why its been seen now, sometthing needs to be done about it.
Fri, 05/17/2013 - 14:25
>>This is however, very annoying for the new good user.
Not really, I am on several forums where my first posts needed to be OK'd by the moderator(s), and had no problems with that.
If several people have "approve" privileges, it goes quite fast, too.
Mon, 06/03/2013 - 08:19
wanna buy a kitchen? ;-)
Honestly: All spam entries have the same telephone number: 01616-694785 Is it possible to use it to ban all the spam?
All the best
Fri, 06/14/2013 - 07:35
Fri, 06/14/2013 - 13:55
Well my greasemonkey script is working for any spam buster users with spam deleting privs.
With it you can delete a days worth of spam (15 posts by the looks is the usual amount) in about 2 mins. It automates the process by cutting out several steps that are normally required to do the job. It now also logs the spammers IP address to http://home.exetel.com.au/ttguy/forum_spammer_stats.php. I am hoping to use this IP address info to maybe convince JBM to block certain IP address ranges. The main offenders are from an ISP called PT Telkom Indonesia so blocking this would solve a lot of the problem. And hey if you are a legitimate user from PT Telkom Indonesia then complain to your ISP that they should shut down spammers or move ISPs !!!
Fri, 06/21/2013 - 15:09
I found a greasemonkey script that can spam the spammers back.
I just sent them about 10,000 spams.
Fri, 06/21/2013 - 17:00
ttguy, better don't spam them, it probably does not have any effect, and you yourself could maybe get in trouble for spamming?
Fri, 06/21/2013 - 23:46
"you yourself could maybe get in trouble for spamming?"
I would love it if my spamming had enough of an effect that made them try and take action against me. That would be the ideal outcome actually.
You should also note that greasemonkey can be installed in the Tor browser. So you can spam them anonymously.
Of course I am not being to anonymous right now. But you can do it.
Sat, 06/22/2013 - 16:59
They can always see your IP in the email header, so it is actually impossible to send an email anonymously, even if you send your email using telnet.
Anyway, what I was thinking of is that maybe your ISP thinks you are a spammer and cuts your connection or so, that would be a shame.
Sun, 06/23/2013 - 07:53
I am fairly sure that by using tor browser and the tor network you can be anonymous. See https://www.torproject.org Yes I have an IP address when I use Tor but it is not the IP address of my ISP. It is the IP address of the tor exit node. And it is my tor browser that is sending stuff to the kitchen spammers not my email client.
On the other hand I am a newbie at this so I could be wrong. Dode - do know much about tor?
Mon, 06/24/2013 - 20:40
First of all, I want to make sure that you know that of course, like I'm sure everyone else here, I appreciate your effort against spam in this forum. And I don't want you to get into trouble :-)
I don't know Tor at all, but if I understand it correctly, it is some distributed service consisting of volunteers who basically anonymize the requests made by users of this system. So for me this means that if you use Tor to send spam, you abuse the service to do something bad.
And anyway, it does not even seem to be possible to do that if you read their Abuse FAQ: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse.html.en#WhatAboutSpammers

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Let $X\sim\exp(λ)$ and $Y$ equals its decimal part.
How would you find the probability density function of $Y$?
I started by looking for $F_Y(y)$ but got stuch in this level:
$F_Y(y)=P(Y\le y)=1-P(Y>y)= \text{?}$
Let $X\sim\exp(λ)$ and $Y$ equals its decimal part.
How would you find the probability density function of $Y$?
I started by looking for $F_Y(y)$ but got stuch in this level:
$F_Y(y)=P(Y\le y)=1-P(Y>y)= \text{?}$
I'm going to assume "decimal part" means "fractional part", so that it is $X-\lfloor X\rfloor$, where $\lfloor X\rfloor$ is the greatest integer less than or equal to $X$.
I will write the density as $\alpha e^{-\alpha x}$ for $x>0$ (and $0$ for $x<0$), and let you worry about whether $\alpha=\lambda$ or $\alpha=1/\lambda$.
The conditional density of $X$ given that $n\le X<n+1$, where $n\ge0$ is an integer, is $$ x\mapsto \frac{\alpha e^{-\alpha x}}{\int_n^{n+1} e^{-\alpha w}\left(\alpha\,dw\right)} = \frac{\alpha e^{-\alpha x}}{\left(e^{-\alpha n} - e^{-\alpha (n+1)}\right)}. $$ The fractional part is just this shifted $n$ units leftward, so the conditional density of the fractional part, given that the integer part is $n$, is $$ \frac{\alpha e^{-\alpha(x+n)}}{\left(e^{-\alpha n} - e^{-\alpha (n+1)}\right)} = \frac{\alpha e^{-\alpha x}}{\left(1-e^{-\alpha}\right)} \qquad \text{for }0<x<1,\text{ and }0\text{ otherwise}. $$ Lo and behold: This does not depend on $n$. The conditional distribution of the fractional part, given the integer part, does not depend on the integer part. Therefore the fractional part and the integer part are independent. And above, we have the density of the fractional part.
Let $f$ be a bounded continuous fonction. Splitting up $\int_0^\infty=\sum_{n=0}^\infty \int_n^{n+1}$, we have: $$ E[f(Y)] = \sum_{n=0}^\infty \int_0^1 f(u) \lambda e^{-\lambda(n+u)}du = \int_0^1 f(u) \frac{\lambda e^{-\lambda u}}{1-e^{-\lambda}}du. $$
From here, you easily recover that the density of $Y$ with respect to Lebesgue's measure on $[0,1]$ is $$ u \mapsto \frac{\lambda e^{-\lambda u}}{1-e^{-\lambda}} $$
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For Seniors: Perform Calculations in a Microsoft Works Spreadsheet
Microsoft Works includes a spreadsheet program you can use to organize data and perform calculations. MS Works Spreadsheet can perform simple or complex calculations on the numbers you enter into a spreadsheet, from averaging a set of numbers to complex statistical analysis.
Click in a cell where you would like calculation results to appear.
The cell is highlighted.
Choose Tools→Easy Calc or press the Easy Calc button on the toolbar.
The Easy Calc dialog box appears.
Click a function in the Common Functions list box and then click Next.
For example, you might choose Add to add the values in a range of cells. When you click Next, the Easy Calc wizard displays the next page.
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For example, if you are subtracting, click the first cell, then click the cell whose value you want to subtract from the first cell. If you're adding, drag over the range of cells whose values you want to add.
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Click Next, then click Finish.
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Draw a simple sweater.
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Draw straight lines that come down from her underarms and end a little below belly button level. Connect the side seams at the bottom with a slightly curved line for the hem.
Starting at the neckline, trace over your model's shoulders and go down to the end of the arm. Draw the part of the sleeve on the underside of the arm, starting at the top of the shirt's sides. End the line slightly farther down the arm than the line for the upper sleeve. Connect the upper and lower sleeve lines with a line that goes across the arm and wraps behind it at the ends.
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Are you the kind of expectant mom who buys nothing for her baby until the child has arrived safely and the gender is known? Or are you the kind who has already bought everything the child will need for the next five years? In either case, the baby eventually will need certain things. When you shop, keep these tips in mind:
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Some hospitals and the Red Cross offer free or low-cost car seats. If all the new baby paraphernalia is hurting your pocketbook, this is one expense a community agency might be able to cover. Call your local hospital and ask.
Car seat: By law, all children under age five must be strapped into a car seat when riding in a car. This is so important that most hospitals will not release a baby until they are assured she will sit in a car seat on the ride home. This is one time that you have to start thinking like a responsible parent even before the baby is born.
You should buy the car seat this month before you deliver the baby. It's an important purchase that will require some comparison shopping. You'll also need time to practice getting it in and out of the car. Always put the car seat in the back seat-that way it's not directly in the path of an exploding air bag.
Car seats are made in two basic styles:
- Infant seat: This is designed for children under 20 pounds and it faces the back of the car.
- Infant-toddler seat: This can be used by both infants and older children up to 40 pounds. It faces the back for infant use and is turned around to face the front when the baby reaches 20 pounds.
Cribs: The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that cribs meet the following standards:
- Slats should be less than 2 3/8 inches apart or no wider than the length of your little finger. If the crib was made before 1985, it might not meet this requirement.
- Avoid cribs with cut-out designs on the head- or footboard. They can trap a child's head.
- Unscrew or cut off corner posts—your baby's clothing can get hooked on one and cause her to choke.
- The mattress should fit snugly. If you can put more than two fingers between the mattress and the crib, replace the mattress.
If you are using a rocking cradle, make sure it has stops so the baby won't be thrown out. And keep in mind that you can use it for no more than three months. By that time the baby will be too big to be left alone in a cradle or bassinet.
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I am taking a statistics and probability course. The instructor uses an odd (to me) symbol for logical negation. The symbol is not a tide (~) or an exclamation mark (!) or the bar-over symbol. This symbol looks like the top right hand corner of a rectangle. What is this symbol called? I am trying to take notes using the Inftyeditor. Thanks John


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I have over 20GB of photos and documents stored on my hard disk without a backup. I'm thinking about saving all of them in a cloud service such as Microsoft Skydrive or google cloud, but I'm wondering if it is really safe... I mean, can I trust these services in privacy and responsibility just as if I was saving these files on an external hard drive?
The most sensible approach is to assume you cant rely on their privacy - it isn't their responsibility, although there are some services whose selling point is securing this data.
If you take that stance, as long as you encrypt all data before it goes to the cloud you can be safe (decide on what level of encryption you need in order to be safe)
This approach gives you a very practical backup, just make sure you protect your encryption keys.
I would say no its not suitable for storing criticial information,
From the sound of their terms Google essentially owns everyting you upload as well as anything derivitive of your data as well.
Here is an excerpt from the verge.com explaining the differences of the 3 major players, notice Google is very liberal with what they can do with your data.
"By using our Services you provide us with information, files, and folders that you submit to Dropbox (together, "your stuff"). You retain full ownership to your stuff. We don't claim any ownership to any of it. These Terms do not grant us any rights to your stuff or intellectual property except for the limited rights that are needed to run the Services, as explained below."
"Except for material that we license to you, we don't claim ownership of the content you provide on the service. Your content remains your content. We also don't control, verify, or endorse the content that you and others make available on the service."
Google Drive
"You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.
When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content."
Consider this from an Information Management or Information Assurance question rather than an Information Protection question. To the question if a service provider's level of security is "safe" (sufficient and appropriate), the answer is YES and NO - depending on the level of protection the specific information requires.
My suggestion is you create three big categories of information, Public, Personal and Private. You can ask yourself how much damage would I be willing to endure if I lost "personal" information to help you decide if a specific item of information should go in "private" or not. Private is the category where you need the most burdensome protections, and you don't want to put less valuable information in that category because those extra security measures cost you time, sometimes money, and generally some frustration.
All private information should be stored encrypted. It does not matter if you store it on a local drive or a cloud service, presuming the encryption is the right type (for example AES with 256 bit keys) and the pass-phrase sufficiently complex and is kept private. Odds are your home network is far less protected than networks managed by Microsoft or Google.
All personal information should be stored under the protection of network credentials by a service provider who publishes their security standards. In the case of Microsoft, all of their SkyDrive infrastructure is now on their Windows Azure platform, which meats very stringent protections such as HIPPA. Google, by contrast, is very upfront about scanning most information stored to target ads to you.
If you want to store personal information you can use an enhanced service from Microsoft called Office365. For $6 per month you get a privately segmented Exchange service for email and a full SharePoint (SkyDrive plus many extra features) that is designed to protect your information from being shared outside of your "namespace" (think of it as your domain name). Those Microsoft services have been reviewed in depth and (outside of government classified information which generally requires dedicated hardware), Office365 is approved for all highly regulated environments such as SOX, HIPPA, etc.
If a piece of information is not Private and not Personal, it should be public and then any of the services should be safe for you. Microsoft is hyper-vigilant about not losing customer data as they spend billions of dollars on Windows Azure, so my opinion is they are safe as a backup location.
Let me leave you with a way of thinking about information that was shared by a crusty old IT guy that knew (kids avert your eyes):
Public is a picture of your best friend.
Personal is a picture of your wife in lingerie.
Private is a picture of your best friend with your wife in lingerie.
How much you protect each level of information depends on how embarrassed you would be seeing the picture (document, etc.) on the cover of your local newspaper.
My concern with any cloud service would be that one day you'll wake up and they'll be gone. -- so long as they're a backup, not primary storage, it's an ordinary risk.
As others have mentioned, general-purpose cloud storage providers, like Microsoft, Google, Apple, and DropBox are not completely safe, since although they encrypt your files, they have copies of the keys (needed so they can index your files for search purposes).
And as Rory points out, you can make this super-secure pretty easily: encrypt the backups yourself before putting them in the cloud. This is the best option.
But there is also a middle-ground. There are some cloud storage providers who focus on security by not keeping copies of your encryption keys. SpiderOak are a popular one for backing up documents. Carbonite are also popular, and also offer an option to back up the whole of the machine (i.e. OS as well as documents.)
Why not using a combination of truecrypt volume and those cloud storages! truecrypt for confidentiality and the cloud services for redundancy and backup


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Unanswered: proxy parameters - dynamic at startup, and dynamic from user
I am in the early stages of an app that will be, I think, fairly straightforward representation and occasional update of an existing, unmodifiable RESTful JSON database. I am struggling with a couple things, at this moment most noticeably the store proxy, and a couple of dynamic parameters that are needed.
First, the basic code:
Ext.define('TouchMill.store.Tournaments', { extend: 'Ext.data.Store', config: { model: 'TouchMill.model.Tournament', autoLoad: false, proxy: { type: 'ajax', //url: 'test/data/tournaments.json', // will change once dynamic url: 'https://api.leaguevine.com/v1/tournaments/', reader: { type: 'json', rootProperty: 'objects', }, extraParams: { access_token: 'TOKEN', tournament_ids: '[18091,18093,18094]', // XXX need to put this into a config opt }, } } });
- config.proxy.url: the particular html file that's loaded sets a global variable, based on which I choose the URL
- config.proxy.extraParams.access_token: that comes from the login step (or localStorage, if already logged in), meaning that the app is already launched
And the update question could be more specific -- it boils down to this: where can I learn how to access and update things from other locations? Is there something documenting how to access app elements from other scopes?
PS - tips on where in tutorials/vids/docs to find this would be awesome. I've watched several, looked at a few examples, and not found it so far...
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The store is created thusly:
Ext.application({ name: 'TouchMill', models: [ 'Event', 'Tournament', ], //'TournamentTeam' ], views: [ 'Main', 'Events', 'Tournaments', 'Games', 'GameView', 'DevConfig', ], controllers: [ 'Main', ], stores: [ 'Events', 'Tournaments', ], ... });
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What an incredible league cup match at the Madjeski stadium last night!
Reading were leading 4-2 in the 89th minute but Arsenal went on to win the game 7-5 in Extra time!
Theo Walcott scored a hat trick while Chamakh scored twice in what were his first goals for the club in 13 months.
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Kevin Drum on the Palin pregnancy:
JUST ASKIN' INDEED....Jakes Tapper asks:What would the response be if Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, and his wife Michelle had a pregnant unmarried teenage daughter?
Yeah, yeah, I know how annoying this kind of conjecture is. But I couldn't help thinking about it. Here's how my mind wandered: Fox News talking heads....hmmm....solemn statement of faux support from John McCain....followed by the usual innuendo-laden videos from the cretins who run his communications shop....James Dobson would release a statement and it sure as hell wouldn't be this one....Steve Sailer would weigh in on black family culture....Charles Murray would be next....The Corner would slowly build to a screeching crescendo....Jeremiah Wright....permissive liberal culture....Rush Limbaugh....Sean Hannity....Michelle Malkin....um....um....um....
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I don't think this kind of conjecture is very helpful, I'm afraid. There are several legitimate reasons to fairly question Palin's experience and fitness for the vice-presidency, but I don't think her daughter's pregnancy is one of them. In addition, the conjecture fails to take into account Obama's comment during the primary season that if one of his daughters made a "mistake" and became pregnant, he wouldn't want her "punished with a baby." Obama took a hit in some quarters for those unfortunate words. Finally, even if there were improper piling on in the event the hypothetical became reality, it doesn't excuse the glee with which some people are attacking Palin about what is an internal family issue. Sen. Obama showed a lot of class in recognizing that fact. It's too bad he can't control the Jakes Tappers of the world.
I agree with you, William, that Palin's daughter's pregnancy isn't a serious factor in Palin's fitness as a candidate... But I don't see any suggestion that it is relevant in the quotation above. I haven't followed the link, but based on what's here, Tapper's and Drum's questions are not about Palin, but about double standards and differing expectations -- whether and where they exist, how they operate, and whether we're as aware of them as we should be. Exercises in conjecture like this one can certainly be annoying, but I'm not sure they're fruitless. I was affected by this post by Dahlia Lithwick on Slate's "XX Factor" blog, wondering what sort of reaction we could expect if Palin (or someone equivalent) had been on the Democratic ticket instead of the GOP's. "Would we be seeing Sarah Palin nutcrackers by the weekend? Would Fox News be airing a segment next week about her 'nagging voice' in which so-called experts opine that men wont vote for Sarah Palin because she reminds them of their nagging wives'?" Those don't seem like hollow questions to me. I think they're valid, not in spite of the fact that Palin's sex should be irrelevant, but because of that fact.
What if Michelle Obama had a baby? Would conservatives have been stirring up baseless and idiotic rumors that the baby really was delivered by another Obama daughter, and the Obamas somehow managed to fool everyone and pull a switcheroo? Well, I don't know. In any event, though, it's rather a waste of time to sit around casting blame on one's partisan opponents for the hypothetical actions that they supposedly would have taken in some alternate universe.
What's the correct response for us as Cathoics, rather than partisans?
I thought the whole point was the continuing (stupid) partisanship one finds, say on the fair and balanced news channel or even in some posts here, and how it (both from the left and right) poisons the perceptions of folks
Obama is up over 50% for the first time.He hasnt been in the news. He has given no policy statment or vision.Guess what has been in they news cyle 24 - 7 and how has it been framed and who it serves.QED
How can someone who can't keep her own house in order hope to help run this country? ANd has anyone clued in to the fact that this is personal history repeating itself? From what I have read, Sarah Palin eloped a mere 8 months before her first son was born.... Now the daughter is pregnant out of wedlock... Shocked? Not really. Her parents set a great example for her to follow. Is this the kind of example we want set before all of our kids??? No one is perfect (heck the last guy who was walked on water and was hung on a cross...) and the teen in this saga had free will to do as she pleased - and obviously did so. Where were her parents to teach her right from wrong, to monitor her choices, to provide the birth control if she was going to be having sex? Seems to me this "abstinence only" education plan I've h eard touted doesn't work in the Palin family. Makes me wonder if their oldest son has fostered any children - not as obvious when the son does this since he can hide it more easily.Jo March, Milwaukee, WI
I think the whole private conduct/public trust issue was resolved with Kennedy, Clinton, etc.,etc.But I know that is different because:1. They are men2. They are DemocratsBut irrespective of that the issue has been resolved and I do applaud Barack Obama's leadership on this one. But then again how can someone who can't keep their own surrogates in order hope to run this country?
"How can someone who cant keep her own house in order hope to help run this country?"Lord knows I find Palin's record troubling--whiffs of personally motivated firings, slashing funding for pregnant teens, pursuing pork while touting herself as having killed the bridge to nowhere--but I find this kind of question sexist.Jerry Ford's wife was an alcoholic. Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter had brothers with a whole raft of problems and embarrassments. Patty Reagan wrote scathing books about her parents.Nobody suggested that these male presidents were incapable of being prez because they couldn't keep family members in line. Raising these questions about Palin's fitness to be president because strikes me as thinly disguised mom-bashing. What evidence is there that Bristol's pregnancy has anything to do with the fact that Palin worked? And where's the scrutiny of Todd Palin, who seems to be the primary caregiver? I think it's great McCain considered a woman running mate. At this juncture, I think the problem is that he picked the wrong one. There were a bunch of great potential women Republicans interviewed on PBS last night between speeches. Christine Todd Whitman, another governor with Washington experience and a record of bucking Bush, would have been a great pick.
Jean, I'd disagree on the VP pool McCain had to work with. In fact, I think that is one of the real contraints for him, and one reason he jumped the shark a bit with Palin. Having covered Whitman--a very nice lady--I know her track record pretty well, and there's way too much stuff that would have been a drag on the ticket. Her declrations about the safety at Ground Zero, the fiscal mess she left in New Jersey (with lots of help from Dems, too) that is only now being straightened out by a Democratic governor. I just don't think he had many viable options. I also think, as I've said before, that the Palins' family life is relevant to the extent that her family values are a central part of her platform. Slashing funding for needy pregnant girls is not a family value. Not teaching them how not to get pregnant? Tough call. It's delicate terrain, to be sure, for both Obama and McCain, and the media. It did not have to be thus. (And McCain and his ilk don't have much moral high ground, given their gratuitious cheap shots at Chelsea Clinton when she was a young teen.) It also goes to McCain's judgement--the head of the vetting team didn't meet Palin until the day before she was announced. All of this tsurris could have been avoided if they had done a good job, or floated her name, or something. It doesn't speak well of McCain's judgment, I think. And now you have his campaign strategist saying they put the daughter's pregnancy info out there so they could "flush the toilet" (his delicate phrase) on all the bad news on Labor Day, when everyone was at BBQs or fleeing Gustav, or barbecuing while watching people flee Gustav. Ouch.
I also think, as Ive said before, that the Palins family life is relevant to the extent that her family values are a central part of her platform. Slashing funding for needy pregnant girls is not a family value.Have you been taken in by this story? http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/02/palin_slashed_fund... If so, a bit of factual information might be helpful: 1) Someone proposed an additional $5 million for a facility "expansion," and Palin proposed $3.9 million instead; 2) That organization's entire government funding in 2006 was less than $1.2 million, so it's not quite accurate to describe Palin as "slashing funding." 3) The house for pregnant girls served a total of 12 girls in 2007. Are you suggesting that they couldn't manage with less than $5 million, or about $417,000 per girl?
Eduardo, your point has now been echoed by a National Review writer, oddly enough:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmNlZGFhNmI2Yzk1NzAzNDViM2VmZTA... don't usually engage in these scenarios, but I'll do it here. If the Obamas had a 17 year-old daughter who was unmarried and pregnant by a tough-talking black kid, my guess is if that they all appeared onstage at a Democratic convention and the delegates were cheering wildly, a number of conservatives might be discussing the issue of dysfunctional black families.
Stuart, my understanding of that story is that it was a reduction in the context of an overall reduction in spending for such programs. I'd like to be enlightened: Where did you get your information?
First, I looked at the Washington Post link that I provided above. The document shown there says, right at the top, that the budget item was for a facility "expansion." Then I read down further, and it turned out that some commenters on that Washington Post story showed some interest (or at least more interest than the Post) in looking at the facts, i.e., in linking to the specific Guidestar document showing the previous level of government funding for the program in question, or describing how many pregnant teens are really served by the program. I then looked at the program's website, and found that they did indeed report a mere $1.2 million in government funding, and they did indeed claim to have served no fewer than 12 pregnant women in 2007. None of this took very long. But if you have other sources of information -- i.e., about an "overall reduction in spending" on programs specifically for teenage mothers -- I'd be happy to hear any specifics.
The WaPo story notes that the legislature passed the item--it was Palin who cut the funds. Why? I'll look for the other pieces I saw re the overall spending. (Of course, she was cutting this program while the state was flush with cash. Gotta draw the line somewhere, I guess.)
Well, that interpretation falls in line with a long tradition (not a noble one) of accusing one's partisan opponents of "slashing funding" for something [whether welfare or the military or whatever] because they merely agreed to triple rather than quadruple the spending on a particular item. I tend to think, however, that journalists (i.e., the Post) should be more forthcoming in describing the context to their readers.


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I dont think that the AI would give Giggs and Beckham the same instruction, but i'm sure that it will give them standard instructions from the TC (winger with attack duty to giggs, and perhaps wide midfielder with support duty to Beckham).
We, human managers, work from those standard instruction but tweak them according the player attributes.
This could be the main reason why players play better for human teams. Despite, i still believe that we must not generalize because like i said in my post about Nicolas Gaitan, there could be logical reasons why the player plays worst in the AI team.
Perhaps this could be the next step for the AI: starting from the standard TC instructions, have the ability to tweak them to take the best from the players. (this is valid for the team and player instructions)


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First day of NC Mountain State Fair kicks off
Published: Friday, September 7, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
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"Five dollar rides! Cheapest camels in town guaranteed," Matt "Gumby" Michael called to the crowd on opening day of the N.C. Mountain State Fair.
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When: Through Sept. 16
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Eleven-year-old Andrew Lowe was quick to line up. He looked forward to riding a camel and wasn't a bit afraid he'd fall off, he said. A few times more around the ring, Michael led Lowe safely on the hump of one of his trusty safari companions.
"We've been doing this fair since 1997," Michael said, pointing out his camels by name: Wilbur, Tuesday, Blondie, Mojo and the youngest one of his brood, four-month-old Sied.
Another baby, a mere few hours old, was resting by his mother's side in a tent just down the midway. A cow gave birth Friday morning to a boy calf, named Dan. A crowd of spectators gathered to watch at the fair's Moo-ternity Ward.
"I got here just after he was born," said Martha Kimzey Whitener of Huntsville, Ala. "His mother was going around him, cleaning him off. It was sweet."
This was Whitener's first time at the Mountain State Fair after being away from her former home in Mills River nearly 45 years. She was in town visiting her brother, Bill Kimzey, who stood beside her near the cows' pen. The two watched with softened smiles as a small calf attempted to rise to all four hooves. Although young Dan the camel was not quite ready to stand, he was ready to imbibe some milk when a bottle came his way.
Under another nearby tent, 18-month-old Madison Borges — another first-time visitor to the Mountain State Fair — squealed and chuckled with delight as she petted the faces and necks of goats, who licked her hands in return.
"She loves the animals," said her mother, Heather Borges, adding that she thought Madison especially liked the goats because they were her size.
Young Madison showed no fear, however, when she rushed over to pet and hug a resting camel 10 times her size.
Bryan Benner, operating the camel rides with Michael (both from Circle G Ranch's Outdoor Safari Adventures in Tennessee), said that not every child is quick to want to hop on a camel.
"Some of the kids come kicking and screaming, but 5 minutes in, they're having the best time," he said.
Riding is for the young and the young at heart. "The oldest person I've ever had to ride was 100 years old. It was her birthday," Benner said. "She loved it."
Some adults come here to ride, "knocking it off their bucket list," he said with a laugh.
Andrew Lowe, a blond-haired, 4-foot daredevil, was too young to have a bucket list, but he did agree that he'd like to ride again as he ran off to have more fun at the fair.
The sounds of squeals, screams, whooshing rides, bumping cars, laughter, music and the common question, "Oh, Mommy, can I go on that ride?" filled the air at the fairgrounds Friday afternoon. Drifting through the air came the familiar smells of cotton candy, funnel cakes, Polish sausages, pizza and everything deep-fried.
"We've had a good crowd so far today," said Ron Stamey, marketing specialist with the Agricultural Center. "We have several new attractions this year."
A new ride, called the XFactory, will give riders a thrill and maybe even a splash on the fairgrounds. The fair will also feature a rodeo Monday through Thursday, a first this year, according to Stamey.
For a daily schedule of events and performance times, visit www.mountainfair.org. The fair continues through Sept. 16.
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It is said that to work effectively we should focus and concentrate. But it is also true that to get more productive, one has to work a lot. So is it better to work on more than one project at a time to be more productive?
Yes, you could work on many active tasks and still be as productive. Sometimes you find that a task is blocked by some external factor; then it makes sense to do something else rather than sit idle. It might also be more fun to have several things going; in that case that could boost your productivity. But there are some things to observe:
There is nothing wrong with working on more than one project at a time. In fact, keep a notebook and jot down ideas about potential projects as much as you can and further explore or start these up whenever you have the motivation to do so.
Ideas are great, but actions are what matter. Work on as many projects as you want. Don't be afraid to drop projects that aren't making progress. Try things, explore paths, see what works for you!
You can't ACTUALLY work on multiple projects at the "same time". You can have multiple projects running simultaneously, but when you sit down to work, ONLY work on one at a time. Focus and concentrate on one and do nothing else while your are working (i.e, no distractions!).
Set a timeframe. It could be one hour, one day. Doesn't matter. Set a timeframe, and during that period focus only on one project. You don't have to finish the project, and you can have tons of projects. The point is, when you start working, that's when you zone in on only one and nothing else.
Switching between tasks harms momentum. However, if you're not in the mood for doing something you've been doing a lot, there is no momentum to lose.
I'm a person who often has a lot of creative projects, often 8 or more things I really want to do. However, when they are in idea form, they're completely useless and you have no clue how much (or how little effort it takes).
The best thing to do with multiple ideas is to dip in each of them. Build some kind of prototype. The concept of prototyping does not simply apply to technical things; I've also used it for business and novel writing. A prototype novel would involve the outline, a large sculpture would involve a miniature 3D sketch, and so on. It has to be cheap enough to minimize loss if you abandon it, but uncover the essence and challenges of actually building the project. As you do it, you'll figure out deep inside you if the final product is worth the full effort or if it's too difficult or not as good as you hoped.
While in the stage of working towards these prototypes, it's better to switch between different projects. Your costs are minimum and creativity is often inspired by different fields.
Eventually, after you finish a few of these prototypes, you'll have to dedicate yourself towards one project. Sell off or archive the other ideas and focus on the one you have.
Once the project has been clearly defined, it's far more productive to focus on that project to completion.
It depends on how you handle multiple tasks at a same time. One can be efficient, but at the same time, one can't given justice to any of the task.
Being multi-tasker is a real talent. It trains mind to think beyond the limits and handle stress pretty well. Multi-tasking skill improves interest in work as one is no more working on same thing again and again, if you get bored or can't think more on one thing, you can jump to another and then you can come back to first one. It will surely give you more energy and power you for managing time as well as you will learn planning and organizing, too.
This will depend to some extent on the scale and scope of these projects. If you have a major, high profile project it may be very important to focus solely on that, however if you have a number of simple, small pieces of work that you can rotate through it could be fine to spend 30 minutes on each one.
So flexibility in working styles is very useful here. Being able to change your style to be very focused as required, or to be able to juggle multiple work items if necessary.
Yes, I think it's great to work on several important projects (important being the key word) - keeps things interesting.
The challenge I find is how do I keep from just jumping back and forth between them and working on the "fun" stuff in each most of the time.
The best thing I've learned over my career is to take each project, early on, and try and break it down into very small, manageable, tasks. As small as "write page one of presentation" so I have a good sense of what needs to get done and I feel good about the little progress I make. Plus, when I jump between projects I have a decent roadmap for what needs to get done next. Just takes a few minutes of advance planning for most projects and I'm a lot happier each day.


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