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blue star wrote on Dec 7, 2012 12:40 PM:
" Back 'in the day' we were in Scouts to further our outdoor skills, and for companionship. When i visited my son's Troop, I noticed that there were some female leaders. I think the idea was to get the kids out on their own a little, and off the apron strings. This is a time in a kids life to fortify his gender, not to be mollycoddled by his Mommy. That was (and should) be left behind in Cub Scouts. Let the kids go. I will always remember my days as a Scout and as a Scouter. But Mom should stay home on this one. "
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" I too am a scout leader and have been so for about 10 years. I don't agree with everything the national scout organization preaches but I do know that scouting has had a wonderful broadening effect on my son and the others in his troop. They have slept on a three masted schooner and a battleship and in the Boston Science Museum. They learned to make a fire and cook on it. They learned to canoe, kayak, swim, sail, save a drowning person and save a heart attack victim. They know how to use a map and compass and how to keep from getting lost. They know how to purify water. They have gone on backpacking trips and canoe trips and bike trips. They have learned - hands on - about electricity, engineering, firefighting, foresty, plant science, animals, medicine, first aid, and many other subjects. They have sat around campfires and enjoyed themselves without computers, video games or cel phones. I don't know of any other organization which has and has had a such a positive influence on so many boys.
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Hi all, I'm reading Mac Lane & Moerdijk's book "Sheaves in Geometry and Logic" and I don't understand a proof; sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, if there's somewhere better please let me know.
The proof in question is of Proposition VI.1.8 (page 276 in the paperback), which states:
Let $\mathcal{E}$ be a topos which is generated by subobjeccts of $1$, and moreover has the property that for each object $E$, $\mathrm{Sub}(E)$ is a complete Boolean algebra. Then $\mathcal{E}$ satisfies the axiom of choice.
Here the axiom of choice is the statement that any epimorphism $p: X \to I$ has a section $s: I \to X$, i.e. $ps = 1_I$. The proof starts as follows:
Let $p: X \to I$ be an epimorphism in $\mathcal{E}$. By completeness of $\mathrm{Sub}(I)$, we can apply Zorn's lemma and find a maximal subobject $m: M \to I$ such that $p$ has a section $s: M \to X$, i.e., $ps = m$.
I don't see how to show that Zorn's lemma applies here. Presumably I need to show that, given a linearly ordered set of subobjects $m_i: M_i \to I$ of $I$, $m_i = m_j k_{ij}$ for some $k_{ij}: M_i \to M_j$ whenever $m_i \leq m_j$, together with a set of sections $s_i: M_i \to X$ such that $p s_i = m_i$, $s_j k_{ij} = s_k$, there exists a section $s: M \to X$ such that $ps= m$, where $m: M \to I$ is the least upper bound in $\mathrm{Sub}(I)$ of the $m_i$'s, and such that the restriction of $s$ to each $M_i$ is $s_i$. It seems plausible that $m: M \to I$ will turn out to be a colimit in $\mathcal{E}/I$ of the collection $m_i: M_i \to I$, from which the required result would follow easily, but I don't know how to prove this. Can anybody help?


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Casting for February program/Reviews
Posted 07 February 2006 - 09:43 AM
It was a pretty full hour, if I remember more I'll post it.
Posted 07 February 2006 - 10:50 AM
Posted 07 February 2006 - 01:17 PM
A great idea, but lets complete the deal, and in a way that should make both orchestras happy. NYCB's Spring season ends rather early and the theater goes dark for a while. Why not have PNB visit here for a week, working with NYCB's orchestra, to make up for NYCB's week in Seattle, with PNB's orchestra? Whether as subs add-ons or on their own, probably both would fill the respective houses. Both orchestras would get an extra week's pay, both companies would get exposure to experienced, knowledgable audiences. There's even enough rep overlap so that neither orchestra need get terribly overloaded with rehearsal time. If this could be managed quickly enough we NYer's would get one last look at the great Patricia Barker, as well as get to see what Peter Boal is doing (in itself enough to sell out the theater!).
...I would rather see NYCB come to Seattle, and be a performance in the subscription season, like Russell described in a season before I moved here. ... Ideally, it would be an exchange, however much a pipe dream this is, with a union compromise so that the orchestras could play for each other....
Posted 07 February 2006 - 01:39 PM
I wasn't very clear, because that was what I meant
Why not have PNB visit here for a week, working with NYCB's orchestra, to make up for NYCB's week in Seattle, with PNB's orchestra? Whether as subs add-ons or on their own, probably both would fill the respective houses.
Posted 07 February 2006 - 03:18 PM
Not sure it would have had Balanchine on edge, as he once suggested that John Clifford (about which ballet I forget) keep the steps but change the music to the ballet John was making at the time. (Pretty sure that's from Repertory in Review.) But this seems to be a common Twyla modus operendi. At a talk she gave quite a few years ago, she recounted doing this with another of her works. Can't remember which right now, but I'll try to look it up. *
Something I did not know was that In the Upper Room was not originally choreographed to the Phillip Glass piece that now accompanies it. In a move that would have Balanchine on edge, the music was changed very close to its first performance date. I can't remember the original score, however. It was a pretty full hour, if I remember more I'll post it.
I think an exchange program -- if not with whole companies, then at least sizable delegations -- is a great idea. Let PNB spend a while in NYST, while NYCB visits the Northwest! It would be especially interesting to see new dancers in familiar ballets, which they may have learned in a whole different manner than our regular dancers!
*Eureka! It's Bix Pieces!
Obviously, these are not random substitutions!
Part Three gets introduced. Now the music is Haydn's, which the narrator informs the audience, was the music to which Tharp originally composed her choreography when creating her dance. So, as they then get repeated, familiar choreographic moves complement the different score as harmoniously as they mated with Beiderbecke's score. . .
Edited by carbro, 07 February 2006 - 03:45 PM.
Posted 07 February 2006 - 04:24 PM
Tharp switched music after doing the choreography for the work The Beethoven Seventh, for NYCB. She originally used some of Beethoven's quartets.
Posted 10 February 2006 - 12:49 AM
Korbes, or "the girl with the hair," got many props from the Second Tier side section where I was sitting. (When she did a lunge and arched backwards, her very long ponytail swished the ground.) She really knows how to connect with her partners.
Brunson and Herd again performed Kiss, and it was just as powerful and beautiful as the first time I saw it. There were general murmurs of "Cirque du Soleil" around me when the curtain came up, but this work was created in 1987. Cirque du Soleil was founded in 1984, and while it is possible that Marshall was influenced by it, it wasn't the worldwide, televised phenomenon it is today, and its presence not yet iconic.
Lallone and Wevers reprised the first couple in Red Angels. (They appear first, but are listed in the casting as Couple 2.) Lallone looked like a totally different dancer tonight: sharp, dynamic, and space-eating. It was a great, powerful performance. Rachel Foster and Lucien Postlewaite made their debuts as the second couple, and had a great success. The dynamic differences between Foster/Postlewaite and Rausch/Pacitti may have been due partially to the greater height difference in tonight's couple, but they both seemed to have a rounder approach as well. All four dancers seemed to emphasize the arched backs in the choregraphy.
Nine Sinatra Songs had nearly the same cast as Thursday night. The exception was that Mara Vinson was paired with Jeffrey Stanton in "All the Way." Vinson was darling and Stanton dashing, but they weren't the emotional heart of the ballet for me tonight. (Thomas and Spell in the lightest of the dances were.) It was a dance, and maybe even a romance, but not a relationship that had a chance to last decades. From a vantage point in the Second Tier, the opening dance, "Softly As I Leave You" had much more sweep, and Brunson and Cruz made a more vivid impression. The Gallery Upper, where I sat on Saturday, has a slightly side view, and that dance was much more effective head on. Boal mentioned in the post-performance Q&A that because the disco ball was blinding in some sections of the hall, the lighting was dimmed a bit, which made it a bit difficult from above to see Maria Chapman and James Moore in "One for My Baby," with him in tuxedo pants and her in a black dress with black stockings, against a dimly lit black floor.
Saturday I was watching Noelani Pantastico so much that I didn't notice that Jordan Pacitti was hysterical in "Something Stupid." In the Q&A the dancers were asked if it was supposed to be comic, and Pacitti said that Shelley Washington, who staged the ballet, said no, but that they were supposed to be a husband and wife, where the husband was shorter than she, and that he was supposed to have a "Woody Allen personality." (Perhaps she meant that they shouldn't exaggerate it for laughs, because I'm not sure there are many more comedic set-ups than that.) Pacitti and Pantastico were quite evenly matched, especially since she was in ballroom shoes, not pointe shoes, and I didn't pick up on height as part of the comedy.
As on Saturday, Maria Chapman made a pre-curtain speech about Second Stage, the career transition program for PNB dancers. On Saturday, her speech was interrupted a number of times by applause, when she mentioned that she'd be dancing later in the program, when she told the audience that the dancers had donated their salaries from Opening Night to the fund, etc. Tonight there was complete silence during her speech. I was afraid the audience would sit on its hands for the performance, but, instead, was more enthusiastic than at the matinee. I wasn't sitting among the "woofers," but there was lots of applause and buzz.
Other Q&A topics: someone asked what Boal was looking for when he cast Kiss. First he mentioned that usually stagers like to do their own casting, but with this program, he got to do all of it. He said that he chose Vinson and Moore because they had been having such a great season and because of their "quiet intensity." He chose Brunson because he recognized a "powerful presence that had not been explored in depth," and Casey Herd for their "raw sensuality." He noted that Susan Marshall was in town this past weekend, and was pleased with both casts, which made him proud.
Boal mentioned that both Pacitti and Pantastico would be in Dominque Dumais' new piece, which premieres in the March program. He said that the pas de deux that Pantastico will be in is beautiful.
Miranda Weese is in Seattle; her first performance is tomorrow night as the woman in the Second Couple in Ancient Airs and Dances. She was at the Q&A, but didn't speak. It would have been the middle of the night for her in EST. Boal mentioned that Rasta Thomas has been touring in Movin' Out.
Someone complimented the recent radio commercial for the Valentine program, which Boal said sold 3 times the projected ticket sales. He commented that the Marketing Department was trying new angles, and that he wanted everyone to feel invited, even if they didn't come. The Company is planning to lower the lowest price tickets to $18 next year to make the ballet more accessible. The only way I got to attend so many performances of NYCB, particularly during graduate school, was because standing room cost $2.50, and if I could scrape together $7.50 from my coat pockets and under the sofa cushions, I could afford the ticket and the round-trip on the bus and subway. Even adjusting for inflation, it's hard to imagine how someone starting out or on a fixed income could afford to attend very often.
An audience member said that when she tried to renew her subscription in the Second Tier, the company tried to move her down. Boal said that PNB was offering to move subscribers to lower sections at the same price, to fill gaps in the house which made the house feel empty, even when it was not. He did say that people who want to stay in the Second Tier, which is a great place to see the patterns in big ballets like Symphony in C, should insist on it.
As a note, it is possible to renew at McCaw Hall in the lobby right behind the main entrance, but the Celebrate Seattle add-ons can't be processed at the same time, at least not yet. But early renewers get the great PNB calendar, with photos by Angela Sterling, former soloist with PNB. The photos include Jeff Stanton in Silver Lining, a Silver Lining group shot, Carrie Imler as Flora, Patricia Barker as the Siren, with a great reaction shot of Jonathan Poretta from the background, Maria Chapman and the now-departed Oleg Gorboulev in the Third Theme from Four Temperaments, Louise Nadeau in The Piano Ballet, which is also the cover shot, Poretta flying over the males corps in Rite of Spring, Stanko Milov and Patricia Barker in the Apollo starburst image, Christophe Maraval and Louise Nadeau in the Second Movement of Symphony in C, Ariana Lallone in Lambarena (with Maraval?), and Kiyon Gaines, mid-jump, from Firebird. (Approaching senior moment -- it's in the car and I can't remember the rest. But it's gorgeous.)
Posted 10 February 2006 - 10:13 AM
But early renewers get the great PNB calendar, with photos by Angela Sterling, former soloist with PNB. The photos include Jeff Stanton in Silver Lining, ... and Kiyon Gaines, mid-jump, from Firebird. (Approaching senior moment -- it's in the car and I can't remember the rest. But it's gorgeous.)
I should have such detailed "senior moments!"
Posted 12 February 2006 - 08:14 PM
When I went to pick up last night's ticket from Will Call at 7:25pm, there was a line of at least 30 people waiting to buy tickets, and there were very few empty seats in the Second Tier and what I could see of Upper Gallery Left and the Main Floor. When I went to buy a ticket for this afternoon's performance, all but about 10 seats in the Second Tier had been ticketed. This is great news for the Company, because word-of-mouth has spread. Boal mentioned in both post-performance Q&A's that the audience has warmed to Kiss over the run, and that there were people who came back to see it again. He also said last night that we would see works from this program in future years (after next season, which is already planned and published.)
Last night Boal said that because Dominique Dumais, who is choreographing a work for the March program, needed to rearrange her schedule, both she and Shelley Washington were in Seattle at the same time, and, as a result, Ancient Airs and Dances, was rehearsed for a shorter-than-usual period of time. (Brittany Reid described in last night's Q&A how the had been begun in November and continued briefly during Nutcracker.) I was surprised by this, because the work had looked so tight the first three times I saw it; the only thing unusual was that Wevers looked like he was concentrating hard when partnering Weese, who had flown in last Monday for rehearsals on Tuesday-Thursday. Today, there was something off when the three men, Herd, Maraval, and Porretta, danced together. I'm pretty certain that the men were supposed to be in unison, but it seemed like one of the men was a bit behind or ahead. (This is the first time I saw these three men together.)
Last night, Barker and Cruz reprised their roles, but it was the first time I saw Weese and Wevers paired, and Nakamura danced with Lucien Postlewaite (they debuted as a pair on Friday night). Barker and Cruz again were very free and playful. Weese danced with a lovely upper body and arms. (When in the Q&A she said that the role had been originally done for Heather Watts, I was surprised that it was Watts' role she was cast in, and not the role danced by Barker and Lallone. As a civilian, she was simply stunning, with alabaster skin, and more beautiful than in photographs. The next time a film director decides to go period, instead of trying to convince us that Winona Ryder or Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock is an early-20th-century character, s/he should head straight to Weese.) In the third couple, I thought that Nakamura was best matched with Postlewaite, because of contrasting styles and his height; she could really stretch out with him. In a way, they looked like the stylistic inverse of Imler and Porretta.
For a shortened rehearsal time, it was amazing that while I had seen all of the couples in this afternoon's performance, I had never seen them together. Lallone and Herd, Korbes and Maraval, and Imler and Porretta were the three. While I liked many other individual performances, I thought that apart from the aforementioned synch issues, this combination made the nicest stage pictures, particularly in the short pas de trois with Lallone, Herd, and Maraval, a very tall, lean, long-legged line of dancers, and in the mirror dancing by Imler and Korbes, who looked beatifully matched together and when joined by Porretta. Of the four performances I saw, it got the most enthusiastic response from the audience today. There were four pre-teen to teenaged girls behind me with one mother, and the false ending at the end of the Korbes/Maraval pas de deux got a spontaneous, collective "Wow!!!!" from the group, and there was lots of screaming at the curtain calls.
The NYCB website lists "Original cast: Valentina Kozlova, Heather Watts, Wendy Whelan, Philip Neal, Jock Soto, Damian Woetzel." Does anyone know who the pairings were and who danced the first and third couples? (It looks like alphabetical order, but that may be coincidental.)
In both programs, Kiss was performed by Mara Vinson and James Moore. What a contrast to the more languid Brunson and Herd. There was almost a desperation in Moore's performance, and an innocence that contrasted to his darker persona in Sinatra. Last night, I felt like Vinson was being swept away from Moore, beyond his reach and her control, as if by an ocean wave, but in today's performance, it seemed more deliberate, like she was controlling the situation. It was just as visually gripping, but, emotionally, I felt like a voyeur watching an impending tragedy, which was odd, because I didn't feel like a voyeur watching a more sensual performance by Brunson and Herd.
Last night, the pairs for Red Angels were Korbes and Maraval, Foster and Postlewaite. This was the most homogeneous cast in terms of the round, sinuous, cat-like movement quality, and it made the differentiations in the choreography stand out more. There was much more contrast in today's couples, Lallone and Wevers, Kaori Nakamura and guest Rasta Thomas. Lallone and Nakamura both gave dynamic performances, but because their heights and body types are so different, the affects were strikingly different too. Lallone's long lines and arcs were blazing; Nakamura was more explosive. Thomas' performance was very open and bright, much like I remember his Apollo.
Olivier Wevers and Christophe Maraval are often cast in the same roles, and it was fascinating to contrast them. It's as if Wevers has a coil inside him; when he stands still, you know something striking is going to come. Maraval dances a phrase and comes to a dead stop, with the resonance of motion still in the air encircling him. (Porretta, by contrast, looks as though he has the entire contents of the Harbour Bridge New Year's fireworks inside him, ready to go off at any time.) I had forgotten who was dancing the role today, but even in the semi-darkness of the opening, when the dancer walked across upstage from the wing, there was no mistaking that it was Wevers, just from his walk.
The differences in Nine Sinatra Songs were as striking as the differences between the two casts of Kiss, but magnified by five. (Thomas and Spell danced Couple 6 in all eight performances, and Korbes and Stanton reprised their role.) In "Softly As I Leave You," Lesley Rausch, with her blond hair swept up, and her graceful style, reminded me of Darci Kistler. Stanko Milov as her partner had a lot of panache and was fun to watch, but he was playing the romantic lead, while Karel Cruz partnered Kari Brunson as if he was in a romance. In "Strangers in the Night" Ariana Lallone danced a glamorous, perfumed tango (straight), while Christopher Maraval, with his slicked back hair, played a tango lizard; all he was missing was the pencil-thin mustache. (Maybe he had one that wasn't visible through my opera glasses.) That was a complete contrast to Rachel Foster and Le Yin's spirited tango, in which I detected no irony. While in the first two performances, Maria Chapman portrayed a too-tipsy woman trying to steer a rather broody James Moore away from a bar fight or smashing the car into a pole -- today he seemed lighter and she seemed drunker -- Chalnessa Eames was the life of the party girl that Anton Pankevitch was trying to get home while she still had life in her, and the effect was more comic.
Carrie Imler and Jonathan Porretta were explosive and hysterical in "Somethin' Stupid." They have mentioned in Q&A's that they are friends offstage, and Boal said last night that they are just like their performance in real life. In response to a question about how he cast for comedy, he said he picked Imler and Pantastico for the role because of their general timing and technique, which would work in any dance. Pantastico was more outgoing and funny in this afternoon's performance. There was still more depth with Korbes and Stanton in "All the Way," but this afternoon, Vinson and Stanton danced more smoothly together, and they were more sparkly. Kudos to Thomas and Spell, who brought the same life and high standards to each performance of "Forget Domani," one of the highlights for me.
About "That's Life" Joshua wrote, "I would say that Kaori Nakamura in that part exhibited a different character - one that dished out as much as she received. This certainly made the part a little more palatable." He was not kidding: Nakamura might even have been running that show. She has been cast so strongly in this program, bringing out previously unexploited aspects of her dancing. I don't think I would have guessed that she would turn out to be an Authentic Twyla Girl: she looked like she could have jumped off the stage of McCaw Hall and right into Tharp's company.
At the end of the "That's Life," someone tosses the man's jacket to him from the wings, and he puts it on before the woman runs across the stage and jumps in his arms. Casey Herd was already smoothing out his collar when Nadeau took her leap, but Wevers upped the ante: he barely got his second arm in the sleeve when Nakamura came flying through the air. For those who think the ending leaps of Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux have gotten tame, these two could give them a lesson in danger.
It may have been the energy level of the last performance of the program -- Lallone said in today's post-performance Q&A that she felt sad before her entrance in Red Angels, knowing it was the end of the run -- but Nadeau gave it back to Herd today, too. Maybe not as aggressively as Nakamura, but Herd wasn't getting away with much this time. Looking at the work as a whole, last night's cast was something that would have been more recognizably Tharpian, with more of the edgy irony. But there were so many good performances across all of them, that I was glad I didn't have to choose.
For Dolly Dinkle watchers, in the Q&A, Lallone started by describing her early dance training, which was in a ballet studio in a strip mall in Southern California, next to a bar and I think she said dry cleaners. Lallone was delightful. Boal said that the Dumais work is being built around Lallone. It is the piece in the next program to which I'm most looking forward. In talking about the upcoming Choreographers' Showcase on 22 March, in which company members present their works, Lallone described working with dancers who are friends and peers, but are in the role of Ballet Master when choreographing. She gave the example of saying that she didn't like a step, and he said, "just do it" but she said it was a fun experience.
Boal answered questions about the guest appearances in both sessions. He said that while he was at NYCB, there were lots of guests, for anywhere from a couple of performances to two years. He noted the dancers who have guested from PNB, like Patricia Barker going to Boston Ballet, and Pantastico and Wevers dancing with NYCB, and wanted to reciprocate. He said that he wanted to invite both Weese and Thomas this year, but didn't plan specifically to have them dance on the same program. He also said that when the men cast in Red Angels heard there was going to be a guest, they "took it up a notch." (He said they had been good before, but got even better.) And people say women are competitive
It's really a shame that this program has to end.
Edited by Helene, 12 February 2006 - 11:59 PM.
Posted 12 February 2006 - 11:02 PM
Last night Boal said that because Dominique Dumais, who is choreographing a work for the March program, needed to rearrange her schedule, both she and Shelley Washington were in Seattle at the same time, and, as a result, Ancient Airs and Dances, was rehearsed for a shorter-than-usual period of time.
This makes sense to me -- the beginning of the run felt a bit out of kilter, though I think part of my feeling comes from the actual choreography.
Today, there was something off when the three men, Herd, Maraval, and Porretta. I'm pretty certain that the men were supposed to be in unison, but it seemed like one of the men was a bit behind or ahead. (This is the first time I saw these three men together.)
I was there Sunday afternoon as well, and yes, they did seem to be out of sync, and not evenly spaced either. For a couple of sequences Maraval was "in the middle" with Herd in close on one side and Poretta further away on the other.
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My second viewing was last Thursday night.
Boal answered questions about the guest appearances in both sessions.
After reading your and others comments earlier in this thread regarding the pros and cons of having guest artists, I noted one of Boal's answers during the Q&A as telling.
He was asked about using guest artists (by you for all I know since I believe from a previous post of yours that you were there too ). The fragment of his answer that caught my attention was when he said something along the lines of "see and be seen". It struck me as a pretty smart ploy on his part to increase the exposure of his company and his dancers to members of other companies (especially NY companies I would think). I believe he even said something about Seattle being a bit isolated up here in this corner of the country. Clever agenda I thought.
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I'm travelling in Cambodia and would like to Visit Laos for a portion of my trip. What are the top destinations in the southern region of Laos and what is the best way to get there from Cambodia? I understand that a lot is happening up in the northern part of Laos (capital city) but I'd like to hear what there is in the southern region bordering Cambodia because I do not want to spend days on a bus.
Well according to Wikitravel:
As for top destinations, that's something we try to avoid a bit - see the [faq], we don't want to do lists or subjective answers about what makes a destination a 'top' destination, but Wiki again points out that the Plain of Jars, Wat Phu, the three-layered gilded stupa of Pha That Luang (national symbol) and of course the natural wonders - the Mekong delta flatlands in the south.
I didn't get to travel to Laos because of travel (transportation onward from Stung Treng sounded iffy from reports I heard due to local flooding at the time) and unclear visa situation for Indian passport holders for visa-on-arrival at the border. Still, I gathered something from travellers who went there and back to Cambodia.
Laos is a tougher country to travel around in, at least when you decide to do so by public transport as it's even less organised compared to Cambodia, where it's just about barely there. You mentioned you'll be there for two weeks, which is a relatively tight schedule for travelling within Cambodia, going to Laos, and then back again. What this potentially means is that you won't have time to visit most of the places Mark mentioned in his answer - at least not if you're not willing to accept that you will be rushing from one town to another to fit everything. Typically, asking 'what to see' in a country would be too broad a question to answer, except that in your case due to time constraints and the transport situation in Laos, this actually does become an answerable question.
On crossing over from Cambodia's northern border, head over to Pakse and make it your hub onward bus connections are easiest from this place. As I mentioned in the other answer, for some weird reason regular bus services seem to exist between Pakse and Phnom Penh but not from Siem Reap or Stung Treng; bus services do exist, but there are not 'timetabled' regular bus services.
There are Buddhist monuments worth seeing in Pakse itself and further towns connected from Pakse are Champasak, Savannakhet, and Bolaven Plateau. The one place everyone raves about though - and one I've heard so many recommendations from other travellers - is Si Phan Don. Everyone says it's the perfect place to sit back and enjoy nature.
I liked the 4000 Islands (Si Phan Don) in the very South of Laos and did the relaxing and reading as Ankur is mentioning - not much more to do there. When I was in Pakse I rented a motobike and drove to the Bolaven Plateau for Coffee, local market and the Waterfall Tat Fan which is a 120m high twin-waterfall.


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When children with neuromuscular diseases first visit summer camp, it's the first time most have ever encountered a room filled with people just like themselves. They tell you it's the first time they've truly felt like they were not alone. Once the week ends, they will tell you, it has changed their lives. They feel more confident, more outgoing. The friendships are kept throughout the year and, 51 weeks later, they return to what many call "home" to reignite the sparks.
I get to witness this magic for one day. It's a day to which I look forward all year. If you're wondering whether dollars donated to organizations like MDA can make a difference, look no further than this camp. The families pay nothing for the experience - MDA foots the bill entirely through generous donations. It is a truly priceless gift.


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I usually toss the flour and chicken in a bag and shake it up. The problem is that pieces of chicken will often stick together and not get evenly coated. Is there an effective way to bread my chicken evenly without getting clumps of chicken?
One piece at a time? Into the bag, shake to coat, out of the bag, shake to remove excess flour, put aside for subsequent egg-washing and breading once all pieces are done.
Also helps to have one hand only touching dry ingredients, the other only wet.
I dump the chicken in a large plastic container and (as ferronrsmith) sieve the flour on top of the chicken. Then, I put the lid on and give it a good shake.
It helps if the chicken is dry. (Dried with paper towels after washing.)
I don't use the bag method to bread chicken, or other foods. I prefer the slightly more manual, but very effective traditional method:
This method is also extensible to more complicate breading techniques such as flour, then egg wash, then breadcrumbs. You simply have three pie plates, one for each layer in the breading, and move the foods through the layers.
If you are doing this sort of dry/wet/dry breading, it helps to use one hand only for the dry stages, and the other hand (or tongs) for the wet stage.
In comparison to the bag method, this technique has the following advantages:
... and the following disadvantages:
Note: this answer assumes small quantities, as in home cooking. Restaurant production also uses this method, but scaled up in a couple of ways. I have never heard of nor seen a commercial kitchen use the bag method. Now, at industrial scales, they have some cool devices.... :-)
You can use a sieve :). That's what I always do and it is always evenly coated with flour. The bag create lumps, try to avoid that if you can. try sifting the flour also :)
If you're going to use the bag method, you may want to use a clear plastic bag, and only drop in between 1 and 3 items at a time (exact number depends on the size of the items relative to the size of the bag).
If you do end up getting two items stuck together, just grab one of the items through the bag, and shake until the other item falls away.
If you're still having problems, set up a regular breading station
It helps to sift the flour. I use a colander for breading. I just did this with pickles and then again with chunks of chicken and it works great, just make sure there is a pan under the colander when you are breading. Put whatever you are breading in plastic bag first, shake it up, don't use a lot of flour, dump into the colander, shake it up and bam, no mess no fuss.


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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - It was just your typical Indian Creek vs. Harrison Central encounter Tuesday evening at Ohio University-Eastern.
Whenever the Redskins and Huskies hook up there are certain things you know going into the game - it will be low-scoring, physical and nip-and-tuck.
The only thing different about the latest matchup was the stakes were raised as it was for a trip to the third round of the Division II sectional tournament.
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IN THE AIR — Indian Creek's Alex Young goes up for two against Harrison Central's Rashaen Mitchell during Tuesday's Ohio Division II sectional tournament game at Ohio University-Eastern. Looking on is the Redskins' Shane Winland and the Huskies' Kalub Mitchell. Indian Creek exited with a 37-33 victory.
-- Sandy Thompson
Another constant in this year's meetings, held true as well. The Redskins got the best of the Huskies. Indian Creek advanced by virtue of a 37-33 slugfest and will next meet Carrollton on Friday.
The victory gives the Redskins the season sweep of the Huskies. The scores of the prior meetings were 30-25 and 46-42.
"If you look at our scores, I don't think, in the last three years, there's a game with a bigger spread than five or six in favor of either team," said a relieved Creek head coach Joe Dunlevy. "We've always had great games with Harrison. Our kids know their kids and their kids know our kids, so it's just always a battle when we play them."
That was the case once again as each team took the other's best shots like a 10-round heavyweight boxing match.
"It's always like that with us," said Harrison Central head coach Justin Clifford. "Coach Dunlevy said, 'I'd like to go in and draw something up, but you know what we're doing and we know what you're doing.' These kids have been battling against each other for many years."
The Huskies, who finish the season at 15-8, led only twice in the game at 1-0 and 11-10. However, the Redskins never held a lead bigger than eight and that came in the middle of the fourth quarter at 32-24.
"Harrison Central is a good program with three pretty darn good seniors," Dunlevy said. "This was actually a scoring fest compared to some of our games."
Harrison Central appeared to have gained a head of steam entering that final chapter when senior Fletcher Watt took an in-bound pass and went coast-to-coast for a layup just before the buzzer, making it a 26-22 game entering the fourth.
"Give Creek credit because they had an answer every time it seemed like we might be getting on a run," Clifford said. "Shooting the ball cures a lot of things and we didn't shoot it real well, but that's a credit to Creek. Every last detail and every possession matters in these games."
The Huskies got within five at 33-28 after Harrison Central senior Nick Pelegreen tallied on the interior, but they were in foul mode and the Redskins made enough.
The Huskies, who meshed only 2-of-9 from the line, were able to hang around because the Redskins struggled at the foul line down the stretch. Indian Creek canned just 7-of-16 in the final chapter at the charity stripe.
However, seniors Alex Young and Shane Winland seemed to always be there to make a play when the Redskins needed one the most. They teamed to score 27 points with Young leading the way with 14.
"It seems like you can always tell who the seniors are this time of the year," Dunlevy said. "Some kids made some gut plays. It wasn't all pretty with jump shots going in, but kids battled for the ball at both ends and we got some big baskets that way."
Clifford opted to bring his three seniors - Watt, Pelegreen and Rashaen Mitchell - out of the game at the same time for one final round of applause.
"Those guys got the program back to where it is," Clifford said. "They're second winningest class in school history, but it didn't happen overnight or by accident.
"They never missed a day in the summer, morning or overnight. Not one day, for four years and that's why they've been so successful."
Watt and Pelegreen each had 13 to lead the Huskies. Pelegreen and Mitchell had a team-high seven rebounds.
Indian Creek 37, Harrison Central 33
Harrison Central 7 8 9 11 - 33
Indian Creek 9 8 9 11 - 37
HARRISON CENTRAL: K. Mitchell 0, 0-0 0; Kowalski 2, 0-1 5; Watt 6, 0-2 13; R. Mitchell 1, 0-1 2; Pelegreen 5, 2-5 13; Olmstead 0, 0-0 0; Rutter 0, 0-0 0; Evans 0, 0-0 0; Totals: 14, 2-9 33. 3-pointers: Pelegreen, Watt, Kowalski.
INDIAN CREEK: Kamarec 1, 4-7 7; Furda 1, 1-2 3; Roar 0, 0-0 0; Young 4, 6-10 14; Winland 5, 3-5 13; Haught 0, 0-1 0; Durbin 0, 0-0 0; Sullivan 0, 0-0 0; Totals: 11, 14-25 37. 3-pointers: Kamarec.


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WASHINGTON | Orders to U.S. factories rose in September after two months of declines on a big jump in demand for commercial aircraft. But businesses cut back sharply on orders for machinery and other goods that signal their confidence to expand, signs of slower economic growth.
The Commerce Department said Monday that factory orders increased 1.7 percent in September from August. That followed a 0.1 percent decline in August and a 2.8 percent plunge in July.
The September gain was driven by a 57.7 percent jump in demand for aircraft.
But so-called core capital goods, which include machinery and electronics, fell 1.3 percent in September. It was dragged lower by a 23.6 percent drop in machinery demand, with big declines in construction machinery, electric turbines and generators.
Economists pay closer attention to core capital goods because they exclude more volatile orders for defense and aircraft and are a better gauge of businesses' plans to invest. The decline was the second in three months and points to weaker activity at factories in the July-September quarter.
Orders for durable goods, items expected to last at least three years, increased 3.8 percent in September, largely on the airplane gains. The big rise in demand for aircraft helped offset a 0.7 percent dip in demand for autos and auto parts. That decline is expected to be temporary given the strength in auto sales this year.
Demand for non-durable goods, such as chemicals, paper and food, edged down 0.2 percent.
Many analysts forecast weaker economic growth in the second half of the year. They are predicting growth at an annual rate of around 1.8 percent in the July-September quarter and roughly 2 percent in the October-December quarter. Both rates would be lower than the 2.5 percent growth pace in the April-June quarter.
Still, recent manufacturing reports have been mixed.
A closely watched survey of U.S. purchasing managers said manufacturing expanded in October fastest pace in 2½ years. The Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing survey increased for the fifth straight month, suggesting the 16-day partial shutdown of the government had little effect on manufacturers. Gains appeared to be driven by overseas growth, healthy U.S. auto sales and the housing recovery.
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I would like to be able to create new users in Mac OS X 10.5 remotely after ssh'ing into the machine. How do I do this?
Use the dscl command. This example would create the user "luser", like so:
You can then use passwd to change the user's password, or use:
You'll have to create /Users/luser for the user's home directory and change ownership so the user can access it, and be sure that the UniqueID is in fact unique.
This line will add the user to the administrator's group:
(This answer should be considered an addendum to fill in some blanks in palmer's procedure)
To pick an unused UniqueID for you new user, you could use:
...then use the sequence of dscl commands palmer gave to create the account, and then create the new user's home directory with:
(there is a createhomedir command, but it didn't work when I tested it.)
If you have a bunch of users to create, it is possible to create a structured text file and pass it to
Apple's Command-Line Administration Guide has a whole chapter on users and groups.
Another way to pick and choose a unique user ID before creating an account is just to look through the list and check that the one you want to use is not there:
Handy if you need to use a certain ID
I've leveraged the different answers here to come up with what I think is a nice script to create user accounts. Admittedly, this isn't designed for running a command at a time from ssh; it is moreso designed to be a script run when compiling a package-based image of OS X (as created by Casper Imaging or InstaDMG).
The script does let you specify which groups a user should belong to. It appears to me that this might differ depending upon the version of OS X you are running. I get different results when I run
I started a little wrapper about
The framework is there for all the parameters, so if you want to take advantage of GitHub's awesome social features, it's easy to do.
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These are fun to write with in the tub or to use when washing little hands.Materials
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- Pour the colored soap into a small container (empty plastic film canisters work well) or an ice cube tray, or mold it into crayon shapes and let harden before using.
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Developing a Training Plan Part IV: Lifestyle - Page 3
Eating is much more than simply meeting the caloric demands your body requires. In order to run well, your body not only needs quality carbohydrates, protein and fat, but also vitamins, minerals, fiber and water. I encourage clients to eat "real" food and limit eating things that contain ingredients that you've either never heard of, or can't pronounce. Generally eating plants and high-quality meat, fish and poultry is the best way to satisfy your body's nutritional requirements.
Stock your kitchen with healthy options, and pack nutrient-dense snacks that you can keep in your purse, backpack, car etc. Munch on fruit, nuts and veggies to keep your energy level up and your blood glucose levels stable. Plan your meals for the week in advance so you don't find yourself suddenly starving with no idea what to eat for dinner.
Catching ZZZs is essential, allowing your body to heal and regenerate cells. To benefit from a given workout, you need to stress your body then follow it with a rest period to adapt to the training. Furthermore, our bodies behave similar to sponges: we can soak up a lot of stress to a point, but then we need to be rung out in order to subsequently soak up additional stress. Just as a sponge can become saturated with liquid and no longer absorb, so our bodies reach a point of diminishing returns in which we can no longer efficiently respond to the demands of training and then fatigue or de-training ensues.
Ideally, sleep eight to 10 hours a night. Making adequate sleep a priority can be challenging, but getting into a routine and viewing it as another component of training will improve your running.
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The scope of CB&I's current project includes a crude oil stabilization unit, gas processing units and LPG storage and transfer facilities. The operation is scheduled to start up during 2015, the companies said.
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We painted up a little doggy art to hang on the front door with polka-dot bows
I thought it would be cute to have cut-outs for the kids, 7 for Lauren and 3 for Jake. I was in a rush to get invitations ordered and thought I would be using a photo of them with the cut-outs. We arrived to take this picture approximately 9 minutes before they closed. You've never seen a mom drag children and wooden dogs out of a suburban faster. It was chaos but we got at least one shot...although I did have to cut and paste a head in photoshop. :)
The wall in the living room with handsome Kodiak...
The wall in the playroom with our neighbor Sally gracing the wall. I really wanted to make several backdrops and Doug found 4x8 underlayments panels for about $10 at Home Depot. We'll have a few holes to patch once we take them down but I loved the "pop" of the stripes and chevrons.
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The boys and Lauren, well since it's Lauren I guess I could just call it "the boys"! They asked if they could pose with their "weapons". Yes, it's true, sigh, my little girl has an arsenal big enough to keep 6 little boys entertained.
The girls and Jacob. I want to point out in this picture that everyone was having a good time. If you take a look at the very first picture at the top of the post, Caroline (front row with the yellow balloon dog) doesn't look very happy. It's because two seconds before the group picture was taken, her balloon dog came undone. Everyone really liked the balloon dogs and I feel like I made or repaired 8 billion and two. Caroline told her mom and dad after the party that she wanted to hire me to make balloon dogs at her next birthday party. Hahaha! Maybe I'm missing my calling!


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Ed Gray was born in Odessa, TX on March 15, 1938 to Allen and Juanita "Dutch" (Flowers) Gray and died on October 30, 2012 at Presbyterian Hospital in Denton.
Ed graduated from Corsicana High School in 1956 and from North Texas State College in 1959. He was married to Sue Wilks in 1958. They had two children, Beth and Guy. He was a letterman in football at North Texas and a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity. His work history included Combined American Insurance Co., Tennessee Gas and Oil, Pfizer Pharmaceutical, becoming a District Manager for ten years, and Russell Newman Mfg. Co. He delivered Meals on Wheels for several years after retirement and enjoyed taking products to Our Daily Bread. He also enjoyed golf and his golfing friends and found joy in yard work and home projects. He was a Deacon at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, AL and is a current member of St. Andrew Presbyterian Church in Denton.
Ed is survived by his wife of fifty-four years, Sue Gray; his children, Beth Gray Whipple and her husband Randy, Guy Gray and his wife Tracey, his grandchildren, Clint Joseph and Sarah Gray Goocher, nephews and nieces, Bill Wilks and wife Cindy, Bob Wilks and wife Sherrie, Betsy Wilks and their sister, Anne Jeanmard and husband Mark; step-grandchildren, Ryan Whipple and his wife Caty, and Jessica Whipple; sister-in-law, Bunny Heroman, five wonderful great nephews and nieces, and three precious great-great nieces and nephew. He is also survived by special cousins and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents, his grandparents, Guy and Ellie Flowers, with whom he lived as a child, and Edgar and Mary Gray.
A visitation will be held from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Friday, November 2, 2012 at the funeral home. A memorial service will be held at 2:00 PM Saturday, November 3, 2012 at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, 300 W. Oak St., Denton. Rev. Steve Plunkett will officiate the service. Internment will be at 2:00 PM Sunday, November 4, 2012 at Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana, TX.
Honorary pallbearers are: John Troeger, Roy Richardson, Guy Poarch, Ned Polk, Frank Lyle, Kurt Sewell, Chuck Crouch, Rob Stewart, Don Harper, Brett Houser, Joe Farmer, Lee Popejoy and Jim Mudd.
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Acculturation and Sociocultural Influences as Predictors of Family Relationships and Body Image Dissatisfaction in African American, Hispanic American, and European American Women
Date: December 2006
Creator: Garcia-Rea, Elizabeth Ann
Description: Ethnic differences in etiological factors linked to body image dissatisfaction and eating disorders were examined. In addition, the interaction of acculturation and body image dissatisfaction in influencing minority women's relationships with their parents was investigated. Participants consisted of 302 undergraduates from three ethnic groups: Caucasian, Hispanic American, and African American women who were administered self-report measures. Differences were not found between the groups in body image dissatisfaction. Low self-esteem, internalization of the thin ideal, and family emphasis on weight and appearance were all related to more body image dissatisfaction for each of these groups; however, differences in degree of endorsement were also noted between the ethnic groups on these factors. Based on the interaction findings (body image x acculturation) separation from one's mother was found in the area of attitudes and emotions for the Hispanic sample but not for the African American sample on any of the parent scales. Areas for future research and implications for diagnosis and treatment of minority populations are also discussed.
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Adolescent Self-Mutilating Behaviors: Experiential Avoidance Coupled with Imitation?
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Description: Repetitive self-mutilation (RSM) has become increasingly prevalent among adolescents. Empirical research has pinpointed several correlates of this behavior, but the initiation and maintenance of RSM among adolescents are not well understood. The experiential avoidance model (EAM) proposes that self-mutilation is a behavior that allows for the avoidance or alteration of unwanted internal experiences, and that it is negatively reinforced with repetition. The current study explored the usefulness of the EAM as an explanatory theory for adolescent RSM, with the additional incorporation of issues of social context. Adolescents (N = 211) from three school-based samples completed self-report questionnaires. One-third of students reported at least one incident of purposeful, non-suicidal self-mutilation and 16% had engaged in self-mutilation repeatedly within the past 6 months. Both regression and group analyses indicated that adolescents who engage in RSM report greater psychological distress, a greater incidence of functionally equivalent behaviors, and greater exposure to self-mutilation among peers and/or in the media, when compared to their counterparts who have not engaged in RSM. Suicidal ideation/behaviors were consistently the strongest predictors of current self-mutilation behaviors. Clinical implications, limitations, and suggestions for future research are discussed.
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Description: Studies of affective forecasting examine people's ability to predict (forecast) their emotional (affective) responses to future events. Affective forecasts underlie nearly all decisions people make and the actions they take. However, people engage in systematic cognitive errors when making affective forecasts and most often overestimate the intensity and duration of their emotional responses. Understanding the mechanisms that lead to affective forecasting errors (e.g., immune neglect) and examining the utility of methods for improving affective forecasting errors (e.g., surrogation) can provide highly valuable information for clinicians as they assist clients in determining their goals both for therapy and for life. The first purpose of the current study was to determine if affective forecasting errors due to immune neglect lead to misjudgments about the relative emotional impact of minor versus moderate negative experiences (i.e., trauma severity). The second purpose was to examine the utility of surrogation for improving affective forecasts. Potential interaction effects between these two variables were also examined. The current study utilized a 2 (Trauma Severity: minor, moderate) X 3 (Prediction Information: surrogation information only, simulation information only, both types of information) experimental design. Undergraduates were recruited via the SONA system and randomly assigned to one of the six experimental ...
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Affective Reactions and Psychosocial Functioning in the Course of Psycho-Educational Assessment
Date: August 1999
Creator: Buenrostro, Martha
Description: Every day, children throughout the United States are given psychological evaluations for many different clinical and psycho-educational purposes. Very little research has attempted to investigate children's responses to the experience of having intellectual and achievement tests administered. The goal of the current research was to explore the effect a psycho-educational evaluation has on children in areas of self-concept and anxiety. Dependent variables consisted of pre- and post-test measures of anxiety and self-concept. A total of 75 children in the 4th 5th and 6th grades were recruited after referral for evaluation and possible placement in the Talented and Gifted Program or Special Education. This study employed Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), t-tests, multiple regression analysis, and correlational analysis. Findings included initial evidence that children endorsed decreased anxiety after psycho-educational assessments rather than increased anxiety, suggesting that fear of unknown situations may be more anxiety provoking than the actual situation itself, potentially beneficial findings for psychology and psychometric professionals who evaluate children daily. Students endorsement of academic self-concept significantly predicted anxiety after a psycho-educational evaluation, indicating that students who feel capable in academic areas may endorse less anxiety after an evaluation than students who do not feel academically capable. Finally, negative verbal interaction ...
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Alcoholism Treatment Follow-up Related to Staff Members' Effectiveness
Date: May 1978
Creator: DuBois, Richard L.
Description: The relationship was investigated between named staff members and four measures of reported alocohol consumption by alcoholics followed up one year after hospitalizstion in state hospitals. The 559 representative subjects were located, interviewed, and matched with 65 staff members named as "most helpful" to determine social, economic, and drinking aspects. Named personnel were administered the A-B Scale by Campbell, Stevens, Uhlenhuth, and Johansson (1968). Subjects naming A-staff members reported significantly lower levels of alcohol consumption on two of four measures as compared to subjects naming A/B- or B-staff members. Additional followup variables tended to support this conclusion.
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Allergen Research and Its Implications for Psychology: History, Current Status, and Prospectus
Date: August 1973
Creator: Arnold, J. Steven
Description: The purpose of this manuscript was to present a brief history, the current status, and a prospectus of allergen and allergic reactions. Research on allergic reactions, particularly as viewed from the psychogenic position, was presented. The review strongly suggests that the psychogenic orientation has been frought with contradictions, unnecessarily complex interpretations, and an over-abundance of subjective, dynamic, and analytic redundancies which have done little more than perpetuate the stagnation of a rather important subdomain of the "mental" health professions.
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Altruism and Depression: Exploring This Relationship and the Mechanisms Behind It
Date: August 2013
Creator: Wright, Brittney, C.
Description: The impact of environmental influences on depression has been well established by research. In particular, it is known that receiving/perceiving adequate social support has a protective influence on depression. Less is known about the protective benefits of providing support to others, namely in the form of altruistic, empathetic, or prosocial behavior. While research has shown that having altruistic attitudes and engaging in altruistic behaviors has a positive impact on physical health and mental well-being, studies on the association between altruistic attitudes and/or behavior and depression are limited. The present study examined the relationship between altruism and depression, and hypotheses were tested that allow for explanation of why altruism may protect against depression. A sample of 303 participants was recruited from the University of North Texas and the surrounding community. Participants completed an online survey that examined their altruistic activities, details regarding these activities, their prosocial attitudes, and their current level of depression. Results did not support that level of involvement in altruistic activities is directly related to depression severity. However, outcomes from involvement in altruistic activities, including sense of overburden from participating in altruistic activities, level of social interaction with other helpers and those helped during altruistic activities, and sense ...
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An Analysis of a Procedure Employing the Mowrer Imitation Paradigm in Relationship to the Generalized Imitation Procedure for Establishing Vocal Imitation
Date: December 1971
Creator: Perlman, Wesler H.
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of an ancillary procedure, the Mowrer imitation paradigm, in conjunction with an ongoing generalized imitation program. It was hypothesized that the ancillary program would accelerate the acquisition of vocal imitation relative to a situation In which the generalized imitation procedure was employed alone.
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An Analysis of the Performance of a Clinical Sample of African American, Caucasian, and Hispanic Children on the WISC-III
Date: December 1998
Creator: Ewing, Melissa L. (Melissa Lynn)
Description: The goals of revision for the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition included enhancement of the factor structure, improvement of subtests, and revision of norms. The researchers reported that the very few items that were found to be biased were replaced. The WISC-III performance of a clinical sample of African American, Caucasian, and Hispanic children was analyzed to determine if the test bias was eliminated as claimed in the goals of the revision.
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Anxiety and its Correlates: Introversion-Extroversion, Locus of Control, and Reinforcement Expectations
Date: December 1972
Creator: Read, Donald L.
Description: The problem with which this study is concerned is that of considering the relationship between neurotic anxiety and several personality variables. Even though anxiety has been the subject of many studies, it is still poorly defined. The basic model to be considered is Eysenck's three-dimensional model between neuroticism and introversion-extroversion. This model is expanded to include Rotter's locus of control and reinforcement expectancy (optimism and pessimism).
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