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7 Shockingly Dark Origins of Lovable Children's Characters
Sometimes it's the people closest to us that we know the least. We've all had that moment when we first found out that our best friend prefers The Monkees to The Beatles, that our significant other believes wrestling is real, or that our favorite uncle once killed a homeless man in Kentucky over a bottle of Night Train. Well, fictional characters are like that too: With just a little bit of digging, you can uncover all sorts of messed up crap that'll ruin all the things you used to love. So let's get started on doing that!
#7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The ninja turtles have seen more incarnations than some Hindu gods. They've been in cartoons, comic books, movies and even a rock band with a bunch of guys in secondhand Muppet costumes. You know the gist, though: Wacky pals who spend their days skateboarding, eating pizza, cracking wise and jumpkicking morality into confused teenage Foot Clan members.
Including a young Sam Rockwell
But before that, they were:
Cold-blooded killing machines. If you've only seen the movies or cartoon shows, you're probably vaguely aware of their origin story. After being exposed to radioactive ooze, four turtles were raised as ninjas by their adoptive father Splinter, a giant rat who's basically like Yoda with parasites.
In the very first issue of the comic series, Splinter reveals why he's been training the turtles for 13 years: to kill Shredder. Not "bring him to justice" or "stop the evil foot clan," but specifically to murder this one man for Splinter's personal revenge. They were single-purposed hit-turtles, trained by their insane master for over a decade just to take one life. The comic doesn't show much of that lovable father-son relationship that the turtles have with Splinter in the cartoon, either. They are not a loving family obliging their master's wishes out of affection and duty; they're just Splinter's pre-programmed death machines.
The very first issue ends with the turtles searching out and hunting down Shredder (no long and storied rivalry for the turtles to build up animosity toward him or anything; they were total strangers up until the point the turtles jumped out of the shadows and tried to murder him). The encounter ends with a brief fight on top of a building, where this happens:
Turtle Power, motherfucker!
That's Leonardo -- the boring moral center of the group, the generic good guy, the default leader character that nobody wanted to pick when it came time to declare which turtle you wanted to be -- and he is straight up brutally murdering a man with a sword. After Leo stabs Shredder, the rest of the turtles surround the mortally wounded man and tell him in no uncertain terms that he can either be dishonorably murdered (by them) or else honorably commit seppuku, which is essentially suicide by disembowelment.
He refuses and eventually dies while trying to kill the turtles, but really picture that first scene: Wisecracking Raphael, nerdy Donatello, noble Leonardo and Michelangelo -- fucking Michelangelo with his surfer accent and cowabunga attitude -- are all standing around an injured man trying to force him to cut his own guts out. And this was not a weird, unique misstep in an otherwise harmless comic. Nearly all of the early Turtles books were absolutely filled with the kind of ultraviolence that would make Alex DeLarge dry-heave stomach bile onto his loafers.
#6. Casper, the Friendly Ghost
The lovable ghost just wants to make friends, but always ends up scaring people's eyeballs out of their skulls, possibly leading to permanent retinal detachment. Like most forms of non-threatening entertainment, Casper the Friendly Ghost has silently persisted for decades even though literally nobody can remember ever watching the show.
"I don't know what that is."
But before that, they were:
Casper, the Friendly Living Child. Really stop and think about the implications there. This is a dead kid, forever haunting the Earth, unable to rest. That's the protagonist for your children's cartoon: a tortured apparition who spends all of his time in a graveyard, hanging out behind his own gravestone.
Casper kind of sucks at being a ghost.
It's all fairly disturbing and obvious once you stop to think about it, but Casper creator Harvey Comics won't cop to it: Its official stance since the 70s is that ghosts are simply supernatural creatures, like goblins, and friendly ghosts like Casper are born when two adult ghosts love each other very much. Except that explanation actually contradicts some of its earlier cartoons, like "There's Good Boos Tonight", in which Casper befriends a fox that is later killed by hunting dogs. Casper weeps over the fox's body and even puts together a little grave for it, but the fox immediately comes back as a ghost and they go right back to romping. That may be in competition with Futurama's "Jurassic Bark" episode as the most depressing cartoon plot ever, but it has absolutely no competition for Worst Lesson Ever Taught to Children.
"Go ahead and ride Waffles into the street, Billy! If he dies, he'll just come right back
and keep playing, but now he can run through doors! Yaayyy, Waffles!"
And if he's just a friendly, untroubled spirit who has always been that way, then why, in some of the early cartoons, does Casper seems less "friendly" and more "clinically depressed"? Half the shows follow the same basic format: Casper tries to make friends, scares friends away, immediately tries to commit suicide. In his very first appearance, titled "The Friendly Ghost" Casper fails to win lifelong companions within the first couple of minutes, so his next step is to go lie down on a train track. He did the same thing in the comic book series, too: trying to off himself by jumping from a cliff, and then again by tying himself to a rock and jumping into the ocean. It all kind of makes us question how Casper became a ghost in the first place ...
But don't worry! The 1995 live-action movie puts all those concerns to rest.
It flat-out says his name was Casper McFadden and he died of pneumonia.
#5. Birdo
A some-time enemy, some-time friend of Super Mario, Birdo is a recurring character in many Nintendo games, usually shooting eggs at other characters, but sometimes not. That's called "depth of character," folks. Look it up.
But before that, they were:
A dude. Birdo's a transvestite, or possibly even transgendered, and it has always been that way. When the pink, bow-wearing dinosaur first showed up in Super Mario Bros. 2, the instruction booklet claimed, "He thinks he is a girl and he spits eggs from his mouth. He'd rather be called 'Birdetta.'"
That's not an American translator having one last hurrah before they fire his ass for stealing forks from the lunchroom, either. That's a fairly accurate translation from the original Japanese booklet, where the character is called "Catherine" but prefers being called "Cathy." In fact, the Japanese booklet even uses the word "omoikomu" for "thinks," which more accurately translates to "wrongly believes." That's right: There was a small section in the Super Mario Bros. 2 handbook that was dedicated solely to passing judgment on Birdo's sexual identity.
The weirdness could have ended there if not for Nintendo's policy of sticking every character it owns into every video game it makes, and then pairing up said characters into opposite gender relationships: Mario has Princess Toadstool, Luigi has Daisy, Donkey Kong has Candy Kong and Yoshi has ... Birdo.
It's all the same in the dark. Right?
Hey, we're not here to judge. Maybe Yoshi's just kind of a freak like that.
But the prudes over at Nintendo of America have tried to downplay the transgender angle. They're too timid to make a final decision on what the sexually confused dinosaur really is, but in Japan at least, we know Birdo is definitely a guy. The Japanese website for Super Mario Kart Double Dash describes Birdo thusly: "It appears to be Yoshi's girlfriend, but is actually his boyfriend!? He participates in the race with eggs."
That's Nintendo for you: always prefacing descriptions of characters' special powers with complicated, unanswered questions about their sexuality .
"Bowser likes to pee on women because it makes him feel dominant -- is that bad?! Press B to breathe fire!"
#4. Cubone
Cubone is a Pokemon, and though its cuteness can never hope to reach Pikachupian levels of adorability, there are still millions of children the world over who would gladly never see their parents again if it meant getting a real-life whatever-the-hell-this-thing-is. Like all of its Poke-brethren, Cubone was given a hastily cobbled-together backstory, which was completely ignored by the kids because, turns out, they don't give two shits about story so long as you've got a cute animal that barfs fireballs.
But before that, they were:
An Oedipal lizard. The most distinctive thing about Cubone is that over-sized skull it wears on its head. It could be clever camouflage, or the skull of a vanquished enemy, or even the Cubone's own exposed bone. But it's not.
That's the skull of its dead mother.
The exact quote from the game: "It always wears the skull of its dead mother, so no one has any idea what its hidden face looks like." Originally, the game designers were going to name the creature "Orphan," but they wisely went with "Cubone" instead because it sounds like "cute" and "bone" and these kids -- they're not exactly discerning critics who want to appreciate the subtle lessons that tragedy teaches us, OK?
Although the video games and cartoon never explain why the mother of every single Cubone suddenly dies, it is accepted that it's a specieswide event. On the downside, that leaves a lot of worrisome, unanswered questions. On the upside, at least we're spared having to watch the darling little Cubone wrest the skull from its own mother's corpse.


text: Every series has to have a villain for it to be exciting and packed with tension. This lesson will show you "how to draw Lord Peel" from Rocket Monkeys, step by step. Lord Peel is said to be one of the meanest villains on Rocket Monkeys. By looking at Lord Peel you might be baffled to understand what type of alien he is. But if you look closely, his true self is revealed. Believe it or not, but Lord Peel wasn't always mean. In fact, he is the creation of Gus and Wally's crazy experiments when they repeatedly tried turning a single banana into a banana split. Lord Peel was tortured time after time as Gus and Wally used him as a guinea pig. Now all Lord Peel wants is to make the Rocket Monkeys suffer as much as they made him suffer as they poked and prodded at him. I had fun recreating this monkey made bad guy, and if you are a fan of Rocket Monkeys you will too. I will be back so stay tuned in.

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Hi, I have recently encountered these two definitions of a sequential space and a space of countable tightness. And I seem to have difficulty understanding what is the difference between these two definitions. For example, I know that the space of ultrafilters over ,say, R or N is not weakly Frechet Urysohn so it should not be sequential. But how can one show it directly from the definition? Also, Does these spaces have countble tightness? Thanks!
All three notions, "countably tight," "sequential," and "Frechet-Urysohn," say that each point $p$ in the closure of a set $A$ can be "approached in some countable way" by points from $A$. The difference is in the "countable ways." The strongest of the three, Frechet-Urysohn, requires $p$ to be the limit of a sequence of points in $A$. "Sequential" allows iteration of this: Take the set of limits of sequences of points in $A$; then take limits of sequences of such points; then take limits ... ; eventually you get $p$. (More formally, let $A_0=A$, let $A_{\alpha+1}$ be the set of limits of sequences from $A_\alpha$, and for limit ordinals let $A_\lambda$ be the union of all $A_\alpha$'s for $\alpha<\lambda$. Then $p$ should be in $A_\alpha$ for some $\alpha$. The $\alpha$ here can always be taken to be countable, but that's the best bound you can get.) Finally, "countably tight" only requires $p$ to be in the closure of some countable subset of $A$; that can happen even if there are no convergent sequences of points from $A$ (except of course the eventually constant sequences).
Some examples to expand Andreas' answer might be of interest: (it's too much to fit in a comment so I'm adding it as an answer, though I think Andreas' response is great)
Just a partial answer.
For $\beta \mathbb{N}$ (the set of all ultrafilters on $\mathbb{N}$ with the Stone topology) it is not hard to see that a sequence converges iff it is eventually constant. Hence any subset of $\beta \mathbb{N}$ is sequentially open -- and of course, $\beta \mathbb{N}$ is not discrete, so it cannot be sequential. Similarly, for the ultrafilters on $\mathbb{R}$.
If I recall correctly, this 'trivial sequential convergence' holds in all extremally disconnected spaces -- this should be an exercise in the book 'Rings of continuous functions' by Gillman and Jerison (there is also a PDF/TeX-file with all exercise solutions freely available on the web somewhere).
Also, I could be wrong, but I think $\beta \mathbb{N}$ is not countably tight since its remainder is not (since there exist weak P-points). Maybe somebody else can confirm or reject.


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Project: Cambodia
- "Choum Reap Sour"
- "Hello"
Country Overview
Cambodia is located on the Gulf of Thailand in Southeast Asia between Vietnam, Laos and Thailand; the country's landscape is made up of low lying central plains, low mountains and the upper reaches of the Mekong Delta.
It's a land in recovery. Rich in history and natural resources, Cambodia is influenced by decades of war and conflict. Ranked 139th out of the world's 196 countries on the 2011 Human Development Index, it's considered one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite recent socio-economics progress, 31 percent of the country's estimated 15 million people live on less than $1.25 a day.
In Cambodia, 80 percent of the population lives in rural areas and half of the workforce is employed in agriculture, the country's major industry. Rice farming is prevalent and many villagers raise cattle and pigs. However, due to slow growth and high mortality rates combined with a lack of education and access to new technologies, productivity is slow and many families can only produce enough food for a few months out of the year. When food is in short supply, many farmers end up borrowing money from lenders, usually with interest rates as high as 10 percent.
Heifer's Work in Cambodia
To address the challenges of income deficiency, lack of nutritional food options and illiteracy, for more than ten years, Heifer International Cambodia has used a holistic development approach that encourages rural families to become involved in the community development process. To begin with, families receive a package of agricultural inputs, like beef cattle, pigs, chickens, fish fingerlings, fodder, vegetable seeds or cassava stems, apply the Heifer Cornerstones, receive education and training in technical skills so that they are able to improve and diversify their food production in a sustainable manner. This process builds up self-confidence and provides a way to be self-reliant for a better future.
Heifer Cambodia works with small farmers to improve productivity and provide access to markets. Heifer enables limited-resource farm families to improve the quality of their lives and equips them to assist others, providing opportunities for families to produce and share food and income from their own resources in ways that are economically and ecologically sound. Based on Heifer's best practice on internalized holistic development, the participating families form and work as self-help groups, which encourages full participation.
Key Services Heifer Provides:
Sustainable agricultural production: Organic farming, composting, improved swine and native chicken production, vegetable/kitchen gardening
Post-harvest management and processing: Food grain storage and food waste management
Market development: Value chain development, capacity building on marketing and financial management for SHGs, cooperatives/farmer associations
Technology: Breeding and selection, swine feeding techniques and AI
Nutrition: Promotion of kitchen gardens and home consumption of vegetables and animal product
Heifer's Work Around the World
See where Heifer is working around the world to end hunger.
Sinath from Cambodia
Sinath says, "I think Passing on the Gift® was the best activity in our life. I was so excited."
The Sound of Frogs
In May 2013, I was travelling to Cambodia with the Heifer team working on training their Community Animal Health Workers. Click the title of this story to read more...
Heifer's 12 Cornerstones Changed My Family's Life
In November 2012, the Chemrouen Cheat Khmer (CCK) organization and Heifer Cambodia started the "Improving Income and Nutrition through Community Empowerment" (INCOME) project in our village. Our family decided to join the self-help group in late 2012 and things began to change.
Phan Phearum Finds Precious Gift in Raising Goats
My family and I are grateful to Heifer and Chetthor for their good deed. I never forget to thank them. I look after these precious gifts very well with my husband and my children.
Heifer CEO Travels to Cambodia
My last stop – Cambodia! Country Directory Keo Keang (or KK as she prefers to be called) and her team are very passionate about Heifer's work in Cambodia, and it shows in their interactions with the communities.
Susan Sarandon Supports Heifer
Susan Sarandon reflects on her trip to Heifer Cambodia.


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Previously in SL I had chax to make sure iChat was always signed in.
Now on Lion I constantly find that iChat is disconnected from Facebook chat (jabber).
Does anyone have a clever idea to keep it connected?
Facebook will actively terminate your connection if you log-in from any other client like the Facebook web, or your mobile phone.
Even with just one client logged in, you should expect Facebook to close the connection anyway. This happens with everything I've tried, libpurple based clients (Admium, Pidgin on Linux...) gets disconnected now and then. Those clients do silently reconnect. For iChat, as you suggested, chax can accept the dialog for you.
IMHO, It seems to me that Facebook is still struggling to make their chat service stable.
IF you want to reconnect without using chad, you can edit your crontab (using
This will make sure iChat stays connected, telling it to reconnect every five minutes.
Don't know about keeping it alive, but I use this AppleScript to tell iChat to go online:
You could trigger that with Automator (or a dozen other ways) every hour or however often "constantly" is ...


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Carpet Replacement & Installation - Magic Carpet RideWritten by on August 11, 2006 Installing a new rug in our 300 Hurst
Spending its entire life in Florida has been good and bad for our 36-year-old Chrysler 300. A lack of snow and salty roads has preserved our car's sheetmetal better than most cars its age. There are downfalls, however, to owning a car that has spent all its life in the sunshine state. The ultraviolet rays and extreme heat of the sun can ruin a car's paint, and cause the vinyl, leather, and carpet of the interior to become extremely deteriorated. A propensity for sudden afternoon thunderstorms often catches drivers who have left there windows down to keep their car cool off guard, flooding the interior with rain and soaking the carpet and underlying insulation. This combination of circumstances is exactly what had left the carpet in our Chrysler tattered, torn, and looking terrible. Most of the carpet was nonexistent as the previous owner had ripped it out to save the floors after the car had sat in a hurricane with the windows cracked. this saved the floorboards from major rust, but the aesthetics of the interior really suffered. Needless to say, new carpet was in order for our old Chrysler.
Installing new carpet in your car is probably the single best improvement you can make to the interior for the cost. New carpet not only makes the interior look better, but cuts down on road noise and keeps the interior insulated from the hot exhaust running underneath. Before you start a project like this, however, you must determine what caused your carpet to be ruined. If normal wear and tear is the culprit, the carpet can be replaced and should stay looking good for a long time with proper care. However, if leaky door or window seals are allowing water to damage the carpet, you should be prepared to correct these problems before putting new carpet in your car. Leaks that cause standing water in the floorboards will certainly ruin your new carpet and must be repaired. Also, be prepared to fix what you find underneath your carpet. We were lucky and just had some minor surface rust and a couple of pin holes in the floor that were easily repaired with rust inhibitor and body filler. If your car is from the northern states and has rust damage, or if your carpet has been soaked and has stayed wet for any length of time, it may need sheetmetal repairs before the new carpet is installed. Placing your car on a lift or crawling under it in the driveway before removing your old carpet will allow you to see if metal repairs are necessary before removing your original carpet.
One of the nice things about this job is that it can be done in less than a day and only requires the use of basic hand tools. You'll need a Phillips screwdriver for the kick panels and sill plates, a 1/2-inch deep well socket to remove the front seats, a 13/16-inch socket to remove the front seatbelts, and a carpet knife or razor blade to trim the carpet to fit. we've found the best way to cut holes for the seats and seatbelts is by actually melting the carpet with a soldering iron. This will burn through the carpet, backing, and insulation forming a nice round hole and cauterizing the edges, which will prevent the carpet from fraying. The upper rear seat, door panels, and rear seatbelts can be left in place. It's easiest to do this job with both doors fully open. Rather than shuffling cars around to fit the big Chrysler in the garage, we performed the work in the driveway and had the new carpet installed in about four hours.
Carpet can be obtained from any number of sources, but for our project we chose Year One. The carpet from Year One is correctly molded in two pieces to fit the contour of our specific car's floorboards, and is the same type and quality used by the factory when the car was built. Insulation pads are molded to the bottom of the carpet to provide a barrier from heat and road noise. Unlike factory carpet, however, we've found the Year One replacement is far more tolerant of ultraviolet rays and is less susceptible to fading. Year One is also a great source if you're unsure of the original color of your car's carpet. Carpeting came not only in many colors, but many shades, and Year One will send you samples that can be matched to the original carpet before you order, ensuring the proper color for your car. We suggest matching the sample to original carpet from an area that didn't fade, like under the front seats or beneath the sill plates. Since our big 300 Hurst edition came with only one color choice, our selection was easy.
After installing our carpet we noticed a huge decrease in road noise as well as significantly less heat transferring from the exhaust, through the floors, and into our passenger compartment. All of this combined to make our car much more comfortable to drive. Aesthetically, the carpet also made a huge difference, finishing out the interior and making it look much better even with the remaining imperfections. We plan to restore the rest of the interior at a later date, but for now, the carpet makes our car much more pleasant to look at as well as to drive. Not bad for just over 100 bucks and a half a day's work.
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Our car is equipped with power seats, so the seat is tipped back before removal exposing the connector. Once disconnected from the wiring, the front seats can be removed through the car's door.This carpet from under the front seat was about all that remained of our original carpeting. Though looking a little worse for wear, this is actually a good piece for color comparison. Try to use a piece of original carpet that hasn't been faded by the sun when matching color samples for your new carpet.The center "buddy seat" in our car is held in by four bolts: two at the sides and two in the front. Don't forget to disconnect the wire for the rear cigarette lighter before removing the center seat/armrest.Front seatbelts are held in by large, fine thread bolts threaded into inserts in the cars floors. A 13/16-inch socket is all that's required to remove them. Don't be surprised if these are tight as they have semi-locking threads to keep them from vibrating loose.The lower rear seat is removed by pushing toward the rear of the car and upward (shown here), unlocking the seat from its hook-style retainer in the floor of the car.After removing the seats, kick panels, and seat belts, we vacuum the floors and see what kind of repairs we need to perform before installing the carpet. We treat our exposed floors with rust inhibitor before making minor repairs.After cleaning our floors and treating the rust, we use short-strand fiberglass body filler to fill a few pin holes in the floorboards. We were lucky we caught this rust just in time so our floors weren't rusty enough to need complete replacement. If your floors do need to have sheetmetal replaced, Year One has it for most applications.With our floors cleaned, treated, and repaired, we begin our carpet installation with the rear half of the carpet. The molded carpet set should fit the contours of the floor and easily fall into place with minor manipulation.
To locate the seatbelt attaching points, roll the carpet back to find the approximate location, then use an awl to poke a hole through the carpet and the threaded hole in the floor.We then use a soldering iron to melt a hole in the carpet, backing, and underlying insulation big enough for the seat belt attaching bolt. This method keeps the carpet and backing from tearing or fraying.The front half of the carpet can now be laid in the car. Take care to locate the carpet correctly, using the vinyl heel pad as a guide. Again, the carpet should closely follow the contours of the floor boards.From under the car, we use a screw driver to poke through the seat attaching holes and locate where the holes will be in the new carpet. A soldering iron is again used to locate the holes and burn through the backing and insulation.We had to cut slits in the back edge of the forward carpet to accommodate our power seat wiring. We're now ready to install the front seats. Always work from the center of the car outward when cutting or burning holes. Also, completely bolt in the seats to pull the carpet to the floor prior to trimming the outside edges.With our seats bolted in place, we can now trim the edges of the carpet to fit using a razor blade or carpet knife. Be cautious here as it's easy to misjudge and trim too much from the edge. We cut a little at a time and trial fit the carpet to ensure accuracy.We continue moving forward, trimming the carpet edges at the kick panels and cutting a hole for the dimmer switch. It's easiest to cut the carpet by rolling it over and making the cut from the back side of the carpet (shown here). When the trimming is finished, the sill plates can be installed to complete the job.With our carpet installation complete, the improvement to our passenger compartment is dramatic. Not only are the looks greatly improved, but the new carpet provides insulation from sound and heat. At around $100 and four hours worth of work, this is definitely one of the best improvements that can be made to a car's interior.


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Hi Folks,
I'm curious to hear how others like using the Nikon 12-24mm F/2.8 for single- and multi-row stitched panoramas of landscapes and urbanscapes (not spherical). I have a rental on the way from LensRentals.com and am going to try it out before making a purchasing decision.
For those of you who have used it: Did you find: it too heavy/big? Did you find the wider end useful for panoramas or did you stick closer to the 24mm end? Did the lack of easily attached (and not super expensive Conkin) filters cause you any concern?
Any other thoughts or insights are much appreciated.


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The structure $L_{\omega_1^{CK}}$ consists of only HYP sets (I believe) and HYP in this structure is the same as the actual hyperaritmetic sets. Now if I move to the structure $L_{\omega_1^{CK}}[a]$ where $a$ is some non-hyperarithmetic real I add my guess is that HYP remains unaltered simply because HYP has a bottom up definition and won't be affected by the addition of new sets as long as one doesn't move to a non-$\omega$ model or the like.
Is this correct? Any more formal demonstration?


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Emmy-winning actress Holland Taylor '64 has been nominated for a 2013 Tony Award for her portrayal of legendary Texas Governor Ann Richards in her one-woman Broadway hit, ANN. Taylor, who wrote and performs the play entirely by herself, "has worked this lovably ornery woman deep into her bones," said a New York Times theater critic. "If you can spy even a crack of daylight between actor and character in this performance, you've got better eyes than I do."
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Blogs on Ballet Talk
Posted 08 August 2005 - 08:49 PM
A blog is an online journal. You can think of it as a combination of a mini message board and a diary. Blogs are a great way to define your own space, as long as the entries and photos follow the guidelines listed below. Some suggestions are a seasonal diary, ballet memories, essays, a year of ballet side trips, great stages, competitions, festivals are just some of the possibilities, and a single blog can span different "categories." Blogs are self-moderating as well as being moderated by the Ballet Alert! board moderators, and you can decide whether or not you want others to comment on your blog itself, or to comment on Ballet Talk.
On Ballet Alert!, blogs are in a separate "module" that in many ways works like the board itself, and there is a link to them at the top left of each Ballet Alert! page, under the logo.
Before you blog, here are a list of
Rules and Policies:
1. Blogs topics are limited to ballet and other arts. That doesn't mean that you can't mention that the day you saw La Bayadere in Paris you visited Notre Dame, or that you saw a wonderful production of The Tempest at the new Opera House in Copenhagen, where the Royal Danish will perform large productions. But a blog shouldn't be a travel log or a cooking blog with a little ballet on the side.
2. All of the board policies -- including our policy that all news must be in print or announced officially -- are in force for hosted blogs, which will be moderated.
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Posted 08 August 2005 - 08:51 PM
1. Click your username in the upper right corner of every page and select My Settings from the drop-down box.
2. Under "Your Options" on the left under the toolbar, select "Blogs" (It's a link, but not underlined.)
3. If you agree with the Blog Terms & Rules, a. Click the checkbox to the left of the statement "I have read, understood and agree to these terms of the Blog usage" at the bottom of the text.
b. Click the Next button.4. Enter the name of your blog. The default will be [Username]'s Blog, but you can change this. (It can be changed later.)
5. It is optional to enter a description. (It can be changed later.)
6. The default is Local Blog and can't be changed.
7. Select the "Finish" button, et voila, you have created a blog with the following default settings, which you can change later**:
Your local Blog settings
+ Guests who are not members and members who are not logged in may view your blog. ("Allow guests to view your Blog?"=checked)
* You can block guest from seeing you blog by unchecking the box.+ Comments are allowed ("Disable comments?" checkbox is not checked)
* You can disallow comments by unchecking the box. (All other comments settings will be moot.)+ You will not automatically receive email when someone posts a comment ("New comment notification?" is unchecked.
* You can receive email notifications by checking the box.+ Your entries will default to draft/unposted and you can publish them when you're ready ("Default status of new entries?"="Draft")
* You can change this to "Published", which will display entries immediately after posting.+ All comments will be posted/published automatically, without approval. ("Approve comments posted on your blog?" = "No approve")
* You can change this to "Approve all comments", and no comments will appear until you manually approve them. (Choosing "Approve guest comments only"will do nothing, as guests can't post on the site.)Customize the look of your Blog
+ Your entries will be displayed in a list ("View mode of Your Blog"="list")
* You can change this to "List per date" or "List per month"+ 10 entries will display on each page ("Number of Entries per page"="10")
* You can change this to "5", "15", or "20"+ 20 comments will display on each page ("Number of Comments per page"="20")
* You can change this to "5", "10", "15", "25", or "30"+ Entry size is limited by group permissions ("Limit the entry size on main Blog page"="0")
* You can change this to a number of bytes, but if it is larger than group permissions, group permissions will prevail.* It may be helpful to print this post as a reference while you set up your blog.
**Please note: These settings may be changed at any time from "Options" button on the Managing Your Blogs page. By clicking the button, you can:
+ View Blog
+Post New Entry
+Manage Settings
+Manage Categories
+Manage Comments
+Manage Entries
You can get to the Managing Your Blogs page with the "Options" button by any of the following:
1. Click your username and select My Settings, which will bring you to the "Your Options" page. Click "Blogs".
2. Click your username and select "My Blog", which will bring you to the first blog on your list, if you have more than one. Click the "Go" button and select "Manage Your Blogs".
3. Access your blog through its URL. Click the "Go" button and select "Manage Your Blogs".
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Posted 08 August 2005 - 08:55 PM
As soon as you create your blog, it will appear on "Your Current Blogs" list on the "Manage Your Blogs" page with an "Options" button.
You can change settings, described in the post above, or
1. Manage categories -- create custom categories to filter your posts:
+From the "Manage categories"/"Options" button, add a category to the input box and click "Add Category". To delete a category, check the box next to the category and click
+From a blog entry itself, click the "Options" button, select "Edit entry", click "Add New Category", enter a new category in the input box, and click the small green "+" button. (Clicking "enter: will lose your entry.)
* The new category will be checked for that entry, in addition to any other categories previously assigned.
* Uncheck the checkbox to remove categories from a post.
* Default is "Uncategorized" if there are no custom categories are created and assigned, or the you delete the custom category.
* Please keep "Uncategorized checked for people who want to see all entries.
* Once created, the category can be used for any other entries, but the new category has to be applied manually.
+ Select an option from the drop-down box at the bottom right of the comment you wish to manage and click the "Go" button.
3. Manage entries -- Navigate to the entry to edit, delete, lock, feature, un-publish, publish, and create and assign new categories.
Posted 08 August 2005 - 09:00 PM
1. When you click on Your Blog from My Controls, or if you bookmark your URL,a. The default category will be "all."To change this, select a category from the "Filter by category" drop-down box in the upper left corner.
b. Any drafts will show, with a pink background, in contrast to the standard light blue background.
c. Last Entries and Last Comments will be updated, if there's been activity.
d. Unread posts will show a little orange square with a tiny white bottom right corner to the left of the entry.
[/list]2. To Create an Entry in Your Own Blog:a. Click the Add Entry link from Your Blog Options.
b. A screen will open that looks very similar to a standard post screen through the Enter Your Post section.
c. There is are two additional optionsi. Under the Entry Title, there is an option to select the category (Post Entry in Category)(a) The default is "none."
(b) If you've set up categories, you may select one.
© If you click the Preview Post button, the category entry will be retained.
(d) The category can be re-set later using the Edit function.
ii. At the bottom of the screen in the Options section, there is an option to set the way the entry will be published (Add this entry as... drop-down box), (a) The default is to "Draft" or "Published," based on your default option in Your Blog Settings.
(b) You may change the selection before you click the Post New Entry button.
© If you change the selection and click the Preview Entry button, the selection will revert to the default.
[/list]d. Click the Post New Comment button to post.
e. If you've saved as "Draft" and want to publish the entry, i. Make the Entry Options visible if they are not already so by clicking the button.
ii. Click the Publish button
[/list]3. To Moderate Your Own Blog
Bloggers may choose to apply stricter standards to their blogs than the board does. If these standards/rules are published, they may not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, or sexual preference.a. If you choose to "approve all comments," comments will appear on a pink background, and won't be visible until/unless you "Publish" them.
b. You may edit or delete comments before or after they are published.
c. The Entry Options allow you to Edit or Delete the corresponding entry (yours) or comment (other posters').
d. If the entry or comment is in "draft" mode, use the Publish button to post to the board.
e. You may toggle between "published" and "draft" for entries or comments.
f. You may lock an entry "thread."
4. To Add Photos to Your Blog Entrya. Under the entry post box is an Attachments section, from which photos can be added.
b. Adding a photo is a three-step process:i. Enter the path and name of the file in the input box or click the Browse button to browse through your files and select one.
ii. Click the Add This Attachment button.> The name of the file will appear under the input box.
iii. Click the Add into Post button.> In the entry input box, the code [attachmentid=[x]] will appear.
[/list]c. When the entry is submitted, the photos will appear as thumbnails, with "CLICK TO ENLARGE" in small type across the top.When this text is clicked, the photo appears full size.
d. Removing a photo is a two-step process:Delete the correct [attachmentid=[x]] from the post.
Click the Remove button.
Posted 08 August 2005 - 09:00 PM
In this version of the software, it is possible to choose to get email notifications of new entries. You are welcome in your blog announcement on the board to encourage people to choose the option from any entry on the blog:
+ From the blog main page, in the top left, there is an option to "Subscribe to [Blogname]". Click the first icon "Track this blog", which will send email notifications.
+ Alternately, select "Track this blog" under the "My Blog Links" box in the right hand column.
It is also possible to subscribe to comments for a blog entry by selecting the "Start Comment Notification" button at the bottom right of every post (when comments are enabled at the blog level).
To announce a new entry on Ballet Alert! itself,
1. Start a thread in the appropriate forum eithera. On the subject of the entry: Ex: "Margot Fonteyn's New York Performances" in the Dancers forum.>Please note that the discussion may expand on the subject beyond your blog entry.
b. As a blog announcement: Ex: "New Post in John's Blog" in Heads Up!/BLOGS.
[/list]2. Add a post to an existing thread: Ex: "I posted a review to last night's performance in my blog [link to blog]" in the "Week 3 Reviews" thread in the NYCB forum.Please remember to link back to the thread from you blog entry if you choose this option
Posted 08 August 2005 - 09:01 PM
1. Click the Blogs link at the top right hand side of any page to get to the list of blogs.
2. If the blogger has chosen "Friendly URL" option and his/her username for the "Friendly URL," the link to his/her blog will be:
Once you find a blog, you can bookmark it/add it to your favorites.
Posted 08 August 2005 - 09:04 PM
We've asked bloggers to indicate on their blog if comments should be made on the Ballet Alert! site instead of the blog. If the blog accepts comments on the blog, please note that blogs are self-moderating, and that the blogger may not get to your comment immediately (or even quickly).
If you prefer to comment directly on the blog (and the blogger allows this), please:
1. Enter text in the "Leave a Reply" box, the equivalent of "Quick Reply" on the board.
2. Click the "Post" button or select "Use Full Editor" to get regular post formatting options and the preview option.
If you prefer to comment on the Ballet Alert! site, please copy the blog entry URL from the browser and paste it into your comment. (You may have to "Start New Topic" to create a new thread.)
Posted 08 August 2005 - 09:04 PM
There are a number of additional options. Please play around with them, and if you have a question, open up a new thread in this forum.
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I've noticed that some places have a lock in the knob and a deadbolt in the exterior doors, and some places have a knob without a lock and just a deadbolt. Is there a benefit to having a lock in the knob I'm missing?
The lock in the knob can be set to be locked when the door is closed. In other words, you do not have to do anything extra to lock the door, just pull it closed. This can be good or bad depending on how you look at it (it can be easy to lock yourself out this way). The dead bolt on the other hand always requires an extra step to lock the door (put the key in, lock it, and remove the key); this forces you to have a key in hand, preventing you from locking yourself out.
Depending on what you are doing/replacing, also check your local building codes. Some types of deadbolts (the ones that require a key on both sides) may not be allowed in certain situations.
I agree with Jeff and Mike's answers, but you also have to make sure the lock was installed correctly. When I bought my house and changed the locks, I found out that the strike plates installed (deadbolt and doorknob) on the front door were only screwed into the trim with 1/4" screws. It wouldn't have taken much force at all to rip them right out. (My guess is one well-aimed kick.) The new Schlage locks that I bought came with 4" screws for mounting the deadbolt strike plate THROUGH the trim and into the studs behind the frame.
From a security point of view two locks is better than one.
Some insurance companies might require that you have a deadbolt type lock, offering reduced premiums if you have a recognised standard one fitted.
I completely agree that having more locks can be helpful but also keep in mind that the brand and model also play an important part. AFAIK, some locks (including deadbolts) are still susceptible to bump-key techniques.
Sometimes you really do get what you pay for. ;-)
It's quite useful to have two locks in the door separating the house/apartment from the surrounding world but use just one of them. Locks happen to break, although that's quite rare. If one of the locks starts malfunctioning you can just stop using it and use the other one until you fix the first one.
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Fine-Tuning Your Chassis At The TrackWritten by on May 1, 2002 Six Tips To Make You Go Faster!
Youre at the track running a few practice laps and you find your race car isnt sticking to the track quite as well as you hoped. What can you do at the track, away from the chassis shop and all its tools, to help improve your lap times? Circle Track magazine went to Hooters Pro Cup driver and shop owner Mario Gosselin to find out. Here are six tips we recommend.
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Caster/Camber

Getting the tires to contact the pavement correctly isn't as simple as filling a tire with air and mounting it on your race car. A change in the camber setting can get the results you're looking for. Using a pyrometer, take readings on the inside edge, the middle and the outside edge of the tire to determine the amount of heat across the tire. The hotter the temperature, the harder that section of the tire is contacting the pavement. When running on a short track, the optimum temperature should be 10-15 degrees hotter on the outside of the left front and the same on the inside of the right front. With this information, the camber setting can then be adjusted to achieve the desired tire-to-pavement contact.

Toe-In

Don't forget, when making caster/camber changes the toe-in measurement can change as well. Always check the toe-in after making caster/camber changes.

Tire Stagger

Because the inside tire has a smaller diameter circle to travel while going through a curve, it is imperative that you get the tire stagger set correctly. Having the incorrect stagger will make for an ill-handling race car. If your car is tight in the middle and coming off the curve, then an increase in stagger is needed. If it's loose from the middle out, reducing the stagger will help. Minimal stagger adjustments can be made by adjusting air pressure, but anything over a quarter-inch requires changing the tire size.

Sway Bar Adjustment

When you're coming through a turn and start to accelerate and your car starts to spin the rear wheels without lifting the pedal, what can you do? The sway bar can be the answer to your problem. Increasing the sway-bar tension will add bite to the left rear tire, reducing the tire spin. Also, if the race car is rolling or leaning in the turns, an increase in tension will help. Having too much tension will also create a problem; this will make your race car push off the corners. The trick is to have enough sway-bar tension to stop wheel spin without creating push.

Panhard Bar

If your race car is tight or loose throughout the entire corner, not just on entry or exit, an adjustment to the Panhard bar could be the key to correcting this problem. The Panhard bar is located in the rear of the race car connected to the left side axle tube next to the wheel and to the race car's frame on the right side behind the wheel. To loosen the race car up through the entire corner you will need to move the Panhard bar up and tighten the opposite bolt.

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Front or back, how does this effect your race car and where should there be more brake? If your car pushes when applying the brakes while entering a curve, then you have too much front bias. Increasing the rear brake will help decrease this brake push.

There are two types of brake bias adjusters: one is mechanical and the other is hydraulic. The mechanical has a bar that goes between the two master cylinder pushrods and is adjusted from side to side, changing the amount of pressure applied to the front or back master cylinder. The hydraulic type increases or decreases the amount of fluid (hydraulic) pressure going to the rear brakes by restricting the brake fluid flow.

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Also I find in PTGui that Viewpoint correction works better if I tick both the Nadir shots. Does that seem right? In fact, I actually loaded all the images (including Nadir2), ticked VP for the 2 Nadirs and it stitched perfect, then masked and the Nadir looked perfect...........couldn't remember if I re-levelled though between Nadirs, hence the question.
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Thursday, April 08, 2010
Reflections on Dr. Brett's Blow Up
Today, however, I blew out and lost everything.
It happened so suddenly: one minute everything is going fine, then suddenly I'm falling to earth and my chute won't open.
I was sick to my stomach for much of the morning. It is not easy to see everything you've achieved suddenly wiped out.
And the worst part of all was knowing that it could have been prevented.
No, I didn't lose my money in big trades and oversized risk. What crashed was the hard drive on my computer and everything I had on it: all the writings, all the research, all the records.
So all day today, I've been restoring files and reinstalling programs.
If I hadn't prepared for a catastrophic loss with a good backup service, I truly would have wiped out.
And that's the lesson of all this: to succeed, you have to keep an eye on the ideal, but keep the other eye on what can go wrong. It's the tail risk, the statistically unlikely, catastrophic outcomes, that catch up to people over time and bring them down. That's because no one likes to think about negative outcomes, and it's certainly no fun to actively anticipate and plan for them.
But planning for catastrophe can be the difference between a day's setback and the setback of a lifetime. It's that seahorse vision that accounts for long-term surviving and thriving: one eye on opportunity, the other on threats. One perspective driving you forward, the other keeping you in the game. One plan for the future; the other for backing up and preserving what you have.
Hope and strive for the best. Plan for the worst. And make sure that life's fat tails of risk can't take you out of the game for good.
15 comments:
- nummy said...
wow Doc, sorry to hear that :(
I suggest mirrored RAID drives ... those have saved my ass countless times.
- kdm said...
Wow you really scared me there for a minute. It really sucks about your hard drive been there done that, no fun. I hope you are able to continue your work because I find it invaluable. Thanks and good luck.
- skogie said...
I owe to your blog this: go in with a plan....and a plan B if A doesn't work out. i.e. disaster recovery.
- Jorge said...
Dr. Steenbarger,
Sorry to hear about your hard drive crash. Online backup services are fine for limited backups of critical files, for more heavy duty May I suggest an inexpensive Raid 1 setup?
By the way, the only thing that was wiped out today was your hard disk; everything that you've achieved lives on, out there, in the form of the thousands of people you have touched.
All the best,
- Mark Wolfinger said...
When I read the first few lines, I though you were just late for April Fool's day.
Sorry for the problems.
- DNO said...
Two thoughts:
I have a 2 tier structure at home: my main machine and a windows home server (from HP) that does a full backup each night. This server also has a a secondary purpose with home photos, videos all on board etc. In the event that my machine fails, a CD in the floppy allows an full restore to the repaired (or new) machine
I then also (because I am paranoid) backup the home server to an online service in the cloud as a ultimate disaster scenario.
A significant amount of hard drive failures are not "total", but rather just a tiny piece has failed, and good software can recover around that for you. The best I have seen (and it is available for instant download) is SpinRite, by Gibson Research - very good software.
- The Sanch said...
I was pretty shocked there for a moment, too. :-)
Happy to hear that you were still prepared.
- Dr Bill said...
You don't have to post this....I'm a carbonite guy myself. I know both services do yeoman's work. I've even changed computers under carbonite and the headaches were within reason. That annual fee sure paid for itself for you this year.
I think RAID drives are like putting lightning arrestors on a house--I'm not sure they don't attract a higher risk of a strike, but they also protect against those the consequences of a strike.
Cleverly written. The reverse up this AM didn't look that surprising to me, so I assumed you'd have been all over it. Like kdm, I was reading it as if somehow you loaded up on a short at about 0945 EDT-- that'd be something I'd do.
Have a fine weekend.
- Krasimir said...
Brett, sorry to hear that...
A couple of years ago this happened to me too. I know how you feel. I've learned from my mistake and now I use two hard drives on my computer. One for current data and the other for backing up that data. I've been using backup manager software which backs up every day critical data to the back up hard drive. Separately, I back up my data on external drives each quarter. Hope this gives you some ideas.
- RDV said...
Two wonderful must-reads on this topic: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled By Randomness; and The Black Swan.
- Eiji said...
Sorry to hear that.
but you are not alone.
it happened to one of us in my office recently too.
I suggest ontrack data recovery service(www.ontrackdatarecovery.com).
they are very good at what they do.
but very expensive too.
80GB SATA 10,000rpm drive recovery cost us $1500.(price depends on how badly it is damaged)
Good luck.
btw. i have no business affiliation with them. ;)
- Adam said...
Brett ~
Oh, that sinking feeling! I remember well one sunny afternoon a decade ago suddenly confronting the dreaded blue screen of death.
The dizzying plummet into despair was sickening; the loss was nearly total ~ fortunately at home, not the office.
I'm glad to read you're in recovery from that spin, as what you've got stored on your system is surely more valuable than the average nonsense.
You've received good counsel (above) on backup methods. Like others commenting here, I'm paranoid: auto-backup to RAID and an online service.
Now you're a seasoned campaigner with seahorse eyes.
Adam Sterling.
- passiontotrade said...
Sorry to hear of your troubles. Never a good time for that to happen!
A RAID system didn't work for me. All the drives failed together. Don't know why.
Now I use external backup drive, CDs or DVDs, and online backup for the databases.
I assume you bought a new drive -- to be safe. You can send your old drive to a recovery service as mentioned above if there is anything on it that was not backed up.
- Tim T said...
been there done that, I have my backup backed up :)
- carlos said...
You can't be too safe. As others suggested, I use RAID 1 as primary backup, a plug-in external drive for nightly secondary backups, and have used an online backup service in case the house burns down.
That's 3 levels of protection. My business partner goes further and swaps out his backup hard drive every 2 weeks with another one he stores remotely.
I had a RAID drive fail a few months ago, and it was a wonderful thing to experience. All my computer functions kept working completely normally, I just got a notice that one drive was out. I removed it, shipped it back to the manufacturer (it was under warranty), and when the new one came in, just plugged it in and it automatically rebuilt itself. Didn't miss a beat throughout the entire process.


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Football notebook: Oxford shows backbone
Despite having only eight seniors and few players with tons of varsity experience, Oxford High football coach Joe Stochmal still had high expectations entering this season.
"It was just a matter of whether they could mature quickly, and they've been able to do that," said Stochmal.
Through four weeks, the Wolverines are a respectable 3-1 following a 55-20 win over Notre Dame of Fairfield last Saturday.
What Stochmal likes about his team is their resiliency.
"The kids don't let things get them down," explained Stochmal. "When they have turned the ball over, they have been able to get over it quickly and move on. If they give up a first down, they plant down on the next series and force them to punt.
"We harp on that every day in practice — that the most important play is the next play," he said. "Fortunately, the kids have bought into that."
A turning point came against Bethel two weeks ago when the game was postponed a day due to the rain.
"We had a bad practice that Thursday and we took the kids into the gymnasium on Friday and told the kids we were fortunate to have an extra day of practice," said Stochmal. "We went through the basics."
The next night was telling from the get-go, proving the Wolverines are not fazed by a letdown or adversity.
"Bethel scored on the very first series after four or five plays, and it was an indicator of whether they would put their heads down. They didn't," said Stochmal. "We responded with a 10-play drive and took the lead (on Kevin Loshiavo's TD reception)."
Stochmal credits senior co-captains Brennen Diaz, the quarterback and outside linebacker, and Bucky Gumbrewicz, an offensive guard and defensive tackle.
"Brennen and Bucky are becoming more vocal, and the others are looking toward them as great examples," said Stochmal.
Marcus Esteves and Steve Perrson are providing a strong running game and Loshiavio and Chris Van Kamerik are giving the passing game an added dimension.
"Marcus and Steve are running very hard and running over people instead of trying to avoid them," said Stochmal.
On Saturday, Oxford hosts Newtown (4-0) at 12:30 p.m.
Two years ago, the Wolverines were 3-0 heading their game with the Nighthawks. Oxford lost and went 2-5 the rest of the way to finish at 5-5.
"We do bring up reminders of teams we have played in the past," said Stochmal. "But our talks won't be about that. Our focus is the task of playing a good 4-0 team with great athletes and great size. So far this season, we have been up to the challenge."
Their only loss came against undefeated Weston, 32-14, in Week 2.
A steppingstone win?: Pomperaug's decisive 35-7 win at New Milford not only broke a three-game losing streak last week, it could be a steppingstone.
"I thought we did an excellent job in all three phases of the game," said Pomperaug senior tri-captain Carl Gatzendorfer. "In our first three games (against Masuk, Newtown and Weston), we had a lot of inconsistencies. But against New Milford, we played with a lot more energy."
Gatzendorfer had an interception and forced a fumble to help spark the defense.
"After we won, the bus ride home was great," he said. "The previous three games, we were all deep in thought after the game. Now, we have to look to get better and can't lose focus."
Pomperaug visits Stratford on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in a game at Bunnell. The game was moved from Friday night.
When Gatzendorfer was asked if the Panthers could win out the rest of the season, he responded by saying, "We have some tough games ahead, but being 7-3 is absolutely attainable."
Better late than never: Watertown senior Anthony Chacho had two interceptions and dropped a third in the Indians' 42-6 win over Crosby. Chacho, a basketball starter on last year's NVL championship team, didn't join the football until the second week of the season.
"Anthony is a coach's dream," said Watertown coach Mike Veronneau. "He didn't want his senior year to go by and say, 'I could have, should have and would have played.' He said he'd give it a shot and he's making the most of it. I knew he could run and catch. He played as a freshman and if he had continued for four years, Anthony would be an all-league caliber kid."
By the numbers: St. Paul quarterback Logan Marchi has thrown for 1,030 yards and 13 touchdowns with six interceptions to lead the Naugatuck Valley League followed by Wolcott's Mike Nicol (569 yards, eight TDs, two interceptions), Jai'Quan McKnight (458-7-3) and Naugatuck's Jason Bradley (459-9-2).
In the Pequot Conference, Gilbert-Northwestern quarterback John Lippincott has thrown for 534 yards with eight TDs and three interceptions while in the Central Connecticut Conference Southing- ton's Stephen Barmore has tossed for 655 yards, eight TDs and two interceptions.
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History proves that it's paramount for Telesco to get his first head coaching hire right
The Chargers got their man in Tom Telesco, and now will he get his?
Telesco, the team's new general manager, sets sail in the choppy waters that have sunk many an NFL decision-maker: finding a successful head coach.
Select the wrong one as a GM, and soon the headhunters are circling over your job.
Select the right one, and a halo's circle magically appears over your noggin.
Trouble is, there's no playbook, no owner's manual, no correct or incorrect way for Telesco to anoint the Chargers' next field leader.
Hopefully, for playoff-starved Chargers fans, Telesco's first choice will be his best one. That's how it worked for Bobby Beathard, the longtime general manager in Washington and San Diego.
Beathard broke his seal with the Redskins in 1981 by lassoing Chargers offensive coordinator Joe Gibbs, after getting endorsements from coaches Don Coryell and Ernie Zampese. Gibbs led Washington to four Super Bowls and three titles.
In San Diego, Beathard's first hire in 1992 produced Bobby Ross. He directed the Chargers to their lone Super Bowl appearance.
"It's tough to find the right guy," Beathard said. "You have to find someone you feel pretty good about and hope he doesn't change when he becomes head coach."
While Telesco rustles through candidates that likely will include coordinators such as Indianapolis' Bruce Arians, Denver's Mike McCoy and Cincinnati's Mike Zimmer, it's easy to get zapped.
Beathard's résumé reveals spot-on verdicts with Gibbs and Ross, but there's also the damage done, in San Diego, from Kevin Gilbride and Mike Riley wearing the coach's shorts.
When Beathard canned Ross, his gut led him to Gilbride.
Like other names currently clogging the coaching landscape, Gilbride was a can't-miss, hot-shot coordinator promising to put a spark in the offense with Ryan Leaf at quarterback.
After going 6-16, the jolt Gilbride got was one last call from Beathard.
"Gilbride was a disaster," Beathard said. "I was listening to some people I shouldn't have when I hired him."
Gilbride went on to win two Super Bowls as the Giants' offensive coordinator. But he didn't get another sniff as an NFL head coach, not after his initial work didn't pass the smell test.
Beathard took a chance on a college coach with no NFL background. Riley's signature "Hip hip hooray!" locker-room chant after every win was heard only once in 2000.
He oversaw the worst team in Chargers history, a 1-15 pileup that was difficult to stomach. He was gone a year later.
"I still think Mike is a heck of a coach, a terrific coach who can coach at any level," Beathard said.
Riley's three-year Chargers mark (14-34) says otherwise.
"I don't think he really liked the NFL in the short time that he was here," Beathard said. "Some people thought he was too loose, but that was his method and it works."
Maybe at Oregon State, but Riley's eager-beaver, ultra-positive outlook didn't mesh with pro players.
Riley was replaced by Marty Schottenheimer, the late John Butler's only coaching move as Chargers general manager.
Like Beathard showed with his first picks, it was a wise choice. Schottenheimer restored respectability and compiled a 14-2 record in 2006 before being fired after the season.
Then-general manager A.J. Smith's fingerprints were on Schottenheimer's dismissal, and on his first and only coaching selection: Norv Turner.
Though Turner produced in the first half of his six-year run, his teams missed the playoffs in each of the last three. That cost Turner and Smith their hides, which brings us to Telesco.
"We're looking for a good teacher, a coach who can communicate, not only with the fans, but with us and with the players," Telesco said. "We're looking for a leader."
What matters is getting it right — otherwise Telesco will be left explaining how his most important decision was a dud. Before blowing up the coaching staff, Telesco must know that when playing with fire, it's easy to get burned.


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The Department strives to protect consumers from the dangers of working with unlicensed individuals, which may result in personal or financial harm, and to protect licensed professionals from unfair competition with unlicensed individuals.
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March 9, 2016 - Thank you to everyone who expressed interest in submitting a Zika virus RAPID proposal. At this time the Dear Colleague Letter has been archived, and NSF/BIO is no longer accepting requests for RAPID funding in response to this DCL. Interested investigators can consider a full proposal submission to the EEID Program annual submission deadline in November.
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Additional information and NIH contacts (Christine Jessup and Irene Eckstrand) can be found at: http://www.fic.nih.gov/Programs/Pages/ecology-infectious-diseases.aspx.
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This revision adds the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases as a funding entity.
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This revision adds a request for collaborative projects between U.S. scientists and scientists in Israel through a joint effort of the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and the U.S.D.A. National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation. Multinational collaborative projects between U.S., U.K. and Israel scientists are also welcome. See details in the program announcement in the sections titled "US-Israel Collaborative Projects" and "US-UK-Israel Collaborative Projects."
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Claudia La Rocco
Claudia La Rocco writes about theater and books for The Times.
From 2005 to 2012, it was my great pleasure to be one of four dance critics at the paper — an incredible, exhausting, delightful, difficult, transformative education through seeing and writing.
But last year I decided it was time for a change; I had been a daily dance critic for about 10 years (starting at The Associated Press) and my eyes felt tired. I wanted to pursue other types of writing around dance, and also to move further into writing about theater, which I have been reviewing and reporting on for several years at the Times.
I'm also delighted to be writing about books on a consistent basis for the paper. The first piece I ever had published here was, after all, a book review.
Selected Articles By Claudia La Rocco
Art in Which Reputations Rest on Ephemeral Memory and Fragile Faith
The ephemeral nature of dance often leads to clichés about its being the art of the present. Would that it were.October 2, 2007 artsNews
A Love Without End in a World Beyond Time
American Ballet Theater's production of "La Bayadère" can leave you feeling as if you've stumbled, perhaps after a few drinks, onto a dusty old movie set.June 25, 2008 artsReview
As Life's Chaos Fades to Dark, Still a Glow Remains
"Rammed Earth," Tere O'Connor's lyrical, intelligent quartet, is a work that grows richer over time.September 30, 2008 artsReview
For Pop Stars, Big Reputations Can Rest on the Smallest of Movements
It has been apparent for quite some time now that Justin Timberlake made a deal with the Devil.September 5, 2007 artsNews
Journeys That Leave the Traveler Changed
"Cast No Shadow" originated when Performa's founder, RoseLee Goldberg, suggested that Isaac Julien create a performance using his films, which are visually stunning.November 8, 2007 artsReview
Bring In Da Tap, And Make It Last
The ceiling is patchy. But the wooden floor at Fazil's Studio on Eighth Avenue in the theater district is basically sound, and Joseph Wiggan's eyes never leave its vibrating surface as his feet produce complicated, elegant rhythms.December 18, 2005 artsNews
Days of Creative Ferment in Gloriously Hazy Focus
The Performa 07 festival took a break from live programming this week, presenting two evenings of early-postmodern dance recordings at Anthology Film Archives.November 15, 2007 artsReview
Talk About Underground Movement
Away from concert halls and pop radio, a singular art form of the Bronx continues to evolve, on the No. 4 and No. 5 trains.October 12, 2008 artsNews
Tracing, and Sometimes Reinterpreting, a Pioneer's Bold Steps
It seems entirely blasphemous to open a review of America's oldest dance company by commenting on something other than the choreography.June 23, 2007 artsReview
Review: In 'Alison's House,' a Family Struggles to Protect a Literary Legacy
This revival of Susan Glaspell's 1930 play, loosely based on events surrounding Emily Dickinson, provides an opportunity to reflect on defending women's freedom in a man's world.
November 30, 2015, Monday
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Review: 'Helen Lawrence' Has Cops, Blondes, Hustlers and, of Course, a Corpse
This noir-flavored production from Canadian Stage, part of the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, combines film and live action.
October 17, 2015, Saturday
Review: 'The Alcoholic Movie Musical!' Goes Down Easy
The form goes meta in a performance piece by Cynthia Hopkins called "The Alcoholic Movie Musical!"
October 14, 2015, Wednesday
Review: 'On Writing,' a Charles Bukowski Collection of Rants and Musings in Letters
This anthology of letters and drawings by the bellicosely opinionated author and poet, who would have turned 95 this month, was edited by Abel Debritto, a Bukowski biographer.
August 10, 2015, Monday
MORE ON: Books and Literature , Bukowski, Charles , Debritto, Abel , On Writing (Book)
Review: 'Holden' Explores the Distance That Killing Requires
Written and directed by Anisa George, this compelling, disturbing play at the New Ohio Theater examines the mindsets that can lead to violence.
August 7, 2015, Friday
MORE ON: Theater , George, Anisa (1982- ) , New Ohio Theater , Holden (Play)
Review: 'Bambi______/Kaffeehaus' Mixes Up an Absurdist Linguistic Orgy
Inspired by Felix Salten, author of "Bambi" and smut, a Little Lord production at the Brick plays with cafe culture, pornography, Zionism and more.
March 10, 2015, Tuesday
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Unstable Days at the Stables, as a Youthful Obsession Is Threatened
Jenny Rachel Weiner's "Horse Girls," directed by Sarah Krohn, is a 50-minute pop descent into madness, set in an equine-themed bedroom.
December 19, 2014, Friday
MORE ON: Theater , Weiner, Jenny Rachel , Krohn, Sarah , Horse Girls (Play)
Exulting in Fashion, Unlike the Plucky Nellie Bly
"Traveling Lady," at the French Institute Alliance Française's Crossing the Line festival, is a fashion-driven multimedia concoction inspired by a journalist's travels.
October 13, 2014, Monday
MORE ON: Dancing , French Institute/Alliance Francaise
A Child of the 'Troubles' of Northern Ireland
The actress-author of "Belfast Blues," Geraldine Hughes, tells her story against images of Northern Ireland's history.
September 30, 2014, Tuesday
MORE ON: Theater , Belfast Blues (Play) , Hughes, Geraldine
A Blaze Hungry for Dreams
The musical "Solitary Light," in the Theater: Village festival, touches on the 1911 Triangle garment factory fire that killed scores of garment workers.
September 17, 2014, Wednesday
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WEST LIBERTY - When President Robin C. Capehart announced the West Liberty University capital campaign during Homecoming Weekend 2012, he delighted sports fans as he also introduced special consultant Ed Pastilong to the hilltop.
The director of athletics at West Virginia University from 1989-2010, Pastilong is now assisting campaign coordinator and West Liberty University Development Director Angela Zambito-Hill and Vice President of Institutional Advancement Jason Koegler in their fundraising efforts.
A Moundsville native, Pastilong spearheaded WVU's growth into one of the nation's finest intercollegiate athletic programs during his tenure with the Mountaineers.
"As a visionary and successful athletic director, we could find no one better than Ed Pastilong. Our students will benefit from his involvement and I thank him for his willingness to share his talents with us," Zambito-Hill said.
Pastilong will focus on athletic fundraising.
While at WVU, he helped create a positive student-athlete experience through a successful total athletic program. At the time of his departure, Pastilong had one of the longest-serving tenures of any athletic director at a BCS-level school.
During his time in Morgantown, Pastilong oversaw more than $65 million in facility renovations, witnessed the athletic department's budget increase from $20 million to more than $50 million, steered WVU into the Big East football conference in 1991 and full-fledged member status in the league in 1995, the school's first association in a major athletic conference.
He also initiated the Athletic Director's Academic Honor Roll, where nearly 4,000 student-athletes have been recognized for outstanding work in the classroom.
Pastilong solicited financial support to start the Athletic Scholarship Endowment Fund, providing a perpetual source of funding for athletic scholarships that has now grown to nearly $30 million.
The facility upgrades and capital improvements under Pastilong's watch were termed "staggering" by WVU's communications office at the time of his induction into its 2012 Hall of Fame.
Since 1989, WVU has made tremendous strides to its football facility, Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium. Suites on three sides of the stadium, Touchdown Terrace, the Caperton Indoor Practice Facility, new locker rooms, the Academic Center and the Hall of Traditions highlighted the transformation of the WVU football complex into one of the nation's finest.
Other facility improvements under Pastilong's tenure include renovations to the WVU Coliseum and Hawley Field, the construction of Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium, Cary Gym for Mountaineer gymnastics, a state-of-the-art wrestling facility and a basketball practice facility.
Pastilong joined the WVU athletic department as football recruiting coordinator in 1976 and two years later became its scholarship officer. In 1979, he was named assistant athletic director for facilities and operations. He spearheaded the planning and management of all home athletic contests, as well as the scheduling and the maintenance of the Coliseum and stadium. Pastilong also was on the board for the planning and building of Mountaineer Field.
He remained director of athletic facilities until his promotion to associate athletic director in 1987. He has served as director of athletics emeritus at WVU since his retirement in 2010.
Prior to joining the WVU administration, Pastilong was football coach at Scott High in Madison, W.Va., and at Salem College. While at Salem (1969-75), his Tigers won more games than any other WVIAC team. Pastilong also served as the school's Dean of Health and Physical Education from 1972-75.
He received his bachelor's degree from WVU in Physical Education in 1966 and later earned a master's degree from WVU. A two-year letterman at quarterback for the Mountaineers in the mid-1960s, Pastilong completed 37 of 115 passes for 728 yards and six touchdowns despite playing with a debilitating shoulder injury.