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Cinema Secrets Ultimate Foundation
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INGREDIENTSCaprylic Capric Triglyceride, Octyldodecanol, Cetyl Palmitate, Carnauba Candelillia Cera, Dimethicone Kaolin Aloe Barbadensis Tocopherol, Parfum. May contain: Titanium Dioxide CI 77891, Iron Oxides CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499, Ultramarines CI 77007, Red 36 CI 12085, Red 7 CI 45850:1, Carmine CI 75470, Yellow 5CI 19140
on 12/6/2015 3:38:00 PM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Blond, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Blue
This foundation, while it looks absolutely lovely and is easy to work with, broke me out so badly that I can't touch it again. I tested it on separate occasions and every time it's been the same. By the end of the first day pores are clogged on my chin, nose and forehead. My skin start getting bumpy, and after just a few days I'm getting cysts and whiteheads all over. What a shame!
on 9/15/2014 6:01:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
Skin type: Combo-oily
Tone: Around NC30
Shade in CS: 302
I got a sample of this foundation and luckily 302 was a nice match. Normally I like sheer foundations and if I have any trouble areas I use concealer. So I'll start off with the finish of this. It has a satin natural finish (nothing overly matte or glowy), when applied with a damp beauty-blender you can sheer out the application or you can use a flat top brush for more coverage. I personally like to use this with a flat brush from Real Techniques. I use this in three ways: 1. a spot concealer on top of my tinted moisturizer or nars sheer matte fndt. 2. sometimes I will dab some of the CS foundation and then spread it with a slightly damp flat brush. 3. I'll use this just as a concealer and then top it off with some setting powder. But for the most part I like to use it as a concealer for the face. I also sometimes use the shade 602 as an undereye concealer if I want more coverage or as a night look. It does crease a bit but I set it with a setting powder. When using it as an undereye concealer I use a dry synthetic round/flat brush to push it and spread it. Now overall you have to be light handed with this foundation and with setting powders so it doesn't look cakey. If done correctly it has a nice satin natural finish. On my combo-oily skin it holds up pretty well though sometimes if I have a stubborn spot to cover I may have to reapply at some point. I may try a setting spray or a better primer in the future to see if that helps. But overall I'd recommend it for any skin type to try this out. You can sheer it out or basically use as full coverage. Now mind you if you have any serious pigmentation problem areas or even redness you might need to color correct first then apply the foundation. A little goes a long way, so my sample and a full size would last quiet some time.
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on 4/11/2014 11:35:00 PM
Age: 44-55
Skin: Combination, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Other, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
I deal quite a bit with photographs. I first became acquainted with Cinema Secrets from http://camerareadycosmetics.com/ And then I did more research. If this product was great in the early days for the movie industry; why wouldn't it still be good? It photographs very well. I don't need pretty packaging. The price is great. I even buy a small one to keep in my purse. I apply with a damp beauty blender, a sigma brush or the best tools--my fingers. Won't be without it.
on 3/8/2014 3:24:00 PM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Very Dry, Fair, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
I am NC20 and I purchased this in the smaller pot in shade 602-65. This reminds me of Cover FX and I feel that formulation-wise these two foundations are nearly identical, although I feel that the Cinema Secrets does not transfer as much. I appreciate that Cinema Secrets has the option of purchasing the small pot because it takes me forever to use up foundation. The shade looks really yellow in the pan and sometimes on the skin, but it is the correct shade for my skin tone once it's blended out. These types of foundations aren't always good for everyone. I have drier skin that can flake and sometimes cremes can accentuate that over other formulas, possibly because my preferred method of applying cremes is to use more contact for more coverage. A sponge sprayed with NaCPA spray and then dipped into this foundation has worked very well for me. I still use Cover Fx's primer because I like that very much. Slight powder to hold it all in place and I am a satisfied customer. Overall a solid product.
on 9/24/2012 1:16:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Normal, Medium, Neutral
Hair: Blond, Straight, Other
Eyes: Brown
This is super light and covers great. It's the only other concealer I can use other than my Neutrogena smooth stick, that doesn't piss me off and look gross on my skin. It's water based so it smooths out evenly and it lets your skin breath. Doesn't feel like you have makeup on, unless you cake it on with a brush or sponge... Which because its consistency, you can make that mistake your first couple times using this. But when used right, It doesn't look cakey under powder and it honestly looks and feels like your own real skin... Just your skin if it had no imperfections or redness of course. Totally worth it. Their site sucks for trying to order the right color though, so maybe try calling them for shade help or going down there. I live near the area so it helps... But I still hate going there so once you get your shade once, ordering online from them is a breeze. I have medium w/ neutral undertones skin. Close to Jessica Simpson or Carrie underwood skin, and i use the shade 506(15) for concealing. It's awesome stuff!
on 7/15/2012 3:01:00 AM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Dry, Olive, Neutral
Hair: Blond, Wavy, Coarse
Eyes: Brown
** Not Tested On Animals **
Skin type: normal to dry but acne prone.
Desperately seeking a new HG foundation since I found out MAC test on animals after being bought out by Estee Lauder. MAC is now sold in China, and Chinese law requires that ALL cosmetics owned by foreign (non-Chinese) companies be tested on animals.
My skin tone has a warm-neutral-light olive tone. For reference, I am MAC NC25 - see my notepad for my colour matches to other brands.
PREPARATION: as my skin is dry, I usually apply a facial oil or moisturiser first, but as this is stage makeup & quite heavy, I applied primer only.
CONSISTENCY: This is a cream foundation which easily provides full coverage. Creamy & smooth but quite dense & heavy too, applied using the beauty blender & finished with Ben Nye banana powder.
QUALITY: Excellent! Full coverage + didn't budge all day. Great pigmentation
RE-PURCHASE? Unfortuntely, no : ( I finished taking Accutane 7 years ago & this foundation gave me my first recurrence of 2 HUGE cystic acne pimples on my cheek, after wearing it 2 days in a row. I purchased samples from Camera Ready Cosmetics for $4, each little pot contains enough for a bit more than 3 applications so I've been using it as under eye concealer with no problems so far.
ETA: Have increased my rating from 1 lippy to 4 - I've tried this again with no break outs so my skin was obviously just being weird the first time.
on 5/23/2012 4:27:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Normal, Fair, Warm
Hair: Black, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Black
I love this baby! I bought this mainly because I could never find a foundation that suited my skintone and this offered a wide range of cool and warm toned colors. It is very blendable and smooth and a little goes a long, long way considering it's full coverage. It doesn't have SPF so I assume it would photograph well. It also comes in a small pot so it fits easily in my makeup bag whenever I travel but you get enough to last you a while. Highly recommend you try it out, especially if you can't find a shade for your skintone.
on 5/8/2012 12:32:00 AM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Oily, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Coarse
Eyes: Hazel
I don't order this from the site, when I go get a facial done the woman sells these to me for the same price that the website does. I guess she has immediate supply.
Since she matched me, I have a perfect matching shade, so that isn't a problem. However, I have oily skin, and apply a sunscreen under, but no primer. The sunscreen isn't oily, but doesn't help it stick. I also have rosacea (red cheeks, or discoloration, as some call it) What I figured is that I first put it on with a stipple brush from elf, and then I use a triangle sponge applicator on the super red spots that you can buy by the bagful for like two bucks. You have to be really careful when applying with the sponge, because it might end up looking super dark or cakey. But I like it, you have to play around a lot to figure out the best application look.
So this is my HG. I'm going off to college now, so I have to find a ne one (UGH) but basically, as an NC20, this is 602-65? It's a dream, especially since it cancels out my rosacea. What you have to do it apply it with a sponge or singers - not a brush, or it'll go on thin and you'll waste product. I learned that lesson. My only thing is that it is not cheap. One day when I have money I will buy this again maybe though hopefully I won't need foundation any more, by then. Anyway, that's the only reason I don't give it five stars, the cost. Because it costs 20 bucks to get a small pot, 30 bucks to get a large one, and I just don't have the moolah. oh well, time to go to covergirl.
on 9/23/2011 7:40:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Neutral
Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Green
For reference, I'm a C2 (light w/yellow undertones) and use 602-65 for a spot concealer.
I can't really comment on packaging, since I've only ordered a sample size of this from Camera Ready Cosmetics. The sample should last me quite awhile though, as I only use it for blemishes and only wear makeup once or twice a week. It does cover nicely, but you've got to learn how to make it work for you personally. I do wish it were a little drier and waterproof, as the creaminess of it makes it sometimes smudge off as I'm trying to blend. And you absolutely have to set it with some sort of powder, which can also be tricky to get on.
But, I like it and will most likely purchase the full size (which is very cheap in comparison to other concealers) when I run out.
on 6/21/2011 8:16:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I tried this as a foundation but it was just too much for me. So, I used this (in shade 602-65) as a concealer to match my liquid foundation (Nars sheer matte in Deauville). For me, this was a good replacement for Mac studio finish in NC20, which broke me out. This one doesn't break me out, nor does it oxidize on me.
This is so much easier to use because it's softer and you need very little because the pigmentation is fantastic. It's really easy to apply and blend (I use The Body Shop's synthetic eyeshadow brush), the finish is like skin, and it stays put when done right.
This is a good concealer, it will last for ages. Definitely worth checking out.
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What is the rule for using the "passive se" (e.g. "¿Cómo se dice?") with a reflexive verb that involves another se pronoun? For example, how would you translate "One takes a shower (ducharse) frequently in hot weather."? Do the two se pronouns simply combine into one?
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The two pronouns just combine in one:
"One takes a shower frequently in hot weather" --> Se ducha frecuentemente cuando hace calor.
She takes a shower frequently in hot weather --> (Ella) se ducha frecuentemente cuando hace calor.
As far as I know there is no "passive se".
As others have introduced, there are mainly two uses for "se".
However, in the case of reflexive verbs, the third person changes and "se" is used in the third person (both singular and plural) instead of the corresponding "le" or "les".
If you speak German, also a Germanic language like English, this case applies exactly in the same way:
I guess your doubt is the following: can a reflexive verb (which uses the "se" particle) be combined with the impersonal "se" (what you call "the passive se") in the same sentence?
Yes. Perfectly.
Hope this helps.
I'm posting a new answer since I misunderstood and needed some more room than a comment.
In English you use an auxiliary verb "do" in "How does one shave?", but in Spanish you don't. There is only one verb in the sentence "¿Cómo se afeita uno?". We could get in an deep debate about where that "se" comes from, but I think it's safe and easy to just assume it's a fixed impersonal particle. Thinking it is a verb does not help and confuses more.
The first "se" is therefore just the "impersonal se".
Think about how you ask impersonal "how to" questions with "se" in Spanish:
That's just a fixed formula.
A small break here that hope clarifies the thing about "se" in reflexive verbs, which is not so special after all.
In a general sentence we have a subject + verb (action) + direct object (what) + indirect object (receiver).
As you know, you can substitute both direct and indirect object for pronouns.
Which in Spanish can be tricky because not only is the order of the sentence altered but there is also an exception. This is the case of the indirect object "le" (to him / to her) that changes to "se" when both a direct and indirect object pronouns are present in the same sentence.
If you only use a pronoun for the indirect object, you say:
But if you use both pronouns, instead of the logical:
Which is incorrect, "le" is changed to avoid the le-la "cacophony" (bad sound):
This is where the infamous third person "se" for the indirect object comes from.
Reflexive verbs are not so special after all. It just happens that the receiver of the action (indirect object) is the same as the performer (subject), so logically speaking they are simply a normal verb with an indirect object pronoun sticked to them to mark that they can be applied to oneself.
"Ducharse" is just a special case of "duchar" (you can "duchar a alguien" / shower somebody). Ducharse just means that this verb can be applied to oneself, and the one who's being showered is the same as "the showerer" :):
But that sounds weird so we just use reflexive pronouns (which as you see have a lot to do with indirect object personal pronouns), that in the third person is "se" to clarify that te showering is to oneself, not to a third person.
And now, back to the original answer.
Remember the general impersonal form of asking "how to"?
Why should reflexive verbs be special? We just say "uno" (meaning "un hombre", "uno a sí mismo") just like in English you say "oneself".
If it's referred specifically to a girl, then "una" is generally used:
Pfew. Hope it's clear now.
I just wanted to make clear where the "reflexive se" comes from and what the relation is.


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Our team is distributed in space and time, so we have no ability to discuss the architecture of the code in real time. How can we discuss it via documentation: write code interfaces/ comment/ modify, track history of the code architecture? Are there some specific tools for this? What are the best way: class diagrams, code interfaces, something different? We are using c# and VS2010
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There are a lot of techniques, depending on your team. I would highly recommend using version control and then standardizing on a word processor and diagram editor (down to the version), depending on team preferences. This will ensure that everyone can view and edit the diagrams and documents produced.
A major problem with many version control systems is that binary files can not be diffed or merged. You must be aware of this, as a lot of what is produced by word processors and diagram editors are binary files. Make sure that you don't stomp on other people's work.
When discussing an architecture, it's important to realize different types of views of the system. Different stakeholders require different views of the system in order to perform analysis, detailed design, and implementation. An example of a set of views would be the 4+1 Architectural View Model which uses a series of various UML diagrams to show various aspects of the system. I focused on the 4+1 Model and choosing the appropriate UML diagrams for each view in the software architecture course I took.
If you are using various UML diagrams, you need to identify which ones you want. The 4+1 Model does suggest various diagrams for each view, but there are 14 types of diagrams in UML 2.2, and the diagrams that you will find useful will vary depending on the project.
As far as code interfaces, don't get too detailed in the architecture phase. There might be certain interfaces expected by the client that you know about (especially if you are creating an API for consumption), and it's fine to work with those. But don't get caught up in anything not clearly specified by your requirements when it comes to specific details at the class level - that can come later on in design.
Any version control that you are using can keep track of changes. As I mentioned before, you'll probably be working with a number of binary files, so you'll have to be extra careful and use detailed change notes since diffing files becomes more difficult.
Architecture, and even high-level design decisions, should be independent of the implementation language and tools that you are using. Don't let the tools you are using guide you until you get into detailed design decisions, when you choose which language features will best help you realize your architecture and high-level design decisions previously made.
Google Docs or documentation files checked into source control along with email will do fine for most things. Being able to version documentation is nice, but Google Docs is real time so you do not have to wait around for check-ins. This method may not be enough for everyone, but the simplest method is always the first to look at.
Have a look at Campfire, it seems pretty suited to what you're after. It does text, files, code, images chat. It saves a history so you can check back on what was discussed before. There's a free trial so give it a shot...
If you need more features I believe there are plugins that might be useful.
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This might seem like a given for a lot of users of this site, but it's fairly new to my toolset so I'm still excited about it. One of my favorite things about version-control tools (I've used CVS, Subversion, and Mercurial for different projects) is the fact that source files are not the only things you can put in them. Any format of file can be in your repo, which means you can have design and documentation files in whatever format you choose. In addition to traditional version-control like the items named, Dropbox is a great tool for having a shared collection of files across multiple devices.
Tools like these, coupled with one of the many remote desktop/remote presentation tools available (I like Teamviewer (windows) and NoMachine (Linux)), make it fairly easy to pull off the desired effect.
In addition to the tools there is training and a common vocabulary.
Invest in architecture patterns training.
Then when some one says "we will use the singleton pattern", "we will use the repository pattern" or "we will use the facade pattern". Everyone knows what they are talking about.
I use Google Docs for all of my documentation. It allows my fellow co-workers to see the latest changes in real time, it keeps a revision history, supports access rights management (so your silly boss can't mess around with the files ;) and you can leave comments. Just make a folder and share it with your co-workers. You can also insert images in your documents, so it's quite complete. Then when you're ready to move on and code it, you have the documents accessible from anywhere, so you can also work from anywhere, but I would say using a bug tracker is essential in a distributed project---I personally like Redmine.
Though we are not that scattered in space and time, but we sometimes use "design videos" instead of design documents to pass on design/architecture/documentation related knowledge. I think this might be handy in your case.
Since you're using VS2010 already, can you upgrade to 2010 Ultimate with TFS?
If you get VS2010 Ultimate, you can generate dependency graphs from code to help you visualize relationships, namespaces, classes, members, and so on. You can also create layer diagrams, sequence diagrams, and class diagrams from code and also other UML diagrams.
For more info, see this MSDN Library topic: Modeling Your Application
Let us not forget the lowly mailing list, and IRC.
I would also say that you could use graphviz, since the .dot files are plain text, and you could generate them with code... Plain text is good for version control systems.


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After looking for a used one on this site for a while, I finally acquired what appears to be a AS NEW NN3MII in box with everything for <$150 shipped (after the MSN Rebate). Funny thing was I was about to buy something else and just before hitting submit I came across the nearly listed NN3MII.
I took a look at the settings listing and noticed (as expected) not that many for Pentax.
I was wondering if anyone is using this with the following lenses and a K10D/K20D.
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I'll be using this mostly for landscapes so something like the 35 or 43mm work best for me from a resolution standpoint. The DA 21mm is listed on there, and I also have that lens, but at least till now, I've always preferred my landscapes with a more normal lens!


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Gamper CJ, Powell JD. Genetic and Biochemical Regulation of CD4 T cell Effector Differentiation: Insights from Examination of T cell Clonal Anergy. Immunologic Research 2010;47(1-3):162-71. PMC2892254.
Gamper CJ, Powell JD. mTOR. Encyclopedia of Medical Immunology (online). 2012 in press.
Gamper CJ, Powell JD. All PI3Kinase signaling is not mTOR: dissecting mTOR-dependent and independent signaling pathways in T cells. Frontiers in Immunology 2012; 3:312. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2012.00312. PMC3466461.
Gamper, CJ, Chen, AL. BMT for Immune Deficiency and Genetic Disorders. Clinical Decision Support System on Hematology. 2011.
Academic Affiliations & Courses
Courses and Syllabi
Classroom Instruction 10/06 – present Small group leader, Immunology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Clinical Instruction 7/07 – 6/08 Morbidity & Mortality Coordinator, Pediatric Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Helped choose cases and supervise fellows presentations at Pediatric and Medical Oncology monthly M&M presentations
3/11 – present Small group leader, Genes to Society, Leukemia, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
CME Instruction 8/09 – 6/14 Organizer, Pediatric Oncology Case Conference, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Weekly multi-disciplinary conference held with Radiations Oncology, Pediatric Surgery, Radiology, and Pathology to review diagnostic studies and treatment planning for all active patients in the division; Didactic presentations by the fellows on service
Activities & Honors
- Hyundai Scholar, 2008
- 2008 – 2009 Hyundai Scholar, $40,000 award for support of Pediatric Oncology research, Hyundai Motor Corporation
- 2009 – 2011 Cash Scholar, $36,000 per year, award for support of Pediatric Oncology research, Jonas Cash Foundation
- 2010 – 2011 Hyundai Scholar, $60,000 award for support of Pediatric Oncology research, Hyundai Motor Corporation
- 2012 SKCCC Director's Teaching Award in Clinical Science
- 2013 – 2014 Hyundai Scholar, $75,000 award for support of Pediatric Oncology research, Hyundai Motor Corporation
- American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 2010


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COPPERAS COVE (December 26, 2012)—The Copperas Cove police department is asking for the public help in locating a man they believe was involved in a robbery Wednesday morning.
Copperas Cove police Sgt. Julie Lehmann said officers were sent at about 2:40 a.m. Wednesday morning to a convenience store in the 2000 block of W. Ave. B after a clerk at the store reported a robbery.
The clerk told officers a light-skinned man, who either was black or Hispanic, came into the store and demanded money.
The clerk said the robber threatened employees with a weapon.
The robbery was wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt and he escaped on foot.
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Diamond Twist Pendant in .925 Sterling Silver for $29 + free shipping
It's either this or have a serious talk about the ways you can improve your relationship. And bribery is SO much easier than effort!
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Microscopic diamonds.
...in an incredibly half-assed looking pendant. It looks like they were drawing a G-clef and then realised halfway through they didn't know what a G-clef looked like and didn't feel like looking it up so they lazily fumbled it into a kinda-sorta awareness ribbon without bothering to erase any of the original lines. And Szul is the same company whose previous abominations and crimes against good taste have included the black Donkey Kong barrel and the robot sperm.
Wow...and here I was thinking this pendant was kind of cool looking. I've bought stuff from Szul in the past and been very happy with the products I've received. If you're expecting anything other than tiny diamonds for $29 then you might want to readjust your expectations.
I have to agree with offline999 in terms of expectations. You need to realize that you're getting an 18" sterling silver chain as well as a sterling silver pendant. You're also getting .06 ctw in diamonds. To expect .06 carats divided into 12 stones to amount to much is unrealistic. I don't think it's a bad price for what you get.
I agree completely with offline999 and crusadergurl, except that the 6mm "stone" in the middle is a tiny diamond (0.005 carat) in an "illusion setting" which, if you don't look closely at the image, or if you don't know what that is, could easily be mistaken for a large stone. Granted, you shouldn't expect it for a such a modest price, but it still seems deceptive to me.
Illusion settings were used in the past to make a diamond look larger, usually by 1mm or so at most. Done right it can really make a beautiful, well cut but smaller diamond look fantastic.
Putting a 1mm stone on 6mm of faceted silver is not an illusion, it is a scam. IRL there is no way to mistake this kind of illusion setting for a real diamond. It will look like kiddie costume jewelry. And if that is the intention, why put diamonds in it at all?


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By: Kinsey Janke
Just a few months into the age of 20, Vincent Trocheck already has a lot to be proud of.
During his four seasons in the Ontario Hockey League, Trocheck totaled 299 points (120g, 179a) in 264 games. In his final season, one he split between the Saginaw Spirit and the Plymouth Whalers, Trocheck was awarded the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy, awarded annually to the player with the most points, as well as the Red Tilson Trophy, which recognizes the OHL's most outstanding player. He was also named to the OHL's First All-Star Team in that same season.
Trocheck competed in the 2013 World Junior Championship, representing the United States, and helped the U.S. capture gold. The Pittsburgh native had six points in the seven games played by the U.S., and played a part in the gold-medal game where he added an assist and an empty net goal to seal the victory. As the 64th overall draft pick in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft, Trocheck is lending his talents to the Rampage, hoping to land a roster spot in Florida.
On his first day of camp in San Antonio, Trocheck stopped to talk about his time in Russia at World Juniors, and what he hopes to achieve during his first professional season.
San Antonio Rampage: You were drafted in 2011, what was your reaction to being drafted and signed? What did your family think?
Vincent Trocheck: It was just the beginning of my dream coming true. To get drafted by Florida was a big honor. I had followed them for a while and I'd talked to them before the draft. I signed with them a year later, and after that season, it was just another stepping stone towards my dream. Ever since then, I've just been working towards my goal.
SAR: You did very well in Russia at the World Junior Championship. How did that feel competing for your country, and then taking home the gold?
VT: That was an unbelievable experience to go over there and wear the USA crest on my shirt. To be able to just go there is a huge honor, and then to be able to win gold on top of it was just… Words can't really describe the feeling.
SAR: Why did you decide to go to major juniors instead of the collegiate route?
VT: When I was younger, I was thinking college the whole way until my OHL draft year. Then that year I talked to a few teams, and I went to visit a few games, stuff like that. I talked to a few people, and I just liked the atmosphere and I thought that was my best chance to groom myself for the NHL.
SAR: What are you looking forward to most this season?
VT: I'm just going here and I'm trying to get to the big club. I'm going to work as hard as I can while I'm down here, and hopefully I get called up.
SAR: Who's your favorite player? Who do you model your game after?
VT: Peter Forsberg has been my favorite player since I was a young kid.
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Jonathan Chait: "The Facts Are In and Paul Ryan Is Wrong":
Changes in the way we think about the world are not news in the classic sense they occur gradually, without discrete events to signal them. But they matter. Two such developments have come together recently, both reported in the New York Times. The first is the collapse of intellectual support for the notion that immediate austerity can boost economic growth. The second is a growing consensus that health-care-cost inflation is slowing for deep structural reasons, rather than having undergone a mere temporary dip from the recession. These trends have something in common: They blow to smithereens the intellectual foundations of the Obama-era Republican policy agenda.
Peter J. Leithart: "What's Wrong with 'Family Values'":
The most penetrating conservative analysts of family life have always recognized the cultural contradictions of capitalism and of technological society. They have always recognized the costs (as well as the gains) of separating work and home; of geographic, vocational, and social mobility; of the indisputable wealth-generating power of capitalism. On the ground, though, conservatives look the other way when told that our economic system or our technological progress might inhibit the formation of what [Wendell] Berry describes as an economy that exists for the protection of gifts, beginning with the giving in marriage.
The editors of n+1: "Cultural Revolution":
Local symptoms of the unfolding global crisis arent just the further destitution of the American poor, the culling of the middle class, and the somehow uninterrupted concentration of wealth among parasitic financiers. Inside the general disaster, a crisis in the principal institutions of intellectual lifeacademia and publishinghas been deepening. One tenure-track opening exists for every four new PhDs; the figure is worse for the social sciences, and still worse for humanities. Hundreds of applicants vie for jobs at third-tier colleges paying barely middle-class salaries; the losers end up as adjuncts or course managers, tossed two or three grand per semester-long class. Many a promising young person goes to graduate school in flight from a brutal labor marketonly to encounter the same beast, grown more ferocious during the interval, a few years down the line. Now youre well qualified to teach Insecure: The Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism (a course offered by the CUNY English Department in the spring of 2011), if only they would let you. Tenure-track professors meanwhile fear that cost-free MOOCs massive open online courseswill before long administer the coup de grace to the professoriate that a thousand right-wing screeds against tenured radicals could never quite accomplish.
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"cost-free MOOCs '??? vs. Catholic colleges located in cities, with $40k tuition +$20k living in a garret, eating frozen pizza, leaves you with a quarter million in loans that an indentured servant in 17th century America would think of as a bad bad bad deal. If someone mentions scholarships I'll come and get ya.
Ed:Contemporary civilization is increasingly technical, have you noticed? If there are not enough positions to accommodate all the people with doctorates in philosophy, medieval literature, sociology, theology, whatever, then maybe young people should concentrate their efforts on doctorates in, say, electrical engineering, physics, software engineering,...mathematics, etc.One must live in the present and let God do the rest.
P.S. And the salaries for technical doctorates are a lot higher.
Bob, what a depressing world you are willing to live in.
Ed - check out this book review. "For the graduating class of 2013, I fear this book has come too late. You can read it in your parents basement while you are looking to find a job with that degree in anthropology."http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/14/book-review-is-college-w...
A friend was telling me enthusiastically how lucky we were to be able to earn a living doing what we love to do. What a privilege! He encouraged his children to pursue their interests wherever those led them: now one is a poet, the other a painter. Bob: say you study in the field where you hope tomorrow's jobs will be. Say you predicted correctly, even in the long term. Say that for forty years you manage to have a job with a high salary. Then what? That's not life: that's survival.Between that and being, say, the homeless man one block down from my office, who is always listening to classical music or news on the radio or reading a book when I walk by in the evening, who has the better life? I'm not sure.
Claire, I agree with you. If poets earned high salaries, it wouldn't help me as I have no talent for versifying. If we are called to a vocation, we should pursue it.I think the reality for the US in the 21st century is that the vocations we pursue won't pay as well as they did in the 20th century. Other parts of the world will be relatively more prosperous and probably we will be relatively less prosperous.Then there are the people who don't have a vocation - don't feel a strong passion to do a particular thing. My memories of undergraduate life is that there are a lot of people like that - either they don't have a direction and drift through college, or they come into college with a plan but learn within a couple of years that they're not actually very well-suited to be a nurse or a lawyer or whatever.
There may be too many with doctorates in the Humanities. But there are not enough required Humanities courses. If there were then there would be more jobs for Humanities Ph.D.s. Unless a people is truly educated, democracy cannot work. It is simply false that the Humanities are irrelevant. Literature teaches you what people are like in different sorts of situations -- I'd make Shakespeare a required course. (It is in England.) If you cannot communicate well (which is what you learn how to do in English classes) you will be at great disadvantage in every way. And remember the old saw: "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it". Then there are the arts to help make life worth living, etc., etc., etc.If this country can't afford basic educations for the people -- and not just the well-to-do -- then it isn't nearly as rich and smaret and successful as it claims to be.etc. I say everyoneneeds a basice education, with the Humanities majors learning the basics of the current science.
I graduated from university with not the foggiest idea of what I wanted to do. Eight years later after Air Force seasoning, I joined the civilian job world. 33 years later, after a lot of hits and misses, I ended a reasonably successful working career, but that required making course corrections and taking advantage of opportunities ... and (admittedly) connections ... that allowed me to change directions and do better financially.I suspect that there have always been a lot of people such as I who, after they were forced to grow up, learned how to navigate the employment world. The degree one has/had is only a door opener. After that it's all a matter of opportunity, skills aquired, contacts you make, and luck and luck and luck.
Oops -- I left out one of the most important things that a general education gives you -- knowing how to think critically. You need that no matter what your major is, and there is nothing better than an English class for teaching you to criticize your own thinking. And, of course, logic should be required of everyone, with an emphasis being given to fallacies.
Sure, culture is useful for democracy, but it's not primarily utilitarian, I think. I walk on the streets, read the little historical plaques on the buildings, ad I can think about the great events that took place hundreds of years ago on the pavement where I am walking. The figures of history keep me company. I hear a few words from a conversation between people passing by, it brings back to mind some book I have read, and I imagine the story of their life. I hear some music, and my friend who loves music talks about responses and echoes between the separate lines of music that she hears clearly but that I cannot even make out in the pretty sound. I see the small young green leaves of the trees moving in the breeze, and impressionist paintings come to mind. Teenagers are kissing, and I may recall, or wish I could recall, verses of some half-forgotten poem. That's what culture is for: it gives some thickness to life. I at least know enough to know what I'm missing by not knowing more than what I know!
Culture gives some thickness to life.I like that turn of phrase, Claire. Much better than the admonition that one should be well-rounded, what with its physical connotation, too. ;) Im a great believer in Joseph Campbells advice to follow your bliss, though I think the primary value of a liberal arts education is that it helps one to see the connectionsnot always logically apparent--among seemingly disparate things. A good poem or play is usually about much more than the words on the page, for example.This, however, from a parent whose children all obtained STEM-related degrees and who are pursuing careers in those fields. One of my children teaches STEM-intensive courses to students specifically chosen and grouped for their science/math abilities. Dont forget that they also need the classics, I tell her, to which she replies with a smile, Dont worry, Dad, Im assigning them plenty of science fictionAsimov, Clarke, Bradbury, all the greats!
Ann, I agree with your points about effective communication and critical thinking. Although it's worth thinking about the fact that, if my parents' and grandparents' recollections are to be trusted, our democracy functioned as well or better than it does now in the days when college was not the norm and a high school diploma was sufficient to get a job that would support a family (and quite possibly, high schools taught reading, writing and arithmetic better than they do now).Also, to be blunt, I believe that one of the chief benefits of college is that it is a finishing school for young adults. In my view, there is a pretty clear class distinction in the US between those who attain an undergraduate degree during that period of one's life, and those who never attempt college. (The huge cohorts of those who start but don't finish college at that age, and those who don't start college until later in life, whether they complete a degree or not, for the most part float somewhere between the two classes). I want my children to be comfortable navigating in the social class of college graduates, and so I'm sending them to college at that age, and putting pressure on them to finish up their undergraduate studies somewhere in the neighborhood of four years. If they meet someone in college whom they want to marry, and thus solidify their membership in that social class - well, that's one of the benefits of finishing school.The finishing-school aspect of college is why I really don't have much patience with distance learning models. I use them now in my own continuing education, but I'm at a different stage of life. Those TV ads showing curvaceous co-eds in clingy sleepware hawking the advantages of going to college over the Internet in one's pajamas are doing our children a great disservice, in my opinion.
I've just finished reading (and enjoying) Barbara Kingsolver's "Flight Behavior," at the center of which is the monarch butterfly whose navigational systems is upset by climate change. One of the book's protagonists, a scientist examining the phenomenon, says that it's not the business of science to tell people what to do, but simply to point out to them what is (global warming, for instance).Kingsolver is a biologist by training, and perhaps she really believes this about "science," but I doubt whether most people would agree, since scientists seem to be perpetually preaching to us about how we should change our ways (global warming is only one such example). But even if we accept the truth of the statement for the sake of argument, surely the humanities (history, literature, philosophy, etc. etc.) a
sorry pushed the wrong buttonsurely the humanities are going to be more important than ever in helping to guide our behavior and our reasoning. Suppose, for instance, we know nothing about the baleful effects of the eugenics movement, so popular from about 1910-1935, are we going to make all the same mistakes over again?
Jim,Thank you for your candor. It is rare for someone to acknowledge that a college education is largely a class marker without lamenting this fact. But I hope you will not be very disappointed if one of your children decides to marry someone who cannot solidify your child's class membership.
The Western secular society with its liberalism, individualism, relativism and consumerism is what it is. It may change but until it does we must live in it, survive and conquer it. The ills of society influence us and the best way to overcome bad influence or the difficulties of being happy in our contemporary culture is to understand how to navigate it and put ourselves into a position where we have a chance of achieving our life's goals. This is not easy.I have many friends who went to great schools, got great jobs only to find that they were not happy. He decided to open up a wine shop in a prosperous neighborhood. He was very successful and happy. Money was not the answer for him but he was very successful and was able to raise a family and be happy. When I was in high school, I thought I wanted to be a research scientist focused on finding a cure for diseases. Things changed as circumstances and more knowledge was acquired. I found myself studying aerospace engineering, then working for NASA in Houston on the Apollo project in 1968. Fast forward 4 years, and I got an MBA in Finance and worked in the health insurance industry, became a senior partner in a worldwide consulting firm and finished my career as a senior executive of a major healthcare company. Hence, I made changes in my life as the opportunities arose or because I found my self at a cross road where I had to make a serious life changing decision. My education helped me to be a critical thinker (as Ann mentioned) and make those decisions. However, you also need luck, determination, perseverance, talent and confidence in yourself about taking risks. Some of us have these things and some of us don't. However, we can be happy and content with something like a wine shop, a contracting business, being a plumber or any number of other occupations where our skills and interests will help us achieve our goals.In the end, if we survive this world and achieve our life's goals, we also realize that we owe our less fortunate neighbor as much of our time and money as we can give them. As the saying goes, For for the love of God go I. If we are blessed, we need to pass it on and thank God every day for it. If we are in difficult life situations, we should be thankful that things could be worse. I have no answers to the difficulties of this world but it is important that we do not, to the best of our abilities, permit this world to control our destiny.To summarize, if education is a key to our future happiness, then we must get some and pray that we all will find all the other requirements we need for a happy life. The best place to start is working each day on building a good relationship with Christ.
"But I hope you will not be very disappointed if one of your children decides to marry someone who cannot solidify your childs class membership."No, not very. But if my children are determined to be in the social class of college graduates, I think their chance of being in a good and happy marriage increases if they marry persons from the same milieu. It seems to me that being poor isn't nearly as glamorous as it used to be, especially considering, to judge from the n+1 snippet, it's being overrun by the overeducated underemployed. Who wants to hang out with a bunch of bitter PhD's working as phone jockeys and fry cooks? No wonder nobody at McDonald's smiles anymore.
@ Jim Pauwels,Perhaps you did not mean what you said and if I misinterpreted you comments, I apologize. However, it seems we are distorting reality a little bit.What social scientific study ever concluded that people who married other people with the same educational background (e.g., both are college graduates) have happier marriages compared to those who have different educational backgrounds (e.g., only one spouse has a college degree)? My wife never went to college despite having a 93 point high school average (out of 100) and a high SAT score where she would have easily made Columbia University. She elected for personal reason not to go to college but she is bright, friendly and articulate. She is as comfortable with senior executives as she is with blue collar laborers and her personality, personal charisma and intelligence makes her extremely popular with everyone. If I were to limit the women I dated in my life to those with a college degree, I would likely have missed out on my wonderful and loving 40 year marriage.As for those PhDs that are fry cooks, I remember in the early 1970s the aerospace engineering industry was in a depression and 30% of the engineers (many with PhDs) were out of work for a long time. Many had to take menial positions to survive but they were not bitter, just frustrated and a little depressed. Clearly there is a difference between college graduates and general laborers and many of them run in different social circles. However, most of them do not despise hanging out with each other if work or after work activities call for it. I do admit that most of my friends and their spouses are college graduates but some are not.
Michael, I was mostly tongue in cheek. But are you familiar with the phenomenon of the "divorce divide"? Here is Bradford Wilcox:"A third reason for the stabilization in divorce rates and marital happiness is not so heartening. Put simply, marriage is increasingly the preserve of the highly educated and the middle and upper classes. Fewer working-class and poor Americans are marrying nowadays in part because marriage is seen increasingly as a sort of status symbol: a sign that a couple has arrived both emotionally and financially, or is at least within range of the American Dream. This means that those who do marry today are more likely to start out enjoying the money, education, job security, and social skills that increase the probability of long-term marital success."And this is where the bad news comes in. When it comes to divorce and marriage, America is increasingly divided along class and educational lines. Even as divorce in general has declined since the 1970s, what sociologist Steven Martin calls a "divorce divide" has also been growing between those with college degrees and those without (a distinction that also often translates to differences in income). The figures are quite striking: College-educated Americans have seen their divorce rates drop by about 30% since the early 1980s, whereas Americans without college degrees have seen their divorce rates increase by about 6%. Just under a quarter of college-educated couples who married in the early 1970s divorced in their first ten years of marriage, compared to 34% of their less-educated peers. Twenty years later, only 17% of college-educated couples who married in the early 1990s divorced in their first ten years of marriage; 36% of less-educated couples who married in the early 1990s, however, divorced sometime in their first decade of marriage."This growing divorce divide means that college-educated married couples are now about half as likely to divorce as their less-educated peers. Well-educated spouses who come from intact families, who enjoy annual incomes over $60,000, and who conceive their first child in wedlock as many college-educated couples do have exceedingly low rates of divorce."Similar trends can be observed in measures of marital quality. For instance, if we look at married couples aged 18-60, 72% of spouses who were both college-educated and 65% of spouses who were both less-educated reported that they were "very happy" in their marriages in the 1970s, according to the General Social Survey. In the 2000s, marital happiness remained high among college-educated spouses, as 70% continued to report that they were "very happy" in their marriages. But marital happiness fell among less-educated spouses: Only 56% reported that they were "very happy" in their marriages in the 2000s."These trends are mirrored in American illegitimacy statistics. Although one would never guess as much from the regular New York Times features on successful single women having children, non-marital childbearing is quite rare among college-educated women. According to a 2007 Child Trends study, only 7% of mothers with a college degree had a child outside of marriage, compared to more than 50% of mothers who had not gone to college."http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-evolution-of-divo... any rate, despite tongue being planted in cheek, I really do want my children to enjoy the blessings and the challenges of life that come with a college education.
I just had a plumber come in ... $110 per hour, minimum 3 hours. He seems happy as a clam and I have used him more than once.Yes, I said $110 per hour ... and he has all the business he can handle. And he enjoys himself. And he chooses when and where to work.
JIm P. ==In most of the old American days a huge proportion of the people couldn't vote because they couldn't afford the poll taxes. It was a system that disenfranchised those without education. But just extending the right to vote to the ignorant and poor didn't solve the problem of people's ignorance and often their gullibility or inability to think critically about what the politicians were telling them. No doubt that is still true of many of the uneducated. And the lower our educational standards get, the less well the population can act wisely.I agree totally with Claire about the intrinsic value of a truly general education, one including both the Humanities and the sciences. But I think that Americans without such an education often do not realize how enriching such an education is. So, because Americans are too often "anti-intellectual", they need pragmatic reasons for paying for very good educational systems.
Jim P. = =More comments -- The high schools of my grandmother's generation were, I'd say, equivalent to to a couple of years in mediocre American colleges, except for the science. I have some notebooks of my grandmother (around 1895), and it is striking to me what they were expected to master. She even has a geometrical proof several pages long in one of them. Do kids typically do that sort of thing in high school now? Of course, the history was deficient in her day in some respects, but it wasn't for lack of trying to understand the world beyond her own neighborhood.You mention your kids possibly marrying someone met in college. If you look at the current statistics, marriage is becoming typical only of the educated class. Why is that? I daresay it's largely because educated people can afford kids. But I don't doubt that college can contribute to the stability of a marriage by making the spouses understand human nature better (thanks to psych) and by learning from other people's mistakes (thanks to reading great literature). Of course, some of that can be learned on a high school level, but not as well as in college (and with the maturity of college kids as compared to high school kids).The internet can help with some subjects which are cut and dried, like math, and the net can be used as a help in other subjects. But people don't learn most subjects well unless they talk about them, both in class and out of class. And they don't develop enthusiasms for a subject unless they have someone to share the enthusiasms with.Complexity, complexity. So we need a variety of schools. But that's another thread.
"If you look at the current statistics, marriage is becoming typical only of the educated class. Why is that? I daresay its largely because educated people can afford kids."Yes, I agree, economics are tied up in it in some way. Having a stable marriage and family may be an effect of economic stability - and may also be a cause of economic stability. I suspect the interrelationship is complicated.
I was once a musician, wanting to live the jazz life al a Bix Beiderbeck. Then I noticed that I was surrounded by stoners, derelicts, occult dreamers, and moochers who loved to talk about philosophy, religion, and politics.So I walked away from that life, joined the Air Force, and trained as a radar technician, received an honorable discharge four years later, got married, worked full time while attending college at night (and argued with the philosophy & sociology professors), earned a BS in electrical engineering while raising six kids, all of whom received college degrees (two lawyers, an engineer, a high school English teacher, a TV assistant producer, and an internet businessman). My wife and I have had a rich, sometimes harrowing, and always exciting life together. My life has been, frankly, incredible. Why someone would think such a life depressing escapes me. And it is our relationship with God that determines our happiness.Sorry for being a long-winded bore, but honestly, sometimes the commonweal bloggers just don't make sense. But hey, that's just me...
Bob: anyone who has raised 6 children has to have had an interesting life. I can't argue with that. Congratulations!
@Jim Pauwels,Thanks Jim for the additional information and your tongue in cheek.In the 1970s, the time I got married, the percentage of couple with a college education and those with less were similar, 72% and 65% respectively reported they were happy in their marriage. The percentages in the 1990s were striking and I got your point! I was not reflecting on the "trend" but on every marriage regardless of the decade in which it marriage was consummated. Clearly the percent of female adults that are having children out of wedlock is indicative of the issue of the "less educated" and its correlation with divorce and unhappy marriages. Thanks to your blog, I looked up some statistics. 1. 40% of babies are born to unwed mothers.2. 73% of black babies are born to unwed mothers3. 53% of Latino babies are born to unwed mothers4. 29% of white babies are born to unwed mothers5. 92% of college educated are married when they have children6. 62% of post secondary educated (some college) are married when they have children.7. 43% of high school educated are married when they have children.The less educated, those with only a high school education, tend to be low wage earners and underemployed. interestingly, 90% of abortions are to unwed mothers that had an unintended pregnancy. The inconsistent use and lack of contraception accounted for the overwhelming percentage of women who have abortions in the US. This statistic is lost on the Catholic Church and traditionalist theologians who blame contraception for the increase in abortions, divorce and spousal abuse without substantiation. Somehow the secular world has infected Catholics who practice contraception with some kind of diabolic cancer that prevents them from grasping the truth.
Bob Schwarz --Whoever said your life was depressing? You might be interested the book I've been touting lately -- "The Small Way of Ruthie Leming". It's not just about Ruthie being a saint, it's about how she and her brother didn't see eye to eye about how to live a good life. She thought that his work as a journalist wasn't really work at all. He thought she was just another nice-lady-sixth-grade-school-teacher stuck in a hick town. Both were wrong.
Michael Barberi - We've had the Pill for something like 50 years now, and yet the trend in unwed parenthood has been pretty much a steady increase during that time (see this chart http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/sites/default/files/75_fig1.jpg).Perhaps it's noteworthy that other marriage-and-reproduction social ills, like divorce and abortion, haven't followed that trend: divorce seems to have peaked in 1980 and has been in decline or leveling off since then (http://dalrock.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/divorcesper1000marriedwomen1....).This Guttmacher Institute news release states that abortion rate in the US peaked in 1990, and has been falling since then. http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/2008/01/17/This WaPo article attributes part of the modest decline in abortion to the fact that more women are using long-acting contraceptives like IUD which are harder to use incorrectly.http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/11/23/surprise-the-... I take away from all this is that contraceptives aren't the primary solution to the abortion problem. It seems logical that widespread and effective use of contraception will have some marginal dampening effect on unintended pregnancies. But I don't believe it is the magic bullet.
JIm Pauwels -- The 2011 Guttmacher Report "Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States", accessed from www.guttmacher.org/fb_induced_abortion.htm, provides convincing evidence that it is the inconsistent use and lack of contraception that accounts for the overwhelming percentage of women who had unintended pregnancies and abortions. The fact that the abortion rate has peaked in 1990 and has been in falling ever since does not address the causes of abortion.Lastly, there is a huge difference between a correlation and a cause. The increase use of contraception may correlate with the increase in many things, but only when you normalize for all other factors of influence can you determine the degree of correlation and whether something "causes" the observation under consideration. My favorite example is the issue I think I raised about the increase in contraception and the increase in spousal abuse. Both have risen over the past 40 years, yet everyone knows that spousal abuse is caused by: the deep psychological problems of the abuser, drug and alcohol abuse and financial problems and unemployment. No respected scientific organization has concluded that the increase in spousal abuse is caused by contraception. For that matter, no respected social scientific journal has ever reported about a study that concluded that increase in contraceptive use is the cause of the increase in divorce or abortion.If you have and any widely accepted study that demonstrated the increase in contraception caused the increase in abortion and divorce, please share it.As for the solution to abortion, I agree that contraceptives are not the magic bullet solution to the abortion problem. Nevertheless, if all unmarried women would consistently use contraception, abortions in the country, and around the world, would decrease significantly to the point that it becomes a minor but important issue instead of a major issue.We can agree that even one abortion is too much. However, while contraception can dramatically reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and abortions, there are significant obstacles to its consistent usage. Carelessness and negligence, ignorance and a lack of education, apathy and a lack of morality will continue to prevent contraceptives from being an effective method of controlling unintended pregnancies and abortions.
I'm not sure how we went so quickly from the fresh topic of MOOCs to the tired topic of the family, but on that topic, it may be funny to see from the writings of Constantine what the family was like in the 4th century: http://www.fourthcentury.com/works-of-constantine/- right of redemption for boys sold as babies- Outlawing parents from killing their children and appointing funds to care for children- Anyone who murders parent, sibling, or child will be executed by being sewn up alive in a sack with snakes and thrown into the see or a pit.- Sentencing those who abduct brides to execution, brides willingly abducted to execution as well, and complicit parents to deportation- Parents too poor to raise children should not sell them but instead be supported by the state.- Because of their lowly status, barmaids are outside of adultery laws.- Only a close relative can accuse a woman of adultery.- Newborn children can be sold by impoverished parents, but they retain the right to buy the child back for the same price or by substituting a replacement.- Children who do not take care of their parents will have what they have received from them taken and returned to the parents.- Whoever takes in and raises a child who has been put out has the rights to him and is not required to return him to his parents or master.- Officials sons are bound to follow in their fathers profession.- Slaves are not to be separated from their families as masters divide up inheritance.- Denying the validity of wills made by mothers who neglect their sons
"If you have and any widely accepted study that demonstrated the increase in contraception caused the increase in abortion and divorce, please share it."Michael - I don't; and I haven't made the claim that an increase in contraception causes an increase in abortion. I question the notion, seemingly widely held by dotCom commenters (and the Obama Administration), that the way to attack the issues of abortion and out of wedlock pregnancies is to make contraception more widely available.
Claire,That is hilarious. Thanks for it. Below is a little unknown church law from the Council of Elvira in Spain in 313. > A husband who knows of his wife's adultery and who remains with her may not commune even prior to death. If he lived with his wife for a period of time after her adultery and then left her, he may not commune for 10 years.Of course, this changed with Augustine later in the century. Interestingly, having sex while their wives are menstruating or during pregnancy was immoral and a mortal sin. Sex also had only one licit position. However, Augustine believed in the marital debt. So much for today's teaching that the unitive and procreative aspects of every marital act must never be separated for any reason. Contradictory, periodic continence, natural family planning, separates both dimensions of the marital act but the Church ignores this moral dilemma. They read the glass as half empty, not half full. In other words, couples are abstaining from sex during fertile times, not deliberately plotting the measurement of basil temperature and cervical mucus to ensure that the marital act is infertile and non-procreative.
Jim,There is some truth to Obama's notion. However, I have not read the NIH report that he relied on. This study evidently concluded that contraceptives were not widely available to those women that could benefit by using contraceptives. However, it is the inconsistent use and not just the lack of contraception that causes the overwhelming percentage of unintended pregnancies and abortions. That means that contraceptives must not only be widely available, but frequent and appropriate education must accompany the benefits and usage of contraception. Such education must be accepted by women who are most prone to unintened pregnancies and abortions especially those with a limited amount of education, those with only a high school education, those who imprudently minimize the risk of pregnancy due to unprotected sex. I think that making contraceptive widely available and without cost, as ObamaCare does, and is communicated properly and frequently by their employers makes sense. The issue is whether abortions will significantly decrease as expected over the next 3-5 years.
"Im not sure how we went so quickly from the fresh topic of MOOCs to the tired topic of the family"Hi, Claire, MOOCs have barely landed on my radar so far, but I do want to call to your attention this article that analyzes the travails of private institutions of higher learning, another problem to which (the author claims) MOOCs contribute. If private institutions die in large numbers, I'd think it would be disastrous for the job markets for PhDs who want to work in academia.http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/why-private-schools-...
Regarding the gap between college-educated and those whose education stopped with a high school diploma: this pretty sensible article by Timothy Noah appeared in the NY Times. headline: "The 1% are only half the problem".http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/the-1-percent-are-only-h...


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Foxconnect.com is offering The Simpsons Seasons 1-10 and Family Guy Seasons 1-9 on DVD for $7.99 each. Other seasons cost more. Shipping starts at about $3.70.
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Awesome deal! I ordered 5 seasons of The Simpsons and it came to $39.95 with free ground shipping.
Looks like it's $7.99 for all kinds of TV seasons on that site...good find.
Great Deal.
Now I just wish I knew what the last season of Family Guy I had on DVD was :(
Darn I just got to checkout and didn't read that there were shipping charges, ugh. (Only wanted one volume of Family Guy that I'm missing).
Crazy deal. No wonder I can't unload them on amazon marketplace.
A note at the top of the screen also says.
"Free Shipping! for orders over $25 for a limited time."
Very nice! Picked up seasons 5-8.
Golden age of the show IMO.
Too bad I already own all the seasons haha. Is Otto the cover for 15, then?
@darkinc: Thanks, now I need not ask that question. So, I have to wait till I get home now to figure out which seasons I have...Oh to be better organized!
Looks like all The Simpsons ones are gone?
Does anyone know how long this is going to last for?
@rissa333: I just checked, and they're still available.
Thanks! Picked up Family guy 7-9 for $21.00 and added one of the "Star Wars" specials to push it over $25 for free shipping! Glad I knew what I wanted thought because that website's layout is a mess!
cant go wrong with simpsons seasons 4-8
Still live despite being tombstoned. I just ordered 4 seasons for $32 shipped.
Deal is really dead now, they're back up to $25.99.
Has anyone's order shipped yet? I still haven't gotten an order confirmation email, but if I log in my order shows as 'Processing'. I don't mind the wait so long as I actually get them, but it's odd that there was no confirmation email.
I ordered on 11/25 and have no notification of shipping yet either.
Still no order confirmation, and logging in to FoxConnect my order still shows as 'Processing'. But if I click on the order and then the "Shipments" link, it does give me UPS tracking numbers (all identical). Yay!!
I ordered seasons 5, 7-9, and just received season 7. no word on the other three shipping. they're listed as 0/1 on my invoice... i'm so spoiled on amazon prime that this wait feels epic...
so, not 2 hours after i posted that last comment, i got shipping confirmation for the other 3 boxes, which shipped Next Day Air! so, i'm all set, and ready for a snow day to crack these open on...
@soulsike: Just got 2 of my 5 without any other notifications yesterday morning...


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Harry Levinson, Psychologist for the Workplace, Dies at 90
Mr. Levinson linked job conditions and satisfaction with an employee's emotional health and changed the way companies dealt with workers.
June 28, 2012, Thursday
Direct Mail Tries to Go Green. No, Really.
A group of direct-marketing companies, along with a handful of their corporate clients, are banding together to make an inherently unsustainable practice at least a little bit greener.
July 23, 2008, Wednesday
Changing the Game With Innovations
In a recent conversation, A.G. Lafley, the chief executive of Procter & Gamble, elaborated on his views about innovation — and on why a chief executive would become an author.
May 24, 2008, Saturday
Companies Improve Scores in Climate-Change Ranking
Climate Counts, the nonprofit group that scores consumer products companies' green track records, said this year's average score was 40 out of a possible 100.
May 7, 2008, Wednesday
Aflac Investors Get a Say on Executive Pay, a First for a Publicly Traded U.S. Company
The insurer has become the first American company to give shareholders a say on pay — a vote on top management's compensation.
May 6, 2008, Tuesday
Aflac Shareholders Vote to Back Chief's Pay
The insurer has become the first American company to give shareholders a say on pay — a vote on top management's compensation.
May 5, 2008, Monday
At Kodak, Some Old Things Are New Again
Eastman Kodak, which once considered itself the Bell Labs of chemistry, has embraced the digital world and the researchers who understand it.
May 2, 2008, Friday
A Longer Goodbye
EDWARD M. HOUGHTON, a human resources executive at Pitney Bowes, was sick of traffic jams and unpredictable hours. Bina Kozak, who matches patients to cardiologists at a Scripps Health clinic in San Diego, wanted to volunteer for nonprofit agencies....
April 21, 2008, Monday
A Longer Goodbye
As baby boomers have begun to reach retirement age, companies have offered shorter hours, flexible locations and lighter duties, hoping to keep older workers on board longer.
April 21, 2008, Monday
G.E.'s Shortfall Calls Credibility Into Question
Wall Street analysts are suggesting the breakup of General Electric after an unusual earnings shortfall.
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Walking camera mod?
Hello everyone, I'm looking for a mod to stop the automatically-turning camera in 4/EFLC. For example, in San Andreas and the earlier games or the Saints Row games, if you hold the move left key your character will turn sideways and the camera will move sideways alongside him but in GTA4 the camera turns to follow behind Niko which mans if I don't want to look directly forward I need to constantly adjust the camera to stop it from auto-centering. Is there a mod for this? If not, would it be easy to make? I can find lots of camera mods for vehicles but nothing for the on-foot camera and it's driving me absolutely insane. Thanks for your help!
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I have been looking for this exact mod, but for cars.... to no avail. For 2 years. I've searched up and down most mod databases, made threads on multiple forums... it doesn't seem like there's a way to change the way the camera resets like that or at least no one has yet AFAIK.
The only thing I've found is the first person mod. http://www.gta4-mods.com/script/firs...-mod-v11-f2635
It does what you've asked, but only while in first person mode. To get it to do that though (keep the camera where you aimed), you will have to open the .ini and change the values to: AutoCenterLR = 0 AutoCenterUD = 0
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Derek Smith leads Chewelah past Colville in '395 Showdown'
Cougars get anelusive win over IndiansThe Chewelah Cougars played the Colville Indians last Friday in the annual 395 showdown in Colville. The Cougars broke a recent string of losses to the Indians on this evening, coming away with an impressive 45-21 victory.Turnovers in an opening game loss to Deer Park were costly to the Cougars, but on this night, Chewelah kept ahold of the ball and turned three Colville turnovers into key scoring drives. Head coach Jim Fisk said that ball control was the focus in practice for the Cougars leading up to the game with their former Northeast A League rivals.Chewelah took care of the ball against CHS "We did a good job of taking care of opportunities and not putting the ball on the ground," Fisk said. Chewelah had a complete effort on both sides of the ball. "The boys played well," Fisk added. "They were very disciplined on defense and offensively we got more out of each possession." Leading that effort was QB/DB Derek Smith, who had 220 yards passing and 100 rushing. The quick-footed senior tossed three touchdown passes and ran for two more. He added an interception to complete a big night, "He was on and hitting the open guy," said Fisk, who added that there was more emphasis on Smith throwing the ball in practice leading up to the Colville game."He (Smith) did a good job of keeping his eyes downfield," Fisk said. "I told him he couldn't take off and run every time he dropped back to pass. He's got some talented playmakers to get the ball to." What helped Smith throw the ball was the effort by Smith's offensive line. "The O-line, for the most part, did a great job protecting him," Fisk added. "We only took one sack and that was for a minimal loss." On defense, the Cougars were able to limit the Colville offense most of the night and were able to get the ball back to the offense quickly. Happy with defense"The defense did a good job," said Fisk. "They didn't give up any big plays and made them earn everything they got on the ground. We forced Colville to punt more times than they have in the last five years." Ben Johnstone had 13 tackles to lead the Cougars, but he was freed up by the job done on the defensive line. "The key was the guys up front; they attacked their gaps and caused a lot of penetration and confusion for Colville." The special teams were also singled out by Fisk for some praise. "Our kickoff and kick return did an excellent job, and if Ty Curtis can keep kicking the ball 60 yards on the kickoffs, he's doing fine by me." THIS WEEKThe Lakeside Eagles are coming up next for the Cougars in their first NEA match-up of the season. Coach Fisk thinks it will be an entertaining game. "Lakeside will be a show…the ball will be in the air a lot," Fisk promised. "It will be a donnybrook--that's what I think."Game time on Friday at Nine Mile Falls is 7 p.m.SCORING SUMMARYIn the first quarter, Chewelah opened the scoring by converting an Indians' fumble into a 42- yard touchdown drive. On this drive, a 17 yard completion to Caleb Wiebe on third and seven set the Cougars up with a first and goal at the Colville seven. Cordell Bean scored on a run up the middle on the next play. The extra point was no good and the Cougars led 6-0 with 3:16 left in the first quarter. After the kickoff, the Indians got the ball back at their own 25-yard-line and went on a nine play, 75-yard drive to retake the lead. The drive was capped on a 13-yard run by Colton Vining. The extra point was good and Chewelah trailed 7-6 with 8:45 left in the quarter. The Cougars went back to work, starting their next drive at their 45-yard-line. It only took four plays before the Cougars scored on a 15-yard pass to Johnstone. With the two-point conversion, Chewelah led 14-7 with 6:58 left in the half. Colville fumble leads to short Chewelah TD driveColville punted on their next possession and Chewelah took over at their 35-yard-line. On third and 10 at the 46, Bean took a short pass from Derek Smith 54 yards for a touchdown.T the extra point was blocked, but the Cougars led 20-7 at the end of the first half. Colville fumbled the opening kick in the second half, giving Chewelah the ball at the 12-yard- line. It only took the Cougars two plays to extend their lead. Bean scored his third touchdown of the night with another seven-yard run. The kick was no good, but the Cougars held a commanding 26-7 lead with 11:14 left in the third quarter. Colville punted on their next possession and Chewelah took over at their 23-yard-line and broke the game open four plays later on Smith's weaving 65-yard touchdown run. The extra point was no good and the Cougars held a commanding 32-7 lead with seven-minutes left in the third quarter. A 30-yard touchdown pass to Josh Hamilton from sophomore lefty quarterback Ben Knight in the third quarter and a 15-yard run by Bryan McFetridge in the fourth quarter cut the Chewelah lead to 32-21 with 10 minutes remaining in the game.But the Cougars didn't let up and went deep into the playbook on their the next series. On fourth and five on their own 40, Chewelah went for the first down and completed a 19-yard pass to Caleb Wiebe to the Colville 41. On the next play, the Cougars ran a reverse to Wiebe for another 28 yards and finished off the drive with a 12-yard completion to Johnstone from Smith. The two-point conversion try was no good and the Cougars led 38-21. Any thoughts of a Colville comeback had effectively been thwarted on that key fourth down conversion and TD drive. An interception by Smith on a tipped ball gave the Cougars the ball back at the Colville 44 and Chewelah promptly went for the end zone once again. A 42-yard completion to Wiebe put the ball on the Colville two and Smith capped the game with a two-yard run. The extra point was good and the Cougars would take home a 45-21 victory over the Indians.SEE MORE PHOTOS ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE - www.facebook.com/SENewspaper


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25 Sep 2007 8:43 PM #1
[2.0dev5][SOLVED] Portal demo bug
I did a search and didn't notice any comments on this. I did a build with the updates from this evening and get this error when I try to drag a portlet around in the portal demo.
this.dom.parentNode has no properties var shim = Ext.get(this.dom.parentNode.insertBefore(el, this.dom)); ext-all-debug.js (line 3545)
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Firefox Mac issue. Fixed.Jack Slocum
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Original author of Ext JS 1, 2 & 3.
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1 Oct 2007 10:59 AM #3
Anyone else having bugs with FF 188.8.131.52 Mozilla 5.0 and the portal demo?
IE works just fine but FF is only displaying the first two columns and the D&D feature makes the panels disappear (except for the center column, for some reason that still works fine)
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I have tested http://extjs.com/deploy/ext-2.0-alph...ut/portal.html with FF-126.96.36.199@Linux and it works w/o any problems.Jozef Sakalos, aka Saki
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I have to upload a base64 encoded image that i am receiving from android application. I am using php codeigniter framework. While searching through the forum, the question at this link How to upload base64encoded image in codeigniter is same as mine, but the solution there is not working for me.
Here is the code that i have written:
private function _save_image() {
$image = base64_decode($_POST['imageString']);
#setting the configuration values for saving the image
$config['upload_path'] = FCPATH . 'path_to_image_folder';
$config['file_name'] = 'my_image'.$_POST['imageType'];
$config['allowed_types'] = 'gif|jpg|jpeg|png';
$config['max_size'] = '2048';
$config['remove_spaces'] = TRUE;
$config['encrypt_name'] = TRUE;
$this->load->library('upload', $config);
if($this->upload->do_upload($image)) {
$arr_image_info = $this->upload->data();
return ($arr_image_info['full_path']);
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echo $this->upload->display_errors();
I am getting "you did not select a file to upload"
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I use
vim already for quite a while and every day try to learn new things. But, somehow I yet don't feel that I own it. I'm looking for some intermediate to advanced books on
vim which may be used as a reference as well in every day development.
What I look for in the book is more explanations of concepts and general background philosophies than cheat sheet style lists of actions.
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