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Both playdates and family time are extremely important to the growth, maturity, and well being of children. That being said how do you balance playdates and family time given the limited time we have for either once our kids are in school? Are there any studies that speak to this?
Maybe I can approach the question in a broader sense. In suburban America we have built a community that does not meet our needs. To get anywhere we have to drive. For children, schools are out of walking distance, friends from school can be further than that, and parents don't trust children to bicycle on neighborhood roads. We spend so much time driving that we lose the time we need to live.
In one example I've come across; a child's karate class was less than 1/8 mile away from their home (in a straight line) but to get there his mother had to drive out of their neighborhood, down to the major streets, through 2 red light intersections, do a u-turn, and pull into the karate building's parking lot. A 5 minute walk has been turned into a 12 min drive, each way. For a one hour karate class his mom drives for almost an hour to drop him off and pick him up.
So here's my answer to your question:
We are often tempted to treat our children's time as something to be optimized. We have this feeling that by including the most high value experiences into each day they will grow up to be... what? Instead of optimizing our children's time, let's work on optimizing the richness of their environment. Get to know your neighbors and their children. Work to utilize, improve, and expand your neighborhood assets; parks, libraries, schools, community centers, vacant land, front yards, and streets. Plant fruit trees in the front yard, build a garden and recruit neighbor kids to work it with your kids, build bicycle ramps, or close the street for a block party. Get back time for family and friends by making the place you live the place you want to be.
In the long term, the above suggestions will give your children time for unstructured play, exposure to adult role models, and more time with the family. In the short term, I think, focus on time with family and let your children remind you when they want to play with their friends.
I found, by experience, that the best family time is the daily meal time. Set a time that suites everyone's schedule. Stretch the meal to include dessert. Open non-controversial discussions. Give chance to everyone to talk about their day. You want everyone to look forward to it. In short, make it a quality family time.
In addition to the fixed daily time, there are many opportunities for one-on-one interfaces. Examples are driving to and from school, helping with the homework, and discussing personal topics with each individual. Critical and controversial subjects are better handled during one-on-one sessions.
There are also weekly opportunities in the weekend for family activities. This is not regular because it depends on every individual's responsibilities and interest. Family meetings to discuss and make decisions on family matters can be held in the weekend. Hobbies shared between family members brings them together. Also attending children school events are available opportunities.
Playdate is a non-structured time where children spend time together. If there are children of the same age living close by, it is very easy for them to get together. Parents do not have to drive. Arrangement between parents to rotate the visitation is recommended. However, if there is no one close by, children can gather in one home after school. This can be part of carpooling arrangement. Playdates do not have to be every day, although children may like it to be.
In summary, every school day has the following scheduled activities:
The order of the events depends on the circumstances. Some children go to school afternoon, in this case plydates may be before school.
I would consider why you are organizing play dates. If your children are in school, they have play/social time. Depending on their age, this is less once they are in secondary schools. I think it is important to consider the desired outcome from each interaction. I personally would argue that family time is more important than play dates. I think dinner as a family is essential - every day. I think it is also essential to have family evenings where there are no other events. It becomes tempting as children get older to get them involved in more and more tempting to get your children involved in activities, I would recommend limiting the activities. I notice more and more kids are over scheduled and have minimal time to just be kids and interact with their family. You mention having 4 children, I am one of 5 and we played with each other more often than playing with others and we continue to be close and spend time together.
If you feel that your children need play dates for what ever reason, I would either limit the number per week, or perhaps limit to between school and dinner only. Somehow keep the time to a pre-determined limit and do not let play dates or other things interfere with scheduled family time.
Lives are generally divided into:
The trick is to find natural intersections.
Schedule lessons at the same time as their friends. This way, the kids get to do stuff together and as a bonus, if you are friends with the parents, you get to socialize too. There is a park by swimming lessons so we plan to go a bit early to give the kids a chance to socialize before the lesson. A short playdate (10 mins in the park) then becomes longer.
Also, we have consciously under-programmed our children. This way, we have more family time, especially on weekends. We want to be able to spend time with each child one-on-one. This usually happens during grocery shopping.
Aside from mealtimes, where breakfast is our rallying point (since they are still young), Friday night games help bring us together. Friends are not entirely excluded because "friends are the family you choose".
Hope this helps.
I don't think play dates are important. I think family time is. I think kids will ask for them when they're ready whether it's 5 or 10 years old. A loving family carries kids into emotional health and maturity. Friends are good for an independence of sorts and sometimes great fulfillment but kids need mature role modelling. Most kids I see fight a lot during Play dates. Parents make bizarre requests. Not a social more I want to get into. My kids like playing with each other. I did one play date where the sweet boy literally Touched and overturned my whole house. How could I tell the mom? No thanks

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Hello All, I'm having difficulty detecting the 'LVN_COLUMNCLICK' message from a ListView control. I am entering the WM_NOTIFY for sure, but I can't trap the LVN_COLUMNCLICK. Not sure where else to look, my code seems to follow what is listed on MSDN and just about every snippet I've found. Any ideas would be great!
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Many years ago, I had read a book entitled "Think of a Number" by Malcolm E. Lines, and it was an eminently readable and thought provoking book. In the book, there were topics like Fibonacci numbers (along with the live examples from the nature) and Golden Section. Now I'm looking for a similar book. Can anyone recommend me one?
Another more general pop math book covering mathematical curiosities is Coincidences, Chaos, and All that Math Jazz. It is at the level you're talking about. A more focused book on the golden ratio is that by Mario Livio. One nice feature of this second book is that he does a nice job of pointing out places where people believe in coincidences that aren't really there. He stays nicely objective, where many others fail to.
I don't know the book you are speaking of, but for some reason I am reminded of 1089, and all that by David Acheson. This is a charming book about some mathematical curiosities and can be appreciated by the professional and enjoyed by the layperson.
The Number Devil may be something like what you're looking for.
(It's not a watered-down kids' book, even though the description might suggest it.)
did you try the books of Eastaway and Wyndham? Why Do Buses Come in Threes? and How Long Is a Piece of String?
Blurb for the first one says "An amusing explanation of how maths is relevant to almost everything in life. Citing many examples of the way mathematics can explain common phenomena"; for the second, "This title is for anyone wanting to remind themselves - or discover for the first time - that maths is relevant to almost everything we do. Dating, cooking, travelling by car, gambling and ranking sportsmen all have links with intriguing mathematical problems that are explained in this book".


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The jury system worked, but justice still elusive
As happens from time to time in this country, a tragic incident and the resulting high-profile court case serves as a touchstone for attitudes and perceptions about some of the deepest and most difficult questions we face as a society.
Such was the George Zimmerman case. It commanded attention beyond the usual sturm and prattle of talk TV because it nicked a historically sensitive and painful psychological nerve.
A six-person jury in Sanford found Zimmerman not guilty last week of all charges in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. We expect the public debate over Zimmerman's guilt or innocence would have continued no matter the decision in court.
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The jury was sequestered, shielded from outside influences. From all appearances, the six women approached their civic duty with the utmost attentiveness and seriousness. They could not escape the reality that one young man's life had been taken and another faced a severe loss of liberty. Their job was difficult; they acquitted themselves well.
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• Was Zimmerman's pursuit of Martin as a neighborhood watch volunteer appropriate? Why didn't he simply sit tight and let the real police handle any "situation"?
• What if the races of the protagonist and antagonist were reversed or different? If Zimmerman was black and Martin white? If both were white or both were black? Do we believe there would have been any difference?
• Why was Zimmerman armed? Is it ever appropriate for neighborhood watch volunteers to carry a loaded weapon?
• Do our easy-access and open-carry guns laws make lethal violence more likely?
• Was Zimmerman the victim of "politically correct" prosecution? Or was the public pressure to launch a prosecution an attempt to right an injustice? As we see it, Zimmerman should not have been carrying a loaded handgun as a neighborhood watch volunteer. That was wrong. Trained law enforcement officers should carry guns when doing law enforcement work — not untrained neighborhood volunteers. The consequences were tragic.
We can benefit by the public debate over such questions, though. Uncomfortable or not, the issues raised are necessary and profound, and the discussion may help us become a better nation of people. Whether or not justice was truly done here, its long-term pursuit still seems incomplete.


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I'm modeling a game tech/build tree as a directed acyclic graph with a .dot file for visualization use in Graphviz.
Some of the dependencies discovered are redundant in the sense that while they are dependencies, they are satisfied via a longer yet required path.
a -> b
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a -> c // Unnecessary because we have to do b first.
And a longer example
a -> b
b -> c
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a -> d // Unnecessary between we have to do both b and c first.
Is there an algorithm to testing a graph for these unnecessary paths so that I could trim them from the .dot file? Perhaps this is more appropriately a programming question, but I'm guessing some use of graph theory applies here.


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I know that a polytropic process equation is often the result of an empirical fit of a P-V curve that allows one to derive some nice analytical equations for the process. Is there actually a derivation for the polytropic process equation?
Indeed, the general polytropic equation $pV^n=C$ is meant as a fit to describe a wide variety of situations - but the general situations don't have to exactly obey any polytropic equation with any $n$, anyway (because the right $n$ depends on $p$ and/or $V$), so there is nothing to derive.
A major, general enough exception is the adiabatic equation $pV^\gamma = C$. It only differs by using the name $\gamma$ for $n$ where $\gamma = C_P/C_V$, the ratio of heat capacities at constant pressure and volume, respectively. The adiabatic process is one in which no heat is transferred between the gas and the environment, so all the work being used or consumed is used to change the internal thermal energy of the gas. Nevertheless, $\gamma$ can have many different values such as $5/3$ etc. Microscopically, the value is linked to a function of the degrees of freedom of a single (average) molecule.
In that case, the derivation of the adiabatic equation - based on $\alpha p \,dV = dU $ - is here:
In addition to Lubos' answer, it can be said that the polytropic exponent n is a representation of our ignorance in the actual transformation undergone by a gas. There are basically two limiting cases : adiabatic and isothermal. The later is characterized by PV=Cst, ie n=1, while the former has n= gamma. A real process is never perfectly isothermal or adiabatic, and this results in a wide range of values possible for n.
Yes, there is an explicit mathematical derivation. The basis of this derivation is that the ratio of heat transfer to work (dq/dw -- the "energy transfer ratio") in a polytropic process is constant. Do a Google search on "polytropic energy transfer ratio" and you'll find a link to a useful article in the International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education.


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Riding the famous San Francisco cable cars should be at the top of the list for any visitor to San Francisco. These historic cars have been around since a year after inventor Andrew Smith Hallidie tested the first line in 1873 (he gained inspiration after witnessing a cart sliding backward down a slippery hill, dragging five horses with it). Today, tourists can ride the rail through many interesting San Francisco districts, including Union Square, North Beach, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Lombard Street and Fisherman's Wharf.
You can hop on and off the car as much as you like, but be aware that the next car that comes by may already be full.
This line goes past Union Square, over Nob Hill and ends near Fisherman's Wharf
Tickets cost $5 each way for adults and children 5-17. You can also purchase passes for multiple days: $13 for one day, $20 for three and $26 for seven days.
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Hallidie Plaza is named after Andrew Smith Hallidie who invented the cable car after watching a heavy cart slide backward down a slippery hill, dragging five horses to an unfortunate death.
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Union Square
When you think of Union Square, think shopping. When the space was set aside by the first mayor this was not its intention, but Union Square has become one of the largest and most popular shopping areas in all of San Francisco. You could spend hours at the various clothing stores, but you can also spend your time window-shopping if you aren't looking to spend all of your money, because it is pricey.
There are several cafes located on the outskirts of the square or just grab an afternoon drink in the square itself, take a seat and enjoy some people watching.
If you are here in July, try to make it to the annual bell-ringing contests held in Union Square. It is something you definitely won't forget.
Fisherman's Wharf
If you like seafood this place is a no-brainer. The wharf is only a few blocks from the end of the cable car line, so you cannot miss it. Whether you are in the mood for a fancy dinner at Alioto's, which offers great views of the bay, or just want a bread bowl of clam chowder from one of the smaller vendors on the street, you need look no further.
Before calling it a day, make sure to walk southeast along the water toward Pier 39 where you will likely see (or hear) sea lions, and will run into crowds gathered around street performers. This place never gets dull and you won't get bored.
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Locally non-enumerable dense subsets of R
This may be a standard result... I don't know... anyway...
Does there exists an uncountable dense subset of $\mathbb{R}$ whose complement is also uncountable and dense?
This may be a standard result... I don't know... anyway...
Does there exists an uncountable dense subset of $\mathbb{R}$ whose complement is also uncountable and dense?
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Funny, I asked myself the same question at one point! This should work:
$$A:=((-\infty,0]\cap\mathbb{Q})\cup ((0,+\infty)\cap(\mathbb{R}\setminus\mathbb{Q})),$$ $$B:=((-\infty,0]\cap(\mathbb{R}\setminus\mathbb{Q}))\cup ((0,+\infty)\cap\mathbb{Q}) $$ They are both uncountable and dense, and form a partition of $\mathbb{R}$.
Take any uncountable set $A_0$ with measure $0$, e.g., the Cantor set. Let $$A = \bigcup_{q \in \mathbb{Q}} (A_0 + q) = \{a + q : a \in A_0, q \in \mathbb{Q}\}.$$ Then $A$ is uncountable, dense and it still has measure $0$ since it is the union of countably many translates of $A_0$. Since the complement of a measure $0$ set is always uncountable and dense, this set $A$ fits the bill.
Probably not the best approach, but you can also try this: Let $B$ be a basis of $\mathbb R$ over $\mathbb Q$. Write $B=B_1 \cup B_2$ with $B_1 \cap B_2 =\emptyset$ and $B_1, B_2$ of the same cardinality.
Then $V= span_{\mathbb Q} B_1$ will do it. It is uncountable and dense ($B_1$ in uncountable, thus it contains two elements with irrational ration) and $\mathbb R \backslash V$ contains $W= span_{\mathbb Q} B_2$.
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Here is another example:
$$A:= \{ x=m.x_1x_2...x_n...| 0.x_2x_4x_6... {\rm \, is \, periodic \,} \}\,.$$
More exactly, $A$ consists of all those real numbers for which, the digits after $.$ of even order form a periodic sequence....


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This fast-paced webinar is designed to assist victim service providers in better serving transgender survivors of sexual assault and other forms of violence. Many providers are committed to serving transgender clients, but seek additional information in order to provide more competent and sensitive services. This webinar will primarily focus on basic transgender concepts, but will include references and examples specific to victim service providers. The components covered will include: 1) discussing the diversity under the "transgender umbrella;" 2) exploring social, medical, legal, and other options transgender people may pursue; 3) stimulating thought about which components of a transgender person's life might (or might not be) relevant to the roles crime victim professionals play; and 4) disseminating resources to support transgender crime victims and the professionals who serve them. Pre-webinar worksheets will help guide participants during the webinar. Ample time for questions and answers will help solidify materials learned.Objectives:1. Describe the terms paradox and its relevance to working with transgender victims of crime.2.Identify at least three components of being transgender that they do NOT need to ask of a transgender victim in order to properly serve the victim (within their specific professional role)3.Identify at least two questions they need to ask of any transgender victim of crime.4.Be able to articulate at least one way people may respond when they are asked to choose an identity box that doesn't fit them.


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153 of the Most LGBT-Friendly Hospitals
Unfortunately, some hospitals won't let you see your partner outside of visiting hours, even if the law says you have the right. Sometimes hospitals are unfriendly to transgender or gender-nonconforming patients . That's why the Human Rights Campaign will release its annual Healthcare Equality Index at a press conference in Washington, D.C., today with Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius.
"I commend the LGBT and health care communities for the progress made and I am proud to be part of an administration that has a historic record of accomplishment for the LGBT community," Sebelius said in a statement issued Tuesday. "We will continue to take action to ensure that LGBT Americans get equal treatment in health care settings and that all patients are treated with the dignity they deserve."
The index rates health care facilities on a four-point scale regarding equitable and inclusive care for LGBT patients and their families. These points include patient nondiscrimination policies, visitation policies, employment nondiscrimination policies, and staff access to LGBT patient-centered care training.
Of the 407 rated health care facilities, 153 received a perfect score in the index. California, the nation's most populous state, was most represented on the list with 57 health care facilities receiving a perfect score. Georgia, Massachusetts, Florida, and Ohio rounded out the top five states in the index.
Still, 28 states— including 12 states in the Midwest and Northeast — have no hospitals with perfect scores, though some came close. Additionally, while Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont have marriage equality, none of these states has a hospital with a perfect score.
The following pages list the states with hospitals that received perfect scores, plus the individual hospitals, followed by states without any representation. Did your neck of the woods make the cut?
Note: Hospitals and health care facilities that were unable to complete the full questionnaire are omitted from The Advocate's list. For the complete Healthcare Equality Index, visit HRC.org.
California (57)
California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco
Kaiser Permanente, Anaheim Medical Center, Anaheim
Kaiser Permanente, Antioch Medical Center, Antioch
Kaiser Permanente, Baldwin Park Medical Center, Baldwin Park
Kaiser Permanente, Downey Medical Center, Downey
Kaiser Permanente, Fontana Medical Center, Fontana
Kaiser Permanente, Fremont Medical Center, Fremont
Kaiser Permanente, Fresno Medical Center, Fresno
Kaiser Permanente, Hayward Medical Center, Hayward
Kaiser Permanente, Irvine Medical Center, Irvine
Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles (shown)
Kaiser Permanente, Manteca Medical Center, Manteca
Kaiser Permanente, Modesto Medical Center, Modesto
Kaiser Permanente, Moreno Valley Community Hospital, Moreno Valley
Kaiser Permanente, Oakland Medical Center, Oakland
Kaiser Permanente, Panorama City Medical Center, Panorama City
Kaiser Permanente, Redwood City Medical Center, Redwood City
Kaiser Permanente, Richmond Medical Center, Richmond
Kaiser Permanente, Riverside Medical Center, Riverside
Kaiser Permanente, Roseville Medical Center, Roseville
Kaiser Permanente, Sacramento Medical Center, Sacramento
Kaiser Permanente, San Diego Medical Center, San Diego
Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco
Kaiser Permanente, San Jose Medical Center, San Jose
Kaiser Permanente, San Rafael Medical Center, San Rafael
Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara Medical Center, Santa Clara
Kaiser Permanente, Santa Rosa Medical Center, Santa Rosa
Kaiser Permanente, South Bay Medical Center, Harbor City
Kaiser Permanente, South Sacramento Medical Center, Sacramento
Kaiser Permanente, South San Francisco Medical Center South, San Francisco
Kaiser Permanente, Vacaville Medical Center, Vacaville
Kaiser Permanente, Vallejo Medical Center, Vallejo
Kaiser Permanente, Walnut Creek Medical Center, Walnut Creek
Kaiser Permanente, West Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles
Kaiser Permanente, Woodland Hills Medical Center, Woodland Hills
San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, San Francisco
Scripps Coastal Medical Center Carlsbad, Carlsbad
Scripps Coastal Medical Center Del Mar, Del Mar
Scripps Coastal Medical Center Eastlake, Chula Vista
Scripps Coastal Medical Center Encinitas, Encinitas
Scripps Coastal Medical Center Encinitas - OB/GYN, Encinitas
Scripps Coastal Medical Center Escondido, Escondido, Scripps Coastal Medical Center Hillcrest, San Diego
Scripps Coastal Medical Center Oceanside - El Camino Real, Oceanside
Scripps Coastal Medical Center Oceanside - Mission Ave., Oceanside
Scripps Coastal Medical Center Vista - Cedar Rd., Vista
Scripps Coastal Medical Center Vista - Sycamore Rd., Vista
Scripps Coastal Medical Center Vista - Vista Way, Vista
Scripps Green Hospital, La Jolla
Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas, Encinitas
Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, La Jolla
Scripps Mercy Hospital (Chula Vista campus), Chula Vista
Scripps Mercy Hospital (San Diego campus), San Diego
Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center, Santa Cruz
UC San Diego Health System, San Diego
UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento (shown)
Delaware (2)
Christiana Hospital, Newark
Wilmington Hospital, Wilmington
District of Columbia (5)
Florida (11)
Correctional Health Services, Miami
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa (shown)
Holtz Children's Hospital & JMH Women's Services, Miami
Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami
Jackson Memorial Long Term Care Center, Miami
Jackson Memorial Perdue Medical Center (long-term care), Miami
Jackson Mental Health Hospital, Miami
Jackson North Medical Center, North Miami Beach
Jackson Rehabilitation Hospital, Miami
Jackson South Community Hospital, Miami
Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Inc., Tallahassee
Georgia (13)
Asa G. Yancey, Sr., M.D., Health Center, Atlanta
Crestview Health & Rehabilitation Center, Atlanta
East Point Health Center, East Point
Grady Emergency Medical Service, Atlanta
Grady Health Foundation, Atlanta
Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta (shown)
International Medical Center, Atlanta
Kirkwood Family Medicine, Atlanta
Lindbergh Women and Children's Center, Atlanta
North DeKalb Health Center, Chamblee
North Fulton Health Center, Sandy Springs
Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta
Ponce de Leon Center, Atlanta
Hawaii (1)
Illinois (3)
Indiana (1)
Iowa (1)
Kentucky (1)
Maryland (5)
Bon Secours Hospital, Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore (shown)
Northwest Hospital Center, Randallstown
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, Rockville
Washington Adventist Hospital, Takoma Park
Massachusetts (13)
Baystate Brightwood Health Center, Springfield
Baystate Franklin Medical Center, Greenfield
Baystate High Street Health Center - Adult Medicine, Springfield
Baystate High Street Health Center - Pediatric Medicine, Springfield
Baystate Mary Lane Hospital, Ware
Baystate Mason Square Neighborhood Health Center, Springfield
Baystate Medical Center, Springfield
Baystate Regional Cancer Program, Springfield
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
Boston Medical Center, Boston (shown)
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Northampton
Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton Lower Falls
Minnesota (1)
New Jersey (1)
New York (7)
North Carolina (2)
Ohio (8)
Bedford Medical Center, Bedford
Case Medical Center, Cleveland
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati (shown)
Conneaut Medical Center, Conneaut
Geauga Medical Center, Chardon
Geneva Medical Center, Geneva
Richmond Medical Center, Richmond Heights
University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo
Oregon (2)
Kaiser Permanente, Sunnyside Medical Center, Clackamas
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland (shown)
South Carolina (7)
Bon Secours St. Francis Downtown, Greenville
Bon Secours St. Francis Eastside, Greenville (shown)
Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center, Greenville
Greer Memorial Hospital, Greer
Hillcrest Memorial Hospital, Simpsonville
North Greenville Medical Campus, Travelers Rest
Patewood Medical Campus, Greenville
Tennessee (1)
Texas (1)
Virginia (7)
Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital, Newport News
DePaul Medical Center, Norfolk (shown)
Maryview Medical Center, Portsmouth
Memorial Regional Medical Center, Mechanicsville
Richmond Community Hospital, Richmond
St. Francis Medical Center, Midlothian
St. Mary's Hospital, Richmond
Washington (3)
Group Health Central Hospital, Seattle
Harborview Medical Center, Seattle (shown)
UW Medical Center, Seattle
States Without Perfect-Score Hospitals
New Hampshire
New Mexico
North Dakota
Rhode Island
South Dakota
West Virginia


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Kim and Kandi are on tour, so some inevitable drama happened when NeNe met the crew in Florida and one of the noisiest fights on this season of Real Housewives of Atlanta erupted. Watch it all go down inside.
Also: not only did Apollo have the best line of the episode, but also some great parenting insight.


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It is time to toss it up again. It's Crosby. It's Sacred Heart. It is what winter nights were made for. Crosby, 13-0 and No. 2 in the New Haven Register sportswriters poll, hosts No. 8 Sacred Heart (12-2/11-1 NVL) tonight at The Palace.
There are a few things we can say with certainty:
They will tip at 7 p.m.
Sometime around 8:30, there will be close to 2,000 fans on their feet screaming as the game reaches a superb conclusion.
Fans will spill out of the gymnasium into a cold New England night thinking about one thing: How can I get a ticket to game three?
Of course, game three could only be an NVL championship game, and teams like Wilby, Kennedy and others hope to derail that idea.
Until then, we have in front of us tonight a certified scholastic epic.
We shift venues for game two, but we will still need a shoehorn to fit fans into the gymnasium. From an overstuffed Alumni Hall back on Dec. 23, when Crosby earned a highlight reel-filled 79-76 victory over the Hearts, we move to The Palace, where 1,800 hoop fans will see another city epic.
"It is great for high school basketball," said Crosby coach Nick Augelli, who is currently sitting on 590 career victories. "These are two teams on a pretty good roll right now. Obviously we have a big target on our back because we are 13-0 going into the game, but that's what I tell my players. That's why you come to Crosby — to play in the big games."
What we have in the Crosby-Hearts matchup are teams with superb players and, to some extent, contrasting strengths. Both teams love to get the ball and run. It would not be Waterbury basketball if it wasn't a 32-minute sprint.
Crosby, the smaller team, likes to run and launch from the perimeter, and in Tyshon Rogers, who currently stands at 1,937 career points, Lex Perez, and Aseim King, these guys can shoot.
The Hearts run, too, but with outstanding size in the front court — actually, the Hearts are big everywhere, and on the bench — they'll pound the ball inside. With the sublime 6-5 Mustapha Heron running the show on top, and with the strong man with the soft hands inside, the 6-8 Malik Petteway, the Hearts can run past you, and bludgeon you inside.
Game one was the third game of the season, and the Hearts were working in two new players, both sophomore guards, in Heron, who was with the team for all of a week by this point, and another point man, Charles Fisher, who played his freshman ball at St. Joe's.
Alumni Hall was sizzling cauldron for both young players.
"We're more familiar with our roles," said Hearts coach Jon Carroll. "The kids have a better rapport with each other. They know where they're going to be on offense. They definitely communicate better."
And remember, the Hearts start two juniors and three sophomores.
"This is still a project," Carroll said, "but we're getting there."
The Hearts shot an astounding 22 of 24 from the free-throw line in the first game, while Crosby was a not-so-good 10 for 21. Also, the Hearts held a 37-30 rebound advantage.
The stat sheet seems to ask: How did the Hearts lose this one?
Crosby, it seemed, took down every rebound in key moments, and, the Bulldogs only committed 10 turnovers. In a game played at the speed of light, that is a very low number.
But as Crosby's Tyshon Rogers said, it is time to forget about what happened last December.
"This is a whole different game," Rogers said. "That first game is done and over. These teams love playing big games, and the fans love it."
He's right. Game one, over, done, history. Game two is about new history in city basketball.
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I'm a college student who finds it very easy to be distracted. One important sentence missed means I'll have trouble understanding the rest of the class. Sometimes this can be solved by asking someone next to me but that's hard to do if I don't know what or if I missed. It gets worse when a teacher notices I'm just nodding distracted and some of them evaluate these answers.
Most of the classes last for 2 hours or longer with no intervals, except between classes. I have to study a lot harder trying to get information from recorded classes and complete them by reading books. I'm sure I can learn more if I diminish distractions during classes.
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Addressing various important issues of tourism and hospitality in a three days conference, from 18th to 20th March 2013, the 2nd Annual Hospitality Investment World Indonesia will be held at the Pullman Central Park, Jakarta.
The Hospitality Investment World (HIW) Indonesia 2013 will bring together investors, property developers and hospitality operators to discuss tourism real estate investment strategies aimed at capitalizing on the robust economic growth and political stability in Indonesia, Southeast Asia's largest economy. Throughout the conference, investors will be looking to help organizations overcome their challenges, enhance, develop and implement their new strategies.
The event will feature some of the most prominent hospitality figures in the region including: Ghaurav Bhushan, Accor's Chief Development & Investment Officer Asia Pacific; Budi Tirtawisata, Group Chief Executive Officer Panorama Group; Mark A Edleson, President Alila Hotels&Resorts; Marc Steinmeiyer, President Director Tauzia Hotel Management; Abid Butt, Chief Executive Officer Banyan Tree Hotels&Resorts; John Berndt, Managing Director of Potato Head Club Indonesia; Erastus Radjimin, Chief Executive Officer Artotel Indonesia; and Bob East, Chief Executive Officer Mantra Group.
The conference will focus on several issues, including:
• - Identifying new tourism destinations and hotel investment opportunities in Indonesia
• - Capturing value-conscious domestic travelers in the economy and limited service sector
• - Optimizing distribution channels to maximize online exposure and boost market share
• - Leveraging business intelligence to optimize revenue management forecasts and pricing decision making
• - Building eco-friendly hotels at an optimal cost
• - How to attract lenders' interest and secure funding for development or acquisition financing
• - Are there still opportunities for new hotel developments in Bali?
• - Rise of design driven Indonesia hotel brands
• - Improving profitability in spa operations in hotels and resorts
• - Indonesia's secondary and tertiary cities – where are the growth opportunities and potential risks
• - Expanding air connectivity throughout Indonesia to boost tourism
For more information and registration, please visit: www.terrapinn.com
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Hey guys,
Just wanted to share with you few shots and panos quickly done during Photokina 2010 in Cologne, ten days ago. In fact shot too fast (as they are too dark :001_unsure:) You can click on each one to see full version on Flickr for pictures, or directly on my blog for panoramas.
Panoramas were shot with my Nikon D3, Nikkor 10.5 installed on Ultimate R1 and whole on top of a P1 pole Be careful, you should not do that as P1 is not supposed to carry so much weight
Main entry of Koelnmesse (the exhibition park in Cologne for Photokina):
General view of booth (we shared booth with Giroptic and Kolor). One side of booth was dedicated to software solution (AutoPano and Panotour), other side was dedicated to hardware with Giroptic and Nodal Ninja.
Nodal Ninja is everywhere here in a typical german restaurant in historic downtown of Cologne, engraved on wood stuff used to serve you beer ;)
General panorama of booth nearly ready just at opening:
IVRPA conferences room (day before Photokina grand opening):
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Now it's finished, see u perhaps in two years, september 18th to 23rd 2012 ;) and thanks to everyone we have seen on the booth, it was really enjoyable :)


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Ayn Rand and 'self-sacrifice'?! A DVD's 'oops' moment
Ayn Rand is not only the goddess of the gospel of libertarianism but also the patron saint of really, really bad novels, and even worse film adaptations.One of the latter, a movie called "Atlas Shrugged," after Rand's best-known novel (well, Part 1 -- such bloated prose needs a second part, due out next year, with a third to follow), came out in April 2011 to less-than-stellar reviews or ticket sales.Who knew that the turgid political philosophy of political wizards like Ron and Rand Paul and Paul Ryan wouldn't translate into box office magic?Anyway, the DVD was just issued and, rather hilariously, features a cover with this astonishing promo line:
"AYN RAND's timeless novel of courage and self-sacrifice comes to life..."
Spot the heresy? It should be easy. "Self-sacrifice" is not a libertarian virtue. Followers are aghast. The producers are chagrined:
"It's embarrassing for sure and of course, regardless of how or why it happened, we're all feeling responsible right now." says Scott DeSapio, Atlas Productions' COO and Communications Director "You can imagine how mortified we all were when we saw the DVD but, it was simply too late - the product was already on shelves all over the Country. It was certainly no surprise when the incredulous emails ensued. The irony is inescapable."
A new version will read:
"AYN RANDs timeless novel of rational self-interest comes to life...
Run, don't walk...Well, no better economic stimulus than a glitch that creates an instant collector's item. And maybe the only reason to buy one. I mean, it's rational self-interest.H/T to the neo-distributists at Res Publica
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I think a really good movie could have been made of Atlas Shrugged. It would almost certainly have been immoral, but then again, almost all movies are. I remember Dick Cavett asking Glenda Jackson if she would act in a great fascist play. If memory serves me correctly, she was thrown by the question, but I think she eventually said that if it was really a great play, she supposed she would act in it.
David Bentley Hart had a pretty scathing review of this a while ago ... http://www.firstthings.com/article/2011/05/the-trouble-with-ayn-rand
Actually, self-sacrifice is NOT Randian a heresy. Having read most of Ayn Rand's novels and listened to many of her interviews (oughtn't this to be considered against my time in Purgatory?), she did not eschew self-sacrifice. Rand was against was FORCED self-sacrifice.In Randland, self-sacrifice means fighting totalitarianism and the mediocre, and working to promote excellence and reward hard work.Rand, I think, has an irrational mistrust of representative government and naive notions about capitalism. OTOH, liberals like me likely have blind spots in the same areas only in reverse.Her books are dreadful, and I watched Gary Cooper in Patricia Neal in "The Fountainhead" and that was the end of my interest in Rand on screen.
Rand was against was FORCED self-sacrifice.In Randland, self-sacrifice means fighting totalitarianism and the mediocre, and working to promote excellence and reward hard work.
I've read only one or two Rand novels, and only long ago. I remember them as depictions of a society of highly superior people, highly principled, extremely strong willed, beset by a society of weak-willed, sneaky, parasitic cretins. Comic books, really - simplistic and highly charged. Attractive enough, surely, if you're willing to enter into the spirit of the thing, but probably read best only as cautionary tales. As cautionary tales, though, they probably work well.
When I heard there were going to be three movies on Atlas Shrugged, I decide to the read the book since I knew it was a "timeless classic". I liked David Smith's take on it, and I agree it is "a cautionary tale." I also agree with Jean about "blind spots in the reverse." I thought of my compassion and realized there was little room for it in that novel. Any movie on the topic would be a difficult one to to sit through!
"I remember them as depictions of a society of highly superior people, highly principled, extremely strong willed, beset by a society of weak-willed, sneaky, parasitic cretins. Comic books, really simplistic and highly charged."I agree generally with that characterization, but I wouldn't dismiss the degree to which Rand's ideas have trickled down in some slightly diluted form to those whom I'll call "thinking right wingers." Rand once said in an interview that she didn't believe in altruism and viewed charity as a transaction. That is, the giver would reap some benefit, either in not having to see homeless people cluttering up his park or some more intangible satisfaction in helping move a worthy person up a notch.This is generally the conservative view of welfare as a "hand-up, not hand-out" and quid pro quo. I'm not against the idea generally, but it poses problems for Randians confronted with the profoundly disabled who need constant care and attention. Rand herself took a hardline pro-abortion stance. How could she not:"A piece of protoplasm has no rightsand no life in the human sense of the term. . . . Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living: the right of young people to set the course of their own lives. The task of raising a child is a tremendous, lifelong responsibility, which no one should undertake unwittingly or unwillingly. Procreation is not a duty: human beings are not stock-farm animals. For conscientious persons, an unwanted pregnancy is a disaster; to oppose its termination is to advocate sacrifice, not for the sake of anyones benefit, but for the sake of misery qua misery, for the sake of forbidding happiness and fulfillment to living human beings."
Jean--I'm not surprised, as these were my thoughts as I read it. However, she was quite a feminist for her time and definitly a right winger in the strictest sense. My Granfather worked for the railroads (born 1896) and he was definitly a right winger. I know there was a time and a place for this novel. I think back to a Teddy Roosevelt biography I read about all of his trust busting. He was a blue-blood Republican, who in some senses acted as a "bleeding heart liberal". The problems TR faced seemed eerily similar to some of our problems in Congress today. However, he was able to make some "headway" because the gridlock was not as forbidding.
TR had sense enough to see that monopolies fostered plutocracy, not democracy and that they were bad except for the one percent. Yes, eerily familiar.I guess I'd quibble a bit about calling Rand a feminist. I suppose she was pushing a certain type of meritocracy which included women as well as men. But she was not a friend to feminists generally; those in what she called "Women's Lib" were simply tribalists looking for group protections rather than individual achievement. Perhaps these thoughts on her ideal of femininity help explain her views."For a woman qua woman, the essence of femininity is hero-worshipthe desire to look up to man. ... Hero-worship is a demanding virtue: a woman has to be worthy of it and of the hero she worships. Intellectually and morally, i.e., as a human being, she has to be his equal; then the object of her worship is specifically his masculinity, not any human virtue she might lack. ... Her worship is an abstract emotion for the metaphysical concept of masculinity as suchwhich she experiences fully and concretely only for the man she loves, but which colors her attitude toward all men. This does not mean that there is a romantic or sexual intention in her attitude toward all men; quite the contrary: the higher her view of masculinity, the more severely demanding her standards. It means that she never loses the awareness of her own sexual identity and theirs. It means that a properly feminine woman does not treat men as if she were their pal, sister, motheror leader."
Is it really so much to expect Commonweal to know the difference between libertarianism and Objectivism? There is nothing in libertarian philosophy that rejects "self-sacrifice." Libertarianism says simply that one shouldn't initiate violence against anyone else. Obviously no one on this site likes libertarianism, and the comments I've seen repeat all the standard (and long exploded) claims against it, but at least know what you're talking about.
"The comments Ive seen repeat all the standard (and long exploded) claims against it."I always thought I was kind of a libertarian sympathizer. Since we clearly have missed something, please enlighten us!
Tom --Now we know what you mean by "libertarianism". The Oxford Dictionary gives this definition and this description:"an extreme laissez-faire political philosophy advocating only minimal state intervention in the lives of citizens."Its adherents believe that private morality is not the states affair, and that therefore activities such as drug use and prostitution that arguably harm no one but the participants should not be illegal. Libertarianism shares elements with anarchism, although it is generally associated more with the political right (chiefly in the US); it lacks the concern of traditional liberalism with social justicewith the political right (chiefly in the US); it lacks the concern of traditional liberalism with social justice
Jean--Thank you for enlightening me on Rand's feminist views. I see now that individualism is much more important to her than the former women's lib movement.Ann--Thank you for the definition of Libertarianism. It's good to know where on the political spectrum it lies!
Here's a review of a new book about Nietzsche which is about his influence on various Americans including Ayn Rand. It is also about the influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson on Nietzsche, a rather surprising fact when first you look at it, but on reflection not so surprising.http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2011/11/america-nietzsche-rand-rorty-a...
"... the influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson on Nietzsche"Whoa! They never told us that about St. Ralph in UU Sunday School!
Yes, Jean, some brand=new scholarship makes their connection easy to see -- the emphasis on the individual as independent and as constituting his own values, the rejection of Christianity and all religious organizations, the rejection of common morality, criticism of the state, etc. We had to read some in high school, and I particularly disliked the man himself. Thought he was conceited. His unbridled confidence in individuals plus some of his mystical nonsense struck me even then as silly. Nietzsche to me is just a super-adolescent with super-brains. Constantly stamping his foot and calling names. Sad, sad case.
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Take a Left at George Carlin
Theres a story in todays Times about the effort to rename 121st Street between Broadway and Amsterdam after the late comedian George Carlin. Carlin grew up in the neighborhood, attending Corpus Christi Church and its parish school which share the same handsome building on that block. In his early career, he often made bitter jokes about Catholicism and the education he received. His animosity toward the Catholic Church, and religion in general, was hardly a secret. In fact, it was a staple of his comedy.Corpus Christis current pastor, Raymond Rafferty, is a vocal opponent of the effort to honor Carlin in this fashion. His early comedy made mockery of Corpus Christi parish and its priests, Rafferty told the Times. This is not someone who was oppressed.Corpus Christi, which is just around the corner from Commonweals offices,is perhaps best known as the church where Thomas Merton was received into the Catholic Church in 1938. Ray Rafferty is a good friend, a man of great hospitality and judicious opinions. It is not hard to understand his resistance to having the street where he lives named after a comedian widely celebrated for his vulgarity and impiety.
Ive never been a big fan of Carlins humor, although I have friends whose opinions in such matters I respect who thought he was a very gifted comic. I found his comedy petulant, self-satisfied, and didactic. As it happens, however, I did have a sort of encounter with the comedian when I was a newspaper reporter. He was coming to a local theater to do his one-man show and I was asked to call him and write a brief advance for the event. Carlin had done thousands of these formulaic interviews in his career. Basically, he tells a few jokes, which the reporter is supposed to dutifully transcribe and work into a seven or eight hundred word article that gives a bit more of the relevant information about the show as well as his style and career. I was aware of Carlins tough Irish Catholic New York upbringing, and curious about it. In the course of what was to be a very brief conversation, I asked him several questions about growing up in Morningside Heights and going to Catholic schools. As I recall, at that time (the 1980s) he was making a career comeback after a battle with drugs or alcohol. I asked him about that, too, if in a very circumspect way. He did not take kindly to either inquiry, and using one of the seven words you cant say on television he told me off in a characteristic New York sort of way and hung up. To be fair, he wasnt taking my call to be asked questions about his childhood or New York, and perhaps he was right to take umbrage. Still, there was real malice in his voice.Should they name that street after him? I dont think so. Carlin made a career out of mocking pieties, including civic pieties. If you had a street named after you, you were probably the kind of Important Person he loved to ridicule. Its exactly the sort of honor he would have gone out of his way to venomously mock.
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Lighten up!It's true: George Carlin's edgy comedy stylings took dead aim at any and all social and/or religious pomposity - something the Catholic Church of his youth had in abundance, you'd have to admit.Whether it was the Seven Deadly Sins or the Seven Dirty Words, Carlin forced his audience to focus like a laser on our silly, even hypocritical, social conventions.Carlin's job, like any social critic and comedian, was to mock, make us laugh at ourselves, and question our most preposterous fantasies about our shared reality.I think that Corpus Christi parish located on 'George Carlin Avenue' would have a certain poetic justice to it. Almost like a needling from beyond the grave about all the reform and renewal the church needs.Just imagine what George Carlin's comedy routine about priests raping and sodomizing children would sound like!?! That collective painful "OUCH" you hear is probably coming from Fr. Rafferty and his fellow clerics.
Needling seems to be your favorite pastime. I have to say, when the suggestion to lighten up comes from someone who appears not to have a sense of humor, I think it can be safely ignored. (Yes, let's all try to imagine how hilarious Carlin's sexual-abuse jokes would be. What the what?)
I don't have strong feelings about George Carlin one way or the other, but I do want to note that our culture seems increasingly to equate celebrity with civic accomplishment. I am old-fashioned enough to think there is a difference in contribution between writing and performing a string of popular hits in the '60's or '70's, a la Sir Paul McCartney or Sir Elton John, and, I don't know, whatever Abraham Lincoln or Admiral Nelson managed to do.This thought is prompted in large part by the incredibly gauche giant Marilyn Monroe ... thing ... they've installed on N. Michigan Ave in Chicago.
"This thought is prompted in large part by the incredibly gauche giant Marilyn Monroe thing theyve installed on N. Michigan Ave in Chicago."Twenty grown men can hide from the rain under her billowing skirt. Can Lord Nelson say as much?
The earlier Carlin did have some substantial comedic skills. In some of his final shows he seemed as tired as his jokes. Although I am seriously for dressing down (clothing too) the bishops I believe Jesus and God should be revered. (Hallowed be thy name) It is the ultimate contradiction that those who mock God say they do not believe in God. Thus the buffoon mocks someone s/he says does not exist. Naming of streets like names on hospitals and other buildings is a tricky affair. Many rogues have thus been honored. In general the words of Jesus apply: "They have had their reward."George Carlin seemed in many ways a troubled person. May God have mercy on him.
" Put an Irishman on a spit and you can always get another one to turn him'GB Shaw..He knew how to deal with Irish honors..
"Twenty grown men can hide from the rain under her billowing skirt."I'm sure you are using "men" in the inclusive sense ... :-)Btw, when I was in Trafalgar Square, the young people lounging in the shadow of Lord Nelson had that impossibly-hip European je ne sais quoi that the poor mopes in Zuccotti Park, bless 'em, could never achieve in a million revolutions.
Evidently he studied under the Sinsinawa Dominican sisters and has always (so 2 of them tell me) been supportive of them and has assisted in some fund-raising events for them.
Since Carlin grew up on the block in question, I don't think it's inappropriate to name the street after him .
There'a certain irony in that Corpus Christi church, and clergy, were among the most open throughout the 20th century, and Ray Rafferty continues the tradition in this century. Carlin's problems may not have been with the church and the clergy (or the religious women)....
Celebrity is all that matters here. Celebrity covers up everything else. Are they going to call it "George Carlin" or just "Carlin"? All those "Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevards" across the country should warn them off the full name, but I bet it won't.
I'm with Paul Baumann on this one. Carlin's humor had a certain zip, but it got overdone and tiresome before too long.It's also interesting to note my gut reaction: don't mess with Corpus Christi! It took me through turbulent college years at Barnard, and was my first meaningful spiritual home; also where I married. Fr. K is right about CC's progressive stance, which was like water in the desert to me. Here's to Msgr. James Edward Rea, rest his soul (brother of David Rea at Dunwoodie, I think), ? Burke (senior memory), and all who made it a very special parish.I'm no slouch myself when it comes to mocking pre-Vatican II inanities, but 121st St. still sounds fine to me.
I'm thinking that Carlin would be appalled at the very idea of naming a street after him.
Just a couple of thoughts:I strongly agree that Corpus Christi has a long and excellent tradition as Catholic parishes go.That tradition has not diminished and I don't think naming a street after Carlin will deiminish it and fighting that probably enhances his post mortem status in the eyes of some.I have two questions: does Commonweal having such a good relationship with Corpus Christi maybe skew to some degre its view of parish life?And, was carlin's bitterness about the Church really reacting to the narrow type of Bronnx Irish Catholicism extent then (and even now in Bill Donahue New york)?
The Carlinites might want to take a cue from the Romans. Bernini, among many others, knew how to insult his clerical enemies. He positioned the rear end of an elephant so that his Dominican tormentors at the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva would have a scenic view. Some say that Pope Alexander VII, who apparently had little use for the Dominicans, was the true instigator."The Elephant and Obelisk, affectionately known as Bernini's Chick by the Roman people, is located in the Piazza della Minerva and in front of the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva...A popular antecdote concerns the elephant's smile. To find out why it is smiling, the viewer must head around to the rear end of the animal and to see that its muscles are tensed and its tail is shifted to the left as if it were defecating. The animal's rear is pointed directly at the office of Father Domenico Paglia, a Dominican friar, who was one of the main antagonists of Bernini and his artist friends, as a final salute and last word."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini
Some CarlineseJust cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginityBy and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist."Now I'd like to begin tonight with an opening announcement: Because of the FCC, I'm never sure what it is I'm allowed to say. So..so, I now have my own official policy: This is the language you will not be hearing tonight.You will not hear me say: bottom line, game plan, role model, scenario, or hopefully. I will not kick back, mellow out, or be on a roll. I will not go for it and I will not check it out; I don't even know what it is. And when I leave here I definitely will not boogie. I promise not to refer to anyone as a class act, a beautiful person or a happy camper. I will also not be saying "what a guy." And you will not hear me refer to anyone's lifestyle. If you want to know what a moronic word "lifestyle" is, all you have to do is realize that in a technical sense, Atilla the Hun had an active outdoor lifestyle. I will also not be saying any cute things like "moi." And I will not use the French adverb "tre" to modify any English adjectives. Such as "tre awesome," "tre gnarly," "tre fabou," "tre intense," or "tre out-of-sight." I will not say concept when I mean idea. I will not say impacted when I mean affected. There will be no hands-on state-of-the-art networking. We will not maximize, prioritize, or finalize...and we definitely will not interface. There will also...there will also be no new-age lingo spoken here tonight. No support-group jargon from the human potential movement. For instance, I will not share anything with you. I will not relate to you and you will not identify with me. I will give you no input, and I will expect no feedback. This will not be a learning experience, nor will it be a growth period. There'll be no sharing, no caring, no birthing, no bonding, no parenting, no nurturing. We will not establish a relationship, we will not have any meaningful dialogue and we definitely will not spend any quality time. We will not be supportive of one another, so that we can get in touch with our feelings in order to feel good about ourselves. And if you're one of those people who needs a little space...please...go the %$#* outside
@ Grant Gallicho:I'm not going to take the bait of your "oh so clever" comments about me personally and get into a blog p*&^#!g [one of George Carlin's unspeakable words!] contest when you can just edit me out at any time. Grant, if you want to belittle your readers and bloggers, you have to find a way to have at least a fair fight.More apt comedy stylings of George Carlin: "When youre born you get a ticket to the freak show. When youre born in America, you get a front-row seat."
First of all, "Indian Sergeant" was one of he funniest comedic routines of all time.But the real question is what did Carlin do that was so bad, so horrible that he thought he was beyond salvation. His hatred of the church and all things christian indicates that he was overcome with guilt. The poor man just needed confession.Anyway that's my two cents.greggbc
Thanks, Bill :0)
Thank you again, Bill.Those of you who have never heard Carlin's delivery won't get the full impact of that last long bit. Try the opening of this you tube video: "George Carlin talks about advertising" About 1/2 way through Carlin uses quite offensive and sexually crude language, so stop after you get a sense of Carlin's cadence for his linguistic riffs. YOU WERE WARNED.I highly respect Father Raymond Rafferty, who was my pastor at another NYC parish. But, knowing and liking him, it would surprise me if appreciation of "edgy" comedy were Ray's strong suit. I also know that Corpus Christi deserves very positive mention in American Catholic history. But like any parish it has it faults. I wish I had Carlin's help -- without profanity -- to phrase my frustration that well into the 1990s the director of music totally rejected gender-inclusive-language hymns. And, yes, I realize the parish was literally at the cutting edge of liturgical reform several decades earlier. I particularly appreciated Bill's mentioning Carlin's statement: "Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. Since I believe in a God of inclusive love, I hope in heaven there is an astonished George Carlin. If so, perhaps he and God are having a chuckle about naming West 121st street after Carlin, who would have so cleverly derided the whole idea. Carlin was a life-long, deeply disappointed advocate for truth and fair treatment for the poor and oppressed. Surely the corpus christi for which the parish is named has room for Carlin. And I can imagine he would have had a profane, but funny, punchline for my last straight line.
Until the Marx Brothers are deemed worthy of a street name, I say nix on naming any thoroughfare after any comedian.If you don't know about George Carlin, go look him up on YouTube and see him in action. His routines from decades ago are over there. His early stuff was kind of clunky ("the hippy dippy weather man") and his later stuff was bitter and and obscene. But he was great in the 1970s and 1980s, swimming upstream of the "dress for success" and capitalism crowd. Here's his monologue on materialism from 1986: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac(Anyone know if the often unfathomable French have honored their favorite U.S. comic with a rue Jerry Lewis in Paris?)
B. H. Andolson: The one responsible for the refusal to accommodate to the reinterpretation of the language was probably the pastor, Msgr. Myles M. Bourke, who was vigorously opposed to the bowdlerizing of the Bible (e.g., Ps 8:5, which I see that Robert Alter, in his recent translation, keeps as "What is man that You should note him?") or of classic hymns. So, if this was a 'fault,' it was Msgr. Bourke's. But, of course, you can't please everyone.


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