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WINTERSVILLE - Tony E. Morelli admits it's a little ironic alright.
He and his wife, Colleen, are the new owners of an older building that has a lot of Morelli family history behind it, not to mention a Morelli-based future.
What's been the Morelli Complex on Church Street since its construction around 1970 - home for many years to the original office of Morelli Block & Brick in the lower level - is now the Church Street Commons.
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NEW OWNERS — Wintersville residents Tony E. Morelli and his wife, Colleen, stand in front of what used to be the Morelli Complex on Church Street in Wintersville, newly named Church Street Commons. In November 2012, the couple purchased the building that originally housed the offices of Morelli Block & Brick. A total interior renovation is afoot to accommodate present tenants and welcome new ones. Below, the Wintersville couple compare notes on what's been done and what's to come. -- Janice R. Kiaski
Tony and Colleen purchased the building on Nov. 30, their game plan a fresh name and a fresh start for the 10,000-square-foot building that has generated some construction cleanup for the couple during the past three months as renovations unfold.
And that's where it's a little ironic, a come-full-circle experience anyways for Tony, who was born and raised in Wintersville.
"When I was in high school, I would come here on the weekends when they were building this. My cousins and I, we would clean up the construction mess to make a couple bucks," said Tony, a 1975 graduate of Wintersville High School.
Colleen, a 1977 WHS graduate, has a sense of deja vu herself. She played instruments during high school and remembers patronizing DeLelles Studio during the mid-1970s when it operated out of the building's upper level.
"It's very ironic," Tony agrees of the past and present connection to the building he said opened around 1971 with the lower level providing space for the offices for the brick business that eventually moved. The upper level initially functioned as a rental hall, a place for events and parties.
"The downstairs was Morelli Block and Brick - that's why the building was built. It was their first office. The upstairs was a community hall basically. That was the thinking when they built it," Tony said.
"I can remember my sister Cheryl's graduation party was there," he added, noting that, over the years, the Morelli Complex has housed many businesses, even a church and a teachers' credit union.
Their motivation to buy the building was partly personal, to keep it in the family, but also to poise it for a renewed purpose as it accommodates current tenants and welcomes new ones.
Church Street Commons is home to Carl Arlotta Counseling; Christian Connection Counseling; Taylor Roofing; Kindred Flame Reiki; Kalin Walls; Hockenberry Heating; GPC Contracting, which is in the process of doubling its space from 400 to 800 square feet; and the newest tentant is Big Rig Truck Driving School out of Canton.
"We just signed a lease with them," Tony said of the school that offers training for people interested in obtaining their CDL license. He said the business opened here because of the oil and gas industry, and he is in discussions with another gas business-related company interested in possibly making Church Street Commons the place where it hangs out its open-for-business shingle.
Since its purchase, the building has been a busy place for improvements, including new energy-efficient windows, new drop ceilings, a rewiring of the upper level, a redo of the heating and air conditioning and a remodeling of restrooms. Outside, there are new signs, a new mailbox and plans for landscaping and parking lot improvements.
"We have done about half the building and are now getting ready to get started on the bottom," he said.
During an interview in one of the downstairs areas set for an overhaul, Colleen said it will be the site of Barrett Salon, a new state-of-the-art, full-service salon anticipated to open June 1. The space transformation from now to then "is going to be gorgeous," Colleen said.
The overall building improvements, according to the couple married for 20 years, comes with a respect and appreciation for the family history behind it, but with an eye toward its potential.
"When it was built, it was one of the nicest buildings in the area, and our vision is to bring it back to that," Tony said.
In sharing his heritage, Tony said his grandfather, the late Anthony Morelli Sr., came to the area from his native Italy. "He got into the coal business and was in the coal business in the Steubenville area from the 1950s until I think he retired in 1960," he said.
"When he retired from the coal business, my uncles (Benjamin, Geno and Clyde) and my father (Anthony M. Morelli) started Morelli Block and Brick," he explained. The four siblings used some old coal trucks left over from the coal business, operating on more or less of a bartering arrangement. "They still had coal, and one of their customers was a block manufacturer, Beloit Block, and they would take a load of coal down to them and pick up a load of block. Then they started selling block to people," he said of the company's beginnings.
"My dad still tells the story of back in those days, they would trade coal for Steubenville Bakery bread," he said, pointing out that his father keeps involved in the Church Street Commons project, lending a helping hand, for example, by meeting contractors and buying supplies.
Other family involvement is from Tony's brother, Todd Morelli, who handles the snow removal there.
What was constructed to be the Morelli Complex has good bones.
"It's a good building. Because of what it was, my family being in the masonry supply business for more than 50 years, all the interior walls are brick. Everything outside is brick. To build this building again, nobody would build it again. It would cost too much," Tony said.
"We're proud of that, that it is Morelli owned, but we changed the name because we thought this is the thing to do," Tony said, crediting Colleen with the name.
"It's a fresh new look and a fresh new start," she said. "We had the opportunity to give it a facelift, and this is what we've done in three months, and we plan on continuing to do a gutting and rebuilding," said Colleen, a nurse practitioner at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center/Tony Teramana Cancer Center. Tony is operations manager for SAL Chemical with 25 years' experience.
The couple lived in Indianapolis for 10 years, moving there in 1992, and returned to their roots 11 years ago, happily so, their same attitude toward seeing the Church Street Commons upgrade come to fruition.
"We have some tenants who have been here a long time, and if you talked to them, they're happy with what we've done," Tony said. "We want to make it right for the present tenants and offer room to bring in other businesses."
An additional 3,000 square feet is available, from 400- to 800-square-foot units. "We're flexible. We can do several things," he said.
"I am very proud of what my father and my uncles did, and the building was very good to them for many years, and they were good to this community," Tony said.
"This is our little way of giving back. It is part of Wintersville, and I'll always be from Wintersville. I am proud of what we've done so far," he said.
"We have a lot of work to do, but we'll get it done," Colleen added.
For information on Church Street Commons, call (304) 670-6078.


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I want to begin developing 2d games. I have a lot experience in Java programming. I am looking for an 2d game engine that supports physics, support mouse actions and easy to use. I know Stencyl but I do not want to use it. An open source game engine can be wonderful.
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Slick2D is a Java game library with physics: http://slick.cokeandcode.com/. If you have some problems setting it up for development, this should help you: http://ty.gdcore.com/2012/08/09/setting-up-slick2d-with-eclipse/.
Another engine that seems pretty cool, but isn't Java, is LÖVE. It uses the Lua scripting language. https://love2d.org/
it depends...for which platform you want to develop games?
if you want to develop for IOS for example, you want to use cocos2d with chipmunk(physics)

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I am running a 32-bit Linux virtual machine on KVM. The host machine is a 64-bit Linux machine connected to a LAN. Attempting to transfer files with scp from the KVM machine to a server on the LAN gives abysmal performance, about 500kB/s over gigabit Ethernet. Around 1% of the expected rate. Any suggestions?
Consider using virtio. It allows a direct connection between the VM and the host without the need to emulate (slow) hardware. I measured high network performance improvements with it.
For example, you can enable the virtio network device by the kvm command line parameter "-net nic,model=virtio".
If you are using the virtio block devices, please note that the new device names are then "vda1" etc., but this should be not a problem since current Linux distributions detect the partitions according to their UUIDs.
It might be a problem of the Disk I/O performance inside the guest. If you are using a disk image, few steps apply to have better performance :
Firs, you will have to play around with the
Then, you will also have to play around with elevator option of the kernel : you will have to append
A better explaination of this is available at : http://lonesysadmin.net/2008/02/21/elevatornoop/ ; but in a few words, the host linux kernel and the guest linux kernel both try to optimize I/O and it tends to be worse than anything for the guest (the guest should leave this task to the host).


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Technical default training contains intensive tactical training?
Is there a guide anywhere as to what is contained in each section? What's in tactical training, attacking training etc?
I have a couple of solid dominant midfielders but I want them to better contribute to attacking moves.
And, unlike fm for pc does tactics include getting to grips with your actual tactics?


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It all came down to the play at the plate.
Case right fielder Ellie Roberts fired a strike to catcher Jenna Santerre, who caught the ball well before Bellingham runner Megan Cook reached home plate, but the Blackhawks' runner was called safe and the run held up as top-seeded Bellingham escaped with a 1-0 softball victory over the Cardinals in Monday's Division 2 South final.
The action came in the bottom of the fourth inning after Case pitcher Leslie Denis and Cook, the Bellingham pitcher, were dominant through three scoreless innings.
In the Hawk fourth, Cook laced a one-out double to center before Denis struck out Chloe Woodward for the second out.
Freshman Kayse Baker then smacked a liner to right that Roberts quickly snagged on one hop and gunned home to Santerre, who had the ball before Cook slid home. After a brief hesitation by the home plate umpire, Cook was called safe and Bellingham grabbed the only run it would need.
"She was 100 percent out," said Santerre. "It's tough to lose this one, especially 1-0."
"When she slid home, I thought he was looking for the ball," said Case coach Don DiBiasio. "When he hesitated, I figured he was checking to see if (Santerre) still had the ball. I really don't know what was going through his mind at that time. She was called safe and it's unfortunate for us."
Cook, who no-hit Dighton-Rehoboth in a 5-0 South semifinal win Sunday afternoon, ran into some first-inning trouble when Ally DiCesare opened with a single and Santerre, attempting a sacrifice, reached on a throwing error to first base after putting down the bunt.
Denis then hit a long fly ball to center that allowed DiCesare to tag to third before Maddie Carpenter lined out to left field for the second out.
Kelsey Pacheco hit a grounder to shortstop and was called out on a bang-bang play at first base.
In the Bellingham first, leadoff hitter Alice Felzmann reached via single, but was caught stealing by Santerre. Meghan Cook the singled and was erased on a fielder's choice for the second out.
After Denis hit Rachel Kuhlman with a pitch, she got Megan Cook to pop out to third for the third out.
Case, the defending Division 3 champions who were bumped up t Division 2 this season, finished with three hits off Cook, but hit the ball hard.
"We stroked the ball well," DiBiasio said. "We just didn't get them in the gap."
"(Cook) was definitely the fastest pitcher we've seen," Santerre said, "but she was nothing special."
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After the fourth-inning run, Denis and Cook took over, both pitching perfect softball the rest of the way.
"We had a phenominal year," DiBiasio said. "We adjusted well (to Division 2). The girls practiced hard all year and most of them are coming back."
Denis finished with a four-hitter and recorded five strikeouts.
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This is Misha - 13 months
This is Aime - aka "the pouty puppy"
Dory - sweet, sweet Dory
Dory - 1st halloween
Our sons with Dory as a puppy
This is Misha - 13 months
This is Aime - aka "the pouty puppy"
Dory - sweet, sweet Dory
Dory - 1st halloween
Our sons with Dory as a puppy
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adorable pictures, i love the pouty puppy..toooooooo cute
They are so delicious, I've visited your website Janet and already fallen in love with your babies
Poor Dory looks quite bemused at her 'Fairy princess' oufit
Thank you !! I am glad that you like my site - any suggestions would be welcome (good or bad).
LOL ... the boys picked the outfit for her
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My Lord was gorgeous "babies" .....
You're very lucky ..... I have to say that "pouty puppy" is certainly a show stealer !!!
Those tri eyebrows can make them look so scowly, can't they? Your sons are very cute in that oic. Are they twins (I'm guessing they are but I know sometimes brothers of different ages will have the same outfit; mine did at times when we were small!)
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No - they are actually 22 months apart - I am sure they will not appreciate mom dressing them alike when they are older
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Oh I love to see small children dressed alike, so sweet
Gorgeous photos, Dory really is so pretty, and that photo of Aime just made us laugh
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Our little Dory was recently asked to pose for an advertisement for a major department store. Thought I would share some updated photos…
Wish I knew how to make these photos bigger :cry:
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That's fantastic ...... Dory is really so adorable that it's not surprising at all ...... think of how big the actual photos will be for the department store !! Congrats to all and a special treat for Dory !!


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DUE WEST, S.C. – Unable to recover after Erskine scored six runs in the first two innings, Anderson University baseball dropped to the Flying Fleet in another chapter in the long-standing rivalry between the teams, 9-3, Tuesday afternoon at Grier Field.
With the victory, Erskine earns its first points in the Beville Cup standings, claiming a half point with the other half up for grabs when AU and the Fleet meet for the final time on April 1 at Anderson Memorial Stadium. Overall, the Trojans lead in the Beville Cup standings, 7.0-0.5, with eight points needed to retain the prestigious award.
Senior catcher Jonathan Zalud paced the Anderson lineup, finishing a perfect 3-for-3 with three doubles, an RBI and a run scored. The three doubles were his first extra-base hits of the season, as he is now halfway to his doubles total from a season ago.
Also posting a multi-hit game was designated hitter Ryan Mills, who earned his fourth start of the season. Mills banged out two singles in the third and fifth innings, but was unable to cross the plate for a run. For the season, Mills is hitting .308 (4-for-13).
Senior right fielder Paul Como finished the contest with a 1-for-3 mark, joining Zalud as the lone Trojans with extra-base hits. Como doubled to lead off the sixth inning and eventually scored on a Zalud sacrifice fly. Fellow outfielder Josh Hickman closed the afternoon with a 1-for-4 performance with an RBI, while senior Nathan Galliford posted a sacrifice fly in the fifth inning, scoring shortstop Kyle Bailey.
After Erskine scored two runs in the first inning, the Fleet loaded the bases in the second inning for designated hitter Sam Cothran. Cothran took advantage of the base runners and hit his first grand slam of the season, extending the Erskine lead to 6-1 after two innings of play. For Cothran, the home run was his only hit of the ballgame.
Five Erskine hitters posted multi-hit performances, highlighted by right fielder Andre Kozak's 2-for-4 afternoon with a double, while fellow outfielder Logan Galliher matched Kozak's 2-for-4 day with a two-run home run in the bottom of the fifth inning.
For the game, Erskine outhit the Trojans, 11-9, marking the first time AU has been outhit since its 9-2 setback against nationally-ranked Nova Southeastern.
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Everyone knows the dangers of drinking and driving, and everyone knows the partying that goes on on New Year's Eve, so there simply is no excuse for even thinking about getting behind the wheel while intoxicated Monday into Tuesday.
There really isn't any excuse for doing it any other day of the year.
The Ohio Department of Public Safety reported that one out of every three traffic fatalities in 2011 were alcohol related. Wouldn't it be great if Ohio could cut its driving fatalities by 33 percent just by people realizing the dangers of intoxicated driving.
There were 347 fatal crashes in 2011, which investigating law enforcement said were caused by alcohol consumption. The state public safety department reported 5,261 people were injured in 2011 because of alcohol-related crashes.
The number of alcohol related crashes decreased by 10 percent from 2010. Overall wrecks were down significantly in 2010, some say it was due to people not driving as much because of the economic recession.
Regardless, it is a positive trend that needs to continue.
Law enforcement will be out in full force to catch those drivers who ignore the message of don't drink and drive during the New Year's weekend.
Many people play it smart on New Year's Eve. They attend a party at a friend's house with plans to sleep there for the night. Other couples may go to a lavish dinner/dance at a hotel and book a room for the night. Then there are others who actually practice having a designated driver or even renting a limousine.
Many people believe it is dangerous to even be on the roads on New Year's Eve because of the drinking. They don't want to be involved in a wreck.
There may be a lot of alcohol consumed on New Year's Eve but there also is a lot consumed any weekend of the year. People leave bars and get behind the wheel without thinking twice. Why think about it on New Year's Eve and not the other days of the year?
Alcohol impairs the ability to drive. It slows reaction time and also causes a driver to cross the center line. There are serious or fatal accidents every weekend in Ohio and West Virginia involving alcohol. Innocent family members are killed because someone was behind the wheel under the influence.
Make a New Year's resolution to not drive under the influence in 2013. Think seriously about the consequences of driving while impaired. It isn't worth it.
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It can be another layer of security..
This isn't a great security idea because the wp-login or wp-admin page in of itself does not pose a security threat. Though it can be argued that if someone had your password/username they might not be able to find where to login, thus security through obscurity.
As kronus said you could probably to some fancy re-directs, not sure how well that would scale with future releases or if it is even worth the trouble, personally I don't think its worth it and I take security seriously.
I would suggest some better ideas for your login.
Enable ssl for the login/admin (htpps).
Password protect your page using .htaccess ( so you will have a double login).
Use a plugin like Limit Login Attempts, which locks out a user after failed logins.
You can disable the wp-login page from your functions by hooking into login_head:
(that's obviously a very clumsy way of doing it, but it prevents anyone from being able to login through that page. You could make that a redirect function, or a warning message, rather than just a die.)
And copy the existing wp-login file to another location, making sure to update the relative path to
(Obviously you'll have to remove the action that you added to
Then, you should just need to add a filter to
Just build out new login pages in subdirs. Copy the existing wp-login page into a new directory in your webroot (maybe "/login"), rename it index.php, add a WordPress bootstrap to the top of the page, and do whatever you like with it (theming, etc).
You do have to adjust the login page's default code a bit, mostly to find/replace for hardcoded links and redirects to "wp-login.php". But as long as you leave all the hooks and filters in place, this approach won't mess up any plugin integration. And WordPress core updates are fine, unless the update includes changes to the wp-login page itself (which rarely happens in minor versions).
You can also build out user account pages this way (I put them in the dir "/profile"). Once you've done that, subscriber-level users should never need to go into wp-admin, so you can protect it with an htaccess file. This is the part that actually gives you the added security you were looking for. Just be sure to make an exception in your htacces for the admin-ajax file, since some plugins use it on the frontend.
Pretty sure you're not going to find a plugin-only solution. But if you do, let us know!
None of these answers were especially useful. I question the motives of the OP, but here is how to do it. Add this to your functions.php, but make sure to replace "$login_page_id":
On your new login page, you can simply add this function to show a login form:
You could try editing the
You could use this plugin:
You can just create a page and tell the plugin that's where the login is. But all it basically does is redirect wp-login.php to your "page". So any bot searching for wp-login.php will just be redirected to your "page".
To protect you login page from bots you should use a combination of a cookie and .htaccess as most bots don't use cookies. Something like this:
In the example above I'm using a PHP Session Cookie, since it's the easiest to implement.
To modify logout URL (in admin) edit your functions.php:
I highly resent most of the answers given here. The OP posted a valid question and most of the answers given were intended to evade the fact that they don't have an idea how to get around Wordpress' limitation on this issue.
OP, the best thing you could for this matter is IP filtering and allow only those networks that are allowed to login to the WP-Admin area (e.g. your office IP, developers' IP, etc.). You won;t be doing your work in Starbucks anyway. This is how corporate networks do it, so you might as well do the same.
In the five years that this question has been here, nobody has addressed the core issue: Security by obscurity is a valid technique to ward off automated bots and keep the logs clean. The goal of moving/hiding
The way that I hide (but not move)
Of course, when using the code replace
I solved this problem by deleting three of my blogs and changing the parameters of limit-login to the maximums possible. 9999
For the one scum spammer at 126.96.36.199 who has hit my login page 750 times in the last two days, I am working on eliminating him other ways.


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Is there a way in SQL Server to rename a table in another database? When you are in current database and migrating data over to another database in the TEMP table and then renaming TEMP table in that another database. I do not want to use "USE [database]" since the database name could change on different servers.
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Let S := the nonnegative integer solutions to {$a_1 + ... + a_n = n$}, and center := (1,1,1,...,1). Call a vector v generic if v.s = v.center <=> s = center. Then each generic v defines a positive system in S, the subset { s in S : v.s > v.center }.
Already at n=3 it is possible for one positive system to contain another.
Up to permutation, we may as well take v strictly decreasing. Having done so, is there a reasonable way to classify the maximal positive systems?


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Although he somehow managed to make music so forgettable you made a point to remember it specifically because it was so relentlessly forgettable, Lil Boosie --- who's currently locked up with a list of charges longer than Kevin Durant's arms ---did have at least one positive contribution to Black culture. The exact origin of the term "ratchet" remains unclear, but both "Do The Ratchet" --- Boosie's 2006 ode to unadulterated ignance ---and "Let's Get Ratchet"---Boosie's 2009 collaboration with something called a "Hurricane Chris" --- paved the way for its eventual addition to our lexicon. And, a welcome addition ratchet has been, as it manages --- in one, easy to (mis)pronounce word --- to label and describe a certain type of uncouthness so absurd it borders on camp.
Ratchet also stands out from a linguistic standpoint, as it's one of the few words in the English language that can equally serve as an adjective ("That club is pretty ratchet."), verb ("We need some more Mad Dog so we can ratchet it up in here."), and noun ("This club is wack. Where are the ratchets when you need them?").
Anyway, as tempting as it is to continue to discuss ratchet's etymology, I'm more concerned with how 2012 is slowly becoming the "Year of the Ratchet". Between the omnipresence of WorldStarHipHop and the popularity of shows featuring the peculiar violence between the long-time concubines of men who may not even be aware that these women exist, there has never been a time where ratchetness was more ubiquitous, more celebrated, and more ingrained in how we receive, assess, and critique culture.
Even though the year is barely five months old, there have already been numerous moments that will easily be first-ballot members of the Ratchet Hall-of-Fame; moments so ratchet that they somehow managed to transcend ratchetness by bringing a certain level of quality to the uncouth. Here are five of them.
Mary J. Blige's Burger King Commercial
If you could measure an object's level of ratchetness by how often (and how well) it's parodied, the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul's minute-long spot extolling the virtues of crispy chicken wraps may very well be the ratchetest moment of all-time. Not since Antoine Dodson's interview (btw, I know I shouldn't be surprised that Antonie Dodson has a Wiki page, but ANTONIE DODSON HAS A WIKI PAGE!!!) has such a short moment of ratchet behavior had such a long shelf life.
"Same Damn Time" by Future
It's fitting that the most popular club track of early 2012 happens to be a song so ratchetly impressive that the sheer thought of it inspires imitation. Thus, half of Black Twitter (the name given to the cyber village that includes pretty much half of young Black America) using it in puns across their social media timelines.You have no idea how tempting it was to attempt to employ "Future-speak" --- i.e.: "WRITING WORDS, WEARING GLASSES, AT THE SAME DAMN TIME!!!" ---- for this entire article.
Evelyn Lozada being Evelyn Lozada
Enough has already been said about the woman who'll undoubtedly make the list when some writer in 2015 charts the reasons why Chad OchoCinco just filed for bankruptcy, so I'd rather take this space to think of a name for the phenomenon that occurs when a group of very well-dressed women decide to start and end beefs by throwing water in each other's faces. After much deliberation --- and by "much" I mean "a couple seconds of" --- I've finally decided on "ratchet waterboarding." It's alliterative; it has the word ratchet in it; and, well, I just couldn't think of anything better in such a short time.
"Let Me Show You How Your P***y Works"
As stated earlier, the best/most transcendent instances of ratchetness occur when the behavior is so over the top that you suspect the actors intentionally went for camp, but even more interesting is the thought process involved in who we decide to give the benefit of the doubt.
For instance, it didn't seem like very many thought that Mary J. was winking at us when creating her Burger King spot, but a good percentage of the people who first saw Brian McKnight's gynecological tribute immediately assumed that he was just pulling a fast one. If only he were...
The Rick Ross/Maybach Music Press Conference
Equal parts decadent, nihilistic, inspiring, engaging, and uncomfortable --- Really, Diddy? You had to let everyone know that Rick Ross' music gives you erections? Nttawwt, but still. --- the Maybach Music press conference was a literal orgy of award-worthy ratchetness.
As I watched the live stream, captivated by the proceedings and disgusted by the fact that I wasn't disgusted at all, I couldn't help but think that I was watching a metaphor for the way the world will eventually end --- an hour long allegory outlining exactly


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I have watched Felix Baumgartner freefall; but I wonder how Felix has reached the speed of sound quickly, in a matter of some seconds, then we had no idea of its speed?
Any explanation please.
I have watched Felix Baumgartner freefall; but I wonder how Felix has reached the speed of sound quickly, in a matter of some seconds, then we had no idea of its speed?
Any explanation please.
How did he do that? During a free-fall, there would be two forces acting on the object. The Air-resistance (or Drag) and Gravity ($mg$). So, Two parts come into our play...
The acceleration due to gravity $(g=\frac{GM}{(R+h)^2})$ value is almost a constant 9.8. Yes, It varies from 9.6 to 9.8 within that 39 km range. For example, at a height of 39000 m, it is some 9.684 and at a height of 10 km, it's about 9.7. At last at the sea level, it is 9.8 as you know. But, this $g$ value has no higher difference than 0.2 (even at 39 kms).
Now, the major part... The air resistance acting on a free-falling object depends on its velocity. As the velocity increases, the drag also increases and a period of time arrives when the body falls with a constant average velocity called terminal-velocity. It's probably around 50 m/s in air. At the terminal velocity, the force due to gravity equals air resistance.
But, His free-fall is from about an altitude of some 120,000 ft. (39 km) from ground. It's in the stratosphere (8-50 kms). In the stratosphere, the pressure is too low which provides the fact that the density of air is too small. This is because the weight acting upon molecules is low for higher molecules and vice-versa. This is where Drag gets weaker. 'Cause the air-resistance also depends upon the density of the medium (air). Hence, only gravity accelerates him down and he'd reach the sound barrier soon. Once he enters our troposphere (up to 8 km from ground), he slows down due to drag and he'd reach 170 m/h which is enough for parachuting, touch-down and landing at last..! On comparison to the effect caused by $g$, I'd say that air resistance plays a major role.
In addition to these, the speed of sound is also a low value at the stratosphere (a supportive factor). Because the pressure wave also depends on the density of the medium. The Laplace correction is given by $v=\sqrt{\frac{\gamma P}{\rho}}$. As the speed is inversely proportional to density $\rho$ or directly proportional to pressure, the $v$ value increases at stratosphere. (i.e.) It's not a constant 330-343 m/s. At about 30 km, it's 305 m/s. This further reduces the effect caused by $g$ difference case..!
Edit: It seems that my approximation of $g$ and $v$ has become such an issue. So, I've updated to a newer version. Some calculators I've used - Variation of $g$ with altitude and Variation of Speed of sound. If we use the Mach value 1.2, we could get the output in that calculator.
For N universal gravitational law
As for the high increase in speed, the decrease in the effect of air resistance at z= 39 km causes a rapid increase due to gravitational strength but this increase after a minute starts to fall back till it reaches its max speed. The temperature, pressure and density of air also affect his fall.
The value $g$ is not a constant $9.8$ $ms^{-2}$ in this case.
Given: His free fall is at a height of $39,045$ $m$, the mean radius of Earth, $6,371,000$ $m$ and the mass of Earth $5.9736\times10^{24}$ $kg$
the value $g=9.7026$ $ms^{-2}$ at the start of his dive and $g=9.8219$ $ms^{-2}$ at the end of his dive. These figures may vary based on the elevation of his landing spot, but it's clear nonetheless that $g$ is a variable in this case..!
In the differential equation it's not enough to put a constant value for the density of air. If you do so, the limit velocity turns out to be too slow, even if using reasonable values for the cross-section area and for the drag coefficient.
Instead, if you use the experimental data (included in Mathematica), the density of air changes as a function of the altitude. In this case, you see that the solution (obtained via numerical integration) shows a peak in the velocity during the first minute which is in rough agreement with the actual value.
See my post, I explain everything here: http://disipio.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/the-felix-baumgartner-equation/
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Layoffs confirmed at Sony Santa MonicaWritten by: / / 4 Comments
Less than a month after announcing that Sony's talented Santa Monica development team had moved premises to allow for expansion and to facilitate communication between developers, Sony Computer Entertainment America has confirmed that a number of employees have been let go from Santa Monica Studio.
The news was confirmed in a statement from SCEA, which reads:
"SCEA can confirm that we have completed a reduction in workforce at Santa Monica Studio. This is a result of a cycle of resource re-alignment against priority growth areas within SCE WWS. We do not take these decisions lightly.
However, sometimes it is necessary to make changes to better serve the future projects of the studio. We have offered outplacement services and severance packages to ease transition for those impacted."
While it may seem like a baffling decision after moving to a new studio space to facilitate growth in the future, the cycle of expansion and downsizing is common in the videogame development industry, especially with teams that number in the hundreds at the peak of a game's production.
Once a game is complete, however, and the studio is in the design phase for the next game, there's not a lot for the dozens of programmers and artists to contribute towards as the team's core developers work on what's next, resulting in a purge of talent, all before bulking up again as the next project gains speed. It's not a good cycle, but it is the reality.
The developer's previous game, God of War: Ascension, was said to have underperformed at retail, which for a one-game studio like Santa Monica is detrimental to its future.
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Fort Washita Walking Ghost Stories
October 26-29
Reservations required. Saturday night sold out.
3348 State Road 199, Ft. Washita, OK
Chickasaw Nation "Spooky Tales"
The Chickasaw Nation Division of Arts and Humanities will host "Spooky Tales" 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27 in Ada, Okla.
The free event is open to public and includes Native American and contemporary storytelling by Chickasaw storytellers Lorie Robbins, Dixie Brewer and Stephanie Scott.
"Spooky Tales" is presented as part of the National Arts and Humanities Month celebration in Chickasaw Nation.
The event will be conducted in the facility's Black Box Theatre. Attendees are encouraged to bring mats and blankets to sit on.
The Chickasaw Nation Division of Arts and Humanities is located at 201 North Broadway. For more information, visit www.chickasaw.net/ah or call (580) 272-5520.
To Be Frank(enstein)
A New Play from Creative Arts Center of Bonham Kidz Crew
October 28 & 29 at 7pm and October 30th at 2pm
COSTUME CONTEST WITH CASH PRIZE & SILENT AUCTION - opening night, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Tickets $5 (kids 12 & under), $8 (students/seniors 55+), $10 adults
At the door and in advance at the Creative Arts Center, 200 W. 5th in Bonham. Call Barbara Reeves at 903-640-2196 or email email@example.com
Haunted Trail
October 28 at 7 pm
Pecan Grove Park, Sherman
$5.00 per person
City of Sherman Parks & Recreation
The trail features creepy crawlers, ghoulish delights, blazing jack o'lanterns, and scary creatures. The Haunted Trail is recommended for adults and children ages 9 and older. Volunteers are needed!
Kim Hobbs City of Sherman
Phone: 903.892.7344
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Lake Fannin Big Foot Sighting and Halloween Party
Oct. 29 at the historic Lake Fannin Lodge, 6:00 p.m.
Ladies Shopping Spooktacular
October 29, 2011
Time: 10:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Pumpkins in the Park
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Time: 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM
***Game Booths***
***Petting Zoo***
***Concession Stand***
***Candy will be distributed at each game booth***
Parkside Baptist Church
301 N. Lilis Ln.
Denison, TX
Contact Information: Ron Urban, 903-465-1686, email@example.com
Colbert Halloween Fest
The Colbert Police Reserves will be having its first annual Halloween Festival in the city park, Oct 29th from 4pm to 9pm. There will be games, large bounce house, food candy and its a safe place for kids and familes to come out and enjoy themselves.
St. John's Episcopal Church Pottsboro, TX
760 Hwy 120 just West of SH 289
2nd Annual "TRUNK or TREAT"
Saturday Oct. 29th 4-6 p.m.
Much like Trick or Treating from house to house...this will take place from car trunk to car trunk in the parking lot of St. Johns. Halloween candy and goodies will be handed out. All children 16 and younger are invited to come in costume and participate!
Monsters on Main - October 31
Denison Main Street and the downtown businesses will host Monsters on Main on Monday, October 31, in Downtown Denison. They are teaming up to provide a safe alternative to celebrating Halloween. The Trick or Treat will be from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m. from the 200 block of Main to the 600 block.
The popular costume contest will be held at 7 p.m. in Heritage Park at Main and Burnett. The contest will be divided into age groups 0-1, 2-3, 4-6, 7-12, 13-17, and adult. Prizes will be awarded for each group.
Staying within the boundaries will be safer for children as the streets will be closed in the designated locations. As an additional safety measure, children are asked to take candy only from those wearing the official participant sticker. The people wearing this matching sticker have signed up ahead of time and are authorized participants.
Call Denison Main Street at 903-464-4452 for more information.
Sherman Fright Fest
Fright Fest is a Halloween event sponsored by the Sherman Police Department that offers kids and parents a safe, controlled environment in which to trick-or-treat. It was started after the attacks on 9-11 to give parents a feeling of security.
Basically, contact is made with as many businesses, government agencies, church groups, and other organizations as possible and arrange for them to set up a booth and hand out candy. The event is held on the municipal grounds in Sherman (across from Bearcat Stadium). This is a free event.
The event is scheduled for Monday night, October 31, on the municipal grounds from 6pm - 8:30pm.
Austin College 'Roo Boo
Monday, October 31, from 6-8 p.m. in Sid Richardson Center of the Robert T. Mason Athletic-Recreation Complex, off Brockett Street and just east of the football stadium.
Children 12 and younger, accompanied by parents, are invited to wear their costumes and take part in this free event, which attracts several hundred participants each year.
The event is a safe alternative to traditional trick-or-treating and will include more than 30 carnival-style booths with games, as well as a bounce house. While plenty of free candy and activities will be available, no food or drink will be provided.
Downtown Trick or Treat - Durant, OK
Oct 31st, 2011, 5:30pm-7pm
Treat or Treating on the Square
begins at 5:30 p.m. in downtown Bonham
Oct. 31
Frank Buck Zoo
Gainesville, TX
Zoo Boo a non-scary, safe, family friendly evening of treats, community & fun! Special event admission for the night is $6 for adults & $8 for children 1 year and up. Zoo will close at 4pm and reopen @ 6:00-8:00 pm (last tickets sold @ 7:30pm) for Zoo Boo.
Trick or Treat at Wesley Village Retirement Community
2800 Loy Lake Rd, Denison
Oct 31
front lobby
Whitesboro First Baptist Church Trunk or Treat
A safe, non-threatening alternative to the normal activities of the day. We will have candy and we will be dressed up in bible characters. It will be Monday October 31, 2011 at the CLC parking lot on Center St in Whitesboro TX at 8:00pm.
Pauls Valley's BOO ON THE BRICKS Celebration
Monday, Oct. 31, 2011 from 4-6 pm Downtown
For more information, contact the Main Street Office at 405-238-2555
Halloween Dance
Saturday, October 29, 2011, 6 pm – 9 pm
Sponsored by Sunshine Industries, Inc.
Sunshine Adult Day Services, 945 10th SE, Ardmore, OK
(Corner of Lake Murray and 10th SE)
Music By: Pam Ozment Band
$5.00 per person
Sunshine staff does not provide supervision and monitoring during dance. On Duty Staff Person(s)
Free. Costume Contest. Pop and Cookies Provided
For More Information Contact:
Sandra Morgan at (580) 226-1444
Tammie Long at (580) 226-3385
Tuesday, November 1st
It's that time of year again and Lake Texoma Dental Care is having their second annual Treats for Troops. Dr. McAnaney is redefining the phrase "put your money where your mouth is". This Halloween, trick-or-treaters can bring their excess candy to Lake Texoma dental Care in Denison, Texas and receive $1 per pound. Dr. Stephen McAnaney is leading this anti-decay and troop supporting movement by giving away dollars and electric glowing toothbrushes in exchange for cavity-provoking candy.
Kids can still have all of the fun of trick-or-treating, and now earn money for their piggy banks. All candy, non-perishable items and donations will be shipped to Operation Gratitude to be distributed to our troops. Our service men and women greatly appreciate all the support they get from the boys and girls back home in the states and they use the candy to generate good will in the communities where they are serving. If you want to know more information about the project, visit the website at www.halloweencandybuyback.com or www.operationgratitude.com.
Candy will be collected at Lake Texoma Dental care on Tuesday, November 1st from 4:00 - 7:00pm. The candy must be unopened. Please no bites. The candy, perishable items and donations will then be shipped to Operation Gratitude.
Halloween Candy Buy-Back
at All About Smiles Dentistry, 724 N. Washington in Durant
Wednesday, Nov. 2nd, 3 - 6 pm.
We will pay $1.00 per pound for all UNOPENED Halloween candy. The candy then will be sent to Operation Gratitude who will put it in care -packages for our American soldiers oversees. It is completely a non-profit event that we are hosting that we thought would be a wonderful way to get the kids involved by advocating dental health in getting rid of excess candy and helping them be part of a charitable event. We will be giving away free toothbrushes and incentive coupons for kids from local restaurants. This year we are also giving away a new bike to the child who brings in the most candy!
For more information on the program, please go to www.halloweencandybuyback.com


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Cailah Niles, a catcher from Phenix City, Ala., was named All-Area Hitter of the Year for the second consecutive year after hitting .446 with 12 homers, 12 doubles, 47 RBIs and a .513 on-base percentage during her senior campaign, en route to earning AISA All-State first-team recognition.
As a junior, Niles set five single-season offensive records and already owned five career marks for the Glenwood School Gators. She is a four-time All-AISA First Team honoree. After setting single-season school records with 75 hits, including 17 home runs, 25 doubles, 60 RBI and 69 runs scored as a junior, the right-hander was named All-Area Hitter of the Year and earned the Glenwood Slugger and MVP Award after helping lead the Gators to an appearance in the AISA Class AAA Elite Eight.
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I am testing spawning off many threads running the same function on a 32 core server for Java and C#. I run the application with 1000 iterations of the function, which is batched across either 1,2,4,8, 16 or 32 threads using a threadpool.
At 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 concurrent threads Java is at least twice as fast as C#. However, as the number of threads increases, the gap closes and by 32 threads C# has nearly the same average run-time, but Java occasionally takes 2000ms (whereas both languages are usually running about 400ms). Java is starting to get worse with massive spikes in the time taken per thread iteration.
EDIT This is Windows Server 2008
EDIT2 I have changed the code below to show using the Executor Service threadpool. I have also installed Java 7.
I have set the following optimisations in the hotspot VM:
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -Xmx 6000
but it still hasnt made things any better. The only difference between the code is that im using the below threadpool and for the C# version we use:
Is there a way to make the Java more optimised? Perhaos you could explain why I am seeing this massive degradation in performance?
Is there a more efficient Java threadpool?
(Please note, I do not mean by changing the test function)
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
import java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor;
public class PoolDemo {
static long FastestMemory = 2000000;
static long SlowestMemory = 0;
static long TotalTime;
static int[] FileArray;
static DataOutputStream outs;
static FileOutputStream fout;
static Byte myByte = 0;
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException, FileNotFoundException {
int Iterations = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
int ThreadSize = Integer.parseInt(args[1]);
FileArray = new int[Iterations];
fout = new FileOutputStream("server_testing.csv");
// fixed pool, unlimited queue
ExecutorService service = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(ThreadSize);
ThreadPoolExecutor executor = (ThreadPoolExecutor) service;
for(int i = 0; i<Iterations; i++) {
Task t = new Task(i);
for(int j=0; j<FileArray.length; j++){
new PrintStream(fout).println(FileArray[j] + ",");
private static class Task implements Runnable {
private int ID;
public Task(int index) {
this.ID = index;
public void run() {
long Start = System.currentTimeMillis();
int Size1 = 100000;
int Size2 = 2 * Size1;
int Size3 = Size1;
byte[] list1 = new byte[Size1];
byte[] list2 = new byte[Size2];
byte[] list3 = new byte[Size3];
for(int i=0; i<Size1; i++){
list1[i] = myByte;
for (int i = 0; i < Size2; i=i+2)
list2[i] = myByte;
for (int i = 0; i < Size3; i++)
byte temp = list1[i];
byte temp2 = list2[i];
list3[i] = temp;
list2[i] = temp;
list1[i] = temp2;
long Finish = System.currentTimeMillis();
long Duration = Finish - Start;
TotalTime += Duration;
FileArray[this.ID] = (int)Duration;
System.out.println("Individual Time " + this.ID + " \t: " + (Duration) + " ms");
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Hello, I'd like some help to find an answer I've been looking for since this morning. Let $X$ be a Banach space and let $Y$ be an $n$-codimensional subspace of $X$. Let $P$ be a projection from $X$ onto $Y$. Which is the best estimate for the norm of $P$? I found this information in an article by Bohnenblust as far as $n=1$ is concerned (that is, there always exists a projection $P$ such that $\|P\|\leq 2+\varepsilon$), but nothing satisfactory when the codimension increases. Thank you.
In many books$^*$ you can find the result that there is a projection of norm at most $\sqrt{n}$ onto any $n$ dimensional subspace of a Banach space. For reflexive spaces, this gives immediately that every $n$ codimensional subspace is the range of a projection that has norm at most $\sqrt{n} +1$. For non reflexive spaces, by using the principle of local reflexivity (which also is in many books), you get for any $\epsilon > 0$ the estimate $\sqrt{n} +1 + \epsilon $. $$ $$ $*$ See, for example, Albiac and Kalton, ``Topics in Banach space theory", Theorem 12.1.6. In this book you can also find the principle of local reflexivity.
The obvious answer is: $2^n +\varepsilon$. Just iterate the Bohnenblust construction to $X\supset Y_{n-1}\supset \dots \supset Y_1 \supset Y_0=Y$ where $y_1,\dots ,y_n \in X$ span a complement of $Y$ and $Y_i$ is the span of $Y$ and $y_1,\dots,y_i$.


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Growth in Government Employment
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When the 2008 economic stimulus bill created an $8,000 homebuyer tax credit to prop up the ailing housing market, the outcome was predictable: fraud and economic distortions.
Uncertainty More Than Anecdotal
During a recent CNBC debate on federal spending, I argued that government policies are creating uncertainty in the business community. Businesses are reluctant to invest or hire because they're concerned that the president's big government agenda will mean higher taxes and more onerous regulations.
More Concerns for FAA's NextGen
A report from the Department of Transportation's inspector general expresses more concerns about the Federal Aviation Administration's ability to implement its Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). NextGen is a $40 billion overhaul of the nation's air traffic control system that would replace old-fashioned radar technology with modern satellite-based GPS navigation.
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USDA Local Subsidies
On May 27th the USDA awarded $168 million in stimulus money to 145 local infrastructure projects across the country. A third of the money is going to the Mohegan Indian tribe in Connecticut for a new community center. The $54 million loan has attracted national scrutiny because the tribe operates one of the biggest casinos in the country, which grossed $1.3 billion in 2009.
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I'm wondering what parents programmers (or really any working-at-a-computer job) have to say about staying at home with an infant while trying to get some work done; is it at all feasible? How much work might you actually do? Long term or short term, one child or several; not real relevant right now to me, but I've often wondered.
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What most of the answers imply but don't out and out say which should be made absolutely clear is that if you're the one caring for the child (as opposed to just being in the house at the same time as the child and the other parent/nanny/carer) it's close to impossible in the long term. Generally the workable situations people talk about assuming another carer in the house with the child at least part time.
Make no mistake, children are demanding.
In the early months they sleep a lot but not in a nice predictable way and not in large chunks the way you'd like them to (a baby's sleep cycle is 40 minutes long and while they may sleep more than one cycle at a time you can't count on it). In the early days they're also feeding every 4 hours - something that will take between 20 minutes and over an hour plus there's changing and so on. Remember too that this goes on 24 hours a day - you're not getting a nice solid 8 hours a day to recover so don't assume any time the baby is asleep is time you can work, most of it you'll be recovering.
As they get older they do sleep for longer and get more predictable but at that point they also start moving around (crawling starts somewhere between 6 and 12 months, walking between, say, 9 and 18 months) and demanding more attention. At that point they are absolutely full time when they're awake and by this point sleep during the day is maybe 2 hours total (in either one or two blocks).
Once they're in bed at night (if you're lucky from about 3 months you'll get 11 hours or so with just one scheduled break for a bottle - though there are likely to be unscheduled breaks in there where you need to go and comfort them) you need to get all the stuff done you didn't during the day - washing, ironing, you've got to eat something yourself and generally run the house. And you've got to try and sleep because you'll be exhausted.
Edit: Incidentally, in the UK, where parents have the right to apply to work from home (and the employer has to grant it if it's reasonable, though reasonable is a very slippery term in this context), a separate working environment and childcare during working hours are an absolute prerequisite.
I have been working (programming) from home for 6 years now and have 3 children (7, 5, 2). It is certainly possible, but I think the most important thing is a home office.
An office with a locking door is essential. I always work in my office with the door shut. If I have a conference call or really need to put my head down I will lock the door. Every now and then my kids will come in the office unannounced. If I'm not super busy it's OK. We can spend a few minutes together and then they leave. If I am busy, I should have locked the door. My kids (even my 2 year old) know that if the door is locked I'm not going to open it, so they just turn around and go do something else. There is background noise, but you'll get to used to that after a while and learn to tune it out.
There are some side issues involved as well. It can be more difficult when the kids are infants or they're not behaving. My wife sometimes gets upset that I'm in my office with the door locked while she's having to wrangle the children. Also, you lose the social aspect of being in an office, so it may not be for everyone.
To specifically answer your question: I am just as, if not more, productive as I would be if I were in an office building. I have no commute to deal with and if I need to work after hours it's as simple as going upstairs. It also allows me to spend what free time I can get out of my day with my family if they're home. But I couldn't do it without a dedicated office.
I would say that it depends greatly on the age, personality and disposition of the child. Two of my children were born during a period of five years during which I exclusively worked from home. They were typically in day care, but I watched them on all of the many occasions that they were too ill to go.
I found that during early months when they do little besides eat and sleep, there was no problem. I was even able to feed them a bottle with one hand and type with the other. However, once they started being able to crawl, it was more difficult to give enough attention to the computer to be normally productive. There's just too-much trouble that the child can get into, and they begin to need intervention.
No parent wants to think that they are neglecting their child's needs in order to get work done, no matter how important the work is, so it's a large and risky proposition to plan to combine home car of a baby with work-at-home. You might give it a go on a short-time basis to see if it works, but even if it does, children grow and change so quickly that you might find that what works today fails badly next week.
I'm late to the party, but I have a little bit to add.
I've been working from home with an infant/toddler for over a year. No daycare, mom works part time.
I've been working from home for years, have 2 kids (6yrs old and 3) and it is possible to get work done and be productive.
You need to establish how and when you work and be consistent. Kids need for the rules to apply everytime so what ever you come up with stick to it. I will work with the door to my office closed if I cannot be disturbed and even a 1 year old can learn that.
Do you plan on spending time with your kid(s) during the day? If so set aside the time every day and make it part of your schedule. I take a break when my kids get home from school and start back up after they go to bed. It's a decent sized break and really allows for some good time with them.
Best of luck.
I have had co-workers who did this and usually they produced less work of poorer quality than when they were in the office. In fact it deteriorated so badly, we had to let some of them go. If you have a sitter who is watching the children, it's ok, but you cannot work and watch children at the same time and any parent worth his or her salt will make the child's needs the priority. If you are staying home to save child care costs, then you might as well quit. If you have someone else watching the children and you have a place where you can work with a door that will lock, then it can work but you have to be very disciplined about work hours vice home hours.
I could never figure it out with an infant. I could get work done but I lost all kinds of productivity.
If the kid is old enough to play safely within ear shot (at least 4 years old in my experience) then maybe, depending on the kid. My daughter I could work at home while she played with no problem. My first son I had to keep an eye on but generally there wasn't much problem.
My second son... forget it, he doesn't stop getting into things or climbing or figuring out how to get outside. I cannot even watch a 30 minute television show, let alone getting deep into programming.
It's probably obvious, but the important thing is to have some sort of separate environment when you work, and you, your children and your spouse have to realize that you are "at work", even if you're at home.
If you can do that (for example with a reasonably quiet home office and clear rules for "at work" vs "at home"), working at home is great because not having to commute gives you more flexibility in scheduling your time and also more net time that you can, but don't have to, use for work.
The downside is that you usually don't have any colleagues around you when you work at home. I guess, depending on your colleagues, this might be a plus, but I've been working on my own for the past two years, and it starts getting tiresome.
I set up shop with my startup in an office just down the street, and I think that gives me the best of both worlds.
Got 2 kids at home all day and one on the way. I telecommute when the weather is to dangerous to drive and I've found that the only way to do it is to wake up early and pretend you're not there.
I find it very difficult to child/babyproof my home office. If they do make it in to your fortress of solitude, my best advice would be to get an old junker computer, remove all the screws and jumpers and let your little tike tear into it.
Simple answer is yes - this is definitely doable. But it is hard work, and you need to build working mechanisms around the needs of your child.
When the baby is brand new it's very easy - they are stationary and relatively predictable (eg every two or three hours you need to feed and change them, then they'll sleep) so you can even code with them on your lap or held (all programmers can type one handed, right:-) and give them attention.
At the toddling stage it does get difficult - they want to have continuous attention and are mobile. Get used to small snippets of coding time.
It gets a lot easier if your partner is also at home - my technique was to close the door to the office for an hour at a time to show I was at work and not to be disturbed, but I made sure I had a break at the end of each hour to help with looking after the baby, provide some adult conversation etc.
For parents who want to work part-time during parental leave, specifically in cases where both partners work or single parents, I can definitely recommend working from home.
These are the boundary conditions which worked well for me:
Given this, 15 hours* a week works fine, if you mainly work during the after-lunch nap and partly before your small on gets up as well as in the evening. If you can leverage any kind of day-care for one full office-day per week, mornings and afternoons can usually be free.
Doing this you have a clear distinction between work-time and child-time, since both run relatively smooth side-by-side (household may suffer a bit, though).
Obviously this is only a temporary setup; in the long (i.e. until primary school) on of the parents will have to stay at home or you need to attend daycare.
*= 15 hours is the minimum amount of part-time you need to work during parental leave (Elternzeit) in Germany (which the employer normally cannot forbid); this makes it an important threshold there.


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Kim Christy's Lost World
The Advocate: Is this the first photo of Kim Christy?
Kim Christy: Oh, yes. It was one of those life changing moments, or I should say "Life changing" moments — as the picture ended up in Life magazine.
Wow. How old were you here?
I was 14, I think. Ninth grade. We were all friends and had the whole drag thing in common. We had to be careful, though. Female impersonation was still against the law, and the cops would hassle us in the street. I remember taking the shirttails of my Catholic school uniform and tying them just above my waistline. I had clip-on curtain rings as earrings, and I used pencil lead to shape my blond eyebrows. I grew my hair as long as my father would let me and teased it all up just so.
We had all heard that Liz and Dick [Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton] were going to be staying at the Astor, so we got ourselves all up and took the subway from the Bronx [to Manhattan]. We hung out on the street shouting their names out. They tried to chase us away several times. Then I noticed this big black Lincoln Continental drive slowly by and I was sure it was them. So I called out to the car and camped and posed and whatnot. The window rolled down and there was a flash of light. Off went the car into the night.
How did you know the picture appeared in Life magazine?
Aunt Joan saw it and immediately called my mother. She said, "Gertie, go to the corner store and buy Life magazine — right now!"
I was already kind of wild by that age and my parents could not do much to control me. I came home from spending the night with friends one day a few months after the photo was taken and my mother had the magazine open on the kitchen table to that picture. The article was about teenage delinquents in Times Square — something like that.
"How could you let this happen?" she said. She was pretty enraged. But I was completely bowled over. I was famous! My parents were not as charmed. Neither were the nuns at Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Another scandal broke at the same time — the brothers of Holy Cross were found to be patronizing the "workers" of Times Square and not being very discreet about it. Somehow it all got linked into the same drama. Me and the priests! I have no idea who took and sold the image to Life magazine — but I sure would love to talk to them now. The irony is that I was a little wild at the time, but this image forced the issue. I was out of the house within a year or two. In a way, the image created me. I hadn't seen the image since 1964. Oddly enough, it appeared on a Tumblr blog recently. The past never stops happening.
See more amazing pictures from Kim Christy's life on the following pages.>>>
Who is this with you in this photo?
Well, that's me with my back to the camera. My own clothes, thank you very much. The other girl is Chrysis [Billy Schumacher, also known as International Chrysis]. She and I had met when I was about 15; she was maybe 14. I met her on Halloween night at the Tenth of Always, a bar popular with the girls. I recall that her outfit bowled me over: white go-go boots and white vinyl trench coat with boxer shorts underneath. She had the cutest little Twiggy haircut. We both pretended to be older than we were — even to each other; then we figured out we both lived in the Bronx. We both were out way later than we should have been and we both needed to figure out how to de-drag and get home. We figured it out and became friends for years. I was with her when she died in 1990. One of my dearest friends. She became quite a big deal in the New York night scene in the '80s.
OK. Things are starting to look kinky here.
Me and Chrysis again. Same day. These photos were taken by Sam Menning, the legendary porn photographer. This was about a year after we met. We had figured out many things by then. Doctors, hormones, and influential boyfriends. This guy named Lenny Burtman set this up for us. The fetish clothing was all from his huge collection. He loved the lady boys, and he and I became very close over the years. He eventually set me up in California as a film producer and director. Lenny is gone now. I miss Lenny, and I am still very close with his wife, Jennifer Jordan.
What did you think of dressing up in shoes and leather corsets and the like?
Oh, something inside went kablam! I knew that I had just been invented a little further. This began a long season for me as a dominant. I mean, I look amazing, right? 16.
Were you and Chrysis still living at home then?
Oh, no. You know, it was very crazy for a few years then. Chrysis and I had a tiny studio on Mott Street, near Broome and Houston. Nothing was going on down there then except poultry and produce. We used to laugh about it — all the grade A chicken is below Houston. I don't think we were living together at the time of these photos. I know we were very caught up in our own glamour and fame. These photos were to appear in Female Mimics International. Flash-forward a few decades and I ended up owning the magazine and producing it myself.
Did you and Chrysis call yourselves TVs? TSs? How did you identify? Did you think of yourselves as gay?
No, no, no. There was none of that. No one thought about that. We didn't think we were different than other people — but we knew we acted different. We were class-conscious more than gender-aware. We wanted to be high-paid female impersonators on the show circuit. I loved working on the street, but I knew that the showgirls were actually getting boyfriends who paid for apartments and stuff. I wanted to be kept. I never narrowed myself to just men or women, but I knew I had a lot more power as a woman than a boy. So I made that work for me.
A boyfriend?
Yes, his name was Glenn. And you can see at my feet the first of many Yorkshire terriers I have had over the years. I have two now. I met Glenn in the Village. This picture was taken outside P.J. Clarke's, I think. Glenn was an English major somewhere. He took in clients too. He and I had a Pygmalion thing going. I had terrible diction and a deep Bronx dialect. He worked hard on me to get that out. He knew I would never get a sugar daddy with my Bronx honk.
You're not in this picture?
No, these are pictures from my archives. I have thousands documenting this whole period, the golden age of drag. This is at Daisy Dee's. She threw yearly extravaganzas on Thanksgiving. They were a huge deal. Girls would spend weeks getting their drag together. It was all very formal and the guys would dress in suits and tuxedos. On the left, looking at the camera, is 42nd Street Josie. She was quite the little prostitute — but she could always tell you what tricks not to go with — she knew which ones were cops, psychos. Psycho cops. She's not smiling for two reasons. One is that Carl Houston, with the blond wig sitting at the other end of the sofa, is getting all the attention. Carl was a big female impersonator — the class thing again. The other reason she is not smiling is that she had terrible teeth! Like a box of broken dominoes!
Wow. Thick makeup!
That is for the stage, my dear. Tammy Novak was a respected female impersonator — high up on the food chain. A hairdresser. Also a great-looking guy. He had as many admirers in boy drag as he did in she-drag.
So he didn't hook?
Oh, well. All of us did once in a while. There was a symbiotic relationship between the stage and the street. The street gave you a great dress rehearsal to see what worked, what didn't, if you could pass or not. And if you actually had talent and made a success on the stage, you could command high prices.
Was this at one of Daisy Dee's balls as well?
Yeah, this is Harlowe. A beautiful trans. Eventually she went all the way and had reassignment surgery.
Did the girls still stay around after the surgery?
Oh, no. They usually rode out of Dodge as quickly as possible. It was so expensive to have the surgery that a girl usually had to have a very interested "sponsor." Usually the guy felt guilty that you had a dick and figured if you had the change, it would fix it all. Too many times I saw that after the change the boyfriend lost interest. Seemed he was more interested in the boy parts that he thought. Oops. Too late.
Harlowe did OK, though. She had the rich boyfriend, and he set her up with her own nightclub in Philly. Called Harlowe's, of course. It was a pretty big deal.
This is Crystal LaBeija in The Queens [1967 documentary about a drag contest], right?
Yes, she made a fabulous scene in that film when she lost. She came in as third runner-up in the '67 Nationals — a big drag contest. She stormed off the stage — but not in the wings, oh, no. She went down the stairs to the center aisle and all the way through the audience to the front of the theater, swinging her hips big-time. The announcer is all, "Will the contestant PLEASE come back to the stage!"
Were you in the film?
Oh, yes. But don't blink. Here's what happened. I was "hired" to be in the chorus. I wasn't running as a contestant or anything. That wasn't my thing. Rich boyfriends, that was my thing. Plus I liked to be in a show as long as they paid well. There was a scene in Bertha's Costume Rental and we were all there to get fitted. I had to be a little careful because I lied and didn't tell them I was 17. But all the girls lied. I mean, really! Then I found out we weren't being paid! We were supposed to be happy just with being in the film. Imagine.
Are you in these pictures?
These are all from contact sheets of a shoot at the Club 82, down in the East Village. I think the club was going to close soon — or at least it was ending its incarnation as a drag club. I performed off and on for years, then as a stripper and a showgirl. My song was the theme music from the film A Man and a Woman. Get it?
I look at these pictures and the stage seems so small. It was big and glamorous to me then. It opened in 1951 and ran forever. All the big stars performed there: Hans Crystal, Vicki Lynne, Lynn Roberts, Kim August, and so on.
Yes, a special date with Gertie at the Persian Room at the Plaza Hotel.
The photo is dated September 27, 1969, on the back. This is after the Stonewall riots in June. Did that affect you much?
Meh. I was 19, I was being well-cared-for by an oil tycoon. I would introduce him to people as "the keeper of the flame." They would look askance at me, and then I would smile demurely and say, "And I'm the flame." I didn't have to work so hard at that point. I was still performing at the Club 82 a bit.
So a lot must have changed between you and your mother between the Life magazine photo and this photo.
Yes and no. She was still very disapproving, but she was impressed by my lifestyle. I was playing the big shot then. These gypsies would come by the Club 82 and sell boosted goods. My mother has the mink stole that I bought from the gypsies for her hanging over the back of the chair. She tolerated the way I lived my life, but she feared that it would all come to a bad end. Sometimes I wish she could see how things turned out: happily married to my wife with a grown daughter and amazingly wonderful granddaughter. We are a quiet, middle-aged couple.
What did your father think?
Ahh. He was drunk in Yonkers. He saw very little of me in my female years. Once he had to get me out of jail early on. I was arrested for impersonating a woman and I still had eye makeup on. That wasn't fun.
I left my shoes in Philly! And most of my luggage. We had been performing there the night before in a traveling show called The Male Box Revue. We had it all: statuesque beauties, drag clowns, hot guys, and me — the cute young stripper with the big surprise! We all had to show up at Kriegsmann's studio for marquee shots. I just put on my "Barbie feet" and made the best of it. Fortunately I remembered my gloves and boa. I had my priorities. Once again, a photo created me. I got an incredible amount of work from this image. I traveled all over Europe, spent time in Berlin, Amsterdam. I met some of the most highly paid female dominants in the world and learned my craft from them. I began making my own films. And within a few years, I was to meet the woman who would eventually become my wife.
So, forgive me for asking: You're straight now?
I am married to my wife. I am with her. Something I learned from all my years working with clients all over the world: Men and women can both be very fluid in their sexuality. Plus things like certain sexual scenarios can engage a person deeply for a time.


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Radiation Exposure During Pregnancy
The ionizing radiation that enters the body through x-rays is the kind that is dangerous to the fetus. Permanent growth retardation, mental retardation, and are all possible if the fetus is exposed to high levels of ionizing radiation. Fortunately, x-rays are not something we are involuntarily subjected to. You know when you're getting x-rays, so you can act to avoid it or reduce the danger:
- Postpone any elective medical procedure that requires x-rays until after the birth of your baby.
- Tell all your doctors and your dentist that you are pregnant and do not want x-rays.
- If x-rays are absolutely vital, insist on talking to the radiologist before the x-ray is taken. Explain that you are pregnant and need the most modern equipment, the lowest dose of radiation possible, the fewest number of x-rays possible, and a lead apron to protect all other areas of your body. These requests can drastically change the degree of radiation your body will be exposed to.
- If you are a medical or dental x-ray technician, radiologist, or nurse, you might need to take an early leave of absence from your job.
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Excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth © 2004 by Michele Isaac Gliksman, M.D. and Theresa Foy DiGeronimo. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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