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Jan 16, 2010
Young coach or old coach
Be that as it may, today I found myself feeling rather hurt, when I saw that the parents of a skater who has been struggling in my classes was taking private lessons with the junior coach. It really felt a little personal.
So how do you decide, young coach or old coach? It's a topic that comes up a lot. There are very gifted young coaches. With a younger coach, you're betting on a coach with more energy, who may be more fun, and who may relate better to a skater. What you're losing is experience, depth of knowledge, and a certain hard-heartedness that coaches develop, and need. With a younger coach, you might be their first competitive student, or one of the first which that coach takes through testing, or learning a difficult skill. You have to be willing to grow with the coach. This can be very rewarding, but it's something to be aware of.
An older coach may be more set in his or her ways, and less willing to adapt personality or pedagogical technique to the child. Sometimes more experienced coaches will teach the way they teach and the child adapts or fails. Conversely, some younger coaches may only know one or two ways to teach a skill, or be inexperienced in identifying problem areas and focusing on them.
You can take it a step further down, forget young or old. What about Junior coach or staff coach? For me, there's no contest. Don't hire the junior coach if there is a staff coach available. In a million years, I don't care how good a skater the junior coach is, or much fun she is. The junior coach should never be the first choice. They do not have the experience or knowledge of the staff coach.
If you're not sure whether or not the coach is on the staff, if it's a younger coach, ask. If the coach looks like a teenager, you should know whether they are junior or staff coaches, especially if the junior coach is charging the same as the pro. (At some rinks the junior coaches are on staff, so you need to ascertain whether they are high school students. If it's a high school student, that's a junior coach.)
If you've chosen the junior coach because she seems knowledgeable, and has connected with your child, that's great. If you've chosen the junior coach because her mother has solicited you in the stands, not so much. Coaches should do their own promotion. They should not be sending skaters, offspring, or parents into the stands to do their promotion for them. (Promotion not the same as soliciting, by the way. Topic for another time.) A lot of junior coaches will tell you "I've been teaching since I was 12." Well, maybe. But I'd still rather hire a 24 year old who's been teaching since he was 20, than a 16 year old who's been teaching since she was 12, and better still a 30 year old who's been teaching for 10 years, or a 50 year old who's been teaching for 30. (Plus, that junior coach has NOT been "teaching" since she was 12. She's been helping in tot class, picking up the slippery ones.)
Don't hire a junior coach who has not worked with your child in class. Aside from being a slap in the face to the professional already working with your skater, you have no idea what you're getting. (I would actually make this recommendation for any learn-to-skate/basic skills to low freestyle student. Don't hire a coach that your child doesn't know.)
So that's a little insight into what coaches feel about who you've hired. I'm sure people have thought that about me-- why are they hiring Xan, who's only been teaching for 12 years, rather than M----, who's been teaching for 30? Well, I hope it's because I've proven myself and because I'm the best fit for your child. Not because I seem cute and young and my mother has been in the stands puffing me up.
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- AnonymousJanuary 18, 2010 at 1:55 PM
Newbie point of view here - when I called the office to inquire about private coaching, I was told of the price difference between the experienced "old" coach and the greener "young" coach. Could just be a financial consideration. Also, not realizing I had to actually think about a good fit for the skater or think about skater's goals, I went with the first person that called. It could just be a reflection of a newbie parent ...I wish I had paid attention during my skater's first classes and learned the names of the coaches. Skating seemed like just another thing we'd try like basketball, gymnastics, cheernastics, yoga, taekwondo and swimming....it was "temporary" until some other new idea popped into skater's head. Boy, was I wrong.ReplyDelete
Financial considerations are a big factor, and are one of the reasons to go with a less experienced coach. But it's not always an indicator. Because I only take beginners, I charge much less than other coaches with my credentials and experience. Conversely, there are a couple of young coaches at our rink charging more than far more credentialed vets.ReplyDelete
The experience of going with the first person to call is a common one as well. Especially if the rink has a lesson request form, someone will nab it and call. You can ask for a trial lesson, or sit down with the coach first, or ask if you can come and observe him or her.
By the way, I think this should be the model for any private lessons-- sports, tutoring, music, etc. You'll have a better experience if kid and coach hit it off. In most cases, it's not going to be an issue. But you don't want to be the exception where the kid and the coach don't match, and end up hating skating altogether.
My first coach I got by the "first one to call" method, and it was a great match! I think that was mostly luck though. When she left, I knew immediately who I wanted to coach me instead, and I'm still having lessons with that coach a year later.ReplyDelete
Group lessons are a great way to audition coaches! I knew who I wanted to coach me after my first coach left because I'd experienced most of the rink's coaches in groups in learn to skate or club. I picked the one probably with the most similar teaching style to my first coach, which works well for me.
Young coaches (qualified, but young) are often desperate to take on those little beginners and maybe get one or two of them who'll stay and work their way up. They can be more passionate about improving their own coaching than an older, more experienced coach, which can make them open to trying new techniques to connect with a skater.
- AnonymousFebruary 19, 2011 at 12:53 AM
While there is a lot to be said for experience, I think there is also quite a bit to be said from the coach's own skating skills and history. In the lower levels (Basic Skills levels), most of the progress the skater makes is based on how well the coach actually teaches and motivates the kids, not how well they can actually perform the elements. But in the higher levels, I think it is very necessary for the coach to have some type of skating qualifications--whether it be a senior-level test, an Olympic medal, or PSA ratings--even more so than years of experience. I have seen plenty of coaches who have 10-30 years of experience coaching yet, due to lack of understanding of skills, ethics, or some other type of problem, their skaters somehow don't do as well as some of the younger coaches with less coaching experience and more skating experience.ReplyDelete
Overall, I would have to say that nobody can say that "all staff coaches are better than junior coaches" because that is completely untrue. Additionally, I don't think anyone can say that "an Olympic medal is worth more than coaching experience, teaching skills, and personality." I think you have to have the right combination of all of those things to make a good coach, and it has to be determined on a coach-to-coach basis.
Anon, I actually think that the connection of coach and skater is the single most important factor; it doesn't matter how good a teacher or how good a technician a coach is if they can't get through to the student.ReplyDelete
Knowledge and understanding of a skill is not the same thing as "able (or once able) to do the skill." It certainly helps in the understanding, but it's not the most important factor.
I still maintain that all other things being equal, hire the experienced coach, not the junior coach. With all due respect to junior coaches, I have no problem with them having trouble getting students. We've all been there.
- AnonymousFebruary 19, 2011 at 10:04 AM
I completely agree that "knowledge and understanding of a skill is not the same thing as 'able (or once able) to do the skill." At the same time, however, I think there is something to the whole "knowing what it feels like" part of of an element. I don't think that all coaches with less skating experience give poor instruction. I just think that sometimes, having actually tried an element yourself has a lot to do with the words you will choose to describe certain things and it will increase how specific you can be when you teach it to someone else. If you've never felt the way a loop rotates, you would not know (unless you were really on top of things and studied it) exactly when each part of the body should begin to work. The hardest part, of course, would then be how to convey to the student when you want each body part to move. If you have done it before, it would be easy to tell he skater to "wait until it feels as though..." or to create visual images to help guide them through the process. But if you've only studied it, it is less likely that your descriptions of feeling will be quite as good as someone who has done it before.ReplyDelete
And, yes, if all other things being equal (meaning the only difference between the credentials of the junior and staff coaches is the level of experience) then of course you should take the one with more experience.
Additionally, nobody should ever worry about how many students other coaches have. There's no point to it. Coaches have to do what is best for themselves and their students and not worry about outside influences--which I would guess is pretty difficult to do.
Ha, another scenario is the coach competed at very high level, has some talented high level skaters (so obviously knows coaching reasonably well), but comes across as a totally different coach to lower level or recreational students. Coaching mindset is crucial too! Or is it part of coach-skater relationship?ReplyDelete


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Bear with me as this may not be the slickest blog post entry but I have so many emotions about this years nominees that I had to rush release a blog post. So overall I'm happy with the nominees; films like Lady Bird, Get Out, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri got a lot of love. Yet some films such as Molly's Game, All the Money in the World, Florida Project and Detroit got sorely overlooked. Even though Stronger wasn't the "strongest" film Jake Gyllenhaal should have been nominated and was sadly omitted from the list of nominees.
Here are the list of new nominees for the major categories and my thoughts on them.
Call Me by Your Name
Darkest Hour
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
I'm really happy for Get Out, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, Lady Bird and The Shape of Water as they're my favourites. I'll admit I still need to see Lady Bird and The Shape of Water however I think Three Billboards will win as it won the Golden Globe for Best Film – Drama and has been getting a lot of love this awards season. I'd be happy with that result.
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Gary Oldman will win the Oscar. Easy call to make. But I'm pleasantly surprised by Daniel Kaluuya bring included in the list. Though I have to ask where is Tom Hanks (The Post) and Jake Gyllenhaal (Stronger)? In any case Oldman was always going to win but it's still sad Hanks and Gyllenhaal we're overlooked.
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Meryl Streep, The Post
Where is Chastain and Williams?!?! Chastain gave a career best performance in Molly's Game. Both Chastain and Williams were nominated Golden Globes for their respective roles, but still! That being said as much as I'd love Ronan to win (this is her 3rd nominated at the age of only 23!) McDormand will and should win.
Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan
Get Out, Jordan Peele
Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig
Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson
The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro
It's great seeing the Academy Awards more inclusive in their directing category; so happy for Greta Gerwig! This is refreshing as she wasn't included in the Best Directors list for the Golden Globes or BAFTA Film Awards and also makes her the fifth female director nominated ever. Also I'm happy Jordan Peele has been nominated because it's his directorial debut and he created a fresh original film with something to say. Even though I'm happy for Nolan yet Dunkirk shouldn't have been his first directing nomination (Inception should have been). Guillermo del Toro has been nominated for his passion project which I'm excited to see when it's released in the UK.
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
Allison Janney will win; I can't wait to see I, Tonya. I'm also Happy for Octavia Spencer as well. Mary J. Blige was good but there Mudbound had better/overlooked performances.
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Again, Defoe was good but not the best thing about Florida Project which was overlooked. Sam Rockwell's character was perfectly crafted by Martin McDonagh and I'm so pleasantly surprised to see Woody Harrelson nominated as well as his character was powerful and poignant.
Call Me By Your Name, James Ivory
The Disaster Artist, Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
Logan, Scott Frank, James Mangold, Michael Green
Molly's Game, Aaron Sorkin
Mudbound, Virgil Williams and Dee Rees
Sadly Molly's Game sole nomination but a worthy one at that. Jessica Chastain delivered his words perfectly!
The Big Sick, Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani
Get Out, Jordan Peele
Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig
The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh
McDonagh won the Golden Globe for this category so time will tell; but Get Out and Lady Bird are strong contenders as well.
So even with the unfortunate omissions from the nominees list I'm still happy overall and think it'll be an exciting Oscar night come March 4th 2018.

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From Reuters:
Circuit City to liquidate, shutter stores
The remaining businesses in the Mervyn's shopping center are getting lonelier by the week.
Mervyns, Shoe Pavillion, and now Circuit City. I hope Lassen's is able to keep things going without the main anchor stores.
Still, this has to be good news for Best Buy. They were competing against an electronics retail chain that was busily unloading their warehouse with very low pricing.
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Chloe turned 9 months old on Sunday. It's hard to believe that in 3 months she will be a year old (note to self: start thinking about 1st birthday party). This month has been full of change and development for our little girl.
Weight: 20.5 lbs (82%)
Height: 29 in (94%)
Head: 45 cm (85%)
As you can see, our tall, thin girl just keeps growing. I'll be interested to see if she ends up tall as she grows older or if it's just for now. Her Daddy is tall, so I'm guessing she will be taller than average.
Her personality just continues to emerge more and more. I thought we were going to have a serious one on our hands (there's nothing wrong with that!) as it took a lot of theatrics to get a good laugh out of her. Seriously. Imagine Hunter bouncing her as high as he can while I jump up and down in front of her making silly noises and faces. That's what it took. This month though, she laughed. All. The. Time. Mostly at me and Hunter, but occasionally at other people. She giggles. She chuckles. She snorts. When I walk into her room to get her after a nap, she (usually) is sitting up at the corner of her bed next to her door waiting for me and starts laughing when she sees me. Adorable. There is nothing better than baby laughs and I'm going to try to get as many of them as I can before she turns into a toddler.
We also have recently retired the Whale of a Tub. She takes baths in the big tub now and loves it! She crawls around, tries to climb out to get me, splashes like crazy, and yesterday started putting her whole face under water and blowing bubbles. I love it!
Food: Chloe's palette is ever-expanding. Her new favorites this month: spaghetti, enchiladas, pumpkin and black bean burritos, chili, BBQ tempeh and veggies, fritatta, mac and cheese with fennel and mushrooms. As you can see, the fancier, the better. Anything with a lot of flavor and spice is bound to be a winner. At lunch I usually do plainer things…cheese, black beans, yogurt, blueberries (still a favorite)…or leftovers. We've tried breakfast a few times, but she just doesn't seem interested.
Breastfeeding: Still 5 times a day. I suspect it will be like this (or maybe 4 sessions) until she's one. We've decided not to wean until she's 2 (unless she weans herself earlier) so I'm not going to worry about it. There's something to be said for the health benefits (for both of us) and natural child spacing!
Movement and motor skills: She started crawling 2 weeks ago and is into everything. I've never seen anything cuter than her little fluffy bum crawling across the floor after me. She's just recently started following me around, making things like cleaning the floors interesting, but it's adorable nonetheless. Because she can crawl and get what she wants now, she is much better at independent play, allowing me to do a lot more. She isn't pulling up to a stand yet, but I think it will happen soon. She pulls up to her knees all the time.
Communication: Her wave is absolutely hilarious. She doesn't seem to know whether it's hi or bye yet, but she will wave at you if you wave at her first. She still says the same things, dada (her favorite to yell all the time), baba, nana, naynay, rayray, mama, yaya, etc,.
Sleeping: We hit a weird bump about a week ago, but things seem to be back to normal. She woke up 4-8 times a night for about a week. It was torture. I have no idea why she did it, but I suspect it was where she was learning so many new things at once. I also thought she was ready to go to a 2 nap schedule, but apparently not. I talked to the doctor about it today and he said some babies just need 3 shorter naps and refuse to take only 2. Chloe did it for two days, but she was pretty miserable. I may revisit it in a few weeks, but for now, I'm going to let her keep her 3 nap schedule. It makes getting out of the house a lot harder because we only have a 2 hour window to do things. She still goes to bed at 7, which is awesome because I get to spend time with Hunter.
Teeth: Still 2! This is getting ridiculous. The doctor today said that her top two looked like they could come through at any time, but honestly, they have looked like this for 2 months. We'll see.
Social: Chloe is experiencing some stranger anxiety, but it's mild. Hopefully it won't get worse. The doctor told me it might peak around 12 months, so we'll see. We also had another play date with Lily where Chloe proceeded to cry (scream, really) the entire time. I felt bad, but it was obvious that her teeth were really bothering her. Hopefully we'll get to try again soon.
Likes: the dishwasher, paper, houseplants, kisses, hugs, music, dancing with mom, running in the stroller, dinner (usually), Charlie, bath time, remotes, my wallet.
Dislikes: diaper changes, putting clothes on, being in her crib if she isn't sleepy, sitting up in the middle of the night.
Note: WordPress isn't letting me upload photos for some reason, so I'll do a picture post later this week or next so you don't miss out on any of the cuteness!


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The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Help your brother, whether he is an oppressor or he is oppressed." The people asked, "It is right to help him if he is oppressed, but how should we help him if he is an oppressor?" The Prophet replied: "By preventing him from oppressing others." Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 3, Hadith 624
The Prophet Muhammad also said: "There are no sins more fit to (be punished) by God...than oppression and severing ties of relationship." Sunan of Abu-Dawood, Hadith 229


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From Chapel to Radical Secularism: the Role of Music and Gender at the Ethical Society
Lead Research Organisation: Royal Northern College of Music
Department Name: Research Office
This project tests this understanding of the Ethical Society in the case of music, where gender roles in the 19th and early 20th centuries have been clearly defined and confined to the private sphere. Music permeated the community life of the society where there was an emphasis on family participation. For instance, Josephine Troup (1880-1913) composed children's songs; the Flower sisters composed hymns and women participated in other family and semi-domestic music, such as children's parties. Music had a role and value in both 'worship' and what replaced it; hymns and anthems were sung and performed long after the organisation became secular. The society also had an orchestra, which was open to both members and non-members. Better known is the society's long running concert series, the South Place Sunday Concerts (from 1887-present) and the more peripatetic People's Concerts. These had an educative purpose, replacing services and standing alongside the lectures and debates, which were and still are so important to the identity of the organisation. The concerts were public and professional. Women certainly numbered among the performers and, more unusually, composers. Some names stand out, such as Edith Swepston, Amy Horrocks, Helen Henschall, Adela Verne. Some of these women were related to prominent figures in the South Place Ethical Society. This study will explore their participation as musicians and whether the opportunities they were afforded in this community context were replicated elsewhere. Did the Society nurture and promote musical talent so that it could develop elsewhere or was it confined to the community? The project will also look at programming to see whether the radical reputation of the Society was reflected in musical activities. In so doing, it will make comparisons with contemporaneous concert societies and will compare the functions of music in other radical societies, such as the Fabian Society and the Social Democratic Federation.
The doctoral project focuses on the hitherto unstudied music holdings at the
Humanist Library and Archives. These include the extensive South Place Sunday Concert Archive, which has annual reports detailing repertoire and performers, committee minute books and papers, concert programmes, an extensive collection of scores, catalogues for programme planning, publicity material, newspaper cuttings and photographs. The library's collection also includes the hymn books, anthems, children's songbooks and discussions of musical activities in the Society's publications, such as the South Place Magazine and Ethical Record. The student will engage with current audiences at the Conway Hall Ethical Society and seek to reach new audiences in mainly London, the North West and on-line to test out the findings of the project, to stimulate debate and facilitate reflection. This reflection will, in turn, feed into the project's discussion. The student will have the opportunity to fashion a PhD project from these resources in consultation with the supervisory team.


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Massage Therapy
Receiving regular therapeutic massage can have many wonderful benefits for both body and mind. Massage helps to calm the nervous system, support the immune system, and promote healing in the musculoskeletal system. Massage therapy has been shown to improve one's sense of well being and quality of life, relieve stress, enhance sleep, reduce pain, increase mobility, enhance athletic performance, alleviate the symptoms of anxiety and depression, and much more!
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"MLD" is a very gentle, but highly effective form of body work that aims to boost the function of your lymphatic system. Your lymphatic system is responsible for removing excess fluid from the tissues and responding to foreign cells in the body, among other things. It is also very calming to the nervous system. Through these mechanisms, Manual Lymphatic Drainage supports your immune system and overall wellness.
Yoga also calms the nervous system, as well as sharpens the mind and fortifies the body. Perhaps the simplest definition of Yoga is the uniting of our body with our breath. Or we could say the the uniting of our earthly and sacred selves.
The Kripalu Center notes these 4 key components, taken from 3 ancient Yogic texts:
1. Skillfulness in action -acting dynamically in ways that produce positive life results. (Bhagavad Gita)
2. Equanimity and equilibrium - sustaining evenness of mind while confronting inner limitations and outer challenges. (Bhagavad Gita)
3. Cessations of the fluctuations of the mind - seeing life and reality as it is, without the filters of fears, fantasies, or other distortions. (Yoga Sutra)
4. Freedom - the bliss experienced when one steps into one's natural rhythm of being. (Yoga Bhashya)


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I used a custom renderer to create check boxes next to my tree nodes from the normal tree component.
I need help/example of how to call an external function from a custom item renderer when the check boxes are selected or not,
the reason for this is that I want to hide or show images inside another control depending on the state of the check box.
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this all depends on how you are using the itemrenderer. if you are populating your tree in code it will be different than if you are doing it in mxml. need some code showing where you are laying out your tree.
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Also, be aware that ItemRendrers are recycled when you scroll or the underlying data changes.
Your renderer must update a property in the dataProvider item on change, and then must set the checkbox state in the override set data function, in order to work correctly.
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I just don't know how to interpret something like this. People get picked on, people feel defenseless, people feel alone. These things I think we can all relate to. I just can't understand how it comes down to what he did. We live in a world that can certainly be cold sometimes, but to punish people randomly...that's the part that is scary. We can control how nice we are to people, things like that, but there is always a random element that we have no control over.
In this age of technology, we get a glimpse in to a killer's mind that we never got 100, or even 25 years ago. You can see he has his own video and digital cameras that he uses to make a permanent record of what was happening.
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I get a text at 11 on Sunday morning from India- I'm sick. Coming back early. Can you look after the children this afternoon?
I text back straight away- Sure, no problem.
Less than an hour later the car pulls up outside the front door. I go outside and open the back door on Freddie's side. He looks happy to see me and when I get him out he gives me a big cuddle that melts my heart.
Tristan is getting Mini out when she says, "I don't want Penny."
When I hear that I feel like saying the feeling is mutual. But of course, I don't. I shouldn't be so sensitive but I really want her to like me. I know I'm kind to her so it feels like a bit of a slap in the face when she rejects me.
India looks pale and runs in the house straight for the downstairs loo. She's been vomiting all morning, Tristan tells me. He doesn't look so good himself.
We go down to the basement kitchen and Tristan asks me to make lunch for the children and he disappears off upstairs. The children eat lunch and I take them upstairs for their nap. Mini is crying all the way upstairs because she knows India is in the house and she wants her, not me.
Whilst the children are sleeping I hang around downstairs hoping to bump into Tristan. I don't know what the plan is. Is he going to take over once they wake up? Should I take the children out to the playground this afternoon? I don't see him and go to wake the children at 3pm.
Luckily Mini wakes in a good mood. I carry Freddie and hold Mini's hand as we walk down the stairs together. India and Tristan's bedroom door is slightly open. I can see two pairs of feet on the bed. As we walk by I glance back and see they are both sleeping.
That makes me really annoyed. India is sick, fair enough. But why isn't Tristan looking after the children?
In anticipation of their father coming downstairs to look after the children we stay in and play and read stories in the play area of the huge basement kitchen.
At around 4pm I hear footsteps and see that Tristan is coming down the stairs. "Ah good," I think, "he's coming to relieve me on what is meant to be my day off."
He doesn't even look over to where we are playing. Looking pretty rough, he goes over to the fridge, opens it, pulls out two cokes, grabs a bag of kettle chips from the cupboard and heads back up the stairs.
This is the moment when I wish I was better at standing up for myself. I should have said something then and there. But I didn't.
I gave the children their tea- no sign of the parents.
I took the children upstairs for bathtime- no sign of the parents.
I took them into my room to watch their half hour of allocated screen time- no sign of the parents.
And finally, I put the children to bed- no sign of the parents.
I waited until both children were asleep and then went downstairs to get a drink. As I was passing the parents bedroom I could hear India talking, loudly, on her phone- "Oh ya," she was saying "Best. Party. Ever. But I have had a bitch of a hangover today, so has Tristan…"
To say I was fuming doesn't even cover it.


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Two attached villas, both with a direct sea view, modern design and decoration.
An underground garage contains parking places for five cars in the first villa and for four cars in the second villa.
Both villas each have large terraces on each floor, a swimming pool and a garden.
Both villas each have an open family-size kitchen, a dining room, and a living room.
One villa has four bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and dressing rooms. Another villa has three bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and dressing rooms.


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Coachella. Bonnaroo. Lollapalooza. These music festivals are legendary, but if you've already been there and done that—or if you need even more live music in your life—why not add a few less famous festivals to your must-visit list?... It's hard to find a more spectacular location to take in a concert than the red-rock canyons of Moab.
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As Moab Music Festival looked ahead to its 20th Anniversary "…— a remarkable accomplishment for the festival, which has thrived and even prospered," David Burger (The Salt Lake Tribune) notes "…this year the festival features 21 separate events and concerts, a far cry from the five events offered during its first year." He also wrote about the number 19, and its special significance for the festival's 19th season: "1) Festival co-founder Michael Barrett on his first visit to Moab came from driving from northern Utah on Highway 191…2) As he drove through Moab, Barrett's car's odometer registered 191,919 miles…3) To top it all off, both Barrett and Johann Sebastian Bach have 19 letters in their full names…"
"Utah's Living Room"
During the Moab Music Festival's 2011 season, David Burger (The Salt Lake Tribune) observed, "The label of chamber music comes from the notion that smaller classical music ensembles would be able to fit inside of a chamber, or small room." He then asked, "But what happens when you take the room out of the equation?" His reply: "…Three [outdoor] Grotto Concerts serve as signature events of the festival that celebrates the mystical tandem of music and landscape: each is elevated by the other…the Grotto — a stunning natural amphitheater — has been referred to as 'nature's concert hall'…" But after hearing several concerts in this natural setting, Burger realized "But then it strikes you. You are in a room, Utah's living room. And it's perfect."
When David Amram served as resident composer at the 2011 Moab Music Festival, Celia R. Baker of The Salt Lake Tribune wrote: "'Music in concert with the landscape' is the mantra of the Moab Music Festival, but also describes the life journey of this year's composer-in-residence at the equally diverse Moab Music Festival…the almost indescribable David Amram…Amram is a polyglot of so many styles and influences that he can't be pigeonholed — musically or otherwise…He's a one-man musical melting pot…For those reasons and more, Amram is a good fit for the Moab Music Festival…"
Don't Miss: Grotto Concert I, Sept. 2
"Music in concert with the landscape" is more than an advertising slogan for the Moab Music Festival
"A Wonderful Place to Play Music"
In summer 2010, legendary Cuban composer and saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera returned to the Moab Music Festival for the featured Western United States premiere of his work "Conversations with Cachao." Salt Lake Tribune writer Celia R. Baker noted, "D'Rivera is pleased about returning to the Moab Music Festival, where he has performed several times…'It's a wonderful place to play music, and I don't complain about the hot weather. I [was] born on a very hot island. The dryness is hard on reeds, but that's all right. Life is work,' he said with a laugh. You have to do some work.'"
"For people who have never been to southeastern Utah, "once-in-a-lifetime" is a good way to describe it. And for everyone who loves chamber music, the description is even more apropos. There really isn't a better place where music and nature can come together so congenially. It's as if this was always meant to be."


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182: Mr. Brooks
Mr. Brooks (R) - 2007 - Runtime: 120 minutes
Director: Bruce A. Evans
Starring: Kevin Costner, William Hurt, Demi Moore, Dane Cook
Maggie had recorded this movie on our DVR a week or so ago and she watched it on her own and really liked it. So I decided to give it a shot. I had wanted to see it when it came out on DVD, but I just never got around to it.
Costner plays a well-known business man who's addicted to killing couples. He's been clean for two years until one night he needs a fix and makes one crucial mistake. That mistake leads him to meet Dane Cook's character: Mr. Smith, who knows about Mr. Brook's dirty deeds. And from there it gets rather interesting.
I was very surprised by this movie. The one word I would use is slick. Mr. Brooks is a very careful serial killer, making sure his killings are CSI-proof (which is funny because Marg Helgenberger plays Mrs. Brooks). So it was rather cool to see him unleash his inner Hurt and kill a couple (who obviously had it coming - I mean they screw with the curtains open, c'mon!). I enjoyed that we didn't get to know Mr. Brooks too well. The movie's primary focus was his new complications with Mr. Smith and dealing with a dumbass daughter who couldn't practice safe sex. Demi Moore plays the detective trying to find Mr. Brooks and I'm glad we didn't get too much of her, otherwise this would turn into Double Jeopardy. Thank God Tommy Lee Jones didn't show up as head of the FBI in this movie, otherwise I would have turned it off. I also wish Dane Cook would take more roles like this instead of his one-note characters in Good Luck Chuck and My Best Friend's Girl. He was good, but he's no William Hurt, who was pretty devious in his role as Mr. Brooks' alter-ego, Marshall.
If you haven't seen it and could go for a good thriller, Mr. Brooks is definitely worth renting.
Rating: Rent It
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Sunday, August 31, 2014
"Xenoblade" and "DD"
I spent time doing side quests and,this evening,fought a giant spider. As for the latter,I've fingered the bomb specialist as the killer.
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Saturday, August 30, 2014
"Dual Destinies"
Took on my first trial as Athena Cykes until Nick showed up...
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"Xenoblade" Triumphs and Tragedy (Big Spoiler)
Learned about chain attacks in the Mechon boss battle today. I did my best to use "break" and it was unexpectedly toppled. Sadly,Shulk's girlfriend,Fiora was a casualty in the struggle.
Anyway,I got Sonia's pendant mended for Rocco and wrapped up a couple more side quests.
On a slightly different not,I was surprised to learn that Shulk will be playable in the next Super Smash Bros.
Anyway,I got Sonia's pendant mended for Rocco and wrapped up a couple more side quests.
On a slightly different not,I was surprised to learn that Shulk will be playable in the next Super Smash Bros.
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New Download
Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies went on sale recently,so I got a prepaid card and downloaded just now.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
"Phantom Brave"
Defeated the Monticore and saved the Putty tonight. That was the biggest surprise of the night.
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Friday, August 22, 2014
Yesterday's Victory
Got the last two puzzle pieces in 1-1 of Donkey Kong Country Returns. The bonus level,which involves getting all the coins,bananas and balloon in a set amount of time had been a pain in the ass for some time.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
"Dawn of Sorrow"
Defeated the Puppet Master today and earned his soul.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014
"Phantom Brave"
Still haven't captured the putty yet. The level's damn bunnies gave me enough trouble.
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Monday, August 18, 2014
"Lost Age"
Finished up the Magma Cave by getting Blaze Psyenergy and the Magma Rock.
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"Phantom Brave" last night
Defeated more enemies than Walnut and now I'm on my way to recapture a putty.
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Sunday, August 17, 2014
"Dream Team" and "Lost Age" Yesterday and Today
Met w/the Pi'illoper yesterday and I'm one my way to rescuing the bedsmith. As for the latter,I figured out my way to the puzzle and submerged the pillar in the lava just now.
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Downing Wiggler in "Dream Team"
It happened last night. Also rescued three more Pi'illos.
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Monday, August 11, 2014
"Golden Sun: Lost Age" Last Night
I figured out the lava puzzle and got two treasures.
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Saturday, August 9, 2014
Got Mega Man Volnutt's ending in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom after two hours of frustration. Only four more to go.
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Got the Jellyfish Sheets yesterday.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014
"Dream Team"
Went back to Wakeport to decipher shots and get beans and coins.
Also got PTX-40A's ending in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom.
Also got PTX-40A's ending in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom.
"Dream Team" Yesterday
Picked up the mattress last night.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Rock Clearing in "Dream Team"
Cleared all the rocks in Mushrise Park and got the Mushrise Treeboard in return.
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Finally got that damn Pajamaja Attack Piece that had eluded me. Mustn't forget to ask the Pi'illo for a boost next time.
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Monday, August 4, 2014
"Dream Team" and "Punch-Out!!"
Cleared some rocks in the former so far. I have plans to go back to Pajamaja Mountain for the last Attack Piece. As for the latter,I beat Glass Joe and Von Kaiser so far. Disco Kid's next in line.
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Rescued four Pi'illos last night.
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Sunday, August 3, 2014
Bought Punch-Out!! for the Wii today.
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"Dream Team" Battle Ground
Got the Ultibed Feathers last night by defeating Grobot X in the arena.
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Friday, August 1, 2014
"Dream Team" is a Dream Come True
Found the frame of the Ultibed today shortly B4 the 3DS ran out of juice.
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Xiao Wu
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Hookworm Detection in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Images With Deep Learning.
IEEE Trans. Image Processing, 2018
An Improved Phase-Shifted Full-Bridge Converter With Wide-Range ZVS and Reduced Filter Requirement.
IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics, 2018
Diversified Visual Attention Networks for Fine-Grained Object Classification.
IEEE Trans. Multimedia, 2017
Integration of Diverse Data Sources for Spatial PM2.5 Data Interpolation.
IEEE Trans. Multimedia, 2017
Video eCommerce++: Toward Large Scale Online Video Advertising.
IEEE Trans. Multimedia, 2017
Improved Durability and Sensitivity of Bitterness-Sensing Membrane for Medicines.
Sensors, 2017
Perception-based adaptive quantization for transform-domain Wyner-Ziv video coding.
Multimedia Tools Appl., 2017
A 20-pW Discontinuous Switched-Capacitor Energy Harvester for Smart Sensor Applications.
J. Solid-State Circuits, 2017
A Fully Integrated Counter Flow Energy Reservoir for Peak Power Delivery in Small Form-Factor Sensor Systems.
J. Solid-State Circuits, 2017
Automatic content understanding with cascaded spatial-temporal deep framework for capsule endoscopy videos.
Neurocomputing, 2017
An Adaptive Time-Step Control Method in Damped Pseudo-Transient Analysis for Solving Nonlinear DC Circuit Equations.
IEICE Transactions, 2017
Cross-sectional design with a short-term follow-up for prognostic imaging biomarkers.
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2017
Multi-View Image Generation from a Single-View.
CoRR, 2017
Optimal Test Case Generation for Simulink Models Using Slicing.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, 2017
Sketch Recognition with Deep Visual-Sequential Fusion Model.
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Multimedia Conference, 2017
On the Selection of Anchors and Targets for Video Hyperlinking.
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, 2017
22.6 A fully integrated counter-flow energy reservoir for 70%-efficient peak-power delivery in ultra-low-power systems.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2017
Memory-Augmented Attribute Manipulation Networks for Interactive Fashion Search.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2017
Video2Shop: Exact Matching Clothes in Videos to Online Shopping Images.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2017
Clothing Cosegmentation for Shopping Images With Cluttered Background.
IEEE Trans. Multimedia, 2016
Automatic Hookworm Detection in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Images.
IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, 2016
Integration of Visual Temporal Information and Textual Distribution Information for News Web Video Event Mining.
IEEE Trans. Human-Machine Systems, 2016
Synthesis of Chiral Cyclic Carbonates via Kinetic Resolution of Racemic Epoxides and Carbon Dioxide.
Symmetry, 2016
Near-Duplicate Segments based news web video event mining.
Signal Processing, 2016
Detection of bird nests in overhead catenary system images for high-speed rail.
Pattern Recognition, 2016
Part-based clothing image annotation by visual neighbor retrieval.
Neurocomputing, 2016
Web video categorization using category-predictive classifiers and category-specific concept classifiers.
Neurocomputing, 2016
Finite approximation of the first passage models for discrete-time Markov decision processes with varying discount factors.
Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, 2016
Diversified Visual Attention Networks for Fine-Grained Object Classification.
CoRR, 2016
Sleeping-time analysis for cognitive OFDM-PON.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Wireless Communications & Signal Processing, 2016
Blind spot coverage strategy based on D2D communications for electric LTE network.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Wireless Communications & Signal Processing, 2016
A 66pW discontinuous switch-capacitor energy harvester for self-sustaining sensor applications.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2016
Video eCommerce: Towards Online Video Advertising.
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Multimedia Conference, 2016
Unified modeling and design of reservation-based cooperation mechanisms for intelligent vehicles.
Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2016
A cosine similarity-based compensation strategy for RSS detection variance in indoor localization.
Proceedings of the 26th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference, 2016
Wireless extension mechanism and logic design for FPGA-based Ethernet Powerlink node.
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, 2016
State-Driven Priority Scheduling Mechanisms for Driverless Vehicles Approaching Intersections.
IEEE Trans. Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2015
First Passage Optimality and Variance Minimisation of Markov Decision Processes with Varying Discount Factors.
J. Applied Probability, 2015
An Effective Time-Step Control Method in Damped Pseudo-Transient Analysis for Solving Nonlinear DC Circuit Equations.
IEICE Transactions, 2015
Clothing Style Recognition using Fashion Attribute Detection.
ICST Trans. Ambient Systems, 2015
Design and Verification of Heterogeneous Streaming Parallel Mechanisms on Kepler CUDA.
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 2015
SSIM-based Error Resilient Video Coding Over Packet-Switched Networks.
Signal Processing Systems, 2014
Modeling of SSIM-based end-to-end distortion for error-resilient video coding.
EURASIP J. Image and Video Processing, 2014
A Load Scheduling Strategy for Electric Vehicles Charging System.
Proceedings of the IEEE Eighth International Conference on Software Security and Reliability, 2014
Clothing Extraction Using Region-Based Segmentation and Pixel-Level Refinement.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, 2014
The limitation for the growth of step of DPTA method.
Proceedings of the 2014 International Symposium on Integrated Circuits (ISIC), 2014
A ramping method combined with the damped PTA algorithm to find the DC operating points for nonlinear circuits.
Proceedings of the 2014 International Symposium on Integrated Circuits (ISIC), 2014
Application of Localized Soft-Assignment Coding and CSIFT in Image Classification.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service, 2014
Dummy Based Privacy Preservation in Continuous Querying Road Network Services.
Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, 2014
Achieving Absolute Privacy Preservation in Continuous Query Road Network Services.
Proceedings of the Advanced Data Mining and Applications - 10th International Conference, 2014
Guest editorial: selected papers from ICIMCS 2011.
Multimedia Syst., 2013
A Novel Web Video Event Mining Framework with the Integration of Correlation and Co-Occurrence Information.
J. Comput. Sci. Technol., 2013
An Effective and Globally Convergent Newton Fixed-Point Homotopy Method for MOS Transistor Circuits.
IEICE Transactions, 2013
Effective Implementation and Embedding Algorithms of CEPTA Method for Finding DC Operating Points.
IEICE Transactions, 2013
Comparative analysis of microbiome measurement platforms using latent variable structural equation modeling.
BMC Bioinformatics, 2013
SSIM-Based End-to-End Distortion Model for Error Resilient Video Coding over Packet-Switched Networks.
Proceedings of the Advances in Multimedia Modeling, 19th International Conference, 2013
Clothing Extraction by Coarse Region Localization and Fine Foreground/Background Estimation.
Proceedings of the Advances in Multimedia Modeling, 19th International Conference, 2013
An Error Resilient Depth Map Coding Scheme Using Adaptive Wyner-Ziv Frame.
Proceedings of the Advances in Multimedia Modeling, 19th International Conference, 2013
Adaptive association rule mining for web video event classification.
Proceedings of the IEEE 14th International Conference on Information Reuse & Integration, 2013
Exploring dense trajectory feature and encoding methods for human interaction recognition.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service, 2013
A New System Interconnection Architecture Based on RapidIO Using Partial Reconfiguration.
Proceedings of the IEEE 11th International Conference on Dependable, 2013
Analysis and Modeled Design of One State-Driven Autonomous Passing-Through Algorithm for Driverless Vehicles at Intersections.
Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 2013
Boosting web video categorization with contextual information from social web.
World Wide Web, 2012
A New Fuzzy SVM based on the Posterior Probability Weighting Membership.
Study on Feature Trajectory for Web Video Event Mining.
Proceedings of the Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing, 2012
SSIM-Based Error Resilient Video Coding over Packet-Switched Networks.
Proceedings of the Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2012, 2012
Interactive product image search with complex scenes.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service, 2012
A New Universal-Environment Adaptive Multi-processor Scheduler for Autonomous Cyber-Physical System.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/ACIS 11th International Conference on Computer and Information Science, Shanghai, China, May 30, 2012
Stereoscopic Perceptual Video Coding Based on Just-Noticeable-Distortion Profile.
Mining Event Structures from Web Videos.
IEEE MultiMedia, 2011
Comparative genetic pathway analysis using structural equation Modeling.
Proceedings of the IEEE 1st International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences, 2011
Stable model predictive control based on TS fuzzy model with application to boiler-turbine coordinated system.
Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, 2011
On the Annotation of Web Videos by Efficient Near-Duplicate Search.
IEEE Trans. Multimedia, 2010
Data-Driven Approaches to Community-Contributed Video Applications.
IEEE MultiMedia, 2010
Control of boiler-turbine coordinated system using multiple-model predictive approach.
Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, 2010
Real-Time Near-Duplicate Elimination for Web Video Search With Content and Context.
IEEE Trans. Multimedia, 2009
Grey dynamic model GM(1, N) for the relationship of cost and variability.
Kybernetes, 2009
Automatic Singing Performance Evaluation for Untrained Singers.
IEICE Transactions, 2009
Towards google challenge: combining contextual and social information for web video categorization.
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Multimedia 2009, 2009
Localizing volumetric motion for action recognition in realistic videos.
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Multimedia 2009, 2009
On Modeling and Verifying of Application Protocols of TTCAN in Flight-Control System with UPPAAL.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, 2009
Hierarchical spatio-temporal context modeling for action recognition.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2009), 2009
Video Databases.
Proceedings of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, 2008
Multimodal News Story Clustering With Pairwise Visual Near-Duplicate Constraint.
IEEE Trans. Multimedia, 2008
Melody Track Selection Using Discriminative Language Model.
IEICE Transactions, 2008
Measuring novelty and redundancy with multiple modalities in cross-lingual broadcast news.
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2008
Personalized multimedia web summarizer for tourist.
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2008
A Hierarchical Scheme for Rapid Video Copy Detection.
Proceedings of the 9th IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2008), 2008
Beyond Semantic Search: What You Observe May Not Be What You Think.
Proceedings of the TRECVID 2008 workshop participants notebook papers, 2008
Accelerating near-duplicate video matching by combining visual similarity and alignment distortion.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Multimedia 2008, 2008
Modeling video hyperlinks with hypergraph for web video reranking.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Multimedia 2008, 2008
Invariant visual patterns for video copy detection.
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2008), 2008
Web video recommendation and long tail discovering.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2008
Near-Duplicate Keyframe Identification With Interest Point Matching and Pattern Learning.
IEEE Trans. Multimedia, 2007
Experimenting VIREO-374: Bag-of-Visual-Words and Visual-Based Ontology for Semantic Video Indexing and search.
Proceedings of the TRECVID 2007 workshop participants notebook papers, 2007
Practical elimination of near-duplicates from web video search.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Multimedia 2007, 2007
Novelty detection for cross-lingual news stories with visual duplicates and speech transcripts.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Multimedia 2007, 2007
Spoken language identification using score vector modeling and support vector machine.
Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2007, 2007
A Similar Resource Auto-Discovery Based Adaptive Fault-tolerance Method for Embedded Distributed System.
Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPP Workshops 2007), 2007
Efficient Near-Duplicate Keyframe Retrieval with Visual Language Models.
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2007
Near-duplicate keyframe retrieval with visual keywords and semantic context.
Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, 2007
Scheduling real-time requests in on-demand data broadcast environments.
Real-Time Systems, 2006
Wireless real-time on-demand data broadcast scheduling with dual deadlines.
J. Parallel Distrib. Comput., 2005
A Preemptive Scheduling Algorithm for Wireless Real-Time On-Demand Data Broadcast.
Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2005), 2005
Threading stories and generating topic structures in news videos across different sources.
Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2005
Co-Clustering of Time-Evolving News Story with Transcript and Keyframe.
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2005
Preemptive Maximum Stretch Optimization Scheduling for Wireless On-Demand Data Broadcast.
Proceedings of the 8th International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2004), 2004
Reduced-rank array processing for wireless communications with applications to IS-54/IS-136.
IEEE Trans. Communications, 2000


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I had come up with the idea of making this site for personal use only. Like sort of a notebook where I put on notes… but with style, through cyber space!
I'll try to make some updates not leaving the original post… if ever I had free time.
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I got my very first computer when I was in my 2nd year in college. Windows then was just the 3.1 version. Haha wonder what year was that.
I would like to thank Troy, ate Dul and Macaria who unselfishly taught me and let me use their PC which was considered then a very delicate gadgets during those years. I learned from them how to use the wordstar (youngster doesn't recognize this anymore lol) and the flowchart which was very useful softwares back then.
They showed me the shortcuts, tricks and many others— made me computer literate.
Now friends and peers sometimes approach me to help in some computer troubles etc. One time someone asked me to write down the things I had done to his computer and as I was jotting down the steps i said to myself, "Hey, why not put this notes where I and others can readily and easily to get". The net!
I apologized to all advance users who happened to visit this site. This is just a work of a still novice one hehe so instead you can send me something I can learn and add to this.


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Finn - tomorrow when you open your eyes you'll see me! I'm off to San Diego tonight. Can't wait!! I think Anne and I are going to paint the nursery. I'll post some pics throughout the weekend if I can.
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Hi, I`m planning buying VSL Opus1. Since I have the money, I was thinking what if I bought Kirk Hunters Emerald too?
I´m wondering if that would be a good idea or just overkill. In what way could Emerald complement VSL Opus1? Opus1 doesnt have solo strings, that´s one thing I know.
Anyone has experience in mixing instruments from those two? Sorry if this has been discussed alot already.
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November 10, 2017
US Aircraft Carriers to Hold Drills off S.Korean Coast
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November 09, 2017
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Someone asked me for more information about the 'Lola' sweater I am making, so I thought I would make a post about it for everyone to see.
'Lola' is from the Debbie Bliss Cotton Angora Book and you can view pictures of all the patterns from it here:
The yarn I am using was what I had on hand from my grandmother's stash and it is Red Heart Classic Yarn 0683 Light Seafoam which can be seen here:
I am part way thru the third skein and don't expect it will take more than 4.
I am using size 8 needles and my gauge is close, but not quite on. Size 7 needles would probably be just right. The pattern is sized for 1-2 yrs, 2-3 yrs, 3-4 yrs, and 4-5 yrs and my sweater size is coming out to between 3-4 and 4-5 years.
I'm really pleased with how it's turning out and I'll post new pictures of it soon. The pattern is really easy and the acrylic knits up fast. If anyone has more questions, please let me know.
Monday, April 17, 2006
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Hola! My name is Kevin and this will be my fourth summer working at Sol's Summer Camp. I'm currently a High School History teacher working just outside of Washington D.C. I enjoy teaching through music, dancing, sports and interactive games. I have not worked at Sol's camp in four years and I'm very excited to come back. I'm looking forward to meeting everyone in July!
Hello! I reside in Elgin, Illinois; I am an English Language Learners Kindergarten teacher. I have been teaching in the United States for over 9 years and absolutely love my career. Teaching is my passion, I feel rewarded watching my students flourish within the environment I provide; it is an environment whereby they feel safe, secure, happy, and where they can be themselves. This environment offers them the ability to explore life's opportunities while enjoying the learning process. In my opinion, children learn best when given the opportunity to freely explore, to be hands on, to play and/or sing. I enjoy singing, playing, and having a good time with my students, therefore, I provide this type of learning environment for my children, I feel this is how they learn best. I am very excited and am truly looking forward to the opportunity to work with you and your children; I am eager to meet them and provide them with the same opportunities I have provided all the children I've worked with throughout my teaching career.
Hello! this is my third year working for Sols Summer Camp. I am 26 years old and am from North Carolina, USA. I have been living and teaching in Seville for four years, and I love what I do (that's why I haven't left yet). I am also a big fan of the outdoors, traveling, and reading. I hope you all are ready for some fun and English this summer. See you soon!
Hola! My name is Mia and I'm from Chicago, Illinois. I've been to Sevilla for the past three summers! The first two summers I helped out at Sol's Summer Camp as a teacher's assistant and a Coordinator's assistant. Last year I had the amazing opportunity be a teacher in this camp and I'm so excited to be coming back as a teacher this summer once again! My first language is English and I am somewhat familiar with Spanish. I've taken a total of three years of Spanish throughout my educational career. I love to play sports, travel, and hang out with friends and family. I also love meeting new people, learning about new cultures, and being around kids. I'm so excited to meet all the campers and staff in Sevilla this July!
Hello, my name is Christine. This is my fourth year volunteering at Sol's Summer Camp. Every year at the end of July, I always announce this was my last summer in Sevilla. However, I always come back. I just cannot stay away from the wonderful kids who attend the camp. I also believe that Sol's Summer Camp is a great place for kids to learn and have fun. So excited to have another summer volunteering at the camp.
Hi! I am a 1st English as a Second Language in the United States. I have been teaching now for 6 years and it has been so great to see how much English my students attain every single year. I am a very outgoing, friendly and a loving teacher, but I also like to create daily routines in order to make sure that all of my students are doing what they are suppose to do. This will really help my students stay focused but yet engaged in all of the great activities planned. I am really excited to work with your child and can not wait to see how much growth your chid will have after he or she has finished this summer school program.
Hi! I've been teaching English in Sevilla for about 4 years. I've worked with children of all ages and particularly enjoy working with the little ones. I am passionate about my job as a teacher and think it's very important to create a fun and warm learning environment and especially for the children to have a good time! This will be my second year at Sol's summer camp and I am very excited to get started !
Hello! I come from Chicago, Illinois. I have lived here my whole life, but have spent my summers traveling the world. I love meeting new people and immersing myself in other cultures. I have taught middle school science, history, and English, and this is my 24th year teaching. My Bachelor of Science degree is from Northern Illinois University, and I earned a Master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Concordia University Chicago. I am a National Board Certified Teacher and hold an Illinois Master Certificate. I look forward to a summer in Spain and to teaching at Sols Summer Camp for the fourth summer.
Hello, my name is Daniel and I am from San Francisco, California. I'm 35 years old and I have been living and teaching English in Seville for 5 years. I love learning and teaching and have taught all ages and levels. I love to travel, surf, hike, and play sports. This will be my third year at Sol's summer camp and I look forward to getting to know the new children and having fun while teaching English!
I am Hollie Morris, originally from the Chicago area but now living in Prishtina, Kosova. I'm very happy to be returning to Sols for a third year! I have been teaching children for the last 8 years and love working with kids of all ages. In the States, I worked as a Spanish teacher and taught sixth, seventh, and eighth grades while now in Kosova, I teach Pre-K. I am looking forward to the summer in Sevilla and am excited to meet and teach the children. I hope to create many wonderful memories for them while they learn English!
Hello, I am currently a senior at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. I am pursuing a degree in Early Childhood Education. My passion is working with young children. I have been a Summer Bible Camp Leader, volleyball and swim class instructor and a lifeguard at my neighborhood pool. This past year I have had the opportunity of observing and assisting in many classroom settings as part of my teacher training. I am really excited about returning to Sol's Summer Camp and look forward to teaching English as a Second Language!
Hello, I am an elementary school teacher in the United States. I have many years experience teaching English as a Second Language to students in grades K-5. Over the years I have been a classroom teacher. Most currently I am a Reading and Math resource teacher at John Jay Elementary School in Mt. Prospect, Illinois. I enjoy reading children's literature. My favorite thing to do at school is read aloud books to children. I have an extensive personal library that I share with my students and colleagues. I am looking forward to returning to Sol's Summer Camp. I am confident that your children will learn English through songs, nursery rhymes, games, creative movement, as well as meaningful hands on activities and crafts.
Hello there! I return to Sol's for my fourth summer. I come from the Chicago area in the United States and received a Master's Degree in Bilingual and Multicultural Education from la Universidad de Alcala. I have travelled and taught across the world in bilingual and international schools in the U.S., Spain, and Vietnam. I became trilingual as an adult and understand the language learning process, love seeing my students (from two years all the way to adult) soak up a new language and light up when they speak, sing, and chant new words successfully. Recently I've spent time in New Zealand and Australia traveling and hiking the beautiful countryside. I look forward to sharing my passion for learning and travel with my new class in Seville!
Hi! I'm Adriana and I am originally from San Antonio, Texas. I am currently studying Bilingual Primary Education at Loyola University. This is my second year at Sols and I can't wait! Last year was truly an amazing learning experience and I'm so excited for the months to come. I've been teaching ESL for about 5 years now but nothing is quite as fun as learning/teaching English while playing on a water jumpy house :) Being surrounded by kids with smiling faces makes me so happy. See you all soon!
Hello! My name is Ashley. I am 25 years old and from Kansas City, USA. This is my first summer at Sol's Summer Camp although I've been living in Seville for the past two years working as an English teacher. Working with children is my passion and I'm so excited to spend this summer at English camp! My other hobbies include traveling, learning and practicing Spanish, all things Disney, spending time with my family and friends, and being outdoors. I can't wait to meet all of our campers and start our summer of fun. See you all soon!
Hello, My name is Ilse Solorio, and I live in Aurora, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. I am a Kindergarten Teacher at McCleery Elementary School in Aurora, IL. This will be my 3rd summer teaching at Sol's Summer Camp. I've fallen in love with Spain's amazing food and culture, and I just can't seem to stay away! I love to sing, dance, and teach. Education is one of my passions, and I believe one of the best ways to learn is through song and dance. I hope to share my passions with the students at Sol's Summer Camp and help them learn English in a fun and educational environment. I can't wait to be back! See you in July!
Hola! Me llamo Melanie Abel y soy un estudiante de Matemáticas y Español a la Universidad de Maryland. Este es mi primer año trabajando a Sol's Summer Camp y soy muy emocionada. Me encanta trabajando con niños y espero que puedo ayudar hacer este el mejor año. También me gusta viajar y aprender sobre culturas diferentes y pienso que este es un oportunidad increíble de hacerlo.
Hi! I am an elementary education major at the University of Maryland. I love working with children, and and have been a swim coach and instructor for the past five years. Last year I volunteered in Honduras with other UMD students in El Progreso, Yoro. This past winter I did a short two week study abroad trip where I taught English and math in El Salvador. I am very excited to return to Camp Sol and can't wait for the summer to start!
Hi! I am very excited to be returning to Sol's Summer Camp for my second year!! In Chicago I am a school social worker, working with children from ages 3 to 21 and their families. I had so much fun last summer I can't wait for July!!!
Hi! I am a bilingual and ESL teacher from the Chicagoland area. I have been working with English learners from preschool age to eighth grade since 2007. I like having a productive, effective, fun, and happy learning environment for my students. I also enjoy incorporating music, nature, dance and humor into language learning. I am looking forward to having a great summer class!
Hi! I'm Georgia from England. This will be my second year at Sol's Summer Camp and I'm so excited. Last year was an amazing experience for both me and the children, and I cannot wait to return again this year to make more fun memories. I have experience teaching a range of different ages and levels in Madrid. I will be moving to the Andalusia region this September working for the British Council teaching English in schools. I love travelling, meeting new people and experiencing different cultures. I have lots of new fun activities and ideas for this year's camp which I can't wait to share with all the children!!
Hello, I am a bilingual kindergarten teacher in Aurora Illinois since 2001. I have earned my Bachelor Degree in Elementary Education. I have received my Bilingual and English as a Second Language certification from National Louis University in Chicago Illinois. Also, I received my Master in Arts of Reading Instruction at Aurora University (Aurora Illinois). Kids and parents deserve the best education. Being a well-rounded educator, I have had the opportunity to teach English to Spanish speaking students in the USA. Through hands-on activities, songs, and games; I have enhanced my teaching techniques that are beneficial for students to learn English. One of my strengths as an educator is awakening the love for literature at a young age. I accomplish this by incorporating rich literature everyday with my students. As hobbies, I like to read, go for walks, and I enjoy biking, but one of my favorite hobbies is to travel. I've had the opportunity to visit different countries in Latin America and Europe. One of the European cities that I have been to is Madrid. I really enjoyed this beautiful city, and I am very excited to learn more about Spain's gorgeous culture and history.
Hi, I´m from Wisconsin in the United States, which is located in the mid-west between Canada and Chicago. I´ve been living and working as an English teacher in Sevilla for 9 years. I´ve taught all ages, but I really enjoy teaching young learners and teens. This is my second year with Sols Summer Camp and I´m looking forward to meeting my campers and making new memories! In my free time, I enjoy watching tv programmes, going to the beach and rollerblading.
Hello, I'm from Birmingham England. I am an English language teacher living in Sevilla. Although I have been here for a short time I have fallen I love with the city and the people living here. Before moving to Spain, I worked as a Design Technology teacher at a secondary school in England. I love teaching fun and engaging lessons and seem to have a knack for developing strong relationships with the children I work with. This is my first year working at Sol Sumner camp and I am very excited to get stuck into some good educational fun.
Hi, my name is Bridget and I'm from the South of England. I'm an Exeter University graduate with a BA English degree and a Trinity CertTESOL qualification to teach English. I've spent the last couple of years enjoying the Spanish culture and lifestyle in Sevilla, whilst having a great time teaching English to children and adults. I particularly love teaching children, watching them grow in confidence and having fun as they learn. In my free time I enjoy reading, cooking, cycling and exploring new places. I'm so excited to be returning to Sol's Summer Camp for a second year and I can't wait to meet you all!
Greetings! I graduated from Northern Illinois University with a Bachelor's degree in Education. I then got my Masters in Curriculum and Instruction through National Louis University. I am also a National Board Certified Teacher since November 2010. I've been a teacher for 17 years in Illinois. I've taught kindergarten up to fourth grade bilingual. My passion is to teach children through play, singing and dancing as well as making fun activities. It is crucial for children to be engaged in their learning at a young age especially if it's their second language. My daughter Anelcy and I, can't wait to meet all of our new little friends in July! See you soon!!
Hi! My name is Nell Sullivan. I have a B. A. in Elementary Education and a M. S. in Curriculum and Instruction. I have been a teacher in Chicago Public Schools for the past 14 years. I am a volleyball and cross country coach. I enjoy water sports and running. This will be my second year at Sol's Summer Camp. I am so excited to spend the summer back in Seville working with the campers and counselors singing, dancing, and playing games while learning!
Hi! My name is Maggie Sullivan and I am from Chicago, Illinois. I have an undergraduate degree in Elementary Education. I have been teaching fourth and fifth grade for the past seven years. I enjoy water sports and running. This will be my first year at Sol's Summer Camp. I can't wait to spend the summer in Seville working with the campers and counselors singing, dancing, and playing games while learning!
My name is Samantha and I'm so excited to be visiting Spain for the first time to teach at Sol's Summer Camp! I have lived close to Chicago, Illinois, my whole life. I've been teaching first grade for three years. I have my Bachelor of Arts in sociology with a focus in psychology and Spanish. I then decided to return to school to become a teacher and study second language acquisition. I learned Spanish as a young adult in college and quickly realized I had a passion for teaching elementary students in both English and Spanish. I cannot wait to meet my new students this July at Sol's Summer Camp!
Hello! I'm Paige Reconnu. I've been a teacher in Illinois, USA, for the past 18 years. I teach math, reading, social studies, and co-teach science at the middle school level in a special education classroom. I have a true passion and love for travel which is reflected in my teaching. One of my favorite things to do is to help my students understand the world around them and appreciate others' cultures and values. Last year, I was invited to help another teacher at Sol Summer Camp for a week, and I fell in love with the warm environment and energetic students. This year, I will get to extend my stay for two weeks. Yay! I'm looking forward to returning to beautiful Sevilla, reconnecting with students from last year, and getting to know new students. We're going to have an amazing time!
Hi! My name is Elana and I am from Missouri, and a recent college graduate with extensive work with children. I love to sing, dance and have lots of fun. I believe ALL children have endless potential for learning and creativity, and it's my job as a teacher to find it and cultivate it. I taught English in South Korea for two years and greatly enjoyed the experience. I am looking forward to meeting the beautiful children of Spain and teaching them English in unique and imaginative ways while also having tons of fun. See you all at Sols Summer Camp!
Hola! My name is Rebecca and I am a Junior Elementary Education major at the University of Maryland. I have been studying Spanish the past two years and am intrigued by the Spanish culture. I am passionate about working with kids and have worked at a summer camp the past seven years. I have also taught English as a Second Language at a summer camp in Russia two years ago. I am very active and love working out and playing sports. I also love to cook and read. I'm very excited to start my first summer working at Sol's summer camp and can't wait to meet you and your children!
Hi! I'm Emilia, but I normally go by Mila, and I'm from Liverpool. I'm 21 and a history student at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. This is my first year at Sols Summer Camp, but I love working with children and I am so excited to meet everyone! My family's Mexican so we mainly speak Spanish at home. I love reading, travelling and horse riding. I'm so excited to be joining the Sols Summer Camp team this summer.
Hi everybody! I live in Chicago, Illinois. I'm a lower primary grades English Language Learner first grade teacher. I recently came back from teaching Montessori Pre-K and Kindergarten and English for three years in Chongqing and Chengdu, China. I love teaching lower grades, singing, playing, getting messy, etc. I like teaching students as much as I like learning from them. I also enjoy learning about different cultures, sports, languages, music, and traveling. This will be my first year at Sol's summer camp. I'm excited and looking forward to meeting the little ones.
Hola! I have been a teacher in England and Spain. I graduated from ASU (Arizona State University) with a Master's in English as a second language, as well as obtained a Masters on bilinguilism from the University of Seville. I also have a PhD in Film Studies. I have been teaching in Spain for more then ten years to students of all ages. At present I am working in a school as well as an English language academy, so I am always on the run. It is a good thing I like to run. Besides running I like to go dancing, listen to music and watch old films. I especially like working with younger students and have participated in a summer camp for children where we had lots of fun with diffferent arts and crafts activities. This is my first year at Sol's Summer Camp for three years and I am really looking forward to the experience!
Hola! I am a marine scientist and am a teacher in Elgin, Illinois. I studied Marine Biology in Washington and Oregon on the west coast of the United States. I then moved to San Francisco, California to teach marine science to students. For 3 years I worked at an education facility and led field trips (on our 85 foot boat!) and summer camps. A few years ago, I moved back to Illinois to be closer to all of my family and began a new adventure as a third and fourth grade bilingual education teacher! I love the outdoors and sports- especially tennis, bike riding, and soccer. I also enjoy music, especially musical theatre. And I love to travel and am excited to be in Sevilla this year!
Hi!! I'm Jessica, Jess or Jessy and I'm from Dallas, Texas. I have been a teacher for four years and this is my second year teaching English in Sevilla to primary and infantil. In the states I taught 3rd grade at a Spanish Language Immersion school. This last year in Sevilla I have been in infantil with 3-5 year olds singing, dancing and playing in English! This will be my first year at Sol's summer camp and I am just bubbling with excitement to have fun with the kids learning and practicing English!


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But Seriously, How Do You Focus On Your Job When the World Is In Crisis?
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Somehow, over the course of the last several months, the news in this country has quickly escalated from "Well, this is concerning," to "should I be preparing for nuclear warfare?"
In all seriousness, things in this country have always been bad — to differing degrees for different people — but now, in addition to rampant misogyny, Islamophobia, racism, homophobia, transphobia (I could go on) we are greeted daily with terrifying news about natural disasters, and frightening domestic and foreign conflicts. And, right now, most outlooks are grim.
How are we supposed to live our lives when, most days, the world around us feels like it's imploding? How are we supposed to nurture ourselves, our careers, our relationships when it's hard to focus on anything other than desperately depressing world affairs?
Well, when I sat down to think about who might be able to offer some wisdom on this topic, I quickly realized I should check in with the very folks who most actively deal with depressing news: journalists.
Below are 5 writers and journalists on their secrets for staying centered when the news and state of the world are, well, crazy. After all, if they have found ways to focus on the good — while constantly engaging with the bad — I think anyone can.
1. Danielle Corcione | Reports on business, health, and politics through a social justice lens
"I remember journalist Melissa Gira Grant tweeting about how reporters, who especially report on trauma, should be actively seeking out mental health care. I see a therapist regularly for my own mental health issues, but having a place to talk about my work and center myself for a moment in a private space with a professional is helpful.
And as much as we want to serve our audiences and tell other people's stories, we really need to figure out our own first, especially if you're dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, and other mental health issues. So don't feel guilty about centering your feelings to reconcile them and work through them."
2. Alaina Leary | Reports on politics, LGBTQ+, and disability issues
"I've had to follow the health care debate closely since January. As a disabled person, it's been hard for me; this is a public issue that has a personal impact on my own life and the lives of many of my friends and family members with disabilities.
I have to practice self-care regularly when I'm doing this work, and take time to specifically look out for myself. I find talking to other people in journalism or similar industries (a lot of my friends work in public policy and disability rights, for example) about how we're feeling and doing check-ins can be useful.
I also remind myself it is okay for me to spend time NOT working on these issues. I need to separate from politics as much as possible, which is hard when the personal is political. I need to actively seek out positive, uplifting news."
3. Yessenia Funes | Reports on environment and race
"In general, I surround myself with people I really care about, people who bring me joy. For me, those are the children in my life. When I'm with my nephew and niece, it's like the world's problems don't even exist. I can pretend there's no Trump and that the world is all butterflies and flowers because that's how they make me feel. It helps me get through the motions.
As for professionally, I try to disconnect myself as much as possible. I don't think about myself much — unless I'm trying to think about a story idea. Once I begin to look at the news as a member of society and not as a journalist, it starts to hit. When I keep my distance, I'm able to deal with the news better."
4. Sarah Harvard | Reports on religion, race, and politics
"I like losing myself in a different dimension or reality. A lot of my coverage is on race, religion and where it intersects with politics. This means most of my reporting is on a new hate crime, bill, or protest that somehow is tied to death or violence. So, every day, I go home and lose myself to hours of comedic television shows or movies — sometimes romantic comedies — to help me believe that there's a happy ending somewhere.
On weeks that are especially trying, I wake up in the morning and head to the movie theater and lose myself in a movie that takes me to a different reality. Lately, that's been hard with a lot of new films centered on slavery, terrorism, and war, but when a film that celebrates life, or just living, as well as laughter, I make sure to take the opportunity to find some goodness in that."
5. Kari Paul | Reports on finance, tech, travel, and culture
"When I was writing daily news, I covered a lot of really heavy topics. One week, I had the morning shift so I would wake up at 5 am and immediately dive into a police shooting and have to vet social media videos and write about them.
I covered Philando Castile and other current events involving police shootings really closely for a few weeks. It was making me really, really upset; I was having trouble sleeping and couldn't eat. [At the time], my therapist made me talk out my feelings and unpack them. I was resistant to it at first because I felt that — as a journalist and as someone who isn't a person of color — I didn't have the right to be so emotionally impacted.
But I had to accept that my feelings were real. It's OK to be impacted by the news, even if it is happening across the world and you're seeing it through a computer screen. You should take the same measures you [would] take for trauma experienced in real life to take care of yourself, talk it out, and process it."
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I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to remain flexible at all times.
Sen. Everett Dirksen.
Everything is possible. The impossible just takes more time.
Make America Sane Again
And in the event of a war the Slava class cruisers would be lucky to last long enough to get their 16 missiles off.
The Slava's are an interesting design, but they are basically fallbacks in case the Kirovs failed to work properly.
>"The Project 636 Kilo-class submarine has been dubbed the "black hole" by the U.S. Navy for its level of quietness. The Project 636MV-class sub has improved stealth features through the removal of flooding ports and treating the hull with multilayer anechoic rubber tiles. The tiles are fitted on casings and fins to absorb active sonar waves that reduce and distort the return signal. The anechoic tiles also shield sounds from within the submarine thus reducing the range of detection by passive sonar.
The improved Kilo is 73.8 meters (242 ft.) in length, 9.9 meters (32.4 ft.) in width with a draft of 6.2 meters (20.34 ft.). It has a surface displacement of 2,350 tons and can dive up to quarter of a mile. The improved Kilo is powered by diesel-electric engines. It has a range of 9,650 km (5,996 miles) and can travel 700 km (434 miles) underwater at 2.7 knots (5 km/hour) at quiet speed. The Kilo can reach a top speed of 20 knots (37 km/hour). Vietnam apparently has not opted for the Air Independent Propulsion system that would permit extended time on patrol. The Improved Kilo has a crew of 57.
The Project 636MV submarine has six 533-mm forward torpedo tubes. It can carry 18 torpedoes (six loaded in the tubes and 12 in racks) or 24 mines (two in each tube and 12 in racks). Two of the torpedo tubes are designed to fire remote-controlled torpedoes with very high accuracy. The improved Kilo can also fire anti-ship cruise missiles from its torpedo tubes. The Kilo also carries MANPADS Strela-3 antiaircraft missiles..."<
Russian Subs in Vietnam - USNI News
Or was there an audible Apachie squeak when Laura Bush was setting the record as the most-travelled First Lady of all time:
Watchdog group's double standard with Obama and Bush kids' vacations | Washington Times Communities
And when the Buch twins took a 2006 trip to Argentina:
U.S. Embassy Asks Bush Twins to Leave Country - ABC News
There was not even a pretense of state business in the twins' Argentina trip.


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The chocolate chips in my life: crafts, grandkids, friends, family, scrapbooking, reading, stamping, Red Hats, thrifting, and I even get on my soapbox on occasion.
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Jaws And More Of My Plants
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The second picture is very much like, what I call my "rock succulent" Every Easter, a little sunburst yellow flower comes from the center of the crack.ReplyDelete
All you plants are lovely. This weekend I'm bring a few of my smaller plants for the balcony.
I love the plant in the third picture...it's so pretty! And the rose is beautiful! That jaws plant is scary looking...lol! It will be mush prettier when it blooms I'm sure. I haven't had any time in the yard this summer...maybe next year!ReplyDelete
Blessings, Vicky
The second picture is some variety of living stones. I need one of those...hint hint. :-)ReplyDelete
Yours are all so pretty.
I like the Tiger Jaws. It is so different! They all are!ReplyDelete