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Astaire and Rogers weren't tripping the light quite so fantastic before taking a few rehearsal twirls around the dance floor. Smith and Wesson didn't forge the world's most fabled firearm on a first try.
You just know Johnson and Johnson had to experiment on more than a few skinned knees before delivering the best-ever Band-Aid. Simon and Garfunkel, it's fair to say, penned a few clunkers before releasing Sounds of Silence.
Collaboration, in any form, is hard. Why, even the most decorated of campaigners thrown together require a certain amount of time to fuse.
"We're beginning to feel more like a partnership," said Beezie Madden, her nine-month pairing with 13-year-old Dutch warmblood gelding Simon having only a half-hour earlier paid off, and rather handsomely at that, in a second-place placing at Sunday's $1 million CN International Grand Prix. "In July it felt like it was coming together and I think it's just continued. From here he went to Chantilly and he was second in the Global Champions Tour and the only other show he did before here was Valkenswaard and he was sixth in that grand prix with two clear rounds.
"So, yeah, he's really becoming a partner."
Individually, horse and rider need no introduction. Down through the years, Madden, from Cazenovia, N.Y., has indisputably been one of Spruce Meadows' most successful athletes. Simon and his previous collaborator, Dutchman Jeron Dubbeldam, combined to claim this very CN International only two years ago.
So the talents were obviously already in place. But alchemy is a different issue entirely.
The Madden-Simon tandem began work together in November. They won their first Grand Prix together, in Wellington, Fla., and outside of a mis-step during U.S. trials enjoyed a string of great results in Palm Beach.
"It's gone well mostly all the way. But now it's getting to be more of a partnership. That's normal. He was a horse that was already farther along in his career and it takes some time at this level to have a real partnership, where you say 'Oh, I have a real chance to win.'"
After Masters Sunday, on a big, telling layout worthy of the fat $335,000 payout for first place (Madden pocketed a tidy $203,000 to finish second), everything from here on in should, in theory, be easier.
Incurring one knockdown through a characteristically tortuous Leopoldo Palacios-designed Round One course over the Meadows International Ring, the duo aced the second to finish a shade behind prodigious Belgian teenager Olivier Philippaerts and his 10-year-old warmblood stallion Cambio van de Heffinck.
Philippaerts' dad, Ludo, rounded out the top three aboard Challenge VD Begijnakker. Top Canadian was Ian Millar aboard Starpower, in 13th position.
"I thought (Simon) was fantastic," praised Madden. "Both rounds, actually. I was the victim of the bicycle in the first round. I don't even think he made a bad jump at that. He made a good jump and was thinking of shortening already for B.
"He's a good horse. He tries to do things on his own. That (the bicycle) maybe got him a little there but mostly he comes through for me."
Heading into this calibre of class, there are invariably some misgivings.
"(Sunday) I was confident I had a chance. But anything can happen on a day like today. With courses like this it's very difficult. I took a little risk in the first round making an inside turn that nobody did to try and be faster and make I didn't have time fault. And that worked but it could've backfired, as well."
By Madden's lofty standards, this has been a rather spare summer. She hadn't enjoyed the usual quota of Spruce Meadows success earlier on, and then suffered a hugely disappointing Olympics in London, exiting from the individual competition startlingly early.
But this is a lady who knows how to win, and summer malaise is predictably now giving way to a warm fall renaissance, as a first-place $26,400 paychqeque in the Suncor Energy event on her Olympic horse, Coral Reef Via Volo, Saturday was followed up by Simon's strong effort in the CN.
"It was disappointing (in London), no question," acknowledged Madden. "We gear our year towards that. But that's the great thing about this sport. There's another show, another challenge, the next week. So you can't dwell on things, you have to get on with it."
Off Sunday's performance, it should be all onward and upward as the collaboration between two decorated campaigners continues to ripen.
"It doesn't just ... happen," she repeated. "It takes time, it takes work. If it was easy, everyone would do it.
"But, as I said before, it's starting to feel more like a partnership. (Simon) was fantastic today. And that's so encouraging."
George Johnson is the Herald'ssports columnist. E-mail him email@example.com


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The LCS hasn't started for either league, but on this date in 1960, Pittsburgh Hall of Famer Bill Mazeroski ended the World Series with a dramatic home run to lead off the ninth against Ralph Terry and beat the Yankees, 10-9.
Despite the score, which meant a lot of hitters, it was the only World Series game in the 20th Century without a strikeout. One of the most interesting numbers from that game were that the Yankees outscored Pittsburgh, 52 to 27, in losing in seven games.
Said Wagner: "I don't plan on talking to nobody. … I've got nothing else to [accomplish]."
In what could be Wagner's final appearance, he gave up two runs in two-thirds of an inning in Boston's Game 3 loss to the Angels. Wagner, 38, returned this season from Tommy John surgery. He is 15 saves shy of 400, a milestone he always said he wanted to reach.
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The 15 Tastiest Ways to Make the Most of Blueberry Season!
You know the saying, good things come in small packages? I'm quite sure it's referring to blueberries. So small, yet bursting with so much sweet flavor when they're ripe and in season. Which coincidentally is right now.
Sadly, like all good things, blueberry season will soon be coming to an end. Yes, you can find blueberries all year long, but nothing compares to the plump, sweet berries of early and mid-summer.
You've still got time, though, and we're here to help you make the most of it! From classic blueberry pie, to blueberry studded breakfast treats, cocktails, ice cream and frozen yogurt, here are the 15 most sweet and satisfying ways to take advantage of the last weeks of blueberry season.
Pie & Cake
- Blueberry Cheesecake Ice Cream Pie
- Blueberry Pie
- Blueberry Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
- Blueberry and Apricot Crumble
- Lemon-Blueberry Yogurt Cake with Lemon Cream
Breakfast & Bars
- Blueberry Breakfast Bars
- Breakfast Grain Salad with Blueberries, Hazelnuts & Lemon
- Blueberry-Oat Quick Bread
- Grain-Free Lemon & Blueberry Scones
- Blueberry Bran Muffins


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Fractional Urate Excretion in Nonedematous Hyponatremia
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01425125
Recruitment Status : Withdrawn
First Posted : August 29, 2011
Last Update Posted : December 10, 2015
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|Condition or disease
|Cerebral Hyponatremia SIADH Cerebral Salt-wasting Syndrome Reset Hypothalamic Osmostat
|Drug: Tolvaptan in euvolemic hyponatremia
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The investigators have demonstrated that a normal FEurate in a nonedematous hyponatremic patient is highly consistent with the diagnosis of reset osmostat (RO). Since as much as 36% of patients with SIADH have RO, the investigators will evaluate these patients by either noting dilute urines in spontaneously excreted urines or after a modified water-loading test. The investigators have found that a normal FEurate in a nonedematous hyponatremic patient is highly consistent with RO.
The investigators intend to treat euvolemic patients with hyponatremia with tolvaptan, the V2 ADH receptor blocker, to determine the effectiveness of this form of therapy in a group of patients in whom correction of hyponatremia has been difficult to achieve by usual methods.
Nonedematous hyponatremic patients with serum sodium < 135 mmol/l will be recruited from Winthrop-University Hospital and from our outpatient practice.
It is anticipated that the present studies will provide valuable information on the relative prevalence of SIADH and C/RSW in patients with nonedematous hyponatremia. One possible drawback to these studies is our inability to determine total and extracellular water volumes in patient who are admitted to the neuro/neurosurgical ICU where the acute illnesses require parenteral therapy that will create a nonsteady state situation where total and extracellular water volumes cannot be accurately determined. This is an important possible omission because volume studies in this population of studies have indicated more that two thirds of patients having decreased volumes that were consistent with C/RSW, yet the medical literature states that C/RSW is rare. Studies in hyponatremics elsewhere in the hospital should shed important light on the methods to differentiate SIADH from C/RSW, data which can assist us in differentiating both syndromes in the neuro/neurosurgical ICU, where the investigators intend to perform FEurates.
It is anticipated that volume studies in patients with Alzheimer's disease with normal serum sodium and increased FEurate will demonstrated decreased volumes and confirm our earlier observations that many of these patients are renal salt wasters. It would be interesting to test whether volume repletion with saline will improve them mentally and physically.
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|Official Title:
|Study of Nonedematous Hyponatremia and the Utility of Fractional Urate Excretion in Hyponatremia and Suspected Renal Salt Wasting Without Hyponatremia-
|Study Start Date :
|November 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 2014
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|December 2014
Experimental: Tolvaptan in euvolemic hyponatremia
This arm will test the effectiveness of tolvaptan in treating the hyponatremia of patients with euvolemic hyponatremia.
Drug: Tolvaptan in euvolemic hyponatremia
This arm will test the effectiveness of tolvaptan in treating the hyponatremia of patients with euvolemic hyponatremia.
Other Name: oral tolvaptan (Samsca
- Etiologic categorization of nonedematous hyponatremia [ Time Frame: 2 years ]We will attempt to categorize the etiology of nonedematous hyponatremia by the following parameters in decreasing order of importance, total and extracellular water determinations, fractional urate excretion, plasma renin and aldosterone levels, urinary sodium concentration and urine osmolality. We will also determine total and extracellular water in a group suspected of having renal salt wasting by virtue of having increased fractional urate excretion and normal serum sodium concentrations.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Nonedematous hyponatremia with normal renal, adrenal and thyroid function. -Non-hyponatremia with increased fractional excretion of urate.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subjects < 18 years of age
- Pregnancy
- Serum creatinine > 1.4 mg/dl
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01425125
|United States, New York
|Winthrop-University Hospital
|Mineola, New York, United States, 11501
|Principal Investigator:
|John K Maesaka, MD
|Winthrop University Hospital
|Study Director:
|Louis J Imbriano, MD
|Winthrop University Hospital
|Responsible Party:
|Winthrop University Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01425125 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
10029 ( Other Identifier: Winthrop University Hospital IRB )
|First Posted:
|August 29, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|December 10, 2015
|Last Verified:
|December 2015
Keywords provided by Winthrop University Hospital:
nonedematous hyponatremia
fractional urate excretion
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Wasting Syndrome
Water-Electrolyte Imbalance
Metabolic Diseases
Weight Loss
Body Weight Changes
Body Weight
Signs and Symptoms
Nutrition Disorders
Antidiuretic Hormone Receptor Antagonists
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Natriuretic Agents
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For more information, see Wednesday's edition of The McPherson Sentinel or visit the E-edition of The McPherson Sentinel available on the website.
McPherson police
At 11:34 a.m. Tuesday, an officer responded to a report of theft, forgery and criminal use of a financial card. The incident happened sometime between 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. on March 14, in the 1600 block of East Euclid. A credit and debit card were reportedly taken from the wallet of the victim. A large screen TV was reportedly purchased from a Wal-Mart in Augusta using the stolen cards, valued at $1,014. Police report that the investigation is ongoing.
At 1:21 a.m. Tuesday, a deputy took a report of theft by deception from the 600 block of Landmark Lane. Someone reportedly tried to trade a stolen vehicle for the vehicle of another individual. The transaction reportedly took place outside of McPherson County. Both vehicles have since been recovered.
LINDSBORG — At 2:41 p.m. Tuesday, firefighters responded to a vehicle fire at a rest area on I-135, mile marker 68.5. Reported was a small electrical fire under the vehicle's dash. A truck driver extinguished the fire before firefighters arrived on scene. There were no injuries, and no major damages to the vehicle.


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The strikers bagged a penalty in either half before Odion Ighalo netted a late consolation, ensuring Diego Simeone's side moved back to within a point of Liga leaders Barcelona
The strikers scored from 12 yards in each half to secure maximum points for the visitors despite Ighalo's late consolation, with the hosts left to rue their profligacy in front of goal as they suffered a second consecutive home defeat in La Liga.
No team in Spain's top flight has scored fewer goals than Granada, but they began the match by far the more threatening of the two sides, with Manuel Iturra in particular causing problems for Diego Godin and Co.
Once again though, Granada couldn't turn possession into goals, and late on in the second half it was a clumsy challenge from captain Diego Mainz on Villa which gave Costa the chance to open the scoring, and the striker - who this week affirmed his desire to play for Spain - duly buried the spot-kick.
From that point, Atletico seized control of the game and mid-way through the second half made their pressure tell. A swift counterattack led to another trip on Villa, and the veteran striker made no mistake as he converted the penalty.
Granada mounted a late assault on goal after Filipe Luis was sent off for a second yellow card, and Odion Ighalo turned home a cross as the clock ticked over into stoppage time, but ultimately to no avail.
Tempers flared after the final whistle as Costa tangled with Iturra as the teams departed the pitch, but Atletico's 10th win in 11 games is all that will matter to Diego Simeone, as his side moved back to within one point of Liga leaders Barcelona.


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Self-contained wireless photoelectric sensor
Wireless sensing offers advantages when traditional solutions are significantly more costly due to infrastructure requirements—complexities of cables, conduits and installation—operators can quickly integrate a scalable, wireless sensor network to improve efficiency by monitoring and coordinating multiple machines and processes. It was developed from the ground up for industrial automation, according to Banner Engineering. Proprietary power management delivers extended battery life up to five years on two replaceable AA Lithium batteries, depending on sensor and application. It communicates up to 3,000 ft (1 km) line-of-sight minimum. The IP67/NEMA 6P protection can support up to 47 Q45 sensors per gateway.
"The SureCross Q45 was developed from the ground up, exclusively for the demands of industrial automation," said Scott Pritchard, director of wireless at Banner Engineering. "The proprietary, self-contained battery, radio and sensor solution, featuring easy deployment and untethered communications, provides the functionality, reliability and determinism required for factory applications," Pritchard said.
The SureCross Q45 is said to be ideal for many applications, including cable replacement, moving applications, remote applications and productivity solutions. To meet diverse application requirements, models are available in polarized retroreflective, convergent visible, remote device interface and fiber optic.
"The flexibility of the SureCross Q45 sets it apart from anything else our customers have used," said Bob Gardner, senior product manager at Banner Engineering.
"With performance capabilities ranging from the detection of objects in simple presence/absence or alignment applications to call-for-parts and error-proofing in productivity solutions, the SureCross Q45 can accurately connect and solve applications that were difficult, costly or nearly impossible with conventional technologies," Gardner added.
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I have tourment pets, some Raid pets and an Aquatic Stone. I'm also willing to do some combonations
Khema wrote:hey sunshine. i got a firefly. anyway we could work it out for that cub still? remsg me if so.


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We are a Perl user-group located in Jerusalem.
We are Perl programmers, who love this language and are here to help each other by discussing several topics in our mailing list and in our monthly meetings.
We work in a full co-operation with Israel.pm, which is the Israeli Perl Mongers Group.
Jerusalem Perl Mongers meetings take place regularly every month.
Our next meeting is planned for April 25, 2007
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European Commission
Brussels, 18 January 2013
New European driving licence for more security, safety and free movement
19 January 2013 will see the introduction of a European driving licence as part of the entry into force of the third EU Driving Licence Directive. The new rules will guarantee a true freedom of movement to EU drivers, reinforce safety on European roads and reduce possibilities of fraud.
1. What are the benefits of a new driving licence system in Europe?
About 60% of the Union's population holds a valid driving licence, around 300 million citizens. A great number of these Europeans make cross-border trips within the Union for private or professional purposes or change country of residence. Today, Europe has more than 110 different driving licence models with different entitlements and validity periods. The new European driving licence will simplify this patchwork and facilitate the mobility of drivers across Europe. Harmonised validity periods and medical examination rules will give more legal certainty for many Europeans who move to another Member State.
A driving licence not only gives access to all kinds of vehicles in many EU countries it can also be used as an identification document. Therefore, anti-fraud protection is a major cause for concern. The new licence is almost impossible to falsify. It is backed up by a European electronic data exchange system, which will facilitate the management of driving licences by administrations and contribute to better detection of driving licence fraud.
Driving licence rules also have a great impact on road safety. With more than 30.000 deaths on European roads each year, the new driving licence rules will help to enhance safety on European roads. The changes for motorcycles are the most important. By introducing gradual access to motorcycles for young drivers the new European rules will much better protect this vulnerable group of road users. Furthermore, for car drivers and motorcyclists, the new document must be renewed every 10 to 15 years depending on the Member State while licences for bus and lorry drivers will be valid for five years and a medical check-up will be necessary for renewal. These rules will not affect a right to drive a vehicle that was acquired beforehand.
2. What are the main changes introduced by the new legislation on driving licences?
A new European driving licence card
To limit the number of different licence models that are in circulation, and to better protect against fraud, the paper driving licence model shall be phased-out. The only European driving licence model to be issued shall be a plastic 'credit' card type, already used in most EU countries, which allows for greater protection against forgery. Current paper driving licences will stop being issued from the entry into force of the new legislation.
Introduction of a compulsory administrative renewal for all new licences
A mandatory and regular administrative renewal of driving licences will ensure that all documents in circulation can be updated using the most up-to-date security features. Reducing the number of licence models will ease enforcement, and so will the greater likeness of the holder of the photo on the licence.
All new licences for mopeds, motorcycles, cars, tricycles and quadricycles shall have a maximum administrative validity of 10 years. However Member States may choose to issue such licences with an administrative validity of up to 15 years.
All new driving licences for trucks and buses shall have a maximum administrative validity of 5 years.
Drivers with licences issued before the entry into force of this Directive will be subject to the new rules on validity at the latest by 19 January 2033.
3. How will the new legislation on driving licences affect drivers?
With this new compulsory regular renewal of the driving licence document, the last remaining obstacles to the free movement of drivers are abolished. The main principle will be that all licences issued as of the date of application of the new Directive will remain valid as stipulated on the driving licence. Before expiry, the holder will have to renew the driving licence in the country where he is having his normal residence. From that date, the host Member State will apply the new administrative validity period and is allowed to impose a medical check if this is foreseen for its own citizens. These provisions will finally provide the necessary legal security for the holder of a driving licence.
With regard to the driving licences issued before the date of application of the current Directive and which are still valid and in circulation, all these driving licences will have to be replaced by a new driving licence at the latest by 2033. A Member State may also request that, as from two years after taking up residence in its country, the holder of a driving licence issued by another Member State without the validity periods prescribed by the Directive (e.g. indefinite validity period) renew his/her licence.
At the same time, the right to drive a certain type of vehicle will clearly be established by the new driving licence and thus easy to recognise by the holder, the administrative authorities and the enforcement authorities.
The Commission also proposes to clarify national rules governing medical examinations by:
4. How will the new legislation on driving licences reduce possibilities of fraud?
Today, several types of fraud exist. They range from trafficking the document itself, obtaining duplicates unlawfully by suggesting theft or loss of the original licence, to obtaining a driving licence in a different country while being banned from driving in the home country.
The basic philosophy that underlies the fight against driving licence fraud is the principle that one person can only hold one driving licence. This principle has been reinforced by this Directive.
The regular renewal of driving licences will allow Member States to have a regularly updated national database and thus a constantly updated knowledge of the valid driving licences which are in circulation.
At the same time, the communication between the national authorities will be improved by creating a communication network for driving licences between them. The regular consultation of this network, named RESPER, will allow applying the new and stricter rules on the prohibition to issue a licence to someone whose licence has been withdrawn, suspended or restricted.
Furthermore, Member States are allowed, if they so wish, to insert a microchip in the licence. The repetition of the information printed on the card in the microchip increases the anti-fraud protection and at the same time ensures protection of the data. Of course, European legislation on the protection of personal data will have to be respected.
5. How will the new legislation on driving licences contribute to improved road safety?
Introduction of a new driving licence category for mopeds
No licence was needed to drive mopeds in the Union. However, accident figures show a high risk of accidents of very young road users. In some Member States very young riders, as young as 14, are allowed to ride mopeds.
Therefore, a new harmonised licence category AM has been introduced, which can be obtained after passing a mandatory theory test. This should allow to better control this vulnerable group of road users and make them more aware of traffic rules. It will also clarify the situation regarding moped riders crossing borders or renting a moped when on holiday. Moreover Member States may require applicants to pass a test of skills and behaviour for this category.
Introduction of a power/weight criterion for light motorcycles (licence category A1)
Light motorcycles were limited to 125 cc and 11 kW. No power to weight ratio was imposed. This could lead to ever lighter vehicles, thus achieving steadily increasing acceleration and top speed possibilities. Therefore licence holders of category A1 are only allowed to drive light motorcycles with a cylinder capacity not exceeding 125 cubic centimetres, of a power not exceeding 11 kW and with a power/weight ratio not exceeding 0.1 kW/kg. All Member States have to introduce this category of licences which did not exist in all Member States.
Progressive access to the most powerful motorcycles
Previous legislation allowed many young riders without practical experience to ride the most powerful class of motorcycles. Accident statistics prove that the accident risk of novice riders of heavy motorcycles is particularly high under 24 years of age. It is moreover impossible to control whether any experience has effectively been acquired on a limited motorcycle. In the interest of road safety, new vehicle, minimum age and access criteria have been introduced.
A new category A2 with new technical characteristics
The previous category A, which was split into a limited and an unlimited part, is now split into two distinct categories "A2" and "A". An additional technical requirement to avoid "downtuning" of motorcycles is introduced for category A2.
New minimum ages and access rules
For category A2, the minimum age is fixed at 18 years. If a Member State fixes the minimum age for category A1 at 17 or 18 years, the minimum age for category A2 will be 19 and 20 years because there must be 2 years between the minimum age for category A1 and the minimum age for category A2.
If the applicant has acquired an experience of 2 years on a motorcycle in category A1, he has to pass a test of skills and behaviour only, or to complete a training.
For category A:
New trailer rules for car driving licences
Category B allows to drive a vehicle of 3500 kg and a trailer of 750 kg.
With regard to vehicle-trailer combinations within category B, trailers of a weight exceeding 750 kg may be coupled to the towing vehicle, as long as the combination does not exceed 4250 kg and the rules on type-approval are respected (that fix the relation between the vehicle and the trailer).
However, for such combinations within category B that exceed the weight of 3500 kg, a training, a test or both a training and a test will be imposed. This provision will allow to drive bigger combinations within category B in the future than is the case today, pending a training and/or test is passed.
With regard to category BE, one will be allowed to tow trailers with a maximum authorized mass of 3500 kg. Combinations with a towing vehicle in category B and a trailer exceeding 3500 kg will fall within category C1E.
Progressive access to the most powerful trucks and lorries
New definitions
In the interest of safety, driving licences for trucks and buses have been amended in order to:
Minimum ages
The table below summarizes the age requirements concerning access to driving licences depending on the vehicle category.
Overview of the new proposed licensing system
AM: mopeds, max. design speed 45km/h, < 50 cm³ or power < 4kW, including light quadricycles
A1: light motorcycles, < 125cm³ or power < 11 kW with power/weight<0.1kW/kg, and light tricycles < 15 kW
A2: motorcycles, power<35kW with power/weight < 0.2 kW/kg and not derived from a vehicle with more than double its power
A: two-wheel motorcycles (including above 35 kW) and heavy tricycles > 15 kW
B: motor vehicles <3500kg, not transporting more than 8 passengers in addition to driver + trailer <750 kg; may be combined with trailer >750kg if combination below 4250 kg (with training and/or testing between 3500 kg and 4250 kg)
B1: optional category of heavy quadricycles
C: motor vehicles used for transport of goods >3500 kg + trailer < 750 kg
C1: motor vehicles >3500 kg but < 7500 kg and not transporting more than 8 passengers in addition to the driver + trailer < 750 kg
D: motor vehicles for the transport of more than 8 passengers + trailer < 750kg
D1: motor vehicles for the transport of not more than 16 passengers, max length 8 meters + trailer < 750kg
E: in combination with above categories, trailer >750kg
6. What are the new rules for driving examiners?
There are no set standards on the training and education of driving examiners. They vary widely throughout the Union. In some Member States examiners had almost no specific education or did not even hold the driving licence for the category they were examining. This should no longer be possible. Since theory and practical tests have been harmonised in detail, common minimum requirements for examiners would ensure that test results are comparable in the EU. A regular training of examiners should also have a positive impact on road safety by maintaining their skills and experience in an ever faster changing technical environment.
Basic conditions have been set for entering the profession of driving examiners and introduce minimum standards for their initial qualification as well as regular refresher courses:
7. Will the new legislation on driving licences affect requirements for fitness to drive?
Drivers need to comply with minimum standards of physical and mental aptitude for driving a motor vehicle before being authorized to drive. The driving licence Directive includes detailed provisions concerning a list of disabilities that may affect safe driving. Usually more stringent provisions are in place for professional drivers of trucks and buses.
In 2009, the Directive was updated on the basis of the work of a group of medical experts appointed by Member States as regards eyesight, diabetes and epilepsy.
8. Driving licence legislation so far in the Union
The first European piece of legislation on driving licences dates back from 1980. A Council Directive then made it possible for EU citizens moving to another Member State to exchange their driving licence without passing a new theory, practical and medical test. The driver however still had to exchange his licence within one year of taking up residence in a new Member State.
It is only in 1991 that a new Directive introduced the principle of mutual recognition and abolished the need to exchange one's licence. However in practise the application of this principle has been impeded by the fact that validity periods of licences and the periodicity of the medical examination were not harmonised. This has created legal uncertainty for citizens who take up residence in another Member State.
Directive 2006/126/EC, also known as the "third driving licence Directive", was adopted on 20 December 20062. It was due to be transposed by 19 January 2011.
Although some of its provisions entered into force on 19 January 2009, most of its requirements are to become applicable on 19 January 2013, and in particular the introduction of the new EU driving licence model.
For more information please see: IP/13/25
JO L 226 du 10.09.2003 p 4
OJ L 403, 30.12.2006, p.18.
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America can eventually destroy itself with the growing gun problem. The country has become numbed toward senseless shootings that occur so frequently. The need for powerful lobbyists and gun dealers to make money supersedes the need to bring sanity to a country drowning in greed. As a result of greed over common sense, a form of denial in my country is setting in.
We as a nation are dangerously heading down a dark road where being safe will become a thing of the past. For those of us that can see that too many guns are leading the U.S. down a path of premature destruction, the coming 2014 ballot box should show a great unified effort to reverse the downward path.
This would be in a real, true sense a democracy rectifying itself.
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Name: Gordon
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Age: 67
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I guess I have more of a comment than a question. I'm 67, a widower and have been recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. I never was very adventuresome when it came to sex. In fact before my wife died two years ago I never had sex with any other woman. I never gave prostate cancer a thought, never gave my prostate a thought either. Now I'm mad as hell that I didn't. You see when I started to go to a prostate cancer support group I discovered I could have monitored myself better with a simple self-examination. Why don't doctors tell us about this? Women are supposed to examine their breasts why don't men examine their prostate? It's so easy actually and yet it's this big secret. Why don't people talk about this? It makes me so mad because it could have made a big difference in my own life. Do you know about this self-examination Dr Dick? If you do why don't you tell other people about this? I think it would help a lot if you could get the word out on this. Now that's all I have to say. Thank you.
No, thank you Gordon. Thank you for sharing your concern with me…with us.
I've been an active proponent of prostate self-exam for many years. Let me explain. My career as a therapist began in San Francisco in 1981. As you may recall, that was precisely the same year a mysterious new disease began showing up among gay men. Back then it was being called gay cancer, but soon it would have another name — HIV/AIDS.
Not surprisingly, my private practice focused down almost exclusively to working with sick and dying people. Luckily, I discovered that I was well suited for the job and I liked it very much. So much so that in the mid-90's I founded a nonprofit organization called, PARADIGM, Enhancing Life Near Death. It was an outreach and resource for terminally ill, chronically ill, elder and dying people. This was brilliant cutting-edge work and I learned so much from the people I was working with. One of the things that struck me most was that regardless of the disease — cancer, HIV, MS, you name it, or aging process for that matter — there was always a woeful lack of information about regaining a sense of sexual-self post diagnosis, or sexual wellbeing for seniors in general.
This was such an important topic for me that I decided to include a chapter on sex and intimacy concerns for sick, elder, and dying people in my book, The Amateur's Guide To Death And Dying. I am proud to say that it is one of the only resources of its kind available in print.
I recall one PARADIGM group in particular, there was a man much, like you, Gordon, who had prostate cancer. And, like you, he was mad as hell with the indifference of the medical industry toward prostate self-exam. One day during a group session, John was railing against his doctors and cancer associations for their lack of interest in promoting prostate self-awareness. He pointed to the success of the cultural campaign to get women to do breast self-exams. Like you, Gordon, he couldn't understand why there wasn't a similar campaign for men.
Another group member, Marie, a senior woman in her 70's and a breast cancer survivor, helped put things in perspective. She reminded us that breast self-awareness in our culture is a relatively new phenomenon. Her mother, aunt, sister, and a niece all died of breast cancer before the self-exam campaign began in earnest. Clare went on to say that it was only through the hard work of individuals and grassroots organizations that actively campaigned for breast self-exams that things began to change. Eventually, this movement changed the cultural mindset. Clare said that it was these individuals and grassroots organizations that helped all of us — medical industry, the cancer lobby and women in general — overcome the denial, shame and embarrassment that was associated with women touching themselves, even to save their lives.
This is an indication of just how ingrained the sex-negativity and body-negativity runs in this culture.
I continued to work with sick and dying people here in Seattle. I had a brief gig at a local cancer center where I developed an NIH (National Institute of Health) funded program for women newly diagnosed with ovarian cancer. I was also working with a group of women with breast cancer and another group of men with prostate cancer. Again I realized that just about every therapeutic intervention I encountered — government funded or foundation funded — was woefully lacking in any clear and unambiguous information about sexual health and wellbeing and intimacy issues.
To remedy this, I began planning a video series for people experiencing life threatening and/or disfiguring illnesses. Videos that would help them address reintegrating sex and intimacy post diagnosis. One of the first videos was going to be Public Service Announcement showing men how to do a prostate self-exam. By the way, this particular film was to be dedicated to my friend John, the guy I mentioned earlier. He died shortly after the PARADIGM group he was in ended. But he died self-aware. He was militant to the end about the pressing need for prostate awareness among men.
Once again the stumbling block I encountered was funding. My grant writing efforts turned up nothing. I did get a whole lot of, "what a fine idea, Richard. Good luck with that…" brush-off letters though. No foundation would be caught dead funding sexually overt pattern films, even ones with the laudable intent of assisting people with the very information they needed most.
I'm sorry to have been so long-winded in my reply, Gordon. I just wanted you to know that many have preceded you with outrage at the conspiracy of silence regarding prostate self-exam. Let's face it; our society is so ass-phobic that we'd rather see men die than offer them simple instructions how to finger their butt, find their prostate and keep tabs on their prostate health.
If we want this to change we all need to speak out…as well as stick a finger in our ass.
Keep up the fight, Gordon! And please, stay in touch.
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Volume 17, Number 47 | April 15 21, 2005
Asylum a thriller starring Natasha Richardson, is directed by Scottish filmmaker David Mackenzie.
And the festival begins
Fourth Annual Tribeca Film Festival gets underway
By Rania Richardson
Cannes has glamour. Sundance has bidding wars. The entire New York Film Festival has the attention of the press. The Tribeca Film Festival?
With the original aim of revitalizing downtown New York after the blight of 9/11, the festival brought audiences and dollars to the scarred neighborhood. Now that Tribeca and the surrounding communities have been brought back to life, the festival can find its permanent place in the film festival firmament. As it continues to evolve, the festival broadens the scope of its vision and considers the needs of the film industry.
Industry insiders agree that this year holds a more meaningful slate of films, with the gala opening night film an indication of a new seriousness in programming. Sydney Pollacks The Interpreter carries more heft than last years opener Raising Helen, which critics described as a television sitcom. Pollacks thriller is the first film to be shot in United Nations Headquarters. In return for access to the peacekeeping institution, the producers agreed to shoot the movie in New York City, with New York City crews.
Another change in the festival is the advancement of the schedule by about a week. Were happy its moved out of the shadow of Cannes, says Paramount Classics co-president Ruth Vitale, referring to the essential festival in France that runs for two weeks in May. She and her partner, David Dinerstein will be able to attend the Tribeca Film Festival for the first time this year. There are lots of regional film festivals, but not at this caliber, she says.
There will be a free outdoor screening of the Paramount Classics Mad Hot Ballroom. The documentary was produced by Tribeca resident Amy Sewell and directed by her friend Marilyn Agrelo and features students from P.S. 150. It follows children from PS 150 as well as two other New York City public schools as they compete in a dance competition.
Another Paramount Classics film is Asylum, a thriller starring Natasha Richardson, by Scottish filmmaker David Mackenzie (Young Adam). In addition to seeing the festival as a launching pad for upcoming releases, Vitale sees it as a market to find new films for acquisition. Last year, her company bought Josh Sternfelds debut feature, Winter Solstice, and just recently released it in theaters.
Not all film buyers agree that Tribeca is a significant market to find new work, and there have been noticeably fewer business deals made with filmmakers, than at other high profile festivals. Only a handful were picked up in the festivals first three years. Why does there need to be a market component? asks Mark Urman, head of theatrical distribution at ThinkFilm. It was conceived for the people as a community event, which is a worthwhile and noble goal for a festival.
Beautiful Country, a drama involving the son of a Vietnamese mother and an American GI father, is directed by Hans Petter Moland.
Urman will attend a higher number of films than in the past, but has already seen most of the contenders at other festivals, as has Tom Bernard, co-president of Sony Pictures Classics. Bernards company will be screening four films in Tribeca, more than any other distributor. He sees the festival as an exciting place to get attention and build awareness for his companys films such as Beautiful Country, a drama involving the son of a Vietnamese mother and an American GI father, directed by Hans Petter Moland.
Eammon Bowles, president of Magnolia Pictures, has hopes for a fresh crop of films. Its getting more market credibility every year, he says. Magnolia will screen Dead Mans Shoes a revenge story by British filmmaker Shane Meadows.
Tribeca executive director Peter Scarlet sees his mission as a simple one, I think of the quality of the films first, he says. He doesnt preclude a vital marketplace in the future, though. He views the audience for the festival as extending to the entire city and beyond. With New York as the crossroads of the world he deems Tribeca an amalgam of festivals for its many international communities and self-defined groups. To that end, he programs for multiple populations such as Jewish, gay, Latin American, and immigrant communities, as well as for the general public. I believe that the festival principally functions to keep the windows of the world open, and to give an understanding of different cultures both how we are alike and how we are different, he says.
Scarlet feels a special kinship with the Sarajevo Film Festival, which in its first year, was held in the besieged city under constant bombardment. It rose out of the ashes, as did Tribeca, he says. Citizens there retain the sense that they are doing something to heal, in what is a successful multiethnic city like New York. His Bosnian friend and colleague, Pjer Zalica (Fuses) will be in Tribeca to screen his new film Days and Hours (Kod amidze Idriza).
As the Tribeca Film Festival enters its fourth year, its image continues to evolve. The new effort to curate a higher quality program can only lift its profile. Its the biggest new festival on the scene in awhile, says Bowles. It cant help but mature. I think its stock will go up this year, adds Urman.
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We get a first look from the Y-3 Fall/Winter 2010 Collection. 20 men's key looks were revealed at the Paris presentation giving an exclusive first glimpse at the Autumn / Winter range. For the coming season, Yohji Yamamoto and adidas are inspired by the tension of two opposite aesthetic ideals: TRADITION vs. FUTURE; juxtaposing heritage and classic values with an extreme futuristic expression.
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More than 291 million people played Facebook games through the online social networking site in 2012, up a staggering 35 million from the previous year. Though a large number, it's not particularly surprising given that there are more than a billion Facebook users on the planet. With more users comes more revenue and subsequently, more games.
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|2012-12-11, 10:23
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|2012-12-11, 10:40
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It's like he hasn't even read his own story.
|2012-12-11, 10:49
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Another side comment: It's a big deal that nobody would mistake anything for Kinzo. At the end of Episode 2, Battler met Kinzo. How are we supposed to reconcile these two items?
1) Battler was an unreliable perspective at that point?
2) Battler saw Kinzo's corpse, and wasn't mistaking anything for Kinzo? (For various reasons, I think that his corpse had been kept in his study, in a bathtub of formaldehyde or somesuch.)
3) Ryu screwed up.
Or what about the error in the flashback in Episode 5?
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|2012-12-11, 11:01
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On the face of it, this opening is a story of Beatrice tempting Shannon and Kanon with the promise of love, and then laughing at them when that love inevitably destroys them.
Does this mean that Yasu planned for the love trial to happen since the very beginning? Or even that she later decided the love trial was a good thing and rewrote her history to include her support of it?
|2012-12-11, 11:07
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It looks longer than I remember it being. Maybe it's still being updated?
It's a weird interview. It doesn't seem to fit in with the series as a whole...So if it's the truth, I'll be studiously ignoring it and pulling the "Umineko is whatever it's interpreted as!" card.
|2012-12-11, 11:36
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Then again expecting the backstories of any of the magical/meta characters to make any sense is barking up the wrong tree.
|2012-12-11, 12:01
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Setting aside Ryukishi's odd opinions about men and women...
I am aware that KNM argues that both EP8 and most of Ryukishi's interviews are ridden with lies, but a statement such as "if you don't understand this, you don't understand the story" seems really strong and unnecessarily misleading, even if you are intentionally trying to deceive those "without knowledge" to honor those who "achieved knowledge" (or, in KNM's words, are one of "the chosen"). What chance does one have to "gain" the knowledge then? Except asking Guru KNM of course.
Meanwhile, trying to save all three romances in the Golden Land has been hinted at during the Love Duel, and is probably the most we've got in terms of a gameboard "motive" for Shkanontrice (and is more like Yasu's "wish" from a Prime perspective), if there is such a thing in the first place.
Of course we could now claim that he only implied that this is the reason Beatrice jumped off, therefore never outright said it, and that it is therefore possible that he tricked us yet again. If that would be the case: well... sorry Ryu, I don't think I have enough "love" for you to see 'it'. Then again no love in the world would be able to trust you at that point. What twisted love consists of doubting your every word anyway?
Of course, everything is possible with duct tape semantic cheats so it sadly degrades to lol"who do we want as culprit"lol. Don't you agree, Kyrie? I knew you would, after all we did for you in that blasted chapel.
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|2012-12-11, 12:12
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And what flashback in EP5? Can you be more specific?
|2012-12-11, 12:22
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That doesn't mean the scene couldn't have happened. Just that it couldn't have been Battler mistaking something for Kinzo.
|2012-12-11, 12:32
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I don't mind an unreliable perspective. Those are very tall orders.
I greatly mind an insincere perspective.
For example, the opening to John Dickson Carr's The Three Coffins aka The Hollow Man stated that several characters were not deliberately lying or omitting anything, but were recounting the events as best they understood them.
|2012-12-11, 12:53
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|2012-12-11, 13:26
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I still think that the choices were symbolic and actually meant something like "Abandon your family to stay with me, abandon me to stay with your family or if you cant make a decision like that, just kill yourself". Yasu/Beatrice probably thought their idea of having it both ways was naive, but it actually fits in with what Dlanor said at the end of Our Confessions.
|2012-12-11, 13:34
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"It does not matter whether what you feel for that woman called Beatrice is love or hatred when you read this.
But, if somehow possible,
I want you to arrive at what is hidden on the deepest layer of this story, her feelings.
It was said that she constructed this story in twofold, but released only one form.
But that is actually wrong.
This is a story that exist thrice and was released only in one form.
Through this incomplete manuscript, two of those three become exposed.
I want you to struggle towards an idea for the last one out of your own strength.
That is what I strongly wish to implore all of you readers to do, as a woman myself.
She doesn't say that this understanding comes from being a woman, Dlanor's understanding has lead her to liken her own motivation for releasing this story to be the same as what Beatrice should have realized.
He also said in an interview I translated once, that you can understand Umineko better if you have been "like a young girl in love". I think it is less his direct idea of Sex that comes into play here, but his idea of understanding the heart of another Gender.
This is going very deep into analysis here, but I think he actually does make a personal difference between what is expected from men and women and what they actually feel. Umineko as a whole is basically also a huge comment about Gender and social roles, people not conforming to their expected roles or not being able to fulfill them because of personal "shortcomings".
I think the same that he made Dlanor say about Beatrice, there being more personal bias in her story than she let herself believe, can be said for his story as well...and maybe his motivation to create "Our Confession" was this realization.
He himself wanted to make us see that "there is love in everybody", but looking back at what he wrote he realized that he clearly despised certain actions no matter how motivated they might appear from another perspective.
|2012-12-11, 13:58
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Also, it's stated clear that Kinzo's pre-series death is valid for all games (except for the two last ones), but is it stated that "people wouldn't mistake something or someone for Kinzo" is valid for all games?
|2012-12-11, 14:18
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It's hard to take the last part of Turn seriously as some kind of information pump to begin with. Sometimes a witch party is just a witch party.
I'm not saying a man can't write a woman plausibly and relatably (or vice-versa). However, taking into account many of the perspectives he's put forth in interviews, he comes across as being far less understanding of gender than his actual precedent texts suggest he is... or was, prior to Chiru. Either that or he's just not getting his feelings across the way he intends to, because his morality and attitude toward gender roles is markedly different (and, I think, mostly competently-handled) in-story.
Of course, the entire thing could be more of a reference or example, a metaphor for something else. I suppose it depends how autobiographical you see Yasu as being. He may be conveying something considerably more personal but no fundamentally different than the more commonly-understood expectations of ordinary masculinity/femininity within the culture of his reader base. It may be something he can't come out and say, so he has to continue to use examples when discussing the matter with people. In so doing, perhaps he says things off-the-cuff that he doesn't entirely mean, things which contradict his earlier standpoints which he arrived at after having more time to think about it and get his thoughts in order. Because he wasn't actually talking about that thing, he was talking about himself and how he personally feels about an issue that he hopes people will understand in the same way they understand the more overt themes of identity in his novel.
Not to say I'm outright stating that he is homosexual, or has a gender identity issue, or anything like that. However, I think it's a perspective that has to be considered given the themes of the story, and it might reconcile his seemingly contradictory opinions on matters he doesn't fully relate to as a less-than-perfect effort to explain his unspoken personal identity development with more socially-acceptable metaphors. The idea is really more to be understood as a person (or as a "human" as he might put it); which identities and expectations clash will vary from person to person, but it is possible to put those into a form of expression (through fiction) that others can comprehend and empathize with. In other words, you need not have actually been a young girl in love, but you need some commonality of human experience to understand what that's like when it's presented to you.
Whether I agree with his conclusions on common experience and empathy (especially in relation to moral obligation) would be another matter entirely. But if that sort of empathy is what he's driving at, I can understand it even if I'm critical of the plausibility of his examples.
|2012-12-11, 14:22
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|2012-12-11, 14:48
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And yet, Beatrice claims that she did plan everything out from the very beginning.
|2012-12-11, 15:28
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Plus Ryukishi has claimed the George/Shannon romance is genuine. He might mean between George and the fictional character of Shannon, of course.
EDIT: Haha, speaking of the Logic Error, reading over one of KNM's transcripts he commits a rather bad error of logic himself in discussing the "even if you join us" red. He posits that the inverse of a logical proposition is necessarily true (if p -> q, therefore if !p -> !q), which is not actually the case. Granted, it seems to have absolutely nothing to do with the point he's making, but it's hard to take someone seriously who doesn't know the difference between an inverse and a contrapositive.
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|2012-12-11, 18:50
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I'd say that anything we have before Oct 4, 1986, while it may be part of the narrative, isn't really "on the gameboard". It's more like an explanation of the setup, and every game does that (even Legend, which just introduces the humans and the dynamics between them).
What's it gotta do with gameboard PROOF that Shannon is a murderer?
|2012-12-11, 19:20
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It's definitely possible for us to find evidence of Beatrice as the killer in this section. I think I was one of the first to try that post-EP6, at least on this board. However, Ryuukishi has made a point about giving suspects the benefit of the doubt several times in Umineko, so I'd like to look at this section again.
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This post was originally published in my Lusty Vegan column on www.iEatGrass.com.
Last Friday night my roomie had some of her dude friends over to hang out before we all headed out to the bars. In between pretending I understand their jobs in finance, I overheard the following conversation:
Dude 1: Where's Johnny?
Dude 2: Oh he's on a date.
Dude 3: What!? With who?
Dude 2: That girl from the bar last weekend. He is taking her to Capital Grille…
Dude 1: He took her to Capital Grille on the first date?! That place is like 100 bucks a steak.
Dude 3: And I SAW that girl, she was not Capital Grille stuff.
Dude 2: Yeah, that girl was an Applebees.
Dude 1: Seriously. That girl was a Red Lobster. Capital Grille. What an idiot.
Needless to say, all of the women in the room were horrified. I then started bombarding them with questions. Do they really, truly decide where to take a girl on a date based on how attractive they are? Not how much they like them? Or their interests?
These guys were all between 23 and 26. And I have noticed a trend in men of this age and generation, and it is this: They rarely date. As in, take women on dates. And if they do, the dates are few and far in between.
In college, it was easy to avoid "real" dating without seeming ungentlemanly; we were all broke, and it was extremely easy to meet people and spend time with them socially without ever having to leave campus. I only went on dates with guys AFTER I was already dating them. The only actual "getting to know you" date I went on in college was with a woman. My college sweetheart was basically the nicest guy I have ever met, and very sensitive. But even he never asked me on "date" dates. In our "courting" days, we did go for a walk around campus as the sun was setting, however. We spent about 50 minutes deciding which bench was the best for making out on. We spent the rest of our pre-couple period making out at parties and in lofted dorm beds.
But when I found myself single after college, I guess I sort of had some weird idea that I would go on these grown up dates, to dinners and concerts and fancy parties. I didn't know people who threw fancy parties, but I expected them to somehow scuttle out of the woodwork like roaches after you turn the lights off. I went on about three dates in 6 months. Two of them were with the same guy, and the other was with a 40 year old recently divorced guy I met at karaoke, so he doesn't fit in the generation I am scrutinizing.
My current boyfriend DID take me on dates in the few weeks before he was my boyfriend. Unfortunately, we had been friends for 10 years before, and so I thought we were just hanging out, and he was paying. I didn't understand they were dates. We even held hands at a museum exhibit, and I STILL didn't understand they were dates. In fact, I invited some other guy I was interested in to dinner with us directly afterward. It was awkward. I am dumb. But I am not alone.
A friend of mine went through an idiotic experience where she was seeing this guy for about three months who wouldn't take her on a date. He would invite her over to watch movies a la college, he would invite her out with his friends, shower her in free booze at the bar—proving it probably wasn't a money issue. He even invited her over to have dinner with his parents near the end—proving that he probably did like her…he didn't think she was "an Applebees." But he seemed incapable of taking her out. The idiotic bit was not on his part. He obviously had no idea he should be be taking her to do something—anything. The idiotic bit was that she REFUSED to sleep with him until he did. He never did, they never did, and they stopped seeing each other. Poor guy.
I am not sure why the majority of guys in my age bracket seem incapable of taking a woman out. We can't even talk about where to take her, or argue if the guy should pay or not if they won't even invite her out of the apartment. The dudesters in the above convo all seemed surprised that their friend was even on a date in the first placel What single 24 year old man goes on dates, they wondered. As if Dude 2 had told them all Johnny was spending his evening lifting tires with his teeth, or something equally as ridiculous.
I know this is not a conscious thing men are doing…at least I hope. And honestly part of me blames our ease in communication. Ten years ago if you wanted to see a girl, you called her on the phone and made plans. Why call a girl when you can text her? And why make plans when you can say "You going to Tigins this weekend? Word. Me too. See you there. Smiley face."
This can't be all the man's fault. That is just unfair. Females have to be part of the problem too. Maybe they don't ask us out because they know we will eventually sleep with them anyway? Or maybe because women these days give of an air of independence that says "Please don't try to buy me dinner." If this was just a problem that only I had when I was single, I would just maybe think I was "an Applebees" and go cry in a bathtub whilst feeling bad about myself. But the majority of my female friends lament over this issue, even the ones that are so funny/hot/smart/sweet they are clearly "Capital Grilles." I don't know. Someone tell me. It's an epidemic of sorts.
To get a bit of perspective, I asked a few of my most sensitive male mates—ones I consider as the type to take a girl out—if they take girls on dates. Out of the ten I asked, two responded yes, five responded no, and three just didn't respond probably because the answer is no and they knew I would then judge them.
Bonus points for the ice skating and paintball. Not so much for that last bit…Let's have another…
That last one may or may not have been my manfriend….Notice I also asked what they DO on these dates? And if they pay. That's another article for another day. The point of THIS rant is if you like someone, TAKE A GIRL OUT FOR F*CK'S SAKE. Don't text her all week long and then try to follow her home from the bar on Friday. That's just douchey. Unless, of course, you don't like her, and just want to sleep with her. Then go ahead and commence with the douchbaggery.
Next week, one of iEG's own writers, Andrew Johnson, who also happens to be eligible young vegan and SINGLE (unicorn alert) will be giving a little dating advice to 20 something dudes. I know there are some sensitive guys out there, but even the male friends I asked—and I only asked my crème de la crème of male friends…not the asshats who had the above conversation—seemed to be a bit clueless. Some, not all.
Okay, Gen Y women, do you go on many dates? Gen Y men, do you take many women out? Why or why not. Everyone from EVERY generation–has dating changed? What is wrong with us?