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Pinterest Updates Terms Of Service... And People Are Still Overreacting
from the but-of-course deptI have to admit that I'm still at a loss over people freaking out over Pinterest. It's pretty much a non-issue, but it refuses to go away. I think I've finally figured out what's going on, however. Some copyright extremists are using Pinterest to try to whip people into a frenzy about nothing, such that they can use that against other sites later as well -- and, once they got going, Pinterest became a "proxy" for all other internet services and (by extension) computing itself.
Last Friday, for example, Pinterest updated its terms of service to clarify the parts where some people were very confused and freaking out. While they certainly didn't go to the lengths that Tumblr went to to make its terms of service "human" readable, the updates do clarify things. The key change, for example, was removing the word "sell" from the list of things that you grant a license to Pinterest over, as the company notes it never intended to sell anyone's content. I can pretty much guarantee how this happened. The lawyers who drafted the terms pulled the boilerplate list of rights you grant, and "sell" is always on that list. As we noted in the Tumblr TOS post, it's really just to give the company legal protection in case it sells something that has a tidbit of something someone uploaded. It's not that hard to come up with a scenario where that might happen. But overly paranoid folks turned this into some nefarious plan by Pinterest to get people to violate copyrights so it could sell the results.
But, as mentioned above, this isn't calming down the maximlaist extremists. The folks over at the "Artists' Bill of Rights" (which is not what it sounds like -- it's a front for copyright extremists, paying almost no attention to how artists actually create) are still very upset about Pinterest's terms of service and are interpreting everything in the most nefarious of ways.
The philosophy of their site is still to encourage members to copy content from other people or organisations' websites to the Pinterest website, then place the entire legal responsibility on their members for such copying.Horror of horrors. Pinterest is a service provider who would like to make money at same point -- just as the copyright maximalist artists would like to make money. Why is it evil when a service provider does it, but not when an artist does it? And, the fact is that Pinterest doesn't make any money at all if it's not useful. So, as you can expect, the folks at the Artist Bill of Rights want to guarantee Pinterest is not at all useful. For example, they attack the fact that Pinterest is now pointing people to ChillingEffects claiming that it's a site that is all about "protect[ing] the economic interests of the tech business model". Say what?! A site that highlights how copyright law is abused to stifle free speech and creativity is about protecting free speech and creativity. Anyone aiming to protects artists' rights should celebrate Chilling Effects.
Why? Because the PInterest business model has to start making money at some point. How can it do this? By monetising the content belonging to other people copied to it's website, possibly via advertising or affilliate programs, or in some other way. It may not be monetising that content overtly at present, but it must do so at some stage because it is gobbling up a lot of investors money to keep it afloat. As soon as it starts monetising the content the cat will be out of the bag and legal actions will commence. They are still in a period of grace - but for how long?
The other complaint? That Pinterest isn't "pro-active" in monitoring the site for infringement:
We will continue to complain that Pinterest are NOT being pro-active in ensuring that copyright infringements are minimised.And it's that line that highlights the reality. The folks hating on Pinterest aren't really worried about the law. Pinterest already goes well above and beyond what the law says they have to do. What they're complaining about is that the world isn't the way they want it to be. They're complaining that the world doesn't magically block copying. In other words, they're luddites who can't fathom why a world in which computers actually work is a good thing, and prefer to go back to a past where there were no computers. Computers copy. It's what they do. Tons of services have popped up over the years to let people do useful stuff, but much of that stuff only works because computers make copies. Making collections of photos -- all with links back to the original content, which has already been shown to drive significant traffic -- seems like it should be a good thing. Unless you hate computers and the fact that they copy.
The anger here isn't about Pinterest. It's about computers. They'd have as much luck telling the tide which way to go.
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The No. 6 University of Alabama gymnastics team will open its home schedule tonight at Coleman Coliseum against the No. 5 LSU Tigers.
The Crimson Tide won its season opener on the road against the Missouri Tigers, 196.45-192.025, last Friday and is looking to build off that performance.
TUSCALOOSA| The No. 6 University of Alabama gymnastics team will open its home schedule tonight at 7:30 at Coleman Coliseum against the No. 5 LSU Tigers.
The Crimson Tide won its season opener on the road against the Missouri Tigers, 196.45-192.025, last Friday and is looking to build off that performance.
"We were all really proud of how we did," junior Kim Jacob said. "Obviously, there was some little mistakes and a lot to improve on. We're just ready to get out there. We've been working hard all preseason and just had nothing left to do but get a start going."
This week's Tigers present a much tougher challenge than last week's. LSU already has two wins under its belt, including one against the No. 3 Florida Gators.
LSU's score of 196.875 against Florida is the third-highest score posted by anyone in the country so far in the young season.
"I think they try really hard in every one, but I do feel like they'll know the importance of (facing LSU)," Alabama coach Sarah Patterson said about her team's mindset. "They know that it will come down to the last person, the last two people on balance beam and floor exercise. That's the way it's going to come down if you want to win."
As will be the case all season, the Crimson Tide knows it will have a target on its back, as it strives for a third straight national championship. It will get every team's best shot, which can be especially dangerous against a team like LSU.
"We have this competitive mark on our back and those teams want to come in here and they want to beat us because they want to say they beat the defending national champions," Patterson said. "LSU has always had a little bit of a better competitive spirit, because I always feel like they have something to prove. Maybe they haven't won the SEC Championship or they haven't won a national championship. So for them, they want to come out and beat us and show everybody, 'this is our year.'"
It will be the first of two meetings between the schools in the regular season. They will meet again in Baton Rouge. It's the first time Alabama will face the same school twice in the regular season since 2009, when the Crimson Tide faced the Auburn Tigers both on the road and at home.
Patterson said the decision came down to wanting to have the most challenging schedule possible to prepare her team for the postseason, while maintaining a reasonable travel schedule.
"My goal is find competition," she said. "You can go across the country and compete, but really, to compete against LSU, that's an easy trip. They have a good crowd, they help us draw good crowds."
There will also be a little bit of extra motivation for the meet, according to one gymnast.
"I think our rivalry with them kind of starts on the football field," Domier said.
"It's always a great game in the fall and we try to bring that same energy to the LSU gymnastics meet every year."

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Zambia stunned the Ivory Coast yesterday in winning the African Cup of Nations after a 17-minute 8-7 penalty shootout.
The shootout became necessary only because Chelsea striker Didier Drogba blew an easy penalty shot in regulation for the Ivorian side, which lost despite not conceding a single goal in the tournament.
But the best moment came after Zambian Stoppila Sunzu found the net to clinch victory 19 years after a plane crash killed nearly all the members of the Zambia national team. Joseph Musonda—who came out of the match in the 11th minute after suffering an injury—found himself in the arms of manager Herve Renard, who carried him onto the pitch so he could celebrate with his teammates. It looked remarkably like Kerri Strug and Bela Karolyi in 1996.
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I don't know what conclusion the correspondent who sent me this pair of articles meant for me to draw, but I think they nicely illustrate how centralizing power with the federal government fails to advance environmental values, while eroding others.
First, there's the AP story showing deep and extensive ties between offshore oil and gas companies and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Enforcement and Regulation. That's the renamed Minerals Management Service, the agency that was supposed to prevent things like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill last summer.
Everyone dreams of a "real regulator" that will clean up industry, protect public values, and smartly manage economic activity. What you routinely end up with is a pro-industry self-dealing agency that fails to protect the values it was assigned while mismanaging productive activity. Case in point.
Next, woe be it to the environmental activist who goes monkey-wrenching government-industry plans. Tim DeChristopher has been sentenced to two years in prison and fined $10,000 for derailing a government auction of oil and gas leases near two national parks in Utah. DeChristopher ran up bids on 13 parcels totaling more than 22,000 acres near Arches and Canyonlands national parks, then failed to make good on his bids.
I suspect I would find DeChristopher's environmentalism at least overwrought, but when did it become a criminal offense to default on an auction bid? When the government got into the business, that's when. Instead of, say, pre-qualifying bidders, it evidently just uses its monopoly on coercion to lock up people who mess around with its action.
Command-and-control is probably the simplest way to advance environmental values, but it has failed so dramatically so many times, and it fosters a punitive state that jails its citizens. The simplest way to advance environmental goals may not be the best.
If you prioritize the environment, and if you've read this far in this post, I suspect you might be willing to consider more harmonious ways of pushing for a greener planet, ways that respect and use private property rights and that don't put people in jail. Free-market environmentalism exists, though it's a ways off from here.


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The Lorentz groups act on the scalar fields as: $\phi'(x)=\phi(\Lambda^{-1} x)$
The conditions for an action of a group on a set are that the identity does nothing and that $(g_1g_2)s=g_1(g_2s)$. This second condition is not fulfilled because of the inverse on $\Lambda$. What is then the action of the Lorentz group on the scalar fields?


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Zen and the art of payroll
One of Silicon Valley's most high-flying IPOs of 2012 belonged to Workday, which puts HR software in the cloud. So it only stands to reason that other companies would be lining up to bring similar boring-but-important business tasks into the modern era.
Companies such as San Francisco's ZenPayroll, which came out of stealth mode Tuesday morning. The Y Combinator seedling promises to deliver what it calls "modern, delightful payroll." For most of us, the delightful part of payroll is the check that shows up every two weeks, but ZenPayroll CEO Joshua Reeves says that from an employer's perspective, legacy payroll software is overly complicated and expensive.
Reeves, in a press release, said his product is both secure and easy to use, requiring no lengthy installation or training. He also claims it saves employers time and money by automating tax calculations and filing government documents online. All of which sounds, well, boring but also important; ZenPayroll says the IRS last year socked employers with more than $5 billion in payroll tax penalties, which the company blames in part on kludgy software.
Reeves certainly doesn't seem to have had any trouble selling his vision to a slate of high-profile angel investors, who have chipped in on a $6.1 million seed round. They include Box CEO Aaron Levie, Yammer chief David Sacks, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman and Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo. "I come across tons of enterprise software companies, and ZenPayroll has one of the strongest team pedigrees," Levie told me. Reeves sold his last startup — Palo Alto-based unwrap, which helped users create business apps for Facebook — in 2010 for an undisclosed sum.
Levie noted that the market for payroll software is "in the tens of billions. They can do for payroll what Salesforce did for CRM (customer relationship management) — making it available to businesses everywhere, at a lower cost, and with a dramatically better user experience."
I was also intrigued to notice that ZenPayroll's bevy of investors includes Drew Houston, CEO of Levie's archrival, Dropbox. So if these two guys can agree on something, maybe it really is important … even if it's boring.
— Peter Delevett
will intel make chips for apple?
Considerable speculation has been spewing from blogs and Wall Street analysts lately that Intel might make chips for Apple's iPhone, which seemingly would be a big plus for the Santa Clara semiconductor giant.
Intel is trying to make headway in the smartphone market, and the task would be much easier with a customer as dominant in the mobile-device market as Apple.
When asked about the idea at an analyst conference earlier this month, Intel's retiring CEO Paul Otellini was tantalizingly vague, noting, "there's nothing to say we can't."
But in a note to his clients, Raymond James analyst Hans Mosesmann scoffed at the idea as "amusing.'" Among other concerns, he doubted it would make sense financially for Intel and feared it might merely send the industry a signal that Intel's traditional chip business "isn't working."
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Former Yahoo chief product officer Blake Irving has landed a new job as CEO at Go Daddy, the Arizona-based Web-hosting service that's known for making it easy to set up your own website, and for some controversial TV ads featuring scantily clad models.
In a quick phone interview Tuesday, Irving joked that the new job is a natural fit because he's been a Go Daddy customer for years, as the proprietor of some 45 Web domains that are hosted on the company's servers. Irving, who led the development of Yahoo's product strategy and a division that built a new publishing platform among other things, explained that he's always been the go-to guy for friends and relatives who needed help setting a website for their startup or nonprofit ventures.
More seriously, Irving said he sees a big opportunity to expand Go Daddy's business beyond Web hosting, by helping startups and small companies with things like social media campaigns and mobile apps.
In places like Brazil and India, he said, "very few people are getting on the Web using PCs. It's all happening on mobile devices. Those mobile devices are the portal to the Internet today."
Irving spent 15 years as a senior executive at Microsoft before he was hired at Yahoo by then-CEO Carol Bartz. He left the Sunnyvale Internet company last year when Bartz's successor, Scott Thompson, reorganized and disbanded much of the division Irving led.
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A cluster of Silicon Valley startups were shouting "Show me the money" Tuesday, and the biggest hauls were being raked in by companies whose founders have famous spouses.
Upscale home-decor e-tailer One Kings Lane landed a $50 million Series D venture round led by late-stage firm Institutional Venture Partners. Previous backers Kleiner Perkins, Greylock Partners and Tiger Global Management were also in on the deal. OKL, as it's known among devotees, was co-founded in 2009 by Alison Pincus, whose husband, Mark, is CEO of Zynga.
Fifty million also is the magic number for Mountain View's 23andMe, which announced its own D round Tuesday. The personal genetics company, which sells swab-and-mail home DNA kits and has compiled a massive database of user genotypes, landed the loot courtesy of new investor Yuri Milner, along with past backers New Enterprise Associates, Google Ventures and Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Brin, of course, is married to 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki, who unlike Ali Pincus has held firm to the CEO's reins at her company. 23andMe's press release also points out that Wojcicki invested in the round herself, independent of Brin's contribution.
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Barcelona may have lost their Primera Division title but they had a host of winners in the Professional Football League's 2011/12 season awards which were announced on Tuesday, with Lionel Messi named best player and Pep Guardiola best coach.
Barca, who saw their three-year reign as Spanish champions ended by Real Madrid, also saw Messi named the Primera Division's best striker, Andres Iniesta best attacking midfielder while Carles Puyol won the fair play award. Barcelona B's Marc Bartra, meanwhile, was voted the best defender in the second division.
Madrid also enjoyed success in the fourth edition of the LFP awards, with Iker Casillas named best goalkeeper, Sergio Ramos best defender and Xabi Alonso best central midfielder.
The awards are voted for by the players and coaches of the top two divisions in Spain.
Messi edged out Madrid duo Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema for the best player award in the top flight after netting 50 goals last term.
The Argentinian, winning his two awards for the fourth successive year, said: "I want to thank the coaches who have voted me the best player and my professional colleagues who have named me best player. I'm very happy and very proud."
In his final season at the Nou Camp, Guardiola led Barca to victory in the Copa del Rey, Spanish Super Copa, European Super Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup. The Catalan giants were also second in the Primera Division and reached the Champions League semi-finals.
Madrid captain Casillas, winning his award for the second time, said: "Thanks to all the coaches for putting their trust in me. They are the people who best understand football, and I hope to do it again in the future. This award is also a credit to my team-mates in a season that was pretty good at both an individual and collective level."
Malaga youngster Isco won the breakthrough player crown in the Primera Division while the best player in the Segunda Division was Deportivo La Coruna veteran Juan Carlos Valeron.


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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) Trevis Simpson scored a career-high 41 points to help UNC Greensboro string together back-to-back wins for the first time this season, beating Southern Conference-rival Chattanooga 77-69 Sunday.
Simpson, who had 30 points in the Spartans' Jan. 24 matchup with Samford, made 14 of 25 shots and tied a career-high with seven 3-pointers. Nicholas Paulos aided Simpson with 11 points off the bench as UNC Greensboro's other four starters went a combined 7 for 29.
Z. Mason had 17 points and 11 boards for Chattanooga (8-13, 3-5), which has lost two straight and four of its last five.
UNC Greensboro (6-13, 4-4) led 43-34 at halftime. Chattanooga cut the deficit to 67-65 with 2:14 left behind consecutive baskets by Mason but the Spartans scored eight straight to pull away.
The Mocs outshot UNC Greensboro 44 percent (22 of 50) to 40.6 percent (26 of 64), but the Spartans converted 11 treys.


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If you're done looking for adventure after riding that Harley all day, come home to your crash pad and flop down on this motorcycle chair. With its leather-ish seat padded deep to quiet down that hyper-vibrated ass, the leather-tasseled biker bags hanging on armrest/wheels will make you feel right at home.
That eagle on the seatback is vaguely reminiscent of Harley-Davidson, but not quite the same thing. Even so, it's a great piece of furniture for bikers who have motorcycles on the brain even when they're asleep. Potato-potato-potato sound effects not included. It's 2000, or about $3789.
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The problem with text boxes is the determination of the cursor position, and the coordinates of areas around highlighted text. There are ways to compute this information with a CustomElement. We have been asked for a vector text box many times, so some basic version must be in the standard distribution.
The other types of UI elements mentioned by Lazarus are fairly easy to implement in the current VG.net release. Our plan is to provide non-graphical base classes, in the form of source code and binaries, for these basic UI elements, as well as derived classes demonstrating how to create your own visual look.
When I say non-graphical base class, I mean a Picture containing logic, but no Elements. Elements within the Picture will be retrieved by name by the base class or by virtual properties. By overriding properties your derived class can plug in the Elements needed by the base class -- you can design the derived class in the designer.
Justin has lots of experience developing advanced UI libraries using VG.net. His proposed UI library has complex controls and lots of properties that go beyond the basic ones planned for the standard VG.net distribution. Justin, I can put a screen shot on our site if you wish to add one to this thread.
The layout and keyboard focus Justin mentions are important features, but neither feature is strictly necessary for the basic controls mentioned by Lazarus.


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The Viking at Stamford Bridge
"But there was one of the Norwegians who withstood the English folk,so that they could not pass over the bridge, nor complete the victory."
25 September 1066. The Saxons really had the Vikings by the balls now.
It had all started earlier that year, when King Edward the Confessor kicked the bucket without first having the good sense to nail some babe and leave England with a living heir. Anglo-Saxon bigwig Harold Godwinson was already in the neighborhood of the throne room so he went ahead and grabbed the crown for himself, but this kind of pissed off the Norwegian King, a massive badass Viking known as Harald Hardrada. There was also a third dude who staked a claim on the recently-vacated throne, some French bastard named William, but he was currently dicking around in Normandy doing God-knows-what and doesn't really figure into this tale at all.
Pissing off a Viking chieftain can generally only lead to one thing - hurt feelings and a copious amount of bloodshed. Within weeks of Harold Godwinson anointing himself King, a swarming horde of badass Viking warriors sailed into England on a river of blood and immediately began fucking up everything they came across like a rampaging plague of biblical locusts eating the first-born of Egypt during the Great Flood. The armies of Mercia and Northumbria marched forth in a feeble attempt to stem the tide, but both forces were quickly crushed in a frenzy of ball-crunching warhammers and whirling blood-stained longaxes. The town of Scarborough was sacked, pillaged, knocked over, burned to the ground and eaten by wolves, and it seemed as though there was little that the new King could do to slow down this marauding army of insane Viking madmen.
But all of a sudden the entire Saxon army had hopped on their sweet four-wheel-drive ATVs and covered 180 miles in four days, catching the Viking army camping at Stamford Bridge with their fucking loin cloths down. The Norse leaders had not expected the Saxons to mobilize nearly as quickly as they did, and when the horizon suddenly became alive with the fluttering banners and gleaming steel of five thousand enemy soldiers, the Northmen knew they were beyond totally fucked. Most of their armor and weapons, along with one-third of their army, was still waiting back at the ships - nearly a day's march away and about as much use to these disorganized troops as a last season's J. Crew catalog.
The charging Saxon army crashed into the small Viking camp on the West side of the River Derwent, cutting the unprepared Norsemen to shreds like a convicted felon shoving his buddy sack-first into a woodchipper on a cold Minnesota evening. Those who weren't immediately reduced to steaming piles of severed limbs and melted flesh attempted to flee across Stamford Bridge and join up with the rest of their allies on the East bank in order to regroup, gear up, pop a fresh clip into their Glocks and mount some sort of significant resistance. With all of the Viking warriors on the West bank either slaughtered or running for their lives, the Saxon forces prepared to charge over the river, jam their spears into the eyes of anyone wearing animal fur and complete the destruction of these Norse invaders once and for all. However, even with the Northman Army reeling and in complete disarray, victory would not come so easily for the Saxon Army.
Standing astride the bridge was one man. A giant Norse berserker silently surveyed the Saxon army, firmly clutching a massive double-bladed Greataxe in his weathered, calloused hands. A lone Viking hero granted permission by his King to die honorably in combat, tasked with defending the narrow bridge and buying time for his brethren to reorganize. His face was concealed by an imposing horned helm - metal plates reinforcing a mask constructed from the bleached bone remains of a fearsome animal skull, his wild eyes peering through the darkness like searing orbs of white-hot flame. A living demon, sent forth from the darkest recesses of Hell itself to exact brutal vengeance on any mortal brave or foolish enough to cross him, defying anyone with more balls than sense to test his wrath.
The full might of the Anglo-Saxon army charged the bridge, determined to extricate this colossal beast from his post through the sheer weight of their numbers, but the narrow walkway above the raging waters of the River Derwent was only wide enough for four men to stand abreast, and its guardian was unwavering in his resolve. The first rank of fighting men crashed full-speed into the Norseman like a school bus full of insolent teenagers being hurled face-first into a wall of unflinching spikes.
The war chants of ancient heroes sung in the fearless Viking's ears, as though an invisible primitive iPod were blasting the song "Freya" by The Sword at maximum volume as he wrought terrible havoc upon the apprehensive and overmatched Saxon footmen. His savage strikes felled even the bravest warriors in a single blow, cutting down mighty champions with the same effortless ease as Martha Stewart carving up slices of a warm pumpkin pie, while any attacks that penetrated his agile defenses failed to significantly wound him or even penetrate his battle-hardened hide. Swords shattered on impact with his chain mail, terrible blows rained upon his chest and arms failed to elicit even the slightest wince of pain, and this ferocious barbarian cut a swath of destruction in his wake, wading through these experienced, professional warriors like a Japanese movie monster plowing through a swimming pool full of strawberry Jell-O. Dismembered appendages and decapitated corpses littered the battlefield, the river itself ran red with the blood of fallen men, and the bridge soon appeared as though a schlocky Halloween prop store had just exploded upon it. His features were alive with the blood-lusted determination of a true Viking berserker, his clenched teeth were bared like the fangs of a rabid wolf, his Advanced Battle Rage boosting his STR and CON scores to inhuman levels... one man fearlessly battling five thousand, holding the bridge until death.
For almost an hour this resolute 20th Level Fighter single-handedly tore through the English like a chainsaw-wielding space marine with the God Mode cheat activated, shaking off even the most horrific wounds as if they were gunshot wounds from a laser tag weapon and slaughtering more soldiers than a bad Sci-Fi Channel Original movie. After watching this man unleash mayhem so brutal that it would make even the most hardcore MMA enthusiasts nauseous, one clever Saxon warrior wised up and decided not to try and test this barbarian's might. He floated a barrel in the river, hopped in, drifted underneath the bridge, and jammed his spear up through the planks, striking the Viking in his only weak point - the ball sack.
The Swift-Footed Achilles had his infamous heel, Smaug the Magnificent had a weak point covering his heart, and the Giant Enemy Crab could be exposed for massive damage - but for this invincible Viking warrior, a spear wound in the junk was the one thing that could slow him down. As he fell to his knees, lamenting his unfortunate situation, the Saxons poured over the bridge and into the now-organized Norse camp. The berserker was dealt one final death blow and began his spiritual journey across the Rainbow Bridge to Valhalla, where he would spend the afterlife chilling out drinking forties of malt liquor with Odin and waiting around for his opportunity to carve his enemies to pieces once again at Ragnarok. With their champion finally slain, the Viking lines eventually collapsed as the vengeful Saxons fell on them like a face-melting Hydrochloric acid rain made out of pointy spears and broadswords. During the battle, King Harald Hardrada of Norway was shot in the damn throat with an arrow, and the influence of the Vikings over the British crown was forever broken.
History never recorded the name of the insane, balls-out warrior who fought so ferociously on this day, but the songs of Viking skalds and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles do remember his deeds. When he finally succumbed to his numerous wounds and crashed to the earth, over forty Saxon soldiers lay dead at his feet, and dozens of wounded men were left helplessly crawling through the thick grass on the river bank, crippled by the savage onslaught of this crazy axe-swinging motherfucker. The full might of the English army had been completely halted by the strength of one man - the nameless Viking at Stamford Bridge.
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LearningConvocation features address by energy pioneer Tom McCalmont '76
Tom McCalmont delivered the Annual Convocation address to the Muskingum College community.
Mr. McCalmont has a distinguished legacy of entrepreneurial and technological achievements, and a deep commitment to creating a more energy efficient future for our world. Mr. McCalmont has earned 13 U.S. patents, pioneering innovative methods of applying new technologies.
A native of Iowa, Mr. McCalmont graduated from Muskingum in 1976 with a bachelor of science in physics. He earned a master of science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and completed the AEA/Stanford Executive MBA program. He is one of fewer than 150 people in North America to have passed the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners' training and certification process.
Mr. McCalmont co-founded REgrid Power in 2002, to advance environmentally-friendly means of power generation that conserve our natural resources and strengthen our economic landscape. Serving as chief executive officer and president, he has led the company to its position as one of California's most respected solar power companies, designing and installing solar energy systems throughout the San Francisco Bay area.
He has been at the forefront of creating industry-wide performance and installation standards for solar energy, leading the formation of the trade association Solartech and its efforts to reduce barriers to the widespread adoption of solar power.
Mr. McCalmont also has devoted his time, energy and talents to helping his neighbors in need, through REgrid Power's project sponsorship with Rebuilding Together Silicon Valley.
Prior to establishing REgrid Power, Mr. McCalmont founded and served as chief executive officer of Nuasis Corporation – now Intervoice Corporation – a company delivering next generation customer contact solutions. He also served as vice president and general manager of the Computer-Telephony Products Division of Aspect Software.
Mr. McCalmont and his wife Darlene, REgrid's co-founder and vice president, reside in San Jose, California. They are the parents of Stacey and Aaron.


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I know, I know.
It's been a very long time – quite some months – since I put anything up on here.
There is a reason for that, and one that isn't laziness…mostly.
The start of this year brought with it my final semester of tertiary study. After making the jump in 2011 to go to university on a full time basis I finally finished.
My graduation was not all that long ago, actually; just at the start of October.
Shockingly – quite shockingly – I actually did work this semester. It's amazing what happens when you actually apply yourself to what you're doing, and don't just skim through with the notion that you're actually pretty clever and don't need to work.
That got me pass marks, and a couple of credits. My final semester was all HDs. I do'nt mean to gloat, but I was pretty stoked with that. Actual application of brain yields results. If only that lesson had sunk in sooner, eh?
Anyway there was that. What followed was the post-university job hunt. That desperate quest to prove to yourself that what you've spent the last few years doing was not in vein and will set you on the path to doing the things you want to be doing.
Job hunting is a depressingly unpleasant experience.
"Hello there faceless HR person, I'm a smart chap with a sparkling personality not a single character flaw to be seen that would think it ever so sporting if you would allow me to throw myself on my knees in front of you and beg for the opportunity to work long hours doing menial tasks and be paid in something that might have once resembled Australian dollars. What do you say?"
Often the answer would be a polite "no, thanks". The majority of the time there wouldn't even be an answer.
You're left to wonder if anyone actually bothered to read your grammatically immaculate grovelling or if it was printed out then run straight through the shredder. I imagine the latter. HR people seem like the type to have a machine with that function.
So that wasn't fun.
Then there was dealing with Centrelink. Holy moly.
I will say however, that every time I got to deal with an actual person, they were lovely and helpful and sorted me out. The system it self, on the other hand, makes you want to get intimately acquainted with the business end of a semi-automatic weapon.
I filled out approximately a novella's worth of forms just to transfer from my student payment to The Dole. I haven't experienced it, but I'm sure getting a catheda run up my urethra would have been more enjoyable.
Declare this! Do you have one of these? Sorry, you're a what? You live where? How many shirts do you own?
You can fill out this form online, except this one section which must be chiseled into a stone tablet and handed to the high priest on the second Tuesday before Lent when the sun is just between the two trees on the eastern side of Crete.
Thankfully, this experience was short lived.
I finished my coursework in June and at the end of August the stars aligned. All those writing all those job applications that were instantly shredded paid dividends because someone eventually read one, liked it, and decided to offer me a job.
So all day now I sub-edit the words of other people – and sometimes write my own – crop photos so they fit the odd confines of our CMS, and sit around waiting for videos to encode amongst other things.
The job is good – I'm really enjoying it. The only downside is that it's in Sydney while I and still living in Newcastle.
So I have become intimately equated with the Newcastle to Sydney train, affectionately known as the Shitkansen. Come the new year, I will be reevaluating my living arrangements, that's for sure.
So that's where I've been. Fun, eh?


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BBC News
- TV licence: Boris Johnson says BBC must 'cough up' for over-75s
- Jeremy Corbyn risks scuppering no-confidence vote, says Jo Swinson
- England win epic Ashes test to keep series alive
- Woodmill High School closed after 'complex' fire
- Ariana Grande 'overwhelmed' on return to Manchester at Pride
- Climate change: Call for Scottish city centre ban on fossil fuel vehicles
- Port Talbot steelworks' waste gases could power flights
- Brexit: Boris Johnson says odds of striking deal 'touch and go'
- Donald Trump: UK is losing the 'anchor round its ankle'
- UK weather: Hottest late August bank holiday weekend on record
- Ross-on-Wye: Two killed in crash with ambulance
- Frinton-on-Sea: Police called as beachgoers left 'struggling to breathe'
- Creating Peter and the Wolf puppets for the Hollywood Bowl
- Inside the selfie factory for influencers
- Who was Sir Oswald Mosley?
- The joy of the backyard festival
- Mourne Mountains: Who owns the County Down mountains?
- 'The bank sent my safe house address to my abusive ex'
- Swansea Valley landslides: Living on a 'moving mountain'
- Bereaved families 'walk and talk' about suicide in Lanarkshire
- Why are retro sweets tasting success?
- Water scarcity: Five ways to avert a water crisis
- 'The Paralympics and the Olympics should be less separate'
- Does the fashion industry cater for disabled people?
- G7: Trump praises Johnson as 'right man' to deliver Brexit
- Why men are owning burlesque
- A street gym in Brixton is helping young people
- Courier parcel mishaps: 'My package was propping the window open'
- Queensbury Tunnel: Cycle way campaigners offer tunnel vision
- Scotland's papers: Sex attacker who walked free is 'danger to girls'
- Rory McIlroy fan hit by lightning at golf event 'bruised and shaken'
- South Stack: Concerns over new parking charges at beauty spot
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TAFTA/TTIP: What Are The Benefits? What Are The Costs?
from the profits-before-people dept
As we draw near to the conclusion of TAFTA/TTIP's first year of negotiations, the detailed differences are starting to emerge between the US and EU. But one thing they both take for granted is that it's a good idea. "Good" in this context is essentially about money: the argument is that concluding a trade deal between the US and EU will boost both their economies, increase companies' profits, create employment and generally make people better off. Of course, since all of those are in the future, the only way to justify those kind of claims is to model the likely effects of TTIP on the various economies -- of the US, EU and rest of the world.
That's precisely what a study entitled "Reducing Transatlantic Barriers to Trade and Investment; An Economic Assessment" aimed to do (pdf). Although it's not the only study, it's indubitably the most quoted -- its figures crop up in most articles about the benefits of TAFTA/TTIP. That's largely because it was paid for by the European Commission, and therefore forms the "official" predictions of the benefits that are likely to flow from the agreement:
An ambitious and comprehensive transatlantic trade and investment agreement could bring significant economic gains as a whole for the EU (€119/$165 billion a year) and US (€95/$131 billion a year). This translates to an extra €545/$750 in disposable income each year for a family of 4 in the EU, on average, and €655/$910.
Usually, those figures are repeated without further comment or analysis. That's unfortunate, because there are a number of important assumptions behind them. For example, the use of the phrase "ambitious and comprehensive" is no mere rhetorical flourish: it refers to the most optimistic scenario considered in the study -- in other words, the best-case outcome. Significantly, it not only assumes that all remaining tariffs will be removed -- since these are already low (around 4%), the benefit from doing so is slight -- but also many "non-tariff barriers", economist-speak for regulations and standards. Of course, what industry regards as "barriers", citizens may see more as protections.
The other fact that is almost never mentioned is that the Commission's figures quoted above all refer to 2027, and are the predicted gains from TAFTA/TTIP after it has been in place for 10 years. Leaving aside the difficulty of predicting the US and EU economies in 2027, it also means that the claimed increases in GDP -- 0.39% for the US, and 0.48% for the EU -- are cumulative gains over ten years, and amount to less than 0.05% extra GDP added per year.
Those figures not only refer to the "ambitious and comprehensive" scenario -- in other words, they are an upper bound on what is likely to be obtained -- but also fail to take into account key costs associated with the changes that TAFTA/TTIP would bring about. It's perhaps not surprising that the European Commission's own analysis does not include these -- after all, they reduce the already-small benefits yet further. But clearly, in considering whether to proceed with TTIP, politicians and the public need to have the full picture, and that includes the likely costs as well as the likely benefits.
Fortunately, estimates for those costs have now been produced in some new research. It has been commissioned by the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) political group in the European Parliament. That group has an obvious political agenda, but then so does the European Commission. What's important is to have a range of analyses of the benefits and costs of TAFTA/TTIP so as to be able to form an overall, independent opinion drawing on them all.
The report "Assessing the Claimed Benefits of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (pdf) offers a critical analysis not just of the European Commission's study, but of three others too. It examines their underlying econometric models in great detail to expose the assumptions made and data used. Here's its summary:
All of the four scrutinized studies report small, but positive effects on GDP, trade flows and real wages in the EU. GDP and real wage increases are however estimated by most studies to range from 0.3 to 1.3 %, even in the most optimistic liberalization scenarios. These changes refer to a level change within 10 to 20 years (!), annual GDP growth during this transition period would thus amount to 0.03 to 0.13 % at most.
That confirms that the very low GDP boost from TTIP, as predicted by the European Commission's study, is also a feature of the others. That's interesting for economists, but for non-specialists the new report's chief virtue is that for the first time it estimates the likely costs of TTIP. It points out that there are several major classes of these, largely ignored in the four studies considered:
Adjustment costs are mostly neglected or downplayed in the TTIP studies. This refers in particular to macroeconomic adjustment costs, which can come in the form of (i) changes to the current account balance, (ii) losses to public revenues, and (iii) changes to the level of unemployment.
These are costs associated with the changes brought about by TAFTA/TTIP. For example, removing tariff barriers necessarily reduces the income received by governments; the GUE/NGL study considers this in various scenarios, and comes up with a cost over 10 years of around €30/$40 bn for the EU economy. Costs are not calculated for the US, unfortunately, but it is likely that a similar figure would apply there too.
There are also significant labor adjustment costs, as some industries take on new workers, while others make them redundant. The report estimates these at around €10/$14 bn over the first ten years of TTIP. There will also be concomitant losses as a result of lower income tax and social security contributions from those who lose their jobs -- another €7/$10 bn.
That makes a total of €47/$64 bn. On top of that, there are two other important classes of costs. One is those arising out of corporate sovereignty payments. These can reach billions of euros/dollars per award, and are likely to become common given that there are 75,000 companies that could use an ISDS chapter in TTIP to sue the US or EU. The amount potentially involved is hard to quantify at this stage, as are the associated "social costs" of removing non-tariff barriers:
the elimination of [non-tariff barriers] will result in a potential welfare loss to society, in so far as this elimination threatens public policy goals (e.g. consumer safety, public health, environmental safety), which are not taken care of by some other measure or policy. Though subject to considerable insecurity, these types of adjustment costs might be substantial, and require careful case-by-case analysis. As we will see in the following, although the social costs of regulatory change are of particular relevance for the analysis of TTIP because of its emphasis of regulation issues, they have not been dealt with properly by the four scrutinized TTIP studies.
In other words, the cost of removing or harmonizing regulations and standards is not fully included in the calculation of whether TAFTA/TTIP is worth pursuing. Once again, that reveals that TTIP is currently seen purely through the optic of business -- whether profits are increased, not whether society must pay a corresponding, or even higher, price to make that possible.
While some will doubtless argue about the details of the new GUE/NGL analysis, it has the valuable function of reminding us that TAFTA/TTIP is not just about corporate profits, but also concerns the 800 million people who make up the citizenry of the US and EU. Until they are included in the equation, and their potential losses and gains factored in, any claims about TTIP's "benefits" -- even the tiny ones that the European Commission's analysis comes up with in its "ambitious and comprehensive" agreement -- must be regarded as simplistic, one-sided and incomplete.
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Professor Vlad Pribiag was named as a recipient of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Young scientist prize in Low Temperature Physics for 2017. He will be presented with the prize at the International Low Temperature Physics Conference in Gothenburg Sweden this August.
Pribiag was cited "for his important contributions to two main areas of low temperature and nanoscale physics: superconductivity in the edge modes of two-dimensional topological insulators; spin-dependent quantum transport in one-dimensional semiconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling. His results have elucidated key aspects of the electronic properties of these novel materials, which are candidates for quantum and classical information processing."
The prize consists of a certificate, medal and a monetary award.


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July 16, 1928 - October 15, 2013
Wanda Jean Sims, 85, was born in Parkdale, Arkansas and was the last surviving child of thirteen children born to Andrew Daniel and Otta Curtis. She married Bernie Sims (deceased) on June 10, 1950 and made her home in Stockton, California raising their two children Jack Sims (deceased) and Betty Johnson. She was a loving grandmother to Betty's four children Riane, Kelsey, Ian and Holly.
A gracious homemaker and cannery worker before retiring, Wanda divided her time between family, the Rainbow Rebekah Lodge #97, the Loyalty Court #38 Order of the Amaranth, and volunteered for thirty years for the Commodities Distribution of San Joaquin County. Always ready to lend a helping hand to friends and family, Wanda spent hours freely giving homemade handicrafts and goodies for the enjoyment of those around her. Wanda was a three time cancer survivor. She will be greatly missed by family and friends.
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I want to learn how to calculate the temperature dependent conductivity induced by electron-phonon interaction.
I know in low temperature, the resistance in metal $\rho$ is proportional to $T^5$, $T$ is the temperature. In high temperature region, $\rho$ is linear to $T$.
Could someone tell me which text book and which chapter can I find related calculations?
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I have read lot of questions related to deleted questions or answers to be available for users to see in their profiles, but my question is, does excess deletion of our own questions and answers attract penalty from the owners/moderators of SO?
Sometimes what happens is, when we see a question, we don't understand it properly but jump into them to answer to get early upvotes and later (when we get downvoted) we realize our mistake and would want to delete our own answers. The reason could be any of the following:
- The answer is just not reasonable enough for the question asked.
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- Your answer has 0 upvotes and a better answer is already available for the question.
- The question gets edited and your answer is no longer valid. New people would not know that the question has been edited and they start downvoting your answer since it's no longer relevant.
In doing this we might go to extreme cases, maybe in the range of deleting hundreds of our answers. So is there an upper limit for the number of answers we can delete in order to avoid penalty (if there is any such penalty for deletion)?


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beyerdynamic live on stage at Superdrumming Festival (Austria) 2013
All drummer and percussion enthusiasts enjoyed the 4th Superdrumming Festival to the fullest. On the 26th and 27th October 2013 there was a gathering, as in the previous years in 2000, 2003 and 2008, at the congress centre "Toskana" in Gmunden, Austria of distinct drumming and percussion specialists. Such great drummers as Terry Bozzio (in the past Frank Zappa), Jojo Mayer (Nerve) to Benny Greb (Stoppok, 3ergezimmer) or Ralf Gustke (Söhne Mannheims, Schiller) were there.
In addition to the clinics and concerts of the drummers and ensembles there was a comprehensive drum exhibition of leading manufacturers. The visitors had the chance to talk directly to the manufacturers about innovations and to test the products. At the booths there was also a factory sale with unique outlet prices.
Among other well-known companies of the music industry, beyerdynamic was not only represented as an exhibitor, but also as a manufacturer for headphones and microphones. Furthermore, they were also responsible for the overall onstage miking arrangements of both stages.


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W hen Lawrence "Joe" Maurer graduated from an Indiana medical school in 1939, he had no idea where his profession would lead.
He completed his residency at Children's Hospital in Denver, then was working at a hospital in Kansas City, Mo., during the outbreak of World War II. He tried to sign up for military service but was turned down because of a stomach ulcer.
"I was free to go wherever I wanted," Maurer, now 98, said in a recent interview. Maurer and his wife, Helen, returned to Colorado in 1942 and settled in Boulder. After filling a wartime need for physicians, he made a lifelong contribution to the Boulder community.
Deciding on Boulder, though, took some time. Maurer drove his Plymouth Coupe from Denver to Greeley in search of the ideal place in which to settle. When Maurer got to Boulder, he was offered $100 a month to join the established practice of Dr. H.H. Heuston, whose former partner had gone off to war. The offer was too good to refuse.
In the early days, Maurer and Heuston saw patients in their office on the top floor of the First National Bank Building (now the Broadway Building) on the southeast corner of Broadway and Pearl streets. Office visits cost $2-$3.
As a general practitioner, Maurer's work included treating sick children, setting bones, assisting with surgeries and delivering an unknown — but believed to be significant — number of babies.
Asked about the births, he said, "Someday, I'm going to go to the health department, ask to look at the birth certificates and see just how many babies I delivered."
Maurer continued his education by attending weekly seminars at Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center in Aurora. At one of these sessions, in 1943, he learned that penicillin (the new "miracle drug") was being used in the war to treat soldiers with bacterial infections.
At the time, Maurer had a patient with meningitis.
"I knew that if we could get a hold of penicillin, we could cure her," he said.
With assistance from the Red Cross, he arranged for the very first dose of penicillin to be delivered to Boulder, where he gingerly gave it intravenously to his patient. The Maurers and the patient became good friends, and she lived a long life.
Maurer often would be asked to make house calls on his way home. "Most of the time, I just held the patients' hands and told them they'd be all right," said Maurer, who believes today's doctors don't spend enough time talking with their patients.
He always carried his medical bag with him, and he admits to sewing up a lot of people on his kitchen table. Helen, now deceased, assisted by going on house calls, as well as raising the couple's four children.
Maurer continues to live in the house he bought for his family more than a half century ago.
In 1949, Maurer and nine other physicians started the Boulder Medical Center on Broadway and Balsam. Today, Maurer and colleague Clyde Gelwick are the only survivors from the group.
Of Maurer's long and fulfilling profession as a general practitioner, he said, "It just made me feel good to be able to help people."
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Low-income Marylanders with disabilities file lawsuit over extensive Medicaid delays
Contact: Camilla Roberson, Public Justice Center, (410) 625-9409 x224; Carolyn Johnson, Homeless Persons Representation Project;(410) 685-6598 x23; Marc Cohan or Jenny Pelaez, National Center for Law and Economic Justice; (212) 633-6967.
Baltimore, MD (1/18/2013)
This week the Public Justice Center and the Homeless Persons Representation Project filed a class action lawsuit against the Maryland Department of Human Resources (DHR), to challenge longstanding delays in processing applications for and providing Medicaid benefits to eligible adults with disabilities. For these low-income Maryland residents with serious medical needs, Medicaid is the only way they can afford critical doctor care and prescription drugs.
"No one should have to go through this," said Mary Lou, the named plaintiff, who has been waiting for nearly a year for desperately needed medical benefits. "It's just wrong and I want to do my part to make sure other people don't have to suffer and get sicker just because they don't have the money or the insurance."
Mary Lou lost her insurance benefits after her husband was laid off due to the economy. Soon, she was unable to pay to see doctors to help her manage her disabilities. Mary Lou had no other choice but to apply for Medicaid. Although an eligibility determination is supposed to be made within 60 days under state law, Mary Lou had been waiting for a decision for more than 233 days.
"Her case is typical of others I see everyday," said Carolyn Johnson of the Homeless Persons Representation Project. "People with serious medical conditions apply for Medicaid and then wait months, often more than a year, for the state to process their applications and provide benefits. During that time they can't afford to see doctors or afford testing and treatment, including prescriptions and medical supplies. So they go without healthcare until serious conditions deteriorate and become acute or life-threatening, which often means they end up in the emergency room costing the state far more money."
According to the state's own report, as of December 31, 2012 there were 20,007 pending applications for MA-ABD statewide, meaning the state still had not processed and determined eligibility on these cases. Of the pending cases, 9,940, almost half, were categorized as untimely due to "agency delay." Throughout all of 2012, the number of untimely pending cases never dropped below 8,300, indicating a severe and chronic backlog.
"These numbers represent real people, who are very vulnerable, very sick and need treatment," said Camilla Roberson of the Public Justice Center. "These delays have been going on for years and are getting worse. The consequences are felt by every poor applicant whose health deteriorates each day he or she goes without needed care and by society at large when it pays for emergency room visits and hospitalization, as well as the lost potential for stabilization or recovery."
Added Jenny Pelaez, an attorney from the National Center for Law and Economic Justice in New York: "The plaintiff, and others like her, are in dire need. It's unconscionable that any state, and especially Maryland -- which is often thought to be at the forefront of healthcare reform -- is keeping some of its neediest and most vulnerable citizens waiting for something as fundamental as healthcare access because of bureaucratic backlogs. It's a violation of law and basic human decency."
The Plaintiff in this case is represented by:
Camilla Roberson
Monisha Cherayil
Debra Gardner
Public Justice Center, Inc.
1 N. Charles St., Suite 200
Baltimore, MD 21201
Carolyn Johnson
Homeless Persons Representation Project, Inc.
1800 N. Charles St., Suite 206
Baltimore, MD 21201
Marc Cohan
Jenny Pelaez
Laura Redman
Petra Tasheff
National Center for Law and Economic Justice
275 Seventh Ave., Suite 1506
New York, NY 10001-6708
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Middlebury Hospice to honor Dunn on Friday
MIDDLEBURY — The Hospice Volunteer Services community will honor Patty Dunn this Friday afternoon from 4:30-6 p.m. at St. Stephen's on the Green in the parish hall. Dunn recently retired after nine years of service as the HVS executive director.
The program will begin at approximately 5 p.m. with musical selections by Wellspring followed by tributes from community members, including Henry Prickitt, Maura McClure, Kate McGowan, Peter Jensen and Margie Beckoff. Frank Buonincontro and Diana Barnard, members of the HVS board of directors, will be the emcees.
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Hopefully not this mouse, just seen again under the sink when I reached to get a new sponge. Mouse had eaten major hunks of yesterday's new sponge, as well as some aluminum foil, passing by an open box of Trader Joe's crackers. No accounting for taste.
But we really are having company for a hike and dinner, and when you spend so much time semi-solitary, as we do, it seems like a BIG DEAL! Plus the recipes got thrown out the window when we found that Catherine's a vegetarian and wheat intolerant. No lasagna for us... we had that last night, and the night before, and it's just as well they're not getting that!
So it's going to be:
- Pioneer Woman's Shrimp (cooked twice now and like it)
- My eggplant dish- thin slices with a tomato/garlic/olive oil paste top, roasted. Usually delicious but not always reliable.
- Cornbread from a special mix for the no wheaters.
- simple salad
- rice pudding- I just made this one. The recipe, from a NY Fire Dept. Cookbook, says it feeds ten. Ten what? Ten mice? I split the recipe and ended up with some pudding that tastes good on the spoon and is about one big cereal bowl size-- so we'll hope the rest of the dinner fills them up. By the way, rice pudding is incredibly tedious to cook. You have to stand at the stove stirring for 50 plus minutes, at least at this altitude.
Fortunately I'm reading a great book, Death Valley in '49: The Autobiography of a Pioneer.
I'd read it once before, but then it was a loaned copy, from someone who didn't really want to loan it, (a friend's husband), and I was amazed to find it on Amazon because I'd thought about it a lot and didn't know what it was called. If you don't enjoy Western history, you wouldn't like this, but if you do it's amazing.
Greta, here's a video snippet for you. I found a whole lovely video of this rat in this house half a year ago, but looking for it today I couldn't find it anywhere on youtube.
Sally G, the eggplant recipe: eggplant crisps (I made it up)
Slice an eggplant thinly, maybe 1/3" and put garlic salt on both sides. Place between paper towels with something heavy over it for 1/2 hour at least. This pulls out the moisture.
Preheat oven to 350. In blender make a paste of Parmesan, olive oil, a clove of garlic, some of those tasty small tomatoes that aren't cherry tomatoes, and chives or basil. If it tastes good smeared on a cracker, it's good.
Lightly oil a cookie sheet right before cooking. Place slices on the sheet with a thin layer of the topping. Don't do this in advance or the eggplant will soak up the oil and get soggy. Eggplant is fussy. Cook for about a half hour, should be bubbly on top but not burned, and if you're lucky they'll be crispy. Still can't figure out why sometimes they aren't crispy, but they're always tasty.


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Joint attention is very simply, the process of sharing experiences or information with another person using non verbal communication.
It seems that joint attention is really at the root of the common issues relating to R.'s autism. Not long ago I was wondering exactly what happens in my daughter's brain when she is progressing developmentally. It is a simple, and likely not complete answer, but it seems to me that improvements in her joint attention skills have led her to be able to speak, to imitate and process receptive language better. It has helped her play skills and probably several other things.
I can't help but wonder what exactly led to R. gaining joint attention skills. Again, this is a simple and incomplete answer, but I think it has to do with sensory processing.
Back when R. was two, she was so overwhelmed by processing the sensory information she was receiving that she really could not process much. She could not pay attention to much of anything in her environment completely because she was caught up in paying attention to herself.
At the time her running, jumping, crashing and other sensory seeking behaviors made her appear wild. But in retrospect I realize that she was really quite determined to give herself the input that her body was seeking, and that needed to be fulfilled before she could process anything.
When she was three we dropped her nap, and I think things really improved for her after that. It could be at least partly coincidence, but I do think that it did help her. She has always been a good sleeper, but not so good at the waking up transition. So when she napped, she was going through that transition twice, I think she lost a lot of time to that (and sleeping) that is now taken up by activity.
Shortly after turning three, she began to imitate and developed echolalia. She also began to be anxious in some public settings and to exhibit her first sensory avoiding behavior – putting her fingers in her ears.
I don't think it is a coincidence that when she was finally able to pay attention to more of her world, she found it kind of scary or at least overwhelming. I think that putting her fingers in her ears gives her great power over her environment.
Ultimately I think that is the best answer. R. is able to process sensory input because she has found ways to tolerate and likely understand the information on her own terms. Even when she was at her wildest, I always had the impression that R. knew what kind of sensation or activity she needed. As she gets older she is even better at knowing what she needs, and she seems to get her fill faster.
It makes sense that she has to learn how to process all of the information that she is receiving from her body and senses. For her to be able to pay attention to anything outside of herself means that not only does she need to be able to process this information, she has to process it in such a way that it is not distracting to her.
I also think that just because she can process her sensory information better, does not mean it is easy for her. I suspect it also is probably not exactly the same for her all the time. Some days things bother her more than others.
When we were on a general school tour the principal told us that we would be entering several classrooms in progress. She instructed us to go all the way to the back of the room, so we would be out of the way. I'll admit my elementary school experience is decades old, but I could not figure out at first glance where the back of the room was. The desks were set in tables, none facing in one direction. The kids were sitting in groups all over the room, facing different directions. I wasn't alone in my confusion. After the first classroom I went to the back of the line, so I could follow everyone else, and the same thing happened in every classroom. Whoever was first just stood there, not sure what to do.
Maybe that is how R. sees the world, it is just a jumble of information that she has to find some way to understand.
As a parent I have to keep learning how to accommodate and encourage what she needs. I can try to prepare her for new situations or offer familiar supports.
I also need to manage my own feelings about the behaviors. I really should not get annoyed that she is running around dumping all her toys out. I should realize that she needs some physical activity throughout the day, and if I don't help her find something to do, she will decide for herself and I might not like it.
One of the hardest parts is being able to interpret R.'s behaviors and help her learn to communicate exactly what she wants. Putting her fingers in her ears never means that she wants to leave. Even crying doesn't always mean that she wants to leave.
We went to a birthday party at Lemos Farm. She cried on and off for half an hour, every time she cried we would be ready to leave. We were just about to say good bye when she hopped out of the stroller and started playing. She had a great time and played for over an hour. I'm so glad that we waited.
It is hard to know what to do to help R., how to react to her sensory needs. It would be nice if there was a specific solution to sensory issues. A special swing or apparatus we could all sit in and magically get over ourselves and pay attention. But that's not how it works. Maybe I should take comfort in knowing that there is nothing that I have missed, no secret technique.


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Style Evening with Celia Holman Lee & Wedding Showcase
Inchydoney Island Lodge & Spa
Wedding Style Showcase
Where the happy couple can plan together in style..
On Saturday the 8th and Sunday, 9th March, as spring gets fully underway, the multiple award-winning Inchydoney Island Lodge & Spa invites couples across Ireland to turn their dreams into reality as it hosts its Style and Wedding Showcase.
Saturday the 8th March, we welcome stylist and celebrity Celia Holman Lee to the hotel, where she will host a Style Evening. Celia will offer invaluable advice on what to wear and more importantly what not to wear, whether you are the Bride, the Mother of the Bride / Groom or a Wedding Guest. Fashion & Styles from local boutiques will complement the evening as Celia shares her knowledge and experience. Tickets are €20 and are available from Reception.
Our Grooms Zone will ensure the boys are looked after too. While the ladies enjoy an evening with Celia, our Grooms to be are invited to a complimentary consultation with our Menswear Expert who will offer advice, showcase trends and styles and offer the groom the opportunity to try on various options for the big day.
On Sunday the 9th March, the Wedding Showcase will allow couples to meet with key personnel from the hotel during the afternoon to answer any questions you might have, to help take the stress out of the planning and assist you with compiling those typically all-consuming checklists. There is a host of new and fun ways to make your wedding day even more special at Inchydoney with retro style sweet tables, kitsch mini hotdogs and burgers for evening supper and barbeques on the balcony overlooking the beaches.
Guests will also be invited to discover Wedding Menus and Wines from the kitchen & cellar and meet with Amy Dorgan, Wedding Coordinator who will guide couples through their various options and provide tailor-made suggestions for their most special day.
Couples wishing the make the most of this special time and plan in style are invited to take advantage of our special overnight package, which includes overnight accommodation for two, early dinner in the Gulfstream Restaurant, tickets to Celia Holman Lee Style Evening for the ladies and complimentary and access to the Grooms Zone for the gents… All for just €145pps
For further information;
Please contact Amy Dorgan, Wedding Co-Ordinator on 023 8833143