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31 HORROR STORIES -- "Opening the Door" (1931)@ 1:00 PM
Arthur Machen is an acquired taste, and I'm still in the process of acquiring it. But I can tell it'll be worth it.
Anyone who's read SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE by H.P. Lovecraft knows that the mere descriptions of Machen's stories are scarier than most fully rendered stories, even the ones by the Old Masters like Dunsany, James and Blackwood. Machen was a member of the Order of the Golden Dawn at the same time as Alistair Crowley, but he was the cynical, more realistic Lennon to Crowley's idealistic, true-believer McCartney.
"Opening the Door" is, currently, my favorite Machen. But it's only because it's the first Machen I've read so far where I feel like I penetrated his loopy, unwelcoming prose to get at what HE was getting at. I'm going to re-read "Out of the Earth", "The Great God Pan" and "The Three Imposters", and see if I can figure them out again.
What makes "Opening the Door" so special is that it's about someone who THINKS they may have had an encounter, or at least a brush-up-against, the "other world". In almost any other writers' hands, attempting a story where even the protagonist isn't too sure of something, but is nevertheless disturbed, and then trying to convey that feeling to the reader...well, it'd be a bust.
But Machen does it here. I mean, really pulls it off. That garden gate in the dusk, and those...children(?)


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How can I help myself cope with cancer?
People value the care they get from their cancer care team, but many also want to take an active role in dealing with their illness. Dr. Jimmie Holland has spent more than 30 years caring for patients at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and offers some ideas on helpful ways to cope with cancer. They are listed by those attitudes and beliefs that are helpful (the Do's) and those that are harmful (the Don'ts).
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- Rely on ways of coping that have helped you solve problems and crises in the past. Know that almost everyone needs to have people around them who they can count on to help when needed. Find someone you feel comfortable talking with about your illness. When you would rather not talk, you may find that relaxation, meditation, listening to music, or other things that calm you are helpful. Use whatever has worked for you before, but if what you're doing isn't working, find a different way to cope, or get professional help.
- Deal with cancer "one day at a time." Try to leave worries about the future behind. The task of coping with cancer often seems less overwhelming when you break it up into "day bites," which are easier to manage. This also allows you to focus on getting the most out of each day in spite of your illness.
- Use support and self-help groups if they make you feel better. Leave any group that makes you feel worse.
- Find a doctor who lets you ask all your questions. Make sure there's a feeling of mutual respect and trust. Insist on being a partner in your treatment. Ask what side effects you should expect and be prepared for them. Knowing what problems may come often makes it easier to handle them if and when they happen.
- Explore spiritual and religious beliefs and practices, such as prayer, that may have helped you in the past. If you don't think of yourself as a religious or spiritual person, get support from any belief systems that you value. This may comfort you and even help you find meaning in the experience of your illness.
- Keep personal records of your doctors' numbers, dates of treatments, lab values, x-rays, scans, symptoms, side effects, medicines, and general medical status. Information about the cancer and your treatment is important to have, and no one can keep it better than you.
- Keep a journal if you find a need to express yourself without holding back. It can help you process the journey, and you may be amazed by how helpful it can be.
Don't –
- Believe the old saying that "cancer equals death." There are more than 14 million people alive in the US today who have had cancer.
- Blame yourself for causing cancer. There's no scientific proof linking certain personalities, emotional states, or painful life events to getting cancer. Even if you may have raised your cancer risk through smoking or some other habit, it does not help to blame yourself or beat yourself up.
- Feel guilty if you can't keep a positive attitude all the time. The saying "you have to be positive to beat cancer" is not true. Low periods will come, no matter how great you are at coping. There is no proof that those times have a bad effect on your health or tumor growth. But if they become frequent or severe, get help.
- Suffer in silence. Don't try to go it alone – get support from your family, loved ones, friends, doctor, clergy, or those you meet in support groups who understand what you're going through. You will likely cope better and take care of yourself better with people around who care about you and can help encourage and support you.
- Be embarrassed or ashamed to get help from a mental health expert for anxiety or depression that disrupts your sleep, eating, ability to concentrate, ability to function normally, or if you feel your distress is getting out of control.
- Keep your worries or symptoms (physical or psychological) secret from the person closest to you. Ask this person to come with you to appointments and talk about your treatment. Research shows that people don't often hear or absorb information when they are very anxious. A close friend or family member can help you recall and interpret what was said. They can be sure you tell the cancer care team about any changes or new concerns, too. As a practical matter, your friend or loved one can also help you get home from a doctor's visit or medical test.
- Abandon your regular treatment for an alternative therapy. If you use treatments that your doctor didn't recommend, use only those that you know do no harm. Find out if the treatment can be safely used along with your regular therapies (as a complementary therapy) to improve your quality of life. Be sure to tell your doctor which treatments you are using along with medical treatment, since some should not be used during chemo or radiation treatments. Discuss the pros and cons of any alternative or complementary therapies with someone you can trust to look at them more objectively than you may be able to when you are under stress. Psychological, social, and spiritual approaches are often helpful and safe, and doctors generally encourage their use.
Other coping methods: Exercise
Exercise is not only safe for most people during cancer treatment, but it can also help you feel better. Moderate exercise has been shown to help with tiredness, anxiety, muscle strength, and heart and blood vessel fitness.
Most people with cancer can do some form of exercise. For instance, walking is a good way to get started and a good way to keep moving when you're feeling stressed. Talk with your doctor about your exercise plans before you start. Depending on your level of physical fitness, you may need help from a physical therapist to make a plan that will work for you and is safe.
Keep in mind that even though exercise may help lower distress levels in some people, exercise alone is usually not enough to help people with moderate to severe distress.
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One year ago, the lives of almost 350 households were changed forever when the Waldo Canyon Fire spilled over the mountain and into the city of Colorado Springs.
At the end of the night, 347 homes were destroyed, the most in state history until this year's Black Forest Fire. The fire also tore through a Colorado Springs icon, the Flying W Ranch, burning much of the property.
A year later, the Mountain Shadows neighborhood has literally risen from the ashes, embodying the definition of perseverance. Homes are being rebuilt, trees are being planted--life is returning tenfold after that terrible night.
As a celebration of the resilience of that neighborhood, as well as to honor those who worked tireless to put the fire out, non-profit organization Colorado Springs Together hosted an anniversary event Wednesday night at the Mountain Shadows Park on Flying W Ranch Road.
Organizers also wanted the event to give hope to the victims of the Black Forest Fire, who could see what healing and moving forward after a tragedy looks like one year later. Bob Cutter, president of Colorado Springs Together, said in a statement that it wasn't lost on organizers that as one part of the Colorado Springs area marked a milestone, another area was only at the beginning of the recovery process.
"The event marks another milestone in the recovery and healing of the Mountain Shadows neighborhood. At the same time we must recognize that once again a wildfire has devastated a community in our region resulting in the tragic loss of life and a terrible loss of homes and property."
The Black Forest Fire featured heavily in Wednesday night's event, with a tribute to first responders in that fire as well the Waldo Canyon Fire, and a remembrance of the four people who lost their lives in the two fires.
The event will also included performances by the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and Flying W Wranglers, and fundraising by the Pikes Peak Community Foundation to support Black Forest Fire recovery efforts. The Flying W Ranch sold food and accepted donations to help with their rebuilding process.


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Hey guys, Dawn here with another lesson that I'm going to be extremely excuted to present. I had a few members request that I create a tutorial that will show you in simple steps "how to draw a bearded dragon", step by step. I had a lot of fun with this one, especially since drawing lizards is enjoyable. I would recommend that you study the many references of Bearded Dragons in order to replicate them in imaginative poses. It takes an open - relaxed mind to create from total memory or pose generated image. The colors of this lizard are rather tan to match the 'hot' temperature this creature endures. Anyways, I've gotta move onto my other lessons that I'm excited to release. Stay tuned to Drago for more fun and awesome lessons, even requests. Thanks so much for viewing and I hope you'll enjoy! Peace and love :)
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Coinciding with the start of a new school year, all of Tennessee State University's fall sports started their respective 2013 campaigns. Since August, TSU has garnered a number of awards, broken records, won games while also participating in community service projects in Nashville and the surrounding areas.
In case you missed them, here are a few TSU highlights from the past couple of months.
Leonard Honored by CFPA for Third Straight Week
Warner Shoots 5-Under, 67; Tigers Place Third
Godfery and Leonard Named HSRN Players of the Week
Tigers Claw Their Way to No. 1 Ranking in HSRN Poll
Oteia Prince Named OVC Runner of the Week
Leonard and Evans Honored by CFPA
Godfrey and Evans Win OVC Weekly Awards
TSU Pushes Aside Tennessee Tech, 41-21
Volleyball Sweeps South Carolina State to Finish 49er Invite
Oteia Prince Posts Best Time at Tigerbelles Dual
Lady Tigers Participate in 10th Annual Sherry's Run for Cancer
Three Tigers Chosen as Performers of the Week
Football Visits Two Hospitals in Memphis
TSU Wins Southern Heritage Classic, 26-16
Women's Golf Records Best Round in School History
Stevenson Garners a Pair of Special Team Awards
Warner Named OVC Golfer of the Week
Tigers Defeat Southern Utah for First Win
Moss and Wells Named Preseason All-OVC
Tigers Selected Third in Boxtorow Coaches Poll
TSU to Retire Richard Dent's Jersey at JMC
For a full recap of each story please click on the link.
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Topic : Project manager experience. Author : Bran.
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All of the tasks listed on the project plan need to be assigned to an individual or team. The person or persons responsible for a task will need to know in detail what the task involves and also the dependencies and timescales, which can be clearly communicated to them using the Gantt Chart.
The timescales must be realistic and, in practise, the project manager will probably have discussed timescales with the team before the schedule was finalised. They will also need to understand the criteria by which each task is determined as complete.


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Economists, banks and even punters in bookmakers are studying more seriously scenarios involving the collapse of the eurozone.
Maybe not its total evaporation, but certainly shrinkage with peripheral or weak countries falling off the currency's map — and in all cases, according to the experts, with a heavy price to pay.
Analysts agree that no country would emerge unscathed, at least in the short term.
As for the long term? Well, few even dare to imagine the fallout.
In the view of London-based Capital Economics, even a limited redrawing of the eurozone's borders, with the exit of the bailed-out trio of Greece, Ireland and Portugal over the next two years, would trigger a drop in eurozone GDP of 1 percent next year and 2.5 percent in 2013.
That would equate to the same sort of economic contraction endured between 2008 and 2009 following the financial crisis triggered by the collapse in the US home-loan market.
In a recent note to investors, UBS bank calculated that if a "weak" euro country like Greece gave up the currency, it would cost every man, woman and child there about 10,000 euros (US$13,400) each in the first year, and thousands more over the adjustment period.
Even a "strong" country like Germany would see a loss of between 6,000 and 8,000 euros per head in year one — between one-quarter and one-fifth of the country's annual economic output.
A return to the drachma, the deutsche mark, the punt and the franc or any other national currency would mean devaluations for some, appreciation for others.
According to Jens Nordvig of Japan's Nomura Securities, Germany's currency would rise against the US dollar, but Greece would lose 60 percent of its money's value.
Italy, Spain or Belgium would lose around one-third each.
While scope for exports would improve, debt restructuring on that basis would mean a dramatic rise in borrowing costs for those governments who write off the most.
National banking systems would collapse, experts say, because of a loss of confidence in the value of the currency that replaced the euro.
This isn't rocket science — panicking over hard-earned savings, experience shows citizens pull out what they can and flee, while companies would struggle to raise investment capital. And if the economy stopped functioning normally, there would then be the threat of widespread social unrest.
Meanwhile, Germany would lose export business — because of a rising national currency and also the emergence of new, cheaper European competition.
It would be no different in the event Italy or some other big eurozone economy left.
Jacques Cailloux, a Paris-based economist with the Royal Bank of Scotland, said that were France to exit the eurozone, Germany would suffer because "its banking system would be staring at exposure to French banking debt worth some 200 billion euros."
US banks would be looking at 10 times that amount, Cailloux added.
Looking further down the line, Capital Economics believes prospects for former eurozone economies "may be improved by the ability of [these] former member states to set their own policy and allow their currencies to fluctuate."
Wages would not have to drop under a devaluation, while suddenly a bottle of ouzo would not cost as much for others to import, for example.
"It's hard to put a price on it, but clearly it would mean a huge cost, if not quite apocalyptic," Cailloux said of the price for even partial eurozone breakup.


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Here's how to help a family member accept a new diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and start embracing self-care.
"I don't have time to do all the things the doctor says I need to do."
"My diabetes isn't serious."
"I only have to take pills, not shots."
"One bite of this won't hurt."
If your partner, parent, child or other loved one has recently been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, these phrases may sound familiar. After all, denial is a common reaction to a type 2 diabetes diagnosis. And you may be surprised to hear it's not all bad—a brief period (a couple of weeks) of denial can actually help the newly diagnosed cope with the fear and stigma surrounding diabetes.
"It's normal to have that period of grief, where you don't want to think about it," says Susan Guzman, PhD, a clinical psychologist and director of clinical services at the Behavioral Diabetes Institute in San Diego, a nonprofit organization dedicated to tackling the psychological needs of people with diabetes. But because diabetes is easy to ignore—says Guzman, "It's like a fire burning inside you, out of control without smoke alarms."—the denial can go on too long.
"When it keeps your loved one from taking action, then it becomes dangerous," explains Guzman, whose own father waited six months before getting proper care.
So what can you do? Your first instinct may be to scare some sense into your loved one. Yet this tactic can backfire. "People can get scared into immobility," says Guzman, who partly blames this on the media attention given to the dire consequences of diabetes. "People get the message that diabetes is a death sentence—and that doesn't make them want to hurry up and acknowledge it." Instead of playing on your loved one's fear, try the following steps to help them move past denial and into a manageable diabetes action plan.
4 ways to help your loved one accept a type 2 diabetes diagnosis
Tell them it's not their fault. "There's a stigma that goes with type 2 diabetes. People think it's caused by being fat, sedentary, eating too much junk and not taking care of oneself. People are embarrassed and closeted about it— a huge part of why they don't take action." Shift the shame and blame off your loved one's shoulders by saying something like, "It's not your fault you inherited genes that make you prone to diabetes. But let's think about ways we can fight back. I'm here to help."
Spot depression. People with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes are almost twice as likely to develop depression as those who don't have a chronic medical condition. That's a problem since depression can be an obstacle to good diabetes self-care. If your loved one exhibits symptoms such as low energy; trouble sleeping; feelings of worthlessness, sadness or guilt; and a loss of interest in activities that were once pleasurable, say, "I feel like you haven't been yourself lately, and I'm afraid you might be depressed. Let's talk to your healthcare provider about it." Help your loved one start small. Drink more water, watch less TV, get more exercise, eat more fiber, control portions—the list of lifestyle changes for people with type 2 diabetes can make anyone's head spin. "In the standard diabetes education class, you can count up to 155 behavior changes that are recommended," says Guzman. "But you don't need to do all 155 things to have well-managed diabetes." So help your loved one pick just one or two of those changes. Once those new behaviors stick, tackle the next couple. Each mini-success will keep your loved one motivated to do more.
Make changes together. Don't just tell your loved one that they have to eat right or exercise—do it yourself, too! Start the tradition of "Diabetes-Friendly Fridays" and work together to experiment with new healthful recipes for dinner. Or sign up for a charity walk together.


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A Price Township home has been turned into a gator pen. The owner comes by once a week to feed them, and the neighbors are cool with that.
Some people argue for the solitary personality of the cat.
Some people prefer the loyal characteristics of the dog.
Other people, like John Boyko, are devoted to an entirely different type of pet — the kind most visitors only see behind thick glass walls at a zoo.
"Come on Walley, come here girl," Boyko calls. At the end of a long pair of tongs, Boyko offers Walley a piece of raw chicken breast.
Encouraged by the offering of food, the 240-pound, 9-foot alligator, its jaws opened wide, heads to Boyko in a running waddle from an upstairs bedroom.
"You just get attached to them. You get to know each of them on a personal level," Boyko says.
The Bridgeport, Conn., man has 11 alligators, Walley being the biggest, all living in a Price Township house he bought specifically for them in 2005.
The house, which was in foreclosure, is registered in a limited liability company under their names, Boyko said.
An electrical contractor by trade, Boyko comes once a week to feed and care for them.
From the outside, the house appears abandoned. A covering of grass has sprouted on the driveway, and the windows are hazy from condensation.
A note in the front window reads, "Alligators upstairs," and in case of an emergency, lists Boyko's number.
A knock at the door causes the gators to spring to attention: A loud splash and scraping of claws as the gators waddle in anticipation of food.
Inside, all the carpeting has been ripped out, leaving bare hardwood floors. Instead of a sofa there are several large, black plastic "ponds" for the alligators to soak in.
There are eight American alligators in what would have been the living room. The area is sectioned off from the kitchen and a hallway leading to the bedrooms by a chain-link fence.
In the bathroom, a pregnant caiman basks under a UV light positioned above the toilet. Another larger alligator sticks its head out of a bedroom, letting out a long, rattling hiss as it cautiously sizes up visitors.
Walley, who has been known to sometimes cause fights with the other alligators, has her own bedroom.
Boyko picked Pennsylvania for his pets because it is one of the few states that does not require permits for exotic reptiles.
In 2003, Boyko faced a tough decision.
Since 1994, he had been keeping three pet alligators at his Connecticut home, but Bridgeport police confiscated the creatures after Boyko's roommate's brother, who was visiting from out of town, complained about them.
They were temporarily moved to a local zoo while state and municipal officials determined what to do with them.
In Connecticut, the state's Department of Environmental Protection has the discretion to issue permits for alligators but denied Boyko's request.
He had the option of either surrendering the animals to a zoo or moving them to a state that doesn't require permits for exotic reptiles.
Enter Saylorsburg resident Betsy Gimbel. She offered the alligators refuge after reading a New York Times story about their plight.
Gimbel's house was custom-built for her own nine caimans and 11 turtles. Each caiman, an animal similar to an alligator, had its own separate glass enclosure with a pond and a skylight.
In 2005, Gimbel died, and Boyko found a new location for his pets in Price Township.
His current menagerie ranges in age from 4 to 20 years old.
All the alligators are rescues, either taken from closed zoos or pet owners who eventually realized they were in over their heads.
Boyko says he's so used to being around the alligators that he loses sight that others might see the situation as odd.
"I just think it's commonplace. I overlook it," he said.
Boyko gained fame when the New York Times wrote several articles about the alligators being kicked out of Connecticut in 2003. In 2004, Boyko appeared on the BBC documentary "Americans and their Pets."
Last month, Boyko came into the spotlight again when five children between the ages of 9 and 13 broke into the gator house and pelted the gators with at least 50 rocks.
At least two of the alligators sustained injuries, including a broken leg, which Boyko estimates will cost at least $8,000 to fix.
The investigation into the case continues.
Boyko wouldn't disclose how much he spends on the alligators, but said it's a lot. He's been able to support them from some of the money he earned from appearing in the documentary.
They eat about 25 pounds of chicken per week, and when they get sick, unlike a cat or dog, you can't simply give them a pill wrapped in some lunch meat. A sick gator requires intravenous drug treatment with human-grade medications, which Boyko says he's learned to administer himself.
His veterinarian, Mike Wenninger, formerly of Creature Comforts in Saylorsburg, said the animals are in good condition.
"He does a good job as far as providing good lighting and a good diet and pretty good husbandry. The living situation is not ideal because it's not outside in natural sunlight, but the life they have now is better than a lot of alligators have, and it's better than being made into purses," Wenninger said.
Alligators require specific temperatures in the 80s. They also require special basking lamps that emit UVA and UVB light.
"If someone wants an alligator, they need to know that they get really, really large. You need large enclosures for them. It's usually more expensive and more work than what most people can undertake," Wenninger said.
Jon Lowris, co-owner of the Pocono Snake and Animal Farm in Marshalls Creek, said the alligators shouldn't pose a threat to anyone.
"Alligators are not man-eaters by nature. The other thing is that they could never survive in the wild here."
As for neighbors, they support Boyko's reptilian family. When the children broke into Boyko's house last month, it was a neighbor who spotted the open door and chased the kids away.
When the alligators were injured, two neighbors came to help band their mouths and take them to the veterinarian.
Jesse Kitchen, who lives across the street, thinks the living situation is "pretty cool."
"He has them under control. They listen to him. When he calls them, they come to him. When he tells them to back up, they back up," Kitchen said. "We respect his decision to have them. You can clearly see that he cares about them."


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Manila, Philippines, November 23, 2012 - Although it is still unclear when the much-awaited London revival of Cameron Mackintosh's mega-musical "Miss Saigon" would get a green light from the big boss, Mackintosh's trusted creative team, made up of executive producer Trevor Jackson, stage director Laurence Connor, musical supervisor Stephen Brooker, and choreographer Geoffrey Garratt, had opted to visit the country to hold the first-ever international auditions for "Miss Saigon" after several years.
"We're potentially looking for a lot of people because Cameron Mackintosh has a lot of different projects. For instance, 'Miss Saigon' would need to have three Kims in it (because of vacation schedules): We're looking for the main actor, also the first understudy, and the second understudy. The same applies to all the lead characters. We'll see," Brooker told BroadwayWorld.com.
"We've seen nearly over a thousand people in four days [November 19-22]; and at various levels, everybody can sing. I've never known a country that has so many good singers. Obviously, there's a wonderful culture of singing here in the Philippines. It's wonderful to see that amount of commitment, and how much love there is for music," Brooker added.
During the final stage of the Manila auditions held yesterday, Rachelle Ann Go (Disney's "The Little Mermaid"), Frencheska Farr ("Emir"), Apple Chiu ("Rock of Ages"), Tanya Manalang ("The King and I"), Aicelle Santos, Emerald Banares, and Mary Joy Solomon were the last seven female aspirants that were asked to stay and sing for the auditioning panel.
Go, Manalang, Banares, and Solomon sang the musical's power ballad "I'd Give My Life For You" (sung by Kim in the musical); Farr, Chiu, and Santos sang parts of "The Movie in My Mind" (sung by Gigi, Kim, and the Vietnamese bar girls).
Shortlisted male auditionees Bran Vargas, Khaya Maseko, Albert Job Bautista ("Rent"), Topper Fabregas ("Sweet Charity"), Noel Rayos ("Walang Sugat"), Eden Ang, Red Concepcion ("Equus"), Richardson Yadao, Lorenz Martinez ("The King and I"), Carlon Matobato, and Victor Sy, among others were asked to dance for Garratt.
Below are mostly headshots of potential "Kims" and "Gigis"; and some of the male talents that danced for the auditioning panel. Photos were taken by Broadwayworld (Philippines) photographer Jory Rivera at the Opera Haus, the audition venue.
Mackintosh's team will be studying its options. No final casting choices were announced after the auditions.
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But who cares about the results of a bracket when you have good friends, good food, and a fantastic season finale to watch, right? We all made a different dish to bring to the party and after seeing this recipe on Pinterest, I knew it would be perfect, especially because it only called for these 3 ingredients…
These combine to make the ever popular, Healthy Funfetti Dip! This recipe is so incredibly easy to make and is a definite crowd pleaser. Since the recipe basically consists of stirring the above together, be sure to note that it needs to be refrigerated for at least 3 hours for the flavors to combine and if you eat it right away, it lacks the true cake flavor that develops later. Also, unless you are taking this to a large party (we had about 10 people) I'd suggest halving the recipe, as this makes a *huge* bowl.
As you can see, our hostesses went all out and had red roses scattered around the apartment, candles lit, and even Jef and Arie napkins! Also, the above is only part of the dessert table as cupcakes and special yogurt waffle cones were later added! In addition to all the sweet treats, we had my friend Ashley's famous baked brie (maybe I'll get her to guest post and share!), quinoa stuffed peppers, spinach artichoke dip, snap pea and bean dill salad and more! Needless to say, along with our wine we were all sufficiently stuffed. But that didn't stop us from squealing as we watched the episode together and gasping when Emily said goodbye to Arie. An Indy car driver, Arie was my favorite from the beginning and their chemistry was undeniable, but when it came to who was a better fit for Emily, I did have to agree that Jef was the right choice.
And with that another season of the Bachelor franchise is over! Bachelor Pad started last night and while I'm sure that I'll inevitably watch it, it won't be nearly as much fun as tuning in every week with my family and friends to see who Emily is going to pick.
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Venerable Kings blog Sactown Royalty notes that ESPN: The Paper Thingy ranks the Maloofs as the worst owners in sports—all of sports!—in their "Ultimate Standings 2012," which rates organizations across the four major sports based on some arbitrary methodology that I don't care to look into. (The owners are rated by "Honesty and loyalty to core players and local community," which seems totally subjective, but OK.) In honor of the late, widely-reviled Art Modell, it seems worth pointing out (and vigorously disputing the reasoning behind) ESPN calling the doofy but relatively harmless Maloofs the worst owners in any major American sport.
Granted, trying to move your team (to Anaheim? to Vegas? to any place that can pay for a new arena?) will drop you on the list pretty fast. But the Kings were good and fun not too long ago, with a fan base that only got turned off to the owners pretty recently. The Maloof sister seems fun. There are some good memories there. Kings fans seem to be on board with the decision, but everyone likes to feel exceptional, even if it's exceptionally fucked.
Where are the good memories for Bobcats' fans*, who have to deal with Michael Jordan smoking cigars and drafting shitty North Carolina products just because he can? For Marlins fans dealing with the "spectacularly unlikable" Jeffery Loria, who finally spent some money this season, and of course, spent it all wrong? For Islanders fans that have to see Charles Wang lock up Rick DiPietro for 15 years, or Redskins fans, who have nightmares about Dan Snyder making them pay to park in their own driveway? For Bengals fans, who are dealing with this guy? Or for Knicks fans, who [breaks down sobbing].
Who am I forgetting here? Is your team the one that's exceptionally fucked, ownership-wise? The Maloofs aren't really the worst, are they?
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From "Ireland's finest living novelist" (Roddy Doyle)—a funny, moving, exquisitely written novel about a community on the cusp of change
Acclaimed Irish author Dermot Healy's first novel in more than ten years is a rich, beguiling, and wonderfully funny story about community, family, love, and bonds across generations, an epic in miniature that features an unforgettable cast of innocents and broken eccentrics. The novel presents the bemusing and unsettling misadventures of Philip Feeney, known to one and all as Mister Psyche, a teenager haunted by a recent traumatic event who takes up with two men some fifty years his senior. Its still, lyrical power casts a miraculous literary spell and will appeal to readers of William Trevor, Roddy Doyle, John McGahern, and Anne Enright.


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Inspired by conversations on the FOOD52 Hotline, we're sharing tips and tricks that make navigating all of our kitchens easier and more fun. Today, we're talking about smart storage.
We've given you Our Weekly Grocery List; now, we'll show you how to stock your larder. Part of treating ingredients correctly is knowing the best places to store them, and for how long. We're tackling several storage myths and general confusions, starting with the counter and the pantry. We'll be covering the rest of the kitchen next week.
Garlic, onions, and shallots: These alliums can be stored in a cool, dry place for up to two weeks; in the fridge, they will turn mealy and lose much of their flavor. Tomatoes, potatoes, and winter squash: Although it may seem blasphemous to keep vegetables out of the refrigerator, trust us (and the USDA): these should be kept in a cool, dry place instead. (Plus, they make beautiful decorations.)Bananas, citrus, and melons: Like the vegetables listed above, these fruits are best left on the counter. Once cut, they should be relegated to the refrigerator; otherwise, they will begin to dry out.
Bread: To slow down retrogradation -- the process in which the starch molecules in bread crystallize -- Cook's Illustrated says to store bread at room temperature for up to 2 days, either tightly-wrapped in foil or in a Ziploc bag to minimize moisture loss. After 2 days, wrap the bread in foil, place in a freezer bag, and store it in the freezer. And to revive crusty bread that's been stored for more than a day, just pop it into the oven for a few minutes.
Cakes and pies: According to pastry chef Stella Parks, both frosted and un-frosted whole cakes will last for about a week when tightly wrapped in plastic. Cut cakes have a shorter shelf life, around 3 to 4 days. Fruit pies can be kept on the countertop for up to 2 days; after this, move them to the refrigerator.
Dry goods: Generally, dry goods can be stored for up to 6 months (longer if you take good care of them), according to scientists at Colorado State University. Once a package is open, it's best to move it to an air-tight container; this will ensure freshness and keep your pantry cleaner to boot.Nuts: Store your nuts in air-tight containers if possible; these allow them to maintain the right level of moisture. For ultimate freshness, consider storing them with their shells on.Spices: As the LA Times tells us, heat, light, air, and humidity are all spices' enemies; your spices should live in your pantry. Whole spices last much longer than crushed or ground; these can be kept for up to 2 years, while ground spices should be refreshed every 6 months. Airtight tins or small spice jars are the best mode of storage.
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Banking on Office Furniture
Flying under the metalforming and fabricating radar, the metal-furniture market, especially its office-furniture component, quietly and steadily improves. It's not in the news like automotive, and it's not the next big thing like medical, but the furniture market offers suppliers familiar with its unique structure a dependable work and revenue source.
Consider that U.S. office-furniture production reached $10.82 billion in 2006, according to the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturer's Association—a 7.4-percent increase over 2005 production, which itself had grown 12.7 percent over 2004. That marks three years of substantial growth, following a down period from 2001 to 2003. These statistics hint that the industry essentially mirrors the economy. Further confirmation: U.S. office-furniture production grew every year from 1992 to 2000 during a sustained U.S. economic expansion. Similar trends describe home furnishings.
With office and residential furniture chock full of metallic components, a well-positioned metalformer or fabricator can succeed in this market. And, furniture supply, more so than other sectors, tends to remain local. For example, office furniture sold in the United States in 2006 totaled $12.86 billion, according to BIFMA figures, with all but $2.5 billion of that produced here. Canada is the main trading partner in this sector, supplying about 45 percent of imports while responsible for 50 percent of U.S. exports. It's important to note, however, that China, is making a dent, as that country is a big reason why U.S. imports from Canada have fallen off from nearly a 60-percent share of total imports in the late 1990s.
So foreign competition certainly is something for furniture-part suppliers to watch out for. And just what else defines the uniqueness of the furniture market? We asked one major supplier of rollformed products how it copes.
The State of Office-Furniture Supply
The 1400 employees of Shape Corp., headquartered in Grand Haven, MI, serve the automotive, office furniture, agricultural, recreational and appliance industries. An important part of that is rollforming parts for open-office panels. These include frame members, shelving, top caps, base covers and electrical races.
Metal-furniture production demands the ability to provide various-sized runs of varied parts, necessitating flexibile production equipment and flexible scheduling.
So what's the state of office furniture supply from Shape Corp.'s perspective?
"I can remember the days when if you could guarantee that your prices would only increase 3 percent per year, it was a selling point," says James Rosasco, Shape Corp. vice president, speaking of supplying to office-furniture customers. "Those days are gone. The furniture market is like any other market today—everyone continues to look for s to get more for less as they compete for market share. There is a lot of capacity and fierce competition between office-furniture companies, and suppliers that serve these customers must bring value to help them compete."
Given that the largest portion of Shape Corp.'s business is automotive work, supported by a conglomerate that also performs plastic-injection molding, painting, stamping and assembly, the company is keenly aware of advantages and disadvantages in producing for the furniture industry as compared to the automotive sector.
"Today, U.S. manufacturers, whether supplying automotive, office furniture or any other industry, must have a unique product or process capability to survive," Rosasco says. "Commodity-type suppliers will continue to be driven out of business by low-cost offshore suppliers and stateside competition that does not have a clear understanding of its costs. And without consistent quality, a manufacturer will not be in business long—quality no longer is a selling point but rather a baseline expectation of doing business."
Compared to automotive supply, furniture part volumes and sales dollars generally are lower, notes Rosasco. And competition draws another distinction between the two segments.
"Many furniture companies perform their own rollforming, particularly with simpler high-volume jobs," he says. "Inhouse costs do not als include items such as SGA (selling and general administrative expenses) and profit when compared to outside suppliers, making it difficult for outside suppliers to compete. Automotive inhouse costs generally are higher, allowing outside suppliers a better opportunity to compete."
"Schedules for office-furniture companies can be very unpredictable, forcing suppliers to carry more inventory to react to short-lead-time demands," he continues. "Also, furniture companies expect their parts suppliers to manage the raw-material costs and often times hold them accountable when raw-material costs rise. Automotive customers, on the other hand, often assume the responsibility for raw-material costs and generally guarantee the material costs to the supplier for the life of the program, usually about 5 years."
Shape Corp. also deals with many more part numbers on its furniture side, demanding a higher level of scheduling and job-change proficiency.
"Our typical automotive job might have one or two part numbers, but a furniture rollforming job might include 15 lengths and 24 colors or 360 different finished-part numbers," Rosasco says.
That said, Rosasco points to a high sense of loyalty and the penchant for paying on time that makes office-furniture supply an overall positive experience. He also discusses other characteristics of the two customer bases.
"At the early stages of a new program, the design and engineering side of servicing the office-furniture companies is less involved than it is with our automotive customers," he explains. "Furniture companies perform most engineering inhouse with input from the supplier. Automotive customers, conversely, depend much more on suppliers to design and engineer products. Once a program launches, however, the automotive business is much easier to manage due to more consistent schedules, higher volumes and dedicated lines requiring less changeover and less inventory.
Whatever the realities of dealing with various markets, Shape Corp. will continue striving for diversity.
"At the end of the day, we'll continue looking for s to diversify our customer base," Rosasco concludes. "We prefer not to be too dependent on one industry in the event of a downturn."
Automated Panel Production Boosts Efficiency
With its new shearing, punching and bending system, Teknion Concept can produce components for overhead storage units much more quickly, according to company officials.
Another supplier has focused on fabricating technology to keep and grow its customer base. Teknion Concept, Levis, Quebec, Canada, part of Toronto-based Teknion, manufactures office-furniture products including overhead storage cabinets. The company struggled to meet corporate goals for turnaround time on production of metal components. Quick production is a must as Teknion Concept works with three other Teknion plants to supply and integrate components into assemblies, and the plant was falling behind the others—essentially the weak link in the chain, according to Yves Lamontagne, plant manager. And with orders increasing, Teknion Concept couldn't afford to fall behind.
Shear, Punch and Bend with One System
Looking to shorten part-production times and maintain flexibility for varying work, in 2006, the plant installed an S4+P4 FMS (Flexible Manufacturing System) from Salvagnini. The system combines an S4 punch and shear unit and a P4 panel bender. The two can operate together or as separate units, each with its own automatic load/ unload capabilities.
The S4 features a patented multi-press punching head. Unlike turret presses, which must be indexed before each operation, all of the S4's punching tool stations are 'live,' according to Salvagnini officials. That eliminates tool-change time, with software optimizing and reducing sheet travel. The S4 at Teknion Concept features more than 60 tool stations, and the unit also incorporates a shear, integrated with the multi-press head. The right-angle shear system makes cuts of any length along both axes, thus can shear any sized blank from sheet.
The P4 flexible bending cell bends sheetmetal several times along one or more sides. It features a single, universal bending tool—rather than interchangeable pieces of hard tooling—that functions regardless of the type of bend required or the material gauge. To reduce production time, the P4 runs automatically thanks to pre-programming via integrated CAD software, and its sheet manipulator allows an unlimited number of bends without removing a panel from the machine.
Drastic Reduction in Lead Time
The self-loading FMS at Teknion Concept automatically nests, cuts and punches to produce similar panels or different panels that together form a kit. Where the plant once struggled to supply its products within 10-day timeframes, the FMS has enabled it to whittle that down by more than half due to elimination of time-consuming multiple press-brake and turret-punch-press operations. And FMS capability has led to design changes that speed production. For example, Teknion Concept previously bent and assembled panels, including the welding of stiffeners, and added reinforcement bars to produce overhead cabinet doors. With the FMS now providing precise folds and accurate panels on a consistent basis, components no longer need to be welded or screwed together. Instead, the sheets simply snap together. As a result, the plant reduced production time on the panels from 10 min. to less than 1 min.
Saving additional time, the elimination of sanding due to precise cutting by the FMS means that parts travel directly to the plant's paint line following production. And with material costs als a concern, the precise cuts enabled Teknion Concept to reduce material use by 25 percent. With the savings, the plant was able to recoup its investment in the FMS by the end of 2006. MF
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Leave the dynasty talk for Philadelphia, where they win Super Bowls nearly every summer. Eli Manning was asked on NFL AM (via ProFootballTalk) whether the Giants constitute a dynasty. His response was essentially "aw shucks, you guys."
"No, no, we're not," Manning said. "We had a little break - the two years prior to last year we didn't make the playoffs. We've got work to do. We have good players on this team, we have the potential to be a playoff team and to make a run once we get into the playoffs."
An accurate, if not flashy quote. We're a good team. Hopefully we'll make the playoffs. After that it's a crap shoot. The Giants could tell you better than any team that just making it to January is the only thing that matters, because the "better" team doesn't always win in the playoffs. Over the last five seasons, New York has missed the postseason twice, and weren't close to being a dominant team even in the years they did win. Unless we're willing to water down the concept beyond recognition, the Giants aren't any more of a dynasty than the Eagles can realistically expect to be. At least one team's QB is honest about it.


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Shapeling Occhiblu sent a version of this as an e-mail to us yesterday, hoping we could post about it. But she'd basically said it all, so we asked her to guest post. Thanks, Occhiblu!
Note to commenters: This thread will be moderated with a heavier hand than usual. –Kate
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Sandy at Junkfood Science linked yesterday to a syndicated column published in the Indiana paper The Star Press. Sandy's comment on the article was, "This is a profound article on where we're being led in the name of perfect health and bodies, and in the war on obesity."
The linked column, "Perfect expression of the communist machine," was written by rightwing columnist Kathleen Parker; it is a pile of racist drivel about how the Chinese value collectivism because of Communist dictators and how "free" people value humanity while Communist people do not. [Note from Kate: If you want to read it, go via Sandy's blog or Google it.]
Speaking about the substitution of Lin Miaoke for Yang Peiyi in the Olympic Opening Ceremonies because, she claims, Peiyi had imperfect teeth, Parker writes:
Sentimentality doesn't enter into the totalitarian equation. In such a world, innocence is irrelevant, and deceit is a lesson best learned young. Who cares that a little girl was told she wasn't pretty enough to be seen by the world and that her voice — though lovely — belonged not to her, but to the homeland?
That single gesture, relatively small amid the extravaganza, said more about China than all the fireworks, human kites and dangling dancers. It said: The human being — the individual — is of no importance. The objectification of that child, her voice commodified for the purposes of the state, was the real ode to the motherland.
As I commented at the Star Press site, while one could certainly make an argument that dictatorial countries prize perfection over humanity, this article is not that argument. Ms. Parker does an excellent job, however, of ignoring the United States' mass-produced and internationally distributed form of aesthetic perfectionism — our Hollywood actors and actresses are not exactly known for their "normal" and "human" appearances, and the entire industry is pretty open about discarding the imperfect, the old, and the odd — and she quite glibly ignores the cultural importance of collectivism as a Chinese value, not just a Communist one.
Putting others first, working in harmony with the whole, and striving for the good of the family and the community rather than the glory of the individual were not invented by Lenin. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Eastern history and thought can trace these values back through Confucianism, through Buddhism, and through Taoism. Anyone with even a modicum of humanity can see the beauty, power, and wisdom of these ideals. While these values may have been co-opted to support a corrupt political system in China, presenting China as if it were the only country in which religious ideals were exploited in order to prop up a power-hungry leader and deny the humanity of large segments of the population ignores what's going on in our own country.
Parker does not stop at ignorantly categorizing collectivism as some sort of totalitarian mind-trick, however, she also goes straight for the Godwin gold:
Inevitably, comparisons have been drawn to the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. Just as China's selection as host country signaled its emergence as a global power, Germany's marked that nation's return to the international community following its defeat in World War I.
Although Adolf Hitler was already busy rounding up Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and others for detention and/or sterilization, the Games allowed him to pull a propaganda coup of peaceful tolerance. The Holocaust and World War II soon followed.
By implying that only totalitarian countries oppress their citizens, Parker ignores the United States' wretched history of human rights abuses, including internment camps for Japanese- and other Asian-Americans during World War II, and sweeps away any bad that the West has committed (and there's been a lot of bad). She's also arguing that collectivist world views, which are strongly held by many non-Western cultures, lead to holocausts.
Sandy calling this article "profound" and explicitly linking it to weight-based discrimination in the U.S. is problematic, to say the least. Saying that this is where "we're being led in the name of perfect health and bodies, and in the war on obesity" endorses this view that somehow the Chinese are more oppressively perfectionist than the West and uses the racism of the original column to erase the reality of Chinese culture in order to make a point about fat discrimination. She tosses Chinese culture and values under the bus in her effort to talk about why fat discrimination is bad.
I think it's instructive to look at how the popular feminist site, Hoyden About Town, dealt with the same event. Writing about the substitution of one girl for the other, tigtog reinforces ways in which Chinese culture and Western culture are creating the same pressures on women. She writes, "Here's just one high-profile example of how women are trained from a very young age to believe that their looks matter more than anything else about them, not just when it comes to finding a sexual partner, but also in terms of recognition and reward in other aspects of life."
I am not Chinese or Chinese-American, so it may be possible that I'm missing ways in which tigtog's piece glosses over or misses Asian cultural pressures that are different from the West's, but I was really struck by how the feminist site took this event and used as a way of finding similarities in oppressions and of reaffirming the humanity of the two girls, while the site on the fatosphere linked to an article that erased the humanity of the Chinese and reaffirmed the primacy of weight-based discrimination.
And given that the linked article included the Holocaust and Tiananmen Square Massacre as the natural outcome of the Chinese worldview, that's a very large claim that Sandy is making.
Sandy's site does not allow comments, so the fatosphere feed now has an entry linking to a nasty racist screed, calling it "profound," and aligning its argument with the struggle for FA, with no way of publicly questioning the blogger on this statement.
I find that really disappointing, especially since there has been so much discussion lately about racism in the FA movement. So this is my public statement.


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Lifelogging is an emerging trend of recording every, or nearly every moment of your life. A simple example of lifelogging would be wearing a video recorder that would record continuous video and audio of everything you see and do. Ted Chiang used this example to speculate about how lifelogging would change our society. At the end he answered the audience's questions and engaged in a discussion regarding some points, such as: would lifelogging encourage us to craft our lives as stories, and thus become better people? Doesn't forgetting play a big role in getting over a trauma? Doesn't forgetting go a long way towards forgiving? What if your memories are hacked? Who has control over shared memories?
Ted Chiang made carefully balanced points both for external-recording-as-memory, and against. In the end, I think, he is for it. Here is a condensed version of his speech.
Even as we might think that a video of our life would never be used as a memory substitute but only as aid, it won't be so. We have been outsourcing our memory for millenia in every way we could. Ancient Greek philosophers complained that writing has corrupted people by weakening their memories; no one could recite thousands and thousands of lines of Illiad or Oddyssey anymore. Since then, outsourcing of memory has only picked up pace. Young people don't remember their own or other people's phone numbers, because they rely on having them stored in their own phone; and we are less and less inclined to commit facts to memory, because we can always Google them. So if we have a continuous video of our life, we will come to rely on it instead of our internal memory; it will become, in fact, our memory.
But our memory is not a documentary; it is a web of narratives that get edited every time we remember something. Recalling past events adds another layer to them every time. It also distorts those memories. Most of our memories are not of true events, but some kind of version that pleases us or adds meaning to our lifes; it may help us see our life as having a narrative arch, to confirm the idea that life is getting better. Sometimes it's good to hold on to a thought that we are getting better at something, because without this illusion we might not have strength to go on.
In one study women were asked how many common interests they shared with their partner, and how much time they were spending together; then they were asked those questions again 10 years later. In addition to recording women's answers, the researchers also asked women to remember how they answered those questions 10 years ago. It turned out that most women thought they spent as much time together and shared as many interests with their partner now as 10 years ago; but this was in fact not true -- the difference in answers from the two time periods showed decline in closeness and common interests. But we lie to ourselves and tell ourselves that we have always enjoyed the same level of closeness, because to think otherwise would disappoint us in our illusion that our love is growing deeper over time.
Ted Chiang gives a speech on lifelogging. More pictures from ArmadilloCon 2014 are in my photo gallery.
As we edit our memories, we are also eliminating those memories that are inconsistent with the way we see ourselves. Ted Chiang gave two examples of famous science fiction writers who had been on the giving or receiving end of it. One of them recalled in an interview the final months of his father's life, and named the radio station his father listened to; later other people pointed out that this radio station had not yet started broadcasting that year. The fact checkers even found an obituary for the writer's father in old newspapers, and it turned out the father died two years later than his son thought. While you might wonder how it is possible to misremember the year of your father's death, the writer, when confronted with this fact, gave an explanation. Since his father died just a few months before he started college, and the freshman year of college was a very exciting time for him, his memory simply refused to put those two events in one year. The emotional "tone" of those events was much too dissimilar for them to have happened just months apart.
Ted Chiang told a similar story about another writer, whose mother beat him with a rope as a child. Decades later it turned out that his mother didn't remember doing any such thing. She denied ever doing that. Again, the way this could be explained is that back in the early 20th century (the time of this writer's childhood) it was acceptable to beat children, but a few decades later it was far less so. So his mother, thinking of herself as a good mother, unconsciously edited out of her memory the episodes of beating her child.
But if we edit out our memories in which we have hurt others, then we are not doing justice to those people; we are denying them their experiences. Similarly, the ruling elite of a nation might be denying the experience of suffering to the groups in the nation that they had oppressed. The notion of justice -- both interpersonal and on world scale -- requires that we remember our wrongdoings. This was Ted Chiang's conclusion, and this is why he thinks, after all, that lifelogging would be a step in the right direction.
Questions and discussion with the audience.
Audience member. What if having a video of all moments of our life would prompt us to live our life as if we are creating a story -- which is, after all, what we are doing in the video? When I was in college I deliberately went and did things, had experiences, to have something to write home about. Friday afternoon would come and I would think, oh, I haven't done "anything" this week yet (out of the ordinary) -- I should go be interesting for a couple of hours now!
I (Elze) chimed in saying that people do that kind of thing on social media even today. They go to events and do activities they might not have done otherwise to have something to post on Facebook.
Ted Chiang agreed that people carefully curate the profile they present to the world on social media, but it doesn't mean they would deliberately try to be a better person so as to have a better record in their life video. Facebook / Twitter streams is what we show to friends, and so we pick and choose the events we display; but a lifelogging video is private (assuming, for the sake of conversation, that privacy and security issues have been solved), and if we don't have to worry about anyone seeing us being mean, we might not have an incentive to be better.
My take: I don't know if I agree. Most of us want to view ourselves as a good person, or at least as a person with some good qualities (high achiever, intelligent, etc). We might actually be motivated to craft our life stories in such a way that the record of our life would contain mostly the justification for our high self-esteem.
Audience member. Forgetting can be very helpful in getting over a trauma; especially forgetting violent events. If we can't forget anything, if our video is there, we might be tempted to go back to those traumatic moments and never make progress in healing.
Ted Chiang responded that these days researchers are working on medicines that help us selectively forget, allowing one to heal from PTSD.
My take. I'm not sure where he was going with that -- maybe that those medicines can be so powerful that existence of record of violent events won't even be an issue? I don't see that a person would inevitably go back and review memories of traumatic events -- can they just not resist torturing themselves? But it may be that the very knowledge that there are "tabu" segments in your life video would constantly remind you about them.
Audience member. A certain amount of forgetting goes a very long way in maintaining good relationships with your relatives. When you meet and talk with them a few times a year, it helps if you had forgotten things they did that made you very angry, or hurt you.
Ted Chiang responded that it would be even better if that person remembered how they wronged you, and be motivated not to do it again.
Audience member. What happens when a hacker hacks into the record of your memories? Surely it will happen, because any and every technology that has ever existed has been hacked into.
Ted Chiang. Even if hackers modify your own memories, that wouldn't be the end of the world for you, because any kind of public event would be recorded by at least some other people. So you could compare your memories with theirs, and restore the truth.
My take. Yes, but it doesn't address that you might not even know your memories were tampered with, and so you won't be compelled to compare them with others' memories; also, what about somebody tampering with recordings of a private event, that no one else has a recording of? And what about a hacker revealing your private memories to the world? Actualy, Ted Chiang said at the beginning, "Let's assume that privacy and security issues have been solved, and just talk about how lifelogging will affect the memory", but that's such a big, unrealistic assumption that it's basically meaningless.
Audience member. If everything you do is recorded in the continuous video of your life, then any movie you've seen will also be in it. So who will own that part of the video -- you or the movie studio? Whenever you wanted to rewatch a movie, you wouldn't need to rent or stream that movie again -- you would already have a recording. (This assumes that a video of something playing on a movie screen would be as good a quality as the original, but maybe that's not a stretch.) So how would movie studios fight the loss of revenue?
Ted Chiang pointed out that even now you can download a movie from the torrents as soon as it comes out on the screen, so clearly people are doing a very similar thing now, and movie studios haven't collapsed yet, and they can't really do much about pirating.
Audience member. Still, internet providers and other entities try to put an end to torrents, they sue users, block piracy sites, etc.; but nobody should be able to do anything legally about content that rightfully belongs to you, being the recording of your life. Would the movie studios try to enforce clauses that let you re-watch that part of your life video for your own entertainment, but not show to anyone else? There are many questions there.
Another audience member. Related question: to who will a recording of private moments between two people belong, in case they separate? What about the right for either person to show it to a third party -- will the courts have to decide who has such a right?
Audience member. About the 5th amendment. Police can confiscate your computer records, video records, or any kind of records if they are needed in an investigation of a crime; but if the recording is literally considered to be your memory, they might not have a right to confiscate it. Requiring that you give up your memory would go against the 5th amendment: it would be the same as forcing you to speak. How would the laws, or constitution need to be rewritten in such a case?
(I don't remember if this question got answered, or if the discussion took a chaotic turn and we ran out of time.)


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After a short preview of Jay-Z's "Answer The Call"-concert and a closer look at Hova's writing habits, ABSOLUT brings forth the NY-Z documentary in its full glory.
Director Danny Clinch and Hip-Hop Icon Pay Tribute to New York City with Black & White Short Film; Latest Creative Collaboration from World's Most Iconic Vodka
NEW YORK (March 22, 2010) – Today, as part of an ongoing creative collaboration with JAY-Z and Madison Square Garden (MSG), ABSOLUT® VODKA introduces "NY-Z" – a 14-minute short film featuring JAY-Z and directed by popular music and culture photographer Danny Clinch. Featuring exclusive footage of JAY-Z and John Mayer as they prepare for the September 11 benefit concert at MSG, NY-Z offers a rare glimpse into the life of native New Yorker Shawn "JAY-Z" Carter as he discusses his hometown and what it means for an artist to "arrive" with a performance at the world's most famous arena. The short film is available for viewing at facebook.com/ABSOLUT.
In September 2009, ABSOLUT and Madison Square Garden announced the ABSOLUT CONCERT SERIES, a sponsorship dedicated to giving music fans the ultimate concert experience through a series of high-profile performances – ranging from rock and roll to country. To kick off the series, JAY-Z put on a one-night-only concert on September 11 with surprise guests, (among them Mary J. Blige, Kanye West, Beyonce and Rihanna), to benefit the New York Fire and Police Widow and Children's Benefit Fund.
NY-Z paints a rare portrait of the hip-hop icon, with unprecedented access to JAY-Z the days and moments leading up to, and after, his legendary benefit concert. Danny Clinch gives viewers an intimate glimpse into JAY-Z's childhood, his motivation as an artist, his passion for music, and his muse, New York. The film marks yet another unprecedented collaboration for the spirits brand in a long line of artistic partnerships dating back to the 1980s when ABSOLUT engaged pop culture icons, such as Andy Warhol and Keith Haring.
"NY-Z is a great product of the collaborations behind the ABSOLUT Concert Series," Danny Clinch, Director of NY-Z said. "As the director, the creative spirits behind ABSOLUT and two iconic NY brands, JAY-Z and MSG, allowed for such a natural and seamless foundation, that the rest was really about celebrating New York through JAY-Z's eyes and exploring the notion that you have truly 'arrived' as a performer when you are playing at the Garden."
NY-Z was shot by ABSOLUT agency of record TBWA, in black and white in New York. For more information about NY-Z, visit Facebook.com/ABSOLUT.
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I am in an intro to computer programming class and we are using java. Our next assignment has trumped me. I have tried to work out some code for hours and I cant figure it out. The chapter is called creating and invoking methods Here are the assignments:
Program 6.1
Write a program named FeetToInches that contains a function named ConvertFeetToInches. This function should accept a number of feet as an argument and returns the number of inches in that many feet. Use the function in a program that prompts the user to enter a number and then displays the number of inches in that many feet.
Program 6.2
Write a program named GuessingGame that generates a random number in the range of 1 through 100 and asks the user to guess what the number is. If the user's guess is higher than the random number, the program should display "Too high, try again." If the user's guess is lower than the random number, the program should display "Too low, try again." If the user guesses the correct number, the application should congratulate the user and then generate a new random number so the game can start over. Keep a count of the number of guesses that the user makes. When the user correctly guesses the random number, the program should display the number of guesses it took. When the user wins the game, ask if he/she wants to play again. If the answer is yes, then generate a new random number and start over.
For this program, create the following functions:
A function to generate and return a random number in the range of 1 through 100.
A function that asks the user for a guess and returns the value.
A function that evaluates the user's guess and returns a message indicating whether it is too high, too low, or a match.
Your program should have a game loop that continues as long as the user wants to keep playing. Within this outer loop will be an inner loop responsible to keep asking the user for guesses until the user gets the number right. In these loops call the appropriate functions you've created as needed.
Program 6.3
The following formula gives the distance between two points (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) in the Cartesian plane:
Given a center point and a point on a circle, you can use this formula to find the radius of a circle. Write a program named CircleCalculator that prompts the user to enter two points - a center and a point on the circle. The program should then output the circle's radius, diameter, circumference, and area. Your program must have at least the following functions:
GetRadius: This method takes as its parameters four numbers. The first two numbers are the x,y coordinate o the center of the circle. The second two numbers are the x,y coordinates of a point on the edge of the circle. Calculate the distance between these two points, which is the circle's radius, and return the value to the caller.
GetCircumference: This method takes as its parameter a number that represents the radius of a circle and returns the circle's circumference. (If r is the radius, the circumference is 2 * 3.1416 * r)
GetArea: This method takes as its parameter a number that represents the radius of the circle and returns the circle's area. (If r is the radius, the area is 3.1416 * r * r)
I hope somehow you can help me.


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You might've missed this. But when Taylor Swift performed "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" at last week's MTV Video Music Awards, one of her dancers was a product of the Abby Lee Dance Company. So I'm sure those involved in the Dance Moms TV show didn't miss one second of the dancing. Because their own Taylor Ackerman, who took dance at the now-famous dance studio near Pittsburgh and home to the Lifetime reality show, was putting all those lessons to good use. She admits that taking dance there from 12 to 18 had its ups and downs. "The drama is real," she told her local newspaper. Her younger sister Payton and her mom Leslie are still on the show.
Ackerman says dancing for Swift was a dream come true and that she was one of only a dozen dancers chosen from a group of 500. She rehearsed eight hours a day, for an entire week. And before the performance, Swift stopped by the dancers' dressing room with gifts. "She's super nice. When you're around people like that, it's so amazing to see how creative they are. We had to keep telling her to stop singing," Ackerman said. I'm sure dancing for Swift for a week was a refreshing change of pace from dancing for the verbally-abusive, overly-critical and downright cruel Abby Lee Miller. (Even though Miller claims on the show's website, "I know that I am with them in spirit every single time they step on a stage or into a class.")