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The Birthday Massacre Biography
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The band was officially formed in 1999, known at that time as Imagica, a name taken from a novel by Clive Barker.
The group's original line-up consisted of: Chibi (vocals), Rainbow (guitar and programming), Michael Falcore (guitar), and J. Aslan (bass). They originated in London, Ontario where childhood friends Rainbow and Falcore met Chibi and Aslan in college. In mid 2000, Dank, a long time friend of Chibi's joined to play live keyboards. After months of rehearsals and writing songs, they played their first gig on October 28th 2000 at Diversity night club in London. The band released a 7 song demo CD at the show. There were 40 hand numbered copies of the demo which included the first recorded verision of the song "The Birthday Massacre" (later renamed "Happy Birthday"). The following month, in answering an ad posted at the college, O.E. was added to play live drums. During this time, the band also met Rhim and Owen at the same college who would later join as drummer and keyboardist, respectively.
In September of 2001, the band relocated to Toronto to begin recording as a four peice shortly after Dank left the group. There, they independantly produced, recorded and manufactured another limited edition demo.
Shortly thereafter, the band adopted the name The Birthday Massacre. The new name was taken from one of their own songs, and they retitled that song 'Happy Birthday'. Shows during this time were given infrequently and with a great deal of planning, to be more like themed events. In July 2002, The Birthday Massacre released a limited edition CD entitled "Nothing and Nowhere." In 2003, Adm joined the band on live keyboards and Rhim on drums as the band began playing live shows more and more often. 2003 also saw the launch of the critically acclaimed and highly atmospheric NothingAndNowhere.com -a flash website ahead of it's time and fully designed by the band themselves.
On July 20, 2004, The Birthday Massacre released a nine song EP entitled "Violet," and at the end of the year, re-released "Nothing and Nowhere" with new sleeve artwork. Adm soon left thereafter to explore his own projects. In the fall of 2004, the band was signed to Repo Records in Germany, and released a remastered and expanded version of "Violet" in Europe, including updated album art in a digipak case.
In 2005 the band signed to Metropolis Records in the U.S.A. and released "Violet" with much larger distribution. I the spring, Owen joined on live keyboards just in time for the studio performance video shoot of "Nevermind" and in August, the band set out on their first European tour. Also in August, a DVD consisting of a video for the song "Blue" was released. It also included behind-the-scenes footage, an interview, the video for "Nevermind," as well as live performances of "Violet" and "Video Kid." The centerpiece of the DVD was the Dan Ouellette-directed video for "Blue". "Nevermind" and the two live videos were directed by Steve Jones of Toronto.
In early 2006, the Birthday Massacre toured North America, playing across Canada, the United States and Mexico on their "Broken Minds" tour. They also played Europe and the U.K. in the summer of 2006. The band did not tour again for nearly a year, and instead began work on a new record.
The demo version of the song "Kill the Lights" was released on Vampirefreaks and MySpace for streaming on January 1, 2007.
In June 2007, it was announced that the band had been working on a new record with Canadian producer/engineer Dave "Rave" Ogilvie and that bass player Aslan had left the band for his own project. Returning to the band, this time on bass, was former drummer O.E. "Looking Glass" (another single from "Walking with Strangers") was posted on August 1, 2007 on Vampirefreaks and MySpace. On August 21, the final version of the lead single "Red Stars" was available with separate promotional art for paid download on the web. Also in August, the band embarked on a series of North American shows lasting three months and included many dates with bands TheStart and Schoolyard Heroes.
On September 11, 2007 the band released "Walking with Strangers" in North America, entering at #10 on the Billboard "Top Heatseekers" chart for September 29. The album was released in Europe on September 21 and in the UK on the 22nd of October. A third trip to Europe and the U.K. followed in November to promote the record. During the European leg of the tour, a live performance was filmed in Hamburg, Germany which would later become the "Show and Tell" live recording.
A video was shot for "Looking Glass" in Feburary of 2008 and posted to Youtube April 1st. Again, the director was Dan Ouellette.
The second single taken from the album, "Looking Glass" was released as an EP on May 6th, containing the video and several remixes by high-profile electronic artists. The band then began a nine week North American tour supporting Mindless Self Indulgence with Julien-K, Combichrist, and others. November of 2008 also saw the band touring Australia for the first time.
The live recording "Show and Tell" was released on May 5th, 2009. Filmed in Hamburg, Germany on November 5th, 2007, initally the footage had no designated purpose. However the band's European record label, Repo Records, suggested it was worthy of release and intended it to be available on both CD and DVD. The band, being self-described as both "do-it-yourself" in their work and meticulous in their releases, has stated the work involved in preparing the footage and bonus features was greater than anticipated, and this, coupled with more live dates than initially planned (including shows with "Dommin" and "I Am Ghost" and a short-notice spot on Virgin Mobile's FreeFest in late August) led to the delay of the DVD portion and the delay of the next record release. The DVD was released in Europe on October 2nd, 2009 in PAL format. The North American NTSC version was released Feburary 2010.
All along, while the band was touring and finishing up the "Show And Tell" material, work was slowly progressing on the next record. These distractions from writing and recording did eventually cause the delay of the record...and finally, the band had to stop accepting shows and focus on nothing but completing the new record. Begining in the fall of 2009, they did just this, secluding themselves in Toronto and with no shows for nearly 11 months. Once again the band worked with Dave "Rave" Ogilvie in the final mixing stages in June. The album info pertaining to artwork and track listing was finally released in July of 2010.
Also in 2010, primary filming for a video was completed over the weekend of July 3rd and 4th. The first single from the album, the video for "In the Dark," premiered on September 7, 2010, directed and edited by The Birthday Massacre's own M.Falcore and Rodrigo Gudino of Rue Morgue. The video can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLOfluH8mgQ
Starting in July, a series of tours begins including dates with OTEP in the USA, headling shows across North Americia and an extensive 21 show U.K. tour. This series of shows ended in November with nearly a month in the U.S.A. supported by Dommin (USA) and Aural Vampire (JPN).
During this run of shows, Pins and Needles was released. On September 14, 2010 this full length record came out on Metropolis Records worldwide. You can find it here: http://www.metropolis-mailorder.com/...rodnum=MET+680
Pins And Needles debuted at number 6 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart and number 152 on the Top 200 chart. Also as of Sept 23, 2010 the album was number 1 on the DAC (Deutsche Alternative Charts) for the 3rd week.
The band also made a lineup change by adding Nate Manor, formally of Wednesday 13, to replace O.E on bass. "Imaginary Monsters" is the third EP by the band, containing three new tracks, five remixes, and album art by Owen. It was released August 9, 2011.
As of March, 2012, the band is currently writing and recording a new record, due out in 2012, and has plans to tour in the fall.
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Introduction: A Visit to Andalusia, August 2007
The road leading to the farmhouse is long, rutted, and unpaved —the land surrounding it, quiet and unkempt. I pass a dilapidated milking shed as the house appears in relative contrast — pleasant, somewhat imposing, and upright. It is larger than I had expected and inviting despite its desertion. A small sign indicates parking in a grass lot around back.
|Nancy Marshall, O'Connor's chair, Andalusia, Spring 2007.
When I get out, I notice a few others milling about on self-guided tours, their voices hushed either in reverence or as a result of the heavy August heat. Perhaps both. I enter the house via the narrow, bricked berth of the screened-in porch, noting the painted rockers, empty, still, and angled toward the close-cropped lawn. Once inside, I am struck again by the size of the place — its quiet, cavernous rooms; high, wainscoted ceilings; and comparatively small furniture. The light is pale on the clay-colored walls (newly painted in 1959); the floorboards creak underfoot. Most things are just as O'Connor and her mother, Regina, left them — scant, ascetic, homely, and yet comfortable. One has the sense, poking about, that they are not the ghosts haunting the place so much as we are — an inconstant trickle of curious tourists, avid readers, spiritual pilgrims, bored children, and interested academes. Perhaps this is because the space itself — the walls, floors, rooms, stairwells, and sweeping grounds — is still imbued, however faintly, with the lives of those who came and went there.
The 2007 release of Flannery O'Connor's letters to longtime personal friend and intellectual confidante, Betty Hester, compels their readers to revisit Andalusia and consider the ways in which, while circumscribing the locus of much of the author's life, it also provided a point of imaginative departure for much of her fiction.1 The O'Connor-Hester letters suggest that Andalusia served a dual function for O'Connor, providing the solitude and seclusion necessary for her work as a writer while accommodating a nearly constant flow of visitors—so creating a space for lively exchange. In her introduction to The Habit of Being, Sally Fitzgerald observes: "[O'Connor] enjoyed company and sought it, sending warm invitations to her old and new friends to come to Andalusia. Once her inviolable three-hour morning stint of writing was done, she looked for, and throve on, companionship."2 This brief essay explores some of the ways in which Andalusia accommodated O'Connor's need for reflection while playing host to an often absurd and comedic parade of characters, many of whom found their way into her stories.
O'Connor's Southern Identity
Although critics and biographers have never cast O'Connor as a rural recluse à la Emily Dickinson, she remained acutely aware of a tendency to present the southern writer in "as mean and poor folksy [a light] as possible" (14 Nov 1959). Of a photographer's pending visit to Andalusia, O'Connor writes: "Tuesday Miss Betsy Locheridge is to come down here and interview me for the Sunday supplement. You will probably find me tricked out in the personality of the Georgia Farm Girl or Good-Earth-Loving Author or something equally horrendous" (19 Sept 1959). After the interview she confirmed this supposition, quipping:
While gimlet-eyed she may have appeared and tormented her characters certainly were, O'Connor embraced this "tricked out" persona, on occasion, in her letters. A defining feature of the Hester correspondence is the author's tendency to color her language with streaks of local slang ("it don't," "it ain't," "naw," "bidnis," "lemme," etc.). "[O'Connor] could write fine country talk," notes Fitzgerald, "and often did, to amuse her friends and herself."3 A hybrid creature much like the hybrid space she inhabited, O'Connor spent her career negotiating the tension between her self-professed identity as a "southerner" and the fiction she hoped would transcend the perceived limitations of regionalist writing (5 Dec 1959). In commenting on a recently published short story by her contemporary, Eudora Welty, O'Connor frames the problem thus:
O'Connor recognized race as a national issue, but much of her fiction can nevertheless be characterized as "topical." Her "characters and setting," observes Thelma J. Shinn, "are admittedly, even blatantly, narrow, placing her within the Southern regionalists like Eudora Welty and producing 'the strong sense of rich red-clay reality underlying and reinforcing all her work.'"4 Although some stories — namely, "The Geranium" and "The Artificial Nigger" — take place in cities such as New York and Atlanta, most others ("The Displaced Person," "Greenleaf," and "The Enduring Chill") describe " atypical life" on working farms like Andalusia.
Writing Rural Georgia
O'Connor makes rural Georgia the setting of her fiction not only because it is familiar, but also because she finds a means of entering, through its peculiar apertures, an altogether different metaphysical locus. For this reason, her metaphor of the topical as "poison" is intriguing. O'Connor's narrative voice is aggressive and predatory — often venomous. Her characters frequently fall into the traps she has set for them, and their ensnarement, if successful, is followed by an emancipatory revelation. As Claire Katz observes, "O'Connor as narrator plays the role of scourge."5 Like the "stinger" of Christ lodged in Hazel Motes' mother's head, O'Connor demonstrates "that the violence of rejection in the modern world demands an equal violence of redemption — man needs to be 'struck' by mercy."6 Katz continues: "Using her stinger, exercising the scorn characteristic of the superego, [O'Connor] imposes on the characters a humiliation so intense that they are forced to acknowledge their impotence."7 It is the realization of this powerlessness that, in turn, becomes curative. Katz concludes: "Potency is the Lord's — or the narrator's."8
O'Connor thus works to exact from her characters — many of whom can be considered victims of a crippling secular egoism — a heightened spiritual awareness. Consider O'Connor's commentary on Richard Chase's 1957 book, The American Novel and Its Tradition:
O'Connor's fiction must cut its characters — its readers, even — before they can be healed. The function of the writer, her serpent's tongue, is cleft. Nevertheless, O'Connor remained wary of identifying herself as a Christian novelist, a Catholic novelist, or a southern novelist. Of a subsequent interview she writes:
Qualifications and reservations aside, O'Connor did write in and of the agrarian Deep South for which Andalusia provided a model. The 544-acre estate consists of "gently rolling hills divided into a farm complex, hayfields, pastures, man-made and natural ponds, and forests."9 Quiet and secluded, this countryside afforded its inhabitants few distractions. O'Connor writes to Hester: "I live on a farm and don't see many people. My avocation is raising peacocks, something that requires everything of the peacock and nothing of me, so time is always at hand" (2 Aug 1955). She later advises her friend: "you can bring [the story I suggested you review] with you for you will have nothing better to do here than sit on the porch and read yourself blind or walk around and smell the sweet flowers" (letter dated 'Benjamin Harrison's Birthday').10
This rural landscape figures prominently in O'Connor's fiction. "The Enduring Chill," a short story published in 1958, features a working dairy farm much like Andalusia. The sour protagonist's reluctant homecoming is described as follows:
[Asbury Fox's mother] turned into their driveway, a red road that ran for a quarter of a mile through the two front pastures. The dry cows were on one side and the milk herd on the other. "There's the house!" [she] said as if they were all blind but her. It rose on the crest of the hill — a white two-story farmhouse with a wide porch and pleasant columns.11
This description —from the "red road" to the "cow pastures" and "pleasant columns"— resembles Andalusia, as does the narrator's account of the interior:
He went into the house, pausing in the hall only long enough to see his pale broken face glare at him for an instant from the pier mirror. Holding onto the banister, he pulled himself up the steep stairs, across the landing and then up the shorter second flight and into his room, a large open airy room with a faded blue rug and white curtains freshly put up for his arrival. He looked at nothing, but fell face down on his own bed. It was a narrow antique bed with a high ornamental headboard on which was carved a garlanded basket overflowing with wooden fruit.12
|Nancy Marshall, O'Connor's bed, Andalusia, Spring 2007.
Due to her progressive illness, O'Connor's room was located on the first floor of the "white two-story farmhouse," but it, too, featured a "faded blue rug" and a "narrow antique bed" with a similar headboard.
Although Asbury Fox's character — a writer like O'Connor — is unable to work in what he deems such an oppressive, backwater environment, O'Connor spent her most productive years at Andalusia. The quiet hours of the morning (specifically, from nine to noon) were devoted, with militant discipline, to writing. Neither O'Connor's mother nor the occasional houseguest dared disturb her. Upon encouraging Hester to come up for a long weekend, O'Connor writes: "Bring some work you want to do or something you want to read. You won't even see me in the morning. You can do your own work or go to town with Regina and set and watch the bugs" (6 Aug 1960).
Company at Andalusia
|Nancy Marshall, Upstairs with coffee pot, Andalusia, Spring 2007.
These solitary hours were countered by the nearly constant arrival of "company." The O'Connor-Hester letters — most of which are dated only a few days apart — indicate how frequently Andalusia played host to a steady stream of visitors. There were the regulars: William Sessions and Betty Hester made their way to Milledgeville frequently enough. But there were also a number of relatives, acquaintances, and professional associates who enjoyed the O'Connors' hospitality. She writes: "We had quite a gathering here Monday — six sisters from the Cancer Home, the Trappist Abbot, and a Msgr. Dowdell" (23 Jul 1960). O'Connor subsequently refers to the farm as a "way-station," reassuring Hester: "If it is scandal you are worried about, you can forget it. If I investigated the past of everybody that visits us, I would have to close down the place" (20 Jul 1963; 6 Aug 1960).
Nevertheless, not all of the company was welcome. O'Connor writes of an impending visit:
Later, she exclaims: "Boy are we sick of Great Lady Guests!" (12 Nov 1960). In keeping with the sentiments expressed in her collected essays, Mystery and Manners, O'Connor expects that her mother's hospitality will be received with gratitude and is disappointed (although not necessarily surprised) to find that this isn't always the case. Of another writer, she comments: "I think she is just wrapped up in herself and her own work. Most of us are. I am myself; but being a Southerner, I have the manners to counteract it, and she being a mid-westerner is almost devoid of these necessary manners" (5 Dec 1959). And later, "Again [the same houseguest and writer] spent two days eating my momma's cooking and didn't even ask to be remembered to her" (25 Jun 1960).
|Nancy Marshall, O'Connor's room and writing place, Andalusia, Spring 2007.
Despite these occasional offenses, the unwelcome guest might have provided good fodder for O'Connor's fiction. "OBD [Miss Olive Bell Davis] and her mother are quite unbelievable," she writes to Hester. "If I had created them, I would have to scratch them all out. There is no combination quite like innocence and gall" (28 May 1960). Perhaps this unlikely combination of "innocence and gall" found its way into the character of Julian's mother in the 1960 short story, "Everything That Rises Must Converge." Mrs. Chestny, whose eyes "were as innocent and untouched by experience as they must have been when she was ten," lived "according to the laws of her own fantasy world, outside of which [her son] had never seen her set foot."13
|Nancy Marshall, Jack and Louise Hill's house, Andalusia,
Winter 2008.
O'Connor's letters indicate a strong belief that fiction should be grounded in experience — in real encounters with real people. Of an unnamed book, she writes: "I read it and it held my attention about two-thirds of the way and then I began to feel I was reading a conundrum about some philosophical problem and not about folks and I got most weary" (27 Apr 1963). A shrewd pragmatist, O'Connor had little patience for "interleckshul" musings and philosophical "abstractions" (2 Sept 1961; 25 May 1963). Many of her own characters — Joy Hulga in "Good Country People," Wesley May in "Greenleaf," and Thomas in "The Comforts of Home" — are taken to task for committing what John F. McCarthy deems "the most heinous of sins — intellectual pride."14 In another letter, O'Connor praises one of Hester's own fictional forays: "This is wonderful, much better than the other stories, more natural and more concerned with what stories are concerned with — people" (6 Jun 1960). Life at Andalusia, despite its location, provided ample exposure to "the vagaries of human personality."15 Folks of all walks and talks made their way to Milledgeville, and when she wasn't actively entertaining company, O'Connor admits to observing her guests with the artist's appraising eye:
The Issue of Race
O'Connor's kept counsel, while suggesting a polite reserve in mixed company, is unleashed in her private correspondence — particularly when it comes to "the help." Regina employed at least two African American farmhands in addition to a housemaid, each of whom appear with some frequency in O'Connor's letters to Hester. She writes:
The voyeur who enters the space of the O'Connor-Hester correspondence, uninvited, is thus confronted with the disconcerting questions that have plagued biographical criticism: "What are the ethics governing this encounter?" "What information is relevant?" "How do these letters bear upon the writer's work" and, in turn, "how does the writer's work bear upon her lived experience?" As Marshall Bruce Gentry says of Jean W. Cash's 2002 biography, Flannery O'Connor: A Life, let the conversation about the "links between Flannery's life and O'Connor's art" continue.16 It is my hope, in this essay, to have given Andalusia a renewed place at the center of that conversation.
All images of letters displayed are Copyright 1959, 1960, 1963 by Flannery O'Connor; Copyright renewed 1987, 1988, 1991 by Regina Cline O'Connor. Permission granted by The Mary Flannery O'Connor Charitable Trust. All rights reserved. Letters available through Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.
- 1. Flannery O'Connor, Letters to Betty Hester: 1955-1964. Manuscript Collection No. 1064. Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.
- 2. Many of the letters in Emory's collection have been published, in whole or in part, in The Habit of Being, Ed. Sally Fitzgerald, 1979. Betty Hester, a native of Atlanta who worked as a secretary and office clerk when she was not reading, writing her own fiction, and maintaining close correspondences with O'Connor and Iris Murdoch, is referred to in Fitzgerald's collection as "A." Habit of Being, xiii.
- 3. Habit of Being, xiii.
- 4. Shinn, Thelma J. "Flannery O'Connor and the Violence of Grace." Contemporary Literature. 9.1 (Winter 1968): 64. Shinn is here quoting Jane Hart's "Strange Earth: The Stories of Flannery O'Connor." Georgia Review XII (Summer 1958): 216.
- 5. Katz, Claire. "O'Connor's Rage of Vision." American Literature 46.1 (March 1974): 56.
- 6. Shinn, 58.
- 7. Katz, 57.
- 8. Ibid., 57.
- 9. The Flannery O'Connor-Andalusia Foundation, Inc. 2002. The J. Whitney Bunting School of Business, GC&SU, Milledgeville, GA. 28 July 2008. http://andalusiafarm.org/.
- 10. Immediately following a letter dated 6 Aug. 1960.
- 11. O'Connor, Flannery "The Enduring Chill." The Complete Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1971: 362.
- 12. Ibid., 363-364.
- 13. Ibid., 406, 411.
- 14. McCarthy, John F. "Human Intelligence versus Divine Truth: The Intellectual in Flannery O'Connor's Works." The English Journal 55.9 (Dec. 1966): 1144.
- 15. Habit of Being, xii.
- 16. Gentry, Marshall Bruce. "Reviewed work: Flannery O'Connor: A Life by Jean W. Cash." The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 36.1 (Spring 2003): 152.


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I have strong ideas about how and why education needs to change. But I've never sat down and put into words my vision for the 21st Century learner. I wonder, though, if the term "21st Century Learner" is already out-dated. The first group of students born in the 21st Century are at the cusp of graduation already.
I prefer to consider the changes in education necessary to support the "Networked Learner." I use this term because I believe it aptly describes our learners today. They are connected to the Internet and social media at a very early age, sometimes as young as five years old, and this greatly impacts who they are as learners and who they will be as graduates. Before we can even establish what outcomes we want for our students, we need to know who these students are as learners. How has being so "connected" impacted today's learner? And how does education need to change to support such a learner?
I agree with Kay and Greenhill that critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity are outcomes today's learner will need as they enter the workforce, but I'd argue that today's learner needs those learning outcomes now, not just by graduation. They need them to navigate the world in which they are currently living, and possibly, as educators and parents, we are failing them in this. We make available all of the tools they need to connect, but do we provide the skills they need to take advantage of all that is available to them while being safe in the process? On his blog, Principal of Change, George Couros paraphrases a student who says:
"Social media is like water because it is everywhere in our life. We can ignore it and watch kids drown, or we can teach kids how to swim. Which way are you going to go?"
In the Leader's Guide, the authors offer other outcomes administrators may want to consider adding to their vision for 21st Century learning, one of which is citizenship. In my vision, citizenship is at the forefront, whether you call it "digital citizenship" or "global citizenship", it's recognition that we are all connected, and that the decisions and actions I make impact others. What are our civic responsibilities as global citizens? I want to help foster in my students a sense of responsibility and to consider their role in making the world a better place.
The world is flattening. Knowledge is power, and for the first time, information is freely available to anyone who can connect. We also have an opportunity to share our voices and be a part of knowledge creation as never before. Our students are both accessing information and leaving their own digital footprints. As educators, we have a responsibility to ensure that they are thinking critically as they access that information - right now - because that information is impacting them and playing a role in who they are becoming and how they view the world. They are creating a digital footprint that will not be erased, and they need help in creating a footprint that will represent them well in the global community to which they belong.
We can't afford to keep our heads in the sand any longer. We are not simply developing a vision that will help our students enter the world of tomorrow. We are developing a vision to support our students who are connected right now, and we need to educate ourselves on how to provide the type of learning they need to navigate the digital landscape in which they currently find themselves.


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Josh Harding: MS diagnosis won't stop me
Josh Harding is battling multiple sclerosis. The Minnesota Wild's 28-year-old goalie was diagnosed with the disease last month and told his story to the Minneapolis Star Tribune's Michael Russo. It's a must-read, but here are the CliffsNotes.
Harding said he's determined to continue his career, and both the team and his doctors believe that he can.
"I had a couple days where I felt bad for myself, but no more," Harding said. "There's things in life that happen. Sometimes you can't explain it. You deal with it."
The disease is incurable and eats away the protective lining of the nerves. Episodes can cause, among other things, problems walking and seeing, and can last for days, weeks, or months.
"It bodes well that we got on it right away before he got into a cycle of getting run down," team doctor Dan Peterson said. "Maybe he never has another episode. Seventy percent of people with MS still go on to live long, productive, fulfilling lives. And from the first day, Josh hasn't lost that 'I'm going to kick its butt' attitude, so he can do this. There's no doubt he can keep playing."
Two weeks ago, Harding was cleared to skate again. He went 13-12-4 last season with a .917 save percentage and 2.62 goals-against average, the first of a three-year, $10 million contract.
"The (other players) said after six weeks off, I didn't look out of place, which was big for me to hear," Harding said.
Several celebrities and other notable people have dealt with MS, including Richard Pryor and Ann Romney, but elite athletes receiving a diagnosis during their careers is rare. Offensive lineman Khiawatha Downey tried to break into the NFL in 2004, but was unsuccessful.
Again, for more on Harding, check out the original story at the Star Tribune.


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A video- and Web-based course for K-8 teachers; 12 half-hour video programs (10 per grade band), course guide, and Web site; graduate credit available
The course consists of 10 approximately two-and-a-half-hour sessions, each with a half hour of video programming, problem-solving activities provided online and in a print guide, and interactive activities and demonstrations on the Web. The 10th session (choose video program 10, 11, or 12, depending on your grade level) explores ways to apply the concepts of number and operations you've learned in your own classroom.
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Video 1. What Is a Number System?
Understand the nature of the real number system, the elements and operations that make up the system, and some of the rules that govern the operations. Examine a finite number system that follows some (but not all) of the same rules, and then compare this system to the real number system. Use a number line to classify the numbers we use, and examine how the numbers and operations relate to one another. Go to this unit.
Video 2. Number Sets, Infinity, and Zero
Continue examining the number line and the relationships among sets of numbers that make up the real number system. Explore which operations and properties hold true for each of the sets. Consider the magnitude of these infinite sets and discover that infinity comes in more than one size. Examine place value and the significance of zero in a place value system. Go to this unit.
Video 3. Place Value
Look at place value systems based on numbers other than 10. Examine the base two numbers and learn uses for base two numbers in computers. Explore exponents and relate them to logarithms. Examine the use of scientific notation to represent numbers with very large or very small magnitude. Interpret whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals in base four. Go to this unit.
Video 4. Meanings and Models for Operations
Examine the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division and their relationships to whole numbers. Work with area models for multiplication and division. Explore the use of two-color chips to model operations with positive and negative numbers. Go to this unit.
Video 5. Divisibility Tests and Factors
Explore number theory topics. Analyze Alpha math problems and discuss how they help with the conceptual understanding of operations. Examine various divisibility tests to see how and why they work. Begin examining factors and multiples. Go to this unit.
Video 6. Number Theory
Examine visual methods for finding least common multiples and greatest common factors, including Venn diagram models and area models. Explore prime numbers. Learn to locate prime numbers on a number grid and to determine whether very large numbers are prime. Go to this unit.
Video 7. Fractions and Decimals
Extend your understanding of fractions and decimals. Examine terminating and non-terminating decimals. Explore ways to predict the number of decimal places in a terminating decimal and the period of a non-terminating decimal. Examine which fractions terminate and which repeat as decimals, and why all rational numbers must fall into one of these categories. Explore methods to convert decimals to fractions and vice versa. Use benchmarks and intuitive methods to order fractions. Go to this unit.
Video 8. Rational Numbers and Proportional Reasoning
Begin examining rational numbers. Explore a model for computations with fractions. Analyze proportional reasoning and the difference between absolute and relative thinking. Explore ways to represent proportional relationships and the resulting operations with ratios. Examine how ratios can represent either part-part or part-whole comparisons, depending on how you define the unit, and explore how this affects their behavior in computations. Go to this unit.
Video 9. Fractions, Percents, and Ratios
Continue exploring rational numbers, working with an area model for multiplication and division with fractions, and examining operations with decimals. Explore percents and the relationships among representations using fractions, decimals, and percents. Examine benchmarks for understanding percents, especially percents less than 10 and greater than 100. Consider ways to use an elastic model, an area model, and other models to discuss percents. Explore some ratios that occur in nature. Go to this unit.
Video 10. Classroom Case Studies, K-2
Watch this program in the 10th session for K-2 teachers. Explore how the concepts developed in this course can be applied through case studies of K-2 teachers (former course participants) who have adapted their new knowledge to their classrooms. Go to this unit.
Video 11. Classroom Case Studies, 3-5
Watch this program in the 10th session for grade 3-5 teachers. Explore how the concepts developed in this course can be applied through case studies of grade 3-5 teachers (former course participants) who have adapted their new knowledge to their classrooms. Go to this unit.
Video 12. Classroom Case Studies, 6-8
Watch this program in the 10th session for grade 6-8 teachers. Explore how the concepts developed in this course can be applied through case studies of grade 6-8 teachers (former course participants) who have adapted their new knowledge to their classrooms. Go to this unit.
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I'm questioning the math skills of the author of the YA book I'm reading because she's trying to pass off a pairing between a 16 year old and 21 year old as non-creepy. I'm also not loving all the mangas I'm reading that have no issues hooking up young teens with people in their early twenties. But, as a teen, I vaguely remember being totally cool with this sorta thing, definitely in fiction and often enough in real life. And it's this realization that brings home just how predatory these relationships are.
At 14, I didn't think much about power differentials. When students dating someone older came up in a negative way, it was a young teacher getting freaked out about the expensive present a student gave him or older teachers discussing all the rules they had to follow for interacting with students. That friend with the older boyfriend? Any concerns anyone in our circle may have had were more of the "wait? you're MARRIED?" variety. No she wasn't actually married, just in way too deep.
But as an adult, 'specially the more years I teach teens and college freshman, the more aware I am of just how important it is to set really strong boundaries. I've known plenty of really awesome, confident, self-assured, rocking teens-but being someone slightly older then them, I've seen how much power a positive word or three can often have on them. That unspoken desire for affirmation that they're smart or confident or mature enough to be on the same playing field as an adult is also what makes them so very vulnerable. Any adult who honestly thinks that the teen is in control of the relationship is straight up delusional.
Many teens are the perfect victims precisely because they'll totally buy into the idea that positive attention from an adult means that they're somehow cooler than their peers. Chris Brown is basically the poster child for this sorta thing, but in essence, this is exactly why statutory rape laws exist-kids can't consent because they often don't totally grasp that they're being victimized in the first place.
On average, girls with older partners are more likely to have sex with them than girls with partners their own age-and the likelihood increases the younger the girl is. And of course it's not just about having sex. There's a body of work on how girls with much older partners are less likely to use protection (Senn and Carey, 2011) and are therefore more at risk for pregnancy and STDs (Kaestle, Morisky, and Wiley, 2002) And yes, the studies acknowledge that the relationship between age and risk might be correlational, but they also find that the girls most likely to have sex at a younger age are from traditionally higher risk populations-low maternal education, from disadvantage races/ethnicity, factors which Kaestle et. al. argue are really proxies for socio-economics.
Which brings me back around to my loathing at the positive portrayal of relationships between teens and adults in media aimed at teenagers. We're selling these inherently predatory set ups as a positive to the potential victims, fully knowing that the most vulnerable kids are the ones most likely to engage in these relationships. Apparently those parents who always warn their kids against having older partners are onto something.
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
The complete guide to the workshop is available here for download in PDF. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read these files. You can download it for free from Adobe.
Program 1: What Is Arts Integration?
Program 2: Why Integrate the Arts?
Program 3: How Do We Collaborate?
Program 4: What Roles Do Students Take On?
Program 5: What are Connecting Concepts?
Program 6: What's the Big Idea?
Program 7: Identifying What Students Are Learning
Program 8: Reflecting on Our Practice
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Improve strength, flexibility and balance through fluid movement and sustained holds in asanas (postures). This class blends alignment and mindful flow to help strengthen your connection to center and to encourage an even greater freedom of spirit. Experienced beginners and advanced practitioners are offered variations and modifications specific to their unique level; an uplifting and refreshing experience.
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'O brave new world…': The Future of Open Shakespeare is Open Literature
James Harriman-Smith - March 12, 2013 in Community, Musings, News, Releases, Technical
At the start of March 2013, openshakespeare.org went offline. Fear not: it will return in all its full annotating, comparing, analysing, searching, publishing glory soon, as an integral part of this website, where all its data, not least its introductions to individual plays, now lives.
This post will set out the reasons why we decided to make this move, and what our vision is for the project in the months and years ahead.
First, the previous incarnation of Open Shakespeare had several problems, largely invisible to most visitors but extremely frustrating for those of us working behind the scenes.
- No easy way to upload content such as introductions and essays. This was because we were mixing a pylons back end with a wordpress-powered front end. One of the saddest parts of this situation was that we never managed to get certain introductions live. Now, I'm happy to report that you can read Professor emeritus Hugh Macrae Richmond's thoughts on Henry VI part 2 for the first time on this website.
- Open Shakespeare had the potential to be something much bigger than it ever was, as evinced by its sister-project Open Milton, which put Milton's texts inside the same framework as we were using for Shakespeare. Rather than proliferate parallel projects, it made sense to bring them all together under an 'Open Literature' platform: uploading the Milton data is thus one of our next big priorities.
Now from these criticisms comes our vision for Open Literature, an adaptable platform for appreciating literature online. We are creating it with the following principles:
- Ease of use: many of our Open Shakespeare volunteers, myself included, struggled with the intricacies of the website, the vast majority of Open Literature's administration can be done through the wordpress interface, whether this is the uploading of texts or the publishing of comments, essays or words of the day.
- Reuse of existing technology: both the Open Knowledge Foundation and other parter organisations have several projects which overlap with Open Literature: we intend to use Textus to power our annotations here, and we will certainly also be making use of the FinalsClub annotations incorporated into Open Shakespeare through the AnnotateIt system.
So there you have it, the groundings of a website where:
- Anyone can get involved with little technical knowledge.
- Literary texts from any authors can be uploaded, annotated, searched and analysed.
- Quality content about these authors can be made open, available to use, re-use and redistribute.
If you'd like to get involved in setting up this platform, the evolution of all our work on Open Shakespeare, do drop in to the Open Humanities mailing lists, either its general or developer variants.
As Miranda says, "O brave new world / That has such people in't!".


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Kazan (カザン, Kazan), renowned as Hundred Transformations Kazan (百変化のカザン, Hyaku Henge no Kazan) was a Yugakure shinobi who appeared in Naruto the Movie: Blood Prison.
Kazan was a very strong-willed individual who was proud of his abilities. He does have a sense of loyalty and repaying debt, as he followed orders from Mui and his four council members to save his son, who was held captive by the five, and when Mui rescued him from the other four's betrayal, Kazan repaid his debt by protecting Mui and attempted to avenge him when Muku attacked.
Kazan was a somewhat short and bald-headed man with dark eyes and a brown goatee. He wore a long-sleeved green kimono shirt with white trimming underneath a yellow, sleeveless jacket held closed by a broad sash. He also wore a pair of black pants and soft, Chinese shoes, and what appeared to be a scarf around his neck.
Kazan was so talented with the Transformation Technique and employed it to transform into anybody to conceal his identity that he was renowned as Hundred Transformations Kazan (百変化のカザン, Hyaku Henge no Kazan). He was also skilled with a pair of kusarigama which he wielded, being able to fight A to a standstill showing impressive speed and agility.
Plot Overview
Kazan disguised himself as Naruto Uzumaki and assassinated jōnin from Iwagakure and Kumogakure, as well as attempted to kill the Fourth Raikage, framing the real Naruto of such crimes, having been hired by Mui to do so, in order for Mui to make use of Naruto. Kazan later infiltrated the Hōzuki Castle and was causing much trouble for jailers. The reason behind this was revealed to be the fact that they had captured his son. Later after being confronted by Mui and a group of masked individuals on a cliff, before Kazan was able to attack them, they paralysed him and send him plummeting to the sea below. It was later revealed that Mui had saved Kazan from the fall "on a whim" he noted, as well as Kazan's son. Kazan would later fight side by side with Mui — even assuming his identity. When the council of masked individuals tried to stop Mui from wasting the one wish granted by the Box of Ultimate Bliss, Kazan intervened and prevented them from stopping Mui who begrudgingly accepted his help. After Mui was cut down by his son Muku, Kazan rushed forward to attack the young man, but before he could attack him, Muku bisected Kazan with his bare hands.
- When written as 火山, his name means "volcano"..
- The English version of the movie mistakenly identifies Kazan as hailing from a "Village Hidden in Lava".


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Poll: Gun Control that Americans Support
WASHINGTON (CNN) — One month after the deadly shootings at an elementary school in Connecticut, a new national poll indicates that a majority of Americans support a number of gun control proposals. But the survey points to wide partisan, gender, and educational divides over some proposals.
According to a Pew Research Center poll, 85% of the public backs making private gun sales and purchases at gun shows subject to background checks, with comparable support across party lines. And the poll indicates that 80% favor laws to prevent mentally ill people from purchasing guns, with broad support from Democrats, Republicans and independent voters.
The poll's Monday release comes one month after 27 people, including 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School, were killed in Newtown, Connecticut by a gunman, who then shot himself to death.
Two-thirds of people questioned in the survey say they support creating a federal database to track gun sales, but there's a partisan divide, with 84% of Democrats and only 49% of Republicans favoring the proposal.
Fifty-five percent favor a ban on assault style weapons, 54% back a ban on high capacity ammunition clips, and 53% support a ban on on-line ammunition sales, but again there's a wide partisan divide between Democrats and Republicans on these proposals.
According to the poll, nearly two-thirds support putting armed security guards or police in more schools, but only four in ten say arming more teachers and school officials with guns is a good idea.
By a 51%-45% margin, Americans say it's more important to control gun ownership than to protect gun rights. This is virtually unchanged from Pew poll that was conducted in the days following the Newtown, Connecticut shootings.
Men are divided on this question, while a solid majority of women say it's more important to control gun ownership. There's also a sizable gender gap over a ban on semi-automatic weapons, with two-thirds of women supporting such a move and men divided.
The survey also highlights an educational divide. Fewer than half of college graduates support a proposal to put armed guards or police in more schools, while three-quarters of those with no more than a high school education favor the idea.
The Pew Research Center poll was conducted January 9-13, with 1,502 adults nationwide questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.
CNN Political Editor Paul Steinhauser contributed to this story.


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If your application for Medicaid has been denied or not acted upon promptly, you have the right to a fair hearing. Here's what you need to know: Q: What is a fair hearing? A: A fair hearing is a proceeding before an administrative law judge (ALJ). If you feel that the decision made by the… Read More »
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RLG Attorney Kim Christian Will Be Featured On The Boomer Buzz Radio Show!
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Probate – FAQs
Losing a loved one is incredibly difficult. Emotions are high and the last thing you want to do is handle your loved one's estate. Unfortunately, sometimes the probate can't be avoided. So, what do you need to know about a probate proceeding? FAQs Q: What is a probate proceeding? A: Probate is the legal process… Read More »
Special Needs Planning for your Child
If your child has special needs, there are so many things to think about. Between getting the child help right now and thinking about what happens when they turn 18 and you no longer have the legal authority to make medical and financial decisions; here are two options: Advance Directives – Advance directives, if the young… Read More »
Russo Law Group Sponsors ADRC's 17th Annual West End Walk for Alzheimer's
Russo Law Group, P.C. is a proud sponsor of the Alzheimer's Disease Resource Center, Inc.(ADRC) 17th Annual West End Walk For Alzheimer's! Saturday, September 7th, our staff and friends among other supporters of ADRC will join the walk for Alzheimer's Disease. The event will take place at Marjorie Post Park in Massapequa, NY. The proceeds from this Walk… Read More »
Power of Attorney versus Guardianship
Have you ever been concerned about an aging parent who seems to be making "bad" decisions? Or, have you thought about who will look after you should something tragic happen and you become incapacitated? These are difficult scenarios to think about, but Power of Attorney and Guardianship proceedings can offer peace of mind. In a… Read More »
How Does a Pooled Income Trust Work?
Does your parent need home care, but you just don't know how you're going to afford it? Many options exist and determining which financial strategy is best for your loved ones can be hard to decipher. However, one option that can provide you with peace of mind is a pooled income trust. For example, with… Read More »
Why Do I Need a Trust?
No one likes to think about his or her end of life, but you can't avoid the inevitable. Planning financially for you and your family's future can help put your mind at ease. Having a solid plan in place can ensure your family is well taken care of after you are gone. As such, a… Read More »
My House Is Owned By A Trust, Can I Still Take Advantage Of The Capital Gains Exclusion?
Recently I received a telephone call from a client looking to sell their home. The home had been transferred to a trust years earlier and they wanted to know if they would qualify for the $250,000 (per resident owner) capital gains exclusion on the sale of their home. Generally speaking, the Internal Revenue Code provides,… Read More »
SSI And The "Able" Account
Kelly is 24 years old. She is on the autism spectrum and is receiving SSI. She is doing her best to be independent, but the monthly stipend is limited and it is difficult to live on her own with minimal funds. What is her best option to keep her benefits and have the means to… Read More »
8th Annual Health Care Professional Open Forum
Please join us for our 8th Annual Elder Law Open Forum for Health Care Professionals on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 at The Cuban of Garden City. Health Care professionals are invited to enjoy lunch with some of their colleagues and attorneys of Russo Law Group while receiving updates on elder laws and special needs. The… Read More »
Make Sure That You Have The Right Supplemental Needs Trust!
Recently I received a call from a long-time client in a complete panic. She had been talking to her friend about the planning that they each implemented and the friend insisted that the client established the wrong trust for her niece. The niece is on government benefits and the friend had her convinced that if… Read More »
Trusts – Do I Need One?
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There's a cemetery plot, somewhere out there, waiting for your corpse. Regardless of who and where you are, you will one day be quite dead. And in 100 years, chances are no one will remember your name—including the people carrying your genes in their bloodstreams. We see our mortal future in everything from the natural forces that sap our hair color to the bacteria that eventually grind our bodies to a maggoty pulp. The universe rolls around us frenetically, and, in every single case, it eventually kills us.
That's not just a matter of our individual destinies. If we are honest, the world around us seems pretty good proof that the gospel isn't true. Doesn't the cosmos seem to be just as the nihilists describe it: a bloody, merciless machine in which power, not goodness or beauty, is ultimate? What, then, is the meaning of life? What's the purpose of history? If it's all heading nowhere, then what difference at all does my existence make?
The gospel of the kingdom doesn't shy away from such questions, but our preaching tends to swerve around the answers it gives. Often we Christians start our gospel proclamation with triumph over sin. Fair enough: The gospel of Christ is indeed the reversal of sin, and of death and hell. But without a broader context, such teaching can treat Christ as a means to an end, a step from the alpha of Eden to the omega of heaven. In a truly Christian vision of the kingdom of God, though, Jesus of Nazareth isn't a hoop we jump through to extend our lives into eternity. Jesus is the kingdom of God in person. As such, he is the meaning of life, the goal of history, and the pattern of the future. The gospel of the kingdom starts and ends with the announcement ...1


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While exploring in southern Illinois after the recent floods, I came across a long group of foundations just across the road from the Mississippi River. There are many footings of buildings and silos there, but no indication of what stood at the site. Upon returning home, I found that the name of the area at different times used to be Fayville, Santa Fe, Commerce Landing and McElmurry Station. It was the site of a gun-powder mill, and suffered through a series of explosions over the years, before finally being abandoned circa 1928. Here is an article that I found about it: http://genealogytrails.com/ill/alexander/fayville.htm . The area can be accessed by driving southeast of Thebes, IL on IL Rte 3, then turning right on Rock Springs road. As you follow this road, it ends at Fayville Rd. Turn left and the old ruins will be on your left as you parallel the river. I have no idea who owns the land.
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How to Explain a TV Show to Different People
By Caldwell Tanner
How to Describe a TV Show to Different People Each image will feature a six-image grid showing the character who watches each TV show trying to explain to the person denoted by the title above each image. Game of Thrones Character: A normal-looking , slightly bro-ey dude Parents: It's like the West Wing, but set in medieval times, you'd love it. Cool Friend: Bro ladies are getting mad sexed on this show like all the time always. Nerdy Friend: Bro ladies are getting mad sexed on this show like all the time always, also Dragons. Girlfriend: Come on, there are these really cute wolf-puppies in the first episode. Co-Worker: And that's why I named my Fantasy Basketball team "Ball Drogo." / "LanniSTARS" Doctor Who Character: A slightly nerdy-looking girl Parents: Remember when you watched Monty Python? It's kinda like that, but in space. Cool Friend: Basically he's a time traveler that rides around in a british police box, oh and he wears a bow tie! But that's not hey wait where are you going. Nerd Friend: You have such a wonderful journey ahead of you. Boyfriend: It's basically Batman for British people. Co-Worker: And that's why I named my Fantasy Baseball team "Victory of the Daleks" Downton Abbey Character: A normal-looking girl (i.e. my sister) Parents: IT'S GOT DAME MAGGIE SMITH IN IT!!! Cool Friend: It's basically the best Soap Opera you've ever seen. Nerd Friend: It's got like everyone from Game of Thrones in it! Boyfriend: It's like a British version of The Sopranos? Maybe? Co-Worker: And that's why I named my Fantasy Football Team "Touchdownton Abbey." Breaking Bad Character: A nerdier-looking Jeff Rubin type Parents: It's... er...a drama about the dangers of Meth addiction. Cool Friend: Just watch it already, dude! Nerd Friend: Just watch it already, BITCH. Girlfriend: Just watch it already, BITCH...I'm sorry, I didn't mean that. Co-Worker: Just watch it so we can talk about something other than sports. Any Anime Each panel has a big black bar across the text buble with a warning imprinted on it. A nerdy guy is having trouble explaining this one. Parents: [DON'T] Cool Friend: [EVEN] Nerd Friend: If you don't mind underage [TRY] it's worth checking out Girlfriend: [SERIOUSLY] Co-Worker: [DON'T] GrandParents: [EVEN]


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Do it!
and post here how it goes.................please!
Hello all. I have been lurking on here for some time and finally joined a few says ago. I thought I had better get around to posting something, so here we go.
I'm a somewhat geeky 31 year old from Surrey, interested in messing around with Linux and hardware hacking. I also have a strange fascination with all things 1980s.
I don't currently have a car PC, but have a few ideas. My main priority is music. GPS may follow in time. OBD is irrelevant to me as my car is too old to have this.
The car: 1993 Saab 900 "Ruby", currently fitted with a late '90s Sony head unit with internal amplifier. As I consider this to be something of a classic (others will disagree!) and due to my lack of fabrication skills, I don't want to go chopping holes in the dash.
The (proposed) car PC: O2 Joggler with heat-sink mod and a fabricated bracket for attachment to the existing 1 DIN slot. I intend it to be removable so as not to attract thieves. Storage will be a 2.5 inch hard disk in a USB enclosure, probably mounted in the glove box. I haven't yet worked out what to do about an amplifier, but something with a similar output to the existing head unit that would fit in the 1 DIN space (allowing room for a USB hub and voltage regulator for the Joggler) would be ideal. Any ideas?
For software, I have been playing with Squeezeplay on Linux Mint 10 and am pretty impressed. I have tried both Meego IVI and Linux ICE in the past, but for simple playback of audio files, Squeezeplay does the job very well.
If I do decide to add GPS, my main aim would be to produce tracks of my journey - something that I currently do with my Android 'phone. Navigation would be of secondary concern and would probably use Navit, but I haven't really played with this yet.
That's it for now. Any thought?
Do it!
and post here how it goes.................please!
Thanks Chris,
OK, slight change of plan. One of the reasons that I was holding off tuning anything other than Squeezeplay was that I wanted to run it full screen, but with only a single touch screen there was no obvious way of switching applications. I have been playing with easystroke and also wmctrl and xbindkeys. I abandoned easystroke fairly quickly as it is really designed for a mouse and requires a mouse button or key to be held down when making a gesture. Wmctrl provides a command line interface to control the window manager. This could be a simple alt-tab, or it could specify which window to switch to, for example:
wmctrl -a Squeezeplay
This brings Squeezeplay into focus. Combining this with xbindkeys means that keyboard short cuts can be created to switch between applications. I intend to acquire a cheap USB numeric keypad to butcher and create an interface for the necessary buttons.
I have also been playing with Navit and have a semi-usable navit.xml config file. It works at home, but I need to take it outside and test it properly.
Parts obtained:
Joggler, 320GB 2.5" USB hard disk, powered USB hub, USB GPS dongle, radio wiring loom.
Parts ordered:
DC-DC converter
Parts required:
USB keypad (to hack), amplifier and probably various other bits that I can't remember.
Just a little pointer if you are planning hacking the USB keyboard to get button controls......
a USb gamepad with 10 buttons is smaller and can be programmed to give different key pushes in different applications.....
Bidding on another one at the moment. I am so impressed with Squeezeplay that I want one at home as a cheap alternative to a Squeezebox Touch.Look forward to seeing this mate, got 2 jogglers sitting at home as general around the home media controllers, tried Android, Linux Mint, UNR, and more recently jolicloud :)
Haven't brought a keypad yet, so I'll investigate gamepads....a USb gamepad with 10 buttons is smaller and can be programmed to give different key pushes in different applications.....
sorry to hijack a little
could a joggler be used to play music with a nice interface from a network drive/area?
I can't really compare Squeezeplay to XMBC as I have very little xsperience with the latter. All I can say is that Squeezeplay is a rather nice touch screen friendly music player that covers all the usual bases: Album art, playlists, etc. It is basically the interface used by the Squeezebox Touch - which itself runs an embedded Linux distro.
Haven't had much time to do anything further, but I am now off work for five days, so hopefully I'll make some progress. Any recommendations on a small amplifier to replace the head unit?
As I am intending to go with a DC-DC converter rather than a purpose designed car power supply, I realise I will need some kind of shut-down controller. If I had to manually shut-down the Joggler I would forget and would end up with either file corruption or a flat battery. As I have a couple of Arduinos sitting around doing nothing, I thought I may as well put them to use, so I came up with this:
Two Arduinos: The first is the shut-down controller. Switch S4 is the power switch. When on, input D0 goes high, the Arduino switches on output D1 and thus closes the relay, powering on the Joggler. When switched off, the opto-coupler (needed as the two Arduinos do not share a common ground) is energised, sending Arduino 2's input D3 high.......
Arduino 2 is a "keyboard controller" - initially with three keys to switch to Navit or Squeezeplay and to restart Squeezeplay (it seems flaky after 5 or so hours). The "keys" are digital inputs 0 to 2. Input D3 comes from the first Arduino and will issue the shut-down command.
Once the Joggler has shut-down, Arduino 1 will detect the lack of 5v from it's USB port (I do need to test that this powers off on shut-down and switch off D1, de-energising the relay and thus removing power from the Joggler's DC-DC converter.
I have a few parts on order, so will have to wait for these before proceeding – and I have to write the code. Hopefully I'll have it bench tested by the weekend.
any thing Arduino related is good!
i havent looked at the design properly but Arduinos are very powerfull
why do you need 2?
Sorry for the delay in updates, but the roster clerk at work seems intent on trying to kill me!
Anyway, I am having second thoughts on using the two Arduinos. I have built and tested a keyboard interface on a proto shield, but was having problems trying to power the Joggler from a DC-DC converter. It would hang just after the o2 splash screen, with random graphical corruption. Figuring that the cheap DC-DC converter was not supplying a nice clean 5V. I ended up buying a dedicated in car PSU – which features a shut down controller of sorts, so no need for one of the Arduinos. Alas even with the new PSU, I had hanging and graphical corruption – which I eventually found that this was due to a dry joint in the power jack and not the two PSUs.
So I have a choice. I could go with the original plan, or I could use the new PSU and just one Arduino for the keyboard. I'll probably go with the latter as it cuts down on complexity and probably (haven't tested it) gives significantly lower current draw when shut down.
Some pics
Arduino and proto shield keyboard interface
Power Supply
Joggler running from power supply. The ATX PSU is being used to supply 12V DC
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Sunday Sweets: Painted Cakes
Don't worry, everyone; you came to the right place. You may have stopped short when you saw this cake:
...and wondered if you had accidentally surfed over to CakeShapedItemsWrappedinFancyWallpaper.com, but nope, this is Sunday Sweets, and that's a real, hand-painted cake!
Cake-painting is just like regular ol' painting, except the artist must work extra quickly when using food-grade paints, and must also be ok with the fact that his or her masterpiece will surely be sliced up and devoured by the end of the night.
Sumitted by Debbie C. and made by Sweet and Saucy Shop
Most painted cakes don't rely on 3D fondant sculpting, so they get their visual impact from lots of detail and bold colors:
Sub'd by Kelly C. and made by Maggie Austin Cake
But here's a double dose of awesome: both fondant figurines and some amazing cake-painting inspired by the nostalgic children's illustrations of Lucie Attwell. (yup, Googled that).
Sub'd by Natasha and made by Nevie-Pie Cakes
So sweet I'm getting cavities just looking at it!
This painted-on barnyard scene adds a solid dose of whimsy to an already whimsical cake.
By Maggie Cakes
By Maggie Cakes It's dripping in whimsy! It's whimsy overload all up in heah! (That's how the cool kids say it. I'm not cool).
I love the simplicity of this cake, the designs look like super high-class doodles!
Did I ever tell you that my nickname in college was "The Doodler?" Maybe I'm cooler than I thought...
And if you just can't get enough animal imagery on cakes, you're going to go wild for this one:
Sub'd by Amber M. and made by Rising Flours
Out of Africa and into my heart! (And belly!) It's absolutely stunning. Baby giraffes, zebra print and cake may very well be all I need to get by in life.
But what's a post about painted cakes without an actual painting on a cake?
By CakeDiva73
Starry Night, by Vincent Van Gogh-on-with-your-bad-self!
However, if you asked me what the most unlikely painting to be reproduced in cake form would be, due to its abstract nature, abundance of miniature shapes and swirls, and a use of colors you simply aren't going to find in the cake decorating aisle, I would confidently reply: The Kiss, by Gustav Klimt.
(Actually I would just stare at you for a long time and slowly, unblinkingly, back away.)
Sub'd by Mary K. and made by Sweet Ladies Bakery
But what do you know? Here it is. Truly a work of art!
The impressionist style is a natural fit for painting with frosting. I think Monet would approve, and probably glumly wonder why he didn't think of it first.
Sub'd Emily L. and made by Megpie
Now you can have your art and eat it too! Yum-azing.
That's all for today, have a great rest-of-your-weekend!
Have a Sweet to nominate? Then send it to Sunday Sweets (at) Cake Wrecks (dot) com.