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a pregnant woman on a hormonal misbalance, even more aggressive and vicious than a typical one. Hates everything and everyone, especially men. Distinct species from Pregasaurus.
Dude, my wife is already 5 months pregnant, and she is giving me hard time lately. She is slowly turning into a Pregaraptor.

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Sir Walter Scott's Highlands
Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) played a major role in creating the heroic image of the Scottish Highlands. His works fuse wild landscapes, turbulent history and romantic traditions into powerful patriotic narratives.
"Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! What mortal hand Can e,er untie the filial band
That knits me to thy rugged strand."


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The Absurdity Of Comparing Copying To Stealing
from the preach-it deptThis is certainly a point we've probably made hundreds of times on this site over the years, highlighting that infringement is different than "stealing" in some very important ways. And yet, industry folks, politicians and law enforcement continue to make the claim that one is "no different" from the other. We had already called out US Attorney Carmen Ortiz, who's heading the prosecution of Aaron Swartz for making the bogus "no different than stealing" statement about Swartz's actions:
"Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar and whether you take documents, data, or dollars," US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz said in a statement. "It is equally harmful to the victim, whether you sell what you have stolen or give it away."Reader jjmsan points us to Matthew Yglesias' wonderful two paragraph debunking of this absurd statement, and the fact that US law enforcement continues to make such obviously false equivalency claims:
This is absurd. I wrote a book once, titled Heads In The Sand. I both own physical copies of the book and own the copyright to the content of the book. It is obviously not equally harmful to me if you break into my house and steal my physical copy of the book than if you were to somehow go to the library and make a photocopy of the book. The difference, not at all subtle, is that when you steal something of mine (be it my book, my iPad, my shoes, my money, my immersion blender or whatever), I don't have it anymore. If you copy something that you're not allowed to copy without my permission, that's a very different issue. Perhaps you deprive me of income I would have had if you hadn't done that, or perhaps you don't deprive me of anything. As I've said before, I sometimes beg online for someone to send me a copy of an academic article that I can't get free access to. It's never the case that my fallback option in this situation is to purchase an extremely expensive academic journal subscription. Nobody is harmed when this sort of copying occurs, and even in the cases where there is a harm the nature of the harm is quite different from the harm incurred in actual cases of theft.It's that second paragraph that's really the crux of the issue here. We've all argued way too many times over the issue in the first paragraph. But there's simply no good reason at all for officials to use such language when it comes to copying, because copyright laws are entirely unrelated and have a totally different purpose than laws against stealing.
I'm not really sure why the people charged with enforcing copyright law are obsessed with obscuring this fact. The laws against stealing are hardly the only laws on the books. There is a perfectly sound public policy rationale for requiring cars to have license plates, but nobody would say "stealing is stealing whether you take someone's car or just drive your own car without license plates." The regulations against copying are supposed to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." That's a good reason to have a set of rules, but it's a reason that has nothing to do with "stealing." The question is whether the rules we currently have are actually good ways to achieve this goal.
Of course, it's also worth pointing out a key point that Yglesias seems to skip over which makes Ortiz's statements here even more ridiculous. For all the "stealing" talk regarding Swartz's attempts to copy JSTOR documents, he wasn't even charged with copyright infringement. The "stealing" claim rings even more hollow than usual because he's not charged with either "stealing" or "copying." He's charged with hacking into a system, against their terms of service. Now, I guess someone could try to claim that's some sort of "theft of service," but even that claim doesn't hold up to much scrutiny, because anyone who had access to the MIT network -- which allowed guest access, as Swartz was using -- had free access to JSTOR.


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experience a wilderness survival SITUATION
It all begun as a brief canoe trip. Experts advice that you should tell somebody where you are going and when you are getting back, at minimum. What if you'd skip that part? What if you'd go somewhere, and then even take a detour.
And what would you do when the worst case scenario happens? What if you lost your knife? Imagine going off-route and losing your cellphone. Matches? Yeah, maybe you have that one match. But how will you start fire after that? How you will get to safety?
What are your survival priorities?
Survive video game is entertainment, so an effort has been done to make the game feel realistic enough, but there are several things where realism had to be sacrificed to get a better gameplay. Some stuff is just boring and tedious in real life... and some things are just way too complex to be featured in a game. This game is highly complex one to learn.
I created the first version of the game as a Ludum Dare entry. That's a game jam where you have 3 days time to make a game. I published the first version after about 11 hours of development. Since then, a lot of things have changed. I've been working on this game for 1.5 years (2016) and poured hours and hours of effort in trying to make the game as good as possible.
Version 188 was published on November 11, 2016. That's a quite feature-complete game, but there are much more content to be added and much more work to be done. That work continues.
Shelter offers protection from the rain and cold weather. Without a shelter, the rain is deadly. And building a shelter in the darkness won't be an easy thing. Get your shelter built before the night begins.
Without fire, you die. Fire is the ultimate weapon against the cold. Make sure you have energy left to start a fire. Save your matches if possible. Fire is also your tool for purifying water.
Get water. Stay hydrated. Build a raincatcher before it begins to rain. Explore areas for water puddles and wet moss. Purify water with fire.
There are various ways to build tools of survival.
You can hunt in the game, but also fish and set traps.
The ultimate goal of the game is to get to survive. If your body heat drops to zero, it's game over. If your hydration drops to zero, it's game over.
The only way to win (in version 188) is to get to safety.
Survive game is not about graphics. There's no fancy 3d models. There's practically almost no animations. There is audio, and some effects and little bit of graphics. This game is not about visuals. This game is about letting you the player imagine and experience the survival situation.
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It's been a busy spring - research and writing are progressing slow but sure!
In the meantime, I'm starting to plot some maps. Here is one for known locations of members relating to my branch of Gillespie's in Armagh (however the Drumminis location is only a possible family connection at this point in time).


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Bold. Suave. Swaggering. Dion helped usher in a new era.
With one foot in the Fifties and one in the future, Dion blended R&B with doo-wop and helped ring in the age of rock and roll.
Singer Dion DiMucci, better known simply as Dion, epitomized the indigenous music of the Bronx streets where he was raised.
Dion was born on July 18, 1939 and was raised in the Little Italy section of the Bronx. He started singing at a young age, and he had a variety of musical influences. As he wrote in his autobiography, "I was picking up influences from all over the place, mixing in early R&B with doo-wop. Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley and, of course, Elvis. In other words, like every other teenager in America, I was discovering rock & roll."
In 1957 he teamed up with three neighborhood pals—Fred Milano, Angelo D'Aleo and Carlo Mastrangelo—to form a vocal group that earned a reputation as the best street-corner singers for miles. Dion and the Belmonts (named for Belmont Avenue in the Bronx) perfected four-part harmonies while falling under the spell of rock and roll. Dion, a tenor, became the group's lead vocalist. His father was eager to help Dion break into the big time and arranged a meeting for him with the head of Mohawk Records, a small New York label. Dion auditioned by singing the Five Satins' "Wonderful Girl." He became the second artist signed to the label. However, the Belmonts were not part of the deal.
Dion's first single, "The Chosen Few," created a stir in the Boston area, prompting Dion to quit school and pursue his career full time. He then convinced Mohawk—which had changed its name to Laurie Records—to bring the Belmonts on board, and in 1958 Dion and the Belmonts recorded their first Top 40 hit, "I Wonder Why." They followed that with "No One Knows" and "Don't Pity Me." A year later, they cracked the Top 10 with "A Teenager in Love," written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. That winter, as the single moved up the charts, Dion and the Belmonts joined the Winter Dance Party, a package tour. Because he balked at paying the $35 it would have cost him, Dion, who was 19, declined an invitation to fly on the chartered plane that went down on February 3, 1959, killing fellow musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. "the Big Bopper" Richardson.
Dion and the Belmonts scored their biggest hit, "Where or When," in 1960, but the group found itself being steered in a polished, adult-pop direction, so Dion left to reclaim his rock and roll roots. His first solo hit was "Lonely Teenager," which reached the Top 20. In 1961 he hit upon a loose, swaggering style that he could call his own with the songs "Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer." At this time, Dion was nearly alone among all the "teen idols" in attempting to equal the sultry charge that Elvis Presley had brought to rock and roll. Other hits in the same swinging, spontaneous vein followed: "Lovers Who Wander," "Little Diane," "Ruby Baby" and "Donna the Prima Donna."
Dion's star subsequently dimmed in the wake of the British Invasion and some personal setbacks that included a struggle with drug addiction. However, he re-emerged in 1968 with a more introspective, folk-based style that earned him his eleventh Top 10 song, a thoughtful ode to slain martyrs entitled "Abraham, Martin and John." He then released a folkish version of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" and recorded an album that included covers of Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan songs. By 1969 he had signed with Warner Bros. Records, where he released Sit Down, Old Friend, You're Not Alone (1970) and Sanctuary (1972).
In 1973 Dion reunited with the Belmonts for a concert at Madison Square Garden that resulted in a well-received live album, Reunion. In 1979, Dion became a born-again Christian and began adding Christian music to a stylistic canon that includes folk, doo-wop, rhythm & blues and rock and roll. In 1987 he performed at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and the show was released as a two-CD live album. The following year he published his autobiography, The Wanderer: Dion's Story.
In 2002, Dion's "Runaround Sue" was voted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2009 Dion performed "The Wanderer" with Paul Simon at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's twenty-fifth anniversary concert at Madison Square Garden. He has continued to perform and release albums, including Tank Full of Blues, which came out in 2012.
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Inspired by the ubiquitous pregnancy bible, What To Expect When You're Expecting is a romantic comedy that follows five couples preparing for parenthood. And while the first trailer gave us a look at what impending motherhood does to the likes of Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Elizabeth Banks, Brooklyn Decker and Anna Kendrick, the latest trailer is all about the dudes.
Here the spotlight is shined on the daddies of Dude Group, who wear BabyBjorns with serious swagger and have a few rules to keep every bro-dude in check. One: What's said in Dude Group stays in Dude Group. Two: There's no judging among dudes. Chris Rock, Thomas Lennon, Ben Falcone, Rob Huebel and Amir Talai lay it down for new dad Rodrigo Santoro in this latest promo.
With a cast stacked with amiable stars and cutting comedians, What To Expect When You're Expecting seemed promising; however, these trailers reveal just how overstuffed with storylines this flick is, leaving me to ponder how satisfying the storytelling could possibly be. Ever since the resounding success of Love Actually studios have been seeking to pile up massive star power in charming rom-com packaging, yet none have thus far proved a match to their inspiration (remember Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve?). And I doubt Kirk Jones, the director of the painfully dull Everybody's Fine, will break the streak. Tack on this trailer's emphasis on the daddies' us-versus-mommies mentality, and What To Expect falls into deeply tired territory. Beyond that it's baffling to me that Lionsgate seems to think men will be attracted to this title, even with a trailer dripping in Hangover-styled child-endangerment humor.
What To Expect When You're Expecting opens May 18th. Head over to our Blend Film Database to see more from the movie.


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Are you a total slacker on exercise, a real couch potato? Then this exercise routine is for you! It just takes five minutes, and it can be done in front of the TV. And yes, you will see results.
Equipment Needed
You will need some simple equipment you likely have around the house: a bath towel, an armchair and yourself. Remember, it doesn't matter where you do these exercises–in front of your favorite show is probably the best place to keep you motivated.
1. Towel Twists
Grab the ends of your towel with each hand and stretch it apart. Raise your hands over your head keeping the towel stretched tight. With your feet planted hip width apart, twist at the waist and look to the right. Then twist and look to the left. Keep your arms high above your head and the towel taut. Do this 10 times to each side.
2. Butt Crawler
Sit on the floor in front of the TV with your legs out in front of you. Try to sit as tall as you can. Now, using your butt muscles and inching your legs alternately out in front of you, take 10 "butt-steps" forward, then 10 steps back. This is guaranteed to tighten those muscles and shape your fanny.
3. Toe Twister
While you're still on the floor, spread your legs wide and simply attempt to touch one hand to your alternate toe. It's okay if you can't do it; just reach until you feel a stretch in the back of your leg. Don't overdo it. This is to give you some limberness in your back and legs and help you feel looser overall. Hold it for a count of five seconds, then do the same with the other side.
4. Half Push-Ups
Find a strong arm of the couch, a chair or even the side of a tub. The idea is to be able to do a sort of push up without straining. Angle yourself out from the edge you are using so you make a triangle with the floor and your chin comes to the edge when you lower yourself. Lower yourself to the edge and slowly push up. Do this five times, working up to 10 over time.
5. Leg Lowers
This exercise can be done on the floor or the couch. Raise your legs over your stomach, perpendicular with the floor. Tighten your belly muscles and lower your legs just a few inches. Hold for a count of ten, then raise again. Do this five times. Work up to 10 counts of 10.
Before you shop: Keep it up for five weeks and you will see results. And here are a couple more five-minute workouts that we love from Pinterest.


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How to close a budget gap that has exceeded $1 trillion in each of the last four years and avert a "fiscal cliff" of austerity cuts and tax hikes that threaten recession is the subject of White House negotiations with congressional leaders starting Friday.
In a surprise move, President Barack Obama, perhaps emboldened by his strong showing at the polls last week, jolted the familiar ground of those discussions with a call to raise revenue by $1.6 trillion over 10 years, twice the revenue goal he laid forth in budget talks held one year ago.
As the politicians prepare their negotiation stances, liberal and conservative economists are offering their ideas on how to solve America's growing fiscal gap.
In a blog post published Saturday, Greg Mankiw, chairman of the Economics Department of Harvard University who served as an advisor to Mitt Romney's campaign, approvingly cited an idea from the Tax Policy Center that would raise revenue without increasing tax rates.
By capping itemized deductions at $50,000, the center–a joint project of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute–says revenues would increase by $749 billion over 10 years. That's about half the president's current goal and nearly all of the amount the president was seeking just a year ago. And nearly all of that revenue would come from the nation's top earners, the center says.
According to Mankiw, "this may be the germ of a possible deal between President Obama and Speaker (John) Boehner: The speaker agrees to this tax hike if the president agrees to some fundamental reform of the entitlements, such as gradually but significantly raising the age of eligibility for Social Security and Medicare."
But such a deal is far from acceptable to Robert Reich, University of California at Berkeley professor and former secretary of labor in the Clinton administration. Reich, in a blog post published Monday, advises the president to seek even more revenue while completely shielding entitlement spending.
Setting $4 trillion–"the consensus of the Simpson-Bowles Commission"–as his revenue goal, the former Cabinet secretary outlines four steps to closing the U.S. fiscal gap.
Reich says he'd get the first trillion (over the next decade) by raising taxes on the rich: "Why not go back sixty years when Americans earning over $1 million in today's dollars paid 55.2 percent of it in income taxes, after taking all deductions and credits?"
Additional surtaxes on wealth would bring the next trillion:
"A 2% surtax on the wealth of the richest one-half of 1 percent would bring in another $750 billion over the decade. A one-half of 1 percent tax on financial transactions would bring in an additional $250 billion," Reich writes.
Reich again looks to taxes for most the third trillion: "Raise the capital gains rate to match the rate on ordinary income and cap the mortgage interest deduction at $12,000 a year, and that's another $1 trillion over ten years."
And he manages to come up with the final trillion without touching the middle class or Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid:
"Eliminate special tax preferences for oil and gas, price supports for big agriculture, tax breaks and research subsidies for Big Pharma, unnecessary weapons systems for military contractors, and indirect subsidies to the biggest banks on Wall Street, and we're nearly there. End the Bush tax cuts on incomes between $250,000 and $1 million, and–bingo–we made it: $4 trillion over 10 years."
To conservative economist James Pethokoukis, writing on the American Enterprise Institute's AEI-Ideas blog, the approach taken by Reich (whom Pethokoukis does not discuss) wrongly focuses on the deficit while avoiding the true focus, which should be on nominal GDP. Pethokoukis cites a research note by MKM Partners economist Michael Darda that says U.S. deficits have mushroomed as GDP has plunged below trend.
So, by focusing on reigniting economic growth, the deficit disappears, Pethokoukis argues, approvingly citing Darda's recommendations to "close the growth gap in a potentially bipartisan way." Those recommendations include GDP growth target combined with reform of entitlements and the tax code.
In a separate blog post published Wednesday, Pethokoukis criticizes the president's $1.6 trillion tax hike proposal, saying "73% of the savings comes from taxes, 27% from spending cuts. That's $3 of tax hikes for every $1 of spending cuts."
He adds: "Obama is making the exact mistake Europe is making by employing a tax-hike heavy version of fiscal austerity."


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INDIANAPOLIS - Chuck Pagano was back at work Monday morning.
Three months after taking an indefinite leave to battle leukemia, the Colts' coach was scheduled to meet with players, coaches and reporters as he retook the reins from interim coach Bruce Arians.
When Pagano arrived at the team headquarters, he drove past an inflatable Colts player to the side of the driveway with a simple message across the chest "Welcome Back Chuck." The sign usually reads "Beat," plus whichever team the Colts play next.
Indianapolis (10-5) has been waiting months for this day, and last week Arians called Pagano's impending return the best Christmas gift the team could get.
Pagano began the first of three rounds of chemotherapy Sept. 26, after the team completed its final practice during a bye week.
When the Colts returned to their practice facility Oct. 1, they were told Pagano had cancer and was taking an indefinite leave.
Arians, a prostate cancer survivor, immediately established the goal: Play long enough so Pagano could return to the sideline this season.
If all goes well at practice this week, Pagano will likely be on the sideline calling the shots Sunday against AFC South champion Houston in the regular-season finale. It would be the first time Pagano has been making game-day decisions since Jacksonville scored a last-minute touchdown on an 80-yard TD pass in Week 3, handing Indy it's only home loss this season.
Under Arians, the Colts did better than anyone expected.
When players arrived at training camp in August, they handed out T-shirts that showed where the so-called experts figured they would finish this season: The NFL's worst team again.
But with Sunday's 20-13 victory at Kansas City, Indy clinched its first playoff spot of the post-Peyton Manning era and Arians tied the league record for most wins after a midseason coaching change (nine). Indy is the fourth team in league history to win two or fewer games one season and 10 or more the next and became the second team in league history to lose 14 or more games one season and win 10 or more the next - joining the 2008 Miami Dolphins.
Pagano was never far from the Colts' thoughts while he was out.
He was in contact with players and coaches primarily through phone calls and text messages, watched tapes of practices and games on his computer, attended three home games and sometimes showed up at the team complex. He occasionally gave pregame or postgame speeches throughout his recovery.
On Nov. 5, Pagano's oncologist, Dr. Larry Cripe, said the illness was in complete remission, though Pagano still had to complete two more rounds of chemotherapy. The last round ended the first week of December. Last Thursday, Cripe said he gave Pagano medical clearance to return to the team. Cripe said he was putting no restrictions on what Pagano could do, only that he advised Pagano, as he does with other patients, to scale things back if necessary.


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Otto Bartning
Star Church, design 1922, model ca. 1950
The design for the never-built is a masterpiece of Expressionist architecture in Germany. It brought architect Otto Bartning in from the cold as an outsider to become one of the leading lights of the Novembergruppe. On the ground plan of a seven-pointed star, he developed an original spatial concept of great expressiveness typical of the day. With the real world all out of kilter, he chose the timeless motif of crystal as a leitmotif, elevating it to the status of an artistic symbol that represented a yearning for clarity, purity, brightness and sharpness.
Bartning was a source of inspiration for the Utopian architectural fantasies of avant-garde architects, especially Bruno Taut and the members of the 'Gläserne Kette'. But whereas the latter scarcely expected their dreams on paper to be feasible in reality, Bartning had a specific use for the Star Church in mind. It was planned as a type solution for Protestant churches of varying sizes – towerless, sparsely furnished and with low spatial volumes. The churches would either be freestanding on raised ground or in cities on top of a substructure of parish rooms. The key feature of the design was its roof span, which used the most up to- date engineering techniques available. Bartning's favoured material was wood – a primeval element and the construction material of the present day.
Star Church, design 1922, model ca. 1950
Plaster, wood,
42.5 x 80 x 79 cm
Donation of the Union der Evangelischen Kirche Berlin, 2000
Photo: Thomas Spier
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Second-year quarterback Greg McElroy only made two appearances and one start in 2012 for the Jets but what he did show was that despite a porous offensive line that he was a player with some potential. In his NFL debut, McElroy entered the Jets Week 13 game against the Cardinals with the offense sputtering and the Jets down 3-0. He led them to the game's only touchdown drive in a 7-6 win and eventually earned a start in Week 16.
Tuesday on SiriusXM's Mad Dog Radio channel with host Bruce Murray, McElroy responded to the firing of Sparano, becoming the first Jet to do so.
"I have a lot of respect for Tony Sparano. I think he's a tremendous man," McElroy said. "I think he's a tremendous football mind and I was really blessed to have had the opportunity to work with him for this past year."
McElroy finished the 2012 season completing 19 of 31 passes for 214 yards with a touchdown and an interception. He was sacked a franchise high 11 times in the Jets Week 16 loss to the Chargers.
"I respect and admire him. I really enjoyed working with him and I always will wish him the best," McElroy said. "I'll be a Tony Sparano fan for as long as I'm around."


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So, I know I haven't been very good at keeping up on this blog. Most of my extra free time these days is spent doing not so very "free time" like things. Housekeeping, laundry, cooking, homework etc, etc, etc. A few highlights from the last 8 or so months:
Colin started 4th grade and Lilly started 1st. Since BOTH of my kids were going to be in school full time, I decided to apply for a job at the school at the end of the 2011-2012 school year. It was going to be a 2 hour a day position, something I could do while the kids were in school but still keep working out, and hanging out with my friends. BUT I got offered a job with a few more hours each week, which ended up being even a few more than that, since some of the prep time needs to be done at home. SO- my time is a little at a premium these days. I LOVE working, and LOVE being at the kid's school but there are days I miss hanging out in my yoga pants and having morning coffee dates with the girls.
Christmas was a good one this year. Not a lot of stress and lots of time with family. We got to see the play a few friends were in "A Rented Christmas" and we got to see the Utah Symphony perform with Santa. Both were great experiences and awesome Christmastime family activities. I think the symphony will become a tradition.
Colin got his Bear in scouts. He really likes the scouting program, and I am lucky to be able to help with his Den. Lilly played soccer this fall and really liked it! She had a lot of fun and hopefully she learned a little more about what it is like to be a teammate.
Seth has been working for a long time on a new game, and we recently found out what it IS and ALL of the family is WAY excited. Look for Disney Infinity out in June. He's worked long, hard hours and we can't wait for the game to be out, so we can have him back!
Parenting Colin is still tough but we are learning some new tools to help us out- and those also help with Lilly too. Hopefully as he gets older, things will get easier and Mom will stop drinking so much wine. (OK- so I don't drink a LOT of wine. I drink beer and on really bad nights, a few cocktails too)
Lilly lost 3 teeth in 1 week- 1 I pulled, 1 fell out on its own and 1 the dentist had to pull. The tooth fairy was probably sick of coming to our house so often.
Not much else has happened. We are all just trying to do the best we can with what we have. (There- I updated my blog. Maybe I'll do it again soon!)
Sunday, February 24, 2013
I know- I KNOW!
So, I know I haven't been very good at keeping up on this blog. Most of my extra free time these days is spent doing not so very "free time" like things. Housekeeping, laundry, cooking, homework etc, etc, etc. A few highlights from the last 8 or so months:
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Relocation to London – Accommodating for Your Accommodation (Part 3)
Welcome back if you're planning an international relocation to the UK and wondering where to stay before you officially move into your London apartment rental. In my previous two posts on the topic, I've been discussing how before you can actually live in London in a fixed location, you need to spend some time here while you look for said property. In Part 2 of this series, I listed off some value London hotels to consider if you only need a few days of temporary accommodation (which the London Relocation agency makes absolutely possible given their one-day guaranteed flat-finding service!)
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EDWARDSVILLE (PA) – Delaware Valley College junior wideout Rasheed Bailey caught a deflected pass in the end zone with 1:29 remaining as the Aggies rallied from a 10-point, fourth-quarter deficit and defeated host Wilkes University, 31-27, in a Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) game.
Delaware Valley, which was coming off back-to-back overtime losses, snapped just the fifth losing streak its had since 2003 and improved to 6-3 overall and 5-3 in the MAC. The victory also clinched a school-record sixth consecutive winning season and the 10th in the last 11 years (5-5 in 2007). The Colonels dropped to 4-5 overall and 3-5 in the conference.
Things did not look good for the Aggies after Wilkes quarterback Taylor Young went deep and hit a wide-open David Claybrook for a 54-yard touchdown pass and a 27-17 lead with 9:40 remaining.
Delaware Valley quarterback Aaron Wilmer had big completions to Lewis Vincent and Rasheed Bailey on the ensuing possession with Bailey's catch going for 35 yards to the Wilkes eight-yard line. On third-and-goal from the seven, Wilmer hit tailback Chris Smallwood underneath and Smallwood plowed into the end zone for his second score of the game. Brandon Snyder's kick pulled the Aggies to within three, 27-24, with 9:40 left on the clock.
Delaware Valley looked as it if it forced and recovered a fumble on the next kickoff, but the officials ruled the player down and Wilkes kept possession. The Colonels moved the ball all the way down to the Aggie 18-yard line, but Frank Bobo's 35-yard field goal attempt was off the mark and Delaware Valley took over with 4:11 to play.
The Aggies faced a third-and-10, but Wilmer hit Dashown Waller for a first down. They then had a third-and-seven when Bailey made a leaping grab for 20 yards to the Wilkes 38. Kyle Schuberth followed with an 11-yard run to move the sticks and a catch by tight end Max Stella put the ball at the 19-yard line.
On the next play, Wilmer threw one into the back of the end zone intended for Vincent. It deflected off Vincent and a defender, but Bailey was there to grab it out of the air for a touchdown and a 31-27 lead with just 89 seconds left on the clock.
Wilkes took over at its own 32 following the kickoff and had a third-and-10 from its own 46-yard line five plays later. Aggie cornerback Chris Vega broke up a long pass to bring up fourth down. Young's next throw was knocked away by Alonzo Sadler to give the ball back to the Aggies. Two kneel downs ran off the final 42.7 seconds and Delaware Valley had the victory.
Wilkes struck first in the game as, on its second possession of the game, Patrick Ingulli's scored on a six-yard touchdown run. Late in the first and early in the second, Delaware Valley got big runs from Schuberth and Aaron Wilmer for a first-and-goal at the nine. Smallwood got the call on two straight runs and the second put him in the end zone from four yards out. Snyder hit the extra-point following the 11-play, 69-yard scoring drive and tied the game at 7-7 with 11:44 left in the first half.
On the Aggies' next possession, freshman wideout Tyler Bing lined up in the backfield, took the handoff and found the left sideline for a 31-yard touchdown run. It was the first score of his collegiate career and it capped a six-play, 74-yard drive. Snyder's extra-point gave Delaware Valley its first lead of the contest at 14-7 with 7:04 remaining in the half.
The Aggies appeared to have Wilkes stopped on the ensuing possession, but a roughing the passer penalty on a long third-down play kept the drive alive. The Colonels then used some big runs from Ingulli to drive into the red zone and Young scored on a four-yard keeper for a 14-14 ballgame with just 2:24 to go before the intermission and it remained that way at the break.
Delaware Valley scored on its first possession of the second stanza as Snyder booted a 39-yard field goal just five minutes in. However, Wilkes needed just 85 second to find the end zone after the field goal as Ingulli scored from three yards out. Two plays before, the Aggies nearly had a turnover as Frank Law forced a fumble, but it was recovered by a Colonel wide receiver and he netted an extra 39 yards. The extra-point was missed, leaving the score at 20-17 in favor of Wilkes.
Delaware Valley drove down the field and Schuberth was off to a big run, but he fumbled the ball and it bounced to the one-yard line where the Colonels recovered it. Later in the game, Young hit Claybrook for the long a touchdown and a 10-point lead. However, the Aggies rallied for the come-from-behind win.
Schuberth carried the ball 18 times for 117 yards and, in the process, became just the second player in school history (Matt Cook the other) to record three consecutive, 1,000-yard seasons. His total currently stands at 1,005 yards. Wilmer started off slow but wound up 16-for-30 for 226 yards and two scores while Bailey had five grabs for 119 yards and the game-winning touchdown. Ken Kenner-English and Danny Wynne led the defensive charge with 12 tackles apiece.
Ingulli finished with 130 yards and two touchdowns on 23 carries for Wilkes. Young was 12-for-21 for 159 yards and a score. D.J. Shuttleworth had 10 tackles, one sack and a forced fumble.


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This dish, which takes less than 15 minutes to assemble, would make a tempting first course to begin an autumn dinner, or try it as a side to grilled steaks or lamb.
Belgian endive, apples and blue cheese salad
Prep time: 25 minutes
Servings: 4
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1/4 teaspoon coarse salt
1/3 cup olive oil
1 Granny Smith apple, unpeeled, cored, halved, sliced
Juice of 1/2 lemon
1 pound Belgian endives
1/3 pound creamy blue cheese, broken into small pieces
3/4 cup walnuts, toasted, coarsely chopped (see note)
1/4 cup chopped flat leaf parsley
1. Whisk together vinegar, mustard and salt in a medium nonreactive bowl; whisk in oil until emulsified.
2. Toss apple slices in lemon juice in a medium bowl. Slice the endives crosswise into 3/4-inch wide strips, discarding any hard cores at their bases.
3. Transfer the endive to the bowl with the dressing. Transfer the apple slices with a slotted spoon to the same bowl; toss to coat with dressing. Mound mixture on four salad plates; sprinkle each serving with some blue cheese, walnuts and parsley.
To toast walnuts, spread them on a rimmed baking sheet; place in a 350-degree oven until lightly browned and fragrant, 5-6 minutes. Watch carefully. Remove and cool.
Nutrition information:
Per serving: 474 calories, 78% of calories from fat, 43 g fat, 10 g saturated fat, 28 mg cholesterol, 13 g carbohydrates, 15 g protein, 653 mg sodium, 6 g fiber.


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David is known for his near-encyclopedic knowledge of activist movements on the political left. Before Tucker Carlson hired him to run The Daily Caller's newsroom, David spent a decade in public affairs, counseling businesses in the food and hospitality industries about special-interest groups and their online campaigns. His face was on all of PETA's dartboards.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 909 diseños de 187 diseñadores freelance.
The Dragonfly Effect
We are a husband and wife team. An academic gal and a tech marketing guy. Both of us are passionate about putting social media to non-trivial use saving lives and supporting meaningful causes. We believe that by combining an understanding of consumer behavior, psycology and marketing strategy, the net good created by web 2 technologies will increase dramatically.
The market for our book ranges from the motivated individual that will not stop until they find a bone marrow match for their dying friend up through a Fortune 100 company that knows that their future lies in fundamentally tying what's good for them, their employees and shareholders with what's good for the world.
We expect that the most likely buyers of the book will come from marketing, internet and corporate social responsibility roles within non-profits and mid-to large sized companies.
The inspiration comes from the dragonfly, a benign, beautiful insect that through independent use of its four wings, can fly in any direction. We apply an idea also called the butterfly effect (small actions can have a large impact) to the dragonfly, and use each of the wings to represent a different element of our framework.
We will use this art online, on the cover, and throughout as a watermark and core structure of diagrams, promo material, PowerPoint, etc.
1) The dragonfly should form the basis of the design.
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4) To maximize impact in the widest array of applications, the overall design should fit into a square (overall height equal to overall width).
5) In my mind's eye, this will be an overhead view of the dragonfly.
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To borrow a line from Joel and Ethan Coen's seminal slacker classic, The Big Lebowski, James Franco "draws a lotta water in this town."1 And this town isn't just Tinseltown. Indeed, Franco has been cutting a swath across the country from Los Angeles to New York to New Haven. Not content with just being a talented actor, Franco has spent the last few years trying to fashion himself into an arts and humanities polymath: a mash-up of John Cassavetes, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Will Oldham, Bret Easton Ellis, and Harold Bloom. As I write this, Franco is likely entering another field, and not tentatively.
It's this ambition that warrants respect when watching Franco's first foray into adapting the work of America's most notoriously unadaptable writer, William Faulkner. Unfortunately, this same ambition is what makes Franco's As I Lay Dying another installment in a series of unsatisfying films based on Faulkner's experimental fiction.2 From 1933's The Story of Temple Drake, based on the seedy potboiler Sanctuary, to 1959's The Sound and the Fury (starring Yul Brynner, of all people, as the sadistic Jason Compson), big screen adaptations of Faulkner's modernist novels have failed to approximate what makes these books great: the language that layers detail upon idiom upon idea upon history, building up a story like paint on a canvas or a mansion torn violently from the earth. Faulkner's best works are three-dimensional objects, while the films adapted from these novels are, without exception, flat.3
Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is the story of the poor, rural Bundren family's disastrous journey to bury the body of their matriarch in Jefferson, the closest thing to an urban center in the author's fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Readers inhabit the thoughts of fifteen different narrators spread over fifty-nine chapters, experiencing how each family member (including the dead mother herself) views and is viewed by kin and community. Addie Bundren's body is both nearly lost in a river and consumed in a fire deliberately set by her own son, Darl; two of her other boys, Cash and Jewel, are almost killed trying to complete the voyage; her daughter, Dewey Dell, uses the trek as a chance to get into town to try to have an abortion; and Addie's husband, Anse, pushes his broken family onward while doing as little of the heavy lifting as possible. With a structure as simultaneously fragmented and unified as the Bundren family itself, As I Lay Dying is Faulkner's most experimental page-turner.
Actors Logan Marshall-Green, Tim Blake Nelson, Danny McBride, and James Franco in an excerpt from Franco's adaptation of As I Lay Dying. In this clip the Bundren men try to balance their need for income with their obligation to honor Addie's burial wishes.
One of the biggest problems with Franco's take on the Bundren family's quest to bury their mother's body is Franco's presence in it. Darl Bundren is Faulkner's most barely embodied character. This is what makes the novel's scene in which Darl burns down a good Samaritan's barn sheltering Addie's body for the night so surreal. Up to this point in the novel, Darl is a voice, a mouth that drinks, and a set of "parts" that cool wind blows across in the night (11).4 He is a cubist painting of a man, a collection of pieces, echoing his description of his mother's coffin up on sawhorses as being "like a cubistic bug" (219). While we know that earlier he goes with Jewel to get a load of wood that "means three dollars" (17, 19), we never see Faulkner's Darl working, a fact that links him with his shiftless and shady father, Anse, and that separates him from his mother who whips her schoolchildren, and his siblings who we actually witness toiling. Franco's Darl is Franco's body, a man's body, big, fit, and good looking. It's a body many men would like to walk around in, but it keeps Darl grounded in a story that he should be floating over, through, and finally inside "the womb of time . . . the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events" (121).
|James Franco as Darl Bundren, 2013. Photograph by Alissa Whelan.© RabbitBandini Productions.
Franco isn't Darl's only problem, though since the actor also directed and co-wrote (with Matt Rager) the project, I suppose that's not entirely true. Some key details and scenes from the novel that establish Darl as an even madder philosopher than The Sound and the Fury's Quentin Compson are curiously omitted from the film. The most glaring absence is any hint that Darl's ability to narrate scenes for which he's not present might have something to do with his time "in France at the war" (244). In fact, his breakdown on the train to Jackson, which is "further away than crazy" (252), is not depicted, and it would be very easy to come away from the film thinking that Darl is simply arrested, not committed. The implication of Darl's shellshock that comes late in the novel is crucial in forcing us to take a backward glance at the entire miserable story of the family's journey. Faulkner's Darl is akin to J.D. Salinger's Seymour Glass, a man who has seen too much to simply let things go on as they are. Without this background, the madness Franco tries to inject into Darl's arrest at Addie's gravesite feels tacked on, and the film misses a chance to reflect our current concerns about PTSD and the burden born by America's poor in our most recent wars.
This is not the only omission that impedes our thicker understanding of the characters in the film. The novel's built-up mystery surrounding how Jewel got his beloved horse, which Darl frequently refers to as Jewel's "mother," is reduced to a single line in the film simply explaining that he worked for it. While we understand that this means something given the Bundrens' poverty, without really seeing all that the horse cost him (sleepless nights, Addie's grief, his siblings' extra labor to pick up Jewel's slack), the moment when he leaves the family and gives the horse to Flem Snopes to complete the deal Anse made behind Jewel's back for a new team of mules to haul the wagon is simply one of a boy begrudgingly fulfilling an obligation, not an almost erotically-charged profession of his love for his mother. This lack of context diminishes the tension between Anse and Jewel, who is not actually his son, but rather the product of an affair Addie had with the local minister. Jewel is a rather minor character in Franco's As I Lay Dying, but this is true of all of the characters, in spite of the fact that some of the actors (particularly Jim Parrack as Cash, and Ahna O'Reilly as Dewey Dell) give outstanding performances.
|Actress Ahna O'Reilly as Dewey Dell Bundren, 2013. Photograph by Alissa Whelan. © RabbitBandini Productions.
Because the film focuses more on the journey to bury Addie's rotting corpse than the inner lives of the characters, it fails to emphasize what's most important in the novel: the violence the Bundrens do to each other for reasons both innocent and evil. An absent scene that helps cement the latter motivation is when Anse basically steals the money Dewey Dell has brought with her to try and get an abortion in Jefferson. In the novel, this is the moment of Dewey Dell's final abjection, and it sets up the shocking ending where we realize that Anse has used his family's labor and capital as a way of securing himself a second life, complete with a new "Mrs. Bundren" and a set of teeth purchased with the money taken from his used up (and soon to be shamed) daughter. The film's scene of Anse smiling his new smile would have been a gut shot had we previously seen him extorting Dewey Dell just after her rape at the hands of the druggist who promised that violation would cure what ailed her. Without knowing how Anse paid to be able to eat "God's own victuals" (37), we're left thinking him wily and maybe a little goofy, not a hillcountry Machiavelli.
Even the story of the disastrous journey is incomplete in Franco's film. Following the barn burning scene in the novel, the Bundrens approach Jefferson worse for wear: Cash's leg is decaying in its concrete cast, Addie's coffin has holes drilled through the lid and into her face because of her youngest son's curiosity, and Jewel's back is burned after rescuing Addie's box from the fire. On the road into town, the wagon passes "three negroes" and "a white man" (229). The "negroes" balk at the stench coming from the wagon, and upon hearing their comment, Jewel utters his grammatically incorrect invective, "Son of a bitches" (229). However, he says this as the wagon passes "the white man," who pulls a knife on Jewel and demands an apology, which he gets, but only after Darl makes it clear that Jewel doesn't fear the man (229). As Candace Waid points out in her study, The Signifying Eye: Seeing Faulkner's Art, this is the only direct reference to race in the entire novel, and its coupling with Jewel's burned and blackened back, as well as his assertion that "the white man" looks down on them "because he's a goddamn town fellow" (230), is a powerful instance of the "coloring of class" (71), a theme Faulkner explores more explicitly in Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and his Snopes Trilogy.5
The fact that the coloring of class is a preoccupation of Faulkner's later novels is not enough of a reason to fault Franco for not including this road scene in this adaptation. However, within As I Lay Dying this scene reminds us that the Bundrens' place outside the bounds of respectability (another of Faulkner's oft-explored themes) is intimately tied up with their barely landed agrarianism in the face of a South becoming more and more a social geography of "town folk." The film depicts this divide by showing the disgust the people in town experience as the smell coming from the wagon wafts through the square. The novel does this as well, but by combining it with the scene on the road, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying makes it clear that the antagonism is more fundamental. It's about who the Bundrens are and what they will never be, not what they've got in the wagon.
In this scene from Martin Ritt's The Sound and the Fury, Yul Brynner's Jason Compson berates Joanne Woodward's Quentin after her night out. The scene exemplifies how the film plays Faulkner's text as a straight melodrama, stripping the main characters of the internal monologues that give them complexity, and denying us Faulkner's unique ability to critique his own characters (and the ideas and estates they represent) simply by letting them talk to us. Brynner's Jason is particularly altered, as his characterization lacks any of the hyperbolic and comedic sense of victimization that makes his sadistic personality in the novel almost understandable.
Franco's next take on Faulkner is an already half-filmed adaptation of The Sound and the Fury, an even more difficult text to render into the language of film without losing all the texture that Faulkner's prose provides. Just ask Yul Brynner. Still, the fact that Franco is looking to take on these projects is encouraging, as it provides an opportunity for someone to do with Faulkner on celluloid what has only been attempted on stage thus far. The theater troupe the Elevator Repair Service has staged a dramatic reading of the first section, "April Seventh, 1928," of The Sound and the Fury that mirrors the experimentalism of the novel by engaging in multivocal ventriloquism, with actors moving between parts that aren't really parts at all because they all come from within the mind of the mentally handicapped Benjy. While Franco likely won't (and probably shouldn't) try to simply mimic this on screen, here's to hoping that he embraces the fullness of Faulkner's modernism, creating the kind of layered film Faulkner never would have been able to write during his days haunting the Warner Brothers back lot.
About the Author
Daniel Pecchenino is a lecturer in the writing program at the University of Southern California.
- 1. If you don't believe me, consider the fact that The Los Angeles Review of Books has run not one, but two interviews with Franco, as well as a review, in the last six months about his adaptation of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Joseph Entin, "Filming Faulkner's Modernism: James Franco's As I Lay Dying," The Los Angeles Review of Books, November 13, 2013, http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/filming-faulkners-modernism-on-james-francos-as-i-lay-dying; Merve Emre, "Merve Emre Interviews James Franco: James Franco and Matt Rager on 'As I Lay Dying,'" The Los Angeles Review of Books, October 27, 2013, http://lareviewofbooks.org/interview/james-franco-and-matt-rager-on-as-i-lay-dying; Michael Bibler, "Michael Bibler Interviews James Franco," The Los Angeles Review of Books, May 15, 2013, http://lareviewofbooks.org/interview/james-franco-on-his-adaptation-of-faulkners-as-i-lay-dying.
- 2. Faulkner himself worked in Hollywood on and off for over two decades, and his ambivalence about film and the place that churned out reel after reel of the stuff is well documented. For more on this, see Tom Dardis' Some Time in the Sun (New York: Scribner's,1976), Ian Hamilton's Writers in Hollywood: 1915–1951 (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1990), Joseph Blotner's Faulkner: A Biography (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1974), and Meta Carpenter Wilde and Oren Borsten's A Loving Gentleman: The Love Story of William Faulkner and Meta Carpenter (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976).
- 3. The 1969 film version of The Reivers, starring Steve McQueen, is enjoyable, but the novel is far more conventional than most of Faulkner's other fiction, making the act of adaptation much simpler.
- 4. William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (New York: Vintage International Edition, 1990).
- 5. The intersection of race, class, and the visual arts in Faulkner's fiction is examined in Waid's The Signifying Eye: Seeing Faulkner's Art (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013). In the interest of full disclosure, I worked with Dr. Waid on this book as an editorial consultant.


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Previewing Pages in Excel 2007 with Print Preview
Save wasted paper and your sanity by using the Print Preview feature in Excel 2007 before you print any worksheet, section of worksheet, or entire workbook. You can use Print Preview to see exactly how the worksheet data will be paged when printed and to make last-minute changes to the page settings before sending the report to the printer.
1Click the Office Button and then point to the arrow beside the Print option.
The Print options appear in the right pane of the Office button menu.
2Click the Print Preview command.
Excel displays the first page of the report with its own Print Preview contextual tab. Notice that you can barely read its contents. When positioned over the worksheet, the mouse pointer becomes a magnifying glass.
3Click the Zoom button on the Print Preview tab (or click the previewed page with the magnifying glass pointer).
The previewed worksheet displays at 100% zoom so you can see the details. After you enlarge a page to actual size, you can use the scroll bars or the arrow keys to bring new parts of the page into view in the Print Preview window.
4To return to the full-page view, click the mouse pointer on the page or click the Zoom command button on the Print Preview tab.
Excel indicates the number of pages in a report on the Status bar of the Print Preview window. If your report has more than one page, view pages that follow by clicking the Next Page button in the Preview group of the Print Preview tab. To review a page you've already seen, click the Previous Page button.
5Click the Close Print Preview button to return to the previous view.
You can also choose to modify the page setup or print directly from the Print Preview tab by using the buttons in the Print group.


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While most officially-licensed sports games need to keep their images squeaky clean, when you step outside the realm of governing body endorsement you get the freedom to do something different. Lords of Football is doing just that with an awesome name and a fantastic premise.
It's a football management sim. Think Sega's Football Manager series and you'll be getting warm. But instead of just asking you to look after things on the pitch, it veers sharply into The Sims territory by giving the players personalities and giving you the ability to control and curtail them as well. So, yeah. That trailer above, how it starts with a recreation of Eric Cantona's famous "kung fu" kick? Yeah, that's the tone we're looking at here.
Which means speed dating. Alcoholics anonymous meetings. Prima donna players. Fishing. Oh, and football.
No idea when it's out, but I'll be keeping an eye on it. I've always wanted to be the boot-kicking Sir Alex Ferguson, as opposed to the shrewd tactician Sir Alex Ferguson. Be nice to see a game that actually lets me try it on.
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The State of Digital Divides (video & slides)
Lee Rainie presented the latest findings about who has and doesn't have access to the internet, broadband, and cell phones.
Broadband Adoption: The Next Mile – Senate Testimony
Aaron Smith, Senior Researcher, Pew Research Center's Internet Project, gave testimony before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet.
Statement of Aaron Smith – Broadband Adoption: The Next Mile
Statement of Aaron Smith, Senior Researcher, Pew Research Center's Internet Project, before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, on "Broadband Adoption: The Next Mile."
Tablet and E-reader Ownership Update
Up from 25% last year, more than half of those in households earning $75,000 or more now have tablets. Up from 19% last year, 38% of those in upper-income households now have e-readers.
Technology Adoption by Lower Income Populations
Aaron Smith discusses the Project's latest research about internet usage, broadband adoption, and the impact of mobile connectivity among lower-income populations.
How Americans go online
A breakdown of how internet users go online, including those with home access and the type of access, is shown in this table.
Who's Not Online and Why
15% of American adults do not use the internet at all, and another 9% of adults use the internet but not at home.
Home Broadband 2013
Seven in ten American adults have a high-speed broadband connection at home. Another one in ten Americans lack home broadband but do own a smartphone.
The Impact of Digital Tools on Student Writing and How Writing is Taught in Schools
In a survey of Advanced Placement and National Writing Project teachers, a majority say digital tools encourage students to be more invested in their writing by encouraging personal expression and providing a wider audience for their work.
Technology use by different income groups
Session focused on identifying and using appropriate technologies to conduct research on low-income populations.


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New Winter Storm Picks Up Speed
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(NEW YORK) -- The Midwest is bracing for yet more winter weather. Parts of the region surpassed their annual snowfall records just last month, and now those areas could get another foot of snow.
Monday night into early Tuesday, Minneapolis is expected to get somewhere between six and 10 inches.
Just south and east of the Wisconsin area, northeast Iowa and western and northern Illinois are expecting somewhere closer to a foot. Areas near Chicago could see snow hitting the six to 10-inch mark when it's all said and done.
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Bright Hanging Herb Garden Planters
Bright green pots complement natural green herbs in a hanging garden, providing a colorful punch to this back deck. Eileen Beaver, who blogs at A Creative Day, created this hanging herb planter for the Home Depot Patio Style Challenge.
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Sophisticated Master Bedroom Retreat
This serene and sophisticated master bedroom is the perfect retreat, with a subdued gray palette to accentuate the natural light spilling in from the French doors to the courtyard. A brass chandelier hangs above two cushioned armchairs and a side table with framed art.
Blue Cottage Kitchen With Cooktop
In this kitchen, the hand-painted tile backsplash's delicate pattern is a graceful companion to the white upper cabinets and a handsome foil to the honeyed tones of the range hood and lower cabinets.
Transitional Open Plan Kitchen With Black Barstools
A bank of upper cabinets used to sit above this kitchen's peninsula, closing off the room from the adjacent living and dining area. Removing them gives the kitchen a whole new open feel, much better for entertaining.
Modern Kitchen With Counter-To-Ceiling Tile Backsplash
This elegant white and gray kitchen showcases modern design, from the decorative tile backsplash that runs from the marble countertops to the ceiling. A stainless steel range and oven is flanked by classic white cabinets with nickel hardware.
Modern White Kitchen With Vaulted Ceilings
This crisp, white kitchen with modern elegance features four globed pendant lights that hang from the beautifully vaulted ceilings. A marble kitchen island with three contemporary bar chairs face the decorative tile backsplash that runs from the marble countertop to the ceiling.
Traditional Kitchen With Blue Backsplash
Designers kept this kitchen's handsome traditional roots and well-planned flow, but gave it a few key updates. The charming blue backsplash is made of hand-painted terracotta and ceramic tile. Countertops are quartz with a concrete lookalike finish.
Calm Cream-Colored Bedroom Feels Like Serene Retreat
Warm cream and gray tones in this bedroom create a calm, serene retreat while the velvet upholstered stools and fur throw add a soft, textural touch. The upholstered headboard adds to the luxurious feel while the cream area rug adds warmth and texture to the bedroom.
Tone-on-Tone Area Rugs
Staying neutral with an area rug doesn't mean you have to pay big money for an 8x10 rectangle of blah. Consider a tone-on-tone stripe or a chic graphic pattern that adds interest without stealing the show.
Master Suite Layout
The master suite enjoys great flow, with the master bath located between the bedroom and a generously-sized walk-in master closet with well-designed storage options.
Feminine Bedroom Mixes Colors and Patterns
A mint and gray floral wallpaper is the backdrop for this pretty, feminine bedroom. Soft hues allow several patterns to blend rather than clash, and the luxe sheen of the gray bedding adds even more visual impact.
Modern Bedroom With Multicolored Polka Dot Wallpaper
In this eclectic bedroom, a padded sage green headboard compliments the green and white striped bed linens. A variety of decorative pillows help tie in the bright orange comforter, while multicolored polka dot wallpaper finishes off the funky modern look of the space.
Modern Kitchen With Bold Blue Backsplash
The bold, blue and white backsplash is the focal point in this modern kitchen. A chef's oven with stainless steel hood range is flanked by white cabinets with brass hardware, complimented by a brass-toned faucet at the quartz kitchen island with a farmhouse sink.
Contemporary Kitchen With Farmhouse Sink And Brick Backsplash
The rustic brick backsplash adds texture and warmth to this contemporary kitchen with white farmhouse sink, chrome gooseneck faucet, white cabinets and trim, and gray countertops.
Timeless Cottage Kitchen From Sarah Sees Potential
As seen on season 1 of Sarah Sees Potential, designer Sarah Richardson transformed this once dark and cramped kitchen into a bright, contemporary space that fits the needs of a growing family of three. New stainless steel appliances and pops of light turquoise and green paint give the cozy white kitchen a contemporary, timeless look.
Country Wood Dining Set Adjacent to Contemporary Kitchen
Gray concrete flooring provides a smooth connection for the rooms in this open floor plan. From the contemporary kitchen, a large opening leads to the dining space. A wood table with matching chairs, floral roman shades and blue walls decorate the room with a country style.
Gray Master Bathroom With Glass Walk-In Shower
Wood paneling warms up this luxurious glass and marble walk-in shower, part of a spacious master suite. A tall wood dresser provides elegant storage in the corner.
Contemporary Orange and White Kitchen With Eat-In Island
Designer Kari McIntosh Dawdy transformed this kitchen with bright colors and accents, giving this 1920s home a more contemporary feel. She selected white cabinets and gray countertops that can handle the orange tones that pop within the room. Especially captivating is the soft orange-colored ceiling that helps to frame the entire design.
Luxurious and Eco-Friendly Custom Arbor in Stunning Patio
This luxurious outdoor space boasts a stunning custom arbor, built entirely from sustainable materials. Contemporary outdoor seating comfortably seats up to 20 people. A stunning stone fireplace is perfect for chilly nights.


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Pickford 4 - moved way too early for the pen and although I think the second was going in anyway, he didn't exactly get anywhere near the ball. Bad game by his high standardsKenny 7 - liked a couple of his early crosses and evebtually started joining in on the attack. We miss Coleman so badly. Holgate 4 - soft pen then a moment of madness. Got better in the second half with some Stones-esque play. Then back to shite when he ignored VVD Jags 7 - why was he assisting sigurdsson. not a bad performance by him. You come to expect it from Jags.Martina 5 - not terrible. Good to see that not much of the play went through him today. Shneiderlin 5.5 - better but still a passenger McCarthy 5.5- He didnt do much. Rooney 5 - probably should of been sent off, passing was poor and decision making was all over the place. We did however lose any ball keeping ability when he went offBolasie 6.5 - love Bolasie. Should of fed Sig instead of shooting but I'm just surprised he was still standing at the end.Sigurdsson 7 - I'd like to see his marathon time, he never stops running. Great finish and unlucky that Bolasie didnt play him in. First half was anonymous but we can't expect much from the wing.DCL 6 - same as always. Works his arse off, but in games like this, you just need that bit more. Subs Lookman 7 - Gamechanger. Was upset not to see Vlasic, but lookman was great tonight. Fair playDavies - N/ANiasse - Uselss. Big Sam - good to see him having a pop. Better going forward but still not creating nearly enough. See what else he does in Jan if anything.
Pushing a player into the fans from behind, lucky to stay on there, regardless of what was said to him, gave a penalty and let VVD have an open header. It's all about personal view. Done a lot of good things but was wrong at the wrong times.
Personally would've give him a 10 for that push alone
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Robert Redford helped create the Sundance Film Festival in in 1978, and this past January director David Lowery wowed the audiences of Park City, Utah with his feature Ain't Them Bodies Saints. So it totally makes sense that the two filmmakers would want to team up on a project together - and today they have apparently forged a deal.
The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Lowery is now set to both adapt and direct The Old Man and the Gun, a film based on a 2003 New Yorker article, with Redford attached to both star and produce. The article, written by David Grann, tells the story of a man named Forrest Tucker, a bank robber who spent almost his entire life either in prison or breaking out of it (including escapes from both Alcatraz and San Quentin). At the age of 78, while living in a retirement community with his wife, he once again tried to stick up a bank, only to once again get caught.
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For Ramadan, the Islamic holy month that falls in August this year, we asked a few people in South Florida why they became Muslim and what it has meant to them. Here are the last two.
Patricia Salahuddin teaches at the Design and Architecture Senior High School in Miami. But she sees a different kind of design unfolding in her own life.
In 1972, the native of Starkville, Mississippi joined the Nation of Islam as a route to black pride. When founder Elijah Muhammad died, she and most of the movement began drifting toward mainline Islam. She now attends Masjid Al-Ansar, Miami.
The resident of North Miami was a subject of the 2007 book "The Face Behind the Veil," written by Donna Gehrke, now a Sun Sentinel reporter.
Q. Why did you want to become a Muslim?
People of color in America were treated as second-class citizens. The Nation of Islam offered a different way of seeing yourself, as a person of value and dignity. That was appealing to me.
In 1974, Elijah Muhammad passed away, and we studied orthodox Islam. I read more and learned about practicing that. Now our purpose is to fulfill our obligation to God. Now we're better people, serving our fellow man.
Q. How has Islam changed your life?
It has changed every aspect: how I see people, the world, my purpose in life, how I deal with my students and children, how I deal with challenges. Islam has given me a way of handling difficulties and success. It has given me an avenue to grow and learn.
Q. How do you approach Ramadan each year?
It's an opportunity to strengthen my willpower and my relationship to God. And an opportunity to connect with myself.
I set goals. Sometimes I want to memorize a part of the Quran. Go to the Tarawih prayer at night as often as I can. Focus on remembrance of God.
Q. How have you dealt with questions from family and friends?
My father, who passed recently at 86, was a Baptist minister. He was of the mindset that as long as you were serving God, you were fine with him.
My friends are very supportive. Friends are people who support you for what you believe in. I have quite a few of them. I have Jewish and Baptist and Seventh-day Adventist friends. We may not go to the same building, but because our faith is focused on pleasing God, we're sisters. It's based on respect and love for God.
Then you have acquaintances. They may know you, but they're not necessarily concerned about your welfare. We don't spend a lot of time together.
Q. What about the image of Islam in society and in news media? Does that affect you one way or another?
Yes. When people are not educated to the facts, people will judge you by whatever is in their brain. When there's an opportunity to explain, you educate and inform. When there's not, you move on. What else can you do?
I know that people are watching. I am conscious of my obligation to God and society: my students, my colleagues, my job. I'm not going to do anything to tarnish the image of Islam. Those are the things that are important.
Like Salahuddin, Radi Ali began in the 1970s in the Nation of Islam, then left for the mainline Sunnah or traditional Islam. Like many conservative Christians and Orthodox Jews, he calls Islam not just a religion but a way of life.
Ali was raised a Baptist in Newark but now lives in Lake Worth. Owner of an import-export business, he prays at the Muslim Community of Palm Beach County, near West Palm Beach.
Q. Why did you want to become a Muslim?
A lot of African Americans started turning Muslim, [but] once I saw the Nation of Islam wasn't really giving the Sunnah (tradition) of the Prophet Muhammad, I went to the Sunnah community.
Q. How has Islam changed your life?
A lot, from how to use the bathroom, to how to eat correct foods, to how to deal with people.
Q. How do you approach Ramadan each year?
You're closer to your Lord all month. During the month, once you're fasting, Satan can't touch you. You're thinking correctly, purifying yourself. You're supposed to read one-thirtieth of the Quran every day.
Q. How have you dealt with questions from family and friends?
They respect my religion and I respect theirs. I don't force my religion on them and they don't force theirs on me. And they saw I was staying out of trouble, staying clean, no smoking, no drinking, no drugs. My mother always told me, "Stick to your faith."
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Q "I have a cherimoya fruit tree I planted about five years ago and need advice and help in growing it. My tree produced just one fruit a couple years ago and none since. I trimmed some branches and I think that was a mistake. It has now full branches but no sign of any fruit. What am I doing wrong?"
—Terri De La Torre, Monterey Park.
A Your problem is inadequate pollination, not excessive pruning. Cherimoya is the Rolls Royce of tree fruit. The price of cherimoyas (Annona cherimola) at the market can exceed $7 per pound.
Painstaking efforts are required to coax a crop of cherimoyas from a tree, but those efforts are a labor of love to those who crave a unique gustatory experience. Imagine putting your spoon into a lip-smacking custard, of pear-like texture, that combines the flavors of strawberry, white nectarine, pineapple, and banana.
In the manner of avocadoes, cherimoyas ripen off the tree. Refrigeration interrupts the ripening process, but at the expense of diminished flavor. The biggest obstacle to growing cherimoya fruit is inadequate pollination. The beetles that pollinate cherimoya trees in the highlands of tropical South America are not found anywhere else. In order to get fruit, you have to pollinate by hand.
Cherimoya blossoms undergo a sex change, which makes timing critical to the pollination process. When a flower opens — which means it is open just barely wide enough to insert a small artist's paintbrush into it — it is female and stays that way for seven to 12 hours. At this point, the flower opens wider and becomes male. The three cherimoya flower petals, during the male phase, open to a 45-degree angle and stay that way for another seven to 10 hours, which is the time available for collecting pollen.
When the male phase is finished, the petals fall off. To hand pollinate, you need to collect pollen with a small artist's paintbrush during the flowers' male phase and store it in the refrigerator, not more than 24 hours, until new female blooms appear. With the same small brush, apply pollen inside newly opened flowers while they are still in their female phase.
Nate Brogin, who has a cherimoya orchard in Santa Barbara, says that he solved the pollination problem "by hanging bananas on the trees." The bananas "become over-ripe and attract fruit flies" which pollinate the flowers, resulting in a crop with "virtually no effort."
Brogin writes that "when watered regularly and horse manure is spread around the base, yield can be 100-200 pounds per tree. Luckily, my cherimoya orchard neighbor has three horses."
Cherimoyas survive a mild frost, yet are more cold-sensitive than avocadoes. Cherimoya trees put out vigorous annual growth and, when mature, require annual pruning at the beginning of April to keep trees at a reasonable height. If you don't prune your tree, it may grow 30 feet tall, making hand-pollination a near impossible task.
Shoots may grow up to eight feet in a single growing season and should be cut back annually to six-inch stubs. Always cut back to a bud that faces out so that new growth is directed away from the interior of the tree.
A tree with plenty of sunlight available to it has the greatest fruiting potential.
You can find a video of "how to prune a cherimoya tree" by typing those words in the search box at www.youtube.com. Alex Silber, the proprietor of Papaya Tree Nursery in Granada Hills and the instructor in that YouTube video, has fruiting cherimoya trees for sale. The nursery, open to the public by appointment only, has an inventory of more than a hundred tropical and sub-tropical fruit tree species. Visit www.papayatreenursery.com or call 818-363-3680 for more information.
I was hiking the other day at Zuma Ridge, above Malibu, and came upon a row of coast buckwheat (Eriogonum latifolium), which serves as a wonderful compact shrub or groundcover in dry gardens.
Buckwheat is a widely encountered native plant. The buckwheat that met my gaze were in full bloom and their flower color, depending on the plant, ranged from white to deep rose pink.
Buckwheat has been used for a variety of medicinal purposes by many native American tribes, especially for reducing joint and back pain, for treating burns and stomach ailments, and for gynecological disorders.
Buckwheat is known as a pseudograin since, although it is not one of the cereal grasses, its seeds may be pounded into flour. New leaves from buckwheat plants may also be eaten as greens, whether raw or cooked.
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"I have a wood rose vine from Hawaii. It is about one and a half years old, but no flowers. Any suggestions?" Alice Sauer, Reseda.
Wood roses are morning glory-type tropical vines, belonging to the Convolvulaceae botanical family. Flowers are either pale and translucent lavender (Argyreia nervosa) or white to deep yellow (Merremia species).
Certain tropical plants may grow foliage when planted in Los Angeles yet struggle to produce flowers. The reason for this is that these tropical species require steady temperatures, throughout the day and night, in order to produce flower buds. Our temperatures fluctuate between day and night and cooler night temperatures prevent flower bud formation in these plants.
Still, I would not give up on your wood rose. Some plants may take several years to acclimate to particular garden conditions before flowering. I would also apply any organic fertilizer formulated specifically for enhancement of flower production.
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Facebook users will be more easily able to determine who can see their posts and photos after changes introduced by the social network on Wednesday. But hiding their "Timeline"? Not so much.
The Menlo Park-based Web giant is challenged to balance privacy concerns with growth, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Users want to hide personal information -- from some people, anyway -- while investors and CEO Mark Zuckerberg need to find "new ways for users to search for friends and other information," the newspaper reported.
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