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Dell vs. Icahn: Ethics, Humanity and Patriotism Matter
Jul 15, 2013 5:00 AM PT
What you are going to see in a few days, when Dell stockholders get to vote on Michael Dell's plan to buy back his company, is a war of perceptions -- and perhaps a revelation on the state of the U.S. investor. Both ISS and the Chancery Court have clearly come down on Michael Dell's side, arguing that what Dell is offering is a sure thing, while what Carl Icahn is promising is a long shot.
More important from an empathetic standpoint is that Dell is promising to preserve the company and Dell jobs, while Icahn, who is a corporate raider by trade, is pretty much ensuring the collapse of Dell in exchange for an additional premium or thousands of people put out of work.
While it will be clear to Dell employees, their families, and friends which side of this vote to be on, I wonder how the investors -- particularly the large retirement funds -- will vote. Will they go for the sure deal designed to provide a strong return, or attempt to throw Dell employees -- many of whom are likely related to their own customers -- under a bus in exchange for a slight chance of getting a few dollars more?
We just left a time when bankers clearly were willing to sacrifice folks' homes and jobs for wealth, and it nearly destroyed the world financial market. I think the coming vote will tell us if these investors have learned anything or if they still place greed before good sense.
I'll close with my product of the week: the Nvidia Shield AR Drone solution.
Remembering TWA
I think we either have short memories or can easily be blinded by the promise of extra unearned cash. Reading about the TWA deal in Carl Icahn's Wikipedia profile should give you a chill, particularly the part where he made a profit of US$469 million while leaving TWA with a debt of $540 million after selling off TWA's valuable assets, a practice later called "asset stripping."
He made a ton of money, but what about the rest of the investors and the poor TWA employees? They pretty much got screwed as TWA took a header into the great corporation graveyard in the sky.
TWA was one of the two U.S. flag airlines at the time -- that means they were a company that stood as a shining example of the U.S. globally, and Icahn systematically destroyed it, leaving hundreds of thousands without jobs and the country with one less major flag airline.
If you wanted to weaken the U.S., a half a billion dollars isn't a lot of money, and it kind of makes you wonder who Icahn's investors were back then. If a big one wasn't the USSR, then Icahn likely missed a huge potential additional investor.
After seeing what Icahn did to TWA, who'd be heartless enough to see this done to another iconic U.S. company?
Destroying Dell
What Icahn is offering is the destruction of Dell, and his promises of cash to the other investors are just that -- promises. Oh, it's clear Icahn would make a ton of cash, but I can't make sense of his deal any more than the ISS or Chancery Court did. He is basically offering to buy part of the company and leave the investors with the remaining carcass of the stuff he doesn't want -- kind of like offering to pay a premium for your kitchen, master bedroom/bathroom and living room, but leaving you to deal with the rest of your house for a fraction of what it's worth. It's smoke and mirrors, and what he isn't saying -- but should be obvious -- is that he would destroy Dell in the process.
So who'd want to destroy Dell or weaken the U.S. technology industry? Who is likely funding this, really?
Retirement Funds or Patriots?
Some of the biggest institutional investors in the market are the big retirement funds from organized labor, like the teachers' unions -- but I can't see unions funding the destruction of jobs. I mean, were their members to find out, they'd likely vote the fund leadership out of office, because unions are about protecting jobs -- and U.S. jobs, in particular -- not destroying them.
Clearly, patriots aren't going to fund the destruction of a major U.S. company and weaken the country. They'd view this as anti-American, and to them, weakening the U.S. technology industry would be tantamount to treason. They'd have to hate the U.S. a great deal to be willing to pass up a sure-thing offer from Michael Dell that would protect the company, in favor of a gamble with Icahn that would certainly destroy it.
The thinking investors would have to want badly to destroy Dell and put thousands out of work in order to weaken the U.S. I'll let you speculate about the kind of people who would back a move like this. Certainly not someone I'd want to invest with, which is why Icahn doesn't seem to have any investors right now, with "seem" being the operative word.
Wrapping Up: Preserve or Destroy
So we'll see in a few weeks whether Dell investors take a sure profit and preserve Dell, or gamble to ensure Dell's destruction. I think it will say a lot about the investors who currently hold power in the U.S. and whether they want to help rebuild the country or help destroy it.
While greed can be a powerful thing, I believe U.S. investors are as patriotic as anyone living in any other country and will chose the path that protects both their investment and Dell jobs over the alternative. I just worry that a lot of the folks voting may not be U.S. investors and may want to do the company -- and by proxy, the country -- harm. I hope the U.S. investors stop them cold. Thankfully, according to the WSJ, they, and we, should prevail.
Product of the Week: The AR Drone 2.0 Nvidia Shield Bundle
I was given a prototype Nvidia Shield Gaming system some weeks back, and I've been having a ball playing games and watching movies on it. It is actually a pretty decent music player as well, thanks to some amazing speakers.
One of the aspects of this device that just turned out amazing is its use as a controller for a drone like the second generation AR Drone. These flying camera platforms are a bitch to fly with a typical smartphone, tablet, or iPod touch, because you have to use touchscreen controls.
However, the Shield device has real joysticks and physical controllers that give you the precision you need to more accurately fly the device around and over obstacles. I first saw this done at an Nvidia event where the AR Drone folks had shown up and discovered what a wonderful combination their drone was with Nvidia Shield.
You can buy an AR Drone now and preorder a Shield (it is due out in a few weeks) but if you buy either, you should try them together. The result is amazing, and that is why they share Product of the Week status this week.

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Last week I had a reporter over at The Chronicle of Philanthropy contact me about the Living the Goodwill Life challenge/blog and my participation in Jenna's All Thrifty States thrift store tour.
We chatted a bunch about philanthropy (since I work in the nonprofit field and I'm a HUGE volunteer!) and my own personal goals for the challenge and the larger thrift-public that exists in our country. While most of that didn't make it into his article… you never know who is watching your actions and it gave me an added burst of enthusiasm for our Philanthropic nation and those contributing to it's growth!
In the midst of government cuts to fund nonprofits and the added stress of MORE needs to those same organizations, our nonprofits are keeping their heads (barely) above water and continually finding ways to help those less fortunate than the rest of us. Thanks to Jenna and others like The Chronicle of Philanthropy for continuing to put charity at the fore-front of our everyday lives; showing us that being thrifty and buying recycled goods from nonprofit organizations is a legitimate way of life and that it can be fun, inspirational and that it leads to greater movements in our troubling times!
NATIONAL THRIFT SHOP DAY is only 7 days away! A PERFECT time to show the rest of the country that living a frugal lifestyle that supports philanthropy is our AMERICAN WAY!
So get out and SHOP and/or DONATE on Wednesday, August 17th America! Support your local nonprofit organization by frequenting their thrift store and in turn give back to your fellow neighbors! Show the world again that America always has been and ALWAYS WILL BE made up of philanthropic citizens giving to those in need!
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LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Ride Along," a buddy cop comedy starring Kevin Hart and Ice Cube, collected $41.2 million (£25,086,768.56) in ticket sales to win the weekend box office race, leaving another new release, political thriller "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit," in the dust.
Last week's box office winner, the Afghanistan war tale "Lone Survivor," was second with ticket sales of $23.2 million, according to studio estimates provided by tracking firm Rentrak.
In a weekend crowded with four new films, "The Nut Job," the first animated release from Open Road Films, collected $20.6 million in ticket sales to claim third place.
Starring Chris Pine as the late author Tom Clancy's fictional CIA analyst, "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" took in $17.2 million over the first three days of the Martin Luther King holiday weekend for the No. 4 spot.
"Ride Along," which hip hop singer and star Ice Cube also produced, far surpassed Hollywood's $28 million opening weekend forecast and was the biggest three-day King Day holiday weekend opening ever. While only 10 of 47 reviews were favourable, according to the site Rotten Tomatoes, 94 percent of the audience surveyed on the site wanted to see it.
"The timing was really right on this one," said Nikki Rocco, president for domestic distribution at Universal Pictures which released the film, which cost about $25 million.
Noting that there had not really been another comedy since "Anchorman 2," which opened a month ago, Rocco said the audience skewed surprisingly female - 57 percent - and that "Ride Along" had even turned into a bit of a date movie.
Audiences graded it an A, according to CinemaScore which polls people who have seen films, boding well for the coming weeks, Rocco added.
"The Nut Job," the first animated film from Open Road Films, a joint between theatre giants AMC Entertainment and Regal Entertainment Group, benefited from playing in more than 3,400 theatres, according to the site Box Office Mojo, about the same as "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" but far more than "Ride Along," which played in around 2,700.
Weekend sales for "The Nut Job" ranked as the biggest opening for an animated film not produced by a major studio, beating out the $16.8 million for 2009 film "Coraline." "Nut Job" cost about $30 million to make after tax rebates.
Pine, best known for his role as Captain Kirk in the 2009 film "Star Trek," is the fourth actor to play Jack Ryan in the fifth film based on the late Clancy's character. Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck have all played the part.
The film, a reboot of the movie series featuring a younger Pine, took more than five years to make it to the screen.
Paramount, the studio behind it, put it on hold when Pine was cast its "Star Trek" film, and said on Sunday that the opening box office was in line with expectations.
Rounding out the top five, Disney's animated hit "Frozen" took in just under $12 million.
Academy Award nominee "American Hustle" was sixth with $10.6 million in ticket sales. Two other top-nominated films, "Gravity" and "12 Years a Slave," returned to theatres after having largely ended their runs.
The low-budget horror film "Devil's Due" opened with $8.5 million in sales for the No. 7 slot.
Viacom's Paramount Pictures released "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. "The Ride Along" and "Lone Survivor" were distributed by Comcast's Universal Pictures. Fox, a unit of Twenty-First Century Fox, released "Devil's Due." Open Road Films, a joint between theatre giants AMC Entertainment and Regal Entertainment Group, released "The Nut Job".
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OCZ Technology Vertex 3 SandForce 2281 240GB SATA 6G SSD Review
Introduction and Specifications
Today we get a look at the *second* SATA 6Gb/sec offering from OCZ - and we do so only 1-week after their initial release of the Vertex 3 Pro. Our test unit came to us just like the last model, in unlabeled monolith form, and sharing a similar pre-release firmware:
The shell was identical to that of the engineering sample Vertex 3 Pro we tested last week, complete with the missing product label.
The New SandForce SF-2000 Controller (from the Vertex 3 Pro article last week)
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This new controller is significantly improved over the SF-1xxx line, offering much more than just a faster SATA interface.
New features include the SATA 6Gb/sec interface with a corresponding 2x gain in data throughput, along with improved IOPS performance. Also new is SAS support for differing sector sizes (used for enterprise-specific applications). To assist with the lower erase cycle count of 2x nm flash, ECC has been bumped up to 55 bits/sector and uses the more advanced BCH coding for error correction.
Security features are very interesting with this new controller. To achieve NIST certification, SandForce added an *additional* encryption engine, meaning all data is encrypted at both ends of the pipeline.
These are the projected figures from back when we were briefed on the SF-2xxx.
(per OCZ)
- Max read: 550 MB/sec
- Max write: 500 MB/sec
- 4KB Random Write (4K aligned): Up to 60,000 IOPS
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So sorry for neglecting my blog for months! Anyone still out there?
It's been a busy time around here. I'm illustrating a series for Random House called Little Wings by Cecilia Galante and these books are oh so adorably cute. They're now listed on Random House's website.
Back in April/May, I hosted my first conference as Regional Advisor of Indiana SCBWI. I added a whole lot of stuff to the conference that we hadn't had before, the biggest being tacking on a day of intensives. The writing intensive sold out in 24 hours and the illustrating intensive sold out in 48 hours, and the entire conference and all individual critiques ending up selling out too - yay! It was wonderful to see so many writers and illustrators working on their craft and crawling out of their writing spaces and studios to get to know each other and be inspired. These conferences always give me such a boost. Here I am with one of our conference speakers, Lisa Yoskowitz from Disney/Hyperion, and one of my critique group members, Christi Atherton:
Soon I'm taking off for the big Summer SCBWI Conference in Los Angeles. I'm organizing my portfolio for the Portfolio Showcase and just about every piece is from this year. Even some super brand new ones from this week. I'm praying all goes well with traveling because I'll be 33 weeks pregnant! Lovin' the 3D ultrasounds of our little sweetheart:
Any name ideas for her? Her big sister's name is Ciana.


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Breastfeeding Your Premature Baby
Breastfeeding Your Premature Baby
Giving birth to a premature or other high-risk baby (or babies) does not mean you can't breastfeed. Actually, the opposite may be the case. There is even more reason to provide your own milk for, and eventually breastfeed, a premature or a sick newborn. Providing your milk for your baby lets you participate in your baby's healthcare in a very crucial way. Because the benefits of mother's milk are so important to the high-risk newborn, you are able to do something for your baby that no one else can.
Benefits of mother's milk for the premature baby include:
Improved digestion and gastrointestinal function
Decreased infections
Improved brain and eye development
Improved wellness of the mother and bonding with baby
How your milk will be used by the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) depends on the health status of your baby. Even babies who are not eating yet will benefit from breast milk. The nurses will use your milk to clean your baby's gums. This is called oral care. This introduces healthy bacteria into your baby's body. As your baby progresses, your milk will then be used to deliver calories through a tube or bottle. When it is appropriate, the NICU staff will help your baby breastfeed directly to get milk. As the mother of a high-risk newborn, you may have to overcome difficulties that a mother and full-term, healthy baby are unlikely to have when learning to breastfeed. However, you and your baby will learn to breastfeed. It simply may take a bit more patience and persistence. How soon you and your baby can start to breastfeed will depend on the maturity of your baby's brain and body systems.
Until your baby is able to breastfeed, you can express your milk (remove milk from your breasts) to establish and maintain breast milk production. Milk expression also allows your high-risk baby to get the benefits of your milk as soon as his or her gastrointestinal tract is ready to handle tube or mouth feedings. Plan to continue to express your milk until you know your baby is able to get all needed nourishment directly from your breasts. As soon as your baby is stable, ask the doctors and nurses when you can hold your baby skin-to-skin. This is called kangaroo care and is good for your premature baby's physical condition as well as breastfeeding.
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Towns flooded as downpour heads south
Large parts of Queensland are on severe weather alert as ex-Cyclone Oswald continues to dump torrential rain.
Torrential rain continues to hit communities in the state's central and northern regions, isolating towns and flooding properties.
In Ingham, north of Townsville, the Herbert River peaked at midday at 12 metres after more than 200 millimetres of rain in the past 24 hours.
The town remains cut in half, but the road from Townsville to Ingham is open.
Water is also lapping at the doors of homes and businesses at nearby Halifax and Mayor Rodger Bow says Halifax and Lucinda are cut off.
Floodwaters could isolate the town of Agnes Water in central Queensland.
The road from Agnes Water to Gladstone is likely to be closed and the route south to Bundaberg is also flooding in sections.
The Bruce Highway just south of Rockhampton is closed and the Capricorn Highway to the west is cut.
Regional director of Emergency Management Queensland Wayne Heppell says authorities have also been involved in several swift water rescues where motorists have driven into floodwaters or have been trapped by rising water.
Vinord Anand from the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre says there is a danger the cyclone could reform as it moves towards the south-east in the coming days.
"If it moves over the water there is a chance it could develop into a tropical cyclone," he said.
The State Emergency Service received more than 130 calls for help today, mostly from communities around Mackay and Rockhampton.
Dozens of calls related to flash flooding which was threatening to or had already inundated homes and businesses.
Communities from Townsville to Bundaberg have been warned that up to 600 millimetres of rain could fall over the next couple of days.
Forecaster Tony Auden says the system may strengthen.
"It is a fairly uncertain situation and I would encourage people to keep on top of forecasts over the next few days right through eastern Queensland," Mr Auden said.
Rail, roads cut
All rail services from Mackay to Cairns are out of action because of localised flooding over train tracks.
Queensland Rail says it is making preparations as the torrential rain moves south and will not restart northern services until conditions are safe.
Spokesman Jim Benstead says they are monitoring track conditions further south.
"We have moved a train and located the train at Mackay in case the services or the track is cut between Mackay and Townsville," he said.
"At least then we can get our customers that are travelling south - that are located at Mackay - able to get back to Brisbane."
Ergon Energy says it is preparing for further power outages after strong winds overnight left more than 6,000 properties without power in Cairns and Cooktown in the far north.
A spokesman says there could be similar problems further south over the next day or two.
Croc watch
Authorities say crocodiles are turning up in floodwaters along the Bruce Highway in north Queensland.
Ingham Police Sergeant Geoff Bormann says he photographed a 2 metre croc on the highway at Seymour River yesterday.
He says motorists who try to cross flooded roads and break down could find themselves staring at a croc.
"While we have been patrolling around we have seen a crocodile at Cattle Creek just south of Ingham which is another area that is prone to flooding and crossings," he said.
"When we get floodwaters it gets them more active and gives them an opportunity to cover more territory."
Central Queensland on alert
As the system moved south, Mackay was hit with up to 120 millimetres of rain this morning.
Mackay councillor Deirdre Comerford says an emergency centre has been opened as a precaution.
About 170mm of rain has fallen in Gladstone in the past 18 hours and Rockhampton has received about 120 millimetres.
Rockhampton is the latest centre to receive torrential downpours, with a rain band affecting a long stretch of the central Queensland and Fraser coasts this afternoon.
There have also been strong winds, with gusts of nearly 140kph at Hay Point, south of Mackay.
State Emergency Service controller Eddie Cowie says crews have been called to reports of flooding and roof damage in Rockhampton and Mount Morgan.
"We're working in very closely with Rockhampton Regional Council in how we can manage requests for sand bags," he said.
Authorities at Rockhampton say it is too early to tell if heavy rain will cause flooding in the Fitzroy River.
Deputy Mayor Tony Williams says the impact on the river depends on the amount of rain in catchment areas.
"Probably dependent on where the trough heads, whether it's heading out across the coast into the ocean or whether it stays inland," he said.
Authorities are also warning residents of flood-prone towns like Baffle Creek, Agnes Water and 1770 to prepare for several days of inundation.
Gladstone deputy mayor Matt Burnett says areas south to Bundaberg are particularly flood-prone.
"Possibly going to be making a bit of a havoc down our way, but we're just saying residents in that area, it is possible they could become isolated as they have in the past, so just to be ready for that," he said.
"Whether it means to be out of town at the time you need to sort of pack up and start getting yourselves organised now.
"No need to panic, just if people are worried about being isolated then perhaps they might need to make themselves move onto another area."
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The American Revolution: 1763–1783
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Written By: Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier
Narrated By: Jim Manchester
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Date: June 2013
Duration: 2 hours 10 minutes
History is dramatic—and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes and tribulations that led to the birth of this great nation.
The American Revolution examines the people and events involved in the significant war by which the thirteen original colonies broke away from England. The authors explain the many sources of conflict between the Americans and the British government, how each side approached the problems, and the results of the escalating violence.
"From the initial social and political unrest until the signing of the peace treaty in Paris in 1783, this text gives very interesting accounts from both sides of the ocean. Any instructor can easily integrate this book into the curriculum at the intermediate level and above, thus making history come to life for these students."—Children's Literature


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Saturday, January 8, 2011
Recipe: Mediterranean Chicken Balls!
Ingredients (four servings):
500g ground chicken
3 or 4 eggs
5 spring onions
1/2 red capsicum (bell pepper)
1 tomato
10 asparagus spears
1 cup shredded cabbage
Optional: fennel (out of season here), bacon, a handful of basil, thyme, or lemon sage, a splash of lime juice, paprika, salt & pepper as desired.
1. Preheat oven (or grill) to 150 deg C. If using an oven, line a baking tray or two with baking paper.
2. Prepare your veggies by washing and then processing with a food processor. You could also chop them extremely finely, if you have the will and elbow grease!
3. Combine veggies with eggs and meat in a large bowl, and stir until thoroughly combined.
4. Grabbing small handful of mixture, roll into balls (or grab larger handfuls if you want to make patties/burgers, especially if grilling).
5. Place in oven/grill and cook until the centre of the ball/patty is thoroughly cooked. This took about 5 minutes on my grill, and 20 minutes in the oven.
Serve as is, or in a lettuce leaf, topped with cheese or tomato chutney, etc. Sorry for the lack of finished-product photo - we were too hungry to wait!
7 comments:
- praguestepchild said...
I've been making something similar for quite a while from an old Thai cookbook I have, but cooked in boiling water (when they float they are done).
It's something of a production so I usually make a lot, and boiling water is an easy way to cook them assembly line fashion.
I'll typically reheat them in oil to add some crunchiness but they are pretty good as is.
- January 9, 2011 at 12:02 AM
- Anne H said...
made me hungry just thinking about it!
- January 9, 2011 at 1:55 AM
Looks yummy. I suspect the mixture would be great as a meatloaf too,just add the extra cooking time. I'll try this one soon.
- January 10, 2011 at 3:35 AM
- PaleoGarden said...
Thanks for a great 2010. I tried many of your recipes throughout the year when cooking for my family.
Great pictures. Looking forward to 2011. Be well, and have a great summer, it's colder here!
- January 10, 2011 at 2:05 PM
- Brahnamin said...
I am just in love with the fact that you have just as many optional ingredients and necessary ingredients. ;-)
- January 10, 2011 at 2:17 PM
- Jezwyn said...
Thanks guys! They were fantastic the next day as well.
Brahnamin - ;) The listed ingredients represent what I used, whilst the optional ingredients detail what I would have added if there were any on hand. :)
- January 10, 2011 at 4:38 PM
- Primal Running said...
These look great, gonna have to try them out!
- March 19, 2011 at 9:57 AM


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Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a bestselling author whose books include "Late Edition: A Love Story" and "When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams." He appears on "CNN Newsroom" Sundays during the 5 p.m. (ET) hour.
(CNN) -- It is such a cruel disease, one that can sneak up on a person and catch him unawares.
The last time I saw Bobby Vee, he seemed just fine. The name will be familiar to many of you, but today's column is intended just as much for those readers who are too young to remember him.
He was one of the young rock-and-roll idols of the early 1960s. His hits included "Take Good Care of My Baby," "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes," "Run to Him" and "Rubber Ball." He continued to tour as the years went by.
We were on an Italian ocean liner in the first weeks of 2009. The ship had been booked by a company presenting a different early-years-of-rock act in concert each evening in the big theater onboard. Bobby was one of the performers; I was there with the Jan and Dean band.
One midnight after the show, somewhere off the coast of the Dominican Republic, I was walking around an upper deck and saw that Bobby was taking a walk, too. We met up and talked about some of his first recordings. His recall was precise and acute; he gave me details of what the sessions had been like. He is a gentleman, and a gentle man. Walking and talking with him was a wonderful way to end the day at sea.
So I was startled to hear recently that he is battling Alzheimer's disease, the irreversible, progressive brain disorder that destroys memory and thinking skills. It is estimated that more than 5 million Americans suffer from it, a number that is only expected to increase unless advances in treatment and prevention are achieved. The federal government recently announced new initiatives that, it is hoped, will add urgency to the efforts.
The millions of families dealing with Alzheimer's are aware of its devastation. But when people with familiar names -- Ronald Reagan, Glen Campbell -- are blindsided by it, the world tends to stop, and think, and try to learn.
What we can learn from Bobby Vee is how to face adversity with genuine grace and perspective. He is 69; in a letter to his friends and fans, he said that it was a little over a year ago that he was diagnosed with the initial stages of Alzheimer's.
Getting the news, he said, "was a moment that stunned my family and myself to the core. Since this time I have chosen to remain private and to focus on what is most important to me: my family and my music. It has been a time to reflect and to just be. To create memories for my grandchildren and to celebrate life's goodness. To throw baseballs and catch fish. To be the audience. ...
"Shortly after this all came down, I hopped into an RV with my family and we embarked on a little odyssey from Minnesota to Tucson, AZ. Together we explored the depths of our reality. ... the depths of my reality. With very few words, no solutions and a lot of heart, we did what we do. We shared time. We shared laughter, tears, stories, meals and music. We shared thousands of miles of hi-way as familiar to us as the pillows on our beds. As if nothing had changed, as if everything had changed. ...
"So without a song or a script I am stepping onto a stage that we all share: the mystery of life. While in Tucson we set up some amps and drums in the garage ... We just did what we have always done, only this time there was no stage. There were no spotlights and no audience. We made music every day for a week ... just for us. For the joy of making music. For the joy of being together. For all of the reasons I ever picked up a guitar or sang a tune in a Fargo, N.D. garage back in '59. I have truly come full circle! We played songs I grew up with, songs the kids grew up with, songs we wrote, songs that had meaning and memories for us all. No agenda, no set list, no tickets to sell ... This was all we have ever done, and all we could do. So we did it."
When you are young you never think that Alzheimer's will enter your own life. But unless something is done to defeat the disease, years from now people who are today young and strong will be fighting it, and -- when the disease strikes their favorite actors, athletes and singers who are in 2012 so full of youth and energy, and who will inevitably grow old -- they, too, will be reminded of the passing years, and of life's memories lost and found.
Bobby Vee was at one time the kid wonder of kid wonders. He was only 15 when, the night after Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper died in that 1959 Iowa charter-plane crash, he was recruited to somehow help make the show go on at the tour's next stop in Moorhead, Minnesota. He and his friends from nearby Fargo filled in that night, and his career began.
He and his band were much admired in that Minnesota/North Dakota area. A young piano player, wanting to make music with Bobby Vee, showed up and asked to play in some shows. He said his name was Elston Gunn, which it wasn't. Later he would choose another name: Bob Dylan. In Dylan's autobiography, he writes with great regard, warmth and true professional respect for Vee, starting with the days when they were both little more than kids ("Bobby Vee and me had a lot in common, even though our paths would take such different directions ... Bobby had a metallic, edgy tone to his voice and it was as musical as a silver bell.").
These are especially tense hours for the Vee family. He wrote in that letter about his Alzheimer's diagnosis: "My beautiful wife of 48 years, Karen, is also dealing with serious health issues as we await a lung transplant for her at Duke University." Last week, Bobby's son Jeff told me that the operation had been performed the night before, and that the family is praying for the best outcome.
As Bobby neared the end of the letter to his friends and fans, he wrote:
"We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for every musical moment we've shared. It has truly been a magical odyssey. We have been blessed ... and the road goes on."
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Rabbi Sacks said Cameron should recognize marriage in the tax system and do more to support stay at home mothers.
"I think the government has not done enough," he said. "Although I don't take a political stance … I don't think the government has done enough at all."
Rabbi Sacks, who retires next month after 22 years, said the estimated £9 billion-a-year cost of family breakdown and "non-marriage" meant the state has a direct interest in promoting marriage.
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"Just by volunteering our time we help the Salvation Army out tremendously as they have to hire people to ring their bells without volunteers," said Darren Wu, Liberty's Christian/Community Service coordinator and an assistant professor. He said about 330 individuals from Liberty are participating this holiday season.
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A prayer rope (chotki in Russian, komboskini in Greek) is a loop made up of knots, usually made of wool but sometimes of wood, that is used to keep track of the number of prayers which have been said. It is usually used with the Jesus Prayer: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner." Historically it typically had 100 knots, although prayer ropes with 300, 50, or 33 knots or, less commonly, 250 or 12 can also be found in use today. There is typically a knotted cross at one end, and a few beads at certain intervals between the knots. "The purpose is to help us concentrate, not necessarily to count." [1]
Its invention is attributed to St. Pachomius in the fourth century as an aid for illiterate monks to accomplish a consistent number of prayers and prostrations. Monks were often expected to carry a prayer rope with them, to remind them to pray constantly in accordance with St. Paul's injunction in I Thessalonians 5:17, "Pray without ceasing."
In some Russian Orthodox service books, certain services can be replaced at need by praying the Jesus Prayer a specified number of times, anywhere from 300 to 1,500 times depending on the service being replaced. In this way prayers can still be said even if the service books are unavailable for some reason. The use of a prayer rope is a very practical tool in such cases, simply for keeping count of the prayers said.
Another form of prayer rope was formerly in use in Russia, and is still preserved among the Old Believers. It is called lestovka ("ladder"), and is arranged asymmetrically. Whereas the more common 100-knot prayer rope is divided into four sets of 25 knots each, separated by larger knots or beads (dividers), the lestovka consists of counters consisting of loops of cloth or leather often containing short lengths of small-diameter dowel, arranged in groups as follows: 12 (for the number of the Apostles); 39 (for the weeks of the pregnancy of the Theotokos); 33 (for the years of Christ's life on earth), and 17 (for the number of prophets). These sections are separated by dividers larger than the counters, and there are three further divider-sized counters at each end, for a total of nine such large counters (for the nine ranks of angels); thus there are a total of 101 counters plus nine large ones. Where the ends join, they are sewn to four triangular leaves (for the four Gospels) sewn together two and two, the upper pair overlapping the lower. The lestovka is used with the Jesus prayer, but also for counting litany responses, which will often total 12 or 33; for this purpose it is better suited than the more familiar variety of prayer rope.
The prayer rope has many parallels among other religious groups. See w:Prayer_beads for details.
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- How to tie an Orthodox Prayer Rope knot
- How to Make a Prayer Rope video
- About Prayer Ropes from St. Luke Serbian Orthodox Church
- The Historical Development of the Orthodox Prayer Rope and its Importance to our Spiritual Life by Dr. Alexander Roman (Ukrainian)
- The Monk's Prayer Rope, taken from "Monasticism in the Orthodox Churches" by N.F. Robinson, 1964.
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Who's more responsible for low cotton prices? U.S. farmers and their subsidies or Brazilian producers who plant more acres with no discernible market for them?
An irony of the current world supply/demand situation is that one country holds an unusually high percentage of world stocks, and, no, those stocks are not in the United States.
In fact, despite all the finger-pointing at U.S. farm programs by the Brazilian government, Oxfam and other environmental groups, world cotton stocks are expected to be low in every cotton-producing country except one: Brazil.
"A lot has been made this year by the expectations of low world stocks, whether in China, the United States or just about anyplace… except Brazil," said Calcot's Jarral Neeper, an agricultural economist writing in the cottonexperts.com Marketing Weekly column.
Neeper says USDA estimates 2003-04 world cotton ending stocks at 32.7 million bales, the lowest since 1994. The resulting stocks-to-use ratio of 33.4 percent is also the lowest since that year.
"However, Brazilian stocks, estimated by USDA at 4.3 million bales churns out a stocks-to-use ratio of 88 percent," he says. "Another look at the Brazilian stocks reveals a 13 percent share of total ending world stocks… a huge number considering that local Brazilian consumption is only 3.8 percent of the world."
Brazil's stocks aren't the sole reason for weak world prices, of course. Predictions of increased 2004 plantings in China and China's attempts to slow its rampant economic growth are the primary cause.
But it's interesting that a country that has made an international case of the United States' rather modest subsidies should do such poor market planning that it has more than a year's crop sitting in warehouses.
Part of the problem, Neeper points out, is the lack of infrastructure for moving the crop from the cotton-producing regions to the ports. Reports indicate Brazil's highway system remains poor despite years of government promises to improve it.
"No doubt the government is working feverishly to fix that problem (so much for U.S. producer subsidies), but still it won't be enough to insure a smooth flow of goods, at least for the near future," he says. "The result: To entice buyers to take a chance on timely delivery of goods, prices have to be very, very attractive.
"Given the massive buildup of stocks in that country with the only outlet being the export market, Brazil will continue to pressure international prices for some time."
We could go into the Brazilian government's low interest farm loans and export subsidies and the other schemes it uses to subsidize its agriculture, but we expect the WTO will hear about those when the United States appeals the latter's ruling against the U.S. cotton program.
Some experts are predicting U.S. cotton plantings may have dropped to as low as 13 million acres this spring because of relatively higher corn and soybean prices. It will be interesting to see how Brazilian farmers respond when they begin planting in September and October.
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Oh sure, it looks innocent enough NOW. 40 years ago, not so much.
This is the site of one of the bloodiest battles ever fought -- Jenny v. tub. It all started with a bath ...
... then someone decided that the bottom of the tub was slippery enough from the bubbles that she could ice skate. What a fantastic idea!
Yeah, it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Let's just say I have a really nice scar on my chin. I can't remember how many stitches it needed.
Ironically enough, I've always wanted a claw-foot tub just like Gramma's in my own house.
On a side note, if you ever fill the dishwasher with liquid dish soap and it overflows, it is also good for ice skating. Just don't leave the dishwasher door open when you do it ... huh? oh, pay no attention to the scar on my shin.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The 61st-ranked UC Santa Barbara men's tennis team won the doubles point in Saturday's match against visiting UC Davis and never looked back, sweeping the Aggies, 7-0.
The win was the third in a row for the Gauchos and improves their record to 7-4 overall and 2-0 in the Big West.
Axel Bouillin and Mons Knudtzon got UCSB off on the right foot with an easy 8-1 win over Chris Aria and Toki Sherbakov at No. 3 singles. Mathieu Forget and Mbonisi Ndimande were next, winning 8-5 over Hugo Verdi-Fortin and Kyle Miller at No. 1. Alex Johnson and Benjamin Recknagel completed the doubles sweep with an 8-5 win over Alec Haley and Steve Albert at No. 2.
UCSB thoroughly dominated the singles competition, winning in two sets in five of the six. Of those five, no Gaucho allowed his opponent to win more than two games in any set. The only player pushed beyond two sets was Sasha Gryaznov who defeated Verdi-Fortin at No. 5, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Forget, the reigning Big West Player of the Week, swept past Sherbakov at No. 1 singles, 6-1, 6-1. Recknagale, Ndimande, Ziad Sultan and Max Glenn all won their matches in sweeps as well.
UCSB returns to action on Saturday, March 3 when it travels to Cal Poly to take on the 54th-ranked Mustangs in a very important Big West match that will begin at noon. On Sunday, March 4, the Gauchos return to the Recreation Center Courts to play No. 49 Santa Clara at 11:00 a.m.
No. 61 UCSB 7 - UC Davis 0
No. 1: Forget/Ndimande (UCSB) def. Verki-Fortin/Miller 8-4
No. 2: Alex Johnson/Recknagel (UCSB) def. Haley/Albert 8-5
No. 3: Axel Bouillin/Mons Knudtzon (UCSB) def. Aria/Sherbakov 8-1
No. 1: Mathieu Forget (UCSB) def. Toki Sherbakov 6-1,6-1
No. 2: Benjamin Recknagel (UCSB) def. Kyle Miller 6-2,6-2
No. 3: Mbonisi Ndimande (UCSB) def. Chris Aria 6-2,6-0
No. 4: Ziad Sultan (UCSB) def. George Horowitz 6-2,6-2
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Hiding clues in lectures
What is the point?
There is no point as far as I can tell. It's just nonsense. Most of the time it has no pedagogical value. But it is delightful.
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This is very commendable, I'd love to find such a clue someday in somebody's lecture!ReplyDelete
- SoloGenFebruary 3, 2012 at 9:07 PM
That's nice! (: I may do it in the future too.ReplyDelete
I wouldn't say it is nonsense, even though it may appear as not serving any evident and explicit purpose. But many things we do in life is not serving any direct purpose as well, but we do them and we feel joy by doing them. Examples are reading stories, having sex for fun (and not reproduction), eating cheesecake, gossiping, etc.
But in another level of analysis, these things may actually serve a particular, but indirect, purpose. I imagine this is true for your particular example as well. Its indirect purpose might be to add some extra fun, excitement, feeling of beloning to a particular group, etc. to the act of teaching. This makes teaching (and learning) more sustainable.
he he...i love sharing those moments, its quite marvelous i must say :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 9, 2012 at 9:31 PM
"quoting some book without attribution" could be seen as plagiarismReplyDelete
Well. Imagine I say: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times", without saying where it comes from or even that it comes form somewhere. But that's not plagiarism, is it?ReplyDelete
Hello Claire! I'm sure there are many reasons to do this. It's not adding some sort of extra fun to your lectures (because if students know to look for these "easter eggs" - if they are too "institutionalized" - then they lose their spontaneity, and you risk distracting from the actual points you're trying to make), but it's helping you connect with your students. I've always felt that is very important, perhaps even crucial - at least to some approaches to teaching.ReplyDelete


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An Egyptian-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect on Wednesday. Since then a couple dozen rockets have flown into Israel and Israeli soldiers have killed one person and injured around 15 others near the border in Gaza.
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State law requires Kansas to update science standards for K-12 classrooms every seven years. What usually should be a straight-forward assessment has, at times, turned controversial as conservative factions have had the votes to place religion on par with science in explaining the world to public school students.
Whether labeled creationism or intelligent design, non-secular beliefs have found their way into lesson plans on evolution in the past when conservatives held a majority on the Kansas State Board of Education.
This year, only two such votes were tallied. On Tuesday, a solid majority of eight adopted new standards that consider evolution a well-established and core scientific concept.
There should not have been any doubt BOE commissioners would have approved the Next Generation Science Standards. Kansas educators have been working on them for almost two years as one of 26 lead states developing the National Research Council's vision.
"I am extremely confident that by adopting the Next Generation Science Standards we are helping to prepare Kansas students to be ready not only for college-level science coursework, but also for science literacy in everyday life," said State Board Chairwoman Jana Shaver.
The standards outline what students should understand at each grade level. Individual districts will set up their own curricula to best foster learning science content, science practices and the underlying ideas that bring them together.
Hays High School physics teacher Cheryl Shepherd-Adams, who also is vice president of Kansas Citizens for Science, expressed enthusiasm about what the standards will mean for her: "I can concentrate on teaching processes -- teaching kids how to think like scientists. I'm more concerned whether they can design and analyze an experiment. That's what science is all about."
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MONTREAL (Reuters) - Australian Daniel Ricciardo celebrated his first Formula One victory on Sunday in a Canadian Grand Prix that put Red Bull back on top of the podium and dealt Mercedes a first defeat of the season.
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Finland's Valtteri Bottas finished seventh for Williams with Frenchman Jean-Eric Vergne eighth for Toro Rosso and Danish rookie Kevin Magnussen ninth for McLaren. Kimi Raikkonen took the final point for Ferrari.
It was a disastrous trip to Canada for Marussia, who had celebrated scoring their first ever championship points in Monaco.
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The 3% gain in bookings, the biggest in five months, followed a revised 1% decline in January, a Commerce Department report showed today in Washington. The median forecast of 64 economists in a Bloomberg survey called for a 2.9% rise. The advance was led by a 5.6% surge in demand for durable goods that was little changed from the 5.7% estimate issued last week.
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by Hugh Gilmore
Editor's Note: Due to an email forwarding snafu, last week's column by Hugh was not the right version. It was a version written some time ago, sent and then run in error. Below is the column that should have run last week. Sorry for the confusion.
If you hate the notion that greedy people with big budgets and small souls are sneaking up on you, read on. Our subject today continues last week's: Waiting Room TVs.
My most recent sighting: televisions mounted atop gas station pumps. The ad writers think We the People are a bunch of stupid, stimulus-bound cows who will donate brain time to anything in television form.
In last week's column, as I walked around a Sunoco gasoline pump's mounted telly with sabotage in my heart, I slipped into a reverie of another encounter with uninvited television. This was at Wills Eye Hospital a few years ago.
My son, Andrew, aged 18 then, had just had surgery to reattach the slipping retina of his one functioning eye. Worried terribly, his mother and I sat in the small waiting room, anxious to learn how he was. A woman there with two men suddenly turned on the television. I found it loud, intrusive, inappropriate, and jarring. About five minutes later, though, the three people were called out of the room. I'd had it by then. (This after an earlier disagreement – the day before at 7 a.m. – with the receptionist in the emergency room who wouldn't let me turn down the volume on the in-your-face TV kept there to calm the masses.) I went to the doorway and looked up and down the hall. Empty and quiet. Time to get busy.
The sleeping Cyclops was mounted high on the wall. I walked under it and looked up to examine its life support system. One black and one white cable. I hoped they weren't screw-ons. They take more time than pull-offs. Disconnectivity on my mind, I started to reach up. But, oh oh.
From where I stood, I could see the TV-lovin' lady coming down the hall. I dropped my arm and massaged my neck. She stepped in and looked at me. Puzzlement crossed her face. Why would a grown man be standing in the corner, under the TV set, in a hospital waiting room, while his relative was getting his eye operated on?
I pointed at the landscape print on the opposite wall and said to my wife, Janet, tilting my head this way and that, getting perspective, "Yeah, you can really see how it works from here, the way the mountains blend with the sea."
The Remote Control Woman walked out.
I was being ridiculous, I knew, and behaving inappropriately. But I had felt assaulted, and my rights to worry in peace had been disrespected. Yesterday, waiting for the diagnosis, there'd been that terrible TV in the waiting area. Now, during Andrew's operation, here was its nasty kid brother. And they were just two of the evil spawn of whatever coven had loosed them on the land.
In my cardiologist's office two weeks ago, at 7:15 in the morning: "The Morning Show." At the Social Security office on Midvale Avenue, while I sat captive, an intensely loud and violent video with Harrison Ford –"The Fugitive" – split my skull. In nearly every restaurant that has a bar. In some supermarkets. Even at Conicelli Nissan on Ridge Avenue, the small waiting-for-your-car-to-get-well room is dominated by a shouting 32-inch pain in the ear. (Whose remote control batteries I removed when no one was looking – "silentium est aureum.")
I waited under the TV after the woman walked away. Then I reached up and pulled the white cable out of the back of the TV. I left it propped to look like it was still on duty.
Twice while we waited, the three addicts came back for a fix but "It's not working right," the woman said. When I was younger I'd enjoy a prankish scene like this. But today I felt a bit guilty. I wanted to admit I'd pulled the plug and then fix the problem, but I kept my mouth shut. Time dragged quietly by.
Three hours later, the operation was over. We listened nervously to the surgeon. More extensive surgery than he'd anticipated. Everything looked good though. Retina was flat. Andrew came through fine. He'd awakened from the general anesthesia. He'd be up to his room soon. As for his studies—he'd not be able to read for about a month. Finishing the semester would probably not be possible. We'd worry about that later. Most important, his vision was probably saved.
Jan and I waited in his room. In a while he was wheeled in. One of life's more horrible inducers of feeling helpless is the sight of your child on a gurney. Just as my heart sank, it rose again when the nurses asked Andrew to lift himself onto the bed. He did. And moved to the middle when they asked him to adjust himself. When the nurses left, Jan and I stroked his brow, talked gently to him. Heard his kindly, polite voice respond. Such a relief.
We sat together in his room, watching the shadows lengthen slowly across the city and along the wall of Andrew's room. A loving, still-a-bit-worried, family. Absorbing the peace from one another.
Janet had decided to stay over, "just to be sure." At dusk, I said goodbye and left. We'd talk later. I'd go down and cross the street and stand near the Wills Eye entrance, next to the bicycle rack, and wave up to the 7th floor. Bye Janet. Bye Andrew.
I left the room, feeling sad but somewhat relieved. One critical stage of the ordeal had been endured. As I rounded the corner, I could see some people were sitting in the family-waiting lounge across from the elevator. Some other poor souls still waiting to learn the fate of their loved one's vision.
I pushed the button and stood with my back to the room. When the elevator bell dinged I stepped in and turned around and pushed the first-floor button. I looked across the corridor.
Oh no. The same people. The TV woman, the guy with the key chain and the sideburned guy – all still waiting for fate to make the call. And, to my chagrin, riding quite plainly at the surface of their worried faces was the easily read disgust of people who are bored out of their doggone minds because … the danged TV's not workin'!
Darn. I felt bad for ruining their evening. I didn't need the lounge to be quiet any longer. Some people need television to get through their grief. I could cure that family's problem in a jiff. I should just go in and reach up and slip that white cable back in place.
I worded my apology in my head: Sorry. Nothing personal. Not in my right mind from worrying. The doors closed. I felt myself being delivered away.
That's what I was remembering as I walked around the Sunoco pump. I kept my hands in my pockets as I visually inspected the Cyclopean nuisance. No visible wires. No push buttons. No switches. Probably wired from underneath, or operated by a wireless system. Sleek, tamper proof. Nothing I could think to do.
Besides, that pump and those TVs are private property. I'd be breaking a law if I damaged them. And really, after all, I don't have to buy my gas there, do I? enemiesofreading.blogspot.com will lead you to more of Hugh Gilmore's writings


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"Today is that unofficial American holiday where we mourn the loss of a year's worth of productive private resources to our bloated federal government. And it's not just the actual dollars paid to Uncle Sam – it's also the economic loss due to all the time and money wasted trying to comply with an increasingly complex tax code:"
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