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Arrays in Visual Basic :MSDN
Collections (C# and Visual Basic) :MSDN
These linked pages are very good and I've borrowed a few code-snippets from them.
Look through the other tutorials here @DIC as well though. In particular, there are tutorials that make use of specific collection-types.
Arrays are groups of similar values (or object-references) that are stored in indexed order. Arrays start from - are indexed from - zero. That is, the first element of an array is arrayName(0).
Dim some(100) As Integer 'an upper bound of 100 'this array contains 101 elements, identified as some(0) through to some(100) Dim more(100, 10) As Integer 'multi-dimensional array Dim again(0 To 100) As Integer 'can only really be 0 anyway, so don't use this. Dim a1(10) As Integer ReDim a1(20) 'now permitted Dim a2() As Integer 'a dynamic array
Formerly, to resize an array required that the array be declared without dimensions being specified - myArray() - which creates a dynamic array. You can now resize any array using the ReDim statement (see below), or ReDim Preserve if you wish to keep the values already stored in the array.
ReDim a2(20) Dim a3(,,) As Integer ReDim a3(10, 20, 30)
ReDim and Preserve are keywords carried over from VB6. The preferred .NET method is:
Dim intArray() As Integer intArray = New Integer(10) {}
Iterating Arrays
The LBound(array_name) and UBound(array_name) functions determine the upper and lower bounds for dynamic, or fixed, arrays. However, LBound is of limited use as it will always return 0, and the GetUpperBound method is preferred to UBound as it enables you to specify which dimension to examine.
The following examples are from Arrays in Visual Basic :MSDN, using both For..Next and For..Each to loop through (iterate) arrays.
If you don't know how many elements the array might have then use a List type instead. With a List you can easily Add new elements and still reference elements with an index.
Dim strNames As New List(Of String) strNames.Add("Ray Barone") strNames.Add("Marie Barone") Console.WriteLine(strNames(0))
Array Initializers
To declare and initialize an array in one statement, you must omit the array's bounds:
Dim fibonacci() As Integer = {1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21} Dim strings() = { "A", "B", "C" } 'with Option Infer On Dim objects() = { "A", 12, 1.23 } Dim int_values(,) As Integer = { { 1, 2, 3 }, { 4, 5, 6 } }
Jagged Arrays
A jagged array can be more efficient with large arrays where the number of columns varies a great deal.
Dim jaggedArray(10)() As Integer jaggedArray(0) = New Integer(4) {} jaggedArray(0)(0) = 54 'this referencing differs to that for a 'multi-dimensional array, which uses (0, 0) Dim jags As Integer()() jags = New Integer(10)() {} Dim jags2(5)() As Integer jags2 = New Integer()() { New Integer() {1, 2, 3}, New Integer() { 4, 5, 6, 7 } }
This first statement creates a two-dimensional array with 11 rows, but an unknown number of columns for each row. The second statement creates a new array with five elements, which is stored as the first element of the jagged array. Each row is assigned a new array in the same manner. Note: The distinction between rows and columns when discussing arrays is somewhat arbitrary (I notice that the linked MSDN page avoids this terminology).
Looping through a jagged array is cumbersome: loop through the rows, examining the upper-bound for the other dimension(s) within each loop. If you need to do this frequently then the efficiency gained through the use of a jagged array may be lost.
Collections (C# and Visual Basic) :MSDN
The word collection simply means a group of objects that should be kept together. Unfortunately, Visual Basic also uses this term for its specific Collection Class, which can lead to some confusion.
The simplest type of collection is an array. An array stores data values or references to objects in a simple block of memory with one entry directly following another. The Array Class provides some special methods for manipulating arrays, such as reversing, sorting, or searching an array.
The Collection Class provides a few specific features for working with its group of objects. It enables you to add an item to the Collection, optionally specifying a key for the item. You can then search for the item or remove the item using its key or its index in the Collection.
One of the most useful features of the Collection class is that it supports enumerators and For Each loops. This lets you easily loop over the objects in a Collection without worrying about the number of objects it contains.
Other classes derived from the Collection class provide additional features. For example, the Hashtable class can store a large number of objects with associated keys very efficiently. Dictionary is essentially a strongly-typed generic Hashtable so, although the Hashtable uses the Object data type for its key/value pairs, the Dictionary uses more specific data types that you specify, such as Strings or Employees. The Queue class makes it easy to work with objects on a first in, first out (FIFO) basis, whereas the Stack class helps you work with objects in a last in, first out order (LIFO).
The Array Class
Normal/standard arrays are discussed above. Visual Basic also provides an Array Class. This provides additional features, such as sorting and copying methods, but can be significantly slower than variable arrays – particularly with large datasets.
Public Sub UseArrayClass() Dim squares As Array = Array.CreateInstance(GetType(Integer), 11) For i As Integer = 0 To 10 squares.SetValue(i * i, i) Next i Dim strArr As String = "" For i As Integer = 0 To 10 strArr &= squares.GetValue(i).ToString & vbCrLf Next i Console.WriteLine(strArr) End Sub
With Option Strict Off, you would not have to use the Get and SetValue methods; you could use, for example, squares(i) = i * i. However, it is recommended that Option Strict remain On. Normal arrays always have lower bounds of zero. The Array classes' CreateInstance method can enable Array objects to have different lower bounds.
Array objects cannot be re-sized using the ReDim statement. However, it is easy to copy one Array objects' elements to another, using the CopyTo method:
old_array.CopyTo(new_array, 0) '0 is the index in the destination array to start placing values
The Copy method allows you to specify the index in the source array to start from, the index in the destination array, and the number of items to copy.
Other Array Class methods: IndexOf, LastIndexOf, Reverse, Sort, BinarySearch.
Collection Classes
The Collection Class can do little more than store items. Other Collection classes provide many more features.
The ArrayList Class is a resizeable array of objects. You can add and remove items from any position in the list and it resizes accordingly. This class is not type-safe and List(Of T) is preferred.
Some ArrayList methods: Add, AddRange, Clear, Remove, RemoveAt, RemoveRange.
A StringCollection is similar to an ArrayList, except that it can hold only strings. This enables type and error checking and should be used when working with strings; that is, unless you need other features – such as the fast lookups provided by a Hashtable.
Dim sLoves As New StringCollection sLoves.Add("Raymond") sLoves.Add("Debra") sLoves.AddRange({"Frank", "Marie", "Robert"}) sLoves.Remove("Debra") For Each sCast In sLoves Console.Write(sCast & ", ") Next
Other collection classes are:
- BitArray Manages an array of Booleans that are stored as bit values.
- HashTable Implements a collection of values organized by key. Sorting is done based on a hash of the key.
- Queue Implements a first in, first out collection.
- SortedList Implements a collection of values with associated keys. The values are sorted by key and are accessible by key or index.
- Stack Implements a last in, first out collection.
Strongly Typed Collections
A strongly typed collection is a collection class designed to work with a particular data type. StringCollection is an example of a strongly typed collection. You can define your own collection classes that are strongly typed.
To build a strongly typed collection from scratch, create a new class that inherits from System.Collections.CollectionBase. Inheriting from this class automatically gives your class an ArrayList object named List. It also gives your class some inherited routines that do not depend on the type of object you want the collection to hold. For example, the RemoveAt method removes the object at a specific index in the list.
Your class can implement other methods for adding and retrieving items in the collection. For example, it can implement the Add, Remove and Item methods. Fortunately, you don't need to build these methods from scratch. You can simply delegate them to the inherited List object. For example, the Add method can simply call List.Add:
Class Employee 'not yet implemented End Class Public Class EmployeeCollection Inherits System.Collections.CollectionBase Public Sub Add(ByVal value As Employee) List.Add(value) End Sub End Class
The EmployeeCollection class's Add method takes a parameter of a particular type (Employee), whereas the List object's Add method takes a generic Object as a parameter. This insistence on the Employee type is what makes this collection strongly typed.
The following table lists the standard methods provided by a strongly typed collection class. The third column indicates whether the CollectionBase parent class automatically provides the method, or whether you must delegate the method to the List object.
Generics provide another method for building strongly typed collections. For instance, List(Of T) is a generic type in that it is a template that defines a complete type or class:
Dim data As New List(Of Integer)
Deriving from the ReadOnlyCollectionBase Class, you can build a strongly typed collection class that can be examined but not modified.
The NameValueCollection Class is a collection that can hold more than one string value for a particular key (name), which is also a string. For example, an employee-id could be the key, and first-name, last-name, job title, could be the values. This could be useful if you don't know ahead of time how many strings will be associated with each key. With this collection it is easy to Remove a name (and associated values), but tricky to remove a value for a particular key; for example, to remove someone's job title. Note: This collection-class is quite specialised and shouldn't be your first choice. Employee details would be better stored in their own Class.
A dictionary is a collection that associates keys with values. You look up a key, and the dictionary provides you with the corresponding value. This differs from a NameValueCollection because the keys and values needn't be strings, and a dictionary associates each key with a single value.
ListDictionary – stores its data in a linked list. This would be slow for a large list.
Hashtable – similar to a ListDictionary, but provides extremely fast access to its data using their keys. It works by mapping an object's key into a bucket by calculating the key's hash value.
HybridDictionary – A cross between a ListDictionary and a Hashtable. The compiler switches between the two classes.
You can make strongly typed dictionaries in a similar way to strongly typed collections, by inheriting from the DictionaryBase Class. Or you could inherit from, for example, the ListDictionary Class, if you know that you want the data to be internally stored as a ListDictionary rather than a hash table.
StringDictionary – uses a hash table to manage keys and values that are all strings, so is strongly typed.
Dim sFruits As New StringDictionary With sFruits .Add("a", "Apple") .Add("b", "Banana") .Add("c", "Carrot") .Add("d", "Damson") .Remove("c") End With Console.WriteLine(String.Format("What is a {0}?", sFruits("d")))
SortedList – acts as a Hashtable/Array hybrid. When accessing a value by key, it behaves as a hash table. When accessing a value by index, it acts as an array. Only use this if you need its special properties.
CollectionsUtil – Provides methods that create case-insensitive Hashtable and SortedList objects.
Stacks and Queues
The Stack and Queue classes provide specialized data structures that add and remove items in a particular order.
A Stack returns items in last-in, first-out (LIFO) order, so is sometimes called a LIFO list. The Push method adds an item to the top of the stack, Pop removes the top item from the stack. Think of a stack of plates!
Stack(Of T) Class
MSDN said:
Represents a variable size last-in-first-out (LIFO) collection of instances of the same arbitrary type.
I've also borrowed part of the example from that page:
A Queue returns items in first-in, first-out (FIFO) order. Enqueue adds, Dequeue removes from the queue. Think of the queue at your local bank!
Queue(Of T) Class
Collection Initializers
Collections that have an Add method can be initialized using the From keyword:
Generics - Brief Introduction
Generics in the .NET Framework :MSDN
Generics means you can use a generic type parameter T to write a class TheList(Of T) and that class can be used as TheList(Of Integer), TheList(Of Boolean) or even TheList(Of MyClass) and not have to worry about runtime conversion or illegal conversion/cast errors.
Public Class YourClass(Of type) 'The class definition uses 'type' wherever you would 'normally refer to an explicit data type, structure or class-name. 'It is, however, an accepted convention to use the letter T. End Class Dim AnInstance As New YourClass(Of Integer) 'or String, etc..
(C++ has a similar feature called Templates, and this word is useful as you are effectively creating a template for your classes.)
The major advantages of Generics are:
- Type safe: Using Generics forces type compliance at compile-time not run-time. This greatly reduces, if not eliminates, unhandled run-time exceptions due to data type conflicts.
- Performance: Since the data type is determined at compile-time, there is no type-casting at run-time.
- Re-usability: A class written with Generics is re-usable: there is no need to duplicate the class for different data types.
Generic Types
Similar to List(Of T) is the Dictionary(Of K, T) generic, which requires that you define the types of both the key data and the values to be stored. When you declare a variable as Dictionary(Of K, T), the new Dictionary type that is created only accepts keys of the first type and values of the other.
I hope that you have found this tutorial helpful and welcome your comments or suggestions.
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I just read a great new book, out in September, by a friend, Daylle Deanna Schwartz, called "Effortless Entrepreneur" that distills the wisdom of two college friends, Nick Friedman and Omar Soliman, who founded College Hunks Hauling Junk.
What struck me most was their management advice — that when you hire and manage people under 25, maybe younger, you have to gently coax them (!) into actually talking face to face to real people, i.e. clients and customers, which also involves (!) looking them in the eye, shaking their hand, listening and showing that you have heard them.
What a concept!
These two business owners learned the hard way they have to consciously and carefully train their young employees how to interact well and courteously face to face and by telephone using their voice with others, who are likely somewhat older and expect what they consider civility.
Sounds really basic to me but apparently not so much because so many young people (love that phrase!) now only communicate through texting. Not speaking by phone (LOL) or even face to face (ROFL.)
Sht Me. Srsly. (Fill in that first word as you see fit.)
Whatever tribal customs work well in high school or college, it must come as a terrible shock when not everyone communicates in the same fashion.
Some of us geezers actually enjoy face to face conversation instead of living attached to a piece of technology. So, entering the workforce, which often shows all the flexibility and willingness to accommodate your very own personal needs as, say, an I-beam, will also mean picking up some new, even uncomfortable social skills as well.
I got stood up last week by someone younger than 25. They did not telephone me, eschewing both cell and land-line. Nor did they email. They said they sent a message on Facebook, (I do not own a Blackberry), but there is none there to be seen. I drove an hour each way to meet this person, ate alone, then drove home, really annoyed.
No phone call? No email? I only found out this person wasn't dead by emailing (after I made several calls and FB messages.)
The problem with Facebook? If you decide to blow someone off and are chatting away on FB shortly before and after, we know you aren't bleeding arterially or lying anesthetized on an OR table. In geezerworld, those are the only two reasons I wouldn't show up, or expect someone else to, possibly without letting the other person know you're severely ill or injured.
When I asked some people older than 25, they said they'd experienced similar behaviors.
Have you done this? Or experienced this — a total mismatch of communication styles? How (if at all did you resolve it?)
Maybe this works really well for the younger set, but if or when they try to work with or be-friend others even a decade or so older than they, they need to remember that we don't all communicate using the same tools anymore.
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At a time when many assume that the locker room gladly will welcome only gay players, one NFL veteran has admitted that, in his younger days, he would not have been willing to embrace the concept of a gay teammate.
Redskins receiver Donte' Stallworth recently told ESPN's Outside the Lines (via Sarah Kogod of the Washington Post) that he was aggressively homophobic earlier in his career.
"I'm ashamed to tell it, but when I was younger I was leaving the club," Stallworth said. "I was maybe 24 years old. I was leaving the club and there was a gay club letting out. And I walked out of there yelling gay slurs for no reason."
Age and experience prompted Stallworth to change his "very homophobic" ways.
"I've experienced hate because of me for a number of reasons," Stallworth said. "For the color of my skin, or having money. For my accident with my DUI and manslaughter four or five years ago. When I started to look back on that, and the hate that I got from all those people and I looked at it, like, you know what? That's the same thing I'm doing towards gays. So I can't be upset with these people if I'm being a bigot and acting that same way."
It's refreshing candor, especially since many athletes who address this topic may not necessarily be speaking the truth but simply saying what they think the interviewer and the audience want to hear. But it's also troubling, because it suggests there are plenty of younger players without the benefit of Stallworth's life experiences who may feel the same way he used to feel.
As the issue receives more attention and scrutiny, homophobic players will be less likely to ever act on those feelings. But it would be naive to assume that every NFL player will accept a gay teammate, both in what the players say and do and in what they truly think and feel.


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Feel free to flog me if this has been addressed in small or great detail here. I can't think of good search terms for this question. Also, I understand that most contributions here are someone finding a news story of some kind that pertains in some way to atheism, and posting that story.
This post is not a news story, it's a question about news sources. I don't even bother to watch TV any more, news on the tube has looked like senseless drivel as long as I can remember. Witness such movies as Network and it's easy to see that this assessment is very old. At the time of that movie, which condemned the quality of news reporting, the quality of news was much better than it is now.
Internet sources are vast. I tend to look for sources were I am comfortable with the outlook or amount of detail, which I know results in an automatic bias. I filter somewhat by having some sources sent to my Kindle. Blog formats work pretty well on that device, so I get Huff post (liberal ns somewhat nitwit bias), Reuters, Reuters Science, and a few other sources. Then I use Google News to pick up on current stories, and try to read more than one source, but most are shallow and draw from the same sources.
Of course, every time I check my Yahoo email I'm almost forced to see some senseless drivel about Lindsey Lohan or some other celeb shit4brain that everyone is for some reason fascinated with, before proceeding to my email. I avoid reading the article but would prefer that those people not exen exist.
I'm wondering where people here get their news - I hope it's not all from this group, or from the Examiner.
Spending time today looking at current topics, the non-news Twitterhea from the likes of Sarah Palin's ghostwriter, the nonnews about the nongroundzero nonmosque, the asshole preacher from florida who wants (wanted) to burn Korans claiming to have stopped the nonmosque from nongroundzero's nonhallowed ground, but whose threat to burn the books sets off riots among easily influenced Afganis and other Muslims who enjoy massing on the streets to condemn the great Satan as usual, all of this is more notable for lack of actual analysis and focus on the useless.
I despair. We are doomed.
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A day after a Democratic congressman revealed further evidence that the IRS targeted progressive groups, Fox News is still ignoring the story by continuing to suggest that the IRS targeted only conservative groups.
The August 20 edition of On the Record and the August 21 edition of Fox & Friends both highlighted a lawsuit filed against the IRS that seeks to review the agency's guidelines for determining whether an organization deserves tax-exempt status, following reports that the agency inappropriately imposed extra scrutiny on conservative organizations. But in neither of the segments, which together devoted a total of six minutes to the topic, did Fox find the time to mention the fact that new evidence released August 20 effectively ends the IRS "scandal" the network has been hyping for months.
On August 20, Salon reported that the new documents reinforced evidence proving the IRS targeted progressive groups as well:
We already know that the IRS targeted progressive groups in addition to Tea Party ones, but new information released today adds further details, showing that the tax agency also targeted "ACORN successors" and left-leaning "Emerge" groups. Emerge Nevada, Emerge Maine and Emerge Massachusetts were the only groups to have their applications actually denied 501(c)4 tax-exempt status. Conservative groups had their applications delayed, in some cases for over a year, but not rejected outright.
Democrats say the new information should put to rest any lingering embers of the IRS scandal. "This new information should put a nail in the coffin of the Republican claims that the IRS's actions were politically motivated or were targeted at only one side of the political spectrum," said Elijah Cummings, the Maryland Democrat who is the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee.
The term "Emerge" had been redacted from an earlier version of a document released by the IRS, but was present on a newer version made available today. The new documents also showed that successors to ACORN, the liberal grass-roots organizing group that became a bugaboo of conservatives and that Congress defunded (again and again). The instructions on "ACORN successors" came on a BOLO (be on the lookout) list that included healthcare organizations, medical marijuana groups, newspapers, open source technology groups and other non-political organizations.
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The Wildcats jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the first half. Meg Shea scored her 22nd goal of the season just 1:33 into the game. Kate Collins Smyth notched then struck at 5:02 for New Hampshire. Freshman Nina Kucharczyk got the Crimson on the board at 15:04. Kucharczyk scored her first collegiate goal as she stuffed in a rebound right in front of the cage after a shot from Dickson was saved by Wildcat goalie Katherine Nagengast. Dickson tied the game at 2-2 with a shot through a crowd of players 12 minutes later. Shea gave New Hampshire the lead going into halftime by redirecting a pass into the goal with 1:22 remaining.
In the second stanza, Cally Cooke extended the Wildcat lead to two goals by scoring off a penalty corner six minutes into play. Sophomore Allie Kimmel cut the deficit in half for the Crimson with her fifth goal of the year just five minutes later. Dickson tied the game at 4-4 when she scored on a penalty corner with 15 minutes remaining in the game. Neither team was able to score in the remaining minutes, causing the game to go into overtime.
Whitney Frates tipped in the game-winner just six minutes into overtime. UNH held a 24-15 advantage in shots, and Dickson registered 10 shots, seven on goal, for the Crimson. Freshman Cynthia Tassopoulos had 11 saves on the night.
Harvard wraps up the 2009-10 season with an Ivy League game at Columbia Friday. The match begins at 3 p.m.


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Category: Phantom of the Opera News Posted by: admin One can almost imagine Joel Schumacher's finger running down the list of Andrew Lloyd Webber's runaway hits and stopping at The Phantom of the Opera. "Yes, that's the one," he announces. "That's the one I want to do." The director is, plainly, fearless. After 24 films, he decides it's time to do a musical -- and what, pray tell, does he pick to do? Only the most successful property -- on stage or screen -- of the 20th century, that's all.
Phantom film director admits fear was a factor: Joel Schumacher equates decision to do the musical to climbing Mount Everest
Article Date: December 22, 2004 | Publication: Film Journal International | Author: Harry Haun
The phenomenal Phantom has racked up more than 7,000 performances in both London and New York and, with comparable companies dotting the globe, amassed $3.2 billion. And Schumacher's 17-years-in-the-coming film version, should send that figure reeling.
It wasn't all that carefree a decision. In a pinch, Schumacher admits -- "probably, deeply, subconsciously" -- a twinge of intimidation about taking on such an iconic project. "You can't really let that stop you, though. It's like you're climbing Mount Everest and feeling that you are going to fall off any minute, but you have to put that aside somewhere in your subconscious and just move ahead and do the best job that you can at interpreting it -- you know, 'fools rush in' -- because, if you worry about all that, you'll never do it."
Intimidating cinematic Everests have an energizing effect on Schumacher. "I owe the hard-core fans the Batman movie they'd love me to give them," he proclaimed when he went after The Caped Crusader of Marvel Comics. Similarly, with a real do-justice-to determination, he set out to deliver a ravishing visualization of a show that's pretty much in the pores of the populace who love it -- yet still plays to people who never saw it.
"The real privilege of making this movie is for people who can't afford the legitimate theatre or don't live in a region where it would be. If you start to think of all the great movie musicals made from very successful stage productions, you can't begin to compare the number of people who've seen it on stage compared to those who've seen it on film.
"You try to honour the source material and then try to give it something that they wouldn't be able to have in the theatre. And, of course, once you have a camera, there's that whole world of the backstage, of Paris in 1870 -- that whole epic sweep only a camera can do."
It is easy to understand Schumacher's attraction to the project. As surely as Lord Lloyd Webber did Phantom to make a star of one of his Cats dancers (Sarah Brightman) -- and, even before that, going back to the original source (Gaston Leroux's 1911 novel, Le Fantome De L'Opera), as surely as the Phantom himself composed to bring a cutie from the chorus centre-stage into the star spot -- Schumacher the starmaker saw in this presold property the chance to launch a mini-galaxy of newcomers into the mainstream limelight.
The previous products of Schumacher's famous star-machinations include Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Jami Gertz and Kiefer Sutherland (The Lost Boys); Sutherland again, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin and Oliver Platt (Flatliners); Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Andrew McCarthy, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Mare Winningham and Andie MacDowell (St. Elmo's Fire); Matthew McConaughey (A Time To Kill), and, most recently and spectacularly, Colin Farrell (Tigerland and Phone Booth). To that list, now chisel the names of Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum and Patrick Wilson.
Butler rises from the ashes of the Lara Croft Tomb Raider sequel to make a quantum leap to title Phantom, a damaged romantic roaming the wings and catacombs of a Paris theatre, making deadly sure his operas are performed to his liking. The object of all his ardour and angst, Christine Daae, is played by Emmy Rossum, last seen fleetingly as Sean Penn's murdered daughter in Mystic River and as the young Audrey Hepburn in ABC's 2000 telefilm bio. Wilson, as her saner suitor, was well-marked with Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for Angels in America and a Tony nomination for The Full Monty.
All three were Schumacher's idea, and not one of them had their singing dubbed. "The deal I had with Andrew was: I could have any one I wanted in those three roles, but they had to do their own singing. My part of the bargain was: I want them to be very young, very beautiful, very sexy. If they're known, that's fine; if they're unknown, that's fine."
The only person in the whole film who doesn't do her own singing is Minnie Driver. "You can only have an opera singer do the opera singer," reasons Schumacher. "Someone asked me why I didn't hire an opera singer for that role. The reason's simple: I never met one who had any sense of humour about themselves. I didn't want someone who was that character. I wanted someone who could play that character." And play it Driver does, almost stealing the film with a deliciously mean dissection of a diva in the difficult mode.
Lloyd Webber made what may be Academy Award amends for "muzzling Minnie." He wrote an Oscar-eligible new song for the film (lyrics by Charles Hart), Learn To Be Lonely, and gave it to her to do in the end credits in her own pop-sound voice. (You Must Love Me, the bauble he tossed Madonna for the movie Evita, got Oscared in '96.)
Some expertly plucked English actors round out the supporting cast: the feline Miranda Richardson as Madame Giry, a ballet mistress with a Phantom past; Murray Melvin as the prissy, precise conductor, and Ciaran Hinds and Simon Callow as sleazy opera managers.
But it's in this newly minted star power that Schumacher shines. To preserve his vision of casting the picture young meant that he had to turn a deaf ear to the rather public pushes for Antonio Banderas and even the Tony-winning original Phantom, Michael Crawford.
Actually, the stage leads -- Crawford and Brightman -- were first (and only) choices for the movie when Schumacher began the project. That was, he dimly recalls, "around 1988. We prepared the movie for Munich and Prague, and we were going to shoot it around 1990. We were all set. The costumes were designed, the sets were all made, everything was ready to go -- then Andrew and Sarah divorced, and the project got aborted."
Although a number of brand-name directors were dying to do the movie Phantom, Lloyd Webber was struck by the way Schumacher had married the music with the visuals in The Lost Boys and zeroed in on him. The two stayed friends and periodically reconnoitered about the project. "My career took off, to my surprise, and we could never get together," Schumacher remembers. "I was always making a movie or planning the next one, so I suggested a lot of other directors, and I think he did go down several other courses with other directors and other actors, but I wasn't around for that. That wasn't on my watch."
This dance continued till Christmas 2002. "When I was doing the post-production of Veronica Guerin, Andrew and I had Christmas dinner, and it came up again. I thought about it, and I said to him if I could have a very young cast and wasn't saddled with any names, I'd do it."
Schumacher was adamant in putting the accent on youth. "The story doesn't make sense unless the girl is very young. I wanted her romance with Patrick Wilson to be her first sexual awakening, contrasting that with the dark passion that draws her to Gerry's character. Also, if you study the period and look at the paintings of that time, those girls were very young indeed. Girls performing at the Paris Opera were girls in their teenage years."
Wilson, with his Broadway chops, was the first and easiest to cast. Butler was a bit dicier. "I'd known Gerry for a couple of years. I saw him in Dracula 2000 almost by accident and thought he was great -- a friend of mine is his agent -- and whenever he was in L.A., we'd lunch. He told me he'd been in a band, which of course means nothing -- you shake the tambourine and pick up girls or pretend to play the guitar and pick up girls -- so I said to him that I'd love for him to try out for the Phantom, but could he really sing? He said, 'Yes.' I said, 'No, really sing. Could you sing for Andrew Lloyd Webber?' There was a long pause, and he said, 'Well, I could try.' And so he did. He went to Andrew's house in London and sang Music of the Night and got it. I knew he'd be a stunning Phantom."
Rossum, 16 at the time she auditioned, made it into the picture right under the wire. "I don't know where her agent was during the six months we were casting -- I think he thought she was too young -- but she showed up at the last second, two days before the last screen-testing. Not only was she a wonderful actress, she had sung at the Metropolitan Opera since she was seven. And with that gorgeous dark hair and those beautiful eyes and that stunning figure -- I mean, it was as if we had ordered her. That was really a miracle."
If you take the word of this starmaker, they arrive as miracle and you could do what he does with that given ingredient. "I don't know they're going to be stars. I know there's no one else like them -- and they're right for the role. Everybody thought I was crazy when we did Tigerland. They said, 'You're going to put an Irish kid playing an American G.I. in a Vietnam movie? You're nuts!' But he happened to be right for the role. And he was certainly right for Phone Booth. We made that movie in 12 days, and we couldn't have done that if he wasn't. Now Colin Farrell is making more money than I am.
"I don't think I'm making stars, and, of course, if you go back to St. Elmo's Fire and The Lost Boys, I didn't know anybody would go see those movies. It's just I think anyone would hire them. I think if these people walked into your office, you would hire them also. You're casting Flatliners and you have four guys and a part for a girl. You've met 200 actresses in Hollywood -- and Julia Roberts walks in, and you go, 'Thank you, God!' "
Who's the next star on Schumacher's runway? He doesn't know, but, he promises, it will be a hell of an actor. "The Crowded Room is something I've always wanted to do. It's about William Milligan, the first person found not guilty of criminal action because of insanity. He has the world's record for multiple personalities that have been recorded. It's about a man who was so abused that he developed multiple personalities to save himself."
Dramatically, a tall order to fill -- but Schumacher isn't shirking. "You know what? I'm going to meet 'em all. There are so many young people coming up every day. We stay open and meet everyone, known or unknown. You make your best choice out of that."
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One can almost imagine Joel Schumacher's finger running down the list of Andrew Lloyd Webber's runaway hits and stopping at The Phantom of the Opera. "Yes, that's the one," he announces. "That's the one I want to do." The director is, plainly, fearless. After 24 films, he decides it's time to do a musical -- and what, pray tell, does he pick to do? Only the most successful property -- on stage or screen -- of the 20th century, that's all.


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A little over a year ago I first got to check out the Mimobots.
If you are not familiar with them they are designer USB drives made to look
like tiny characters. These things were underground for a few months, but
quickly started to get attention (how could they not?) and now I seem
them linked to all over.
Mimoco has been releasing a number of custom Mimobots from professional
artists, but they recently took the USB drive world by storm when they announced
a series of Stars Wars drives. The first Stars Wars series will feature drives
in 1GB, 2GB and 4GB capacities featuring four iconic characters from the movies:
Chewbacca, Darth Vader, Stormtrooper, and R2-D2. The drives would not only look
like a cute, cartoony version of the characters but come preloaded with bonus
materials from the series, like wallpapers, avatars, icons, and
This article is going to be a brief look at the four drives from the Star
Wars Mimobots Series 1. We will be focusing on how they look because these
drives are about style, not performance.
The Darth Vader I tested, a 1GB model, was individually numbered
1022/3500. Numbering has been a great way for Mimoco make their products seem
unique and more like a piece of pop art than a simple USB drive. Plus it means
that the chances of me running into someone with the same USB drive as me are
very small (we all know how embarrassing that can be). The R2-D2 run is also
3500 units, while 2500 Chewbaccas and Stormtroopers were made.
The drive came along with a furry protective jacket called a "protohoodie".
This not only looks cool but will prevent it from being scratched and allows it
to easily be placed on a keychain. The hoodie only shows off the unit's face,
which makes it look somewhat comical, but must be removed if you want to access
the USB connector.
The drive comes preloaded with a zipped file holding all the software
goodies. These include a Flash-based video player, teaser trailers for all six
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compatible with both Macs and PCs.
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Posted on 6 Dec 2010 at 2:03 pm from IP x
Posted on 6 Dec 2010 at 3:30 pm from IP y
People messing with the wiki
I changed this back, since whoever posted this also posted that the Siena search was canceled. Someone is obviously messing with the wiki.
[This last is untrue. The IP of the person who posted the UHV news was different from that of the person who (falsely) posted that the Sienna search was canceled. That IP reported that first-round interviews had been scheduled the minute before it reported the cancellation. Probably an accident.]
Posted on 6 Dec 2010 at 6:33 pm from IP [=the one that changed the UHV status]
Fine, don't believe me
I don't know who canceled the Siena posting (it wasn't me), but I did get the job offered to me. They had phone interviews a few weeks ago and on-campus interviews last week. This job is moving super fast. They want an answer within days.
The best part is the way the person says, "Fine, don't believe me." I love that. When someone doesn't believe you, say "fine." I'm going to start doing that in class.
But in all seriousness, what do you think about this hiring strategy? It's clearly designed to prevent the candidate to whom they offered the job from considering other offers. I'm not saying this is deeply immoral or something, but it makes me a little uneasy. In such a depressed market, of course, the strategy is unlikely to have any genuine negative effect on the candidate; how likely is it, after all, for even the best candidate to get two offers this year? And I guess a person could accept the one offer and back out if a better one were to materialize (although the morality of that strategy is questionable, too). But still.
--Mr. Zero


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PEORIA — Chicky Baba, the new Lebanese eatery in Campustown, serves large platters of food at decent prices. The interior is roomy and neat, and the parking is plentiful. Also a plus — if you're a customer, but not if you're the owner — there doesn't seem to be much of a lunch rush during the week.
Not sure why this is. Maybe because Bradley University is out for the summer, maybe because people aren't yet aware of the new tenant. But it makes for a timely lunch stop.
The spot was formerly home to La Bamba burrito, and it seems neater and roomier, with a mix of tables and booths for seating.
The menu includes dishes such as kibbeh (beef mixed with wheat, spices and onions), beef kabobs and steak shawarma (shaved steak and lamb), as well as salads, tabouli and eight different varieties of hummus (eight!), from basil pesto to jalapeno to roasted red pepper.
You order at the counter, fill your soda cup ($1.59) from a fountain station and take a seat. They bring the food to your table without much ado.
We started with three grape leaves, little rolls packed with rice and spices (three for $2.99). They tasted faintly of mint and a pleasant tang of vinegar.
My friend ordered the falafel platter ($10.99), six nicely sized patties of deep-fried ground chickpeas, fava beans, parsley and spices. They were light on the spices — not quite bland, but definitely of mild flavor. The patties came resting on a bed of shredded lettuce, with pickle spears and tomato slices. My other falafel experiences have consisted of three or four patties to an order. Six patties to an order is extremely generous.
I had the chicken shawarma platter ($11.49), a large plate of shaved chicken served with rice, red onion, tomatoes and a pickle. The chicken had good flavor but was very dry. I dipped the pieces in a side of garlic dipping sauce (included with the meal), which was extremely potent and addictive.
Both meals came with their homemade pita bread, which is the size of a dinner plate, puffy and served warm.
On another visit to Chicky Baba, the spicy feta fries ($3.09) stood out. The plate of skin-on fries were pretty standard, but came with a small cup of a zippy dipping sauce with feta cheese and tomato as the base — delicious.
There's good food here. Not sure where the lunchtime customers are, but hopefully word will get out.
Quick Guide: Chicky Baba
1200 W. Main St.
(309) 713-3799
Hours: 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Ratings: **** is highest
Food ***
Atmosphere **½
Service ***
Prices: Platters, $10.99 to $12.99. Wraps, $6.99 to $7.99. Salads, $6.99. Hummus, $3.99 (3.25 ounces) to $10.99 (16 ounces)
Miscellaneous: Credit cards accepted but not checks.
Danielle Hatch can be reached at 686-3262 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @danielle_hatch.


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Industries › Small Business
A cupcake of a deal
Small businesses turn to Groupon and LivingSocial to get more bang for their advertising bucks
- July 29, 2011
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After 18 months, many new businesses still struggle to get customers in the door. Not at Richmond's Carytown Cupcakes bakery, where owner Dawn Schick says some days it's all she can do to keep up with demand.
Schick has built a loyal customer base through gourmet cupcakes in a range of creative flavors, from Italian desserts and wines to ice cream and candy bars. But Schick also is packing in new patrons through two not-so-secret weapons that small businesses such as hers are increasingly using: online marketing services Groupon and LivingSocial.
Schick has used both services successfully. In March she ran a Groupon promotion offering a half-dozen cupcakes for half off, and 1,000 customers purchased the deal. "That's a thousand people potentially who will be coming in the shop over the next six months who have never tried us, and hopefully we'll be keeping them as customers," Schick says.
Small businesses offer goods and services at massive discounts (at least half off) through Groupon and LivingSocial, which take a cut of the sales in exchange for promoting the deals to their massive localized databases of subscribers. (Groupon's regular merchant price is a 50 percent split plus 2.5 percent charge on customers' credit card purchases. News reports say LivingSocial charges 40 percent and does not charge credit card transaction fees. Both sites, however, may vary merchant fees depending on the type of deals offered.)
Customers receive the daily promotions via free email newsletters and/or mobile applications.
Groupon and LivingSocial give local small businesses a reach rivaling that of the big guys, says Carey Friedman, owner of Grandpa Eddie's BBQ in Henrico County. More than 100,000 people received a recent Groupon deal for Grandpa Eddie's, which opened in 2005. "I can't buy a mailing list like that," Friedman says. "As a small business, that lets me compete with the national chains as far as being able to advertise."
The sheer volume of business that Groupon and LivingSocial draws can be a challenge in itself, particularly during the beginning and ending days of an offer. In the first week of her Groupon promotion, Schick recalls filling vouchers for 15 dozen cupcakes in one day. On the final day of Friedman's most recent promotion, he redeemed 50 dinner vouchers.
"It's like the Fourth of July on your phone. Your phone blows up. It's nonstop," says Steven Zawisa, owner of Ocean Eagle Kayak, which offers guided ocean kayaking and dolphin sightseeing tours in Virginia Beach. In the first day of his recent LivingSocial deal, which offered $75 guided tours for $25, he says, "I was on the phone probably 16 hours just answering questions."
Even though he turned just a small profit on the deal, Friedman says, "We also were able to turn a large portion of those first-time guests into regulars, so the money spent keeps on paying us back. I look at it as an advertising venue, not a profit center. I think if a business considered running a Groupon to make money, they would be looking at the deal the wrong way."
That business is also likely to be repeat business: Nearly 90 percent of LivingSocial restaurant deal customers plan to return, and about 50 percent of LivingSocial restaurant deal customers are first-time patrons, according to LivingSocial follow-up surveys. (Customers also spend an average of $33.65 above the voucher amount when dining.)
In addition to getting new customers in the door, Groupon and LivingSocial also provide valuable marketing data for small businesses.
"Groupon has awesome analytics," says Aimee Joyaux, vice president of arts education at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, which has run two Groupon promotions offering discounted art classes.
Groupon provides customers with a back-end website full of detailed information on all the people taking advantage of their deals — everything from geographic data, like customer clusters by Zip Codes to demographic data such as gender and age breakdowns.
"In terms of target marketing and the audience we're trying to reach, this really informs us," Joyaux says.
Groupon and LivingSocial also provide merchants with live web stats keeping track of how many customers have redeemed an offer and how many remain, making it easy to keep track of one's return on investment.


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Digby Scott and Benjamin Smith for Rundell, Bridge & Rundell
English, 19th century
Sauce boat on stand, 1806
22.8 x 14 x 22.6 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of an anonymous donor
2004-3 a-d
Metallic, Decorative Arts Silver
These magnificent Egyptian Revival sauceboats were designed by Jean-Jacques Boileau, a French artist assisting in the decoration of Carlton House, the London residence of the Prince Regent, later George IV (1762–1830). They are nearly identical to those in Queen Elizabeth II's Grand Service, commissioned originally by George IV. The WAG pieces, however, carry the crest, coronet, and motto of Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk (1771–1820), who was responsible for the arrival of Manitoba's first pioneers, the Selkirk Settlers. In 1812 Selkirk purchased land in the vicinity of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, known as Assiniboia. The city of Winnipeg emerged from the nucleus of the original Red River Settlement.
Gallery Hours
- Tuesday 11am-5pm
- Wednesday 11am-5pm
- Thursday 11am-5pm
- Friday 11am-9pm
- Saturday 11am-5pm
- Sunday 11am-5pm
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I am running an experiment that uses a microsphere (Diameter ~ 50um) mounted onto the end of an AFM cantilever. I run several experiments in a row, but somewhere during a sequence, the microsphere acquires some non-organic dirt that effects the outcome of the experiment.
Does anyone know - or can suggest - a way to clean the ball while it is still mounted onto the AFM? Or a way to clean the ball at all? We have a UV plasma cleaner, but it is not doing the job.


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Buffett: U.S. banks won't cause problems for economy
OMAHA, Neb. Billionaire Warren Buffett says that American banks are stronger than they've been in years, and won't derail the economy.
Buffett, who is the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), told Bloomberg television that nation's biggest banks have improved their financial position considerably.
- Berkshire Hathaway sells two short-line railroads
- Buffett's Berkshire spends $1.2B on share buyback
- Warren Buffett urges Congress to raise taxes on the rich
"The banks will not get this country in trouble, I guarantee it," Buffett told Bloomberg television in an interview that aired Thursday.
Berkshire Hathaway has large investments in Wells Fargo (WFC), U.S. Bancorp (USB) and Bank of America (BAC), and Buffett pays close attention to their condition. Berkshire also holds warrants to buy $5 billion in Goldman Sachs shares.
Buffett said the banks have largely cleared out the bad assets that hurt their balance sheets. And the current low interest rates have helped them.
"Our banking system is in the best shape in recent memory," Buffett said.
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Hey which mapping program did you use to make the map? Looks great.
Here is our planned trip this year. We plan to be on the East Coast in July sometime.
During the summer months, it goes back to being a regular parking lot for beach goers. I guess it is a matter of economics. They charge the RV'ers $70 a day to take up 6 of the car parking spots a day. In the busy summer months, those 6 spots bring a minimum of $90 a day, and possibly 2 or 3 times that if the same spots are sold numerous times a day.
Morro Bay is nice I have stayed there before. There is a big coloney of Carmarans next door. Bill
Sarge, it looks like you'll be on the I-80 for part of your trip. Have you identified any RV parks or campgrounds between Fenley and Wells. Fenly is about 30-40 miles East of Reno. Wells is maybe another 275 miles. We plan on taking US 93 from Wells to Twin Falls, ID. We prefer State and National campgrounds to RV Parks and have identified two potentials, Humboldt State Wildlife Management area and South Fork State Recreation Area. Any info on those or others you know of. Gary
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Cid now looking for new HC. Not sure what staff is going. Word is DC Maurice Drayton's job if he wants it.
He was doing a fantastic job down there. Their loss is our gain. Has to be good for us.
Have also heard the recent blow up about the knobs singing in white sheets have been hurting them in recruiting. Know one decommitted who cited it as reason.


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SAO PAULO -- The man who has headed the Olympic movement in Brazil for decades and helped bring the Summer Games to Rio de Janeiro is set to extend his rule amid increased criticism and accusations of wrongdoing.
Carlos Nuzman, whose name has been synonymous with the Olympics in Brazil since the mid-1990s, is poised to win re-election as president of the national Olympic committee for a fifth straight four-year term on Friday despite increased calls to have him removed.
The 70-year-old former Olympic volleyball player is the only candidate.
The only local confederation which opposes Nuzman's candidacy has come forward with evidence of an alleged break-in by members of his committee at its headquarters. Congressman Romario is alleging a possible link between Nuzman and alleged ticket sale irregularities for the 2016 Games.
Brazil Sports Minister Also Rebelo has publicly said he is against having sports officials stay in power for too long, and others have argued that Nuzman shouldn't be head of the 2016 Games and the national Olympic committee at the same time.
Allegations of a lack of transparency and the recent case of files being illegally downloaded by 2016 committee staff from London Olympic organizers also aren't playing in Nuzman's favor.
The Brazilian committee has dismissed the criticism and vehemently denied all allegations. It has provided its defense in all cases against Nuzman, who says he has the support of 29 of the 30 confederations voting for the committee's presidency.
He has been head of the body since 1995 and has retained widespread support internally after working vigorously to bring the Olympics to Brazil _ and South America _ for the first time, a feat that also earned him recognition throughout the International Olympic Committee. Nuzman has been an IOC member since 2000.
"In the last few years we have implemented a series of projects which I intend to continue to develop," Nuzman told The Associated Press via email on Thursday. "We are working intensely to make sure the Brazilian athletes have all the proper conditions to represent the country and achieve the expected results in 2016."
The only opposing force to Nuzman within the committee comes from the Brazilian confederation for ice sports, whose president's attempt to run against Nuzman was thwarted because he allegedly didn't meet some of the eligibility requirements.
The president is Eric Maleson, who himself is facing an investigation into alleged irregularities and poor management in his organization. He claims the confederation is in good standing financially and is clear of irregularities, and says that he is being persecuted by the committee because of his opposition to Nuzman.
"There's a need for a drastic change ahead of Brazilian Olympic Committee," Maleson told The Associated Press. "These same leaders were the ones who called for the break-in and the invasion of our headquarters in Copacabana."
Maleson on Wednesday released a security-camera video to ESPN Brasil showing members of the Brazilian committee entering its headquarters without his authorization last December. However, the committee denied the accusation and said it was entitled to enter the location because the offices were rented and paid for by the committee.
Maleson is not the only one against Nuzman in Brazil. The calls for the official's removal from power have increased among sports commentators and local media recently, with many columnists across the country demanding a change in leadership.
On Tuesday, former Brazilian soccer star Romario criticized Nuzman in a congressional speech and called for an investigation into the process of ticket sales for the 2016 Rio Games, saying that a "safe source" told him that a company linked to a "Nuzman friend" has been assured the rights to sell tickets for the Olympics.
Romario said the friend is Patrick Hickey, an IOC executive board member from Ireland who is a member of the IOC's coordination commission for the 2016 Games. Romario said Hickey's son works for the subsidiary of a company which the former Brazil striker claimed would get the ticket rights.
However, the Brazilian committee released a statement denying the allegation and saying that "the planning process for the ticket sales is in its initial stages" and that only at the end of 2013 it will conduct "a public selection process to choose the company which will provide the ticket sales system."
Hickey also dismissed Romario's allegations.
"Rio 2016 has confirmed it will decide in late 2013 with each national Olympic committee and its authorized ticket reseller how to ensure efficient ticket sales abroad," he said in a statement. "Therefore, a ticket strategy for Rio is not in place yet and all comments (regarding the sales) are purely speculative."
Nuzman and the government were heavily criticized for overspending during the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio, and Nuzman was also under scrutiny over Brazil's disappointing performance at the London Olympics.
Despite increase in funding, Brazil won only two more medals at the London Games (17) than it did in 1996 in Atlanta (15). The country's athletes won only three golds in each of the last two Olympics, the same amount they won in Atlanta.
Nuzman said Brazil had won only 39 medals in total in 16 Olympics before he took over, and 69 in the five games since he was ahead of the local committee.
"We have a mission with goals and strategies set to put Brazil in the top 10 in the medal count in the Rio 2016 Games," Nuzman said.
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Anyway, the Dead Blog World you are, here is a blurb (that is not an awesome-race-related or destination-vacation-related).
Since my Mt. Mitchel power-hike didn't take out of me in terms of muscle recovery, I was back in the gym on Monday, however, I had an aversion to running for the whole week, but that was mental. I just hated the idea of it so much. But volunteering at Nueces trail races (photos) was fun as usual (where, by the way, one of young gals came to thanks me for "helping out so much at every Tejas trail race, and how do you know so much valuable info??"), Larry ran a 50k, and his son Harrison did his first 10k, and we all enjoyed out time out with friends (as I mentioned in my previous post, this is how you curb your appetite for community, right?".
Anyway, last week I only worked my 2nd job on 2 days, and that allowed me to buckle down, eat super-clean, workout a lot (4 hot yoga, 4 weight lifting sessions, 2 Stairstepper sessions, 4 runs) - and dropped 4 lbs, eased into my jeans (sigh) and can actually find some upper part of a "6-pack" if look hard:)
It will be a different week now, but I am down with working hard - I don't know it any other way anyway (as Meredith Terranova put it in our coffee date and her recall of the Ultra-Man she just successfully finished - I can't live without structure). Bottom line is, I want people to know that:
a) I don't suffer when get "on a program and don't have fun" - in my life there is much crap always had been and is happening that I can't control that controlling something makes me feel safe, and I do like structure (almost military) and fewer choices in anything
b) I let myself go "more wild" when I visit friends, travel away from home and stuff like that, than regardless what my stomach accepts or what my training schedule says, all goes to hell, and I just live
It works for me.
Our bathroom renovation should start this week. I can't wait to have it clean, clear and not 50 years old style, even if still tiny.
It rained on Saturday, and I ran in a rain for 2 hrs. Despite being wiped out of low-calory-consumption-high-intensity week, I enjoyed my slog in the Oregon-like weather tremendously. It felt like home.
I miss Oregon.
I miss Black Saturdays Ronda had started, again, in the Gorge (2-3M hill repeats with 5,000+ feet of gain in a 20 miler).
I miss my grown-up, completely not-bragging-kind boys (probably as kids, not as they are now so much, and our times together, hiking, backpacking, exploring, hugging...before all the problems arrived).
Thank God Larry and I are on the same page for so many things, and I am one lucky woman to get a second chance at love in life.


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The first Hobbit movie has been made and released. And now so have some critical emails. Isn't it time for some full and frank answers from the players in the dispute?
And now we get to the nub of the matter. Timing, as it is said, is everything. So it is with the debate over The Hobbit, the indignation expressed by Sir Peter Jackson and the law change made by National.
Emails finally released today by the Council of Trade Unions demand clear explanations by National, Warner Bros, Sir Peter Jackson and Sir Richard Taylor, as we now know for certain the order of events at the end of The Hobbit debate.
We discussed this at length on Pundit at the time of the dispute (here, here and here) and I agreed the unions involved had misjudged their campaign, especially at the start. There has been much speculation and many hints over the intervening years. But these emails, combined with the cache of government emails released earlier in the week, put the end of the argument in a much clearer light.
Emails between the CTU and Warner Bros show that a settlement had been negotiated by the Sunday 17 or Monday 18 October, 2010, depending on which timezone you were in. Actors' Equity had agreed to lift the boycott. It was over bar the shouting.
But the shouting was delayed by Warners and, it seems, Jackson. They wanted time before releasing a public statement and the unions agreed. Thing is, at this point it seems that all the parties lined up against the unions cynically used this delay to their political advantage.
AFTER the boycott had been lifted that – but BEFORE the public had been told – Jackson continued to strongly criticise the unions, Taylor and his Weta Workshop employees held their impromptu and angry march through Wellington, and National ministers met with Warner Bros and agreed to change employment law and pay out 20-something million dollars in order to keep the movies in New Zealand.
All of that happened AFTER the dispute was over. So now it's time for long overdue questions to be asked, such as:
- Had Warner Bros told Jackson the dispute was over and was he quibbling over the wording of the statement as the emails suggest?
- If he knew the boycott had been lifted, why did he not stop his attacks?
- Was Jackson out of the loop by the end and were Warners lying to the CTU or was Jackson lying in his subsequent public statements?
- Why did Weta staff and others march in protest at a dispute that had already been settled?
- Did Taylor know that? Did his staff? Or were they misled?
- Why did National hand over millions of taxpayers dollars to settle the dispute when the unions had already caved?
- And why did ministers change the law to retain the movies when Warners had no reason to move them elsewhere?
- Was there miscommunication? Is there some innocent explanation? Or was this blatant political manipulation?
At face value, New Zealanders have every reason to feel angry and betrayed by their leaders and indeed movie-makers, who until now have been feted and even knighted. I hope they have an explanation and I hope they make it promptly. Because the timing of these emails calls their integrity into question and must be addressed.


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Dr. Renee Canady of the Ingham County Health Department and Michigan State University faculty will present the address "Continuing the Conversation of Global Health: An Examination of National Health Inequalities" on Thursday, Nov. 6, at 4 p.m. at Hope College on the first floor of the rotunda of the Martha Miller Center for Global Communication.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The address is being presented through the college's Multicultural Enrichment Series as a follow up to the Critical Issues Symposium, which was held at Hope on Tuesday-Wednesday, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, and examined "Global Health: From Catastrophe to Cure." As a continuation of the symposium topic, the address will explore various aspects of health disparities, including those that exist in the U.S. between whites and racial/ethnic minorities.
A discussion, organized by the college's Poverty Medicine Focus Group and focused on the issue of health disparities as it relates to the Holland community, will follow from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Fried-Hemenway Auditorium of the Martha Miller Center for Global Communication. Participants are anticipated to include local physicians, other community members and pre-med students at the college.
Canady is deputy health officer for Public Health Services at the Ingham County Health Department, overseeing several divisions, including Public Health Nursing, Disease Control, Social Justice and Health Access, Planning and Health Assessment, and Neighborhood Engagement. She is an adjunct assistant professor in the College of Nursing at Michigan State University, where she held a regular faculty appointment prior to joining the health department.
She is a medical sociologist by training, and her research interests include health disparities, cultural competency, and the social context of mental and physical illness in women. She has published and presented broadly on the topics, including numerous lectures and workshops on diversity, race relations, and cultural competency in her community, as well as across the state and nation.
Canady is the former director of Adolescent Health Services for the Ingham County Health Department, and has held positions in HIV education and prevention at the state and county level. She is also a former fellow of the National Institutes of Mental Health and American Sociology Association.
She is an active volunteer in her community, and has served on numerous non-profit boards, such as Ele's Place, Lansing Area AIDS Network, the American Red Cross and the Sparrow Hospital Home Care Board. She earned her doctorate in medical sociology at Michigan State University, a master's in public administration from Western Michigan University and a bachelor's degree in public health from the UNC-Chapel Hill.
Canady's address is sponsored by the Chrysler Corporation. Campus sponsors include the college's Office of Multicultural Education as well as the Acting on AIDS, Black Student Union and Poverty Medicine Focus Group student organizations.
The Martha Miller Center is located at 257 Columbia Ave., at the corner of Columbia Avenue and 10th Street.