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Man Alive!: A Novel
by Mary Kay ZuravleffAll it takes is a quarter to change pediatric psychiatrist Dr. Owen Lerner's life. When the coin he's feeding into a parking meter is struck by lightning, Lerner survivesand now all he wants to do is barbecue. What will happen to his patients, who rely on him to make sense of their world? What will happen to his family?
The bolt of lightning that lifts Owen
Editorial Reviews
"Zuravleff mines the Lerner family's [unraveling] with impressive intelligence and sly humor." People
"A family novel for smart people...What makes this book so terrific? Certainly the lofty reach of its subject matter and its cleverly delivered information about mythology, robotics, etc. But mostly, it's Zuravleff's masterful use of language, particularly dialogue. Each character cries out to us, demanding attention, recognition. A whole family, not just the burned, bruised Dr. Lerner, demands to be seen as human beings -- alive!" The Washington Post
"There's nothing like a lightning strike to make you reassess your life....Mary Kay Zuravleff dissects family life with great heart and rapier wit." Parade
"[The] compelling thing about Mary Kay Zuravleff's novel of family life is how an utterly normal household can be reduced to cinders by a chance occurrence....She provides handholds for each character, but their grips are never far from slipping." Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A lightning bolt to a parking meter certainly packs a punch, but so does every sentence and scene of this exuberant novel....Man Alive! is vividly alive and breathing. A sparkling book." Alice McDermott, National Book Award–winning author of Someone and Charming Billy
"Random happens, as Mary Kay Zuravleff ably demonstrates in this witty and engaging novel about a psychiatrist struck by lightning. Man Alive! chronicles the tensions and resentments that pull a family apart in the wake of a freak accident, and the lingering affections and connections that ultimately keep them together." Tom Perrotta, author of The Leftovers and Little Children
"The scenes and dialogue jump off the pages of this novel. Man Alive! is electric." Huffington Post
"[Zuravleff] captures both the humor and pain of family life and the fluid nature of its alliances." Library Journal
"A compelling story, beautifully written, about a family faced with a crisis, given a strikingly original spin by a gifted novelist." Shelf Awareness
"Man Alive! is all pleasure, even as the Lerner family suffers acutely. Mary Kay Zuravleff's novel delivers the particular pleasure of the thing perfectly described. This is a book to share, reading sentences aloud to marvel at--how'd she come up with that! How does she know so much! How can she be so funny, and then so poignant, one, two, punch. The Lerner family is a family to remember--and to raise a glass to every time you grill outdoors--cheers to the amazing and fabulous Owen Lerner, and to his creator." Jane Hamilton, author of A Map of the World
"I really like these people and I want to go to a barbecue at their house. This is a novel of equal parts wit and heart, edge and deep warmth, hands open with hope for humanity alongside a firm foot still in reality. A terrific treat." Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and An Invisible Sign
"Man Alive! is a vibrant book, and complex, buzzing with the rhythm of life the way we live it. Mary Kay Zuravleff is masterful as she dissects the collective consciousness of a family, with all its tangled bonds and arbitrary isolation." Carolyn Parkhurst, author of The Dogs of Babel
A lightning bolt to a parking meter certainly packs a punch, but so does every sentence and scene of this exuberant novel....Man Alive! is vividly alive and breathing. A sparkling book.
I really like these people and I want to go to a barbecue at their house. This is a novel of equal parts wit and heart, edge and deep warmth, hands open with hope for humanity alongside a firm foot still in reality. A terrific treat.
Pediatric psychiatrist Owen Lerner is struck by lightning on the last day of his summer vacation. He survives the ordeal, but the event has far-reaching effects for both Owen and his family. During his recovery, Owen devotes his time to the art of barbeque, gets a tattoo, and falls off of the roof of his house. Twenty-one-year-old twins Ricky and Will, 16-year-old Brooke, and wife Toni grapple with his choices, their guilt and anger, and the what-ifs that plague them. VERDICT Zuravleff (The Bowl Is Already Broken), recipient of the American Academy's Rosenthal Award and the James Jones First Novel Award, creates a family whose members are forced to come to terms with mortality, reality, love, and their place in the family structure. She captures both the humor and pain of family life and the fluid nature of its alliances. Highly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, 4/1/13.]—Joanna Burkhardt, Univ. of Rhode Island Libs., Providence
Product Details
- 9780374202316
- Publisher:
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication date:
- 09/03/2013
- Pages:
- 304
- Product dimensions:
- 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)
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Man Alive!
By Mary Kay Zuravleff
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Copyright © 2013 Mary Kay ZuravleffAll rights reserved.
Everyone deserves a vacation from himself, Owen Lerner thinks, on the last day of his. He's convinced that spending three weeks at their beach house each summer makes him a better doctor and a better parent, if not a snappier dresser. Early every morning, face flushed with a good night's sleep, the sun lifts itself out of the ocean and travels across the summer sky, hanging out even as it warms the sand. Through such measured leisure, Owen catches up on his medical journals as well as his sleep, but he lets himself go, too, a year's worth of bacon and booze packed into three weeks at the Delaware shore.
This evening he is sporting the baggy shorts and soft rubber sandals he only ever wears at Rehoboth. He's missed a button on his lurid Hawaiian shirt, so that the excess shirttail hangs over his belly like a pennant, catching the wind the way a ship's flag might. Reaching beneath this flap, he fishes in his pants pockets for meter change and comes up with an inch of quarters—Lucky strike!—as if he's snagged a tuna from one of those monster fishing boats. First a parking place—on Reho Ave., in August, at dinnertime—and now quarters galore.
Nostalgia triggers the vertigo Owen has come to expect on the last day of vacation, when he's looking to the past and the future. Hard to believe that the twins, who resemble surfers from old beach movies, will be juniors in college or that his baby girl is sixteen. Hard to believe it's 2008. They've been coming here since the boys were born, back when the boardwalk was low-budget, greasy fun. Used to be, he could nickel-and-dime his way through August, springing for a waxed-paper bag of saltwater taffy if Will or Ricky had a loose tooth, or throwing pitches in the arcade (three for a quarter—is that possible?) to win Brooke a stuffed dolphin bigger than the dog. He remembers Toni as barely clothed. She wore gauze sundresses that were nearly as insubstantial as their house, which was a mere shack in the sand then, tar paper applauding the ocean breeze.
As Owen looks forward, his fistful of quarters brings to mind the patients waiting for him on the other side of vacation. Try as they may, his kids cannot play well with others, and the only rule they understand is that whatever they enjoy will inevitably be taken away. Owen's pocket change could serve as a lesson in planning ahead. Unfortunately, his patients can't anticipate what might happen in the course of a day; how can they prepare for a future that seems haphazard? Everything catches them by surprise, and predictably, they hate surprises.
His beach reading this summer has included a number of promising drug studies for his practice, and as he counts the meter fare, he's also mentally mixing meds to alleviate anxiety and boost executive functioning. At the same time, he's anticipating sliding into a varnished booth at Dogfish Head and having Axe mix him a drink with the house-made gin. He may even order onion rings. The cumulative effect of his thoughts is a moment of gratitude for the brain's plasticity: onion rings, gin, kin, and meds, all considered within the time it takes to manipulate a handful of coins.
The face of the parking meter is bubbled like a gumball machine, with forty minutes from the last parker showing in the window. Owen still considers time on a meter to be found money, that little bit of grace his wife will never acknowledge. A hundred-dollar goof in their favor in the checking account—Toni can't get excited about it, considering they have mortgages on two houses, two college tuitions, and two cars, as well as insurance out the wazoo. Spare change is all relative, he supposes. A hundred dollars buys thousands of meter minutes, not so many therapy minutes, not even thirty.
Malpractice insurance, therapy minutes. He'd felt the tide changing from vacation to vocation an hour or so earlier, while taking a shower to sluice off the day's sand and sunscreen. Upstairs, between toweling off and getting dressed, he'd lunged for his blinking cell phone in spite of himself. Outgoing message be damned, mothers filled his voice mail with their requests, listing the vegetable soup of disorders ladled out to their children: ADD, ADHD, OCD, ODD, PDD, SID. He was still standing there naked except for his glasses and cell phone when Toni, lovely Toni, strolled in from her bath.
"Stripped to the essentials, I see." She dropped her own towel to the floor and began dressing, unceremoniously stepping into plain cotton underpants as if they shared a locker room rather than an entire life. He admired her softening waist, alluringly belted with a thin stripe of tan, before it disappeared beneath drawstring pants and a crisp linen shirt. Her cheekbones glistened with some cucumber-scented mist she used only at the beach.
Although he clamshelled the phone, she waved him off. "Don't let me get between you and new clients. We're supposed to stay away from the boys' college fund until the market has time to recover."
"But they're in college now," he'd said.
"Them's the breaks." She shrugged. "As for us, it's a good thing Dr. Lerner's in demand."
And so he keeps the parking meter credit to himself, pocketing a few quarters and then, What the hell, retrieving them, intending to feed the meter as if it were a slot machine, either spending the time out with his family or paying it forward to the next carload of beachgoers. Earlier in the vacation, they would have left the car at home and walked to the restaurant; the boys would have raced each other there. Owen drops a coin into the slot, which adds a paltry seven minutes, and a second coin gives them only another eight, returning him to summers when a quarter bought more.
This last day on the beach has been a pleasant one: overcast but no rain, which makes for easier reading and, in general, a less beaten-down feeling (as if beach life were an ordeal, which it isn't, but after a bleached-white sunny day, occasionally riding the waves with the kids or shoveling sand, the first beer pulls him under). His itchy beard brings to mind the trim he'll get once he's home. Maybe he'll ask for a goatee this time, aiming for the fleshy Freud look. More likely, he'll be mistaken for a slender Santa.
"Behold, people." Brooke points out the roiling clouds that have moved in since they left. "I'm glad we're finished with our heliolatry."
"Verily," Will agrees. "And isn't the thunder vociferous?"
Owen's not sure if Will, the adoring big brother, is actually helping Brooke with her test prep or if he just enjoys releasing words, like viruses, into his little sister's vocabulary.
"That language," Toni complains, but she laughs when Will says, "Yeah, what the flux?" because that's her line. She looks at Owen over the top of her sunglasses and then raises her eyes toward the greenish sky. "We should have made do at home. We threw away so much food."
Ricky says, "We ran out of ketchup," and the rest of them concur. No ketchup, no dinner.
Truckloads of clouds flash their lights across the horizon before ramming into one another, and the resulting collision rumbles across the sky.
Brooke cups her hand around her ear. "It's a total cacography." When the boys don't respond, she ventures, "Harsh, awful sound?"
"You mean cacophony." Smugness deepens Ricky's dimple. "Cacography is awful handwriting."
Will says, "Like Dad's. Right, old man?"
"Occupational hazard," Owen says. Although he should feed the meter and get his family inside already, it's worth spending a few of the minutes he's bought listening to the kids. Maybe he and Will could take a week at the beach alone sometime.
Will says, "To remember cacography, think dadography. That's your mnemonic, Brooksey."
"Use it in a sentence," Ricky is saying. "Dad's cryptic scrivening, his crapulous scrawl, is cacographic."
Brooke looks sideways to make sure he isn't annoyed. He isn't. Family dynamics fall in a light sprinkle around Owen, who considers it healthy that they've united to mock their father. His motto, which he inherited from his mentor, is "The art of family life is to not take it personally." Judging from his reading stack, the money these days is on brain imaging, which can pinpoint the very nerve cells that tackle the word cacography. He wonders what part of the brain recognizes sarcasm—what sector distinguishes laughing at from laughing with?
The sky spasms like a lightbulb on its way to burnout, and that also reminds him of brain scans. An able-bodied head has vivid flashes of yellow, orange, and red as different associations flare up. However, the scans of autistic subjects are remarkably dark. In their brains, the lights are on for a literal translation of what is heard; as for tone of voice or facial expressions, not a flicker. He should resurrect the ear-training therapy he tried to develop twenty years ago. He'll have to ask Toni where she stowed the master tapes; he'd recorded hours of angry exchanges and excited chatter, friendly overtures and meddlesome inquisitions. In those days, the estimate of autism in the population was one in fifteen hundred. The newest numbers are one in one hundred kids—surely he can snag some funding with those burgeoning odds. He glances at Toni, who's focused on their daughter.
"I wish you'd put on more clothes," Toni says to Brooke, tapping her on the rump. Emblazoned across her tiny shorts, for some reason, is VIXEN.
"How about more glasses, Mom?"
"Don't tempt me." In addition to the shades Toni is wearing, her regular glasses squat on top of her head, and reading specs, suspended from a chain around her neck, rest on her chest, as if her breasts might be called upon to read fine print. Reaching into her bag, she tugs a fringed corner into an arm-length span of fabric. She pulls a second and third time until she has drawn out a shimmery red square that she wraps around Brooke's slight hips as the wind tries to undo her work, lifting the fringe to reveal their daughter's branded backside. The sarong Toni fashions takes Brooke past jaded teen to alluring island girl.
Owen says, "That's worse. Now she looks like a Tahitian maiden."
So Brooke leaves it on.
The attention she's been attracting this summer is disconcerting. In truth she looks remarkably like the pictures of Toni as a teenager, a little smaller and with darker hair.
Toni is lassoing her own hair into a hybrid bun/ponytail. She says, "I hope it's raining at home. Our yard is probably straw by now."
"Tinder," Brooke pitches.
"Kindling," Will says.
And then Ricky: "Tender kindling. Locofoco."
Owen is oddly satisfied when Will gives his brother's shoulder a shove.
"You're locofoco," Will says.
"Locofoco is a safety match," Ricky says. "Obviously, your test scores didn't get you into Penn."
"At least Mom likes me." Will lifts one foot onto a tall bike rack and then effortlessly steps up, climbing the three-foot rise as if it were a single stair. He walks along the rack's steel spine, which is slick and crisscrossed with handlebars, prompting Ricky to get on at the far end. They start horsing around, grown boys still trying to knock each other off-balance.
"Must we?" Toni asks.
Apparently we must. In the morning, they'll close up the beach house, handing bundle after bundle like a fire brigade down the line to Owen, who's in charge of fitting everything into or on top of the van, including what they don't want to leave for renters or lock in the shed. Once home, they'll repeat the drill twice more to return Ricky to Duke, Will to Penn. The scramble ends with all three children tucked in for the fall semester, he and Toni hunkering down to keep everyone in chicken feed.
But first, dinner. A moment ago, as Owen had slipped two quarters into the meter's slot, his fingertips had touched the satiny metal, still sun-toasted despite coming under the thunderhead's shadow. Now he deftly thumbs a coin from his palm to between his thumb and forefinger, a learned skill that has become almost autonomic. With pay phones being phased out or taking only phone cards, with jukeboxes demanding dollar bills, what is left but parking meters to oblige such dexterity? If he gave Brooke a few quarters, would she cup them in her palm, fishing around with her other hand to pluck out individual coins? Are there deft maneuvers she or the boys have developed via mousing or texting that have blazed neurological shortcuts in their brains? Has our internal wiring always been the same, or does the circuitry of playing Guitar Hero differ from that of playing marbles?
Knock off the shoptalk, Owen tells himself. If they've timed this right, families with little kids will be settling their checks about now, and they'll have a twenty-minute wait at most. And if Will's Kyra is their waitress, all the better. He fantasizes for a second how VIXEN could rightly be appended to Kyra and posts a mental note to encourage Will to visit her during the upcoming semester. Unless a father's backing of a potential girlfriend scotches that possibility. As Owen thinks about the observer affecting the observed's behavior, he hears a loud buzz, an intensifying hum zeroing in on him. He figures the noise for a beach plane trailing a happy-hour proclamation and questions the wisdom of flying one of those two-seaters through flashing clouds. All of this is happening as he touches serrated edge of quarter to smooth slot of parking meter, the barest of contact, and he is, literally, blown away.
His first reaction is, That parking meter packs a wallop! Of course he can't understand, inside the flash, that he's being struck by lightning. It's more like stepping off the high dive—and then plummeting into a hot spotlight of water. Neither inhaling nor exhaling, Owen feels heavy pressure on his ribs and within his sinuses—both his heart and ears yearn to rupture—while his arms and legs flail spasmodically, not in a swimming groove. More like a believer shot full of god, some maniac at a revival compelled to twitch and moan in languages not yet discovered before plunging into the baptismal font. He is white-hot as well as deeply quenched by the singed, syrupy fluid of his surround.
Water magnifies, lubricates, cleanses, and conducts, all of which is the case here. Water flows, and Owen rides the torrent everywhere at once, having been granted infinite perspective: he is looking down at his body, which isn't actually in water but is writhing on the sidewalk, his shirt ripped open and his white underbelly jiggling away; then he is eye to eye with his remaining quarters, which are suspended midair in the unlikely shape of a bell curve until one is picked off by a pair of sunglasses flying or flung through space; then he is somehow staring at his wife's new tooth, her square jaw unhinged to reveal her crown. Next, he is looking to the horizon, across the parking lot, over the boardwalk to the beach, all the way to the surf, which has picked up height and mass since they broke camp an hour ago, lugging their umbrella and beach chairs as well as all the sodden, gritty towels back to the house, where he took his last outdoor shower of the season; then he is staring straight up into the sky from somewhere up in the sky, shimmering with the crackling clouds and bright static that have knocked him off his feet.
Up among the ether, everything is so fucking clear, as if he's viewing his life through the Hubble telescope. He has never distinguished such vivid shades of gray, from the thundercloud to the sidewalks to the gum stains irregularly blotting the sidewalk beneath Toni's flaking silver sandals. Her chipped red toenails are an eye-popping contrast. He clearly sees Will's tenderness as well as his vulnerability, along with the long dent across the van's sliding door from his run-in with the principal's Prius. Brooke's strawberry birthmark shines forth, as does her skeptical squint, and he can detect the gap returning to Ricky's front teeth because he stopped wearing his retainer. How can there be a light in which his banal life is so complex and invigorating? They are but an urban suburban family who spend money like water—like water!—and who each go about doing mostly what is expected of them. And yet they are sublime, and he loves them to the point of pain.
Concern presses on Owen's heart and then releases it like a clutch, so that he shifts into transcendence. From this vantage point he beholds his wife and children as they are, but even more so. Toni is intensely beautiful as well as shockingly old, nearly half a century, and she is fierce with the expectations she harbors for the five of them; Brooke has every reason to be confident, what with her gymnast's poise and her mother's profile, but when had the world begun to bore her so?
With any luck, they will exceed Toni's high hopes as she lives to grow older still, and Brooke will be freshly amazed; such is the tolerance and optimism his height and warmth inspire. Seeing the twins from boys to men, Owen recognizes the danger in Will's dark wit and the sexual ambivalence in Ricky's neediness. He feels honored to know them all so intimately. Owen does not glimpse their future; however, to peer this intricately into the individual cogs, their teeth and their turnings, is to better understand how things might play out.
Excerpted from Man Alive! by Mary Kay Zuravleff. Copyright © 2013 Mary Kay Zuravleff. Excerpted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Meet the Author
Mary Kay Zuravleff is also the author of The Bowl Is Already Broken, which The New York Times praised as "a tart, affectionate satire of the museum world's bickering and scheming," and The Frequency of Souls, which the Chicago Tribune deemed "a beguiling and wildly inventive first novel." Honors for her work include the American Academy's Rosenthal Award and the James Jones First Novel Award, and she has been nominated for the Orange Prize. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she serves on the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and is a cofounder of the D.C. Women Writers Group.
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First, there's the plot: Child psychologist is struck by lightning while feeding a parking meter. He survives, but the near-death experience transforms him. As he recovers, he and his family must confront questions of how much change is possible within a family, and how does a jolt to one member send shock waves through the others.
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Welcome to the 2016 Razzball Team Previews! You'll find everything you need to know about each team to get yourself ready for the upcoming fantasy baseball season. And I mean everything, folks. We've got line-ups, charts, Slurpees, lube, a guide for beginner electricians, and even a cactus! Well, that's a lie. That's what Jay had last year sitting in front of him. This year? Um…a little less lube? Take that as you will. But hey, we've got teams to preview and questions to ask, so let's hop to it. We a very special guest for this post… James Attwood, to provide his take on what the team has in store this season. Now enough rambling, let's see what 2016 holds for the Arizona Diamondbacks!
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Teaching with NASPE standards in mind. Gylton Da Matta Ph. D. University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, USA University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, USA Newton Santos Vianna Junior, M. Sc. FACSAL, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Purpose of our presentation Share information with coaches from different countries; learn first hand, and in English, about current trends in modern handball from top experts in the field and own network and exchange ideas with presenters and participants, formally and privately;
What to do in this workshop Watch & analyze task presentations Watch handball powerhouses as France, Croatia, Denmark, Iceland, Poland, Spain, or Germany; Enjoy truly remarkable sport spectacle and atmosphere during games played in the schools all over the world.
The role of a PE teacher in the socialization of a "new" sport Curriculum implementation Assume the role of a Manager Assume the role of a school Coach In regular schools Team Handball is the number one content in Physical Education in most countries.
Why be a manager? The PE teacher is the movement expert in the schools Sports, Physical Activity and Physical Education content should be integrated. The PE teachers must observe all NASPE standards as principles that will assure quality of teaching and positive life-long experiences. It is critical to develop a professional philosophy to cooperate and communicate with the USA Team Handball governing body and the IFH (International Handball Federation). Team handball is one of the favorite sports to be performed in PE classes.
Teach with "standards" in mind… Standard 1 : Demonstrates competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities. Standard 2: Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics as they apply to the learning an performance of physical activities. Standard 3: Participates regularly in physical activity Standard 4: Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical fitness Standard 5: Exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings. Standard 6: Values physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and/or social interaction.
Standard 1 – Content matters; Example of its application Basic TH specific skills have a direct relation to enjoyment, success and long-term adherence. Technical & tactical development must be taught simultaneously (Tactical approach –TGFU). Explore history, rules and sports development as cognitive information; movement forms and patterns as psychomotor content; and, the enjoyment of the game, interaction with peers and opponents as affective domain variables
Standard 2 – Be a skillful demonstrator or… Find great resources to develop task cards. Find videos and use them to convey good form Teach the correct move form through effective task presentations Think that good movement forms prevent injuries and lead to students' success The same approach is true for all other standards…
Team Handball is fun!
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Teaching strategies: Topology; Photo sequences as task cards http://usateamhandball.org/multime dia/photo_galleries http://usateamhandball.org/multime dia/photo_galleries http://usateamhandball.org/multime dia/photo_galleries http://usateamhandball.org/multime dia/photo_galleries
Creating rubrics for each skill… Name the skill: Break it down into four critical elements: Design an application task: Apply one or two standards:
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Lesser Calamint | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
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(unranked): | Eudicots |
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Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Lamiaceae |
Genus: | Calamintha |
Species: | C. nepeta |
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Lesser Calamint (Calamintha nepeta) is a member of the Mint family, and is used in Italian cuisine where it is called mentuccia, nipitella or nepitella.
Lesser Calamint grows as a beautiful perennial shrub for the herbal border forming a compact mound of shiny, green oregano-like leaves which become covered with lavender pink flowers to a height of 18 inches.[1] The Lesser Calamint plant smells like a cross between mint, and oregano, and attracts honeybees and butterflies.[2] Lesser Calamint usually grows in the Summer, and well into the Fall. This plant needs not to be replanted year after year, as it can become dormant in the winter months, then reblossom in the spring. Furthermore, in the Fall, the plant's flowers, which contain seeds, fall to the ground, and will "plant themselves," therefore making a new plant blossom in the Spring. These flowers will start to appear in late August.[2] Lesser Calamint grows wildly, but can be planted in pots, for convenience. The life expectancy for an average Lesser Calamint plant is about 3–4 years. The only problem with this plant is that a powdery mildew might occur on the plant.[2]


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- Admission of international students into mainstream educational programs of UB is subject to availability of the program vacancies, the student meeting the faculty's admission criteria and the student's successful application of a Student's Pass (STP) from the Immigration
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- To be able to get admission, candidates must demonstrate good academic competence which is proven with high academic merit. International applicants should apply directly to Universitas of Brawijaya by submitting a set of necessary documents (see the flow chart of admission procedure). International applicants are generally not required to sit for the entry test for admission unless a special condition occur. The eligibility for admission is based on a desk evaluation carried out by the UB's admission test committee on your academic achievement.
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I know this is an old issue, but my macbook fans are always at maximum! I downloaded fan control, but the fan refuses to spin at the speed I tell it to. I have reset the smc on a number of occasions and it works, but only for a little while. What steps can I take?
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Several weeks ago, I wrote a post about having a Kid Friendly Kitchen. In doing so, I was looking for a great kids apron to share with you and didn't love anything that I found. Time to make our own!
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- fabric paint (I love Tulip Soft Fabric Paint.) in citrusy colors
- paper plate
Pre-wash (and dry) your apron.
You'll want to really cover your work surface and cover your children! Fabric paint will NOT wash out of clothes or a table cloth. I put a plastic table cloth down on our table and then covered that with an old sheet that we use for messy projects.
Cut your citrus fruit in half. Using a paper towel, get some of the moisture off the fruit. You'll want them to be fairly dry. Squirt some paint onto a paper plate. Dip your fruit in the paint and stamp it onto your apron. The best prints came on the 2nd or 3rd stamp from each dip of paint. You may want to encourage your children to do their first stamp on a piece of paper so that the stamps on the apron look the best!
Allow the paint to dry according to the directions on the bottle. I let our aprons dry for 3 days, then washed them in a separate load of laundry. My girls have LOVED having their own little aprons to wear!
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A BatchNode defines a source and a schedule for processing batch data. The data is queried from an InfluxDB database and then passed into the data pipeline.
SELECT mean("value")
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WHERE "host" = 'serverA'
.groupBy(time(10s), 'cpu')
In the above example InfluxDB is queried every 20 seconds; the window of time returned spans 1 minute and is grouped into 10 second buckets.
Property methods modify state on the calling node. They do not add another node to the pipeline, and always return a reference to the calling node.
Define a schedule using a cron syntax.
The specific cron implementation is documented here: https://github.com/gorhill/cronexpr#implementation
The Cron property is mutually exclusive with the Every property.
node.cron(value string)
How often to query InfluxDB.
The Every property is mutually exclusive with the Cron property.
node.every(value time.Duration)
Fill the data. Options are:
- Any numerical value
- null - exhibits the same behavior as the default
- previous - reports the value of the previous window
- none - suppresses timestamps and values where the value is null
node.fill(value interface{})
Group the data by a set of dimensions. Can specify one time dimension.
This property adds a GROUP BY
clause to the query
so all the normal behaviors when quering InfluxDB with a GROUP BY
More details: https://influxdb.com/docs/v0.9/query_language/data_exploration.html#the-group-by-clause
.groupBy(time(10s), 'tag1', 'tag2'))
node.groupBy(d ...interface{})
How far back in time to query from the current time
For example an Offest of 2 hours and an Every of 5m, Kapacitor will query InfluxDB every 5 minutes for the window of data 2 hours ago.
This applies to Cron schedules as well. If the cron specifies to run every Sunday at 1 AM and the Offset is 1 hour. Then at 1 AM on Sunday the data from 12 AM will be queried.
node.offset(value time.Duration)
The period or length of time that will be queried from InfluxDB
node.period(value time.Duration)
Chaining Methods
Chaining methods create a new node in the pipeline as a child of the calling node. They do not modify the calling node.
Create an alert node, which can trigger alerts.
Returns: AlertNode
Helper function for creating an alert on low throughput, aka deadman's switch.
- Threshold – trigger alert if throughput drops below threshold in points/interval.
- Interval – how often to check the throughput.
- Expressions – optional list of expressions to also evaluate. Useful for time of day alerting.
var data = stream.from()...
// Trigger critical alert if the throughput drops below 100 points per 10s and checked every 10s.
data.deadman(100.0, 10s)
//Do normal processing of data
The above is equivalent to this Example:
var data = stream.from()...
// Trigger critical alert if the throughput drops below 100 points per 10s and checked every 10s.
.id('node \'stream0\' in task \'{{ .TaskName }}\'')
.message('{{ .ID }} is {{ if eq .Level "OK" }}alive{{ else }}dead{{ end }}: {{ index .Fields "collected" | printf "%0.3f" }} points/10s.')
.crit(lamdba: "collected" <= 100.0)
//Do normal processing of data
The id
and message
alert properties can be configured globally via the 'deadman' configuration section.
Since the AlertNode is the last piece it can be further modified as normal. Example:
var data = stream.from()...
// Trigger critical alert if the throughput drops below 100 points per 1s and checked every 10s.
data.deadman(100.0, 10s).slack().channel('#dead_tasks')
//Do normal processing of data
You can specify additional lambda expressions to further constrain when the deadman's switch is triggered. Example:
var data = stream.from()...
// Trigger critical alert if the throughput drops below 100 points per 10s and checked every 10s.
// Only trigger the alert if the time of day is between 8am-5pm.
data.deadman(100.0, 10s, lambda: hour("time") >= 8 AND hour("time") <= 17)
//Do normal processing of data
node.deadman(threshold float64, interval time.Duration, expr ...tick.Node)
Returns: AlertNode
Create a new node that computes the derivative of adjacent points.
node.derivative(field string)
Returns: DerivativeNode
Create an eval node that will evaluate the given transformation function to each data point. A list of expressions may be provided and will be evaluated in the order they are given and results of previous expressions are made available to later expressions.
node.eval(expressions ...tick.Node)
Returns: EvalNode
Create an http output node that caches the most recent data it has received. The cached data is available at the given endpoint. The endpoint is the relative path from the API endpoint of the running task. For example if the task endpoint is at "/api/v1/task/<task_name>" and endpoint is "top10", then the data can be requested from "/api/v1/task/<task_name>/top10".
node.httpOut(endpoint string)
Returns: HTTPOutNode
Create an influxdb output node that will store the incoming data into InfluxDB.
Returns: InfluxDBOutNode
Join this node with other nodes. The data is joined on timestamp.
node.join(others ...Node)
Returns: JoinNode
Perform a map-reduce operation on the data.
The built-in functions under influxql
provide the
selection,aggregation, and transformation functions
from the InfluxQL language.
MapReduce may be applied to either a batch or a stream edge. In the case of a batch each batch is passed to the mapper independently. In the case of a stream all incoming data points that have the exact same time are combined into a batch and sent to the mapper.
node.mapReduce(mr MapReduceInfo)
Returns: ReduceNode
Create a new node that samples the incoming points or batches.
One point will be emitted every count or duration specified.
node.sample(rate interface{})
Returns: SampleNode
Create a new stream of data that contains the internal statistics of the node. The interval represents how often to emit the statistics based on real time. This means the interval time is independent of the times of the data points the source node is receiving.
node.stats(interval time.Duration)
Returns: StatsNode
Perform the union of this node and all other given nodes.
node.union(node ...Node)
Returns: UnionNode
Create a new node that filters the data stream by a given expression.
node.where(expression tick.Node)
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Evening folk's. For the past few days my BB 9320 has been turning itself off on the restarting. Tonight is is continually doing this and I am now unable to do anything with my phone. It is only 17 months old. What is the best thing to do with it? Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
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I recommend that you attempt to boot into Safe Mode:
It may take you multiple attempts to get the ESC key sequence (press/release/hold) correct, so be patient. When successfully into Safe Mode, see what happens.
If the behavior ceases, then think carefully...what happened just before this behavior started? A new app? An update? A Theme? Something else? Think carefully as the smallest change could be causal...and attempt to undo whatever that was.
But if the behavior continues in Safe Mode, then you may need to consider more drastic actions -- WIPE, OS Reload, BBSAK Wipe/Reload, and the "Bare Bones" OS Reload Process. To prepare, you should be sure that you have a full backup to your PC...please review the Backup link in my auto-sig on this post for instructions.
You may also need the use of these tricks:
Good luck and let us know!
hi, I have tried many many times to do what you recommended to no avail. the phone is going through the start up process and is only getting approx half way through this process and then shutting down. it is continually doing this over and over and will not continue any further. is there anything else that i can try to get this fixed by myself?
Since you did not say clearly, I can only guess...you have not been successful at getting into Safe Mode due to the behavior you describe. As such, the next test is this.
Please try this sequence...note that, throughout the entire 4h15m process, your BB must remain directly connected to a known-good wall charger (not PC USB, not a cradle):
This has been known to "kick start" some BBs.
It is also possible that your battery or BB has experienced a problem...to test, this sequence is needed:
The results of this will indicate if it's your BB or your battery that has the problem. Note carefully please that "new" and "know good" are not necessarily the same things. While rare, a "new" battery certainly could be defective. Rather, the simplest (and least costly, btw) method to conduct this test is to find someone with an identical BB who has no issues...trade batteries and see what happens.
Good luck and let us know!
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Return products within two months £10.90 Possibility to return products within two months |
JBL Extreme is an extremely powerful speaker for travels that will not be stopped by extreme conditions, be it splashing water or pool fun. It makes your favourite music sound full and creates the right atmosphere wherever you need it - near home or far away, at the pool, at a cottage party or a barbecue. You can choose from black, blue and red variants.
Massive stereo sound comes from the bowels of the device containing 4 speakers. The frequency band is distributed among two tweeters and two woofers to achieve high quality sound even at high volume levels. With the help of dual passive radiators, you will not miss thundering bass, either. Using the JBL Connect feature, you can wirelessly tether several JBL units, enhancing your listening experience even further.
Thanks to durable materials and rugged rubber housing, the speaker is ready to survive any adventure. Its water-resistant design allows you not to worry about rain or spillage and also makes cleaning much easier. Bear in mind, however, that the speaker is not designed to be submerged completely.
Forget cables and play music wirelessly. You can play from variety of devices, which means that having your songs on multiple devices is not a problem. Connect up to 3 smartphones or tablets via Bluetooth. For loud and clear conference calls, the speaker also features noise suppression and echo cancellation.
Another great advantage of the speaker is a built-in battery with a capacity of 10 000 mAh, enabling you to enjoy music for up to a whopping 15 hours. You can also use this amount of stored energy for charging USB devices such as mobile phones, GPS navigation systems and smart accessories. A pair of USB ports may charge 2 devices at once.
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Beherit - Engram
Release date: | 9 April 2009 |
Style: | Black metal |
Owners: |
72 have it 8 want it |
01. Axiom Heroine
02. Destroyer Of Thousand Worlds
03. All In Satan
04. Pagan Moon
05. Pimeyden Henki
06. Suck My Blood
07. Demon Advance
02. Destroyer Of Thousand Worlds
03. All In Satan
04. Pagan Moon
05. Pimeyden Henki
06. Suck My Blood
07. Demon Advance
Rating: 9.5 |
Beherit is one of the oldest Finnish black metal bands and they have been in a pause for a very long time. After more than ten years of pause, they have created a new album, called Engram. With that, they have proven that they are still capable of creating great black metal. The songs on the album are very raw and relatively short when compared to the works of many black metal bands (barring Ildjarn, Immortal etc.). There is a long song, "Demon Advance", which is more of a progressive black metal track but it never gets boring. Songs usually consist of a few riffs but what they make with that little amount of riffs is really awesome. The vocals are not very harsh, but the normal ones (in terms of black metal). Another thing worth mentioning is that the sound of the album is very unique and original. Read more ›› |
Rating: 3.5 |
Reviewing music is a tricky past-time; one has to carefully balance a mixture of historical significance both nostalgically and factually along with comparison of a band's existing discography to its contemporaries and also its own work all the while fending off any overt personal feelings toward the subject matter. Beherit's Engram presents itself as a particularly troublesome entity when considering these facts. In the case of the band's history and influence the overriding reference will always be Drawing Down the Moon, which needless to say is held in high regard by most listeners of the genre (no more so than myself) as a landmark album that experimented with distorted, ritualistic ambient and mid-paced blackened metal. In short: it was highly original for its time. Naturally this brings us onto Engram: Read more ›› |
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