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Good Listener, Helpful Feedback
Fund: Fairhaven Capital
Posted by Matt Eagar on 2008-04-09
Fairhaven Capital is just setting up shop (in fact, we met with them at 101 Federal St in Boston, and their website now lists an address in Cambridge), although the partners are all experienced VCs from TD Capital Ventures.
We pitched to Mark Hatfield, formerly of TD Capital as well as Motorola Ventures. This was one of our first VC pitches back in February, and Mark was great. He came prepared to our meeting, having reviewed our executive summary beforehand. He put us at ease, and listened intently throughout (turned off the ringer of his Blackberry when it rang ten minutes into the presentation, maintained eye contact, asked good questions at appropriate times, etc).
I was glad that Mark seemed to understand what we are doing and the uniqueness of our idea. He had some great feedback at the time, including suggestions as far as potential business partners that we have run with since. Later, he was open in sharing specific and helpful feedback from his partners (we sold them on our idea, but not the market size). Overall, a positive experience.


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T 5 p – The portable sound oasis. beyerdynamic introduces the first mobile headphone with high-end performance.
IFA 2010: Audiophile portable listening
Heilbronn, July 2010: Listening to music, relaxing, forgetting the world - no problem at home. But our mobile society is increasingly on the move. At the airport, on the train, in the hotel room, music lovers and movie enthusiasts have to compromise: mobile headphones on the mp3 player just do not sound as good as their stationary counterparts. But now, the Heilbronn audio specialist beyerdynamic is turning over a new leaf in mobile entertainment. The high-end headphone T5p with Tesla technology offers audiophile sound enjoyment - anytime, anywhere and even with low-output portable devices. Each T 5 p headphone is unique and is manufactured by hand in Heilbronn.
Perfection in aluminium and leather
Sophisticated design, high-quality materials and perfect "Made in Germany" workmanship set the T 5 p apart as a special listening device. High quality soft leather headbands and ear pads fit snugly on the user's head. The closed structure isolates ambient noise and gives moments of peace and quiet in which the music can flow undisturbed. The new sound generators with Tesla technology are held in luxury aluminium holders. Like the tested and critically praised beyerdynamic T 1, it has strong magnetic drive and a sound reproduction free from coloration, and with an extremely low distortion factor.
Tesla Technology
beyerdynamic named its innovative conversion technology after the electrical engineer Nikola Tesla born in 1856, a brilliant inventor and pioneer in modern power supply. And like Tesla, the Heilbronn developers shied at nothing to realise their dream: creating the ultimate mobile headphone. The high magnetic flux density of the Tesla drive is used in the T 5 p for a particularly powerful, energy efficient reproduction. Adapted to the low impedance of 32 Ohms, it draws out significantly more sound quality from devices such as the iPod, iPad, MP3 players or the notebook. The T 5 p accomplishes what was considered impossible in high-end circles: Producing absolute first class mobile sound. This makes this headphone fun right from the very first second. It is the perfect portable companion for musical escapes on the way to work or while travelling.
Maximum performance at all volumes
The unusually large membrane for a mobile headphone contributes to the superior power. Where compact models with small converters quickly play to the limits of their capacities, the T5p only needs to utilize a fraction of its acoustic reserves. The result is a balanced and detailed sound, free of coloration, even when listening to data compressed music at high volumes. Of course, the T5p is just as suitable for lower volume: it provides fine sound details with the naturalness of a large capacity engine driven in the low speed range.
Travel set for sound enthusiasts
The T5p has a 1.2 meter short connecting cable with an angular 3,5 mm plug for portable players, and a 3 meter extension cable for home Hi-fi and surround systems. An airline adaptor and a 6,35 mm standard stereo adaptor are also included. The T5p comes in a custom-made felt case exclusively made by a hat factory from Bavaria. With the T5p from beyerdynamic, you always have the best sound with you.
The headphone will be shown for the first time at the IFA Exhibition in Berlin from 3 to 8 September 2010 in Hall 3.2, Stand 133.
Available from September 2010 in qualified specialty shops and in the beyerdynamic online shop: www.beyerdynamic.de/shop.
RRP: 890 Euros
T 5 p technical specifications:
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|5 Hz - 50 kHz
|32 Ohms
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|300 mW
|Max. volume level
|126 dB (300mW / 500 Hz)
|Sound coupling to the ear
|Weight without cable
|350 g
|1.2 m, dual entry
|3,5 mm stereo jack, gold-plated
|6.35 mm
|Airline adaptor
|2 x 3.5 mm
|Extension cable
|3 m
|Recommended retail price
|890 Euros
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Guitar: Junnie Fortney
Bass: Joe Brady
Drums: Troy Alwine
Location: York, PA, USA
Status: Active
Brief Bio:- Scanner
Scanner was formed by Joe Brady and Junnie Fortney in 1979, and played throughout the Central Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Washington D.C. areas. Scanner's influences encompass a wide range of styles, including the pioneers of 50s rock and roll, 60s hard rock and surf, and 70s glam and punk.
The band name "Scanner" came into being when Joe read an article in a monster magazine in 1980 about about a new movie coming out called "Scanners" and liked the imagery of heads exploding, and imagined it being the effect of hearing Scanner music!
To date, Scanner has released the CDs "Splat" (2015), "One foot in the grave, and more pissed than ever" (2013), and "Exploding Heads in Harrisburg - Live Recordings From 1982".
Additionally, Joe, along with his horror rock band, Losers After Midnight, has released a single entitled "Pterodactyl Attack" and an EP entitled "Monsters Axes & Choppers".
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Im going to tell a little thing about steering designer in the way i want it. Yes im a customer who wanted website made. And yes i did steer my desinger to some extent.
The reason is simple. No matter how long i tell my designer what type of clitents are my clients and so on, he will never understand them like i do.
Often as well i see a designer putting newsletter optin box or other important from marketing pov piece of website in a completely wrong place, thus hurting the conversions.
Its just too few of you designers know things more than just graphics and coding. You also need to know or have someone to cooperate with that knows about conversion and marketing.
Not having anything against desingers or so, just saying WHY from a customer perspective so that you understand. Maybe ask your customers more on WHY they want you to do certain things and then disagree with them, instead of just disagreeing with them because they dont have design and art experience.
Just my two cents.


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Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has written "A Simple Government," in which he discusses the most important form of government -- the family.
Read an excerpt from the book below, then check out some other books in the "GMA" library.
Chapter One
The Most Important Form of Government Is a Father, a Mother, and Children
We Need a Return to Family Values
There's an old Japanese proverb that says, "It is easier to rule a kingdom than to regulate a family." I don't know who said this, but as someone who's done both (though I'd hardly call Arkansas a kingdom), I can say with absolute certainty that he was right.
I'll bet you've never thought of your family as a government. But when you get right down to it, it's the form of government that matters most—much more than Congress, or your state legislature, or even your neighborhood block association. Get your family right, and its strength will wind its way up to the highest levels of global power. Of course, the reverse is also true: When the family fails, so do the other organizing structures around it.
Why does a person commit a heinous crime—use a deadly weapon to rob someone, vandalize a school, rape a woman, murder a hapless victim for twenty dollars, or steal millions from investors (perhaps including friends and relatives) in a Ponzi scheme? Are these acts caused by incomprehensible wickedness? Are these people just plain bad? No, it's really very simple. These are people who failed to grasp—or were never off ered—the simplest lessons of self-discipline, respect for others, and a strong sense of human decency. And where should those lessons be taught and learned? It's not the job of a school, a workplace, or even a church to provide these most basic of life lessons (though we shouldn't forget about them there either). And besides, even when we do rely on institutions for these lessons, they usually fail.
No, these lessons cannot be taught by a teacher, boss, or minister. In order to create truly valuable and respectful citizens, these lessons need to be taught at home. By the time we enter school or start a job, we should have learned how to behave. I'm not usually a pessimist, as you probably know, but I'm afraid that if a child has not learned to behave by age four or so, he or she never will.
When I was a child and did something my mother found objectionable, she'd say, with some exasperation, "Were you raised by wolves?" Of course (being objectionable), my immediate inclination was to whip back a smart-aleck answer like "No, ma'am. I got it from you!" But I never did because I knew that the wolf in her would come out and probably chew me out. Plus, I knew what she meant: Th is was her way of reminding me that I was supposed to try to achieve a certain level of civil behavior. I might even demonstrate a notable diff erence from animals in the wild by using a napkin, saying a blessing before diving into a plate of food, or washing up before sitting down to eat. Such civilized rules of courtesy, kindness, and unselfi shness were expected of me not merely so that I could get what I wanted but because, quite simply, they were right.
To this day, I try to behave the way my mother wanted me to - not because I'm afraid of being grounded (my wife does that now) but because she taught me the difference between right and wrong and showed me by example how to behave. These principles originate, of course, from the family.
Okay, let me say it before you do: No family is perfect, and even children raised in wonderful families can turn out to be like wolves.
Still, it makes sense that children nurtured with rules are far more likely to follow them than those given free rein to follow their most primal instincts of "self fi rst, others second." In the national ongoing conversation about how to change "government" and make "society" better, I rarely hear a reference to the obvious starting place: the creation and nurturing of functioning families, in which a mother and a father bring up their off spring with the understanding that the older generation is training the younger to be their replacements.
This essential belief is not (at least it shouldn't be) a partisan issue, butsometimes it can seem like one. For example, President Obama, speaking to the West Point graduating class on May 22, 2010, said, "American innovation must be the foundation of American power." Yes, innovation is important (as I will discuss in later chapters of this book), but, to repeat, I believe that the foundation of American power has always been and must continue to be...(drum roll, please!)...the American family.
On this issue, as on so many others, I cast my lot with Ronald Reagan, who said, "The family has always been the cornerstone of American society. Our families nurture, preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we share and cherish, values that are the foundation of our freedom."
It should surprise no one - certainly it would not have surprised President Reagan - that those who now want to "transform" traditional America recognize this truth from the opposite direction and have placed the American family smack in the crosshairs. You know this. You see it every day. Th e family structure that made this country the most powerful and prosperous in the history of the world - father, mother, children - is under assault today as never before.
As parents and even grandparents, what can we do? Simple. We fight back. What happens in our day to the traditional family will determine whether we remain a morally healthy nation of self-reliant families, for the most part, or degenerate into a decadent welfare state of shattered, chaotic, and dependent families.
If you think I'm exaggerating, a little history lesson might be in order. (Many of us somehow managed to get a high school diploma even with a meager knowledge of history, but I digress...) In 1917, when the communists seized power in Russia, they immediately and frankly set out to destroy what they saw as the two biggest threats to their authority: religion and the family. According to an article in the July 1926 issue of Atlantic Monthly, the Bolsheviks hated the institution of the family with a fierce passion. They forbade all religious ceremonies, which had the effect of turning marriage into just a piece of paper issued by a clerk. In turn, marriage could be undone in a matter of minutes by a piece of paper from another clerk. The ultimate aim of this new socialist state, so far as family was concerned, was to promulgate free love. Along the same lines, abortions were officially sanctioned and paid for by the government.
The article contained some startling facts to back up the report: It was not an unusual occurrence for a boy of twenty to have had three or four wives, or for a girl of the same age to have had three or four abortions. Some men have twenty wives, living a week with one, a month with another...They have children with all of them, and these children are thrown on the street for lack of support.
The party's long-term goal? To throw families into chaos, thus making children loyal to the state rather than to their parents. To that end, children still living at home were told to keep a close eye on their parents and, if they criticized the regime, turn them in to the authorities.
So now the young, aft er all, knew better than the old! Almost one hundred years later, of course, the Soviet Union has collapsed. We don't live in the shadow of the cold war; but threats lurk elsewhere. Th e legacies of this massive failed "experiment" are the ideas of sexual revolution that live on and wreak havoc in our own society today through legalized abortions (and the movement in favor of having them funded by the government), seemingly casual divorce (for the fi rst time, in 2010 fewer than 50 percent of American adults were married), growing nonchalance about unwed pregnancy among teens, and, fi nally, the fevered attempts to extend the defi nition of marriage beyond "one man, one woman." Not even the heirs of Marx and Lenin thought of going that far!
Pull Up the Drawbridge
From our friends across the pond, the Brits, we long ago adopted the idea that "a man's home is his castle." Fine, so far as that goes, but we must remember this: Castles were built not as mansions or showcases to impress the neighbors but as fortresses that would provide protection from ruthless enemies. Not to sound paranoid (just realistic), but I believe that in America today, as in the Russia of 1917, the family has lots of enemies - not all of them clearly identifying themselves or riding up armed and mounted on a steed. So parents really do need to draw up the drawbridge against a widespread culture of vulgarity and violence. You don't have a drawbridge? Th at's fi ne, because you have something better - parental guidance. If you can monitor the influence the world has on your kids and fulfi ll your parental responsibility by acting as the fi lter representing traditional values, then you will be, in effect, keeping out any enemies threatening to take over your family.
When it comes to questionable infl uences, just where do you draw the line? Well, you could start with a simple premise about what's beaming in on the airwaves: Much of it deserves to land squarely in the moat. But some stuff is worse than other stuff. Not to give government a pass here (we'll get to them), but I'd argue that pop music is oft en the worst culprit, with "reality TV" (talk about untruth in advertising) running a close second. Without parental guidance, an impressionable girl might learn that the way to succeed is to shed her innocence as early as possible. Th at means, for starters, that becoming recognized in the public eye as a talented young woman involves seminudity, plastic surgery, and maybe even a stripper pole. Also, posting naked pictures or a sex video on the Internet is a guarantee of instant attention.
This is, to some extent, just a contemporary exaggeration and exploitation of the old story of the teen years. Many girls, particularly those who don't have a dad at home, believe that male approval in the form of a boyfriend is essential to existence. I don't think any sane person who doesn't live under a boulder would try to argue otherwise. Some boys sense this very well (hello!), pressuring girls to "get with the program." One good message that did come out of feminism - that girls can write their own program instead of just trying to please boys - is now out the window among many young people, especially when dealing with their peers.
Okay, so you're fully aware of all of these infl uences, and you're standing warily at the drawbridge. Or maybe by now you're up on the battlements armed with cauldrons of boiling oil. Next step, aside from insisting that your home conform to your values: You have to be vigilant about what goes on in your local schools. Th at means get out the catapult! To be eff ective, your reach needs to extend as far as it possibly can.
Here are some things you might want to look into. Is your fi rst grader reading about Dick and Jane getting a puppy named Spot, or is he learning how nice it is that Heather has two mommies? Is your eighth grader studying the fruit and vegetable exports of South American farmlands, or is he practicing how to put a condom on a banana? Or is your child not learning anything at all today aft er being sent home for wearing an American fl ag T-shirt on Cinco de Mayo—or any other day?
Don't hesitate to pore over your kids' assigned books and lesson plans. Do the history books teach them that America should be cherished—or blamed for something? Talk with your kids about what goes on in the classroom: Do any teachers preach according to personal agendas that confl ict with what you teach at home? Encourage your kids to read widely for themselves, rather than be bound by the assignments from school. Help them understand that they go to school to be educated, not indoctrinated. Class is supposed to be for exercising the mind. Th at means they need to be taught how to think, not what to think.
Pull Up Some Chairs Around the Table
Perhaps by this point you think I'm being too optimistic. But I'm also realistic. I know from talking with parents that many are about ready to throw in the towel. Th ey try and try again but don't feel able to counter the peer pressure and insidious media messages that bombard their kids every day. Many have come to believe that they may be fi ghting a losing battle. Th e struggle is just too diffi cult and exhausting. Well, I get that. But how hard is it to have dinner with your children? Let me share with you an amazing statistic discovered by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University. For the past decade and a half, researchers there have been totting up the diff erences between teens who eat dinner with their parents "frequently" (defi ned as being at least fi ve nights a week) and those who do it only three times weekly or less. Th e results of a CASA report published in 2009 were dramatic:
1. Teens who eat dinner infrequently with their families are twice as likely to use tobacco and marijuana as those who have family dinners "frequently."
2. Similarly, they're one and a half times more likely to use alcohol.
3. And they're one and a half times more likely to get mostly Cs or lower in school. (No one's saying that infrequent family dinners necessarily cause bad grades, but there's clearly some sort of correlation. Try it!)
"The magic of the family dinner comes not from the food on the plate but from who's at the table and what's happening there," explains Elizabeth Planet, CASA's vice president. "The emotional and social benefi ts that come from family dinners are priceless."
That means the food doesn't have to be fancy, or organic, or even homemade. What counts, evidently, is the time spent together around the table. Good grades; avoidance of tobacco, alcohol, and drugs; closer and warmer family relationships - it's a scientific fact (not to mention plain old common sense) that something as simple as sharing take-out pizza is associated with all of them!
Whatever Happened to Dad?
I've been criticized many times for talking so much about "social issues" when the real issue now, according to some people, is the economy. Well, buckle up, Turbo, because here's a simple, inarguable fact: Every broken, fatherless family has a tremendous economic impact. Common sense is clear: Th e more families can do for themselves, the less they will need from the government. But what happens when there's no dad in the picture?
Here's what Robert Rector, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, has to say about that:
The disappearance of marriage in low-income communities is the predominant cause of child poverty in the U.S. today. If poor single mothers were married to the fathers of their children, two-thirds of them would not be poor...When liberals refuse to talk about marriage and the poor in the same breath, they are guilty of willful neglect of the major source of poverty.
Surprise. Liberals are just fine with that, since one of their goals seems to be getting as many people as possible on public assistance.
According to the National Fatherhood Initiative, about one in three American kids lives in a home without a dad on the premises. Are you - like me - stunned to hear that? Allowing for exceptions, as in all things, the typical portrait of these children is grim indeed. These kids are five times more likely to live in poverty than kids living with both parents. Th ey have higher rates of delinquency, alcohol and drug abuse, smoking, and obesity. It gets worse. They have a 125 percent higher risk of suffering from abuse and are twice as likely to drop out of school. You can guess the next stat: Girls raised by a single mother are more likely as teenagers to become pregnant themselves.
Some of you may be inclined to turn away, as if none of this has anything to do with you and your family. In fact, far from aff ecting only the children directly involved, fatherless families aff ect all of us and our descendants. Th e so-called dad deficit added more than $300 billion to the national deficit in 2010 because of welfare payments to moms. Many of these men are responsible—at least, in the biological sense—for two or more single-parent families. Remember Russia in 1917? This is exactly the same problem that the communist regime deliberately created.
Again, a relevant comment from Robert Rector: "[L]iberal politicians...have a vested interest in the growth of the welfare state, and nothing grows the welfare state like the disappearance of marriage." And what happens then? The bigger the welfare state grows, the more powerful it becomes. Beware a government bearing gift s, because every one of them comes with strings attached. Over time, those strings grow into heavy chains.
Basically, the decline of the family is a failure of personal responsibility. The personal rights of each one of us are sacred, a part of our connection to God, but they are linked to our personal responsibilities.
If we fail to live up to those responsibilities, we will lose our rights. And the state, following its own agenda, will take over.
The Worst of Both Worlds: Out-of-Wedlock Birth and Abortion
If we could hop into our "way-back machine" and travel to Washington in 1965, we might find a young Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then working at the Department of Labor in his presenatorial days, prepared to issue a report about the rate of out-of-wedlock births among African Americans. He is clearly dismayed to report that it's almost 25 percent. Now let's zip forward again to 2008 for the latest statistics then: almost 75 percent, or exactly the reverse of the 1965 ratio of illegitimate-to-legitimate births! I can hear Senator Moynihan now from beyond the grave, intoning, "I told you it was getting bad. . . ."
There's more bad news from 2008. Among whites, out-of-wedlock births were almost 29 percent, higher than the rate among blacks back when Moynihan sounded his alarm. Moreover, at 41 percent, the overall out-of-wedlock birthrate for all Americans was the highest ever, compared with just 5 percent in 1960. So it's safe to say that every group is moving dramatically in the wrong direction.
What to do? Well, when we compare out-of-wedlock births by state, those with higher incomes and education levels show lower rates. Some observers, as you might imagine, infer that this statistic suggests a socioeconomic problem that can be solved by helping more teens stay in school so that they can go on to college and higher-paying jobs. But wait: It's not quite so elementary, my dear Watson.
Let's look more closely at the situation. While red states do indeed have more out-of-wedlock babies, the blue states have—perhaps you've already guessed it—more abortions. In fact, pregnancy rates do not diff er all that much; it's abortion rates that do. As compiled by the Guttmacher Institute (using 2005 statistics, the most recent available), the abortion rate is 6 percent in Mississippi and Utah and 9 percent in Arkansas. But it's 24 percent in Connecticut, 30 percent in New Jersey, and 33 percent in New York. Shockingly, the nation as a whole aborts about 1.2 million babies each year. So no matter what you may have read or heard elsewhere (perhaps from abortion activists), higher education and income levels are not stopping young women from getting pregnant: Th ey're just turning to a different "solution." Of course, my view is that abortion, rather than actually providing a solution, is instead an even more awful problem.
So while we should be disturbed by the huge number of out-ofwedlock births, we should be even more disturbed that abortions are so common. As hard as it can be to grow up without a dad, there's a far worse fate: not growing up at all because one's life was snuff ed out in the womb.
Abstinence for Kids Is the True Freedom
It is clear to me that these two epidemics - out-of-wedlock births and on-demand abortions - are sapping America's moral strength. We have two challenges. On the one hand, we need to reduce the number of pregnancies that so often lead to sad, unstable homes and eventual divorce (assuming that marriage ever had any role to play in the situation in the fi rst place). On the other, the answer to the likelihood that children will grow up in a fatherless home is not to abort them. Th e strong families this country needs are always built on two shared societal beliefs: the value of marriage and the value of human life.
"Grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure," wrote English playwright William Congreve in 1693. "Married in haste, we repent at leisure." That's certainly still true all these years later, as many young people pressured to marry in response to an unplanned pregnancy will attest. But even those who decide not to marry may eventually have reason to "repent," because the other choices can be equally dismal. As a pastor, I often saw women who suffered wrenching guilt and/or depression after having an abortion or giving a baby up for adoption. I believe these women will feel their loss and anguish for the rest of their lives. As for single mothers, they typically have to interrupt their education, entrust their children to the care of strangers, and marginally support their households on a meager income. (It's then, of course, that the kindly federal government steps in to "help.")
Kids exposed to mass culture - TV, movies, music, the Internet - are incessantly told that everybody who's "cool" has sex before marriage. What's the prob? Sex is no more consequential than a handshake, dude, so "hook up" any time you want, and with anybody. Aft er all, doing what you want, what you feel like in the moment - that's what "freedom" is, right? Too bad our culture doesn't bother to explain that it is abstinence that is the true freedom. Only abstinence ensures that our children don't have to take on adult roles before they're ready. It's only abstinence, too, that protects their options to pursue their dreams, marry the one they love at the time that's right, and feel joyful about the choices they've made freely along the way. Gay Parenthood: A Social Experiment
I have often been criticized for my outspoken views on gay marriage and homosexuality, so let me be clear. I have no doubt at all that homosexual men and women love their children deeply. Just as deeply as heterosexuals love theirs.
But love alone cannot always provide what children need. If that sounds harsh, bear with me for a moment. My main concern here is that the children, most of whom are heterosexual, will not, and really cannot, get critical early-life lessons in how a heterosexual family functions successfully. In general, men and women bring different outlooks and temperaments to the task of parenting. Those male/female dynamics that make themselves evident in parenting - including even the conflicts and inconsistencies that are likely to arise - teach a child about how men and women relate to each other. In the home with two gay parents, where is that learning going to come from? It's already challenging enough to grow up, even when the parents are more conventional role models.
Of course, I'm certainly not saying that all heterosexual parents provide, or are even able to provide, a good example to their children. I know that very well from years of conversations in my pastoral study, if not from just walking through a mall. Still, I believe that we're in denial about potential problems as we see more and more homosexual couples raising families. Essentially, these are experiments to see how well children will fare in such same-sex households. It will be years before we know whether or not our little guinea pigs turn out to be good at marriage and parenthood.
Government Breakfast: A Symptom, Not a Solution Each year, our friends in Washington decide how much to increase the budget to subsidize school breakfasts. We may disagree among ourselves on the dollar amounts, but few ask why the government is at all responsible for this program. What does it say about our society that so many parents apparently can't get it together enough to give their children a bowl of cereal and a glass of juice? It is that they just assume, after years of the practice, that it's the government's job to pay for school breakfasts? We need to look closely at this program.
After all, the government already has plenty of jobs to do - for example, fighting terrorists (sorry..I believe I should have written "man-made-disaster facilitators"). Feeding our kids some breakfast? Our job. Our pioneer forebears - who grew the wheat for their toast and the apples for their juice, who raised the cow for their milk - would be appalled at how pathetic many of us have become.
Let me make clear that I am in no way suggesting that we should stop school breakfasts. Having oft en seen firsthand the impact of poverty and hunger among American children, I know that if we did, many kids would not get breakfast at all. In a perfect world, the government wouldn't have to feed children a breakfast because their parents would be doing the job. But as you may have noticed, we don't live in a perfect world. My own church is actively involved in going beyond the government program, conducting what we call the "backpack" ministry: It ensures that kids leave school on Fridays with a backpack fi lled with food for the weekend. We use backpacks so that the child does not suffer the added embarrassment of being seen carrying charitable food donations home.
Result: The child has food for the weekend and returns the empty backpack to school on Monday. The government does not pay for any of this: The people of my church do. Th is is closer to the ideal, I think. What a family can't do, friends and neighbors can. Government is not at all in the picture. What the friends and neighbors can't do, the church does. If this model were followed all over the country, there would no longer be a need for the government to do the things it's doing— many of which add to the problem instead of solving it. I have long said, and you may have heard me say so on the air, that if all Christians in America actually gave a dime out of each dollar to help "the poor, the widows, and the orphans," we wouldn't have fi ft y cents of every dollar confi scated by various levels of government, which will probably mess it up. A Tear in the Social Fabric Winston Churchill saw the family this way: "There is no doubt that around the family and home all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained." True, but with this one caveat: We can guard that drawbridge and provide our kids all of the moral lessons we think they need, but it's impossible to wall them off entirely from others who don't receive similar grounding. Unless society as a whole is committed to moral behavior, everything we build for our families can be destroyed in an instant.
Take the mean streets of Chicago, where dozens of children die violently every year. Typically, the only mistake they made was being "in the wrong place at the wrong time." Th e columnist Bob Herbert, who has written extensively about this tragedy, interviewed Ester and Eugene Stroud aft er their sixteen-year-old son, Isaiah, was stabbed to death on his way home aft er winning a dance contest. Th is is heartwrenching to read:Their grief, aft er nearly a year and a half, seemed still to be weighing on them, like a cloak that cannot be lift ed...Mr. Stroud, his eyes red, recalled playing chess with his son and teaching him to swim, and watching old Godzilla movies on television...Mrs. Stroud said, "...Maybe this is just a mother talking, but I think the world is a little different without him.
Mr. Herbert also interviewed the Reverend Autry Phillips, who said, "We've got young people pulling out guns at ?? o'clock in the afternoon and shooting all over the place. A lot of them are angry because their daddy's not around and their mama's on crack. Who was there to teach them how to behave?" Very simply, my friends, that's what it comes down to. When families are torn apart, our entire social fabric inevitably rips to shreds right along with them. It takes strong, united fathers and mothers to teach children how to behave. Th e children deserve no less. Parents could start the lessons with their own example each morning, by the way, as they set out the cereal, juice, and milk on the breakfast table.
Social Conservatives vs. Fiscal Conservatives You know, when fi scal conservatives try to distance themselves from conservatives, I just don't get it. (Th at's what I meant back on page ?? about the criticism I get for talking so much about "social issues.") Aft er all, it's obvious, at least to me, that everything is tied together. By fi ghting for marriage and the traditional family, we're also fi ghting against poverty and crime. Without tackling it all at once, how else can we achieve our goals of smaller government and lower tax rates? If you disagree, I'm willing to listen, but I believe that one thing leads to another. Stronger families will produce the educated workers who will be able to generate more total tax revenue. As that happens, we'll see a decline in the need for bigger government, higher spending, and larger defi cits. It's a no-brainer: Local, state, and federal governments will thereby be able to reduce outlays on welfare, food stamps, house and energy assistance, health care, law enforcement, and—last, but not least—prisons.
I see this goal as a win-win for ALL conservatives. Let the liberals continue to push for a redistribution of wealth, as President Obama clearly intends. But instead, we conservatives should call for a rededication to marriage and family, with all of the societal benefi ts that will definitely follow.
True Self-government Let me again stress the parallels between family and government and even church. When a corrupt leader is in offi ce, he corrupts what he leads. Th is is true of a family, true of a church, true of a nation. A corrupt father will ultimately corrupt his family. A corrupt pastor will corrupt, infl uence, aff ect, and infect his church. And a corrupt elected offi cial will infect his nation with corruption.
I like to tell a great background story to this idea from the ninth chapter of the book of Judges in the Old Testament. It's about Gideon's son Abimelech, who craved leadership and elevated stature. But he did not want to serve the people (as so many of our politicians claim they want to do); he wanted the people to serve him. At fi rst glance, it might have seemed that he was offering a pretty good deal: If they would only consolidate power in him, he would simplify their lives. This "simplification" would involve taking their responsibilities upon himself (translation: he would be taking from them for himself). Th at kind of political promise is gravely dangerous.
There are two basic elements that will collapse any organization, be it a family, a business, a church, or a government. Number one: consolidating power in the hands of too few people. Th at ignores the warning in the classic statement that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Number two: a people abdicating personal responsibility in order to remove any risk to and for themselves.
Our founders were brilliant in deciding that power would be constitutionally distributed carefully among the states, leaving the federal government very limited in its boundaries. Every amendment in the Bill of Rights expressly tells the government what it is forbidden to do. Not one of them explains what the people can't do.
Just as there are the two elements that will collapse any organization, so there are two results that will predictably come from making asingle leader solely responsible for the national interest without any sharing of responsibility. First, the cowardice of the people will be revealed, because they simply do not want to be held accountable. Second, the corruption of the leader will become apparent. You can count on this: When leaders want those in their charge to become more dependent rather than less so, they are defi nitely moving toward corruption.
Back to Abimelech's schemes: His youngest brother, Jotham, saved the day with a very clever story about three diff erent types of trees (an olive tree, a fi g tree, and a vine tree) that were offered the position of king of all trees. All rejected the idea and all, signifi cantly, are productive bearers of fruit. But the bramble bush, a weak and pesky plant that produces nothing useful, wanted the post. Jotham's point was that the weakest, rather than the strongest, feels the urge to dominate others. But real leadership is about risk, not self-gratifi cation. Jotham could be talking about politics today. I've oft en said, "If you don't like the sight of your own blood, then don't get involved in political battles; just buy a ticket and watch from the stands!" It is a full-contact sport; those of us who choose to participate all leave the fi eld bloody, bruised, and scarred.
Further, as I've thoroughly outlined in a previous book, Do the Right Thing, the very best form of government is self-government. It's the goal that every honorable leader should seek to implement for his or her followers. In the family, a good parent builds independence in his or her children, not dependence. I can't imagine that a parent would feel successful if a forty-year-old child was still living at home and was unable to balance a checkbook, wash his own laundry, clean up his own room, drive himself to do errands, or responsibly find a job or income in order to pay his part of the freight. The idea of a child's remaining permanently dependent on parents is heartbreaking. By the same token, the idea of pastors' making parishioners solely dependent upon the church ministry is the antithesis of New Testament Christianity. Instead, the Scriptures make clear that the pastor's role is to equip the saints or the parishioners to do the work of ministry as individuals.
A church that provides only a forum for the pastor's ideas and encourages worshippers to follow him or her without becoming directly and personally involved in some type of genuine, living ministry to others is not even close to the biblical norm of the purpose of church.
Finally, when politicians encourage people to become increasingly dependent upon them and the government programs they create, they've violated those people's sovereignty and autonomy as individuals. You will recognize this theme throughout this book, for I firmly believe that such abandonment of personal responsibility can lead to the destruction of our nation. We must be on guard: Whether we are talking about parents, pastors, or politicians, the goal should never be to create dependence on a leader or a government program; the aim should be to nurture independence that will empower and equip, not enslave.


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Giovanni's Deli is run by Leone Family associate Giovanni Casa and is located in Chinatown. Giovanni Casa stops paying protection to Ma Cipriani, leading her to send her son Toni to murder Casa. Casa's corpse was then cut up and sold to his own deli. The player can enter the deli in the mission Dead Meat.


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One handed heir apparent, Grigor Dimitrov (above), about to cut a deadly slice from beyond the tram line on Tuesday.
In October of 2012, world #1 Novak Djokovic came upon talented upstart Grigor Dimitrov in an early round match at Shanghai, on a liberal hardcourt (where Djokovic is hands down the best in the business, despite losing the 2012 USO final to Andy Murray), and made short work of the lad, then ranked around 50-something in the world. It went to the king, 6-2, 6-3, over the squire, but the kid played better than the score line indicated. As you may know, we've had Dimitrov marked as prime stock since his junior days, and whenever we are asked who will carry the mantel as the next great one hander, we say Grigor Dimitrov. Even at 18 and 19 years old, rarely has the kid stepped on the court and not flashed the brilliant potential we associate with him. Dimitrov is in a class of comers, with Milos Raonic (who made for one half of an interesting if unsuccessful doubles pairing here with Dimitrov this week, coincidentally) who you know we love, and Jerzy Janowicz, who has an electric game and a fluid serve motion reminiscent of the king of swing himself, Pete Sampras. We've taken to Raonic and Janowicz because they play the game on their toes, and their countenance is aggressive. But with Dimitrov's arrival, we find it not only refreshing but proper and rightful to see a one hander compete at the highest level in this era, and one who we think is destined to win majors. If Janowicz and Raonic and their big time serves are the new kings of swing, then we'd like to anoint Dimitrov as the new king on the backhand wing. His Tuesday tussle with Novak Djokovic would be an excellent barometer of the kid's flat out superb skills on that wing, as Djokovic has the best backhand in the sport, but could not take Dimitrov in BH to BH rallies– on clay–which is extremely notable, since the higher bounces favor 2-handers.
We thought that Djokovic was far more impressive off the forehand side, and dictated play much better with the forehand, which has improved so much, along with his heart and grit, as he has ascended into the stratosphere with his game. Good news for Dimitrov, especially since he does not have an imposing forehand. That wing will need to improve dramatically in order for him to one day claim the top spot, which we think he is destined to do. As for the grit and heart, he already has it. Despite serious cramping, Dimitrov bucked up late in the 2nd set on Tuesday, and found his way to match point, though he had a 10 or so minute stretch during which he could barely move. We must also note that Djokovic was more or less good to go, after 2 weeks of rest that followed his spanking of Rafael Nadal at the MMC, handing the Spaniard what was only his 3rd loss ever on French clay (counting MMC and Roland Garros). We had our own questions about Djokovic's ankle going into the MMC, but after his fine form and 2 weeks recovery, there are zero questions that still persist. Now if Djokovic, the former king of quit, and by our count, the only top player to retire at 3 of the 4 majors, could learn to turn that weakness into a strength, then so too can Dimitrov with the forehand, which, after all, is a tennis shot.
Especially in the case of a Dimitrov, as we do not really usually assume improvement, and when we do, we don't do it lightly. We never assumed James Blake was going to have his big break through, and we even knew he'd still lose that match to Agassi in the QF's at the USO in 2005 when he was up 2 sets and on fire. Good thing we didn't assume greatness for Blake, because if we had, we'd still be waiting. Dimitrov however is a rare breed. This no Bernard Tomic. This kid gets up to play matches, comes with a plan, and believes he can win. Even if the plan seems rather lacking in sense, like going backhand to backhand with Djokovic on slow dirt. Or believing he could play with Rafael Nadal, as an 18 yr old at AMRO in Rotterdam, and playing him closely in a 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 loss in which he was not afraid to go after Nadal's (who was then #1) forehand, which most players are terrified to do.
On that note, we have a bone to pick with Milos Raonic, who repeatedly approached the Nadal backhand at the MMC and got burned, winning 3 of the 1st 4 games and then losing 11 of the last 12. We aren't gonna say Raonic's development has stalled or taken a hit, as talent needs to develop and breathe and can not usually be measured strictly week to week. That's why we are measuring these 2 against top talent instead. Raonic's gameplan was flawed, and we felt, lazy. A Spanish team (Raonic coach Galo Blanco who we usually have high praise for) should understand that tall players that go after Nadal's forehand, in rallies or on the approach, are having success, since they deal well with the high strike zone and have the power to do something with his topspin, whereas giving Nadal a target on the backhand, which he can direct with the top hand, is really the only backhand he hits for winners–passing shots. To that end, Raonic also quit on that match, and had we paid to see it, we'd have been very angry. The listless play bordered on lack of sportsmanship. By the way, Raonic was abysmal on 2nd serve that day, which we also could not understand so well, since Raonic gets so much action on his 2nd ball and since Nadal returns serve from so well beyond the BL.
By that measure, Dimitrov took Nadal to 3 sets at the MMC, was in every point, was unafraid, and had a real shot to win at 4 all in the 3rd. Theoretically it is the Raonic type matchup that Nadal recoils from and the Federer type matchup he embraces. But Dimitrov is a much better player than Raonic right now, despite Raonic's ranking and wealth of weaponry. That Raonic can't get near executing an Isner type strategy against Nadal is perplexing. That Dimitrov can execute the Federer type strategy against Rafa (which not even Roger can do) is enormously encouraging. Dimitrov has a real it factor, and moments do not intimidate him, nor do shots or reputations. Why does Dimitrov's backhand hold up so well? We see him as an extremely early ball striker, reminiscent of Blake in that regard, but far better at it on clay, probably closer to an early to mid prime Gustavo Kuerten, or as we ponder it, perhaps even Ivan Lendl, though Lendl was a forehand player. Dimitrov also shows a lot of patience in backhand exchanges, and relishes them, unlike Federer, save for a few times in his career, like against Davydenko in Melbourne in 2010. Dimitrov seems to have tremendous bite on his slice, which stayed out of Djokovic's strike zone even on clay. Anyone watching closely enough might have noticed that in Federer's last two major victories over Djokovic, in 2011 at Roland Garros and last year at Wimbledon, that slice played a major factor. As far as Dimitrov, he understands when to go to the safe, deep cross corner topspin backhand, coming way over top of the ball, and then, at 2-1 and 30 all in the 3rd on Tuesday, he zaps the backhand down the line after he had pinned Djokovic into the opposite corner. Bravo. And this is after GD nearly pulls out that tie-breaker while cramping, and loses it, which would have broken many a player, young, veteran, top ten, etc. It was the best point we've seen all year. Mark it down, and do not discount the pressure of the moment, as if he misses there, he is down a BP to the greatest returner in the game and his odds of winning reduce dramatically. Because giving that break back right there after the game he put together to earn it in the first place gives Djokovic whatever he needs, as even at 2-2 that match is probably over. Djokovic is just that good. Check out the play of this kid, especially on the backhand side, in this clip below:
We totally agree with the call, "this is magnificent!", which comes at 11:29 of the video when Dimitrov hits the particular down the line backhand that we already described above.
Now if you still are over there questioning Dimitrov's ability to improve, just consider how strong his serve has become. Djokovic, for our money, is by far the best returner in the game. Dimitrov aced him 13 times on slow clay, and held his nerve on several critical 2nd balls placed deep in the box, a skill that Milos Raonic has lost track of. Dimitrov won 63% of all his service points, 52% on 2nds, and saved 10/12 BP's. If his serve can get to that level on clay, then his forehand can go a lot farther, as top dogs like Djokovic's and Azarenka's has. Elite class players are always developing their game (recall Federer adding the forehand dropper), and right now Dimitrov is pre-prime, though still poised to move from #28 into the top twenty with nice showings in the coming weeks, already up more than 20 spots now than where he was at the end of 2012. Dimitrov should also expect his best results come the fast court legs of the tour on grass and American hards (as a junior, Dimitrov won Junior Wimbledon, the Junior USO, and the Orange Bowl).
The obvious comparisons, from hairstyle to sponsor to the one handed backhand is Roger Federer, and that they were both coached at the junior level by Peter Lundgren doesn't diminish the comparisons, though Dimitrov seems to learn from all his coaches, which have also included Serena's coach Patrick Mouratoglou and current coach Michael Tillstrom. We think the Federer comparison weak stylistically if not substantively. Federer is a forehand player and Dimitrov is a backhand player. Dimitrov does not manipulate backhands into inside out forehands. He doesn't have to. But we think he will be able to in time. When he does, look out. This kid is marked for greatness the same way Roger was, which might be their greatest commonality. That, and his ability to put points together, which might even be a stronger skill set than Roger's, especially pre-prime, have us very high on one handed tennis again, which as any purist understands, is the most dynamic and talent affirming style there is, and which is noticeably absent from the game these days due to the game's over-homogenization at the hands of safe baseliners, safe baseline coaching, clay, slow hardcourts, and thick grass.
If you're wondering about Djokovic going out so early at a Masters Level tourny, recall that Querrey got him at the Paris Indoor, which there was no shame in, considering that Djokovic rebounded by claiming his 2nd career Year End Championship title. The last time it happened at a Masters Level tourny on clay? Date back to 2006 when Federer took out a very green Novak Djokovic at Monte Carlo. Speaking of dating…
Yes, that is Dimitrov with "serious girlfriend" and career slam champion Maria Sharapova.
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Hope College will feature The Grand Rapids Guitar Quartet on Thursday, Jan. 31, at 7:30 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
The quartet will present a program of transcriptions of masterworks as well as music originally written for guitar quartet.
The quartet is comprised of four guitarists residing in the West Michigan area: Andrew Bergeron, Brian Morris, Michael Stockdale and Jason Werkema. The quartet's performances have received an overwhelmingly positive response from the audiences at the group's sold-out performances.
Tickets for the performance are on sale at the ticket office in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse, and are $5 for regular admission, and free for Hope College students, faculty and staff, and children 18 and under. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be called at (616) 395-7890.
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Oh yes, those two are awesome as well. They profit even more from the great videos that go with the songs. I didn't know you could make Weird Al's Hardware Store even better, but of course someone did just that. Friendship was magic get's an honorable mention here. Although I'm still looking for any Spike/Spike or Jet/Winona jokes.
So far I'm leaning more on the melodic side with the occasional odd one out.


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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA--Once again, two members of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's track and field team have been honored by the Little East Conference.
Junior Krista Chauvin (Seekonk, MA/Seekonk HS/Stonehill) was named LEC Women's Field Athlete of the Week, and Junior Brett Croteau (Dighton, MA/Dighton-Rehoboth HS) was named LEC Men's Field Athlete of the Week.
At last week's Open New England Championships at Stonehill, Chauvin was first in the hammer with a throw of 182 feet, six inches. She broke the facility record for Stonehill's W.B. Mason Stadium, and currently ranks first in the nation in the hammer. Croteau was second in the javelin with a throw of 198 feet, nine inches, and currently ranks 17th nationally in that event.
"For Krista to win the Open New England Championships is a great accomplishment for any Division III student-athlete," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Steve Gardiner. "It's ironic that she did it at the school where she began her career, and set a facility record. Brett has been very consistent, and had a chance to win the competition down to the very last throw. To place higher in this meet than he ever has shows the direction he is taking as a regional javelin competitor."
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On the less serious side of auto news, here's a vid of a Ford Mustang Cobra Jet doing a wheelie before crashing into the wall at a Maryland drag meet.
Considering this car has a 690-hp engine that costs $93,000, well, that's a costly drag run.
Furthermore, there were only 50 of the purpose-built, limited-edition drag racers made by Ford this year. So the crash is even more crushing, if you will.
We're afraid no security system could've saved this driver from a meeting with the wall.
Think this one is kind of a "meh" story? Well, it's already gotten over 800,000 hits on YouTube!
A video captured from inside the Cobra Jet shows the driver jerking the wheel while still in the air — a mistake that increased the chances the vehicle would drift in the wrong direction when it came back down to the ground.
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The cast of CBS's new primetime drama "Vegas" visit THE TALK! Actors Dennis Quaid, Michael Chiklis, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jason O'Mara, Taylor Handley and Sarah Jones give the inside scoop on the new show, Tuesday, October 2, 2012 on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Cliff Lipson/CBS ©2012 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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New York Jets quarterbacks coach Matt Cavanaugh was unable to fix Mark Sanchez this season. Because of that, he's out of a job.
The New York Daily News reported Cavanaugh was dismissed upon reporting to the team facility Monday following a week-long break. Cavanaugh had been with the Jets since 2009.
Sanchez crashed-and-burned at the tail end of the 2011 season, leading to speculation Cavanaugh would be let go last January. He survived, but he had his fate sealed when Sanchez became an outright liability for the Jets this season.
The Jets owe Sanchez more than $8 million in guaranteed salary next season, a fact that likely will lead to the embattled quarterback returning for a fifth season with the team. Cavanaugh (and likely offensive coordinator Tony Sparano) become scapegoats for Sanchez's failures.
In other Jets coaching news, ESPNNewYork.com confirmed a report that the Buffalo Bills have requested to speak with Jets defensive coordinator Mike Pettine. The Jets granted permission, the New York Daily News reported. New Bills coach Doug Marrone is building his staff, and Pettine reportedly turned down a contract extension offer from the Jets during the season.
The Jets had a top-10 defense again in 2012, despite playing much of the season without star cornerback Darrelle Revis. If there's a strain in the relationship between Pettine and Jets coach Rex Ryan, what could be better than jumping ship to an AFC East rival?
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6 months ago we welcomed our little man into the world.
Logan Henry
weighed 7 lbs 5 ounces
and measured 21 inches
i never shared his birth story mostly because i needed some time to digest everything ;) please be kind if you decide to comment as this is my personal experience and know that i am aware that everyone is different and i am by no means judging anyone else's decisions on how they had or will have their baby :) if you are a first time expecting mom please be warned that even though this birth wasn't by any means horrible, there are some parts to this story that may worry you. again, everyone's experience is different. i had a very easy pregnancy without any kind of complications at all and this is my story...
this being our first child we had of course prepared ourselves for his birth since the day we found out we were expecting. i knew pretty much right from the start that i would do whatever it took to have a natural unmedicated childbirth. of course I was scared of the pain and maybe caving in at the last minute. we watched "the business of being born" which opened my eyes a lot and made my opinion on unmedicated childbirth even stronger. i decided that i wanted to try the bradley method and got a book to read. i would have liked to take the class as well, however it was a little pricey and pretty far away. due to my husband's work he was out of town a lot during the later months of the pregnancy when it would have been time to really crack down on bradley course preparation. so in the end we decided to just take the classes that were offered at our hospital. i think a home birth can be something very special and mostly safe as long as your pregnancy is low risk. having said that, we decided that since this was our first baby and even though we live only 10 minutes from the hospital, we still wanted to deliver at the hospital. i also couldn't really find any midwifes that would have been able to deliver at home here in pennsylvania.
so we just read the bradley book and tried to practice as much as we could. the bradley method is all about relaxation and letting your body do the work and not working against the contractions. it also includes a lot of visualization of what is happening in your body during labor.
logan was born at 1.21 in the afternoon. my mom had come in from germany and my mother-in-law ended up being in the room with us the entire time as well.
i was a week overdue and of course my doctors were already talking about inducing me. there was no way i would let them induce me before 2 weeks overdue but i was definitely ready to have this baby out of me. so the morning of may 26th i went in for my appointment and had the doc sweep my membranes in hopes of helping the little man along a little. worked like a charm. around 8 pm that night i started having contractions. i probably had them earlier than that but since i never had any kind of contractions (not even braxton hicks) during the entire pregnancy, i don't think i knew i was having them until they got stronger. we had planned to stay home as long as we could before going to the hospital. i used a birthing ball (a regular $8 exercise ball), a warm bath and my bed for relaxation and comfort. the hubby was there helping me time contractions and giving back rubs. around 1 am the contractions had gotten a lot stronger and were about 3-4 minutes apart. off to the hospital we went. by the time they had me all situated in a room it was around 2 or 2.30 am. i asked them not to offer me any drugs and that i didn't want an iv. they were trying to convince me to get the iv put in but i insisted. they ended up telling me they had to make sure the doc was ok with it and i never heard another word about it. my contractions were a lot more painful and closer together and i believe i was about 3 or 4 centimeters by then. the next hours are all like a big blur to me. all i remember is that the contractions kept getting stronger and i just couldn't get comfortable. walking around didn't help and standing by the bed didn't either. i ended up spending most of my labor on my sides, in bed, holding onto the rails during contractions. i honestly couldn't focus on the way i was supposed to breathe or let everything go. i remember having the hubby rub and push on my lower back even though i didn't have any back labor at all. the nurses checked my progress a couple of times throughout the night and morning. by late morning i was finally at 10 centimeters. the nurse asked me if i wanted to push. this is where things got a little strange for me. see i had always imagined i would be able to feel the urge to push when i was finally at that point. well, nada, not me. i had no clue what to do. i obviously wanted this baby born more than anything else in the world so of course i told the nurse i wanted to push. they did all kinds of crazy stuff to the bed so that i ended up in a more upright pushing position. and here is when this whole experience became a little more dramatic than i had imagined it.
i pushed for almost 3 hours. i pushed and pushed for probably close to 2 hours and had no idea what i was doing. i kept telling everyone around me that i couldn't feel it, (by "it" i mean the urge to bear down and push) which is pretty funny since i never got any drugs to numb anything. don't get me wrong, i sure could feel every contraction but i simply didn't know how to push. going back to that stage now i think i may not have been as ready as they told me i was. maybe i should have waited longer before i started to push? i really don't know. all i know is that afterwards i felt like there was something wrong with me, shouldn't my body have told me what to do? shouldn't i instinctively known how to push? i had heard from so many other women about how great the pushing stage was going to be... i guess it just shows how you are not supposed to compare yourself to others' experiences. people in the room kept telling me they could see the head and i kept thinking, hoping and praying that he would finally be here. the nurse tried to show me where to push (i'll spare you the details) and it finally got better. they called for the doc and i thought he was gonna be here any minute now. well, that doctor stood there for an awfully long time with nothing much to do but try to show me how to push. i was so exhausted and ready to give up. i kept seeing my family's faces as they went from smiling and cheerful to worried and unsure.
my mom told me that nothing was gonna happen to me and thinking about it now, she must have been very worried to say that. i finally caved in and told the doctor that i was going to need some help to get this baby's huge head out ;) we decided to use the vacuum to help him along. this was totally on my request. the doc didn't even seem too worried yet and just kept encouraging me. i think he could tell that i didn't have much more to give though, so he agreed. i will not go into detail on how the vacuum extraction went. i am just praying to god i won't have to do it a second time. when we finally managed to get him out he was perfect. his eyes were wide open as if he wanted to take in all the sights after being in the dark for so long.
his apgar scores were great, they wouldn't let me hold him right away due to the vacuum extraction. there was nothing wrong with him at all but they wanted to make sure of that first. so i just lay there while they cleaned him up and while they did whatever they still needed to do to me. it seemed like forever before i got to hold him. everyone else was already carrying him around, taking pictures but i was still trying to process what had just happened. when he came out i saw him with his eyes wide open and somehow i just knew he was ok. i never questioned his health at that point.
i had never read up on vacuum or forceps extractions and the risks associated with them. i just knew they existed, i was almost born that way as well. i guess ignorance is bliss. i don't regret anything about my decision not to have a medicated birth. will i do it again? yes, probably, someday whenever the memories are maybe a little more faded ;)
the day logan was born was the most life-changing and also the most physically and mentally challenging day of my life. it is hard to put into word the things that change inside a woman when she becomes a mother. it is the most precious gift i have and will ever receive.
today my baby is 6 months old.
he is absolutely terrific and perfect in every way.
he has reached so many milestones already.
he sits, stands, crawls and climbs all over the place.
his hair is finally starting to grow.
he is so very curious and funny.
he loves to eat.
his poop is stinky ;)
he is 28.5" tall.
he weighs over 20 lbs.
he still has his baby blues.
he is growing up way too fast.
and he makes us the happiest we've ever been.
happy 6 months mein dicker mann!


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Do movie directors, like fine wines, get better with age? That may sound like a frivolous question, but it has long been debated by critics as they weigh the relative merits of fiery young upstarts versus wise old veterans. The question takes on renewed relevance with the release of "Blue Jasmine," the latest movie from 77-year-old writer-director Woody Allen.
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AlexandreJ wrote:* Free Nodal Point ability (quite the same as viewpoint correction in PtGui ). This feature is for Autopano Giga only.
When we decided to add Free Nodal Point Ability to our engine, we wanted it to be automatic. Normally when doing that, you cannot rely on automatically created control points. You need to enter them manually. Again, we think that an automatic solution that works should be created first. If it solves 90% of the cases, it's good. This is our goal which is why we have the new ransac stage 'full 3d'.
enbilaman wrote:With the current APG 2.5.0 A1 version, the assertion " Free Nodal Point ability is quite the same as viewpoint correction in PtGui" is debatable. Or did I miss something?
vincen wrote:enbilaman wrote:With the current APG 2.5.0 A1 version, the assertion " Free Nodal Point ability is quite the same as viewpoint correction in PtGui" is debatable. Or did I miss something?
I don't think so ! ViewPoint correction in PTGui is mainly designed for stitch of nadir and zenith pictures in my idea.
vincen wrote:Free Nodal Point is definitively done for panoramas shots by hand, without taking care of nodal point
taf wrote:another question about the Free Nodal Point :
I make all my panorama handheld, without treepod. Is it better to select this option for all my panorama or only in few case if the detection is not good ?
AlexandreJ wrote:BTW : about one request : ability to enable that mode per image or not. We were wondering about that one too and we didn't decide if it should be done by image or globally yet. If it's just for one image, we should have a way to tell that before the detection. I don't know yet where to put that in the UI.
HansKeesom wrote:Is this feature effective when shooting a pano in heavy sunlight, causing a shadow of tripod and camera? If so, what would be the best technique for the last shot. Would one have to place the tripod past the end of the shadow and make one shot of where the tripod was standing, so make one photo against the sun of the nadir?
AlexandreJ wrote:... This mode helps for such case. In fact, we identified 4 typical cases :
- nadir shots
.... etc.
HansKeesom wrote:Hi Michel, so instead of moving in the direction of the shadow, I move a meter in a direction 90 degrees on the shadow and make one shot of the nodal point. I will test it and make even two shots as there are two directions one can go for this
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The Status Info Dashlet has been available on the Nagios Exchange website for about a year now. It is a very cool dashlet, that in my opinion, doesn't get the attention it deserves. The Status Info Dashlet allows you to display the current status of a service as a dashlet on a dashboard in nice big numbers, and is especially useful in cases when you want to keep an eye on a problematic service.
Setup and Installation of the Status Info Dashlet is quite easy:
First, you need to download the dashlet from the Nagios Exchange site: Status Info Dashlet
Direct Download Link: statusinfo.zip
Next, add the dashlet from the Nagios XI web interface:
Admin -> System Extensions -> Manage Dashlets -> Browse -> statusinfo.zip -> Open -> Upload Dashlet
Once the dashlet has been successfully installed, you can add it to a dashboard of choice:
Dashboards -> Add Dashlets -> Available Dashlets
and clicking on the "dashify" icon in the upper left corner of the dashlet to add it to a Dashboard .
You will see the "Add To Dashboard" interface, which has many different options, allowing you to customize your dashlet. The first three options on the top allow you to set the dashlet's title, the dashboard, where you would like the dashlet to be added to, and the refresh rate. Below these three options, you will see eight tabs for even more customizations. I will go through each one briefly, and describe the most basic choices.
1) Object-1
Here you can select the object (service), that you want your dashlet to use. You also have an option to show the current service status as text, set the background color, "trim" the output (the beginning or the end), in order to discard the information that you don't need. You can also show the last refresh time and the refresh interval underneath the object.
2) Object-2
This is NOT a place, where you can select a second object (service) – the name is a bit misleading. Here you can change the object text formatting (text size, weight, style, color, etc.)
3) Text
From here, you can add additional text to your dashlet and style it how you want.
4) Name
The menu allows you to select the name format that you want to appear in the dashlet. The available options are:
– Host
– Host – Service Name
– Service Name
– Service Name – Host
You can also format the text (size, style, color, etc.)
5) Layout
This allows you to select how you want the dashlet displayed. There is a drop-down menu with a various combinations for displaying "Text", "Object", and "Name".
6) Preview
When you click on this tab, you will see a preview of what your dashlet will look like.
7) Help
The help menu explains in details the various options that exist in each section/tab.
8) License
Here you can read the license for this dashlet.
After you selected all of the options you want, just click on the "Add it" button on the bottom. Then you can go to the dashboard, where you added that dashlet and view status info for your service. You've now successfully added the Status Info Dashlet to your Nagios XI views. It's as easy as that.


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Saturday March 1 2008 05:19:50 AM
Surf spot: West Passage, Republic of Palau
Surf Trip: Palau ( 15 January 2008 - 03 March 2008)
Session's Rate:
Wind direction: No wind
Wind Strength: Glassy
Nb waves ridden: Too Many
Length of the surf session: 420 min
Surfboard ridden: 9' 0"
Fins: Single
Weather and water temp: Very Warm
Waves height: 2m-2.5m / 6ft-8ft
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This was my third and last session in Palau. The surf gods definitely saved the best conditions for last! Ben picked me up at my hotel around 930 and we were on the boat and at the break by 1030. The waves were shoulder high to overhead and winds were just enough to make it a little choppy. A small rain squall gave us the perfect chance to have some lunch before the winds died and we had a perfect glassy afternoon. Six of us went out with Bill that day, and there were so many waves to go around that you never had to fight for that perfect break. K.B. and Tino broke off about an hour before the rest of us and went spear fishing. After seven solid hours of Primo surf we all paddled back to the boat for fresh Sashimi and ice cold Asahi. If I ever have another day like this one I will consider myself twice blessed by the surf gods. There truly is nothing like clean head to overhead waves, good friends, fresh fish and cold beer to make a lifelong memory.
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Cast and Crew Members at Inceville in Santa Monica, circa 1915
Before the emergence of Hollywood and the studio system, moviemaking was something of a free-for-all, open to anyone that could afford it. In the US, that privileged group was almost exclusively white and male. Roles for minorities were usually crudely stereotypical, minor, and liable to be played by a white actor in yellowface, brownface, blackface or redface. As a result, some minority figures attempted to start their own alternatives. In 1916, Oakland resident Marion Wong made the first example of Asian-American Cinema with The Curse of Quon Gwon. A few years later, Anna Mae Wong and Sessue Hayakawa began making films. In 1918, John Noble invented Black Cinema with Birth of a Race. He was soon joined in his endeavor by Oscar Mischeaux.
True Native American cinema beat them both by almost a decade. The mainstream view of Natives at the time was generally less murderously hateful than those of contemporary Asians and blacks (or the Natives' ancestors). In fact, Natives were widely adored and fetishized, what Frank Chin would later term "love racism." Natives, regardless of reality, were reduced to mere metaphors and symbols… for stoicism, honor, strength, &c. Edward S. Curtis's 1914 In the Land of the Headhunters and Robert Flaherty's 1922 Nanook of the North have little to do with reality, but did reflect well-meaning white men's attempts to portray their subjects with some respect, even if it meant they had to fictionalize and stage everything.


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BMW is recalling over 2,000 K-bikes from 2007 & 2008 for brake fluid that could foam under certain conditions. Affecting BMW K1200 S, K1200 R, and K1200 R Sport motorcycles, if the brake fluid foams, it could lead to reduced braking power, which in turn could result in a crash. BMW owners at risk to the foaming brake fluid will have their motorcycles retrofitted with a screen insert from BMW, free of charge.
More bad news for BMW owners as the German manufacturer has also released a recall notice for a number of its K-bikes. A problem with the front-wheel bearing could lead the bearing's corrosion, which would affect the movement of the linkage lever. BMW has not said how many motorcycles this recall will affect, but the issue spans the 2004 to 2010 model years of the following bikes: K1200GT, K1200R, K1200S, K1300GT, K1300R, & K1300S.


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Neil Walker and Pedro Alvarez both belted two-run homers for the Pittsburgh Pirates, who won the middle installment of a three-game set with the San Diego Padres, 4-1, on Tuesday at Petco Park.
Gerrit Cole (6-3) spun 5 2/3 innings of one-run ball for Pittsburgh, while four relievers didn't allow a hit over the final 3 1/3 frames. Jason Grilli struck out two in the ninth to nail down his ninth save of the season.
Cole allowed just the one run on four hits and a pair of walks while striking out six to win his third straight decision. The Pirates, who took the series opener 10-3 on Monday, have won three straight and five of six.
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On Wednesday, the Washington Post broke the news that the American Action Network, a Republican "charitable organization" along the lines of American Crossroads GPS, was financed entirely by 11 checks, with 82% of its funding coming from just three donors.
AAN and Crossroads GPS are not required to disclose donor information and can protect donors from any blowback that might result from their decision to influence the political process or the specific ways in which AAN/Crossroads GPS employ their money to accomplish that goal. As a result, donors get to have their cake and eat it too: they're largely invisible to the American voter, but highly influential within the small community of policymakers that make legislative decisions. It's an appealing proposition.
There are a number of significant downsides to this arrangement, however. Before I get into them, I'd like to be clear: there's no problem with giving money to political candidates. There's no problem with giving a lot of money to political candidates. There is a problem with giving undisclosed money to political candidates.
At the most basic level, disclosure is a mental shortcut for voters. It's a way for them to consider the source, to divine what interests believe supporting this candidate is in their interest. If that information isn't available, it undermines democratic accountability. If voters can't get access to any information about who is backing whom, their role in the political process becomes little more than a patina of consent on top of a structure they are prevented from informing themselves about.
So you have a situation in which, over the long term, rational actors are undermining the very system they depend on. Politicians need to finance their campaigns and want to outraise their opponents. Their donors want to insulate themselves from the consequences of their speech. The tragic irony is that in doing so, they are sawing the foundations of a functioning democracy–information and accountability–out from underneath themselves. Left to its own devices, the emerging situation becomes a race to the bottom: who can raise the most money while revealing the least information about its source. It's not hard to see how that worsens what Prof. Larry Lessig calls "institutional corruption," and ultimately paralyzes our government.
That's why what we do here at ActBlue is so important. Our platform gives small donors a stake in the process and enables them to make themselves felt in major races, while also preserving the transparency that's key to a stable democracy. That transparency, in turn, lets donors assess the impact of their donations in aggregate, which makes them more likely to give again. In short, our virtuous cycle counteracts the vicious cycle kickstarted by Citizens United.


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I've been working on a chapter for a book project and it's about the little Western Maryland town of Frostburg, Allegany, Maryland. I was sort of stuck because there isn't a lot in print about little Frostburg, except a couple of history books that focus in a more general way about the area and Wikipedia, and you can see that here. So I was moaning the blues about not having enough enriching source material. This treasure of a book I got from Mom, published about 1912 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the town which was founded in 1812, is the very best source for information about Frostburg I've ever had the absolute delight to see! I'm thrilled to have it!! So thanks, Mom:)
This is a replica copy of the original 1912 edition, we believe. Mom and I both think that it was printed in 1962 to celebrate the 150th anniversary. This presumed replica contains no publishers information, not even a printers stamp. Unusual, as printers I've known are proud to show their civic participation and hide a mark somewhere ususally in the back binding area. So it bears more research to dig up its actual origins. Luckily, it also contains no copyright renewal or appropriation so I think I'm safe quoting and perhaps, as here, using images of pages, but I'm not a copyright attorney. Think I'll check over at the Frostburg Museum and see if they know anything about it. They know a lot over there. (The original 1912 book makes note of the publisher who was one and the same as the publisher of the Frostburg Mining Journal.)
The information that this book offers is amazing. It starts with a thorough history of Frostburg and some stuff I've seen elsewhere but also much more detailed information that goes well beyond the basics. At the close of the book is a list, quite extensive, of "home commers" who made the journey back for the festivities. The names include the place where the returnee lived in 1912, and get this, even in some cases a street address. Whoop! I found the street addresses in Chicago of two of the Zeller brothers, siblings of my great grandfather Gustav Zeller, the subject of recent posts here.
Below are just a few of the rich pages in the treasured book, Frostburg Maryland, 1812 - 1912.
Cover, displayed over family photos in my possession.
Street scenes, left, and the day the street car came to town on the left side of the right page.
If you look super close you can see GGF Gus Zeller in his white barber's coat
just below the front entrance to the car! How cool is that?
The right hand page touts the Frostburg volunteer Fire Department and
members in 1912.
Noted citizenry have their photos and a biography.
Programme for the Week opposite local photos.
This is a great treasure, right? And now... drum roll, please... just looked at a 1938 film (converted to video) all about Frostburg! Maybe next week on Thursday I'll share:) I'm stoked!! Here I was two weeks ago without enough source material and now, oh the bounty!!
Treasure Chest Thursday is a blogging prompt of GeneaBloggers. Find out more here.
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Since taking the artistic helm at Oregon Repertory Singers two seasons ago, Ethan Sperry has not lacked for vision and drive. While also directing choral activities at Portland State University to great acclaim and international awards, he has reinvigorated ORS with an expanded roster, fresh energy and ambitious programming. No surprise, then, that he opened the ensemble's 40th season with one of the great blockbuster oratorios, Felix Mendelssohn's "Elijah."
Begun in 1836 and ten years in the making, "Elijah" is a huge two-hour drama telling the story of the Old Testament prophet's victory over Ahab and the priests of Baal, his withdrawal into the desert and his ultimate ascension. Modeled on the oratorios of J.S. Bach, Handel, and Haydn, it sets biblical texts for multiple soloists and chorus and with the full expressive and sonic resources of 19th-century opera, including full orchestra.
Friday night at Portland's First United Methodist Church, the stage appeared barely able to contain the vast forces, which included over 90 singers and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. The reigning figure was guest baritone Richard Zeller in the title role, and his performance alone would have been worth the price of admission His imposing presence and mighty voice expressed Elijah's fearsome power and zeal, but his warmth, conviction and gentleness — including quiet, lyrical, high passages — lent nuance, fleshing out a sympathetic portrait.
The standout among the many lesser soloists was the ensemble's longtime leading soprano, Debbie Benke, who was ringing and radiant as the widow whose son is saved by Elijah's prayers. Tenors Alex Greenshields and Doug Rank gave strong performances as Obadiah and Ahab, respectively.
Sperry led ably with energy and control, maintaining a sense of forward motion while keeping balance both within the chorus and between chorus and orchestra. A huge, mostly amateur ensemble is prone to some fuzziness and a lack of dynamic range, and there was some of that — occasional vague diction, blurred articulation and few captivatingly quiet moments. But the sound was magnificent and the general contours were sweeping and effective. The orchestra too met the challenges of the demanding score with responsive, mostly robust playing and numerous fine details, particularly from wind principals and timpani.
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