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For years marketers have argued that Web surfers prefer to see ads that cater to their specific interests, but a study from the universities of Pennsylvania and Berkeley suggests otherwise.
The researchers surveyed around 1,000 adult Internet users and found that two thirds of them said they didn't want tailored ads. The number grew to between 73 and 86 percent once people were told about some of the techniques marketers employ to mine for information.
Among young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 years old, 54 percent opposed the idea of behavioral targeting. Eighty-six percent of them said they didn't want advertising if it was the result of monitoring their online activities and 90 percent rejected it if offline information was being collected.
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Exactly why they reject behavioral targeting is hard to determine. There may well be several reasons. One may be a general antagonism to being followed without knowing exactly how or with what effects. […]Another reason might be a fear that selective presentation of advertisements, discount offers, or news will put them at a monetary or social disadvantage: some people might get more useful or interesting tailored content than others depending on the conclusions marketers draw about them.
The study is the first national survey on people's attitudes toward behavioral targeting, which involves monitoring their online habits and directing ads to them based on that information.
Robert Fleming, president and CEO of the eMarketing Association, said there was nothing sinister about the practice. He described it as a tool that helped reduce the amount of spam consumers see on their screens and increase the relevance of the messages they receive.
"There's a dichotomy when consumers want privacy and also want a personalized Web experience with things of interest to them. They're going to have to give some personal information, obviously," he said.
Privacy advocates have been concerned for some time now about the collection of user data for marketing purposes and what they perceive as a general lack of public awareness on the practice.
"The problem is not so much the customization of advertising but the customization of the data the advertising is based from. It's an indication that people are being watched in a profound and surreptitious way they're unaware of," said Peter Eckersley, a senior technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
In fact, the study suggests that a majority of the interviewees had an incorrect perception as to what the law allows marketers to do with the information they collect on Web users:
Americans mistakenly believe that current government laws restrict companies from selling wide-ranging data about them. When asked true-false questions about companies' rights to share and sell information about their activities online and off, respondents on average answer only 1.5 of 5 online laws and 1.7 of the 4 offline laws correctly because they falsely assume government regulations prohibit the sale of data.
It may not be too long before the issue becomes a political hot button. Shortly after a coalition of privacy groups published a report on behavioral targeting, U.S. representative Rick Boucher (D-Va.) stated last week that he plans to introduce legislation that would prevent marketers from collecting information on Web users' habits.
According to the study, 92 percent of the interviewees said there should be a law that required advertisers to delete information on users on request.
"This survey finds that Americans want openness with marketers," the study's abstract read. "If marketers want to continue to use various forms of behavioral targeting in their interactions with Americans, they must work with policymakers to open up the process so that individuals can learn exactly how their information is being collected and used, and then exercise control over their data."
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It is truly rare when you find a company that is more interested in helping others than helping itself. It takes a leader who believes in paying it forward, and knowing that having a corporate reputation as a company that gives back to the community will pay off in so much more than money.
That's been the case at Light Tower Rentals (LTR) pretty much from day one, when founders John Avary and Ted Hogan started the company.
Light Tower Rentals created its philosophy of doing business before it created its products. Hogan and Avary founded LTR in 1994 as a company that rented self-contained lighting units for Permian Basin oilfields. Over the past 22 years LTR has expanded their product line and their company, which is now one of the largest independent power generation rental companies in America. LTR provides both diesel and natural gas generators to drilling, completion, workover and production sites, and still has over 1,000 light towers all around oil-producing regions.
"This company was built on teamwork and a family structure," said Hogan. "Our employees are loyal because of the way we treat them, and the way we treat the communities we operate in. Not only are we out there building our business, but we are giving back to our communities with time, effort, and money. Whatever we can do together outside of the company helps build a better team inside the company."
Hogan said that the employees, from the boardroom to the war room, are carrying on the culture of community service and engagement that was started back in 1994. And it just keeps getting stronger as the company continues to grow.
The success of LTR has enabled its executive team, including President and COO Pat Bond, to make sure that the "teamwork" spirit lives in every LTR employee in every location, each and every day.
"It's our goal to be good community neighbors," said Bond. "Not just to support the communities we work in, but to support causes that are important to our clients as well."
Bond believes that when employees work as a group outside of the office, everyone becomes part of the team. LTR conducts regular team building exercises internally, but Bond feels that it's a combination of both internal and external engagement that is responsible for the successes LTR has enjoyed.
LTR is involved in many charitable organizations as well, including a couple of groups which are unique to the energy industry. Spindletop Charities (www.spindletopcharities.org) has been one of the primary charities for the energy industry since 1966. Since that time, over $20 million has been raised to aid such programs as child abuse prevention, pediatric medical research, drug and alcohol abuse prevention and rehabilitation, education and scholarships, residential and educational centers, after-school programs and family health.
Another area that attracted LTR's attention was finding a cure for Cystic Fibrosis (CF). And to Pat Bond, it was very personal.
"My nephew Nicky passed away from the disease," Bond said. "He struggled his whole life. It was a never-ending, nonstop battle that controlled what he could and couldn't do, what he ate, and how he lived his short life."
For the past seven years, LTR has participated in an event called Energy Giving Back that raises money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in Houston. This year, Bond met a man named Austin Faught, and his story resonated.
Faught is a former All-American pitcher for both the University of Houston and the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, who was eventually drafted in 2003 by the MLB Texas Rangers. Now a managing member of Southpaw Realty, Faught and his wife Kyra have a two-year old son Jack, who suffers from CF.
"The team at LTR and Pat Bond in particular have been amazing," said Faught. "We were all at a function sponsored by the CF Foundation where they had a silent auction. Unbeknownst to us, Pat bid on a humongous teddy bear, which he won. He immediately gave the bear to Jack, and now every single morning Jack goes up and hugs the bear. It's just so amazing to see him smile with everything he's going through."
Jack's battle is an ongoing one, and more than likely, one that will last a lifetime. But his lifetime will be longer thanks to ongoing research and developments in treatment for the disease.
"This is the first year in history where more adults with CF are alive than kids," Faught said. "Previously, kids rarely made it to adulthood. In 1955, life expectancy was around six years. By 1982 it was 16. Now, it's into adulthood. So when a company like LTR and their team rallies around a cause like CF, it's very important to our family."
In July, LTR helped to host the annual Fiesta for Cystic Fibrosis where they raised over $55,000 for the CF Foundation.
But that isn't all that the LTR team members have been involved in. They helped raise over $13,000 for organizations dedicated to preserving habitat and conservation projects in western North Dakota as part of the Oil Can Fishing Derby on Lake Sakakawea. And LTR and team members have donated time and money for organizations in Norman, OK; Artesia, NM; Odessa, TX, to provide gifts and food to those in need over the holidays. LTR also recently provided flood and hurricane relief by delivering equipment to those stricken areas.
It all goes back to what founder Ted Hogan believes is the credo of Light Tower Rentals. "We are all responsible for the world around us. We have to make a difference in our communities. I'm just very proud that we have such dedicated and giving employees within the LTR family. It's the right thing to do, and we're going to keep doing it," Hogan said.


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ALAMEDA — The City Council has approved contracts for police and firefighters that call for them to pay more toward their pension and health care costs, but the city treasurer said the changes will not help offset the city's projected budget shortfall.
Locking in pay and benefits for public safety employees — whose salaries and benefits take up most of the city's $70 million budget — means other city departments will now face deep cuts as officials look to save money, Treasurer Kevin Kennedy said. The shortfall is estimated at $2.6 million for the upcoming fiscal year and expected to climb.
"By not cutting two-thirds of the budget, we are insuring that we are going to have to cut the other services the citizens value," Kennedy said. "Those things are going to be decimated."
City Manager John Russo said approving the four-year contracts Tuesday resolves an ongoing grievance filed by the International Association of Firefighters against the city. It stems from a "me too" clause that the union says makes firefighters eligible for certain benefits that were part of the police contract, he said.
Former Interim City Manager Ann Marie Gallant and former fire Chief Dave Kapler denied the grievance when it was filed in 2009. But City Attorney Janet Kern said she does not believe their decision would now hold up in court. The city's liability stands at $3.6 million over the grievance and could reach $7 million in four years if not settled, Kern said. Councilwoman Beverly Johnson said the issue could not be ignored.
"It is there, and it's real," she said before the council approved the contracts Tuesday.
Councilman Doug deHaan cast the lone "no" vote. The city would likely need to secure a loan or dip into budget reserves to offset the liability if the contracts hadn't been approved, Russo said. Police and firefighters have not had a pay raise in more than six years. Among the key provisions of the contracts are for police and firefighters to gradually pay more toward their pensions — an overall 67 percent hike — that will save the city about $3.5 million, Russo said.
The contracts also link pay raises to the performance of the city's General Fund and change the retirement formula from 3 percent at age 50 to 2.7 percent at age 57 for new employees. Newly hired firefighters also will no longer receive a full salary while they attend the academy, limiting it to 40 percent of the starting wage.
Not all the rank-and-file were pleased with the terms of their contract, said Domenick Weaver, president of Alameda firefighters Local 689. But the contract still got almost unanimous support, he said. Fire Chief Mike D'Orazi and police Chief Mike Noonan said their departments will look for additional savings.
"We are continually looking for ways to adjust without cutting, by being more efficient," Noonan said. "This isn't going to change that."
Having public safety contracts in place will allow city officials more flexibility as they wrestle with the budget, including finding ways to pay the city's deferred maintenance bill, now estimated at $9.5 million annually, Mayor Marie Gilmore said.
The approval of the contracts comes in the wake of the council approving a two-year budget cycle, which officials say will offer more stability and provide a framework for long-term financial planning.
Results from a survey released in May showed 84 percent of people supported cuts in the budget for public safety as a way to help maintain other services, Kennedy said Tuesday. The city's money woes have already led to outsourcing the Alameda Animal Shelter, he noted.
"I wonder what's next," Kennedy said. "Are we going to privatize Mastick (Senior Center)? Is it going to be the parks, the library? Are we going to ask people to go out and do bake sales to raise money to keep these things going?"
The contracts are available at http://www.cityofalamedaca.gov/City-Hall/Public-Safety-Contracts-.
Reach Peter Hegarty at 510-748-1654 or follow him on Twitter.com/Peter_Hegarty.


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Mac users. like Windows users, can tinker around their system files and modify the default settings, but not everyone is well versed in executing Terminal commands without doing serious damage. That leaves many people wanting to customize their OS, but lacking the ability to do so easily. Lion Secrets is a Mac app that makes these modifications easier. The app gives you an easy-to-use graphical interface, while executing Terminal commands at the back end to reflect any changes that you want to make. The app allows you to modify both startup programs, system preferences, alerts and appearance in Mac OS Lion.
Once installed, go to the Mac Secrets tab, which is divided into two parts. On the left, you can see all items that you can modify categorized by function. The app features six categories: General, Dock, Finder, Mail, Safari & Screen Capture. When you select a category, further customization options get listed to the right. The General category allows you to disable the zoom animations when a new window is launched, unhide the user library folder, and allows keys (letter keys) to repeat. Additionally, you can modify the scroll bars, so that they are always visible regardless of whether or not a window is being scrolled.
The Dock category allows you to modify how windows are minimized, the size of the dock, it's position, style and animations. The Finder category allows you to change which options you see when you right-click the Finder on the Dock. Mail has options for changing the animations in Apple Mail, while Safari modifies the menu bar in the native browser to show the debug and develop menus, and also what appears on the Bookmarks bar. The Screen Capture category modifies how screenshots are taken using the native screen capturing feature.
To customize which programs start when you boot your system, go to the Login Items tab under Dock, and uncheck the programs you want to stop from starting with the system. To add a program, click the small plus button in the lower right corner, and add the app.
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Lamar Theatre presents 'Sweet Charity'
Lamar Theatre will present Neil Simon's popular musical "Sweet Charity"April 10-13 in the University Theatre. Originally directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, the Tony-award winning musical tells the story of Charity Hope Valentine, a dance-hall hostess with a heart of gold and a past littered with bad relationships.
"Sweet Charity" premiered on Broadway in 1966 and contains popular musical numbers such as "Hey, Big Spender"and "If My Friends Could See Me Now." The production won the Tony Award for Best Choreography.
Lamar's production is directed by Deena Conley, chair of the Department of Theatre & Dance and professor of acting and directing.
"Sweet Charity is a musical comedy that I think audiences will really respond to and love," said Conley. "It's big, brash and stylized and has some great musical numbers. It's Fosse, so there are many opportunities for dance, and we're able to utilize both our actors and our dancers from the Department of Theatre & Dance."
Chloe Sullivan of Kountze stars in the role of Charity. The cast also features Hannah Barker, Beaumont; Aaron Michael Chang, Groves; Charles Collins, Kansas City, Kansas; Danny Grigsby, Houston; Baylie Fox- Lumberton; Shaudae Leftwich, Houston; Aaron McClendon, Kirbyville; Lexi McDonald, Cedar Park; Kierra McKay, Pearland; Luke Meyer, Wylie; Matthew Phillips, Nome; Tim Rodriguez, Port Arthur; Chaz Romero, Orange; Natalie Sell, Spring; and Evan Weathington, Beaumont.
The University Theatre building is located at 4400 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway on the Lamar campus. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. April 10-12, and 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 13. Tickets are $15 for general admission; $10 for senior citizens, students and LU faculty/staff; and $7 for LU students.
This play contains adult subject matter and is not suitable for young audiences.
Call (409) 880-2250 for tickets and additional information, or visit lamar.edu/theatre.


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- In rural Africa, there is love for soccer but sometimes a lack of resources
- Children often make their own soccer balls from rubbish and rope
- DIY soccer can bring joy to an entire village, said photographer Jessica Hilltout
Miles from the main roads, in rural Africa, soccer balls bounce unevenly. Playing fields are arid, lush, weedy, sandy—any flattish space will do. Goalposts might be made of gathered mahogany or driftwood. Some feet are bare, others shod in fraying sneakers, boots, rubber sandals. Yet children kick and chase handmade, lopsided balls with skill and abandon, competing for pride and joy—for the sheer pleasure of playing.
Has the "beautiful game" ever been lovelier?
Jessica Hilltout doesn't think so. In 2010, when the World Cup came to Africa for the first time, the Belgium-based photographer set out to see what soccer looked like far from the bright lights and big stadiums. What she found—over seven months, ten countries, and 12,500 miles—was a grassroots game where passion trumped poverty, a do-it-yourself ethic prospered, and one ball could "bring happiness to an entire village."
In the 30-odd soccer-loving localities she visited, in countries from South Africa to Ivory Coast, balls are spun into being with whatever's at hand: rag or sock, tire or bark, plastic bag or inflated condom. Each might last days or months on a field of gravel or hard earth. Wherever Hilltout went, she swapped the store-bought balls she kept in her car for these "ingenious little jewels," most of which were made by children.


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The "Most Wanted" page lists Agamaggan as having 1 submission and the "Player Activity" page shows 4 separate entries. I've noticed data discrepancies in other servers too.
These pages are both important tools in deciding what servers need a census the most, it just throws people off when the data is inconsistent. I don't know if this is normal, perhaps one updates before the other, if so I'd like to suggest that they get updated at the same time.
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There is a subtle difference in those numbers.
For the Most Wanted page, it is listed in the number of SUBMISSIONS. On the player activity page, it is listed as the number of ENTRIES.
One SUBMISSION can have multiple ENTRIES.
Make sense?
Basically an entry is anytime a full census scan completes. A submission is when someone uploads all their data, possibly containing multiple entries.
So, best bet is to always go by the Most Wanted page.
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Thanks for the clarification.
I actually use the Player Activity page more to get a gauge of the size of the server and so I know what hours are lacking scans.
Something else I noticed is the H:A ratio is based on the average Horde and Ally pop counting all hours, so if one faction doesn't have any peak hour submissions and the other does then they will get unfairly compared, am I correct in this assertion
Another bias comparison is weekend pop to weekday pop for the same hour, maybe if an abbreviation of the day was shown next to hour - faction average when theres only 1 entry or shown in place of the 1 entry, that might help the accuracy of the data.
Another thing that might throw off the graph and be misleading, although minor and less common is if one entry for one faction is from the beginning of the hour and the other factions entry is at the end of the hour, perhaps having an average entry time shown on the same column of the hour would help. If you implement this average entry idea, it would also be nice to make the average entry time a link to a list of all the entries for that hour showing when each entry was submitted, such as day of the week and the exact time.
I was also wondering if a scan starts at one hour and ends in the next hour, which hour does the scan get counted as
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As long as there's one entry, it would be useful to show what day of the week the entry is from.
For example if you see 1 saturday entry of Horde and one monday entry for Alliance, then you know the Alliance has relatively more people than the H:A ratio suggests.
The day of the week would only be shown if there's just 1 entry for that hour. If there's more than one entry, then it can simply show the average pop, although if all the entries are from the same day then it can list that day and if all the entries for that hour are from the weekend or weekday then it can show which one it's from.
If there's a healthy amount of weekday and weekend entries then it can show the % of which are from the weekend and weekdays.
The main purpose of this implementation is to help submitters run scans at hours underrepresented or not represented at all. The goal of this implementation is to have more accurate data and for deeper insight of the data. Rollie, I hope you consider implementing this idea into the 'Player Activity' page of WR. Thank you for your time and consideration of my idea.
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As is traditional, our annual clubhouse open day will be a fortnight after our annual exhibition.
This year, that puts it on Saturday 16th March, from 11am until 4pm.
Please contact us for details and an invitation.
As is traditional, our annual clubhouse open day will be a fortnight after our annual exhibition.
This year, that puts it on Saturday 16th March, from 11am until 4pm.
Please contact us for details and an invitation.
We're sorry to hear that the Pyn Valley Tramway will not be with us this weekend, due to health issues. We look forward to seeiing Christopher another time.
We are also sorry to hear that Klinkerhofen will not be attending this year either. However, its owner Norman Raven will instead be bringuing us THE GREAT WHITE RIVER NAVIGATION, EXTRACTION and STEAM PACKET COMPANY. This is a new layout, and this will be its second exhibition appearance.
The exhibition show guide is now available for you to download and plan your visit. Paper copies will also be available at the exhibition.
To download the show gude, follow this link...
With days to go, we have updated the website with details of all stands, layouts and societies at the exhibition. This includes the all-important information about stand numbers and in which areas of the exhibition the stands are located.
This year, we have a new area on the upper balcony on the second floor, which was used for the MERG anniversary celebrations two years ago. This time, it's a general exhibition area, primarily dedicated to larger scale model railways.
We have a total of 75 stands this year, with 26 featuring layouts, in a wide variety of scales and sizes, 32 traders, including 3 new traders to our show this year, and 18 societies, covering model railways, other modeling, and the prototype railways.
See full details here on our website.
Contact: Exhibition
We look forward to seeing you on the 2nd & 3rd of March
The 44th Annual Leamington & Warwick Model Railway Exhibition
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Saturday 2nd March 2019 from 10am until 5pm
Sunday 3rd March 2019 from 10am until 4pm
Royal Leamington Spa College
Warwick New Road, Leamington Spa, CV32 5JE
After the unfortunate cancellation of the March 2018 exhibition, due to the dangerous conditions, we look forward to welcoming you all back for our 2019 exhibition. The exhibition will be held at the same venue as the last few - the Royal Leamington Spa College on the Warwick New Road in the Warwick end of Leamington Spa.
Enclosed below is the front of the exhibition flyer which gives the basic information about the exhibition. As far as the content of the exhibition is concerned, we've tried to keep to the same exhibitors, layouts and traders as we had booked for last year. Obviously a few have changed, mainly due to layout availability, so as final details are confirmed we'll be adding further details to the other exhibition pages here on the website.
If you have any immediate questions, please contact the exhibition manager at Exhibition
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Turkish creationist Adnan Oktar: Catching up here with my notes - 2:
This originates from Nature, March 3, 2009, paywall:
A friend writes to say,
The main Turkish government agency responsible for funding science has provoked outrage by apparently censoring a magazine article on the life and work of Charles Darwin.
The article was stripped from the March issue of the widely read popular-science magazine Bilim ve Teknik (Science and Technology) just before it went to press.
There was a street protest meeting of the Darwinists carrying banners "We don't want Harun Yahyas in Scientific Institutions"Well, I am not paying a tonne to Nature to read the article protesting the fact that Darwin was not declared a saint in Istanbul.
I wonder why they think he would be.
Find out why there is an intelligent design controversy:
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After reading the Forensic Casebook article in the December 2007 issue, I believe the author, Mr. Palmer, is incorrect on several statements.
NFPA 70E clearly states that workers must first lockout/tagout (LOTO) equipment or systems — and the equipment or system is not considered de-energized until a test for no-voltage is completed. The author seems to have this task reversed.
NFPA 70E also states while conducting the test for no-voltage, the worker must assume all equipment or systems are energized and use the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE), such as FR clothing, rubber insulating gloves with leather protectors, face shield, hard hat, etc.?Mr. Palmer implies the victim did not need to wear PPE while conducting the test for no-voltage because he assumed the equipment or system was locked out and tagged out.
Any properly trained or qualified electrical worker knows that a "TIE" circuit breaker compartment could contain six energized ports or stabs, not three. Such a worker would know that unless both "buses" were isolated, the ports or stabs would be energized. The author excuses the victim's actions by stating that he may have assumed he was in a different CB compartment.
Anyone authorized or qualified to use voltage testing instruments, especially high-voltage detectors or meters, knows that these pieces of equipment typically do not indicate or detect voltage less than 1,000V. Also, most meters (except the new automatic reading kind) do not literally indicate the magnitude — this is interpreted by the user when selecting the appropriate range and again interpreted while reading the display. If the victim had performed the required and standard practice of testing the instrument to prove it is indicating properly before and after conducting the test on the equipment or system, he would have realized the meter was in fact working properly. Mr. Palmer ignores the test before and after, leading readers to believe meters display?more than they actually display. He also excuses the improper use of the "squawk box" detector.
The author also ignores another dangerous task performed by the victim. Workers should never use a low-voltage meter rated up to 600/1,000V on a medium- or high-voltage system, unless they have proven without a doubt that a medium or high voltage is not present.
My final comment is regarding the application of ground cables (temporary protective grounds). For many years, I have questioned the benefit versus risk of using temporary protective grounds. This case affirms my belief that more workers are killed applying or failing to remove temporary protective grounds than workers are saved by these cables. Salisbury and A. B. Chance have had available videotapes and information proving that unless workers use "equipotential grounding" techniques (which the victim was not preparing to perform), the temporary protective grounds will not prevent electrocution.
I believe the workers involved in this incident were not adequately trained or qualified to perform the required tasks. I also believe this article does not address the root causes of this event. Consequently, it will happen again and again, especially if we accept the author's findings.
— John Kaldon, president, Broad Run Consultants, Ltd., Coatesville, Pa.
Author's reply: Thank you for your thoughtful and well-considered discussion regarding my article. As with most electrical accidents, there is a range of contributing factors that leads to the initiation of such events and the severity of resultant damage. Because of constraints on time and space, as well as to preserve the anonymity of the interested parties, it was impractical to include every detail of the incident. The primary objective of my article was to alert electricians that they must be aware of the limitations of their test equipment, and alert manufacturers of test equipment of the potential dire consequences of cutting very simple corners.
While I chose (in the limited space of my article) to focus on the confusion related to the meter output and the perceptions of the victim, you are correct to observe that safety procedures exist that, had they been followed precisely, would likely have prevented or reduced the severity of the injuries sustained. By focusing on some of the unique circumstances of this particular incident, it's certainly not my intent to imply that the victim bore no responsibility. In nearly every electrical accident, some measure of responsibility lies with the controlling electrician. Nevertheless, the manufacturers who choose to ignore industry practices and safety standards must be held accountable for their decisions that result in a catastrophic loss or injury.
In the subject incident, the victim had received communication that the relevant portions of the switchgear had been previously locked out and tagged out by other personnel. He was verifying the status and applying safety grounds as a follow-up to the LOTO procedure. As you indicate, NFPA 70E does require that for the application of safety grounds, appropriate PPE should be worn, including a multilayer flash suit. His choice to apply the ground without the appropriate PPE is explained (but certainly not excused) by his belief that the equipment was de-energized. His confusion about which cubicle he was working in is not uncommon when manufacturers and owners do not clearly label the equipment and provide appropriate warnings (see "Forensic Casebook" on page 14 of the January 2006 issue).
In commenting what "anyone qualified knows," the assumption is made that in the urgency of the moment one may logically assess the information to come to a proper conclusion. One of the key principles of human factors is that ambiguity should not rely on reasoning for resolution. The manufacturer's failure to provide clear labeling on the display is not excused by the operator's failure to reason through the possible meanings of information provided on the display.
Your observation about the hazards of the application of protective grounds is interesting and deserves serious consideration for future amendments to the codes and standards. Of course, it would be unfair to hold a victim to account for not following a practice that has not yet won industry consensus. I would certainly encourage you to continue pursuing that line of inquiry.
I recognize certain safety procedures were bypassed and that those actions contributed to the accident. In the article, I highlighted other issues that also contributed to the accident. It is certainly my hope that the article is a reminder of the importance of following safety protocols, while making the reader aware of specific issues related to test equipment about which they may not have previously been aware. Thank you for your interest.
— John Palmer, Ph.D., P.E., C.F.E.I., manager, electrical engineering and fire investigation, Knott Laboratory, LLC, Centennial, Colo.
In "The Case of the Misleading Meter," I find it interesting that Mr. Palmer states, "Upon further investigation, I also uncovered that the victim had followed training requirements as outlined in NFPA and OSHA standards…" However, he appears to overlook the following requirement in OSHA 1910.333(b)(2)(iv)(B):
"A qualified person shall use test equipment to test the circuit elements and electrical parts of equipment to which employees will be exposed and shall verify that the circuit elements and equipment parts are de-energized. The test shall also determine if any energized condition exists as a result of inadvertently induced voltage or unrelated voltage backfeed, even though specific parts of the circuit have been de-energized and presumed to be safe. If the circuit to be tested is more than 600V nominal, the test equipment shall be checked for proper operation immediately after this test."
No mention is made of the electrician (victim) proving the proper operation of the test instrument. Had the instrument been properly tested, it should have at least raised the awareness in the electrician's mind that further investigation was warranted before proceeding to apply a temporary grounding conductor.
— C. Mark McClung, electrical specialist, Dow Chemical Co., Charleston, W. Va.
Author's reply: The cited passage of OSHA, which is similar to the wording in NFPA 70E, requires that the circuit elements be tested to verify that the circuit is de-energized, which is what the victim did. OSHA and NFPA also require that "the test equipment shall be checked for proper operation immediately after the test." While this is frequently interpreted to mean that the equipment should be tested on a known source, there is some ambiguity in the wording because a known source is not always readily available at the location where the equipment is being used. I am unaware, specifically, whether any action was taken by the victim to check for proper operation, but your observation that such a test may have raised his awareness of the hazard that was present certainly seems correct, if the method of checking for proper operation was specifically to apply the instrument to a known source. Nevertheless, there is no question of whether or not the equipment was functioning properly, only that the meaning of the output was unclear, so checking for proper operation by a means other than a known source would not have necessarily prevented the situation.
— John Palmer, Ph.D., P.E., C.F.E.I., manager, electrical engineering and fire investigation, Knott Laboratory, LLC, Centennial, Colo.


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Stephanie Burgis grew up in East Lansing, Michigan, but now she lives in Wales, surrounded by mountains and castles. Her first book, Kat, Incorrigible, was chosen by VOYA as a Top Shelf Pick for Middle School Readers. Her second book, Renegade Magic, will be published on April 3, 2012. You can read the first three chapters of both books on her website: http://www.stephanieburgis.com
She has written a guest post about why she write middle grade books. I'm also curious about that. Why do authors pick MG instead of writing for any other age level.
Stephanie has also offered up a giveaway of ARC of Renegade Magic!!!!! Details below.
First a bit about her books
Kat, Incorrigible
Katherine Ann Stephenson has just discovered that she's inherited her mother's magical talents, and despite Stepmama's stern objections, she's determined to learn how to use them. But with her eldest sister Elissa's intended fiancé, the sinister Sir Neville, showing a dangerous interest in Kat's magical potential; her other sister, Angeline, wreaking romantic havoc with her own witchcraft; and a highwayman lurking in the forest, even Kat's reckless heroism will be tested to the upmost. If she can learn to control her new powers, will Kat be able to rescue her family and win her sisters their true love?Renegade Magic
Kat Stephenson is back to cause more chaos! Stepmama drags the family to Bath to find Kat's sister a new suitor. But, unknown to most of its gossipy visitors, Bath is full of wild magic. When Kat uncovers a plot to harness this magic in the Roman Baths, she finds her brother Charles is unwittingly involved. Kat must risk her newfound magical powers as she defies the Order of the Guardians to foil the plot and clear her brother's name.


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The rocker was held by cops in the early hours of Saturday after lashing out when she was reportedly denied service at Portland's Bungalo Bar over concerns she was too intoxicated.
A source tells local newspaper the Willamette Week that Ditto left the venue and began causing a disturbance on the street by kicking off her shoes and screaming "Obama, Obama!"
The singer was taken into custody and later released on her own recognisance.
Ditto's mugshot and booking information have been published on the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office website.


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I'm Spanish, my children are Spanish, my grandchildren are Spanish. We here long, have become friends, have done business. And the accusations coming from Egypt are politically motivated
|Salem ,the sick old man "EPE"
Salem who will be extradited to Cairo claimed in front of the court that he only used that the Egyptian passport when he travels to Mecca.
I have one thing to say to Salem and his family : Egypt does not need you and the Egyptian passport should not be carried by someone like you at all. Already if it were not for Egypt and its fortunes you enjoyed and abused since the 1960s , you would not be able to travel to Spain in the first place !!
The Spanish passport should not be carried by someone like Hussein Salem and his family as well.
I do not know already if Salem is following his old friend Mubarak's steps and pretending to be an old sick man to win a sympathy in the court or what !!
The accusations of Salem are not politically motivated but rather justly motivated. In fact Salem should be very thankful because he is being accused of very light charges when it comes to his corruption.
Here are clips showing Salem and his family in Spanish court.
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
But .. at the end of it all, I got a LOT of music out of the series, a lot of comedy and bonding happy stuff, so not too much too complain about.
|2012-12-07, 17:40
|Link #2102
Join Date: Dec 2003
Age: 37
I think the series was trying to be focus more on the fun of "being in a band" (which was more as an excuse to do something together with a group of friends), and less on actually being a musician (which, to be honest, involves a lot of drudgery -- endless days and days of practice). Much of the "musician" focused stuff was in the periphery of the show itself (for example, the "Band Yarou-yo" CD/book series that featured practice tracks and charts for all the music in the show). I agree that this decision was probably not in small part to make the idea of making music more engaging to people who aren't so musically inclined -- it just seems like a lot of fun. (And besides, this is a high school club, so whether or not they can make a living out of this isn't really important.)
At the end of the day, music was more of a vehicle to convey a fun high school experience between a group of friends (which may be nostalgic for us as viewers). What mattered wasn't what they did, but that they did it together.
|2012-12-07, 17:46
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Senior Member
Not everybody gets this, of course, but I think it's at the very heart of why K-On! works. Say what you will about these girls, but there's a sincerity to them and their shared friendship that comes through beautifully, in my opinion.
I agree with you on Mio, though. I'm relieved the 2nd season made her a bit less of a scaredy cat. That really did get annoying at times in the 1st season.
|2012-12-07, 17:54
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Blooming on the mountain
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light....
Yep - heartwarming in a lighthearted way is a good way to describe K-On imo. But for me the thing that stood out the most in K-On was the outright buffoonery and silliness that they indulged in when around each other - one of the qualities that certainly characterized my group of friends in my hs years and even today, some 25 years later or so.
To be fair this is certainly not everyone's experience, but it certainly IS an experience that not a few people have been having through the centuries, whether one likes or has experienced it themselves or not.
|2012-12-07, 18:06
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Operation sneaky sneaks
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Hic et ubique
K-On! honestly feels more like a healing anime more than a comedy. When I watch the show, I don't find myself laughing at any outrageous slapstick moments, but rather, the endearing moments that present themselves every so often. I believe nostalgia was mentioned earlier, and in addition, K-On! is definitely heart-warming and even melancholic (especially in regards to the later stages of season 2) at times. From my limited understanding of what healing anime is, I would tend to say that K-On! seems to fall under this category (which encompasses anime like Tamayura), given that it possesses all these aforementioned elements (i.e. nostalgia, heart-warming moments, the odd melancholic tone here and there). From a personal standpoint, I can attest to its healing attributes
|2012-12-13, 07:12
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Young Aspergus Eater
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Canada
I loved this show and I just read all the chapters of the manga. K-ON! is a manga where you can relax and have a good time. You just have to smile and read/watch it.
The thing is that the "band" is just an excuse to form a group of girls who hanging out together. It's not really about the band, but about friendship and all the fun you have when you're at high school.
But I understand people who was disappointed because they thought it was an anime about music. However, I started to learn how to play bass when I watch the first season!
|2012-12-22, 07:57
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Inspired Musician
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Afterlife
I won't really know how to argue back if someone were to trash K-ON in my face like this but...
K-ON is so far the only slice of life anime I've watched. I watch very little anime, but this particular one caught my attention and I instantly became a fan (even before I finish s1). I don't know. Nothing else in any other slice of life anime had managed to catch my attention yet.
But I do agree that in the beginning i thought this was gonna be a serious music anime and I was excited for it because I love music but yet I dont know much about it. But at the end of the day, it's just a... I dont know how to describe but a "who cares about them playing music anymore or not?!" attitude for me.
Further more, the girls actually inspired many people into music and it's a good sign to expand music to more people. I actually pick up drums after watching this show even though Ritsu is not a good drummer and neither is she an example of "hardwork in practicing". It's just about having fun in doing what you like, which in this case is music. Before this I had the urge to learn before, but it died very soon. It was after K-ON that I finally pushed myself to play it and enjoy the moment.
So I don't get why some people feel upset about this show. like...
|2012-12-22, 09:32
|Link #2108
Senior Member
There were "all-girls" shows before K-On, of course, but I definitely think K-On helped them to really take off.
Shows like YuruYuri, Tamayura Hitotose, Natsuiro Kiseki, A-Channel, and several others like that... As different as they are from one another, I can see how K-On! was influential on them. I have my doubts that we'd have all of them if K-On! hadn't been such a rousing success.
Then there's the KyoAni factor - K-On's popularity influenced KyoAni's artistic approach. You see this in some Haruhi 2009 episodes, at times in Chuunibyou, and definitely in KyoAni's next work Tamako Market.
Some KyoAni fans are divided on artistic styles - Some prefer the Haruhi 2006/Hyouka style, while some prefer the K-On style.
Anyway, don't let those who are upset about K-On get to you. It's just the nature of being very popular. It's a rare anime show that's both very popular, and doesn't have many critics.
|2012-12-22, 11:57
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
|2013-02-03, 19:34
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The End of Light
Join Date: Mar 2012
As for the stuff beyond Play Store, well, I really have no idea. Be sure to read the comments first before you download outside of Play Store.
|2013-03-17, 14:23
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Brazil
I was reading as to if there is any progression for the story after the movie, and found out that there are 2 diferent mangas (bare with me, and correct my misunderstandings, if there are any).
- There is 1 manga that covers the High School scenario - Azusa and new members for the club
- 1 manga that covers the girs in the University.
If anyone, that has more knowledge than me, can correct these, and tell me the actual real manga that continues the story after the movie events, please tell me
|2013-03-18, 00:28
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Gamilas Rises
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 41
There were two manga that are set after the first group graduate from high school. They ran in seperate magazines coming out once a month for each of them (usually).
Yui's group goes to university, live in the same dorm and join the university's Light Music Club. That club has a lot of members, wth upwards of ten bands in it. We only get to really meet two of the other bands. One as the friend/rivals and the other as the "wait they play too?" group. The girls get more serious about schooling and less about music, though they still practise and have two concerts that I recall. The rival band is more serious about music and a lot of the panel time is spent on them interacting with HTT (mostly Yui).
The other manga follows Azusa in her last year of high school and her efforts to keep the Light Music Club going (as she is the only member). She easilt secures Ui and Jun, but needs a fourth to be an official club. In the manga Azusa is the only one that knows the songs and has an instrument, so she plays and sings alone for Freshmen orientation. She manages to score one from the concert, but also early on they find a blonde girl in the club room for weird reasons.
Both ended before a full school year, so we don't see Azusa, Jun, and Ui's graduation, nor what happens to them afterwards. Yui, Mio, Ritsu, and Mugi seem less inclined to be a band with the class loads and club fees (work needed) so it is unclear if they will continue on by the time Azusa might show up.
|2013-03-23, 04:50
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To the salt mines
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: God Knows...
Well, I think this is the appropriate place to ask this question...
So, I've always wondered about this: So what does "Moe Moe Kyun" mean? And is a phrase that originally came from K-On? And if not, where did it originally come from?
I've always wondered this after seeing Sena from Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai doing a variation of this also...
Spoiler for Sena Moe Moe Kyun:
Well, I hope someone answer me... Thanks...
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In the year 2010, a brand new sound was born. The Brass-A-Holics Band and the Go-go Brass Funk genre joined the ranks of the time honored traditions, culture and music that have come out of the great city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
The ensemble contains the core New Orleans brass elements – trumpet, trombone, saxophone and sousaphone, but also adds a full drum set, percussion, keyboard, and an electric guitar for a unique sound that is transcending the traditional world of brass band music. A Brass-A-Holics live show is a singular experience. Where else can you hear the influences of Miles Davis, Nirvana, John Coltrane, Wham, Cyndi Lauper, Kanye West, and Louis Armstrong all in one set?
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 15 diseños de 4 diseñadores freelance.
StartupFreedom.com - The Startup Freedom Club
StartupFreedom.com is a blog and newsletter to help people make money online and startup Internet businesses.
There is high demand to put what we teach on the StartupFreedom.com site into video training. Accordingly we recorded 50 hours of training videos and built a Wordpress membership site.
This video membership site can be found at http://www.startupfreedom.com/members/
The membership site currently lacks a top header image. We need a graphic designed and this header will be seen by hundreds of thousands of people!
All you have to do is copy the header from an existing site and make creative changes to the design to fit our brand.
If you nail this design and are an excellent communicator we will use you for a lot of projects in the days and weeks to come! Long term work goes to the winner of this project.
Our target audience consists of 2 different groups of people:
1) Males ages 25 – 55 that need to make money quickly and are looking to do so online.
2) Aspiring entrepreneurs that want to start and grow an Internet business.
Both groups want to make money and be a part of an exclusive club!
Please see my comments in the contest for up-to-date requirements and preferences. Thanks!
First visit the site http://www.StartupFreedom.com
Then visit http://www.MaverickMoneyMakers.com/club/
your job is to copy the top header area from Maverick Money Makers (see attached headerarea.jpg) and make creative changes to fit the StartupFreedom brand & colours.
The following must be included in the header image you will create:
- Top header: "Maverick Money Makers | The Club"
- The small message box with white text.
- The box with the slogan "The World's Most Elite Club For…"
- The testimonials box.
- The Logo on the right (attached).
- Buttons: "Want more money/ support / VIP Access / Tour?"
- Subtle dollar bills in the background.
Here are some preferences for the header image you will be creating:
- The name is "The Startup Freedom Club"
- Don't blatantly copy the MMM site. Get creative!
- Use the colors (black on silver) and the glossiness (shininess) that MMM uses to create exclusivity.
- Submit multiple designs with different layouts but I prefer the same layout as MMM.
- Use blues from StartupFreedom.
- The background image will be about money like MMM (subtle dollar bills in the background), no beaches or palm trees.
- No flying dollar bills or Ferraris. Keep it classy.
- The dimensions of every aspect need to be the same as MMM (960 x 660 overall)


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Big deed: Downtown house sets price record
Robert Vickery lives just a few doors down from the house he sold in 1996 for $395,000. But he might as well be living in Heartbreak Hotel.
On August 17, that same house, now assessed for $730,400, sold for $1.6 million, a 400 percent increase– and a new city record for a residential sale.
"You made me ill," replied Vickery when a reporter shared the sale price of the Greek Revival house at 521 North First Street in which Vickery, an architect, lived and raised a family for 21 years.
The fortunate sellers, Madison and Brooke Spencer, refuse to gloat, however.
"It never went on the market," reports Madison Spencer. "That's really about all I'm going to say about it."
Others are talking, though. A source who requests anonymity reports a three-way bidding war– with a starting bid at $1.2 million. That would still have been a record.
The previous city residential record was set by the 2002 sale of the house at 422 Second Street, which went for $1.065 million; it had previously traded hands in 1995 for $318,000.
And then there's the house at 705 Park Street, which sold earlier this year for $1,000,000, a windfall for its mid-'90s buyer, who snagged the house for $350,000.
Hindsight is 20/20, of course, and while Vickery says, "I wish I'd held onto it," he also believes he made the right decision at the time. "Our children had left home," he says. "We didn't need that big house. It had a large yard, and there was the upkeep of that as well."
Preparing to retire, Vickery built a smaller house of his own spare design on the last remaining vacant lot on First Street.
But he sees a downside to the sale for himself and for all his downtown neighbors.
"I'm concerned by the fact that the city just keeps jacking up property taxes," he says. "Now your house is worth twice what you paid for it, but where are you going to go?"
Frustration over skyrocketing taxes aside, his memories of his former home, called the Abell-Gleason House, remain fond.
Vickery says the house was built by the cashier of a local bank just before the outbreak of the Civil War, between 1859 and 1860. Though the basement is floored in concrete today, back then the floor was dirt. Long before Vickery owned the house, there was a popular urban legend that the cashier had buried gold bullion in the basement. "A number of people came by and tried to dig it up," he laughs.
During his time in the house, Vickery and his wife did considerable work, restoring the shutters, doing roof repair, and repainting the windows. They also restored portions of the interior, "always keeping the character of the home in mind."
But the Spencers also did significant improvements, say the house's new owners, Frederick and Mary Hitz, specifically a complete overhaul of plumbing and electrical systems– "all the things you don't see," says Mary. The Hitzes won't have much work to do, she says, and are planning only to uncover a fireplace that was converted to gas, and replace two bathrooms.
But nosy parkers had best not go spying on the Hitzes' new home– Frederick wrote the book on spying. Literally.
The former Inspector General of the CIA, Hitz was appointed by George H. W. Bush back in 1990 and has recently published The Great Game: The Myth and Reality of Espionage.
The Hitzes plan to reside full time in the house once they complete their move from Alexandria.
"We're going to live in it, cherish it, do what any family would do with it," says Mary Hitz. "We feel very lucky."
And though Vickery may not be feeling quite so lucky, he does take some comfort from the sale.
"I'm happy to see that the house will be preserved," he says.
The record setting sale: $1.6 million.


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Figuring It Out
Oh, M'Darlins
Dancing Authentic
Strawberries in Winter
Fairy Tale
Owls Galore
Clowning Glory + Creating
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More Birds
Waking Up
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This is Miles with his hand in the dog food bowl. He heads over that way each morning before I have a chance to pick it up and move it into the canine garage-lounge. This morning he was so into it that I just let him play in the bowl until he tired of it. His sleeper was covered in kibble dust in the end. I tried uploading the picture with his hand moving toward his mouth, but it won't load up. You can bet he did [that] a few times, at least....
He's been cranky all day, leaving me feeling like I want to throw myself off the Lake of the Woods bridge a few times. Won't eat, won't nap. Just cries and reaches for me all day long.
He is out for a walk with Daddy now and I miss him like crazy.
Went shopping at the local nursery today and found some yummy gifts to round out my holiday givins. Had to stuff my pockets full of cheerios to keep you-know-who decent inside the nursery building. On the drive home, we listened to one of his favorite cds and he bounced along happily. Short lived, but I was glad to have a few happy minutes in the car. It has a great version of Dylan's New Morning on it.
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I've not posted in too long! This week found me crafting up a storm to participate in a little local holiday street fair with some of my mountaingirl tribe, peddling our fused glass and felted wares. I had little time for anything else! Creating during the holidays is especially satisfying to me-making gifts for loved ones isn't something I make a point to do every year, so I'm really HAPPY to be doing it this year! Squishing the hot, soapy water into the smelly sheeps wool and listening to Christmas music-bliss, I tell you.
I want to point you to one of my favorite mamas on the web who interviewed me for her monthly "Mom to Mom" piece this month. Wendy has another post which demands attention from any readers who believe that the choice of co-sleeping should be left up to parents. There is a NY hospital detailed that makes its patients sign an agreement committing them not to co-sleep with their infants and toddlers. It is so disgustingly out of line for any establishment to refuse care to parents who choose to co-sleep. As if it is some kind of crime or secret guilty pleasure to sleep with one's baby! Egad. Please follow Wendy's link to voice your opinion on this matter. As much as I'd like to pretend my choices aren't often in danger, they are. Honestly, what is next?
If you love to laugh your ass off, listen to this. Oh my good heavens, I almost peed a million times. I had to listen twice. If you are a fan of The Office, go NOW.
Witnessing You
I want to remember vividly how you cried out when I picked you up to carry you inside on this particular morning. You seemed to say that the winter sun is never so warm in the morning as it is today! I had to pee and needed to warm my cold coffee and I was finished picking the deck's splintered wood from your crawling knickers that I pull on over your sleeper each morning so your knees won't soil. Every tinkle of the windchime caught your attention, each flap of the pirate flag standing in the corner of the yard on its side from your party nearly two months gone grabbed your eyes. Cats figure-eighted in and out between us yeowing and leaving us draped in long, tabbied hairs.
I want to remember that we left the yard that morning to come inside to get warm and huddle together over oatmeal that smells strangely of bacon. I want to remember the nights that have passed since then, the ones where you cried all night-or most of it-alternately pushing and pulling me toward and from with frustrated grrrrs of teething and sleeplessness.
The business of having babies is not a simple one. I am here purely because of my needling desire to witness your life as only I can. I crank at how lack of sleep interferes with that process, of how my own proneness to grieving the passing present moment tortures me. Built up, these two factions find me tippytoeing on a tightrope of feeling lost in a jungle of wire hangers and madly in love all at the same time. I owe you an apology for thinking I would never feel lost once you got here.
Babies don't cure our empty, gaping holes and short fuses. But you, my son, make this life sweeter than my feeble imagination could have dreamed it to be.
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"When you are on a journey, it is certainly helpful to know where you are going or at least the general direction in which you are moving, but don't forget: The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is." Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now.
The inner purpose is always revealing itself in new light for me. Sometimes I feel very far away from myself, like a disjointed tangent inside a storybook. I will pick up an old journal from time to time and I'm always amazed at how me I was then, and still am. The things I cherished yesterday were the same as they are today. The things I struggle with are archetypal grooves etched into my soul just for me to triumph over, repeating rhythmically like a piece of music.
The step I'm taking right at this moment is to notice how my outer journey changes, but my inner journey is the most important one and that it is static within my shiny core.
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Lewis Hamilton took pole position for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix ahead of Mark Webber, while Sebastian Vettel was excluded from the results after running out of fuel and will start from the back of the grid.
On the opening runs, it was Hamilton who was comfortably quickest, beating second-placed Vettel by almost half a second. Only Webber and Fernando Alonso got within a second of Hamilton's time, and though some did improve on the second runs Hamilton's first lap was enough to take pole position.
Webber beat Vettel to second place, and Vettel then stopped on track at the end of the session. He was told to pull over by his team on the radio and pulled up under the Yas Hotel in the third sector. Four and half hours after the end of the session the stewards announced that Vettel did not have enough fuel in the car for a sample and he was therefore dropped from third to the back of the grid.
Pastor Maldonado delivered an impressive lap with one run in Q3 to take third on the grid ahead of Kimi Raikkonen and Jenson Button. Fernando Alonso will start sixth ahead of Nico Rosberg, Felipe Massa and Romain Grosjean.
As always it was a close session during Q2, with a late lap from Rosberg knocking Nico Hulkenberg down to 11th place. The result was that both Force India's dropped out - sandwiching Sergio Perez - while Michael Schumacher will start 13th and admitted he'd made an error during the session.
Jean-Eric Vergne was the man to drop out in Q1 once again, spinning his Toro Rosso at the penultimate corner on his best flying lap. Although he was able to attempt one more time, the flat spots were too much for him to improve. Heikki Kovalainen was 18th, but there was a notable performance from Charles Pic - absent in FP1 - to qualify 19th.
Vitaly Petrov was 10th ahead of Timo Glock, Pedro de la Rosa and Narain Karthikeyan. There was also an incident which saw Perez block Senna early on, but the stewards only issued a reprimand.


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Actor/director Zach Braff has written an emotional "thank you" message to fans after his crowdfunded movie "Wish I Was Here" won rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival.
The star unveiled his movie project at the event in Utah over the weekend, garnering a positive response from critics, a distribution deal, and a star-studded turn out at the screening.
Braff made the movie using donations through Kickstarter.com, eventually raising more than $3 million, and he thanked his supporters for all their help following the Sundance premiere, writing in a post on his Twitter.com page, "To all of my KS backers, none of this amazing response at Sundance would be happening without YOU. I love each and everyone of you forever."
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Fergie set for Old Trafford
Darren Ferguson will take Peterborough to Old Trafford in the League One play-off final after defeating MK Dons 4-3 on aggregate.
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Craig Mackail-Smith signed off from London Road in style as his 34th goal of the season booked Peterborough a showdown with Huddersfield at Old Trafford in the League One play-off final.
The Scotland international will leave for bigger things in the summer but could help Posh to promotion first after his close-range effort sealed victory over the Dons.
Karl Robinson's side held a 3-2 lead from the first leg which was wiped out early on by Peterborough captain Grant McCann's free-kick.
And Mackail-Smith then struck in his final home appearance for the club to put Darren Ferguson 90 minutes away from his third promotion as Posh boss, with the match set to take place at Old Trafford, the professional home of his father, Sir Alex.
Mackail-Smith scored early during Sunday's first leg and had an quick chance again when Tommy Rowe found him inside the area but his low shot was turned around the post by goalkeeper David Martin as the hosts started strongly.
And they wiped out the deficit in their next attack with their 109th league goal of the season when McCann struck in the 11th minute.
Lee Tomlin was clipped to the right of the area and McCann stepped up to bend a free-kick over the wall and in at the foot of Martin's near post.
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The goalkeeper should have done better but the Dons recovered quickly and Angelo Balanta soon had Paul Jones scrambling to make a save at the other end.
Jones was in the Posh side as first-choice Joe Lewis fractured a kneecap during the first game and made some strong claims from a string of corners as Dons had a spell of pressure.
But it was Ferguson's men who came close to going ahead on aggregate when Grant Basey burst into the area and drove a ball across the six-yard line which narrowly evaded Mackail-Smith and James Wesolowski at the back post.
The ever-dangerous Mackail-Smith forced Martin into another save at his near post before the visitors should have equalised before the break.
A cross from the left found its way through to Daniel Powell and he smashed a volley past Jones which shook the bar before bouncing clear.
Mackail-Smith had barely touched the ball in the second period before he bundled in a second in the 54th minute.
Tomlin chipped a cross in from the right which Dons centre-halves Gary MacKenzie and Sean O'Hanlon made a mess of clearing.
ball fell for George Boyd and, although Martin did well to keep out his shot, Mackail-Smith was on hand to smuggle the ball in from close range at the second attempt.
The visitors immediately broke into the area and had claims for a penalty waved away when the ball appeared to strike Mark Little.
Tomlin then thrashed the ball in from a tight angle but referee Colin Webster had already blown for a foul on Boyd.
Tommy Rowe was next to be denied when his low shot was cleared by MacKenzie as Posh looked for the goal which would have sealed victory.
Martin had to be alert to palm a header over from his own skipper, Dean Lewington, as the clock wore down before Mackail-Smith hit the post after charging through a tired backline.
It was a poor finish but Ferguson's men completed the victory to set up an Old Trafford final with Lee Clark's Terriers next Sunday.


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On the Stereo: Grouper and the Ill Fit of "Noise"
This week's Bohemian column is on Grouper, a.k.a. Liz Harris, who plays this weekend's incredible On Land Festival at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco. Liz and I spent about an hour together in Portland, talking about everything from boyfriends to drug use to old jobs to Kompakt Records to sharing pieces of one's soul to justifying domesticity to high school to spent relationships, but not all of these things could neatly fit into a 700-word music piece. Besides, I made a conscious effort in some instances to honor some modicum of privacy on her part, since stalkers do exist.
Mainly what I took away from meeting with Harris is that she treats music much like visual art; to be digested slowly, and to not be mass-produced. One of the longer portions of our conversation that didn't make the cut, though, revolved around the misnomer of "noise" and the fact that a lot of experimental music released on noise labels and embraced by the noise scene isn't really all that noisy. Case in point: Since I have a one-year-old baby, I find myself listening to more rhythmless music after she goes to bed so she won't wake up; it's what most would call "noise" but the funny thing is it's beautiful nighttime music, and not antagonizing at all. Depending on one's tolerance for sustained cacophony, some of it is downright easy listening.
Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill is an excellent introduction to Grouper, it's true. I find Cover the Windows and the Walls to operate on a similar level of structure, wherein her melodies conjure the shoegazier side of Yo La Tengo as much as the Flower Duet from Delibes' Lakme. You could say it caused some excitement on its release. It's on Root Strata, who along with curating the On Land Fest recently hosted a series of shows inside Grace Cathedral utilizing said architecture's natural seven-second delay. Root Strata has some stellar releases under its belt—among them Common Eider, King Eider's Worn and Barn Owl's The Conjurer—and everything they do is worth checking out. Plus, Bay Area represent, duh.
Type Records kills it time and again, but the record of theirs I find myself playing with the most frequency is And in the Endless Pause There Came the Sound of Bees, by Jóhann Jóhannsson. Written to accompany a film, the score hits all the urgent swells and calm passages reminiscent of John Barry's less popular work; though I've no clue what the alleged film is supposed to be about, listening to the record is like being whisked through a storyline. It's utterly addictive. Honorable mentions for Type also go to Your Eyes the Stars and Your Hands the Sea by Seasons (pre-din), Kappe by Svarte Grenier, In Bocca al Lupo by Xela and the utterly breathtaking Going Places by Yellow Swans, all spending hours upon hours occupying my turntable lately.
I know little about the Miasmah label, other than I want to know more. Everything I've heard from them is top-quality, and like many of these labels, they have copious sound clips online. Although the cover art isn't as striking as Kreng's L'Autopsie Phenomenale de Dieu or FNS's S/T LP (both excellent records, really), I'm drawn most to Jacaszek's Treny record of late. Chamber strings, calm soprano vocals, minor-key meanderings and a workable cohabitation of serenity and dread. Miasmah is set to release the home run of their career with Marcus Fjellstrom's Schattenspieler, due Sept. 13; some preview tracks for the album reveal the Swedish composer at his finest and most evocative yet.
Iceland's Bedroom Community label has been on a roll, what with Sam Amidon's much-acclaimed I See the Sign LP (traditional folk songs, none well-known, delicately arranged; the album also contains one R. Kelly song). Most of the players on that markedly calm record contribute to Ben Frost's razorish By the Throat, a scenario not unlike, say, Will Oldham suddenly singing over an orchestra of power tools or something. Prominent like Shakespeare on Bedroom Community is Daníel Bjarnason, and his risk-reward masterpiece Processions. It reminds me of a certain defunct experimental ensemble from Santa Rosa called Triste Sin Richard—pulsing, daring, and joyous.
That brings me to Pan Records, who actually do release antagonizing noise, albeit in shockingly elegant fashion. Each of their first nine releases features mysterious black-and-white images printed on inverted cardstock jackets; those are then housed in a thick transparent polymer sleeve silkscreened with busy linear patterns. The effect is porn for graphic design freaks, basically, and being limited to just 330 copies each makes them collector's gold as well. I can't possibly pick a favorite release on Pan, although Ilios' Kenrimono is notable for being entirely sampled from pachinko parlors in Japan, and Evan Parker and John Weise's C-Section is a total blast. I warn you, though: this label is like Ikea. Once you buy one Pan record, you will want them all.
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Fore! Golf is catching on in China
As Adam Scott and Angel Cabrera captivated golf fans in a sudden death playoff at this year's Masters Tournament, a young golfer with far less experience also made headlines.
Fourteen-year-old Tianlang Guan was the youngest player ever to compete in the Masters. The Chinese teen was the only one of six amateurs competing in Augusta, Ga., to make the cut. Despite finishing near the bottom of the pack with a 12-over par, Guan impressed fellow competitors and galleries.
For a country with a relatively brief history in golf – its first modern golf course was built in 1984 – the eighth-grader's success may represent a new direction for the sport in China.
There are more than 300 golf courses in China, and more are being built annually. But unlike the easily affordable and accessible public courses in the United States, most of those in China are at luxurious country clubs reserved for the financially elite.
"It's definitely like a social status, to be a member at a big club and have that opportunity just to play," said Cyrus Janssen, an American who serves as the lead instructor at Shanghai's world-renowned Sheshan International Golf Club.
"In China, in Asia, golf is more than just a sport. It's a lifestyle," he said. "That's the type of lifestyle they're looking for."
Yan Wang is the chairman of the board of Changchun Guoxin Investment Group, a Chinese private enterprise company that got its start in real estate development in 1998. Wang, 55, said he began playing golf out of curiosity 10 years ago and now played several times a month.
Because he travels so frequently, Wang has memberships at golf clubs all over China. He often finishes business trips with rounds of golf with his colleagues.
David Lee, who helps develop and build golf courses in China and also works as a consultant for the championship-quality Tomson Golf Club in Shanghai's Pudong district, said it was understandable that golf was out of reach for most Chinese.
"The boom of interest in golf, as you can see throughout golf's history, goes with the economic growth, hand in hand. Whether it's the U.K., the States or Japan, Korea or Taiwan, now China . . . economic growth, and then there's more people interested in golf," Lee said.
According to Lee, golf's popularity in China took off in 2002, around the same time the country's economy did. That year China's gross domestic product soared past $1 trillion as strong growth in exports, foreign investments and consumer demand boosted the economy.
As China's wealthy became richer, more people could afford pricey memberships to golf clubs, such as Tomson's $200,000 price tag.
Members at Tomson enjoy a clubhouse with five-star amenities, including a second-floor restaurant that overlooks the championship-quality course. Female caddies dressed in pink pull golfers' bags through the 18-hole, 7,400-yard course and past sparking water hazards with the Shanghai skyline in the backdrop.
Many Chinese never will get the chance to play. And those who do often don't understand the game's rules and etiquette, Sheshan instructor Janssen said.
Sheshan hosted the World Golf Championship-HSBC Champions from 2005 to 2011, a tournament won by players such as Phil Mickelson and Sergio Garcia. Janssen recalled seeing many people spitting, smoking and taking photographs at the matches, behavior that doesn't fly with golf's traditions and has become taboo during professional tournaments.
Janssen thinks that as Chinese golfers gain experience, though, that understanding will improve.
"Every year it gets better and better, people are getting more knowledgeable," he said. "Even in social rounds, when people go play by themselves, less and less people use their cellphones. . . . It's only going to take time."
Along with that increased knowledge of the sport's tradition, there are many young people in China getting started with golf. Not far from Sheshan is the Tianma Country Club, where a small group of golfers ages 8 to 16 are working to improve.
The academy works in partnership with the Yani Tseng Sports Management Co. Tseng, a 24-year-old Taiwanese professional golfer, has twice been named LPGA Tour player of the year.
Arnaud Garrigues, senior vice president and the director of instruction at Tianma's academy, said his students were dedicated to getting better each day.
"We try to be very focused," said Garrigues, who works with 18 students in the program. "Try to do some relaxed training, have competitions between each other to keep it fun. They have to understand that just because they're having fun doesn't mean they can't learn and improve."
Jenna Gao, 16, has been training at Tianma for nearly three years and now participates in the school's long term program. She began playing with her father at age 10. She said she loved the hard work she did in the program, as she hoped to play professionally one day.
"I like this lifestyle," Gao said. "It's hard to explain. I just love it."
Tianma's long term program charges about $14,000 for a full year's tuition. While that's more than most in China can afford, Guan's success may spark an interest in more youths to take up the sport on their own and may get more people playing.
That new direction will surely take time, though.
Golfers "are getting more exposure . . . starting to travel abroad. More tournaments are coming to China," Janssen said. "As time continues, there will be more and more tournaments here, because the growth is out here."


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I just got the 1/4 scale Boba Fett vinyl model produced by Screamin. However it came with no box and very badly photocopied instructions (was cheap but due to this). I know that Kit builders magazine did an article on how to "improve" this kit and was wondering if anyone had a copy of it lying around they could scan in for me? I cant get the issue on back order and but know it was issue #22 kitbuilders. Any help would be great.