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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
her words.
in the morning, she yells from her room. mawm! mawwwwwwm?
i yell, liiiiiiiiiiii-laaaaaaa! i hear you, as i stumble out of bed.
she hippopotamus stomps all through the hallway yelling, EAT!
i have waited to hear the word mom for 4 years. i would hear other girls her age yelling for their mother in the hallway at church and i wanted it to be for me. grief is like that sometimes. it just kind of yells at you when you least expect it.
in the past, lila would say mama if i asked her to repeat it, but now it has meaning behind it. and that is key. actually that is huge. words have meaning behind them. they carry weight.
and as i think about this for her, it makes me want to cry. i love words. and isn't it fitting that my daughter would have very little? that God would show Himself to me through my daughter who can't communicate with me the way i want her too or the way others expect her to?
and so here we are, with our own language. half signs. half words. half understanding sometimes but fully understanding that it doesn't really matter how she speaks or how strange we look communicating together. we're talking to each other, however clumsy it appears.
sometimes i'm so excited that she's communicating, i find it difficult to punish her.
donnnn-tuh! (don't!) and she slaps my hand away as we cross the street. she has sunglasses on and her purse full of popsicle sticks, an old phone, and some pennies. she looks at me with sass-a-frassness. and i try not to laugh.
i sign and say, stop. the cars will hit you. and i clap my hands. she gets tickled about the clap and laughs at me. and then i laugh. lila marie, you are too much. and she grabs a cart and says, dis won. ook. dis won (this one, look, this one), pointing to the giant-cart that we don't need, but must ride in or tantrums abound. for a child with few recognizable words, she's quite bossy.
and i always think, wait. who's being taught the lesson here?
oh, that's right. me. i feel God whispering to me, this isn't even about you and lila. it's about me and you.
because i don't like clumsy and awkward. and i don't like "no label" for her special needs label. i'm sitting in the uncomfortable.
you know, where growth happens. in the mundane and awkward spaces of our lives.
regardless, she's changing and growing up... brimming with personality and independence. and without language it feels counterintuitive, like trying to eat a steak with chopsticks. but she's getting there.
her school and her teachers are an incredible blessing. i'm a little bit obsessed with her teachers and lila obviously is too. as seen when she dressed up like her speech therapist for halloween (and her therapist dressed up like lila! still can't get over the cuteness of the whole thing).
i sat in her class for the halloween party and tried my very hardest not to cry. one, because reality slaps me in the face... my child has great developmental needs. oh ya. this isn't normal.
and two, because the love and dedication oozing from the teachers is an incredible vision. you are a treasure and an answer to many prayers for this mother who felt alone in her struggle to get help for her daughter. so many people told me no. she'll catch up! she'll be fine.
and there i am yelling/begging/crying on the phone (my 80th phone call), she's not fine! she looks fine, but she's not fine. please help her.
and when i look at the people who finally believed me and who believe in sweet lila, i have an overwhelming sense of gratitude.
special needs teachers are a gift to this world. thank you to all of you who have dedicated your lives to this profession.
and thanks to all of you who continue praying for her. she is making great strides this year and we can't wait to see what the future holds for her. regardless of what label she gets (or doesn't get).
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Oh Jami,ReplyDelete
I can't even stand how much I love your lila. She is just the most delightful little thing.
And I love you too, and I love that you write about this with so much boldness. And I love how Lila blesses me over and over again even without many words. And it's crazy to think that's how God is building His kingdom. Through a lot of us with all kinds of special needs.
posts like this are why i read your blog. she is precious, jami. so very precious.ReplyDelete
what a wonderful post.ReplyDelete
and it brings back some memories over
the struggles i had with my little boy (and
still kind of continue to have but it's mostly me).
praying for your sweet girl and for you tonight.
Sounds like you are doing well- I think it's really awesome you are putting forth such an effort to communicate with her. My sign language professor was just telling us today that her kids became verbal faster when they signed first so I thought it was super interesting that you do that with Lila a bit, obviously it works. I love your blog, it's always uplifting.ReplyDelete
I can imagine it would be difficult to not see your child progressing in the same ways as other children...but there is something else she has that they may not...her heart is so full and she finds more creative ways to get across her needs...that is SOOOO smart! I adore your writing and soul behind this and think you have a great blog!ReplyDelete
A label for Lila - Sweet Little Learning Girl. You have a great, adorable family. Thank you for sharing your story.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful story!ReplyDelete
praise jesus.ReplyDelete
LOVE this post.
elijah said mama on his own in january. at three. and now, nearly a year later? he is talking SO much. sometimes we can even understand.
we too are ridiculous grateful for special needs teachers and therapists, GIFTS indeed. so yes. i am learning umpteen lessons, too. and i am mad weepy and thankful to read another mama's words that echo my own.
so glad you shared sweet lila some more. love you. #presson xo
- AnonymousThursday, November 15, 2012
Omg, I am crying. Happy for you. sending this straight away to my sped friends! Go Lila!ReplyDelete
Well shoot. I'm reading and looking at these pictures along side your incredible playlist and I feel like crying. Quit doing that to me. This post is a blessing this morning because one of my best friends has a 4 year old daughter with undiagnosed developmental disabilities and hasn't yet heard the words "mama". In fact she's never even received a hug from her daughter with true meaning behind it. I grieve for her and realize that I take those very things for granted far too often. I am passing along this post to her today. ~Bri~ReplyDelete
You are an amazing woman :)ReplyDelete
That last picture is just beautiful, made me cryReplyDelete
Her and her ST dressing up as on another just might be the cutest thing I've ever heard! What's blessing they are to her!ReplyDelete
i will never tire of how God uses the difficult to bring glory to Him and draw us to closer dependence on Him. never.ReplyDelete
you are such a blessing.
This is so touching. Thinking of you and your sweet girl. God Bless you both.ReplyDelete
I am fully convinced there is no such thing as a "normal" person. We all have special needs, they might just be more hidden. You are truly showing the love of Christ to her by caring for her despite her inability to communicate like people typically do. This is how God is constantly treating us--with patience and love in spite of our inability to do anything for him.ReplyDelete
She's the sweetest! I get you about not wanting to punish them. I'm the same way with Timothy. Somehow his speech is so much clearer when he is being defiant. I'm the bad parent trying not to let him see my smirk and giggle when he's being naughty.ReplyDelete
Your words always strike a chord in my heart. Your words are beautiful. You are beautiful and that sweet Lila is BEAUTIFUL!
Jami this post was so great! Lyla is such a beauty and I'm so glad that she's finally getting the correct education that fits her needs! Praying for your family...for healing...and for your heart sweet Mama!:)ReplyDelete
Jami this post was so great! Lyla is such a beauty and I'm so glad that she's finally getting the correct education that fits her needs! Praying for your family...for healing...and for your heart sweet Mama!:)ReplyDelete
I couldn't agree more. My sister-in-law teaches special needs. Now, as I hear more about her job and today having a special needs child of my own, I realize how much their job has gone unnoticed by me in the past. Now, I really see it, and I see how truly gifted they are to do what they do. Invaluable in my book. She has helped me so much with my Lil'. So glad to hear of Lila's improvements. I can absolutely relate to your own little language as well. It really puts me out there in public, where typically I would prefer to blend into the crowd. But, I have never been more thankful for a selfish discomfort in my life because it has revealed those ugly parts of my heart I would so desperately try to keep hidden. Keep on playin' player. Thanks for the post. :)ReplyDelete
she's such a beautiful little girl. praise God that His grace can be seen through your little one. He is working, relentlessly working.ReplyDelete
Thanks you for sharing this part of your story with us. I see God in your response to the challenges you face in your mothering and it is both an encouragement and a "dude step up your spiritual game" to me in mine. So yep. I appreciate learning from your words, and from the smiles and sassafras of your little lady. God bless yall real good.ReplyDelete
From a mama w a little guy with autism - believe me, she is just beginning to amaze you!!!! she will continue to knock your socks off, leave you breathless & hammer more nails in strengthening your board of faith than few others can do in this world!!!ReplyDelete
keep on lovin'.
as a mama to a bright beautiful frustrating 3 yr old bluebird with sensory processing disorder and "maybe something else we are just going to observe"that appears to be fine but isnt quite... i appreciate reading your heart and rejoice with you over triumphs! also incredibly thankful for teachers that just love.ReplyDelete
will be praying for you and lila!
Oh Jami.. you are such a great Mom, Lila is so blessed to have you. God did a great job pairing you two! thanks for inspiring us all!ReplyDelete
I love this post. I love the love you have for your sweet girl and for our Father. Bless her. Bless you and Bless those sweet teachers. I'm so happy that you guys have found a place that brings such happiness to your family.ReplyDelete
This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing your words and Lila's with us. What a reminder that He is good and kind and wise. Praying you and your girl have sweet & even sassy exhanges in the days to come. xoReplyDelete
It is so good to hear she is doing well. You are right, however clumsy it appears, you are communicating and communicating with ones mother is so important in this life. I wish you all the best.ReplyDelete
I cried through this whole post! I love your heart.ReplyDelete
a prayer goes out to you and your sweet family.ReplyDelete
Yes, God bless our kids' special teachers. They go above and beyond and keep on even when they hit the same developmental/emotional wall with our little buggers again and again. And God bless you, Jami, for being open and honest on this journey, and for not giving up the fight for what is best for little Lila Marie Von-Schnitzel, even when the drs told you to. You rock, a thousandy-times-ten. I'm praying for her. We finally got a label for our "unknown" kid this year: autism. He's nine. There were a lot of no label years. His older brother has autism and bipolar disorder and wears his ASD very differently so we didn't see that one coming. But God had provided Isaac with almost all the therapies he needed, even without the label.ReplyDeleteReplies
I think you could have hiked up her scrubs at least another 2 inches!! She is so sweet!ReplyDelete
these posts sit with me, resonate with me so much. steak with chopsticks. genius words. and i love special needs teachers, too.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFriday, November 16, 2012
Your daughter is inspiring. Look at that face! And your love for her overwhelms me--God is good, Jami.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFriday, November 16, 2012
Beautiful post. Lila is gorgeous and I have no doubt she will do great things in her life. :-) Praying for you, I know patience can be hard when there is so much unknown and you are looking for answers. Trust in God's timing and know that you are the best mother for Lila, He hand picked you for her!ReplyDelete
What an amazing school she seems to be at! She's so blessed to have parents willing to address things head on right away. I bet Lila will continue to blow you away. I will be praying for your family.ReplyDelete
I can't really get over the sweetness of that face. What a gift, that you're sharing her progress with us.ReplyDelete
Hi Jami, first visit to your blog and got reading about Lila and the previous post you did for lee jeans.. So they are different but had a story I wanted to encourage you with- My little sister Tanha was born with a rare sydrome called Perabon (I don't even know the spelling- not even google does) , she was born with a cleft pallet but was lucky enough to be ok otherwise(this syndrom usually results in missing limbs), anyway, straight to the point- she was the last of my parents 4 children and it was a big scare, we didnt know she had this condition for a while and was blue and not breathing great. Then my mom got her on oxygen and many operations, tears, wierd feeding methods, tongue ties and speech therapy later and Tanz is one of the most loved 13 year olds you could ever meet. We have a big age gap but flip I love her, and even though they could never totally fix her mouth and her speech isnt perfect she is super confident and funky and adventurous. Infact she is the most fearless of my younger siblings. I know this is very different to what Lila might be going through, but I just wanted to encourage you that different sometimes means stronger, bolder..In our church of 1000 people most people know my sister, people just love her:) No doubt in my mind, Lila will only be stronger for a slightly harder start:)ReplyDelete
Stop it. She dressed as her speech therapist and her speech therapist dressed as her??! Can't stand it. So cute.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousThursday, January 03, 2013
I love this post! I think about you and sweet Lila all the time. She is truly a gift from God. This reminds me how important my job really is to all of these children and their parents!ReplyDelete
Reading about the communication problems with Lila reminded me of similar issue a friend of mine had with her daughter. They tested her hearing and it came back perfectly fine. Eventually they tested her eyes and learned that she needed glasses. After a few months of wearing glasses her speech and communication skills improved greatly. I felt I should share this with you just in case it was something that had been overlooked for you as well.ReplyDelete


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Providence Health & Services Patient Relations Representative (Southern Oregon Region) in Medford, Oregon
Providence is calling a Patient Relations Representative to its Southern Oregon Region Primary, Family, and Specialty Care clinics as well as our new Patient Call Centers. This position represents all of the Patient Relations Representative opportunities Providence has available in So. Oregon. We seek day shift (and some evening shifts), full-time, part-time, and on-call staff members.
Submit your application today! Those who are qualified will we receive a request to complete an on demand digital interview . Please be sure to complete the on demand digital interview within 1-2 days from receipt of the email request. Your application and video interview will be reviewed and you will be submitted to current openings based on the preferences you have indicated in your application and video submission. If there are no current openings that match your preferences a recruiter may reach out to discuss other closely matching opportunities. When reviewing your status in the system, you may see additional positions that you are under consideration for by the hiring team. Please keep your eye on your email as you may receive additional information on your status as well as request(s) to self-schedule an in-person or live video (Zoom-like) interview via Modern Hire with the hiring team.**
Our Specialties and/or Clinics:
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*Staffing Float Pool - Float to various clinics
As a Patient Relations Representative, you will:
Be the first point of contact to patients or visitors in person or by phone.
Play a key role in maintaining a high level of patient satisfaction by providing exceptional customer service.
The position represents our Patient Relations Representative positions for all of our Southern Oregon sites. Below is a listing of the locations/services offered and covered by this posting:
Required qualifications for this position include:
High school diploma or equivalent
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Basic computer skills including Microsoft Windows and Office applications
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Basic experience with electronic medical records (EMR) and/or computerized billing systems
Medical terminology experience
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As the largest healthcare system and largest private employer in Oregon, Providence offers exceptional work environments and unparalleled career opportunities.
The Providence Experience begins each time our patients or their families have an encounter with a Providence team member and continues throughout their visit or stay. Whether you provide direct or indirect patient care, we want our patients to feel that they are in a welcoming place where they can be comfortable and free from anxiety. Our employees create the Providence Experience through simple, caring behaviors such as acknowledging and welcoming each visitor, introducing ourselves and Providence, addressing people by name, providing the duration of estimated wait times and updating frequently if timelines change, explaining situations in a way that puts patients at ease, carefully listening to their concerns, and always thanking people for trusting Providence for their healthcare needs. At Providence, our quality vision is simple,
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Providence is consistently ranked among the top 100 companies to work for in Oregon. It is also home to two of our award-winning Magnet medical centers. Providence hospitals and clinics are located in numerous areas, ranging from the Columbia Gorge to the wine country to sunny southern Oregon to charming coastal communities to the urban setting of Portland. If you want a vibrant lifestyle while working with a team highly committed to the art of healing, choose from our many options in Oregon.
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As expressions of God's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of Jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
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Schedule: Full-time
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Job Category: Patient Services
Location: Oregon-Medford
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Thanks to: Alexis Finch, Sketchnotes / UX Research Consultant @agentfin
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Thanks to: Alexis Finch, Sketchnotes / UX Research Consultant @agentfin
Filed under: Customer Development |
absolutely love it!
Thanks! Steve is such a delight to sketchnote. A real treat, particularly since it's a topic I deal with so often as a UX Mentor.
Seems pretty simple. The hard part, having been through it a few times (once on the venture track and several times on the corporate "intrepreneuring" track), is to a) Avoid being enamored with "the idea", and b) Stay focused enough to carry out the little section on the middle upper right of the diagram, between the building and the test beakers. Steve might have been saying this back when I went through this process under VC funding, and his guidance, but nobody else was: "Who will buy this? Why will they buy it? How will they buy it? What are their other options (i.e. Why might they not buy it?) ". If you can't answer that, then you either have the wrong idea (go back into the "building", or just start over with a different idea), or you have the wrong business model. My experience is that there are not really that many business models, or at least not that many that are attractive (i.e. make lots of money and profit), so usually it's back to "the idea"… Scott
Steve, may we post?
Happy Holidays,
George Leopold
Executive Editor
EE Times
Twitter: @gleopold1
EE Times
Steve, re my upcoming article on student entrepreneurship, will you write me a pithy paragraph or few lines as discussed? Cheers, Jason Ma
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What about my choice then? He's also got his age going for him to be King Randor.
What about my choice then? He's also got his age going for him to be King Randor.
the problem with choices is that its all personal opinions and we all have noe Who I think is a good actress someone might think as horrid.
Who cares what I think in terms of cast for the new He-Man movie.
I care. But I'm sure it doesn't go much further than that.
I'll have faith that they'll pick the right people for the roles, until proven wrong.
We've really got no other choice in the matter.
Not worth fussin' over...
But boy it is fun to do... Thus the threads I suppose.
And all that said...
Angelina Jolie as Evil Lyn?
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We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing. -George Bernard Shaw
Nate Baertsch Illustration Blog
The problem with Angelina Jolie and other big name stars is that they are just too well known for their other roles and tabloid headlines to really be convincing as the character. I know a movie will require some big names to give it credibility but I'm hoping the mega-stars will be kept to a minimum.
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I hope that they don't pick up teenagers for the parts of Adam and Teela. Please don't do that!!
I seriously don't want that at all.
hmmm. Interesting thought about no teens. I dunno how I feel about it. Maybe 19/20 year olds?
I think that the cast should be assembled from no names, small screen and one or two big names. I dont think everyone in the film should be a big star.
I don't have a dream cast. I just want people casted who can do the roles right. And have very few real celebs in roles in the film. And no Angelina Jolie. I'm sick of her.
"I mark the hours every one, Nor have I yet outrun the Sun. My use & value unto you, are gauged by what you have to do."
Enscribed onto Hermione Granger's Time Turner from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Luke and Leia were 18 years old in A New Hope.
On second thought, and based on what Pig Boy said, Hugo Weaving might be too expensive to have as a secondary villain like Tri-Klops. I still think that he'd fit the role perfectly, but he might be too pricey.
I can't imagine Jonathan Frakes being that expensive though, considering how many ensemble TV show casts he's been a part of. So, I'm sticking with him as my King Randor choice.
If the Rock has lost a lot of muscle mass, then he might not be able to pull off He-Man. If so, that Aquaman dude from Smallville certainly looks the role, and isn't a big enough name actor to cost a huge load of cash.
"I'm not just crying for Hordak. I'm crying for the saddest thing I know - a wasted life. To be given that most precious gift - the gift of living, to do with as we choose. I'm crying, because this man has chosen to throw it away, and when he goes, nobody will care..." - She-Ra ( "My Friend, My Enemy")
We have done a lot these threads over the years already ya see so we''ve covered the fun aspect plenty of times.
I just think we need to refine and give the movie makers really strong ideas.
Look at how X-men was casted. I don't think it's unreasonable to think that Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry or Kelsey Grammer wouldn't have been choosen had it not been for fans?!
He-Man/Adam: Paul Betthany.
Skeletor: Hugo Weaving or John Glover.
BeastMan: Tyler Mane.
Man-At-Arms: Nick Nolte or Gary Busey.
Teela: Jessica Biel.
Stratos: Viggo Morgenstein or Ewan Mcgregor.
Adora/She-Ra: Playboy playmate Sarah Underwood or Scarlett Johanson.
TrapJaw: Bruce Campbell.
Evil-Lyn: Kate Beckinsale.
Voice of Orko: Tom "Spongebob" Kenny.
Sorceress: Sharon Stone or Michelle Pfeifer.
Hordak: Frank Langella (The guy who played Skeletor in the original He-Man movie).
Voice of SwiftWind: Liam Neeson.
Man-E-Faces: Michael Ironside ("Scanners", "Total Recall").
Voice of Broom: Steve Carrell.
Bow: Jess Franco.
Scopria: Selma Hayak.
Catra: Kelly Hu.
Manteana: Doug Jones.
Frosta: Natasha Heinstrech ("Species").
Glimmer: Elizabeth Berkley or Michelle Trachenberg.
Voice of Kowl: David Hyde Pierce.
Voice of Horde-Prime: James Earl Jones.
What do you think of my ideal choices? sexy choices on the gals don't you think?
I can't speak for Berry and Grammer, but I think that the chances of Stewart being cast were excellent with or without fan responses.
The way I see it, this thread is to come up with our dream casts and the people we think are best for the roles, regardless of budgetary constraints. At the same time, if we want, we can post a few more "realistic" casts, although that might be better suited for a different thread.
This is fun. Well, since Warner Bros. gave us Matrix, Troy and 300 I'm sure the cast, fight choreography and sets will be amazing.
My picks-
Skeletor/Keldor: Jeremy Irons
Evil Lyn: Monica Bellucci
Tri Klops: Dominic Purcell
Beast Man: Michael Clarke Duncan
Trap Jaw/Kronis: Karl Urban
Adam/He-Man: Zac Efron/Jason Lewis
Duncan: Sean Bean
Teela: Evan Rachel Wood
Zodac: Taye Diggs
Sorceress: Lena Heady
...and I'm spent...
Mandola [my band!]
Don't hate me cause ... (I'm Da Man)!
Carlo Hooks you up thread, just click HERE!
Hugo Weaving Skeletor: Princessss Adora. How good to speak with you again, Princess Adora. How I dream of the day of cleansing Eternia of the cancer which is your family.
Adora: Skeletor. Still absoring people to make minaturized duplicates of yourself, I see.
Hugo Weaving Skeletor: Oh yes. It's quite fun to make everyone just like me. Do you like what I did to the weather around here?
Adora: ....
Hugo Weaving Skeletor: In any event, Princessss Adora, I've seen the future through my viewing globe. I saw it when I absorbed the Sorceress, and made her one of me. You're going to die here, Princess Adora. The rest of me is simply going to watch the show!
Keanu Reeves He-Man: Whoa...
"I'm not just crying for Hordak. I'm crying for the saddest thing I know - a wasted life. To be given that most precious gift - the gift of living, to do with as we choose. I'm crying, because this man has chosen to throw it away, and when he goes, nobody will care..." - She-Ra ( "My Friend, My Enemy")
Well, she was born in 1952, so what 55 now? Wow, I completely didn't realize she was one of the Tok'Ra grand councilors in Stargate SG-1.
Dallas Comic Con 2006
"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings, but freedom isn't free."
She really looks like the Filmation Evil-Lyn in the first pic.
BTW how old is Lyn supposed to be? She has white hair - around 50-ish?
She's a sorceress, she can look any age I would guess.
In my MotU world, I figure she's a bit younger than Randor and Marlena. Say between Adam's age and his Father's age? In her 30's?
Stands to reason, when Keldor is probably their age or close to it.
She came across as younger than Keldor in the MYP toon.
And then when you pull in that famous issue of the comic, vol. 3 issue #5... Where we all believe that is Keldor who time traveled back to before King Grayskull's time to take her and the ram staff from the Faceless one... Well there the plot thickens now doesn't it? She was a baby, Keldor was at least in his late teens if not his twenties, maybe even early thirties?
That is, if eternians age like earthlings...
How's that for a bunch of geek talk eh?!
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing. -George Bernard Shaw
Nate Baertsch Illustration Blog
I figured Evil-Lyn had white hair because she was a sorceress, not because she was old. I mean, in the flashback episode, her hair is still white.
My dream cast for the MOTU movie:
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ACPI Wakeup
|System Wakeup
- 1 Introduction
- 2 BIOS setup
- 3 Prepare your Linux distribution
- 4 Using /proc/acpi/alarm
- 5 Using /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
- 6 Troubleshooting
- 7 Additional source of info
- 8 Extra Information
- 9 User experience
Most users tend to leave their mythTV system running 24 by 7. This page describes the options you have in Linux to shutdown and automatically wakeup your machine before a recording. A glance at your last electricity bill shows you just how expensive electricity is. You can save energy and money. [read more]
- Your options
- Hardware time switch - a cheap power switch and a simple cronjob to shutdown the machine can do magic.
- Wake On LAN - have another machine on your network wake your mythTV machine
- Use the BIOS - most machines have an option in the BIOS for time-controlled booting
- Use the BIOS
The Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification is an open industry standard first released in December 1996 developed by HP, Intel, Microsoft, Phoenix, and Toshiba that defines common interfaces for hardware recognition, motherboard and device configuration and power management.
The ACPI Real Time Clock Alarm Function can be used on your mythTV system to wake-up your machine at a certain time and/or date.
If you don't have an ACPI-compliant BIOS, you could use nvram-wakeup instead, which is a small program which modifies the BIOS settings memory (NVRAM) directly. (not recommended) All modern BIOSes should support ACPI, however.
BIOS setup
If you want to use ACPI to wake up your mythTV system, you first need to ensure that your BIOS has support to wake. Check your BIOS for the alarm function. This setting is likely found under a sub-menu of "Power Management" "APM", or "Advanced" - you just need to poke around to find it. It will likely be called something like Wake from RTC, Wake From Alarm, RTC Resume, etc.
Note: There are a lot of fussy BIOSes out there. In some cases you need to disable the RTC alarm function is the bios to make things work. After you have set the RTC alarm from Linux, it could be that you not see changes in the BIOS but it still works. This is what we call Fussy Bios.
- UTC, localtime and BIOS date format
If supported by your BIOS, set the time to UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). If not supported in the BIOS you need to recalculate the time before you write it to the BIOS. (one hour difference in most cases)
Also check the format of the date and time are stored in the bios. Most likely the format is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
Write down these values, can be useful later ;-)
Prepare your Linux distribution
The ACPI interface in Linux has changes with kernel 2.6.22. Make sure you understand what kernel version you are using:
Check your kernel version
uname -a
- Kernel > 2.6.22 and higher use /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
- Kernel < 2.6.21 and lower use /proc/acpi/alarm
Check if interface exists
- /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
Kernel > 2.6.22 and higher use /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
ls /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
- format of the /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
1. Instead of accepting a formatted time, wakealarm accepts the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970. (e.g. 1214837639 = Mon Jun 30 16:54)
2. If you want to change the wakealarm time, you first need to reset the time.
If you can't find /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm, and you're running a modular kernel, it might be the case that the correct module is not loaded. In that case, make sure the rtc module is unloaded, and then load the rtc-cmos module:
rmmod rtc modprobe rtc-cmos
- /proc/acpi/alarm
- Kernel < 2.6.21 and lower use /proc/acpi/alarm
ls /proc/acpi/alarm
- format of /proc/acpi/alarm
1. Year-month-day hour:min:sec - yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss - (e.g. 2005-12-29 10:10:04)
- ACPI enabled
Check if ACPI is enabled in your kernel and working.
$powersave -S ACPI
Disable hwclock updates
On most machines it's required to make a small change to the Linux shutdown procedure. When your machine goes down, most linux distributions write the system time/data back to the bios. On MANY machines the machines never wakes-up after a time/data update. It's recommended to make this change before you start. See below for more details (distro specific),
Most linux distributions write the current system time back to the bios when shutting down the machine. Some BIOSes refuse to wake up if the hardware clock is modified after the alarm timer has been set. To avoid that the current system time is written back to the hardware clock it required to change your startup scripts. This is distribution specific, so here are some examples:
- Gentoo
Set clock_systohc to "NO" in
- Set CLOCK to "UTC" if your system clock is set to UTC (also known as
- Greenwich Mean Time). If your clock is set to the local time, then
- set CLOCK to "local". Note that if you dual boot with Windows, then
- you should set it to "local".
- If you want to set the Hardware Clock to the current System Time
- during shutdown, then say "YES" here.
- You normally don't need to do this if you run a ntp daemon.
- If you wish to pass any other arguments to hwclock during bootup,
- you may do so here. Alpha users may wish to use --arc or --srm here.
/etc/sysconfig/clock holds a switch to write back system time to the hardware clock
==> SYSTOHC="yes" # Is set to "yes" write back the system time to the hardware # clock at reboot or shutdown. Usefull if hardware clock is # much more inaccurate than system clock. Set to "no" if # system time does it wrong due e.g. missed timer interrupts. # If set to "no" the hardware clock adjust feature is also # skipped because it is rather useless without writing back # the system time to the hardware clock. ==> SYSTOHC="no"
- Ubuntu & Debian
/etc/init.d/hwclock.sh with the following will fix this problem:
stop|restart|reload|force-reload) ==> ACPITIME=`cat /proc/acpi/alarm` if [ "$HWCLOCKACCESS" != no ] then if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] then echo "Saving the System Clock time to the Hardware Clock..." fi [ "$GMT" = "-u" ] && GMT="--utc" /sbin/hwclock --systohc $GMT $BADYEAR if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] then echo "Hardware Clock updated to `date`." fi ==> echo "$ACPITIME" > /proc/acpi/alarm
- Fedora Core 6
/etc/init.d/halt with the following will fix this problem:
==> ACPITIME=`cat /proc/acpi/alarm` [ -x /sbin/hwclock ] && action $"Syncing hardware clock to system time" /sbin/hwclock $CLOCKFLAGS ==> echo "$ACPITIME" > /proc/acpi/alarm
Using /proc/acpi/alarm
Before making complex scripts, do a simple test to ensure that everything works: Check if the wakeup function works: The commands set the wakeup time to 5 minute from now, regardless of whether the RTC is in UTC or locatltime and then turns off the machine.
# echo "+00-00-00 00:05:00" > /proc/acpi/alarm # shutdown -h now
If you're machine does not start 5 minutes later, check the following:
Here are the commands to check that you have ACPI working.
$powersave -S ACPI
Check that you have the alarm function in /proc/acpi/alarm. This prints out the RTC Alarm clock from the BIOS. (Note: If you have a 2.6.22+ kernel, see next section instead.)
$cat /proc/acpi/alarm 2005-**-29 10:10:04
Check that you can write a new time to the RTC Clock Alarm (you will need to be Root) Format is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
#echo "2005-12-29 10:10:04" >/proc/acpi/alarm
Check that it was written, shut down and wait for it to wakeup.
#cat /proc/acpi/alarm 2005-*12-29 10:10:04 #shutdown -h now
For example (Assuming bios is in localtime):
Wakeup time format: yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss Set wakeuptime command: sudo sh -c 'echo $time > /proc/acpi/alarm'
Using /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
Beginning with kernel 2.6.22 /proc/acpi/alarm has been removed and replaced with /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm. The key differences with the wakealarm interface are:
- Instead of accepting a formatted time, wakealarm accepts the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970.
- If you want to change the wakealarm time, you first need to reset the time.
- You have to make sure that your bios clock is set to UTC time not localtime otherwise it will wakeup at the wrong time
- Simple test
echo 0 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm echo `date '+%s' -d '+ 5 minutes'` > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm cat /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
cat /proc/driver/rtc
This should return some number. Shutdown your computer and see if it comes back up in ~5 min.
shutdown -h now
- Script
Warning: This part needs a better explanation, with some good samples - If you have some free cycles? Think you need to set mythtv-setup If you need seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01) set the "Wakeup time format" to "time_t".
This acpi-alarm script will function with the new sys wakealarm interface or the old acpi/alarm interface
#!/bin/sh # $1 is the --settime switch that nvram-wakeup normally expects # $2 is the date/time in seconds since 1970 DATE=`date -d "1970-01-01 $2 sec" "+%F %H:%M:%S" -u` SECS=`date -d "1970-01-01 $2 sec" "+%s" -u` # Save the wakeup time echo "$*" > /myth.wakeup.args echo $DATE > /myth.wakeup.time echo $SECS > /myth.wakeup.secs if [ -e /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm ]; then echo 0 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm echo $SECS > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm fi if [ -e /proc/acpi/alarm ]; then echo $DATE > /proc/acpi/alarm fi
If leaving the RTC wakeup alarm on the BIOS worked with the old interface, you may need to disable it when migrating to the new interface.
rtc_cmos: probe of 00:03 failed with error -16The solution is to rebuild your kernel with the above two options excluded (find them under Drivers -> Character Devices) and the various RTC interfaces (found under Drivers -> Real Time Clock) included. From a .config point of view CONFIG_RTC and CONFIG_GEN_RTC must be unset and, at a minimum, RTC_INTF_SYSFS must be set.
Getting autostart using alarm can be quite frustrating. Here's some tips on getting it working.
Check your hardware
Check if your BIOS supports ACPI/RTC You will need to have a motherboard that supports both ACPI and a Real Time Clock Alarm Functions in the BIOS. Check your BIOS and look for a tab similar to "Advanced Power management".
The wake-up function is provided on most modern boards by the ability to "wake from RTC alarm" - setting a date and time in BIOS will cause the computer to power itself on and boot at the set time. This setting is likely found under a sub-menu of "Power Management" "APM", or "Advanced" - you just need to poke around to find it. It will likely be called something like Wake from RTC, Wake From Alarm, RTC Resume, etc.
Initiate manually
The following example will set the wakeup time to 5 minute from now, regardless of whether the RTC is in UTC or locatltime. You may not see the change in the bios, but it should still work.
- if you are using the /proc/acpi/alarm interface
echo "+00-00-00 00:05:00" > /proc/acpi/alarm
Check that it was written, the format is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
cat /proc/acpi/alarm
If the year part looks like "0007" instead of "2007", change +00 with +2000; Shutdown your machine and wait for it to wakeup
shutdown -h now
- if you are using the 2.6.22+ rtcX interface
echo 0 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm echo `date '+%s' -d '+ 5 minutes'` > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
Check that something was written
cat /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
Shutdown your machine and wait for it to wakeup
shutdown -h now
UTC or localtime
Remember, your bios time might be in UTC rather than local time using:
# echo "+00-00-00 00:05:00" > /proc/acpi/alarm
will set the wakeup time to 5 minute from now, regardless of whether the RTC is in UTC or locatltime.
Since the wake-up time given by mythtv to the mythtv wakeup command is in local time, you need to do some bash handling of the obtained time to be able to setup the wakeup time in the bios in UTC (independent of daylight savings time and such). The following bash code might help here:
#!/bin/bash stamp_file=/home/mythtv/timestamp echo $1\ $2 > $stamp_file # If using mythwelcome you can try the next line instead on the one above. #echo $1 | sed "s/T/ /" >$stamp_file # Read the date in the locale time format and add the time-zone info to the stamp_file datum=$(/bin/date -f $stamp_file +%F\ %T\ %z) echo $datum > $stamp_file # reinterpret this in utc and write to alarm utcdatum=$(/bin/date -u -f $stamp_file +%F\ %T) echo $utcdatum > $stamp_file #rm -f $stamp_file #echo $utcdatum >/proc/acpi/alarm
As you noticed the echo to the acpi-alarm is commented out by default, because it is really better to check first if everything is working correctly (time format the same on your bios and such).
An alternative script to the above is the following:
#!/bin/bash stamp_file=/home/mythtv/timestamp #just log what we get as command line parameters echo $1 $2 $3> $stamp_file #I set mythtv to output the number of seconds since epoch #so I calculate the number of hours, minutes and seconds from #now the computer has to wakeup: sfn=$(($2 - `date +"%s"`)) # Offset from GMT as the awk function does timezone correction. tzone=3600 #and then send it to /proc/acpi/wakeup in the format we saw above y=`(echo $(($sfn - $tzone))|awk '{print strftime("+00-00-00 %H:%M:%S", $1)}')` echo "$y">/proc/acpi/alarm echo "$y">>$stamp_file echo "executed at `date`" >> $stamp_file exit
This works on a lot of different EPIA and ASUS Motherboards, and is not dependent on the timezone you use in the bios.
Set wakeup time two times (FUSSY BIOS)
For some motherboards, it is required that you set the wakeup time two times, otherwise it will not wake up.
echo "2005-12-29 10:10:04" >/proc/acpi/alarm && sleep 1 && echo "2005-12-29 10:10:04" >/proc/acpi/alarm
More glitches (FUSSY BIOS)
- Another possible glitch is, that the option 'Resume By Alarm' (or whatever it is called) is set to Enabled but wake up using
/proc/acpi/alarmonly works if the option is set to Disabled. Sounds weird but works with some boards.
- On many boards, when the RTC setting is enabled in the BIOS, it will wake only from a time set and saved from BIOS setup, and not from a time set outside of the BIOS setup environment - as we want. All of the boards the original author of this document needed this setting disabled to correctly wake with ACPI. This is the recommended starting point.
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Extra Information
Activating ACPI support when compiling your own kernel
The setup of /proc/acpi/alarm is done in kernel file drivers/acpi/sleep/proc.c and controlled by the CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS flag. You can test support for you architecture by going to you kernel source and do:
$grep -r CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS arch/* arch/x86_64/defconfig:CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y
( Processor type and features ---> [*] Support for hot-pluggable CPUs) so that "CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y" in the ".config" file. After this it is possible to set ([*] Sleep States) under ACPI support.
User experience
Moosylog - March 2007: Works fine with MSI RS482M-IL and openSUSE 10.2 after I made the following change to /etc/sysconfig/clock.....SYSTOHC="yes" to SYSTOHC="no".
Turpie: Works great with the Asus M2NPV-VM. Rad: Yep, but needs a recent bios version
Murph - April 2007: Works also great with the Legend QDI Advance 5/133E.
mythwog: No problems with ECS PT890T-A. Simply wrote wake up time to /proc/acpi/alarm, halted, and system wakes up.
Fuchur - August 2007: Had to replace the wakeup script with the one from http://www.mythwiki.de/index.php?title=HOWTO_Mythwelcome as my mythshutdown produces another time format. Otherwise it seems to work so far.
Mattwire - September 2007: Works fine with MSI K8NGM2-FID and NC6120 laptop running Ubuntu Feisty and Gutsy. Both require modification to /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh to save the wakeup time.
Dumdideldum - September 2007: Works with Epox 8rda+ running Ubuntu Feisty. It is important to disable the wakeup on rtc in the Bios and editing the /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh as described in the Ubuntu guide linked in the section below.
Pkendall - September 2007: Works fine with MSI K9NBPM2-FID running Ubuntu Feisty. As above, edit the hwclock.sh file and make sure Bios RTC wakeup is disabled.
Jmwislez - September 2007: Problem with ASUS P5GD1 motherboard (BIOS v1.014). Writing 'echo "2007-09-09 14:15:00" > /proc/acpi/alarm' works perfectly, reading via 'cat /proc/acpi/alarm' yields the expected '2007-09-09 14:15:00', but the system doesn't start at the specified time. After a manually initiated boot, 'cat /proc/acpi/alarm' yields '2007-09-00 14:15:00', with '00' for the day.
Thewizzard - October 2007: Works with MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR, be sure to use the hwclock.sh script and have it set the time two times.
Spitzbub - December 2007: Works with Biostar NF325-A7, be sure to modify your /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh script (or equivalent) to set the wake-up time again after the --systohc, as described above under Fussy Bios.
Per Olofsson - December 2007: Works very well with Asus P5GC-VM motherboard and Debian lenny with Linux 2.6.22. I don't use the "fussy BIOS" hack since I only suspend the system instead of shutting it down.
KIB - February 2008: Shuttle XPC model SS58G2 / SS58v10, motherboard FS58V10 works with Mythbuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14. Required BIOS settings - PM Wake Up Events -> IRQ8:enabled, PCIPME:enabled, Powerup by Alarm:disabled. I use /proc/acpi/alarm interface and the patch to hwclock.sh and hwclockfirst.sh is requred as above. Wake on LAN works as well - just add "ethtool -s eth0 wol umbg" to /etc/rc.local .
imcecil - April 2008: Work for Asus P5n-E SLI Gentoo 2.6.24 configured the Kernel as required above but used time_t as the wakeup time format (time since epoch) which seems to work when echoed straight to /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm.
Cymen - April 2008: Works great for PCChips P53G but be sure to only have the rtc-cmos module loaded (not the rtc module -- if rtc module is loaded, unload both rtc and rtc-cmos and then load rtc-cmos again and the device will appear in /sys...). Blacklist the rtc module or don't compile it in (the option in under "character drivers" is the one to be excluded).


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Jolt Awards 2014: The Best Utilities, August 05, 2014 The best programming utilities of the year
Ever since the days of UNIX, developers have appreciated the benefits of small single-purpose utilities that do one thing particularly well. These little programs are no longer so little, but they still focus on addressing one problem and they often fill the cracks left open by large packages that inexplicably leave out a key feature or implement it poorly.
In this category of the Jolt Awards, we examine just such handy software tools: the ones that repeatedly save us time or remove an annoying pain point and, in general, just make software development easier.
As such, this category covers a wide range of interesting, often inexpensive products, that make sense to have in your toolbox when need arises. As usual, the top product won the Jolt Award. Normally, the two runners up are awarded Productivity Prizes, but this time there was a tie for third place, so we have three Productivity prizes. We round off the list with the two other utilities that made it through to the final round.
As always, the judges use the tools extensively, discuss the pros and cons among each other over several months, compare notes, and then vote in secret for the winners shown here. What is clear from this year's winners is that UX has really become a much more important factor than in years past. Vendors are spending more time making their products intuitive. This is certainly one of the less-discussed benefits of the post-PC era. Software that does not work well right out of the box seldom gets a second chance.
Note that anyone judge, reader, vendor can nominate a product for consideration in the Jolt Awards. There is no entry fee. From the pool of nominees, the judges choose the top products to be finalists, where they are given a much more detailed workout and analysis; after which the voting takes place. To nominate a product for future categories of the Jolt Awards, see the Jolt calendar.
The Jolt Judges for this category were: Andrew Binstock, David Dossot, Robert DelRossi, Atul Khot, Gastón Hillar, and Mike Riley.
We thank the sponsors of the Jolt Awards: Rackspace and Safari Books Online for providing us the tools to assess various nominees. Now on to the year's best utilities…
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The stereotype of cats and dogs is that when they get together, they fight like — well, cats and dogs. But this isn't necessarily the case; felines and canines can live harmoniously under one roof. It's important to choose a cat and a dog who will get along, though. While there are certain dog-friendly characteristics to look for in a cat, the best place to start is with your dog.
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Dogs who are exposed to cats during their primary socialization period, from about two to nine weeks of age, are more likely to be relaxed around cats in their adult life. Breeds with a lower occurrence of predatory behavior may also be less likely to chase after a cat. Keep in mind, though, that while one dog may be fine with a cat, two or more dogs living under the same roof may feed off of each other, creating an increased chance of multiple canines chasing, seriously injuring or killing the cat. If your dog has a tendency towards predatory behavior — meaning he likes to chase after other animals — or if he has injured or killed other animals in the past, a multi-pet household is not the best option for you.
Keep in mind that the risk doesn't only extend to the cat; there can also be a danger to your pooch if your cat and dog start scrapping away. Brachycephalic dogs, for example, have an increased risk of eye injuries. Because of this, when I was looking for a cat to add to my two-Pug home, my father, veterinarian Dr. Marty Becker, was adamant that I look for a relaxed cat who would be unlikely to swipe out in fear, since it takes only one hit from a claw for a dog to lose an eye, especially for dogs with bulging eyes and shorter noses.


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DURANGO - It was the rivalry game.
The latest boys basketball rendition of Montezuma-Cortez High School and Durango didn't disappoint.
Both teams played tough defensively, resulting in some offensive inefficiency on both sides.
But it was the visiting Panthers that came out swinging. Strong team rebounding and strong post play by Briston Walker gave M-CHS a 19-16 lead at halftime.
Things were looking good.
"The first half - that's probably the best half we've played the whole season," first-year Panthers coach Cory Gropp said. "We looked really, really amazing."
However, early in the third quarter, the Demons applied pressure with a full-court press.
The Panthers weren't ready.
Up 21-18, Durango's frustrating pressure forced M-CHS into four straight turnovers. William Frownfelter's layup gave the Demons a 23-21 lead and the home fans new energy.
Gropp tried to calm the storm by frantically signaling for a timeout to the officials. But the refs didn't see it.
Another Durango steal and a Ty Elliott 3-pointer upped Durango's lead to 26-21. The Demons' run grew to 14-0 and a lead of 32-21 in the third, which proved to be the difference in the game.
The rivals played nearly even from there, but the Panthers didn't have a run of their own in them.
M-CHS lost Thursday night, 56-44.
"That third quarter, we turn the ball over four times. We couldn't get out of that hole. That's what killed us," Gropp said. "I can't count how many times we worked on press break where the ball's on the opposite end and the other guy comes in the middle (and steals the ball). We just had a mental lapse. I don't know what it was."
M-CHS (3-11, 0-5 5A/4A Southwestern League) has traveled a long road since Dec. 21. Now the Panthers come home for five games. But coach Gropp knows his team has to start winning if it wants to play in its district tournament.
"We have to go 5-0," he said. "If we go 5-0, we'll get the second or third spot in districts."
For three quarters Thursday, M-CHS played like a winning team. But a bad third frame allowed Durango (10-4, 3-2 SWL) to basically put the game out of reach, as it built a 48-26 lead.
The Panthers only connected on 2-of-20 3-pointers (Alex Lopez and Brackin Whiteskunk).
Durango opened a 9-4 lead early in the second quarter before M-CHS started chipping away. Down 12-8, Walker scored back-to-back layups to tie the game at 12.
Caleb Kennedy hit a long 2 for Durango, but Walker answered back down low to knot the score at 14.
The Panthers first lead came at 15-14 after a Jaron Carver free throw. Tallon Ralstin found Walker below the basket for two more to give M-CHS a 17-14 lead. The Panthers lead remained three at halftime and they led 21-18 early in the third before the Demons decisive run.
"It was a tough loss," Gropp said. "The first half was amazing. The second half was that third quarter. That's all."
Walker paced the Panthers with a double-double of 14 points and 11 rebounds. Whiteskunk scored 11 and Lopez tallied seven points. M-CHS committed 25 turnovers.
Elliott led Durango with 12 points, while Nick Hamlin chipped in 10.
The Panthers will play in the friendly confines of Ron Wright Memorial Gym for the rest of the regular season.
"It's going to be nice to have a five home game stretch and get our crowd behind us," Gropp said. "It's nice not having to travel to Grand Junction and other areas."
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Weaver Pitches 7 Shutout Innings to lead the Angels to their 6th Victory While the Ink Dries on His Brand, Spanking New Contract
We were not going to go to a game this week. Yes, we had originally planned on going to Tuesday night's game, but then the unexpected trip to Yosemite came up and it just seemed like too many things…Until Jered Weaver's press conference. I think Weaver got a great deal from the Angels. But at the same time, I am as touched as everyone else that he didn't wait to shop around as a free agent, potentially leaving significant dollars on the table to stay with the organization he grew up with.
Listening to the press conference on the radio at lunch on Tuesday and hearing Weaver say, with warmth and tears in his voice, 'I just couldn't see myself anywhere else but here,' 'How much more money do you really need?' and 'Watching all of the Angels alumni return to throw out first pitches for the 50th, I want to be part of that brotherhood.' I was thrilled. I was proud. I was moved. Heck, I even shed a few tears myself. There's just something about tough guys being moved to tears that causes a few of my own to roll down my face in sympathy. And suddenly, I really wanted to go the game on Wednesday and be part of the crowd cheering our admiration and thank yous when Weaver took the mound for his next start. I can't imagine sharing that with my non baseball fan friends. It's not like I know the guy, or much of anything about him outside of baseball. So I know they wouldn't understand needing to go to the game at that point in the slightest. But at the same time, I'm certain you all get it. 🙂
Reason #3,987,542 (give or take, it's a really long list!) my husband is the best ever? When I texted that I after listening to the press conference I wanted to go Wednesday's game after all. Could we go if I could find cheap tickets? He responded almost instantly with a 'Yes, please.' He was listening to the press conference too. So, many, many thanks to the Angels fans who decided to part with club level seats for $10 each. Were it not for the generosity and/or last minute changes in plans of fans such as yourself, I would sit at home a lot more often than I do. 😉
So, long story somewhat truncated, we got to see the Angels mini-sweep the White Sox (I just can't think of a two game series as a full series, sorry!), winning their sixth game in a row. The whole evening was perfect. We even got to the game in time to check out some of the warm ups which with our jobs and So Cal traffic, never happens:
The Angels bats went on a terror and guys found ways to get and base and score in a welcome trend I hope to see continue into the fall:
We saw seven Jered Weaver shutout innings followed by shutout innings from Bobby Cassevash and Fernando Rodney – note, he isn't coming in when it counts. Smart. Very smart:
And I got to see one iteration of my dream Peter Bourjos/Mike Trout outfield live and in person for an entire inning once Trout pinch hit for Vernon Wells in the 8th. Trout promptly knocked the ball into left field for his first big league pinch hit. So many firsts! *sniffles* Our baby's growing up so fast! ;):
From our vantage, we even caught random goofiness in the bullpens…or, invoking the Roger Rabbit Only When it's Funny Clause, chose to infer random goofiness:
And then, there was this. I hate the kiss cam. In fact, I think it's so stupid and pointless that until you all set me straight, I assumed it was a uniquely So Cal thing. We So Cal folk seem to need our beach balls and other lame distractions at perfectly good baseball games *rolls eyes* so it made a disturbing sort of sense. However, this season cheeky humor has arrived at the Big A. Finally, the sound guys have caught up with the times and play sarcastic music and sound effects when the visiting team strikes out, has a meeting on the mound…you know, like other teams do. In keeping with this sense of fun, the camera folks have continued their goofiness with the Kiss Cam's last victims each evening from where they left off with the Indians Bullpen back in April. The visitor's bullpen is a common target, as is the visitor's dugout – an injured Evan Longoria blowing kisses at the camera from his perch on the rail was a high point. But announcers, programmers and sound crew from visiting and home team alike aren't guaranteed a pass either. By now, this is a sufficiently well known prank that the victims usually play along, increasing the humor value considerably. The White Sox bullpen was no exception:
And, of course, all's well that ends well. Light that baby up! Hey, Shakespeare wrote it…except, you know, for that Angels-centric part there…and now you can read it on the Internets, so it absolutely has to be true:
Now, let's do it again, but in Texas shall we? I am so excited for this series! Ervin Santana and Jered Weaver are both even pitching on short rest to help get it done. Clearly the Angels are feeling extra competitive and I love it!


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LPL Financial launched a retirement plan platform to help employers provide their workers with an improved 401(k) experience, the firm announced Monday.
"For something that is most people's primary asset at retirement, [401(k) plans are] light on real advice and education," Bill Chetney, executive vice president for LPL Retirement Partners, told AdvisorOne on Friday. "The biggest gap in the 401(k) industry is participant experience."
For many participants, Chetney said, the extent of the advice they get in their 401(k) plan is to be lumped in with participants with similar characteristics. "They ask their age and say, 'OK, we're going to stick you with the other 30-year-olds," he said.
The Worksite Financial Solutions platform helps sponsors and advisors provide more in-depth advice to plan participants regarding their investments, and helps employees assess their own financial wellness and identify the best solution for their needs when they leave the plan. The platform can be branded for the advisor or the plan sponsor and can be delivered online or in person, Chetney said.
"The first leg" of the platform, Chetney said, "is to take away the onerous task of creating an investment portfolio from people with limited expertise." To do that, LPL partnered with Morningstar for the advice component of the platform. LPL advisors will meet with participants to help them "invest on a discretionary basis, regardless of what's offered in the investment menu."
LPL partnered with Financial Finesse for the education component, or the "second leg" of the platform. "We're very focused on financial literacy and wellness," Chetney said. He pointed to employers' increased focus on employees' physical wellness in order to keep them productive as a precedent. "Employers are seeing the same thing in their employees' financial lives. Stress isn't helping them be productive."
The platform will help create an educational program tailored to each work force, Chetney said, and will survey participants to create individual wellness reports as well as a consolidated report for the company as a whole.
Finally, the platform includes a transition component that LPL originally launched in May to help employees manage their assets when they leave the company to retire or change jobs.
"Historically, people would take a job and stay until they retire 40 years later," Chetney said. "Now, people change jobs five, six, seven times in their careers." The transition component provides assistance for employees who want to transfer their 401(k) assets to a new plan or into an IRA.
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My favorite time to paint is early in the morning. When it is quiet and I have had my coffee.My studio is outside so I have a few steps from my house to get to it. I think there is something very intimate in the smaller works having always painted quite large. Painting usually everyday and always in the morning I have chosen the title Morning Paintings.


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August 10th, 2012
Padang Padang, Bali, Indonesia – With barely a minute remaining in the ninth annual Rip Curl Cup Invitational at Padang Padang, California's Chris Ward scored a perfect 10 backside barrel to leapfrog into first place and win the "Ultimate Tuberiding Contest" on Thursday, besting Bali's Mega Semadhi (2nd place), Java's Dede Suryana (3rd), and Australia's Ry Craike (4th) in pumping six-foot tubes at Padang Padang.
Ward was on fire all day as he battled his way through arguably the most talented field of tuberiding specialists ever assembled for a contest, including 2009 Padang Cup champ Jamie O'Brien (Haw), defending champion Lee Wilson (Bali), local legend Rizal Tanjung (Bali), Ozzie Wright (Aus), and the event's first-ever female competitor, Bethany Hamilton (Haw).
Needing an 8.25 to take the lead with mere seconds left in the Final, Ward said he knew his miracle perfect 10 backside barrel sealed him the Padang Cup title as soon as he got spit out in the channel and heard the cheers erupt from the cliffs and in the channel.
"I knew I had it," Ward said. "I knew it was at least an 8.5 for sure. Last year I had an onshore heat and didn't even get barreled and lost in the first round. Today it was a completely different story. I was feeling it out there all day. This year Padang gave me the waves."
Padang Padang local surfer Mega Semadhi had put on a tube-riding clinic in each heat he surfed during the day, drawing massive cheers from his local fans gathered on Padang Padang Beach and lining the cliffs above Bali's most infamous tube machine. The 23-year-old scored several 9-point barrels on his run to the Final, where he netted the day's first perfect 10 with his first wave, a deep double barrel ride. Semadhi held the lead for 49 minutes of the 50 minute final, only to get nipped by Ward, who somehow exited an impossibly deep barrel on his backside to score a perfect 10 of his own and snatch the win from Semadhi.
"If you win, you win. If you lose, you lose," said Semadhi, who was surfing in the second Rip Curl Cup Final of his career. "Either way, it's an epic day. From 32 surfers all the way to four, I got to surf four heats. That's more than two hours surfing perfect, empty Padang Padang. That's a gift right there."
After being crowned Rip Curl Cup champion and receiving his winner's check for Rp 60 million (over $6,000 USD), Ward surprised everyone when he got down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend. She said yes, which sent the hundreds of fans gathered on the beach into a cheering frenzy.
"I asked her before we came here, and I got her family's blessing," Ward said. "I bought the ring and was thinking, how should I propose? I told myself if I won this contest I was gonna do this right here on the stage. So I guess it was meant to be."
2012 Rip Curl Cup Padang Padang Invitational Results:
Championship Final
1st Chris Ward (USA) 17.50
2nd Mega Semadhi (Bali) 15.60
3rd Dede Suryana (Java)9.25
4th Ry Craike (Aus) 9.20
Semi Finals
Heat 1: Chris Ward (USA) 16.70, Ry Craike (Aus) 16.00, Mustofa Jeksen (Bali) 13.50, Rizal Tanjung (Bali) 7.90
Heat 2: Mega Semadhi (Bali) 16.75, Dede Suryana (Java) 15.25, Jamie O'Brien (Haw) 11.50, Garut Widiarta (Bali) 9.75
Quarter Finals
QF1: Ry Craike (Aus) 12.40, Jamie O'Brien (Haw) 12.00, Bobby Hansen (NZ) 8.55, Bethany Hamilton (Haw) 2.25
QF 2: Mustofa Jeksen (Bali) 14.35, Mega Semadhi (Bali) 14.00, Rahtu Suargita (Bali) 4.10, Lee Wilson (Bali) 2.55
QF 3: Dede Suryana (Java) 11.85, Rizal Tanjung (Bali) 6.80, Flynn Novak (Haw) 4.15, Darmaputra Tonjo (Bali) 4.15
QF 4: Garut Widiarta (Bali) 8.50, Chris Ward (USA) 8.00, Made "Bol" Adi Putra (Bali) 2.50, Marlon Gerber (Bali) 1.00