Last time on Mugen Souls, Lady Chou-Chou conquered the seven worlds and became the Undisputed God of the Universe. Now it's time to set her sights on something bigger; the twelve planets of the zodiac! Meet Nao the self proclaimed hero who is on the hunt for her legendary weapon but ends up finding a coffin that contained a sleeping girl named Syrma who claims to be a Ultimate God. After some time wandering around, Lady Chou-Chou meets up with our Hero in training and Ultimate God. Ever wonder what happens when the Undisputed God and Ultimate God cross paths? Find out in Mugen Souls Z!
Have you dreamed of being a great detective like Sherlock Holmes? There is an allure to collecting clues, interviewing people and connecting the dots in an effort to figure out who was a perpetrator of a crime. NIS America has published a game that will let us play the role of the detective in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.
In the game, you play Makoto Naegi, a regular student who was randomly drawn and invited to attend Hope's Peak Academy. The school is renowned for being home to Japan's "ultimate" students; students are enrolled by invitation only. On the first day of school Makoto and 14 of his classmates find themselves cut off from the outside world by an evil looking robot bear named Monokuma. The only way out of the school is for a student to kill a fellow classmate without anyone finding out they did it. Can the students figure out who is the person behind Monokuma and can they find a way out of the school without murdering each other?
Have you never won a drawing, lottery, free food, free popsicle or even a coin toss? Renya is your typical high school student that one day becomes God after winning a shopping mall lottery and with his excessive personal angel Lilliel, Renya will change the fates of all those who pray to God for help. Come join Renya and Lilliel as they guide fate, make wishes come true and beat down monsters in The Guided Fate Paradox.
Disgaea released back in 2003 on the Playstation 2 and was of many tactical role-playing games (TRPG) out at the time. However, that did now stop Disgaea from reshaping the world of TRPG's. After 10 long years the sequel Disgaea D2 has finally arrived. Be prepared to lose lots of sleep exploring and discovering a whole new story in Disgaea D2.
At the end of Disgaea we saw Laharl finally become the Overlord, he learns that not many demons are willing to recognize his position or authority. Laharl decides to go on another journey to demonstrate his power as the new Overlord with a few familiar faces. Joining him is a girl who claims to be his sister, a wacky angel who's hell bent on the idea on love and of course wave after wave of demons trying to take the throne. Laharl just might just have his work cut out for him.
I've been a Black Rock Shooter fan for a while. When I first heard about this game I went all nerd gamer syndrome and pre-ordered the Japanese release instantly. I'd like to give a shout out to NIS America, the publisher for North America and Europe, for letting me review this game. Here we have Black Rock Shooter the Game… but unlike it's original release you can find this version on the PSN for $19.99. I did a review on the Japanese version of this game about a year ago with the White Rock Shooter Figma. So far the only real difference I see between the two versions is the English translation, other than that it's a complete port from the Japanese version with the opening theme song by One Ok Rock.


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1. EDUCATE your client beforehand. When meeting to discuss their project or event, be overly specific about what you offer, what they pay, what they get, how and when you deliver, what happens if they back out, etc. Get as much information from them about their expectations and ideals; the key here is to limit future surprises for everyone.
For instance, if a couple uses the word "photojournalistic" five times and I know that my style isn't truly photojournalistic, I say so. It might be a misunderstanding of the word -- again, educate -- or simply that I'm not what they're looking for. I give a few specific examples about my approach and if that's not ideal for them, kindly provide a couple names of talented photographers that might be a better fit. When presented in a gentle way, they realize you're looking out for their best interest, pairing them with a creative that will better suit their needs and you're not stuck trying to create in a different style.
3. STAY AHEAD of the game. These folks are investing in you and partnering with you for a final product about which they're excited. Regardless of your medium, there's a customer service aspect to every one of our fields. It's literally your job to keep them informed and up to date on your progress and their project. Even if they've been told that they'll have a logo in two weeks, a quick email one week in letting them know that you're making progress and are excited to share your work with them keeps them informed and feeling valued.
Even though my turnaround times are clearly listed in my contract and something we address during our initial meetings, I typically get an email from every client two weeks after their wedding asking when images will be ready. I now send a "hooray you're married!" update-email reminding them of the timelines with a little sneak peek which continues to make them feel value and informed and keeps me from getting discouraged repeating myself.
4. REVISIT, ANALYZE and ADJUST. If you find yourself writing the same email over and over or running into miscommunications at the same point with each client, take an afternoon to do some deep cleaning. Try to figure out where the miscommunication occurs and how to avoid it next time. Write down a detailed description of your ideal client. Where they work, shop, their ages, their hobbies, the way they decorate, what they do on the weekends… and then make sure everything about your brand and your content is consistent to attracting that individual.
Ashley provides her design clients with an online quiz that she created to have a better understanding over their visual aesthetic. She found a method that her clients enjoy that also helps eliminate some "no, not that one…" conversations down the road.
5. Regardless of how many preventative measures you've taken, there will always be the folks that are tricky to please. We find it helpful to digest their responses, take a BREAK and BREATHE deeply, then address the issue when you've cooled down. Never respond to an email if you're feeling heated. As a creator, it's easy to take client feedback personally but remember that most often the work and the artist are completely separate to them. If it's a particularly sticky situation, verbally processing with a fellow creative can often yield helpful responses.
*If you're just starting out and there's a necessity to take all work that comes along, we totally get that, we've been there. Implement the practices above and the work that you do, even if not ideal, can be done with good conscious and in a way that makes you proud as you build a portfolio.


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package com.microsoft.azure.management.recoveryservices.backup.v2017_07_01;

import com.microsoft.azure.arm.model.HasInner;
import com.microsoft.azure.management.recoveryservices.backup.v2017_07_01.implementation.ProtectionContainerResourceInner;
import com.microsoft.azure.arm.model.Indexable;
import com.microsoft.azure.arm.model.Refreshable;
import com.microsoft.azure.arm.model.Updatable;
import com.microsoft.azure.arm.model.Appliable;
import com.microsoft.azure.arm.model.Creatable;
import com.microsoft.azure.arm.resources.models.HasManager;
import com.microsoft.azure.management.recoveryservices.backup.v2017_07_01.implementation.RecoveryServicesManager;
import java.util.Map;
import com.microsoft.azure.management.recoveryservices.backup.v2017_07_01.implementation.ProtectionContainerInner;

/**
 * Type representing BackupFabricVaultProtectionContainerResource.
 */
public interface BackupFabricVaultProtectionContainerResource extends HasInner<ProtectionContainerResourceInner>, Indexable, Refreshable<BackupFabricVaultProtectionContainerResource>, Updatable<BackupFabricVaultProtectionContainerResource.Update>, HasManager<RecoveryServicesManager> {
    /**
     * @return the eTag value.
     */
    String eTag();

    /**
     * @return the id value.
     */
    String id();

    /**
     * @return the location value.
     */
    String location();

    /**
     * @return the name value.
     */
    String name();

    /**
     * @return the properties value.
     */
    ProtectionContainerInner properties();

    /**
     * @return the tags value.
     */
    Map<String, String> tags();

    /**
     * @return the type value.
     */
    String type();

    /**
     * The entirety of the BackupFabricVaultProtectionContainerResource definition.
     */
    interface Definition extends DefinitionStages.Blank, DefinitionStages.WithBackupFabric, DefinitionStages.WithCreate {
    }

    /**
     * Grouping of BackupFabricVaultProtectionContainerResource definition stages.
     */
    interface DefinitionStages {
        /**
         * The first stage of a BackupFabricVaultProtectionContainerResource definition.
         */
        interface Blank extends WithBackupFabric {
        }

        /**
         * The stage of the backupfabricvaultprotectioncontainerresource definition allowing to specify BackupFabric.
         */
        interface WithBackupFabric {
           /**
            * Specifies vaultName, resourceGroupName, fabricName.
            */
            WithCreate withExistingBackupFabric(String vaultName, String resourceGroupName, String fabricName);
        }

        /**
         * The stage of the backupfabricvaultprotectioncontainerresource definition allowing to specify ETag.
         */
        interface WithETag {
            /**
             * Specifies eTag.
             */
            WithCreate withETag(String eTag);
        }

        /**
         * The stage of the backupfabricvaultprotectioncontainerresource definition allowing to specify Location.
         */
        interface WithLocation {
            /**
             * Specifies location.
             */
            WithCreate withLocation(String location);
        }

        /**
         * The stage of the backupfabricvaultprotectioncontainerresource definition allowing to specify Properties.
         */
        interface WithProperties {
            /**
             * Specifies properties.
             */
            WithCreate withProperties(ProtectionContainerInner properties);
        }

        /**
         * The stage of the backupfabricvaultprotectioncontainerresource definition allowing to specify Tags.
         */
        interface WithTags {
            /**
             * Specifies tags.
             */
            WithCreate withTags(Map<String, String> tags);
        }

        /**
         * The stage of the definition which contains all the minimum required inputs for
         * the resource to be created (via {@link WithCreate#create()}), but also allows
         * for any other optional settings to be specified.
         */
        interface WithCreate extends Creatable<BackupFabricVaultProtectionContainerResource>, DefinitionStages.WithETag, DefinitionStages.WithLocation, DefinitionStages.WithProperties, DefinitionStages.WithTags {
        }
    }
    /**
     * The template for a BackupFabricVaultProtectionContainerResource update operation, containing all the settings that can be modified.
     */
    interface Update extends Appliable<BackupFabricVaultProtectionContainerResource>, UpdateStages.WithETag, UpdateStages.WithLocation, UpdateStages.WithProperties, UpdateStages.WithTags {
    }

    /**
     * Grouping of BackupFabricVaultProtectionContainerResource update stages.
     */
    interface UpdateStages {
        /**
         * The stage of the backupfabricvaultprotectioncontainerresource update allowing to specify ETag.
         */
        interface WithETag {
            /**
             * Specifies eTag.
             */
            Update withETag(String eTag);
        }

        /**
         * The stage of the backupfabricvaultprotectioncontainerresource update allowing to specify Location.
         */
        interface WithLocation {
            /**
             * Specifies location.
             */
            Update withLocation(String location);
        }

        /**
         * The stage of the backupfabricvaultprotectioncontainerresource update allowing to specify Properties.
         */
        interface WithProperties {
            /**
             * Specifies properties.
             */
            Update withProperties(ProtectionContainerInner properties);
        }

        /**
         * The stage of the backupfabricvaultprotectioncontainerresource update allowing to specify Tags.
         */
        interface WithTags {
            /**
             * Specifies tags.
             */
            Update withTags(Map<String, String> tags);
        }

    }
}

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The Pittsburgh Technology Council is honoring this year's rising regional tech stars, including Oakland-based Cybergenetics. The cutting edge forensic DNA analysis company is a finalist in the Solution Provider of the Year category.
The annual Tech 50 Awards will be held at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh on October 29. This year's focus is on innovation. "It is truly a night to celebrate our region's technology companies and the contributions they have made to our economic vitality," said PTC's President and CEO Audrey Russo.


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If you are electro-sensitive, mobile phones and tablet devices can make you feel nervy and irritable. This can lead to insomnia, feeling sad and a compromised solar plexus chakra. The solution? Shungite, which blocks the emanations.
This stone has long been used to balance out the highs and lows of anxiety and sadness. It's soothing presence helps you to remain calm and centred.
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Guingamp vs Amiens – Predictions, Odds and Betting
Guingamp and Amiens will square off at the Stade du Roudourou on Saturday night, with both teams looking to get back to winning ways in Ligue 1. Guingamp lost 2-1 on the road at Dijon, with their consolation goal being scored by Marcus Coco. Amiens, on the flip side, have been beaten 0-2 at home…
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Guingamp and Amiens will square off at the Stade du Roudourou on Saturday night, with both teams looking to get back to winning ways in Ligue 1. Guingamp lost 2-1 on the road at Dijon, with their consolation goal being scored by Marcus Coco. Amiens, on the flip side, have been beaten 0-2 at home by out-of-form Monaco, despite the fact they had an overwhelming ball possession and 15 goal attempts. Follow all our predictions, odds, free bets and betting tips below.
En Avant Guingamp vs Amiens SC – Betting Tips for the game
Guingamp are winless in ten games across all competitions since a 0-1 away win at Angers in Ligue 1 towards the end of September. They have lost four of their last five league outings, including a 2-1 away defeat at Dijon in midweek. At home, Guingamp are winless in eight competitive fixtures. They are bottom of the league table, already six points behind safety.
Amiens have also been terrible in Ligue 1 over the past few months, having lost six of their last seven outings. They head into this clash on the back of a three-game losing run in the league, which includes a 0-2 home defeat against Monaco in midweek. Amiens are second from the bottom in the Ligue 1 table tied on 13 points with other two teams.
Both sides have been awful throughout this Ligue 1 campaign, but we're backing Amiens to get a result here as they hold the better head-to-head record. Our betting tips and predictions would back Amiens or Draw (Double Chance X2) at odds 1.70.
Amiens or Draw (Double Chance X2) at odds 1.70
En Avant Guingamp vs Amiens SC – Match odds
Guingamp are definitely the worst team in the league at the moment, having won just once in 16 league outings. In addition, they are one of the two La Liga teams without a victory on home soil after seven rounds. Amiens have also been struggling for consistency throughout the season, but at least they managed to win four of their 16 league fixtures to date. Our preview anticipate Amiens or Draw (Double Chance X2) at odds 1.70.
Guingamp to win at odds 2.20
Guingamp vs Amiens Draw at odds 3.10
Amiens to win at odds 3.60
En Avant Guingamp vs Amiens SC – Correct Score odds
Guingamp have conceded at least two goals in four of their last five games in Ligue 1. Amiens have also struggled to keep the ball out of their own net of late, having allowed eight goals in their most recent three league fixtures. Our correct score prediction fancies Amiens to win 2-1 at odds 13.00.
Amiens to win 2-1 at odds 13.00
En Avant Guingamp vs Amiens SC – Over/Under 2.5 Goals odds
Four of Guingamp's last five games in Ligue 1 have ended with over 2.5 goals. Actually, these two sides have conceded twelve goals between them in their most recent three league matches. In addition, the most recent three fixtures between them have seen goals at both ends. Our total goals prediction expect over 2.5 goals at odds 2.30.
Over 2.5 goals at odds 2.30
En Avant Guingamp vs Amiens SC – First Goalscorer odds
Saman Ghoddos is one of Amiens' top scorers at the moment, although he has only scored three goals throughout this Ligue 1 campaign. He has been Amiens' most prolific player going forward as he has also contributed with three assists for his team. Our first goalscorer prediction is Saman Ghoddos at odds 10.00.
Saman Ghoddos at odds 10.00
En Avant Guingamp vs Amiens SC – Free bet offers
Total goals over 2.5 goals at odds 2.30

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Captain Peter Clarke believes reaching the play off places next season is a realistic aim for his side.
The skipper picked up three awards at the End of Season awards dinner, including the two big awards of the night, the Player's Player of the Season and Oldham Athletic Player of the Season.
Speaking at the End of Season award event, Clarke believes only part one of the job is complete and part two is about securing a way out of this division and into the Championship.
Clarke said: "I spoke to the manager when he came in January and in February and he outlined what he was hoping to do.
"The first part was securing our position in this league and we have done that. Doing it with a game to spare from when he arrived was testament to the dressing room, manager and his staff.
"That was part one of the job and the second part can now start. The manager will spend the summer retaining players, recruiting players and also plan for pre-season when we arrive back.
"He can put his ideas and messages across to players in pre-season and then ultimately that will get us ready for the start of the season in August.
"I really believe is in a good place and we are in a place we can build and progress.
The Player's Player of the Season award is a special one to win for Clarke as he explains: "When you win an award voted for by your teammates and the lads you share a dressing room with then it's special.
"The fact they think my performances have warranted it is nice and I'm very grateful.
"Throughout the course of the season I've probably had cross words with a few and that is only because I demand the best from them.
"The fact that they have voted for me, I'm very humbled and grateful."
One man who Clarke has to say goodbye to is goalkeeper Connor Ripley.
"He's been absolutely fantastic throughout the course of this season for us," he said.
"I love him to bits and I think he is a fantastic goalkeeper. He is an even better person and will be a lifelong friend.
"I'm hopeful we can have him back but realistically this is a player that has got all the attributes to go a long way in the game.


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46/52 {counting down}
As I write, it's less than 12 hours until Ben comes home after eight days away overseas and I am counting down the minutes until my beloved returns. I will not tell a lie, it's been hard parenting without him. I am the ultimate coper, and great at seeing the best...Read More
nicholas: We were enjoying a morning at home after a busy week and I pulled out our box of 'Little People' and their associated transport options for you to play with. As it was a warm day, we decided to put some water in the crate so the Little People could go for a swim,...Read More
44/52 {out of sorts}
The past week has been filled with much craziness. Not terrible craziness, just crazy in the sense that I'm a bit sleep deprived and feel like my brain is exploding. Ben was away for work interstate for four days, just as painters were arriving on our doorstep to start painting...Read More
It's a Wrap {31 for 21}
When you invite someone to share their unique perspective on life with Down syndrome, something magical happens. I have loved watching the stories that have enfolded in this heartspace during October. There have been reflections on the birth of a child with Down syndrome; on watching children starting school; finding support networks...Read More
On the Eve of 21 {guest post}
When I think of the quote "I wouldn't change my child for the world, but I will change the world for my child" I think of Lisa Bridle. Rather than just coming to terms with a Down syndrome diagnosis and accepting a life on the fringes for her child with...Read More
Superhero {almost wordless wednesday}
My boy, my surprise, my heartbreak, my hero... with the scars to prove it. Some parents wish for either a 'pink or blue' baby, but we all assume our new baby will be healthy, just like the rest of the family. We got a blue baby with a little something extra... I...Read More
Postcard to Myself in December 2006 {guest post}
After reading Kristen's book, I must admit feeling quite intimidated by the thought of meeting this impressive woman in person. But I didn't need to be. She is one of the most humble, gracious and kind hearted women I know, with an incredible ability to just get in and make things...Read More
Pathology Testing: talking about health + Down syndrome with Gabi Giacomin
Far from the one-size-fits-all approach to health of the past, Gabi explains how there are now a number of genetic and biochemical pathology tests that can be used to monitor the health of people with Down syndrome and then treat according to the unique needs of that person. This is the fourth and last post...Read More
43/52 {Sunday brunch}
nicholas: My stylish boy, you are loving your hat at the moment. I love this photo that Daddy took while you were busily stirring my coffee. I daresay it's similar to the way Daddy would look if someone interrupted his morning coffee ;) charlie: I love both these photos of you, it...Read More
Beats, Brains and Bodies: connecting with Music Therapy {guest post}
When Nicholas was about four months old, we tentatively went along to a morning tea with some mums whose children have Down syndrome and they said "oh, you should come along to music!". About four months later, we made it and a whole world of friendship, fun and music opened up to us....Read More
Navigating Through the Darkness: tough decisions after a prenatal diagnosis
In theory, the decision to keep my baby should have been easy. It should have been easy for the girl who had been raised a Catholic and had seen her parents live the message that 'all life is precious' all of my life. It should have been easy for the...Read More
Lessons In Living {guest post}
Through immense personal challenge, Julia Watson manages to demonstrate in the most humble and authentic way that life truly is for living. I remember reading an article Julia had written about her beautiful Georgia years ago when Nicholas was just tiny and I was so proud when her first book was published recently...Read More
Flashback to 17 months {almost wordless wednesday}
I remember the afternoon I took these photos of you, at 17 months old. We had a rare opportunity to wander to the park without those two big brothers and you relished in the undivided attention of your mumma. I watched you sit confidently at the top of the slide, King of...Read More
This Mother's Random Reflections on Starting School {guest post}
My friendship with Jocelyn started when a lovely mutual friend introduced us during my pregnancy with Nicholas. Although I hadn't yet even met my third child, I was grateful to have my first real life connection with another family in the Down syndrome community and Jocelyn has been a wealth of knowledge and source...Read More
Nutritional Intervention: talking about health + Down syndrome with Gabi Giacomin
Today, Gabi Giacomin gives us a rundown on why people with Down syndrome benefit from nutritional intervention (think vitamins and supplements). Due to the presence of the third copy of Chromosome 21 in all cells within people with Trisomy 21 and the impact this has on the physiological systems throughout their bodies,...Read More
42/52 {overcoming challenges}
nicholas: I watched you survey the slide and think about climbing up the slide to the top. You climbed onto the base of the slide and attempted a few steps, then realised it was actually pretty slippery. But, not to be defeated, you grabbed hold of the sides and started again, carefully...Read More
41/52 {being studious}
nicholas: Drawing and writing are among your favourite activities at the moment. You will ask me if you can "draw?", then you spend ages filling every part of the paper before saying "ta-da!" and showing me your work proudly. During the week, you drew your first face independently, and it was my...Read More
Ryan Becomes a Big Brother: making the decision to add to our family {guest post}
Rebecca is the kind of woman who makes the decision not just to 'cope' through challenges, but to face them with resilience and positivity and embrace the transformative impact they have on her life. She is a woman I have long admired and I always appreciate her pragmatic and thoughtful...Read More


The month of May in Indiana is known for motor sports. It's also a time when motorcyclists are again out in force enjoying invigorating rides in the warmer weather.
This past month was also Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) takes this time to remind us to safely "share the road" with motorcycles and to be extra alert to help keep motorcyclists safe.
This month also signals a dramatic increase in motorcycle accidents.
There were 113 motorcycle fatalities in Indiana in 2013. That's down from 159 in 2012, the most fatalities in almost 40 years. Still, this is way too many.
In 2012 (the latest year in which complete statistics are available), there were 2935 crashes, compared to 2850 the year before. Of all of these Indiana accidents, over 65% involved an injury or death, says the Indiana State Police.
Nationally, motorcycle deaths have risen in 14 of the past 15 years, and appear to have reached an all-time high of more than 5,000, according to an analysis by the Governors Highway Safety Association of 2012 data. There are many thousands more that suffer life-long and life-changing injuries.
Not a day goes by without hearing about more motorcycle accidents causing serious injury to the riders. Or worse.
Many of these injuries could be prevented, through driving safely and responsibly. Some of these accidents involve unlawfully high speeds and impairment by alcohol on the part of the cyclist.
Traumatic head injuries and fatalities are a common result of a cycling accident, many times when the driver and/or passenger is not wearing a helmet. Helmet laws vary state-to-state. In Indiana, helmets are only required by law under the age of 18. So, if you're an adult, it's up to you. In Illinois, there are no laws requiring a helmet.
Helmet use is estimated to prevent 37% of fatalities to motorcycle operators and 41% of fatalities among passengers, according to 2010 report from the NHTSA.
About half of motorcycle fatalities were drivers who were not even legally allowed to drive. Cyclists are urged to complete an Indiana's rider education program. Since starting the program in 1987, more than 100,000 Hoosiers have completed a Motorcycle Operator Safety Education course.
Often, though, it doesn't matter how many safety precautions you take when riding a motorcycle. A negligent driver of a car or truck can cause the accident and the motorcyclist is the innocent victim.
They may simply not see you. More and more these days drivers are distracted because they are on their cell phones. It could be road rage. Or the motorist responsible for the accident could be driving under the influence.
If you were involved in a motorcycle accident, it's likely you suffered devastating injuries. Because motorcycles offer little protection, a rider can incur numerous physical injuries to all parts of the body, including broken bones, amputations, severe skin abrasions (commonly known as road rash), brain and spinal injuries and, of course, even death.
If you've been in a motorcycle accident that was caused by negligence on the part of another driver, before you talk or settle with any insurance company, call us at Theodoros & Rooth. We will carefully assess your case and aggressively go after the compensation you deserve.
At Theodoros & Rooth, our team of attorneys has over 110 years collective experience in dealing with personal injury cases, including many accidents involving trucks cars and motorcycles.
Enjoy springtime and this coming summer, but be safe.


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Skirl | Dan Dickinson
Skirl: (skûrl) n. A shrill wailing sound
May 3, 2008 Dan DickinsonLeave a comment
The Habs folded tonight, losing 4 games to 1 to Philadelphia, the 6th-ranked team. Philadelphia's 18 skaters were no really better than Montreal's 18 skaters (except for R.J. Umberger…that guy went all John Druce in this series) but Martin Biron was excellent and Carey Price was awful. Hard to lay too much blame at his feet; he's 20 years old and was in his first playoffs, and he's played an enormous amount of hockey in the last year, but in the end he let in three soft goals tonight and that was the difference.
It's a weird feeling I have right now, something I haven't felt since the early-90s…missed opportunity. For the last 15 years the Canadiens have only made the playoffs half the time, and when they do they usually just sneak in to the 7th or 8th spopt, so it's a pleasant surprise if/when they win a round. This year, though, they finished first in the conference and drew just about the best possible opponents in both rounds…unfortunately, their goaltending disappeared in the second round, and the offense that ranked first in the regular season couldn't find any consistency.
Big picture…the Canadiens were the youngest team to the make the playoffs, and they should only get better. I think a lot of young teams with big potential go through a rough ride in their first real playoff run; the question will be whether they can take the next big step and learn how to perform in the crunch. I guess I'll have to wait eleven months to find out.
[tags]montreal canadiens, nhl playoffs[/tags]
montreal canadiens, nhl playoffs
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Discussing Politics in Polite Company: A Missed Crisitunity
Martin Yearley
Martin is a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner working for NHS England. He holds a Master of Science in Social Psychology.
Why We Should Talk Politics
The centuries-old adage makes perfect sense on the surface. Discussing politics or religion in polite company is asking for trouble because we are opening ourselves up to triggering levels of offense when we are exposed to ideas that go against the grain of our morals. Not to mention, those friends or family members who dominate such conversations and seem unable to listen. We may question if there's even any point in attempting to articulate our often only partially-formulated perspectives when the most salient outcome is risking ridicule and attack from those who bizarrely relish confrontation.
Reducing Political Polarisation
Avoiding these discussions, however, would lead to much worse. Tempting as it is, we'd be robbing ourselves of character-building experiences and subjecting our society to increased political polarisation. We fear the consequences of listening to each other and neglect any potential benefits, an unfortunate case of "it's easier not to" that is reflected precisely among our leaders.
It was easier for Boris Johnson to respond, "I've never heard such humbug in all my life" than to risk actually listening to Paula Sherriff's legitimate concerns surrounding daily death threats to MPs, for instance. Luckily for Johnson, the ensuing outrage was more palatable for voters than the anxiety of adjusting judgements of a very likeable personality to include dishonest and dangerous.
His supporters clung to the safety of identity politics and stopped listening to any criticism just as Johnson had stopped listening almost immediately after Paula Sherriff opened her mouth.
The Importance of Listening
This is an unsustainable path for any future as democratic nations. Democracy is a conversation and cannot be had without listening. In fact, the left's inability to listen to the right directly resulted in Donald Trump being elected as President of the USA, far-right nationalist parties gaining popularity throughout Europe and 51.9% of Britons in 2016 looking for the nearest Brexit.
We need to start listening, and in order to start listening, we must first understand why we currently are not.
I've detailed an explanation below as best I can understand it from my reading around social and moral psychology. I use the case of politics because this seems the most salient in our society today, but the core of the problem is much deeper than politics.
As I understand it currently, the deepest level is entirely individual. The most important choice we are faced with going forwards is therefore not who to vote for (or even whether to bother voting at all). Irrespective of indeed politics itself, we all have an ongoing binary choice between egoless compromise or a deepening divide.
Developing the strength to choose the former on an increasingly polarised landscape is going to take a conscious effort but needs to be established as a proclivity in our personal lives before it has any chance whatsoever of taking hold on society.
Political conversations are particularly emotive when we identify personally with established group viewpoints. To group ourselves into factions based on age, gender, ethnicity and then all vote in the same direction provides power for a shared cause but lacks the necessary finesse.
Thinking is no longer required in the modern-day tribalism of identity politics as we outsource this task to our social circle. We have become sledgehammers of solidarity who only superficially understand the political landscape and daren't express too many hints of critical thinking lest our friends begin to see us as their enemy.
The divisions in our countries have gone too far when political dialogue is too readily viewed as personal warfare, ironically saying more about the insecurities of the "offended" than the intentions of the "offender". We see this all around us, reflected both in data which suggests animosity between the left and the right is at its highest ever point, and in our households when needlessly defensive retorts from lovely old racist relatives shock and appall our snowflake siblings.
Driven by Emotion and Biology
We are driven somewhat by our biology here, having evolved to avoid anxiety-provoking situations. That feeling you get when someone has seen but not replied to your message—that anxiety helped our hunter-gatherer era ancestors curb social exclusion by reflecting on what could have possibly caused such shunning. Those who then made small behaviour adjustments could continue their tribe membership and were more likely to pass on their genes as they benefitted from continued access to food and a decreased likelihood of being murdered. Anxiety was thus an adaptive trait for survival that prevented us from wanting to get too close to not only poisonous snakes and hungry lions but also social or an uncle who supports building expensive and impractical walls to keep the illegals out.
Our society, quite evidently, has evolved more rapidly than our biology could keep up with. These days the anxiety of an ignored message or under-liked social media post is not an immediate threat to life. Even if there's an intentional and malicious shunning, this doesn't impact our ability to survive due to the availability of food in supermarkets and the fact that murder is now illegal.
There are also countless alternative social groups and counter-cultures within reach for anybody dispossessed by mainstream social hierarchies, such that almost anybody has the capacity to flourish in some self-selected domains of value. In this way, anxiety becomes often optional and its behaviour-altering impacts shift away from character-building and social tolerance towards experience-avoiding and polarisation. Successful avoidance is then an instant reward to the nervous system, immediately driving further avoidant behaviour and rapidly resulting in the formation of avoidant habits and culture.
An Increase in Anxiety Intolerance
We have developed into a society that is now generally avoidant of political discourse and this trend is likely to continue unless we do something about it. Anxiety disorders are driven in the same way. Social phobia? Just socialise online more. Acrophobia? No need to leave the ground floor. Agoraphobia? Stay home and order delivery. Soon enough you'll be a fully-fledged hikikomori.
Anxiety is already experienced disproportionally to the danger it signals and is becoming even stronger as its newfound rarity offers fewer opportunities for desensitisation. Millennials are now the most anxious generation and the general consensus is that rates are continuing to rise.
In The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt describe exactly that. Anxiety disorders are taking over our brain chemistry, but enabling them to direct our behaviour is doing a disservice to ourselves as much as it is dangerous for the future of our society.
Modern conveniences then enable us to avoid anxiety where we couldn't previously, and avoidance becomes a preference for the short-sighted, but social media platforms are also helping us to avoid anxiety in ways we might not realise, regardless of our preference.
The Dangers of Social Media
We scroll through Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and other services telling them exactly what we "like" and thereby providing all the data these companies require to cultivate personalised online experiences for us.
The fact that these services want to maximise their profits means they want to maximise our screen time, and it's hardly far-fetched to make an analogy to casinos here. We are being mined for our clicks and view time in return for an endless feed of carefully calibrated content designed to skirt within the boundaries of being too dull that we leave from boredom and too fulfilling that we leave satiated.
This sweet zone of maximal user engagement is full of politically partisan information which confirms our biases and demonises opponents. It seems too much to ask that simply knowing this could encourage us to take steps to reduce our own biases and judgmental perceptions, as rarely do we notice the logs in our own eyes when our neighbours have such distracting specks.
Presented only with information which algorithms have predetermined we will like or agree with, our online lives inevitably diverge into disconnected islands of familiarity.
Bipartisan susceptibility to biased and fake news epidemics then increases as the same political propagandas are echoed over and over in our in-group feeds until their familiarity starts to feel like believability. The empirically demonstrated Illusory Truth Effect is at play here, whereby even information which is only ever presented as false can start to feel true once it is simply repeated enough times to instil familiarity.
What's more, when people do make an effort to venture over to another of the Internet's many disconnected islands of bias, they risk being lambasted by the offended majority if they make themselves known.
In fact, there doesn't seem to be much of an upside to commenting critically, even if constructively, on things we disagree with. The best-case scenario might be that such comments are politely ignored whereas the more likely case scenarios include arguments, flame wars and, in extreme cases, doxing. This is the online equivalent of what Irshad Manji writes in Don't Label Me: People can be shamed into silence. The problem is that people will not accept to be silent.
Being silenced produces a reactance of increased volume, and being ignored produces a frustration of increased resolve. These factors can increase the likelihood, whether consciously or unconsciously, that someone will shrewdly include a spice of controversy into their comments in order to get noticed.
Accomplished skillfully, this might be humorous and engaging. The more resentful of people, however, wield less finesse and inevitably, irrespective of intentionality, incite rage with their ham-fisted attempts at being heard. Then, due to the now-heightened emotional reactivity of the anxiety-avoidant offended masses on this topic, even those skilful in the art of satire may end up being branded micro-aggressors. It is not even necessary that the majority react in this way because the handful of most extreme reactions will be those which get upvoted, noticed, debated and normalised.
Controversy then shuts the conversation down. Given that democracy is reliant on meaningful communication between opposing sides, it cannot function if these sides cease making effort to understand each other.
Unfortunately, as we've established, the reluctance to leave our ideological islands makes total sense. There is no undue anxiety when discussing politics with people who we know already agree with us, and this creates a barrier to cooperation.
Why make the effort to cooperate when we can hide in our uninspected ideological islands? This is a weak person's position. It is essentially building a Trump-like wall between ourselves and outside opinion to protecting our egos from the anxiety of realising the other side actually has something to offer.
Avoiding Political Talk
Some may even be tempted to avoid politics altogether, claiming that "all politicians are the same" and refusing to zoom in closer than this lowest possible resolution image of homogeneity. Disillusionment with the political landscape is to be expected and in a sense a perhaps necessary recognising of our problem.
Flirting with anarchy, however, is hardly a solution. Instead, we would do well to realise that politicians are only human. Failures to fulfil democracy's fundamental requirement of collaborative communication in our own lives, such as when deciding where to eat as part of a large group, suggests that perhaps these problems are more human than political.
Politicians are experiencing the same behaviour-guiding anxiety that we are, and it is how we as a culture respond to this anxiety, not the people in office, that we must change.
© 2019 Martin Yearley
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By theorigami Culture, Destinations, Images, Multimedia, People + Places November 7, 2014
India: Awash in colour
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PHOTOS by ISABELLE PAEZ/Contributed
by THE ORIGAMI STAFF
For all its intensity – the heat, the filth, the chaos, the language barrier – Jodhpur, says the itinerant Isabelle Paez, can be "deeply romantic" yet is "not for the faint of heart."
With its faded grandeur and impossibly colourful stacks of fabric lining the corridors of the street, Jodhpur is like a stunning relic that refuses to let its beauty slip through the cracks of its chipped exterior.
Under the searing glow that bathes the blue-speckled city, you'll find Mehrangarh, a 14th-century palace and fort, which towers above the rest of the semi-arid expanse, at a height of 120 metres. Once under the domain of the maharajahs, the fortress has guarded the legacy of the Rajputs with a museum that charts life as it was when the Rajputs (Hindu patrilineal clans and descendants of the warrior class) ruled.
Today, as it was then, Mehrangarh still attracts and engages the bustle of the city, with the lure of its history, stone-latticed arches and hair-raising tales about a man buried alive under the orders of Rao Jodha, Jodhpur's founder, and traces of handprints left by the widows of maharajas who hurled themselves out the window in an act of self-sacrifice, or the practice of sati.
Beyond the walls of the fort, lie its street markets filled with a dizzying array of colourful options and combinations, where you'll most likely leave with one (or two, or several) bandhejs (tie-dye fabric), which are sold at Nai Sarak.
Into her third tour of India, Paez captures the ageless beauty of India – from Old Delhi to Jodhpur – in all its unbridled glory.
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THE IRISH OPEN
FOTA ISLAND, IRELAND
Q. You said all you needed was a little momentum was this year of yours to burst back to life. Was today momentum?
PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON: Headed in the right direction. Last couple of weeks I've had some good scores and I haven't been able to sustain it. Obviously that would be the goal for the weekend is to play like I did the first two days, and if I do that, yeah, then we'll start talking about momentum. But you do need to finish off tournaments, and I badly need a win and certainly that would be the momentum I'm talking about.
Q. What's it like to play in front of thousands of people who are willing every ball into the hole?
PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON: You have to be very careful. There's no doubt, you have to take it in the right way. For years, I found it put me under a lot of pressure. Now, I kind of see there's encouragement without the expectation.
Years ago it was expectations and you felt like you were letting people down. And true enough, you're emotionally attached to your own event, The Irish Open here. And anything happens, you take it certainly. I hit an average shot to a green and I kind of want to tell everyone that's an average shot, it wasn't a great shot, and they are clapping, that sort of thing.
Take the momentum for sure, take the good stuff, but try not to get too personally involved.
Q. Good feeling into the weekend?
PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON: I've been here a few times and haven't done so well on the weekend. I'm changing up stuff and hoping it will still work well for the weekend. I'm looking forward to the opportunity, and that's what we really look for in the game of golf, plenty of opportunities, and given enough opportunities, you figure it out sometimes.
For sure, I didn't have myself much trouble over two days. Wasn't out of position that much. A lot of fairways, a lot of greens, didn't seem to, I didn't hit that close; I could have hit a few of my wedge shots closer, but I had a lot of 15‑, 20‑footers, 30‑footers and I kept running the ball at the hole. That was nice and positive. All my putts today halfway there had a chance of going in. I got a big bonus on 17 but the reality is I ran a lot of putts at the hole, so at some stage, something is going to fall.
There's no doubt that you've got to use that momentum, but it's a double‑edged sword to be honest and I've found over the years it put a lot of pressure, the expectation. I think I've mellowed a little bit, and especially having won one, you realise people are behind you and encouraging you but you have to get away from that expectation. It's not that easy to deliver all the time to win any tournament on demand. You have to relax a little bit and maybe enjoy the applause, which I do, but don't get too carried away with the expectations.
Q. On the eve of the championship, you said the pressure is off you because you already have one of these under the belt. Presumably it's cracked up a bit on the weekend when you're in a challenging position.
PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON: No doubt about it, but this is where you want to be and this is kind of before I was expecting to be. Whether I can finish it off was more the curiosity coming into this week. I did feel in decent form. I've put myself in that position to have a look at the weekend and if it doesn't go my way, I'm sure I'll learn something from it.


Size & Distance: 4.40 x 1.7 Apx 60 Million light years.
Date & Location: 09-17-2017 Palomar Mountain, CA.
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Image Cropped 35%, Field of view is 97.3 x 95 arcmin. North up.
NGC7497 is the galaxy in the center, the small diagonal streak. In the foreground is what's called (IFN) known as Integrated Flux Nebula and cataloged as MBM54. It's only about 1000 light-years distant, while NGC7497 is about 60 million light-years.


[Tokyo, Japan] Les Créations de Narisawa took top honours by being the Number 1 restaurant at the inaugural Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2013 by S.Pellegrino. It was also ranked No 8 in The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2015, making it the Best Ranked Restaurant in Asia, according to a panel of judges, that is.
If there is an award for food-aesthetics, then Narisawa would almost win hands down. Chef Yoshihiro Narisawa who honed his skills in Robuchon, Girardet and Bocuse is all about "sustainability and gastronomy", creating dishes "in harmony with nature and the environment". He gets his food inspirations from the forests, and serves soil, charcoal and bark on the table. Distilled soil that is.
Compared to many other restaurants, Narisawa which is near Aoyama Itchome Station is an easy-find, after a short walk past many car showrooms. It is housed in a silvery-white modern building on its own – with the interior being completely black and white, screaming style, simple chic and elegance at the same time.
Booking needs to be done online a month before the reservation month (ie for a table in May, you should definitely book on the 1st of April).
Lunch is a lot more affordable at 12,600 (SGD$169.50, USD$136.80), considering this is prime land Tokyo, The price used to be 7,350 Yen (SGD$98.90, USD$79.80) last year. Perhaps that's what you pay for fame. Dinner is at 21,000 Yen (SGD$282.55, USD$227.94).
My meal was called "Evolve with the Forest" – a gift from "Saien", "Satoyama", "Satoumi" and the Forest. The amuse bouche at Narisawa already sets the tone for a 'nature' ride – Onion with Leek wrapping served on a left, and bread with a moss and chlorophyll covered cube – which happens to be the most delicious butter I ever eaten.
The main course was more spectacle than taste. The "Suzuki" Seas Bass with cabbage, asari and clams come wrapped with a bag, cut open in front of your very eyes, with thorough one-minute explanation from the staff. I could not catch the full-narration from the heavy-accented English, but could make out that this is a simple dish with an elaborate story.
The other main, the Amagi no Shamo, a free range chicken dish felt rather lack-lustre both in terms of presentation and flavour, too one-dimensional to leave a deep impression.
Desserts were once again visually astounding, humble fruits given a delightful twist with it being served a pineapple crust poured with Pina Colada all over. While I was busy taking shots, the table behind me of 8 Japanese tai-tais exclaimed with a collective "Ooooo", and "Ahhhhh" as the service staff performs his acts so immaculately.
Most French restaurants would come with petit four, Nariwasa's served in a push-trolley with seemingly an endless supply of mini-macarons, cakes, puff pastries, meringues and chocolates. I thought I should behave more civilized in Japan, and shyly took only four pieces, while that same table behind me swopped the coconut macarons clean.
Les Créations de Narisawa provides an almost perfect service, with imaginative food that tells a story. While it is not quite mind-blowing and its ranking caught me by surprise, you appreciate Chef Narisawa for his dedication to the craft. Whether the restaurant is deserving of the Number 1 spot in Japan is debatable, because food is subjective, and so is art.
wow, it does look worthy to be #1 in Asia.


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Digging in on soil health By Scott Stuntz, Contributing Writer
Multimillion dollar research initiative aims to give growers concrete advice on improving soil health.
Soil health has been called the "next frontier" of agriculture by no less than this very magazine. Something that would be useful in navigating that new territory would be a map. Coming up with those metaphorical maps is the goal of a new multimillion-dollar research project that will take place across the country over the next four years.
Unlike other efforts, this project is aimed specifically at improving soil health in growing potatoes. In addition, the project will also specifically focus on the economic viability of different practices and will engage growers on their adoption.
Carl Rosen, Head and Professor of the University of Minnesota's Department of Soil, Water and Climate, is leading the research project, which is funded by a $8 million grant over four years from the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) through the Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI). The research team involves 24 collaborators from 10 universities consisting of soil scientists, plant pathologists and potato agronomists.
"We want to look at ways of providing different tools for managing diseases, and soil health is one way of doing that," Rosen said.
What does healthy soil look like?
The objective of the research is stated formally as establishing "physical, chemical, and biological indicators of soil health for sustainable potato production."
In others words, the project is meant to answer questions like: What does a healthy soil look like, and how does a grower know if their soil is healthy or not?
Given how much variability there is in soil and the microbes that live there, looking at just one location would not give the same view on soil health as this project aims to deliver.
"I think having this broader view will give us a much different perspective on how soil health can be improved in potato production and one size might not fit all," Rosen said. "It's a start."
Importantly, Rosen said, the end goal is not just to scientifically answer those questions, but also to give growers practical and economically viable ways to improve the health of their fields.
The project will look at the effects of potato cultivar, fumigation, crop rotation, cover crops, green manures, microbial inoculants and nutrient amendments on soil health, as well as on potato health and yields.
To achieve those goals the project is divided up into four distinct objectives.
To use controlled research plots to evaluate practices and their effects on soil health and yields.
Examine what some innovative growers are already doing to improve soil health, in order to incorporate the practical success that farmers have already achieved.
Look at these ways to improve soil health through the lens of financial realty, to look at which of these suggestions are viable given real-world costs.
Finally, researchers plan to create outreach materials, including handbooks, to help growers put the lessons learned from the research into action.
The USDA has released the funds for the first year of the project and will release the funding for each following year as the research rolls on.
Rosen said he's navigated difficulties like this in the past, even having a three-year project become a four-year project due to a past government shutdown.
"We know we have the first-year funding, so it's good to get it started," he said.
That first installment comes to just under $1.9 million, which will allow work to begin on all four objectives. So as the field trials get underway, researchers will look at the economic angle of soil health. Christopher McIntosh, interim head of the department of agricultural economics and rural sociology at the University of Idaho, and Assistant Professor Alexander Maas will look at how economically viable some of the proposed practices are.
McIntosh and Maas said they are not only looking at which proposed practices make economic sense, but they are also examining how growers decide of which practices to implement on their operations.
"What we want to do is figure out what their (growers') amenability to accept these soil health practices, what that is across different non-traditional producer practices," Maas said.
The researchers will put questions to producers to figure out what goes into determining whether it's worth it to a producer to try out a new practice.
"That's kind of what we're getting at, trying to find out what their attitudes are toward adopting those and that, in a way, gives us some information about how we might go about making it more likely for them to adopt them if that was the end goal of policy," McIntosh said.
The other part of their objective is to run the numbers and see if it makes financial sense to operators to implement some of these practices. Though, that piece has its complications as well. The exact benefit of the different practices isn't known for sure, but will depending on the results of the research.
McIntosh and Maas planned to start by reaching out to growers at the 2018 Montana Seed Potato Seminar, which was slated for early November in Missoula.
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We made two of our favourite dips today and wanted to share them with you. The black olive tapenade (pictured right) is whizzed up in a food processor and the garlic, black pepper and herbs make it rich and zingy. The spicy peanut sauce (not pictured) is mixed in a bowl or jug and has fresh ginger, garlic, soya sauce and spices.
1. Add all ingredients to the bowl of a food processor. Cover and blend until the mixture holds together. You want some texture in it, so the olives should be in very small bits, not completely blended. Can be stored in the fridge for a couple of days in a sealed container.
1. Put the peanut butter into a bowl and add the boiling water. Stir until the peanut butter has dissolved and you have a smooth mixture.
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Корректурная проба Бурдона (тест Бурдона) — метод патопсихологического исследования, заимствованный из психологии труда. Используется для выявления утомляемости, оценки концентрации и устойчивости внимания. Предложен французским психологом  (Benjamin B. Bourdon) в 1895 году.

Инструкция

Тест проводится при помощи бланков с большим количеством (несколько сотен или тысяч) случайно расположенными рядами символов (букв, цифр, пиктограмм, колец Ландольта и т.п.). Испытуемому необходимо, просматривая бланк, ряд за рядом, вычёркивать из него указанные в инструкции символы. После команды «Начали!» экспериментатор включает секундомер и по прошествии каждой минуты ставит пометку в месте, где держит карандаш в этот момент испытуемый. Длительность проведения методики может составлять 3, 5 или 10 минут, в зависимости от задачи.

Результаты
В клинической практике используются показатели изменения скорости работы (количество знаков, просмотренных в единицу времени) и изменение точности (количество ошибок в те же интервалы). Построение двух этих графиков выявляет утомляемость (снижение скорости и точности), врабатываемость (повышение скорости, точности) и колебания того или иного показателя.

Особенности
Необходимо учитывать состояние зрения испытуемого, а также его уровень грамотности и язык. Для тестирования иностранцев, неграмотных людей (или страдающих дислексией) и малолетних детей обычно используются пиктограммы или кольца Ландольта. Для иностранцев также могут использоваться цифры или, например, буквы, похоже выглядящие в кириллицы и латинице.

Ссылки
 http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/kolichestvennaya-otsenka-produktivnosti-vnimaniya-v-metodike-korrekturnaya-proba-b-burdona
 http://azps.ru/hrest/4/4021761.html

См. также
 Счёт по Крепелину
 Тест Мюнстерберга
 Таблица Шульте
 Эффект Струпа

Примечания

Внимание
Психодиагностические методики

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I cannot believe that Summerfest is over already! We talked about it for so long, and now.... it's onto the countdown for next year!
First of all, THANK YOU to everyone who came to the shows at our brand spankin' new US Cellular Connection Stage! We had some amazing country acts come through this year, and the crowds were just absolutely insane!
Night one was Kane Brown and Walker Hayes. It was a little bit of an emotional night for Walker since it was his first show back since the terrible passing of his & his wife's 7th child. However, he was still incredibly nice to everyone he came into contact with, and he was fantastic on stage. I especially loved when he covered TLC's "No Scrubs" (my go to karaoke song!).
The area around our US Cell Stage was completely packed for Kane Brown.... you could not see an open spot from the stage! We got to chat with him for a little backstage before he went on, and he was much taller than I anticipated!
Day 2 of Summerfest for me (June 29th) was fantastic from the jump ... because during the day I got to go on the Sky Glider with Molly from OnMilwaukee! It was such a cool view of the whole place, and I highly recommend doing it next year so you can see everything that this amazing festival has to offer. Thank you again to Molly for having me!
Night 2 of country at our US Cellular Connection Stage was Billy Currington! I was over the moon excited to meet him and tell him how my mom & I love the song "Party For Two". Did I fan girl during this interview? Yes. Do I care? No. Thank goodness Shannen was there to help me keep it together. Also, could we be getting a collab with him and Colbie Caillat soon? We shall see!!!!
The next night at the American Family Insurance Amphitheater, it was a freaking PARTY! I've never seen Florida Georgia Line live, and they did not disappoint. It was the kind of show where if you weren't having a good time, then that was your own fault. They were also very nice backstage, and I asked them about how I heard they want to do a song with Rihanna next. They got a little quiet when I asked, which leads me to believe (HOPEFULLY) that it's already in the works.
Unfortunately Bebe cancelled because she was sick, but I heard Rachel Platten was wonderful!
Fast forward to Thursday, July 5th.... the most BANANAS day of all. Jimmie Allen, Devin Dawson, and Brett Young were all set to play at our US Cell Stage.
Before any of that went down though, Shannen and I got to hang with Jimmie and do a little Facebook Live interview. He was extremely laid back, and very likable.
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Next up was the same deal with Devin Dawson ... and I couldn't get over the fact that he had black jeans on.... IT WAS SO FLIPPING HOT OUT. Dude looked fresh though, and is a very friendly guy. He even recorded a quick video for me to send to one of my girlfriends who is a super fan.... so I will forever love him for that!
After we watched Jimmie and Devin on stage, we got to hang out with Brett Young backstage ... and my heart burst when Gavin DeGraw stopped by. He always makes me think of simpler times with "One Tree Hill". Sophia Bush is goals. He has a crazy amount of energy, and is sometimes hard to keep up with, but it's all part of his silly charm. Brett was very kind, and his fiance is like ... alien pretty. I mean that in the nicest way possible (Jennifer Aniston is also in this category). They're such a cute couple, and he was AMAZING on stage! His surprise performance with Gavin was very well received too.
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I didn't get the chance to meet this winner below with the corn on the cob... but she's legit my favorite of all. Girlfriend was not putting down her grub, and I love her for it.
Hannah (who you hear on Sundays on our station) & I did get the chance to sneak over to see our girl Shannen O from the Morning Show perform with our friend KB from our sister station The Big 920! They were at the Uline Stage, and girlfriend killed it!
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He also announced in an interview with Ridder & Shannen that he will be returning to the Riverside Theater this fall! You can get details here.
I was a little sad that I didn't get to see Hunter Hayes' surprise performance during Blake Shelton's set the night before, BUT... I was pretty happy to meet him before his show at the BMO Harris Pavilion. We talked about the last time I saw him in concert (in 2013 when he opened for Carrie Underwood in my hometown, Buffalo, NY), and how he was so sick that night. He only performed 3 songs at that concert, but he still powered through like a champ, and that's where my respect for him started. What you think Hunter Hayes would be like is exactly who he is ... sweet and super passionate about his craft.
Overall ... not too shabby for my first official Summerfest experience! I had to pinch myself at times because it was even more amazing than I could have ever imagined.
Thank you to everyone who stopped by our multiple set ups on the grounds, and especially to those who were so so so nice during my broadcasts at our Rolling Radio next to our US Cellular Connection Stage. It was so great getting to chat with you all, and I look forward to doing it all again in a couple of weeks at the Wisconsin State Fair!
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A Look At Memorable Characters
Posted on January 9, 2011 by Sherwood Smith
Frodo. Robin Hood. Jane Eyre. D'Artagnan and his compatriots. Lizzie Bennet and Mr. Darcy. King Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere.
Part of the unique shared memory that is created by our reading of books is the character who we love dearly, almost as dearly as friends and family. Our favorite characters abide in our minds alongside actual people we know, for our entire lives. Can't we see them so vividly, almost hear their voices? How many of us have gone to a film of a favorite book, and been disappointed because the actor isn't really the "right" person for the role—doesn't match that inner vision?
When I've asked readers to define why they remember these characters, I sometimes hear about heroism, and sometimes about how creepy they are, but always there's something memorable, "They just seem so real." Or even "Larger than life."
Some say that 'literary' fiction is all about mirroring how ordinary people react in normal circumstances. Speculative fiction speculates about how people react in extraordinary circumstances. This is where we get heroes, who demonstrate the ability to lead and to act. In the story their action is the right one. They possess charisma that gets people to actually listen in an emergency, when in real life most of us get shouted down with a variation on "Who do you think you are?" if we try to add our opinion to the clamor.
Memorable characters are like famous historical figures in that both shape our evolving culture with the human gestures, reactions, expressions, habits we all recognize and emulate. And likewise memorable antagonists are a combination of negative traits that pique our interest, even if just long enough to exert ourselves to avoid being like them; others are fascinated by them, much like being fascinated by fire.
Our opinion of memorable characters varies from reader to reader—what is admirable to one reader might be stodgy or offensive to another—but as social rules alter, our response to characters alters as well. Literature is replete with characters who behave according to a philosophy the author wishes to propound, whether moral, social, or political. Novels of the 1800s were full of female characters whose straying from the patriarchy's strict moral path for women automatically condemned them to a deathbed scene of misery and repentance. During the days of the Elder Edda memorable heroes hacked and smashed their way through countless victims in order to exact revenge—to the applauding of the audience of the time. If we met one of those guys now we'd be calling 911 fast.
There are also allegorical characters. These are not just figures of old fiction, but there are writers who create them now, to serve as stick figures in Idea Novels. These are characters whose entire existence is devoted to a single purpose. In reality, even famous leaders were a jumble of passions, moods, contradictions, even confusions. Perhaps the messages of allegories might be remembered, but I really don't believe the characters will.
Writers' heads are populated with the characters they find most fascinating. The challenge is in getting those characters onto the page so that they leap with equal fascination into the heads of readers.
At the very first workshop I ever attended, a fellow writer talked tirelessly about how she'd been in love with the male protagonist of her fantasy trilogy for years. When it came to be her turn, I'd picked up her chapters eagerly, hoping to discover another D'Artagnan or Mr. Darcy, but what I found was the same guy I'd been seeing in fantasy epics all during the seventies, right down to his raven locks. (His hair wasn't black. It was raven.)
By the time I'd read several chapters during which not much happened except that this guy tended to pose a lot (as women longed to be with him and men longed to be like him), uttering heroic speeches, he was beginning to remind me of my high school principal, only even more pompous.
The faces of my fellow workshoppers as we assembled for the session on that story made it clear that whatever reality this character had in his writer's mind just wasn't getting down onto the paper. But when this began to come out during the discussion, the writer said our critiques were useless as none of us seemed able to get the "nuances" of this character, so emendation wouldn't be true to his reality. Sometimes characters take on more life in our heads than is visible on paper, whether ours or someone else's characters. (Look at all the fan fiction about Draco Malfoy, giving him a lot more motivation and variety then he ever demonstrated in canon.)
I think it's inevitable that the characters who have the most effect on us, especially in early reading, are going to show up in our writings. I keep waiting for some young scholar to trace Sir Percy Blakeney to Sir Peter Wimsy and thence to Francis Crawford of Lymond, and then to Jamie of Outlander, and on to the many works that that book has, in its, turn inspired. But these characters, though perhaps inspired by the dashing hero previous to him, each took on his own characteristics until he became a separate entity. Ditto Becky Sharpe and Scarlett O'Hara.
One of the reasons why I think the current fashion for mashups will fade out of memory is the Xerox effect—taking tropes from other types of stories and sticking them into variations on well-known works so that each seems a bit more blurred, a little more flat and ultimately forgettable.
There's another aspect: when people write real people into fiction. Hitler and Stalin and various U.S. Presidents have shown up in countless fictive works, but so do lesser known people. This has been going on for centuries. Caro Lamb had an instant best seller in her Mary Sue Glenarvon in which she not only wrote herself as two different perfect heroines (each getting a perfect death) but she gleefully penned her anger over Byron dumping her, and scored off most of the upper reaches of London Society at the same time.
Sometimes writers write themselves in as vaguely masked characters, like Patrick Dennis did. All his books were published under Patrick Dennis; in several of them (I think the best is Genius and Auntie Mame) he was the first person narrator, but there never was an Auntie Mame. Who is remembered later? Auntie Mame has managed to slide into popular culture, whereas no one remembers Patrick Dennis's fictional self, and not many could name who created Auntie Mame.
David Bratman, a Tolkien scholar, recently published a list of fictive works in which the three most famous Inklings, Tolkien, Lewis, and Williams, have appeared.
Anyway, there is my ramble, in hopes of sparking some discussion on what makes memorable characters, both for you as readers, and or you as writers?
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A Look At Memorable Characters — 10 Comments
Gabriele on January 9, 2011 at 10:43 am said:
I would not call 911, I would give him a list of people he can hack and smash for me. 😀
Some of my favrourite characters: Athos (bookverse including the sequel; none of the movies does him justice), Faramir, Kjartan (Laxdoela saga), Marquis Rodrigo Posa (Schiller, Don Carlos), Ruedeger of Bechelaren (Song of the Nibelungs), Aeneas (Vergil), Alaric Morgan (Deryni) ….
Dunno if that says something about me, but the motive of friendship which is represented by several of those characters is an important one in my fiction. And I did play a little game with names, two of the MCs in Kings and Rebels are Roderic (the ancient French version of Rodrigo) and Kjartan. 🙂
Sherwood Smith on January 9, 2011 at 11:02 am said:
I like Aramis more than Athos, though both are right up there! Faramis, oh yes. He could have taken over the book for all of me. I'd have to think about the Nibelungenlied . . . my memory is mixed with Fritz Lang's terrific movie.
pilgrimsoul on January 9, 2011 at 12:07 pm said:
Of all the male human heroes in LOTR, I'd choose to date Faramir above all the others. Pippin says somewhere that he is less lofty than Aragorn, which is part of the appeal. He's also brave, gentle, and shrewd.
I reflect on how hard it is to create a truly good character who does not come across as a sap or an idiot. Miss Austen could do it, too. Look at Anne Elliot. She and Captain Wentworth are two of my memorable characters.
Gabriele on January 9, 2011 at 12:09 pm said:
Yeah, Aramis is more the Francis Crawford type, so I can see why you prefer him. I'm more for the tormented hero, it seems.
Ruedegar is actually a minor character in the Song of the Nibelungs, but he's noble and torn by conflicting allegiances and friendships …. I'm a sucker for that stuff. 🙂
Phyllis Irene Radford on January 9, 2011 at 12:16 pm said:
As I worked through the stories that will shortly appear in "Shadow Conspiracy, Volume II" I found that some of the little know characters from history actually had a huge impact on the evolution of their culture. I'd never heard of Ada, Countess of Lovelace before, and only looked at her father Lord Byron and his associates peripherally. Now I can see tendrils of their lives and works everywhere, and not just our fiction.
I'm currently working on a project that mentions little known fur trader Peter Skene Ogden whose greatest act was to believe that his marriage, a tribal ceremony, was legal even after the US imposed territorial laws upon the region. If it was recognized as a legal ceremony at the time, why not later. The courtroom battles over the legitimacy of his children and therefore their right to inherit established many legal precedents that hold today.
And yet he is rarely mentioned outside local histories and more for his daring exploits as a trapper than a respected political leader.
As authors we need to look to these kinds of examples to find our heroes as well as the larger than life movers and shakers the history books dwell on.
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel on January 9, 2011 at 12:19 pm said:
I notice that although my heroes may change slightly as time rolls on, the things that attracted me endure — just the percentage of that aspect revealed changes slightly. I have many heroes in LoTR, but I was more interested in the adventures of the broken Fellowship than I really was in Frodo and Sam, the first time through. Though I saw Aragon as too much of a rogue at first to see him as heroic. (I was nine, so I suppose it's understandable.) Gandalf was my biggest hero. He had a goal that must be achieved, and he tried not to let it chew up people he cared about, but the goal overwhelmed everyone and everything. And he could not use force, except in self-defense, or in focused moments.
It was as I continued to evolve that I saw Sam and Frodo in new lights, and came to recognize them as the kind of heroes I might meet someday. Anne Elliot and Lizzie Bennet are like that, too.
marilyn on January 9, 2011 at 12:33 pm said:
Jamie Fraser and Lord Peter, of course. (I'll have to think about the Lord Peter/Sir Percy connection. The Pimpernel is okay but Sir Percy is a bit much.) But for sheer numbers of memorable characters I'll have to go with Lois McMaster Bujold: Miles and all the Vorkosigans, Fawn and Dag, Cazeril, many of her minor characters and even walk-ons.
Brenda Clough on January 9, 2011 at 1:50 pm said:
Good gosh! I will have to email Bratman and get "Escape Hatch" onto his list! It's right here on BVC — in which Tolkien and Lewis's first meeting in the trenches of WWI is facilitated by James Joyce.
Madeleine E. Robins on January 9, 2011 at 1:52 pm said:
I'd go so far as to say that there's some Sir Percy in Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent–fearless do-gooder hiding behind the appearance of incompetence or frivolity…
Anne Elliot and Elinor Dashwood and Jane Eyre stick with me, and I can return to them any time. But so do some of Austen's and Bronte's less, um, flattering creations: without Lady Catherine deBourgh or Mr. Brocklehurst to push back against, Lizzie and Jane would be so much less flavorful.
Sherwood Smith on January 9, 2011 at 2:04 pm said:
Gabriele: Lymond isn't the king of angst? (Actually, I don't like him, I read around him, as it were. Philippa is my main draw there.)
Miles! YES!