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Alabama vs. Georgia Head-To-Head Football History
by Brian Stultz
Two SEC heavyweights will face off Between the Hedges on Saturday as Georgia hosts Alabama in the 67th meeting between the two teams.
It's a battle of the Houndstooth versus the Silver Britches, Uga versus Big Al, and The Bear versus Vince Dooley.
Below we take a look at some interesting facts, memorable games, program comparisons and the all-time Alabama vs. Georgia head-to-head football history.
Alabama vs. Georgia Football History
Interesting Rivalry Facts
The winner of the game has shut out the loser 22 times in the series, with the last one being a 31-0 Bama beatdown of Georgia in 1995.
Alabama and Georgia have tied three times, with two being a scoreless ball game (1901 and 1907).
Besides Tuscaloosa and Athens, the series has been hosted in Columbus, GA, Montgomery, AL and Atlanta, GA, with numerous Alabama home games being played in Birmingham at Legion Field.
Three Memorable Games
1. Georgia Runs Out Of Time – December 1, 2012 – Georgia Dome (Atlanta, GA) – With a trip to the BCS National Championship Game on the line, the Crimson Tide and Bulldogs met in the SEC Championship Game. Down 32-28 with nine seconds left, Bulldogs quarterback Aaron Murray's pass was deflected and landed in the arms of receiver Chris Conley. Conley was tackled at the five-yard line, and the clock ran out. Alabama would go on to demolish Notre Dame to win its third national title in four years.
2. Stafford To Henderson – September 22, 2007 – Bryant-Denny Stadium (Tuscaloosa, AL) – Alabama was 3-0 and ranked No. 16 in Nick Saban's first year on the job in Tuscaloosa. This was the national moment Alabama fans had been waiting for with College GameDay in town. Quarterback Matthew Stafford and the Georgia Bulldogs had other plans. The game was tied 20-20 at the end of regulation, and on their first possession, the Tide had to settle for a field goal. One play was all the Bulldogs would need. Stafford found receiver Mikey Henderson in the left side of the endzone for a 25-yard touchdown and a 26-23 victory.
3. Shut Down And Shut Out – September 21, 1991 – Bryant-Denny Stadium (Tuscaloosa, AL) – Alabama was reeling coming off of a humiliating 35-0 loss to the Florida Gators, and Georgia was feeling good after a win against LSU. The Bulldogs never had a chance, as the stout Crimson Tide defense shut down the Georgia offense, winning 10-0 and starting a 28-game winning streak for the Crimson Tide that included the 1992 National Championship Game rout of Miami.
Program Comparisons
Alabama claims 15 national championships in the program's history, while Georgia won the big prize in 1942 and 1980, respectively.
Total: Alabama 15, Georgia 2
Conference Titles
The Crimson Tide have won a whopping 28 conference titles, including 24 in the SEC. The Bulldogs have won 14 titles, with 12 of those being in the SEC.
Total: Alabama 28, Georgia 14
Two Bulldogs have brought the Heisman back to Athens, with Frank Sinkwich winning it in 1942 and Herschel Walker claiming the prize in 1982. Alabama has only had one Heisman winner, that being Mark Ingram in 2009.
Total: Georgia 2, Alabama 1
Alabama vs. Georgia Game Results
Alabama leads series 37-25-4.
Below are the results for every Alabama vs. Georgia game.
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I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427497484 Title: Empires of the Atlantic world : Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 Author: John Huxtable Elliott Publisher: New Haven : Yale University, ©2006. ISBN/ISSN: 0300114311 9780300114317 9780300123999 030012399X OCLC:427497484
Empires of the Atlantic world : Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830
John Huxtable Elliott
New Haven : Yale University, ©2006.
An enthralling account of the entwined histories of Britain, Spain, and their empires in the Americas
América -- Historia -- Hasta 1810.
Gran Bretaña -- Colonias -- America -- Historia.
España -- Colonias -- America -- Historia.
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"[A] magisterial comparative history of empire of the Americas. . . . [A] richly textured comparative history. . . . [A] meticulously researched and elegantly executed synthesis. . . . Mr. Elliott's achievement is to identify with brilliant clarity the similarities and differences between British and Spanish America while embroidering his analysis with memorable details."-Niall Ferguson, Wall Street Journal"[A] monumental analysis of two New World empires . . . Elliott . . . uses the story of each colonisation to illuminate the other. He challenges our prejudices about the Spanish conquest and the patriotic myths that have grown up around the English one. There is nothing black and white about this book. . . . Elliott's writing . . . moves with a gentle rhythm of a sea swell to carry the reader along."-Christian Tyler, Financial Times Magazine"A handsome and fascinating study of the two colonisations, so different in their scope, duration and outcome. The contrasts in administration, treatment of the natives and economic viability are intriguing."-Christian Tyler, Financial Times Magazine"My favorite recent book of American history is, perhaps surprisingly, by an English scholar of the history of Spain. A model of comparative history, Empires succeeds in placing the formative years of the area that became the United States in a consistently illuminating hemispheric perspective."-Eric Foner, New York Times Book Review"Our current debate about immigration isn't only about clamping down on the U.S.-Mexican border. It's also about what it means to be an American after 9/11 and about how the nation is revamping the concept of citizenship. And it's an opportunity to reassess yet again, the relationship between the United States and its neighbors to the south, a chance to reflect on the role of Hispanic culture in the English-speaking world. For those eager to understand the historical context behind these issues, I know of no more comprehensive, readable source than J.H. Elliott's Empires of the Atlantic World. . . . A feast of insights."-Ilan Stavans, Washington Post Book World"In a masterful account, Oxford don Elliott explores the simultaneous development of Spanish and English colonies in the so-called New World. . . . Elliott's synthesis represents some of the finest fruits of the study of the Atlantic World."-Publishers Weekly"Elliott's mastery of Spanish materials is especially impressive and allows him to show how Spanish America 'was large enough to provide the setting for a variety of holy experiments'. . . . It is refreshing to read, towards the end of this brilliant, compelling book, that in the British colonies 'a distinctively, American identity' was not so much the cause of revolution as the result."-Tom D'Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor"Elliott . . . has long been universally acknowledged as the world's foremost expert on the early modern Spanish monarchy. . . . He has shown his mastery of the techniques of comparative history. . . . Elliott's searching and open-minded scrutiny of the facts overturns most conventional thinking. . . . Empires of the Atlantic World has long been a subject in search of an author, and Elliott has long been the author destined to fulfill the role."-Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Literary Review"The two stories have almost always been told in isolation: here, each affords fascinating new perspectives on the other. . . . [A] scholarly achievement and an exciting new departure."-Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman". . . how stimulating comparative history can be, especially when carried out with the meticulous care and breathtaking expertise that are on display on virtually every page of this handsome book. . . . This appraisal can barely begin to do justice to the formidable scholarship and the wealth of suggestions and insights contained in this magnificent book. Merely to have written a synthesis of either of the two empires would have been a brave undertaking and an impressive tour de force. But to have produced such a detailed and illuminating comparative synthesis of both, with hardly a dull paragraph despite its dispassionate - perhaps at times too dispassionate - scholarship, is a mighty triumph. Seldom can comparative history have been done so thoroughly, and presented with such flair, authority and aplomb."-Fernando Cervantes, Times Literary Supplement"Elliott's book is an important new synthesis . . . [and] not just a scholarly tome. It is also an outstanding example of historical writing that manages to combine serious, rigorous historical scholarship with an approachable style and grand narrative that commends it to the general reader. . . . Elliott writes well and captures the sweep of history . . . [with] a practical, pragmatic bent. . . . It is a very fine book."-Michael Savage, Culture Wars"As with all Elliott's books, the architecture and the scope are breathtaking. Empires of the Atlantic World covers almost every imaginable aspect of the imperial experience, from politics and economics to art and law, religion and literature, science and technology: all encompassed within a single narrative which takes us from discovery in 1492 to the eve of final independence of the Spanish-American colonies in 1830."-Anthony Pagden, London Review of Books"[It] is a quite masterly work of comparative history by a great historian which combines in a single thesis two complex societies and sheds fresh light on each."-Michael Howard, Times Literary Supplement"Elliott writes wonderfully readable history and in Empires he offers a rattling good tale describing European expansion to the New World that will captivate readers for years to come."-Simon Middleton, BBC History Magazine"Elliott's clearly-written book serves as an excellent general history of the Americas for the period 1492 to 1850. It is one of the few studies to compare the two spheres of the British and Spanish Americas."-British Bulletin of PublicationsSelected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2007 by Choice MagazineSelected as a 2007 "Outstanding" book by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School LibrariesShortlisted for the 2006 Hessel-Tiltman History Prize, awarded by the English PEN ClubWinner of the 2007 Francis Parkman Prize awarded by the Society of American Historians for the best book in American history"Others have offered comparisons between the English- and Spanish-speaking worlds, but none have been as fully nuanced or fully realized as this. A masterpiece by one of the English-speaking world's most accomplished historians."-David Weber, author of Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment"Elliott's close study of the empire the English founded in North America and the one that the Spanish built to the south has given him remarkable insights and perspectives. The result is to give new dimensions to the usable past of both Americas."-Edmund S. Morgan, author of Benjamin Franklin Read more...
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Benjamin Boone's music has been performed in twenty-six countries, appears on twenty-five CDs, has been featured in film, and has been the subject of multiple national broadcasts on National Public Radio and Bayericher Rundfunk. His music has garnered over eighteen national/international honors and awards. Boone is currently composing a string quartet for the Verdi String Quartett (Germany), for presentation at their Festival Vielsaitig in Fussen, August 2016. Prior to this, he recently collaborated with U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Philip Levine on the blending of his narration of 29 of his poems with music. Guest artists on the CD include jazz legends Chris Potter, Tom Harrell, and Greg Osby, among others. Boone also used excerpts from Levine's recorded narrations to form an amplified narrative for his new orchestral work, Waterless Music. This work features full orchestra plus two amplified 44 quartet containers of water. Waterless Music was premeiered at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles in June, 2015.
As a saxophonist, Boone has performed extensively throughout the US and Europe. His debut jazz CD, The Benjamin Boone Quartet: Live broke into the national airplay charts and remained in the top 100 for three weeks and was in the top ten for internet play. Saxophone Journal highlighted Boone's playing in the article A Lesson With Benjamin Boone. He has recorded extensively for the renowned Bayerischer Rundfunk Studio Franken with German violinist/composer Stefan Poetzsch, including the Capstone Records CD, Eastbound-Westbound, the one-hour music special Delays, and an hour-long live broadcast from the 2012 Poeten Fest.
Boone is currently a Professor of Music at California State University Fresno where he has taught since 2000. He has received the University's President's Award of Excellence, the Provost Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities, and the University Faculty Spirit of Service Award. In addition to his duties as a faculty member, he is the Faculty Service-Learning Scholar for the University's Richter Center for Civic Engagement and Service-Learning. Previously, Boone taught at the University of Tennessee, where he received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
A Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellow to the Univeritatea de Stat "Alecu Russo" (Republic of Moldova), Boone's research on speech from a musical perspective has been noted in Oxford's The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and most recently in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. He has edited manuscripts of Music Theory texts for Schirmer/Wadsworth, McGraw Hill and Prentice Hall.


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Goals for Motivating Employees
By Vanessa Cross
Does an S Corporation Have a President?
How Do Different Management Styles Impact Teamwork?
The Impact of Work-Related Goals on Employee Commitment
Human Resource Development and Motivation in the Workplace
Behavioral Theories in Small Business Leadership
Motivation does not come from a company policy, but from within an individual. Small-business owners and managers can, however, create an environment that facilitates motivation and stimulates the self-empowerment process in their employees. A company can impact an employee's job satisfaction, self-development and job enrichment -- core employee motivating factors.
Hygiene Factors
Employers don't need to motivate employees -- they simply need to stop demotivating them. So say the authors of "Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation," an essay written for the Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge for Business Leaders series. While hygiene factors, or those that relate to physical environment, benefits, job security, supervision levels and corporate policies, are not sufficient to motivate employees, an organization can encourage staff by ensuring that basic needs are covered at work. If the basics are not satisfactory, workers can become dissatisfied and develop poor work attitudes.
Aligning Goals
The employee's business goals should parallel those of the company. If an employee is satisfied with his work and the resulting performance aligns with an organization's goals, it will be easier for a manager to contribute to the employee's continued professional fulfillment. During an employee's performance assessment, a manager can work directly with the employee to develop goals that align with the organization's strategic goals.
While it is important to align an employee's business goals with those of the organization, it is also important to recognize that an employee is also motivated by individual career goals. "Whatever steps you take to support the motivation of your employees, they should first include finding out what it is that really motivates each of your employees," writes Carter McNamara, MBA, Ph.D., in the article "Basic Principles to Remember About Motivation." A manager can find out what each employee wants through observation, direct inquiry and -- most importantly -- by listening.
Organizations can motivate employees by recognizing both their individual and group contributions and achievements. Effective rewards are not limited to monetary compensation, but rather include actions that liberate people, recognize their individuality and expand their creative role within the organization. For example, the concept of "cafeteria benefits" reflects the belief that an employee should be able to choose what is important to her. This is contrary to the system in human resource management that takes a one-size-fits-all approach.
Harvard Business School; Why Your Employees are Losing Motivation; David Sirota, et al.; April 2006
Free Management Library; Basic Principles to Remember About Motivation; Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD
"SuperMotivation: A Blueprint for Energizing Your Organization from Top to Bottom"; Dean R. Spitzer; 1995
"Positively Outrageous Service: How to Delight and Astound Your Customers"; T. Scott Gross; 2004
Vanessa Cross has practiced law in Tennessee and lectured as an adjunct professor on law and business topics. She has also contributed as a business writer to news publications, including the "Chicago Tribune," and published in peer-reviewed academic journals. Cross holds a B.A. in journalism, a Juris Doctor and an LL.M. in international business law.
Situational Leadership and Its Effectiveness in Leading an Organization
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How to Write a Peer Evaluation Checklist
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Management Tips & Techniques
Behaviorist Concepts for Employees
1 Situational Leadership and Its Effectiveness in Leading an Organization
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I am a native of western NC. I grew up in Hendersonville, and moved to Brevard 36 years ago with my husband. We have two kids and four grand children. I know the area well and appreciate the beauty God has planted here. I feel so blessed to live here, and love sharing it with others.
I have two cabin vacation rentals that I own and manage. I love meeting my renters and sharing with them the wonderful locations to visit in our county and beyond. Many have become friends and clients that I have found homes and properties for.
In addition to my real estate business, and property management, I also work closely with my husband, Mark Goff, in his construction business, and design and decorate many of the homes we build.
Familiarity with the area, knowledge of the building industry, and an eye for design help me to help you. I offer free staging consultation with every new listing. Honesty, integrity, and hard work are my promise to every client.
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What All the Fuss is About PlayStation Games?
The gaming industry has taken the world by storm, with each passing day a new and improved series of games are being released into the market for gamers to enjoy. Virtually everyone is playing these video games from small kids to teenagers and now there are even some adults who actually can't get enough of these games. With each day bringing forth new technology, the industry has continuously being on the fast track as far as growth is concerned and this has lead to the development of devices which have propelled video game playing to all new heights. With playing devices such as the PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and the Game Boy slowly people are being drawn by the lure of the entertainment they bring.
Rather than watching a movie or doing other recreational activities like going for swimming or just watching television, more and more people are opting to play with the PlayStation, be it the model 1 or 2. With PlayStation games becoming cheaper and cheaper, you can now buy all the latest versions straight from your computer. Some of the most famous and enjoyable PlayStation games out there in the market are the need for speed, grand theft auto and smack down. The graphic of some of the versions is unbelievable, it's so real that when you are playing you can actually see and feel like you are inside the screen. As you have total control over what ever is going on in the screen.
Playing PlayStation games is a relaxing activity that lets you escape the day to day stress into a world that you can do anything you like. In need for speed you get to race around a special designed course with fast racing cars which have added extra features in them, like the nitrous oxide turbo booster which makes the race even more exiting. Also while playing there are cops who will try and burst you for high speed racing so you have to try and avoid the cops while still trying to win the race. Sounds exciting, doesn't it? Well it is all that and so much more. There are thousands of PlayStation games to choose from out there in the market, from adventure to football and so much more.
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'Primordial black holes,' believed to have formed shortly after the Big Bang, might explain how gold, platinum, and uranium are created.
Black holes are places of mystery. In simple words, black holes are the places in outer space where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape once it gets too close. According to new research by UCLA scientists, these parasitic black holes might help answer the question on where many of the elements heavier than iron came from.
Scientists recently mapped a pair of theories related to the formation and behavior of primordial black holes. According to their theory, black holes could have formed very shortly after the Big Bang, long before stars began to shine.
Previously, astronomers have suggested that these alleged parasitic black holes could represent all or a portion of the universe's secretive dim issue. They may have seeded the development of supermassive black holes that exist at the focuses of worlds. Means, black holes may help in creating many of the heavier elements found in nature.
Scientists primarily considered that a uniform field of vitality infested the universe soon after the Huge explosion. Thus, scientists expect that such fields existed in the distant past. After the universe rapidly expanded, this energy field would have separated into clumps.
Gravity would cause these clumps to attract one another and merge together. Researchers proposed that some small fraction of these growing clumps became dense enough to become black holes.
The discovery of these primordial black holes is possible using astronomical observations. It merely involves measuring the very tiny changes in a star's brightness.This will result from the gravitational impacts of a primordial dark opening going amongst Earth and that star.
During the second theory, scientists proposed that parasitic black holes might play an important role in the formation of heavy elements such as gold, silver, platinum, and uranium, which could be ongoing in our galaxy and others.
According to scientists, a parasitic black hole occasionally collides with a neutron star. When that happens, the primordial black hole consumes the neutron star from the inside. This process takes almost 10,000 years. As the neutron star shrinks, it spins even faster, eventually causing small fragments to detach and fly off. Those fragments of neutron-rich material may be the sites in which neutrons fuse into heavier and heavier elements.
This research was published in Physical Review Letters. Read both theories here and here.


Registration is now open for Ethics 4 All 2013 – the annual MPS ethics events which are run free of charge for members.
The programme has been developed to cover core bioethical and medicolegal issues and is also based on feedback from last year's events. Attendees can earn CEU points for the ethical component of their professional development.
Mastering Shared Decision Making to include: Unreasonable Patient Demands; Appropriate and Informed Choices about Treatment; Patient Decision Making; What Leads to a Complaint or Claim; and the Principles of Consent.
Ian Middleton and Alika Maharaj are MPS's marketing agents. They provide membership advice to students and doctors who are considering becoming members of MPS.
Since the beginning of this year, Alika and Ian have managed to visit all the medical schools – some more than once – for events including student registration, faculty days, faculty forum, a trade fair at WITS, conferences for qualified doctors and other health professionals at the medical schools, ethics events, and other ad-hoc visits.
In addition, Alika and Ian have attended all the HPCSA Roadshow events, visiting Bloemfontein, Kimberley, Mthata, Richards Bay, Durban and East London and given talks to junior doctors at various hospitals.
Alika and Ian always carry around useful "stuff" such as tourniquets and pens, so if you see them in your medical school, make sure you make yourself known to them!


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Benjamin Thompson, professionally known as Madd Hatta and Mista Madd, is an American rapper and record producer from Houston, Texas. He is the owner of Paid in Full Entertainment and the former host of the Houston-based radio talk show Madd Hatta Morning Show on KBXX 97.9 The Box.  He's currently curating Klassic Joints a 24/7-365 digital streaming app that plays classic Hip-hop and Super Throwback Party which is a 24/7-365 free digital streaming app that plays the best of the 90's-2000's hip-hop and R&B.

Discography
Albums
 1995 – All About Me
 1995 – Serious
 1997 – The pH Factor
 1999 – Mista Madd & The Supa Thuggz
 2000 – Can I Live?
 2007 – Still Standing

References

External links
Hatta's Old School Music Blog
Hatta's Old School Radio Show

Living people
Radio personalities from Texas
Year of birth missing (living people)

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By Christine Lagorio CBS June 8, 2007, 5:11 PM
Rendition Trial Puts U.S. On Hot Seat
CIA Agents charged with kidnapping in Milan. Richard Roth
In Italy tonight, the president's visit isn't just facing more European protest. The administration's "war on terror" has also become the target of criminal prosecution.
In Milan, a trial opened against 26 Americans accused of working for the CIA. None of the Americans showed up, but in a courtroom lined with empty cages, they're charged with kidnapping a Muslim cleric on a street near his mosque in Milan and secretly flying him to Egypt, CBS News correspondent Richard Roth.
Abu Omar spent four years in jail there, tortured, he says, as a suspected terrorist.
"I think that this trial is excruciatingly embarrassing for the United States, but let's face it, the real issue is that the process of illegal renditions or kidnappings, effectively, has been a complete catastrophe for the United States," said Clive Stafford Smith, a civil rights lawyer.
President Bush acknowledged last year that some terror suspects had been held in secret prisons run by the CIA, but he didn't say where.
Now a report for Europe's human rights agency has named Romania and Poland as places where CIA prisoners were subjected to what amounted to torture. Both countries deny it.
But full of detail – pinpointing this airport in Eastern Romania, for instance, as one staging point for the secret operation – the report says complicity with the United States has put Europe in a "moral quagmire."
"In Europe, now we're seeing criminal prosecutions that are based on the accepted view that this system is not just illegal, it's criminal," said international lawyer Scott Horton.
That includes Germany, where arrest warrants are out for thirteen suspected CIA agents accused of kidnapping Khaled el-Masri. He's a German citizen who says he was blindfolded, drugged, and flown to Afghanistan three years ago — then released, with the explanation his abduction had been a mistake.


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Q: When using a PHP function that requires a callback, how do we pass a custom parameter to the callback? For example,
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace-callback.php
<?php
// this text was used in 2002
// we want to get this up to date for 2003
$text = "April fools day is 04/01/2002\n";
$text.= "Last christmas was 12/24/2001\n";
// the callback function
function next_year($matches)
{
// as usual: $matches[0] is the complete match
// $matches[1] the match for the first subpattern
// enclosed in '(...)' and so on
return $matches[1].($matches[2]+1);
}
echo preg_replace_callback(
"|(\d{2}/\d{2}/)(\d{4})|",
"next_year",
$text);

?>

If we want to pass a custom parameter to the next_year callback function, how can we do that without using create_function()?
Many thanks to you all.

A: I don't know if it's the easiest solution, but I'd go for a object-method callback, where the object carries the required parameters in its state:
class Callback
{
    public $parameter;

    public function handle($matches)
    {
        return $matches[1] . ($matches[2] + $this->parameter);
    }
}

$instance = new Callback();
$instance->parameter = 99;
echo preg_replace_callback("|(\d{2}/\d{2}/)(\d{4})|", array($instance, 'handle'), $text);

Second option would be to resort to global variables:
$parameter = 99;

function next_year($matches)
{
    global $parameter;
    return $matches[1] . ($matches[2] + $parameter);
}
echo preg_replace_callback("|(\d{2}/\d{2}/)(\d{4})|", "next_year", $text);

A: I took S. Gehrigs idea and went a bit further with it, why not not put all the replacement functionality inside the class?
<?php
class Replacer {

    private $additional = 'X';

    private function next_year($matches)
    {
        // as usual: $matches[0] is the complete match
        // $matches[1] the match for the first subpattern
        // enclosed in '(...)' and so on
        return $this->additional . $matches[1].($matches[2]+1);
    }

    public function replace_years($text)
    {
        return preg_replace_callback( "|(\d{2}/\d{2}/)(\d{4})|", array($this, 'next_year'), $text);
    }
}

$text = "April fools day is 04/01/2002\n";
$text.= "Last christmas was 12/24/2001\n";

$Replacer = new Replacer();
echo $Replacer->replace_years($text);

And the result is:
[~]> php test.php
April fools day is X04/01/2003
Last christmas was X12/24/2002

A: Take a look at the callback pseudo-type, you can pass any variant of that to preg_replace_callback.
Here is an answer I gave yesterday, giving an overview of the type: Can you store a function in a PHP array?

A: The callback pseudo-type is just a string with the name of a function. So you can either declare the function like any other function and use that name just like you did. Or you use the create_function to declare a function on execution. create_function will then return the name of the newly created function lambda_x. (Since PHP 5.3 you can also use the anonymouse function syntax.)
But since callback is just the name of a function, you could use a function to create that function on the fly and return the name of that newley created function like this:
function shift_years($years) {
    return create_function('$matches', 'return $matches[1].($matches[2]+'.((int)$years).');');
}
$func = shift_years(123);
echo preg_replace_callback("|(\d{2}/\d{2}/)(\d{4})|", $func, $text);

Now shift_years creates your custom callback function as specified.

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Q: What's the meaning "I didn't but only"? I read the sentence below:

... Which didn't but only because I didn't know what it was

I guess it means I had no feelings about it because ...
But I am not sure. Could you please tell me what the meaning of "I didn't but only" is?
The fuller text is:

Charles had designed my course
  schedule. He'd signed me up for two music classes and a course on religion,
  all of which he said would be easy for me. Then he'd enrolled me in two
  more challenging courses—college algebra, which terrified me, and biology,
  which didn't but only because I didn't know what it was.

A: The OP doesn't realize where the antecedent lies.

Then he'd enrolled me in two more challenging courses—college algebra, which terrified me, and biology, which didn't but only because I didn't know what it was.

The relative pronoun, which, refers back to something previously mentioned.
The antecedent of "which terrified me" is algebra
The antecedent of "which didn't (terrify me)" is biology
The speaker was not terrified of (studying) biology because at the time she didn't know what biology meant or what it would entail.

A: One added comma might have made it all a little easier to grasp at first read...

college algebra, which terrified me, and biology, which didn't, but only because I didn't know what it was.

It's referring to  being terrified of algebra, but not biology.
The writer doesn't know what biology is, so isn't in any way scared of it.

A: didn't but only is not an expression: you have to consider it as three separate words.
didn't refers back to "terrified me", so you could straighten that out by saying

biology didn't terrify me because I didn't know what it was

only makes it clear that there just one reason, and but indicates that it's not a very good reason. You could use these two words together in a sentence like

I passed the exam, but only by two percent.

A: I didn't but only is a bit meaningless by itself.
The "complete sentence"

college algebra, which terrified me, and biology, which didn't but
  only because I didn't know what it was.

Let me add some more info

college algebra, which terrified me, and biology, which didn't (terrify me) but
  only because I didn't know what it was.

As you can see didn't applies to the precedent verb. The speaker was terrified by algebra but he/she wasn't terrified by biology. The speaker wasn't terrified because he/she didn't know what biology was.


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Larkin History - San Francisco CA.
Signature of Thomas Oliver Larkin on the Constitution of California (1849) - California was admitted to the Union in 1850 -same year John's father ancestors left Kilquain, Co Galway.
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T.O. Larkin was very important figure from the early 40's to the late 50's.
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Included in the festival is a powwow, Native American people's traditional way of meeting together to share in dancing, singing, and visiting.
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The Menopausal Patient: Clinical Pearls for Discovering and Managing Health Issues
Mimi Secor:
There are approximately 55 million women of menopausal age in the United States. In fact, about six thousand women reach menopausal age every day. You're listening to ReachMD, a channel for medical professionals. Welcome. I'm nurse practitioner Mimi Secor, your host, and with me today is my special guest, nurse practitioner Barb Dehn, popularly known as Nurse Barb on ABC television. Barb Dehn is a nurse practitioner at Women Physicians in Silicon Valley in California and also a guest lecturer at Stanford University. Barb also recently published a new book, The Hot Guide to a Cool Sexy Menopause.
Nurse Barb, welcome to ReachMD.
Barbara Dehn:
Oh, Mimi, it's a pleasure to talk with you today. It's great.
Very exciting. So, what are some of the complaints that menopausal women share with you that are most problematic for them?
Mimi, I know you and a lot of your listeners are hearing the same things, right? You know, nearly three out of four women have hot flashes or night sweats, but a lot of them have complaints and symptoms that they're really not complaining to us about. They're talking to their girlfriends, and unless we ask, we might not be hearing that they're having sleep disturbances, weight gain, maybe too much facial hair, maybe loss of hair on their heads, absolute changes in moods, changes in sexuality, and all of these things contribute to a change in a woman's quality of life.
Very true. For most women, what is the most surprising aspect that you hear them tell you about being in menopause?
I know that this is going to be surprising to a lot of clinicians and to women who might be listening, but I just saw a lady the other day, and she's really typical of what I see every single day, and that is women have vaginal symptoms. They're dry. They're having pain with intercourse. They may notice some itching or some odor. They maybe aren't lubricating the way they used to naturally, and most of them are surprised that this is not a temporary thing that's just going to go away over time. Most are shocked to learn that this is chronic. It gets worse, and that, if it's left untreated, it can lead to bladder infections. It can lead to a lot more pain with intercourse, even inability to have sex. So, I think vaginal dryness is a thing that we really have to lift the veil from and help women understand that this is not only treatable, but it's preventable.
Right, and they may not even know that this is something that's going to happen to them when they enter menopause.
It's true. I mean, a lot of them say, "I didn't even know this was a thing," you know? And I said, "Oh, yeah." What I like to do is try to anticipate it prior to menopause when women are perimenopausal and they're having irregular periods and they come in. We start to say, are you noticing that you need more lubrication? And when we do their exam, we'll start to point out that maybe they're losing some of those normal folds or rugae, and so we can talk about that and maybe do some preemptive treatment.
I like that idea. We're on the same page with that. It's kind of a perfect segue to talk about talking about sex in midlife. I know you do that every day. Do you have some pearls for our listeners?
I sure do. I think the best thing to do is put on your listening ears. I heard my friend, Mimi Secor, say this once, "You get two ears and one mouth, and that means you should be doing twice as much listening as talking," and so I think a lot of open-ended questions when we talk about sex is really, really helpful, and the other thing is that most clinicians I know have not taken a lot of classes in sexuality, and so there's plenty of good resources out there, both online and at conferences. So if you're not comfortable talking about sex, your patients notice that, and they won't bring things up, and it's almost like you have a sign on your forehead. If you're willing to talk about sex, everybody will talk to you about sex, and so becoming more comfortable just listening and by providing a few limited suggestions. That can really help a person.
And Barb Dehn wrote a great book, The Hot Guide to a Cool Sexy Menopause, and I've been reading that, and you've got lots of great pearls in there.
Oh, thanks, Mimi. I know that, for a lot of people, we think about sex as kind of mechanical, positioning, but there's a lot more to it, and we know that emotional intimacy goes with physical intimacy, especially at midlife, and so I put in the book a lot of information on how to talk to a partner, because one of the big issues that you see a lot and I see a lot is unresolved anger really gets in the way in the bedroom, and so having people begin to talk to each other about everything, whether it's taking care of grandparents or kids, helps with that sexual intimacy and the emotional intimacy.
And it can be building for years when the kids are growing and they don't have a lot of time with each other. That anger can build up in both parties.
It sure can, and all of us see that with women and men who sort of throw in the towel. They drop the kids off at college, and they say, "Who the heck are you," when they look at their partner. As they're looking at their own mortality issues, they're thinking well, do I really want to stick around for this, or should I look elsewhere? But most relationships can be repaired just with a few simple communication techniques like simply using "I" statements instead of "you" statements, you know? "I felt this when I saw this," instead of, "Well, you always do this, or you never do that."
Great suggestion. Great suggestion, especially if we can help clinicians help patients have the dialogue. So thank you. Many clinicians seem confused about treatment options for their patients in menopause. How do you figure out what's best for your patients, Barb?
Well, I think it goes back to the basics that we all learned in school, and that is start with a complete history and physical. As I tell my students at Stanford, put on your CSI detective hat, and figure out what this person might or might not be at risk for, and then you can determine their treatment options. So healthy young women, so women in their early '50s, who don't have high blood pressure, who don't smoke, who have no family history of breast cancer, they have a wide range of treatment options available at menopause. Women who are a little older who may have a family history of breast cancer or have a history of blood cots themselves in the their families, they have different options. I think you have to start by looking at who your patient is because, obviously, one size doesn't fit all.
Absolutely true. We have so many questions, even on the east coast. I always think of Suzanne Summers and the west coast when I ask this question. What is the current thinking on bioidentical and compounded hormones?
I think there was a lot of confusion over the last 10 years. Women mistakingly thought...and so did many clinicians, that the only place to obtain a bioidentical hormone was through a compounding pharmacy, but luckily, women can obtain bioidentical hormones that are FDA approved from any pharmacy with a prescription. So we have both oral and transdermal preparations. When we say FDA approved, it means they've been rigorously studied. We know both the benefits and the risks.
And I think a lot of people thought that compounded hormones were somehow safer than the FDA-approved formulations, but you know, all hormones carry risks and benefits, and I think it's really important that we all know that when we're advising patients. Compounding pharmacies are great because they can provide things to our patients that they can't obtain elsewhere. However, there's no free lunch when it comes to hormones. Hormones do carry some risk. So I think it's important to be well informed.
And for both clinicians and patients. So, do you find your patients are confused about treatment for menopause symptoms?
Oh my gosh, really. You know this so well, and you are helping so many clinicians by all the talks that you give and this radio show. People are so confused, and that's because menopause can float in like a gentle breeze with a few symptoms that aren't really bothersome, or it can sneak up on a woman like a class 5 hurricane, and all these changes can occur overnight. Women are confused because every woman is different. It's like we all get our own ride on the hormonal roller coaster, and every time you get off the roller coaster, you get a new ticket, and your ride can change. So what happens for one woman isn't necessarily going to happen for a friend or a sister, and so I think there's so much confusion because there's so much individual variation.
Well that's important for our patients and our clinicians to understand. Do you have any tips for women who want to treat their menopausal symptoms naturally?
Oh, absolutely, and I always do this with my patients. I give them a menu of options, and we start with doing nothing. You know, menopause is not a medical condition. It's a natural part of our life changes. However, some of the symptoms can be so bothersome that I like to start with exercise. I mean, something as simple as exercise regularly really helps, but so does yoga, and acupuncture, soy, soy foods, soy milk, edamame, roasted soy nuts. These contain phytoestrogens.
There are some herbs that work better for some women than others. We know that some women do really well with black cohosh. Others do not. So I like to advise women, there's lots of ways you can treat this naturally, and when it comes to sexuality, here's a tip for natural treatment. Use it or lose it, and that means lots of blood flow to that area, whether you're self-sexual or you're with a partner. That will help keep everything feeling a lot better.
Right on. So that's good homework for everybody, even our listeners, our clinician listeners. I like that. So some of my patients, they don't have hot flashes or night sweats. They have muscle aches, problems like that. What's your take on that kind of symptom?
You know, this is so much more common than we think, and women are thinking they may have fibromyalgia or they have some type of arthritis, but we see that there's a loss of collagen, not only in our muscles, but in our joints, and we think that relates back to joint aches in menopause, and many women are not getting this treated. So I would advise them to talk to a certified North American Menopause Society clinician or practitioner, someone who understands that these muscle aches may be related to a loss of estrogen through the natural part of menopause. Now, I have many, many patients who say, well, gee, using hormones really helped these symptoms, and I have others who have found that something as simple as soy and yoga helps. Again, there's a lot of individual variability in both symptoms and treatment.
It's complicated when we're dealing with humans.
You mean there's no recipe book that kind of helps you figure it out?
I love your referral to the menopause potbelly. You talk about that in your book, and all of our patients that are menopausal seem to be battling the bulge. What are some of your pearls to help clinicians and patients with their menopause potbelly?
Well, first of all, it does happen overnight. All of a sudden, all this weight goes right to your middle. Number one, get some Spanx or some kind of foundational garment underneath. No, that's a joke, really, but I use them. Number two, the secret really is weight training. We have to build up our muscle mass. So resistance and weight training, not just two times a week, but three times a week, and figure out how to do it correctly. Many of us don't do weight training correctly. So do talk to a personal trainer or someone at your gym. We know that the rest period between is important, not over lifting, not under lifting, but as you build muscle mass, you will burn more calories, and you will see that menopause potbelly go away.
I love that suggestion. Myself, if I don't work with a trainer, I can injure myself by doing weight training the improper way. I just had no idea. I thought well, there are barbells there. I can just lift them, but you really need to be taught properly. So thank you for that.
It's true. You can really strain a joint. You can also see no benefit. You can hate going to do your weight training, which is what I hear from a lot of patients. They hate it because they don't see any benefit. It's because they're not doing it properly, and I have a confession. I wasn't doing mine properly either, and then my trainer said, you know, if you slow down and you use less weight, you'll actually do better for yourself, and I saw that almost immediately.
That's awesome, Barb. Congratulations. What advice would you give other clinicians who want to care for midlife women and they would like to become more expert?
I think that the first thing is to put on your listening ears. Ask more open-ended questions, but also I'd put in a plug for the North American Menopause Society or NAMS. N-A-M-S dot org. They have a great conference, a lot of resources online for both women and clinicians. This is place where you can learn a lot about how to care for menopausal women.
I sure loved the meeting last year when we were all together and learning the latest on research before it's even published. Fantastic. Now, what about for women to find a healthcare provider who's skilled in caring for menopausal women, Barb?
Well, I think, again, go to NAMS.org. They have a listing of their NAMS-certified menopause practitioners, and then what that means is these are clinicians who have studied and passed a very rigorous exam, including yourself Mimi. I know that you are a NAMS-certified menopause practitioner. So these are skilled clinicians, but they also know the latest research, and they're all evidence based. So that means that women are not going to just get someone's opinion or worse, see a clinician who wants to sell them an herb or a vitamin supplement that hasn't been proven.
Important points. Now, how do you hope, Barb, The Hot Guide to a Cool, Sexy Menopause will help women? What are your hopes for this?
Well, I really found that women were asking me the same questions all the time, and so I wrote this because it has real-life stories on every aspect of menopause, whether it's hair on your chin, or menopause potbelly, or problems with sex, or leaking urine. All of these things can happen. How to treat hot flashes, but because I know that one size doesn't fit all, I give lots and lots of different examples from real women who've overcome some of these challenges in different ways, and also all that hot tips, I really wanted women to have a better quality of life, enjoy themselves more, and so these tips have been compiled from, you know, decades of working with women and have helped thousands of women live happy, healthier lives.
I love how personal the book is. I just find that flipping in and out of it is very helpful even as clinician, but also as a midlife woman myself. It's just such a great, uplifting guide. Thank you so much for writing that book, and thank you, Barb Dehn, for coming on the show today. It has been an absolute pleasure talking with you.
Mimi, it's been an honor and a pleasure to talk with you today. Thank you.
I'm nurse practitioner Mimi Secor, and you're listening to ReachMD, the channel for medical professionals. Thank you for listening.
Host Mimi Secor, DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP
There are approximately 55 million women of menopausal age in the US. In fact, about 6,000 women reach menopausal age every day. For many, the spec...
There are approximately 55 million women of menopausal age in the US. In fact, about 6,000 women reach menopausal age every day. For many, the spectrum of physical changes and their associated impacts on daily life aren't always anticipated or well understood. Clinicians of all levels have unique opportunities to provide guidance and treatment options for patients experiencing more severe effects of menopause; however, they don't always know what to ask, or how to ask it. To address this knowledge gap, host Mimi Secor welcomes Barbara Dehn, popularly known as Nurse Barb, a practicing Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, award winning author, and a nationally recognized health expert, to discuss clinical approaches to helping patients through the more difficult symptoms of menopause.


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FORMERLY REMEMBERTHEEIGHTIES.COM
TOYAH (THE HUMANS) INTERVIEW [2009]thefanbase2011-03-18T20:01:34+00:00
HOW ARE YOU AND HOW IS YOUR BUSY, BUSY LIFE COPING WITH FITTING IN YET ANOTHER PROJECT, THE HUMANS?
I'm very, very well but I'm very busy, The Humans is appearing to really take off and we're looking at doing a west coast of America tour sometime next year and everyone is interested!
I think it's because it's a new name with people with experience involved in it… I mean my name is heavily linked with the 80s, but because this is a brand new name and a whole new concept – what I call pop songs deconstructed – where every person involved has their own sound and their own space to appear in, which is why I created it, because I wanted my voice not to conflict with anything, purely selfishly! The idea originally was for two basses and a voice and then it slowly grew into samples and stuff.
Simon Heyward who mastered it, we didn't tell him it was us and he started telling people about this exciting new project, the best album he'd mastered for years! When he found out it was me and Bill he absolutely couldn't believe it because firstly he mastered all my early albums and secondly because Bill's in REM. It caught him out and he's been telling people that this is the album of 2009!
WHEN DID YOU START PLANNING THE WHOLE HUMANS PROJECT? WHEN DID YOU START WORKING ON IT?
It started because Robert (Fripp), my husband, was invited to play in Estonia in 2007 and he doesn't play, he just doesn't go out because he had decided that he was retired. So I contacted the Estonian embassy who has given the invite and I said that I could put an act together for this very short tour. They said OK and left it to me so I then phoned up Bill Rieflin, who is a very close friend of ours, and suggested that he and I do something that is just completely off the wall, just one bass and a voice. He said OK we'll give it a try and it just ended up that we added Wongy, Chris Wong, to the equation because it was just too much for Bill Rieflin to do it completely on his own.
So we went out to Estonia in 2007 and we liked what we were doing and we enjoyed each other's company. I'd written most of the material up until that point, I demoed everything on GarageBand and sent it out and Bill said let's go to Seattle and make the album. So it's grown out of our commitment and Bill, who obviously has to also work with REM – has to tour with them and be around for demos and recording – has not been very available lately but after we played Estonia again two weeks ago he said right, we're going to make this work let's go for it and start touring, so it's just fabulous and everyone is now completely committed to it.
YOU MENTIONED GOING TO ESTONIA AGAIN A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, THAT WAS TO LAUNCH THE ALBUM WASN'T IT?
Yes, we were invited by the Estonian government to go out and play and launch the album because we put on the CD cover that the music was conceived and first performed in Estonia. Now Estonia is a very small country and is relatively independent in its independence from Russia, it got its independence in 1992, and for them to have artists go out there and do something specifically for the country means an awful lot to them, so when we completed the album we were invited out to do this concert which was purely for the Estonian President, the Minister of Justice and all the guesting musicians at the Tartu Music Festival.
So we said yes and then Robert said that he'd like to come and play to support us, to open for us, and then completely turned that on its head when he played the whole concert which is what has launched everything in a much bigger way than we originally expected. The President, who was on the front row that night, stood up and introduced Robert and the band which took everyone by surprise because no-one knew he was there! The Secret Services had got him in but no-one was told that this was going to happen!
So everything has kind of happened on quite a serious and exciting level. We played the concert and we recorded it live, and Robert did the whole set where we played the whole of the album… and it was just great, and Robert has said that he will play with us in the future, not on every date but he will do short tours… The Humans is a band with massive spaces, with King Crimson there was two drummers, two lead guitarists and a bass player all trying to find their sonic space, but what he found wonderful with The Humans is that there was just this great big space that was intended to be there and that he could just sit in. He said it was fabulous and as long as he could just come along and just be a jobbing guitarist he'll be up for it.
I IMAGINE THERE'S A LOT OF ROOM FOR THAT KIND OF SPONTANEITY WITHIN THE HUMANS…
Yes, well the songs can go into improvisation very easily. We perform the songs as they are on the album but certain songs like 'Demi God', 'Is It Wrong To Worship You', 'This Belongs To You' can all slip into improvisation which means that because the audience really want to watch Robert, because people come to see Robert play solo, it means that we can all go off into an improvisation that supports him.
DO YOU CONSIDER THE HUMANS AS A COMPLETELY NEW THING, OR ARE THERE ROOTS FOR YOU IN SOME OF THE THINGS YOU'VE DONE BEFORE, PARTICULARLY WITH SUNDAY ALL OVER THE WORLD, WHICH ALSO INVOLVED ROBERT…
The problem with Sunday All Over The World was that Robert was under massive pressure to keep gigging, to keep King Crimson going and to be touring King Crimson and he just couldn't do both, but also we were both kind of managing Sunday All Over The World and we just didn't have the time for it. It was a huge disappointment to me because I fully intended to make Sunday All Over The World my main musical project, so it wasn't great when that whole thing just slid to a grinding halt.
That said, the live recordings of those shows are staggering, Robert is sitting on those live recordings and he's got to release them one day because they are magnificent. But I think it was mainly his commitment to King Crimson. Robert now, at the age of 63, actually doesn't want a commitment like that anymore. Obviously he will still do King Crimson but I think the gaps will get bigger and bigger… and he had so much fun with us because we looked after him very well, we were his bodyguards and no-one got near him so he could just drink coffee in the morning, read the papers, come to the gig, play with no-one taking photographs of him, no-one asking for autographs. Bill and I were like Rottweiler's keeping people away!
HAVING LISTENED TO THE HUMANS ALBUM I THOUGHT THERE MIGHT ALSO BE SOME CONNECTION WITH A COUPLE OF YOUR LATE EIGHTIES ALBUMS WHERE YOU TOOK OFF ON A KIND OF MUSICAL TANGENT WITH 'PROSTITUTE' AND 'OPHELIA'S SHADOW'…
They were just me letting off steam really, I just got so fed up with being told to write hit singles, to write things for a commercial audience rather than for the audience I believed I had… I kind of wanted to do things that were personal. If you leave me alone to write something… I'm not as established a songwriter as Simon Darlow, so when I work with Simon he kind of reigns me in and controls me and forms my ideas, but when I'm left to just come up with something myself it tends to be something more off the wall and I think that's why The Humans does relate to those albums in that they are intensely personal…
IS IT DIFFICULT TO BE THAT PERSONAL IN PUBLIC?
No. Because all my favourite stuff is that personal, when I think of Kate Bush's 'Moments Of Pleasure' which she wrote about her mother, or when I think of Tori Amos' 'Cornflake Girl' or PJ Harvey, the whole of 'Dry', these are all intensely revealing writers and I do like it, I do enjoy it!
THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND THOSEARTISTS HOWEVER IN THAT THEY SEEM TO LIVE VERY QUIET, INSULAR LIVES OUT OF THE PUBLIC EYE WHEREAS YOU SEEM TO BE CONSTANTLY ON THE GO, FREQUENTLY IN THE MEDIA, AND CONSTANTLY PRESENTING YOURSELF IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS…
Well I know what you mean! I think partly it's a necessity because I don't do world tours like lots of other artists – well Kate doesn't but then Kate doesn't need to tour – but I have to keep living and my life is about my work, it's not about my private life, so I do live out loud and I live in the public eye but that said outside of the UK I'm much more private and no-one really knows anything about me. It's kind of a split personality thing really, but I'm sure that if I was doing endless world tours then I would be more private!
YOU MENTIONED EARLIER THAT THERE MIGHT BE SOME AMERICAN DATES FOR THE HUMANS NEXT YEAR; ARE THERE ANY OTHER PLANS FOR LIVE WORK AT THE MOMENT?
Well there are… at the moment we are in meetings exploring possible relationships with management agents and publishers and are looking at the possibility of recording deals. Now the whole structure of recording deals has completely fallen in its arse because the traditional music outlets are closing but we're looking at ways of getting the product out there and then touring it. It's a slow process and it's not going to be a massive touring schedule because Bill is currently doing the demo section of REM's new album which they will start recording next year and then in two years he will be touring it… I have my fingers crossed that we might be able to do some opening spots for REM! (laughs) I'm certainly going to suggest it! But we're also looking at doing these smaller West Coast dates, European dates and a few selected shows in the UK.
IS IT TOO EARLY TO SAY WHEN THOSE SHOWS MIGHT TAKE PLACE?
Well, I have been dealing with crisis after crisis with companies I'm talking to going down and each time that happens I have to pick up all the pieces again and at this moment in time I'm just not willing to predict anything!
WE WERE HOPING TO GET SOME TIME TOGETHER WHEN THE LAST TOYAH ALBUM 'IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON QUEEN' CAME OUT, TO TALK ABOUT THAT AND BECAUSE OF ONE THING AND ANOTHER IT NEVER QUITE CAME TOGETHER SO I WANTED TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THAT A BIT IF THAT'S OK? IT'S A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SORT OF RECORD TO THE HUMANS…
Well it's a commercial Toyah record and that's a very different sort of project, but it's like I was just saying about companies going down, there has been one crisis after another and we're still trying to do the record deal! It hasn't gone away; in fact we have companies bidding for it. But we have had a year of companies going under, once we get one something sorted the next week the company has gone bust, but what's happening with that at the moment is that there has been a lot of interest from some major BBC projects to use the track 'Sensational' and because of all this it looks very likely that we'll get the recording deal done this year but right now we're in exactly the same place with it that we were a year ago!
BUT THE RESPONSE TO CRIMSON QUEEN HAS BEEN BRILLIANT HASN'T IT?
It's been really, really positive which is why the publishing company we're signed to are treating it as one of their major projects and even though it's been available for promotion for a year it's still on top of their pile, so I kind of like to think that by September we'll know more about its future and some of this will have been sorted out.
FROM A SONGWRITING POINT OF VIEW IS IT EASY TO DECIDE IS SOMETHING YOU'RE WORKING ON IS GOING TO END UP AS A TOYAH TRACK OR A SONG FOR THE HUMANS?
Well a Toyah song will most likely be written with Simon Darlow and I think Simon and I have a very definite kind of symbiosis… it's going to be guitar based, it's going to be brash, it's going to appeal I think to an American and European market, where The Humans I think is almost exclusively European, and Bill does too. That said there are people in the USA looking it at the moment because it is a completely unusual concept.
When I write a Humans song, because I don't play anything, I base the backing tracks on sounds I can get my hands on so it's often down to what I can find on the internet, or download, or on GarageBand and I write it completely on my own and take it to Bill. Bill then creates sound sculptures and then Bill and I will just work it in a rehearsal room together whereas Simon Darlow and I will sit down in front of a microphone and we will write a song in about ten minutes – he will go through a series of riffs that he's improvising and I'll go right, give me eight of those, sixteen of those, four bars of that, another eight of those and we'll gel it together like that and I'll put down a rough vocal and then go away to work on the lyrics.
So two completely different writing styles and I like them both, I have an incredible amount of freedom so I'm very lucky… my work with Simon Darlow is obviously far more commercial than The Humans but what I like about The Humans is that it has potential for cult status and I started as a cult artist and I really enjoy that.
IS IT POSSIBLE YOU'D EVER DO A TOYAH TOUR FOR 'IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON QUEEN'?
It's very possible yes, but there's no point touring until we have everything else in place it's back to those meetings and the problems we've had over the last year. The thing is we've had radio play, we've been play listed, but if you can't get the product on the high street you can't tour and this is what we are working on now… fingers crossed!
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Traffic jams are forcing frustrated Twin Cities commuters to waste more time behind the wheel.
And that growing congestion has pushed the metro area up to No. 16 on the list of America's Worst Traffic Cities, according to the seventh-annual Traffic Scorecard Report, released this week by a global traffic-tracking company called INRIX. The survey relies on transponders in 100 million vehicles to provide real-time traffic flow data.
The survey found that traffic levels in Minneapolis-St. Paul were up 17 percent last year compared with 2012 and that commuters here spent 14 percent more time on the roads than the year before.
For many metro-area motorists, that meant they wasted 24.5 hours in 2013 — four more hours than the year before — sitting behind the wheel in congested traffic. And drivers who use some of the metro's most notorious bottlenecks end up wasting as much time in their cars as motorists in some of the country's most congested cities.
For example, on southbound Interstate 35W from downtown Minneapolis to Crosstown Hwy. 62, motorists experience delays averaging 12 minutes a day trying to make the 7-mile trip.
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"There are more road-rage incidents," said Don Zenanko, who sends out traffic reports for the state Transportation Department.
Don Zenanko, who delivers live metro traffic reports from the Minnesota Department of Transportation's traffic control center, said he's seen the mounting stress.
"There are more road-rage incidents,'' Zenanko said. "People are calling 911 to complain about someone who cut them off or they're shaking their fist or they're throwing items at cars. There's a lot more of that. A lot more shorter fuses.
"Congestion impacts people in different ways. I like to sit in a car and listen to music while I inch up and down the road," he said. "Other people are little more intense. A lot of people dread sitting in traffic. They dread having to go 2 mph down the freeway when they should be going 50 to 60 mph."
Others see the congestion as simply part of the package that comes with being a big city.
Depending on the methodology, rankings put the Twin Cities between the 13th- and 16th-largest U.S. metro area, said David Levinson, a civil engineering professor at the University of Minnesota. "The fact that we're ranked 16th in congestion seems about right," he said.
Levinson said demographic trends are helping to mitigate road congestion.
"Travel times are declining in the U.S.," he said. "People are aging. Old people don't travel as much, and young people don't travel as much as what young people used to. Fewer kids own cars. The big picture is that that the total amount of travel peaked in the U.S. a few years ago and it's been declining ever since. We have some ups and downs during any given year depending on the price of the gas and whether the economy is doing a little bit better or not. Certainly [congestion is] more than in 2009 during the depths of the recession."
Jim Bak, who wrote the INRIX report, said the clogged roads in the Twin Cities may be the result in part of what's going right in the metro area — an unemployment rate that is well below the national average, a growing economy and a shift in which more people — especially new college graduates — are moving to the urban core and closer to jobs. Stable fuel prices, consumer confidence in the economy and harsh weather also played a factor, he said.
"We are seeing more freight traffic, and that is what drives increases in congestion," Bak said. "That is not good for motorists, but your 401(k) and stock portfolio is better than it was three years ago" in part because of that increased commerce.
Best and worst rush hours
For those who have to navigate the roads, the INRIX study found that gridlock on metro freeways is at its worst on Tuesdays from 8 to 9 a.m., when trips take 14 percent longer than normal, and on Fridays from 5 to 6 p.m., when trips take an average of 20 percent longer. Friday mornings offered the best rush-hour commutes, followed by Mondays from 8 to 9 a.m.
Metro traffic experts say road construction projects and winter weather can make some years worse than others.
The extent of congestion on a certain stretch of road is sometimes a subjective view, Zenanko said, and one easily skewed when a multiple-car crash on a sunny day backs up traffic for miles.
Levinson and others are quick to point out that Twin Cities drivers could be dealing with much worse.
In Los Angeles, home to the nation's most-congested roads, drivers spent 64 hours sitting in traffic, an increase of five hours from the previous year, according to the INRIX study. In Honolulu, the nation's second-worst city for traffic, drivers sat behind the wheel 60 extra hours last year, while in No. 3 San Francisco it was 56 hours.
And, Levinson points out, there's more good news for the Twin Cities. The average speed of travel in the metro area is the fifth-highest in the country.
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Interstate 35W south of downtown was among the metro's worst.
"You sit in traffic at a particular bottleneck, but then when you're moving on the freeway, you're driving at 55 mph,'' he said. "And when you're driving on arterials, you're driving at 45 mph, and that's better than most metro cities."
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While Sarah Cooper has been pursuing comedy full time since 2014 and has published several books, the comedian blew up on social media earlier this year when she began sharing political satire videos of her impersonating Donald Trump by lip-syncing to his speeches. Cooper's videos have racked in millions of views across various platforms, including Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube. Her first viral video, "How to Medical," has amassed over 22 million views on Twitter.
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Through the power of one shared read aloud, I hope to facilitate connections between students throughout the world. You decide how much time the project will take for you but connections will happen.
Where is the home base for this?
Go to the blog www.globalreadaloud.blogspot.com to get all the updates and information you need on this project.
A timeline has been set and resources are being shared.
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Sounds exciting! This is exactly the type of project I've been looking for.
Eager to have my third graders join the Global Read Aloud in September and October!
I just received a Global Read Aloud email from Pernille (@4thgrade). I'm looking forward to joining the read aloud in September/October!


Over time, showing your appreciation for your volunteers will help them stay engaged with your program. Continually strive to seek out ways to show your volunteers how valuable they are. Illustrate how their specific contributions have made a difference to the people you serve. Volunteers can be an enormous help in running a program. It's essential to employ various methods to motivate, incentivize, recognize, and reward them.
Keep volunteers engaged by utilizing and building on their skills.
Just as paying companies provide training, supervision, feedback, and opportunities for professional development to its employee, so too should your organization to its volunteers. By assigning tasks that build on volunteers' skills, you are recognizing and acknowledging the value of the talents they bring to the table. Someone tasked with filing papers every time they come in may not last long, and you could potentially lose a wealth of knowledge they possess in other areas.
Instead, offer additional tasks or opportunities based on areas in which your volunteers want to grow. If you have a person, for example, who is interested in design, ask them to create a flyer or brochure for an upcoming event. If the budget allows, look for professional development opportunities, such as community center classes, to help volunteers expand their skill sets.
Thank-you notes, personalized certificates, and simple words of appreciation can really make your volunteers feel valued.
Get creative! Organizations should provide volunteers with the same opportunities as employees, including training, supervision, feedback, and opportunities for professional development. The more specific you can be toward each individual, the better. Volunteers generally do not want you to spend a lot of money to appreciate them. (If they did, they'd likely spend their time at a part-time job earning wages, not volunteering.) Meaningful rewards are often small but personalized. Many volunteers value a homemade card, framed kids crafts, gift cards in small amounts (to a local coffee shop, for example), or photos of the organization in action. Additionally, don't underestimate the effectiveness of simply telling a person, face-to-face, that you value what they do and would love to have them continue to offer their services.
Remember some volunteers are more visible than others, and more easily make strong impressions. Be watchful and fair. Recognize all contributions, not just those on the "front lines." Timeliness is also important. Recognition doesn't matter as much if it comes six months after a successful event. Finally, recognize volunteers publicly, whether at a formal event or just in the office break room. Celebrations deserve to be shared.
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105 Must See Films: On The Waterfront (1954)
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Starring: Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden
Director: Elia Kazan
"I could have been a contender…"
Yes, this is that movie. Brando plays Terry Molloy, a ex-prizefighter who never really made it, and who has ended up as a dock worker. But there is corruption on the docks, with the unions being run by a crooked mob boss who is friendly to Terry. When Terry starts to fall for the sister of a murdered worker, who wants him to testify in court about the corruption, and the local priest urges him to be honest, Terry must decide who he is and whether he should tell the truth.
It's a Must See Because: The dialogue and Elia Kazans naturalistic style made this film a huge success on release and it won a whopping 8 Oscars. Kazan was known to bring out the best in his actors, and his films feel quite fresh and relaxed, modern, by comparison to some of the other films of the same era.
That said, Kazan made this film two years after he notoriously named names at the HUAC hearings, which were controversial witch hunts for communists in the film industry which effectively ended careers and ruined lives. Most people refused to name names, and paid a heavy price for it. (For more on the subject, see Trumbo (2015) HERE) Kazan remained largely unrepentant for his actions, often pointing out that his actions were the lesser of two evils, as an excuse. It's hard not to see something of this in the subject matter of this film, coming just two years after, in which he rather aggrandizes a man who choses between what's easy and what's right: Molloy ultimately testifies and is vilified for it, but knows that he has done the right thing. It would seem that Kazan felt much the same about his own actions.
See It If: it's a true classic and has stood the test of time well. Being one of Brando's finest performances, it's worth it just for that.
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Completely unrelated (lol), but I have just nominated you for the Sunshine Blogger Award: you can find it here : https://raistlin0903.wordpress.com/2016/11/04/ive-been-nominated-for-the-sunshine-blogger-award/
Wildfire says:
What? 😃😃 That's so kind! Thank you. 😃❤❤❤
Mullen's Movies says:
Yes! Absolutely a must watch!
It's a good one! ❤
spellrockpaper says:
I love this film, great pick.
Thank you! 😃😃
Great to see someone reviewing the classics as well. Fantastic 😀Some movies, will always remain true classics, no matter how old they are😀
Thank you! Yeah, I love older movies, I think they're sometimes really entertaining, sometimes hilariously quaint. 😜
Totally agree with you. Some have definitely withstood the passing of time, some of them have not, but are still nice to watch, if only to see how movies were made in the old days 😀
Yeah, it's crazy how much things have changed over the last century too.