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A few weekends ago, through a combination of stupidity and bad luck, I managed to leave my eyeglasses on a train. Without them I can see about three feet in front of me pretty clearly, and beyond that, everything is pretty much a blurry haze.
To make the situation worse, I was traveling for work at the time, 2,812 miles from home and my extra pair of specs. Luckily, I was in the second-least-horrible place in the world this could have happened: Washington DC. I grew up just outside the city, worked in it for six years, and spent most of my free time between June 1998, when I left school in Pittsburgh, and April 2005, when I moved to San Francisco, in the neighborhood where my hotel happened to be. I still know the city well enough that I was able to stumble my way around and find food for two more days without being able to read any of the street signs or storefronts until I was just about right on top of them. But it was not fun, especially when it came time to try to navigate the airports on my way home.
This is just the latest example of my notorious absent-mindedness. Just as with my eyesight, I have immense trouble keeping my attention focused without artificial aid. This plagues me in all sorts of different ways, from losing possessions, to chronic tardiness, to hobbies and projects that never really get off the ground. I've always been better at dreaming up ambitious plans than following through with them. I started writing this blog post over a month ago!
So, it was with complete earnestness and good intention that I published my personal objectives for 2009, and I made a good start on all of them, early in the year. As is often the case for New Year's resolutions, I fell off quickly. I haven't given up, though, I've just changed my approach.
I think it was a mistake to try to do all of them at once. Embarking on five projects at once is a great way to avoid focusing on any of them. I have to force myself to tackle one at a time.
The natural place to start is by getting myself organized. Without a good system for keeping track of all of the things that I want to do (or have to do), I tend to fall back on doing whatever occurs to me in the moment… and later stressing out about the things that I've forgotten during moments that I can't do anything about them. As I mentioned in my last post, I've tried using systems based on paper or index cards for this before, but they never felt right. I really need the ability to sort, filter, and edit without having to spread things out across a table and keep a pile of blank cards on my person all the time.
I briefly tried some web-based applications, but they didn't feel right either. I think it's important to be able to capture ideas very quickly, at any time, with minimal interruption of my concentration. Requiring an internet connection—absent on the train and unreliable at other times—makes this impractical at times, and even when a fast connection is available, needing to go to my web browser, open a new tab, and load a site before being able to enter a new task is just enough of a context switch to make me lose my focus on what I'm doing.
So I quickly carved my choices down to the two most popular OS X tools: OmniFocus and Things. On their face, they are similar in more ways than they're different. Both have a Mac application and and an iPhone companion that can sync with it. Both allow you to organize tasks around multiple dimensions (for example, the project it belongs to and the context you need to be in to do it). Both support repeating tasks, on-hold projects, deferred tasks and notes. Both have a quick entry window that can be called up with a keyboard shortcut to capture tasks without switching contexts. Both were built to support the GTD system, but also to be flexible enough to adapt to individual users. They each have devoted fans and a lot to recommend.
Things is a little newer, and has some great visual design. The user interface is simple and appealing, and it's been promoted by its fans as the less complicated alternative. It supports flexible tagging of items, and has a very intuitive filter bar to limit your view to the items with the tags that apply right now. It's also less expensive than OmniFocus.
OmniFocus, on the other hand, is a little more heavyweight, but also felt a little more stable and polished. It's not quite as pretty as Things, but the UI feels more natural to me. It is a lot easier to use by keyboard, and it's heritage as a descendant of outlining software makes it a really great way to organize thoughts that might start out as unstructured notes, jotted down in the middle of doing something else, and are later organized into multi-stage projects with smaller projects inside them. It may be more complex than Things, but the complexity mirrors the projects you're using it to organize. It doesn't need to be more complicated than you want it to be, but it doesn't impose artificial simplicity on you either.
OmniFocus also has much better support for syncing across multiple computers than Things does. I switch between three different computers and an iPhone on a regular basis. OmniFocus handles syncing across the internet very well… maybe a little more slowly than I'd like, but with very few conflict problems and little effort required. For the most part, it "just works." Things requires syncing to your phone over wi-fi, rather than syncing both the phone and the computer to an internet file server. This means you need to remember to sync your phone any time you make changes to your computer, or else you might find yourself at the grocery store with only half of your shopping list. The situation for syncing multiple computers is even worse: it requires use of a third-party syncing service such as Dropbox, and reports from users indicate that forgetting to close Things on one computer before opening it on another can result in a corrupt database. Ouch. Put those two problems together, and it makes it seem like syncing Things would require constant diligence and attention… in other words, I'd have to work around the software's deficiencies rather than the other way around. That's pretty much the opposite of the reason I'm interested in the software in the first place. Cultured Code, the company that makes Things, has said that better multi-computer syncing is their top priority for the next release, but I've learned in technology not to count your chickens before they hatch.
What's more, during my trial of Things, I ran into a number of UI glitches and other bugs. It may look nicer in the pictures and screencasts, but OmniFocus felt more robust. This is not to disparage Things. It's a new product and a few glitches are inevitable. But OmniFocus has the benefit of more maturity (though it's only a couple of years old itself) and it's still progressing pretty quickly. I had pretty much decided to buy a copy of OmniFocus when a 15% discount rolled into my RSS reader, courtesy of Daring Fireball. Sold!
A month later, I already feel like it's helping, although I'm really only just getting started. One of the key insights in David Allen's methodology is that the separation of capturing, processing, and acting on information helps to reduce overload. OmniFocus is really ideal for putting that into practice, and I realize now that the main problem with everything I've tried in the past is that they've only really covered capturing. Processing the information is too tedious with pencil and paper or basic to-do list applications, and it's difficult to focus on the items that are currently relevant from one moment to the next.
Which isn't to say that I feel totally in control yet. I still have much more that I want to do than I have the time and energy for, but what I'm hoping is that I can get better about juggling those things with the things that I need to do but don't particular enjoy, and especially the things that I may think I need to do, but turn out not to be so important in the end.
I've recently started using The Hit List after it was included in the most recent Macheist bundle. I haven't used Omnifocus but can say that The Hit List is better than things. Nicer UI, great keyboard shortcuts and a system wide hot key for entering new tasks.
I looked briefly at The Hit List, and while it also looks nice, it seems to have the same poor syncing support as Things—Dropbox only, and you need to be sure to quit before moving to another computer. Also, there's no iPhone app yet, so that would make it hard to capture things that I think of on the train or walking around. It looks like it has some promise, but as for what's available right now, OmniFocus still seems like the right choice for my situation. It's cool how many good choices have popped up recently in this space, though. The competition will surely benefit them all!
hmm, i've never thought of you as absent-minded. you seem to be pretty on top of everything at work.
congrats on "meeting expectations" for the organization objective! what's up next?
Thanks, Cheryl. I find it easier to stay on top of things when I feel like other people are counting on me. Unfortunately that makes it all too easy to fall behind on things that I want to do for myself.
Up next is getting finances in order. I've already gotten a start on it, so I'm hoping to wrap that one up soon.
So how is this working for you, a month later?
I was trying to figure out how I would live without my Blackberry to organize (aka shackle) my life, post-FCPS. I ended up turning in my Blackberry a month earlier than required, and went back to pen-and-paper. So far, that's working for me. The key is to keep the to-do lists short. Well, gotta go now.
Keeping to-do lists short may make it easier to manage with pen and paper, but in the past I've found that when I keep the lists short, it means that they're incomplete, and therefore not really serving their purpose. So my new approach is to put as much as possible into the software I'm using, but use its ability to focus on small subsets to keep from being overwhelmed when deciding what to do.


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Fox & Friends: RiME review
By Travis Northup
From the first moment I started playing RiME, I felt completely pulled into its world. The cell-shaded environments and swelling orchestral soundtrack filled me with a sense of wonder and adventure that stuck with me throughout my playthrough. With RiME, Tequila Works has put its world and narrative at the center of the player's experience, and created something special.
RiME weaves a narrative that makes heavy use of environmental storytelling, which is common in the indie game scene. A boy wakes up shipwrecked and marooned on an island and sees a mysterious man in a red cape, always just barely out of reach. A fox guides the boy ever-closer to this mysterious person, and serves as a companion on the boy's journey. Who this man is and what relation he has to the protagonist evolves throughout the course of the game, concluding in a deeply emotional way. Though for most of RiME the story looms in the background, it emerges in a major way the closer you get to the game's ending, and the payoff is well worth the short duration that the game makes you wait.
RiME's gameplay revolves around solving puzzles and navigating simple jumping/climbing obstacles. You can climb, jump, push/pull objects, and interact with things using your voice, which is RiME's most unique feature. Your voice is context-sensitive, so when used near an interactable object the boy will shout to activate it, but when using it on one of his companions he might just giggle or hum. All of the typical elements of puzzle games are here, including pushing boxes, reflecting light onto walls, turning switches off and on, and getting an ally to stand on a pressure plate for you. RiME doesn't do anything that I haven't seen in a puzzle game before, but it does every part of it well. While I never found myself even slightly challenged by the game's puzzles, most are enjoyable to solve and short enough to avoid becoming repetitive or tedious.
RiME has plenty of hidden collectibles tucked away in optional areas to explore, but seeking out these collectibles isn't particularly satisfying, and the short puzzles involved in reaching these areas aren't inspired. I meticulously collected things early on in the game, but found myself focusing on the far more rewarding story instead as things progressed.
RiME's most appealing element lies in its presentation. The game is simply gorgeous, with breathtaking vistas, heartwarming characters, and a beautiful soundtrack from start to finish. Each area has a style and mood that gives it a distinct character, and the creatures you meet along the way become endearing, including those trying to kill you. Musical cues occurring after solving a puzzle became one of the primary motivators for me to progress through the game. The stringed instruments and tunes of a piano are therapeutic, and easily the best part of RiME.
Although RiME's presentation is impressive, it's held back somewhat by technical limitations, including consistent drops in frame rate and uncommon, but long load times. While the load times are nowhere near game-breaking and few and far between, the framerate issues are common enough to impact one's enjoyment, especially since RiME relies heavily on the beauty of its world.
RiME is a beautiful game that excels in its presentation and tells a compelling narrative. Although it's held back by technical issues and simplistic puzzles, it's well-worth the price of admission.
—Travis Northup
Emotional narrative
Simple/cliche puzzle design
Technical hiccups
You know that jerk online that relentlessly trash talks you after every kill? That guy was probably Travis "Tie Guy" Northup. Competitive, snarky, and constantly wearing a tie, Travis has been writing his opinions about electronic media since he was a teenager, and is pretty much the only person to hold his opinions in high regard.
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You guys, my h and my g are requiring me to hit them repeatedly at times. Grrr. Things I didn't want to do today: take my laptop apart. Things I'll now gleefully do because it's gonna be soooo grungy I can't help but be a little psyched to clean it. It's like not tweezing your eyebrows for a while or using a steam cleaner on your carpet or furniture. Gonna be good when it happens.


I'll try my best. So its like trying to contemplate infinity. You just can't. If you were to try you would never understand or go insane. This quote is pretty good. "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. "
I see I see. In my group if friends I am the love guru. They come to me for relationship advice even though I have never been in a relationship myself. I still give amazing advice though.
Ok so is there anywhere else we can take this?
Lol, I always think about this quote!
GOD THIS F***ING BLEW UP CHEEZUS CHRYSLER!!!!!!!!!


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Q: Parsing program output line by line on-the-fly I have a program that does some heavy processing (ML algorithm) and writes lots (read GBs of plain text) of data to standard output. In some particular scenarios, I only require a tiny portion of the output, however right now I am saving a (huge) text file and then parsing the lines in there to get my data.
While totally effective my approach is awfully efficient. Is there a way to avoid the generation of such big files (since most of the data will be removed anyway), and do the parsing on-the-fly line by line.
Execute:
./myProgram model test > myOutput

myOutput content (millions of lines):
0, blah blah blah thousand of more blahs -> [ I care data inside brackets ]
0, blah blah blah thousand of more blahs -> [ I care data inside brackets ]
....

What I think could be the best option would be to use the unix pipeline to chain results but I do not know how to send the data line by line lets say to a python or java app to parse it.
./myProgram model test | <now what>

A: To read and write data in the script you want to use to filter the data just read and write from/to standard input/output.
./myProgram model test | ./filter.py > myOutput

filter.py:
import sys

for line in sys.stdin:
    if some_condition:
        sys.stdout.write(line)

If the condition is just to have some pattern in the data you don't need a script, you can simply use grep to filter the lines:
 ./myProgram model test | grep 'interesting_pattern' > myOutput

A: That pipeline does exactly that. It sends the data (possibly buffered) to the program on the RHS of the pipeline.
That program can then operate on that data in any way it wants.
Programs like grep, sed and awk operate on that data in line-oriented fashion.
Other programs can do other things as they want/need to.

A:
./myProgram model test | now what

If I understand correctly that you want [ I care data inside brackets ] (just the data between the brackets), then one proper approach is to pipe the output to sed and then using a backreference to replace the line of text with just what is inside the brackets. So now what is sed -e 's/^.*[[]\(.*\)[]].*$/\1/'. Or put together:
./myProgram model test | sed -e 's/^.*[[]\(.*\)[]].*$/\1/' > myOutput

If your program provides the output provided, an example is:
$ echo "0, blah blah blah thousand of more blahs -> [ I care data inside brackets ]" |
sed -e 's/^.*[[]\(.*\)[]].*$/\1/'
 I care data inside brackets

A brief explanation of the regular expression is relatively easy if you look at it in pieces:
 's/^.*[[]\(.*\)[]].*$/\1/'

Is a simple substitution expression of the form s/this/that/. Looking at the first (or this) part you have:
^.*   # from the beginning of the line, match all characters
[[]   # until you find the first open bracket [
\(    # begin saving the pattern that follows
.*    # all characters in this case
\)    # stop collecting the pattern
[]]   # before you encounter the close bracket ]
.*$   # and then all remaining characters in the line.

Next the second (or that) part of the s/this/that/ expression is a backreference that says:
\1    # substitute the (1st) pattern you collected. All between \(...\) for the line.

Which when put together simply says replace the line with just what is between the brackets. (and of course if I didn't understand what you needed, it's a long explanation down the tubes.)

A: If indeed the output is line oriented and you want to extract or process some of it, pipe the output to some awk command, i.e.
 ./myProgram model test | awk ...

of course, replace the ... with appropriate arguments for awk. Learn more about GNU awk (a.k.a. gawk) it is designed for such tasks:

If you are like many computer users, you would frequently like to make changes in various text files wherever certain patterns appear, or extract data from parts of certain lines while discarding the rest. To write a program to do this in a language such as C or Pascal is a time-consuming inconvenience that may take many lines of code. The job is easy with awk, especially the GNU implementation: gawk.

Alternatively, you could modify your original ./myProgram to let it e.g. fill some database, either with sqlite (an easy to use library) or with something more serious like PostGreSQL or MongoDb

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The Berlin Wall fell in November 9th, 1989. Twenty years later, on November 8th, 2009 a section was permanently resurrected on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles by Los Angeles' Wende Museum. Watch the documentary below to hear from Germans what happened in their country.
Fast forward to to 2012 Driving along Wilshire near LACMA and it's easy to forget that the Wall installation is the largest piece of the Berlin Wall outside of Germany. These 10 sections of the Wall are nearly 40-foot long, but are easily blocked by food trucks lined up opposite the LACMA.
During a visit to the LACMA "Through the Mic series," I had a chance to walk around the Wall. On the street side, you see sections of wall painted by different artists. None of them instantly recognizable to me.
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Senate Russia Probe Founders Amid Partisan Bickering
April 24, 2017 News, Politics
More than three months after the Senate Intelligence Committee launched its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election — including allegations of collusion by associates of President Trump — the panel has made little progress and is increasingly stymied by partisan divisions that are jeopardizing the future of the inquiry, according to multiple sources involved in the probe.
Senate Select Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr and ranking member Sen. Mark Warner. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
The committee has yet to issue a single subpoena for documents or interview any key witnesses who are central to the probe, the sources said. It also hasn't requested potentially crucial evidence — such as the emails, memos and phone records of the Trump campaign — in part because the panel's chairman, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., has so far failed to respond to requests from the panel's Democrats to sign letters doing so, the sources said.
"The wheels seem to be turning more slowly than the importance of the inquiry would indicate," said Richard Ben-Veniste, a member of the 9/11 commission and former Watergate prosecutor, one of a number of veteran Washington investigators who have begun to question the lack of movement in the probe.
As Congress returns from its spring recess this week and Trump approaches his 100th day in office, the panel has no further public hearings scheduled, even as the House Intelligence Committee — torn by its own partisan wrangling and internal turmoil — shows some flickering new signs of life.
The result has caused growing frustration among the Senate committee's Democrats, who are privately complaining the probe is underfunded, understaffed and too timid in pushing to get to the bottom of one of the most explosive political stories in years.
"I would like to see this moving more quickly," Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., a member of the panel, said in an interview with Yahoo News.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the ranking minority member on the panel, has repeatedly said the Russia investigation "may very well be the most important thing I do in my public life." And until now, Warner has sought to project an appearance of bipartisan unity with Burr, portraying the probe as a methodical inquiry that will follow the facts wherever they lead.
But Warner's handling of the probe has led to grumbling among some of his Democratic colleagues that he has been too reluctant to challenge Burr and press for more aggressive action — for fear of undercutting the perception that he and the Republican chairman are working cooperatively together. "He's been afraid to even bring up the S-word," said one source familiar with the details of the investigation, referring to the panel's authority to issue subpoenas for documents.
In January: President Trump speaks by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
There are signs Warner's patience is starting to wear thin. Warner "is not satisfied with the pace of the investigation and he doesn't think it's moving fast enough," a committee source tells Yahoo News. "He would like to have seen more hearings and more interviews with witnesses."
Asked for comment, Rebecca Watkins, chief spokesperson for Burr, emailed: "We won't have any comment on internal committee processes."
But behind the scenes, while suffering none of the public embarrassments of the House inquiry, the Senate probe has been fraught with its own conflicts. Initially, its progress was stalled because it took weeks to work out an agreement with CIA Director Mike Pompeo and other U.S. intelligence community officials to provide Senate committee staffers access to "raw intelligence" documents that formed the basis for the Jan. 6 "assessment" that Russian president Vladimir Putin authorized a multifaceted campaign during the 2016 election to sew distrust among the American electorate, discredit Hillary Clinton and boost the chances of Trump, sources said.
The issue was finally worked out, but only a limited number of staffers assigned to the probe were allowed to review the thousands of pages of material: three Republican and two Democratic aides, plus the respective staff directors for each party, both of whom had other standard oversight duties. (Of the two Democrats assigned by Warner to the probe, one was a junior staffer who is also going to law school; another Democratic investigator has since been hired and is expected to begin work next month, a committee source said.)
The limited access infuriated some senators, notably Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who demanded that their intelligence committee aides also be given the opportunity to review the same material. But Burr, who has long feuded with Wyden, refused to go along, resulting in a standoff that has badly divided the committee.
That standoff has spilled over into other areas. The committee early on sent letters to key witnesses — such as Flynn, Page, former campaign manager Paul Manafort and longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone — to preserve all documents that might be relevant to the investigation. One such letter was also sent to White House counsel McGahn, who previously served as chief counsel to the Trump campaign and has authority over its records.
But the committee has still not sent any follow up letters even asking for their documents — much less issued a subpoena demanding they be turned over. Although letters requesting the material were drafted by Democratic staffers, Burr has so far declined to sign them, leaving the panel's investigators powerless to review key material necessary to pursue the issues of possible collusion.
FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Mike Rogers testify during a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing concerning Russia. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Moreover, the committee also hasn't even approached potentially key witnesses to schedule interviews with them. Manafort, Stone and Page have all publicly volunteered to be questioned by the committee staff. But so far, the committee seems stuck in a version of Catch-22: It has yet to follow up on those offers, in large part because it doesn't want to interview them until it has reviewed their documents and emails, which the committee hasn't asked for. (Flynn, through his lawyer, also has offered to talk but only until he first receives immunity — a step the committee is in no rush to even consider.)
So what has the committee been doing for three months? The five staffers assigned to the case have been methodically reviewing the classified raw intelligence documents that formed the basis for the Jan. 6 assessment — and that, in turn, has lead to the discovery of more documents that are potentially relevant, sources say. It also has compiled a lengthy witness list that staffers have begun to winnow down.
But some veteran Washington investigators say the committee is frittering away one of its most important assets — a sense that is aggressively moving to get to the truth.
"It's important to show some momentum and appear to have some momentum," said Michael Bromwich, a former federal prosecutor who participated in the Iran-Contra investigation and later served as Justice Department inspector general. "If there's radio silence for a few months, you lose a valuable asset."
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The 36th volume of the DeadTest™ digs deep into "St. Stephen" – a biblical heavyweight amid the band's expansive live repertoire. Whenever the Grateful Dead played "Stephen," it was an earth-tilting event.
"St. Stephen" aficionados shouldn't have much trouble passing this one, but you'll still need to focus. Good luck!
"St. Stephen" aficionados shouldn't have much trouble passing this one, but you'll still need to focus.
You got 8 right out of 10 (80%) – Hey nowwww! Pretty solid work, maestro. You know more than Bobby Weir has forgotten.
You got 10 right out of 10 – Now that's just exactly PERRRRFECT!! You've made it to the snow-capped summit. Now plant your flag – and take the rest of the day off.
Extra credit: Aoxomoxoa was recorded twice. The initial version of the album had been completed just as Ampex manufactured and released the first 16-track multitrack recording machine. The new equipment doubled (from eight) the number of individual tracks for recording and playback. It took the band eight months to re-record the album with the new technology.
What ultimately happened to the biblical Saint Stephen (the first martyr of Christianity)?
Stoned to death – Although St. Stephen was beloved as a "savior" for his care of the poor and lonely misfits of the world, he was ultimately (and ironically) stoned to death for blasphemy against the church – a false charge cooked up by enemies of Jesus who were skeptical and jealous of Stephen's growing popularity and success.
It isn't hard to see how St. Stephen's situation could be applied to Jerry and the band in the late-'60s just as the counterculture movement was exploding.
As a side note, some Deadheads believe "St. Stephen" is about Stephen Gaskin, a beloved and respected spiritual guide and "acid guru" from the 1960's Haight-Ashbury district. He co-founded "The Farm," a well-known commune in Summertown, TN. Lyricist Robert Hunter has denied the song is about Gaskin.
May 8, 1977; Barton Hall, NY – Despite the fact that backup singer Donna Godchaux (not to pick on her) comes in too early with the beginning of the lyric, "Lady finger, dipped in moonlight," this version remains one of the greatest the Dead ever played.
And remember, the intent isn't to criticize Donna. Jerry made countless vocal stumbles and we still loved him.
Who is credited with writing "St. Stephen"?
Close Encounters – It's from the performance on January 22, 1978, at McArthur Court on the campus of the University of Oregon in Eugene.
Which word is NOT included in the lyrics to "St. Stephen"?
1971 – This "Stephen" is from April 28, 1971, at the Fillmore East. It was commercially released on Ladies and Gentlemen...the Grateful Dead.
For the record, "Stephen" made its live debut in the summer of '68 (according to DeadBase IX).
Extra credit: That's former Dead member, Tom Constanten, sitting in on organ. TC left the band in 1970 but returned as a guest on April 28, 1971, at the Fillmore East.
What answer did Jerry Garcia give when asked in a 1988 interview why the Dead stopped playing "St. Stephen"? The band's final performance of the song was October 31, 1983.
It was inflexible – Jerry called the song "inflexible" and "unnecessarily difficult," lamenting the fact that the verses had to be executed in order and were not interchangeable.
Garcia also disliked the bridge – marked by the lyric, "lady finger, dipped in moonlight" – implying it killed the flow of the song. In fact, Jerry equated "St. Stephen" to a "musical policeman" to illustrate its inflexibility (ouch!).
...it's unnecessarily difficult. It's been made tricky. It's got a bridge in the middle that doesn't really fit in... It has a couple of things that work real good, but finally, the stuff that doesn't work overpowers the stuff that does work... If you don't remember every bit of it: 'Let's see, what verse is this?' They're not interchangeable – you have to do them in order. So a song like St Stephen is a cop. It's our musical policeman: if we don't do it the way it wants to go, it doesn't work at all. That means it's inflexible... what we need is material that is authentically open.
William Tell Bridge – In 1969, the Dead used the bridge, named after the Swiss folk hero, to segue into "The Eleven."
1978 – It's the "Close Encounters" version from January 22, 1978, at the University of Oregon's McArthur Court.
By the way, if that solo from Jerry doesn't make you smile, you're definitely not listening to it right.
Just for the record, the Dead didn't play a single "Stephen" in 1974 or 1984. The final performance with Jerry was on October 31, 1983.


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NYC: Statue of Liberty, Edge & Ground Zero VIP Tour
Popular Solo travelers' tours in Fifth Avenue
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1. NYC: Statue of Liberty, Edge & Ground Zero VIP Tour
The Big Apple has a lot to offer. Experience the best of the city on a VIP tour with tickets to Edge Observation Deck, Statue of Liberty, and Ellis Island included. Start your day by exploring Midtown with your expert local guide. Walk by famous NYC landmarks such as Bryant Park, 42nd Street, 5th Ave, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, and Hudson Yards. See the city from above with your entry ticket to NYC's newest observation deck, Edge. Your guide will then take you on the subway down to World Trade Center where you will have an opportunity to pay your respects at the 9/11 Memorial Pools and learn about the events of September 11, 2001. Your tour will end at the entrance to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island ferry where you will be escorted to the security checkpoint. Your guide will give you an orientation of Battery Park, Statue of Liberty, and Ellis Island. You'll receive a detailed explanation about where to pick up your self-guided audio tours that are available in 13 languages. Take your time and explore these islands at your own pace. When you're ready, hop back on the ferry to return to Lower Manhattan and enjoy the rest of your afternoon in New York City.
2. Greenwich Village Ghost Tour
Explore the darker side of Greenwich Village on a ghost tour after dark. Learn about the infamous Hanging Tree as you walk into the heart of Washington Square Park and see the arch while listening to spine-chilling stories from your local guide. Next, make your way over to the Brown Building, site of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, where the victims still linger to this day. Walk up 5th Avenue and stop past the Church of the Ascension, haunted by the artist John Lafarge. See the most haunted house in Manhattan at 14 West 10th Street, home to 22 spirits and the site of several murders. Head into the heart of the West Village, pass the home of Emma Lazarus and one of the most beautiful libraries in New York City. Hear about the ghost of a former mayor at 12 Gay Street, and pass the famous Stonewall Inn where the riots that led to the birth of gay rights began. Cross Christopher Street to visit the infamous speakeasy of Chumley's.
3. New York Christmas Holiday Tour of Manhattan
Meet your guide in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral and get the chance to go inside to see the interior decorated for Christmas. Continue to the Rockefeller Center, famous for its winter ice rink and magical Christmas tree. Learn how the complex of buildings became such a popular place for holiday celebrations. Take a souvenir photo of the famous Christmas tree. Then, walk to Radio City Music Hall, where the Rockettes create magic every day. Move down town to the Bryant Park Holiday Market and walk past the window displays of the 5th Avenue shops. End in front of Macy's and learn the history of the world's largest department store.
4. NYC: Rockefeller Center Art & Architecture Guided Tour
Join a unique tour of the Rockefeller Center at 1:30 PM, 2:30 PM, 3:30 PM, 4:30 PM, 5:30 PM or 6:30 PM that runs daily. Dive into the rich history and breathtaking artistry of New York's most famous Art Deco landmark. Learn about John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s vision for a cultural center in Midtown Manhattan. Discover the great works of art and architecture that comprise the Rockefeller Center today. A fun, expert guide will lead the way through the famous streets, buildings and artworks that make up this wondrous "city within a city". Hear the guide clearly via a Bluetooth speaker as you learn the inspiring stories behind these sights. Unveil the treasured and inspiring stories behind them. Follow your guide and listen with your own personal headset to ensure that you have a clear, uninterrupted experience. This closed-circuit connection makes the tour unique amidst the hustle and bustle of New York City. With such a wealth of ground to cover, it would be impossible to see it all in just over an hour, therefore each tour differs slightly from the next. Tour Highlights: - World-famous skating rink at the heart of Rockefeller Center - Sculptures of Isamu Noguchi, Michio Ihara and Paul Manship including his iconic Prometheus statue - The heroic statue of Atlas, just steps from St. Patrick's Cathedral - The Channel Gardens, offering cool fountains in summer and dramatic views from 5th Avenue of the majestic Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in winter - The Eastern Airlines Building, current home of the Today Show Studio - The International Building with relief sculptures by Lee Lawrie, Gaston Lachaise, Attillio Piccirilli and Leo Lentelli - The exquisite mural paintings of Jose Maria Sert and Sir Frank Brangwyn in 30 Rockefeller Plaza ("30 Rock") - also known as the Comcast Building
5. New York Christmas Markets and Lights Walking Tour
Get into the Christmas spirit on a 4-hour walking tour of 4 of New York's most attractive holiday markets, and find unique gifts among the vast array of hand-crafted goods, local art and crafts, and fashionable winter attire. Meet your guide at Columbus Circle and set off in the glow of the city's winter lights. Experience the magic of New York during the holiday season, stopping to admire the dazzling window displays of all the department stores and boutique shops. Sample traditional foods and warming drinks as you take in Manhattan's holiday light displays, Christmas movie locations, and charming holiday decorations along the way.
6. NYC: Empire State Building VIP Guided Tour
Explore this world-famous landmark on a guided experience and get an insider's look at the Empire State Building. Choose between two tour options – a VIP small-group tour, or an all-access private tour. Enjoy priority access throughout the tour, including VIP entry to the building and skip-the-line access to the 86th-floor observatory. Visit the Art Deco Lobby, the Celebrity Walk, and see exhibits celebrating the building's history. Learn facts and trivia from your guide, and commemorate your trip with a souvenir photograph. Upgrade to the private, all-access option to experience the Empire State Building in style. Enjoy VIP entry into the building. Relax in the Celebrity Green Room and browse the memorabilia case. Enjoy a champagne toast, soft drinks, snacks, coffee, and tea, before taking your guided tour.
7. New York: Best of the Metropolitan Museum 2-Hour Tour
Avoid wandering around the Metropolitan Museum in New York lost and confused, and discover the highlights of the museum's huge collection with an expert guide. Tour in small groups of no more than 15 participants (for a more intimate experience), following a carefully-planned itinerary that starts in Ancient Egypt. See perfectly preserved Ancient Egyptian tombs, and tiny dioramas that show what life was like in the times of Tutankhamun. Learn about their burial rituals in the Egyptian mummies area, and see the Met's mascot "William." Continue to the Temple of Dendur, and discover a temple of Ancient Egypt smack in the middle of Central Park! Your guide will provide all the gossip about this and other exhibits, such as how Jackie O procured the Temple of Dendur for the Met; tales about the armor of Britain's infamous King Henry VIII; and how some think the Antioch Chalice may be "The Holy Grail." See ancient works of Greek statuary and Roman frescoes, before moving to the exotic exhibits from Papua New Guinea. Admire beautifully carved Bisj poles collected by a Rockefeller, at the cost of his life. Then, head to the 2nd floor to soak in some of Claude Monet's dreamlike "Water Lillies." Be energized by the expressive works of Vincent Van Gogh, and inspired by a bronze of Rodin's "Thinker."
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I have been a New Yorker my entire life, born and raised in Brooklyn. I wanted to know more about my city, especially it's creepier lore as we move closer to Halloween. I was blown away by the tour guide's knowledge and how much history is stored in places that I pass everyday. In addition, the guide was very friendly, enthusiastic, and eager to share information. The tour was accessible, informative, and a lot of fun. I would definitely recommend!
Greenwich Village Ghost Tour Reviewed by Jessica, 04/10/2021
We enjoyed the sights and the history of this tour. We were hoping to meet the ghost dog, but we settled for a great walk through Greenwich, the interesting stories of haunting from our guide Liz, and the perfect eerie drizzly weather, sans paranormal encounters. Maybe next time :)
Greenwich Village Ghost Tour Reviewed by Jennifer, 29/12/2021
Debi was an amazing tour guide that loves NY and was full of information about the architecture around Rockefeller Center. Also she loves to slip in little side stories especially about Abby Rockefeller ( his wife )
NYC: Rockefeller Center Art & Architecture Guided Tour Reviewed by Debra, 29/10/2021
The guide was fantastic.I've always had a good tour with GetYourGuide!
Greenwich Village Ghost Tour Reviewed by Elizabeth, 12/10/2021
Highly recommend. Ask for Siobhan to be your guide!
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Injuries are a bodybuilder's worst enemy and need to be avoided at all cost. They not only cause pain and discomfort but also can potentially take you out of the gym for a few days and impair your ability to perform certain exercises. In addition, once injured, it is very easy to get re-injured again on the same area. While the tips below may seem very simple and basic, even the most advanced of us tend to forget a few of these at one time or the other and that is when trouble can happen.
Wear clothing that allows you to move all your body parts in a full range of motion. Restrictive clothing, like jeans for instance, would prevent you from performing an exercise such as the squats correctly and thus can lead to loss of balance and/or injury. Make sure that you also wear comfortable athletic shoes and always ensure they are tied.
If you don't know how to perform an exercise or use a particular piece of equipment, please do not attempt to figure it out on your own. Either ask a trainer or knowledgeable gym member to help you or get an informative book or app to teach you correct exercise form.
Never forget to secure the weights with collars on Olympic Bars. There have been so many situations where a person is executing an exercise and the weights on one side slide, fall off, and thus cause a total imbalance where the trainee ends up dropping the other side. This cannot only hurt you but can hurt others around you. Please secure your weights.
I remember when I was a teenager and would start doing 225 pounds on the bench press without a warm up. That was a bad idea. Now that I am older and hopefully wiser, I do a couple of lighter sets prior to using my working weight. So for instance, if I am going to do a squat with 450 pounds for 6-8 reps, I start warming up with 200 pounds for 8-10, 350 pounds for 8-10 and then 450 for 6-8.
Leave the ego aside and practice perfect form. When you use heavier weights than what you can handle, your joints and bones are the ones that will take most of the stress. In addition, your form will probably be sacrificed. Bad form, combined with heavy weights, equals an injury waiting to happen. Perfect form will not only allow you to achieve faster results as your muscles will be doing most of the work, but also will prevent you from incurring any injuries.
Perform the exercises in a controlled manner and with no momentum. Jerking and bouncing of weights will only take away stress from the muscle and create sheer (pushing and pulling) forces in the joints, and muscle insertions, that can lead to injury. Use a tempo of two seconds when lifting the weight and three seconds when lowering. The lowering portion needs to be performed a bit slower than the lifting one. At first, you may need to count in your head but eventually lifting speed becomes second nature.
You need to be aware of your surroundings, whether you are performing an exercise or loading a bar. Make sure that there is no one standing in your path of execution. Along the same lines, ensure that the floor that you will be standing on is not slippery. I have seen situations where there is a leak from the ceiling due to bad air conditioning or just a bad ceiling. In this case, inform someone from the staff and make sure that the soles of your shoes are not wet.
This is pretty self-explanatory but as you get more advanced one tends to disregard these things. If you are having a real difficulty breathing, sit down and rest for three minutes or so. If you see that you are sweating cold then you need to stop as you are about to go into shock. This typically happens in very hot environments, which takes me to the next commandment.
Garages tend to get very hot during the summer. Do not try to workout in a place with a temperature that is well over 100 degrees F. That could lead to a heat stroke and that does not help with bodybuilding gains. If you train in your garage, then over the hot months you will need to wake up earlier and do your training when the temperature is manageable. Stay properly hydrated and also listen to your body. If you need to rest a bit more in between sets due to the heat, then feel free to do so.
When training alone in your garage or home weight room it is more imperative than ever that you know what your capabilities are and that you be aware of your surroundings (refer to item #7). For instance if you have done 225 pounds on the bench for 10 reps many times and know that is the best you can do, do not attempt to try an 11th rep unless you are absolutely positively sure that you can lift that weight or unless you are working out inside a squat rack with the side pins properly positioned to protect you.


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EP Walkthrough: Fractures talks his lush new EP, Reset
Combining lush productions with alluring vocals, the Melbourne musician's new EP is definitely worth a listen.
Posted By Guest Writer 6 months ago
Fractures is a name you may be familiar with already, having played Splendour In The Grass and playing alongside acts ranging from Emma Louise to Amy Shark. The Melbourne musician, born Mark Zito, is somewhat of a mastermind and creating thought-provoking electronica, gaining fans in everyone from Nick Murphy to Gotye through his intricate and thickly-layered productions and soft, subtle vocals, something his newest EP, Reset, really goes out to spotlight even more so. Arriving through FADER Label/Caroline Australia, the five-track EP reflects on a year of growth for the musician (not limited to the early beginnings of an international break out in the US), crafting together a range of songs that showcase his versatility - from the soft electronica of the EP's title track, to even the immediately following Recover, which grinds with a more guitar-driven indie-rock sound. "The song encapsulates the essence of the EP, and the time it was written in," he says on the EP's lead single, Reset. "Like many of the songs it was written in a stagnant portion of my life -something of a longing for bigger and better things."
There are some thick pop mannerisms in there too, particular present through his quite haunting vocal, as well as this apparent contrast between the light and heavy side of his songwriting brain, something the musician says comes due to its linking between the past and future. "The EP encapsulates something of an in-between and a shift to bigger and hopefully better things," he says. "Songs like Reset, Dawn and Splinter are a meditation of sorts on how it pays to break a pattern and make hard decisions in order to gain momentum and get out of a rut." The EP welcomes a new side and perhaps an incoming new direction from the musician, so take a listen to the full release below alongside a track-by-track walkthrough, where he details the meaning and creation of each song, one at a time.
Fractures - Reset EP Walkthrough:
This song encapsulates the essence of the EP and the time it was written in. Like many of the songs, it was written in a stagnant portion of my life - something of a longing for bigger and better things. It was written kind of in the midst of a realisation that I'd lost sight of what I was trying to achieve in the first place, and that I'd need to shift my perspective to bring it any closer to realisation.
The song came to be just prior to my signing a label deal with Fader, something which I see and saw at the time as the beginning of new phase and in my own way, I've filtered the hope and enthusiasm I have towards it through my cynical view of all things - but it's a reflection of my readiness for change in my life.
This is a sort of imagined could-have-been romance. A tension that lingers between two people where there's obviously an attraction, but circumstance dictates the outcome. People can wander into your life and you have a connection with them, an instant rapport, and there's a lingering sadness and acceptance perhaps that they'll inevitably leave it without much fanfare, but the inescapable thought of what might have been following you around and makes you ask questions of everything. Not a foreign concept, but an uncomfortable one.
Dawn is a song I wrote out of a frustration of going through the motions - something I'm as guilty of as anyone else. Living a life that is comfortable but unremarkable seems to me a waste and by no means at this point would I consider mine remarkable but Dawn is an exercise in trying to will it on. Assessing the mindset that sees us stuck in a cycle and mindlessly accepting the path which is laid for us rather than diverting from it and laying our own.
The production itself is quite expansive, energetic and positive which I'd say is a means of conveying the sense of hope that there is - that straying from the crowd is scary and risk-laden but worthy of trying.
In the spirit of the rest of EP, Splinter is looking at the space I was in while looking forward simultaneously and thinking on what comes next.
The verses deal with my headspace at a time of anxiety that, though muted, ran through my mind in the quieter moments of the day or night and manifested itself in a tightness. A concept I imagine many are familiar with - quietly wondering 'is this all that life will be?'. The bigger picture being what my next move would be and its importance in the scheme of things, and knowing that this period of apprehension will ultimately lead somewhere else, good or bad, and will wash away like all things do. It will all lead somewhere. The chorus is about not wanting to look back on a life or a part of it with regret, having not asked all the questions or explored all the options that you could have. Tying into what Reset and Dawn have already laid out, it's about moving on a feeling, breaking the cycle in order to get somewhere meaningful. Colour in a greyscale space. Just change in general.
Sculptures is about the anatomy of a relationship - I seem to have a fixation on time and how things appear when looked upon as a whole.
Relationships can be fickle at times but to have a foundation you can rest on is comforting. This one deals with the little things that build a partnership, almost without being noticed. The fibres strengthen and get sewn into you and despite what challenges might disrupt there's the knowledge that what you're a part of is so deeply rooted it can't be shifted.
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