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Timothy Gowers
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Professor Timothy Gowers FRS
I am currently working in two areas, one mathematical and one "metamathematical" (meaning that it is about the processes of doing mathematics). The mathematical area is known as combinatorics. It studies discrete (as opposed to continuous) structures, such as networks or sets of numbers. Combinatorial questions arise in many contexts, both in the real world and within mathematics. For example, networks arise in contexts as diverse as the internet, design of electronic circuits, traffic flow, timetabling, and assigning radio frequencies. Combinatorics also has intimate connections with theoretical computer science. One of my favourite problems is the famous P versus NP problem, which asks, roughly speaking, whether finding answers to mathematical questions is as easy as checking whether answers are correct once they have been found. (The latter sounds much easier, and indeed most experts believe that it is easier. But it turns out to be extraordinarily difficult to prove this.)
The metamathematical side of my research belongs at the interface between mathematics and artificial intelligence. I am working in the area of automatic theorem proving: that is, trying to write computer programs that can solve mathematical problems. Some people believe that mathematics requires a characteristically human intelligence -- not for the routine calculational tasks but for the deeper insights that go into proving a complex theorem. I strongly believe that one day all this will be automated, and as a result I find it a fascinating and challenging problem to understand what is going on in the brains of people like me when we do research. With a colleague, Mohan Ganesalingam, I have written a program that solves some easy problems. Over the next few years we intend to develop it so that it will solve harder ones and begin to show what computers are capable of. Our ultimate aim, which is a long way off, would be to put ourselves out of business!
Scheme: Royal Society Research Professorship


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Bernardo Flores Jr.
Rockies Outright Bernardo Flores Jr.
By Anthony Franco | September 20, 2021 at 10:29pm CDT
The Rockies announced that left-hander Bernardo Flores Jr. has cleared waivers and been sent outright to Triple-A Albuquerque. He doesn't have the requisite service time to reject an outright assignment, so he'll remain in the organization.
Flores was originally drafted by the White Sox, with whom he spent the first few years of his career. The southpaw made his big league debut with Chicago last season, tossing two innings. He's bounced between a couple organizations this year, landing with the Cardinals via waiver claim in April and moving to the Rockies a couple months later. He made one big league appearance with St. Louis but has yet to suit up in the majors with Colorado.
Instead, Flores has spent almost his entire tenure in the organization on the minor league injured list. He landed on the IL immediately after being claimed off waivers and just made it back with Albuquerque for the first time last week. The 26-year-old will look to work his way back onto the 40-man roster now that he's returned to health. Flores has very little Triple-A experience, but he's posted a quality 3.04 ERA over 156 2/3 career innings in Double-A.
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Rockies Select Ryan Vilade, Designate Bernardo Flores Jr.
By Mark Polishuk | September 18, 2021 at 12:54pm CDT
The Rockies announced that they have selected the contract of outfield prospect Ryan Vilade from Triple-A. Left-hander Bernardo Flores Jr. was designated for assignment and righty Ryan Feltner was optioned to Triple-A in corresponding moves.
Vilade places fifth on MLB Pipeline's ranking of the Rockies' top prospects, and the 2017 second-round pick is now set to make his Major League debut. Vilade has hit .286/.339/.420 with seven homers over 447 plate appearances for Triple-A Albuquerque this year, which marked his first experience at the Triple-A level.
With rather modest power numbers in the hitter-friendly environs of the former Pacific Coast League, Vilade has yet to fully tap into the power potential cited in Pipeline's scouting report. With increased strength paired alongside "solid bat-to-ball skills and an advanced approach" at the plate, Vilade could be a candidate to hit 25-30 home runs per year at the big league level. Playing in Denver's thin air could very well help unlock that extra pop, and the Rockies figure to give Vilade a good chunk of playing time over the season's final two weeks.
Vilade is in Colorado's lineup as the starting left fielder today, and this figures to be his primary position going forward. He was originally drafted as a shortstop, however, and he has also seen work as a third baseman, first baseman, and at the other two outfield positions. Developing into a multi-position type would only help the 22-year-old Vilade's future prospects, giving him more chances to stick somewhere in the Rockies' everyday lineup.
Flores was claimed off waivers from the Cardinals back in June, and he has spent much of his time in the Rockies' organization on the Triple-A injured list. The southpaw's only MLB game of the 2021 season came on May 5, when he faced three batters without recording an out in a 7-2 Cardinals loss to the Mets.
A seventh-round pick for the White Sox in 2016, Flores made his MLB debut with two innings for Chicago last season. The grounder specialist has a 3.42 ERA over 473 1/3 career innings in the minors, but with only a 6.68 ERA in 33 2/3 frames at Triple-A.
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Rockies Claim Bernardo Flores Jr., Designate Ryan Castellani
By Steve Adams | June 24, 2021 at 1:18pm CDT
The Rockies announced Thursday that they've claimed lefty Bernardo Flores Jr. off waivers from the Cardinals and designated righty Ryan Castellani for assignment in order to open a spot on the roster. Flores has been optioned to Triple-A.
St. Louis had designated the 25-year-old Flores for assignment earlier in the week after previously claiming him off waivers from the White Sox. He appeared in just one game with the Cards this season but was unable to retire any of the three Mets hitters he faced in that May 5 outing. Flores posted solid numbers up through the Double-A level during his time with the White Sox organization, but he's surrendered a 5.74 ERA through 31 1/3 frames with lackluster strikeout and walk rates while pitching for the Cardinals' Triple-A affiliate (17.6 percent and 12.2 percent, respectively).
While Flores has struggled this season, left-handed depth is an area of need for the Rockies, who currently have two struggling southpaws in their big league bullpen: Ben Bowden and Lucas Gilbreath. The only other near-MLB left-handed bullpen option on the roster is Yoan Aybar, who hasn't fared well in Double-A. Veteran Chris Rusin and former Yankees/White Sox prospect Ian Clarkin are both in Triple-A as non-roster players, but neither has pitched well there.
Castellani, 25, was a second-round pick by the Rockies back in 2014 and has landed among their top 15 prospects in each of the past seven years, per Baseball America's rankings. He posted solid but unspectacular results for the first several seasons of his minor league career but began to see his numbers take a dip when he repeated the Double-A level in 2018.
Despite a particularly rough showing at the Triple-A level in 2019, Castellani made his MLB debut with the Rox in 2020. His first two appearances went quite well, as he held opponents to one run with a 10-to-3 K/BB ratio and a 50 percent grounder rate in 8 2/3 frames, but he was hit hard for most of the remainder of the summer. Castellani oscillated between the bullpen and the rotation, finishing out his rookie campaign with a 5.82 ERA, a 13.2 percent strikeout rate and a 13.8 percent walk rate in 43 2/3 frames. His 2021 season hasn't gone much better in the big leagues (two runs in 3 1/3 innings) or in Triple-A (7.82 ERA in 35 1/3 innings).
Castellani does have a minor league option remaining beyond the current season, so perhaps another club in need of some pitching depth will have ideas about how to coax a better performance out of him. The Rox have a week to trade him or attempt to pass him through outright waivers.
Bernardo Flores Jr. Colorado Rockies Ryan Castellani St. Louis Cardinals Transactions
Cardinals Select Lars Nootbaar, Designate Bernardo Flores Jr.
By Steve Adams | June 22, 2021 at 10:14am CDT
The Cardinals announced Tuesday that they've selected the contract of outfielder Lars Nootbaar from Triple-A Memphis and optioned outfielder Lane Thomas to Triple-A in his place. Left-hander Bernardo Flores Jr. was designated for assignment in order to create a 40-man roster spot for Nootbaar, who'll be making his MLB debut when he first takes the field.
Nootbaar, 23, was the Cardinals' eighth-round pick in 2018. He didn't enter the season ranked among the organization's top 30 prospects at Baseball America, MLB.com or FanGraphs, but the USC product's monster season in Memphis has overshadowed that lack of fanfare.
Nootbaar has been an average or better hitter at every minor league stop prior to 2021 but has absolutely erupted with the RedBirds, slashing at a .329/.430/.557 clip. That output has come in just a 22-game sample, given a brief stay on the injured list, but for a Cardinals club that has yet again seen lackluster production in the outfield, the allure is understandable.
Cardinals outfielders are tied for 24th in the Majors with a 95 wRC+, as only Tyler O'Neill and Dylan Carlson have provided the club with above-average offensive production. St. Louis outfielders, as a group, rank 23rd in baseball with a .232 average, 24th with a .307 on-base percentage and 20th with a .401 slugging percentage (thanks primarily to O'Neill's 15 round-trippers). Thomas, optioned out today to create 26-man roster space for Nootbaar's promotion, has been one of the primary reasons for the group's poor overall rankings, batting just .104/.259/.125 in a small sample of 58 plate appearances.
Flores, 25, was an April waiver claim out of the White Sox organization and appeared in just one big league game before today's DFA. He faced three batters back in a May 5 loss to the Mets but was unable to retire any of them, issuing a pair of walks and a base hit. Flores had a nice run through the Double-A level as a member of the White Sox' farm system, but he's been roughed up for a 5.74 ERA with sub-par strikeout and walk rates while pitching for the Cardinals' Triple-A affiliate (17.6 percent and 12.2 percent, respectively).
The Cardinals will have a week to trade Flores or attempt to pass him through outright waivers. If he passes through waivers unclaimed, they'll be able to keep him in the organization without dedicating a 40-man roster spot to him.
Bernardo Flores Jr. Lane Thomas Lars Nootbaar St. Louis Cardinals Transactions
Cardinals Claim Bernardo Flores Jr.
By Steve Adams | April 1, 2021 at 2:28pm CDT
The Cardinals announced Thursday that they've claimed lefty Bernardo Flores Jr. off waivers from the White Sox. He's been optioned to the Cards' alternate training site. The waiver claim fills the Cardinals' 40-man roster.
Flores, 24, was Chicago's seventh-round pick back in 2016 and made his big league debut this past season, tossing two innings and yielding a pair of runs. He'd have spent the 2020 season at the Triple-A level had there been a minor league season, but his top level aside from that brief two-inning cup of coffee in the big leagues has been Double-A. The southpaw has posted strong numbers in parts of two Double-A campaigns, working to a combined 3.04 ERA with an outstanding 4.6 percent walk rate and a 52 percent grounder rate — albeit with a below-average 18.8 percent strikeout rate.
Flores will give the Cardinals some depth both in the rotation and the bullpen. He has a pair of minor league options remaining, so he can be shuttled between Triple-A (or the Cards' alternate site) and the big leagues over the next two seasons if he sticks on the 40-man roster.
Bernardo Flores Jr. Chicago White Sox St. Louis Cardinals Transactions
White Sox Option Reynaldo Lopez
By Steve Adams | September 3, 2020 at 1:27pm CDT
The White Sox have optioned struggling right-hander Reynaldo Lopez to their alternate training site and recalled left-hander Bernardo Flores Jr., per a team announcement.
It's a disappointing development for the 26-year-old Lopez but one the Sox clearly no longer felt they could avoid. Lopez was once regarded as one of baseball's best overall prospects and was a key piece in the trade that sent Adam Eaton from Chicago to Washington, D.C. He's been in the big leagues since his original promotion with the Sox back in Aug. 2017.
Lopez posted a solid 3.91 ERA through 188 2/3 frames with the Sox in 2018 — his first full Major League season. However, he did so with ugly peripheral metrics that painted him as a candidate for major regression, and that's precisely what panned out. Dating back to Opening Day 2019, Lopez has a 5.53 ERA and 5.18 FIP in 193 2/3 innings for the South Siders. In 2020, he's started four games but lasted only 9 2/3 innings overall. Along the way, he's yielded 11 runs (nine earned) on 14 hits, eight walks and a hit batter with 10 strikeouts.
Were the Sox still in rebuild mode, perhaps they'd chalk this up to continued growing pains and keep trotting Lopez out against big league lineups. But the team's drawn-out rebuilding process has reached its conclusion, and the White Sox are now squarely in win-now mode, making it harder to accept substandard outings like the one put together by Lopez yesterday. In a key match against the division-rival Twins, Lopez was unable to escape the second inning, allowing three runs on four hits and a pair of walks. He used 53 pitches to record his five outs.
Even when Lopez was considered a premier prospect, there were some scouts who felt his ultimate home would be in the bullpen. He's worked closer to a true three-pitch mix in 2020 and, in his two most recent outings, thrown primarily fastballs and sliders. Given his ongoing struggles in the rotation, perhaps there will be some intrigue within the organization to see how Lopez would handle short-relief stints that allow him to ramp up his fastball velocity and focus on a two-pitch mix.
With Lopez out of the mix for at least the foreseeable future, it appears the Sox will roll with Lucas Giolito, Dallas Keuchel, Dylan Cease and perhaps Dane Dunning as the top four in their rotation. Carlos Rodon was said over the weekend to be nearing a return, and the Sox also have veteran southpaw Gio Gonzalez on the mend from a groin strain.
Flores, recalled in place of Lopez, could be an option to start a game as well. He made 15 starts for Chicago's Double-A affiliate last year, totaling 78 1/3 innings with a 3.33 ERA, 7.9 K/9, 1.7 BB/9 and a 53.3 percent ground-ball rate. He's yet to pitch in the big leagues, so whether his first appearance comes as a starter or out of the 'pen, that'll mark his MLB debut. Flores isn't considered one of the system's elite prospects, but he ranks on the back half of the top 30 at MLB.com (19) and FanGraphs (27).
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White Sox Announce 60-Man Additions
By Steve Adams and Connor Byrne | July 14, 2020 at 10:05pm CDT
The White Sox announced the addition of 16 players to their 60-man player pool Tuesday. They'll all head to the team's alternate camp site in Schaumberg, Ill. Today's additions include (* = non-roster invitee):
Right-Handed Pitchers
Zack Burdi
Ryan Burr
Matt Foster
Brady Lail*
Alex McRae*
Bryan Mitchell*
Jonathan Stiever*
Left-Handed Pitchers
Garrett Crochet*
Jacob Lindgren*
Adalberto Mejia*
Bennett Sousa*
Seby Zavala
Micker Adolfo
Luis Gonzalez*
Blake Rutherford
As Opening Day draws nearer, the White Sox will option additional players to their alternate camp site. There are currently 43 players in big league Summer Camp with the South Siders, and they'll need to trim that number to 30 by the time the opener rolls around.
Today's list of additions contains several notable names, including 2020 first-round pick Garrett Crochet, whom the Sox selected 13th overall out of the University of Tennessee. Farm director Chris Getz isn't ruling out the possibility of Crochet making his MLB debut sometime this year, Bruce Levine of 670 The Score tweets.
Getz also spoke about another recent White Sox first-round pick in Zack Burdi, whom they took 26th in 2016, saying (via Daryl Van Schouwen of the Chicago Sun-Times): 'We hope to build off how he finished major league camp. It's the best we've seen him in a while. His last couple outings were very encouraging. It's a special arm."
Significant injuries have prevented the hard-throwing Burdi from realizing his potential or even reaching the bigs since the White Sox drafted him. He underwent Tommy John surgery in 2017, barely pitched the following year as a result, and then succumbed to a ligament tear in his patella last season. Burdi's still a well-regarded relief prospect, though, and may have a chance to factor into Chicago's bullpen this season.
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Players Added To 40-Man Roster: American League
By Jeff Todd | November 20, 2019 at 6:34pm CDT
We're going to see a whole lot of players added to 40-man rosters in advance of tonight's deadline to protect players from the Rule 5 draft. We will use this post to track those contract selections from American League teams that are not otherwise covered on the site.
AL West:
The Athletics made just one addition to the 40-man roster, righty Daulton Jefferies, which resulted in the DFA of righty Jharel Cotton (more on that move here).
The Rangers will add at least four players to their 40-man, per MLB.com's TR Sullivan (via Twitter). Infielder Sherten Apostel, outfielder Leody Taveras, and hurlers Demarcus Evans and Tyler Phillips are all reportedly set to get a slot. Taveras is the most exciting name of this bunch; by the reckoning of some observers, he's one of the club's best prospects. Apostel came over in the Keone Kela trade. The two pitchers are upper-minors arms who could contribute in 2020.
There's 40-man movement elsewhere in Texas as well. Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle tweets that the Astros have tacked on four players: Taylor Jones, Cristian Javier, Enoli Paredes, and Nivaldo Rodriguez. The last of those is the one that came from the farthest reaches of the prospect map (half a season of High-A ball); clearly, the 'Stros see him as an up-and-comer and were worried other teams would as well. Jones had a strong season at Triple-A and could fight for a bench spot. Javier and Paredes could be in the MLB bullpen mix after running up the farm ladder with high strikeout rates in 2019.
The Angels have selected second baseman/outfielder Jahmai Jones and lefty Hector Yan, according to the club. Both players (Jones – No. 6; Yan – No. 17) rank among the Angels' top 20 prospects at MLB.com. The 22-year-old Jones is a 2015 second-rounder who spent the past two seasons at the Double-A level, where he hit .234/.308/.324 in 544 plate appearances in 2019. Yan, a 20-year-old native of the Dominican Republic, rose to Single-A ball this past season and notched a 3.39 ERA/3.17 FIP with a whopping 12.22 K/9 against 4.29 BB/9 over 109 innings.
AL Central:
The Twins have selected the contracts of righties Jhoan Duran and Dakota Chalmers, outfielders Gilberto Celestino and Luke Raley, and infielder/outfielder Travis Blankenhorn, Do-Hyoung Park of MLB.com tweets. Three of those players – Duran (No. 9), Celestino (No. 20) and Blankenhorn (No. 23) – rank among the Twins' top 25 prospects at MLB.com.
Anthony Fenech of the Detroit Free Press reports that the Tigers have selected the contracts of infielder Isaac Paredes; outfielders Daz Cameron and Derek Hill; and right-handers Beau Burrows, Kyle Funkhouser and Anthony Castro. Each of Paredes, Cameron, Burrows, Funkhouser and Castro are ranked inside the organization's Top 20 prospects at MLB.com, while Hill checks in at 28th. Cameron, Hill, Burrows and Funkhouser were all top 50 picks in the MLB Draft at one point.
Kansas City's slate of additions was accompanied by four DFAs, as detailed here. The Royals added lefty Foster Griffin, right-hander Carlos Hernandez, shortstop Jeison Guzman and outfielder Nick Heath to the 40-man roster this afternoon.
Seven players were added to the White Sox' 40-man roster today, per a club announcement: catcher Yermin Mercedes, outfielder Blake Rutherford, left-hander Bernardo Flores Jr. and right-handers Zack Burdi, Dane Dunning, Matt Foster and Jimmy Lambert. Burdi and Dunning, in particular, are well-regarded pitching prospects on the mend from Tommy John surgery. Rutherford, a former first-round pick, was a key trade acquisition who was protected despite a lackluster season in Double-A and in the Arizona Fall League.
AL East:
Infielder Santiago Espinal and righty Thomas Hatch were the Blue Jays' pair of roster additions on Wednesday. Toronto jettisoned Tim Mayza and Justin Shafer from the 40-man roster in a pair of corresponding moves, as explored at greater length here.
The Orioles announced that they've selected the contracts of left-hander Keegan Akin, right-hander Dean Kremer, infielder/outfielder Ryan Mountcastle and outfielder Ryan McKenna. Mountcastle, a former first-rounder, has long been considered among the organization's most promising minor leaguers. Akin posted a down year in Triple-A in 2019 but has generally been successful and is viewed as a near-MLB ready arm.
The Red Sox have added infielders C.J. Chatham and Bobby Dalbec, outfielder Marcus Wilson, and lefties Kyle Hart and Yoan Aybar to their 40-man, the team announced.The most hyped farmhand there is Dalbec, whom MLB.com ranks as the Red Sox's second-best prospect. The 24-year-old reached the Triple-A level for the first time in 2019 after obliterating Double-A pitching, and he posted a .257/.301/.478 line with seven home runs and 29 strikeouts against just five walks over 123 trips to the plate.
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Nina Terrey
Partner / Chief Methodologist
nina.terrey [at] thinkplace.com.au
Nina is passionate about giving people agency to make positive change for good. She believes that people have the capacity to collaborate and achieve impact together. Her commitment to co-design as a tool for empowerment means she works with people at all levels of a system: organisational leaders and teams, frontline workers, citizens and industry organisations.
Nina is a world leader in co-design, system-wide innovation, capability development and the implementation of complex projects impacting organisations and society. She works with leaders who want to achieve change through the agency of their staff, stakeholders and with the citizens that engage with them. She brings a mastery in design, facilitation and collaboration that instils confidence in people to think creatively and to act confidently.
Nina has been pioneering new design methods in innovation at scale, in sectors such as renewable energy and health. These projects are creating new understandings of the dynamics of complex systems, and how multi-stakeholders can work together to create small scale actions and longer term futures for larger system change.
Nina has been at the forefront of design thinking in the public sector for the last decade. One of her major contributions is putting design thinking in governance on the global academic map, through her PhD research 'Managing by Design'. Nina is an academic Associate Professor at the University of Canberra Australia, and she regularly speaks at international conferences on design in complex governance contexts.
Work and thoughts
Design-led policy development
A better future for young people in out of home care...
Victorian Department of Health and Human Services
Design for policy
Strengthening democracy in Australia
Museum of Australian Democracy and Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis
Co-design capability boosts innovation in a government organisation
Community engagement and co-design
How we're innovating renewable energy by bringing people together
Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Codesign means telling a story (but it might not be the one you think....)
Towards a new approach for tackling family violence...
Cybelle Ledez, Nina Terrey
Everybody in government is doing engagement. Here's how we can do it better
Mastering design: The core value that every designer should have...
When it comes to innovation, don't just make an impact. Measure it
Innovation labs: Tackling the world's wicked problems
Design in the Public Sector is on the map
A new approach to global challenges: the power of divergent thinking
John Body, Nina Terrey
Celebrating good design: the 2017 Good Design Awards
Darren Menachemson, John Body, Nina Terrey
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Q: In android, how to set the 2 small icons visible in the notification In android notification, it's seam their is 3 different icons (see the picture below). I know how to set the large icon (via setlargeicon), however i don't know how to set the both 2 small icons as their is only one procedure setSmallIcon available.

A: It is the same setSmallIcon for both locations. However, you can also use setColor() to set the background color on the notification - that is how the lower icon gets the blue background.

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Q: recursion is not happening for the remaining cases #include <cmath>
#include <cstdio>
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;
int a[102][102]={0};int b[100]={0};int ans=0;
int find(int i,int j,int n)
{
    if(j>n)
    {
        return 0;
    }
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    {
        cout<<j<<endl;
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        {
            ans++;
        }
        return s+1;
    }
    int s=find(i,j+1,n);
}

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    int i,j,n,m;
    cin>>n>>m;
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    {
        int x,y;
        cin>>x>>y;
        a[y][x]=1;
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        int s=find(1,0,n);
        cout<<ans<<endl;

    return 0;
}

I was trying a problem on graphs and got stuck with it. The recursion is not happening for the remaining values of j, where a[i][j]=1. it happens always for the first case only. Can any of you guys help me out with this?


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Home » Issues » May 1974 » Road-Test Miscellany, May 1974
Road-Test Miscellany, May 1974
The Editor Contemplates Three Very Different Cars, From Vauxhall, BMW and Fiat
The imposition of an overall 50 m.p.h. speed-limit, which we have had to endure on all our roads until recently, put a bit of a curb on road-testing. To progress along wide open Motorways at this sedate pace distorted fuel consumption figures very little, but sufficiently to make anything published somewhat unrealistic should the Motorway limit be lifted which, praise-be to the new Transport Minister, it has been. To traverse winding between-towns and cross-country roads at the same sad speed reduces all cars to a dismal common-denominator. If it persists for too long we may well see a drop in British safety standards, because good cornering power and powerful braking will become of lesser account, just as American automobiles reduced to cruising along freeways at comparatively low speeds are notorious, by European standards, for weak anchors, soggy suspension, and unresponsive steering and handling.
For this reason the pleasure of trying new cars has diminished. But to show that my love of driving has not been entirely dissipated, I have now resumed a road-test programme. In this context I find I have recently sampled three very diverse motor cars. The first of which I will deal with is the latest Vauxhall VX 4/90 from Luton.
The Vauxhall VX 4/90
Before driving this yellow-gold car away from the Luton factory it was arranged that I should meet for lunch some of the Vauxhall executives, in the persons of Jim Hebdon, Director and Treasurer, Dave Bratton, Assistant Chief Engineer: Passenger Vehicles, who Is Luton's top car-man, American Ed. Taylor, the Styling Director, Geoff. Moore, Director of Publicity, and Derek Goatman, who aids ageless Miehael Marr in running the Public Relations Department—a formidable assembly of top-brass. Conversation ranged over many subjects, from the acquisition and restoration of pre-war cars, of which Vauxhall Motors has a fine collection, to future Vauxhall policy in respect of smaller-engirted economy cars (not at present in the pipeline, I gathered) and eompetition-participation. Incidentally, it was pleasing, to me at any rate, that although the Vauxhall Wyvern is nowadays flanked by the Omnipotent letters "GM" of General Motors, going across the road from where I had parked the BMW 520i, and where the Vauxhall factory expanded in the mid-1930s, You encounter in the office block where we were to lunch, the unchanged oak-panelled foyer. It is much as it was from 1907 onwards, in the days when Laurence Pomeroy was designing some notable Vauxhalls, which were to culminate before the First World War in the immortal 30/98, and from the balcony of whtch hall those in charge could emerge from their offices to keep a check on those toiling below.
As with the 30/98, the designation VX 4/90 was introduced to imply a sporting-model Vauxhall. I am startled to discover that I road-tested the original VX 4/90 nearly a dozen years ago. The Vauxhall range since those days has been a complex one, so I was scarcely surprised that, when I sought assistance over lunch in unravelling it, no-one was very ready to remember! The Victor dates back to 1957 and the Viva, which was the smallest-engined model, then based on the Opel Kadett, to 1964. The first VX 4/90 was a disc-front-braked 90 m.p.h. version of the current Victor, using a twin-carburetter 71 b.h.p. engine. The Victor appeared in revised form with o.h.c. I.1/2-litre and 2-litre engines in 1968 and the Viva CT was evolved by the simple expedient of putting a 2-litre Victor engine in the smaller body shell. The VX 4/90 was updated in 1970 and given a twincarburetter engine, as used for the Firenza Sport SL, by 1972. This engine has sidedraught carburetters on a cross-flow head and a belt-driven oh. camshaft with ingenious means of easy tappet-setting.
The present Vauxhall range is not as varied as, for instance, that of Ford-of-Britain, but it is an effective coverage, of Viva, Magnum, Victor, VX 4/90 and Ventora in the usual body-type and engineering permutations soon to be joined by the exciting looking Firenza "Streamliner". While scanning briefly Over recent Vauxhall history, it is only honest to admit that for some time the famous name was tarnished by ideas which did not quite come off and idealisms which did not add up. Fortunately, all this seems to have been resolved. Last year MOTOR SPORT reported favourably on a number of Vauxhall models used as a base by the tuning-shops and as recently as last February, in reporting on a road-test of the Magnum 2300 Estate, a colleague described current Vauxhalls as "excellent performing, beautifully styled, value-for-money cars". As an aside, no-one at the aforesaid luncheon seemed anxious to explain why the name "Magnum" has replaced that of "Firenza" for normal Vauxhall models while "Firenza" has been transferred to the remarkably-styled, fast, latest-model, which we are all itching to drive; except that it is a nice name! I like to think that all this development, and the restoration of Vauxhall's good and great name, has been influenced by resumed competition involvement of the Luton product, in various guises, via Dealer Team Vauxhall, news of the activities of which goes out commendably promptly to the Press.
The present VX 4/90 is, then, a sporting version of the medium-range Vauxhall saloons and, as such, is presumably just the sort of car to which enthusiastic family-men will now turn, apres-Budget, with costs to be cut and foreign cars said to be expensive to buy and maintain. The engine will pull smoothly from 1,500 r.p.m. in top gear and runs at 3,200 r.p.m. at an indicated 70 m.p.h.
Just how well the 1974 VX 4/90 goes can be illustrated by comparing the performance figures for the 1962 model, with its push-rod engine developing a gross 81 b.h.p. at 5,200 r.p.m., against the present car's 116 b.h.p. at 5,000 r.p.m. on a far lower c.r. (8.5 to 1 against 9.3 to 1), the newer car having a wheelbase of 8′ 9″ instead of the more cramped one for 1962 of 8′ 4″.
Such is progress! On the road the presentday VX 4/90 handles well, has very nice, smooth-acting, light steering, and is only noisy if the engine is extended towards peak revs., the tachometer reading to 7,000 r.p.m. There was some exhaust reverberation occasionally and, of course, coming off a BMW, the body shell appeared to be a lightweight, with a few rattles.
The suspension, coil spring all round, is curiously unhappy on rough tracks, yet on the road does not appear to have been stiffened-up unduly to provide better-than-average handling. The brakes, a combination of disc and drum, have servo assistance, and work as modern brakes should. The gearbox is controlled by the usual, rather-long Vauxhall lever, which controls a good, only slightly baulky, change. One point must be stressed— the very full equipment of the car. The only extras deemed desirable on the test-car were exterior mirrors, Carello fog-lamps to supplement the dual Lucas headlamps, and a Vauxhall press-button radio. Otherwise, the standard mod. cons. are considerable, including a Triplex heated rear window, facia-level universally-adjustable fresh-air vents, adjustable, front seat squabs and two-speed electric screen-wipers with pulse action. Upholstery is in onyx perforated Ambler—which looks, and even smells, like leather these days.
Apart from full equipment, the modern VX 4/90 has an exceedingly useful fuel range. Cruising at "various speeds" for much of the M1 and M6 Motorways (the 50-limit was then in force), pottering about, and driving quickly from Mid-Wales to Swansea, the fuel consumption was a highly creditable 33.3 m.p.g. As the tank holds 14.1/4-gallons, this enables you to drive some 470 miles before refuelling. A hand choke-cunt-throttle is fitted.
This spacious, comfortable four-door saloon has a big boot, obstructed, however, by the upright spare wheel. The clearly-calibrated instrumentation covers oil pressure, time, fuel-contents and engine-heat, there are dual stalk-controls, a big if shallow un-lockable facia bin, and a sensibly-calibrated, if not too effective, heater. Overdrive has been deleted. The pull-out lamps-switch actuates also the facia and roof lighting and there is a fitted carpet. Vauxhall still operate their Quality Control procedures and Euro-Service 365 Maintenance Plan and the styling of the VX 4/90 is effective, the lines being like those of the Cortina which is a Dagenham Ford best-seller, but with the inclusion of traditional Vauxhall bonnet fluting. At one time Vauxhall used American makes of tyres, Firestone on the 1962 VX 4/90, but the 1974 car was on Pirellis.
Altogether, this Vauxhall is a 100 m.p.h., accelerative family saloon which should do well for Britain especially if our speed-limits are raised or eliminated on all roads. Prices have risen recently but at the time of the test and just before Labour's "non-inflationary" Budget, the VX 4/90 sold for £1,527.50, automatic transmission costing £102.92 extra.
BMW 5201 and BMW 3.0Si
It is said that foreign cars cost too much when spares are required. This is not easily denied, so it is important to establish how often such expenditure is involved. The BMW 520i which has given me much pleasure for some considerable time has required only routine servicing in a matter of 11,300 miles. But the other day I was informed that it might have unsafe brakes. This was a question of whether the rear independent suspension might be chafing a brake line. It was a thing which could be rectified in half-an-hour or so, at BMW's Great West Road Service Station.
While the four-cylinder car was being thus checked over, I was lent a 3.0Si, which might justifiably be called a BMW Big-Six. When it was brought to the office under Raymond Playfoot's efficient delivery service we had to move two other BMWs before the 520i could be got out, such is MOTOR SPORT'S-recent BMW orientation. The 3.0Si was not truly a test-car, but I cannot resist from commenting on its smooth flexibility, and how pleasing it was to experience again the very good BMW power steering. I amused myself writing recently about the top cars of the early 1920s. It is reassuring to know that in this Healey-age (Chancellor, not car!) luxury vehicles are still available for those who deem them worth their price, as this Big Six BMW undoubtedly is. Under prevailing circumstances a rough check showed it to be giving rather better than 28 m.p.g., and when an XWX Michelin deflated over-night the jacking system was found to work easily.
The Fiat 126
From the sublime to the very useful. I have been using the ex-IOM Fiat 126 now for a distance of over 2,000 miles. It has given absolutely no trouble, although I once let the battery go "flat" through carelessly leaving the ignition on. This was soon put right by my Wynall W4 charger and proved that the battery is easy to remove and re-install in the front boot. I have given up checking the Fiat's fuel consumption but it must be running at 48 m.p.g. at the very worst. I got better than 55 m.p.g. front a previous 126 by using more thrifty driving methods and I hope soon to be convinced that these entertaining and so-practical little Fiats can be made to achieve 60 m.p.g./50 m.p.h. simply by speaking sternly to the Weber….
Meanwhile, I find their air-cooled, twin-cylinder, motorcycle-engine-capacity Fiat 126 the ideal shopping hack, although I am quite happy to drive it 200 miles or more in a day, if necessary. I concede that if you must take four people in a tiny car a Mini or similar saloon is superior, although this is cruelty to both humans and cars. But as a two-seater with occasional child, dog or luggage space behind' the main scats, you cannot beat for inexpensive first-cost, fuel economy and ruggedness the little fellow from Turin. It used to be the dictum that rear-engined cars could not be effectively heated within and that their remote gearboxes could never be nicely linked to the gear lever. VW gave the lie to the latter from Beetle days and now the 126 follows on with a most seductive gear shift, apart from which its heater is almost too effective, even in winter, and demists the rear window without need for hidden "electrickery". The engine, too, has always been an instant starter, and this tiny Fiat can out-corner some notable larger cars.
Quite definitely a no-snags car, although after its seven days' and nights' thrash round and round the IOM motorcycle TT course by a Police team the brakes are beginning to feel tired, after more than 11,000 hard miles, but the Pirelli tyres have plenty of tread left.
W.B.


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Virginia just legalized marijuana
It's now the first state in the South to legalize cannabis.
By German Lopez@germanrlopez Apr 8, 2021, 8:50am EDT
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Virginia lawmakers on Wednesday enacted a marijuana legalization law, making the state the first in the South to legalize cannabis.
Under the law, adults 21 and older will be able to use and grow marijuana, starting in July. The state will also launch a legal, regulated market, with an expected launch in 2024. And it lets people with past marijuana convictions request lower penalties or for their records to be sealed.
Revenue from a new excise tax on marijuana will go toward education programs, equity initiatives, addiction treatment, and public health services.
The legislation came after a contentious, but relatively quick, legislative process. Gov. Ralph Northam (D) publicly backed marijuana legalization in November. After some back-and-forth, the Virginia House and Senate passed bills legalizing pot in February. Northam responded approvingly, but with amendments to the legislation. The legislature then approved the amendments, allowing the legislation to take effect with no further action from Northam.
In comparison, legislative battles over marijuana legalization dragged on for years in New Jersey and New York.
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Virginia already allowed marijuana use for medical purposes, starting with a 2015 law that has been expanded over time. The new law expands legalization to recreational and other nonmedical uses.
Marijuana remains illegal under federal law. But starting with former President Barack Obama's administration, the federal government has generally allowed states to legalize cannabis with minimal federal interference.
With Virginia's law, 16 states and Washington, DC, have now legalized marijuana for recreational purposes, although DC doesn't allow recreational sales. (South Dakota voters approved a ballot initiative to legalize cannabis in November, but that measure's future is uncertain as it's caught up in legal battles.)
Supporters of legalization argue that it eliminates the harms of marijuana prohibition: the hundreds of thousands of arrests around the US, the racial disparities behind those arrests, and the billions of dollars that flow from the black market for illicit marijuana to drug cartels that then use the money for violent operations around the world. All of this, legalization advocates say, will outweigh any of the potential downsides — such as increased cannabis use — that might come with legalization.
Opponents, meanwhile, claim that legalization will create a huge marijuana industry that will market the drug irresponsibly. They point to America's experiences with the alcohol and tobacco industries in particular, which have built their financial empires in large part on the backs of the heaviest consumers of their products. And they argue ending prohibition could result in far more people using pot, potentially leading to unforeseen negative health consequences.
In Virginia, legalization supporters have won the day.
For more on the debate over marijuana legalization, read Vox's explainer.


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Tracking which NY GOP Congress members have called on George Santos to resign
Opinion: New York finally has momentum on housing and it's time for a breakthrough
We need a comprehensive statewide strategy that sets clear expectations for where and how much we need to build.
New construction rises on the waterfront of the East River in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and Hunters Point, Queens, around Newtown Creek, with the Manhattan skyline in the background. Alex Potemkin – Getty Images
By Annemarie Gray
New York's politicians are waking up to our state's dire housing crisis. Anemic construction of new homes from Brooklyn to Buffalo is driving prices to historic highs, and millions of New York renters are on the edge of losing their homes. The politics of housing are shifting for the first time in decades as elected officials have voiced support for pro-housing reforms that would've been dismissed out of hand just months before. But we need more than fiddling around the edges of our broken housing system and dated land use laws; we need a housing breakthrough.
Housing in New York has become so unaffordable that it is impossible to ignore. Rents in already famously expensive New York City have reached mind-bending new records, and the vacancy rate for inexpensive homes is almost zero. But the crisis doesn't end at city limits; the lack of housing in New York's major suburbs is also a major contributor to soaring rents in the nation's largest metropolitan area. NYU's Furman Center found that "New York's suburbs are failing to build any significant amount of housing," as Long Island permitted barely 3,000 new homes per year over the last two decades, while Westchester and the Hudson Valley permitted under 5,000 new homes per year.
The consequences have been disastrous for New Yorkers. A majority of tenants in the New York metropolitan area are rent burdened, which means they spend more than a third of their income on housing. As a result, New York leads the nation in the number of renters seeking to move out of state.
The solution has always been straightforward in principle: build more housing. The details of when and where to build this housing, whether it should be subsidized or market rate – and how to prevent displacement, gentrification, and the erosion of communities – have always been contentious, often to the point of paralysis. But now, the scale and severity of New York's housing shortage have overwhelmed objections. Under the weight of crushing rents, it's becoming good politics for elected officials to get to yes on housing.
This year, New York City has seen a series of high-profile neighborhood land use disputes that generated plenty of sound and fury – and most passed in the end. From Queens to the Bronx, thousands of new units have been approved by the City Council and Mayor Eric Adams. These disputes follow a similar pattern: a proposal for new housing development is met with resistance from local elected officials and a vocal minority of opponents, followed by a highly public politicized negotiation that leads to concessions. In the end, some new affordable and market rate housing gets approved, and the local electeds take credit for securing a good deal for their constituents.
The past year's housing victories amount to a drop in the bucket of what's needed. We won't solve the housing crisis with one-off projects. To really make a difference, we must think bigger.
New York needs a holistic approach to addressing housing opportunity that puts rapidly increasing supply at the center, while simultaneously protecting existing tenants, fighting housing discrimination, and growing the government's long-term capacity to provide better models of housing stability. A breakthrough on housing creation will improve the leverage of renters, increase housing stability, and create more options and opportunities for those seeking to move within, or to, New York.
We do not need to reinvent the wheel. New York City has plenty of models from which to draw inspiration. Boston doubles New York City's rate of new housing permitted per capita, while Washington, D.C. triples it. Tokyo builds new housing three times faster than New York City, and Paris builds as much subsidized social housing in a year as New York City builds in total housing of all kinds.
Similarly, New York state lags badly behind California, Massachusetts, Florida, Illinois and even neighboring Connecticut and New Jersey when it comes to state level land use reforms. In these other states, local governments were barred from refusing new housing, or were issued housing creation goals that they needed to meet lest they face state intervention. Meanwhile, New York's localities have no obligation to create housing. Often, the wealthiest and most exclusionary locales are the worst offenders in resisting building new homes, shifting the task to lower-income areas with less political power. Statewide and citywide goal setting, backed by the power to intervene in local decisions, mitigates this inequity.
Put simply, we need a breakthrough on a comprehensive statewide strategy that sets clear expectations for where and how much we need to build housing, with every neighborhood, county, and town playing its part. We need mechanisms to greenlight projects that clearly deserve swift approval, so they don't get slowed or blocked by political battles or redundant reviews.
It's promising that many of our top elected leaders – Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Adams, New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams – have signaled their support for a more equitable and systemic approach to creating housing in New York. There are plenty of ways to get it done. And there are plenty of New Yorkers who are watching their elected officials, and their rent bills, with bated breath. New York can't afford the 2023 legislative session to be yet another that comes to an end without ambitious, pro-housing reforms that bring us closer to an abundant housing future. Some local politicians have begun to recognize that more housing is good politics, and we hope that leaders in Albany take note.
Annemarie Gray is the executive director of Open New York, a housing advocacy organization. She previously served as a housing advisor to former Mayor Bill de Blasio and Mayor Eric Adams.
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Q: adding a char encoding to ruby 1.9.x? If one wanted to add a new char encoding to 1.9.x, supported just the same as the built-in encodings, how would you go about doing it? Can you do it with code in ruby, or would it require a C patch in MRI?
(I don't think it matters, but I am interested in the Marc8 encoding, an old legacy encoding still in use in library (like the kind with books) systems and records.)

A: I'd recommend looking at how it is implemented in Ruby 1.9.2.
Basically dig into the source code and... :-)
This is a similar question: Create own encoding
some good articles on encodings:
http://yehudakatz.com/2010/05/05/ruby-1-9-encodings-a-primer-and-the-solution-for-rails/
http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/ruby_19s_string


A YOUNG man had to undergo surgery following a road smash.
The 20-year-old is in a stable condition at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral.
The crash was just one of two serious accidents in the borough on Saturday.
This one occurred at 1.50am near the bridge in Liverpool Road, Neston.
The 20-year-old was driving a Vauxhall Corsa when he was in collision with a Peugeot 406 driven by another man.
Phil Minchew, station officer with Ellesmere Port firefighters, said both drivers became trapped.
He explained: 'Crews from the Port and Heswall cut them free using hydraulic equipment.
'It took a great deal of hard work over 90 minutes to free them. But everyone on site worked very well together.
Paramedics say both men sustained head, chest and leg injuries.
Cheshire police spokesman Ian Cuthbertson said: 'They were taken to Arrowe Park Hospital for treatment. The Corsa driver had to undergo surgery.
The second crash, involving one saloon car, happened in Sutton Way, between the police station and Pooltown Road roundabout, at 10.30pm.
The male driver, aged 25, collided with a lamppost, which fell on top of his car, trapping him.
Town firefighters worked until midnight to free him.
Station officer Minchew said: 'We had to secure the post because it had fallen further, injuring the man or us. It was also live at the time.
'We lifted it away using a cable winch, attached to the front of a fire-engine.


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«La gata bajo la lluvia» es una canción de 1981 interpretada por la cantante española Rocío Dúrcal, incluida en el álbum Confidencias.

Antecedentes y composición
La canción fue escrita por Rafael Pérez Botija, y lanzada como segundo sencillo del álbum Confidencias en 1981. Su letra describe la ruptura de una relación y el estado de ánimo en el que la intérprete queda, aunque Pérez Botija mencionó que no atravesó una situación similar mientras la componía. Comenta Pérez Botija que la realizó tras acordar con Dúrcal la realización del álbum, "paseando una noche fría por el jardín" de su casa. A pocos días de su lanzamiento, el sencillo subió de posiciones en las listas de música.

La canción fue parte de la banda sonora de la película La blanca paloma (1989), protagonizada por Antonio Banderas y dirigida por Juan Miñón.

Referencias

Canciones de Rocío Dúrcal
Canciones de 1981
Canciones en español

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Kiel is a high energy physicist trying his best to describe the mysterious and intricate patterns of nature at the smallest distance scales. He finished his PhD at Stanford University in 2015, and there's no way he would have made it through without his six amazing nephews and nieces always reminding him to look at the world with wonder and excitement. Kiel is currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Theory Department. Kiel is a Catalyst for RE-ENVISIONED and was interviewed by his Mentor Catalyst (and friend), Erin.
Our first question is for you to take 30 seconds to think of a child you know and care about – think about who they are and they're personality, what makes them unique. When you're ready you can tell me about them.
Both my older sister and older brother have kids, all my nieces and nephews. They're all awesome but since I have to choose I'll think of my sister's second son, Ronan: he's the second of three boys. She lives in Idaho, a small college town called Moscow, which is the liberal heart of Idaho. He's grown up there his whole life.
He and his brothers are close and play together all the time – they're so cute. I went back for Christmas and watched them play video games together and they just have their own world and dynamics. I watched them playing together on a video game that only has two controllers. The oldest was trying to dictate and make things fair…and also he was trying to get the most time on game. Ronan is learning to advocate for himself and he's also used to listening to his older brother. They know they have to include their younger brother, so he's gotten super good at video games because they older ones want to get through the levels and when it's his turn they give him 1:1 coaching. Ronan is the quietest of the three, very quiet and contemplative. He's about 10 and I want to say he's going into third grade.
I hope he's happy and has a community of people he loves and supports and has the opportunities to do things and create the world he wants to live in. And I hope he lives by me so I can see what he's up to.
So when you think Ronan all grown up – let's say he's in his 30s – what is it you want for him, what would be a good life?
I would like him to have lots of opportunities. I don't know what he's going to grow up to be – he's interested in lots of things. I would like him to have the opportunities to find out what he wants to do in this world and feel like he can do it.
Also, Moscow, Idaho, is a great place to start out and go into the world: it's a small town and he has lots of people who support him. His mom is amazing and his grandparents are there. I hope he has a life where he continues to get that support wherever he goes.
I hope he has a chance to go to university – U of Idaho is a great school – but he loves big cities – he likes to go to downtown and look at the buildings. He's told me he's a big city kid living in a small town. I hope he goes to a university in a bigger city and see what that means for him and have that experience.
Spoken like a good uncle.
I just want him to invite me to his college parties.
So, you said, "I hope he's happy and has a community of people he loves and supports and has the opportunities to do things and create the world he wants to live in". Is the rest of it after "happy" what you think it takes to be happy or, if not, what does it take to be happy?
The times in my life I've been happiest it's related to having communities or a community of people. I think I'm happiest when everyone in my life forms one community and it's not separated – but in all spheres of your life having a group of people you feel comfortable with and they care about you and you them.
So being at a workplace where they value you and what you're contributing and you also value your coworkers and what they do. Then, having friends that care and support you – friends who are interested in creating experiences together: having people you're creating experiences together and you're building on that relationship. In your relationships you should create more interesting and value-filled experiences together. I think that's happiness.
When I think of Ronan he does have it now with his brothers and friends. When I think of growing up in Moscow I have these idyllic memories of being there because it's a great little community and if he can, when he gets older, transfer that into his work, family, and friends – I hope he has the same kind of community in all spheres of his life.
Is there anything you worry about for him creating this life?
I don't know, life is a crapshoot. I know I'm very lucky to have made it through to where I am today so you can't help but worry. You look back and think of the moments you got lucky and made a good or bad decision. You can't help but feel nervous for the young people who still have to go through all that. I think he has a great mom, community, and school – so I don't lose sleep worrying about him.
I think he's a pretty shy kid. He reminds me a lot of myself at my age, which is maybe why I was thinking of him - a little more vulnerable, or a bit more afraid to put himself out there than his brothers are. So I hope that's something he has opportunities to overcome and is encouraged to be happy sharing who he is and feel confident about himself and what he has to offer to people.
I hope he finds that security and sense of self and identity and feels confident sharing it with people. He's super curious and interested in the world.
I hope he has experiences going into junior high and high school to be happy and accept who he is and feel free to put himself out there. And not feel like he has to be shy and guarded. I hope he doesn't have experiences that reinforce it the other way – that would be tough and hard – junior high and high school are hard. A bunch of kids who don't know what they're doing to each other trying to deal with all their stuff and you don't understand what others or yourself are going through.
What would, ideally, be the role of school in getting him there?
I've thought a little about what went well with schooling for me and what didn't. I know everyone's experience is unique – I'm not in education and I haven't spent much time thinking about education – so I can only look at a few things and how they affected me. But when I think about what and how – I feel happy with my life right now – and when I think of what I got from school that was important for me to get here, there are three things I got from school that shaped how I see myself and the world.
The first thing is – I was lucky, I was in schools and specifically, in classrooms where I was expected to succeed. I was expected to be good at stuff and when you're expected then it's easier to feel like, "oh yeah I should". I was never in a situation where people didn't expect I would succeed and do well.
Actually, once I was in that situation. Maybe this is why I think it's such a big factor. I have a twin brother – I'm a physicist and he's doing his PhD in math – so we're totally different ;) In kindergarten we were in different classes in Nova Scotia – we moved to a bigger city and smaller school in first grade and were in the same class and we had learned different things in Kindergarten, and I learned that Sean was good at math and I was not. One of the things we did in our first grade class is learn math problems – everyone would sit on the carpet and the teacher would write the question on the board – something very simple in first grade – 1+5 = … then the first person to raise their hand with an answer won a point. I was in the same class with my brother and he had learned some of that and I hadn't so I had no idea what was going on but my brother was the best in the class at it. So at the end of every session of doing that the class would vote on who was the best that day – and everyone voted for my brother because he was the best.
At that point in my life I thought, "okay, I'm not good at math. That's Sean's thing." But then we went into the next grade, the teacher knew Sean was good at math and just assumed I was also good with math. More than that, she put Sean in a different advanced group and I got lumped into that. From then on, I was good at math. If Sean hadn't been there it could have been different.
The most important lesson I learned is that you can learn something that seems impossible or really hard. You can see something and it seems like you're never going to be able to do this. To have positive experiences where you see something like that and you're guided and helped and then don't even understand why it looked hard in the first place anymore.
From then on – as of second grade – I was a good student and was going to succeed and that was the expectation. It affects how people see you. Not only do they expect performance, they see you through that lens. It affects so much of how people treat you when something goes wrong or you make a mistake – and people who think about you as someone who succeeds and a good student then the way they react to it is so different.
I went on a school trip my senior year of high school – we brought a bottle of vodka on the trip and drank it in the hotel room. I threw up everywhere. We actually didn't get caught at the time even though we had to throw away a blanket. But then we bragged at school about it. The normal school policy would be to expel kids for doing that – drinking on a school trip was big. But we barely got punished – I had detention for like a week. When I had to go talk to the principal – so much of it was, "we know you're a good student but…" And so I was a good student who made a mistake. The goal was to get me through that and teach me not to do that again.
If I had gotten expelled or suspended that could have delayed my graduation. If they didn't care and they made a mistake people make and instead saw me as a troubled person we need to punish it could have been very different. I had teachers who cared at all their students but there's lots of moments where I was one of the students who fit in the normal mode – the things I did well and was proud to do were the stereotypical good student things and this affected how people think about you.
So it works two ways – on you and how you think of yourself, but also when you make a mistake how people see your story is different.
Those are great – what are the other two things?
It happens so much in life that you are confronted by something big and difficult and it can be overwhelming - but if you have experiences from school that have helped you work through big and difficult things, then you say, "this is big but I know what happens now – it looks hard, you try, and you figure it out".
It's another thing of how you see yourself. Everyone has this ability to do really hard things – but it's another thing to know that and believe it.
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. But to have that confidence you have to have those experiences. When I look at what I got from school, being guided through what seems impossible is one.
I felt I was being overvalued compared to other people because I fit the mold. There are other ways to value people and ways to be a good human being- ways that I wasn't good at, like being socially skilled. Schools should reinforce and tell you it's a good thing whatever your strengths…"you're a good student because of this".
Another formative thing, it's also when I was in the "I think I'm bad at math stage" in kindergarten. I was on my own walking through the hall to the bathroom and I have a vivid memory of looking through the open door to a third or fourth grade class and seeing them doing multiplication. The teacher was shouting out problems like 9x6 and students were just rapidly giving her the answers. I started crying because I thought I would never be able to do that, that school was going to be impossible. I was in tears when I got back. I was so scared I was going to have to do that. I had no concept of what it meant to be in school for three years and how different it will feel – nor that I didn't even have to worry about it yet. I was just so scared – I just had a feeling of dread that in school I was going to do something I can't do. Then you get to third grade and you can do it and it's easy.
When I got to third grade I actually still remembered this experience I had – it blew my mind that something like that had seemed so impossible to me and now was so easy. It's such a silly little experience but it clicked for me at that moment that really hard things are just a person doing it and I'm a person and if you have time to attack it and do it then something that seems hard you can do. I think from that moment on it changed how I saw myself and when I was scared or something seemed impossible or hard I always thought of myself as someone who can do that.
It's something maybe I didn't get so much from school, but I did a lot of computer programming. My older brother and my dad were really into computer programming so they set up the computer and started teaching me when I was 8 or 9 years old. It was in the time that I started on computers that were text based and used DOS. The programs the professionals were using weren't much more sophisticated than what you can write yourself. You could write programs that were very similar in ways to professional programs someone made. And this idea that the world you live in is created by people who are just like you or that you can create the things in your world – that was a really valuable experience for me: the things in the world are created by people and I can be one of them.
The useful lesson was that you're not just consuming a world created by other people – you're living in a world that you're creating and what you create is just as good as what other people are creating. That really affects my life – feeling like you're creating parts of the world with people around you, not just living in a world created by others.
Do you think schools will do these things for all kids?
I think there are lots of kids who think they're not good at the right things and not good at what's expected of them and not valued for what they are good at. I don't know how I would have gotten that experience if I hadn't been good at the right things. I got lucky a few times and had the right preparation at the right time. But if you're not good at math or spelling then it didn't seem like the kids in my classes were being told they were succeeding or good.
It's a self-reinforcing thing. You take someone not immediately good at it as the evidence they're not going to succeed and expect them not to. I was valued for a very narrow set of things about myself and I was lucky to be valued for them. But if you don't have those things that make you a good academic student then you're not valued.
Sometime teachers would even treat you very differently than other kids and it made me feel awkward – "okay, I'm good at math…I'm not a saint." I felt I was being overvalued compared to other people because I fit the mold. There are other ways to value people and ways to be a good human being- ways that I wasn't good at, like being socially skilled. Schools should reinforce and tell you it's a good thing whatever your strengths…"you're a good student because of this". And it's not a zero sum game – if I value someone because they're good at noticing when their friends are unhappy and noticing them, it's not going to make them feel like they shouldn't learn math – actually it's going to help them feel like a good person and then be able to do well at math as well.
When you think of your life, what has been an empowering learning experience for you?
School is very good at reinforcing this good academic student view I had of myself – so it really reinforced that – but I didn't see myself as someone who had anything else to offer. I'm lucky to have had any positive reinforcement from school, but I felt like the things that I had to offer in school was it. And in college I kept on that track. So actually the first time I really felt like maybe I could value things in myself other than just being very good at math was that I took a weeklong workshop at the design school while in graduate school for physics at Stanford.
It was an incredibly rewarding week – it was spending a week seeing yourself as someone who can solve all types of problems – in your life, in the world around you. They teach you to see yourself as someone who can play creatively in the world and enjoy that. The whole week is structured to give you that positive experiences and interactive role. It was only after going through that that I started reflecting on why I had previously thought of myself as being able to act on the world in a way limited to my academic pursuits. Now I feel confident interacting in the world and creatively creating the world around me, not just when working on a physics paper. That's when I started reflecting on the experiences that made me feel that way about my academic pursuits but not about anything else in my life.
That was one of the most empowering experiences. It also relates to what I was saying earlier that schools can do a good job of valuing these traditional academic things but there are lots of other ways to be a very amazing, self-actualized, inspiring human being that maybe aren't valued as much. The course changed how I think about what schools should do – they should be encouraging people to feel confident in creatively interacting and creating the world around them. Schools should be about coaching and supporting kids in their entire interaction with the world and not just some narrow subset of it. I think feeling this way makes me better at everything, including physics. That's one very valuable learning experience that I got from very post-K-12 schooling and was lucky, I was at Stanford and it's a unique experience. But it's something I wish everyone could have.


Las mutaciones en el gen CLN2/TPP1, que se encuentra en el cromosoma 11p15 , resultan en una actividad lisosomal deficiente de la tripeptidil peptidasa 1 (TPP1).
La mayoría de los casos diagnosticados se presentan con este fenotipo y progresan de manera rápida y predecible.
Se debe sospechar la enfermedad CLN2 en todo niño de 2 a 4 años con convulsiones no provocadas de aparición reciente, precedidas por retraso en el lenguaje.
El sondeo del desarrollo temprano del lenguaje en los niños que han tenido convulsiones puede permitir un diagnóstico precoz de la enfermedad CLN2 y el acceso a la atención específica.
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The Campaign For DA
TCU/Baylor Observations
What I beating. The final score was 45-10. It could have been 100-10.
Baylor's coach Art Briles was quoted after the game saying, "I feel embarrassed for Baylor University." Preach on, bruther.
I still don't know if Baylor is awful or TCU is great, or both.
I've watched every Baylor game over the last two decades and I never remember any team scoring five TDs on their first five possessions. That was a beating of biblical proportions.
We parked at the Colonial Country Club thinking we could take a shuttle. (I did that a couple of years ago but forgot I had an invitation to a party nearby where wristbands were handed out for shuttle service.) Feeling uneasy, I asked a guy walking by if this was "public parking". He told me, "No, it's for Colonial members only." That doesn't sound bad, but he said it in a tone just like Judge Smails in Caddyshack. I almost started laughing.
Mrs. LL will walk forever and love it and not even think about complaining. Me likey.
We left in the second quarter. The second quarter!!!! We weren't alone.
After TCU quickly went up 14-0, I turned to Mrs. LL and said, "You have no idea how long I've suffered."
TCU fans do not taunt. As much as they've been beating their chest over the last few years, they are gracious winners.
As I type this, I'm watching the final moments of Tech losing to the Empire 24-14. Sorry, but Mike Leach's Raiders would have won that going away.
And Mac Engel at the Star-Telegram is a fraud. (Trust me, I follow his lame Twitter posts.) There is no such thing as a $15 ticket.
Messenger Above The Fold
Sportzzzz
Bridgeport 37 Prosper 32
Paradise 35 Alvord 13
Decatur 34,Carrollton Ridgeview 28
Grapevine Faith 44 Boyd 0
Edit: I stole these scores from the Messenger website. I promise that had Carrollton Ridgeview instead of Carrollton Ranchview. That's what I get for stealing.
He's Kidding, Right?
An email sent out by the Bill White campaign (WBAP's Mark Davis jumped on it this morning as being pretty moronic. It is):
Why won't Rick Perry invite women to join him at the dinner table?
That's the question everyone's asking after the Dallas Morning News revealed that Perry's planning a "male-oriented" fundraising dinner where "a few, select men can pay $15,000 each to eat pheasant and wild sausage and have meaningful conversation with the governor."
How about their wives and "significant others"? Well, they're welcome to join the men for post-dinner festivities.
Only in Rick Perry's Texas would the voices of women be considered so unwelcome.
Please contribute $5 toward Bill White's 5,000-donation goal right now to elect a governor who will make sure every Texan has a seat at the table.
It's no wonder Rick Perry can't prepare Texas for the 21st century; he's still stuck in the 19th.
As Christy Hoppe, a writer for the Dallas Morning News, quipped, Rick Perry must want to keep women away from the dinner table so as not to "worry their pretty little heads over all the big words, male talk and cigar smoke."
Whatever Rick Perry's reason for excluding women from his "meaningful" dinner conversation, it's just plain wrong. But this is exactly how Rick Perry runs his state: Some people are invited to the table, and other people simply aren't.
Please contribute $5 toward Bill White's 5,000-donation goal right now to elect a governor for all Texans.
We need a governor who believes that every Texan ought to be at the table when decisions are made or when policy is discussed with the governor.
Thank you for everything you do to elect a governor who'll respect the views of every Texan.
Ann TravisSenior Advisor
Bill White for Texas
P.S. Perry's press spokesperson claims that females are welcome, but the invitation says the attire is "blue jeans, boots & sport coat." This is the second "wild game" dinner and Perry's campaign hasn't released the names of those who attended the first.
Edit: I have no idea what that corrected formatting was about.
Friday Randomness Ctd.
What junk food does to girls.
Do not try to hand this lady's husband an advertisement for escorts on the Vegas strip. (Language warning.) And, if you've ever been there, you know what a beating that is.
Random Friday Morning Thoughts
Tech fans plan to be silent when The Evil Empire enters the field on Saturday night as an intimidation ploy. That would probably work if you could convince tens of thousands of hyped up fans to shut up. Not gonna happen.
A chat with Decatur guy that came in second on Big Brother. (I didn't read it.)
The rumor is that the Black Eyed Peas would be the halftime performers at the Super Bowl in Arlington. Big thumbs up.
Lady says she has acid thrown into her face and becomes a Celebrity Victim. Now she says the injuries were self inflicted, but no one knows why. Uh, weird. (I would be mad at her but she's the one with the acid scarred face.)
I just had a 12 year old do a rap about Reese's Puffs cereal here at the breakfast table. "You put the milk on em. They taste like chocolate."
If you didn't know the difference, you'd think Bill White was running as a Republican based on his commercials.
At 1:00 p.m. in downtown Chico on Saturday there will be a public reading of the Constitution. (Per Update.) The reading of the Bible all the way through is a good idea too until you get to those "begat" passages.
There was a murder/suicide at Johns Hopkins Hospital and in Lewisville yesterday and in both locations cops sent in a robot to determine if the shooter was dead.
There sure were a lot of people jump on me yesterday supporting the life without parole sentence for the Deaf Defendant. Hey, the sentence may be justified but can you really have that opinion without knowing the facts of the case?
The littlest girl in the house exclaimed, "There must be a million news shows on TV." Probably need to throw on the Disney Channel every now and then.
Speaking of murder/suicide, the shocking final report of the Coppell mayor who shot her daughter and then herself was released. The shooting of the daughter occurred early in the morning, and then the mayor/mother ran errands the rest of the day and didn't kill herself until at least 14 hours later.
You can ride in a balloon at the Plano Hot Air Balloon Festival this weekend. Cost: $250 per person.
When I was the DA, I'm proud to say I never texted a victim: "Are you the kind of girl that likes secret contact with an older married elected DA … the riskier the better?" But this guy did.
Prosecutors always refer to themselves as "wearing the white hat."
From The Masses
Breaking News: Victoria Secret Models Are Hot
More of them.
DPS Misinformation?
DPS Public Information Office just posted this. Over 25,000? So far? This is the 259th day of the year so were talking over 96 people a day if my new math skills are working.
I find that hard to believe, but even my Googling skills for past stats haven't been successful enough for me to confirm or deny this. Anyone?
Edit: Finally found the official stats page. Wow. The number in the tweet is shockingly LOW.
(Technical note: The use of the acronym "DUI" in the official DPS report is weird. For minors who have consumed alcohol but are not drunk, it is "DUI." For drunk driving adults, it is officially "DWI". But the same page of the report from the excerpt says that ".3 %" of the 96,350 were juveniles so the total number includes both DUI and DWI despite "DWI" not being used.)
Random Thursday Morning Thoughts
Decatur man wins second place on Big Brother. I didn't even know it had a conquest -- thought it was like MTV's The Real World.
The Deaf Defendant got a life sentence yesterday in Wise County without the possibility of parole. I'd say it's harsh but I haven't been able to watch a second of the trial so I have no idea. (But the law he was prosecuted under, which went into effect five years ago, is very harsh.)
And how would you have liked to have been the hand sign interpreter who had to sign "Life in the Institutional Division" to him?
Thanks for all the potty training help for the dog. This going to be a beating.
The Gay Street Fight video posted below didn't receive one funny "The first rule of Fight Club is . . . . " comment. You guys let me down.
I've got tickets to the sold out Baylor/TCU game. Forecast: 97 degrees at kickoff time. Ugh.
Not sure what to think about the Tea Party win in Delaware, but the Republican establishment doesn't seem to happy. I've never heard the phrase "Republican Civil War" thrown around so often over the last couple of days.
War on Drugs Update: Illegal use is at a decade high with a surge in meth and ecstasy. I suspect the government's response will be: "We need to lock more people up. That should do the trick."
Entourage is over and I think the show's plan was to stick in as many cameos as possible: In the season finale they had Drew Brees, Christina Aguilera , Mark Cuban, Eminem, and a bunch of others I'm not hip enough to recognize.
Anybody see that traffic jam on Central Expressway in Richardson this morning? That looked like five lanes not moving at all for miles.
Couple of hot NASCAR girlfriends.
I found the family unit's missing turtle. He was making a beeline across the living floor, and I'm not real sure he wanted to be found.
New Chico restaurant doesn't look bad.
For you tech boys: I've got the weirdest browsing issue: It can't bring up cnn.com or thesmokinggun.com. I have absolutely no issues finding any of the other gazillion websites on the Internet but those two will not come up. My browser (Chrome) dies and gives me a "Oops! Google Chrome could not find www.cnn.com" message. Any ideas?
Dallas Police Beating Video
First time impressions:
- Is there no audio?
- That's a bad bike rider not to be able to get away
- The chase ends at 3:02 and that's when the action starts
- As see lots of wailing on him but you can't see if he is resisting.
- A lot depends on where that baton was landing on the suspect's body
- Even a Civil Rights Guy like me is underwhelmed.
Somebody's Having A Bad Day Near The Old Texas Stadium
Thanks, Lari.
Taking Drunk Girlfriend Grocery Shopping?
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For you Tosh.0 fans, this has "web redemption" written all over it.
Get Me In This Fight!
I normally don't post Youtube street fight videos because, mostly, I cringe when I see them. There are some violent SOBs out there!! And if I were nearby one of those crazy fights, I'd take off running like a school girl just to avoid accidentally catching a haymaker to the head.
But I am convinced I could have whipped everyone of these guys in this video. I'd be like Mike Tyson in his prime landing one knock out blow after another. Try and slap me, kid? Welcome to the gun show.
Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts
Motorcycle death on Airport Freeway last night.
Did you see Dallas DA Craig Watkins yelling at the County Commissioners about a budget issue? Do you have no decency, sir? (Great photo of if.)
Today the Dallas PD is going to release a video of a "police beating" of a fleeing motorcyclists that occurred in September. It sounds like it's going to be bad. Real bad.
Was told that the Principal of Byron Nelson High who is involved in the kid-didn't-smoke-dope "crisis" was a long term teacher at Boyd.
A Letter to the Editior in today's Messenger, says that Obama "cancelled the National Day of Prayer" in 2009. That's not true.
The next Letter dogs Republicans for not wishing to debate and said such was the case in the 2008 Wise County DA's race. That's not true either.
What happens when all these gas pipelines and couplings get old? It will happen. (Just thinking of the neighborhood that blew up in California last weekend.)
A woman walks into Walgreen'swearing nothing but a thong and whip cream? Cool. Uh...not so much. (She's definitely not the chick from Varsity Blues.)
Saw a respected lawyer at a hearing yesterday not know one of the basic rules. Why? He was handling something outside his area of expertise. That's how you can get into trouble.
I'll get an update on the Deaf Defendant Case.
Reggie Bush returned the Heisman Trophy last year --- proving, at least, that he has a smart PR person and that he listens. (He probably would have been stripped of it any way.) But can't we still refer to him as "the guy who was awarded the Heisman in 2005?"
I need some housebreaking tips for the family unit's Yorkie. Working with a portable-kennel-cage looking thing, but that dog just doesn't understand that when I take her outside she's supposed to get down to business. If she could only be like Veronica.
I've been trying to boycott the Mexican reporter who claims she was sexually harassed by the Jets because I've focused on her a lot in the past. Here's why.
Mrs. LL stays up too late. Mrs. LL had to take a Benadryl last night at 9:00. Mrs. LL was out like a light before 10:00 p.m. I'll be practicing slipping those little pills into her drink for the rest of the week.
Edit: Wow. Saw the obituary in the Update of an old Bridgeport High School friend.
Mugshot Winner
Man just tries to toughen up his out of shape stepson, and now look what happens to him.
Welcome to Obama's America.
Tuesday Morning Pick Me Up?
Some obscure Internet picture? Oh, no my friends. You could have seen these fine girls last week at the Lizard Lounge in Dallas according to this 36 pic slideshow posted by the Dallas Observer.
That's A First
Dropped by our district court this morning and noticed a criminal trial was about to start with a deaf defendant.
I don't think I have ever seen that happen before in good ol' Wise County.
Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts
The Aggies are the only Division I team not to be on TV for first three weeks. Which is amazing in two ways: (1) 119 other teams have been on TV and (2) the Aggies play such weak opponents that none of their games can get a TV network's attention.
Last night I watched Mrs. LL struggle to put a tiara on a Yorkie (what?) and at the same time we had a miniature pet turtle lost somewhere in the house.
I expected lots of struggles and tension (which really hasn't happened at all) but accelerated math for a 7th grader might kill us all.
I created a nice game room with a new TV and new carpet and new paint and somehow I'm the only one who uses it. (I'm not complaining.)
Sports Radio: Afternoon drive time is an absolute beating. The Ticket? I hate Reiner and Corby. The Fan? Those two guys are like Yankee radio characitures. There's never been worse sports talk radio in DFW history. ESPN? Randy Galloway loves himself more than content or his listeners.
I'm excited about going to TCU/Baylor this weekend but why isn't it a night game? (Wow. TCU has grown to a 22 point favorite over Baylor. (Started at around 17). That means the money must have been rolling in for the TCU bet.)
OK, Byron Nelson High School officials screwed up when they falsely accused the kid of smoking dope, but they've formally apologized. Now the kid's mom is trying to get her 15 minutes of fame by being a drama queen.
A book about me?
Now that the Steven York case is over, I wonder if any TV station will make an Open Records Request for the in car video of the pursuing officers. In this sensational world, I wouldn't doubt it.
I didn't post a couple of comments critical of the Wise County DA's office about the plea bargain. You guys are crazy. There's not a prosecutor in his right mind that wouldn't have offered that deal.
Roy Williams, who caught the almost game winning pass on Sunday night, says he doesn't hold it against penalty prone offensive lineman Alex Barron for holding on the play. Not surprising. You have to care before you can get upset.
You know something is big when you have no idea what it is but realize it's having a midnight release: Halo.
Something I don't like: Grocery shopping with a list of strange items and wandering around the store trying to find them.
I've Seen This Bit Before But It's Still A Funny, Uh, Bit
From yesterday.
Finalizing plea in State v. York
Breaking: Stephen York pleading guilty to capital murder right now. Life without parole.
sKeith Brooking's Pre-Game Speech
I thought it was dumb last year, and it has only become worse.
Just shut up and hit somebody.
Random Monday Morning Thoughts
Two boats, carrying eight kids, collided on Lake Lewisville on Sunday. Odd: Both were rentals, alcohol was not involved, and everyone had their life jackets on. I've never been on that lake, but I've heard it's crazy dangerous on weekend afternoons.
And what was up with that sultry look from a Redskins cheerleader last night?
I know no one probably reads him, but Star-Telegram "sports humorist" David Thomas is anything but.
The VMAs were on last night and I didn't see a second of them. Whose bright idea was to put it on opposite of the NFL on opening weekend?
Lot's of emergency vehicles just off College Street in Decatur this morning.
I thought that Tony Romo lateral to the wide receiver that ended up with a fumble and a touchdown right before the half was improvised. But apparently it was a called play. Dumb.
I've said it for two years: The Cowboys will never win with Wade Phillips as the head coach.
TCU begins as a 17 point favorite over Baylor on Saturday. The Empire is a 7 1/2 point favorite over Tech (who wore white helmets last weekend?)
Weird dream last night: I lived in a high rise condo on Lake Bridgeport at the end of a dirt road that was closed due to bad weather. When I finally made it there, Britney Spears was made at me for not asking her out. Yeah, that's normal.
Jessica?
Another ceiling fan installed (although it was a little dicey when the little dog knocked over a king size
mattress that I had balanced on one end and it crashed into the ladder I was standing on. How it didn't go down is a miracle.)
"But I'm also respectful that people of different faiths can practice their religion, even if they don't subscribe to the exact same notions that I do, and that they are still good people, and they are my neighbors and they are my friends, and they are fighting alongside us in our battles." - President Obama at last week's press conference (and to think their are people that will actually criticize him for that.)
Odd DWI accident last night in Dallas: Two homeless guys sleeping at a bus stop get killed when a car plows into them.
Watched the NFL RedZone this weekend. I can't tell you enough how great it is.
Hot Sports Prediction
Cowboys -3 1/2 at Washington.
Take the Redskins. Bet the house.
Dallas' offensive line is missing two starters. They won't be able to run. They won't be able to pass. And if you want to get rich, bet the under with is 39 1/2.
Post game edit: Me = Sports Genius.
Rachel's Birthday Video from Kristian Anderson on Vimeo.
Stolen from BagOfNothing.com:
"New Zealand husband made a birthday video for his cancer stricken wife with appearances from their prime minister and Hugh Jackman.
"I shall not disclose if I shed a tear during the viewing of this video."
Critical Links
Wise County On The Web
The Law Office Of Barry Green
Approved Inferior Blogs
Bag Of Nothing
The Hunting Game
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The station is currently managed by Abellio Greater Anglia, which also operates all trains serving the station.

History
Platform 1 (London bound) and platform 2 (Harwich bound) have an operational length for four-coach trains. There were formerly sidings at the west (London) end of both the "up" and "down" lines. Those on the up side were used for local goods work, coal being one of the commodities handled. The sidings on the down side were extended during World War II to the riverside to accommodate a large rail-mounted gun which was intended to protect the estuary.

The signal box controlling the section of line stood at the west end of the down platform but was no longer used after the electrification of the line in 1985. The box was purchased by local enthusiasts and donated to the Colne Valley Railway at Castle Hedingham where it was re-commissioned and is operational today controlling a running round loop.

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Brittellen Luciano earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in criminal justice from the University of Massachusetts. While working at her graduate internship, she began teaching youth within the Department of Juvenile Justice and fell in love with teaching. Soon after, she began teaching high school English in Massachusetts before she and her husband felt called to move to Pensacola, Florida.
Brittellen continued her teaching career in Florida, working with at-risk youth and in ESE and regular education classrooms. She believes that all students have a voice and the ability to be great readers and writers. She sets high expectations for her students and enjoys guiding them in the process of meeting and exceeding both their course goals and their own personal goals. She loves being able to read and teach both the classics and the modern literature that she loved as a student.
Throughout her life, Brittellen has always had a love of reading. As a child, she could always be found with her nose in a book or writing her own stories. She enjoys spending time with her family and friends, watching her kids play sports, curling up with a good book and a cup of coffee, baking, and going to the beach. She and her husband have four children, and she feels blessed to be able to stay home to raise and teach them while tutoring students and providing English classes and workshops for the homeschool community.
Brittellen has been teaching with the Academy since 2017.