Burton-on-Trent - England manager Gareth Southgate has muddied the waters regarding Jack Wilshere's international status by saying the Arsenal midfielder is not playing in the right position to be selected.
Southgate had previously justified his decision not to pick Wilshere by citing the 25-year-old's problematic injury record.
Despite a glut of withdrawals from his squad, Southgate has again overlooked Wilshere, instead drafting in uncapped Burnley midfielder Jack Cork and West Bromwich Albion's Jake Livermore.
With Jordan Henderson, Dele Alli and Raheem Sterling among those missing, Southgate has confirmed Ruben Loftus-Cheek, who is on loan at Crystal Palace from Chelsea, will make his debut in Friday's friendly against Germany.
The injury blight has further highlighted the paucity of options Southgate has in central midfield, but the manager says Wilshere has been playing too high up the pitch to provide a potential solution.
"Jack played as a number 10 all of last season on loan at Bournemouth," Southgate told reporters on Thursday.
"That is not the way we are playing. When we have played with a 10, we have had Dele and (Adam) Lallana. But we are not playing with a 10 tomorrow.
"I don't think Jack is a 10. I think he is a deeper lying player, but he is not playing deeper. You'd have to ask Arsene (Wenger, the Arsenal manager) why that was.
"But I want to be clear: I really like Jack Wilshere as a player. I think he is a talent and I really respect him as an individual. And I'm hoping that we are in a position in March where we can pick him."
Talented but brittle, Wilshere has made only two substitute appearances in the Premier League this season, but Wenger has led calls for him to be recalled by England with a view to next year's World Cup in Russia.
Southgate also revealed Chelsea midfielder Danny Drinkwater had turned down an invitation to join up with the squad.
Drinkwater has been working to overcome a calf injury since joining Chelsea from Leicester City during the close season and Southgate was cautious not to blame him for rejecting his country's call.
"He's not been fit for the last three camps. You can't do anything about that," Southgate said during a briefing at England's St George's Park training base in Burton-on-Trent, central England.
"I thought it would be worth finding out where he was, given there's a chance he plays for Chelsea this year and plays at a good level.
"But he missed quite a bit of pre-season and I'm back to individual players knowing where they are physically in terms of what they are capable of."
The misfortunes that have befallen England's more established midfielders have opened the door for 21-year-old Loftus-Cheek.
The tall, elegant midfielder has been enjoying his first sustained run of Premier League football since joining Palace and Southgate is looking forward to seeing how he fares against world champions Germany.
"He's always been the biggest kid in the playground, but he's not a player who's survived on physical strength," said Southgate, whose side face Brazil in another high-profile Wembley friendly on Tuesday.
"He's a player of great technique. He's a different sort of player, at his best in behind the opposition midfield, driving at defences.
"Great technical quality, dribbling ability, power; I think he's a really exciting player.
"He's quite a quiet lad, so I'm hoping he gets a lift in confidence from how we see him and the level we think he's capable of."


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Q: Determine the set of $x \in \mathbb{R}$ with $||x+1|-|x-1|| < 1$ What is the right way to approach this in general, take the outer absolute Value and then go to the inner ones, consider the inner cases first..?
Should I consider cases for example that $|x+1|-|x-1| < 0$ and $|x+1|-|x-1| \ge 0$ or rather think about the x values that seem interesting, like $-1$ and $1$?

A: For $|x|>1$ the inequality has no solutions because we get $2<1$, which is impossible.
But for $|x|\leq1$, we obtain $|2x|<1$, which gives the answer:
$$-\frac{1}{2}<x<\frac{1}{2}$$
id est, the set is $\left(-\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2}\right)$

A: Suppose $x \le -1$ then $x + 1 \le 0$ so $|x + 1| = -(x + 1)$. Similarly, $|x - 1| = -(x - 1)$. So if $x \le -1$ then
$$ ||x + 1| - |x - 1|| = |-(x + 1) - (-(x - 1))| = |-x-1+x-1|=2. $$
Therefore if $x \le -1$ then $||x + 1| - |x - 1|| = 2 \not< 1$.
There are three cases:

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*$x + 1 \le 0$ and $x - 1 \le 0$ (i.e. $x \le -1$)

*$x + 1 \ge 0$ and $x - 1 \le 0$ (i.e. $-1 \le x \le 1$)

*$x + 1 \ge 0$ and $x - 1 \ge 0$ (i.e. $1 \le x$)

I've done the first. You can do the other two.

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Important Women Who Changed Business Forever: Lucille Ball
Susan Holland
Susan is the last of 8 children, has raised 2 children, and has spent 26 years teaching high school kids. She grew up with a strong mother.
Learn more about Lucille Ball and how she broke ground for women in the business world.
Image by 272447 from Pixabay
Before Oprah or Barbara Walters, there was Lucille Ball, who paved the way for women in not only show business but also the business world. She was a tough cookie who exhibited control over her environment with grace and style. She knew men of the business world were watching her, and she had to succeed. Partner and husband Desi Arnaz was co-owners with her in Desilu Productions, but Ball ran the show.
Ball's Early Life
Ball was born in 1911 in Jamestown, NY. She came from poor, humble beginnings. When she was 15, she convinced her mother to allow her to go to the New York Drama School. Today, we would not suspect that she was shy and quiet with all the zany antics she performed on radio and film. The administrator of the school, not seeing past the shy girl, wrote to Ball's mother telling her not to waste her money and the school's time with this shy, awkward young lady. Ball obviously overcame her shyness and went on to become an actress, model, dancer, and eventually the first woman to own and run her own film studio.
The First Couple of Show Business
Her climb to the top was full of B movies and physical comedy. She even tried out for the role of Scarlet O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. In the '40s, she met young Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz, and eventually their romance took off and they married. Desi supported Lucy in her career rather than holding her back.
The Beginnings of I Love Lucy and Desilu
Lucy landed the main role in the radio show My Favorite Husband. CBS liked the show so much they wanted Lucy to take it to television. Lucy insisted that Desi play her husband for the television version. CBS said no to Desi playing her husband in the new show. So, rather than go on without Desi, she and Desi took the show to vaudeville with a version of the radio show, and they renamed it I Love Lucy. Seeing the success of the vaudeville road show, CBS relented and brought Lucy and Desi onboard for the television version of I Love Lucy that we know and love today.
Desi Arnaz, constantly one to try new things, wanted to tape live performances, which was risky and expensive during the '50s. Again, CBS said no to them. Desi and Lucy, once again, did not take "no" for an answer. They negotiated to get their way with the show and even agreed to less money if they could film the show, retain all rights to the show, and begin their own productions company, Desilu—and so it began.
The Show Is a Hit
The couple's physical comedy and Lucy's role as a housewife trying to break into show business, which usually caused hot-tempered Desi's blood pressure to skyrocket, created skyrocketing ratings—I Love Lucy was a hit. Its success brought them fame and fortune beyond everyone's wildest dreams. The show made Desi and Lucy the first couple of television. Households around the nation tuned in to watch Lucy get herself into one fix after another, trying to break out of her housewife shell.
Working at the Chocolate Factory
Vitametavegamin Commercial
Breaking Ground for Women
I Love Lucy with Lucy's genius broke ground for women in television and in the homes. Even though it was a 1950s comedy, there were subtle issues addressed about marriage and possible jealousies the wife of a nightclub bandleader might experience with other women. Lucy's comical yet serious women's rights issue, the portrayal of women working outside the home, was a main theme running throughout the years of the show. Also, Lucy was the first woman to ever appear on television pregnant.
On the show, Desi, unlike his real-life role as supportive husband for the business, was the husband who wanted his wife to stay home and never enter his show, but Lucy was always up to something trying to get out of the home. He always caught her and she was always repentant—for the time—and he always forgave her—for the time—at least until the next show. They provided one gut-busting laugh after another each week with this "run amok" housewife theme.
Portrayals of Women Working Outside the Home
Who can forget Lucy and Ethel working at the chocolate factory? Lucy and Ethel are supposed to be wrapping chocolates and are told they will be fired if even one chocolate gets passed them. Of course, they try to keep up and end up hiding the chocolates at first in their pockets. The supervisor sees what a "wonderful" job they are doing and shouts for the conveyor belt to be sped up so they can wrap more chocolates. They start stuffing pockets and mouths and are over taken by the chocolate. A hilarious scene, but how true would it have been for a woman at the time to work harder to keep her job?
Another noteworthy time that Lucy tries to work outside the home is when she gets the job as the Vitametavegamin Commercial Girl. The concoction tasted as "good" as is sounded. Lucy's physical comedy and facial expressions steal the scene. With most "health products" at the time, it was laced with an alcohol base. As the commercial went on, Lucy became hilariously more inebriated. Again, she is in a struggle to hang onto a job.
The Show Mirrored the Struggles Women Faced in the '50s
These classic works of young women wanting to make it in a male dominated world were being brought to the forefront of America's living rooms. Although these are extreme scenes filled with humor, the underlying message is the desperation women felt in order to keep a good job in the '50s. Many women of this generation had worked outside the home during WWII when it was necessary for workers of either gender to step in. When the men came back from the war, the women were sent back to the home.
Lucy's constant fight and frustration to work and be in the limelight mirrored many women's thoughts. Lucy had the spunk and smarts to show it on screen and was living her dream in her real life. What seemed subtle in the story lines of each show were just fanning the flames for the woman's movement. Lucy was a success and was, in her way, passing it on to America's female audience.
"We're Having a Baby, My Baby and Me"
Lucy's Pregnancy on the Show
Lucille Ball did not stop breaking ground with her antics to work outside the home; she was the first woman to appear on television pregnant. The episodes with a very pregnant Lucy carrying real life son, Desi, Jr., known as Little Ricky on the show, gained some of television's highest ratings. Lucy took a great risk for women of this time period by showing her pregnancy on television. She broke the 1950s stereotyped housewife and made television history by appearing on the show in all her pregnant glory.
Pregnancy was not a subject openly discussed back then because it implied sexual relations, which was taboo on radio, on television, and in many tradition-bound homes across the nation. Women of America were ready for these subjects to be brought to the forefront. Already well into her pregnancy, I Love Lucy aired the show of Lucy telling Desi she was pregnant. He received an anonymous request from a woman to sing "We're Having a Baby, My Baby and Me." It is one of the most beautiful scenes in television history.
When Lucy acted out going into labor on the show, ratings were the highest ever for that one episode. Everyone wanted to see Little Ricky brought into the world. Again, television history was made with the birth of a baby. Lucy dared to be real.
After having Desi, Jr., Lucy was ready to share their son with the world and went back to work on the show. Another piece of show business trivia is that the first copy of TV Guide premiered with Lucille Ball and Desi, Jr., on the front cover. Hmmm . . . a woman and a baby on a television magazine cover? Television history in the making.
The End of a Marriage but the Beginning of a New Age for Women
Lucy and Desi worked together on Desilu Productions during the 50's. During their amicable divorce in the 60's, Desi sold his shares of Desilu to Lucy, making Lucille Ball the first woman to ever own and run a film production company. She was the one at the reigns and was beginning her new show, The Lucy Show. With Lucille Ball at the helm, Desilu went on to produce more big television shows such as The Dick Van Dyke Show, Star Trek, and The Untouchables. Desi continued to give her moral support even though their famous marriage had ended.
Lucille Ball Opened Many Doors for Women
Lucille Ball opened doors for women on television, in the board room, on the factory assembly line, in the office, and at home. Creating a character who diligently tried to work outside the home while juggling being housewife and mother was a new concept for the majority of wives and mothers in the 50's. Being a woman who owned a film production company in the 60's was unknown for women of the time. She is and will continue to be an American icon who shared her successes with women around the world then and now.
"I Love Lucy" Is Still Popular Today
© 2012 Susan Holland
Brenda Du Faur on June 02, 2019:
The author says Lucy wanted to share her son Desi Jr with the world and so went back to work and that Desi Jr was known as Little Ricky on the show.
This is incorrect all way around. Desi Jr was never on the show. He never appeared on I Love Lucy at all.
Lucille and Desi felt strongly about not having their son Desi Jr (or their real life daughter Lucie) in show biz and did not want them on their show.
Twin baby actors played Lucy and Desi's show son on the I Love Lucy show depicting their show son as a baby and then later another actor (Thibodeaux) played Little Ricky as a little boy on I Love Lucy playing their son on the show.
In one of Lucy's much later series, when Desi Jr was a teenager he played Lucy's son on the show alongside his sister Lucie who played Lucy's daughter on the show. (Lucie as a teenager had made a few appearances on the post Desi Lucy series as just an "extra" basically but with one or two lines before becoming Lucy's daughter and full character on the show).
Also the author is innaccurate when she states that Lucy "ran the show" at Desilu Productions at the time of I Love Lucy.
It was the opposite. Desi Arnaz was the one who ran Desilu at the time of I Love Lucy. It was very important to both Desi and Lucy that Desi provide a situation whereby Lucy did not have to be bothered with the business side of Desilu and could totally concentrate on her performances in I Love Lucy as the character of Lucy Ricardo.
It was Desi who did the phenomenal feat of completely running Desilu Productions at the same time of playing Ricky Ricardo and at the same time enduring the arduous filming schedule of I Love Lucy.
All of the I Love Lucy shows were live and filmed before a live studio audience.
It was Desi that started live filming that eventually began being used for later situation comedies. It had never been done before. Desi set the precedent.
The author states that Desi did it because he liked to try new things.
Not exactly. Yes Desi was a unique and forward thinking production head not afraid of creating new ways of doing things and yes he created live filming of the situation comedy.
But there was a specific reason behind it, not just a love of trying new things.
Desi knew that Lucy was at her best as a performer before a live audience so necessity is the mother of invention.
So that is why Desi went to his terrific, long experienced camera head and asked him to find a way to film I Love Lucy live. And the great camerman found a way.
Succeeding shows in the industry used this live filming model. Desi had set the precedent.
Arnaz was an amazing executive wearing so many hats nearly simultaneously. He would rush to the I Love Lucy set to film right after having run around the lot trying to troubleshoot one problem after the next.
Desi's focus had to be on many many things other than just playing Ricky Ricardo.
It was only in later years basically when Desi sold his shares of Desilu to Lucy did Lucy have to be in the business side of Desilu and run the production company.
But Lucy was never happy in that role and often asked Desi for his feedback on her shows and Desilu Productions long after their divorce.
Lucy was most happy as a performer and never in her element as a business executive.
Also, Lucy was not the first woman head of her own production company.
Marilyn Monroe was. Monroe, along with business partner Milton Greene were head of Marilyn Monroe's production company. Monroe was way ahead of her time.
Unfortunately Monroe's husband Arthur Miller was instrumental in Monroe's productuon company being disbanded after a couple of years.
P.s. "O'Hare" was an unfortunate typo for the great character of Scarlett O'Hara.
CherylBlakely from Garland tx on May 31, 2019:
I watch it everyday and when it went of the air imiss the show i wish it was still on
Jason on May 31, 2019:
I LOVE LUCY IS THE GREATEST SHOW OF ALL TIME.
LUCY WAS THEN, IS NOW AND WILL ALWAYS BE THE GREATEST COMEDIAN OF ALL TIME.
SHE IS THE ICON OF ICONS IN THE FILM, TV AND RADIO.
aidan on March 18, 2019:
ive never watched this show.
not telling you don't hack on January 18, 2018:
i love i love lucy best show in the world
Susan Holland (author) from Southwest Missouri on March 13, 2013:
Thanks, KatNance! I would say we are in agreement on this one. LOL We do love our Lucy!
Thanks for dropping by! :-)
KatNance on March 12, 2013:
OMG I love I love lucy,,shes ALWAYS in trouble with Ricky..and always getting ethel in trouble. I can watch her over and over again,.Thanks for the HUB I really enjoyed it..
Susan Holland (author) from Southwest Missouri on February 22, 2013:
Hi FullOfLove! Lucille Ball was a genius. She could make us laugh until we cried.
Thanks for dropping by and the votes!
FullOfLoveSites from United States on February 22, 2013:
I remember the candy conveyor belt, episode, how I laughed so hard at that! Classic Lucy act. Voted up and awesome, interesting. :D
Susan Holland (author) from Southwest Missouri on December 22, 2012:
HI Cathy! It is really hard to find the genius of Lucy in today's comedy... As a matter of fact, it no longer exists. I can watch her over and over again, too. Vitameataveamin is so funny and clever!!
Thanks so much for dropping by, voting, and sharing! :-)
Ms. Immortal from NJ on December 20, 2012:
You and I share of love of Lucy as many still do, I am sure. I can watch her shows over and over and laugh every time.
I have her vitameatavegamin video on one of my hubs too!
voted up and shared.
Susan Holland (author) from Southwest Missouri on July 30, 2012:
Oh yes, Cab! She was incredible, and I love her life story, too. :-)
Corey from Northfield, MA on July 28, 2012:
She is one of my favorite red heads. I love her comedy and her life story is amazing.
Susan Holland (author) from Southwest Missouri on May 02, 2012:
A marathon, and I missed it!? DRATS! Trish, she was a jewel, and that was one of my favorite episodes, too. LOL
trish1048 on April 28, 2012:
I had to comment, given the fact that an I Love Lucy marathon has been on tv since 6 am today and running till midnight :)
I loved the episode when she was making wine and got into a brawl with the other lady. Too funny!
Susan Holland (author) from Southwest Missouri on April 16, 2012:
Jenna, Lucy is timeless! I had a lot of fun researching and finding videos. These reflect my favorites, too. Everyone Loves Lucy!! Thanks for reading! :-)
Jenna Pope from Southern California on April 16, 2012:
I love Lucille Ball. She was so hilarious. My favorite show was the Vitametavegamin Commercial. It still makes me bust up -- that program + the one where Lucy and Ethel made the bread with too much yeast + the candy episode.
Hi Elle, I will be honest with you. I haven't researched her interracial marriage to Dezi. I did wonder if that were the root to CBS not wanting him to be her on-screen husband for I LOVE LUCY. Let me know what you find or if you write a hub. That would be very interesting.
Elle on March 27, 2012:
I was wondering about the impact on her interracial marriage with Desi Arnaz. Any thoughts I can research? :) Thanks!
Thanks, Denise! She was a WONDER! Thanks for dropping by and the votes!
Denise Handlon from North Carolina on March 22, 2012:
Great tribute to the wonderful Lucy! Voted up and useful/interesting. (I always enjoy the clips, esp the candy factory) :)
Hi Thost, I am not sure about the Apollo moon landing, but I would not be surprised.
thost from Dublin, Ireland on March 02, 2012:
Great Hub,
All our family loved Lucy. I read once that "I Love Lucy" got more American TV viewers than the first Apllo moon landing, is that true?.
Vote up and StumbleUpon.
Thank Gina! Lucy was a beautiful, talented, business-minded lady. Desi used to have the reputation as not being supportive because of his extramarital affairs, but their daughter, and even Lucy, continued to speak of his support. I remember after their divorce seeing him as a guest on the Lucy Show. If he wasn't supportive, I think she was powerful enough to kick him to the curb.
Thanks for dropping by!!
Hey Debbie! Thanks so much for dropping by and sharing my love for Lucy! :-) I appreciate the votes!
PDX, I think you should write a poem including Lucy and Andy Warhol - what a ride!! :-) Thanks for sharing! :-)
Gina on March 01, 2012:
Thank you so much for writing this hub. Lucy was a beautiful person and so talented. I love the fact that Desi supported her so much.
Deborah Brooks Langford from Brownsville,TX on March 01, 2012:
THIS IS AWESOME AND SO INTERESTING.. I love LUCY.. one OF MY FAVORITE SHOWS of all time.
love your hub
voted way up
Justin W Price from Juneau, Alaska on February 29, 2012:
hmmm. a poem about lucy... maybe I shall. I also share a birthday with andy warhol. Maybe combine the too?
PDX, having the same birthday must mean something!! I have the same bday as Harrison Ford, though, and I don't think I am nearly as adventurous as he is. You can be as funny as Lucy, though. I think you need to write a poem about her. Let me know so I can link it. :-) I know, I was shocked to see how many productions Desilu was responsible for producing, and iconic ones, too.
Lucille Ball is my all time favorite comedian... and we share a birthday. I had no idea her production company produced star trek
Oh, UW, I thought Desi, Jr, was the cutest thing ever! That brought back a great memory of The Lucy Show.
Susan Keeping from Kitchener, Ontario on February 20, 2012:
I do love Lucy too. She certainly was a trail blazer.
I watched a lot of The Lucy Show as a kid in Scotland, then the next Lucy Show when we moved to Canada. I had a crush on Desi Jr, but who didn't?
Thank you, Jennifer! She was awesome! :-)
jenniferg78 from Philadelphia, PA on February 20, 2012:
Such a great hub! "I love Lucy!"!!! great info about how she influenced the role of women and had a break-through role.
Hi CbPoet! I agree completely!
cbpoet from Las Vegas, Nevada on February 19, 2012:
Hello sholland10 - Interesting and well written biography. I have fond memories of Lucille and her embarrassing moments. Her acting was so spontaneous and convincing. One of the best women comedians of all time.
Oh Vinaya, if you can get some videos of the I LOVE LUCY show - maybe even watch them on YouTube. You will love her genius!
Vinaya Ghimire from Nepal on February 18, 2012:
I did not know about Lucille Ball. Thanks for sharing her wonderful life. There is so much to learn from her.
Thank you, Rajan! I agree with everything you said. I have always loved her for her acting and for her business grace.
Thanks for dropping by and the votes!! :-)
Rajan Singh Jolly from From Mumbai, presently in Jalandhar, INDIA. on February 18, 2012:
Sholland this an amazing tribute to one of the finest women stars of the television series"I Love Lucy". I remember it was Lucy all over the show. An amazing actor and an amazing woman.
voted up and awesome.
Thanks you, Ten10! I do love my LUCY!! :-) She is motivational to this day.
I appreciate you dropping by!
Ten10bellevue from Bellevue, WA (Seattle) on February 17, 2012:
Very good hub! Motivational and nostalgic all-at-once! Thanks!
Thank you, Audrey! She did so much for women!! Love, love, love her to this day. I grew up watching the reruns, too. Cried like a baby when she died.
Audrey Howitt from California on February 13, 2012:
I love her! I have always loved her! I grew up watching old reruns of I Love Lucy--she changed so much about women in comedy--this was a wonderful hub!!
Thanks, MT! I really enjoyed writing this hub. Knowing her business and public background has influenced me. So glad you enjoyed it and thank you for adding it to your weekly favorites. I feel very honored. :-)
Shasta Matova from USA on February 12, 2012:
sholland - great idea to get the DVDs. I have included this hub in my weekly favorites list. Lucille is an important person to remember as someone who has made a significant contribution to history.
Scribenet and Marcy, thanks so much for comments. Lucy definitely was one of a kind, but she opened the doors for others. So glad you dropped by!! :-)
Marcy Goodfleisch from Planet Earth on February 10, 2012:
I truly do LOVE Lucy. How I miss her! She defines television comedy in the early days of sitcoms, and to a degree for the entire industry. What a gift she was to the world! Voted up and awesome.
Maggie Griess from Ontario, Canada on February 10, 2012:
Thanks sholland..I always loved watching "I Love Lucy" and I will go back to watch the videos and laugh again! She was incredible!
Absolutely, Rlaha! I bet you learned a lot about her time in school. You should write about it. :-)
rlaha from Spartanburg, SC on February 10, 2012:
Hi Sholland10. Yes, I was disappointed that I was not able to meet her but it was great that I was able to be from her birthplace :).
Thank You, Jessi! I appreciate your kind words and vote! Thanks for dropping by! :-)
Jessica Rangel from Lancaster, CA on February 10, 2012:
This is amazing. Clear, to the point, and quite inspirational! Voted up!
Peggy, the hair was dyed read in the early 40's at the request of MGM. I don't know if it is on You Tube, but there is a clip of her trying out for Scarlet O'Hare in GONE WITH THE WIND and she is a brunette. Kind of fun to watch. I have it on my collector's DVDs of GWTW. :-)
Thanks for dropping by, voting, and sharing!!
Thanks, Tammy! Yes, she was very professional with her acting and her business savvy. A very intelligent and industrious lady. I just love her! :-)
Peggy Woods from Houston, Texas on February 10, 2012:
I absolutely loved and still love the "I Love Lucy" shows when I see them. Did not realize that her studio was behind the Star Trec series...also a favorite. Actually I liked everything that she and her studio did. Wonderful hub! I thought that red hair was natural! :)) Votes up and SHARING with my followers.
Tammy from North Carolina on February 10, 2012:
Very cute! I grew up watching her. I didn't realize she had a business side also. She is ledgendary. Great hub!
Thank you, Audra! Yes, she was the best! :-)
iamaudraleigh on February 10, 2012:
Great hub! She was the best in her field!
Thanks, Ar! You must be young. ;-) Both of them were trail blazers in business.
Mikal Smith from Vancouver, B.C. on February 10, 2012:
I'm so glad I read this hub. I didn't know any of this stuff about Lucille Ball. What an amazing woman. And Desi, what an amazing husband! And what a well written hub!
John, you should write a hub about Desi and how he paved the way, too! If you do, let me know so I can link it to this hub! Thanks for dropping by, commenting, and voting! :-)
@BWD - thanks! I grew up on her re-runs and my kids watched her on Nick at Nite, too! She has influences with her sense of humor and frantic antics. We allude to her often when we fall into some silly mishap. LOL
Thanks for the votes!
Veronica, I knew immediately who I wanted to write about when I read the weekly topic. She is my favorite, and I had to share what she did for women. Thanks for the votes and share. :-)
Thanks for dropping by!! :-)
Stephanie, Susan, Cebu, and Ehshan, thanks for reading and the kind comments. She was amazing!
How interesting, Rlaha! How sad that she died before you could meet her. I am sure you were terribly sad and disappointed. I know I would have been.
Millionaire Tips, thanks for commenting. I bought the DVD set for some of the shows. :-)
TSMOG, if you come across an unwrapped piece of chocolate, don't put it in your pocket or in your mouth while you are in the store. You will definitely have a "misunderstood" Lucy moment. LOL
John Sarkis from Winter Haven, FL on February 10, 2012:
Hi sholland10, love this article! I'm Cuban and I was thinking the other day how Arnaz was one of the first Latinos to make big in "Anglo TV." (don't like the usage of that word, because, unless you migrated from Germany to England 2000 years ago, which is where the English came from, you're not really an Anglo...LOL) Lucy was one of the great female comedians of all times---hands down!
Voted up on your wonderful article
Brian Dooling from Connecticut on February 10, 2012:
great hub! Lucille Ball was an amazing woman, I Love Lucy is one of my favorite shows even today! I grew up watching it on nick at nite and honestly believe it is one of the best shows ever broadcast on tv and it was all due to Lucille! Voted Up interesting,funny, awesome!
Veronica Roberts from Ohio, USA on February 10, 2012:
What a wonderful tribute & a great job @ tackling the weekly topic!
Loved this! Up & shared! =]
ehsan121 from Karachi on February 10, 2012:
She changed the life of women.
cebutouristspot from Cebu on February 10, 2012:
I must say I have learn something new after reading this piece of yours sholland10. Lucille Ball is what a women should me :D
Susan Zutautas from Ontario, Canada on February 10, 2012:
Great tribute to Lucille Ball. I don't know of anyone that doesn't love watching her shows and movies. I grew up watching I Love Lucy and I was sad when she died. Wonderful actress!
Stephanie Henkel from USA on February 10, 2012:
I remember well the premier of the "I Love Lucy" show on television and how much everyone loved Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Her pregnancy and speculation about the baby was much talked about, and her ongoing antics were hilarious. Thanks so much for the wonderful overview of Lucille Ball's accomplishments. Your article was so interesting and brought back memories of her funny and outrageous comedy that still makes us laugh. Voted up!
I am proud to say that she went to my high school and graduated 40 years before me. :) I love Lucy! I almost had the honor of performing for her with the Junior Guilders of Jamestown, NY, but she passed away a few weeks before the show so I was not able to meet her :(.
We used to love to watch her show - so funny and so many messages you pointed out. I don't come across reruns much. This is a great recap of her life and importance. Thank you for sharing.
Tim Mitchell from Escondido, CA on February 09, 2012:
Very fond memories with the series. I liked her with Bob Hope too. Fancy Pants is always entertaining. I always got a kick out of her facial gestures when she cried. I think she was a good drama teacher - smile.
Very well done hub, sholland10. I learned bunches regarding all the firsts she did. Amazing! Thank you for bringing this to the front of the pack. When I go to See's Candy next week I will be thinking about who wrapped the candy - smile.
Alastar, I think you are right about the Lucy Arnaz report about her father. I believe he was a ladies man, but he had a lot of creative drive when he and Lucy worked together. They remained friends until Desi died.
Thanks for dropping by and commenting!! :-)
Alastar Packer from North Carolina on February 07, 2012:
Very good hub on Lucy sholland. She was one of only two or three stars I was emotional enough to shed a tear for when they passed. One point though, not to take anything away from Ball: Even Lucy's daughter said her father never got the recognition he deserved in a creative or business sense. If it wasn't for him there probably wouldn't be any Lucy re-runs. He insisted on the three camera set-up like you wrote; and also filming on tape instead of the more commonly used at the time perishable kinescope.
Alocsin, that goes without saying. Thanks for SHARING! LOL :-)
Rachel, yes, good times and bad to this day. God blessed her with talent that she shared with us. Thank you for your kind comment! :-)
Aurelio Locsin from Orange County, CA on February 06, 2012:
Forgot to mention. Thanks for SHARING.
Rachel1Curry on February 06, 2012:
Lucy made us laugh in good times and bad! God bless her! Great article
Thanks Maximizer and Flora! Her show was great, and it is phenomenal how much she did for it and many other shows, too.
FloraBreenRobison on February 05, 2012:
I love I love Lucy and watch a lot of the Desilu shows like Star Trek and Mission Impossible.
Maximizer from San Jose, Costa Rica on February 05, 2012:
I used to watch I Love Lucy with my parents when I was a kid. It was one of the only "nick at Nite" shows I loved. Thanks for SHARING
Laura, what a wonderful story! I am so glad you had the tapes to appreciate Lucy! What a wonderful main source of entertainment!! :-)
Thanks for sharing your story! So glad you dropped by! :-)
Laura Matkin from Laceys Spring, Alabama on February 05, 2012:
I love Lucy! We didn't receive TV signal where I live when I was growing up so we watched Tapes my Aunt had recorded before she moved out to the sticks with us. She was a huge Lucy fan and had 30+ whole tapes of I Love Lucy and The Lucy Show our main source of entertainment. Great Hub! Lucy was an amazing woman.
Alecia, you should drag that paper out, revise it, and turn it into a hub. We could link them. :-) She was amazing! She did everything with her heart and soul thrown into it. I remember watching her daughter talk about how hard her mother worked. She opened many doors.
Thanks for reading and sharing!! :-)
Alecia Murphy from Wilmington, North Carolina on February 05, 2012:
I did a paper on her in the 8th grade and this brought back great memories of that project. I used to love watching her reruns during the summer on Nick at Nite. But I agree she was the first woman to make being a mogul possible in the entertainment world. When I saw how many shows she produced through Desilu, I was astonished. And these weren't some thrown together projects either, they were actual huge hits like the Untouchables and Star Trek. Awesome hub Susan and I will be glad to share it!
Thanks Lord de Cross and Laura! I didn't know she and Rodenberry had issues. Hmmm... sounds like a nice research topic for a hub. I think she loved Desi til the day he died. I watched videos of them in their elder years playing with their grandkids in the pool and kissing each other.
Thanks for reading!! :-)
Thanks, Linda! She is my favorite. I forgot to add that MGM made her dye her hair red in the earlier 40's. I wonder what we would have thought of her if she had been brunette. I think I would have loved her anyway! :-) She is an American treasure!
Thanks for reading and sharing! :-)
Brandon, you and I are on the same page. I have watched her reruns all my life. When she died in 1989, I remember crying like a baby. She was the funniest, physical comic I know, and she did so much for women. She worked so hard, and made so many people happy.
Thanks for reading and the votes! :-)
laurathegentleman from Chapel Hill, NC on February 05, 2012:
Lucille Ball is my idol! :) This was a great Hub!
Joseph De Cross from New York on February 05, 2012:
I knew that Star trek started and the Desilu studios and due to her patience with Gene Rodenberry, this phenomenon took off. I love the episode with the Meatballs. I wonder how she felt for the Cuban Desi?? Maybe she loved that Conga?? Thanks for this well put hub!
Linda Bilyeu from Orlando, FL on February 05, 2012:
Susan this is an amazing tribute hub to Lucy! What's not to love about Lucy:) My niece and her kids are MAJOR fans of the show. I'm going to share this hub with her!
Brandon Spaulding from Yahoo, Contributor on February 05, 2012:
I used to watch I love Lucy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lucy Show and Star Trek all the time when I was in elementary school. I would watch I love Lucy when I would stay home from school. She did a lot to pave the way for women on television. To this day, I see her reruns on cable television and have seen her show referenced in other movies as well. Taping those shows live was probably nerve racking yet made it more fun for the actresses and actors. Thanks for this hub. It was a trip back in memory from me. Lucy was a show I watched regularly during the week and I loved watching Star Trek on Sunday's if we didn't go to church. I loved those shows. Voted up, beautiful, and funny.
Thanks, Alocsin! She was one of kind! :-)
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Mick McCarthy won't make a raft of signings in the January transfer window, but has expressed his desire to keep short-term signing Darren Ambrose.
McCarthy has used just 25 players this season, including transfer-listed loan duo Frank Nouble and Anthony Wordsworth, but admitted he would find it difficult to further enhance his squad.
Crystal Palace midfielder Jonny Williams, whose second loan at the club was cut short by injury, could be an option, although teenager Teddy Bishop is now seemingly established as Town's key flair player.
Ahead of tonight's home clash with Charlton, McCarthy, who said it was unlikely the club would buy anyone next month, explained: "I'm not that bothered. "Where am I going to get anyone better?
"If we could find someone who could strengthen the squad and enhance our chances of being in the top-two in May, all the players would take that. But it's getting that fine balancing act. I'll be doing very well if I can better what I have got, that's for sure.
"We have until March to take a loan deal to supplement something but I don't know if they make such a big difference.
Ambrose, whose deal runs out next month, has done enough to impress McCarthy who yesterday released defender Sean St Ledger.
"My intention would be to try and keep him and I think his intention is to definitely stay here," he said.


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"It is God's will through His wonderful grace, that the prayers of His saints should be one of the great principal means of carrying on the designs of Christ's kingdom in the world."
There's quite a bit of talk amongst Christians about transforming cities with the gospel of Jesus. This excites me! I love that revival in our cities is at the forefront of our minds. We truly need the Spirit of God to fall on our churches in a way that causes the people of God to repent of sin, become more assured of their faith, and be sanctified more into the image of God. When this happens, the people of God turn into powerful missionaries that engage their city with passion and joy and we see many saved into the family of God.
This sounds great and we are often eager to dive in and do all of these things. However, it is also where we hit our first road block; we begin to feel tension between what we want to do vs. what we have the power to do. It's the tension between our desires and our abilities. We want to fight for the gospel in our cities, and I'm not talking about fighting bad people. I'm talking about doing battle with man's desire for sin and Satan's desire to ruin all things good. Right before we charge into battle for Jesus we are struck with a debilitating realization that we don't have bullets for the guns we are fighting with. Our desires do not match our abilities. We have made an impressive weapon but it is powerless without bullets.
What is the power behind our churches? Where do we get our ammunition for this battle?
The answer is profoundly simple and difficult at the same time. We must ask the God who controls everything; we must pray. God the father sovereignly controls all things (John 6:65). When left to our own strengths, we do not carry the ability to "lead someone to Christ," let alone begin a revival.
It only makes sense that if we want to see people saved, see revival, see Christians love more, then we need to go to the Father. All power comes from the Father. What does this look like?
We approach God knowing that we are the created and He is the creator. We are asking for things that we do not completely understand, but He does.
The reality that God saved us while we were sinners is true and good forever. We have much to be thankful for. Being a Christian means we get Jesus and that should produce a thankful heart in prayer and life.
Delighting in The Lord is imperative for praying with power. God will never grant requests that are outside His nature, but when we are delighting in Him our will becomes aligned with His.
We pray big prayers. God is all powerful and can do far more than what we can imagine. We pray big prayers for our friends to get saved and big prayers for our cities to be turned upside down by the gospel. We trust that he can do all of these things.
We need the divine power of God to take part in seeing our cities revived with the gospel of Jesus. Let us go to the Father in prayer so His power can dwell in us for His glory. Let's not go into battle without ammunition.


FAIRFAX, Va. – Police said Monday that a Virginia man who killed four people, then himself, on Christmas Day had a history of mental problems.
Still, police were trying to determine a motive for the rampage. "Perhaps we'll never be able to answer the question that is most prevalent, and that is why," said Col. David Rohrer, chief of the Fairfax County, Va., Police Department.
"This is obviously a complex investigation with separate crime scenes and five victims. The events ... have certainly shocked and saddened us all," said Rohrer.
Investigators believe Nathan W. Cheatham shot and killed his mother in the driveway of her McLean home. He then drove 10 miles to a home in Great Falls and fired more than 50 shots that killed three other people, before turning the gun on himself.
Cheatham, 27, had been arrested on several occasions by Fairfax County police for what they described as "minor infractions."
Court records obtained by WRC-TV show that Cheatham was arrested in 2000 for driving on a revoked license and in 2001 for assault on a police officer, escape and carrying a concealed weapon. He spent 10 days in jail in 2002 for possession of cocaine and other drug offenses.
Police also said Cheatham had a history of psychiatric problems but did not elaborate.
He had been living with his mother, Sheila G. Cheatham, 53, for at least two weeks. He had also stayed with his two brothers at another location in Fairfax County. Police are hoping they can learn some indication of his demeanor, which may lead to an understanding of what led him to go on a rampage.
Police believe he broke into the second home and systematically went from room to room, fatally shooting Janina C. Price, 50, and her son Adam S. Price, 19, who both lived there, and Christopher J. Buro, 20, of Great Falls, who was visiting.
Another member of the Price family hid in the basement and was able to call for help as Cheatham opened fire. He escaped after the gunfire stopped.
Police said Cheatham was an acquaintance of the Price family. He had called them earlier in the day and was asked not to go to the home.
"There was a phone conversation between Nathan and somebody at the house," said Maj. Bob Callahan, commander of the police department's criminal investigation bureau.
Four spent clips from the 9 mm handgun were found at the house in Great Falls, an upscale suburb about 17 miles west of Washington. Cheatham also had other unused ammunition in his possession.
The body of one man was found in a bedroom closet. Another victim was found by a bed in a separate bedroom. Mrs. Price was found in the master bedroom on the second floor. Each had been shot several times.
"It appeared that they probably were still asleep or in their rooms when everything started," Callahan said.
Cheatham's body was found in the master bedroom with what police called a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
One of two black Labrador retrievers owned by the Price family was shot three times, but was treated by a veterinarian and is expected to survive.


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FURTHER IN THE HOLE: Prospective Anti-Fracking Ballot Measure Could Strip Public School Funding
Well, this has to be the strangest blue on blue violence we've seen in a while. The Colorado Alliance of Mineral and Royalty Owners (CAMRO) issued a press release today showing that Colorado's public schools could "face extreme financial hardship" if Initiative 97, a potential ballot measure to expand drill site setbacks to 2,500 feet from occupied buildings, passes. So, which God to pray to, Democrats? Public schools or the environment?
Through a Colorado Open Records Act request, CAMRO uncovered the fact that since 1980, Colorado's public schools have received more than $560 million in revenue from the Colorado Land Board's interests in the Wattenberg Field alone. According to the way Initiative 97 is written, operating wells will still be able to produce, but new exploration within the setback areas will not be permitted, nor will operators be able to re-open capped wells in those areas. The ballot measure could prevent the state from taking advantage of new technology in oil and gas development.
Each year, the Land Board distributes 95% of its revenue the the state's School Trust, and the remaining five percent across eight other trusts, which were mostly formed for the benefit of various educational entities.
The School Trust is managed for the benefit of Colorado's K-12 public schools, as well as for a special fund that is used to support various infrastructure and capital improvement projects for public schools across the state.
Under Initiative 97, 85% of Colorado land that is not owned by the federal government would be off limits for new oil and gas production, according to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Committee. In Weld County, the state's most significant oil producing county, 78% of the land would be restricted.
A retired teacher and mineral owner from Arvada, Cristy Koeneke, said that Initiative 97 "would be a huge blow to public education here in Colorado, and teachers and school districts are already facing serious budget shortfalls."
If Colorado schools already are in a bind, taking away tens of millions of dollars from the pot will only make things worse. But what do you expect from a party who fronts a guy who lights money on fire to prove a point as its gubernatorial candidate.
What Democrat primary? Perlmutter names Brittany as his successor to the throne
World in crisis! Hickenlooper goes out for beer, Biden gets ice cream
Republican Kellner announces bid against Colorado's soft-on-crime attorney general
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"RuthlessLove" music video by Alexz Johnson with Laura Vandervoort
Laura was featured in the new video Music by Alexz Johnson,"Ruthless Love", check it out:
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Laura Vandervoort at eOne Annual TIFF Party
Laura attended the Entertainment One's Annual TIFF Party, Toronto International Film Festival, Canada, 14 September 2015. See her stunning look:
(in the last photo Laura is with Erica Durance)
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Production Begins on Season 3 of Space's Smash-Hit Original Thriller BITTEN
From BellMedia Press release: LINK.
TORONTO (September 9, 2015) – Space announced today that production has begun on Season 3 of its smash-hit original thriller, BITTEN. Commissioned by Space and produced by No Equal Entertainment, Entertainment One Television (eOne), and Hoodwink Entertainment, the 10-episode, one-hour series is set to premiere in 2016 on Space. To be shot on location in Toronto, Hamilton, and Hespeler, Ont., Season 3 sees the return of genre icon Laura Vandervoort (SMALLVILLE, Ted) as Elena Michaels; Greyston Holt (ALCATRAZ, DURHAM COUNTY) as Clayton Danvers; Greg Bryk (A History Of Violence, ROOKIE BLUE) as Jeremy Danvers; and Steve Lund (BEING ERICA, HAVEN) as Nick Sorrentino. BITTEN currently airs in major territories around the world including Germany, Australia, and Scandinavia.
Joining the cast this year is John Ralston (DEGRASSI), Alex Ozerov (ORPHAN BLACK), and Sofia Banzhaf (REPUBLIC OF DOYLE) as mysterious new characters who throw Elena's and The Pack's lives into disarray. Also returning are Tommie-Amber Pirie (Michael: Tuesdays & Thursdays) as Paige Winterbourne, and Genelle Williams (WAREHOUSE 13) as Rachel Sutton. Showrunner Daegan Fryklind (MOTIVE), Wil Zmak (MOTIVE), Larry Bambrick (FLASHPOINT), Jenn Engels (SEED), and Garfield Lindsay Miller (The Last New Year) return to the writer's room this season. Set to direct are James Dunnison (THE LISTENER), executive producer J.B. Sugar (JPOD), and John Stead (DARK MATTER). David Wellington (SAVING HOPE) and Nathaniel Goodman (HEROES) join the BITTEN fold as directors with Wellington taking the helm for the season premiere.
"The thriller with teeth returns, and with the engaging Laura Vandervoort leading The Pack, there is no doubt that Season 3 will satisfy BITTEN's loyal followers," said Corrie Coe, Senior Vice-President, Independent Production, Bell Media. "We look forward to working with this talented cast, crew, and production partners on delivering another gripping season of this inimitable series."
"I am so proud of the series we have all worked so hard to create," said Executive Producer and Director, J.B. Sugar. "Together with my partners at Hoodwink, eOne, and Bell Media, we feel very fortunate to bring another season of Pack action to our loyal fan base in Canada and around the world."
Season 3 of BITTEN finds The Pack several months after a harrowing and bloody battle. Once again, there are challenges and tensions within the ranks of the Council of International Alphas. This time, a rogue former member and his supporters create tension, posing a direct threat to The Pack. Meanwhile, Elena struggles with Jeremy's new draconian leadership style, as she makes some shocking and surprising discoveries about herself.
Throughout its run, Season 2 of BITTEN made Space the #1 specialty network in its timeslot across the Adult 25-54, 18-49, and 18-34 key demos. Viewers who have yet to join The Pack can stream BITTEN Season 1 on CraveTVTM right now. Season 2 finale airs Saturday, Sept. 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CTV and CTV GO, and is available online at bitten.space.ca.
BITTEN is executive produced by J.B. Sugar (THE COLLECTOR, JPOD) for No Equal Entertainment, John Barbisan and Patrick Banister (WHISTLER) for Hoodwink Entertainment, and Tecca Crosby, John Morayniss, and Margaret O'Brien for eOne. Daegan Fryklind (MOTIVE, THE LISTENER) is Showrunner. Executive Producers Fryklind and Wil Zmak return to write for Season 3. Also in the writing room are Larry Bambrick, Jenn Engels, and Garfield Lindsay Miller.
BITTEN is produced by No Equal Entertainment, Hoodwink Entertainment, and eOne in association with Space and Bell Media, with the participation of Rogers Cable Network Fund and Cogeco Program Development Fund, the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit and the Canada Media Fun. Rebecca DiPasquale and Carrie Paupst Shaughnessy are Production Executives, Drama, Bell Media. Tom Hastings is Director of Drama, Independent Production, Bell Media. Corrie Coe is Senior Vice-President, Independent Production, Bell Media. Tracey Pearce is Head, Specialty and Pay, Bell Media. Randy Lennox is President, Entertainment Production and Broadcasting, Bell Media.
− Starring Laura Vandervoort as Elena Michaels, Season 3 of Space's original thriller BITTEN premieres in 2016 –
− Season 1 now streaming on CraveTV; Season 2 finale airs Saturday, Sept. 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CTV and CTV GO and is available online at Bitten.Space.ca −
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Laura Vandervoort in Modern Dog Magazine Fall 2015 Issue
Check out Laura and her adorable Frankie Blue Eyes in Modern Dog Magazine Fall 2015 Issue.
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YouTube Gaming adds live Android streaming and paid subscriptions
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YouTube's dedicated gaming video service, which launched in August, is adding a few new features. As announced last month, the YouTube Gaming app will now support streaming live video and gameplay from Android phones, letting players use their front-facing cameras to appear and talk over mobile games. It's also adding ways for fans to either donate to streamers or pay a monthly subscription for extra perks, like special badges and subscription-only chat sessions.
Mobile game streaming isn't as ubiquitous as playing PC and console games for an audience, but the idea has been around for a while. Competitor Twitch launched its very first mobile streaming option in early 2014, and it's encouraged users to stream Android games with a Sony-made capture app that includes similar features to YouTube's new tool. One of the benefits here, says YouTube product management head Manuel Bronstein, is that it doesn't require any changes on the part of game developers, it's available on all Android phones, and it's a simple one-button launch process for users.
Likewise, Twitch has long offered subscription options for its streamers, many of whom take individual donations from fans as well. YouTube's new system is roughly similar. Viewers can pay $3.99 a month (or the rough equivalent in the local currency of over 40 countries where it's supported) to support an individual channel; in exchange, they'll receive benefits including public thanks from the streamer, a special chat badge, and access to private live chats. Bronstein says one-time gifts are also a possibility. Currently, only a small group of beta testers can offer these subscriptions, but YouTube will be "continuously expanding" the list of channels. YouTube is already a lucrative option for pre-recorded videos, like those of millionaire gamer PewDiePie, who now also has live videos on YouTube Gaming.
On the viewer-only side, there are some small user experience tweaks; YouTube Gaming now remembers search history on iOS, for example, and the app will now show users when anyone is playing a specific game they've bookmarked, instead of just letting them know when individual channels are online. But overall, this update feels designed to make YouTube Gaming a more full-featured option for streamers — whether they're new to the game or considering jumping ship from Twitch.
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EDIT: AHK = AutoHotkey. There's a link below!
Hello, this is our first Ludum Dare event!
Out of the Sea is a quirky, random game that makes somewhat less sense than it appears at first, if that's possible. It might make you giggle uncontrollably. Or not. In any case we had a ton of fun making this and hope you all enjoy it!
This game was made with [AutoHotkey](http://autohotkey.com)! It's an awesome language for scripting, automation, and apparently, building games! You'll need it, too, if you're going to try out the game from the source code. Specifically, get AutoHotkey_L.
Speaking of the source, I'd recommend protective eyewear before gazing upon it. It's quite messy and might be giving off low levels of radiation. Please see a doctor if symptoms persist.
I'm getting only a light grey screen that does not respond to Windows. Interestingly, it appears behind the Explorer window I opened it in.
Thanks for testing, BMacIntosh, while I don't know what causes this I've uploaded a new version that possibly fixes the issue.
I am getting the same error as Bmac. Task manager says it is "Not Responding" good luck on fixing the bug.
To those of you who are having difficulties with playing Out of the Sea, would you kindly state your OS version and service pack please? In my admittedly limited testing I have not tested very many OSs.
Oh, and service pack 1.
Still same error. I've tried it on two different computers (both Win7 64-bit, DX11).
I am having the same issue I get a blank unresponsive windows 7 x64 bit.
By the way, I would appreciate it if you also tried the source code version, might help me figure out what the problem is.
Running Win 7 64bit up to date.
Sorry, I seem to be having the same issue. When I start it, I get a gray window and it launches a new Windows Explorer window with the folder I launched it from.
I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit.
Doesn't work for me either, Windows 7 Premium 64bit. Frozen non-responsive blank window. Sorry - looked like a cool project.
the game dont work. Apear grey screen and stop.
Does not work. Tested 'Windows' on a Windows 7 32-bit box.
I'm getting the same problem that other people are getting. I'm on Windows Seven x64.
Thanks for all the responses. I still have no idea why it's not working, but it would be great if anyone could tell me if it is working for them. And if so, what their setup is (OS, whether you have AHK installed, etc.). Perhaps a pattern will emerge.
For now, I don't even know where to begin debugging yet.
Sorry, AHK is AutoHotkey, the scripting language this game is written in. Being short on time, I used a ton of hacks to make everything work correctly.
That included forking a ton of processes to handle sounds asynchronously. Hey, don't point that thing at me. It's ugly, it's slow, and it causes kittens to die, but it works.
Starts up behind the Explorer window, doesn't respond at all. Windows gives me the "this application is not responding" dialog.
Running Win8 RP. No AHK.
Okay, I've got to bite on it... the game was written in AutoHotKey? I thought that was a keyboard macro program?
Same problem here :(, the window doesn't respond.
Running on WinXP 32 bits.
Sadly I too am not able to run on Windows. I tried Windows 7 and 8 both running 64 bit.
I'm getting a crash on launch, Windows 7 64-bit. I've bookmarked this though as from the screenshots, this is absolutely my type of game.
On up-to-date winXP32 desktop 3GB Dual core also not working. I've seen the video and it looks very good!
It is indeed a keyboard macro program. However, it's capable of so much more - it's a pretty complete scripting language, actually.
If anyone has installed AutoHotkey and is still experiencing these issues, please sound off in the comments here. Otherwise I can only Ask you to install it and give it another shot. Thank you for your patience! I am at a mobile device right now but a post-Jam version will soon be made available that will probably make the code significantly cleaner.
Same error. Windows7 X86 and no Service Pack installed.
CapGrip: do you have AutoHotkey installed? For now, this program requires AHK to work properly, even the compiled version.
You may have noticed that I've added a notice about the AHK requirement. Or not. I can't figure out how to make this text bold, anyways, it doesn't support MarkDown, HTML, or BBCode.
I think it may be a problem of graphics card. On my computer(Win7 64-bit 500Mb discrete graphics card) it flickers a lot, while on school's(integrated card) it just stopped working.
Ps, I have used a lot of your scripts, thank you very much.
Space to evolve into a random animal doesn't fit the theme very well, but it is pretty funny.


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You are reading: "Klassik Stiftung Weimar"
The world's oldest Bauhaus collection is located in Weimar, the birthplace of the Bauhaus. The core of the collection consists of a selection mainly made by Walter Gropius in 1925.
As early as 1919 – the year in which the Bauhaus was founded in Weimar – the then Director of the Weimar Art Collections, Wilhelm Köhler, started to form a collection of materials on European Modernism associated with the Bauhaus. In 1925, together with Walter Gropius, he selected 168 Bauhaus objects for the museum. They included design classics such as the famous table-lamp by Jucker/Wagenfeld, metal works by Marianne Brandt, numerous furniture-pieces by Marcel Breuer, ceramics by Wilhelm Bogler and Otto Lindig, and 38 works from the weaving workshop. Today, the collection has grown to hold around 11,000 exhibits, including the famous Bauhaus cradle by Peter Keler. The collection also includes paintings, prints, craft works and design objects, as well as study pieces from teaching work at the Bauhaus and documents on the Bauhaus years in Weimar, from 1919 to 1925. It is supplemented by a major collection on the creative work of Henry van de Velde and his School of Arts and Crafts and on the State School of Crafts and Architecture, headed by Otto Bartning, from 1926 to 1930.
Since 2010 the Bauhaus Collection of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar is expanded by the famous Ludewig design collection, for which the Berlin collector Manfred Ludewig acquired more than 2800 objects from all over Europe starting in the 1960s. His collection provides a unique overview of 200 years of design history and is thus able to set the Bauhaus in a larger cultural and design-history context, from the end of the eighteenth century onwards. The collection includes works from the Vienna Workshops, by the Dutch 'De Stijl' group, the furniture collections of the Thonet company, a group of products from the Braun company, and extensive collections on the work of individual designers such as Wilhelm Wagenfeld.
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Through a special investment programme, the Federal Government and the Free State of Thuringia have commissioned the Klassik Stiftung Weimar to build a new museum in which the extensive Weimar collections will be exhibited starting at the end of 2018. The Bauhaus Museum, which has been provisionally housed on Theaterplatz in Weimar since 1995, will then move to a striking new building designed by Prof. Heike Hanada of Berlin. The new museum building on the historically important site near the Weimarhallenpark, immediately opposite the former Weimar 'Gauforum', will also be one of the most important nodes in the network of a 'topography of modernism' linking modernist historical and memorial sites in Weimar.
As one of the three institutions holding collections and as a member of the Bauhaus Kooperation Berlin Dessau Weimar, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar will be organizing two large exhibitions for the centenary and shares responsibility for the central milestones of the centenary programme. The office of the Bauhaus Association 2019 is also being set up in the facilities of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and will be starting work from now on.


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Heavily armed Taliban fighters attacked the strategic central Afghan city of Ghazni on Friday, burning police checkpoints and seizing control of parts of the centre before being driven back by US-backed forces, officials said.
US attack helicopters and drone aircraft provided government forces with air support. But with Taliban fighters believed to be hiding in residential areas, it was unclear whether the government had full control of the city, with communications badly hit after a number of telecoms installations were destroyed.
A statement from US military headquarters in Kabul said fighting had ceased by 8:00am and Afghan forces had held their ground and maintained control of all government centers.
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(This text was written by W. Grey Walter and published as an appendix to his book "The Living Brain", Duckworth, 1953.
It describes in some detail the construction of his Machina Speculatrix, a species of tortoise-like mobile autonomous robot Gray Walter designed as part of his research at the Burden Neurological Institute. He built two individuals around 1948, called Elmer and Elsie. For the 'Festival of Britain' in 1951 six more were built, of which two are still in existence. Recently one of these has been replicated twice by Owen Holland and Bunny Warren, the designer of the 1951 batch.
As already emphasized, the simpler a model is, the more helpful it is likely to be. This is a model of elementary reflex behaviour and contains only two functional elements: two receptors, two nerve cells, two effectors. The first receptor is a photo-electric cell, mounted on the spindle of the steering column so that it always faces in the same direction as the single front driving wheel, which is one effector. In the dark the steering is continuously rotated by the steering motor, the other effector, so that the photo-cell scans steadily. The scanning rotation is stopped when moderate light enters the photocell, but starts again at half speed when the light intensity is greater – the dazzle state. The driving motor operates at half speed when scanning in the dark, at full speed in moderate or intense light. The other receptor is a ring-and-stick limit switch attached to the shell, which is rubber-suspended. When the shell touches something or when a gradient is encountered, it is displaced and closes the limit switch. This connects the output of the 'central nervous' amplifier back to its input through a capacitor so that it is turned into a multivibrator. The oscillations produced by the multivibrator stop the circuit from acting as an amplifier so that simple sensitivity to light is lost; instead, the connexions alternate between the 'dark' and 'dazzle' states. The steering-scanning motor is alternately on full- and half-power and the driving motor at the same time of half- and full-power. The effect of this is to produce and turn-and-push manoeuvre. The time-constant of the feedback circuit is selected to give about one-third of the time on 'steer-hard-push-gently' and two-thirds 'push-hard-steer-gently'. This seems to give a prompt response to the first contact with an obstacle, a reasonable chance of getting away, or getting through a gap – and a short after-discharge to ensure final escape. Though there is no direct attraction to light in the obstacle-avoiding state, the feedback time-constant is shorter when the photo-cell is illuminated, so that when an obstacle is met in the dark the avoidance drill is done in a leisurely fashion, but when there is an attractive light nearby the movements are more hasty.
The electrical circuit is shown in figure 19. This is only one of many possible arrangements, but is probably the simplest in components and wiring. The photo-cell is a gas-filled type, and generally needs no optical system, a single light-louvre giving sufficient directionality. It is convenient to connect the tube between the grid of the first amplifier tube and the negative side of the 6-volt accumulator needed to run the motors. This gives sufficient sensitivity for an ordinary flashlamp to control the device, and avoids overdriving the miniature tubes; but other connexions are possible, particularly if other types of amplifiers are used. The grid of the input tube is connected to the positive side of the 6-volt battery through a 10 meg. resistor; illumination of the photo-cell can therefore only change the bias on the input tube from zero to about 4 v, negative. In the dark the first tube, having zero bias, passes its full current, and the relay in its anode is 'on'. This tube is a triode or a triode-connected pentode. The relay should have a resistance of about 10,000 ohms, or rather less than the anode impedance of the tube, and a single pole change-over contact. The resistance of this relay and the anode impedance of the first tube form a potentiometer which fixes the screen voltage of the second tube. The anode of the first tube is thus connected directly to the screen of the second and also through a 0.5 mf capacitor to its grid. This provides a relatively high gain for changes in illumination and steady-state amplification when the input is larger. Living systems commonly differentiate or 'adapt' to moderate changes in stimulus strength but respond steadily to intense stimuli. The effect of this coupling is to permit transient interruption of the scanning motion when a faint light enters the photo-cell, thus gradually bringing the model on to the beam at a distance, then a steady inhibition of scanning when the light is brighter or nearer. The relay in the anode of the second tube is of the same type as the first, but the moving contact goes straight to the positive terminal of the 6-volt battery instead of through the pilot light. The stationary contacts are connected in the same way, 'on' to the driving motor, 'off' to the scanning motor, in both relays; in faint light, relay two is closed momentarily; in moderate light it is held closed; and in bright light it remains closed but relay one opens, thus providing for swerving away from a bright light.
Long-exposure photograph of Elsie moving out of her hutch.
The pilot light, which is in series with the moving contact of relay one, is short-circuited when relay two closes, and is therefore extinguished when the driving motor is turned to full power and the scanning movement is arrested by light. When the light from the pilot bulb is reflected from a mirror into the photo-cell, it is turned off, but the disappearance of this light restores relay two to 'off' and the light appears again. This provides the self- and mutual-recognition modes. Several circuit variations are possible; the effect of light can be reversed by inverting the photo-cell connexions, and the relays may at the same time, or independently, be reversed also. The photo-cell may be positioned to face in the opposite direction from the movement, and so forth.
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The mechanical design is usually more of a problem than the electrical. Remembering that all power must be carried, a clear optimum exists for battery capacity, chassis dimensions, motor power, and the like. There is not a great choice of motors; those used for driving small home-constructed models are adequate but not efficient owing to their disproportionate frictional losses. It is often advisable to re-bush the bearings of these motors with a self-lubricating bearing. The gear trains to the driving and scanning shafts are the most awkward parts for an amateur constructor. The first model of this species was furnished with pinions from old clocks and gas-meters. The ration should be about 100:1 for the driving and 180:1 for the steering mechanism, and is best obtained with simple single pinions, since small worm-gears are wasteful and liable to seize when forced backwards, as happens sometimes when the model is in difficulties.
The weight-distribution is critical, since the front wheel is turning almost continually through 360 degrees even when there is no forward motion. The forward weight should be only just enough to ensure an adequate grip for the front tyre, and the centre of gravity should be just forward of the line joining the rear wheels. The front tyre should be rubber, but thin and fairly hard, so that it can turn easily. The rear tyres should be softer and larger. The wheelbase determines the turning circle and should be about six inches, the rear track being about seven inches. Since the motion of the model is a combination of linear and circular displacements, its gait is cycloidal, and once it has lost a target, a complete rotation of the steering scanning shaft may be necessary to pick it up again. The continuous rotation may be replaced with a reciprocating system using a windscreen-wiper motor geared up to 2:1 to give 360 degrees sweep; but this also has disadvantages. The model may be made into a better 'self-directing missile' by using two photo-cells in the usual way, but it will be a worse 'animal', for though it will keep more closely to its beam it will have to be aimed roughly in the right direction and will not 'speculate' – that is, spy out the land – not will it solve Buridan's dilemma.
The Grey Walter family including Elsie.


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Dear Senators, follow US employers' lead and move the Mental Health Reform Act forward
By Rajaie Batniji, ,
FILE -- July 23, 2013: The Capitol Dome in Washington, DC. ((AP))
We must work to solve the growing mental health crisis in this U.S. That's why the time has come for presidential candidates to concern themselves and for the Senate to push forward a free and clear version of the Mental Health Reform Act of 2016 – one that is not commingled with gun rights amendments that are slowing down its progress.
The country needs the Senate to act now, and legislators need look no further than U.S. employers for leadership and guidance on taking steps to begin addressing this critical issue.
A quick history: since the 1996 passage of the Mental Health Parity Act, U.S. employers have been setting the bar on how to provide Americans coverage for behavioral health, while group and government health programs – including Medicare – have lagged behind. With the 1996 Act and the 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act that followed, it was mandated that behavioral health and medical health plans have parity in terms of both cost sharing and access.
It's about time for the Mental Health Reform Act of 2016 which looks to provide similar policy requirements for all plans whether they are individual, group or government plans.
Tangential arguments over gun issues risk fracturing a rare bipartisan effort that would finally bring federal policies in line with those long required of employers. It's time for the Senate to act – and employers can show them the way.
The need is urgent. Each year, 1 in 5 people in the U.S. experience mental illness, and nearly 60 percent don't receive mental health services to address their conditions.
Employers are well aware of the costs of this to their people and business: about 217 million days of work are lost annually due to productivity decline related to mental illness and substance use disorders, costing employers an approximate $17 billion each year.
The staggering statistics of loss and harm for mental health patients (illustrated even further by the World Health Organization's latest report) are a stark message that it is time to act to rebuild our national system of support for people with mental health issues.
To affect real change, the bill should focus on the following core needs:
More research and subsequent implementation of evidence-based practices to improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment of and recovery from mental illness and substance use disorders.
Removal of the Medicare lifetime limit of 190 days inpatient care
Improvements in the enforcement capability for mental health parity law
Help for families who have been prevented by privacy laws from accessing crucial information. The bill's effort to integrate mental health records with medical records means that mental health parity can extend into social support.
American employers spend $1 trillion annually on health care and hold a tremendous amount of power in solving the mental health crisis for the people on their plans.
They have a vested interest in making this right, and can offer the Senate clear insight into what's working and what isn't.
For 155 million people who are on employer-sponsored health plans, access to more integrated programs has been steadily on the rise. While there's still a need for further improvement, employers have learned a lot about how best to deliver on the best behavioral health care.
Additionally, employers are starting to partner with new behavioral health companies in the booming digital health tech space. Specific solutions around autism, stress management or emotional well-being target early intervention and are helping people avoid complications and escalation.
Another helpful solution has been general health tech programs like telemedicine services, which offer counseling sessions via phone or video.
As the Senate bill moves forward, we urge Senators to bring employers, providers, insurers and health tech innovators to the table in an effort to improve the bill and focus on common ground.
Collectively, we should be learning from U.S. employers' experiences. If we do, it'll mean eliminating barriers to mental health care access, establishing best practices, creating integrated solutions and enacting the best reforms across all health plans.
The American people deserve their senators' best effort to come together and solve this life-threatening matter.
Dr. Rajaie Batniji, chief health officer and co-founder of Collective Health Dr. Batniji is Collective Health's co-founder and chief health officer. Dr. Batniji oversees Collective Health's partnerships with healthcare networks and healthcare providers, analytics teams, and Collective Health's employee health management programs. Collective Health brings together Dr. Batniji's academic and professional careers as both a physician and as a political economist, and his aspiration to create a better and more efficient health insurance experience. Dr. Batniji is also Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he previously trained in Internal Medicine. Dr. Batniji received a DPhil in International Relations (Political Economy) from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, an MD from UCSF, and BA and MA degrees from Stanford University.
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