Dawn was one of my problem students—starting her sentence with that "but" being a prime example. She wasn't ever absent or obstinate or rude (I had those students, too), but neither was she usually conscious. She came to class, sat at her desk, pillowed her head on her arms, and slept. Dawn slept for two hours, four days a week. If ever I woke her up, like maybe to participate in conversational drills or to conjugate verbs on the board, she'd whine so vociferously in her high-pitched baby voice that her classmates begged that she be allowed to return to her slumbers. Everyone was happier if Dawn was asleep. Even me. Especially me.
Awake, Dawn took phone calls in the middle of a lecture (okay, I guess that is rude). "But Teacher! My father is calling from China! I have to answer!" She'd hand me oranges or hard-boiled eggs, and ask me to peel them for her. Once when I waited for questions at the end of a lesson about adverbs, Dawn raised her hand and asked if I thought she was fat. When I answered, "You are the perfect Dawn-size," she gave me half of her orange segments.
Dawn repeatedly asked questions that she would know the answer to had she been awake in previous classes. One day she insisted ad nauseam that she'd never heard the story of Jonah and the whale until the entire class was ready to tear her limb from limb. Finally she admitted that maybe the story sounded familiar, but "Teacher" pronounced the name Jonah wrong—probably because I hadn't accepted Jesus as my personal savior. Dawn was pretty insistent that this was my major problem.
When I took the position teaching English as a Second Language at an evangelical university I worried my Jewishness might be an issue. I didn't know I'd have to stop my students when they started proselytizing to me. At first I was confused by the many instances in which students asked me if I'd heard their good news, only to not tell me any news at all but instead another Jesus story. Finally, my dean explained that Jesus was the good news the students—all except one from mainland China—were trying to share with me.
When I explained that I was born a Jew and will die a Jew, the proselytizing stopped. Turns out evangelicals believe that in order for the Rapture to start, all us Jews need to remain Jews and return to Israel. So when Dawn engaged in trying to "save" me, her classmates got angry. Dawn slept through more than just my class, it would appear. She didn't get the memo about leaving the Jews alone.
It wasn't just me that Dawn tried to save. My students, enclosed on a campus deep in rural Southern California's high desert, hadn't seen a grandmother since they'd left home. Nor were they given a chance to practice their English with anyone who was not me or a local Wal-Mart employee. So I took my elderly mother to work with me occasionally. The students adored her. They helped her to a seat, brought her cups of tea, and complimented her on her straight back and unlined skin. They asked her how many children she had and how many grandchildren, and whether she'd stayed with them when young or if she'd had to work outside the home.
They called her "American Grandmother" until I told them she wasn't a Green Day album and to shorten it to Grandma. They lined up to hug her goodbye at the end of class, and after that I was "Teacher, the daughter of American Grandma." Whenever she came to visit they brought their babies to show her, or little treats they'd baked for her, and asked her advice about life. For my mother, accustomed to American society where the elderly are ignored or patronized at best, visiting the students was, well, heaven.
Dawn was then bum-rushed by her classmates, enraged that she was accosting American Grandmother in public and possibly preventing the Rapture as well. The next day in class we discussed Dawn's behavior, my mother's prevarication, and the cultural meanings behind them both. Dawn was the catalyst for many teachable moments. Dawn, for whom being the center of attention was a great motivator, sometimes stayed awake for these moments. But mostly she didn't.
All of the students were a little too interested in my personal life. I thought this was because I was the only American woman with whom they had contact. My fellow ESL teachers were men, young men who possibly lived at home (they weren't saying and the fact that they weren't saying made me suspicious). Neither of my co-teachers were married or had children or even girlfriends. Many of our students, married with children themselves, found these teachers emotionally retarded. Honestly, sometimes I did too.
None of the students had girlfriends or boyfriends, however. Such relationships were not allowed. There was a special dean, the Dean of Family Services, and if a student found someone attractive, he or she informed the dean, and the dean informed the other student. If the attraction was mutual a letter campaign began, followed by supervised "dates" and then marriage. If there was no mutual attraction, if the interest was unwelcome, one student would disappear from campus, never to be seen again (at least, not by me). When I learned about the Dean of Family Services and her duties, I realized I was working for a cult. Perhaps I should have been shocked or second-guessed my decision to work there, as some friends suggested, but I wasn't and I didn't. I loved my cultists. They were the kindest people I'd ever met.
I did understand a little better, though, why the students came to me with questions about American family life. Or married life, anyway. I couldn't help them with questions of child-rearing as I don't have children. Only Dawn wouldn't leave the subject of my childlessness alone. All the other students—at the time I had eighty of them—avoided the topic, sensing from my tone or demeanor that I preferred not to talk about it.
"But don't you like babies, Teacher?" Dawn asked me one day, having just woken up at the end of class. She was delaying my prep-time for the next class, preventing me from running to the restroom, interrupting the question Paul was asking about the importance of word root meanings. She was being Dawn, in other words. As irritating as hell.
Dawn knew I liked babies; they all knew. Students brought their babies to class if they needed to, and I cared for them while their parents took quizzes or worked at the board. Sometimes the whole class took "baby breaks" where, in the fifteen minutes we had between class hours, we'd accost the childcare workers and hug their charges. By asking if I didn't like babies, Dawn was being disingenuous.
The other student, Paul, took a step back. Dawn, less astute to the murderous vibes developing in the room, stood staring at me. Her hand was still up, questioning my ignorance. Only her sweet baby-doll face prevented me from smacking her.
"No, Dawn," I finally said. "I'm afraid real life doesn't work that way." And I excused myself to the restroom.
I avoided Dawn the rest of the quarter. I encouraged her to sleep through class, even to the point of bringing in my car blanket for her comfort. A warm Dawn was a sleepy Dawn and the school's heating system didn't work. Winter quarter ended and Dawn passed my class. I had her write extra papers to make up for her lack of participation in class; my Dean laughed when I told her what I'd done. I wasn't the only one who found Dawn a trial.
Another female teacher was hired, also named Sarah. "Teacher! Are all lady teachers named Sara?" Dawn was quite serious. The new teacher tried to make Dawn stay awake. Dawn came to my classroom.
I went with her to New Sarah's classroom where I explained that Dawn slept through class; that's what she did. The new teacher stared at me.
Curiously enough, Dawn was one of our highest performing students. Maybe she absorbed the lesson through osmosis, in her sleep. Her speech was high-pitched, whiny, close to baby-talk in its tone and usage, but grammatically correct (aside from her tendency to begin every sentence with 'but!'—which I think had more to do with her personality than her skill level). Her writing was decent, no doubt due to all the extra essays she wrote (and that I graded). Perhaps Dawn was just good at languages. I explained all this to New Sarah, in front of Dawn.
The other Sarah looked unconvinced, and as if she might be judging me as a bad, unmotivated teacher, but Dawn patted my arm.
I think instead of sleeping in New Sarah's class, Dawn stopped going, because whenever I ran out during class time for a restroom visit or an emergency cup of coffee, Dawn would be in the swimming pool. One day she yelled for my attention and I stopped and clung to the chain link fence to answer her.
She briefly let go of the edge of the swimming pool in order to raise her open hand to ear level. I admitted that I did know how to swim.
"Could you teach me?" Her little hand returned to the pool curb in a death grip.
"Learning?" She didn't sound certain.
She was right. I didn't, and I walked on.
The next time I saw her I was standing in the parking lot with Jason, one of the other teachers, laughing over who knows what. When Dawn walked by she looked at us woefully, before entering Jason's classroom. She almost immediately walked back out to join us.
Jason was struck silent by Dawn's statement. This was the male teachers' usual reaction to Dawn's brand of weird.
"You hate me," she said.
"You love me?" Her hand came up, palm facing us, fingers pointing down.
We ducked out early to visit the restroom, where we ran into Dawn. She insisted on walking Grandma to the dining hall and sitting with her while I returned for the official photographs. The school was very big on photographs. Photograph phobic myself, I tried to tell them that Jews are like vampires and we don't show up in images. They only laughed before informing me that I shouldn't joke about the demons of Hell.
In the dining hall, after the photos, I found my mother at a table full of students, along with Jason, the dean, and Dawn. Dawn had saved me a seat right next to her.
Everyone nodded in agreement, even Jason. Dawn twirled her hand in the air right above the tabletop to end in the habitual gesture of her fingers pointing down, palm open in supplication.
"Grandma is married to Jesus," she said.
Jason and I laughed hysterically. The other students began yelling at Dawn in Chinese, and the Dean, a Korean lady who doesn't speak Chinese, ate serenely, pretending to be elsewhere, no doubt.
Everyone quieted and my mother turned to answer a question from Crystal, who sat on her other side. Dawn's cold little hand clutched my arm briefly before she let go to pick up her fork and begin eating again. This is when she asked me the purpose of my life and tossed noodles down my bare leg.
Sara Marchant received her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from the University of California, Riverside/ Palm Desert and her Bachelors of Arts in History from the University of California, San Diego. Her work has been published by The Manifest-Station, Every Writer's Resource, Full Grown People, and Brilliant Flash Fiction. Her work is forthcoming in the anthology Nothing But the Truth So Help Me God: All the Women in my Family Sing. She is the prose editor for the literary magazine Writers Resist.


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Google's use of Java in Android is worth $9.3 billion, according to Oracle
Kris Carlon / @kriscarlon
Google is being sued by Oracle for $9.3 billion for its use of Java APIs in Android, an internal Oracle report reveals. Not surprisingly, Google is contesting the damages claim, continuing to assert its use of Oracle's code fell under "fair use" policies.
In Oracle's initial claim against Google six years ago, the company asserted that "in developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property. This lawsuit seeks appropriate remedies for the their infringement."
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The last time Oracle took Google to trial in the long-running case, "appropriate remedies" were calculated to be around one-tenth of the current figure. The success of the Android platform and the smartphone market's explosion in recent years are the reasoning behind the massive price hike.
The new trial will begin on May 9 in a San Francisco federal district courtroom and will include six additional versions of Android that make use of Oracle's Java APIs, up to and including Lollipop. As you may recall, the Android N release has finally made the switch to OpenJDK APIs (it is uncertain where Android Marshmallow fits in the latest court case).
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Google has also hired a damages expert to calculate a reasonable sum, one that will certainly be significantly smaller than Oracle's claim. Google has already blasted Oracle's claims, asserting the company has improperly inflated the value of the 37 Java APIs with the vale of the entirety of Android. Despite being six years in, this case looks to be no closer to being settled.
What do you think of Dalvik? Is it simply a rewritten version of Java or a transformative adaptation?
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My dear friend, Katie, helped me get everything that I needed. She had already made a 4th Doctor scarf so she was extremely helpful with colors.
I ended up taking the project with me to several states. Surprisingly enough, knitting needles are not a concern when it comes to USA TSA.
Having never knit anything before it was quite exciting to watch the piece grow. I slowly learned how to maintain consistent tension as well as the 'joy' of weaving in the ends.
I successfully finished the scarf in time for Christmas. I think my sweet kitty was the saddest to see that she could no longer use it as a bed. If she's nice enough August will allow her to snuggle up with it again.
And here he is with the borrowed scarf! It was a perfect addition to the Denver's Museum of Nature and Science night of Mythical Creatures.


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I believe all the cheese in the center of the pizza and the heavy doses of greasy meat are worse than the thick crust. I believe that because of age, a diet heavy in these items, no exercise, that I have become friends with my fat. I also believe that I will never be thin or skinny again, but I make up for it with my tremendous personality and my personal charm.
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Now that the election is over, I can get back to worrying about this ugly rash in my right arm pit and other important things that need my close attention. Personally I am glad it is over, I am free of it, and now I can collect my thoughts, and get back to other things that are driving me nuts.
Like e-mail. I am so sick of being a slave to my in-box, I have to really do something about that. I made a folder the other day, I labeled it "Cartoons" so I could un-clutter some of my clutter. So like the fool I seem to be, I put ALL OF MY BOOTLEGGED CARTOONS the really good stuff in the folder to store for sometime in the future. That is what a folder is for, isn't that correct?


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Autonomous AI Will Disrupt Banking Long Before It Disrupts Driving
Digital World September 21, 2017 Blog
In fact, it already has started – and has been running autonomously for over 8 years. It's called Multi Agent System, one of the branches of AI. It has evolved rapidly into many different forms, but most impressively one of its forms is autonomous. It pays for itself, it lives independently, and the first successful implementation has been living on this planet for over 8 years now. Not only does it earn its living, it also incentivizes people to work for it.
For the very first time, we have an unstoppable autonomous living organism built by us, not owned by us but owned by itself. It currently consumes over $3Billion USD a year in resources, and many AI top global experts are starting to embrace and understand its autonomous nature. Initially, most of them did not think it was AI, or even take the time to understand it, maybe because it was not created in AI Labs or academia and didn't evolve as an AI project, but rather through a series of organic evolutionary steps toward financial independence from third parties to reduce transactions frictions
The technology was built by elite cryptographers and computer scientists, game theorists and lawyers. Don't let the name of this group name fool you into thinking it is lacking in sophistication. Cypherpunks created many versions of electronic decentralized value exchange systems until one took off: it's called Bitcoin. Since then, it has created over 20 million jobs and is thought by many to be the start of the next major revolutionary innovation, bigger than the internet.
Now, it is about to get additional AI components and protocol upgrades, and will soon be living jointly on almost every electronic device, not necessarily in its current protocol but certainly in an evolved, efficient and scalable version. It may not be even called Bitcoin, but while the evolutionary steps are referred to as layer 2, layer 0, version 2.0, 8.8 or whatever it is called, the fact remains that the start of this revolutionary technology began with Bitcoin.
It will continue paying for itself and for the people working on it. Many refer to the same technology as blockchain. Currently, blockchain represents at the very least, a living proof of autonomous electronic life and independence. Like it or not, it will soon become the backbone of our entire financial system, real estate, internet, cybersecurity and anything of value to be exchanged or transmitted.
In its initial state, several components were missing, which are now in the process of being implemented to truly disrupt current systems by enabling efficient access to the emerging market for financial inclusion in a complete decentralized setting.
The three major components currently being implemented are:
True and immune decentralization. Most people on the planet do not have the capability to own large computers, servers or any of the existing sophisticated machinery to operate a node into the system, but they do have smartphones.
Scalable and Efficient. These two go hand in hand. Scalability needs to have a throughput of millions of transactions per second, on-chain. And the efficiency must be increased by a factor of 80 to 90 in order to be considered disruptive while run secure by design.
Open and unrestricted access to everyone on the planet, just like oxygen and water. People work for their money and must have full, uncensored and unrestricted access to their own money.
This technology could utilize servers, cloud or other servers but it must not depend on them, not in any shape or form. Decentralization is a cyber security feature and like any cyber security, it is only as good as its weakest link. So if the entire system depends on an elected group of nodes, the elector may even become corrupt and then we are back to square one. Blockchain, just like the Internet, will not and can not have any centralized elements that it depends on, or else it risks becoming an inferior intranet. However, it could certainly have peripheral systems such as tax and financial services. True decentralization must enable the entire system to be dependent only on what everyone has access to: smartphones, 10 seconds to install, nothing else.
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The sun is shining, the sky is blue, the summer holidays are two weeks away, so that means only one thing. It's time to get ready to hit the beach.
Here are my beach essentials for a calm, relaxing day.
Do you have any beach essentials, lovelies?
Tks for your comment, taking the time and forgetting me!
Hope you are well sweetie. I am following you on Instagram and looking forward to seeing more of your lovely photos. I'm so sorry but I can't remember where I got the pictograms from as it was so long ago.


Jurists concur that testament is not mandatory from the part of the donor, nor from the part of the beneficiary. Hence the former has the right to reconsider his will –be it to the effect of thing ('ayn???), a benefit, or governance. We will talk later on the latter. Resending the will can take effect by action or by words as his eating, selling or giving of the food after he had determined it to be an object of a will. It has been reported that \anafís do not consider selling the donated thing to imply revoking of the testament, rather they say that the beneficiary shall have the right to receive the price the donated thing was sold for.
Jurists of all schools of thought concur that wills regarding the Uses of an object is valid. For example will in the effect of renting a house, living in a house, use of fruits of a garden, milk from cattle and things similar to this which concerns the use of things that will be available in the future; regardless if the use is limited to certain time period or left indefinite.
Jurists disagree on the manner the will of use is determined out of the third. \anafís say: Will of use shall be evaluated based on real value of the object to be used regardless of the period being fixed or indefinite. For instance, if one is to testify a house for one year or longer, the whole house shall be evaluated; if its value is equal or less than one third, then the will shall be valid. If not, then it shall be invalid and considered void (Laghw).
Imámi Researchers say: If the willed use is not indefinite, it is easy to determine; because the object itself will have a value after use. If a garden is willed for use for five years, the whole garden must be evaluated first. If it is found to be of ten thousand value, it shall be evaluated a second time subtracting the use of five years; if it is found to be five thousand, then the difference is what shall be taken out of the third. If the difference is more than the third, then the beneficiary shall receive only the use of one year or more as long as it does not exceed the third. If the willed use is indefinite, then the garden will be evaluated along with the use and it will be determined the same way the limited use was determined.
I reply: In fact there are use benefit that has a value even if it is minimal; a garden for example benefit from its falling branches and its dry parts. If its trees are to be eliminated for some reason, the land instead will be use. A house that was not use by the beneficiary, the heir will use its stone and its land. After slaughtering the cattle, its wool, skin and meet will be also used. In any way, the object itself is never useless after the use of the willed benefit.
The sick person meant here is one who remains sick until his death -on the condition of the frightening illness. That is people will think that his life is in danger because of such an illness. For instance, a toothache, eye illness, or light headaches, etc. Are not considered frightening illnesses. In fact, people sick with such illness and those sick with frightening illness but recover from it and die afterwards, the ruling concerning their testament is the same as that concerning the testament of a healthy person.
There is no doubt nor disagreement among the jurists of all the schools of thought that if a healthy person is to spend his wealth in absolute and immediate manner –that is unconditional on death—his actions are valid without even qualifiers (asl). This is so regardless of the type of the actions; be it mandatory – like payments of debts- or charity (muhabat) -like gifts and trusts.
If the healthy person stipulates his action on the condition of his death, then it shall become a testament as previously said. If it is not to be taken from the initial wealth, then it shall be taken from the third. If it is a payment of debt, then it shall be taken from the original wealth according to the Imámís, Sháfi`ís , and \anbalís . \anafís and Málikís say it shall be taken from the third as previously mentioned.
Actions undertaken by the ill person –if conditioned on death—shall be considered a testament making. The ruling in its regard is the same as that concerning the actions of the healthy person because there is no difference between a will made when the testator is healthy or ill as long as the ill person is still mentally sound, and his sensors function normal.
* If the actions were in his own benefit; as is the case when he buys expensive clothes for himself, becomes tasteful of his food, spends on his medication and the betterment of his health, and his traveling in order to relax etc., all such actions of his are valid and no one –heir or non-heir- has the right to stop him for undertaking such actions.
* If he acts without giving incentives; as is the case in his selling or renting, or trading something out of his property for its actual value, all such actions shall take effect and modify his original wealth and the heirs cannot object because he did not deprive him of any thing.
* If he undertakes a Munjaz XXXX action that is not conditioned (Mu'allaq) on death providing an incentive; as is the case in his giving gifts, charity, paying debt, forgiving a money generating crime, selling with less than the actual value of the object, or overpaying for something and other actions that will financially harm the heir; then such actions of the ill person shall be deducted from the third of the wealth [The Jurists of the four Sunni schools of thought have agreed however that such transactions shall be deducted from the third, but the Imámís disagreed amongst themselves; the majority of the early scholars amongst them say it shall be deducted from the original gross, the majority of the later scholars amongst them said it shall be deducted from the third. Allamah Hilli, the two martyrs are among the supporters of deduction from the third. The authors of al-Jawahir and al-Sharai' reported on the authority of Imám al-Sadiq: "For the man after his death the third of his wealth" to support their view. They also reported from Sahih Ibn Yaqteen: "For the man -after his death- one third, and one third is too much" These traditions did not distinguish between Will and Charity Work. In the tradition of Ali Ibn 'Uqbah concerning a man who freed his slave, that only the third can be used for the purpose. If the Imám had said no during his death, his statement will be construed as a will instead.]XXXX The fact that it is taken from the third means that it shall not be executed until after the death of the testator. If he dies before being cured from the illness, and all the wills made can be deducted just from the third, then it shall be obviously valid. If the wills exceed the third, then whatever is above the third shall be void -given that the heir do not give their consent.
Either are spent from the third, unless the heirs consent.
According to the Imámís, heirs can benefit from munjazat exactly like wills. According to the Four Sunnis, that is not valid and so is a will to the heir.
Both transactions are lest rewarded before God that charity given during health.
Munjazat compete with the will on the third.
The deduction of either shall be done the moment of death not before nor after it.
Testator can resend a will he made. A donor however cannot change his mind once the beneficiary had accepted and received it. The reason being that a will a donation based on the condition that the testator dies. Hence as long as the condition is not fulfilled, resending the decision shall be valid. A donation given during the moment of illness however is unconditional.
Munjazat must be accepted or rejected immediately and during life time of the donor. The rejection or acceptance of the will is not be required until after death.
Munjazat are conditions free. Like knowledge of the nature of the donation and absence of harm to the rights of heirs. Wills require no such conditions.
In the case of multiple Munjazat exceeding the third, they shall be distributed in the order they were decreed (first one is executed first) according to Sháfi`ís and \anbalís . Wills exceeding the third on the other hand, shall bare the same diminution without giving consideration to the order as we have determined in the section concerning the crowded wills. Imámís give priority to the order in either case.
If the ill donor dies before the beneficiary receives the donation, the decision shall be with the heirs; they can choose to give or resend. Wills however become mandatory once the legatee accepts after death even if they are not pleased.
The sixth point was stated by the author of al-Mughnee, but the author of al-Tadhkirah did not mention it. It is better if it is left out as mentioned by Allamah al-Hilli, because the Munjazat of the ill person consist of many things including the giving of gifts, the payment of debts, the giving of incentives in buying and selling etc. Firstly, If Munjazat are not limited to giving gifts, then it should not be said: "If the ill person dies before the beneficiary receives...". Secondly, If the ill person gives a donation then dies before the beneficiary receives the it, the gift is void according to the \anbalís , Sháfi`ís , Imámís, and \anafís because receiving it before death is a condition for its validity. That is to say, if the beneficiary receives the donation before death, the donation is complete and it shall be deducted from the third like a will. The permission of the heirs is not required as long as it does not surpass the third. Otherwise said, without receipt or after death it shall not be considered Munjazat in the first place for it to be compared to a will. After receipt however, it shall be treated a will. Based on this, it is clear that the mention of the sixth point is not appropriate.
Jurists of the four Sunni schools of thought concur that if an ill person confirm a debt owed to someone other then the heir, then it shall be paid from the original gross wealth as if this confirmation took place while he is healthy. They disagree however in case the debt is owed to an heir. \anafís and \anbalís say that such a confirmation results in no effects on the rest of the heirs. In fact such confirmation will be considered Laghwan unless the heir provides a legal document supporting the claim of the debt.
If there were indications that he is not telling the truth, rather incriminating him, as is the case when based on customs it is determined that the things acknowledged to be owed cannot be owned by the person benefiting from this confirmation, but the ill person wants to favor him for some reason -if the matter is determined to be as such—the confirmation shall be treated the same way a will is treated and taken from the third. If the ill person is honest about the confirmation to the point that there is no indication that he is lying -as is the case of him being known to have a business relation with the beneficiary from this confirmation- The confirmation must be fulfilled regardless of the amount.
This is in case the character of the confirmor is known. If unknown: him being honest or dishonest, and the heir declares that the MoorithXXX is not honest regarding the confirmation he made, then the beneficiary from such confirmation shall be required to provide a proof of ownership of the thing confirmed by the ill person to be his. If he does so, the confirmation shall be taken from the initial gross wealth. If that is not the case, then the heir must take the oath that he does not that the thing confirmed by the ill person to be to so-and-so, then the confirmation shall be deducted from the third.


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Junior volunteered at a youth centre as part of HeadStart London before interviewing for a part time job with New Look.
Over 135 runners took part in Team London and GoodGym's biggest ever 'Run to do Good'.


You often hear people complaining of not hearing due to poor acoustics. Is this a legitimate phenomenon or just another excuse people use to explain a lack of understanding?
Even with a hearing aid you may find it difficult to hear in certain environments such as cinemas, churches and restaurants. This can be very frustrating. But remember, even people without a hearing impairment may find it difficult to hear in these environments.
There are 3 main factors that determine the acoustics of a room: Noise, Distance and Reverberation. Below we discuss each of these 3 factors and strategies to improve your hearing when one, or more of these are interfering with your hearing.
Hearing care professionals talk about an optimum signal to noise ratio (SNR) when determining if you are in a good listening environment. An optimum SNR is +15dB. This means that the speech that you want to hear needs to be 15dB louder than competing background noise in order for you to hear it.
For instance, if you are watching TV at 60dB and the air conditioner next to the TV is also 60dB- then your SNR would be 0dB and it will be impossible for you to hear your television. One of the following needs to happen to improve this: You can either turn off the air conditioner or turn up the TV.
Thus, in a very noisy room, your best option is to move to a quieter spot, or to ask the person you are talking to to speak louder. Putting your hearing aid on a program designed to help in noise situations may also be beneficial. Ask your audiologist about this.
Distance to the speaker is another important factor in determining audibility. The further away you are from the person you are talking to, the softer their voice will be.
The best solution would be to move closer to the speaker. Always make sure that you are sitting in front at the church or cinema. Ensure that the person you are talking to is sitting in a well-lit area so that you can see their face and make sure that SNR is at its maximum. Sitting in a spot without too much competing background noise is the best solution.
Sound travels in waves. Some sound will reach you directly, while some sound will bounce off hard surfaces first. By the time this sound reaches you, the signal is distorted or not clear enough for you to hear.
At home, there are certain things you can do to reduce reverberation. Carpets and curtains in a room all reduces reverberation, as there are less hard surfaces for sound to bounce against.
Unfortunately, sometimes you will be in situations with increased reverberation that you cannot do much about, such as big halls or big meeting rooms. Your best option here is to sit at a close distance to the speaker, and close all doors and windows in order to prevent outside background noise from getting into the room.
We hope the strategies explained in this article will be useful to you next time you are struggling to hear. Talk to your audiologist about what your hearing aid can and cannot do to improve your hearing in difficult situations. If you are not sure how this applies to you or your family, or if you have general questions, please send us an email or give us a call. We will gladly offer you additional advice.
Article written by Nadia van Eyssen, practice manager and audiologist at Kind 2 Hearing.


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Jack, you're a grown man. You have control over your own words.
So, the open thread idea worked pretty well the last time I tried it, and then press tour got in the way of doing another one. So for the next 24 hours or so, fire away with questions or comments on stuff that doesn't seem germane to other posts, and I'll do my best to respond as often as I can. Since it's more of a free-for-all, please try to be respectful of others when it comes to spoilers for whatever you're discussing.
UPDATE:100+ comments later, we're going to wrap this one up and try again in a week or two.
Posted by Alan Sepinwall at 11:23 AM
mbtoole said...
Is Brotherhood officially canceled or is a fourth season possible?
Haven't heard anything about a cancellation.
hi Alan, just curious as to what you think of the Oscar nominations announced last week? Any movie that you really liked and you're rooting for to win?
Is Lance Reddick returning to Lost at all?
Zac F. said...
Why is Michael Angeli loathed by the BSG fanbase? I've watched all the episodes except for the first 2 of the new season and no episode stood out as bad to me.
I liked Slumdog, but like so many people, I'm annoyed that neither Dark Knight nor Wall*E got Best Picture nods (or Best Director). I can't speak to the quality of some of the nominees that I haven't seen, but it's like the Oscars are going out of their way to keep people from watching. When you have two movies that were both huge hits and were largely praised to the heavens, it seems like a no-brainer to me to try to nominate them, even if they don't win.
Over the last 10 or 15 years, it seems that the Oscars have become less about honoring the best movies of the year than about honoring the best November and December releases of the studio's boutique film divisions. And there's lots of great mainstream work that goes ignored.
JJ Abrams said that if Lindelof and Cuse asked for Reddick, they could use him. No idea if they've asked, as they tend to be secretive about stuff like that. But having the two shows share a production company helps, even if JJ hasn't really been involved with Lost for a long time.
JakesAlterEgo said...
I finally got around to watching The Middleman. Is is officially dead? Or is there some slim hope that I will be faux-cursing with them again?
Zachary,
I'm not Alan, but go to each and every Angeli episode. Then see what he has the women do. Also, see whether the character behavior is consistent with the characterization/behavior from other episodes (e.g. Helo, The Woman King).
When you have Tory Foster literally crying while having sex with Baltar, after having been ordered to do so, and then you have Baltar lecturing Tory on religion while she's crying, while they're having sex, you know something is a bit off.
It's not officially dead, but I wouldn't hold my breath. The last I heard on the subject, Javier Grillo-Marxuach was putting all his focus on trying to get out a kick-butt DVD set.
Re: Angeli, I would also say that it bugs me how every one of his episodes has to feature characters delivering monologues explaining what makes them tick, why they do what they do, etc.
glad to see SAG share the love for Mad Men and 30 Rock. Don't go to the movies, but the TV picks seemed reasonable. I had to laugh at Hugh Laurie's speech when he said he lost $100 b/c he though Spader would win, so it was a bad night for him.
Alan, what do you make of ABC lowering it's Cupid order to only eight episodes. Certainly it's not a good sign, but is it a bad sign?
Presumably ABC saw a pilot before they made their initial order. Do you know if this order reduction happened after ABC saw more episodes?
I'd say it has more to do with the economy than with ABC's faith (or lack thereof) in the show's quality. If it does well airing after "Dancing with the Stars," all will be fine for a second season.
Re: the Oscars - I think this is one of the worst Best Picture lineups of the decade, and I would have preferred WALL-E or The Dark Knight to some of the nominees.
That said, the Oscar voters are not a leviathan--in theory, everyone votes for what they believe to be the year's best movies. The ratings for the telecast don't directly affect the average Oscar voter, and I'd be surprised if they factored that in at all.
Also, this year's Best Picture nominees all came out at the end of the year, but in recent years they've been trending away from that. Crash, The Departed, Babel, Little Miss Sunshine, etc. Two of those even won the biggie.
I agree that the Academy is not about honoring the best films of the year--were they ever?--but because of middling tastes (and a group vote) rather than overlooking the summer hits.
Especially recently, the Academy Awards are much more about "who" should win, rather than who has earned the statue. Merit and artistic achievement are second fiddle to Hollywood politics and making sure the power players go home happy.
I'll always keep watching, but I don't think it's outrageous to think, based on ratings, there will come a day when the Oscars are not televised on network TV.
I was bummed as well that Wall-E (and to a slightly lesser extent, The Dark Knight) did not receive nominations for Best Picture. If amazing films like those cannot overcome the stigma of being animated/comic book movies, then will such films *ever* be able to break through?
The ratings for the telecast don't directly affect the average Oscar voter, and I'd be surprised if they factored that in at all.
Completely agree -- what does an average Oscar voter care if the telecast gets good ratings? (You could argue for an indirect affect: greater exposure for films = greater profits for films = trickle down to the voters.) It seems quite clear that the Academy will continue to nominate whomever the heck they want (or whomever puts on the best Oscar campaign).
With CUPID beginning March 24th, there are only 8 weeks for it to run before the end of the season.(The last week is 2 hour DWTS finale). With the economy, ABC probably figured, we don't need 13 since we couldn't air all of them this year. If it's a hit it will for sure come back, but otherwise we don't have any leftovers. If they didn't belive in it or want it to succeed they wouldn't have given it a good timeslot.
When Grissom got his CSI sendoff a vouple weeks ago, they kept off Jorja Fox's credit until after the episode. Why can't shows like Lost do this?
Is Chuck in trouble? And has anyone seen a display with the 3-D glasses for the Superbowl and Chuck?
Alan, how are things at the Star Ledger in regards to buyouts, layoffs, etc.? Any fear for your position?
Any plans on what you would do if the Star Ledger decided it no longer was interested in the television-critic business?
MB, in dark economic times like these, it might behoove you to be a little less...blunt when inquiring about the future of people's livelihoods.
In the meantime anyone hungry for some non-MiddleMan Javier Grillo Maruxach should check out Annihilation Book 2 and Annihilation: Conquest Book 2 which contain his contributions to the cosmic Marvel sagas. A serious 180 from the comedy of the Middle Man and some cracking good stuff.
I'm curious as to what all you watch, Alan. You've often made random comments and posts along the lines of, "I usually watch [show] without posting, but this week..." or, "I can't find the [energy/interest/desire] to write a weekly post about [show], though I'll probably keep watching..."
What shows do you keep up with, regardless of whether you end up writing about them?
Along the same lines, with a job like yours, do you still find television relaxing? When you have down time, do you ever find yourself zoning out to VH1 or TLC?
A few people have brought up Cupid already...I was just wondering if you've seen the pilot yet, or if you could just share some initial thoughts on the remake after the press tour?
Just wanted to say how pleased I was to see that the actors who play Sally and Bobby Draper were along for the ride last night at the SAGs. Those two actually add to the drama of the show (versus most child actors who are used for window dressing), so I thought it was fitting that they shared in the award.
Hey Alan, I just re-watched "Reaper" Season 1 and I was psyched about the new season. When is the premiere, and have you heard any news about what's going to happen in the upcoming season?
It's a contractual headache to do so and can only be pulled off on special occasions. Lost has surprise appearances so often that they just couldn't do it every time.
I want to be hopeful about Chuck's future, but who the hell knows about what's going on at NBC these days? The Jay Leno thing doesn't help, nor does the fact that they recently promoted the head of the NBC/Universal studio to be the network's entertainment president (Chuck is a Warner Bros.-produced show, and therefore she doesn't have any kind of sentimental attachment to it), nor does increased competition from House. But it's a good show, and a known quantity from a business standpoint. We'll see.
Shambala said...
do u think season 3 of the wire is better once u know who marlo is?? wat i mean is watchin season 3 the second time is more rewarding then the first time because marlo and his crew are characters instead of some opposition soley in place for conflct with avon
I watch (and/or listen to the podcast of) Pardon the Interruption every day and I watch The Daily Show most days. I check in on NCIS and Private Practice from time to time but never feel compelled to blog on them. The Simpsons I almost never blog on but watch every week (I have last night's episode on Hulu as I type this). I'm sure there's other stuff, but one of the downsides to watching so much TV is that you start blanking on what it all is.
The new pilot's good. Cannavale brings a very different energy from Piven while still seeming appropriate, and he and Paulson are good together. My only concern is that the pilot spends a lot of time with the Couple of the Week, which means they have to tell a lot of the Trevor/Claire stuff in shorthand.
It's back on March 17. I have a couple of the early episodes but haven't had a chance to watch them yet.
Ned Schneebly is competing in the next season of The Amazing Race. Alan, will this finally convince you to watch (and blog about) the show, and what for that matter will decide whether to watch this season of Survivor?
Adam, I think I've seen all of Survivor and Amazing Race that I ever need to see, and I didn't feel any real sense of absence when I didn't watch the fall editions of either one. If Survivor hadn't done the Fans Vs. Favorites season -- which I didn't like in the end, but which did bring back a bunch of people I had a sentimental attachment to -- I might have been done with that one even sooner.
Jon88 said...
SAG Awards: Tina Fey's remarks, brilliant. Evan Rachel Wood pronouncing "ingenuity" as if it referred to ingenues, just kinda weird.
"Lie to Me": Are they CGI-enhancing the lying indicators, or are the actors really providing all of those cues?
The actors are doing it, and the producers have to spend a lot of time with the guest stars making sure they don't show the wrong cue at the wrong moment. I imagine that'll become a bigger and bigger problem as the viewers get used to the cues and as the show introduces even more of them.
did u not answer my questoin cause of spoilers??? lol srry if so
Alan, I just got around to watching all three seasons of Deadwood having meant to do so for a long time. What a great show. I liked it so much that it only took me 10-12 days to get through it all.
I wanted to go back and read through all your recaps and thoughts about each episode. And while I found some, I don't think I found them all. Even if you didn't review all of them, it would have been much easier if you had an active link with all your Deadwood posts.
My next big show to tack may be The Shield, which I managed to avoid all these years.
So for people that are late-comers to some of these shows, do you think you can provide the kinds of links that you have available for the Wire and a few other shows? Seems like your link index could be much more complete.
Any news on what ABC plans to do with the remaining Pushing Daisies episodes, or if the writers had enough notice to produce a proper series finale?
Hey Alan,
Any possibility of Friday Night Lights NOT returning for a fourth season? I know the ratings for the second episode were less than the premiere.
The blog didn't exist until after the second season. You can find all of my season three reviews here.
I talked about that in one of my final press tour dispatches.
Any possibility of Friday Night Lights NOT returning for a fourth season?
I'd say right now that's not only possible, it's probable. I'm assuming it's not coming back, and will be pleasantly surprised if the planets align otherwise.
I've waxed romantic about "Deadwood" before, so I'll just say that I would be unbelievably happy if you ever chose to revisit seasons 1 & 2 the way you did "The Wire" season 1. And I know how much my happiness means to you.
On a related note, sorta, have you seen "Kings" yet? When does it premiere?
No, and March 15.
Dan Jameson said...
Shambala:
While I'm certainly not Alan, I wanted to comment and say that I agree with your post. I don't know that it makes season 3 BETTER - but watching it a second time after already seeing seasons 4 and 5 definitely sheds a different light on the season; knowing who Marlo and crew become.
Then again, I think every episode of the entire series is better the more times you watch it. I have no problem calling it the best drama series ever.
Any word on when the 2-per-week schedule of "Scrubs" ends? I note it moves to Wednesdays on 3/17 (to be paired with "Better Off Ted" in the 8 pm hour), but if things don't change on Tuesday they'll be out of new eps by then.
I already fired a query over to ABC on this, and was waiting for an answer before I did a full blog post on it.
I got most of the HIMYM season 1 and 2 posts too (thanks for re-tagging them by season) but I think there were a couple that I had to go looking for (so then I searched by month)
I think I have one more Extra to watch and then I can get to season 3.
Also, I noted on the late night talk shows page (google some combination or that and "interbridge" if you need to find it) the Alyson Hannigan is going to be on - I think it was Bonnie Hunt - no, maybe that was Donny & Marie...
Ellen DeGeneres: Alyson Hannigan - Friday
wonder what he will be wearing.
I think I noticed her pregnancy before it was annouced because I started really like her clothes - and I've been a sucker for smocked tops to the point that my mother used to say "just wait till you get pregnant: you'll get over it!"
Actually I found a few at Target this fall (so I bought every color they had - Current fashion and my taste intersect only cyclically)
Re: talk shows. I onl watch when there's a guest I'm interested in. For those who don't know there's a listing, it's here:
http://www.interbridge.com/lineupsdate.html
and you can also get it by RSS, live bookmark, possibly email, TV Barn might still be includig them as well.
So, I *should* watch the SAG awards, huh?
It seems insane to me (more than the usual insanity) to have two funny shows about geeky (but lovable) guys compete head to head, with Big Bang going against Chuck. Now with House on at the same time, too, I can't watch/tape all 3 at once and I'm all the angrier.
Anyway, given Chuck's ratings problems, has there been any questions asked or talk about moving Chuck to another time slot?
Fans talk about it, but there doesn't seem to be a better place for it. Tuesdays and Wednesdays would put it in the path of Idol, NBC is entrenched with half-hour comedies on Thursdays (though I would argue that a Chuck/Office/30 Rock night would be awesome and have great flow), and you don't want Chuck to air Fridays or Saturdays.
One of the things it has going for it is that NBC thinks it's a very compatible partner for "Heroes," which will definitely be back next year, even though an official renewal hasn't come yet.
You mention being a comic book geek quite a bit (excellent use of Guardian recently) so I'm wondering if you still read. If so, what are you reading? If not, what did you read before you quit?
*she*
Alyson is a she
If any Grey's fan missed it in one one, probably the HIMYM threads, Chyler Leigh is also pregnant.
I've mostly kicked the habit due to the expense, but I still follow a handful of series in trade paperback form: Fables, Astro City, Ultimate Spider-Man, Powers, the Brubaker version of Captain America, Scott Pilgrim and a couple of others. (Y the Last Man was on that list until it ended.)
Favorites on the Sepinwall bookshelf include many of the usual suspects: Preacher, Hitman, Watchmen, Dark Knight (original, not Strikes Back), Queen & Country, Suicide Squad (not that it's collected, but it's a favorite of the longbox stuff), Roger Stern and/or Kurt Busiek on Avengers, et al.
Favorite character (not that you asked): Wonder Man.
Mads said...
An upside to the Cupid episode order being cut back: Rob Thomas has time to work on the script for the Veronica Mars movie. Story here.
Do you know if David Milch's new HBO cop show is still moving forward? Most recent news about it I can find is from last August, when Ray Winstone was cast for the pilot.
Flosh, David Mills said a while back that HBO pulled the plug.
I think of this question periodically and then forget it again. Your comment about Janine Turner reminded me of it again. Why do we not see Northern Exposure in syndication? I thought there were at least 100 episodes.
Why do we not see Northern Exposure in syndication? I thought there were at least 100 episodes.
It pops up on my Universal HD channel, but it's also pretty old. You don't see lots of reruns of other shows from that era by now, other than the ageless Law & Order (and even there, the repeats I stumble across tend to be of 21st century episodes).
thanks. that's too bad.
I don't recall ever seeing a comment by you about "The Unit." Do you not like the show?
The Unit's another one that I watch a lot but rarely have anything to blog about. You can read my handful of entries on it here.
I should add at this point that, in addition to the handy links on the righthand rail, you can search for other shows in the box on the top left of the page. It's not ideal, and Blogger reformatted itself a few years ago so that a search page, or a tags page, can only list so many entries and doesn't take you on to the next page (hence my having to tag the most popular shows by season), but I found those entries by just doing a search for "The Unit"
I just saw an ad for In Treatment on HBO yesterday. Do you think you'll follow it this season and do the weekly post like last time? Or are you going to skip it?
I've always wondered whey televisions shows don't have to list the songs they use to underscore the show or even feature prominently (like HIMYM) in the end credits like movies do.
Oh please, hope Alan blogs In Treatment. I'm guessing.... yes?
This may be WAY off topic for this space, but I thought this might be the perfect audience to finally answer a question of mine.
Does anyone know where to find raw Nielson ratings numbers? The only numbers I can ever find are listed by the AP and such, some websites have some network or overnight data. What I'm more interested in is an historical catalog of ratings for shows (kind of like looking up stock quotes for companies). I'd like to be able to track shows (such as Chuck, FNL) on my own and compare it to other shows and to itself over time to try and figure out which shows may/may not make it.
I've done some searching on the net but haven't stumbled across anything. Was wondering if it's because no one has bothered to set up a sight to keep track of the data, or if this info is not made available to the public regularly.
tut said...
Your thoughts on the Venture Bros.?
Joseph Aeneas Ciccarello said...
Anything on Martin Scorcese's supposed Atlantic City gangster show for HBO, Boardwalk Empire?
Zach said...
Do you know if David Simon's New Orleans series is still in development?
You don't see lots of reruns of other shows from that era by now, other than the ageless Law & Order (and even there, the repeats I stumble across tend to be of 21st century episodes).
That annoys the hell out of me by the way. Even thought TNT owns the rights to the whole series, they pretty much never air a Michael Moriarty episode except between 1 and 5 in the morning. How big of a difference can there be in the viewership of the older episodes versus the new ones?
Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, and Kelly MacDonald have been cast in the pilot. As far as I know, it hasn't yet been ordered to series, but I can't imagine that they won't based on name recognition alone. Then again they passed on Milch's show, so who's to say.
Last time I checked, the pilot is supposed to film in the next month (with Wendell Pierce, Clarke Peters, and Khandi Alexander in the cast), so it's definitely still in development.
As always, you are the wind beneath my wings, Alan.
Bruce's European tour starts May 30. Conan's Tonight Show starts June 1. What do you think Max will do?
Mike F, The Shield was probably going to be my next big show to tackle. Word of advice: Don't read Mo Ryan's Battlestar Galactica thread - there's a spoiler there for the ending of The Shield.
Steve, there's a section of the Bruce cover story in the new rolling stone about that very question
Kenrick said...
Hi Alan - probably premature, but has there been any information on the Fables TV series being developed by ABC other than that one is in the works?
I just wanted to say that I love reading your blog, Alan. It's always really insightful.
Since you're such a big fan of PTI (as am I), what is your favorite segment on the show? Also, do you find yourself saying "your boy" alot, or doing a version of the Penguin Dance?
Thanks for the Freaks and Geeks recaps :)
Steven Timberman said...
I just started watching The West Wing in all it's wonderful splendor. Is there any way I could find what you wrote about it while it was on the air? I tried hunting around for your top ten episodes list but found the Star Ledger's archive system to be a real nightmare to use.
Hey Alan, I had the surprisingly fun experience of hearing YOU on my commute to work this morning! I get the NPR Pop Culture podcast for my train ride, and there you were talking about FNL. Nice to put a voice to your, um, blog voice. :-)
What a great read at the end of the day! Alan, did I miss your joy of the official end of Life According to Jim?
I too adore Chuck. But I have become anti disturbed by his sister. Why is it everytime she has a problem she works her way through a wine bottle? It seems like an easy choice to explain her hysteria.
I'm gonna blog it in some form. I just don't know what form that'll be. It's a hard show to cover the way I normally write about series, for a few reasons:
1)Five episodes a week. Even though they'll be more clumped together, it's still a whole lotta stuff per week.
2)As a show about therapy and nothing but therapy, it more or less analyzes itself. I can weigh in from time to time on a particularly great performance (Glynn Turman, for instance), or on a character who isn't working for me (Laura), but giving it the full Mad Men treatment's sort of besides the point.
3)Knowing the way HBO sends stuff out, and how obsessed my wife and I were with the show last year, I imagine I'm going to wind up way, way ahead of the average viewer before the season even starts. And with a show that's about the subtle advancement of the therapy, that puts me at an unfair advantage in terms of leading the discussion.
Last year, I pretty much did nightly -- and then weekly -- open threads, and I would stop in to offer a stray comment here or there, and then did a post-mortem at the end. Unless someone has a better suggestion, that may be what I wind up doing here.
Haven't watched it since the pilot, which I didn't love. The Adult Swim cartoons generally don't do much for me, and so I write them off pretty quickly. I keep hearing high praise of this one in particular, so maybe I should revisit it at some point.
Not that I know of. I'm dubious about whether it can work. The material in the comics is a little too out there for ABC to be comfortable with (Goldilocks' relationship with the littlest bear, for instance), and once they get past the initial murder mystery, most of the remaining stories have key elements that would be too expensive and/or impractical to pull off on a TV series budget.
Over/Under is fun because of how Tony likes to needle Wilbon for pushing so often. I ordinarily hate the Sportswriters Yelling at Each Other genre, but their obvious affection for one another makes it funny.
But my two absolute favorite PTI things don't involve Tony or Mike at all. One is whenever we hear Reali yelling something off-camera (either his "YOW!" catcall when Tony says something raunchy, or him loudly complaining about something), and the other is whenever Lebatard shows up and says "Bam!"
Simple pleasures, I know.
Until I started the official Ledger version of my blog a couple of years ago, all my stories for the paper disappeared from the site after 14 days, so a special search is futile. To read my other West Wing stuff, I'd have to dig it out of our internal archives, reformat it, repost it, etc., and much as I was fond of that show (especially in the first two or three years), there are other columns that I'd rather spend the time unearthing than anything I wrote about TWW.
wats ur fav season of the sopranos?
Knowing the way HBO sends stuff out, and how obsessed my wife and I were with the show last year, I imagine I'm going to wind up way, way ahead of the average viewer before the season even starts.
One thing I've always wondered, with shows that you watch well in advance, is why you don't write your blog posts as you watch them, and then just save them until they air. Although I can understand you not doing that (I imagine it's a huge amount of effort just keeping up with shows as they air without trying to bank posts for weeks later), it might be a solution to the problem about not revealing too much in your posts.
But then there are still the other problems that you raise.
Bobman said...
Really Alan? LeBetard? Gah.
I do love the off-camera things though. Especially when Tony or Mike says something really out there and you can hear the backstage guys (probably Reali) laugh out loud.
Oddsmakers has always been my favorite regular part of that show though, mostly because of all the group interaction with Tony, Wilbon and Reali. Though I do have to say they overdid the whole 'squadoosh' business so it got a tad old.
Hate LeBatard, love "your boy," love Trampoline Bear tremendously.
I keep hearing high praise of this one in particular, so maybe I should revisit it at some point.
You definitely should. The Venture Bros. is wonderful and funny as hell, too.
I quite like LeBatard on PTI. I've always loved the way that he gleefully embraces his "hateable" persona and tries to derail the various games on the show. Plus, so far as Tv sports pundits go, he strikes me as one of the smarter ones.
I also enjoy Oddsmakers because it seems designed to be intentionally stupid. For starters, they're not even giving odds. And secondly, they don't even attempt to give numbers that are even slightly reflective of the situation.
Antid Oto said...
Venture Brothers is brilliant, particularly if you watched cartoons during the late 70s/early 80s. Awesome sendups of one cartoon franchise after another.
Frisky Dingo was also pretty great, especially the second season, when Killface runs for President. Sadly it's gone forever now.
Craig Ranapia said...
Yeah, but couldn't you say that about every cetergory in every award show or prize going?
And personally, I'm wondering if The Dark Knight got hit with a backlash of its own creation. Especially with some fans who treated a best picture nomination as some kind of inevitibility, and anyone who thought otherwise was effectively pissing on a fresh grave.
Alan: Sadly, I probably agree with you re; Fables. I'd also suggest it's also a rather brutal, violent and morally ambiguous piece of work. Much more Brothers Very-Fraking-Grimm than Wonderful World of Disney. Like the glorious Pan's Labyrinth, it's a fairy tale definitely unsitable for children.
This summer, your series to recap should be Arrested Development. When I get bored and blow through the series in a week, it would be nice to read your episode by episode thoughts as I do.
Most Adult Swim originals are stoner cartoons. Venture Brothers is the exception, although I agree the pilot was week. Check out Season 2, Episode 11 "Viva Los Muertes" It is written by Ben Edlund, absolutely brilliant.
My question is: Are you familiar with the version of the Midnight Run theme with lyrics called Try To Believe? Are you a fan?
(Y the Last Man was on that list until it ended.)
No love for Ex Machina? I think it's not quite as good as Y the Last Man -- like Lost the mystery drags its feet, and there's too much traditional comic book silliness in the middle section -- but overall I'd say it's still a decent series, particularly when they focus on the political aspects.
A more general question: why do American shows almost never show the episode title on-screen? A lot of science fiction does it (the Star Treks, Stargates, Farscape) and John Wells productions do, but they're definitely in the minority. It just seems like a waste considering the work that must go into creating clever titles.
The Moriarty episodes are a lot more low key than the 21st century stuff. Often it's just some dude who killed some other dude over some stuff, with nary a sex scandal or last minute super-duper surprise twist in sight. For my money, the Moriarty episodes (and maybe the first one or two Waterston seasons) are far superior to the later stuff, so I wouldn't be surprised if fans of the current generation feel the same way about the older episodes.
I briefly explained my fondness for LeBatard here.
Frankly, there are weeks where I prefer LeBatard/Tony or LeBatard/Mike to Tony/Mike. He definitely knows more about sports than either one of them do (though Tony's ignorance is part of the joke, I know) and his willingness to be contrary while still clearly getting along with both of them keeps the show funny.
1, then 7 (or 6b, if you prefer), then 5, then 6 (or 6a).
You've answered your own question. It's simply not practical, especially since I try to watch as much as is available of shows in order to inform my initial column, and I often have a limited window in which to do that. If I stopped to write blog entries after every episode (or even after every five), I'd never get anything else done, nor would I get through them all in time to give it a proper write-up in the paper.
it's a fairy tale definitely unsitable for children.
Yeah, my daughter's going through the inevitable Disney princess phase right now, and I keep having to move my Fables collection to a higher shelf, because God help me if she comes across some of this stuff.
Arrested, much as I love it, doesn't lend itself that well to the summer rewind format. They'd all wind up like some of my thinner "30 Rock" reviews, where I just list stuff that was funny.
Plus, I still owe people those "Sports Night" reviews I've been promising forever, and I need to do season two of "The Wire," and those two should more than keep me occupied.
I followed it for a while, but it's one of several that I realized I didn't miss when I didn't immediately get around to buying the latest collection. Given both the economy and my free time (or lack thereof), a title's gotta be really special in some way for me to stick with it.
From Jan:
Alan, as a "Brotherhood" fan, I'd be interested to know when you find out anything about the show. The last show of this season was brilliant.
And I'm hoping a "Middleman" DVD set comes out soon. I missed one of the episodes, and it was never repeated again. That was such a fun show.
I wish you had posted more about "Skins" along the way. I, too, had some episodes I hadn't seen on my DVR, but the way BBC America listed the content, I thought I had seen some that I hadn't. So I missed two crucial episodes. Now I've got it on series recording, and I'm hoping to pick them up at some point, but it would have been better to see them in order. I often wondered because the summary listed on my TV didn't seem to fit what I saw in the episodes themselves. Did you find that to be the case? Anyway, at least the DVD of Season 1 is out, and Season 2 comes out in April (already pre-ordered).
Re the Oscar nominations: I hope "Slumdog Millionaire" wins it. I just love that movie. And seeing Dev Patel from "Skins" in a completely different type of role was great. I haven't seen all of the contenders, so I can't speak for some of them, but while I thought Heath Ledger's performance in "Dark Knight" was great, I found Batman's growly, weird voice very off-putting. I wouldn't consider the movie as a whole a best picture contender.
As far as the SAG awards went, I really didn't think Hugh Laurie should have won this year. I've sort of given up on the show. He's a good actor, but the story lines are pretty much always the same—and I don't care for Chase and Cameron OR the newbies. I thought Jon Hamm would have been a better choice or Michael C. Hall. Unfortunately, my DVR is not working properly, so somehow I managed to miss an entire hour of the awards.
Guess I don't really have a question right this minute (I wish I could think of the ones I've thought of in the past!), but I did have some thoughts about old posts—"Brotherhood," "Middleman," and "Skins," so I'm glad you're doing these open posts from time to time. I never miss your postings, and the people who write comments seem unusually thoughtful and intelligent, so your blog is a pleasure to read. Thanks.
I often wondered because the summary listed on my TV didn't seem to fit what I saw in the episodes themselves. Did you find that to be the case?
Yeah, there was a lot of confusion among the listings services between various episodes with the same title. So the description for the first "Jal" would instead deal with events from the second "Jal," that sort of thing.
Oh, and I interviewed the "Skins" co-creator, Jamie Brittain, when I was at press tour, and will have a write-up of that close to when the new series debuts.
Thanks for the info Alan. I'll look forward to the posting on the new "Skins."
Why do you think Kings was moved to Sunday and Southland put in the Thursday 10 PM slot?
Was there a Southland preview during the TCA?
So Pettitte is back and the rotation is finally complete. With all the players the Yankees have brought in how do you see them doing this season?
One of the shows I wish you could have blogged about "back in the day" is Twin Peaks....I know you have your summer series set for this year, but was wondering if you were a Peaks fan and what you thought about all the symbolism in there? It was a hard one to figure out most times.
They did a session for it and showed clips, but I haven't seen anything like a full pilot.
As for the Kings/Southland switch, it had something to do with a complicated deal with John Wells, who produces Southland and who agreed to (or asked for) three more episodes of ER.
Again, it's best not to try to understand the logic of most NBC moves these days. I'm sure it makes sense to someone internally, but there aren't enough clues for us in the real world to play along.
Beats the hell out of me. Can Posada still catch? If not, do we have anyone better than Jose Molina to throw out there every day? Who's the center fielder? Can Cano rebound, or have pitchers figured him out?
Lotta question marks, even with the huge payroll. But the Tex signing made me very happy.
Alan, do you have any updates on the George R.R. Martin book series, A Song of Ice and Fire being converted to seasonal shows on HBO? Last I heard we were supposed to see something in 2009. Wondering if it's still in the works. I read the first book, A Game of Thrones and it felt like the the Sopranos in Middle Earth.
Kaiser, never read GRRM, so no opinion. Friends of mine are big fans, though. I read very little pure sci-fi and/or fantasy books.
Okay, we're almost at the 24 hour mark, so I'll take a couple more before shutting it down for another week or two.
Aw, crud!
Alan, hate to tell you, but the Disney princess phase of childhood lasts for years. Many years. Way longer than the Barney phase, even. Hope you enjoy it :-)
From what little you saw of Southland, what is your impression? Is there a positive "buzz" for it, or just wishful thinking on the part of NBC?
In the interest of full disclosure, I was out of the room doing an interview when they showed the "Southland" clip reel, so I have no impression of it.
And that wraps up this round of Q&A. We'll try this again either next week, or maybe in two weeks to let the questions build up again.
ALL TV: Christmas in the West Wing
Star-Ledger Staff
WEST WING " creator Aaron Sorkin is the best kind of puppet master. He lets you see your heartstrings as he tugs at them, but it still works. He's Capra-esque in his shamelessness; "The West Wing " can be just as corny and transparent as "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," and just as entertaining.
Tonight's Christmas episode (9 p.m., Channel 4) doesn't fail to pull out all the stops, including a passel of smiling elementary schoolers, a slow-witted homeless man, a horrifying story about a gay-bashed teenager and a tear-jerking story about twin brothers who died in Vietnam, all culminating in a military funeral set to a choral version of "The Little Drummer Boy."
On a weekly basis, "The West Wing" takes cheap ideas like those and elevates them to something special, thanks to a perfectly drawn cast of characters and some very specific writing.
Martin Sheen has rightly gotten acclaim as the president, whom he often plays as a scholarly uncle who finally has the power to make everyone listen to his lectures on national parks and Greek mythology. (The success of the show, which casually references deep thinkers like scientific author Stephen Jay Gould, gives new hope to the idea of erudition in prime time.) But this is truly an ensemble, and one of the best in recent memory.
Richard Schiff gives the clich of the idealistic speechwriter new life by playing him with the sad eyes of a man whose ideals have been betrayed yet who keeps on fighting for them. Rob Lowe and Bradley Whitford give morally questionable layers to their handsome heroes, and the divine Allison Janney has been a revelation as the press secretary who has defined herself through her work and can't figure out whether she should date nice-guy reporter Timothy Busfield.
The only cast member who doesn't seem to be fitting in is Moira Kelly as a political consultant; either she or the producers need to decide whether her character's supposed to be a pragmatist or simply self-involved.
Sorkin doesn't shy away from issues, and while the show has a decided liberal bent - it's about a Democratic administration, after all - he always gives weight to the other side of the spectrum. When one character tonight insists the administration needs to pass legislation against hate crimes, another convincingly argues that if we start policing people based on thoughts, we open up a very uncomfortable legal can of worms.
There have been more thoughtful dramas in recent memory, as well as more emotionally satisfying ones, but few have combined the two as brilliantly as "The West Wing." It's easily the best new show of the season, and until "The Sopranos" returns next month, it may be the best show on television. - A.S.
My question in the free for all is - when is Dancing with the Stars usually on (months)? and when do they announce who the stars will be?
I ask because Donny Osmond (oh, stop laughing) said he's "seriously considering it" and I would have thought by now it would have been a yes or no.
I really don't watch DWTS but would for Donny, Scott or, I'll admit, Josh Groban (he's cute, even if he's what? 27?)
Brendan McCarthy said...
Re: Lance Reddick.
Was he not in the premiere of lost? Wasn't that him as a "detective" at Hurley's house?
@ Brendan: No.
(hence my having to tag the most popular shows by season)
and let me just say thanks again for that.
I'm headed for season 3 of HIMYM any day now. (and someday, Grey's, Chuck, and I've already done this with season 4 of House and possibly season 1 of Mad Men - I can't remember. i can't imagine i took that much time - considering the number of comments, but i think i did)
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Big Love: season three premiere open thread
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With all the fish back in the tunnel, I set up the males tank with my friend Mark Dickinson filled it up and left it for a week to test for leaks.
Unfortunately, it lost around a inch of water level over the week so I emptied the pond and left it to dry before resealing the bottom drain and waste pipe.
I've been filling it today and just hoping the work I've done fixes the problem.
The main pond has been ticking along nicely and I've been holding it in the low 20's Celcius. Solar gain in the polytunnel has helped heat the pond up.
The last few days I noticed some irritation on the koi's skin so brought the microscope out this evening, took some mucus scrapes from the koi and found this blighter.
So I've started treating with Fluke M which gives me a chance to finish off the males tank while the medication is doing it's thing.


text:
package org.immopoly.android.app;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLEncoder;

import org.immopoly.android.R;
import org.immopoly.android.c2dm.C2DMessaging;
import org.immopoly.android.constants.Const;
import org.immopoly.android.helper.Settings;
import org.immopoly.android.helper.TrackingManager;
import org.immopoly.android.helper.WebHelper;
import org.immopoly.android.model.ImmopolyException;
import org.immopoly.android.model.ImmopolyUser;
import org.immopoly.android.tasks.Result;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import com.google.android.apps.analytics.GoogleAnalyticsTracker;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.AlertDialog;
import android.content.DialogInterface;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.preference.PreferenceManager;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.Window;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class UserLoginActivity extends Activity {

	public static final int RESULT_REGISTER = 4321;
	private GoogleAnalyticsTracker tracker;
	private Handler toggleProgressHandler;
	public static final int MIN_PASSWORTH_LENGTH = 4;
	private static final int MIN_USERNAME_LENGTH = 1;

	@Override
	protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
		tracker = GoogleAnalyticsTracker.getInstance();
		// Start the tracker in manual dispatch mode...

		tracker.startNewSession(TrackingManager.UA_ACCOUNT,
				Const.ANALYTICS_INTERVAL, getApplicationContext());
		tracker.trackPageView(TrackingManager.VIEW_LOGIN);
		requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
		// init login
		toggleProgressHandler = new Handler();
		setContentView(R.layout.user_login_activity);

	}

	public void registerUser(View v) {
		setResult(RESULT_REGISTER);
		finish();
	}

	public void loginUser(View v) {

		EditText username = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.user_name);

		if (username.getText().toString().length() >= MIN_USERNAME_LENGTH) {
			EditText userPassword = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.user_password);
			if (userPassword.getText().length() >= MIN_PASSWORTH_LENGTH) {
				// register
				new LoginUserTask().execute(username.getText().toString(),
						userPassword.getText().toString());
			} else {
				Toast.makeText(
						this,
						getString(R.string.password_min_lenght,
								MIN_PASSWORTH_LENGTH), Toast.LENGTH_LONG)
						.show();
			}
		} else {
			Toast.makeText(
					this,
					getString(R.string.username_min_lenght, MIN_USERNAME_LENGTH),
					Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
		}

	}

	private void toggleProgress() {
		toggleProgressHandler.post(new Runnable() {
			public void run() {
				View progress = findViewById(R.id.login_progress);
				if (progress.getVisibility() == View.GONE) {
					progress.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
					findViewById(R.id.login).setVisibility(View.GONE);
					findViewById(R.id.register).setVisibility(View.GONE);
					findViewById(R.id.forgot_password).setVisibility(View.GONE);
				} else {
					progress.setVisibility(View.GONE);
					findViewById(R.id.login).setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
					findViewById(R.id.register).setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
					findViewById(R.id.forgot_password).setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
				}
			}
		});
	}

	private class LoginUserTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, ImmopolyUser> {
		Result result = new Result();
		@Override
		protected ImmopolyUser doInBackground(String... params) {
			String username = params[0];
			String password = params[1];
			JSONObject obj = null;
			ImmopolyUser user=null;

			try {
				toggleProgress();
				obj = WebHelper.getHttpsData(
						new URL(WebHelper.SERVER_HTTPS_URL_PREFIX
								+ "/user/login?username="
								+ URLEncoder.encode(username) + "&password="
								+ URLEncoder.encode(password)), false,
						UserLoginActivity.this);
				if (obj != null && obj.has(Const.MESSAGE_IMMOPOLY_EXCEPTION)) {
					result.exception = new ImmopolyException(UserLoginActivity.this, obj);
				} else {
					user = ImmopolyUser.getInstance();
					user.fromJSON(obj);
					if(user != null && user.getToken().length() > 0)
						result.success=true;
				}
			} catch (ImmopolyException e) {
				e.printStackTrace();
				result.exception = e;
			} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
				e.printStackTrace();
				result.exception = new ImmopolyException(e);
			}

			toggleProgress();
			return user;
		}

		@Override
		protected void onPostExecute(ImmopolyUser user) {
			if (result.success) {
				UserDataManager.setToken(UserLoginActivity.this,user.getToken());

				// c2dm only if wanted
				SharedPreferences sharedPreferences = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(UserLoginActivity.this);
				if(sharedPreferences.getBoolean("notification", true))
					C2DMessaging.register(UserLoginActivity.this,Const.IMMOPOLY_EMAIL);
				setResult(RESULT_OK);
				finish();
			} else if (Settings.isOnline(UserLoginActivity.this)) {
				if(result.exception != null )
					showLoginFailedDialog(result.exception.getMessage());
				else
					showLoginFailedDialog("merkwürdiger Fehler, bitte versuche es nochmal!");
//				Toast.makeText(UserLoginActivity.this,R.string.toast_wrong_username_or_pasword,Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
			} else {
				showLoginFailedDialog(getString(R.string.toast_no_connection));
//				Toast.makeText(UserLoginActivity.this,, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
			}
		}

		private void showLoginFailedDialog(String message) {
			AlertDialog.Builder dialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(UserLoginActivity.this);
			dialog.setTitle(getString(R.string.login_failed));
			dialog.setMessage(message);
			dialog.setPositiveButton(getString(R.string.button_mist), null );
			dialog.show();
		}
	}

	public void recoverPassword(View v) {
		EditText username = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.user_name);
		EditText userEmail = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.user_email);

		if ( username.length() == 0 || userEmail.length() == 0 ) {
			// TODO strings
			Toast.makeText( this, "Bitte gib Name und Email-Adresse ein.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG ).show();
			return;
		}

		new RecoverPasswordTask().execute(username.getText().toString(), userEmail.getText().toString() );
	}

	private class RecoverPasswordTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, JSONObject> {
		private String username;
		@Override
		protected JSONObject doInBackground(String... params) {
			username = params[0];
			String email = params[1];
			JSONObject obj = null;
			try {
				toggleProgress();
				StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(
						WebHelper.SERVER_HTTPS_URL_PREFIX + "/user/sendpasswordmail?");
				sb.append("username=").append(URLEncoder.encode(username))
						.append("&email=").append(URLEncoder.encode(email));
				obj = WebHelper.getHttpsData(new URL(sb.toString()), false,
						UserLoginActivity.this);
			} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
				e.printStackTrace();
			} catch (ImmopolyException e) {
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
			toggleProgress();
			return obj;
		}

		@Override
		protected void onPostExecute(JSONObject obj) {
			if (obj == null ) {
				if ( ! Settings.isOnline(UserLoginActivity.this)) {
					Toast.makeText(UserLoginActivity.this, getString(R.string.no_internet_connection),
						Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
				} else {
					Log.e( Const.LOG_TAG, "ooops: " + obj );
				}
			} else if (obj.has("OK")) {
				Toast.makeText(UserLoginActivity.this, getString(R.string.pwd_reset_mail_sent),
						Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
			} else if ( obj.has(Const.MESSAGE_IMMOPOLY_EXCEPTION) ) {
				ImmopolyException exc = new ImmopolyException(UserLoginActivity.this, obj);
				if ( exc.getErrorCode() == ImmopolyException.USER_SEND_PASSWORDMAIL_NOEMAIL )
					startSocialPasswordReset();
				else
					Toast.makeText(UserLoginActivity.this, exc.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
			}
		}

		private void startSocialPasswordReset() {
			AlertDialog.Builder dialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(UserLoginActivity.this);
			dialog.setTitle(getString(R.string.social_pwd_reset_dlg_title));
			dialog.setMessage( getString(R.string.social_pwd_reset_dlg_text));
			dialog.setNegativeButton( getString(R.string.social_pwd_reset_dlg_cancel), null );
			dialog.setPositiveButton( getString(R.string.social_pwd_reset_dlg_ok), new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
				public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
					Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
					intent.setType("message/rfc822");
					intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[] { "immopolyteam@gmail.com" });
					intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, getString(R.string.social_pwd_reset_mail_subject));
					intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT,
							getString(R.string.social_pwd_reset_mail_text1) + username + getString(R.string.social_pwd_reset_mail_text2) );
					startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, getString(R.string.social_pwd_reset_intent_title)));
				}
			} );
			dialog.show();
		}
	}
}

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Đorđe Simeunović (; born 26 April 1995) is a Serbian professional basketball player for Leyma Básquet Coruña of the Spanish LEB Oro.

Professional career
In February 2021, Simeunović signed for the Bosnian team Borac Banja Luka. In August 2022, he signed for Leyma Básquet Coruña of the Spanish LEB Oro.

References

External links
 Profile at aba-liga.com
 Profile at eurobasket.com
 Profile at beobasket.net

1995 births
Living people
ABA League players
Basketball League of Serbia players
Básquet Coruña players
KK Mega Basket players
KK FMP players
OKK Beograd players
OKK Borac players
KK Vršac players
KK Smederevo players
KK Igokea players
KK Napredak Aleksinac players
Rouen Métropole Basket players
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbian expatriate basketball people in France
Serbian expatriate basketball people in Spain
Serbian men's basketball players
Sportspeople from Kruševac
Small forwards
Shooting guards