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Welcome to Married Life: 16 Months!
Okay, I know I am already 3 days late with this and I don't even have any pictures. :( We have been just crazy this week - we are almost done painting! - and I tried to take some bunny pictures of Cory, but needed Brian to help me since Cory isn't exactly into holding still!
Anyway... I've been writing this every time I notice something I want to document. So here is month 16 in review.
Time's flying by! My baby isn't a baby any more, that is for sure!
Oh, and that was his first ever night away from Mommy!
Now it seems he's figured out that he can copy what we say. If it's a simple word he will give it a try and more often than not it's a reasonably good representation of the word. Look out world, Cory's talking!
And just yesterday he said Baby when looking at a doll and having me say the word.
These last two he's kind of been saying since he was about 7 months old. But he really doesn't actually call us by name.
Daddy's teaching him things like tickling, where he will go pull up Brian's shirt and "tickle" his belly! And also where his own belly is. He will now pull up his shirt and pat his belly when you ask him where it is!
His 4th molar finally popped through so he now has 12 teeth, including one molar on each side top and bottom. We're starting to use the silverware, but no idea which hand he will be yet.
He's definitely becoming more independent and we're working on him coming when we call him. Or not running away when we tell him to. He doesn't particularly want to hold your hand unless you're going the way he wants. That means that he doesn't get to walk.
In general though he's pretty sweet and a happy little guy!
Tomorrow (probably today for most of you) we are going to the waterslides in Chelan. They have some kiddy slides and I think if I go down with him he will love them.


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From being the home of the 1217 Magna Carta, one of history's most important surviving documents that formed English law, and the Mappa Mundi, an outstanding treasure of the medieval world, to iconic cider making heritage, internationally renowned beef and the site of the Battle of the Roses, Herefordshire couldn't have more to offer the culture vulture. The legendary landmarks of kings, saints and poets dot trails of historic towns and villages packed with myths, folklore and factual material to enthral you time and time again. Explore Herefordshire History & Heritage and get your trip started. For more great ideas use our handy Great Combo Destinations in Herefordshire Guide.
Herefordshire Historic Churches Trust is a charity for all those who love church buildings. Once the strongly beating hearts of our rural communities, who can imagine a Herefordshire landscape without a tower or spire in the villages and towns? But many of the churches are elderly and in need of support, as we all do as we get older! Herefordshire Historic Churches Trust (HHCT) exists to help churches and communities help themselves; giving grants and loans, raise awareness of the wonderful heritage these buildings represent and aim to attract newcomers into some of the most beautiful and historic buildings in the county. Of the 240 churches in Herefordshire around 150 of our church buildings are listed as Grade I or Grade II*, making them hugely valuable architecturally as well as societally. Part of a continuum that has lasted for generations, in some cases for the best part of a thousand years, they are part of a shared history for Herefordshire communities and without them, our lives would be so much the poorer. HHCT hold events like our popular Music in Quiet Places series, an annual coffee morning, Church Crawl, Silent Film and Ride and Stride, with new ideas and events […]
The Waterworks Museum – Hereford is a brilliant day out for the whole family as well as the engineering and history enthusiast. Suitable for all ages, this Museum is open one day a week – on a Tuesday between 11am and 4pm, and on 20 in-steam family days each year (Sundays and bank holidays). The Museum Charting the heritage of Herefordshire's water supply, the Waterworks Museum – Hereford houses a unique collection of working industrial artifacts concerned with the supply of potable water, all in the authentic surroundings of a Victorian waterworks building and grounds. It might not be obvious, but the museum is a time-capsule of social history and the public health development in Herefordshire and beyond. The Museum has possibly the widest chronological range of working water-pumping devices in Britain, with exhibits spanning from 1850 to 2000, whilst authentic working replicas cover some of the earliest water-raising devices of the Greek and Roman periods. The Museum is home to more than thirty working engines of all types. From early beam engines to internal combustion, and everything in between including gas and diesel engines and the UK's best collection of hot air engines. Virtually all the engines and pumps are among the last remaining […]
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The Black and White House Museum is a 17th Century timber-framed building Black and White House Museum is a newly re-opened and refurbished magnificent Jacobean half-timbered building in the heart of Hereford City, furnished in period style. Built in 1621 and home in the past to butchers, saddlers and bankers. Explore the rooms which give a glimpse into daily life in the 17th Century. Including fashion, dining and bedrooms. Learn about the city during the Civil War. Hands on activities for children and families. For those unable to climb the stairs, a virtual tour is situated on the fully-accessible ground floor. There are also Braille and tactile images for the blind and visually impaired. Note parking is available close by. Take a look at the council car parks page. There are public toilet facilities nearby, but not on site. Opening times: Normal Hours Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 4pm and Sundays: 11.30-2.30 Admission charges Adults £2.50 Children £1.50 (under 5s free) Family ticket £7.50 (2 adults and up to 3 children) Access to ground floor only £1.50 Adult annual pass £7.50 Child annual pass £4.50 Family annual access £22.50 Facebook: www.facebook.com/herefordmuseums
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The jewel in the crown of Herefordshire homes Hellens Manor still serves as a residence but is also open to the public, administered by the Pennington-Mellor-Munthe Charity Trust, and hosting tour groups as well as cultural events such as lectures, concerts, school field-trips, and literary discussions, forming a key part of the cultural life of Much Marcle. The inside of the manor is impressive with Tudor style architecture and fine delicacies. The manor was originally occupied by French Monks but a short while after in the year of 1096 the manor was granted to the De Balun family who became witnesses of the signing of the Magna Carta. In 1301 Hellens went to Lords Audley, a nephew James who was companion to the Black Prince rented the manor for a pair of silver spurs. Afterwards he then leased the manor to Walter De Helyon who then later gave his name to the house. Over the following centuries the manor passed through several hands including those of Richard Walwyn who became occupier of Hellens Manor in the late 14th century, in the 15th century the wealthy family made many changes to the house. The Audleys and Walwyns held court in the […]
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Churches tell a story, many stories – of families, of political intrigue and social change, of architecture, and changes in belief. Herefordshire Churches Tourism Group is a network of some of the best churches and chapels in the county that have dominated the landscape and life of communities for more than a thousand years. What will you find when you enter the door? A source of fascination, awe, or a deep sense of peace? Here people have come and still come, generation on generation, seeking the place of their ancestors or solace for the present. Our churches still play a significant part in the life of our communities. Some act as community centres with modern facilities, others have developed their churchyards to attract wildlife, all serve as living monuments to our heritage and history. Often set in beautiful landscapes, with wonderful features and architecture, visiting our churches can enhance your appreciation and enjoyment of Herefordshire.
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Let the Hereford Guild of Guides take you around the historic city of Hereford Guided Walks in the historic city of Hereford Guided Walks 2019 from 20th April until 31st October Times Mon-Sat at 11.30; Sundays 14.30 Starting from main entrance to the Cathedral Tickets from Cathedral Shop/Guide if shop is closed Charge adult £5; child 6-12 years £1 Duration approx. 11/2 hours Just turn up – we'd love to show you our historic city In addition – Booked walks for groups all year round Booked walk themes Historic walks Haunting & Horrors of Hereford Famous people of Hereford River Wye Elgar Musical Tour (Three Choirs Festival only) The Civil war Historic Houses and Streets Others by arrangement including Virtual Tours
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Home of the Mappa Mundi Hereford Cathedral is built on a place of worship used since Saxon times. It contains some of the finest examples of art and architecture from Norman times to the present day, including the famous Mappa Mundi, the medieval Chained Library and the Hereford Magna Carta. Hereford's elegantly restored Cathedral Close sits at the heart of our historic city and diocese, with new social spaces, artworks and interpretation for you to enjoy. Mappa Mundi The Mappa Mundi is a unique medieval treasure, recording how scholars interpreted the world over 700 years ago. More than a thousand drawings and inscriptions show cities and towns, Biblical events, plants, animals, birds, strange creatures and monstrous races. The map bears the name of its author 'Richard of Haldingham or Lafford' (Holdingham and Sleaford in Lincolnshire). Recent research suggests a date of about 1300 for the creation of the map. Mappa Mundi is drawn on a single sheet of vellum (calf skin) measuring 64″ by 52″ (1.58 x 1.33 metres), tapering towards the top with a rounded apex. The geographical material of the map is contained within a circle measuring 52″ in diameter and reflects the thinking of the medieval church […]
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Visit Hereford's Cider Museum and explore the story of traditional cider making. Learn how the apples were milled and pressed and how the resulting juice was fermented to produce cider. Herefordshire is world famous for its cider and here is a wonderful way to discover its history and the traditions of how it was made, right through to the modern day. A tour of the Museum reveals the history of cidermaking and visitors have the opportunity of walking through original champagne cider cellars and viewing a cooper's workshop, vat house and cider making memorabilia. View a rare collection of engraved English Lead Crystal cider glasses dating from the 18th century onwards and a collection of 19th century watercolours which were commissioned in 1865 to produce the Herefordshire Pomona – a book illustrating the different varieties of apples and pears grown. Group visits are welcome including school groups and research facilities are available by appointment. GIFT SHOP & TEAROOM – Browse the gift shop with its abundance of cider and perries, along with Hereford Cider Brandy and locally produced gin, vodka and liqueurs as well as a selection of preserves, confectionery, books and individual gift ideas. A tea room is available […]
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"14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff." (Isaiah 41:14-15).
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A pair I'd purchased direct from Sony was recently robbed from me and I'm looking to replace them, but not for the price Sony sells them, if I don't have to.
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I like how flat they are, sound wise.
Thanks for the response, Nick!
...somehow I knew It'd be you.
It turns out that my MDR-7506's were not actually stolen; they were temporarily misplaced.
Although it's too bad that the counterfeit MDR-V6's on eBay were purchased for me by a friend, I'm very happy to have my legitimate MDR-7506's back.
A lesson to be learned: look harder before assuming something is gone forever and don't buy MDR-V6's from Hong Kong on eBay.
newbuild wrote: A lesson to be learned: look harder before assuming something is gone forever and don't buy MDR-V6's from Hong Kong on eBay.
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My landlord did for me.
He took the chance on them with his money!
I know better than that, which is why the two pairs of MDR-7506's I've owned were purchased direct from Sony.
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Specter of Eminent Domain Haunts Atlantic City Property Owners
By Andrew Koehlinger
Rumblings of eminent domain abuse roll through Atlantic City, where the city and its partner in crime–the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA) — are once again up to no good. The CRDA is moving forward with plans to use eminent domain to seize at least 62 homes in the South Inlet, holding three informational meetings in July for affected citizens.[1]
News reports indicate the CRDA wants to transfer that property to a private developer who will "redevelop" the area by building luxury condominiums, restaurants, specialty stores and boutiques to compliment the city's newest casino, Revel.[2] The project is part of a larger redevelopment scheme outlined in the City Tourism District's Master Plan, which means even more private property could be threatened in the future.
Charlie Birnbaum is one of the property owners in the targeted area. His three-story home, which has been in the family for 43 years, sits in a prime location just a block from the ocean. From its rooftop, he can see "his lighthouse" (otherwise known as the Absecon Lighthouse). Over the years, the home itself has become its own light on a hill in the midst of life's tumultuous storms.
A piano prodigy, Charlie's parents dedicated their lives to his success. They moved the family from San Francisco to Philadelphia so Charlie could attend the Curtis Institute of Music. Charlie's talent grew; he auditioned for the Philadelphia Orchestra and Leonard Bernstein and performed at Robin Hood Dell and the Academy of Music. But after failing to win the Leventritt, a premier international piano competition, Charlie discovered a new way to continue being his parent's hope for success.
The birth of his first child Rachel catalyzed his decision to forgo the brutal practice regime required to prepare for performances, for the more flexible lifestyle of a piano tuner for Atlantic City's casinos. He has had the honor of tuning for artists like Frank Sinatra, Bon Jovi, and most recently Beyoncé. The job allowed him to stay near his parent's home, raise a family, and tend to his aging parents.
Sadly tragedy struck several years after his father's death when a crack addict broke into his parent's house and murdered his 86-year-old mother. But that same home proved to be a refuge. Charlie grieved the loss of his mother by transforming the troubled parlor into a quite sanctuary complete with two rebuilt grand pianos. Charlie goes there daily to "touch the face of God" by playing the gift of music his parents gave him. But now the CRDA wants to take away this daily reprieve.[3]
Charlie is not the only property owner in Atlantic City who has found himself battling the unholy alliance between tax-hungry governments and land-hungry developers. In 1997, the CRDA attempted to take the property of elderly widow Vera Coking and transfer it to another private individual: Donald Trump. Trump convinced the CRDA to use its eminent domain power to take Vera's home so he could construct a limousine parking lot for the customers of his Trump Plaza Casino and Hotel. IJ successfully challenged the taking of Vera Coking's property in New Jersey Superior Court, and she enjoyed her home of more than three decades for another ten years.
Then in 2007, Atlantic City officials tried to designate the business of Quang Ha and those of other small property owners in a 24-acre area around the former Sands casino as "in need of redevelopment," in order to seize the property through eminent domain and transfer it to Pinnacle Entertainment for its new casino. Quang had opened his jewelry store after fleeing from communist Vietnam where his business was seized for being profitable. After 32 days at sea and five months in a refugee camp, Quang reached the "land of the free" only to have what he worked so hard to build threatened again by the government. Ultimately, Quang Ha, IJ and New Jersey eminent domain attorney Bill Potter successfully convinced city officials to rescind their redevelopment designation and Pinnacle Entertainment abandoned its casino project.
In all three cases the CRDA acted as the agent for powerful special interests. Each time they have sought to tear down what property owners had worked so hard to build-up and rehabilitate, while still claiming they were "taking care" of residents.
The Institute for Justice worked alongside Vera Coking and Quang Ha, and will now again join forces with Charlie and other small business and homeowners in Atlantic City to defend their right to keep what they've worked so hard to own against the powerful interests of politically-connected developers. Atlantic City should remember the consequences of their past sins and think twice before abusing its power of eminent domain again.
[1] http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/press/casinos_tourism/crda-tells-south-inlet-residents-its-plans-to-move-them/article_caded236-d07b-11e1-a9d6-001a4bcf887a.html
[2] http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/communities/atlantic-city_pleasantville_brigantine/crda-plans-for-atlantic-city-s-south-inlet-section-include/article_1edcb3b8-a5d3-11e1-b40d-0019bb2963f4.html?mode=story
[3] http://www.philly.com/philly/news/124867814.html


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Review: Blue Lagoon
June 13, 2018 / Stephen Hall
Designer: Reiner Knizia
Artist: Tomek Larek
Publisher: Blue Orange Games
Category: Route Building, Set Collection
Blue Lagoon is a return-to-basics for renowned designer Reiner Knizia. In the spirit of two of his classic games, Blue Lagoon is a great choice for kids and adults.
Blue Lagoon is the newest game from Reiner Knizia, one of the most prolific designers of all time. The game's publisher, Blue Orange, primarily creates products aimed at a younger audience, but they usually put out one or two "gamer's games" per year, such as New York 1901, Photosynthesis, or Kingdomino. This year, like every year, I was interested to see what their big release would be, and when I heard it was a Knizia design, my excitement level jumped.
Blue Lagoon is played on a hex grid board, which shows eight islands divided by water. Each island has spaces for resource/statuette markers, and at the start of the game, these pieces are mixed together and randomly distributed in these spaces. Each player receives a number of "villager" tokens and five hut pieces in his color. When the game is all set up, it will look like this:
The game is divided into two phases: Exploration and Settlement. In each, players take turns placing their villagers on the board, either on land or on water. The gameplay is similar in both phases, but with some minor differences.
During Exploration, players may either:
Place a villager on any open water space, or
Place a villager or hut on any land space, so long as it's next to one of their existing pieces. As an example:
In this image, the villager on the water space was placed on a previous turn. Now, another villager can be added on land, since it's adjacent to an existing one. The player adds the piece to the board, and also takes the yellow resource marker.
In this way, players will form "chains" of villager tokens around the board. As play continues, players will collect statuette markers (brown) and resource markers (white, yellow, green, or blue), as shown above. During the scoring rounds, these items can earn the player points. After a few turns, the board will look something like this:
Players continue to place villages/huts until either:
All villagers and huts have been placed, or
All resource tokens have been collected (brown statuette tokens may still be left on the board)
When one of these things happens, the game has reached its midpoint, and a scoring phase occurs. Players can score points in multiple ways, including:
Having their pieces on seven or eight islands
Having a continuous chain of their pieces that connects multiple islands
Having the most pieces on an island
Collecting sets of like resources
Collecting sets of all four resources
Collecting statuettes
That may sound like a lot to keep track of, but the scoring system is actually quite straightforward and it moves quickly.
Once scoring is complete, players clear the board of all pieces except huts. At this time, the board is reset, with all resource and statuette tokens being redistributed on their starting spaces. The board will look very similar to setup, only now with huts already in place.
Players then begin the second phase of the game, Settlement. This works a lot like Exploration, except now, players may only place villagers next to their own pieces. To put another way, in the first half of the game, players can hop around the board, putting villagers on any open water space. In the second half, this is no longer allowed; the huts now act as starting points, and chains of villager tokens must always trace back to a hut.
The Exploration phase (and the game itself) ends the same way as the Settlement phase: all villagers are on the board, or all resource tokens have been claimed. When one of these triggers occurs, there is another scoring round, and the player with the highest total score wins.
Knizia has created dozens of amazing games throughout his career. His designs always manage to offer surprising depth with minimal complexity. Blue Lagoon is no exception. This game feels reminiscent of two other Knizia classics; it mashes together the route-building of Through the Desert with the two-act structure of Amun-Re.
For such a simple game system, Blue Lagoon has a fair amount of strategy. The turn sequence is little more than "you place a piece, I place a piece," but players constantly find themselves torn between multiple desirable goals. Is it better to nab resource tokens before others get them, or try to get on all eight islands? And what about huts? What is the best way to place them during the first half to maximize the outcome of the second half? None of the decisions are excruciating on their own, but together—trying to balance resource collection, area majority, and route building, all while working to prevent opponents from doing the same—every move feels like it matters.
I enjoyed Blue Lagoon. Clocking in at around a half-hour, it moves along at a nice pace. The game scales well between player counts, but I prefer it with three or four; more players means a tighter game with a more claustrophobic board. It also has an attractive visual appeal, particularly the wooden resource markers and huts.
All told, Blue Lagoon is a fun outing in the family game genre. Younger children might struggle to grasp its strategy, but kids over, say, nine years old shouldn't have a problem with it. It really encapsulates Knizia's design style, and coming from me, that's high praise. I recommend giving this one a try, preferably with the Moana soundtrack on in the background.
A review copy was provided by Blue Orange Games.
Stephen Hall
My geek roots run deep. I have been a gamer and comic book reader since I was a kid, but tabletop games are my #1 hobby.


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So, what do I need to bring on the trip?
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Gadgets. Almost ready. remember to charge.
Hmm. Cake or not for breakfast? All these choices… Let's call it brunch…. Time to celebrate vacation, anyway.


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Ruth Clark: Here in Hereford — Neighborhood Tales
Soon Gene and I will have been here 20 years. When we came, the electricity failed regularly during the monsoon season, irregularly at other times; thus there would be no water, heat or cooling; you never knew when the loss would happen or how long it would last. The first family into our small, sparsely populated locality, carved away from the uniform monotony of brushland, lives up the hill from us. Leslie and her husband arrived at least five years earlier than we. At that earlier time there was only a party line for telephone; that inconvenience had ended before we arrived. All roads in our area are user maintained. For shared roads, one's natural tendency is to accept the potholes and wait for another person to blink first. Garbage pickup was not available here until 15 years ago, so some burning went on, which is dangerous.
Downhill from others, with an increasingly sharper slope, our land is the most extensive, and our view is unimpeded. The slope is so steep below us that the property, although owned by someone, is unlikely to be developed unless she, herself, has some personal wish to live there. Some might find our view to be extraordinary. Right now I glance out and see a wide sky filled with fluffy white clouds below and long, gray-blue, almost flat clouds above, which are slowly and independently proceeding north. At the level of earth, a very large mesquite tree has grown where the water drains from the house. A trio of Arizona cypress behind the mesquite, an Italian cypress and an Italian stone pine, along with some pink blooming Texas ranger, block some of the view, but there are openings where the far-downhill cottonwoods of the San Pedro, the gold and green patchwork of the foothills, with scattered, Lego-sized houses, and the higher, soft purple, folded solidities of the Huachucha Mountains are appreciated.
We built the house far back on the nine acre lot and left the other, minimally sized four as a bulwark, for reasons of drainage as well as esthetics. Along with the two earlier, original neighbors, we own our own water well. The eight lots that were wildcatted have only one well for all. Two of those lots have not been developed. One of those has an Airstream slowly deteriorating on it, the other has nothing but the dreary invasive brush, caused by years of roaming, voraciously hungry cattle, heads down, grazing grass to the nub, the same type, uniformly level landscape that lies outside our outside fence. For several years after our arrival you had to watch for the black cattle out on Hereford Road; if you hit one, it was your fault; you paid the bill for your vehicle, and if the cattle owner knew who you were, he or she could demand payment for the loss.
The short share-well tale that follows was recounted to me by Alice Christiansen, who lived in the corner house near the main road. Don and Alice long ago moved back to Washington state, since Alice missed her family. As for the name of anyone living here now, I use a pseudonym. The story begins at a time before our house was started.
The man and young woman next to Don and Alice's house, who at that time were in a ramshackle old single-wide they dragged in, were pretty wild. There was a share-well fund, and the four families who used the well contributed. I suppose the fund was some sort of checking account, and they rotated responsibility. It was under the control of the young third or fourth wife of Bob Potter. Alice said that Bob had married five times in all. Bob had three children, and one boy had serious kidney problems, and later Bob donated a kidney. Bob's wife at the time of the well story had run away from him and left their young daughter, taking with her all the cash she could get her hands on, which included the well-share money. I'm pretty sure that by the time the law caught up with her she had spent it all, and the well fund had to start again from scratch. When we arrived, Bob had obtained the divorce and had immediately married the children's 15 year old baby-sitter. He also had had a vasectomy. Don Christiansen was an ex-Washington detective, and he always maintained that Bob was not a bad fellow. Gene and I thought him somewhat dim; however, the vasectomy obviously was not stupid. Once I had a very short conversation with Bob. He was quiet, and he told me he liked birds. Leslie thought him nefarious and probably still does. She is a dogged complainer to the correct authorities if people do not uphold reasonable standards, and I take her point. She's the one who put in the road in the first place, which had attracted the at best inferior and at worst slap-dash and tumble-down housing. I think that still makes her angry.
Gene and I still were relatively new to the area when a disreputable looking RV appeared on Bob's four. Leslie said that the occupant was the new wife's brother, who had a petty criminal record. The loud rumble of motorcycles began to be heard late at night. The teen aged bride's parents also were hanging around. I never glimpsed the father of the bride, but I heard his nickname was "Smokey". At least I assume it was a nickname. The family was known around the nearby town for not paying rent and squatting. The mother was heavy and did not seem to have many front teeth. We went to town and got as close as we could to one of the properties from which they laborously had been extracted, as our imitation of an inspection, but no outside traces of damage were seen. We did find out that Smokey had been eyeing the four behind his son-in-law's place, which belonged to Don and Alice. They were out of town. We e-mailed them about Smokey's intentions, and when they returned, they were prepared to turn him down unless he could come up with the entire price they required in cash. Smokey approached them immediately and was quickly rebuffed. This was at the time Don and Alice had decided to return to Washington, and when they sold their house, they let us know the buyer was a border patrol supervisor. Just before that family's arrival, the word must have reached Smokey, because he and his wife suddenly disappeared, as did the son's old RV. They obviously had the routine of a quick exit down pat.
Over time, things have quieted down with Bob. He has replaced the ramshackle house with an inexpensive but decent looking one, and as befits the employee of a well regarded local heating and cooling company, he maintains it pretty well. From the absence of his company truck during the day, he seems to go to work regularly. He used to garden a lot, clad only in short pants and shoes, his long hair hanging free, but now gardening must be in the dead of night. Also that must be when he does all the watering, because share-well owners are annoyed by too abundant water use by one of their numbers. Once a few years ago I saw him staggering about on the road in front of the house, red-faced, seeming to be under the influence of something. Other than having no storage outbuildings, while possessing several junky cars and quite a bit of miscellaneous machinery including hand propelled lawn mowers, as well as various outdoor furniture, a bird bath, and an iron bird cage, there is really little of interest to see at Bob's. We don't wave as we drive past, and he no longer looks up to see who is going by. Some time ago he put up a high chain-link fence. Any fence other than the usual rural wire fence raises one's taxes. We assumed it was because of the javelina, or as a later thought, because of goats. For as long as we can remember, he has had an overgrown area with several large trees in the back, where no-one can see in. Such density so quickly must have required a flood of water.
Continuing downhill from the Potters, the decline becomes close to precipitous. There is a very small, site-built, masonry house with an outbuilding near the bottom. It is gradually coming apart. The heavy clay soil requires reinforcing construction techniques, but this house must have been built quickly and cheaply. It sits at a low point, where the water drains, so over the years, the land has eroded considerably. The house had been built before we came by someone who either died or abandoned the property. Don and Alice's daughter and her husband lived in that house for a while. She worked as the local animal control officer, and her husband walked a gas line looking for leaks. His back gave out, and he did not find another job. Debbie, who was quite energetic, functioned as the main breadwinner. They left the area when Don and Alice did.
A while later, a young couple who had goats and chickens moved in, and occasionally the goats made their way into our property's back area, where I was working on growing trees. They were sweet and docile animals, but I could not have ruminants eat what I had so carefully planted and cared for. On a visit to the family, I found the husband, who had answered the door, defiant about the property rights of the goats. There was a little girl; she came and stood by her father, looked me directly in the eye, and asked me why I wanted to take their house. I explained that I did not want their house, that I already had one. I pointed in its direction. She seemed satisfied with that and went to tell her mother. Her mother came to the door. She said they could not keep the goats. She said her husband was the way he was because he was from California and did not understand how things went here. The family remained for awhile; the father grew a bushy beard and had a strange look on his face. As time went by, I would see the mother sitting with her daughter waiting for the school bus in the morning; she seemed sad and close to tears. The situation did not last long, and soon I saw them no more.
Copyright 2016 Ruth Clark.
Ruth Clark writes and gardens in Hereford, Arizona.
2 comments on "Ruth Clark: Here in Hereford — Neighborhood Tales"
Lisa Meister
You are very good with establishing the setting to go along with the loneliness and poverty of the people. Great job.
ruth clark
Thank you very much, Lisa. I haven't written for many, many years, and it is gratifying to get back to it.
This entry was posted on July 9, 2016 by Vox Populi in Environmentalism, Personal Essays and tagged Here in Hereford, Hereford Arizona, Neighborhood Tales, Ruth Clark.
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Inflation and counter-inflationary policy measures: The case of Germany
: Inflation and counter-inflationary policy measures: The case of Germany
Germany has suffered an inflationary shock broadly commensurate with that of the Euro Area as a whole, with energy playing a slightly larger, food a somewhat smaller than average role. Because of differences in consumption patterns, the current inflationary surge hits low-income households significantly harder than wealthier ones. In addition, exposure to gas heating, which cuts across income brackets, is an important factor. So far nominal wage increases in response to the price shock have been very muted, with no sign of a price-wage spiral.
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Retirement Stories: Ross Davenport
Throughout my career, right from the early days, I'd never thought I'd go to one Olympics, so going to three was for me a huge achievement, and to finish at a home Olympics – why not? If I'm brutally honest, I just made a team, I was hanging on, so there was no better way for me to go out than going to a third Games and it being in London
But even if hadn't have made the team for London, that would have definitely been it. I do think maybe I could have done one more year, but it would have been a case of getting to Barcelona in 2013 almost for the sake of going to another World Championships. I do appreciate that competing for your country is a huge honour, but for me it wasn't the way I wanted to go out. There was a huge question mark over whether I would make the team, and how I would perform, so I wanted to go out on my own terms and not have someone come along and say "your days are numbered, You need to start thinking about something else."
I remember touching the wall in London and going to bed that night and waking up and just thinking, what purpose have I got now? What's my desire? What's my goal in life? And they were all gone. It is an emotional time and if you don't have a support network around you it can be a very, very lonely time. For those three months after London, I wanted to enjoy a home Olympics and all the hype that was still continuing on from the Games, but ultimately you have this dark cloud over you as you don't know what you're going to do next.
Embed from Getty ImagesRoss finished his career with the final of the 4×200 freestyle relay at the London Olympics
I did have help from a lifestyle management consultant at Loughborough. The key message was that, as an athlete, you've got huge dedication and you're motivated to be the best in the world; that's great, and it is a massive skill, but what else are you interested in? I think I was in a minority at the time as for two three years before 2012, I had been thinking about what was going to happen after swimming, even though I didn't have a clear direction of where I was going to go. I had a grown a network of people that I could at least touch base with afterwards; that's something I think is hugely important. You go out into the big wide world and the only connections you have are swimming and you might stay in swimming, you might not. For me it was about growing that network of people that could actually help post-swimming, people that I could actually turn to if needs be.
I always thought that I wanted to go into coaching after I finished swimming and I had an opportunity with Melanie Marshall at the City of Derby. It was great to go back to the club where it all started for me, especially being very close to Mel, having swum with her and kept in touch over the four years before London. Alongside doing that and other things, an opportunity at Derbyshire Cricket Club came to me and I took it, but I soon realised after five days that working in an office selling advertising boards was not what I wanted to do. And even though the coaching side was great ultimately when it came down to it, I didn't want to be a coach either.
It was difficult, I was very fortunate to have people around me who were giving me opportunities and it was also quite exciting but I didn't know what I was going to do. It wasn't through a lack of options and I think if you don't have the options it can be hugely, hugely worrying because as a swimmer you're in this comfort zone, you're in this bubble that people are all around you, and people who are your best friends want to get the best out of you. They ask you 24/7 how they can help, how they can make you the best athlete in the world, and that's gone completely overnight, whipped away from you. I do think that's one thing that sports and governing bodies do quite badly, they remove every network away from you and you don't have anybody to fall back on. Yes in some cases or if you are funded you have a three month period of assistance after you finish, but people don't know what they want to do after three months. I think when you look at other sportsmen and women who get into difficulties, or who get depression, it didn't happen in those first three months, it was in the next 12 months or 24 months that they really got into a dark place and that's because they hadn't got that support network around them.
So early on in my retirement I'd done the things I didn't want to do and I'm really grateful that I had the people taking me on to do those things, but ultimately they were things I didn't want to do. So it was about finding out what it was that I did want to do and I was very fortunate in 2009 there was a connection with the Dame Kelly Holmes Legacy Trust and I became an athlete mentor for them and that was the transition I took after London. I did that for a couple of years, helping disadvantaged, disengaged young people, trying to transition them away from whatever they were doing negatively in their lives to turn it around to a positive and try and better themselves, which I thoroughly enjoyed. But I soon realised that more athletes were coming, more athletes were transitioning out of their sport, and that they wanted this kind of work.
Then I had an opportunity to work for Finis and I didn't want it! I was happy with what I was doing but I had a few interviews and it turned out to be the best decision I ever made. Now I love it and I would say to everybody, I'm so passionate about swimming and I'm so connected to swimming now without having to get wet! It's a perfect scenario.
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New safety station raises questions
Nikasha Dicks
North Augusta City Council unanimously approved a resolution March 17 to enter into a contract with John W. Spratlin and Son to construct the city's third public safety station, but it came with some opposition.
During its regular council meeting, City Administrator Todd Glover was authorized to enter into the agreement with the construction company, which had the lowest bid at $2,069,000.
A majority of the funds for the project - $1,245,637 - will come from Sales Tax II and the remaining $823,363 will come from Sales Tax III.
Mayor Lark Jones noted that the seven bids were close. The highest bid was $2,284,000.
North Augusta Public Safety Station III will be built on Belvedere-Clearwater Road.
The new station raised some concerns from two commissioners from the Belvedere Fire District who were present for the council's meeting.
Stephanie Wright, chairwoman/commissioner for the Belvedere Fire District, said it seems unnecessary to spend money building a new station to serve an area that Belvedere's department is already close to.
"It makes no sense for you to have to come over here when we're right here already. ... It's faster for us to get there," she said after the meeting.
Wright said she fears that the city of North Augusta will "try to annex more in," thus impacting the nearby volunteer fire departments, including Belvedere.
Jimmy Darley, vice chairman/commissioner of the Belvedere Fire District, agreed with Wright, adding that with the new building will come more expenses, and that is something that needs to be considered.
"It starts out a little over $2 million for the building. Then they got maintenance on the building, they got utilities, they got employees, benefits package - the price keeps going up," he said after the meeting.
They both said they hope the city and Belvedere Fire District can come to a common ground and plan to continue talks between the district and the city.
"It's all about providing fire protection for people in the area," said Darley.


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Gulf Disturbance Expected to be a Hurricane at Landfall
500px Mobile App Pulled from Apple Store Over Boobs, Victim of Apple's Bizarre Double Standard When It Comes to Nudie Pics
Jeff Balke
Jeff Balke | January 23, 2013 | 10:00am
The Apple App store has an incredibly byzantine set of rules that make it almost impossible for app developers to navigate. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that the approval process is often random and unevenly applied.
Take for instance the case of 500px, a mobile photo-sharing app not that dissimilar from Instagram or Flickr. Many of its users are professional photographers and, yes, some have nude images in their photostream, but, according to a report from TechCrunch, Apple randomly pulled the app this week after it had been in the store since October 2011.
Apple claims the app makes it too easy for people to find nude images, which seems rather ridiculous considering safe search protecting sensitive eyes (think of the children!!!) from private parts on the phone is automatically turned on and in order to disable it, users have to visit the company's desktop Web site.
But the problem isn't that 500px gives users access to potentially naked humans -- heaven forbid -- but that there are a million ways to find naked pictures and porn on your phone and, more importantly, there are Web apps in the App Store specifically for viewing pictures of naked people.
The most egregious example would be Playboy. Here's its description from the App Store Web site:
Playboy for iPhone is updated with exclusive non-nude girl pictorials and original lifestyle content (Food, Drink, Style, Travel). The app also takes you inside Playboy Magazine, featuring the very best articles from the latest issue. Enjoy a selection of free girl galleries, full-length articles, and downloadable bonus content.
No doubt Apple ninnies would say, "Well, they require a subscription." Um, so what? If that is all it takes to get around the rule, that is easily solved. Besides, if a "web app" is created -- you view those through a browser on your phone rather than through an actual app interface -- you can show whatever you damn well please including actual porn.
For me, the most important question to ask is, why does Apple care? If it weren't for porn, it is very likely many of the things we have come to use every day online -- e-commerce, streaming video -- would not exist, or if they did, they wouldn't be to the extent they are today. People want to look at other people naked. It's just the way it is. Requiring apps to have child safety protection is as far as they should be forced to go. It's all the federal government requires for medicine bottles and movies. Why is it any different for Apple?
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Q: jQuery sort tables I took a lead form this post ( jQuery table sort ) - in trying to do what Im doing...
the code is here.
http://jsfiddle.net/daqGC/
It's not working... any thoughts
Here's the js code. the HTML can be found on jsFiddle.
var user_table = $( '#users' );
$('#company_header, #user_header, #email_header, #type_header')
    .wrapInner('')
    .each(function(){

        var th = $(this),
            thIndex = th.index(),
            inverse = false;

        th.click(function(){

            user_table.find('td').filter(function(){

                return $(this).index() === thIndex;

            }).sortElements(function(a, b){

                return $.text([a]) > $.text([b]) ?
                    inverse ? -1 : 1
                    : inverse ? 1 : -1;

            }, function(){

                // parentNode is the element we want to move
                return this.parentNode;

            });

            inverse = !inverse;

        });

    });

THx

A: The problem you have is you're getting a javascript error: Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method 'sortElements'
You need to include external library: https://github.com/padolsey/jQuery-Plugins/blob/master/sortElements/jquery.sortElements.js
So, all you need to do is, download the .js file and reference it on your page after the jQuery script reference, e.g.:

See your jsFiddle fixed here: http://jsfiddle.net/daqGC/3/

A: You have to load the plugin SortElements to use this function. This is not a native jQuery function.
Use this plugin : https://raw.github.com/padolsey/jQuery-Plugins/master/sortElements/jquery.sortElements.js

A: Adding the ordering by numbers and string, besides using jquery-ui you can improve the interface:

$('#cuerpoTabla thead tr th.string, #cuerpoTabla thead tr th.numerico')
    .wrapInner('')
    .each(function()
    {
        var th = $(this);
        //$('').insertAfter(th);
        th.css("cursor","pointer");
        th.append('');
        var thIndex = th.index();
        var inverse = false;
        th.click(function()
        {
            th.siblings().find("i.ui-icon").removeClass("ui-icon-caret-1-n").removeClass("ui-icon-caret-1-s").addClass("ui-icon-caret-2-n-s");
            th.find("i.ui-icon").removeClass("ui-icon-caret-2-n-s");
            if (inverse) {
                th.find("i.ui-icon").removeClass("ui-icon-caret-1-n");
                th.find("i.ui-icon").addClass("ui-icon-caret-1-s");
            }
            else
            {
                th.find("i.ui-icon").removeClass("ui-icon-caret-1-s");
                th.find("i.ui-icon").addClass("ui-icon-caret-1-n");
            }
            $("#cuerpoTabla").find('td').filter(function()
            {
                return $(this).index() === thIndex;

            }).sortElements(function(a, b)
            {
                if($.isNumeric($.text([a])))
                {
                    x = $.text([a]);
                    y = $.text([b]);
                    return (eval(x) > eval(y)) ?inverse ? -1 : 1: inverse ? 1 : -1;
                }else
                {
                    return $.text([a]) > $.text([b]) ?inverse ? -1 : 1: inverse ? 1 : -1;
                }

            }, function()
            {
                return this.parentNode;
            });
            inverse = !inverse;
        });

    });


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The Long and the Short of Mike Oldfield: "Five Miles Out" and "Crises" (deluxe editions; Mercury, 2013)
Posted on 2014/07/14 by Neil Hobkirk in Music Reviews, Recordings // 0 Comments
Album review by Neil Hobkirk
I remember my first proper sound system, purchased during high school in 1984: Harmon/Kardon HK330I receiver; JBL J216A speakers; and Dual turntable, model number unknown. And of course I remember the first pieces of vinyl I fed it. Among them: Mike Oldfield's Discovery, released that year.
Local college radio spun the record in its entirety at least once, when it luckily caught my adolescent ear. Struck by the strangely proportioned contents, where pop rock songs cohabited space with a twelve-minute instrumental tone poem, I purchased Discovery and soon picked up its predecessors Five Miles Out (1982) and Crises (1983). Both records mark an even more extreme contrast between short tunes and long pieces, with the latter running as long as twenty-four minutes.
Discovery still awaits bells-and-whistles reissue treatment, but the two other titles are now nicely served with Deluxe Editions simultaneously released in 2013, Crises' thirtieth anniversary year. In each case a first disc presents the remastered original album along with additional tracks, while a second CD selects album tracks recorded live in concert. Five Miles Out boasts a third disc, a DVD containing Oldfield's own remix of the album in 5.1 surround sound, plus video content. I'll limit my comments to the CDs, and not touch on the five-disc box set edition of Crises, which likewise includes Oldfield's 5.1 album remix on DVD.
On his previous two LPs, Platinum (1979) and QE2 (1980), Mike Oldfield broke with the album-length compositional template that had governed his initial four. But Five Miles Out was his first to capitalize convincingly on tension between short pop tunes and long tone poems. The twenty-four minute opener "Taurus II" continues thematic material from QE2's "Taurus I." Like the album's other tracks, "Taurus II" fuses acoustic and electric instruments with electronically sampled instruments and sounds courtesy of the nascent sampling technology of the Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument). After an opening theme resembling the resolute tread of a drunken giant, the piece develops unhurriedly, exploring one novel instrumental assortment after another.
Such eclecticism—M.O.'s m.o.—could seem willfully perverse, but Oldfield's sheer delight in new sounds commands the ear's fascination throughout. Besides sampled sounds, "Taurus II" showcases Mike's multitracked guitars, Maggie Reilly's mellifluous vocals, and a restless relationship between percussion, drum kit and drum machine. If this piece tells a story, it's hard to say what it is, but there are at least recognizably stories within the story: in one episode, Reilly sings a lullaby (vocals on "Taurus II" are otherwise wordless); in another, guest Paddy Maloney of The Chieftains brings his uilleann pipes to what sounds like a Celtic kitchen rave-up, complete with background whoops. Eventually the tempo accelerates to fuel a worldbeat disco party, sustained by synth patterns and a vocoder-treated Reilly. The track closes to the same giant's drunken plodding.
That monolithically deliberate theme recurs in the title track, the album's finale, where it enacts the heavy weather jeopardizing an aircraft (the vocals in this tune make the story clear). Though a pop song in its proportions, "Five Miles Out" hits the ear as a mini-fantasia by dint of its confounding busyness and variety. Electronic percussion and further uilleann pipes populate space alongside a full string arrangement. Mike's and Maggie's vocals are variously treated and untreated, with Oldfield adopting different voices to dramatize multiple aspects of the engulfing tumult. Squalling guitars help stage the storm.
The other brief vocal tune is more recognizably pop. "Family Man" exerts the same strong melodic pull as "Five Miles Out" but applies it to a time-honoured topos: attempted seduction of the titular male, narrated sassily by Maggie Reilly. Exclamatory percussion outbursts and assertive synth chords animate a simple song structure. The most distinctive sound comes from Oldfield's electric guitar, gleefully carving upper-register arabesques. The next year, "Family Man" would become his single biggest hit, albeit in the hands of Hall & Oates.
The thirteen-minute "Orabidoo" is a full-on fantasia, exploiting every ingredient in its eccentric recipe to achieve an improbably cohesive whole. The tone poem opens with a pastoral idyll painted delicately by tuned percussion. Someone seems plaintively nostalgic—but for what? Two minutes in, the music morphs into something like a concerto for robot voice and orchestra. Here again Oldfield makes a virtue of the vocoder, effectively contrasting his processed voice with Reilly's as she intones variations on the word "orabidoo." The voices intertwine at length over mechanical-sounding percussion, while faint spoken-word snatches surface intermittently. When the bizarre concerto abruptly ends, the same lumpy percussion continues and underpins a quick fugue executed by piano, keyboards and sampled voices. When spacey synths, tympani and Oldfield's upwardly aspiring guitar enter, along with a less-faint spoken line from Hitchcock's Young and Innocent—"Don't come in again like that. It isn't funny, and I pay someone else to make the orchestrations!"—things turn rhythmically freer and this whole musical thingamajig begins to spin off into the beyond. But "Orabidoo" returns suddenly to terra firma, where the source of nostalgia stands revealed: "Oh how I'll miss you so," confides Reilly to the emerald isle, accompanied only by acoustic guitar and that painterly tuned percussion. The song is "Ireland's Eye," an Oldfield original that closes the piece. Maggie Reilly, it should be noted, is a Scotswoman.
The instrumental "Mount Teidi" follows "Orabidoo" directly. A perfect tiny tone poem conveying the immensity of a vast active volcano in the Canary Islands, the piece evolves along celebratory lines, becoming a veritable overture. At first Oldfield's piercing guitar inscribes the melody carefully over a shimmering synth pattern. A decidedly carefree approach takes over with the entry of multi-part percussion, led by E.L.P.'s Carl Palmer. For me this joyful racket, clinching an exuberant finale, always brings to mind William Walton's Johannesburg Festival Overture (1956), where multiple percussionists drive an equally exhilarating climax. Anyway, this four-minute track is my favourite from the album.
On Crises, Oldfield charted a more commercially successful coexistence of the long and the short. The short tunes of Five Miles Out shared the long pieces' complexity and heterogeneity, even when focused on pop vocalizing. Crises' short numbers are comparatively simple and cohesive; multivalent musical values are left for the twenty-minute title track.
The North American release I remember featured six brief pieces followed by "Crises"; in my experience, the long-form piece is climactic. But evidently the stiff-upper-lip listener was judged receptive to an initial prolonged blast of prog rock on an otherwise pop record: in the U.K., "Crises" came first, followed by five musical shorts. The Deluxe Edition features this running order, plus seven additional tracks including the non-album U.K. singles "Mistake" and "Crime of Passion." The former's B-side, the inconsequential instrumental "Waldberg (The Peak)", turns up as an extra on the Five Miles Out rerelease, while the latter's appears here: "Jungle Gardenia," seemingly a soundtrack to slow-motion twilit skinny dipping.
"Mistake," a weightless confection, disappears in less than three minutes. There and on the languidly repetitive "Foreign Affair," a commanding Maggie Reilly handles the vocals. "In High Places" pleasures the ear with the ethereal tones of (Yes vocalist) Jon Anderson. Pierre Moerlen's plucky vibraphone abets the ascent into thin air. "Shadow on the Wall" enlists (Family vocalist) Roger Chapman's tremulously indignant vocals in a familiar account of being hard done by. Simon Phillips' hard rock drumming hits the point home, along with Oldfield's nastily twangy six-string.
The other three short tunes likewise highlight Mike's formidable guitar chops. One of western music's most conspicuous multi-instrumentalists, Oldfield handles most parts on both albums, with the exception of drums and percussion and strategic assists from other musicians. Like "Shadow on the Wall," "Crime of Passion" and "Moonlight Shadow" showcase the man's guitar parts, including robust rhythmic accompaniment, tasty chicken pickin', and searing liquid lead. "Crime of Passion" features Barry Palmer, who would divide vocal duties with Maggie Reilly on the excellent Discovery. "Moonlight Shadow" was of course a huge international hit. Oldfield has employed other singers to voice the tune, notably Pepsi Demacque, but Maggie Reilly really owns it. Not recognizably related to the other Taurus pieces, the tiny "Taurus 3" flaunts Mike's flamenco picking before exploding in massive slashing chords and multi-percussive bustle.
The twenty-minute "Crises" opens in misterioso moonlight mood, with disembodied bell sounds alluding to Oldfield's calling card, the LP-length composition Tubular Bells (1973). An insistently minimalist synthesizer theme enters, then exclamatory electronic percussion. Soon those same sampled bell sounds decay into a landscape haunted by eldritch violin wails and strangulated guitar cries. This nocturnal world proves likewise hospitable to other (sampled) sounds such as breaking glass and police sirens. Stabbling 80s synth chords and percussive piano escalate the sense of urgency to the point where real rock drumming takes over. The sticks are in the hands of remarkable all-styles drummer Simon Phillips, these days the anchor of pianist Hiromi Uehara's jazz power trio. Phillips would also appear on Discovery as co-producer and the only instrumentalist besides Oldfield.
Phillips' intrepid timekeeping holds the state of emergency at a moderate level while Oldfield himself cries, "Crises, Crises, you can't get away!" Mike's lyrics mercifully don't go much beyond this, except to herald a tranquil stretch ten minutes in: "The watcher in the tower, waiting hour by hour." Oldfield's vocals shortly yield to desolate synthesizers and plangent guitars, which join with harp and hints of pipes to summon the Celtic timbres familiar from much of his work up to this point and beyond.
Eight minutes from the end, "Crises" becomes a runway for Simon Phillips as he pilots his kit through tom-tom and kick-drum patterns of mounting complexity and urgency. When he finally takes off accompanied by Oldfield's soaring lead lines, the piece returns, like "Orabidoo," to solid earth, in this case that opening scene of moonlit tranquility. On disc two, you can hear Phillips excitingly recreate this feat live in concert.
Both second discs of live material are mixed bags. On stage the longer pieces—including works from Mike's earlier LPs—are recreated with impressive precision and added urgency, though audience noise compromises their integrity. Such hubbub is more appropriate to pop-oriented material, but here the songs are let down by lack of delicacy and some alarmingly ragged vocals, even from Maggie Reilly. Sound quality on the live recordings is nothing special, whereas the remastered original albums come across resplendently. For Oldfield, obviously, the studio's the thing.
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During our memoir unit, students read They Cage the Animals at Night. They will create audio presentations in which they put themselves in the shoes of Jennings Burch, from the autobiography They Cage the Animals at Night. In this presentation, which is called the Wax Museum presentation, students will be taught how to take their presentation and create a QR code for it. With a QR code, students can scan the code and watch or listen to each others' presentations.
Students also wrote their own memoirs. Some of the writing skills they focused on included: dialogue, sensory details, and figurative language. They needed to make sure that the memoir they wrote included a lesson they learned or an explanation of how the experience changed them.
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Nkawie (eller Nkawie Kuma) är en ort i sydvästra Ghana, beläget något väster om Kumasi. Den är huvudort för distriktet Atwima Nwabiagya, och folkmängden uppgick till 5 552 invånare vid folkräkningen 2010. Nkawie är sammanvuxen med Toase, och denna tätort hade cirka 10 000 invånare 2010.

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En statistique, le coefficient RV (pour rhô-vectoriel) est une généralisation multivariée du coefficient de corrélation de Pearson  au carré (car le coefficient RV prend des valeurs comprises entre 0 et 1). Dans sa version population, il mesure le lien entre deux groupes de variables aléatoires en se basant sur la matrice de variance-covariance. Il peut être estimé via la matrice de covariance empirique calculée à partir d'un échantillon.

Les principales approches de l'analyse statistique multivariée des données peuvent toutes être intégrées dans un cadre commun dans lequel le coefficient RV est maximisé sous réserve de contraintes pertinentes. Plus précisément, ces méthodologies statistiques comprennent :
 l'analyse des composants principaux ;
 l'analyse de corrélation canonique ;
 la régression multivariée ;
 la classification statistique (discrimination linéaire).

Un exemple d'application du coefficient RV est en neuroimagerie fonctionnelle où il peut mesurer la similitude entre les séries de scans cérébraux de deux sujets ou entre différents scans d'un même sujet.

Définitions
Supposons que le couples de variables aléatoires vectorielles  admette une matrice de variance covariance

La définition du coefficient RV fait intervenir idées permettant de définir des grandeurs scalaires qui sont appelées «variance» et «covariance» de variables aléatoires à valeurs vectorielles. En utilisant ces définitions, le coefficient RV est alors défini de manière analogue au coefficient de corrélation entre variables univariées.

Quand les vecteurs aléatoires (vecteurs colonnes) sont centrés, on peut écrire

et la covariance scalaire (notée COVV) est définie par

La variance scalaire est définie de manière correspondante

Avec ces définitions, la variance et la covariance ont certaines propriétés additives par rapport à la formation de nouvelles quantités vectorielles en étendant un vecteur existant avec les éléments d'un autre.

Alors le coefficient RV est défini par

Défaut du coefficient et version ajustée

Par construction, le coefficient prend des valeurs comprises entre 0 et 1. Cependant, il atteint rarement des valeurs proches de 1 car le dénominateur est trop grand par rapport aux valeurs possibles du numérateur.

Étant donné deux matrices  and  de dimensions  et  respectively, en supposant sans perte de généralité que , on peut démontrer que la valeur maximale possible du numérateur est
où  (resp. ) est la matrice des valeurs propres de (resp. ) ordonnées de manière décroissante en partant du coin supérieur gauche et où    est la matrice de taille  égale à .

À la suite de cela, Mordant et Segers ont proposé une version ajustée du coefficient RV où le dénominateur prend la plus grande valeur atteignable du numérateur. Cette version ajustée est alors

L'intérêt de cet ajustement est clairement visible dans certains cas en pratique.

Voir également

 Coefficient de congruence
 Corrélation de distance

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Christian Terwiesch
Christian Terwiesch is the Andrew M. Heller Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Professor in Wharton's Operations and Information Management department, co-director of Penn's Mack Institute for Innovation Management, and also holds a faculty appointment in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine. His research on Operations Management and on Innovation Management appears in many of the leading academic journals ranging from Management Science to The New England Journal of Medicine. He is an award-winning teacher with extensive experience in MBA teaching and executive education.
Professor Terwiesch is the co-author of Matching Supply with Demand, a widely used textbook in Operations Management that is now in its third edition. Based on this book, Professor Terwiesch launched the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in business on Coursera. By now, well over half a million students have enrolled in the course.
His book, Innovation Tournaments, was published by Harvard Business School Press.
Coursera: Introduction to Operations Management
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