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Who Loves Food? YOU Do!

Posted by Kinsley Suer | 04 January 2013

In honor of our upcoming production of I Love to Eat, we recently asked you to share your culinary obsessions with us. And share you did! Detailed descriptions of Oregon strawberries, lemongrass cabbage soup and fresh heirloom tomatoes. Stories of biscuits and gravy, Chanterelle mushrooms and rich baklava. We were inundated with heartfelt tales about cooking with grandmothers and anecdotes about searching for the freshest seafood in the Pacific Northwest. Even poetry! Although it would be simply impossible to choose a favorite response, below are a sample of those stories that made our mouths water and our stomachs grumble.
Portlanders, it seems, really do love to eat. So we hope you'll join us for I Love to Eat, which runs January 8 - February 3.

"My food obsession is continuing to perfect the best Jewish sourdough rye bread West of the Mississippi (and probably east of it as well!).  I use a starter developed by my dad which is now probably more than 30 years old. Dad and I drove the starter from Tennessee (in a cooler, keeping it on ice) when he and my mom moved to Oregon in 1990.  He taught me how to make and bake these loaves (2 1/2 pounds each) as he was struggling with cancer.  My addition to the tradition is producing these loaves entirely with the sour starter (no yeast) and my husband claims that a slice is a meal!"
        - Regina Brody
"Being an actor and a food lover it should come as no surprise that my obsession is an audience.  I love to cook for people. I love to make fabulous meals for myself too, but those are just rehearsals really. This New Year's I manifested the highest ideal of my obsession.  The perfect roast for 20 people. A huge beast of a beast. I researched several cook books and blogs to cull the best techniques and thoughts on the matter.  I stood in line at Gartner's [Country Meat Market] for an hour as I fantasized about the meat and all the tricky things I was going to do with it.  (Gartner's is another obsession. Best cross section of Portland people watching ever - behind and in front of the counter. One of the most authentically diverse gatherings in Portland!) Then the laying out of equipment the night before, the sticky notes, the list making, the review of recipes, the creating of tomorrow’s schedule. New Year's Eve - so many sweet friends offered to help in the kitchen but due to my planning there was truly nothing for them to do but enjoy. I even got in plently hanging out time outside the kitchen! While hearing the music of two different tables of games in laughter, their syncopated rise and fall, I pulled the most gorgeous crusty roast out of the oven. A salty, meaty cloud of heat in my face, a bit of crust off the end, delicious. A private pause. A thanks. Then in goes the salmon, on go the potatoes, up goes the foil tent and I wait.  Laughter rises and falls. Bit by bit I bring side dishes out to welcome oohs and ahhs. And finally I cut into the meaty crust to find the tenderest pink center. Perfection. Before plating it I call in a professional chef friend as witness.  He will understand. And he does. And they do too. The silence falls upon the eaters like snow in winter. A cozy, a calm, a community at peace. To cook for others is a gift.  You weave your self into every molecule, you weave your wishes for them, your happiness for them and your gratefulness for them and your gratefulness for the food its self."
    - Adrienne Flagg

"I’ve been obsessed for years with fresh shelled peas that are so deliciously sweet that when you pop them in your mouth, they taste just like candy and you cannot stop eating them. When I lived in Anchorage, the summer downtown farmers
market had a farm vendor from the Matanuska Valley and market shoppers could buy fresh shelled peas in 10 lb. bags (or by the cup full).  Unfortunately, no one has been able to replicate this tasty and big bag size offering in the Lower 48, and alas, my small garden fresh shelled peas produce only enough for about two meal’s worth."
          - Lauren C.

"I’m obsessed with birthday cake.  I hate how you go to the bakery and can only choose one kind when what you really want is to have a few bites of every flavor. For my 40th I bought a dozen or so cakes and hired a server to slice perfect tiny slivers.  I invited friends and family to join me in living out my dream. Last year, a friend in Eugene wanted to buy me a cake, but I fretted because she doesn’t care about cake the way that I do.  I didn’t want to take a chance she might not buy a cake up to my standards.  I want cake with real butter and good-quality chocolate and jam.  No artificial ingredients or shortening or dough conditioners.  I was too obsessed with thinking about my birthday cake to give up control, even to a good friend who just wanted to do something nice for me. I spent a week researching bakeries in Portland, Salem and Eugene—agonizing over whether to buy cupcakes or a layer or sheet cake, or just make my own.  I finally found the cake of my dreams in Eugene and ordered it, only to get sick before the cake was picked up. My friend picked it up and took photos of the cake as my other friends enjoyed it, and tried to get a few slices brought back to me in Portland, but the icy roads kept that from happening, so you can guess what I’m obsessing about now, with my birthday just a few weeks away."
          - Leslie
"Wandering through the misty Oregon rain through the woods to find those sacred hollows where the lobster and chanterelle mushrooms thrive, coming upon them like a treasure in the darkened quiet, their pungent smells straight out of the fantastical rich glory of some Middle Earth dreamtime. Returning home to sautee them with some fresh wild salmon and then fresh duck eggs in the morning. Mmm mmmmmmm . . . yes!"
        - Chris Browne

"I come by my regional food obsession naturally, growing up in Oregon with a mom and grandma who were amazing cooks; they drew on our family background in Northern Europe as much as a persistent love for the teachings of James Beard and Julia Child. Nothing makes me as happy as researching old Swedish or German recipes for simple stuff and finding ways of bringing that food to share. I'm equally obsessed with other regions and traditional dishes - having spent a month re-making hummus to get it to be just like what I had when I visited Israel. (It's about the oil.) It's something of a family trait to work and work on a particular recipe until it's "just right." This means, of course, that the people around me might get a little overly familiar with certain things. I take that potential boredom as a challenge to make my cooking superb. It's more than a pursuit of the amazing dish, though. Because my grandma taught me how to taste while cooking and ways of thinking about the touch and scent of what was happening in the pot, the minutes and hours I spend cooking are like a bit of time travel to spend an afternoon with her."
  - HB
"I am a connoisseur of biscuits and gravy. My bar is high, because all the Willett
men - my grandfather, my dad and now my brother - make absolutely kickass
gravy AND all of them bake. It's hands down the greatest brunch food for this time
of year - unpretentious, salty, fatty, warming, delicious and perfect for Oregon weather. Homemade is the best. Christmas morning is ideal, or waking up to the smell of sausage grease when you stay over at your grandparents' house. But
when I don't have a relative to make it for me (gravy being a kitchen trick I have never mastered), I use it as a barometer for the quality of brunch at various
Portland eateries. It's deceptively simple, and yet you know that if someone does biscuits and gravy well that everything else is likely to be of equally high quality.
The gravy must be piping hot. The chunks of sausage, or mushroom, or bacon,
must be substantial. Black pepper must be visible. The biscuits should be buttery
and flaky and not too sweet - put sausage gravy on something that tastes like a scone and you've lost my patronage. Don't just plonk two whole biscuits on a plate and dump gravy on top. Logistics are important. Split and grilled biscuits retain their structural integrity under the weight of gravy much better than whole ones, plus more of the biscuit surface area has a chance to soak up moisture. Details matter, people."
       -  Claire Willett
A Shakespearean sonnet, on the culinary delights I enjoy by knowing my farmer:

The season starts with greens, all full and fresh --
The crisp delights of foods like chard and kale.
Sauteed or raw, these greens my soul refresh,
Such greens would make a vibrant frog seem pale.
The height of summer brings a bounty new,
Beans bursting, and tomatoes plump and red.
My mouth begins to feel the urge to chew,
Surmising that it will with art be fed.
The final pleasures usher in the Fall --
The yellow onions and the hearty squash.
And apples, oh the apples, how they call!
I munch one up without even a wash.
For six months of the year these joys are mine
With Dancing Roots, my CSA divine.
 - Ian
"Bacon. The candy bar of meats. Whether it comes squirting out of a tube, draped around a vegetable therefore making the healthy food almost palatable, or wrapped around another piece of meat. No meat product can possibly be more perfect. From the moment the bacon hits the hot pan and you hear it sputter. Filling your house with the sweet smells of salt, fat and love. This sweet scent also attaches to your clothes, strengthening the symbiotic love. Really who needs CK when you have the fine smells of bacon lingering on your clothes. People stop you and ask "bacon?" Yes... yes indeed. I then thoughtfully explain in detail the beautiful recipe I made with the meat of the gods. Conversation then leads to cooking new person bacon in the morning. Bacon makes the best wingman.

And really how many meats do you want to roll in brown sugar and turn into a hard candy? "Mmmm let me roll my NY steak in brown sugar and turn it into candy then break it up into tiny bits to flavor my ice cream." Said NO ONE ever. So three cheers to bacon. My first love."
        - Stacy Giltner

"It must be a Sunday in July. Acquire, however you can, an impeccably fresh Copper River sockeye. Make a vinaigrette. Olive oil, lemon juice (lots of lemon juice), red wine vinegar, bruised and chopped fresh (must be fresh) tarragon. Grind of pepper, pinch of good salt, sugar of some kind to taste. Meander to the garden in the morning. Pick a little arugula. Wash, pat dry, keep cool. It's early afternoon now, and the sun is warm. The raspberries are at their absolute peak. Pick 8 ounces or so, then lick your fingers. Cook the salmon. Grilling outdoors is a very good way. On a thick white plate, arrange the arugula and toss with the vinaigrette. Top it with a modest slab of salmon. Top the salmon with a layer of sun-warmed raspberries. Add a grind of pepper if you like. Have handy excellent bread, rip a piece (heel recommended) and add to plate. Pour a crisp, slightly chilled (only slightly) sauvignon blanc, perhaps from New Zealand. Have flowers on the table. Perhaps nasturtium blossoms sprinkled about. (Did I mention--you are outdoors, at a wooden table? You have a cotton napkin in your lap. It is four o'clock on a warm, not h0t, summer afternoon.) Raise your fork. Spear together one perfect raspberry and one bit of barely-done, melty/crusty salmon. Place in mouth, and then... "
           - Sherry Lamoreaux

"Fresh berries picked in the earliest rays of daylight,  from a field where the soil and foliage are still moist
with dew and the smells take me back to childhood."
- Jennifer Tujo

"Oysters!! Ever since I was a small boy and my family booked a sailing vacation in the San Juan Islands I
have loved oysters. Of course part of the attraction was the adventure of finding the oysters in remote little bays and then learning how to shuck them. Every time I eat an oyster I'm taken back to those fun sailing
trips with the family and all the adventure and beauty of the islands."

- Ken Stevens

"My food obsession started as a child when I was living on a farm at the edge of the Adirondack Mountains in New York State. My mother was Hungarian and an excellent cook as well as someone who raised chickens, cows and sheep, and hunted, fished and even made maple syrup. I didn't even know that I had a food obsession until just about six years ago. After my two sons grew up and I was no longer a baseball and football coach and scout leader I began to fish, hunt, gather and cook again. I soon found out the home that we live in had a very inadequate kitchen, so inadequate that we redesigned the kitchen into a cook's dream. The expanding of the room by 4 ½ ft, adding a Wolf range, wine fridge, counters and bar created a great kitchen to work in and a excellent place to entertain while cooking. That is my obsession, making great meals from items that I have hunted, fished for, gathered or even purchased at the farmer's market for my friends. So as I retire this year I will make cheese, wine, and sausage, gather mushrooms, dig truffles, fill the freezer with fish and game, harvest from my garden and enjoy many years cooking for and entertaining my family very close friends. Yes, I am obsessed with food and would like to say: Thank you, Mom."
- John Lewis

"Chocolate is what I crave
Bitter or sweet
From Bonbon to Bouchon
Sticky and gooey, dense and chewy
Molded, melted, smothered or dripped
Bean, bar, or truffle that's dipped
Easily devoured, hard to save"
     - Heather

"My obsession is veganizing traditional Danish recipes. I'm second-generation Danish-American, so I still have a fondness for the food my grandmother makes, but I can't eat it anymore. So I've managed to create some recipes for pickled herring, meatballs, liver pate, smoked salmon spread, and some other dishes that are harder to translate into English, all vegan, and all delicious! My grandmother has tried some of the things I've made and she says they are okay, which is a huge compliment coming from an 85-year-old non-vegan woman who grew up in Copenhagen!"
         - Sarah
"Cheese. Not stinky cheese or runny cheese or gooey cheese. Real cheese. Cheddar, Colby, Gouda, Edam, Jack, Parmesan, Asiago, Provolone, Mozzarella...you get the picture. I eat cheese with just about every meal and snack on it frequently throughout the day. The bottom two drawers in the fridge are reserved for cheese. I get worried when my supply drops below 20 pounds. I buy Tillamook Medium Cheddar and let it run past its “best before” date until it is Tillamook Extra Sharp Cheddar. (That’s a tip
for you other misers; just don’t try it with other varieties.) I also love to cook and find
it difficult not to cheese-ify everything. The perfect sandwich? Grilled cheese. The
perfect casserole? Macaroni & cheese. Soup? Black Butte Cheddar baby! And here’s
the funny bit: I’m sort of allergic to the stuff, especially the well-aged ones. I turn red, break a sweat, get a little dizzy even. It probably has something to do with my
Penicillin allergy. Yah, you might call it an obsession."
    - Daniel Cowan

P.S. We've also picked our contest winner! All participants were entered into a random drawing, and our winner is...Ria Torricelli! Congratulations Ria, you've won the ultimate Portland Foodie package. The package includes Forktown's James Beard-themed tasting tour of NW Portland, a backstage tour of PCS, two tickets to the opening night performance of I Love to Eat, and entrance for two into the exclusive after party featuring five of Portland's James Beard Award-winning chefs! We'll be contacting you shortly to arrange your package.

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The Body of an American

The Body of an American

October 2 — November 4, 2012
In the Ellyn Bye Studio

By Dan O’Brien
Directed by Bill Rauch
Inspired in part by the book Where War Lives by Paul Watson
World Premiere

War reporter Paul Watson has witnessed some of the most devastating scenes in modern history, and created perhaps the most disturbing image of modern warfare: the photograph of a dead American soldier being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu. As the ghosts of the tragedies he’s recorded bear down on him, his story catches the attention of playwright Dan O’Brien, who’s battling ghosts of his own. In locations as varied as Kabul, Los Angeles and the Canadian High Arctic, the two men form a tentative friendship in a quest for absolution. The Body of an American is the story of their relationship, and the roles each take in helping the other process the responsibilities, and the damages, of bearing witness.

The Body of an American was a highlight at JAW in 2011; PCS is pleased to welcome Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Bill Rauch for his first show here, part of our 25th Anniversary celebration.

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The Body of an American runs approximately two hours and 30 minutes with one intermission.

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Behind the Lens of Photojournalism: Legendary Images

15 October 2012 & Posted by KellyC

With just one glance, some of the world’s most well-known photos can evoke a variety of emotions within us, leave us in a state of complete shock or happiness, or lead us to ask ourselves questions that might have never crossed our minds before. Some photographs have even had the power to “change mankind.”The Body of an American explores the ramifications of one such image, taken by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Paul Watson. Let’s look through the lens at 20 more famous images that, for various reasons, have left a lasting imprint long after the shutter was snapped.

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Dan O’Brien, author of our current world premiere The Body of an American, is certainly a distinguished playwright. He has productions of his plays on stage at theaters of all sizes throughout the U.S., he has received numerous awards and fellowships. So it’s interesting to note that playwriting isn’t his only vocation. In addition to being a prolific playwright, Dan is a celebrated poet. His poems have been published in numerous literary journals. Catch a glimpse of his poetry prowess here.

Behind the Lens of Photojournalism: Can You Spot the Fake?

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The Body of an American broaches the subject of ethics and its role in photojournalism. Is it ethical to alter a photo in any way? Or to print a violent image of war? From photographers and editors to hoaxers and jokers, people across the spectrum have cropped, altered, combined and manipulated pictures to change the way they appear to the eye. Although ethics can be a mind-boggling topic to think about, let’s give it a shot and explore the ethics of photojournalism, as well as some famous “fake” images.

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Marty Hughley | The Oregonian [Review 10 Oct 2012]

Dan O’Brien’s play “The Body of an American,” in its world premiere by Portland Center Stage, is a story of war and war reportage, inspired by the experiences of Paul Watson, who won a Pulitzer Prize for a photo of a dead U.S. Army Ranger in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu. Its strength—in many ways, but not all—is that it deals less with battlefield maneuvers and casualties than with wars within, the fight each of us in some way wages against private hurts and fears and alienation.

Given a spare yet fluidly theatrical production by Bill Rauch, the play recounts some of Watson’s journalistic exploits in Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, et al, but mostly tracks the fits and starts of the creative collaboration between Watson and O’Brien. William Salyers as Paul and Danny Wolohan as Dan each reveal subtle layers of discomfort, worry and sadness beneath adventure-man exteriors, even as both actors also shift in and out of numerous other roles, sometimes both portraying the same character in a given scene. Stark yet striking design work by James Ingalls (lighting), Eamonn Farrell (sound and projections) and Casi Pacilio (sound) vividly evoke a variety of places and moods.

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Barry Johnson | Oregon Arts Watch [Review 10 Oct 2012]

A couple of years ago, David Shields wrote a book called “Reality Hunger: A Manifesto.” Some of it aggravated me quite a bit, especially when he insisted that “Hamlet” should be reduced to the soliloquies. Nonetheless, even a couple of years ago, I could tell he was onto something, because the explosion of memoirs, a manifestation of reality hunger, had already begun.

And it has continued, this desire for the real deal, the truth, subjective as it is. In these precincts we need only mention Cheryl Strayed’s “Wild” and Lidia Yuknavitch’s “The Chronology of Water,” yes? Especially “Wild,” Strayed’s account of her hike along the Pacific Crest Trail, which was #1 for several weeks on the NYT’s best-seller list?

But this is actually a review of Portland Center Stage’s world premiere of Dan O’Brien’s “The Body of an American,” which opened over the weekend at Portland Center Stage, starring (and I do mean starring) Danny Wolohan and William Salyers, an interesting entanglement of memoir and biography brought to the stage.  We’ve seen performance memoirs before, from Spalding Gray to Mike Daisey, not to mention “memory plays” and autobiographical plays, “The Body of an American” is different in my experience: more explicitly memoir than the memory plays, more theatrical (in the traditional sense) than Gray or Daisey.

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Rebecca Jacobson | Willamette Week [Review 10 Oct 2012]

At the beginning of Dan O’Brien’s play, two actors introduce themselves as Paul Watson. One then speaks as Terry Gross, the familiar voice of NPR’s Fresh Air. Soon after, the other also adopts the radio host’s serene voice. A few lines later, the conversation draws in the playwright. Suddenly, it’s a rapid-fire exchange between three characters performed by only two men. Confounding yet not confusing, it’s a fitting opening to this intricate production.

Watson—the man doubly introduced in the play’s first lines—is a war journalist who won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for a photo of an American soldier being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu. The image haunted Watson. He claims that as he snapped the shutter, the soldier spoke to him: “If you do this, I will own you forever.” O’Brien, the playwright, heard Watson interviewed on NPR in 2007 and sent him an email. The ensuing exchange led to The Body of an American, premiering at Portland Center Stage.

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    I've read all the talk about being able to boot/install Ubuntu 8.10 on a X4500HD motherboard. If someone has done that, or the Phoronix folks who ran the supermicro tests, could you offer some details? I've had nothing but frustrations just getting my Intel DG45ID to boot. Here's what I've seen with 8.10 alpha4 with pretty much default BIOS settings:
    • Booting to Ubuntu welcome screen is not an issue
    • Going beyond welcome screen to try live system or install has random errors
    • First error: screen goes dark...i.e. no signal, system still powered on. I am using the DVI connector, perhaps the signal switched off and went on the HDMI only?
    • 2nd error: Screen switches between solid patches of RGB constantly, reset "fixes" it
    • 3rd error: When I am able to get pass the first two errors, I land on a busybox prompt...seems like the install process didn't get started
    • 4th error: I disabled quiet mode and the splash screen and sometimes see that all the drivers load, but then the system goes dark like the first error
    • 5th error: First message when I try to boot any of the options from the initial ubuntu menu: not using MMCONFIG...what's this mean?
    • 6th error: See note about CPU temp at end of post

    Here's my system config, intended as dedicated myth frontend:
    • Intel DG45ID motherboard
    • E8400 CPU
    • 2G of Mushkin PC6400, timings match motherboard requirements
    • 160G WD Sata
    • 20X Pioneer dvd, sata
    • Antec Fusion chassis

    By the way, one of the legs from the piece of #@$@! CPU fan that came with the CPU broke off when I tried to insert it into the motherboard. Went with a cooler master fan from Frys, one of those with 120mm fan...extremely quiet, but the BIOS is reporting that the CPU is superhot at 73C. But nothing on the system is even warm to the touch.

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    Use Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha, my DG45ID works.

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      Use Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha, my DG45ID works.
      Are you using the DVI or HDMI output for video? Did you have to change any boot parameters?

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        Yes I do. No parameters changed.

        I used the server install and installed XBMC + Xorg.

        Note: there will be tearing in XBMC due 50hz <> 60hz problems.


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    As expected, the beta release of the forthcoming Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" has been released this afternoon. In addition to the desktop spin, the server release of the Ubuntu 8.10 Beta had also occurred...

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    Gosh dangit, the key at /apps/gnome-app-install/components_seen isn't updated when I use the combo box thingy in apps > add..... Ohhhhhhhh, it's /apps/gnome-app-install/filter_applications , it's an integer. /me sets to 0.

    In any case, the new stuff in repositories sure is going to make my life a lot easier. No more having to install ubuntu netbook and mid PPAs just to get awesome software..

    If I can't move panel applets around by modifying their coordinate keys in gconf... I'm thinking I should file a bug on gnome-panel or something..... Maybe I should compare that to the behavior of my 8.04.1 install though.. Or perhaps those values would get acted upon with a restarted user session?

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      Now, it's my understanding that with 8.10, the Ubuntu Netbook Remix will go "official", right?

      If that's the case, anyone know if they're going to offer dedicated install images of the Remix? It'd be great if they let you download *.img files (like Arch linux), so you could just do a simple "dd if=foo of=bar", rather than jump through hoops with syslinux and mounting the iso and all that.

      Anyone know if something like that is going to happen? Generally I'm not a huge fan of Ubuntu or Gnome, but if they make it damn easy to put it on my Aspire One, then that Netbook remix will get my attention.

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        Out of the box COMPIZ for ati hardware (r580 here) doesn't count as a
        "noteworthy features being introduced since the earlier alpha releases"?

        OK so it's not a feature of ubuntu.
        But included packages that have aligned to make it possible.
        I think that is awesome.
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Calculus II is giving me a hard time

  1. Jun 17, 2006 #1
    Calculus II is giving me a hard time!!

    Im embarrased to say this but I've taken Cal II 2 times already and can't get passed it. I don't understand what Im doing wrong. Im taking it this summer for the sake of getting it all over with quickly. I was confident when I went in to class because I bought Calculus for Dummies and read the crap out of it before the summer session started but somehow when it came to taking the first test I ended up making a 60 on it. I dont understand what im doing wrong. Im usually horrible at memorizing things but im really good at solving problems so I think that might have to do with it. I've never had to take a course so many times over and over except for Cal II. I have to be honest, I've never liked math but since I first stepped into a Calculus II class my outlook on math has turned around; I love it and I think it's so interesting. It frustrates me that I can't get through this class even after I taken it 2 times already.The worst part of this is that the class is sort of a road block to some of my engineering classes. I just don't know anymore...I have really bad test anxiety and I feel that's to blame but I dont know what else it could possibly be. After taking the class that many times I feel like I know the material so well but it's different feeling once I take a test. I was wondering if anyone thinks this is normal? and if it is how one did it to overcome and survive the class?

    I do have one particular question though, is it normal for teachers not to let you use a calculator or formula/integral sheet on the test?
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    Completely normal, the numerical evaluations should be trivial, the only help a calculator would be is if it could integrate symbolically but that would defeat the purpoes of going to calc 2, likewise as calc 2 is usually half methods of integration and half infinite series an integral table would be inappropriate for the first half and useless for the second.
  4. Jun 17, 2006 #3
    Many people seem to have difficulties with Calc 2 so you are definitely not alone. When I took Calc 2 my professor let us use, in fact he gave us, a booklet of integrals (300 or so). However, this was not an advantage because of the way he set up the exam questions (for integrals that is). He would do something like; Show that the integral of something is equal to something. So having the list of integrals did not really help much (except to use a few of the pages for other notes :smile:) As for the calculator, I don't see how a calculator would help much.

    As for how to get through the class. I am not sure what works for you, but do everything you can. Post your questions in the homework help section here, go to your professor's office hours and ask for help, get a tutor to help you (many colleges have free tutoring services). Read the book, and do the exercises.
  5. Jun 17, 2006 #4
    yeah, calculators are pretty pointless in most pure math classes since exact solutions are required, and not decimal approximates, so even if they are not allowed (often times they are not), it doesn't really matter anyways.
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  6. Jun 17, 2006 #5
    Go to your professor. Ask for help. Go to your TA, ask for help. Basically, use whatever resources you have to the max. Try and get practice tests if possible. Given that you've had trouble before you ought to ask them for guidance on what you need to do to pass. Office hours are there for a reason, don't feel bad about going so much.

    Alternatively if you feel like you know the material well, but still struggle on exams, you might have a recognized medical condition called "test anxiety" which is fairly common, and often not diagnosed until college. People with test anxiety are often able to perform well on homework and projects, and speak intelligently on subjects, but for some reason they do poorly on tests and exams.

    So, if you think this might be affecting you, you may want to see a school counselor or psychologist (if one is avaliable), or just discuss with your prof. There are various things which can be done to help alleviate test anxiety offered by most colleges (extra time on tests, less crowded test environment, counseling, etc)
  7. Jun 18, 2006 #6
    Calc II is a horrible, nasty class that has a ton of really interesting topics. Unfortunately, it moves way to fast to explore or enjoy them :smile: . The good news is, once you get past it, the other math classes are not as bad.

    The problem with calc II is that it's very disjointed, most of the sections don't seem to build off each other very much, so each new section represents a lot of new material that has to be learned and memorized for the test. Since your not using the material section to section, it can be overwhelming when you go back to review for a test and realize that it's almost like looking at the material for the first time because it's been 3 or 4 weeks since you used it. This is unlike diff eq or calc III where you often immediately got to apply material learned in one section to the next section. This makes reviewing for tests much easier, but if you get behind, your in big trouble.

    A little trick that my diff EQ teacher told me that made that class a lot easier. Just pick a number 1 to 20 or something, then go through each section of the book starting at the first section covered in class and do that numbered problem. Treat it like a test, don't let yourself look up info in the book, unless you would have the info available to you for the test. Even if you get some of the problems wrong or can't do them without looking stuff up, it will still help you keep up with the material you already learned and can help show you what you will need to concentrate on for the test.

    On another note, since you mentioned your an engineering major, there seem to be a few classes in engineering programs that are designed to weed out those that are not likely to make it through. They are placed early on to help keep people from wasting to much time. Calc II and thermodynamics are two classes I can point to in my program that seemed designed to force you to work harder then you were used to and had staggering drop rates. I still can't believe how much time we had to spend on those lab reports in thermo and the high grade was never more then 83%. Of the 32 people that started my clac II class, 21 took the final and I know for a fact that at lease 2 of them had no chance of passing, they were just doing it to see what the final looked like in preparation for retaking it the next semester.
  8. Jun 18, 2006 #7
    Haha, this is so true. Calc 2 and thermo are definitely universally sceduled weeder courses in most engineering curricula. Another course is dynamics.

    I am not an ME major though, so the weeder courses are a bit different. :p

    btw, kdinser, where do you go to school?
  9. Jun 18, 2006 #8
    Thanks guys for all the advice. I love the people on this website, yall are very helpful and supportive. With that said, I decided to write my professor an email stating my situation that I feel like my exam grades dont properly reflect my actual learning progress in the class. I basically told him that I plan on meeting with him during office hours to hear any advice or help he might have for me. Sounds good right? I hope everything goes well. It'll be a nightmare if I end up failing this class. I swear, I honestly feel like I can be a Calculus II tutor and would be successful at it. I know the material but it has almost been a long curse I've had to live with when it comes to taking tests. For some reason im just not good at tests but put a problem on the board and I'll show you how to solve it. It sucks...I just feel so imcompetent.
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Reflections on Relativity

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    I've just started to read Reflections on Relativity, but it seems to take a philosophical and mathematical stand on this subject. I wonder if this is a good approach to understand special relativity in some depth.

    The book is available online on

    Any comments are welcomed.
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    I read a few chapters on things I know about, and they are sound, and adapted to the needs of a student who has calculus but not much advanced math beyond that. I would recommend it to people who want an honest mathematical treatment of relativity at that level.
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With just 3 weeks to go before opening day in the Sun Peaks Bike Park, we headed up the mountain to check on our trail crew and see how the trails are shaping up.

“Really good, we’re two weeks ahead of schedule on the lower half of the mountain.” Explained trail boss Kevin. As for which trails will be open for opening day, “It’s still three weeks away, but it’s looking promising for a good opening weekend, hopefully the warm weather continues to cooperate with us.” Anxious to ask Kevin about our investment in the Bike Park and what to expect this summer, “It’s awesome! It’ll be good to see the machines at work soon, there’s a lot I want to get done.”

Preliminary work has been focused on the lower mountain including trails like Root Dog, Biker Cross, and Steam Shovel, however today we caught up with the boys on Insanity One. The entire line below 4 Road is getting a rework and the trail looks amazing! The infamous ‘Twisted Sister’ feature will still remain open, but the newer ‘racer style’ route around was getting some love today, and will see some machine work in the coming weeks.

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Insanity One is one of the trails that will see significant machine time this spring and into the riding season. We’ll also have machines on Smooth Smoothie and Home Run doing significant work, as well as various other locations within the park as needed.

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With the Canada Cup coming to Sun Peaks on July 6th and 7th significant work has been done to DH, Holy Rollers, and Arm Pump to make the race course more challenging and of course, more fun. The upper section of DH is still covered in snow, but we ventured in below 4 Road and were pleasantly surprised by what we found. Kevin and the team have been hard at work on steeper berms, drops and other features. The trail is going to look great for opening day!

Canada Cup Coordinator Devin Knopf on DH

Next up on the race course was Holy Rollers. The crew heard last summer’s BC Cup racers loud and clear, and have made this section more technical with some tighter turns and drops. We headed below the creek crossing for a closer look and had a blast scrubbing the new lines on our Enduro bikes.

Getting the enduro bike out on Holy Rollers

After heading down Holy Rollers, the trail crew had directed us towards Arm Pump. Once again, we were met with great trail conditions. Race day is going to be more exciting than ever and we can’t wait to zip on the number plate and hear those beeps.

For more information on the Canada Cup and to register click HERE.

Arm Pump is looking ready for race day, are you?

Two weeks from now we’ll be bringing you another trail update featuring the rest of the park, including the progress on re-opening Sugar and Sweet One as the bug kill carnage continues to be cleaned up. Summer 2013 is going to see the most significant investment in the Bike Park in over 5 years. It’s going to be a stellar season up here and we can’t wait to see you on the trails!

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(27 February 1925 – 6 July 2002 / Ohio / United States)

Variations At Home And Abroad - Poem by Kenneth Koch

It takes a lot of a person's life
To be French, or English, or American
Or Italian. And to be at any age. To live at any certain time.
The Polish-born resident of Manhattan is not merely a representative of
general humanity
And neither is this Sicilian fisherman stringing his bait
Or to be any gender, born where or when
Betty holding a big plate
Karen crossing her post-World War Two legs
And smiling across the table
These three Italian boys age about twenty gesturing and talking
And laughing after they get off the train
Seem fifty percent Italian and the rest percent just plain
Human race.
O mystery of growing up! O history of going to school!
O lovers O enchantments!

The subject is not over because the photograph is over.
The photographer sits down. Murnau makes the movie.
Everything is a little bit off, but has a nationality.
The oysters won't help the refugees off the boats,
Only other human creatures will. The phone rings and the Albanian
nationalist sits down.
When he gets up he hasn't become a Russian émigré or a German circus
A woman is carrying a basket—a beautiful sight! She is in and of
The uniformed Malay policeman sniffs the beer barrel that the brothers of
Ludwig are bringing close to him.
All humanity likes to get drunk! Are differences then all on the surface?
But even every surface gets hot
In the sun. It may be that the surface is where we are all alike!
But man and woman show that this isn't true.
We will get by, though. The train is puffing at the station
But the station isn't puffing at the train. This difference allows for a sense
of community
As when people feel really glad to have cats and dogs
And some even a few mice in the chimney. We are not alone
In the universe, and the diversity causes comfort as well as difficulty.
To be Italian takes at least half the day. To be Chinese seven-eighths of it.
Only at evening when Chang Ho, repast over, sits down to smoke
Is he exclusively human, in the way the train is exclusively itself when it is
in motion
But that's to say it wrongly. His being human is also his being seven-eighths
Falling in love one may get, say, twenty percent back
Toward universality, though that is probably all. Then when love's gone
One's Nigerianness increases, or one's quality of being of Nepal.
An American may start out wishing
To be everybody or that everybody were the same
Which makes him or her at least eighty percent American. Dixit Charles
Peguy, circa 1912,
"The good Lord created the French so that certain aspects of His creation
Wouldn't go unnoticed." Like the taste of wheat, sirrah! Or the Japanese.
So that someplace on earth there would be people who were
Writing haiku. But think of the human body with its arms
Its nose, its eyes, its brain often subject to alarms
Think how much energy, work, and time have gone into it,
To give us such a variegated kind of humanity!
It takes fifteen seconds this morning to be a man,
Twenty to be an old one, four to be an American,
Two to be a college graduate and four or five hours to write.
And what's more, I love you! half of every hour for weeks or months for
Nine hundred seconds to be an admirer of Italian Renaissance painting,
Sixteen hours to be someone awake.
One is recognizably American, male, and of a certain generation. Nothing
takes these markers away.

Even if I live in Indonesia as a native in a hut, someone coming through
Will certainly gasp and say Why you're an American!
My optimism, my openness, my lack of a sense of history,
My distinctive facial muscles ready to look angry or sad or sympathetic
In a moment and not quite know where to go from there;
My assuming that anything is possible, my deep sense of superiority
And inferiority at the same time; my lack of culture,
Except for the bookish kind; my way of acting with the dog, come here
Spotty! God damn!
All these and hundreds more declare me to be what I am.
It's burdensome but also inevitable. I think so.
Expatriates have had some success with the plastic surgery
Of absence and departure. But it is never absolute. And then they must bear
the new identity as well.

Irish or Russian, the individuality in them is often mistaken for nationality.
The Russian finding a soul in the army officer, the Irishman finding in him
someone with whom he can drink.
Consider the Volga boatman? One can only guess
But probably about ninety percent Russian, eighty percent man, and thirty
percent boatman, Russian, man, and boatman,
A good person for the job, a Russian man of the river.
This dog is two-fifths wolf and less than one-thousandth a husband or
Dogs resist nationality by being breeds. This one is simply Alsatian.
Though he may father forth a puppy
Who seems totally something else if for example he (the Alsatian) is attracted
To a poodle with powerful DNA. The puppy runs up to the Italian boys
who smile
Thinking it would be fun to take it to Taormina
Where they work in the hotel and to teach it tricks.
A Frenchwoman marvels at this scene.
The woman bends down to the dog and speaks to it in French.
This is hopeful and funny. To the dog all human languages are a perfumed
He wags and rises on his back legs. One Italian boy praises him, "Bravo!
Underneath there is the rumble of the metro train. The boy looks at the
Life offers them these entangling moments as—who?—on a bicycle goes
It is a Congolese with the savannah on his shoulders
And the sky in his heart, but his words as he passes are in French—
"Bonjour, m'sieu dames," and goes speeding off with his identity,
His Congolese, millennial selfhood unchanging and changing place.

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    Did you ever just want to howl with delight at a piece of LITERATURE that has just taken over your senses, your emotions, your mental faculties? I want to sit here and reread it and reread it and reread it and SAVOR its every word, its every phrase, its every pause! (Report) Reply

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Hey everyone I'm working on a pokemon short film that features a porygon (cuz it's easy to model) so here is my model so far I welcome any constructive critiques.
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Not to backseat mod, but you better quickly get 3 more pics in here.

There's not a whole lot I can say, considering I know squat about 3D modeling despite spending some class time in it. My only suggestion is to smooth out Porygon's head all the way, as it looks like the top of his head is a little jagged (or it's the angle). I do love me some Porygon, though, one of my favorites from the first generation.

Actually, I bought a Porygon figurine just so I knew how to animate it in the game I'm working on. If any local store is still selling the Heart Gold/Soul Silver stuff, look for the Chikorita, Phanpy and Porygon pack. Totally worth whatever it cost just to get a 3D sculpt of Porygon.

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Hey dbp here some more pics. I actually might buy those models Ive been having a hard time trying to get the right shape from just pictures. But Im really excited the model is getting closer to animation (which I will probably add some test movements later today). And actually its going to be a live action movie with only the porygon and a pokeball. Imagine a style similar to freddiew and corridordigital.
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