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UMass hockey falls to UMass Lowell in non-conference matchup

LOWELL – For the second straight game, the Massachusetts hockey team was assessed over 25 minutes of penalties – 27 minutes on Saturday – which did not equal a winning formula for the Minutemen.

While UMass was exerting energy trying to kill penalties, No. 1 UMass Lowell (1-1), fresh off an upset loss against Sacred Heart the night before, sat in waiting and came away with a 5-2 win against its Hockey East foe in a non-conference matchup in front of 4,898 at Tsongas Center on Saturday night.

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Four of the Minutemen’s (0-2) penalties came in the second period, including a five-minute major and game misconduct on Oleg Yevenko for hitting from behind, creating UML’s second 5-on-3 opportunity of the game. This was the second-straight night a UMass player was ejected for a hit from behind – Friday it was Shane Walsh. And since the Minutemen were spending most of their time on the kill, they couldn’t mount a counter during the frame, finishing with just four shots. But the positive for UMass was that it killed all but one power play out of seven on the night.

“The second period was just all penalty kills,” UMass coach John Micheletto said. “It’s tough to mount any sort of attack there other than just trying to counter punch. I thought we managed our energy well and were able to, despite playing with five defensemen for that long, to continue to push the pace and continue to create opportunities.”

UMass created multiple opportunities in the third period after entering the frame down 2-0. The Minutemen’s first tally came on a power play goal by Branden Gracel four minutes, 53 seconds into the third. The score was reviewed for a possible kick in, but it was upheld as a good goal.

Troy Power, who missed most of last season due to injury, also scored a goal on the power play for UMass, which made it 3-2 at the 13:40 mark. He scored on a backhand shot, which rebounded off of Doug Carr (27 saves) right to him off of Colin Shea’s original shot.

But the early two-goal deficit proved too much to handle.

“I though it would’ve been nice for us to convert on an early opportunity and play with the lead for one point this weekend,” Micheletto said. “We weren’t able to do that. … But when you get down two in this league, it requires you to commit to the rush a little bit maybe more than you’d like.”

And while the Minutemen got on the scoreboard in the third period, so did the River Hawks.

Right after UMass looked like it had seized momentum back after Gracel’s goal, UML struck when Scott Wilson put one on goalie Steve Mastalerz (29 saves). His shot produced a juicy rebound and went right to the stick of Joe Houk in front of the net. Houk wouldn’t miss from there less than a minute after a potential River Hawks tally was ruled no goal due to a high stick.

UML then added two late goals, one of which was an own goal by UMass and the other was an empty netter, putting the game out of reach for the Minutemen.

UMass had its fair share of opportunities to score early on, and it was in fact controlling the pace of play in the first period, but the Minutemen couldn’t come through with a goal. The River Hawks did, though, when Chris Maniccia sent a cross-ice pass to Ryan McGrath, who tipped the puck past Mastalerz 16 minutes, 28 seconds into the game.

UML also struck in the second period on a wrist shot by Joseph Pendenza on the power play, which made it 2-0 at the time.

UMass will next be in action next weekend when it plays two home games against Michigan State of the Big Ten.

Cameron McDonough can be reached at and followed on Twitter @Cam_McDonough.

2 Responses to “UMass hockey falls to UMass Lowell in non-conference matchup”
  1. Bob Davidson says:

    UMass Lowell is in Hockey East; wouldn’t that make this a conference matchup?

  2. Cameron McDonough says:

    Not in this case. UMass scheduled UMass Lowell and will have two games against Maine later this month, which won’t technically be conference games. With the new format after the addition of Notre Dame, the regular season lost a week. So UMass and UMass Lowell still wanted to face each other three times, so they can still have a winner for the Alumni Cup, which is what the two teams play for each season. Some teams are only facing each other twice now with one less week.

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VLOOKUP & INDEX/MATCH Are Both Badly Designed Functions: Here Are Some Better Ones

It’s fun to argue about whether VLOOKUP or INDEX/MATCH is better, but to me that’s missing the point: they are both bad.

So I decided to design and build some better ones.

Here are some of the more-frequently mentioned VLOOKUP INDEX/MATCH problems

  • Slow exact match (linear search)
  • Approximate sorted match is the wrong default 99.9% of the time and gives the wrong answer without warning
  • Cannot do exact match on sorted data (well they can but only if they ignore sorted!)
  • Numeric VLOOKUP answer column easy to break
  • No built-in error handling for exact match
  • VLOOKUP very inflexible
  • INDEX/MATCH more flexible but still limited
  •  …

MEMLOOKUP/MEMMATCH – easier and faster alternatives to VLOOKUP/MATCH

MEMLOOKUP ( Lookup_Value, Lookup_Array, Result_Col, Sort_Type, MemType_Name, Vertical_Horizontal )

The syntax is designed to make it easy to convert a VLOOKUP to MEMLOOKUP, but there are differences!

  • Defaults to Exact Match on both unsorted and unsorted data
  • Use either column labels or numbers
  • Fast exact match on both unsorted and sorted data
  • Automatic optimisation of multiple lookups within the same row

So you want more flexibility? Try the AVLOOKUP/AMATCH family of functions

It’s always tempting to cram in more function (scope creep is universal), but if the result is too many parameters then it’s a mistake. So instead there is a whole family of these lookup functions that build on the MEMLOOKUP/MEMMATCH technology to provide the ultimate in flexibility and power whilst remaining efficient.

  • Lookup using any column
  • Lookup using more than one column without slow concatenation
  • Lookup the first, last, Nth or all results on both sorted and unsorted data
  • Lookup both rows and columns (2-dimensional lookup is built-in)
  • Built-in error handling for exact match
  • Return multiple answer columns
  • Case-sensitive lookup option
  • Regex match option

Try them out for yourself

These functions are included in the 90 or so additional Excel functions built into FastExcel V3.
You can download the trial version from here.

Download FastExcel V3

If you like them then ask Microsoft to add them to the next version of Excel!

I would be delighted to tell the Excel team how I built these functions and the algorithms they use.

By the way they are written as C++ multi-threaded functions in an XLL addin for maximum performance.

Celebrating my MVP award: Discount offer

Hi everyone!

Every quarter Microsoft announces who are the lucky ones to receive their Most Valuable Professional Award. An MVP award lasts a year, so for a quarter of the MVPs, October 1st is an important day.

I got re-awarded!

And to celebrate that I am offering a 3 day 50 percent discount on my Formula auditing tool: RefTreeAnalyser

From October 8, 2014 to October 10, 2104 you receive 50 % off of the list price when you enter this coupon code: MVP2014

Head over to my website and download the tool, you can try it for free!

Jan Karel Pieterse

Pimpin’ My Site

When Doug posted about Data Comparison Tricks, I saw Dick tell him to “pimp his site” in the comments.

Having a vivid imagination, this is what went through my head.

Yo Dawg!

Anyway, that’s what I’ll now proceed to do. (Having obtained Dick’s permission first of course!)

Here’s some stuff I’ve been working on recently.

A multi-field Find and Select/Replace tool.

AET Find and Replace

Although a bit old, (like me), some of the code came from this.

AET Cell Watch Form

Here’s the old post about it from back in 2009. (From my former blog, which I’ll also pimp!)

An alternative Status Bar that recognizes numbers even if the format is text. Woohoo!

AET Status Bar

And some games. (For the kids, but you can play too)
That’s enough pimpin’ for now. (I’m making new stuff as I write this) See you next time?

T Accounts

I’ve made an Excel template for filling out T accounts. For you non-accounting folks, a T account is a method to trace accounting transactions through the accounts on the general ledger. Hey, wake up! This post isn’t finished yet!

I’ve made a T account template at least three times in my Excel career. They never work out. They never make it easier than pencil-to-paper or marker-to-whiteboard. It doesn’t seem to stop me from trying, though, and now I’m making my latest attempt available to you. First, let’s look at this huge image (click to embiggen).

The top left section (C2:F11) is where you write a brief description for up to 10 transactions. Column C is the transaction number and can’t be edited. Column D is where you type the brief description. Column E is overflow for column D because I hate merged cells. Column F is the general ledger period. You can put them all in the same GL Period if it’s not applicable to your transactions. You don’t have to use this section. That is, you can leave off the descriptions and the periods, but good luck trying to figure out what you were thinking.

In this example, the transactions are listed in the order they will happen over time. This series of transactions represent a sale where we get a kickback from the vendor and we’re passing that savings on to the customer. First, we buy the inventory from the vendor. Next, we ship it to the our customer. At that point we need to make our costs correct by accruing the rebate we’re entitled to from the vendor. We pay the vendor, get paid by the customer, and finally get our rebate from the Vendor.

The main section of the workbook is a 3×3 grid of T accounts. This is where the magic happens. The top left cell of each T account is a financials statement classification number. It’s a data validation dropdown containing the numbers 1-7.

  1. Assets
  2. Liabilities
  3. Equity
  4. Sales
  5. Cost of Goods Sold
  6. Expenses
  7. Other Income and Expenses

That financial statement classification number is replicated down the hidden column B (and H and N) for formula purposes.

To the right of the financial statement classification number is the (merged) cell where you type the account name. The account name is only for your reference and has no bearing on any formulas in the model.

The lighter green section down the left side of the T account is a series of data validation dropdowns that allow you to select the transaction number. The main white area of the T account that’s divided vertically is the area where you record your debits and credits. At the bottom of the T account, the debits and credits are summed up and the net debit or credit is displayed.

There are two other areas to the right of the T accounts grid. The top area shows the effects on the major sections of your balance sheet and income statement. It expands to the right for however many periods you have. The financial statement classification number at the top left of the T account determines where your transaction ends up in this area. And, obviously, the period you identify in the transactions section determine the column.

The bottom area is a list of the 10 transactions and the net debit or credit by transaction. If any of these are not zero, you’re missing a piece of the transaction.

Please leave your thoughts and suggestions in the comments.

You can download TAccounts.zip

FastExcel V3 Released – At Last!

As some of you may know I have been working on developing Version 3 of my FastExcel product for more years than I care to remember.
First there was the VB6 blind alley, then 64-bit and multi-threaded calculation and that ribbon thing, then I detoured into learning C++ and XLLs, then there was the inevitable scope creep, (and my consulting customers kept asking me to do things, and then there was the sailing) … you get the picture.

Anyway I finally pushed the release button on June 4 2014. Yippee!!!

The initial reaction has been great (no doubt helped by the introductory offer of 50% off).

So what is FastExcel V3?

There are 3 major products in the FastExcel V3 family, targeted at different types of use scenarios.

FastExcel V3 Profiler

The Profiler gives you a comprehensive set of tools focussed on finding and prioritising calculation bottlenecks. If your spreadsheet takes more than a few seconds to calculate you need FastExcel profiler to find out and prioritize the reasons for the slow calculation

  • Profiling Drill-Down Wizard
  • Profile Workbook
  • Profile Worksheet
  • Profile Formulas
  • Map Cross-References

FastExcel V3 Manager

FastExcel Manager contains tools to help you build, debug and maintain Excel workbooks.

  • Name Manager Pro – an invaluable tool for managing Defined Names and Tables
  • Formula Viewer/Editer – a better way of editing and debugging more complex formulas.
  • Sheet Manager – Easily manage and manipulate worksheets.
  • Workbook – Cleaner – Trim down any excess bloat in your workbooks
  • Where-Used Maps – See where your Defined Names, Number Formats and Styles are being used

FastExcel SpeedTools

SpeedTools provides you with a state-of-the-art tool-kit to help you speed up your Excel Calculations

  • Calculation timing tools for workbooks, worksheets, and ranges
  • Additional calculations modes to enhance control of calculation so that you only calculate what needs to be calculated.
  • 90 superfast multi-threaded functions
  • Faster and more powerful Lookups and List comparisons
  • Multi-condition filtering and Distinct formulas to eliminate many slow SUMPRODUCT and Array formulas
  • Enhanced functions for Array handling, text, mathematics, sorting, information and logic

If you want to find out more just go to my website

or Download the 15-day full-featured trial of FastExcel V3

Formula Auditing by RefTreeAnalyser: Objects included

Hi all,

I’ve been working on my RefTreeAnalyser again. What I’ve been up to this time is building tools which help with the analysis of dependencies which are mostly hidden from view:

  • Charts (series formula)
  • Pivot table (source data)
  • Data Validation formulas
  • Conditional Formatting formulas
  • Form controls (linked cell, listfillrange)
  • ActiveX controls (linked cell, listfillrange)
  • Picture objects (linked cell)

A new dialog has been added that shows all sources of the objects in your file:

Objects analysed for cell dependencies

Moreover, when you analyse a particular cell for its dependencies, objects are taken into account too (well, to be perfectly honest, only if you purchase a license):

If you haven’t already done so, why don’t you head over to my website and download the tool. The demo is free and (almost!) fully functional.

Jan Karel Pieterse

Improving the Trace Precedents Experience

Hi all,

I’ve been working on my RefTreeAnalyser in the past weeks. One thing I’ve been working on is improving the not-so-intuitive way Excel displays Precedents using arrows, especially if a cell has mutliple off-sheet precedents:

Excel's way to show precedents

Notice that silly goto dialog (which you get when you double-click the off-sheet arrow with the tiny “table” icon next to it)?
Prize question: which worksheets and ranges are the entries in the Goto listbox pointing to?

I redesigned that “experience” to this (I manually added the red call-outs to this screenshot to explain what is what):

My way to show Precedents

Note how off-sheet precedents are represented by a picture of (part of) the range in question. A nice way to enable you to see what the precedent values are.

The boxes contain a hyperlink to that range so a simple click takes you there for further inspection. On hover with your mouse you’ll get the precedent’s source address in a tooltip.

If you like this idea, why not head over to my site and download the demo version so you can try it and shoot some comments at me?

There is one snag: the new feature only works for Excel 2007 and up.

Jan Karel Pieterse

A new tool: Trusted Document Manager

Hi everyone!

I have just published a new tool today, Trusted Document Manager. This little tool enables you to manage your list of trusted documents. Currently, Excel only allows you to either leave the list intact, or delete the entire list. This means all of your currently trusted documents become untrusted again so you have to enable macro’s on all of them once again. The tool allows you to remove just one file, remove an entire folder or even an entire drive. Also it offers to possibility to remove files which no longer exist from the list.

This is what the tool looks like:

Jan Karel Pieterse

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McCarty embracing leadership role for Longhorns

Junior Brooke McCarty will take over the reigns at point guard for the Longhorns after helping lead them to the Elite Eight last year. She earned All-Big 12 First Team honors in 2015-16.
Photo Credit: Gabriel Lopez | Daily Texan Staff

When the Longhorns gather in a pregame huddle on Sunday, the day prior to facing No. 11 Stanford, junior Brooke McCarty will emphasize one word: together.

Pump-up speeches are one of many responsibilities McCarty carries this season as the Longhorns’  starting point guard. Transitioning into a leadership role hasn’t been a simple process, but with practices in full swing and the season opener approaching, McCarty is prepared for the challenge.

“The work in progress, part of it is just me being more vocal and being able to be open to my teammates coming to me about anything at anytime,” McCarty said. “Just being able to be a lending hand and following like the leaders last year while trying to be my own person at the same time.”

McCarty has excelled for the Longhorns since arriving on the 40 Acres in 2014. The 5-foot-4 guard is the shortest player on Texas’ roster, but still brings a big presence on the hardwood. She led the Longhorns in points per game and minutes played last season, warranting a first team All-Big 12 selection and a Big 12 All-Tournament Team selection.

Head coach Karen Aston gave the starting point guard role to McCarty this offseason. McCarty has embraced the new role, constantly learning from the coaching staff and teammates — new and old — along the way.

But McCarty knows her leadership responsibilities extend beyond her play on the court.

“I have to be more of a leader off the court too, not just on the court,” McCarty said. “I’m kind of to myself a little bit sometimes, so just being more vocals in all areas of the game.”

McCarty said she’s inspired to lead by her mother — a single mom who has done everything in her power to be there for her kids. McCarty’s mom has made an effort to attend all of her games over the years.

“She never complains and she never acts like it’s a big burden for her, so I just kind of feel like she has been my motivator,” McCarty said. “She’s the reason why I wake up every morning and why I do what I do, especially on days where I feel like I don’t want to go.”

Texas will bank on McCarty’s leadership as the team embarks on a season-long journey with one paramount goal in mind: Reaching the Final Four in Dallas.

The No. 8 Longhorns visit the Cardinal on Nov. 14 in a marquee matchup between two of the nation’s top teams. And when the tip-off rolls around in Palo Alto and the Longhorns cluster in their pregame huddle, McCarty will be ready to lead.


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Friday, November 08, 2013

Arlene Kushner From November 6: Kerry's Middle East Peace Talks Falling Apart

From Arlene Kushner:
November 6, 2013

Did I Say a "Tangle"

"A Tangled Affair," actually.  Yesterday.  I've rethought this and decided "morass" might be a better term for what Israel is dealing with in her relations with the PA, and with the US.

This is one of those political sagas that is going to go on, and on, and on.  So, I'll attempt to be brief here, as I provide an update on some of the matters I touched upon yesterday.  Tomorrow there may be another story.

First, please note, Secretary of State Kerry is here and laid a wreath at Rabin Square (in commemoration of the 18 years since Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated). At the ceremony, he declared that he will stand by Israel "every step of the way."

Touches your heart, doesn't it?  No?  Maybe it gives you heartburn?

Kerry likely does not know that Rabin, who signed on to the Oslo Accords with considerable reluctance, made it clear before he died that he was not for a full Palestinian state, but something lesser, some sort of autonomy.  Those of you who saw the signing ceremony on the White House lawn on TV may remember Rabin's moment of hesitation - disgust, actually - before he girded himself to take Arafat's hand.

A report coming from Maariv indicates that the Obama administration is attempting to link Iran with the "peace talks."

It's not new.  This nonsense has been going on for some time.

What Maariv reports now is that, according to US sources, both Kerry and Obama have delivered the message to Netanyahu that if he makes "progress" on the "peace process," then "it will be easier for the US to support Israel's position."

Read: Report: Obama Linking 'Peace Talks,' Iran

In point of fact there is no linkage between the two issues, except insofar as Obama wishes to create one.  If maintaining strong sanctions on Iran is a good thing to do - for the sake of the US and the world, not as a favor to Israel, for heaven's sake - then it is a good thing to do whether Netanyahu makes "progress" in negotiations or not.

Yes, this is blackmail - in line with, but not as severe as what Caroline Glick suggested.  And yes, this might be a factor in Netanyahu's continued involvement in those "negotiations."

Would Kerry like to repeat that again, with a straight face - the business of being by Israel's side?

If there is any mitigating factor, it is that the US administration is reported by Maariv to be making efforts to avoid a confrontation with Israel.  I suggest this would not play well with Congress or large parts of the American electorate. This suggests a need for maximum strength and resilience from our side.  If the US is going to push just so hard, they need to encounter maximum resistance.
Yesterday I wrote that we need to implore Netanyahu to hold fast with regard to Israel's rights.  I want to reiterate this here, even more emphatically.  Please, let the prime minister hear from you.  Keep your message short, avoid speeches and history lessons - and be courteous.  Let him know that you truly do stand with him as he exhibits strength and stands up for Israel's rights. Tell him this is not the time for more concessions, which would be a disaster and serve only to weaken Israel. and also after pm) use both addresses

I'm picking up rumors, still, about US intentions to attempt to push a solution, with Kerry coming back here with his own version of a deal.  If Obama and company do intend to try this, I admit, it causes a certain unease and definitely has the potential to raise blood pressure.

But in the end I am confident that no "deal" can be reached - especially not a deal that is pushed down the parties' throats.  And I want to reassure my readers on this score.

The gaps are simply too great, and all the pushing in the world will not create a bridge that will hold.

Jerusalem is a prime example.  The Palestinian Arabs insist that Jerusalem must be their capital as well. But there is exceedingly strong feeling, within our nation and within our government, regarding Jerusalem undivided as Israel's eternal capital.  Even Yair Lapid, who tilts left and is for "two states," was quoted today by the JPost as opposing the division of Jerusalem.  Such a division, by the way, would by law require a national referendum and is not something that can be accomplished by Livni behind closed doors.

And then there is the issue of the Jordan Valley, which Netanyahu insists we must retain for security reasons.  He refuses to consider international troops, for very good reason.  There are reports that he wants to build a security fence along the Jordanian border in the Valley to prevent infiltration by terrorists from our east. (Remember, tens of thousands of Syrians are now in Jordan as refugees and who knows how many of these are jihadists.)

The PA is adamant that Israel cannot have it and cannot even station troops there.

See: "Israel-Palestinian talks: Why fate of Jordan Valley is key"

Please, also see Khaled Abu Toameh's latest on this issue of negotiations, "We do not trust the Americans" (emphasis added):
"As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry embarks on a fresh mission to prevent the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, the Palestinian Authority [PA] appears to be doing its utmost to internationalize the conflict with Israel.

"The Palestinians want other international parties, especially the European Union, United Nations and Russia, to play a major role in the current U.S.-sponsored peace talks.

"...The PA's biggest fear is that Washington will try to impose a solution that would certainly fail to win the backing of most Palestinians and Arabs.

"A forced solution, Palestinians warn, would also severely undermine the credibility of the PA leadership, whose leaders would be accused by many Palestinians and Arabs of capitulating to American pressure and threats.

"...Kerry and his team are evidently unaware of the fact that neither Abbas, whose term of office expired several years ago, nor any other Palestinian leader is authorized to make real concessions to Israel.

"The last time the Americans tried to extract concessions from a Palestinian leader was in the year 2000, when President Bill Clinton dragged Yasser Arafat to Camp David and exerted heavy pressure on him to accept Ehud Barak's offer to hand over to the Palestinians most of the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.

"The result of the U.S. pressure was that Arafat ran away and within a few weeks Palestinians launched the Second Intifada against Israel; Abbas, in Arabic, has already threatened as much.

"Today, the PA is already facing growing criticism for agreeing to return to the negotiating table unconditionally three months ago. Palestinian leaders have justified their decision by arguing that Kerry forced them to drop their pre-conditions and resume the peace talks with Israel.

"'We want the Americans to be involved in the peace process,' said a senior aide to PA President Mahmoud Abbas. 'But the U.S. should focus its pressure on the Israelis and not on us. We want the Americans to force Israel to accept the two-state solution and dismantle all the illegal settlements.'

"Palestinian Authority officials say they are now convinced that the U.S. administration has no intention to force Israel to comply with all the demands of the Palestinian negotiators, including a full withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines..."
Read: Palestinians: We Do Not Trust The Americans

I have been writing consistently that Abbas cannot surrender any of the PA demands. He has neither the popular backing nor the political legitimacy to do so.  And - I say this with all seriousness - were he to attempt to surrender what he is not empowered to surrender he might risk his life.

It may well be that Kerry and his team are not aware that Abbas is not in a position to make concessions. But consider what breathtaking diplomatic incompetency this suggests.

And please understand that this scenario guarantees there will be no diplomatic resolution.

No resolution. But violence? Yes. That is exceedingly likely.  Abu Toameh, in his piece, above, referred to what Abbas has already said in Arabic.  It is this, described by Ruthie Blum:
"Until now, Abbas has been tight-lipped about the hush-hush two-state solution discussions in which his negotiating team is ostensibly invested. And though he has made an effort to come off as more moderate than his terrorist predecessor, Yasser Arafat, he occasionally lets his true ill intentions slip. On Monday, as always, he did this in Arabic. After all, he could not risk being too upfront with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry scheduled to arrive in Israel on Tuesday.

"What Abu Mazen [Abbas] told his cronies in the Fatah Revolutionary Committee was that the negotiations are significantly deadlocked. No surprise there. But the words to follow are noteworthy. 'The situation,' he said, 'is liable to be explosive.'

"According to Yehezkeli [Channel 10 Arab affairs commentator Zvi Yehezkeli], the phrase Abbas used in Arabic can also be interpreted as 'the situation is explosive.'

"Translations aside, Abbas was not merely being careless, linguistically or otherwise. He was effectually giving a green light for an eruption of violence against Israelis. This is something he has been doing indirectly, through the PA-controlled media. But saying it outright is unusual for him, since he always tries to remain above the fanatical fray by hiding behind his tailored suit and silk tie..." (Emphasis added)
Read: Netanyahu: PA's position unchanged since 1993

There were reports today of the PA insisting it was withdrawing from negotiations because Israel was not being forthcoming enough and was continuing to build:
"A senior Palestinian official, who asked to remain anonymous, told AFP that the Palestinians would refuse to continue the talks as long as Jewish settlement on the West Bank proliferates.' The Palestinian-Israeli negotiations broke down during the session on Tuesday night,' the official said."
Read: Peace talks blow up after teams swap accusations

But the Arabs are masters at making threats that they don't follow through on.  If I had a shekel for every time Abbas said he was quitting, I'd be a rich woman.  My first thought on hearing this was that the threat was made with an eye towards Kerry, in the hopes something would be offered as an "inducement" to keep them negotiating.  Isn't that the way the Obama administration plays it?

Kerry was in Bethlehem today, where he met Abbas. And what do you know?  He announced "his intention to transfer $75 million to the Palestinian Authority in order to create new jobs, improve roads, schools and other infrastructure"?
"US officials said the aid is designed to boost Palestinian public support for faltering peace talks."
Read: As talks flounder, US to give $75 million more in aid to Palestinians

My guess is that they'll take the money even as they will retain their negative opinions about the "peace process."  They're not bought that easily. But Abbas will probably stay at the table.

And there's more, for Kerry also said:  "We consider now, and have always considered, the settlements to be illegitimate."  He's correct, this has been the US position -- it's not new.  But he states it now for Abbas's sake.

Read: Kerry: US Sees Jewish Judea and Samaria as 'Illegitimate'

My response:  Thank Heaven we've begun the Levy Report Campaign (which is just now revving up).  It makes Israel's rights in Judea and Samaria clear.

Note, even Kerry is careful not to say the "settlements" are "illegal." They're not.

There is something good that happened today. Avigdor Leiberman - who had had a trial because of charges of corruption brought against him - was acquitted unanimously of all charges today.

Credit: AP
PM Netanyahu had been saving the position of Foreign Minister for him, and now he can assume it.

What I like about Lieberman, aside from the fact that he moves towards the right, is his tendency to be straightforward and tell it like it is.  He doesn't play games.  He is considered "undiplomatic" because of this, but I find him a refreshing change and consider him a welcome addition to the government.
"Lieberman himself is not against a two-state solution in principle but believes it can't be achieved in this generation, with these Palestinian leaders, and within the current climate of upheaval in the Middle East. For the past few years, Lieberman has been leading a campaign against PA President Mahmoud Abbas..."  (Emphasis added)
Read: Lieberman acquittal makes Likud-Beytenu split more likely

The PA has already voiced displeasure at Lieberman's return to politics.

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General Dance Discussion > Advantages of learning how to dance on your own

Discussion in 'General Dance Discussion' started by DanceMentor, Mar 12, 2017.

  1. DanceMentor

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    First question: when you read the title of this post, what comes to your mind? Maybe dancing without a partner, and training yourself? That was my first thought. I imagined maybe rehearsing the steps by myself, or watching videos. But that was not the intent (in hindsight, it should be obvious) on the Arthur Murray blog.
    It seems to focus on taking one on one private lessons, on your own rather than bringing a partner. So what is your takeaway here?
  2. RiseNFall

    RiseNFall Well-Known Member

    I agree with you about what I would have expected the post to be about.

    I'm not in that situation myself--since I dance pro/am, it's always just me, but from what I've seen from couples learning together, yes, they do benefit from taking some lessons by themselves. They also benefit from taking some of the lessons together. Competitive partners also benefit from some solo lessons. People on here who are part of am/am couples have commented favorably about taking some lessons by themselves.
  3. IndyLady

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    Those Arthur Murray blogs pop up in my FB feed and I usually read them, and based on that I would have expected some sort of "sales pitch" type propaganda, which is what it was. Though it was a little shallower than I was expecting. But basically a slightly extended version of "you don't need a partner to take dance lessons", which is still a common misconception.

    DH doesn't dance much anymore, but I agree that we benefited from taking lessons both together and separately. And also dancing with other people besides each other at practice parties (one of the biggest mistakes I see couples make is refusing to do that).

    If I had seen that title in isolation with no context, I would have assumed it was talking about trying to learn all by yourself from internet videos, DVD's, etc. with no help from anyone else. Which of course in the long run has serious limitations if you really want to make any progress.
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  4. tangotime

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    The main point of that statement has always meant to imply that, "singles " are welcome .

    Today, in my area, I still take ladies as a "single" ( many English teachers, do not ).
    Whilst in the States, I have also taken male students, and some male Pro's .

    AM started using this ad format , back in the 40s when many males were in military service .
  5. DanceMentor

    DanceMentor Administrator

    I also felt the article was meant to appeal to someone who feels like they never do anything on their own. They don't have their "own role". I think it is well written.
  6. Agreeing 100% with IndyLady when she said this:

    "...I agree that we benefited from taking lessons both together and separately. And also dancing with other people besides each other at practice parties (one of the biggest mistakes I see couples make is refusing to do that)."

    For us, only due to a 15+ month foot injury for my wife (dance over use injury)I had to start taking private lessons without her instead of the two of us learning together. And I had to dance with everyone but her at parties. I learned a lot from this and if we could start over, we would take the first dozen private lessons individually instead of as a couple.

    In fact, with my wife dancing again, I have stopped taking private lessons while she now takes them without me. She will progress/catch up a lot faster this way.

    Dancing with spouse - priceless!!! Dancing with others - enlightening and fun. Mixing the two - best of both least for us.
  7. Mr 4 styles

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    Ron montez once told me when he teaches a couple new to him he does at least one lesson with the man alone first. Did this with Tony Meredith recently and made the next lessons with pro and the Mrs much more productive
  8. DanceMentor

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    I think I agree with this notion so long as there is a sense that the couple is building a sense of working together to produce a good result. Sometimes there can be an economic benefit for dance studios to separate the couple because they may not be able to keep both people but they can keep one of them. But if there is a desire from both of them to learn to dance together, it is important that they develop some skills to work with each other more effectively.
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  9. Mr 4 styles

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    Yes he's specifically referring to competitive couples. Pro pro or advanced am am. Or am male in pro am
  10. ivyvaine23

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    This is a topic that's been following me around for quite a while now, and I'm well aware that this is a part of the gaming community, which is completely the opposite of what we're doing, but livestreaming seems like a pretty cool idea. I find watching YouTube videos rather dull, but friends of mine (who are involved with the gaming and artists community) told me so much about this whole livestreaming thing and how you can actually interact with the person streaming. According to what my friends have told me, it's a special website for creative live streaming I believe?
  11. opendoor

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    Exactly that was my first idea, to be once own guide, coach, trainer, teacher. And I learned dancing exactly that way for years.

    -I arranged my own syllabus,
    -invented my own system for labanotation (perhaps I should publish it somewhere..),
    -tried to find someone, who could give me a feedback and acknowledge what I've learned,
    -drew a big chart for all possible moves, poses, transitions,
    -began to compare which type of physiotherapy or body work best suits for a certain type of body constitution,
    -began to collect music for djaying,
    -began teaching and giving workshops..

    First I did so, because I had no money. Then I found out that I was better than many a pro, now I earn from it.
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  12. open_mind

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    So many times I've heard from other people: "I would love to learn how to dance, but my husband/wife/gf/bf are not into it, so I guess it's not for me". I respect that, but my husband's disinterest in dancing didn't stop me. I guess that's what AM post is all about, encouraging people to try this hobby even though they have no permanent partner because they just haven't found a dance partner, or they are single or their significant others don't dance (and we are not going to dive into non-dancing spouse arguments here). I really don't think their post tries to encourage partners to learn separately from each other. I mean, yes, obviously each individual in a partnership will advance at their own pace and should take charge of their own progress through various means (such as physical fitness, individual lessons or anything else), but if luck is on your side and you have a dance partner, by all means you should learn together most of the time.
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Review: Dark and Stormy By Felicia Starr

The sisters of the Sacred Hearts Coven gather every month with one intention, to ignite a flame of passion into one lucky person’s love life.

Regina’s work is her driving force. She strives to be the top of her game, but there is a large thorn in her side—Reddick, her apparent nemesis. His confident and somewhat arrogant persona makes her blood boil, but as the saying goes: there is a thin line between love and hate.

Will a touch of magic have Regina opening her heart to the unknown? Or will she run from this storm only to be crushed by her greatest fear?

Dark and Stormy is one of those pleasant reads that hits you unexpectedly. When I first started I thought "this is one of those typical romance stories", but it wasn't. I found myself engaged and immersed in the story. It has a cute and enticing quality that hooks you. The story line, was mixed with paranormal qualities but taking place in and under normal circumstances. I liked seeing the interactions between the characters and enjoyed their story from start to finish. It was a quick read which helped getting the story going straight to the point without dragging. I look forward to further stories from this author. Enjoy!

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RECORD: Minching, W. 09.01.1883. [Recollections of Darwin.] CUL-DAR112.A85b-A85d (Darwin Online,

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[printed letterhead] Montgomery

9th January 1883

Dear Sir
I have seen two old schoolfellows of your late Father (at Shrewsbury;) one the Revd. R. M. White, Vicar of Churchstoke in this country, & the other my Cousin, W. C. L. Hughes of Liverpool, whom I mentioned in my previous letter; but neither can call to mind any incident of your father's life at Shrewsbury School of any especial interest. W.

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Hughes, however, recalls with pleasure, his intercourse with Mr Darwin at Buenos Ayres, when the Beagle touched there in 1833, - & his having met, at this same time, Capt. Fitzroy, Mr Bynoe, & the other officers of the ship.
I find that I was in error in saying I think Mr Darwin South American collections, or some of them, were placed in Mr Hughes charge for transmission to England.
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his return to Liverpool, the Head of the Megatherium (one of those, I think, which are described in the 5th chapter of the Journal") was consigned to him for transmission to Professor Owen, and that after some difficulty he passed it through the Liverpool Custom House, free of duty, which the authorities there claimed on it!
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Shrewsbury, when they and your father were school chums there, under Dr Butler.
Mr White who mentioned two brothers, who were there at the same time, - Horatio & James Hilligen but he has since lost sight of both.
I took the liberty of sending your letter to a friend of mine, Mr J. B. Barrett, of Welshport (where he, until recently, practised as a surgeon)

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- He knew Dr R. W. Darwin well, both professionally & otherwise; but did not know your father until his return to England in the Beagle - when he met him at Dr Darwin's house, at the channel, in Shrewsbury. - If he can in any way assist in the enquiries you are making, I am sure that you will hear from him.
I regret that my enquiries have not proved more successful - & that I do not, at personal, think of

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any others than those I have named, to whom to apply.
You may however rest assured that if I should hear of any facts bearing upon your fathers early life, that may be of interest to you, I will not fail to write.

Believe me to be, dear Sir, yours faithfully

W. Minching

Francis Darwin Esq. F.R.S.

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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. Geological diary: Port St Andrew - Cape Harbor. (12.1834) CUL-DAR35.259-266 Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online,

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, corrections and editing by John van Wyhe, corrections by Gordon Chancellor 5-8.2011. RN4

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See the introduction to the Geological Diary by Gordon Chancellor.

December 21st Sunday [1834]

Port St Andrew Cone Harbor. — Pen. of Tres Montes. —

Island in front: the prevailing rock brownish smoke-grey, rather earthy, greenstone porphyritic with indistinct crystals of feldspar (2382) & green spots. — is traversed by numerous veins, which blend into the adjoining rock of a pure grained much greener (chloritic) greenstone (2383)

There is some[pseudo]-breccia fragments conrection? slided together, altered in their nature most [indefinitely] porphyritic (2384). correction? — The surface is exceedingly rough by small projection, from unequal weathering, apparently the chloritic mineral giving way & from the brecciated structure. — Base of island composed of enormous fragments; the main rock being much traversed by fissures. —

The above rock form a massive support, as seen on both hands in entering in the vessel to a rock dipping about W by N ∠45°, with even & numerous

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Vultur aura. excessively abundant here. 3 fingered island & Port Otway

no animals, sea-birds & otters seals [refuse] of sea. —

Penguin demersa no nest eggs under in holes under the tussocks or bushes

Barking bird, (large like Junco — mostly brown reddish about abdomen) —Cheucau & Creeper & lastly little black wren (every one nows birds) Humming bird & T. del. Thrush not uncommon & last the common black [Furnarius] on coast in great numbers. (Humming bird in dense forest).1

Wonderful to see kelp on the very outside coast. — degradation of rocks. —

Ascended, cone dreadful walking, curious immense rock. ascended on ladder. saw Hoppner Sound: curiosity to know whether fellow brethren. bit of wood & mans nest. — How strange, a ship-wrecked man! — In the North barren level hills.

1 These ornithological notes are also found in Zoology notes, p. 279.

Penguin demersa no nest eggs under in holes under the tussocks or bushes] in pencil

planes of of cleavage, yet the rock is itself massive in its structure:

I cannot question it is altered slate such as we have seen in Woollaston Isd. & Cockburn channel. — External forms exceedingly like the mountains of that group: many steep & regular lines & obtusely angular ridges giving architectural appearance to the hills. — Elevation 1500 to 2000 ft.

Going up the harbor: found some of the massive (2385) laminated rock ┴° N by W & S by E is fine-grained grey. Feldspathic (perhaps is a fine-grained greenstone): Found this on two sites & between them nay fragments & one piece mass in situ, of granite mica (or hornblende) with white feldspar & yellowish quartz. Connection? —

The surface of cliffs of 1st variety of rock looks like lava with included fragments, owing possibly I do not know whether to the green veins or really brecciated structure. —

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Monday 22d

The certainly common rock is the feldspathic [alter] slate as yesterday evening (s not clay-slate near trap dyke like this in T del Fuego (2386). This passes in some places by insensible degrees to a slate colored feldspathic with specks of quartz & occasionally porph: with feldspar; sonorous conch: fracture.

When I approached the cone describe it about 1600 ft high, I made sure to find, as well crystallized greenstone; it was however the same kind of rock cliffs, but blacker some black (2387) & less altered; parts were paler & obscurely brecciated structure (2388). This mass certainly appears to be pushed up through the [whole] strata: what could have caused this singular form. Has it a same not melted. Breccia highest part The hills run & creek of waters) NW by 1/2 N & E by S: they are very irregular, but certainly the N & S line of cleavage corresponds to none. —

An old beach of shells about 30 ft above h. water marks (& bed of pebble) also a single fissurable at 200 ft? How came it there?

Mem. granite metamorphic argument W // N dip disturbed

origin of mica slate  [good] proofs &c

Breccia same dip

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Tuesday 23d [1834] Cone Harbor. — (3)

The Southern Headland. — On landing (when we returned) was much surprised to find all the rocks volcanic: R

The commonest varieties were brown cellular, rather stony lava (2390: 91) cavities often with green powder coating: less commonly grey ones with similar structure, some of which are of little specific gravity from extreme cellular nature (2392: 93: 94). There is also much of a slate color, so very strong, that excepting from occasional crystal or cellular would not be easily recognized as volcanic rock (2395) as in this latter state: this variety is often laminated (2396), the plates showing a tendency to a globular structure. — Perhaps even a still more kind is a rubby sort which seems related to the pitch stone kind.

This sort frequently from the outer layers of the stone imperfect sphaere of the stony sort kind. — The [illeg] nearly the whole hill side is so much broken up & [illeg] in the nature Line Nearly the whole of the lava is of that nature, that it is very difficult to say, whether it is composed of fragments united by fire or water: the latter can often be proved. I found a mass of angular blocks of the cellular lava, but cemented together, or rather the interstices filled by an entire aqueous deposit; above this were beds of sandstone (2401; 02) brownish, fine-grained, indurated (volcanic debris, containing occasional fragments of lava. this alternated with scores of layers of smally brecciated soft rock, where the pieces appeared pumice (2403). — The sandstone contains numerous little bits of signite, most of which are black & glistening. — The layers are parallel & denote clearly tranquil aqueous deposition; above these beds

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(a) Lava (2390) is often amygdaloid with agate. I found one great hollow sphere a foot across: the same surface is largely mamillated & red (2400). — The junction of it with the lava is rather curious (2399). —

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There was great bed stream of cellular lava. — All these beds dipped to about North ∠45. — immediately in front & under their basset edge, there runs what a great dyke of a brownish compact greenstone (2390). This at its very edges becomes slightly cellular & finer grained so as to become somewhat like (2391). On the The rocks possessed a slightly transverse prismatic structure. — On the opposite side of the ravine there appeared (I could not reach it) a corresponding mass of cemented fragments of cellular lava. —

The dyke ran WNW & ESE. it is cer tolerably certain the protrusion of this caused the northerly high dip, in an overlying mass of scorice & sediment. Is this a common occurrence: in the true greenstone dyke it is not often present to be seen: Here perhaps a less pressure would cause the strata to yield with greater readiness. —

In another locality a little further north I found a layer of lava, dipping at great angle (70°?) to the S. — This dar at the foot of some high cliffs, which were built of all the varieties of lava:

They were traversed by what appeared somewhat like a dyke of the variety of (2390): the cells were however exceedingly (lens shaped) flattened & their longer diameter arranged parallel to the dyke; on the other hand, against the dyke like appearance, each side appeared like an aqueous deposit: if this was the case, the dyke must have been a horizontal stream & their present position shows a disturbance on a scale, which I should hardly expect. — Will not the flo direction of cells, answer this question? I do not know on which side this arguments tilts.

The rocks especially the common rubby sort in this cliff were traversed in every direction by layer &

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& patches of white friable lime. This must have been contemporaneous with its flowing. — A blow made white powder start out in all parts. — The puzzle, whether masses of solid lava were connected together by aqueous cement or passed by a strong decomposed lava into each other often occurred. —

Mr Johnstone1 brought me from another headland as a specimen of white cellular calcareous tufa penetrated by small veins (2404): & tells me there was some conglomerate. — I could see this same formation was is several hundred feet thick: the form of the land, spoke nothing, a mere weatherworn undulating hill, covered as usual with forest. — I may however remark that some few miles to the South I saw a larger patch of greenish stone soft with rounded outline; which seems connected with a high rounded- hill mountain; I was at the time surprised at its appearance & now feel sure it was is a quaint volcano; perhaps the origin of these streams. —

We may draw following conclusions; that this the lava is subaqueous lava: that the volcano has formed part of an outlying chain of igneous action of which Chiloe is part (Indeed the structure of the lava in the two plains is not very dissimilar). That these volcanoes have caused the above N & S lines of projecting land. —

The relation of this, little suspected, volcanic formation, with the slates of the inner parts of harbor I cannot tell. Who can say the brown porphyritic greenstone which underlies them is different from that of the dyke, which traverses the scoriae & sediment?

If so this igneous volcanic action has metamorphized the slates (it is well

1 Charles Richardson Johnson Mate on the Beagle, see Narrative 2, "Mr Johnstone" is mentioned twice in the Beagle diary pp. 60, 207.

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(a) The porphyritic greenstone near is not cellular; this however only shows amount of pressure. — [illeg] In both cases a concretionary structure is sometimes shown by a dividing greenish stone, this is the only mineralogical alliance I am aware of. —

(b) Mem: the great plates of fusible lime, which I believe at St Jago certainly flowed with lava

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that in Wollaston Isd the rocks of which have already been adduced as similar also possesses apparent volcanic formation). Yet I do not incline to this opinion. — The metamorphis of the slates appears a too general action in all parts of the Andes to be owing to detached volcanoes; it occurs, also as in the Campana, where was is not one. — Who can reconcile the N & S lines of cleavage; the E & W great WNW & ESE dykes; the NW by N & SE by S line of hills? The similarity of cleavage with the St Is the The hills & dykes, being both transverse to cleavage is similar to what occurred at Midship Isd. In both cases are not the dykes fo the true [illeg] places of different ages?

With respect to age of this volcano, I have no data; aspect of the sedimentary strata conveyed no idea of great antiquity. —

The upheaval of good broard belts, certainly 20 yards of strata, by the injection of dykes, at fist appeared so novel to me, that I was rather inclined to consider a line of elevation. I do not however otherwise, than I have described understand the structure & mineralogical nature of the apparent dyke. —

At St Jago we saw that, the whole volcanic district is traversed by veins:

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I examined to day between the altered slates & yesterdays volcano. the rock is all volcanic, & gi almost universally in a solid field structure partly globular — concretionary. — Specimens (2405:) 6: 7: 8: 9) — the first is compact & most abundant; (2408) passes into (2409), the both are quite compact: (2407) seems very similar to (2384) described as occurring between the igneous rocks & metamorphic slates. — Seeing the compact structure, the fickleness of precise mineralogical nature of these rocks & (the short distance 1/2 a mile) to the I felt convinced it was impossible to separate these rocks, from the green one (2382), which seems to have uplifted the slates. — I was therefore surprised to find that the above varieties, quietly passed into a fragmentary mass, which contains highly cellular pieces & were cemented by an aqueous deposit. — Much of these must have actually flowed. — I do not however mean to say that the greenstone (2382) has been a lava stream, but that it is part of the formation possibly fluid mass which probably had not been poured forth or pressure removed.

There was a cliff of about 12 feet of many sedimentary layers, capped by bed of little cellular lave like (2405). These dipped to the NNW ∠ 22°. Close before & almost parallel, there was an irregular dyke running NW 1/2 W & SE 1/2 E, which sent off branches, & cut through both aqueous & igneous rocks, ([sketch] dyke NW 1/2 W), so that in this case the dyke could not have upheaved the NNW strata, but possibly some other branch beneath it must have done so. — These lava fields are chiefly remarkable by the number & size of dykes, & variety in their mineralogical structure. — They are all exactly parallel to each other, & the extremes within 1/2 a mile of each in a line transverse to their direction. — Their sides are generally straight. — There were I counted 7 or 8: — Two Three of composed of the

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Surely this bay must have been very near the former volcanic forms, else how can we understand the number & extent of veins. It also better allows for part of the rocks to have flowed & part not. — It is impossible not to be struck with the parallel lines NW 1/2 W or of dyke & the irregular chain of hills NW by W only differing 1.1/2 point. — Seeing how little mineralogical differences can be depended upon, I presume these dykes & those in Midship Isd are nearly contemporaneous. —

I still think, that the slates probably were not metamorphized during the emission of the above volcanic rocks. — the presence of granite bears me out. —

It is very interesting seeing the close connection of the matted mass, which has [burnt out through] uplifted the metamorphosed slates & the true cellular volcanic streams. In this case, the volcano has burst through altered slates & granite. — How do we reconcile the NW & SE line of dykes, here & NE & SW lines at Midship Isd. with the parallelism

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of the volcanic actions to the Andes, which might be expected & which the trend of the land points out. —

The dykes were flowing long posterior to the flowing of lava & aqueous deposits, & contemporaneous probably with the formation of mountain chain. the line of volcanoes owing perhaps to cleavage & long anterior. (NB. Almost always the mineralogical nature of dykes is different from the beds they traverse.)

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Just Stop It

She was trembling angry as she spoke, during my lecture, about a woman with a disability who liked to carry a furry bunny. The bunny had been named long ago and was a constant companion. Someone, someone superior, wanted to take the bunny away from her. The bunny was 'age inappropriate', her love for it wasn't 'normal'. God save us from those who know better. God save us from the self righteous. God save us from the tyranny of the norm.

Why would any sane person set out to hurt a woman with a disability. To steal from her a prized possession. To think that they had a RIGHT to an opinion on a FRIGGING bunny!! This kind of thing drives me crazy. Can you imagine going out to a pub after work and being asked, 'So what happened at work today?' Now imagine answering, 'I took a bunny away from a disabled woman.' That's something to be proud of ... outright cruelty.

Why are some of us so vigourous to ensure that disabled people don't 'act disabled' is there an inherent disphobia in this kind of thinking? So she carries a bunny. So people stare at her. Isn't the real issue the fact that others who judge her and her bunny have forgotten to take the spike out of their own eye first?

Here's to freedom to hug stuffed rabbits. Here's to freedom to nuzzle fake fur. Here's simply to freedom.

Lily said...

And here's to talking about your birthday every day of your life. And here's to painting your room hot freaking pink, even if you're a man. And here's to eating your dessert first. And here's to loading the dishwasher "this" way, instead of "that". And here's to everything else that matters to someone, that shouldn't matter to anyone else in the world.

I hope you're not actually raising a glass to every one of these, Dave, or I could be held responsible for a major hangover! Then again, I can't think of a better reason to get wasted!

Still reading you single day that I'm finding an entry, and still hanging on every word...

Johnny Cash said...

Hi Dave,
Nice blog dude. I found you out through Belinda's blog. I go to the same church as she does and she is a nice a person in the flesh as she is over the net. Me, I'm a piece of work. Man, that is just plain cruel to take away a stuffed bunny away from a disabled person. Ugh, I hate self-righteous people. Humble yourself first and let the Lord do the exalting for you. Hope you can drop by my own blog and hope you like what you see. Cheers mate!

Belinda said...

Okay, here I go, a bit behind the others. Here's to hugging--not just fur bunnies--but people too. I'm old enough that I know all of the reasons to teach discrimination--but--last night at our massive Christmas party, I hugged about 40 of the 80 people there. One of my huggees, thinking quickly,fearing we were "caught in the act," looked at his support worker and said, "It's okay, she's not staff." That was a compliment I'll cherish forever! And the dear support worker opened her arms and moved in for a hug too.

lina said...

Yay, lets cheer about not being 'normal', I love it. This one made my day - furry bunnies, purple coats, and funky boots - all forever - I think that will be the theme of my next party - can't wait!!


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February 9, 2008

The New Captain of the Titanic

I'd love to congratulate Jim Zorn for being awarded the head coaching job in DC, but considering that his boss is Dan Snyder, he's more or less a dead man walking. At some point next season, he'll be bringing his Redskins into Qwest (hopefully for a warm opening reception from the crowd followed by a severe beating for his team).

The bottom line? I'm glad the Seahawks are owned by a billionaire nerd who signs checks and lets his football people do their jobs, rather than a billionaire cock-bite who thinks that the NFL works about the same way as a fantasy football league.

Good luck Coach Zorn; You'll need it when Snyder starts chasing you around his mansion with a bowling pin, or when he wants you to let Tom Cruise call a play or two... He WAS in All the Right Moves, you know.

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Hey, I saw you visited my blog too. Thats great! I thought about sending you an email. I have had your blog bookmarked for couple of weeks. I LOVE IT! In fact, seeing your blog gave me the idea that i could start one. You and I have very similar ideas, and senses of humor. I thought i would go a little more news oriented though. But yours is great ,and i will add a link and even send some traffic your way if i can. Your a funny guy!


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The 9:20 Special is the premiere place to Lindy Hop in San Francisco.. nay, in America... nay, in the whole world.

Anyways, it changed hands from Paul and Sharon to Manu Smith a year ago, and they decided to have an anniversary party for the new ownership.

For reasons that are not entirely clear to me (or relevant), they decided to have an old school night, dancing as if it were 1999 (even though it was a one-year anniversary, not a 6-year :)

Regardless, it was much fun to see people dressed in old school clothes and dancing to the old music.

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Studland & Steam

Hello Tom and are you sitting comfortably, then I’ll begin. Once upon a time in days gone by, about the time I was your age, Grampy Colin decided he would take Vieve ( 12 ), Grug ( 6 ) and Divad ( 9 ) on holiday to the Dorset coast to a place called Studland.

Studland is a long wide beach that is shallow for a mile out to sea and is not far from Swanage, a small seaside town with it’s own railway station, and in those days it had steam trains.

Colin had very little money, so he made a wooden trailer with pram wheels to be pulled behind his bicycle, on which he would carry a tent and all the camping equipment for the four of us and we were to follow on our second hand bicycles.

Colin made the trailer using old pennies as washers drilling holes through them as it was cheaper than buying steel washers. The construction was done on the front grass over several days, while we practised putting up and taking down the tent we had borrowed from the local Boy Scouts.

The journey from Hobbes Close to Studland took five days. We set off towards Foxley as we were to take the back roads to avoid the traffic. At the end of the first day we had reached the edge of Salisbury Plain.

Here we set up camp on the edge of a ‘Danger Area’ used by the army for a firing zone, about three miles from a small village called Upton Scudamore.

The next day we awoke to find the beautiful warm sunshine of the day before had been replaced with very heavy rain. Too heavy for cycling so we spent the next three days in the tent waiting for it to stop.

I can’t remember what we did all day long but I do remember we lived on white sliced bread with bramble jelly jam and bacon sandwiches cooked on a GAZ stove.

Each day we would wait for a brief break in the weather and dash into Upton Scudamore to buy more bread, jam, bacon and I think the others also ate baked beans.

On the fifth day the summer sun returned and we set off across the Plain towards a village called Hammoon. We had to wade through waist deep flooded roads with strong currents trying to wash us into the fields, as the previous days it had rained so heavily and continuously it had caused all the local streams and rivers to break their banks.

Late afternoon we were close to Studland and got very excited as we could see the sea in the distance. So we put on extra speed and soon left Colin behind, as with his heavy trailer to pull he could not go fast. We got to the beach dropped every thing and with our trousers still on rushed into the sea up to our waists. It was now beginning to get dark and we looked around to see if Colin had arrived.

Soaking wet we decided to cycle back the way we had come, looking for Colin. Three miles up the hill we found the trailer and all of our equipment in a lay-by with a large area of grass but no sign of Colin. Not at all worried we set up the tent and waited.

Mean while Colin was at the local police station setting up a search party as he couldn’t believe we could have gone so fast as to have reached the sea. Shortly a Police car arrived and out stepped a Policeman who said, “Is this the Forward family all but father”. After a call to base on his radio the Policeman soon had Colin joining us for our first night in the “one tent” lay-by camp site.

The next day we spent on the beach and Colin returned to the tent to cook dinner and wash our clothes in a plastic bowl by the road side. A piece of string from a pole stuck in the ground to the tent became a washing line. The sides of the tent were tied up so it looked more like a giant umbrella. This was to air it out said Colin.

The days were very hot and sunny and many flies gathered in our tent for shade. This was so intolerable we moved half a mile down hill but returned the next day as the flies in that field were even more in number.

Colin would write letters home and we would receive replies addressed to The Tent, Grass Verge, Nr. Agglestone Cottage, B3351 Road, Nr. Studland, Dorset. The novelty of the beach was wearing off so Colin took us into Swanage for a sight seeing visit of the town and to see the Steam Engines at the station afterwards.

The train driver and fireman on one train soon got to know us as we kept coming back. The driver had two silver stars on his hat so he became known to us as ” Two Star Fred “. We soon progressed to being invited onto the foot plate and towards the end of our visits Two Star Fred and his fireman, known as “Pug”, would let us pull a very large lever up and down to make the engine move. So we had all become train drivers.

The thought of cycling about a hundred miles around the back roads home was not looked forward to by any of us so Colin decided we had just enough money left to stay an extra couple of days and get the train back to Chippenham instead.

From Chippenham we again took to the back roads and when we got to Foxley we again made a last minute dash for home leaving Colin to his struggle with the trailer arriving home fifteen minutes later, this time without the local police looking for us.

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Benefit Turkey Shoot Nov. 16-18
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PARTICIPANTS shoot clay pigeons and win frozen turkeys as prizes. Photo by Louise R. Shaw | Davis Clipper

BOUNTIFUL –  Plenty of Davis County residents are getting ready to take aim at a good cause this weekend.

The Bountiful Lions Club is holding itsannual Turkey Shoot this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 16-18, starting at 8:30 a.m. at the Lion’s Club shooting range in Bountiful. The event, which Rangemaster Chuck Cunningham said draws more than 2,000 residents each year, donates 100 percent of the money raised to organizations that support the blind.

“We’ve had the turkey shoot up here every year for 30 years,” said Cunningham. “It just keeps growing.”

Despite the event’s name, residents who take part in the event line up in groups of five to shoot at clay pigeons. Anyone interested can sign up and pay the day of the event, and food is available for purchase.

“Everyone gets five shots, and people have to try and bust as many birds as they can,” said Cunningham. “We don’t shoot turkeys, but the winner does get a frozen one.”

The shoot, which has been going on for generations is a long-standing tradition for many Davis County residents. Cunningham said that families will come up year after year, with people bringing up their children and later grandchildren.

“Everyone comes back,” he said.

Participants choose their own groups of five to compete with, and family competitiveness is often the name of the game.

“People will usually come shoot against their own families,” said Cunningham, who then laughed. “And everyone tries to put dear old dad or grandpa down.”

The Lions Club first became involved with the blind in 1938, when Helen Keller asked the group to become Knights of the Blind. Proceeds from the Turkey Shoot go to support the blind every year, helping out organizations ranging from the Children’s Miracle Network to the John A. Moran Eye Center.

The Bountiful Lions also hold blind shoots every summer, where blind or partially blind children and college students can practice shooting with extra guidance. The Bountiful Jeep Posse also helps with these shoots.

“They’re great,” said Cunningham. “The kids really have a lot of fun.”

The shooting range is located at 1350 N. Skyline Drive in Bountiful.

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Sonny wants to know if Michael is certain he has the right guy. He asks what Dante thinks.  Michael yells that Dante is doing nothing; this guy will continue to hurt the girls unless Sonny makes the call to take care of it.  Sonny says he understands Michael is hurting, but he’s not thinking clearly. Michael says the cops are useless. He wants the guy gotten rid of.  Kate overhears and wonders about keeping Michael out of the business.

Michael figures Sonny just has to make a call.  Sonny tells him to trust Dante.  Michael asks what if the guy attacks Kate. He says someone who hits women shouldn’t live.  Michael feels his father pulls the trigger all the time, but won’t this time because Michael’s asking. Sonny says he’s not going to kill someone based on a hunch.

Jax is on the phone with his mother, assuring her he’s fine. However, everyone knows he’s alive and he needs to stay out of sight.  He picks up a gun and mutters that this time he’s prepared.

Sam leaves a voice message for Jason, begging him to leave Franco alone.  She remembers their wedding vows and hopes that the baby will be Jason’s.

Jason assures Franco that he doesn’t need an answer to anything.  Franco says if he dies, Jason will never know what really happened or why he came into Jason’s life.  Jason shoots Franco twice and he dies.  At least I hope he’s dead.  Jason sets the studio on fire.

Luke’s on the phone trying to find someone.

Cassandra and Ethan continue to natter on about stuff nobody cares about. How she feels like she’s being hunted. How everyone could hate her, but maybe she’s just content not knowing who she is.  They kiss.  She asks if all he wants is sex.  Then they make love by the fire.  When they’re done, Ethan gets a call to meet Luke.  He asks Cassandra to go with him, but she wants to stay behind.  She asks him to keep their tryst between them.

Patrick asks Epiphany if Robin called. She snarks at him about not being his personal answering service.  Patrick tells Liz that he’s worried that Robin hasn’t called yet. Her flight should have landed in Africa by now.  Robin finally calls in and assures him she’s fine. She asks him to give Emma a kiss for her.  When she’s off the phone, Robin enters a Seattle hospital.

After Michael storms off, Kate tells Sonny to give him time to cool off.  Sonny’s worried he’ll do something stupid to send himself back to prison. Sonny says he’ll do whatever it takes to prevent that.  Kate says Michael is an adult.  Sonny wants to protect Michael, to give all his kids a better life and make better choices than he did. Kate changes the subject to their restaurant and the renovations.

Sonny wants to change it, since it’s too much like the one from their past. He wants a clean slate.  Jax eavesdrops on them.  Sonny says he’s tired of carrying the key to the house. He’s not that kid in the closet anymore and all he wants to do now is impress Kate Howard.

Kate wonders if he still cares about Connie, but Sonny says Kate is the woman he’s falling in love with and wants to start fresh with new memories.  He says he likes the person she’s turned into.

Michael goes to Sam and asks for her PI services in finding the guy.  Sam asks what he plans on doing. Michael says he plans on killing him. Sam asks what if he gets caught. Michael assures her that won’t happen. Then he says he’s never going back to prison.  Sam tells him if he does get caught and goes to prison, Jason won’t be there with him, not now.

Ethan meets with Luke, who has a proposition for him.  Luke explains that he needs to find some Zacchara secrets.  Ethan reminds him that Johnny is a friend.  Luke says Carly’s gotten herself in trouble and he wants to help her.  Luke says he’s looking for Skye, because she apparently knows all the Zacchara secrets.

Ethan explains that he doesn’t want to go anywhere, because he met someone at Windemere.  They natter on about monogamy being horrible and there being no such thing as soul mates. Except maybe Laura was Luke’s, but then she divorced him. Luke warns him that maybe Cassandra’s running a con on him, because nothing good happens on Spoon Island.

Ewen shows up at Windemere, letting Cassandra know that she missed a session.  She’s not happy with him, feeling like he’s obsessing over her.  He says he’s trying to help her. She can’t afford to see Ethan and he warns her to stay away from him.

Jax is on the phone with someone, telling them that he needs to wait for when he’s alone.

Michael buys a gun off someone in the street.  I so totally wanted that person to be an undercover cop.

Patrick tells Liz that he thinks something’s wrong. Robin sounded so sad on the phone.  Liz says he needs to know the truth and tells him that Robin is sick. Her HIV levels are unstable.

Jason comes home. He and Sam hug.  He tells her that it’s over. Franco is out of their lives for good.  Sam tells Jason that she’s pregnant.

Sonny’s alone, leaving his office.  He turns back to answer the phone and someone shoots at him.


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  1. So nice to finally “see” you again. Hopefully, my visits will be regular. Please tell your special lady I said, “Hello.” Perhaps I will see you on the road this season. Fingers crossed. Thank you for Studio News!

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V-Strom and Givi Luggage

Riding season is just around the corner, and I hope to do much of my Ohio River Towns photography project on the motorcycle. So, I needed to equip the bike with sufficient luggage to make it utilitarian.

I have always liked the Givi brand of motorcycle luggage. They are rugged and good looking. Secondly, I love the way you can use the same mounts to put different bags on the bike. Below is a great example of how that looks. First, the bike without bags.

You can see the new engine guards and the luggage mounting racks on the rear. Next, is the set of smaller bags I purchased when I first bought the bike. Givi E-22s. These are great for around town and running small grocery errands. I have used the smaller bags to go camping, also.

What about a top case? I decided to go with the Givi Trekker series of bags. The 52-Liter top case will hold a lot of stuff like camera gear and audio equpment, and it doesn’t look too bad with the E-22s—just a slight difference in styling.

Or, how about riding with just the top case. Many do. Without the side cases, it’s a narrower profile.

For the bigger loads, such as motorcycle touring and/or extended camping, the full set of Trekkers will do just fine—52L top case and 33L side cases, better known as panniers.

That’s some serious load-hauling capability. Still, it’s best not to try to carry everything. Think backpacking or minimalist motorcycling.

See you on the highway … along the Ohio River.

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  1. Good job, Brent!
    The Strom looks great with the Givis and it seems very versitile from your description.
    Your new design on the site/blog is very enjoyable too.

    Your California sidecar moto camping buddies

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Appearing in "Unmanned (Part III of V)"

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Other Characters:

  • Cavanaugh (Single appearance) (First appearance)
  • Diane
  • Margaret Valentine
  • Mrs. Stahl (Single appearance)
  • Mrs. Woodring (Single appearance)
  • Sadie (First appearance)
  • Sheila (Single appearance) (Final appearance; Dies)
  • Yehuda (Behind the scenes) (Deceased)

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  • Mrs. Woodring is the widow of Republican senator Bill Woodring.
  • Mrs. Stahl is the widow of Republican senator David Stahl.
  • Sadie is a soldier who works under Colonel Alter Tse'Elon. Yehuda, a male Lieutenant-General mentioned in this story that Tse-Elon succeeds, is obviously deceased. He is seen for the first time in a flashback in issue #48 that took place before the death of nearly every male on the planet that occurs in the first issue, which is later referred to as "the gendercide".
  • This issue reveals that Agent 355 works for a group called the Culper Ring. The Culper Ring, as presented in this issue, is based on an actual spy network established by President George Washington during the Revolutionary War.

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Look at how sad this is making Batman. You did this.

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Saturday, July 30, 2016

Tombow Pen

I found this Tombow pen at the art store and thought I'd give it a try. I liked it! It has a small, sharp point that holds up to repeated use without shredding. The grey ink tip on the opposite end did not bleed into the black ink. I have been thinking about doing the 24 hour comics challenge, and if I do, I would do it with this pen. I would buy a bunch, but I would use this pen!

Monday, July 18, 2016

Fun with a brush! Recent profile sketches.