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Neil Patrick Harris And David Burtka On Cover Of 'Out' Magazine's February Love Issue
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/17/neil-patrick-harris-david-burtka-out-magazine_n_1211701.html
The cover of Out magazine's second annual "Love Issue," which highlights the relationships of 13 diverse LGBT couples and families just in time for Valentine's Day, features Hollywood renaissance man Neil Patrick Harris with his "better half," David Burtka.
The photos, by Matthew Kristall, find Harris and Burtka sharing several tender moments together and may be the most intimate shots we've ever seen of the couple.
In the accompanying interview Harris tells the magazine how he met Burtka, who was already dating someone else, through a friend. "I was always around when he was around, hoping the stars would align," Harris says. "When we all hung out for the first time -- I was invited by [our mutual friend] Kate to an "American Idol" viewing party -- I just stammered around him. I couldn't take my eyes off him."
(See photos from the Out cover shoot as well as shots of the entire Harris-Burtka family in the slideshow below)
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The attraction was mutual for Burtka. "I thought he was adorable, though, with these amazing blue eyes that are just hypnotizing to me," he says. "I ended up breaking with my boyfriend, and a week later, Neil and I had a date. We started hanging out every single night, and after three months, it was just non-stop. We talk on the phone at least eight times a day and text at least 25 times a day. He's my lifeline, in an amazing way. Without him, I can't breathe."
For the "How I Met Your Mother" star, the relationship came after questioning whether he would ever settle down. "I remember being in my mid-twenties, lying in bed thinking, I've never taken a shower with anyone before; I've never had any kind of long-term relationship," Harris says. "I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that -- it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient."
But now the two men make up one of the most high-profile gay couples in Hollywood and in October of 2010 they became two of the most high-profile celebrity parents when they welcomed twins Gideon and Harper via surrogate.
"Even on that first date, we talked about kids," says Burtka, who joins E! as a correspondent this month. "If he hadn't wanted kids, I don't think we'd be together. I always thought that family was the most important thing in life, and no matter what I do, whether being a chef or an actor or a dancer, being a dad is what I do best."
Still, no matter how fairytale-esque their relationship might appear, Harris and Burtka are quick to point out that it's far from perfect.
"I don't want to paint our relationship like we met and it's been happy family fantastic-ness ever since," Harris admits. "What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing. Sometimes I'm deeply in love with David and head-over-heels, and sometimes I question whether it's going to work out and is meant to be."
Burtka adds, "A relationship is work and it changes. And you go with the changes. It's more good times than bad times, but it's not always good. You have to overcome those issues and move on. We have a really great recipe for a wonderful relationship, but we don't want to be the poster boys for gay relationships. We're not trying to pretend that we are perfect. We're just trying -- in a good, positive, loving way -- to live our lives."
To read the full interviews with Harris and Burtka, including details on how they proposed to one another and who they named their children after, and to see more pictures from their photo shoot, visit Out.com.
Also be sure to check out Out.com in the coming days to read the other love stories featured in the February "Love Issue," including interviews with Jason Wu and Gustavo Rangel, Bill T Jones and Bjorn Amelan, and nine other couples.
Mnemonic
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For other uses, see Mnemonic (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with pneumonic.
Knuckle mnemonic for the number of days in each month of the Gregorian Calendar. Each projecting knuckle represents a 31-day month.
A mnemonic (play /n?'m?n?k/,[1] with a silent "m"), or mnemonic device, is any learning technique that aids memory. To improve long term memory, mnemonic systems are used to make memorization easier. They do so by increasing the efficiency of the process of consolidation. This process involves the conversion of short term memory to long term memory. Commonly encountered mnemonics are often verbal, such as a very short poem or a special word used to help a person remember something, particularly lists, but a mnemonic may instead be visual, kinesthetic or auditory. Mnemonics rely on associations between easy-to-remember constructs which can be related back to the data that are to be remembered. This is based on the observation that the human mind much more easily remembers spatial, personal, surprising, physical, sexual, humorous, or otherwise meaningful information, as compared to retrieving arbitrary sequences.
The word mnemonic is derived from the Ancient Greek word µ??µ?????? (mnemonikos), meaning "of memory"[2] and is related to Mnemosyne ("remembrance"), the name of the goddess of memory in Greek mythology. Both of these words are derived from µ??µ? (mneme), "remembrance, memory".[3] Mnemonics in antiquity were most often considered in the context of what is today known as the Art of Memory.
The major assumption in antiquity was that there are two sorts of memory: the "natural" memory and the "artificial" memory. The former is inborn, and is the one that everyone uses every day. The artificial memory is one that is trained through learning and practicing a variety of mnemonic techniques. The latter can be used to perform feats of memory that are quite extraordinary, impossible for most people to carry out using the natural memory alone.
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* 1 First letter mnemonics
* 2 Mnemonics for numerical sequences
* 3 Arbitrariness of mnemonics
* 4 Assembly mnemonics
* 5 In foreign-language acquisition
* 6 Improving long term memory through mnemonics
* 7 Mnemonic transfer
* 8 Effectiveness of Mnemonic
* 9 See also
* 10 References
* 11 External links
[edit] First letter mnemonics
One common mnemonic for remembering lists consists of an easily remembered acronym, or phrase with an acronym that is associated with the list items. The idea lends itself well to memorizing hard-to-break passwords as well. For example, to remember the colours of the rainbow, use the mnemonic "Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain" or the fictitious name "Roy G. Biv". Another one is HOMES to help people remember the names of all of the Great Lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.) In electronics, color codes are used on some components, with each color representing a specific value (0-9). Numerous mnemonics exist to help remember the sequence of numbers where the first letter of each word represents the first letter of the name of the color for that number. One such mnemonic is "Bill Brown Realized Only Yesterday Good Boys Value Good Work", representing the colours black (0), brown (1), red (2), orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, and white (9).[4]
[edit] Mnemonics for numerical sequences
Mnemonic phrases or poems can be used to encode numeric sequences by various methods, the most common using the number of letters in each word. For example, the first 15 digits of the mathematical constant pi (3.14159265358979) can be encoded as "Now I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics". Piphilology is the practice dedicated to creating mnemonics for pi.
[edit] Arbitrariness of mnemonics
A curious characteristic of many memory systems is that mnemonics work despite being (or possibly because of being) illogical or arbitrary. "Roy" is a legitimate first name, "Biv" is a very uncommon last name, and of course the middle initial "G" is arbitrary. Why is "Roy G. Biv" easy to remember in order to memorise the order that the seven colours of the rainbow appear? ROYGBIV can also be expressed as the almost meaningless phrase "Roy Great Britain the Fourth" again referencing "Roy" but using the GB national code for Great Britain and the Roman numerals for 4, viz: IV. The sentence "Richard of York gave battle in vain" is commonly used in the UK, as is "Run over your granny because it's violent". Any two of the three months ending in -ember would fit just as euphoniously as September and November in "Thirty days hath...", yet most people can remember the rhyme correctly for a lifetime after having heard it once, and are never troubled by doubts as to which two of the -ember months have thirty days. A bizarre arbitrary association may stick in the mind better than a logical one.
One reason for the effectiveness of seemingly arbitrary mnemonics is the grouping of information provided by the mnemonic. Just as US phone numbers group 10 digits into three groups, the name "Roy G. Biv" groups seven colors into two short names and an initial. Various studies (most notably The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two) have shown that the human brain is capable of remembering only a limited number of arbitrary items in working memory; grouping these items into chunks permits the brain to hold more of them in memory.
[edit] Assembly mnemonics
See also: Opcode mnemonics and extended mnemonics
In assembly language a mnemonic is a code, usually from 1 to 5 letters, that represents an opcode, a number.
Programming in machine code, by supplying the computer with the numbers of the operations it must perform, can be quite a burden, because for every operation the corresponding number must be looked up or remembered. Looking up all numbers takes a lot of time, and mis-remembering a number may introduce computer bugs.
Therefore a set of mnemonics was devised. Each number was represented by an alphabetic code. So instead of entering the number corresponding to addition to add two numbers one can enter "add".
Although mnemonics differ between different CPU designs some are common, for instance: "sub" (subtract), "div" (divide), "add" (add), and "mul" (multiply).
This type of mnemonic is different from the ones listed above in that instead of a way to make remembering numbers easier, it is a way to make remembering numbers unnecessary (e.g. by relying on the computer's assembler program to do the look-up work.)
[edit] In foreign-language acquisition
Mnemonics can be helpful in learning a foreign language, for example by adapting a hard-to-remember foreign word to a pre-existent phrase in the learner's native language - using folk etymology. Linguist Ghil'ad Zuckermann has proposed many mnemonics for English-speaking students of Israeli Hebrew. For example, in trying to assist the learner to remember ohel, the Hebrew word for tent, Zuckermann proposes the memorable sentence "Oh hell, there's a raccoon in my tent".[5] The notable linguist Michel Thomas taught students to remember that estar is the Spanish word for to be by using the phrase "to be a star". These are sometimes known as linkwords.
In Spanish language acquisition, masculine nouns can be associated with blue and feminine nouns with red. This allows for visual images such as a foot stepping on a pie and blue filling squirting out. The Spanish word for "foot" is el pie, a masculine noun, so recollection of blue will cue recall of the gender.
[edit] Improving long term memory through mnemonics
Mnemonics as we know is a technique or strategy that is used to attempt to improve memory. It attempts to make information that is already stored in long-term memory more elaborate and easier to recall. It organizes new information so that we can retrieve it with other information that is similar to it. Thus meaning, organizing the information we are trying to store with similar things we already have in our memory to make it easier to recall when we need to. One method to remember things in long-term is the method of loci is a mnemonic system where items that we want to be remembered are associated with certain landmarks or locations. For example, if I list the things I do in my day and then associated a list of words that I am trying to remember with each event, it can help me to remember the word. Let's say the first two words are 'tree' and 'seven' and my day begins with me waking up and then I brush my teeth. To remember the words, I would say 'I wake up with a tree' and second, 'I brush my seven teeth'. Notice how the words I want to recall are included with the things I do on a daily basis. This is how the method of Loci works. The second method is called the peg-word method is a mnemonic system where we try to remember items that are associated with a set of mental pegs that you already have in your memory. For example, let's use the numbers 1 to 10. The two words we want to remember are bun and shoe, so we associate the number with the words. It would sound like this, "one-bun, two-shoe' and we would recite that to remember it. Another method to remember things is by narrative stories and songs. You link certain words that you want to remember to a story. Once you make a story with the words, it is easier to recall what the words are. Mnemonics slows the rate at which you hear information and allows you to encode it better. [6]
[edit] Mnemonic transfer
There is research which suggests that previous use of mnemonics (such as the "peg-word" strategy) increases the likelihood of subsequent uses of similar mnemonic devices, and that the success of such transferability is greater in undergraduates (and presumably, older youths in general) in comparison to younger students.[7] Four studies of undergraduate art education students predictably indicated that both mnemonic-general tactics (mnemonic devices that focused on overall styles and themes) and mnemonic-detail tactics, (mnemonic devices which focused on a particular detail specific to the painting) designed to aid in the instruction and memory of painter-painting connections, were much more effective than the control group members' own-best-method tactics (where students were directed to use "whatever works best" for themselves).[7] More importantly, results communicated that when students were instructed with mnemonic-general rather than mnemonic-detail strategies, they were often still able to identify which painter created a given work of art, even if the student had never seen or learned about the painting before, implying the students were able to infer the painter-painting relationship accurately, based on the transferred information from the previously learned mnemonic.[7]
[edit] Effectiveness of Mnemonic
There is research which suggests evidence for the effectiveness of Mnemonic techniques. In vocabulary memory experiments, students who applied mnemonic techniques outperformed the control groups that applied contextual learning and free learning style. The experiments were repeated in different age and group settings and yield the same result. [8]
Martin McVeigh, Northern Irish Priest, Accidentally Displayed Gay Porn During First Communion Meeting
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/02/martin-mcveigh-northern-irish-priest-gay-porn-communion_n_1396891.html?ref=mostpopular
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A Northern Irish priest has sparked a local uproar after accidentally displaying a series of pornographic gay images to a group of parents during at a primary school meeting.
As the BBC is reporting, Father Martin McVeigh projected 16 "indecent images of men" onto a screen as part of a Powerpoint presentation during a March 26 meeting for parents in preparation for First Holy Communion for their children at St. Mary's School in Pomeroy. One eight-year-old child is also reported to have been present during the meeting, according to The Ulster Herald.
"He was visibly shaken and flustered," one parent who was present during the meeting told the BBC. "He gave no explanation or apology to the group and bolted out of the room. The co-ordinator and the teachers then continued with the presentation." The parent also noted that those who saw the pictures "were horrified and distracted."
The images are said to have been uploaded from a memory stick the parish priest had inserted into a computer before the presentation. Although the Police Service of Northern Ireland said there was no immediate evidence a crime had taken place, McVeigh remains under investigation and is said to be cooperating fully.
Cardinal Seán Brady, head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, confirmed the reports in a statement as quoted by Pink News. "Inappropriate imagery was inadvertently shown by a priest at the beginning of a Powerpoint presentation, causing concern to those present," Brady said. "This was immediately removed from the screen." He went on to note, "The priest has stated that he had no knowledge of the offending imagery."
Speaking to the Herald, McVeigh -- who reportedly was not present for Palm Sunday liturgies over the weekend -- said, "I don't know how it happened. There are people making innuendoes who weren't even there, but in this day and age these stories grow. All I can do is let the incident be investigated and be open to that investigation so that what happened can be legitimately explained."
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A Father's Reaction to His Very Young Gay Son
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-dad/a-fathers-reaction-to-his-very-young-gay-son_b_1381573.html
Over the past few months my wife, HuffPost blogger Amelia, has been asked numerous times what I think about our 7-year-old son identifying as gay.
This is not something I thought I'd be writing so soon (OK, honestly, I never thought I would be writing a blog on an internationally known news website). When my wife and I were expecting our first child, we discussed what we would do if he or she were born with a disability or with a foot growing out of his or her head. Dealing with a child with a disability would be a life-changing event and something that we had to think about a lot. Possibly having a gay son or daughter wasn't like that. We didn't even have to discuss it, because it wouldn't be a problem. Although the head-foot would need to be dealt with immediately, we assumed we had 15 years or so before any of our kids said they were gay.
You know what they say about assuming: it makes all the asses come out in the comment sections of blogs -- people who don't know anything about my son other than the few guarded things my wife has written, and yet they seem to think they know so much. Let me say that most of the comments have been very supportive, and it's great to see the same people come to Ameila's defense whenever the occasional jerk butts into the conversation with some homophobic ideas. And many of jerk-butts (and some of the normal people, too) want to know what I think about this whole "gay thing."
The idea that I would be immediately disappointed/angry/suicidal that my son identifies as gay offends me, both as a father and simply as a human. It seems the further we all move along into the 21st century in terms of technology, the more some parts of society regress to the 1950s -- or the Victorian era, if we're being honest -- when it comes to ideas of social mores and attitudes on certain subjects: Ward Cleaver would have been angry if the Beaver had come out of the closet, so surely a father 60 years later would have the same reaction. I mean, come on, that's only common sense!
Excuse me while I roll my eyes for an hour or two.
I don't see how a father, or any parent, can look at their son, the one they've loved since before the child was even born, and upon hearing him say, "Dad, I'm gay," turn their back on him. The comments from men much older than me telling stories just like that break my heart. My wife always wants to adopt the teenage kids who write to her; I want to adopt the 60-year-old men who cry when they read that I tell my son how awesome he is. I don't care if they are as old as my father; they deserve love just as much as anyone else.
So many of the negative comments have been funny to Amelia and me because the people writing them obviously don't know our son. "Isn't your son's father going to miss teaching him sports?" "Isn't not having your child get married going to just break your heart?" "How does his father react to the prancing flamer that your son must be?"
First of all, as I write this, my shoulder is sore from throwing a football with him earlier. He loves sports (American Football is his favorite), and he can throw a really nice spiral, especially for a 7-year-old (although if he grows up to be my size, he'll either be a fine defensive end or the heaviest quarterback in the history of the NFL). And again, he's 7: as far as he's concerned, he's going to play all the positions -- at the same time. And if tomorrow he wants to start ballet classes, we will go to all his recitals and cheer him on just as loudly as if he were on the 50-yard line.
Getting married is up to him; single or married, he's still my son. If he and his maybe-some-day-far-far-in-the-future boyfriend want to tie the knot, they just need to tell his mother and me where to be, and we'll be there. Hopefully by then they can get married in whichever state they want, but if not, we'll just travel to one of the cool states and have a great time.
And the "flamer" comments... where to begin? Do effeminate men exist? Of course. Are all gay men effeminate? Of course not. But does it matter? Whether he grows up to be the manliest man in all mandom or the most effeminate guy to ever hit the drag-show circuit, he is my son. I want him to be loved, comfortable with himself and his friends, and happy. If that means he's the next RuPaul or Joe Montana (or just that nice guy in Accounts Receivable), he will know that being himself is important, no matter who he ends up growing into. And he will always know that his father loves him.
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