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If you're ready to delve into the amazing world of making prank phone calls, then you should spend just a few minutes reading this handy online guide so that even your first attempts at prank calling will seem somewhat professional and you might even avoid getting yourself arrested or killed.
Most of the rules revolve around trying to keep the authorities uninterested in your prank calls, which is good for everyone. Involving the police in your pranks is not only a threat to your own freedom, but it also ties up emergency services. Follow these guidelines for a long, illustrious, jail-free career in prank calling...
- Don't involve emergency services. This is rule #1 and should be common sense, because when you start involving emergency services, your local police are suddenly interested in your prank calls and you may find yourself getting fined or arrested. So as hilarious as you think it will be, don't send the police or fire department to your victim's house and don't make silly prank calls to 911 or local police stations. Prank calls should be fun, not felonies!
- Don't make threats. Why? Because making threats, even when you don't mean it, is a crime. Threats scare people and then they call the police over a silly prank call, and suddenly you're breaking Rule #1. Don't threaten to kill anyone. Don't threaten to slap anyone. Don't threaten to blow up cars and houses. Don't call Wal-Mart and give them the secret bomb and fire codes. Threats are bad and can result in your arrest.
- Don't impersonate the police. You can't pretend to be a police officer or an FBI agent over the phone. Not only is this illegal, but once your victim becomes suspicious of your call, they might call back the agency that you're pretending to be with to confirm your identity and guess what? The police become involved in your pranks. The police don't like it when ordinary citizens pretend to be them.
- Don't call emergency hotlines. Suicide hotlines are off limits. Come on, do you really want to tie up the lines at a place that tries to keep people from killing themselves? Don't mess with hotlines that are designed to help people. You're not being original at all when you pretend that you want to kill yourself to a hotline worker. It's been done a bazillion times before. Check out this article where Carlito from Madhouse Radio was arrested for prank calling an anger management hotline. If you can get arrested for prank calling something as silly as an anger management line, then you can definitely get arrested for calling a suicide hotline.
- Don't cause damage. Some prank callers have shown us that people are gullible and will fall for absolutely anything if you sound authoritative enough. This tidbit of information is good to know and will aid you in making hilarious, epic prank calls. However, you should never exploit this fact to cause another person damage property or hurt people. PrankNet is known for causing people to pull fire alarms, set off sprinklers and break hotel windows. Members of PrankNet are also known for doing serious jail time for calls like these. Other prank callers have succeeded in making store employees cut wires on their computers with scissors or destroy items around them. One prank caller even convinced fast food managers to sexually assault his employees while he listened. Don't do things like this! It's fun to exploit the stupidity of humans, but you should stick to making them do things that are hilarious, rather than things that actually hurt people.
- Avoid the police at all costs. Your prank call victims will often overreact and call the police even if you're doing your best by not making threats and not involving the police. When you think this is a possibility with your victim, maybe it's time to let them know that they've been pranked. Explain to them that you're not really who you say you are and that you're simply a prank caller who chose them at random and that their calls to the police will be pointless since you're on the other side of the country. Apologize, laugh at them, and move on.
- Don't steal personal data. It's easy to trick people out of their personal information, but you should be careful when doing this because once the victim finds out that you're not who you say you are, they might assume that you're an identity thief. I know this is unlikely, but once you've talked them out of a bunch of information, your victim's imagination will run wild and they could begin assuming the worst and end up calling the police to report a case of attempted identity theft. Talking someone out of their credit card numbers or other account numbers can get you into trouble, even if you didn't write them down and had no intention of using them.
- Don't prank locally. The easiest way to get yourself arrested for prank calling is to make calls in your own city. When you make local prank calls, it's easy for your victim to call the local police and work with the local phone company to find out who called them. By sticking to far away places, you're confounding the entire situation and making it nearly impossible for anyone to track you down. I don't mean technologically impossible, but legally pointless. When you prank someone on the other side of the country, it's no longer the simple act of calling the local police to show up at your house and talk to you. Suddenly your victim has to deal with multiple police departments and multiple phone companies and it's just not worth the time or effort for anyone to deal with it. Unless you're threatening people or doing any of the other horrible things mentioned in the rules above, it's extremely unlikely that any authorities are going to help your victim since they know that they can't drive 3,000 miles to arrest you. If you prank locally, especially from your own phone line, you are approximately a billion times more likely to have the police show up at your house.
- Only one call per victim. Don't keep calling the same guy over and over and over, no matter how much he makes you laugh when he screams at you. When you keep calling the same person repeatedly, you're suddenly harassing your victim instead of making a simple funny prank phone call to them. Try to keep it to a single prank phone call, maybe two, and then stop forever and move on to someone else. This will help keep the police completely uninterested in you.
One of the most important aspects of prank phone calls is keeping yourself somewhat anonymous. If your victim sees your name and phone number on their caller I.D. display, it's going to be harder to convince them that you're calling from a major company. And if your victim knows your phone number, then they're obviously going to try and take some kind of action against you. Here are a few ideas on keeping your number hidden from the people you call.
- Dial *67 before you call anyone. *67 is the universal code for blocking your number from a person's caller ID display. While this is the most primitive method of keeping yourself anonymous, it's still an effective way of hiding your number if you're making a single, harmless prank call to someone. *67 will not protect you if the police become involved. *67 usually doesn't protect you against *69 (automatic call back) and never protects you against *57 (call trace). *67 will rarely protect you when you dial a toll-free number since they use a different system. Some internet-based telephone services such as Skype and Google Voice won't let you dial *67 from their lines. So *67 is best used from a home phone or from a cell phone.
- Use internet telephones. Services like Skype and Google Voice are perfect for prank calls. Since they're not tied to a physical location, it's harder for your calls to be traced by authorities. (Not that you're doing anything that would warrant the authorities attention, right????) As of this writing, Skype is only a few dollars a month and Google Voice comes free with your free Google account. When you initially set up Skype, it should let you chose if you want your number to display for people or not. Choose not! Google Voice doesn't let you hide your number (or even use *67), but since you're using an internet-based telephone number, it's going to be nearly impossible for you to be found as long as you're making prank calls that adhere to the rules of prank calling on this page.Don't think that you're completely anonymous and unfindable just because you're using these services, though. Once you start breaking laws, the police know how to find out which services you're using and how to obtain warrants on those companies. They will trace the phone calls you've made to your email address and/or your home IP address (and every IP address you've ever used with that account) and they will find out who you are. I've read many news article about prank callers who've been arrested for making prank calls with Skype. It's not that difficult for them to find you if you give them a reason to.
- Use caller I.D. spoofing. Companies like Spoofcard allow you to actually change the number that people see on their caller I.D. display. This is a really great service to use when you're pranking someone and pretending to be from a specific company. When their caller I.D. display tells your victim that you're calling from the local Domino's Pizza, they have no reason to think that you're not. Many people are completely unaware that caller I.D. spoofing exists, so this is a good thing to use to your advantage. The only downside is that spoofing services will charge you a few cents per minute to use this service. And don't forget, even with caller I.D. spoofing, you're only anonymous until you involve the police in your pranks.
- Use other phones that aren't yours. You can sometimes find yourself with access to a phone inside of a department store or other business, which could be used to make prank calls. You could borrow a cell phone from a friend or a stranger, so that they'll be left to deal with the fallout from your prank calls. Some people have even been known to carry a small phone with them and plug it into unattended phone jacks inside of a Wal-Mart or in the back of a neighbor's house. But come on, we're getting ridiculous here. No prank call is worth this much time and effort, right?
- Prepaid cell phones. It's easy to buy a prepaid wireless phone from any department store or even a 7-Eleven. When you sign up for service on these, they don't require you to give them any information. They're completely anonymous, unless you're using it from your home since they all have GPS in them. The downside is that they cost money.
- Be prepared. Know exactly what you're going to say as soon as they pick up the phone. If you hesitate or stutter or sound unsure of yourself, you're letting them know that you're a prank caller. I'm not saying you need to script out your entire call, but at least be prepared with that opening line. First impressions are important. After that, just wing it.
- Be silly, not serious. This is important. Too many prank callers take themselves way too seriously, which, in my opinion, kind of takes the fun out of it. Don't worry about if you're believable or not or if they catch on and bust you. Who cares? Just call your target, be as weird as possible, and have fun. If you're trying to trick your victim, do that first and then be silly at them. Personally I'm a fan of prank calls that fall apart at the end and you get to hear the victims find out that they've been had. Or better yet, the victims attempt to outsmart you.
- Don't Laugh. Especially right at the beginning of the call, because your victim will immediately know that it's a prank call and hang up the phone. Know where your mute button is and learn how to use it when you start snickering. Only begin laughing at them when the prank starts falling apart and you know that they're not believing you anyway. Also, laughing at the end of a prank may help your victim understand that it's just a dumb prank and they shouldn't feel stressed about it or bother the police with it.
- A conversation is not a prank call. I hear a lot of "prank calls" that are nothing more than a guy having a conversation with his victim, occasionally throwing in moderately funny things into the conversation. The entire prank consists of the prank caller thinking it's funny that he's pretending to be someone that he's not. Put a little more effort into your calls than this! Make sure the call is funny to other people who will hear it, not just you and your friends who know the victim.
- Keep it short. Extremely long prank calls can sometimes be funny, but who has time to listen for that long? People have short attention spans, so keep your pranks short. Try to keep them under 5 minutes if you can. If you go longer than 10 minutes, a lot of people will never hear the end of it. If you're putting the recording of your prank call up for other people to hear, try to edit out the slow parts to shorten the call.
- Be prepared for police involvement. Even when you play by the rules, people are jerks and will claim that you threatened them, even when you didn't. This isn't common, but I've heard it happen many times. Because of this, the "don't prank locally" rule should always apply.
We all know about the standard prank call, where you call up a phone number and you start talking to the victim. There is a lot more you can do than that, though. Here are some other types of prank calls that you've probably never thought of.
- Incoming Prank Calls. What's better than making a prank phone call? How about receiving one? There are many ways to trick a victim into calling you so that you can mess with them. The easiest way to accomplish this is to place a free ad on Here is a good example of an incoming prank phone call.
- Craigslist Prank Calls. As mentioned above, Craigslist is an invaluable resource for prank callers. Not only can you place an ad on Craigslist and mess with the people who call in, but you can browse the ads and call people who are selling their things or their services. That lady selling her baby stroller is always surprised when you offer her meth instead of cash.
- 3-Way Calling. Connecting people together can often result in confusion. Using the 3-way calling feature on your home phone, your cell or on Skype, you connect 2 people together while you silently listen to them each insist that the other called them. Timing is critical on these calls and it's difficult to get them to both pick up at the same time. One way to avoid this problem is to tell the first victim, "This is AT&T, please hold while I connect your call..." and then you connect the other person. It's fun to connect businesses to each other, such as a couple Chinese restaurants or some taxi dispatchers. Or what can really cause confusion is connecting two of your own friends together. Sometimes they'll both assume that they were the one called and they'll have a normal conversation. Better yet, connect people together that hate each other. Such as a nerd and a jock from school.
- Sound Boards. If you're not good at coming up with anything to say to a victim, then a soundboard prank may be the way to go. Soundboards are nothing more than a huge screen of buttons on your computer that each play a different phrase when pressed. You can find a sound board for just about any movie or television character you can think of, such as this one for Chris from Family Guy or Arnold Schwarzenegger saying phrases from many of his movies. You can use these sound boards to prank people by setting your speaker phone close to your computer's speakers and attempting to make the sound board have a conversation with your victim.
- Automated Prank Services. PrankDial.com will let you make prank calls to any phone number and you can select from hundreds of different prank calls. Some of their pranks will simply Rickroll a person while others will pretend to have conversations with them. PrankDial even lets you spoof your caller I.D. and records the phone calls so you can listen to them later. And best of all, PrankDial works from your cell phone, so you can prank people or businesses right in front of them and they'll never know it's you. This is great for walking into a 7-Eleven or a Deli, being able to watch the clerk's confusion as he/she attempts to deal with a crazed phone caller. It's also a great way to amuse yourself while you're waiting around at the DMV or sitting in a bar. There are a lot of apps that are very similar, such as Ownage Pranks and many others.
- Wikipedia article on prank calling. There's a few historical things that are worth reading on the wiki page.
- Prank Call Nation. The largest prank call community currently in existence, with multiple shows happening every week by people like Carlito from Madhouse Live, Dwight The Janitor, The Super Phone Brothers, and Partytime with Laugh Track Matt and Zax.
- The Snow Plow Show. This the best prank call show in the universe which comes out usually twice a week and is filled with hilarious calls to people.
- Mr. Dobalina's Wonderful World of Prank Calls. This show features the best calls by the Phone Losers of America and others.
So what are you waiting for? If you really just read this entire guide to prank calling, then you owe it to yourself to pick up a phone right now and do it! That's right, pick it up and start dialing. There you go. Wait! What the hell, man, you're dialing locally? Have you not learned anything here??? God, I hate you. Go back and read all this again right now!
I know that this guide is far from being complete. That's why I'd like you to help me complete it. If you feel that something is missing, please post it in the comments below and I will eventually add it to this page. If you don't want to post it in the comments, then email it to me instead.


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Just last week, during AMD's earnings call briefing, CEO Rory Read reiterated the importance of the PC market, and he outlined their "...design approach to leverage reusable IP blocks..." that will allow AMD to use the foundational technology from their processor and GPU offerings to reach new markets. One such market is that of gaming consoles and CEO Read projected that twenty per cent of the company's revenue will be from outside its traditional market PCs and servers by the fourth quarter of this year. Hence, it remains to be seen of the additional of AMD's former star graphics chop designer Raja Koduri will help shore up CEO Read's projection.
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In-Shape Students Outscore Obese Peers Academically, Study Finds
Middle school students in prime physical shape outperform their overweight and obese peers both on tests and grades, according to new research from Michigan State University.
The study, published Thursday in the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, claims to be the first study that links students' physical fitness to both objective (tests) and subjective (grades) forms of classroom evaluation. It examines how students' academic performance was affected by five aspects of physical fitness: body composition, cardiorespiratory endurance, flexibility, muscle strength, and muscular endurance.
"We looked at the full range of what's called health-related fitness," said lead researcher Dawn Coe in a statement. "Kids aren't really fit if they're doing well in just one of those categories."
Coe, who now serves as an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, in Knoxville, conducted the study while she was a doctoral student in Michigan State's kinesiology department. She and her colleagues examined data from 312 middle school students (from 6th through 8th grade) at a Michigan school, all of whom had their physical fitness assessed through a series of five FITNESSGRAM tests.
The tests use criterion-based standards to assess whether students fall into the so-called Healthy Fitness Zone (HFZ), instead of benchmarking student fitness based on percentiles. In other words, students are expected to be able to perform X number of push-ups (based on age) to fall into the HFZ for upper-body strength and endurance, or X number of curl-ups to be in the HFZ for middle- and lower-body strength and endurance, respectively. (The new Presidential Youth Fitness Program, which will replace the Presidential Physical Fitness Test starting in the 2013-14 school year, will also use FITNESSGRAM tests to measure students' physical fitness.)
Students in the study were grouped based on how many times they fell into the HFZ during the five FITNESSGRAM tests. After assessing the grades and test scores of each student, the researchers discovered that students who fell into the HFZ in all five tests scored higher on subject-matter tests and got better grades than those students who only met the HFZ in two, three, or four of the five FITNESSGRAM tests.
Cardiorespiratory fitness (tested by a 20-meter shuttle run) and muscular strength and endurance (tested by pull-ups and curl-ups) were the health-related fitness components most strongly associated with academic achievement, according to the study. However, the researchers found no significant correlation between a student's body-fat percentage or flexibility and academic achievement.
The researchers are quick to stress that it's too soon to draw a causal link between fitness and improved academic performance. Instead, they urge further research into what's responsible for the relationship between academic achievement and physical fitness.
This study may be more robust in terms of types of fitness being assessed, but it's not the first to suggest some connection between students' physical fitness and academic performance. A study published in January found "strong evidence" of a link between physical activity and academic success, while a study published in June suggested a connection between childhood obesity and math performance.
However, much like this new Michigan State study, early findings from research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (which were released back in July) urged caution before claiming a causal relationship between a child's weight and his or her academic performance. It, too, found heavier children to do "slightly worse in school," but when using "children's genetic markers to account for potentially other factors, [they] found no evidence that obesity causally affects exam results."
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People whose hearts stop functioning during or shortly after exercising are three times more likely to survive than those who have cardiac arrest unrelated to working out, researchers said.
The Amsterdam Resuscitation Study looked at 2,517 cardiac- arrest cases in the Dutch capital's greater metropolitan area over a three-year period. Scientists found 145 of the patients were exercising during or within one hour of cardiac arrest and were mostly biking, playing tennis, working out at a gym or swimming, according to the research presented today at the European Society of Cardiology conference in Munich.
Almost half of the patients who were exercising survived the event and they had a much better prognosis than those who weren't working out, the study said. Only 15 percent of those whose cardiac arrest wasn't exercise-related lived, the study said. Those who were exercising were mostly young and male and suffered cardiac arrest in a public place where they were more likely to receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, from a bystander, according to the researchers.
"The remarkably good survival of victims of exercise- related out-of-hospital cardiac arrest can partially be ascribed to the fact that they are younger and more likely to suffer the arrest in a public location, leading to bystander CPR," Arend Mosterd, a cardiologist at the Meander Medical Center in Amersfoot, the Netherlands, and a co-author of the study, said in a statement Sunday. "Taking these factors into account, exercise per se also contributes to a better outcome."
A sudden cardiac arrest occurs when the heart's electrical system malfunctions, causing the organ to stop beating. Performing CPR or using a defibrillator to shock the heart back into a normal rhythm within minutes can reverse sudden cardiac arrest.
In the study, none of the patients who were exercising and survived suffered serious neurological damage, which wasn't the case for non-exercise related cases, Mosterd said.
"Although physical activity is the best way to promote cardiovascular health, exercise can also trigger an acute cardiac event leading to death," Mosterd said. "These dramatic and often high-profile events, for example in soccer players, invariably lead to concerns and cast a shadow over the overwhelmingly positive effects of regular exercise."
Fabrice Muamba, then a midfielder for the Bolton Wanderers soccer team, survived a cardiac arrest after collapsing during a game on March 17. His heart had stopped for more than an hour and he spent a month in the hospital. The 24-year-old retired this month.
Muamba still experiences abnormal heart rhythms, Sanjay Sharma, a sports cardiologist and consultant to Tottenham Hotspur, which played the Bolton team the day the footballer collapsed, said during the conference Sunday. Sudden cardiac death in athletes is rare, occurring in about one in 50,000 athletes, Sharma said. There are often no symptoms and many non- professional athletes aren't screened, he said.
"Between one in 250 and one in 500 athletes are walking around today harboring a condition that could potentially kill them," Sharma said.
Athletes, particularly those of African descent, can experience an abnormal thickening of heart muscle which can cause an irregular heart rhythm and lead to sudden death, John Harold, president-elect of the American College of Cardiology, said in an interview in Munich. The cause can be physiological or genetic, and athletes should be screened for it, he said.
"You shouldn't have soccer players collapsing on the field," Harold said. "Screening should happen a lot earlier."


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I got this problem when I try to back up my data from my laptop today. Suddenly, I got not enough space message. FYI, my external Hard disk is Maxtor Personal One Touch 100GB.
So, I checked the hard disk space left.
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ cd /media
taufanlubis@toshiba:/media$ ls
cdrom cdrom0 Maxtor sda1 sda2
taufanlubis@toshiba:/media$ df -h Maxtor/
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 94G 93G 367M 100% /media/Maxtor
Then I started deleting few gigabyte of my files to free up the space. I surprised because there was no change in Free Hard disk space (still 367M) at all. After searching for a few minutes with File Browser, finally I found out the problem which is a 'Trash Bin' inside my Maxtor.
I though the Trash Bin is only one. Is it the default of Ubuntu? Don't know yet.
I haven't looking for the answer. Next time, may be.
Well, then I opened the .Trash-taufanlubis (trash bin directory), delete all the files inside.
Check the result.
taufanlubis@toshiba:/media$ df -h Maxtor/
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 94G 61G 33G 66% /media/Maxtor
I got my space back.


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'Avant-Garde' in the Late Medieval Apse of Santa Maria in Trastevere
One of the oldest churches in Rome – Santa Maria in Trastevere – has one of the most 'avant-garde' mosaic apse decoration in the city's history. In the turmoil that plagued the papacy in the early twelfth century, Pope Innocent II had created a unique monumental image of the Royal Couple (the adult Christ and his mother). It took more than a century for the mosaic's striking innovations to be digested and carried forward by Italian artists. In preparation for the auspicious date of 1300 and the founding of the first Holy Year, Cimabue in Assisi, Torriti in Santa Maria Maggiore, and finally Cavallini in Santa Maria in Trastevere, demonstrated their response to the earlier mosaic, and their equally 'avant-garde' amplifications of its visual motifs and theological ideas. Cavallini, moreover, worked in concert with an aristocratic churchman, literary expert, poet, and brother of the patron of his mosaics. The Cardinal Jacopo Stefaneschi provided six three-line hexameter poems – one for each scene in the Marian cycle that circles the apse. Together the artist and the poet devised synchronized units, verbal and visual, that coordinate with the image in the conch above. The aim of this essay is to define these unparalleled occurrences and the relations between them for the first time.
The Virgin and the Virtues. Charity in Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Representation of Good Government
Before Ambrogio Lorenzetti painted Il Buon Governo in the municipal palace of Siena the divine virtues had never before been included in depictions of rulers. Furthermore, he made Charity most important. She surmounts all the other virtues surrounding the personification of Siena. Lorenzetti painted an allegory in which charity is regarded as the motivation for people to subordinate themselves to the common good and act accordingly. The Virgin functioned as catalyst. She was considered to be the governor of Siena since the Battle of Montaperti. The divine virtues, characteristic of the Virgin, should be the most important features of Siena's governors in order for Siena to become a reflection of the heavenly Jerusalem.
Fra Antonio Falier da Negroponte's Madonna and the First Venetian Imperial Style
Still neglected, a major mid-Quattrocento pala by Fra Antonio Falier da Negroponte remains in its original church, San Francesco della Vigna. This study aims to re-evaluate the altarpiece's sources, date, initial appearance and significance for the history of Venetian art. The pala's first location is proposed as High Altar for the church before Sansovino's renovation.
The Madonna della Rovere: Raphael in the Workshop of Pietro Perugino
Having recently reappeared, the tondo representing the Madonna and Child with Two Adoring Angels provides us with new material for a reconsideration of the collaboration between artists in the workshop of Perugino. It also furnishes new data for a reassessment of the work of the young Raphael. The tondo's noble provenance – it was part of the della Rovere family collection for over five hundred years – is an additional factor confirming the work's importance. Already at first glance the painting can be associated with several works executed in the bottega of Pietro Vannucci, Perugino, at the turn of the Cinquecento, as well as works by the young Raphael.
An analysis of the della Rovere tondo in its historical and social context, its iconography, the Umbrian and Florentine pictorial tradition, as well as a study of its stylistic characteristics, suggests that this important work of art was executed in the studio of Pietro Perugino c. 1498–1502 by the young Raphael, with some participation by Perugino himself, especially in the figure of the Christ Child. The two angels on both sides of the Madonna seem to have been done in full by Raphael. The very Raphaelesque Mother lost a little in the quality once the glazes were gone, and the present state of conservation does not allow for a conclusion as to whether this figure was painted by Raphael himself or by another artist in the Perugino studio. The della Rovere tondo seems to be the result of collaboration between Perugino and the young Raphael, much like Leonardo da Vinci's contribution to the Baptism of Christ by Andrea Verrocchio in the Uffizi. With time the pupils surpassed their masters.
Penance and Proselytizing in Michelangelo's Portrait Medal
Considerable academic attention has been dedicated to Michelangelo's purported self-portraits in the Last Judgment, Pauline Chapel, and Florentine Pietà. It is perplexing, then, that scholarship has fallen largely silent on the artist's portrait medal (1560) and has dismissed its elusive impresa as having 'no obvious application to Michelangelo'. This article considers how Michelangelo's portrait medal, and its impresa especially, should be understood as one of the artist's most public instances of self-fashioning. Taking Psalm 50:15 as his motto and a blind pilgrim as his image (likened to the soul and body, respectively, by Paolo Giovio), Michelangelo presents himself through the medal as a penitent artist-evangelist in the tradition of the Old Testament King David. The impresa also makes a bold statement of Michelangelo's potential as a religious artist, bearing witness to his belief that he would only be able to render service to God after he had been redeemed in the eyes of heaven. This conception of self is not unique to the medal, however, and explores similar themes to those found both in the writings of Savonarola and the artist's late poetry. Michelangelo's poetry and portrait medal are thus evidence of the artist's attempt to reconcile the conflicting interests of art and religion at the end of his life.
Michelangelo and the Devils of Purgatory
The current vogue for Michelangelo as 'spiritual' or 'heretic' has lead scholars to ignore the cave of Purgatory in his Last Judgement, located above the altar of the Sistine Chapel precisely in order to highlight the Roman doctrine. This paper recalls the ancient belief of devils active in Purgatory, and the expiatory function that the liturgy held in the Pope's chapel. In addition, implied references to Purgatory in the correspondence of the artist confirm this aspect of Michelangelo's religion.
An Attempt to Situate Titian's Paintings of the Penitent Magdalen in Some Kind of Order
The half-length Penitent Magdalen was probably the most commercially successful and most repeated subject painted by Titian and his studio. In treating it Titian was no doubt stimulated by the comparably extensive production of Penitent Magdalens by the Milanese painter Giampietrino, but it was Titian's visualisation of the subject that became canonical. Titian produced the Penitent Magdalen in two closely related types, in both of which her pose is based on the antique model of the Venus Pudica. In Type I, a nocturne, she is set in an unforgiving grotto and is entirely nude but covered with her abundant hair. Titian seems to have invented this formula around 1530 and to have continued to paint versions of it for about a decade. In Type II, probably invented c. 1550 and repeated with variations into the 1570s, the Magdalen is placed in more hospitable country and draped: in all but one instance she wears a prayer-shawl. This type is diurnal and Titian sometimes indicates different times of day. Both types exist in different sizes but all known autograph or studio examples of Type II are larger than all known examples of Type I. Between the abandonment of Type I and the development of Type II, Titian experimented with at least two variant arrangements, although the evidence for these is limited.
This article was prompted by the appearance of two hitherto unknown versions of Type II and aided by the opportunity of examining little-studied versions of both types. It makes use of previously unpublished X-rays of some of the surviving examples and includes discussion of painted and engraved copies of paintings now unlocated or destroyed. It endeavours to arrange Titian's and his studio's versions of the Penitent Magdalen in a plausible chronological sequence and, as far as possible, to connect surviving or recorded paintings with references in written sources.
From Dal Ponte to Bassano. The Legacy of Jacopo, the Shops of His Sons and the Artistic Identity of Michele Pietra, 1578–1656
The article reconstructs the history, evolution and organisation of the Bassano workshops across the broad span of their existence from 1578 to 1656. Careful historical reconstruction has outlined the profiles of four workshops on the basis of documents, many of which were hitherto unknown and/or unpublished.
The first bottega, directed in Bassano by Jacopo, was supplemented by parallel, yet interconnected, enterprises that were established in Venice by his sons Francesco (1578–1592) and Leandro (1587–1621). Upon Jacopo's death, his other two sons, Giambattista and Girolamo, took over the family business (1592–1606), whose commercial position was progressively supported and improved as a result of Leandro's leadership in the Venetian art market. Francesco died only a few months after his father and his shop was inherited by and divided among his three brothers.
The evolution of such a family business was not at all a natural or painless process, as traditionally suggested. It was, instead, the result of Jacopo's careful and flexible planning, as well as of legal arbitration between father and sons, a complicated procedure that has been discussed in detail in the article.
At the very beginning of the third decade of the seventeenth century, Girolamo's workshop, which he had meanwhile set up in Venice (1606–1621), was re-capitalised unexpectedly by one of his collaborators, Michele Pietra. Pietra extended his artistic services to include restoration and possibly the production of forgeries of works by famous painters of the sixteenth century (Bassano and Titian included). The analysis of unpublished documentation illuminates the role and importance of Pietra's shop in terms of commercial strategies and the volume of production.
The article also takes into consideration the appreciation of the style and manner promoted by the four workshops. In particular, the study and attribution of new works, as well as the examination of key commissions, have presented the contributions of the various painters in a new historical perspective. But, more importantly, the paper also demonstrates how a style, which once belonged to Jacopo alone, came to be associated with a distinctive manner – the brand – of an entire clan of artists.
The Rediscovered Portrait of Prospero Farinacci by Caravaggio
Caravaggio's early production as a portrait painter is still the subject of research and a fount of enigmas. Despite the numerous citations in documents, only rarely have these been linked unequivocally to paintings known to date. This is also the case with the 'portrait of Farinaccio criminalist painted on a head-size canvas believed to be by Michelangelo from Caravaggio', that was listed in the 1638 inventory of the Marquis Giustiniani and with 'the speaker wearing a robe, painted by Caravaggio' on a head-size canvas, owned in 1652 by Caterina Campani, Onorio Longhi's wife.
The present multidisciplinary research examines the rediscovery of the portrait of Prospero Farinacci by Caravaggio. The painting, undisclosed until now, hides an underlying female portrait. The authors investigate both compositions from a technical, iconographical and critical point of view, supporting Caravaggio's attribution. The technical researches allow cross-validation in the brushwork and materials of the picture, compared to Caravaggio's early painting technique and style. The portrait of Maffeo Barberini, recently re-ascribed to Caravaggio, shows a significant similarity, while the underlying woman of the retrieved painting closely resembles the gipsy of the Louvre Fortune teller. In addition a newly introduced and advanced imaging technique (Ma-XRF) has detected on the male portrait the feature of the lawyer's robe, which supports the identification with Prospero Farinacci.
The intriguing topic of physiognomic accuracy versus stylizing tendency in Caravaggio's portraiture is considered with the aid of Giulio Mancini's observations.
Besides, the possible interpretation of the underlying figure as a religious subject sheds a light on the obscure activity of the young Caravaggio in Lorenzo Carli's workshop, recently brought to scholars' attention by new documents and hypotheses.
Darkness in a Positive Light: Negative Theology in Caravaggio's Conversion of Saint Paul
In his second version of the Conversion of St Paul for the Cerasi Chapel (1601), Caravaggio emphasizes darkness – not light – as an essential condition of mystical union. Caravaggio's darkness, typically interpreted as a signifier of 'realism', possesses a metaphorical quality that goes well beyond mere tenebrism. Through an analysis of the interrelated themes of darkness and blindness in Caravaggio's Conversion of Saint Paul, this paper suggests that the artist drew inspiration from Negative Theology, a strand of Neoplatonism that describes the path to the divine as one of increasing darkness. In looking at this painting within the context of seventeenth-century mysticism and its texts (Pseudo-Dionysius and St John of the Cross especially), it is possible to interpret Caravaggio's use of darkness as an experimental dialectic on Negative Theology. A comparative analysis of Caravaggio's two versions of Paul's conversion (the earlier one was rejected) illustrates his radical reinterpretation of Pauline iconography and an increased emphasis on themes of darkness and negation. Given the profound stylistic change represented by Caravaggio's revised composition – a picture completed only months after the first one was rejected – the Neoplatonic overtones in the second version very likely stem at least partially from suggestions from Caravaggio's patrons. The Augustinian Fathers of the Madonna della Consolazione, responsible both for the rejection and re-commissioning of Caravaggio's Cerasi laterals, were well versed in the Neoplatonic teachings of St Augustine and his insistence on the ineffability of the divine. Caravaggio's dramatic stylistic shift towards darkness represents a sophisticated response to the changing ways in which spiritual conversion was conceived in the seventeenth-century Catholic Church.
Replicas, Quotations and Serial Production in Italian Baroque Still Lifes: A Few 'Case Studies'
This essay examines for the first time some aspects of Italian Baroque still lifes, mainly those not related to their attributions, but to the process involved in creating this kind of works. One of the features of the Italian still life was its serial production (the first real 'commercial' one in the modern sense of the term), which often led to entire or partial repetition of the subjects. The author examines paintings by Michelangelo Pace, Abraham Brueghel and Christian Berentz (some unpublished), who often used this method of composition, and points out that real copies were very rare. This was a new, modern way of creating and enjoying works of art, based on the decorative and commercial function of this genre, which fit in the emerging art market and changed the firmly established and consolidated relationship between patron and painter. Also these considerations can influence the question of the attribution of individual works.
Punishment as Brotherly Love: Antonio Zanchi's Expulsion of the Profaners from the Temple and the Venetian Conforteria
The brethren of the Venetian confraternity known as the Scuola di San Fantin provided spiritual comfort (conforto) to prisoners condemned to death, offering them the possibility of forgiveness and salvation. This essay interrogates the relationship between the confraternity's ideology of punishment and Antonio Zanchi's Expulsion of the Profaners from the Temple, an important painting commissioned by the Scuola in 1667. After the Reformation, the subject matter of Christ's expulsion of the moneylenders from the Temple in Jerusalem was usually deployed in Catholic regions to communicate the Church's commitment to internal reform and its determination to cleanse itself of heresy. However, the circumstances surrounding the commission of Zanchi's painting suggest that its significance was altogether more complex. The reading offered here first situates the painting within the broader ideology of the Italian conforteria (confraternities that assisted the condemned). In this context, the Expulsion of the Profaners expressed the idea that punishment could be a profound act of love towards sinners. A second objective, equally important, is to demonstrate that the concept of punishment as brotherly love was also fundamental to the governance of the confraternity's own sinful brethren. Zanchi's Expulsion was commissioned in a period marked by outbreaks of scandalous behavior on the part of some members that the Scuola's officers sought to curb. The painting demonstrates how this confraternity, dedicated to correcting sinners and saving souls whether through prescriptive or proscriptive methods, employed images as powerful tools to shape and modulate its members' behavior and guide them towards salvation.
Woven Bloodlines: The Valois Tapestries in the Trousseau of Christine de Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany
The aim of this paper is to provide a hypothesis concerning the commission, function and meaning of the celebrated Valois Tapestries. No documentary evidence indicating who ordered the cycle and why has so far come to light. However, on the basis of recent works on the patronage and collections of Catherine de Médicis a new interpretation can be proposed. It is known that the tapestries were taken in 1589 to Florence by Christine de Lorraine as a part of her trousseau. In the light of new research on Catherine de Médicis and her patronage, it seems plausible that the tapestries could have been commissioned by the Queen specifically for her beloved granddaughter. This assumption can be confirmed by careful re-examination of the vivid foreground portraits which represent the members of Valois and Lorraine houses. The tapestries can be thus seen as a woven genealogy of Christine de Lorraine – the proof of her royal lineage. This 'gallery' of portraits of her family and allies, shown in a portable and prestigious medium, would have appeared particularly appropriate as a trousseau of a princess at a foreign court. The representation of the famous fêtes organized by Catherine de Médicis can therefore be interpreted on one level as evidence of the magnificence of her court. Knowing that queen used the festivals as an instrument of power, for Christine their depiction could have served as a reminder of the political training that she had received from her grandmother.


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CCAP's Winkelman says transportation policy should complement federal cap-and-trade program
With Americans driving more and more each year, there is a new push on Capitol Hill for legislators to go beyond vehicle efficiency improvements and alternative fuels mandates be developing ways to encourage less driving in the United States. In his new book, "Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change," the Center for Clean Air Policy's Steve Winkelman says this can be achieved through smarter urban planning. During today's OnPoint, Winkelman, manager of adaptation and transportation at CCAP, explains how new urban areas can be developed to maximize the emissions reduction benefits of a cap-and-trade program. Winkelman explains why urban sprawl could undermine steps being taken on the local and federal levels to combat global warming and urges action in this year's transportation bill.


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Facebook click can save lives
CONDONG musician Barry Payten was just two weeks from death in 2004 when he got the call from Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital he had been anxiously waiting 18 months for.
Within days of undergoing a liver transplant, Mr Payten had recovered much of the vigour that living with hepatitis A since his 20s had stolen from him.
"The transplant has given me such a new lease on life," he marvelled.
The English-born 63-year-old, who used to be a session musician for legendary acts like Fleetwood Mac, feels so good these days he's launched himself back into the music industry, which his illness forced him to leave behind.
He helps manage two local bands and still straps on a guitar a couple of times a year to tour with English soft rockers Status Quo.
The transplant has given him something else in common with his old mate David Crosby from Crosby Stills & Nash, who underwent his own liver trans- plant in 1994.
But the hand of fate can be so seemingly random.
On the day he spoke to The Northern Star, Mr Payten had attended the funeral of a friend who had also been on the transplant waiting list but for whom that call never came.
Mr Payten has welcomed a new Facebook tool that allows users to link to organ donor registries and share their donor status with friends.
"Without an organ donor, I wouldn't be here," he said.
The new feature, which went live in Australia on Thursday, sparked a big increase in organ donor registrations in the US and the United Kingdom when it was launched last week.
It is hoped it will do the same here.
To indicate you are a registered organ and tissue donor on your Facebook Timeline, click on "Life Event", select "Health and Wellness" and choose "organ donor".
If you have not registered on the Australian Organ Donor Register, make sure to click on the "sign up here with the appropriate registry" link to make your decision official.
As for Mr Payten, he's making the most of his second chance at life.
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"It was a tough race." So says Mauricio 'Mau' Méndez – although his version of a 'tough race' is a something closer to most people's achievement of a lifetime. Returning to Maui as the reigning XTERRA world champion, the 21-year-old triathlete from Mexico City was hoping to prolong his reign – but a rough swim to start the race got the best of him. And while he couldn't quite catch up to South African Brad Weiss, he managed quite a respectable finish: 2nd place, maintaining his place on the podium.
No time to enjoy the scenery on the Razor Ridge. (©Mike Adrian / XTERRA)
Despite conditions on the ground-side of the course being solid – it had been raining for two days prior, but the course was dry and fast – things went bad from the start for Mau: he finished the swim in ninth place. "It was way rougher than usual," Méndez said of Maui's DT Fleming Beach – often protected, on the windward side of the island. "It was difficult even for the best swimmers to catch a rhythm." He got out of the water only to begin battle straight away with bike expert Ruben Ruzafa – still struggling for rhythm. It was finally on the run that things came together – on the course he'd scouted with his dad prior to the race, he was able to go from fourth to second, gaining a couple of minutes and catching Ruzafa on the last stretch of sand before the finish line.
Mau ran the fastest time of the day. (©Mike Adrian / XTERRA)
Keeping him ticking on the race course was a customized Spartan Ultra, a newly appreciated tool in his XTERRA quiver. "It's a great watch," he says. "It does everything I need it to do."
What's happening next year? Well, he's starting early. "Normally I wait to start my training season until March or April, but this year I'm going to start in January to try and prepare myself a little better," says Mau. "Having a second place is great," he continues "But from right now until October 28th next year, I am going to be thinking of one thing and that's getting that title back."
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If you just want to try something out quickly, my bootable gentoo-on-rpi3-64bit image (the one Gavinmc42 refers to) is downloadable from GitHub - please see the project page (with full instructions) here (thanks to procount, it's also available via PINN, under the name "Gentoo64", should you prefer that route).
It is Gentoo, but the image boots directly to an Xfce4 desktop, and contains a reasonable precompiled userland package set (LibreOffice 6.0.2, Firefox Quantum 58.0.1, VLC 2.2.8, GIMP 2.9.8 etc), so you don't have to compile or configure anything just to get going. VC4 GL rendering support is provided, and the RPi3's Bluetooth, sound and WiFi (dual band on the RPi3+) are supported too. The project is backed by a weekly-autobuild "binhost" - so you can (should you choose) keep your system up-to-date via binary packages, rather than building updates from source.
Of course, when you do feel like building things, gcc 7.3 (with distcc support, should you want that), a full dev library set, and clang 6 are included on the image too ^-^
However, if you'd rather create a 64-bit Gentoo system from scratch for the RPi3, please see my Gentoo Forums post here, which has links to the relevant wiki pages etc. (in particular, see NeddySeagoon's excellent guide).
hth, any problems just ask (either here, or you can post in the project's sticky thread on the Gentoo forum; we don't bite!)
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Death penalty tossed in killing of rocker's mom
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The California Supreme Court on Monday tossed out the death sentence of a man convicted of murdering rock guitarist Dave Navarro's mother and her friend nearly 30 years ago — a ruling that could affect the cases of Scott Peterson and other death row inmates.
The unanimous court said the trial judge presiding over the trial of John Riccardi improperly dismissed a prospective juror because of her conflicting written responses in a questionnaire asking her views of the death penalty.
The court said the judge was required to delve deeper into the juror's death penalty views and determine if she could impose the death sentence is she believed prosecutors proved their case.
Peterson and a few other California death row inmates are appealing on similar grounds.
Peterson was convicted of killing his wife Laci, who was 8 months pregnant with their son, and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay on Christmas Eve 2002. Investigators believe Peterson either strangled or suffocated his wife.
Peterson has always maintained his innocence and claims in his appeal filed earlier this month that the trial judge presiding over his 2004 trial wrongly dismissed 13 jurors who said they opposed the death penalty but could follow the law and impose it if warranted.
In 1984, a narrowly divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled that reversal of the death penalty is automatic when potential jurors are dismissed because of their written answers to questions about their views on capital punishment.
Peterson's attorney Cliff Gardner argued in his appeal that the mistake occurred in the Peterson trial and may be the basis of appeals of a few other death row inmates.
The last California execution occurred in 2006. Lawsuits in federal and state courts have forced a temporary halt to executions.
In its ruling Monday, the state high court upheld Riccardi's murder conviction. Once a noted body builder, he was convicted of killing former girlfriend Connie Navarro in a jealous rage. Her friend Sue Jory also was killed. Navarro's son played guitar for the band "Jane's Addiction."
It's now up the California attorney general to determine if another penalty phase will be held or if Riccardi is taken off death row and sentenced to life in prison.
Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said that ruling "compels the reversal of the penalty phase without any inquiry as to whether the error actually" led to an unfair trial. The chief justice wrote separately to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider the automatic reversal in such cases.
The juror in question, identified only by the initials "N.K." in the ruling, wrote on the questionnaire that she supported California's reinstatement of the death penalty and stated that it is not used enough.
But later in the questionnaire, the juror gave answers that suggest she opposes capital punishment.
"I'm afraid I could not feel right in imposing the death penalty on someone even though I feel it is nessasary (sic) under some circumstances," N.K. wrote.
Cantil-Sakauye wrote that the trial court judge should have questioned her more instead of dismissing her as he did.
The chief justice said the juror's conflicting answers meant either she "feared that actually being on a death jury would be difficult or uncomfortable, or she was advising the court that she could not impose a decision of death, even if the evidence warranted its application. From the questionnaire alone, we cannot possibly determine which scenario prompted her answers."
Riccardi was arrested in Houston eight years after the killings when "America's Most Wanted" aired a segment on the 1983 crime. A tipster recognized him and alerted authorities.


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Guy Harvey's fish paintings have made his T-shirts and name synonymous with fishing and Florida's casual lifestyle. Can he push the brand nationally?
The Life of a Guy
Growing Up: Raised on a 1,200-acre farm in Jamaica, Harvey is the son of a cattle farmer and a nurse. His mother's side of the family has lived in Jamaica since the 1600s. His family had a beach cottage, and that's where he first fell in love with the ocean.
Early Art: As a child, Harvey liked drawing. At 8, he was sent to England for boarding school, where he sketched fish he remembered from Jamaica and grew particularly attached to Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea." He still has a British accent.
Education: A degree in marine biology at Aberdeen University in Scotland; a Ph.D. in fisheries management from the University of the West Indies in Jamaica
Family: Wife, Gillian, 51, whom he met at a New Year's Eve party in 1984 and married in 1989. Harvey says she doesn't like to fish. She works as a consular officer for the Jamaican consulate in the Cayman Islands. The couple's two children, Alex and Jessica, have worked in the gallery and store in Grand Cayman during holidays. Jessica has a zoology degree and works for the environmental protection department for the Cayman Islands. Alex is a business major — with a talent for drawing.


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Rumours spark talk of Del Peiro's future at Sydney FC
SPECULATION about the future of Alessandro Del Piero at Sydney FC continued yesterday, with the Italian superstar still not committing to next season.
Del Piero signed a one-year deal with a one-year option on a contract believed to be worth $2 million a season.
But the Sky Blues' poor results - the club is rooted to the bottom of the table with just three wins to its credit - have made negotiations difficult.
Del Piero is a natural-born winner but has been frustrated with his side's performances this season.
Poor crowd attendances have also affected the club's bottom line.
The Sky Blues face a crucial run of games against three of the A-League's top five in the next 10 days, starting with the first-placed Central Coast tonight at Allianz Stadium.
And the former Juventus main man knows his team needs to improve quickly.
"Two of them are away and that's a big problem. But if we are looking for a good position at the end of the season then we have to do a good job in these three matches," Del Piero said.
"It's not too late, but the time is rolling."
Del Piero, an immensely proud man who has won Serie A, Champions League and World Cup trophies, indicated he wanted to stay with his struggling club in 2013/14.
"I'm really happy to be here and we have time for discussions. But at the moment the best thing for me, for the club and for my teammates is concentrating on the games," he said.
In tonight's other two games, Perth will take on Western Sydney at Patersons Stadium, and Wellington will host the Melbourne Heart at Westpac Stadium.
The Wanderers have won their past three games, and Glory coach Ian Ferguson said he had been impressed with the form surge which culminated in Friday night's stunning 6-1 win over the second-placed Adelaide United.
"I thought it was only a matter of time before the goals started flowing for them because they've got good players in (Shinji) Ono, (Youssouf) Hersi and (Dino) Kresinger," he said.
But the Glory's defence in last Friday night's 1-0 win over Brisbane was outstanding.
"That's the best I've seen from a Perth Glory side in defending for at least 20 or 25 minutes in the second-half," Ferguson said.
The only change Phoenix coach Ricki Herbert will make is who will take the set pieces, following last Saturday's 1-1 draw against the Mariners.


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For Lary Spears, a guitar hero is not someone who jacks into a game console and hits push-button chords. The longtime bassist, now a sales executive at G&L Guitars, used to build instruments at the company's Fullerton, Calif., factory.
So he winced when his son, Shane, piled up the money he'd been given for his 10th birthday this fall and announced his plan to buy "Guitar Hero III." Shane already owned a G&L Tribute electric guitar – customized by his craftsman dad – that he seemed to enjoy thrashing in front of his bedroom mirror.
"I've always been kind of an old-school guy," says Mr. Spears. "If you want to play guitar, go pick up a guitar. You don't need a video game for that."
Still, once his son was gleefully gaming, Spears drifted into the room to see what all the buzz was about. He sat down, he says, and really worked the "GH III." It was a revelatory half hour.
"It teaches him tempo, meter, how the guitar works inside of a song, the little skip beats – the 'and two' kinds of beats," says Spears.
Don't fire the guitar teacher. But real-life instrumental mastery might just get a boost in the mock-rock age of "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" (in which a full array of instruments, including drum kit, is rendered in plastic facsimile).
"It has been a gateway for some players," says Kiri Miller, an ethnomusicologist at Brown University in Providence, R.I., who has studied the culture of gaming and its links to music. Game competency comes relatively quickly, she says. "It has helped some people say 'OK, I could achieve this [in game form] – and it might be worth really working to achieve this on a real instrument."
That's hardly universal. For many hard-core gamers, there is a "flow experience" that's not so much about musicmaking as it is about YouTube potential. "They love the ridiculousness of making all of these motions that have nothing to do with the sounds that come out," Ms. Miller says. "They love that disconnect."
Others prefer to see connections. The rapid rise of music-based gaming has taken the music world by surprise, says Joe Lamond, chief executive of NAMM, a nonprofit trade association of some 9,000 retailers and manufacturers of musical instruments. Released late 2007, "Guitar Hero III" made $115 million in its first week, straddling demographics that ranged from nostalgic boomers to ironic millennials to kids whose parents support nonshooting games.
"Our hope is that this is just maybe proving what we felt: that inherently there's a real desire for everyone to make music," says Mr. Lamond. He resists trying to guess whether some guitar gamers will pick up stringed instruments, but he believes it's worth probing, and others do, too.
"Some of our more progressive members are already out there doing promotions with 'Guitar Hero,' " he says. One preholiday promotion: A consumer who bought Guitar Hero at Guitar Center could get $50 off a guitar.
Sales of guitars declined nationally in 2006 after a decade of growth. The industry attributes the slide to everything from high gasoline prices (eating into discretionary income) to the dominance of hip-hop. But guitars remain the highest selling musical instruments in the United States, according to NAMM (3.4 million were sold in 2005), although piano remains more widely played than guitar and bass combined.
Plenty of guitarists shrug off the use of any video-game version of their art for anything but pure, slack-jawed diversion. Many favor a roots-up approach to learning: Get a beat-up six-string acoustic and play until calluses form on fingertips. Self-expression, several point out, is very limited within a scoring structure that's based on staying in synch with an animated figure.
Criticism of guitar gaming can be harsh. "[It's] yet another example of the minimization of life expectations sold to our children," says Paul Green, founder and president of the Paul Green School of Rock Music in Philadelphia and the presumed inspiration for the Jack Black movie "School of Rock."
But technology as music aid – even in game form – has had a long run-up. Bill Purse, chair of guitar and music technology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, points to G-Vox, a now defunct firm whose screen-based product worked with a real guitar. He calls it the great-grandfather to the "Guitar Hero" franchise. The interface was a street musician trying to please a crowd. "It taught the notes on the instrument just like 'Space Invaders,' " he writes in an e-mail. "You would see them on the screen and play them on the guitar."
Professor Purse and others see instrument-makers becoming more game-oriented in their own product development and in the methods they're using to promote a lower-barrier entry to the musical experience. Consider Gibson's self-tuning Robot guitar, or the latest version of a light-up teaching tool from Optek, the Fretlight FG-401 acoustic guitar.
The prime directive of the console games, of course, remains play. Physically interactive, "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" are to some degree "exergames" like the frenetic cult favorite "Dance Dance Revolution." That gives them an edge among many parents over first-person shooters or even driving games in which the object is to dodge law enforcement.
There's more to the appeal. Spears's son, Shane, relished going head-to-virtual-head with a rock legend. "He was very proud of beating Slash," says Spears. He and his wife are certain their son will continue to advance on his real guitar, too. "The game has introduced him to new music."
Developing a personal catalog, guitarists say, comes only from long sessions on an instrument. Jason Darr, guitarist and singer for the Canadian alt-rock band Neurosonic, says he has spent hours on tour buses playing "Guitar Hero." He prefers the latest versions of "Call of Duty" or "Halo," and jokes that real-life warriors probably prefer "Tetris" – or "Guitar Hero III."
Darr also suggests that any aspiring guitar player just pick up a real ax – and play. "For me, the best way to learn anything is to get your hands on it and do it," he says. "The time you spend [playing a video-game version] is time that could have spent practicing the real thing."


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A medtech company that develops and manufactures devices and therapies to treat more than 30 chronic diseases—including heart failure, Parkinson's disease, and chronic pain—wanted to create an integrated cross-digital platform. The goals of the platform effort were to leverage existing products, connect them to the cloud, drive more patients through the care pathway, reduce the cost to serve for clinicians and reps, and create the potential for new software revenue streams through data science services.
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BCG helped the company fashion a solution through an extensive series of client immersion sessions. The resulting digital solution directly addressed pain points along the care pathway, including increasing patient awareness of alternative therapies; improving data accuracy; improving the physician's ability to support more patients by reducing burden; and enhancing trial and implant experience through fewer in-office visits.


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This little lady is only two, but she has an amazingly good grasp of Adele's lyrics and a very charming ability to fake it when she loses her way. By the end, she'll have you crying tears of joy from the cuteness—which is a welcome departure from the tears of sadness that this song is most famous for bringing on.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- The Chicago Bears placed kicker Robbie Gould on its season-ending injured reserve list and hired veteran kicker Olindo Mare to replace him.
Mare, a 16-year NFL player, won a tryout against veterans Billy Cundiff and Neil Rackers and younger kickers Garrett Lindholm and Justin Medlock and was signed to a one-year contract, the Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday.
Gould, the fourth most accurate field goal kicker in NFL history at 85.6 percent, suffered a calf injury in warmups before the Bears' 21-14 loss to the Minnesota Vikings in Minneapolis Sunday.
Mare, who played for the Carolina Panthers last season, has made 81.2 percent of his field goal attempts in his career with the Seattle Seahawks, the New Orleans Saints, Miami Dolphins and the Panthers, the newspaper said.
Bears starting quarterback Jay Cutler, who left the game against the Vikings with a stiff neck, indicated he is ready to play in Sunday's home game against the Green Bay Packers.


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June 29, 2012 – Welcome to my day.
My Name is Marcel Dallinger. I got my Magister degree in classical archaeology at Leipzig University in November 2011.
Currently I am working on an excavation in the castle of Rochlitz executed by the State Office for Archaeology Saxony.
Rochlitz itself is a medium-sized town in Saxony/ Germany.
My day starts at 6 a.m. in Sörnzig. After getting up and doing all the things that have to be done in the morning my way leads me to Rochlitz Castle which is approximately 3km away. Fortunately I own a little motorbike so the ride is rather a little trip through fields than a typical commute.
Work starts at 7am. The excavation team meets in our lunchroom. It is luckily the same room where all our equipment is stored therefore we have short distances to everything we need.
The excavation we are working on is a 'rescue excavation'. The castle yard is about to be renewed completely. This includes new pipes for waste water, fresh water, rain water, earth-wires and all power supply lines. Finally the whole castle yard will get a new cobbled paving.
Thus our task is to excavate all parts of the castle yard which had not been excavated before- and this is approximately 70%. Most of them dates from the late Middle Ages.
The salvage of findings, their documentation and to save them from the dredger is exactly what we are doing there. But I have to say that all the other workers and especially the operator of the dredgers are very friendly and take care of us and the work we are doing. The normal dig goes on with well-known trowels. For measuring we use a tachymeter connected to AutoCad. Because of our lack of time we also do photogrammetrie. Sometimes it is better to draw archaeological records but this needs time that we don't have. We have our morning break around 9am. After recharging our batteries we keep on revealing the secrets of history from the ground. Of course not every day we make great findings but thanks to the still opened castle museum there is a lot of public business. One day we were surprised by a visit of a television crew. But they were doing a documentary about the new exhibition in the museum so we could watch them filming and interviewing while continuing our work.
The last period of our day is from lunch break at 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. . At the end of our day we give ourselves a pat on the back for another great and interesting day working in the job with the most public Interest: archaeology.