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A Utah company maintains it has the rights to two cancer genes it isolated.
The Supreme Court Monday heard arguments in a case on whether or not human genes ought to be subject to patent. A Utah biotechnology company called Myriad Genetics contests that they can, and that it has the right to two genes linked to breast and ovarian cancers.
The company argues that the work it did to discover and isolate the two genes entitles it to the patent rights. "What Myriad was able to do is sort through all those 20,000 genes and find the two that were highly linked to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer," said president of Myriad Genetics Laboratories Mark Capone. Myriad Genetics' patent on the genes, called BRCA1 and BRCA2, gives it exclusive access to using them for research and treatment.
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The company's lawyer said Myriad is entitled to a patent because isolating the two cancer genes "is the final step in an extraordinarily complicated set of inventive actions that led to the creation of this molecule, which had never been available to the world before." Myriad says the patent and charging $3000 for the genetic test associated with the cancer genes is allowing it to make up the millions it put into making the discovery, and the profit money associated with such work will fuel further scientific innovation. (The actual cost of the test is $200.)
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But the American Civil Liberties Union, who filed the case against Myriad in 2009, said recouping monetary loss isn't reason enough to get a patent. ACLU lawyer Christopher Hansen said:
A patent isn't a reward for effort. A patent is a reward for invention. And Myriad didn't invent anything … The gene exists in the body. All Myriad did is find it.
Opponents of the patent say that Myriad doesn't have the right to patent something occurring in nature that it didn't invent, and that the patent hampers further medical advancement. They cite cases in which patients were denied their own genetic information or weren't given tests requested by doctors because doing so would have been a patent infringement.
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"All Myriad does is take a part of the body out of the body," said Hansen. "It is no different than taking a kidney out of the body. Just because you are the [first] person who takes the kidney out of the body doesn't entitle you to a patent on kidneys."
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Before it came to mean laptops, PCs, or even room-sized machines, "computer" was what you called a person who did mathematical calculations for a living. That job was vitally important during World War II. And, like many vital jobs on the homefront, it was turned over to women, so that men could be sent into battle. After Pearl Harbor, the military recruited women to be computers, calculating things like ballistics trajectories in top-secret enclaves at the University of Pennsylvania and the Monroe Army Base in California.
At the time, there weren't a lot of women with college-level mathematics degrees, and so the calculators included women working on accounting degrees, and even talented high-schoolers. Some of the women chosen to be human computers went on to become the first programmers of the machine-computer ENIAC.
Jean Jennings Bartik was one of the women computers. In 1945, she was a recent graduate of Northwest Missouri State Teachers College, the school's one math major. She lived on her parents' farm, refusing the teaching jobs her father suggested, avoiding talk of marrying a farmer and having babies. Bartik was waiting on a job with the military. When a telegram arrived asking her to come right away, she took a late-night train and began new career in Philadelphia.
The war ended in 1945, but within a couple months of arriving in Philadelphia, Bartik was hired to work on a related project -- an electronic computer that could do calculations faster than any man or woman. The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, created by Penn scientists John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Jr., weighed more than 30 tons and contained about 18,000 vacuum tubes. It recognized numbers, added, subtracted, multiplied, divided and a few other basic functions.
Men had built the machine, but Bartik and her colleagues debugged every vacuum tube and learned how to make it work, she said. Early on, they demonstrated to the military brass how the computer worked, with the programmers setting the process into motion and showing how it produced an answer. They handed out its punch cards as souvenirs. They'd taught the massive machine do math that would've taken hours by hand. But none of the women programmers was invited to the celebratory dinner that followed. Later, the heard they were thought of as models, placed there to show off the machine.
The CNN story this excerpt comes from feels like it's missing some key details. But there's also a documentary on the women—called Top-Secret Rosies. I've only seen the preview video that's embedded above, but it sounds fascinating—and more than a little heartbreaking.
Thanks to datakid23 for tipping me off to the post about this on Slashdot!Discuss
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Rayonic says:
Later, the heard they were thought of as models, placed there to show off the machine.
Well that's their own fault for looking so pretty. (j/k)
Though if I were a sexist army general, I'd have either asked "isn't hiring models a waste of money?" or "hey, are those models coming to the celebration party?"
Vanwall says:
Sebastian. Nay-it-sah-bess.
Anonymous says:
I have to say this or lose all of my copy-editing street cred: "Later, the heard they were thought of as models" probably ought to read "Later, THEY heard they were thought of…".
Okay, I feel better now.
Anonymous says:
legendary physicist Richard Feynman managed similar teams of people at adding machines during the Manhattan Project.
He noticed backlogs that would occur when one result was waiting for information from another process, so he reorganized their workflow so those waiting could work on other equations – and created the concept of parallel processing.
Dr_Black says:
This looks really interesting and is similar to the story of around 6000 women who worked at Bletchley Park during WW2. We made a short video about them: The Women of Station X http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/video-example.rhtm
I've been campaigning to save Bletchley Park for several years now as it is underfunded, see http://www.savingbletchleypark.org It would be great to link up in some way to the US Rosies, 300 US intelligence also worked at Bletchley Park.
Colossus: the world's first programmable digital computer, invented by Tommy Flowers was used at Bletchley Park as part of the codebreaking effort. The work done there was said by Eisenhower to have shortened the war by two years, potentially saving 22 million lives.
I recently found out about Joan Clarke, a major codebreaker at Bletchley Park who worked in Hut 8 with Alan Turing and was also engaged to him at one point. I would love to know more about her.
If anyone is interested in knowing more about Bletchley Park please do get in touch http://www.sueblack.co.uk/contact.html and I'm @Dr_Black on Twitter.
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Sadie Plant has a great book about women in computing (somewhat theoretical) calle Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture
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There's a good book on this topic, When Computers Were Human http://www.amazon.com/When-Computers-Human-David-Grier/dp/0691133824
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Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by American author Neal Stephenson. The novel follows the exploits of two groups of people in two different time periods. The first is World War II-era Allied codebreakers and tactical-deception operatives affiliated with the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park. The second narrative is …
Robert says:
On the eniacprogrammers.org site:
"None of us girls were ever introduced…we were just programmers.â€
Kay Mauchly Antonelli, ENIAC Programmer, The Computers: The Untold Story of the Remarkable Women Who Programmed the ENIAC (Documentary Preview), 2001
That sounds strangely familiar.
semiotix says:
At Bletchley Park, they crammed these female operators into Quonset huts with blacked-out windows. The heat from so many tabletop electro-mechanical adding machines in such a small space forced them to work in their underwear.
Anyway, there's your nerd porn moment for this Wednesday. Mmm, ladies in their underwear. OOOH, VINTAGE ELECTRO-MECHANICAL COMPUTERS!!!
Anonymous says:
This is precisely why the new Drupal 7 default theme is called… Bartik! =)
Anonymous says:
Ah, sexism. Vitally important women were thought of as eye candy, while the article kind of glosses over the fact that the reason there were there is because the mores of the time (and, often times, today) dictate that men are the ones to be sent to die. I hate society.
Antinous / Moderator says:
My mother, who was a minor math savant, was a Bright Young Thing during the war. She turned it into a forty-plus year career working on projects like the DEW Line. Nobody treated her like a model although, at 5′-9″, she was an inch taller than the average man of the day.
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The movie is available on Netflix instant for anyone who wants to see it. Just FYI.
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I believe they were called "computors" (people who did computing) and not "computers".
Antinous / Moderator says:
In that case, we would have to call the women computrices.
DrPretto says:
Thanks Maggie, great story. Those women should be awarded with a medal or prize.
What I found interesting is how those who build ENIAC didn't knew how to make it work? Unless there was a mechanical damage that they didn't knew how to repair, but women could.
Rayonic says:
Or the designers knew the ENIAC would require a lot of manual programming and debugging, so they hired some people to do it?
nthmost says:
It's always nice to see light shed on the reality of the first computer programmers, how they were pretty much all women, and how their work and contributions to computing were so badly underestimated.
My grandmother, Kathleen Mauchly Antonelli, was among the ENIAC programmers. My grandfather was John Mauchly, the co-inventor thereof.
My uncle Bill Mauchly and I set up a website about the ENIAC, if anybody out there is interested in more and deeper nerdity about this old oddball machine (which worked in DECIMAL, of all things).
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Manager Don Mattingly will return next season.
General Manager Ned Colletti confirmed Friday that the Dodgers intend to honor the final year of Mattingly's contract, which expires at the end of the 2013 season.
The decision to retain Mattingly will not be affected by whether the Dodgers reach the postseason, Colletti said. Entering Friday, the Dodgers were 71/2 games behind the first-place San Francisco Giants in the National League West and two games back of the St. Louis Cardinals for the second of two wild card spots.
Mattingly was the Dodgers' hitting coach under former manager Joe Torre before taking over as manager in 2011.
Mattingly went into Friday with a 156-149 record over two seasons.
He earned high marks for how he navigated a bankrupt franchise to a respectable 82-79 record as a rookie manager in 2011. He remains popular among players and had his team in first place as recently as Aug. 19.
However, the Dodgers entered Friday with a 6-12 record since acquiring Adrian Gonzalez and Josh Beckett as part of a blockbuster trade with the Boston Red Sox.
The guaranteed portion of Colletti's contract is set to expire at the end of this season, but Chairman Mark Walter recently said the team was looking to sign him to a long-term extension.
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Reliever Kenley Jansen is set to return for the Dodgers' series opener in Washington on Tuesday.
"I'm ready," he said. "I'm not afraid."
Jansen, who has been sidelined for 21/2 weeks, was told on Friday he could stop taking a blood-thinning medication he was using to treat a heart condition. Jansen wasn't allowed to play while taking the medication because it prevents clotting and he could have bled to death if struck by a baseball. The medicine will take two days to clear his system.
Jansen pitched to hitters on Friday. He has thrown off a mound almost every other day since he was sidelined with an irregular heartbeat late last month.
He will undergo surgery in the off-season to treat his condition.
Mattingly said he doesn't intend to immediately reinstall Jansen as the Dodgers' closer.
"I'll probably try to get him comfortable one time and go from there," Mattingly said.
Lilly scheduled for surgery
Ted Lilly has abandoned hope of pitching for the Dodgers in relief this month, as he is scheduled to undergo a season-ending shoulder operation on Sept. 22. He is expected to be healthy for the start of spring training.
Lilly last pitched May 23. The left-hander made several attempts to come back, pitching in minor league games as a rehabilitation assignment.
Lilly's surgery will be performed by team physician Neal ElAttrache.
"Ideally, it is a simple clean-up procedure," trainer Sue Falsone said. "Obviously the doc won't know exactly what he will or will not do until he gets inside the joint.
"We're not expecting any large repairs of any kind or anything sort of out of the ordinary."
Lilly was 5-0 with a 1.79 earned-run average through his first five starts. But on May 23 against the Arizona Diamondbacks, he was charged with eight earned runs in 31/3 innings. He never made it back to the mound.
Lilly, 36, is under contract for another season. He will earn $13.5 million next year as part of his three-year, $33-million deal.


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Co-PI on the research project "Disaster Resilience and Availability Prediction (DRAP) for Clouds", funded by Google (2012-13). Award Amount: $102,000
Exceptional Scholar - Young Investigator Award, (highest honor for research productivity that can be awarded to untenured faculty), State University of New York at Buffalo (2012).
Du, A.Y., Das, S. and Ramesh, R., Efficient Risk Hedging by Dynamic Forward Pricing: A Study in Cloud Computing, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Fall 2013, 25(4).
Chai, S., Das, S. and Rao, H.R., "Factors Affecting Bloggers' Knowledge Sharing on Social Networking Websites: A Socio-Technical Approach," Journal of Management Information Systems, Winter 2011 – 2012, 28(3), pp. 309-341.
Das, S., Du, A.Y., Gopal, R. and Ramesh, R., "Risk Management and Optimal Pricing in Online Storage Grids," Information Systems Research, December 2011, 22(4), pp. 756-773.
Bapna, R. Das, S., Day, R., Garfinkel, R. and Stallaert, J., "A Clock-and-Offer Auction Market for Grid Resource When Bidders Face Stochastic Computational Needs," INFORMS Journal on Computing, Fall 2011, 23(4), pp. 630-647.
Du, A.Y., Das, S., Gopal, R.D. and Ramesh, R., "Risk Hedging in Storage Grid Markets: Do Options Add Value to Forwards?" ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, June 2011, 2(2).
Bapna, R., Das, S., Garfinkel, R. and Stallaert, J., "A Market Design for Grid Computing," INFORMS Journal on Computing, Winter 2008, 20(1), pp. 100-111.
Das, S., "Timing Movie Release on the Internet in the Context of Piracy," Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, October - December 2008, 18(4), pp. 307-332.
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|UNCW Takes Two In Seahawk Invitational
WILMINGTON, North Carolina – Freshman Merritt Wilkinson went 3-for-4 with four RBI to lead UNCW to a sweep of its games during the second day of the Seahawk Invitational Sunday at Boseman Field.
UNCW opened the day with a 3-1 victory over Liberty before rallying for a 4-3 triumph over UMBC in the nightcap. The Seahawks improved to 4-3 on the young season as they finished the Seahawk Invitational with a 3-1 record.
UNCW returns to action Feb. 21 when it opens South Carolina's Gamecock Invitational with a 12:30 p.m. contest against Michigan State.
HOW IT HAPPENED (Liberty): Liberty took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second inning when sophomore Holly Seiz opened the frame with a walk and later scored on a two-out wild pitch.
The Seahawks responded with two unearned runs in the bottom of the second, using a sacrifice fly by Wilkinson and a single by sophomore Erin Brown to go in front of the Lady Flames, 2-1.
UNCW added an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth as freshman Lauren Moore doubled to right center to score senior Brittany Gamby, who opened the inning with a bunt single.
AT THE PLATE (LIBERTY): Gamby, Moore, Brown and freshman Nella Chamblee tallied the Seahawks four base hits in the contest. Brown, Moore and Wilkinson recorded UNCW's three RBI.
Senior Katie Zavodny and sophomore Katie Han tallied Liberty's two base hits.
IN THE CIRCLE (LIBERTY): Junior Casey Rowland improved to 2-1 on the season, limiting Liberty to two hits and four walks in seven innings. Rowland finished with two strikeouts.
Senior Alyssa DiMartino took the loss for the Lady Flames, allowing three runs (one earned) on four hits in six innings of work.
HOW IT HAPPENED (UMBC): Trailing 3-2 with a runner on third and two out in the bottom of the sixth, Wilkinson hit a full-count offering from freshman Kelly Lane over the left-field fence for a two-run home run and a 4-3 lead. Wilkinson's first collegiate home run scored Shue, who opened the inning with a walk.
A one-out single by freshman Jaclyn Buckley in the top of the seventh put the tying run on the board for UMBC, but freshman pitcher Peyton Jordan retired the next two batters in order to end the threat and give the Seahawks the one-run victory.
Earlier in the contest, UNCW jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second on squeeze bunt from sophomore Erin Brown that scored junior Jessica Rappe from third.
UMBC responded with three runs in the top of the third, using a two-run double from junior Taylor Hall and a RBI single from freshman Kaelin Jackson to build a 3-1 cushion.
Wilkinson brought the Seahawks within one in the bottom of the fourth as her two-out triple to right center scored senior Casey Shue and made it a 3-2 contest. UMBC would maintain its one-run edge until Wilkinson's decisive home run in the bottom of the sixth.
AT THE PLATE (UMBC): Wilkinson was 3-for-3 with three RBI as the Burlington, N.C., product finished just a single shy of the cycle. Three players – Gamby, Shue and Rowland - tallied the Seahawks other three base hits in the contest.
Jackson went 2-for-3 with a RBI and Hall was 1-for-3 with two runs driven in for UMBC.
IN THE CIRCLE (UMBC): Jordan picked up the win for UNCW to improve to 2-2 on the season as she pitched 4.1 innings of scoreless relief. Jordan allowed one hit, a single in the top of the seventh, and did not issue a walk as she struck out two.
Sophomore Kayla Pine got the start for the Seahawks and went 2.2 innings, surrendering three unearned runs on four hits.
Lane took the loss for the Retrievers to fall to 0-1 on the campaign. Lane allowed four earned runs on six hits and two walks. She struck out three.
NOTES: UNCW moved to 6-14 all-time against Liberty as they the Seahawks picked up their second straight victory against the Lady Flames … UMBC and UNCW split their two games during the Seahawk Invitational as UMBC defeated UNCW, 5-3, in action at the Seahawk Invitational on Saturday … UNCW now stands at 14-6 against the Retrievers all time … Rowland has held Liberty to just five hits in her last two appearances against the Lady Flames … Rowland held Liberty to three hits in a 3-1 victory against the Lady Flames in a neutral site contest last March in Durham … Rowland's effort against the Lady Flames was her second complete game of the season … The Seahawks are now 1-1 this season in one-run contests … Freshman Merritt Wilkinson is the first UNCW player to record three base hits in a contest this season … Freshman Nella Chamblee failed to reach base for the first time in seven games as she was 0-for-1 with two sacrifice bunts against UMBC.


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Between Chen and Bonaly, Chen had better technique on her jumps and much much more complex choreography. Both had poor spins but Chen had a lot more meat and difficulty in her steps. I would probably have Chen edge out Bonaly on the second mark, like so:
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Is there an Illinois website for the health insurance exchange to help with the Affordable Care Act? I thought I saw it in the BND once. -- Matthew Donaldson
I'm sure President Obama will be happy to hear that there's at least two or three of you out there still wanting to explore your options under the new Affordable Care Act.
Well, actually, there's a lot more than that. Despite the constant drumbeat of sour news, Illinois residents have gone to www.getcoveredillinois.com 350,000 times. About 300,000 of those were unique visitors chalking up well over 1 million page views, according to a release last week.
Officials say they are encouraged by the number who have used the simple screening tool found under the "How to Get Covered" tab on the home page.
More than 100,000 people have answered the six basic household questions to see whether they should go to ABE (Application for Benefits Eligibility), the state's rebranded Medicaid page, or whether they should head to the federal marketplace at www.healthcare.gov, where they can browse through the options for private insurance.
So far, nearly 25,000 residents have created accounts and more than 14,000 have submitted applications for the state's expanded Medicaid program. More than 15,000 have used the ABE call center and experienced an average wait time of just eight seconds.
The Illinois website should be even more popular now since the state last week launched a Spanish-language version to serve the Latino population. To access it, just go to www.getcoveredillinois.com and click on the language tab in the upper right corner of the home page; if you need it, you can also find key fact sheets in Polish.
"Although Illinois is home to one of the largest Hispanic populations in the country, 70 percent of Hispanic men and women working full time still do not have health insurance," Gov. Pat Quinn said last week. "This website will help turn that statistic around and educate people about their options."
Of course, the website isn't the only option for people without computers. They also can call the Get Covered Illinois Help Disk at toll-free 866-311-1119, where they find information about either Medicaid or marketplace insurance. Since Oct. 1, more than 5,000 have called the helpline, which is available from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week.
And for those who still like the old-fashioned feel of doing things face to face, Illinois aims to please with more than 600 state-certified navigators trained to provide in-person assistance. You can find one by plugging your ZIP code in the appropriate blank on the Get Covered Illinois website.
According to the site, local navigators are ready to help at the Southwestern Illinois Healthcare Foundation centers in Belleville, Centreville, Collinsville, East St. Louis, Fairmont City, Granite City and Madison; the East Side Health District in East St. Louis; and county health departments in Belleville, Carlyle, Chester, Wood River, Waterloo and Nashville.
Unless deadlines change, you have until March 31 to enroll in a plan that satisfies the Affordable Care Act's guidelines. But if you want that coverage to start Jan. 1, you need to be signed up by Dec. 15.
What percentage of fans at St. Louis sporting events are from Illinois? -- R.P.
Since entering sporting events with the new security measures is slow enough these days without grilling fans on personal data, determining the percentage of fans who live in the Land of Lincoln is impossible.
The best the three St. Louis teams can say is that Illinois season-ticket holders number about 20 percent.
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What rookie phenom led the St. Louis Cardinals in hits, runs, RBIs and stolen bases when the Birds beat the Philadelphia Athletics in the 1931 World Series?
Answer to Tuesday's trivia: Legendary base burglar Lou Brock is the only player in history to steal 14 bases for one team during his World Series career. Only Eddie Collins matched that number, but he did it from 1910-1920 while playing for two teams. Brock is also the only player to steal three bases in one game twice -- first in the deciding Game 7 of the '67 series against Boston and again in Game 3 of the '68 series against Detroit. (The Dodgers' Willie Davis did it once in 1965 and so did the Pirates' Honus Wagner in 1909. In fact, Wagner stole the first base in World Series history in the top of the first of the first Series game ever played in 1903.) Brock had seven each in both the 1967 and 1968 fall classics, a single-series record. The National League's all-time top base thief with 938 also is tied for most runs scored in a seven-game World Series (8, 1967) and most hits in any series (13, 1968).
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What do roses and coral reefs have in common? You'll find out if you go to the Tacoma Rose Society's annual Rose Show this Saturday at Jackson Hall on Martin Luther King Jr Way – and the answer goes way beyond beauty and color. "Oceans of Roses, Waves of Color" is the theme for this year's display competition, which headlines the event of rose arrangements, horticultural competitions, a photo contest and plenty of rose-lovers on hand to give advice.
"We enjoy having large displays of arrangements," explains society secretary and rosarian Margaret Leisner, on the theme for this year. "We were tossing around ideas, and we thought of the Great Barrier Reef, King Neptune's Garden and so on. There are water colors in roses, even roses named things like "Ebbtide" and "Neptune." I think this year we came up with something quite unique."
Every year the society's show serves many functions: introducing different varieties to rose growers, showing off cultivation skills and celebrating the creativity of arranging flowers. The horticultural competition, which forms the core of the show, has three divisions: a challenge and competition class, where specific rose types are shown with precise parameters (such as a rose and a bowl in proportion, or three buds in various stages of opening); an open class for rose varieties (including a novice section); and the arrangement division. Within this year's arrangement division a whopping 19 classes prescribe various ocean-based themes: "Jewel Anemones," "Sea Kelp," "The Great Barrier Reef," "Salmon Bake" and more. Non-rose accessories are permitted, and here's where rose-lovers really go to town.
"We have one lady who's done it for years, and she now gives lessons at our meetings," says Leisner. "It's become one of the major parts of the show."
The other highly popular element to the rose show is the photo contest, which began three years ago and which now takes up the entire entry area, with Leisner and her crew having to buy several more frame holders for this year's entries. It's purely for amateur photographers.
Finally, the rose show offers a chance for less-experienced growers to check out different types of roses and get advice from consulting rosarians like Leisner. Roses sometimes get a bad reputation in the Northwest, where cool, moist weather and soil combine to encourage diseases and pests. If you're a reluctant rose grower, says Leisner, avoid hybrid teas – they're the fussiest, attracting mildew, blackspot and bugs. Instead, choose shrub roses, which are less maintenance, such as "Home Run" or "Knockout."
"They make a wonderful hedge and bloom all summer long," Leisner says.
The other alternative is to pick an old-fashioned garden rose, but while they too are disease-resistant they'll only bloom once per summer, she points out.
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"I save myself some time and start pruning in the fall," says Leisner, who mostly grows hybrid teas herself. "In November I stop feeding, cut them down one-third and remove the leaves, to discourage growth and disease. I also take out the dead canes. Then at the beginning of March I do a bit more for reshaping, but half my work is done already."
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The Concord Mountain Lions and Seton Hill Griffins, the clubs picked to finish first in their respective halves of the West Virginia Conference this season, faced off to begin league play on Sunday afternoon at Anderson Field.
The visitors from Pennsylvania took a doubleheader sweep with 11-2 and 3-2 wins, giving coach Marc Marrizaldi his 300th coaching win in the process.
Pat McCarthy and Nick Sell drove in two runs each in Seton Hill's six-run second inning in game one. Sell and Brendan Costantino added solo home runs in the third inning for an 11-0 score.
Concord managed its two runs in the seventh inning. Devin Smith scored on a groundout by Jacob Mays, and Brandon Costa got home on a passed ball. Smith was 2 for 2 in the first game and Jerrod Groves hit a triple.
Drew Spear (0-3) took the loss, facing 13 batters in 1 1/3 innings and giving up seven hits and seven earned runs. Alex Haines picked up his first win of the season for Seton Hill, striking out five CU batters in four innings and scattering for hits.
Concord junior pitchers Tyler Coyle (1-2) and Tim Leather matched Seton Hill starter Brett Sullivan in the second game.
Coyle lasted 5 1-3 innings, giving up just three runs on seven hits. Leather finished out the game for Concord with two strikeouts in a perfect 1 2-3 innings of work. Leather, who has a team-low 2.70 ERA, has allowed runs in just three of his seven appearances out of the bullpen this year.
Offensively, Costa went 2-for-2, while the trio of junior first baseman Joey Miller, sophomore catcher T.J. Brockway and freshman Joe Camp all registered one hit. Smith and Brockway each drove in a run.
The Griffins struck first with a pair of runs in the top of the second on Jackson Boyd's two-run single with nobody out. However, Concord was able to limit the Griffins to just the two runs in the frame thanks to solid defense that included Johnston fielding a ground ball and firing a throw to catcher Charles Goss to tag out Boyd as he was attempting to score from third.
The Mountain Lions offense responded with a pair of runs in the bottom of the second. Miller led the frame off with a single that was followed by Johnston being hit by a pitch to put runners on first and second with no outs.
After a successful sacrifice by sophomore second baseman Jerrod Groves advanced Miller and Johnston to second and third, Smith drove in Miller with a sacrifice fly to make it a 2-1 game. Brockway then tied the game with a double to left field that plated Johnston. The inning ended when Brockway was thrown out at home off of a hit from Costa.
Coyle and Sullivan dominated the next three innings. The opposing hurlers combined to allow no runs and just three hits.
Boyd broke the 2-2 tie with a home run in the top of the sixth that gave Seton Hill a one-run lead and knocked Coyle from the game for Leather, whose strong showing out of the bullpen kept the Concord deficit to just one run heading into the bottom of the seventh.
Mountain Lions outfielder Bret Blevins battled Sullivan in an 11-pitch at-bat, but struck out to end the game.
Sullivan (2-0) took the complete-game win for Seton Hill (6-3, 2-0), allowing the two earned runs and five hits. He also struck out three, walked one and hit five batters.
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|(sometimes capital) the natural satellite of the earth. Diameter: 3476 km; mass: 7.35 × 1022 kg; mean distance from earth: 384 400 km; periods of rotation and revolution: 27.32 daysRelated: lunar
|the face of the moon as it is seen during its revolution around the earth, esp at one of its phases: new moon; full moon
|any natural satellite of a planet
|moonlight; moonshine
|something resembling a moon
|a month, esp a lunar one
|once in a blue moon very seldom
|informal over the moon extremely happy; ecstatic
|reach for the moon to desire or attempt something unattainable or difficult to obtain
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|to be idle in a listless way, as if in love, or to idle (time) away
|slang (intr) to expose one's buttocks to passers-by
|Related: lunar
|[Old English mōna; compare Old Frisian mōna, Old High German māno]
|Moon1 (muːn)
|Compare Braille a system of embossed alphabetical signs for blind readers, the fourteen basic characters of which can, by rotation, mimic most of the letters of the Roman alphabet, thereby making learning easier for those who learned to read before going blind
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Our Living Language : The Earth's Moon is a desolate and quiet place. The only natural satellite of Earth, it consists almost entirely of rock, shows no signs of ongoing geologic activity, has no water, and has a very thin atmosphere consisting primarily of sodium. But our Moon does not present a typical case for planetary satellites. Over the last 50 years, over a hundred more moons have been discovered in the solar system, so that they now total 138, nearly all of them orbiting the larger planets Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus (Mercury, Venus, and Pluto have no moons, while Mars has two). Because they are so far from the Sun, these moons are for the most part extremely cold. Io, one of Jupiter's 63 known moons, is an exception. It is the most geologically active body in the solar system, with almost constant volcanic activity and a surface covered by cooling lava. Some scientists think that another moon of Jupiter, Europa, may have liquid water capable of supporting life underneath a thick layer of surface ice. Titan, one of Saturn's moons, may also be capable of supporting primitive life in the ocean of liquid methane on its frigid surface.
A natural satellite of a planet; an object that revolves around a planet. The planets vary in the number of their moons; for example, Mercury and Venus have none, the Earth has one, and Jupiter has seventeen or more. The planets' moons, like the planets themselves, shine by reflected light.
Note: The Earth's moon is about 240,000 miles away and is about 2,000 miles in diameter. The volume of the Earth is fifty times that of the moon; the mass of the Earth is about eighty times that of the moon. The moon has no atmosphere, and its gravity is about one-sixth that of the Earth.
heb. yareah, from its paleness (Ezra 6:15), and lebanah, the "white" (Cant. 6:10; Isa. 24:23), was appointed by the Creator to be with the sun "for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years" (Gen. 1:14-16). A lunation was among the Jews the period of a month, and several of their festivals were held on the day of the new moon. It is frequently referred to along with the sun (Josh. 10:12; Ps. 72:5, 7, 17; 89:36, 37; Eccl. 12:2; Isa. 24:23, etc.), and also by itself (Ps. 8:3; 121:6). The great brilliance of the moon in Eastern countries led to its being early an object of idolatrous worship (Deut. 4:19; 17:3; Job 31:26), a form of idolatry against which the Jews were warned (Deut. 4:19; 17:3). They, however, fell into this idolatry, and offered incense (2 Kings 23:5; Jer. 8:2), and also cakes of honey, to the moon (Jer. 7:18; 44:17-19, 25).


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Guidelines & Policies
Decorations, Candles and Throwing of Items
Clients may choose decorations that will not cause damage to the facility. All decorations must be approved and overseen by the Bastyr site coordinator. If you do not have your decorations approved prior to your wedding day, you run the risk of having them denied by the site coordinator. View the guidelines and policies (pdf) for using the chapel for your wedding.
Please inform others in the wedding party and guests of these policies. You are responsible for their behavior. The chapel is a sacred space highly cherished by many in the community. Any damage done to the surfaces or fixtures on Bastyr University's premises, but particularly in the chapel area, could result in additional costs. All damages in excess of those covered by the $250 damage and cleaning deposit will be charged to the client. An inspection of the facilities will be done after each rental.
The wedding party is responsible for scheduling delivery of flowers and/or rental equipment to occur during their contracted wedding time frame. Bastyr representatives cannot accept or sign for deliveries. Bastyr and its representatives are not responsible for missing or damaged items, nor for late fees for items left on the premises that are not accessible at the time of a scheduled pick-up.
Smoking and Alcohol
Bastyr University is a nonsmoking facility. Smoking is allowed only in two designated areas. Please check with the Bastyr site coordinator on-duty during your rehearsal and wedding for exact locations. Per Washington State Law, smoking is not allowed inside the buildings, in the Bastyr courtyards, or within 25 feet of the building at any time. Alcohol is not permitted either in the facility or on the grounds at any time during the rehearsal or on the wedding day. You are responsible for the behavior of your wedding party and guests.
Children are welcome during events. Because of safety concerns, children must be under adult supervision at all times.Click here to download the PDF file.
Booking & Coordinating Your Wedding
Tentative Bookings
To assure you right of first refusal, you may pencil-in a date and have it held for up to seven days without a contract or deposit. If you do not contact us after seven days, your name may be removed without notice. During your seven-day pencil-in period, if another client requests the same day and time, you will have 24 hours to either book with a signed contract and deposit, or to release the date.
Final Bookings and Payment Schedule
Contract and Booking Deposit: To firmly book a date, a signed contract with a $400 non-refundable deposit is required. This deposit serves as a cancellation fee if the event is cancelled and Bastyr is unable to fill the space with another wedding or event. If circumstances require you to cancel your event, please advise us immediately to allow us to attempt to fill your booking with another event.
Damage and Cleaning Deposit: A damage deposit of $250 is required and must be paid 30 days prior to the event. This is in addition to the rental fee. This refundable deposit covers extra clean-up and damages to the facility and will be returned if no extra clean-up or damage repair is required. The wedding party must remove all possessions, including flowers and any petals from the floor, and leave the spaces clean and tidy to avoid paying an extra clean-up fee. Bastyr will hold the deposit until after an inspection of the facilities immediately following the event.
Final Payment: The remaining balance of the facility rental fee and damage deposit is due 30 days before the event. For a wedding booked within 30 days of the ceremony, full payment is due with the signed contract. Additional charges or additional damage costs will be invoiced and sent to the client immediately following the wedding.
Site Coordinator
A Bastyr University site coordinator will be present during your entire event. They are on hand to make sure all facility agreements are met regarding set-up, clean-up and access to specific areas. The coordinator is not a wedding consultant and does not assist the bridal party in any tasks related to the wedding ceremony or preparation.
One hour of rehearsal time is allotted for each wedding party within two weeks of the wedding date. A one hour rehearsal time is included in the Chapel rental fee. Rehearsal dates and times vary and are based on availability of the chapel as the chapel is often used for other events during the week. Extra time beyond the one hour for your rehearsal maybe requested, but extra fees will be charged.
Your wedding party will have four hours for set-up, decorating, photographs, ceremony, breakdown and clean up. During your rehearsal, you will have the opportunity to work with our staff to create a final schedule for your wedding. Unless you arrange for a late breakdown schedule, a fee of $300 per half-hour will be charged if breakdown and clean up is not complete at the end of your four hours. All items left after your wedding are subject to disposal.
Rates for Chapel Use
We charge a flat rate for use of the chapel at fixed scheduled times during the day. The fee includes four hours on the day of the wedding and a one-hour rehearsal prior to the wedding, scheduling dependent on chapel availability. We can provide a different schedule or a guaranteed rehearsal time prior to the event, but it may require an additional charge.
Prices include private use of the Bastyr University chapel, set-up of all foyer tables and chairs, and use of a PA system for up to 275, 350 or 500 people.
April through October
Up to 275 Guests / $1,400
Up to 350 Guests / $1,525
Up to 500 Guests / $1,650
November through March
Up to 275 Guests / $1,100
Up to 350 Guests / $1,250
Up to 500 Guests / $1,375
Please contact the Conference Services Department to inquiry about available dates or for help with any questions.
What Is Included When You Book the Chapel
Wedding Ceremony Timing
Bastyr offers times for wedding ceremonies on weekends. We allow four hours in the chapel per ceremony for set-up, decorating, the ceremony and breakdown.
For Saturday weddings there are two time slots from which to choose. This allows us to offer two ceremonies per day. For a Sunday wedding, you may choose any available four-hour time period you would like between 10:00 am-6:00 pm.
One hour of rehearsal time is allotted for each wedding party within two weeks of the wedding date. This one hour of rehearsal time is included in the Chapel rental fee. We will do our best to book an evening time slot, as the chapel often is used for other events during the week this is not guaranteed. If the rehearsal runs over the one hour time allotment there will be an additional charges assessed for the extra time.
Private Preparation Rooms
We offer the wedding party two private rooms for changing and preparation during the rental period.
Site Coordinator
A Bastyr University site coordinator will be present during the rehearsal and four hours the day of the wedding. They are on hand to make sure all facility agreements are met regarding decorations, lighting, PA system, microphones, set-up, clean-up and access to specific areas. The site coordinator is not a wedding consultant. Hiring a professional wedding consultant is highly recommended.
Four restrooms are available for guests on the University's main floor.
Parking and Loading Areas
Ample free parking is available on the Bastyr campus. Please do not park on the grass and please respect areas marked for reserved or disabled parking, as fire lanes or as other designated no-parking areas. There is a loading area available to the wedding party at the rear of the chapel.
Music and Sound Systems
The Bastyr chapel is renowned for its acoustics and is especially suitable for classical instrumental and choral music. The following items are available in the chapel for use by the wedding party:
- a baby grand piano at an extra charge
- microphones (cordless/lapel microphone and lectern/handheld microphones)
- a CD/cassette player with a MP3 adapter for recorded music
- chairs and music stands for musicians
Bastyr does not provide any other musical instrument or sound system for singers and/or musicians. If you choose to bring your own sound equipment, it must be totally self-contained and may not be plugged into the Bastyr University system.
Tables and Chairs
Most guests prefer to use the chapel's wooden pews, which seat up to 275, for guests seating. However, should additional chapel seating be desired, chairs and set-up for up to 500 guests are available for an extra fee. Bastyr will provide up to four tables in the chapel lobby.
Outdoor Areas
Landscaped grounds include an organic herb garden, extensive lawns and courtyards. Please speak to a conference services representative to request permission to use the outdoor areas for taking photographs. This is to make sure there are no conflicts with space usage.
Getting Married at Bastyr
About the Bastyr University Chapel
Our chapel is an ideal setting for a wedding. The exquisite European-style chapel was created in 1958 with the highest quality workmanship of its time, and it continues to radiate the devotion with which it was built. Nearly five stories high and 140 feet long, it is home to 31 handcrafted stained glass windows and brilliant glass mosaic artwork line both sides of the chapel, washing the entire room in subtle color during daylight hours. Graceful gold-accented chandeliers add majestic lighting. The chapel has handcrafted altars and columns of imported marbles, terrazzo floors, wooden pews, oak paneling and a choir loft. The carved wooden pews run length-wise along the chapel, making the procession of the bride and groom a truly spectacular sight for all ceremony attendees. Exceptional acoustics give this chapel a unique atmosphere of grandeur and elegance.
Bastyr University Chapel is one of Puget Sound's most beautiful locations for weddings of any denomination. The chapel and choir loft can seat up to 275 guests. With the addition of chairs, 500 guests can be seated. Please contact us for tour of this unique beauty. For more pictures of the chapel during weddings please visit the Bastyr University Chapel Facebook page.
Can You Get Married Here?
Couples of any faith are welcome to conduct their wedding ceremonies here. Each couple is responsible for finding an appropriate officiant to perform their ceremony.
Photo Credits
Top: Rosewood Photography
Bottom Right: Azzura Photography


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When I Sing for God...
The legendary Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
BY: Dimitri Ehrlich
A few days after attending the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards with Peter Gabriel, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan sat down with me in a dimly lit lounge of a hotel in midtown Manhattan, attended by an interpreter and his manager. As his vast corpulence settled into the couch, his beige gown draping the floor, he seems at once kingly, unearthly, and decidedly out of place in the middle of New York. There in the shadows, rocking his girth from side to side, Khan spoke softly and without any hint of his awesome lung power, his presence largely unnoticed by passersby unaware of the qawwali master in their midst.
Although Khan's music is based entirely on the Sufi tradition, an offshoot of Islam that emphasizes mystical and often poetic expression of the divine, he is circumspect about his personal religious affiliation. "I am not Sufi," Khan says, "but I spent a lot of time from my childhood up until now with the Sufis, and I deeply studied them. Sufi music is a kind of prayer, and if you sing in this manner, you will become closer to God, very close. That's basically what I do.
"Every religion has its own way of describing God. Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Sikhism--they all have their own way of following God. Sufism describes God and teaches how to come closer to God. So basically, I follow the Islamic form of Sufism to find my way to God."
According to Sufism, the voice is indicative not only of a man's character but also of his spirit, the degree of his spiritual evolution. Sufis believe that no word uttered is ever lost, that the sound reverberates into the cosmos infinitely, according to the spirit put into it.
When Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan performs, his hands seem to float on the surface of unseen waves. His wrists move in a dancerly fashion, describing small arcs and pirouettes, his fingers extended in a manner reminiscent of classical Indian dance. His face reflects an absorption that cannot be faked, as he reflects on the personalities of Allah, Muhammad, and the Sufi saints. Khan's performances are like public prayer sessions, during which he calls to mind through qawwali singing the nature of the sacred Muslim figures.
"When I sing traditional spiritual songs, I always concentrate on who it is that I'm singing about. For instance, if I am inspired by the Holy Prophet, I concentrate on the Prophet. When I sing, I sing for God and for holy prophets, and their personalities are in my mind. Accordingly, whenever I sing about God, or the Prophet Muhammad, I feel like I am in front of him. I feel their personalities, and I pray.
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Foveaux Strait
From Openwaterpedia
The strait is about 130 km long (from Ruapuke Island to Little Solander Island), and it widens (from 14 km at Ruapuke Island to 50 km at Te Waewae Bay) and deepens (from 20 to 120 m) from east to west.
Captain Cook sighted the entrance to Foveaux Strait during his circumnavigation of the South Island in March 1770, but thought Stewart Island was joined to the mainland. The strait's European discoverer was Owen Folger Smith, who found it in 1804. It is named after Joseph Foveaux, Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales at the time.
Channel Swimming
John van Leeuwen, a Dutch immigrant living in New Zealand, made the first successful crossing of the Foveaux Strait on 7 February 1963 in 13 hours 40 minutes. He left the beach near Bluff at 9:15 am and reached Stewart Island at 10:55 pm.
Successful swimmers include:
1. John van Leeuwen, 7 February 1963 (Bluff to Stewart Island in 13:40)
2. Meda McKenzie, 20 March 1979 (Bluff to Stewart Island in 14:00)
3. Belinda Shields, 24 March 1984 (Bluff to Stewart Island in 9:53)
4. Michael Quinlivan, 13 February 1985 (Bluff to Stewart Island in 9:41)
5. Sandra Blewett, 11 February 1988 (Bluff to Stewart Island in 12:50)
6. Todd Utteridge, 15 February 1989 (Bluff to Stewart Island in 8:40)
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The summer of 2013 is proving to be challenging for downtown businesses dealing with the fallout from the town's massive drainage improvement project, an endeavor some are calling "Marblehead's Big Dig."
The $4.9 million project is aimed at improving drainage and limiting flooding in the Pleasant Street area. Work is expected to last two to three years, beginning with the area around Atlantic Avenue.
There's little argument the work needs to be done. Businesses and residences in the Pleasant Street area have suffered with flooding issues for years. And as work crews have dug into streets in the area, they have found decades-old leaking pipes and, in some places, no pipes at all.
But any disruption is going to be magnified in a town dependent on summer business and surrounded by ocean on three sides, with only two roads connecting it to Salem and the rest of the North Shore. So, it has been good to see the town and local businesses working hard to overcome the problem.
Town officials have met with local business owners to hear their concerns. Amy McHugh, Marblehead's water and sewer department director, noted "We don't want to hurt the merchants."
The Police Department has been using social media to keep residents up to date on the day's traffic detours, and officials are considering other suggestions, including more and better signs. Every effort is being made to keep traffic moving.
And the businesses themselves aren't sitting back and complaining. Shubie's has vowed to keep its delivery service going, and the owners of Nuggets on Atlantic Avenue say they will pick up customers and bring them back to their store.
"We're going to deal with it," says Nuggets' Dave Cawthron."I think it's going to be an off-and-on thing. And I am confident that the chief of police will look after us. After all, the merchants are the town."
It will surely be a long summer, and a longer few years. But the town is already proving it can work together to minimize the disruption, both physical and financial.


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Spring 2014 Colloquium - Tuesdays 12:00 - 1:00pm, Darwin 103
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|January 14th
|Introductory Meeting – Dr. Murali Pillai, Colloquium Coordinator
|January 21st
(Host: Rank)
|Dr. Matthew Cover, California State University, Stanislaus. "Biomonitoring of Water Quality and Habitat Degradation in S. F. Bay Area Streams Using Aquatic Invertebrates"
|January 28th
(Host: Rank)
|Dr. Julio Soto, San Jose State University. "Restructuring the Biology Freshmen Sequence and the Molecular & Cell Biology Capstone Course: Roadblocks, Strategies, and Outcomes"
|February 4th
(Host: Rank)
|Dr. Gideon Bradburd, University of California-Davis. "Disentangling the Effects of Geographic and Ecological Isolation on Genetic Differentiation"
|February 11th
(Host: Whitkus)
|Dr. Matthew Leo Knope, Stanford University. "Ecological Diversification and Body Size Evolution in Extinct and Extant Marine Animals"
|February 18th
(Host: Pillai)
|Dr. Marina Crowder, University of California, Berkeley. "The Spindle Zoo: Analyzing Spindle Features Across Species"
|February 25th
(Host: Girman)
|Dr. Mike Westphal, Bureau of Land Management. "H2 Meets the ESU: How Quantitative Genetics Can Be Used to Assess the Evolutionary Significance of Phenotypic Traits That Diagnose the Endangered San Francisco Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia "
|March 4th
(Host: Garcia)
|Dr. Marisol Garcia-Reyes, The Farallon Institute for Advanced Ecosystem Research, Petaluma. "Coastal Upwelling and Its Impact in the California Marine Ecosystem"
|March 11th
(Host: Cohen)
|Dr. Lorena Navarro, University of California, Davis. "Black Death: Molecular Mechanisms of Yersinia pestis Pathogenesis"
|March 18th
|Spring Break
|March 25th
(Host: Cohen)
|Dr. Drew Reams, Sacramento State University. "Genetic Duplications: A Mechanism for Adaptation"
|April 1st
(Host: Nielsen)
|Dr. Steven Morgan, University of California Davis, Bodega Marine Laboratory. "Larval Retention and Population Connectivity in Upwelling: What's Limiting Recruitment Along Our Coast?"
|April 8th
(Host: Nielsen)
|Dr. Jaime Jahncke, Point Blue Conservation Science. Title: TBD
|April 15th
(Host: Pillai)
|Dr. Kristy Kroeker, University of California Davis, Bodega Marine Laboratory. "The Emergent Effects of Ocean Acidification in a Warming World"
|April 22
(Host: Lin)
|Dr. Jon Fukuto, Sonoma State University. "The Chemical Biology of Hydrogen Sulfide: Generation of Persulfides and Consequent Biological Signaling"
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Although Amazon doesn't release specific sales numbers, the company reported last week that it had sold more than a million Kindles a week in December, according to the Huffington Post.
Barnes and Noble's Nook and Apple's iPad have also had banner years for sales as more and more people switch over to e-readers to consume books.
But not everyone is enamored of holding (and charging) an electronic device to read the latest mystery or magazine. Some people complain about the background lighting and formatting, while others just can't give up the feel, weight, even the smell of paper.
So where do you fall? Are you addicted to your e-reader? Do you buy more books than ever because of the ease of purchase? Or do you swear you'll never own one because you're worried that print books will go the way of the cassette tape?


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Tokyo-based Kao=S (pronounced 'kaus' - like house) mixes modern acoustic rock guitar riffs with the tsugaru syamisen - a traditional Japanese string instrument - accompanied by the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) and Japanese sword performance.
The band is made up of Kaori (vocal/sword performance), Shuji (guitar/vocal), Jack (tsugaru syamisen and Daisuke (shakuhachi).
"Me and Jack played together in a different [group] and I met Shuji [when] I went to Shuji's live show and I talked to him [and said], 'Let's play together,'" Kaori said.
For his latest album, "In Focus?," Shugo Tokumaru maintained complete control over the creative process and played all the instruments on the recorded disk. In order to perform live, however, he needed some help, and had his band to back him up.
While the band delivered the songs with energy, complete with the subtle textural nuances that give Shugo's songs a little something special, he was visibly focused on the other two musicians during their performance the afternoon of March 14.
Tomorrow, 25 schools across San Antonio will have special visitors to talk about the medical field. Dr. Pam Otto is one of the visiting doctors and said she has talked to students in the past who have plenty of questions about what it takes to become a physician.
"You know, 'How long are you in school?' and, 'What does all that take? What kind of grades do you have to have?' The cost always comes up. For the women, a lot of times – even though half the medical school class is women now – the young ladies often ask, 'Can I still have a family?'" Otto said.
Diana Nyad is an athlete obsessed, but what's so unusual about that? Athletes are supposed to be obsessed. But to say Diana Nyad is a woman obsessed, now that's what makes her story so compelling, even worthy of a movie. And that movie was recently given several special screenings at SXSW.
VIA's modern streetcar project will receive another public input meeting, this time concerning alternate routes.
But the flyer doesn't make clear that routes are the alternatives that will be discussed.
The digital flyer sent by VIA says, "Modern Streetcar: Come hear and provide comments on detailed alternatives and their characteristics."
George Rodriguez, president for South Texas Alliance for Progress, a conservative group, said VIA appears to be involved in a game of wordplay.
He is the only council member unopposed, and instead of holding a re-election effort, District 1 Councilman Diego Bernal held a thank you celebration.
"A lot of our success is the product of us working hand-in-hand with neighbors, and so it's a chance for me to thank them for working with us," he said Saturday.
Bernal hosted a community party at popular burger spot Chris Madrid's, and offered people the chance to get their t-shirts screen printed with his logo, which was created by local artist Cruz Ortiz.
The Old Spanish Missions were honored with the Governor's Award for Historic Preservation at Saturday's rededication ceremony for Mission San Juan Capistrano.
Attendees at the dinner commemorating the restoration of San Juan got a look at the details that made the project outstanding, like the hand-worked altar and architectural pieces, an exterior surface restored to its original look, and the re-interment of Native American remains found in the repair of the building's foundation.
A nearly 5 mile section of 1604 on the Northwest Side will be expanded to four lanes in the next several years through a TxDOT project that could include the 151/1604 interchange project that was stopped indefinitely last year.
4.7 miles of 1604 from Bandera to Culebra will be expanded to four lanes. At the moment, the Texas Department of Transportation is deciding between four different construction companies who will design and build the project.
Longtime Washington Post columnist and NPR political analyst E.J. Dionne Jr. spoke about his book, "Our Divided Political Heart," at 7 p.m. on March 19 at St. Mary's University as part of the Lin Great Speakers Series.
Dionne spent 14 years at The New York Times covering local, state and national politics; he also served as a foreign correspondent in Paris, Rome and Beirut before joining The Washington Post in 1990. He has written his twice-weekly column for the Post since 1993.
Marianne Dissard is an artist in every sense of the word.
She is a filmmaker, a poet, a singer, and not a single word or movement is wasted. When she plays live, all these elements combine on stage to deliver a story of depression, exhaustion, frustration, intrigue and joy.
The Tucson Music Factory showcase on March 12 at SXSW was the debut of her live collaboration with Budo, a Seattle-based producer and multi-instrumentalist who is known more for his work in Hip Hop circles than World Music.