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"It's gonna be great" when the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series™ returns in 2014 and driver Kasey Kahne, will be hitting the track with a styling ride. Partnering together since 2003, Kasey Kahne and Great Clips® have shared several career-defining moments. From Kahne's first NASCAR Nationwide Series® win in 2003 to his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series® win at Bristol Motor Speedway in 2013, it's impossible to deny the power behind this dynamic duo. The Action Racing Collectables die-cast of Kahne's No. 5 Great Clips® Chevrolet SS is now available for pre-order. Replicating Kahne's race car with precise detail, this die-cast is sure to enhance every collection.
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Quick ways to use that last flexible spending money
Some employees have until March 15 to use up all the money in their flexible spending accounts. Here are some quick ways to use it so you don't lose it.
This post is by Kimberly Lankford of Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine.
A number of employers give workers until March 15, 2013, to use up the money in their flexible-spending account left over from 2012.
You can use the FSA money for yourself, your spouse or any dependents (including adult children up to age 26, even if they aren't included on your health insurance policy).
Here are a few ideas to clear out that money from the account in the next week.
- Schedule a last-minute dental or vision exam for you, your spouse or your kids. It could be a good time to get everyone's teeth cleaned.
- Order an extra pair of glasses, or new prescription sunglasses for the spring.
- Stock up on contact lenses and contact lens solution for the next several months.
- Order next month's prescription medications now.
- See whether your doctor will write a prescription for over-the-counter medications, such as allergy drugs, cold and flu medications, or aspirin or other pain relievers.
- Buy a first-aid kit, Band-Aids and Ace bandages.
- Visit a chiropractor or acupuncturist.
- Buy a blood pressure monitor, thermometer or heart rate monitor.
For more ideas for eligible FSA expenses, visit the FSAstore.com, which sells items specifically approved for FSAs (and makes it clear which items are eligible with and without a doctor's prescription). Also see Save Smart Spend Healthy.
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On this "Kenya Wildlife Trail" safari you drive as a small group departure between the parks. You are guaranteed a window seat in your vehicle that seats a maximum of 7 persons. Accommodations include comfortable lodges which offer good food and most have swimming pools. You will visit Samburu National Reserve, the Serena Mountain Lodge in Aberdare National Park, Lake Nakuru National Park and the Masai Mara National Reserve.
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Julia Fuller is a filmmaker and photographer from Oakland, California with a background in cognitive psychology and theatrical lighting design and an MFA from Temple University. Her work has screened nationally and internationally at festivals and conferences, including Athens International Film and Video Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Fantasia Film Festival, SCINEMA Festival of Science Film, and the Society for Disability Studies Annual Conference. Every Speed, a collaboration with Lindsey Martin, won the Premio Asolo Award for Best Film on Architecture at the Asolo Art Film Festival. Julia has worked extensively in community media and is primarily interested in exploring themes related to health, although she finds inspiration in architecture, food, science, and technology. She recently completed two short experimental documentaries: Illness Magnified about the experience, language, and spaces of illness, and Every Speed about disabled and able-bodied perspectives on movement, transportation, and dependence. Julia's DP reel can be viewed here: www.vimeo.com/juliafuller.html


text: Camera phones have often been criticized for inferior photo quality. But those days are over now that Nokia PureView technology has arrived. As implemented in the pioneering Nokia 808 PureView, a comparatively huge sensor - both in terms of physical size (1/1.2 inch) and resolution (41 MP) - serves as the key to real world photographic performance. Nokia PureView technology also uses smart pixel oversampling techniques for lossless digital zooming and noise free photos and videos. Nokia PureView technology is only the beginning of a revolution in mobile imaging, as Nokia promises to bring it to more products in the future.


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|Welcome to the Springfield Rotary Clubs' Citrus web site. Learn about Rotary's efforts in to help people in need by clicking on the Rotary Information link on the left.
Four Rotary clubs in Springfield sell wonderful citrus with the net proceeds helping people in need.
Since the 1980's, the Rotary Clubs of Springfield have distributed in excess of $1,200,000 from the sale of citrus to assist people in need. Buy the BEST oranges and grape fruit in Central Illinois and help Rotarians assist people in need.
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text: Thank You Letters After your interview, always remember to send a thank-you letter to each person who interviewed you. Collect the business cards of each person with whom you met so that you can be sure to spell their name correctly and include their title. Your letter should be short, polite, and highlight some of your qualifications again for the employer. Try to mention something that you spoke about during the interview. This will help the interviewer remember you and it will make the note more personal. Send your letter within one day of your interview and type it on paper that has the same heading as your resume. In this way, you are creating a very polished and professional image of yourself as a potential candidate. You can think of thank you letter as the cover letter written backwards. It is made up of four paragraphs: The first paragraph thanks them for their time and reiterates your interest in the position In the second paragraph, you have a chance to address any unresolved issues: indent second level bullets Is there a question that you wish you had answered better? Is there more information on a point that you forgot to bring up? Did the employer request more information on anything? The third paragraph reiterates your skills as they match the employer needs. Now you can clarify this based on additional information you learned at the interview In the fourth paragraph, thank them again and let them know how and when you plan to follow up. The format of a thank you letter should follow the guidelines in the Thank You Note Worksheet.


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Volvo's ReCharge features a lithium-polymer battery and four electric motors, one in each wheel. A small flex-fuel engine serves as a backup generator.
Volvo's new concept car looks like a regular C30, but a plug on the front and some very different insides make this a big step forward. Plug-in hybrids will soon change the way we drive, and Volvo's ReCharge concept car foreshadows a handful of technologies that push the envelope.
With the rising cost of fuel and falling cost of batteries, these advanced hybrids seem to become more inevitable with each passing month.
Unlike fully electric cars, plug-in hybrids still retain a small internal combustion engine that serves as a backup generator or power assist. Volvo's ReCharge, which made its public debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2007, pushes beyond other concepts such as the Chevy Volt into even more ambitious territory.
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The ReCharge was developed in California at the Volvo Monitoring and Concept Center (VMCC), a focal point for new automotive ideas. Ichiro Sugioka is the science officer at VMCC, and the ReCharge project is his baby. "I'm not a car guy," Sugioka admits. "Actually, I'm a rocket scientist," he says, referring to his Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering.
The ReCharge isn't quite a spaceship, but in some important ways it is breaking apart the traditional notion of how a car works.
Motors Where You Need Them
The ReCharge is the definition of four-wheel drive. Electric motors are housed within each wheel, eliminating the need to deliver power from a central motor through a mechanical driveshaft. Even the backup motor, a small flex-fuel engine, works to charge the battery; it never drives the wheels directly.
According to Sugioka, kicking out the transmission yields a 10 to-15 percent spike in efficiency, meaning the car's battery can be that much smaller, and the car will use that much less electricity. Also, having all components built into each motor pushes their peak efficiency into the 95 percent range.
Watch Video: Sugioka talks about the design and function of the ReCharge
The maker of these unique motors is PML Flightlink, a British company whose technology is also favored by electric carmaker ZAP. The units are made of layered electromagnets that can be stacked within the wheel's hub like sideways pancakes. Thirty-six of them in a ring were just enough to encircle the ReCharge's hubs, putting 300 volts inside each wheel — more than enough torque to drive and stop the car.
And because electric motors become generators when turned in reverse, Volvo's completed car will have no disc brakes (or wasted energy from braking friction). With wheel motors, close to 100 percent of the energy from slowing the ReCharge is returned to the battery.
Green Behind the Wheels
Currently the only people enjoying the ReCharge are Volvo engineers on the test track in Sweden. But the technologies rolled into this modified C30 are holding up well.
The car can do 0-60 mph in about nine seconds, with a top speed of 100 mph. On a three-hour charge it will go roughly 60 miles. When the remaining battery level hits 30 percent, the gas/ethanol motor starts charging the battery. Drivers also have the option of toggling manually between electric and internal-combustion modes.
As for emissions, the ReCharge releases nothing when running on electric power. When the four-cylinder flex-fuel motor kicks in to recharge the battery, efficiency will step into the 40-mpg range.
When the ReCharge is "used as intended" it will contribute 66 percent lower carbon emissions compared to the best hybrids now available, says Magnus Jonsson, Volvo's senior vice president of research and development.
This will save money as well as greenhouse gasses. Driving on electric power from a home electric outlet is expected to be about 80 percent cheaper per mile than a comparable car running on fossil fuel.
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Timothy J. Kamp, MD, PhD, FACC Print Friendly PageFaculty, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Dr. Kamp's clinical activities include general cardiology with an emphasis on noninvasive cardiac electrophysiology and heart failure. He directs an active research program which bridges from the basic functional and electrical properties of heart cells to clinical applications arising from these basic studies, including the use of stem cells to repair damaged heart muscle. Dr. Kamp participates widely in peer review activities, including the editorial board for the journals Circulation Research and Stem Cells, as well as serving on peer review panels for American Heart Association and National Institutes of Health.
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Dr. Kamp's research focuses in three general and related areas: (1) cardiac ion channel proteins and their role in the electrical activity of the heart, including arrhythmias, (2) basic cellular abnormalities responsible for heart failure, and (3) stem cells for the generation of new heart cells and for repair of damaged heart muscle.
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Fox IJ Daley GQ Goldman SA Huard J Kamp TJ Trucco M .
Stem cell therapy. Use of differentiated pluripotent stem cells as replacement therapy for treating disease. Science. 2014 Aug 22;345(6199):1247391
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Raval KK Kamp TJ .
Cardiomyopathy, mitochondria and Barth syndrome: iPSCs reveal a connection. Nat Med. 2014 Jun;20(6):585-6
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Salick MR Napiwocki BN Sha J Knight GT Chindhy SA Kamp TJ Ashton RS Crone WC .
Micropattern width dependent sarcomere development in human ESC-derived cardiomyocytes. Biomaterials. 2014 May;35(15):4454-64
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Lalit PA Hei DJ Raval AN Kamp TJ .
Induced pluripotent stem cells for post-myocardial infarction repair: remarkable opportunities and challenges. Circ Res. 2014 Apr 11;114(8):1328-45
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Lian X Zhang J Zhu K Kamp TJ Palecek SP .
Insulin inhibits cardiac mesoderm, not mesendoderm, formation during cardiac differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells and modulation of canonical Wnt signaling can rescue this inhibition. Stem Cells. 2013 Mar;31(3):447-57
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Lian X Zhang J Azarin SM Zhu K Hazeltine LB Bao X Hsiao C Kamp TJ Palecek SP .
Directed cardiomyocyte differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells by modulating Wnt/β-catenin signaling under fully defined conditions. Nat Protoc. 2013 Jan;8(1):162-75
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Zhang J Klos M Wilson GF Herman AM Lian X Raval KK Barron MR Hou L Soerens AG Yu J Palecek SP Lyons GE Thomson JA Herron TJ Jalife J Kamp TJ .
Extracellular matrix promotes highly efficient cardiac differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells: the matrix sandwich method. Circ Res. 2012 Oct 12;111(9):1125-36
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Lian X Hsiao C Wilson G Zhu K Hazeltine LB Azarin SM Raval KK Zhang J Kamp TJ Palecek SP .
Robust cardiomyocyte differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells via temporal modulation of canonical Wnt signaling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Jul 3;109(27):E1848-57
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Different subcellular populations of L-type Ca2+ channels exhibit unique regulation and functional roles in cardiomyocytes. J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2012 Feb;52(2):376-87
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Squirrell JM Fong JJ Ariza CA Mael A Meyer K Shevde NK Roopra A Lyons GE Kamp TJ Eliceiri KW Ogle BM .
Endogenous fluorescence signatures in living pluripotent stem cells change with loss of potency. PLoS One. 2012;7(8):e43708
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Joers V Seneczko K Goecks NC Kamp TJ Hacker TA Brunner KG Engle JW Barnhart TE Nickles RJ Holden JE Emborg ME .
Nonuniform cardiac denervation observed by 11C-meta-hydroxyephedrine PET in 6-OHDA-treated monkeys. PLoS One. 2012;7(4):e35371
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Kouris NA Schaefer JA Hatta M Freeman BT Kamp TJ Kawaoka Y Ogle BM .
Directed Fusion of Mesenchymal Stem Cells with Cardiomyocytes via VSV-G Facilitates Stem Cell Programming. Stem Cells Int. 2012;2012:414038
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Ma J Guo L Fiene SJ Anson BD Thomson JA Kamp TJ Kolaja KL Swanson BJ January CT .
High purity human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes: electrophysiological properties of action potentials and ionic currents. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2011 Nov;301(5):H2006-17
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Cai W Zhang Y Kamp TJ .
Imaging of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: From Cellular Reprogramming to Transplantation. Am J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2011 Aug 1;1(1):18-28
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Buschke DG Squirrell JM Ansari H Smith MA Rueden CT Williams JC Lyons GE Kamp TJ Eliceiri KW Ogle BM .
Multiphoton flow cytometry to assess intrinsic and extrinsic fluorescence in cellular aggregates: applications to stem cells. Microsc Microanal. 2011 Aug;17(4):540-54
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Best JM Foell JD Buss CR Delisle BP Balijepalli RC January CT Kamp TJ .
Small GTPase Rab11b regulates degradation of surface membrane L-type Cav1.2 channels. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2011 May;300(5):C1023-33
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Kamp TJ .
An electrifying iPSC disease model: long QT syndrome type 2 and heart cells in a dish. Cell Stem Cell. 2011 Feb 4;8(2):130-1
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Balijepalli RC Kamp TJ .
Cardiomyocyte transverse tubule loss leads the way to heart failure. Future Cardiol. 2011 Jan;7(1):39-42
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Su X Young EW Underkofler HA Kamp TJ January CT Beebe DJ .
Microfluidic cell culture and its application in high-throughput drug screening: cardiotoxicity assay for hERG channels. J Biomol Screen. 2011 Jan;16(1):101-11
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Mohr JC Zhang J Azarin SM Soerens AG de Pablo JJ Thomson JA Lyons GE Palecek SP Kamp TJ .
The microwell control of embryoid body size in order to regulate cardiac differentiation of human embryonic stem cells. Biomaterials. 2010 Mar;31(7):1885-93
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The Breakdown: A Private Island
The Purchase
Though undeveloped New England islands come up for sale occasionally, Horse Island is the only one in Massachusetts now on the market (privateislandsonline.com/horseislandmass.htm). Located a few hundred feet off Briggs Harbor, the 3-acre landscape of cedars and wild blueberries last sold in 1956 for $5,000, as a Christmas gift from the buyer to his wife. Today the asking price has jumped to $750,000, which is less of a steal than you might think.
In our regulation-heavy state, breathing is about the only thing you won't need permission to do in your private paradise. First, you'll need to lobby the local zoning board of appeals to make sure you can build on the property; if there isn't a bridge or a causeway to your island, you won't qualify for a permit without the board's express consent. Before you put in a dock, the Department of Environmental Protection must approve; to trim the trees, you might need the okay of the local conservation commission.
Building a house in a place like Horse Island can cost anywhere from 25 to 40 percent more than it would on the mainland—and that's not including seawalls and underwater extensions to the power grid. (Last year the owners of a close-to-shore island in Maine paid $100,000 just to lay power cables to the mainland.) Other unavoidable costs: a septic system to handle wastewater (around $40,000), and a well (around $10,000).
As you might imagine, hauling materials and equipment to an offshore site is a major undertaking. Though it's possible to walk through the marsh to Horse Island at low tide, high tide requires a small boat or canoe. One way to transport cargo is by helicopter, which starts at $5,000 an hour—and that's after an initial fee of anywhere from $8,000 to $50,000. For moving heavy-duty equipment like forklifts, excavators, and concrete trucks, you'll need a barge.
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If you're willing to skimp on luxury, island habitation can be relatively reasonable. A 900-square-foot yurt can be shipped and built for just under $100,000 in five to six weeks. For power, a small wind turbine can be had for $10,000. Even your choice of a privy can pay dividends: Composting toilets use less than 3 ounces of water per flush, as opposed to the typical gallon and a half, and yield flowerbed-quality compost.
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Nebraska toddler gets stuck inside claw machine
Toddler unharmed after getting stuck inside claw crane machine at Nebraska bowling alley
Man eats 100 Peeps in 2 minutes
In the spirit of those colorful marshmallow treats that often line Easter baskets, a video of competitive eater Matt Stonie consuming 100 Peeps in two minutes is making the online and social media rounds.
Boy sings gospel and escapes kidnapper
Did a German shepherd get called to jury duty?
Computer glitch makes it look like county summoned German shepherd to jury duty
79-year-old player joins Dubuque elementary band
79-year-old flute player practices, performs with Dubuque elementary band
Baby squirrel becomes an instant star on social media
A baby squirrel is becoming the latest Internet star in the nation's capital.
Top 10 best and worst jobs
Sorry, lumberjacks.
National Zoo names two baby animals
A sloth bear cub and a seal pup at the National Zoo have new names, the zoo announced.
Southwest flight attendant's safety routine cracks-up passengers
Southwest Airlines is known for being laid back. But a recent flight attendant's comedy routine, while she gave safety instructions, took that attitude to a whole new level.
Male cop dresses as Amish woman to stop flasher
Male cop dresses as Amish woman to nab suspect who was flashing Amish children in Pennsylvania
Impossible position to fill? (Video)
Advertised as a "Director of Operations" position, the job turned out to be much more. Watch the video.
Off the 8s: WTOP staffer recounts 'Bachelor' audition
Love is hard to find in the big city. Sometimes you have to think big. WTOP staffer Chris Cichon writes about his audition for "The Bachelor."
Police: Man comes to courthouse in stolen car
Police: Man arrested after coming to California courthouse in stolen car
Man with 1st name 'God' sues credit rating agency
New Yorker sues credit rating agency for refusing to recognize 1st name 'God' as legitimate
Red Hot Chili Peppers sick over torture news
As more information is leaked regarding how the Central Intelligence Agency conducted "enhanced interrogation techniques" on high value prisoners from the wars in the War on Terror, the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers found they might have been unwittingly involved.
Top 10 boat names out on the water
They are sort of like floating vanity plates, the names people choose for their boats. And with boating season about to kick into high gear, there is an indication about which boat names you might see more than once this summer.
Want to live longer? Chill out
Not forgiving yourself for past mistakes or bad choices is unhealthy. New research suggests cutting yourself some slack can help you live longer.
Ireland's wedding-singer priest an Internet hit
Hallelujah! Surprise altar ballad by Irish priest stuns bride and groom, becomes Internet hit
Crocodile caught wandering around California mall
Authorities catch stray 4-foot crocodile left abandoned at California shopping center
Washington state sewage plant invites weddings
Sewage treatment plant near Seattle doubles as weddings venue; no odor, nice grounds
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'GET MY FAIR SHARE OF WHAT'S MINE' | Jimmy Cliff in 2012 Greg Watermann
When the movie "The Harder They Come" opened in New York 40 years ago this month, its impact wasn't immediately felt in the U.S. The theme song and soundtrack, however, were a different story. The album featured a compilation of singles by reggae artists as well as a catchy title song by the movie's star—singer Jimmy Cliff. The song was quick to popularize the new Jamaican music style, giving Mr. Cliff international visibility. The film, meanwhile, became an art-house hit in college towns and big cities, exposing a generation of Americans to reggae.
A handful of U.S. hits had already featured Jamaican beats—among them Millie Small's cover of "My Boy Lollipop" (1964), Desmond Dekker's "The Israelites," the Beatles' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" (1968) and Paul Simon's "Mother and Child Reunion" (1972). But the springy rhythms of "The Harder They Come" opened the door for a new wave that influenced rock, soul and punk, from Eric Clapton's cover of "I Shot the Sheriff" to the Police's "Roxanne."
Last week, Mr. Cliff, 64, the title song's singer and composer, bassist Jackie Jackson, 66, and guitarist Hux Brown, 68, talked about the song's development and its recording in Jamaica. Mr. Cliff won his second Grammy Award Sunday for best reggae album, "Rebirth." Edited from interviews.
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Jimmy Cliff: In 1969, I was at Dynamic Sounds Studio in Kingston recording a song I had written, "You Can Get It If You Really Want." When we finished, I walked outside and met a gentleman named Perry Henzell, who had been waiting for me. He said he was making a movie and asked if I could write music for it.
By that point, I was pretty well known in Jamaica and the U.K. I had recorded quite a few hits. I had always wanted to be a movie actor, so I asked Perry to send me the script. When I read it, I felt I had known Ivanhoe Martin [the main character] all my life. In the script, he was a guy from the country who came to the city to make it as a musician but was held back by the trickery of a record-company owner. Eventually Ivan turns to crime and is killed at the end.
I told Perry that the script was great, and he decided to cast me as Ivan. The film at the time was called "Hard Road to Travel," after one of my songs, and we filmed over the next year or so. When we shot the scene where Ivan cuts the bicycle-store owner who came on really hard, a line came to my mind—"the harder they come." In real life, if you come on hard like that, you're going to die hard.
When I told Perry my line, he loved it. He thought it was a stronger film title and asked me to write a theme song to go with it. He didn't give me much time—just two days—because he wanted to film me singing it in the studio with the band for the movie.
The first development of my song is actually in the movie—when the guitarist and I are rehearsing a song in the church. That's an early draft of "The Harder They Come." The rest of the music came fast. When I have a title, the rest always comes very fast. I'm quite good at melodies.
The lyrics came from my past. I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me. Like the promise of a pie in the sky when you die. The second verse about oppressors trying to keep me down kind of reflected my own life—coming out of the ghetto in Jamaica and fighting the system. I wanted the song to have a church feel and to reflect the environment I grew up in—the underdog fighting all kinds of trickery.
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What you see in the movie—in the recording studio—is the song being recorded. You're watching the real thing. Gladstone Anderson was on piano, Winston Wright was on organ, Hux Brown was on lead guitar, Ronny Bop played rhythm guitar, Jackie Jackson was on bass and Winston Grennan was on drums.
Jackie Jackson: We were studio musicians of that era and had recorded with Jimmy many times before. For the theme song, we got together at Dynamic Sounds around 8 p.m. Usually the band started the day at 10 a.m. and recorded about 10 sessions. That's how you made your money. But on this day, we didn't have any sessions and we were fresh. The energy was flowing and we were champing at the bit.
Hux Brown: When Jimmy arrived, he strummed the song on his acoustic guitar to give us the lowdown. The song's instrumental intro was his. Then Gladdy [Anderson] told us the key and chord progressions, and we spent a half-hour getting around it and setting the tempo. Then we were ready to record.
Mr. Cliff: I just sang along with the band and improvised the lyrics. I didn't have them all together or fixed in my head when the cameras started. I wasn't one of those writers who jotted down lines on paper. Now, I do that, of course. But back then, expressing how I felt off the top of my head created more exciting results. You had the pressure on you.
Mr. Brown: We weren't concentrating on the movie cameras. We were focusing on giving the promoter a hit. The band's job always was to sell a song. I was supposed to play what Jackie was playing, but I used a slightly different line—more bouncy, for texture and contrast. Ronny Bop and Winston Wright played off of what Gladdy was doing. And Winston Grennan went in between.
Mr. Jackson: We wanted to do it in one take, so the music would be alive. Originally the song ran for about 20 minutes and we could have kept going all night. They must have cut down the tape for the single and album.
Mr. Cliff: The song for me was about social and artistic change. When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat. On the record, the song ends with those odd organ chords. That was Winston. He was a brilliant keyboard player. It was his decision to do that. He was good at adding those strange things you weren't expecting. When we finished, we all said, "Brilliant, wow, great!" What you see on my face in the movie was genuine. I felt good. We all felt good. We knew the song was special.
Mr. Jackson: The first time I heard the song I was at the movie's premiere at the Harbour View Drive-In in East Kingston. The place was packed. I took my girlfriend in my Vauxhall Viva GT. We sat outside on the grass. Some of the other guys from the band were there. When Jimmy and the song came on, we began jumping and screaming. That was us up there.


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Once you've completed some basic tasks in a new language you'll want to move on to slightly larger tasks. I like to use exercises from the coding Kata Catalogue like FizzBuzz, the Game of Life and Minesweeper.
Some people enjoy going through the Project Euler problems, others have their own hello world applications. For Martin Trojer it's a Scheme interpreter and Luke Hoban often writes a Ray Tracer.
I'd also recommend joining a local meetup group. The London Scala meetup have a coding dojo every month and the F#unctional Londoners meetup have hands on session in the middle the month, the next one is on Machine Learning.
Programming language books that include questions at the end of sections are a good way to practice what you've learned but are few and far between. The recent Functional Programming with F# book is an excellent example of what can be done with questions at the end of each chapter.
While the basics of a language can be picked up in a few hours, expect it to take a few weeks before you're productive and at least a few months before you start to gain mastery.
Want to write your own language? Pete Sestoft's Programming Language Concepts book offers a good introduction to the subject.
Developer conferences are a great way to learn about new and existing technologies. Almost as important are the conversations in the corridors between talks and bars after to find out what your peers from other companies are up to. Without them your company may run the risk of becoming like a small island cut off from the mainland, perpetuating a monoculture.
But there are a bewildering array of conferences to choose from, and for most of us only a limited time and budget to work with. Here's a few tips.
The most common format is a few days of talks, usually spread across a number of themed tracks with each talk lasting somewhere between half an hour and an hour.
I try to get to a handful of conferences a year, which is in part made possible by speaking at some of the them. If you're speaking typically the entrance fee is waived and if the conference is remote then often the organizer will contribute towards your travel and accommodation. Don't expect too much though, unless you're giving a keynote you shouldn't expect to get paid, so for the most part speakers are giving their time freely.
A talk lets the speaker really emphasise what they think is important when introducing a subject, something that is much harder to portray in an article. I recommend choosing a few talks out of your normal area/comfort zone, often you'll learn something new and interesting and sometimes even applicable. Don't expect to become an expert after listening to a one hour talk, at best you might get two or three key concepts which you can build on in your own time.
Many of the large conferences tag half day training sessions at the start of the conferences. This can be a good way to deep dive in to a particular topic and get some hands on experience with the help and support of an expert. Some conferences specialize in this kind of training like Skills Matter's Progressive .Net Tutorials and Progressive F# Tutorials which are comprised almost entirely of half day hands on sessions.
One or two day hacking events are another popular event style. They are often free and typically run over the weekend so those no need to use up your precious holiday days. As an example the Data Science London meetup recently organized a Big Data Hackathon and next weekend Skills Matter are hosting the London GameCraft game jam.
Big Conferences
For me more interesting things happen at the edges between disciplines, so here I'm going to call out mostly multi-disciplinary conferences:
Strangeloop, if I had to recommend one conference, this would be it, this year your can see the author of Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hoftadter speaking.
QCon/GOTO/Yow! conferences organized by Trifork, the team behind InfoQ, with events in San Francisco, New York, London, Aarhus, Amsterdam, Melbourne and Brisbane. I've attended in QCon London and a GOTO in Denmark, both were well organized with some great speakers
NDC Oslo attracted 1,600 developers this year. This conference is on my must see list, maybe next year. NDC London launches in December.
ØREDEV is based in Malmö Sweden, and attracts around 1,200 developers, this year the theme is the Arts and I'll be giving not just one but two talks.
Build Stuff is organized by Greg Young, and based in Lithuania, it has a fantastic line-up.
MonkeySpace – there seems to be a real buzz around these conferences which focus on open source multi-platform development with .Net
If you can I'd recommend trying at least one new conference each year, this way you'll be more likely to get exposure to new people and ideas.
Functional Conferences
Each programming language has their own conferences, for example Scala has Scala Days and the Scala eXchange (which I'll be speaking at in December), Clojure has Euro Clojure and ClojureWest and F# has the Progressive F# Tutorials in London and New York (I'll be there too). There are also a number of cross-language events if you're looking to broaden your horizons:
Lambda Jam ran in July in Chicago with a really strong line up organized by the team behind Strangeloop,
TechMesh, now CodeMesh, was a big hit in London last December, expect it to be even bigger this year.
FP Days is in its 3rd year, based in Cambridge (England), it's a friendly intimate event.
FP eXchange is organized by Rob Pickering and brings together the London FP community.
flatMap is based in Oslo and has been running for 2 years now.
Other Conferences
Fancy trying something a little different:
That Conference is a conference and a summer camp.
CodeMash at the same location as that conference, for winter it boasts an indoor waterpark.
DDD – referencing Steve Balmer's Developers Developers Developers chant, these free UK conferences are organized by the developer community.
Bacon is a conference on things developers love with sessions on topics including rocketry, Go, infinity, data visualisation, and continuous deployment.
GDC (Game Developers Conference) has tracks for design, production, programming and visual arts.
NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) you'll learn about some really interesting machine learning projects, both research based and applied.
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I'd love to hear your event ideas and suggestions too.
Since the start of the year there's been an F# meetup every 2 weeks in London at Skills Matter, in the middle of the month we do a hands session and at the end a talk or two. There's always a good turnout and the group now has over 500 members.
Want to get in on the action, there's a particularly exciting schedule of free events featuring F# in and around London over the coming months:
This week
.Net in the City with Daniel Egloff on Combining F# and GPUs on Thursday 16th May
Next week
F# Type Providers Hands On with Tomas Petricek on Thursday 23rd May
Gustavo Guerra on Developing a Windows 8 application with F# also Thursday 23rd May
Week after
F# on iPad and iPhone with Neil Danson on Thursday 30th May
Machine Learning Hands On with F# on Thursday 13th June
Lean vs Agile Fight + F# Eye for the C# Guy on Wednesday 26th June in Norwich
An F# powered Raspberry Pi internet radio with Ross McKinlay on Thursday 27th June
DDD East Anglia
DDD East Anglia is a free community event in Cambridge on Saturday June 29th and there's a good number of F# talks:
Also don't miss the awesome Sam Aaron on:
Outside the UK?
No problem, check out what's going on at F# user groups across the globe: http://fsharp.org/groups/
If you're in the US check out Lambda Jam in Chicago this July and the Progressive F# Tutorials in NYC this September.
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It was just before midnight on Saturday and no one gave a shit that Justin Bieber was in the room. Less than an hour earlier, Floyd Mayweather had badly abused Saul "Canelo" Alvarez in boxing's biggest event in years, improving his record to 45 wins in 45 paying fights. No one seemed to mind that it was a lopsided matchup unworthy of the months of breathless hype. Now the immaculately coiffed pop star who, aside from the thick chain dangling from his neck, could've easily passed for Pony Boy in The Outsiders, was seated on stage as the finest boxer of his generation stood at the dais, testifying to his own greatness and fielding compliments disguised as questions from the media and fans who had negotiated their way into the news conference. That scene provided a sense of perspective on the situation: Bieber is one of the most famous celebrities on the planet, but amid the chaotic aftermath of a Mayweather fight he was a decoration, not unlike a potted plant with designer sunglasses.


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Cyclist That Was Hurt In Bridge Crash Dies
By: Michael Rausch, June 14, 2013
The North Falmouth bicyclist who was seriously injured over Memorial Day weekend after she crashed her bike while crossing the Singing Bridge on Shore Road in Pocasset has died.
Sarah J. Snyderman, 53, died at Massachusetts General Hospital on Saturday.
Family members stated that Ms. Snyderman died from complications resulting from the bicycle accident.
She had been in a medically-induced coma since the crash.
The crash occurred on Memorial Day when Ms. Snyderman was riding her bicycle over the bridge and her tires became jammed in a gap between two grates in the bridge's newly repaired deck. She flipped over the handlebars and landed face-first on the bridge's metal surface. She lost half a dozen teeth and had to be flown by medical helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital, where surgeons wired her mouth shut and she was placed in a medically-induced coma.
OBITUARY: Sarah Snyderman
Sarah Johnson Snyderman of North Falmouth, 53, died June 8 from complications resulting from a bicycle accident. The accident occurred on May 27 while she was bicycling across the Pocasset River bridge on Shore Road in Bourne.
A graduate of Kearsage Regional High School in New London, New Hampshire, and Harvard College, she met her husband, Mark Snyderman, while both of them were doing graduate studies at Stanford University.
Ms. Snyderman enjoyed many outdoor activities with family and friends, including hiking, skiing, running and various water sports.
She leaves, in addition to her husband, two children, Kayla and Reed Snyderman; her mother, Virginia Johnson of New London New Hampshire; her siblings, Molly Johnson of San Mateo, California, Amy Lampson of Salt Lake City, and Thad Johnson of Chicago; and many aunts, uncles and cousins, including Patricia Johnson and Carolyn Partan of North Falmouth.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to Friends of Falmouth Bikeways Inc., c/o Leonard Johnson, 432 Wild Harbor Road, North Falmouth, MA 02556; or to Coalition for Buzzards Bay, 114 Front Street, New Bedford, MA 02740.
Patricia A. Johnson of Falmouth, the victim's cousin, said that Ms. Snyderman spent six hours in surgery following the accident. In the days immediately following the accident, Ms. Johnson described the crash as "pretty ugly," but she said that her cousin's injuries were "serious but not life threatening."
It was not clear what complications caused Ms. Snyderman's death. The family did not return phone messages from the Enterprise this week.
Ms. Snyderman leaves her husband, Mark P., and two children, her daughter Kayla Snyderman and her son Reed Snyderman, both in their 20s. On her Facebook page, Kayla listed that she is currently studying at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. Reed graduated from Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, last month.
Town Administrator Thomas M. Guerino called the accident terrible and a tragedy.
"It's sad that such an accident occurred on our bridge," he said.
Since Ms. Snyderman's accident, the Bourne Department of Public Works has taken measures to increase bicycle safety at the bridge. A sign advising bicyclists to walk their bicycles over the bridge and not ride across was installed immediately after the accident, Mr. Guerino said. Mr. Guerino also said that within days following the crash engineers were brought in to survey the bridge. They made an alteration to the gaps in the grate that caught Ms. Snyderman's bicycle tires, causing her to fall. A steel insert has been used to fill in the gaps.
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The Knight News Challenge accelerates media innovation by funding breakthrough ideas in news and information. Winners receive a share of $5 million in funding and support from Knight's network of influential peers and advisors to help advance their ideas. The first round of 2013, which opens in February, will invite innovators from all disciplines to focus on tools for open government. In 2012, three challenge rounds, each focused on an emerging trend, drew more than 2,500 entries.
Challenge 1 - on NETWORKS: Winners were announced June 18.
Challenge 2 - on DATA: Winners were announced Sept. 20.
Challenge 3 – on MOBILE: Winners were announced Jan. 17.
Anyone, anywhere can apply for the challenge - whether for-profit start-ups or non-profit ventures. For more information on a variety of topics - from guidelines for for-profits, on intellectual property licensing, open source software and more - visit our FAQ.
Megaphone is a low-bandwidth, anonymous or pseudonymous, private and public group mobile messaging platform that helps people raise their voice.
Megaphone will use simple text-driven menus and voice messaging in conjunction with mobile encryption and the open Web to help people privately share discussions, and broadcast to the Web if they choose.
The system lets people leave voice messages that can be publicly or privately shared, and geo-mapped as indicated in the video indexed here: http://vimeo.com/12567943#comment_7816752
Journalists trying to spread news or find stories that would otherwise not come to light, and ordinary citizens building a culture of openness.
Journalists will learn about Megaphone through:
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The public would learn about it from journalists, peers, NGOs and any news channels available to them, online or off.
I have worked with the Social Innovation Group at the MaRS Centre in Toronto, MaRS FutureLab and colleagues from the Canadian Film Centre MediaLab on this project. The SIG has offered consulting and research support, but further outreach is necessary to journalist groups identified above.
We have completed the prototype design and are seeking avenues to move to the system development phase.
Success would be enabling journalists to find and share stories that may be difficult, dangerous or impossible to surface and share with the world, and to help people in repressive regimes practise using their voice and fostering a culture of openness.
We need digital security, mobile software and distributed network expertise, especially for developing countries.
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Family members told FOX 9 two victims from Tuesday's night's shooting in north Minneapolis have been released from the hospital and the third is expected to be released Wednesday.A baby girl, her 17-year-old uncle and a 19-year-old pregnant woman were shot at 5:29 p.m. as they stood near the intersection of 29th Street and Lyndale Avenue North.
According to Minneapolis police, the victims were standing around a parked car when a man walked up and started shooting, then fled on foot.The 14-month-old baby, My'Khelea Smith, was shot in the shoulder. Her 17-year-old uncle, Javar Smith, and 19-year-old Trenay Garner were both shot in the leg.
Police are still searching for a suspect.
Community leaders and neighbors rallied at the intersection on Wednesday afternoon to protest the shooting, holding signs and publicly calling for an end to the violence.
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Stores will use deals to control Black Friday crowds
OSHA recently released a list of ways retailers can maintain order on Black Friday. Some stores will also implement more subtle methods of crowd control in the name of profits.
This post comes from Marcy Bonebright at partner site DealNews.
We've all heard the Black Friday horror stories about out of control crowds. But is it really dangerous to head to the store on Black Friday? What steps are retailers taking to protect customers and employees during the shopping holiday? Read on to see how merchants will try to maximize safety — and profits — during the Black Friday season.
Black Friday crowd control remains a priority
A recent DealNews survey revealed that more than half of readers plan to shop online during Black Friday. This finding was backed up by a recent Nielson study, in which 46% of respondents said they'd do their Black Friday shopping online. All of this could add up to smaller crowds on shopping's biggest holiday.
Yet, despite these findings, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released a document urging retailers to put safety first on Black Friday. Citing the trampling death of a Walmart worker during a Black Friday sale five years ago, the press release emplores merchants to enforce crowd safety measures like providing "on-site trained security personnel or police officers," "not allowing additional customers to enter the store when it reaches its maximum occupancy level," and "not blocking or locking exit doors."
OSHA revises and sends out its crowd control tips on an annual basis in an effort to protect retail workers, who are the most likely to be injured by rushing crowds. "The busy shopping season should not put retail workers at risk of being injured or killed," said Dr. David Michaels, assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health.
Retailers have other safety tricks up their sleeves
Implementing OSHA's crowd control measures is just one way retailers can prevent Black Friday mob madness. The pursuit of higher profits could actually lead to a safer Black Friday in some cases, as merchants implement more subtle forms of crowd control in the name of bigger sales.
One overt way retailers are making making stores safer in the name of profits is by staggering Black Friday sales, so that the prices for select items only drop during a specific period of time. "At Walmart, for example, certain deals begin at 6 pm on Thanksgiving and then roll out throughout Black Friday," read an article for Market Watch. "Best Buy is doing something similar, with some deals rolling out at 6 pm on Thanksgiving and more on Black Friday ... the goal is to manage store traffic so aisles aren't clogged; for consumers, that could mean smaller crowds at any given time."
Another subtle safety measure is matching in-store prices online. "People are going to shop the way they want to shop," Dan Toporek, Vice President of Corporate Communications for Walmart E-Commerce told ABC News. Toporek said Walmart "has about five million products on its website, compared with about two million last year, while about 99% of the items are eligible for free shipping." Putting more Black Friday bargains online still causes customers to spend their money at Walmart, with the added safety benefit of sending fewer patrons to the store.
In the name of competition, Best Buy is also incentivizing brick-and-mortar consumers to visit its website during Black Friday. "Best Buy is offering free shipping for online orders over $25 and promising a 'significantly improved' experience for online shoppers after investing to make its website easier to navigate," reads a Chicago Tribune article.
Walmart is practicing another subtle form of crowd control with its "1-hour guarantee" on 21 doorbusters. Thus far the only retailer to try this tactic, Walmart is promising that customers who arrive during specified hours will receive the doorbuster they came for at its Black Friday price, even if the store runs out of stock. Since so many Black Friday riots tend to center around low-stock, low-price doorbusters, Walmart's guarantee could take the pressure off of deal-seeking crowds.
Readers, are your Black Friday fears assuaged? Or will you stay home and prepare for the worst anyway? Share your best/worst Black Friday horror stories in the comments below. Also, don't forget to stop by our Black Friday page for all the retailers' ads, as well as the latest news, analyses, and predictions.
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Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006.
Recent entries:
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• "A jazz musician is someone that puts a $5,000 horn in a $500 car and drives 50 miles for $5 gig" (9/22)
• "Coffee! Because crack isn't allowed in the workplace!" (9/22)
• "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly" (9/22)
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