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Cold Shower Therapy is a strategy I've used a couple times in the last year to help me kickstart myself and start doing the things I know I need to be doing (h/t to Nick Reese for getting me hooked). If you find yourself self-sabotaging all the impossible things you want to be doing through avoidance and procrastination, cold shower therapy is the best tool I know of to help you cut through the hesitation and start doing.
Cold Shower Therapy™
Sometimes you just have to dive in.
If you're staring at a project, and are having trouble convincing yourself to start, finding the beginning point and work your way through it little by little, you might need to throw it out, start from scratch and dive in headfirst – planning be damned.
If you've been trying to lose weight with a workout here and a workout there, you need to go full throttle, lift heavy, sprint everywhere and clear out your entire kitchen of junk food.
If you're working on your business and are getting overwhelmed by how to get started, you might need to stop trying to plan every detail of your 5 year plan and just dive in and focus every ounce of energy you have on making your first dollar.
Dive in.
Get after it.
Go so hard you stop thinking about anything else
Go military on your goal. Be ruthless. Go a little bit crazy. Get a maniacal look in your eye that tells people a mixture of your addiction and insanity. Make it an obsession. Cold shower therapy can help you do that.
Changing Your Mentality
Cold shower therapy. You have to be a little nuts to do this. The part about addiction & insanity? It's not just hyperbole. You need to alter your mental approach to things. Instead of seeing if there's a way that you could possibly do something, you decide you're going to crush it. Not because someone said you can, not because you know you can, simply because you can.
You stop going into things scared. You don't worry about fear anymore, not because it's not there, but because you have courage to do it in spite of the fact that you should be scared out of your mind.
You'll probably get some weird looks from your friends but what are they doing anyways? Exactly.
Cold Shower Therapy
This is where cold shower therapy comes in.
Want to change your mentality? Take cold showers first thing in the morning. As soon as you get up. Jump in the shower. Close your eyes and turn the temperature to cold. Not just cold. Not ice cold. Try we-just-piped-this-water-in-from -Antarctica-because-the-penguins-won't-swim-in-it-cold. Do this 30 days in a row. I call it cold shower therapy because it, quite literally is a therapy.
The first day you try cold shower therapy, it will suck, you'll stare at the shower-head for 10 minutes, start crying just thinking about the idea, your heart will begin to beat fast, you might break out into a cold sweat, and if you're brave, you'll turn it to cold for a whole 5 seconds before letting out a shriek, and quickly backing out of the challenge and turning the shower back to hot.
The second day, you might get the shower to run cold for a whole 10 seconds, but it's still too much, so you'll turn it to hot and try to warm up again.
The third day (or however long it takes you), you stare down the faucet of fear, you grit your teeth and just dive in with everything you have. You turn the temperature to a bone-chilling temperature and let out a few choice words involuntarily (you might want to warn any roommates that you're planning on doing this so they know you're okay). The big change happens after you decide to actually do it. As you immerse yourself in the water, you welcome the cold. You make sure it gets all over your arms, your legs, the back of your neck, and definitely your crotch. You might yell out a few Tarzan type screams, but once you decide to do it, you lean into it and you're not afraid of it anymore.
When you decide to turn the cold on blast, you realize one thing very, very quickly:
Like really bad. The first 30-60 seconds are hell on earth. Every bit as terrible as you imagined it to be while standing dry facing the shower-head of death.
But…once you hit that 60 second mark, you start to adapt. The water is as cold as ever, but you've already gotten as cold as you're going to get and you're not going to get any colder. You body does an awesome thing – it starts to adapt. Pretty soon, you realize that as cold as the water is, it's not *that* cold anymore. Not to mention, the trepidation that you had before the shower is gone. You don't have to fear what it's like anymore, because you know first hand what it's like. And it sucks…but it gets better because it makes you better.
Becoming Invincible
Cold shower therapy make you invincible. No lie. After your first few 5 minute face offs with the shower, nothing can stop you. Why?
Cold shower therapy shows you how weak of an emotion fear really is.
When you're staring at that faucet from hell, you're only thinking one thing – this is going suck, this is going to suck, this is going to suck. Why? Because it sucks obviously and you're afraid it's going to suck. But just because something sucks doesn't mean you can't overcome it. Just because something is hard doesn't mean it's impossible. Just because you're afraid of something, doesn't mean you have to stay afraid.
When you stare at the faucet, realize the suck is going to happen and decide to lean into it, all of a sudden you embrace the suck. Instead of running from the fear, you challenge it, dare it to beat you. If you're crazy enough to do that, fear usually turns around and runs home pretty quickly when sees you've decided that you won't lose.
The same thing happens when you get to a project in the middle of the day and you hesitate for a moment instead of doing it. You can do this with a workout, business task or even that phone call you know you need to make, but keep hesitating from doing because you know it might not be 100% fun and games. If you don't want to do it, you'd put it off and go on to something else. That's standard protocol.
But once you've gone through cold shower therapy, things change. After you've stared at the shower head and conquered the cold in the shower that morning, you begin to recognize that hesitation. You realize the same hesitation you have in the project/business/workout is the exact same fear you saw in that shower that morning before turning on the cold. And you realize you've already beat it once today and that the only way it can actually hurt you is by intimidating you from doing what you need to do.
That hesitation, that fear, that flinch. Over time, it becomes familiar.
Slowly, you realize it's just a big monster in your closet. Big, scary and all in your imagination. You're bigger than it. You're better than it and you already beat it earlier in the day. It has nothing on you. Cold shower therapy makes you invincible.
You realize that if you jump in, sometimes the first 60 seconds of your project/goal/milestone will absolutely suck – and usually it really will – but after that, you move on, dominate it, grow stronger and move on to the next thing.
And absolutely nothing can stop you. You're invincible.
How To Use Cold Shower Therapy
What is this form of modern torture good for? We have hot water for a reason! I use it to get stuff done. I pick one thing that I'm going to do for 30 days and do it. I've done this 2 or 3 times now and always end up better for it. This is how I frame it:
- Choose one project. One goal. One impossible thing.
- Find a date to start. Take your first cold shower. (The times you wuss out and back out don't count). – start counting the first time you get to 5 minutes).
- Start counting the showers, once you get to 5 minutes.
- Take one 5 minute cold shower, every morning for 30 days.
- Throw a 10 minute shower in there just for fun.
- Finish your project. Do something impossible. Change your life.
Cold Shower Therapy Challenge
I'm tired of writing, so let's do this.
Cold showers. Every day for the month of April. Pick 1 Impossible Thing. Do it and Finish it.
I'm doing it. Are you?
Deal with your fear this weekend. It's time to put up or shut up. Do something impossible or go home. Give cold shower therapy a try.
(Let me know what you're planning on doing in the comments)
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CLOVER — On a summer weekday, when the air is already hot and muggy by mid-morning, Clover schools employees Patty Cook and Garick Wilson sit in their air-conditioned van and drive.
They visit apartment complexes, schools, churches and other spots where children can be found on summer days, and they sit and wait. When a kid walks up to the van, they hop out and get to work.
Cook and Wilson are the drivers of the Books on Wheels program, and theyre there to deliver stories, snacks and smiles.
For the third summer in a row, the school district has paid for the van, which is full of books children can check out, take home and read knowing they can catch up with the bus at another location or at the same spot the next week and exchange those books for more.
Some kids dont have access to the schools or the library, Cook said, so they take the books to them.
This year, for the first time, through community support and a grant from Walmart, the district also is giving bags of food to students in need. Its an extension of the districts Back the Pack program, which operates during the school year. The bags contain fruit snacks, peanut butter and other kid-friendly food items.
Its a great opportunity to help the kids in the community, Wilson said. This shows that Clover takes care of their own.
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In the parking lot at Lighthouse Ministries, LaLoni Ruff, 8, picks out a book from the Magic Tree House series. Armed with her book, a bag of food and a lollipop, LaLoni heads back to her house.
She said shes not big on reading, but her teacher said they had to read over the summer.
I like Jack and Annie, she said, naming the hero brother/sister tandem in the Magic Tree House books.
Later, Cook and Wilson stopped the van at Griggs Road Elementary School, where students from elementary schools all over Clover are meeting for summer reading camps. Kerri Harvell brought her 6-year-old daughter, Micah Faile, to pick out some books.
Micah very diligently selected The Fat Cat on the Mat and two books featuring Clifford the Big Red Dog.
Micah reads all day and cant get enough new books, Harvell said, and since they live just a mile up the road, the Books on Wheels stop was perfect for them.
Groups of students in the Griggs Road programs took turns coming out to peruse the selection. Catherine Dillon, who teaches English for Speakers of Other Languages students, called the Books on Wheels program incredible for her students and others across the district who dont have access to books during the summer.
One of her students, rising fifth-grader Valeria Sifuentes, picked up an Amelia Bedelia book and a Pokemon book.
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According to the myth, the Great Underground Empire of Zork was destroyed and all evil magic was dispersed. But now, the IT&L Corporation claims to have discovered the mythical dark recesses beneath the Valley of the Sparrows.
Since their discovery, nightmares have become common. People have vanished. Buildings have disappeared. You, the unwitting traveler, must save the underground empire from the forces of evil.
Age requirements: ESRB Rating: TEEN with Realistic Violence, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco.
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The transition from text-based to a more graphical experience is largely successful although it has aged in such a way that it all has this very camp feel to it - like classic UK TV series Knightmare, which also mixed CG with live action in this way - rather than the more cutting-edge feeling it would have had at the time.
The interface is great - this is the games biggest successread more in many ways. It has the usability of later point-and-click games but with the versatility and openness of text-based controls. It was oddly dropped from consequent entries in the series, though that may be because they were made by a different team.
The acting quality wildly varies from good to horrible, but to be fair, that's still the case in even the very most modern games. I think because of the camp feel that these FMV games now have, the bad acting can kind of become enjoyable in its own way, like a computer game version of The Room.
Perhaps the worst thing about the game, as usual for this genre, is the ridiculousness of some of the puzzles. They can be good and enjoyably satisfying but maybe a little to often they're obscure and only make any sense to the deranged mind that conceived them. An early puzzle can actually be done incorrectly without the player realising until much later in the game. By this point it's too late to backtrack and you have no choice but to restart the game from scratch.
These kind of facepalm inducing missteps are what drag this down from a 4/5 to a 3/5 for me. If you don't mind that sort of frustration or risk of entering a dead end, please regard this as a 4/5.
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Buying my first PC, I borrowed Return to Zork from a friend, circa 1998. It was the first adventure game I ever played. Actually, borrowed isn't the right term, my friend simply gave the thing to me, and I later discarded it.
I made it about as far as the first text sliding puzzle without hints. I never finished it.
I'm now watching a Lets Play of it on YouTube. I'm surprisedread more I made it that far. This game has some genuinely nonsensical puzzles with needlessly punitive setbacks. I was very proud that I figured out the bra underwire puzzle all on my own. Past that, though, I'm proud that I simply gave up on the stupid thing.
I don't know if Zork counts as IF, but modern versions of IF and adventure games are careful to maintain a good distance from ridiculous and frustrating puzzles, and for very good reasons. Only now is this genre making an indie comeback, and they carefully skirt annoyances.
There are games on GOG that will only really appeal to people who originally played and conquered them, and this is one of them. The rest will only scratch their heads and adjust it to to the lower shelf of their GOG gameshelf. This is one of them.
In closing, this game isn't without its charm, but a modern player shouldn't attempt it without a walkthrough in front of them.
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Return to Zork is an interesting adventure game: It is filled with humor, has some clever puzzles, and is quite lengthy, and challenging; on the other hand, it is filled with dead ends, and is annoyingly inconsistent.
Many interesting characters dot the world, each an interesting, if archetypal figure. They are interesting, have senses of humor, and create a colorful population.read more Interactions in this game are pleasurable, and have some twists.
Some of the puzzles are clever: I do not want to give anything away, but I was impressed by instances such as the comedy club, which utilizes a seemingly-pointless item for a clever trick.
A variety of fun death scenes can occur, and half the fun of adventure games is finding all the ways the character can die.
Now, we come to the caveats, and they are many: First, we have the inconsistencies. A mysterious figure will steal all of your inventory items if you commit certain crimes, but you have to commit several robberies during the course of the game. You will be punished for stealing items from someone's house, yet you are forced to steal items from a statue in someone's backyard. This sort of trickery is no fun.
Dead ends are the main problem with this game: They are almost as prevalent as they were in the text adventures! Never hit the statue in the forest with your sword; dig out the plant that is near the vultures; do not open the letter to the witch; make sure that you have done everything in the bottle ship before leaving: These are but a few of the steps necessary to prevent the game from being impossible to finish.
Return to Zork is imperfect, but I think anyone who enjoys difficult adventure games will enjoy it despite the flaws.
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|Jefferson holds off Kalida in baseball
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The Wildcats (2-1) compiled 10 hits, with leadoff man Ross Thompson going 2-for-3 (with one walking), scoring three runs and stealing two bases, while Zach Ricker (2 runs, 2 runs batted in) and Austin Jettinghoff (2 RBIs) adding 2-for-3 days. Zach Kimmett scored twice and Tyler Wrasman knocked in two.
"We got some good swings and hit today. Saturday, we did it by showing patience at the plate," Jefferson head coach Doug Geary explained. "Today, we put the bat on the ball and got some nice hits. To get this much offense on a cold, windy day is a good day. We didn't take advantage of bases loaded in the opening inning but we did the second."
Tyler Rice got the win with the start, going 3 2/3 innings (3 hits, 1 earned run, 3 bases-on-balls, 6 strikeouts).
Kyle Kehres took the loss with three innings as the starter (6 hits, 6 runs, 3 earned, 1 BB, 3 Ks).
"We have to find some positions with so many new faces. Graduating all those guys means we have a lot of youngsters in there," Kalida mentor Jim McBride noted. "We have to settle in defensively and make some plays there but overall, it was what I expected for our first game."
The visiting Wildcats got on board in the top of the first against Rice. Recker singled sharply to left to start it, then stole second and third. An out later, he scored on a bloop to short right by Kehres; an error on the play put the batter at second. Rob Kleman walked. An out later, a wild pitch moved both up and Kyle Vorst walked to load the bases. However, they left them that way, three of 11 base-runners stranded.
Jefferson retaliated with one in the home half against Kehres. Thompson walked in four pitches and swiped second; an error on the play allowed him to head to third and he scored on a wild pitch. An out later, Jettinghoff walked, Kimmett singled to left and Drew Kortokrax was hit by a pitch to load the sacks. However, a called third strike and a groundout ended that threat at 1-1.
The host 'Cats exploded for five in the second. With two down, Thompson tripled to the fence in right center and Ricker sliced a run-scoring knock to center. In turn, he swiped second and scored on a solid knock to center by Jettinghoff. He stole second and scored as Kimmett got aboard via an error. Kortokrax followed with a sharp single to center. Wrasman launched a high fly ball down the right-field; with the wind blowing that way and rightfielder Adam Knueve completely losing the orb in the bright sun, it fell for a 2-run triple, plating Kimmett and Kortokrax for a 6-1 edge.
In the home third, the Jeffcats struggled with their base-running. Seth Wollenhaupt got on via an error but was gunned down by catcher Recker trying to steal. An out later, Thompson also got aboard via an error but was picked off base by Kehres.
In the fourth, Gerding led off by getting aboard on a misplayed grounder but was eliminated at second on a Vorst grounder. An out hence, Vorst stole second. Hovest beat out an infield roller to short and stole second. Knueve walked to juice the bases and end Rice's stint on the mound, moving to third base. On his first offering, Jettinghoff (2 1/3 IPs, 5 hits, 4 earned runs, 2 BBs, 2 Ks) induced Recker to force Hovest at third.
In the Delphos fourth, Ricker grounded a double into left center against Kalida reliever Kyle Landin (3 IPs, 4 hits, 4 runs, 2 earned, 1 BB, 2 Ks). An out later, Kimmett got aboard on a 2-base throwing error, with Ricker crossing the dish. Kortokrax moved Kimmett to third with a bounceout, from where he scored on a bloop to short center by Wrasman for an 8-1 Jefferson lead.
Kalida got a run in the fifth. Swift lined up the gut to lead off and stole second. Landin walked but was forced at second by Kleman, putting Swift at third. Gerding flied out deep enough to center to get the swift Swift home for an 8-2 deficit. Vorst got aboard on a 2-base throwing error but Randy Zeller's comebacker ended that threat.
The visitors got within 10-5 in the top of the sixth. Hovest ripped a single up the gut and Knueve beat out an infield hit to short. Recker got a free pass to load the bases. Swift bounced wide of first and when the Wildcats were slow to cover the base, he beat out an infield hit to score Hovest and leave the bases juiced. An out hence, Kleman rapped a shot just inside the third-base line, plating Knueve and Recker and putting Swift at third. However, Jettinghoff fanned the next batter and got a nibbler by Vorst in front of the plate that Zach Kimmett fielded and threw to first to end the uprising.
Jordan Herron came on in relief in the Kalida seventh. With one out, Hovest singled up the middle and swiped second. An out hence, Recker got aboard via an error, scoring Hovest for a 10-6 deficit. Recker swiped second but Swift fanned to end the contest.
"We were hoping to get four innings out of Tyler Rice; he's our sixth pitcher but he has the stuff to be our second or third any given day," Geary added. "He also made a big defensive play to get us out of a big inning in the fourth. We have to keep playing good defense like that because that will be one of our keys this year."
"I expect that; these guys have a lot of pride and athleticism I'd have been disappointed had we not battled back," he added. "I started three freshmen and a sophomore today with some inexperienced juniors and seniors. We just have to shore up our effort but we'll work at it."


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FORT MYERS, Fla. – After their performances against Florida State and Miami, FGCU swimming senior Leah Daniel (Winnipeg, Manitoba/Grant Park HS) has been selected as the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association (CCSA) Women's Swimmer of the Week, while sophomore teammate Alex Valder (Tampa, Fla./Sickles HS) has been selected as the CCSA Women's Diver of the Week, ending on October 5.
FGCU is coming off a solid opening weekend with a 2-1 record after defeating FIU (66-44) and Miami (151-148).
Daniel started out the season with a second-place finish in the 1000-yard free with a time of 10:16.29 coming in ahead of Miami and just missing first-place to Florida State's Charlotte Broadbent. She followed that performance by swimming in the 200-yard free, placing third in 1:52.27 ahead of Miami. Daniel also had a fourth-place showing in the 500-yard free with a time of 5:02.41 defeating Miami in the event. She finished the meet by swimming in the 200-yard free relay coming in third at 1:37.20.
"I am excited for Leah (Daniel) after her great performance last weekend," said head coach Neal Studd. "Over the summer she worked extremely hard on her fitness and it has paid off early. "I expect big things from her this season and the goal is for her to qualify for NCAAs."
Valder took eighth in the 1-meter event in the dual meet against Florida State and Miami with a score of 214.25. She also participated in the 3-meter, placing eighth and scored 212.80 points. This is the Tampa native's first CCSA Dive of the Week award.
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Midwestern University provides training to students going into healthcare fields such as medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry. Drug and alcohol abuse is not a major issue at the university, due to the studious nature of the students who are enrolled in these programs. Nonetheless, there is a zero tolerance policy for students who participate in activities such as illicit drug use, or arrive at clinical rotations under the influence of alcohol.
Living in the Chicagoland area, you never know how much it will snow, or when the rain will stop. Weather conditions affect the amount of time it take many commuters to arrive to class. However, living on campus provides the added security of not having to worry about being late for an exam or activity due to the weather.
Midwestern University provides it students with many opportunities to enjoy life beyond the classroom. There are numerous clubs and organizations, student government, and recreational activities activities available for students majoring in any profession. At Midwestern, you can find whatever fits your interests, and if you can't, the university will work with you to help start a new organization that meets your interest.
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It is a good school
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I have not had an internship or anything of the like. I am in the dental program (my first year) and will be working in the clinic my third year.
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I do not see why this matters. Midwestern is a health care, graduate school. Majority of the people are in commited relationships or are married. The dental students are very attractive though, so there is eye candy and everyone here is smart since they are going to be doctors.
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Downers Grove is very close to Chicago, so there is plenty to do there! There are many towns surrounding the school that have quality living, food, and entertainment. There are plenty of malls and shopping centers nearby as well.
There is a huge parking garage on campus and many other parking locations available. Spots fill up quickly, but there are usually spots open on the upper floors of the garage. When leaving the garage, there can be a wait, but that is dependent on your class size. 130 people leaving the garage at once can clog it up.
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I think the fact that campus is gated and there is security monitoring who enters and leaves campus makes it feel very safe.
It's by Chicago therefore the weather in the windy city is unpredictable. This winter was way too long and the summers not long enough.
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Downers grove is a suburb next to Chicago, which makes it nice and quite during the week but with great places to go to during the weekend. About an hour away is UIC another dental college and we sometimes have events with their classes.
I'm in the Dental Medicine Program, and have had mixed fillings about my education regarding my dental classes so far. We have an amazing SIM clinic, unfortunately the dental faculty is all over the place at times, and we have a lot of down time where we are just sitting around without making the best of our time. The work load is substantial, because we are in dental school.
I came to Midwestern University because of its Dental Medicine program, the campus is great, the professors are specialist in their field, therefore the classes are nicely integrated. The dental classes are a little unorganized because the dental program is only 2 years old.
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Many extremely nice options but with a price tag to match
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Sometimes it is difficult to find parking, but if you come early enough, you can find a good spot. You mostly park in the parking garage.
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Tuesday, April 9, 2002
BOXX Technologies premieres the HDBOXX
BOXX Technologies showcased the many features of HDBOXX at NAB2002, including support for Panasonic's variable frame rate format.
HDBOXX offers users working with HD or SD materials-from large post production and government facilities to independent filmmakers and boutique effects houses-a robust uncompressed nonlinear editing, compositing and playback solution for HD or SD.
HDBOXX is designed for television broadcast studios, cable companies, film and postproduction houses creating and delivering high-definition and standard definition (SD) content.
It keeps HD materials and images uncompressed, eliminating the need for "up-conversion" or "down-conversion," incorporates in-sync's Speed Razor 2000X for straightforward nonlinear editing and breakthrough performance with an I/O architecture and PCI bus architecture streamlined specifically for high-definition editing.
Other features of HDBOXX include support for Sony's 23.98/24 fps formats, 10 and 8-bit YUV and RGB conversion, improved rendering performance, standard and high definition input and output, QuickTime and AVI, sequential image playback and recording and plug-in support for popular programs such as Adobe After Effects and file format compatible with Discreet's combustion, Nothing Real's Shake, and eyeon's Digital Fusion software.
Modulation Sciences presents msi 189
Modulation Sciences presented its msi 189 SAP/Stereo/Video Receiver at NAB2002.
It features off-air simultaneous SAP, Stereo and Video Reception, non-intercarrier aural reception, DTMF signaling and diversity reception. It also features a stable synthesized tuner which receives any U.S. television channels from 2 through 69.
The msi 189 includes two antenna inputs. The antenna is selected on the basis of minimum multipath and maximum digital strength. The unit also transmits standard DTMF tones over the SAP channel.
Solid State Logic unveils its Aysis Air Plus 'SC' digital console
Solid State Logic has unveiled the Aysis Air Plus 'SC,' a specially configured version of its popular Aysis Air Plus digital broadcast console.
The SC console has built-in redundancy and security features such as hot-swappable faders and is capable of expansion as station challenges evolve. Comprehensive reset capabilities allow greater capacity and studio efficiency. Stereo or 5.1 surround operation gives the flexibility to do a variety of tasks from simple news to full surround sports coverage.
The standard complement of analogue and digital I/O is enough to handle a wide variety of applications and that can easily be expanded to fit specific requirements.
Euphonix introduces 'Max Air' Digital Audio Broadcast Console
Euphonix has introduced "Max Air," a new 96 channel digital audio mixing console designed for on-air and live-to-tape broadcast production applications.
The Max Air console is based on the technology and software of the Euphonix System 5-B; it shares the same DSP core and I/O as System 5-B and also includes much of the same processing and control software.
Max Air can control large numbers of inputs in a small space and has been ergonomically designed to speed up operation. SnapShot Recall of all console settings allows fast turn around between different shows and accurate recall for continuity from one week to the next. The console's digital architecture is highly cost effective compared to analog systems and reduces the cost of a typical installation especially when using digital connection solutions such as MADI.
Some key features of the Max Air console:
Each channel strip offers 4 band fully parametric EQs, 2 filters, a dedicated mix minus, surround panning and a dynamics section
The console's large touch screen shows hi-res channel and master metering, EQ and dynamics graphs, patch routing and more
Built-in MADI router
The central 'Superchannel' is an entire channel strip with dedicated controls for all functions
The control surface is modular allowing a system to be built to match the control room space and budget
Telex introduces RTSä SIX- and Eight-character keypanels
Telex has introduced the RTS™ Model KP-632/24 and KP-832/20 keypanels. The new keypanels are the first of the RTS line to provide six- and eight-character alphanumeric displays.
The KP-632/24 and KP-832/20 keypanels are variants of the KP-32 four-character keypanels. The new panels offer full programmability, DSP signal processing and routing and complete compatibility with RTS ADAM, ADAM-CS and Zeus intercom matrices.
The new series panels can be used with RTS ADAM and Zeus Matrix systems and can also be used with existing systems after a simple firmware download.
FujiFilm introduces Nano Cubic technology
Fuji Photo Film has introduced a significant breakthrough in magnetic recording media technology that will exponentially increase the capacity of magnetic media, according to the company. Nano Cubic technology is Fujifilm's innovative, ultra-thin layer coating technology that can produce higher resolutions for recording digital data, ultra-low noise and high signal-to-noise ratios that are ideal for magneto-resistive heads.
In addition, Nano Cubic technology is capable of increasing exponentially the capacity of magnetic media. It is capable of catapulting data cartridge and digital videotape to 1TB native (uncompressed) capacities and floppy disk capacities to 3GB. To help visualize this potential, 1TB could store up to 200 two-hour movies.
What sets Nano Cubic coating technology apart is its ability to be applied cost-effectively to a mass production manufacturing process while requiring only small modifications to current coating equipment for application. Fujifilm is beginning to work with drive manufacturers to develop new, high-capacity magnetic storage products using Nano Cubic technology.
Accom introduces Abekas 6000 Version 4.0
Accom introduced Version 4.0 software for the Abekas 6000 video production server at NAB. The Abekas 6000's role as a robust, high-performance multi-purpose server for critical broadcast and post applications has been enhanced.
The Abekas 6000 operates securely in challenging environments and is strengthened by the addition of a background progressive defragmentation capability that provides automatic continuation of defragmentation after power supply outages or other interruptions.
It now includes the ability to record vertical timecode on MPEG, and offers the option of preserving discontinuities in the timecode or synthesizing timecode for clips after recording.
It also features a new content management application that runs on either a PC or Mac computer workstation allows users with an Ethernet connection to a network of 6000s, to view any material stored on the servers at their computer screens via the TCP/IP protocol.
Encoda Systems announce Landmark upgrade
Encoda Systems announced that the Landmark II airtime sales and financial management software has been enhanced with a new Order Line function, which helps match booking requirements with available inventory.
This new function appeals to all types of media sales professionals as it quickens the process of planning campaigns and gives faster response times to clients' order requests.
The Order Line allows a range of data to be entered defining where a specified number of advertising spots should be booked. Users can define time, day/date ranges, break types, and TV programs.
Landmark then uses Order Line to attempt to match the requests to inventory using ranking factors that distribute spots evenly across days and times.
Chyron debuts Sirius router family
Chyron Corporation unveiled the Sirius router family at NAB2002. This versatile and modular router uses common crosspoints and enabling multi-signal operations.
Sirius provides "in-router" A to D and D to A conversion, and brings this capability to video formats. Sirius is capable of routing NTSC/PAL inputs to SDI outputs and vice versa with no external conversion equipment.
Sirius is a multi-format, SDI/HD/analog video, AES audio, compact router of 7RU and can be configured in blocks of 8 x 8 up to 128 x 128 - all in the same chassis.
Control is available by an internal control card or Pro-Bel's expandable, Windows(r) -based Aurora control system.
Las Vegas, NV - Several new products from Thomson multimedia will hit the marketplace soon.
Thomson unveiled its Trinix 512, a routing switcher able to route standard and high-definition signals in a single frame. It is designed for network facilities, flagship stations and large OB vans. The dense routing switcher can receive 512 inputs and 512 outputs. Users can deploy high-capacity, small footprint systems that can handle SD or HD signals. It also handles SMPte standard digital video signals from 3 Mbits/s to 1.4 Gbits/s. It offers four sync inputs.
The XtenDD Production Switcher is targeted toward standard definition environments. The switcher features LAN networking technology, high-performance chromakey capabilities, machine control and macro key memory.
The LDK 5000 and two versions of the LDK 6000 Mk II high-definition cinematography camera are the three latest additions to Thomson's camera line.
The LDK 5000 camera includes high resolution, HD CCDs. It features HDTV CCD sensors, an optimal aliasing and resolution performance, a 12-bit analog-to-digital conversion and a 22-bit high definition digital signal processor.
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Villas del Mar Beach Resort - Loiza Puerto Rico in Puerto Rico
- bedrooms 2
- baths 2
- sleeps 9
- pool yes
- hot tub yes
- pets allowed yes
- type Villa
- community Loiza
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$ 2,600 - $ 3,200 / month
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Villas del Mar Beach Resort, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 balconies, A/C, Private Beach Access, tennis and basketball courts, parking, Gym, 2 pool's, Jacuzzi, security and more. Near to Beltz Factory Outlet Mall, golf courses (3 minutes), restaurants tourist attractions such as the Yunque Rain Forest Luminescense Bay, Catamaran, etc. Minutes away from the town of Fajardo and ferries to the islands of Culebra and Vieques. Old San Juan is only 35 minutes away. Within 15 minutes away from one of the best bike trails along the Kioskos of Piñones beach and Luquillo.
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2 Pools, Jacuzzi, Tenis and Basketball Court, Beach Volleyball, Gym with Sauna, Kids Playgrounds, Private Beach, Golf Course at 3 minutes.
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Tommy Tuberville says he still hasn't made up mind who will start at QB. Says both will play.— Joe Danneman (@FOX19Joe) August 26, 2013
Tuberville says he might not even let the QBs know until Saturday.— Joe Danneman (@FOX19Joe) August 26, 2013
Tuberville says he doesn't like to wait this long to make this decision. Calls it an "unusual situation".— Joe Danneman (@FOX19Joe) August 26, 2013
Unusual situation, you don't say. At this point everyone is expecting Brendon Kay to get the start against Purdue, and every game after that, barring injury. That there has been no starter named is just baffling to me, and probably everyone else as well.
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Proper Hydration In Your Pet
It is beginning to warm up the closer we get to summer. Somedays will be those extremely grulling hot days. During these days, it is easy to dehydrate. These are some tips to keep your pet from dehydrating.
1.Always make sure there is water available for your buddy. (inside and when outside)
2.Make sure when you take them out, the bathroom breaks are short and playtime is reduced.
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South Beach Luxury Condo Walk to Beach in Miami Beach
- bedrooms 1
- baths 1
- sleeps 3
- pool no
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
- type Condo
- community South Beach
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$ 3,000 - $ 7,500 / month
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Never send money transfers or bank wires other than to Bank of America NA. We also accept Paypal Payments. Please Call or contact number on this website directly regarding which paypal addres to send to.
1br completely renovated and fully furnished with all european designer furniture. Balcony with a view of the ocean;
Premier SOFI location of South Beach; A rental car is not necessary if staying in this apartment.
46'' LCD HDTV in bedroom and livingroom with all premium cable, Internet, Stainless Steel appliances including washer and dryer.
Amazing view of South Beach and the Ocean.
Walking distance from Prime 112, Devito's, China Grill, Nemo, La Piaggia, Prime Italian, Smith and Wollenskey, and trendiest beach area.
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Amazing Condo next to the South Beach Marina with a pool and a tennis court. 24 hour security, valet parking is avaliable.
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1 Week minimum rental
May 15th - December 25th = $1,000
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Music week is 3,500
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Sweet E,
You proudly (and somewhat hesitantly at times, as you were determined that 3 1/2 was a good place to be) turned four this summer and it seems that quite all of a sudden we have a new boy on our hands. Oh there are glorious bits of your 3 1/2 year old self that remain: that big big smile that lights up your eyes, that laugh of yours that can make the world still for a moment in its perfection, your early morning cuddles… and yet this turning four business has added a few new elements to this boy that we love so much.
You have a new confidence that is still quiet, but much more firmly in place. We avoided all scheduled activities last year, and even this past summer. I wasn't keen to drag you to things you were only mildly interested in doing, and throwing off our sleep schedule (the blessed sleep schedule) in the meantime. But now you're ready. Even with school you're taking swim lessons, gymnastics ("the nastics" you say) and of course trekking to our little library every week for story and craft time. And you want to do all of it. It's shocking. You've mostly gotten out of that "I don't ever want to leave the house I just want to stay here here here and play" phase and you're happy to go to all your scheduled activities (which seem necessary now – days without school feel very friendless I think to you), which of course require leaving the house. It's not always easy, good God what is in parenting, but it's not always difficult, which is a huuuuuge improvement.
You often ask what something means, and perhaps my favourite this month was an explanation of friendship. You couldn't understand why there wasn't a boat in the story.
Your love of music is still very much present. You learn songs ridiculously quickly and whenever we're in the car I always have a notebook handy to record your latest "put this on my next CD" request. I let you watch Ellen one day and you exclaimed "Hey that's Phillip Phillips! He sings Home!" That's my boy. You immediately got your music face on and swayed to the goodness. You said you loved your first "concert." Your ability to sing a song from something I've said is fabulous. I eat it up.
Ah Ah is still a much-loved member of our family, though he's housebound now and only gets love at night and on long road trips. He's a rare daytime playmate now, and Poosha, Det, Bet and Het have all but disappeared. You surprise me when you mention them now. I suppose they've been pushed out by real friends. Sorry, by humans. They were always real friends. New neighbours have brought a new friend for you – so close! – and you're beginning to understand and look forward to (that last bit there I wasn't sure would ever really roll around) playing with others. Time with your cousins in Toronto is glorious – three beautiful boys laughing and playing and running and jumping. Bliss.
You started school and it was so easy. So. Easy. I cannot even begin to explain the impact this had on my life. It was like you were given wings and oh my. You're flying. That very first day you were ready for the bus and your enthusiasm and excitement was contagious. I didn't have room for worry – my whole body filled to the brim with happy for you. And when dad and I went to pick you up at the end of that first day (your second full day, ever, away from me all day)? You were mad. Mad that we were standing there, an obstacle to your getting on that bus! again. So we got back into the car and met you at home. Watched you skip off that bus with a grin the size of your backpack. Your favourite part of every day? The bus.
I'm sure we'll have rough days, days when you don't want to go to school, but it's every other day this year and so far you look forward to it every time. You love learning and that teacher of yours got you holding your pencil properly after just two days. I knew I gave up for a reason.
I love watching you in classroom-like settings. You're a rule follower, an eager to answer student, a kid ready to share a story or an anecdote (when the librarian asked if anyone had a dog at home you immediately informed her that yes, you do, the poky little puppy – a stuffed one, you neglected to mention). You lean forward and soak up every story read, and remember all the details long afterward. You sing and dance with abandon and your favourite sing + dance song is the banana song (the one where you pick, pick, pick bananas). You were the only one in your class who knew what an author was – I'm so in love with the fact that you love books and libraries. Sigh. They are home to me.
And so without further adieu, a list, of all your favourite things at this beginning of fall when you are perfectly four:
~ Playing bad guys and spy cars – I don't know how this came about. It certainly wasn't my influence but there it is. Every spare minute filled with spy cars.
~ Your favourite of your approximately 50 Hot Wheels cars? Yellow spy car. Always.
~ Stories about BooBoo Head. Our fish who lives despite the fact that we rarely think of feeding him. He is the star of our stories. I started this one day with a quick tale about BooBoo jumping out of his tank for an adventure and now it's a thrice-daily request. Even though I sometimes don't feel like coming up with yet another fish adventure, I do – how can I say no to a story? You've become quite the storyteller yourself – whenever I'm stuck for an idea I ask you what happens next and it's always something totally unexpected, generally fabulous, and almost always involving bad guys or spies.
~ Saying, "You don' know? You better ax somebody!"
~ Purple
~ Eggs. Round (hard boiled), scrambled (that you cook yourself), in an omelet, poached… always eaten. Eggs benedict at Alternate Grounds is a frequent request.
~ Candy. This goes without saying, but Kinder Surprise eggs are your hands-down fave.
~ Lego.
And here's my short(ish) list of favourites:
~ The way you say hospital and world and school. Hostabill and weorld and dool.
~ How being silly almost always pulls all of us out of a cranky situation/mood. It's almost always the right answer.
~ That little boy body of yours. Soon you'll grow out of that belly and you'll be self-conscious when naked and so we're soaking up four, the age of naked is best.
~ The I love you game, and the fact that you request it. Trying to outdo how far we love each other (Australia and Antarctica are faves)? So good.
~ Watching you write. The concentration required for those fingers of yours to find the proper spot on the marker, concentrate to remember or look at the letter, and recreate it is astounding and reminds me of just how little you really are.
~ Your first item of clothing rejection. You've never really cared much what you wear – the only request I can recall was soft pants. I laughed when you rejected your sesame street shirt. Who told you Elmo was for babies? Hilarious.
~ Your suggestions to donate your old baby toys to your friends baby sister.
~ That you know the words to The Gambler and Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys and when you sing them I get to soak up you and the memory of my dad strummin' away on his guitar.
~ That you also like to sing that Jamaican song – "Pass the dutchie 'pon the lef han side" – hilarious that there's a youtube video of it
Perhaps my favourite thing about you is that you're your own person. You rarely play with others at school (by your own account, though I find you an unreliable narrator), and your teacher described you as a sweet boy who enjoys his own company. I like that about you. Do your own thing my sweet. Now, always.


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Funding opportunities
High-throughput label-free screening of stem cell differentiation
Funding Type:
Tools and Technologies II
Grant Number:
Funds requested:
$1 449 443
Funding Recommendations:
Not recommended
Grant approved:
Public Abstract:
A critical bottleneck in realizing stem cell-based therapies is the significant risk of tumor formation following treatment. Approaches used to direct pluripotent stem cells to medical-grade cells for these therapies may result in residual cells likely to form tumors once transplanted. Therefore, it is important to be able to recognize these residual unsafe cells or be able to predict if a batch of pluripotent stem cells is likely to yield many of these cells. Current approaches to identify these unsafe pluripotent cells have been developed for the research environment and are too costly and difficult to perform routinely. This has severely limited the practical realization of stem cell therapies. We have developed an automated and miniaturized approach to identify these unsafe cells based solely on their deformability (or ability to change shape when stretched) that promises to have significantly reduced costs. We propose to increase the accuracy of this approach through microfluidic and high-speed imaging technology development, and directly validate the approach for predicting tumor formation. Once guidelines have been developed for predicting tumor-forming potential we will implement this system to screen stem cell lines and their derivatives that are being developed for therapeutic purposes. This tool also promises to speed up the development of stem cell therapies by allowing high speed evaluation of many formulations that can be used to direct stem cell behavior.
Statement of Benefit to California:
We propose to develop an instrument to determine the tumorigenic potential and improve the safety of stem cell therapies. We expect that this instrument will benefit Californians by (i) enabling stem cell therapies to enter the clinic by addressing safety concerns, (ii) reduce the cost of these therapies and the economic burden on our healthcare system, and (iii) provide jobs when the technology is commercialized through a California-based startup or industry partner. A major bottleneck in achieving stem cell therapies derived from embryonic stem cells or induced pluripotent stems cells is the significant risk of tumor formation if undifferentiated cells are carried through with a cell-based treatment. By providing a cost-effective solution to identify these cells prior to implantation we hope to increase the safety of these treatments and thus the likelihood that they will be made available to Californians with devastating, currently incurable diseases. Besides improving the chances that these treatments will be available, our approach would reduce the cost of these therapies when compared to currently used approaches to identify and sort unsafe cells. Cost may play a large role in whether insurance companies will reimburse for these therapies. A reduced cost will also reduce the tax-payer burden for providing these treatments through public healthcare. In addition to reducing the tax-payer burden in providing care that includes stem cell-based treatments, the development of our instrument will create many well-paying high technology jobs located in California as it is commercialized. Product development based on our instrument will provide high technology jobs in instrument engineering, product design, software development, and business development for commercialization through a startup or local industry partner. If successful these instruments will be used across the nation and world leading to a hundred million dollar market that will stimulate California's economy.
Review Summary:
The goal of this application is to develop a new label-free assay and methodology to screen for the presence of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) or induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) in populations of differentiated cells. This assay will allow the detection of residual pluripotent stem cells (PSC) or other abnormal cell populations after culture differentiation. Specifically, the applicant intends to detect PSCs by their deformability during exposure to fluidic forces and subsequently sort cells using a microfluidic platform. To accomplish this goal, the applicant will first improve a previously developed instrument, which assesses stem cell state using deformability measurements; these improvements will enhance the sensitivity and specificity of the cytometry analysis platform. Next, the applicant will examine correlations between human PSC deformability and their tumorigenic potential. Finally, a standardized deformability-based assay will be established for routine screening of human PSC lines. The reviewers praised the novel approach presented in the application. The proposed technology employs an innovative microfluidic strategy and avoids labeling of cells and the need for development of specific markers. However, reviewers had concerns about the significance and potential impact of the proposed research. They questioned the underlying premise that label-based flow cytometry, an alternative approach, is cost-prohibitive and expressed doubts that the proposed approach would be applicable to a large variety of differentiated cell types. Additionally, reviewers were concerned that the applicant did not consider the influence of cell cycle status or propose experiments that could adequately distinguish between various relevant cell types (e.g. normal undifferentiated PSCs, undifferentiated PSCs with impaired developmental potential, partially differentiated cells, and fully differentiated cells). Reviewers raised serious concerns about key aspects of the project's feasibility and experimental design. Overall, the development of the proposed methodology appeared very preliminary; a large number of variables remain to be evaluated for determining specific flow conditions and the types of measurements most appropriate for the analyses. Additionally, reviewers considered the current process too slow and questioned the potential for scale-up to sorting speeds suitable for therapeutic manufacturing. There were also significant concerns about the potential of the method to distinguish with adequate fidelity and efficiency between relevant cell population, since preliminary data suggested that the difference in deformability between PSCs and differentiated progeny is not very large, and considerable overlap exists between the populations. Furthermore, no preliminary data were presented to support the contention that the developmental potential of undifferentiated cells is correlated with deformability or that residual PSCs (remaining after differentiation of the culture) will retain the deformability characteristics of the parental line. The Principal Investigator (PI) has excellent training, significant experience in microfluidics, and has developed many of the tools and theory underlying the proposed research. Although reviewers appreciated the inclusion of a stem cell biologist on the research team, they considered this individual's 10% commitment to be inadequate, given the great need in the project for biological expertise. The budget was deemed appropriate considering the scope and timeline for the proposed investigations. In summary, this application proposes the development of a novel microfluidic platform to screen PSC-derived cell populations using a cell deformation assay. Despite the innovative approach, reviewer enthusiasm was diminished by their serious concerns regarding the project's potential for impact and experimental design. Thus, the application was not recommended for funding.


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Town Square
10th Congressional District to the polls
Original post made on Nov 2, 2009
Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, November 2, 2009, 4:40 PM
Comments (8)
on Nov 2, 2009 at 5:59 pm
David Harmer DOES live in the 10th District, in Windemere which is part of the 10th District. Nice factual article. Could I get a job here on the side?
Editor's note: You are right. The story has been corrected.
on Nov 3, 2009 at 1:22 pm
The article says, "Alamo and some Danville voters will go to the polls" today. How do Danville residents know if we're part of the group that is supposed to vote today? I never got any voting notices in the mail, so I assume I'm not supposed to vote today.
on Nov 3, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Don't anyone worry this seat is staying in the hands of a Democrat. The GOPers are again wasting lots of time and money and that is a good thing.
on Nov 3, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Well the right man for District 10 John Garmendi looks like the winner for us in District 10. He is leading with 55% of the votes cast compared to 40% for the GOPer. Nice to see again that we can count on Disrict voters making the right decision. We only made one mistake in the District and that was in the election of the idiot Bill Baker when our district 10 was first formed. We always vote for the best person even when the rest of the country elected Bush who turned out to be the worst President in our history.
on Nov 4, 2009 at 8:32 am
You're a complete idiot. Only YOU would advocate voting for a representative that doesn't live in the district, nor has he ever met anyone in the district. A representative who believes the state has revenue problem, not a spending problem. Oh, I forgot, he's a Democrat, that makes it OK...
on Nov 4, 2009 at 10:20 am
How sweet it is. We get a great Rep for us in Washington and the GOPers continue to waste money on another reject.
on Nov 4, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Well I was at the election party last night and I have to tell you, John Garamendi knows A LOT of people in this district, Shelby.
The district is a lot bigger than your little neighborhood in Alamo. I wonder if you have any idea about the struggles of the people in Antioch, Dixon, Suisun City, or Livermore. Along the campaign trail, I saw 1000's of people who know John, who volunteered for John, who spoke with John at campaign events.
In my best guesstimate and with the outcome of this election, I would say that YOU are the one who is out of touch with your local community, not John Garamendi.
on Nov 4, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Well Reader, or should I say coward for not attaching your name, the district is clearly gerrymandered to deny people in my "little neighborhood in Alamo" from having representation. Fess up, if Marion Berry ran for office in this district, you'd for him because he was a Democrat and "understood" your struggles.
Garamendi is a joke, you just don't get it...
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SPOKANE, Wash – Spokane Police forwarded a charge of 2nd degree murder Thursday against Avondre Graham, 17, in the May stabbing death of Sharlotte McGill. But two days later, Graham is still awaiting his first court appearance on that new charge.
He was arrested September 13th on assault and robbery charges, and is being held in the juvenile detention center.
Because Graham is already in custody, police forward charges to the prosecutor's office, and it's the prosecutors who then file those charges in court. But that process takes time. Prosecutors must review the case not only from the police point of view, but also need to get ready to defend the charge in front of a judge.
KHQ also learned Friday that the gang unit of the prosecutor's office is handling the case, although Spokane Police tell KHQ that does not mean they believe Graham is necessarily in a gang. However, it is a possibility they will be looking into.
In order to classify someone as a gang member, there is a specific list of requirements that must be met. For example, if someone has been arrested for gang activity, identified as a gang member by an informant, or has displayed gang symbols, clothing or tattoos.
Again, police say they believe Graham acted alone in the random stabbing death of Sharlotte McGill outside her Spokane apartment in May.


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PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La. -- When Hurricane Katrina made landfall five years ago, Plaquemines Parish was the first to greet her. The storm wiped neighborhoods, schools, fire houses and most everything else off the map, but not the people.
"We're survivors. We're survivors down here. What can you say? A bunch of survivors," said boat captain Tony Riley.
Riley, 38, knows of only one home: south Plaquemines. He's watched an industry and friends pick themselves up, only to be knocked down again.
"It's been a challenge. It's been hard, to come back after Katrina, try to get stuff back together and we get here a few years later and have this big oil spill," he said.
"There's a very strong unit down here of people that say 'This is home. This is where I want to live," explained Stan Mathes, the parish economic development director.
For many, that is Belle Chasse. Mathes says Belle Chasse was home to between 55 and 60 percent of the people in the parish. Now 70 to 72 percent of the population live there and the area is thriving.
Venice, at the other end of the parish, has been supported since 2005 by the fishing and the oil industries, but the east bank and the middle of the parish have been hit the hardest by the storm and the spill.
"It's starting to make a comeback. It just took longer than the other two parts of the parish," Mathes said. "It didn't have the engine to get it started as fast."
Katrina destroyed Stephen Treadaway's small military museum. Only an ancient cannon survived, but he's back, like many others, because of others.
"If you have friends and family, stuff like that to help you, and one thing, the good Lord," Treadaway said.
You have to look a little harder, five years later, but the scars of Katrina are still there. But almost always close by, there is renewed life, like at the Buras fire station. They just cut the ribbon on it earlier this month.
"It's a new day and each time we have a ribbon cutting and a new building opens, it's hope for me," said parish council member Lynda Banta. "And as long as you have hope, you have life."
And there is life up and down Highway 23. With new schools and community centers, and a new EMS and fire station in Port Sulphur now creating shadows for the buildings tattered by Katrina. That includes a refurbished auditorium and new library in Buras.
Broadly speaking, from a business position, Plaquemines Parish is the oil and gas industry; the Belle Chasse Naval Air Station, employing some 8,000 people; small businesses; and the fishing industry, which includes commercial, recreational and charter fishing. The fishing industry will come back, but right now because of the oil disaster, it is an unknown.
"And then when you take out a way of life, the culture of shrimping, the fishing, the oystering, that was maybe an equal blow as Katrina," Banta said. "With Katrina we knew where we stood, we knew what we had to do. With the oil spill, we don't know what we have to do. We have to wait until somebody tells us."
The back levee system, running almost the length of Plaquemines, has been repaired and in spots is 17 feet. But bringing the levee up to current standards is still a couple of years away. Even so, the protection is better than it used to be.
When it comes to housing, there are far more mobile homes and trailers than existed before the storm, because the trailers enabled people to get home quicker.
John Treadaway's double trailer in Empire now sits where his seven-bedroom house once did. The welder says Plaquemines Parish has paid its dues, and then some.
And yet after two catastrophes in five years, there are no regrets calling it home.
"No, not at all," he said. "And hopefully with the oil spill thing, we'll come back strong again."


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Phil.... Thank you and THANK YOU for keeping me informed on the "Blaster"... My gosh what you you guys pulled off is just un-describable..... I'm literally at a loss for words.... I keep the rest of the family informed and cant wait to see her again.
Hey Phil!
Good to hear from you. I'm still frothing at the bit to get over and do some more "work" on the blaster. It's been an honor to participate in this project, and weather permiting, I'll be able to continue. (bonus, working with you guys has been a hoot!) See ya soon.
Thank you for adding me to your list of "friends". Working with you and the other guys on the 77 Atlas has been, and will continue to be, a great experience. I look forward each week to continueing our project to restore the "Blue Blaster". With Don's enthusiasm and knowlwdge it has been a fantastic ride and we have'nt even hit the water yet.
Gail Richardson
Philip, That's what its all about, Sharing. I have always enjoyed photographing the boats and I hope everyone enjoys them. More to come!
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