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A lot of people here in Denver were surprised to see AEG Live Nation throwing so much weight behind roller derby, and specifically behind bringing the Denver Roller Dolls to the 1st Bank Center last season and promoting the league heavily. I understand it's been something of a personal project for you.The Denver Roller Dolls' Mile High Club will host the 2011 WFTDA Championships even though the team missed the cut to compete
I fell in love with the sport as a kid, going to see roller derby at the Brooklyn Armory when I was about ten years old. Back then it was more of a show and less of a sport -- it was closer to professional wrestling -- but now it's really a competitive sport. I loved it as a kid too, but now it appeals to real sports enthusiasts. It's fun, it's fast, and it's a rough, bang-up sport. I kept my eye on it when it started coming back and we started seeing this roller derby resurgence here in Denver and across the country, and when we took over the building in Broomfield I wanted to bring one of the leagues into it. We had the right building and I felt it would be an unbelievable place to see roller derby, so we made a deal with the Denver Roller Dolls and that was that. We just wrapped our second season with them, and we supported the girls in their pitch to bring the WFTDA Championships here. This will be the first time ever that the roller derby championship tournament will be in Colorado. Last year it was in Chicago and the year before that it was in Philadelphia. I actually went two years ago in Philly when I was still working to bring the Denver Roller Dolls here, and the tournament was just spectacular.
It must be tough to have had the Denver Roller Dolls' Mile High Club miss the cut this year for the championships they're hosting.
Last year both of the Denver leagues were in the finals, but I guess you can't have one state dominate it every year. I'm thrilled to have one of our local leagues in it this year, and it's even better that the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls' 5280 Fight Club are the defending champions. My mission is to help build roller derby as a sport, not just to help the Denver Roller Dolls, and I see bringing the championships here as one of the building blocks. It will be even better if one of our local leagues wins it again.The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls' 5280 Fight Club, 2010 WFTDA champions, will defend the Hydra Trophy this weekend.
The growth of flat-track women's roller derby has been pretty phenomenal, with new leagues popping up all over Colorado and across the country in the last few years. What have you seen, from your perspective, in the Denver Roller Dolls' first two seasons at 1st Bank Center?
It's been quietly but steadily growing, and at our last game of the season this year we broke 3,000 tickets, which is phenomenal. It's still a very new sport, but it is growing beautifully, here and around the country. Five years ago most of the teams were playing in warehouses or roller skating rinks where hardly anybody could watch, and now, in places like Seattle, they're averaging like 6,000 people per bout, so it's really been building into a substantial sport with a big spectator draw. I imagine within two or three years we'll be selling out every one of our home games at the 1st Bank Center, and I think the championships being here this weekend, with the top 12 teams in America, is really going to help spread the word in this area about roller derby and how much fun it is to watch.
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Report by Anastasiya Bashkatova: "Scapegoat Sets Out To Overtake United
States. Celestial Empire's Economy Will Be Bigger Than America's Ahead
of Schedule"
Beijing is afraid of becoming a postcrisis scapegoat that the West will
subject to increased currency and economic pressure so as to compensate
for its own losses. This forecast by Chinese bankers has been posted on
Renmin Ribao's official website. Beijing does not rule out the
possibility that an increase in complaints against the Celestial Empire
will be connected with not only financial but also geostrategic
problems. According to the forecasts of some economists, China will
overtake the United States in terms of volume of GDP far earlier than
Beijing is concerned that the Western world may shift the consequences
of the global crisis onto China, making it a kind of scapegoat. "Obama
and Merkel are not Reagan or Thatcher, for they do not attain the level
of those politicians. They will be sure to shift the crisis onto China,"
Li Daokui, member of the Monetary Policy Commission of the People's Bank
of China, declared yesterday, cited by Renmin Ribao. According to him,
economic and social contradictions are very strong in Western society.
Such efficient companies as Apple, Boeing, or Airbus exist there. But at
the same time Western enterprises manufacturing consumer goods are
frequently unable to compete with India, Brazil, and China. Sooner or
later these contradictions will lead to further global upheavals.
Chinese economists and bankers expect the United States, in resolving
its own problems, to gamble on "a relaxed currency policy" (Renmin
Ribao's translation), and this will turn into inflationary ! pressure on
China. China is certain that pressure on the PRC currency with a view to
securing its revaluation has become the United States' trump card. Only
not so much an economic trump card as a political one. "Against such a
background China may become a scapegoat. Within a short period of time
Western society will conflict with China: Today the problem of the
currency exchange rate, tomorrow there will be a different problem.
Compared with the period of joining the WTO, the international milieu is
more complex and severe now," Daokui said.
To all appearances, the international milieu really has undergone
changes. There is a gradual shifting of centers of influence from the
West, from the United States to Asia, primarily to China. Only quite
recently it was impossible to suggest such a scenario for the
development of events, but now Washington, Beijing, and Moscow are all
perfectly well aware that the global economic configuration is changing
Here is a small illustration: Premier Vladimir Putin was extremely
surprised by a statement by an American businessman at an investment
forum (6 October 2011) to the effect that "the United States is still
the world's biggest economy, but China will undoubtedly take over the
laurels." "Will we now keep our gold and currency reserves in yuans, and
the Chinese keep theirs in dollars? An interesting situation, something
like a set of nesting dolls," Putin responded.
Let us recall that back in 2008 the OECD issued a sensational forecast,
according to which China would overtake the United States in terms of
the volume of the economy as early as 2015, and by 2030 the PRC would
account for roughly 23% of the world economy. The World Bank believes
that China will overtake the United States in terms of volume of GDP
only by 2030. This will happen if China is able to increase its GDP by
8% annually over 20 years. The IMF, however, thought differently: The
Chinese economy will overtake the American one in real terms in 2016. By
that time the share of US GDP in the world economy will have fallen to
17.7%, while China's will stand at 18%. In terms of purchasing power
parity, by 2016 America's GDP will stand at approximately 18.3 trillion
notional dollars, which are used for purposes of comparison, and China's
at $18.7 trillion.
However, some centers, including, for example, the Conference Board,
have advanced still more extravagant proposals: The PRC economy will
become the biggest in the world as early as 2012. The Conference Board
forecast was based on estimates of the Chinese and American GDP in terms
of purchasing power parity. It is noteworthy that such a likelihood is
also admitted in Russia. At the end of last week Andrey Illarionov, the
Russian Federation president's former economic adviser, made a statement
in the press: "China is continuing economic growth at 9% a year. In
terms of the size of GDP at purchasing power parity, China may already
have overtaken the United States or gotten really close to it." Russia
must draw its own lesson from this state of affairs, Illarionov
believes. It must learn to compete with China.
Nezavisimaya Gazeta's experts are certain that China's chief advantage
is its huge population. This means not only work hands but also active
consumers. "In addition to the general tendency for financial and
investment flows to shift, there are also factors of considerable
importance such as growing domestic consumption and state stimulation of
the economy. It is internal factors that will exert more and more
influence on China's development and the strengthening of its positions
with regard to the United States," Roman Brezitskiy, an analyst at the
National Republican Bank, commented. According to his estimates, taking
account of the threat of a new recession, China is capable of overtaking
America by 2015, or 2018 at the latest.
Ariel Chernyy, an analyst at Allianz ROSNO Upravleniye Aktivami, in turn
pointed out: "In China investments make up approximately half of GDP,
while in the United States it is spending on consumption, primarily
services. It is difficult to compare such economies directly and to say
that on a world scale one is more important than the other, based only
on volumes of GDP." However, the expert is certain: "The fact that China
is becoming an increasingly important element of the global economy is
obvious, irrespective of whether the estimate of China's GDP in terms of
purchasing power parity exceeds the volume of US GDP in one year, five
years, or 20 years."
Source: Nezavisimaya Gazeta website, Moscow, in Russian 8 Nov 11
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Dusty Baker gave several vets the day off (game action) and stacked his lineup with a lot of 2012 roll players and rookies that could be the stars of the future. But it was the vets he did play that made a difference in the game.
Miguel Cairo hit a bloop single in the first to put the Reds out front 2-0 and the next batter Wilson Valdez hustled out an infield single bringing in another runner for a 3-0 start. What a great example to all these young players in camp. Ryan Hanigan struck out and Willie Harris smoked a Ubaldo Jiminez pitch to right scoring two more and the Reds were up 5-0 in the first.
Cairo finished 2-3 with three RBI's and a run scored. Harris finished 1-3 with two RBI's and Valdez went 2-2 with a stolen base, RBI, and run scored. Not a bad day for veteran roll players.
Homer Bailey started going two laborious innings giving up four hits and three earned runs with two strikeouts. He struck out the first batter of the game and then walked Christian Guzman before giving up two straight hits including a three run bomb from Shelley Duncan. It was a struggle but it was the first start of the spring for Homer so don't look too much into it.
What does concern me, in only his first appearance this spring, is Aroldis Chapman. His 25 pitch third inning was shaky and somewhat scary at times. He gave up a hit and a walk to the first two he faced before striking out Duncan. Then he really didn't give catcher Ryan Hanigan a chance when the Indians pulled a double steal. Aaron Cunningham then grounded out scoring a runner and Chapman struck out Matt LaPorta.
The fourth inning was much better with his third strikeout and he picked off a runner and left the game only giving up one earned run. This is Chapman's third season and they have said all off season that he will start, but where? Probably at Louisville with the Bats.
Sean Marshall pitched the fifth and hit the first batter he faced before giving up two earned runs on two hits with a walk. Denis Phipps made an incredible diving catch to bail him out. Carlos Fisher and Sean Gallagher pitched the final three innings with no runs.
Opening Day starter Johnny Cueto goes for the Reds Monday (March 5) and expect to see Phillips, Janish, Votto, Rolen, Bruce, Ludwick, Stubbs, Mesoraco, and Hanigan in that order.
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Abstract: | Introduction: Acute lung injury is associated with accumulation of extravascular lung water (EVLW). The aim of the present study was to compare two methods for quantification of EVLW: transpulmonary single thermodilution (EVLWST) and postmortem gravimetric (EVLWG). Methods: Eighteen instrumented and awake sheep were randomly assigned to one of three groups. All groups received Ringer's lactate (5 ml/kg per hour intravenously). To induce lung injury of different severities, sheep received Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide 15 ng/kg per min intravenously for 6 hours (n = 7) or oleic acid 0.06 ml/kg intravenously over 30 min (n = 7). A third group (n = 4) was subjected to sham operation. Haemodynamic variables, including EVLWST, were measured using a PiCCOplus monitor (Pulsion Medical Systems, Munich, Germany), and the last measurement of EVLWST was compared with EVLWG. Results: At the end of experiment, values for EVLWST (mean ± standard error) were 8.9 ± 0.6, 11.8 ± 1.0 and 18.2 ± 0.9 ml/kg in the sham-operated, lipopolysaccharide and oleic acid groups, respectively (P < 0.05). The corresponding values for EVLWIG were 6.2 ± 0.3, 7.1 ± 0.6 and 11.8 ± 0.7 ml/kg (P < 0.05). Ranges of EVLWIST and EVLWIG values were 7.5–21.0 and 4.9–14.5 ml/kg. Regression analysis between in vivo EVLWST and postmortem EVLWG yielded the following relation: EVLWST = 1.30 × EVLWG + 2.32 (n = 18, r = 0.85, P < 0.0001). The mean bias ± 2 standard deviations between EVLWST and EVLWG was 4.9 ± 5.1 ml/kg (P < 0.001). Conclusion: In sheep, EVLW determined using transpulmonary single thermodilution correlates closely with gravimetric measurements over a wide range of changes. However, transpulmonary single thermodilution overestimates EVLW as compared with postmortem gravimetry. |
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Abstract: | Introduction We recently demonstrated that intravenously
infused recombinant human activated protein C (APC)
attenuates ovine lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced lung injury.
In this study, our aim was to find out whether treatment with
inhaled aerosolised APC (inhAPC) prevents formation of
increased lung densities and oedema and derangement of
oxygenation during exposure to LPS.
Methods: Sheep were anaesthetised during placement of intravascular introducers. After one to four days of recovery from instrumentation, the animals were re-anaesthetised, endotracheally intubated and mechanically ventilated throughout a six-hour experiment where the sheep underwent quantitative lung computed tomography. Sheep were randomly assigned to one of three groups: a sham-operated group (n = 8) receiving inhaled aerosolised saline from two hours after the start of the experiment; a LPS group (n = 8) receiving an intravenous infusion of LPS 20 ng/kg per hour and, after two hours, inhaled aerosolised saline over the next four hours; a LPS+inhAPC group (n = 8) receiving an intravenous infusion of LPS 20 ng/kg per hour and, after two hours, aerosolised APC 48 µg/kg per hour inhaled throughout the experiment. Data were analysed with analysis of variance; P less than 0.05 was regarded as significant. Results: An infusion of LPS was associated with a reduction of well-aerated lung volume and a rapid fall in arterial oxygenation that were both significantly antagonised by inhaled APC. Pulmonary vascular pressures and extravascular lung water index increased significantly during exposure to LPS, but inhaled APC had no effect on these changes. Conclusions: Inhalation of aerosolised APC attenuates LPSinduced lung injury in sheep by preventing a decline in the volume of aerated lung tissue and improving oxygenation. |
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Abstract: | Introduction: Acute lung injury (ALI) may arise both after sepsis
and non-septic inflammatory conditions and is often associated
with the release of fatty acids, including oleic acid (OA). Infusion
of OA has been used extensively to mimic ALI. Recent research
has revealed that intravenously administered recombinant
human activated protein C (rhAPC) is able to counteract ALI.
Our aim was to find out whether rhAPC dampens OA-induced
ALI in sheep.
Methods: Twenty-two yearling sheep underwent instrumentation. After 2 days of recovery, animals were randomly assigned to one of three groups: (a) an OA+rhAPC group (n = 8) receiving OA 0.06 mL/kg infused over the course of 30 minutes in parallel with an intravenous infusion of rhAPC 24 mg/kg per hour over the course of 2 hours, (b) an OA group (n = 8) receiving OA as above, or (c) a sham-operated group (n = 6). After 2 hours, sheep were sacrificed. Hemodynamics was assessed by catheters in the pulmonary artery and the aorta, and extravascular lung water index (EVLWI) was determined with the single transpulmonary thermodilution technique. Gas exchange was evaluated at baseline and at cessation of the experiment. Data were analyzed by analysis of variance; a P value of less than 0.05 was regarded as statistically significant. Results: OA induced profound hypoxemia, increased right atrial and pulmonary artery pressures and EVLWI markedly, and decreased cardiac index. rhAPC counteracted the OA-induced changes in EVLWI and arterial oxygenation and reduced the OA-induced increments in right atrial and pulmonary artery pressures. Conclusions: In ovine OA-induced lung injury, rhAPC dampens the increase in pulmonary artery pressure and counteracts the development of lung edema and the derangement of arterial oxygenation. |
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Abstract: | Introduction: Acute lung injury often complicates severe sepsis.
In Gram-negative sepsis, bacterial endotoxin activates both
coagulation and inflammation. Enhanced lung vascular
pressures and permeability, increased extravascular lung water
content and deteriorated gas exchange characterize ovine
endotoxin-induced lung injury, a frequently used model of acute
lung injury. Recombinant human activated protein C (rhAPC),
with its anticoagulant, anti-inflammatory, fibrinolytic and
antiapoptotic effects, reportedly reduces the respiratordependent
days and the mortality of patients with severe sepsis.
We speculate whether rhAPC antagonizes endotoxin-induced
lung injury in sheep.
Methods: Two groups of sheep were exposed to Escherichia coli endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide) 15 ng/kg/minute intravenously from 0 to 24 hours; one group received only lipopolysaccharide throughout (n = 8), and the other group received lipopolysaccharide in combination with rhAPC 24 μg/ kg/hour from 4 to 24 hours (n = 9). In addition, one group received rhAPC as above as the only intervention (n = 4), and four sham-operated sheep were used for determination of the α and ε isoforms of protein kinase C in pulmonary tissue. Data were assessed by one-way analysis of variance for repeated measurements. Biochemical data were analyzed using Student's t test, or using the Mann–Whitney U test when appropriate. Results: Infusion of endotoxin caused lung injury, manifested by increments in pulmonary artery pressure, in pulmonary microocclusion pressure, in pulmonary vascular downstream resistance, in pulmonary vascular permeability index, in extravascular lung water index and in deterioration of oxygenation that were all attenuated by infusion of rhAPC. Endotoxemia led to changes in inflammation and coagulation, including pulmonary neutrophil accumulation paralleled by increased TNFα and decreased protein C and fibrinogen in animal plasma, which all improved following infusion of rhAPC. Moreover, rhAPC prevented the translocation of protein kinase C α and ε isoforms from the cytosolic fraction of lung tissue extracts. Conclusion: In awake sheep, rhAPC alleviates endotoxininduced lung injury – as characterized by improvements of oxygenation, coagulation and inflammation, as well as by reversal of pulmonary hemodynamic and volumetric changes. |
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My first interview with Paranormal Romance Author F.D. Davis for www.news-bite.com was only one question: When did you first realize that you wanted to be a writer, and What was it that inspired you to start writing? Answer: I'm really not sure what age I was when I realized I wanted to seriously write. I started reading when I was four and the love of the written word has only grown through the years. I've had many stops on starts on this journey and it all had to do with rejections and not being involved with other writers who knew what it was I was going through. As to what inspired me to actively pursue a writing career I'm very clear on that. Bill suggested that I take a two year break from working to try and concentrate on writing. If in that time I did not have a writing contract I would return to work and do as I had been doing, write in my spare time. Well, two years came and I didn't have a contract. I told Bill I would stick to our agreement and return to work. He gave me this look that I can still see, shook his head no, and told me to continue trying. One year later I had my first contract.
Hush Hush Review
I heard about this book everywhere, it seemed. So naturally I wanted to try it out. Despite the hype books receive I am always a bit leery. I know that if the general population likes a book I probably won't like it much. I am the type of nerd that likes to learn stuff from my books. About history or language. Anything really. I dislike having an info overload, like the piles of stuff found in textbooks. Well, to put it bluntly: I did not like the book. I do not even know why I am holding onto my copy of it (a copy I found a the Salvation Army). I read some long winded reviews, and I probably agree with all of their content. The mystery and suspense was weak. The main character was dumb, foolhardy and cliche. The story itself was kinda ho-hum. Patch, Mr. Love Interest, was creepy. I don't know why or how someone could fall for or be attracted to someone who is out to kill them and even admits it to their face. "Oh baby, I wanted to murder you. But you is so hot and special that I just couldn't do it!" Sure. A little side tangent here: Why do this old old, centuries old men fall for these juvenile and completely un-special girls. "Wow, you are so young and immature. You embody all that is annoying and flaky about the modern teenager. After a million years your little self is what I want!" I am never convinced that one tiny brat could ever win over these guys who have seen everything over the years. A hot body can't be the thing, because most of the girlies are never mega-hot. I wish the chosen ones had some kind of emotional connection to the men they fall for, like similar tragedies or something. Or if they possessed a trait like extreme compassion or crazy-weird and accurate intuition (I like intuition rather than brainy smarts, because intelligence doesn't mean a person is perceptive, and most of the time the author makes their booksmart heroine bitchy and arrogant).
With this book, for example, just because your momma ain't around does not mean you can understand being banished from your home for a very long time. Very. (I forget if Patch-y actually experienced major trauma, I guess if he was willing to kill to get what he wanted. Eh.) I just don't get how these types of blah heroines can be a comfort to these world weary men (who still act like boys, even though they aren't, even if they do look fresh out of diapers and off mother's milk). I found the heroine to be very forgettable. I think I recall curly hair and a desire to get herself killed. Patch-y should of just went for it. She was begging for it something fierce. The bad guy(s). It just makes me want to start wailing really loudly and tear my clothing. Why? Why? Why? It was a disaster. Really anyone and everyone really got a shot to be in the spotlight. But not really. I was surprised Nora didn't accuse her friend of being out to get her. I was even suspicious. But nope. The making out was hot. And really the only thing I liked about the book. Surprise surprise (it was a surprise, truly). Mostly when I find I don't love the characters I feel kinda of apathetic about their s3x life. When I love characters, I love to root for them and love scenes are gratifying (I suppose) and sweet. When I hate the characters, oftentimes I feel kind of grossed out (or angry...at the attempt to make us... uh I don't know, be distracted from lame character by the flashy s3x. Don't think so sistah!). I am reading the sequel. Mostly due to the fact that I have an ARC of Crescendo (In yo face! Kidding, kidding. I was surprised that they foisted a copy on to me. Well I am kinda psyched to be getting an early copy. Probably because everyone else is hyped about it). I am hoping the following book will be better. This was a debut book. So there were bound to be some issues. I would say skip it. But if you wanna read it go for it, just make sure your copy comes from the library.
Hush Hush
Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick. Genre: Yong Adult Paranormal Romance. Hardcover: 291 pages. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. Description: Falling in love was never so easy... or so deadly. For Nora Grey, romance was not part of the plan. She's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how much her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch came along. With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Nora is drawn to him against her better judgment. But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora's not sure who to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is, and to know more about her than her closest friends. She can't decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel. For Nora is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those that have fallen and, when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost her life.
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Just to add to the myriad historical controversies in which i am embroiled (who started the band, etc), yours truly, if you had not already figured it out, was the numbingly repetitive and frequently troll-namestolen basement software solutions™ while it is impossible to prove or verify that all users of that handle were in fact me (I know for a fact that some creative souls took that ball and ran with it), I am the instigator of that particular memetic device. I don't know why i suddenly feel like I deserve some sort of credit for that, it really is a triviality in the greater scheme of things. But we all had a few good laughs out of that one, so I thought I'd take the rubber mask off and say hello.
The Twilight Series Inspiration
According to Stephenie Meyer, the writer of the Twilight series, the theme of this Modern Romantic Vampire movie is about Life and Love not Death or Lust. She began to write the story in june 2003 after dreaming two people
having an intense conversation in the woods. One was a average girl and
the other was a beautiful vampire. Stephenie was inspired from the following classics to write each book
from the series: Twilight, ispired from Jane Austen - Pride and
Prejudice; Saga - New Moon, inspired from Shakespeare -
Romeo and Juliet; Saga - Eclipse, inspired from Emily
Bronte - Wuthering Heights; Saga - Breaking Dawn, from
Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream. The movie is focused on
Bella's point of view and the Cullen's choice to abstain from killing
humans rather than to follow his temptations, to protect their family no
matter the costs and goes from there to romance, adventure and
breathtaking scenes. Stephenie Meyer had transformed a dream into a
million dollars franchise, a saga with thousands of fans around the
Especially the teenagers were captivated with the story between two character from different worlds. On one hand, the highschool girl, new in town who is trying to figure out where she belongs as a newcomer in the highschool, and a beautiful, misterious vampire who everybody is in love with but who is untouchable. Somehow a strong and powerfull bonding is created between the girl, Bella Swan and the vampire Edward Cullen and it's just a matter of time for the girl to discover the secret of the Cullens. Caught between the strong love for Edward and the desperate attempt to keep their secret hidden, Bella finds herself in a world where everything seem to come from the childhood stories (see fantasy coloring pages for amusement). Another character appears in the middle of the action, Bella's childhood friend Jake who helps her through everything, but who can transform into a mythical creature too, a werewolf. Between the desire of becoming a vampire and spend an eternity together with the love of her life and the attempt to keep her family safe, Bella find herself in impossible situations, dramatic and exciting, and of course, insomnia inflicting.
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On Tuesday, October 23rd AWB made a decision to coordinate teams to provide acupuncture relief to the people of Southern California affected by the wildfires. By Sunday, a team had been formed, locations were scouted, the word was put out and a relief effort was underway. Over the next few weeks, several hundred treatments were given to California residents, firefighters and other public and emergency workers.
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The AWB team was headed by Barbara Seymour of Solana Beach and John Convey of Los Angeles, who were both trained at AWB seminars. Both local acupuncturists and individuals from as far away as San Francisco and Denver arrived to assist with providing treatment. Over 15 California acupuncturists provided assistance with AWB for this mobilization.
Acupuncture was also provided at Qualcomm Stadium, Gillespie Field and other locations by students and teachers from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and by acupuncturists from the Alternative Healing Network. AWB worked with these local groups to network practitioners and provide support. AWB officially closed operations in California on Wednesday, November 7th. A full report on the California effort will be available in late January 2008.
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- Conference date: 29 Aug - 1 Sep 1999
- Location: Kobe-Sanda (Japan)
Recent progress in optical two-dimensional (2D) correlation spectroscopy is examined to identify noteworthy trends in the field. 2D correlation is now fully established as a viable means to extract useful but obscured information from a complex spectral data set. Application of 2D correlation in various branches of optical spectroscopy has expanded greatly in the last decade, especially after introduction of the generalized 2D correlation concept. 2D spectra are constructed from a set of spectral data collected from a system under an external physical perturbation, which induces selective alterations in spectral features. Numerous perturbations of different physical origin (e.g., thermal, mechanical, and chemical) and waveform (e.g., sinusoid, pulse, ramp, and even more complex forms) have been utilized to obtain 2D correlation spectra using various electromagnetic probes, such as IR, UV, Raman, and fluorescence. Recently, applications of 2D correlation analysis to spectra affected by a simple static physical factor, such as temperature, pressure, or composition, have gained considerable interest. Emerging applications of diverse 2D correlation spectroscopy methods are surveyed.
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A rouge asteroid threatens earth and a man is left alone when his wife runs away in panic. Seeking to reunite with his high-school sweetheart before the end, he goes on a road trip to seek her out. Unfortunately his neighbor tags along and seems intent on inadvertently sabotaging his plans. -- Chris Kavan
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Kaileigh 10/05/2013 (0 of 0 found this helpful)
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I am very disappointed that more people haven't seen this movie. It is simply beautiful and moving in so many ways, and I for one thoroughly enjoyed it. It doesn't loose its potency after multiple viewings. It is a comedy, an it definitely has funny moments, but the romance and drama in the film take center stage quite early on. The relationship between Dodge and Penny, the two romantic leads, as well as the relationship between Dodge and his father, and the other relationships between characters, are compelling and relate-able, which is I think the best thing about this movie. We can all see ourselves, and how we might react in an Apocalyptic scenario.
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I loved this movie. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is one of the most criminally overlooked films of 2012. The chemistry between Carell and Knightley is really special here; they both give great performances and carry the film wonderfully. Under the direction and writing of Lorene Scafaria, this film manages to make you smile and laugh, but it also breaks your heart. The film builds perfectly to a devastating (abrupt) ending, but it's fully satisfying all the while. I cannot recommend this film enough.
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I really seem to enjoy Steve Carell movies. His standard woh-me character is still enjoyable to watch, so I could totally enjoy this movie, and I did. I thought it was fun and creative. Keira Knightley was a lot of fun to watch. She didn't over-do her character which could have been very easy to do. Their chemistry strangely worked besides the large age difference. I also liked that the ending did go with ending the world instead of some miraculous turn of events. A decent movie I could find myself watching again.
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The story takes a refreshingly new route on the 'coming apocalypse' idea. It manages to convey many of the emotions that one would expect to have in this type of situation. Smartly written, very funny and bittersweet.
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is an inconsistent, slow moving, and emotionally stale film that feels more like a dull romantic comedy than a drama. Director Lorene Scafaria tediously crafts a comedy/drama that fails at being both a comedy and a drama, mostly because the relationship between Carell's character and Knightley's character wasn't as interesting or compelling as it should have been. It has some decent laughs, but ultimately falls pretty flat. I didn't really care where the relationship between these two characters went as the world was coming to an end. To be honest, about fifty minutes into the movie I wanted the world to end already. Seeking a Friend is a mostly innocent film that might be worth a rental if you like the actors, but with a premise like this it coul...
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This rater is somewhat disappointed with Carell's choices in movies lately. Gone are the days of quality comedies such as 40 Year old Virgin and Bruce Almighty. The line that symbolizes the whole picture - Penny: "So, what are you doing with the rest of your life?" Dodge Petersen (Steve Carell) and his wife Linda listen to the radio. He accidentally meets neighbor Penny (Keira Knightley) and go off to an adventure to look for Olivia. Starts off strong but fizzles towards the constant conversations which bores the film. Soundtrack was alright and screenplay nice. This reviewer feels that Carell should selects his scripts, though he and Knightley did a good job. Had some cheesy moments and a lousy conclusion. This could have been funnier and with a better pace. Seeking a Friend fo...
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Interchannel crosstalk can occur in in-the-band recording scenarios as well, when multiple microphones pick up one sound source and are mixed into the surround field in different locations. However, this is far rarer as the intensity and time of arrival of each sound to each microphone is far greater than in an audience perspective recording situation.
To reduce interchannel crosstalk, carefully choose the surround microphone technique. The microphone arrangement of the front three microphones should be positioned such that intensity of sound to each microphone or pairing or microphones is far greater than the adjacent microphone or pairing of microphones. Test results have indicated that microphone techniques such as the Decca-Tree, Fukada Tree and Optimized Cardioid Triangle (OCT) (see Figure 2) have lower amounts interchannel crosstalk and are also more desirable to listen to.
Taking this information one step further, the microphone techniques used to capture the surround channels are important as well to reduce crosstalk between the front array of microphones and the rears. Microphones that are assigned to the rear surround channels should pick up as little of the direct sound from the stage as possible.
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Quite a bit of time and attention will need to be spent in learning how to capture and produce surround content. It is not nearly as easy as throwing up a stereo pair of microphones on a stand and hitting record. Multiple microphones will have to be placed with care. Live audience perspective recording situations should also address concerns such as visual aesthetics. Using all-in-one solutions may not produce the most useful and desirable result, so buyer beware. There are plenty of other key factors in producing quality surround content. It is highly suggested that anyone wishing to produce surround content listen to a wide variety commercially available and discern quality differences. Becoming educated on many of the other basics of surround production is crucial.
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In melee I decided to play my Stark, Siege of Winterfell deck that revolved around epic battles and different ways to make additional military challenges such as Lucas, Storm of swords, After the mummers farce. I did not play storm of swords or after the mummers farce once all day, that could be because none of my games lasted more than 2 plots(if memory serves me correctly.) I liked how the deck could claim power quickly with the epic battles, as well as the fact that it could build power simply from military challenges, including using the Lord commander title to redirect challenges to myself to win. I should have included more renown, and better plots but it played well in its own right.
Melee table one
Bara knights (3) Played by Rachel
Martell no agenda(2) Played by Ben
Stark no agenda (4) Played by Will
Stark siege (1) Played by Derek
My first table started off leaving a bad taste in my mouth, I was forced to play against my wife since the pairing was done alphabetically, directly beside us there were brothers that got paired up as well. I had a solid setup, and drew back into 4 epic battles and a flank. I opened with summoning season and took a hungry mob, everyone at the table was surprised with my choice, but in play testing I often found that if there was a Martell at the table and I had a flank in hand the mob was better than Syrio. I also knew I would not have the gold to play Syrio and my Flank. I won the coin flip and made a deal with the Martell player that I would let him pick where he went, if he did not use Myrcella on me. He agreed and asked to go first, I was able to get the Lord commander title and I knew I had a chance to win if things went my way. When challenges started I finally realized that my flank only was not going to kneel against Rachel, but since she flipped loyalty money can buy I figured I was safe to attack her without destroying her board position making her easy target for my opponents. I believe I ended up winning 7 military challenges the first round, 2 on defense and claiming 15 power in the 4th epic phase. I felt bad for my opponents, and that was the only game all day that the epic battles were on my side.
Melee table 2(feature table)
Martell no agenda (4) Played by Daryl
Targ heir(melee winner)(3) Played by Mathieu
Martell no agenda (2) Played by Dennis
Stark siege (1) Played by Derek
This table had me slightly intimidated because I was playing against the French national champion, Daryl(I thought I recognized his name from the 2 champs 1 chump podcast) and of course Dennis who I know to be an awesome player. I had a good setup, with 3 or 4 epic battles in my hand, but I knew that if I came out too strongly I would be destroyed. I opened with summoning season and ended up making a deal with Daryl that I would give him the summoning if he did not use his orphans on me, and in return he would also trade with me the following round. It seemed like a solid deal because I did not want to give Dennis another character, and the Targ player played building season and my deck did not need any locations. I don't remember the specifics, but I do remember that Daryl not only used 1 of his orphans on me the first round, but revealed Loyalty second round destroying our deal. That left annoyed me greatly, but is well within the rules and he was playing to win the game by breaking our deal. In marshalling the second round Dennis told me that if I let him take first, I'd be in second, all I had to do was bring Syrio out of shadows so his Viper did not kneel to attack me. I agreed, much to the displeasure of the other players because I knew I won my first table and that 2 second place finishes would allow me to make the cut. Everyone finished marshalling and Dennis started to scourge someone in challenges and we continued with pre-challenge actions. When he went to make his first challenge we both realized that I forgot my shadows action and had to rethink what we were doing. Dennis made a few challenges but something happened that prevented him from getting enough power to win the game. He offered to switch the deal around with me, if I let him have an uo challenge then he would give me uo military challenges in return. Seemed like a good deal to me so I took it and won the table. This table taught me a few things, Dragons are extremely scary in Melee, and never trust Daryl with deals.
Melee table 3
Martell no agenda (1) Played by Rick
Martell no agenda (2) Played by Chad J.
Lannister pbtt (3) played by Darknoj
Stark siege (4) Played by Derek
This table almost ruined my weekend, it seriously got me upset with the game and disappointed with some of the players. Rick and Chad were running the Martell combo decks that made it so that Darknoj and I had zero icons on our characters, in combination with the martell players being able to intrigue Jon to claim extra power and every challenge being uo this game was over fast. Jon(Darknoj) was able use a shadow politics to declare an intrigue challenge before they could take all of his icons away to claim some power and take third. I did manage to get revenge on Chad the following day in joust! I was worried that 20 points(2 wins) would not be enough for me to make the cut but it was!
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Martell no agenda (1) played by Rick
Lannister pbtt (4) played by Darknoj
Greyjoy no agenda (3) played by Alex
Stark siege (2) played by Derek
Darknoj and I teased Rick beforehand that this was Karma coming back on him, that we were going to pound his board repeatedly to get back at him for the round before. Fortunately for Rick we are not like that and Darknoj started the first round with Asha, Cersie, Myrcella, Jamie and a painted dogs I believe. Having 2 non kneeling renown/power grab intrigue characters with noble crest(2 power of blood turns coming likely) made him a huge threat. Alex was able to play king balans host the second turn which slowed down everyone but Rick's Viper. I played war of the 5 kings epic battle so that we could make Darknoj reveal a random plot and have a chance to Valar his nobles. Unfortunately we hit Darknoj a little too hard, and Rick was able to win the round during my epic battle phase I believe. If Darknoj and I still wanted to make Rick lose, he could have attacked me with a weak Military allowing me to win the challenge and claim for my agenda, then Alex kneeling his host would have allowed Robb to claim renown for me and 2 more for my agenda would have gotten the win, but we did not. Also to note this game, Alex used a few tricks to win a challenge over Darknoj, and if he would not have won that challenge Darknoj would have won the game with Creylens response. This was by far one of the most fun melee games I've ever played. Props to the other players for making it this far and making a game of this one!
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Breitkopf Urtext new edition in four volumes by Pieter Dirksen and Harald Vogel
Among the musical milestones of the early 17th century is the music for keyboard instruments by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621). The complete edition by the Sweelinck experts Harald Vogel and Pieter Dirksen is eagerly awaited by performing artists and scholars alike.The edition features all the ascertainably authentic works, and also takes into consideration anonymously transmitted or spurious pieces. The source for the attributions is Pieter Dirksen's book "The Keyboard Works of J. P. Sweelinck" as well as his research for the Sweelinck Work Catalogue (SwWV), in which Sweelinck's oeuvre has been thoroughly reorganized. In Breitkopf's new edition, the works for keyboard instruments already bear the new SwWV numbers.
Each volume begins with the works transmitted in staff notation, which are followed by those that have been transmitted (exclusively) in German letter tablature. For the first time ever, the difference between the two types of transmission is clearly underscored by the sequence of the works – and is made stunningly visible by their reproduction in a modern-day notational form. A third group contains the anonymous and spurious works.During his editorial work Harald Vogel was able to identify the main scribe of the important Sweelinck source "Lynar A1" as Andreas Düben, who was active in Stockholm later in his life. As a pupil of Sweelinck's during the last years of the master's life, Düben had access to his manuscripts. The scribe's close connection to these autographs lends further weight to "Lynar A1" as the principal source.
The edition consistently offers the authentic form of the works derived from the main source. For the user, this means clearer performing material which, unlike other present-day transcription attempts, does not overload the music text. The many secondary variants are listed in detail in the Critical Commentary, inasmuch as they are essential to an understanding of the work. For the first time, the "practical source edition" offers a modern-day transcription that discloses all the information value of the source to the user.
Peculiarities from the primary sources have been kept as such, and special aspects of the staff notation and letter tablature were also maintained inasmuch as this was feasible. This applies to note values, the lengths of measures, the distribution of the hands, beaming and many other aspects; only the accidentals and dots extending over bar-lines have been adapted to modern-day notation. Each volume contains a general introduction to Sweelinck's life and works, as well as to the state of the sources, the notation and the editorial technique. In addition, each book also contains an essay on its specific contents written by the Sweelinck experts. All of these texts are printed in German and English. The publication is offered at a modest price and rounded off with a Critical Commentary (in German) that is predominantly in tabular form.