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----------------------------------------------- Three months ago, his grandmother died, and then they had moved to this house. 'I will not live there again, until it belongs to me,' his father had said. Though the old man lay upstairs, after a second stroke, and lingered, giving no trouble. The boy was taken up to see him. 'You must not be afraid,' his father said, nervously, 'he is a very old man, now, very ill.' 'I am never afraid.' And that was no more than the truth, though his father would not have believed it. It will be very moving, Joseph Hooper had decided, with the three generations together and one upon his death bed, the eldest son of the eldest son of the eldest son. For, in middle age, he was acquiring a dynastic sense. Bit it had not been moving. The old man had breathed noisily, and dribbled a little, and never woken. The sick room smelled sour. 'Ah, well,' Mr Hooper had said, and coughed, 'he is very ill, you know. But I am glad you have seen him.' 'Why?' 'Well - because you are his only grandson. His heir, I suppose. Yes. It is only as it should be.' The boy looked towards the bed. His skin is already dead, he thought, it is old and dry. But he saw that the bones of the eye sockets, and the nose and jaw, showed through it, and gleamed. Everything about him, from the stubble of hair down to the folded line of sheet, was bleached and grey-ish white. 'All he looks like,' Edmund Hooper said, 'is one of his dead old moths.' 'That is not the way to speak! You must show respect.' His father had led him out.Though I am only able to show respect now, he thought, to behave towards my father as I should, because he is dying, he is almost gone away from me. Edmund Hooper, walking down the great staircase into the wood-panelled hall, thought nothing of his grandfather. But later, he remembered the moth-like whiteness of the very old skin. Now, they had moved, Joseph Hooper was master in his own house. He said, 'I shall be away in London a good deal. I cannot live here the whole time, even in your holidays.' 'That won't be anything new, will it?' He looked away from his son's gaze, irritated. I do my best, he thought, it is not the easiest of tasks, without a woman beside me. 'Ah, but we shall be looking into things,' he said, 'I shall see about getting you a friend, as well as someone to look after us in this house. Something is soon to be done.' Edmund Hooper thought, I don't want anything to be done about it, nobody must come here, as he walked between the yew trees at the bottom of the garden. 'You had better not go into the Red Room without asking me. I shall keep the key in here.' 'I wouldn't do any harm there, why can't I go?' 'Well - there are a good many valuable things. That is all. Really.' Joseph Hooper sighed, sitting at his desk, in the room facing the long lawn. 'And - I cannot think that it will be a room to interest you much.' For the time being, the house was to be kept as it was, until he could decide which of the furniture to be rid of, which of their own to bring. He moved his hands uneasily about over the papers on his desk, oppressed by them, uncertain where he should begin. Though he was accustomed to paperwork. But his father's affair had been left in disarray, he was ashamed of the paraphernalia of death. 'Can I have the key now, then?' 'May...' 'O.K.' 'The key for the Red Room?' 'Yes.' 'Well...' Mr Joseph Hooper moved his hand towards the small, left side drawer in the desk, underneath the drawer where sealing wax had always been kept. But then, said, 'No. No, you had really much better be playing cricket in the sun, Edmund, something of that sort. You have been shown everything there is in the Red Room.' 'There's nobody to play cricket with.' 'Ah, well now, I shall soon be doing something about that, you shall have your friend.' 'Anyway, I don't like cricket.' 'Edmund, you will not be difficult please, I have a good deal to do, I cannot waste time in foolish arguments.' Hooper went out, wishing he had said nothing. He wanted nothing to be done, nobody should come here. But he knew where to find the key. He is like his mother, thought Mr Joseph Hooper. He has the same way of not bothering to explain, and of making secrets, the same hardness and cool way of looking. It was six years since the death of Ellen Hooper. The marriage had not been happy. When his son, who so resembled her, was away at school, there were long spells when it was hard for him to remember what she looked like. Joseph Hooper turned back to answering the letter which had come in reply to his advertisement. The house, which was called Warings, had been built by the boy's great-grandfather, and so it was not very old. In those days, there had been a large village, and the first Joseph Hooper had owned a good deal of land. Now, the village had shrunk, people had left for the towns and there had been few new-comers, few new buildings. Derne became like an old busy port which has been deserted by the sea. All the Hooper land had been sold off, piece by piece. But there was still Warings, built on a slope leading out of the village, some distance from any other house. The first Joseph Hooper had been a banker, and rising in the world, when, at the age of thirty, he had built the house. 'I am not ashamed of it,' he had told his friends in the City. And indeed, he had spent more on it than he could well afford. He hoped to grow into it, as a child grows into over-large shoes. He was an ambitious man. He had brought the younger daughter of a minor baronet here, as his bride, and set about finding his family, consolidating a position, so that he could afford the house he had built. He had succeeded with no margin, so that, bit by bit, the surrounding land which belonged to him had been sold. 'That is the history of Warings,' the present Joseph Hooper had told his son, Edmund, taking him solemnly around. 'You should be very proud.' He did not see why. It was an ordinary house, he thought, an ugly house, nothing to boast of. But the idea that it was his, the idea of a family history, pleased him. His father said, 'You will come to understand what it means to be a Hooper, as you get older.' Though he thought, what does it mean, it means little, to himself. And he shrank from the expression in the boy's eyes, from his knowingness. He was his mother's son. Warings was ugly. It was entirely graceless, rather tall and badly angled, built of dark red brick. At the front, and on both sides, there was the lawn, sloping downwards to a gravelled drive, and then into the lane, and without any tree or flower-bed to relieve the bald greenness. Up the drive, and at the back of the house, bunched between the yew trees, were the great bushes of rhododendron. The yew trees had stood here before the house, Warings, had been built around them, for the first Joseph Hooper had admired their solidity and denseness, the fact that they grew so slowly and were the longest lived of all trees. He had planted the rhododendrons, too, not at all for their brief, dramatic show of colour in May and June, but for their dark green, leathery leaves and toughness of stem, their substantial look. He liked their gathered shapes, seen from the end of the drive. Inside the house, everything was predictable, the high-ceilinged rooms, with heavy, sashed windows, the oak wall panelling and the oak doors, and the oak staircase, the massive furniture. Little had been changed since the beginning. Joseph Hooper had spent that part of his childhood before school, and between terms, in this house, and he did not like it, he had unhappy memories of Warings. Yet now, at the age of fifty one, he admitted that he was a Hooper, his father's son, and so he had come to admire the solidity and the gloom. He thought, it is a prepossessing house. For he knew himself to be an ineffectual man, without any strength or imposing qualities, a man who was liked and humoured but little regarded, a man who had failed - but not dramatically, as one falling from a great height, who attracts attention. He was a dull man, a man who got by. He thought, I know myself and am depressed by what I know. But now, with his father gone, he could stand before this house, and have it lend him both importance and support, he could speak of 'Warings - my place in the country', it would make up for a good deal. A narrow path led down between the yew trees into a small copse. That, and a field beyond it, were all that was now left of the Hooper land. The boy's room, high up at the back of the house, overlooked the copse. He had chosen it. His father had said, 'But look at all the others, so much larger and brighter. You had much better take the old playroom and have that to yourself.' But he had wanted this, a narrow room with a tall window. Above him, there were only the attics. When he woke, now, there was an enormous moon, so that at first, he thought it was already dawn, and that he had missed his chance. He got out of bed. There was a slight, persistent movement of the wind through the yew tree branches, and the elms and oaks of the copse, and a rustling of high grasses in the field. The moonlight, penetrating a thin space between two trees, caught the stream that ran through its centre, so that, now and then, as the branches stirred, there was a gleam of water. Edmund Hooper looked down. The night was very warm. Outside, on his landing, there was no moonlight, and he felt his way in the dark, first on the carpeted upper staircase, and then, on the last two flights, on the bare, polished oak. He went forward quite deliberately, being sure of his way, and unafraid. There was no sound from the room where his father slept. Mrs Boland only came here during the day. Mrs Boland did not like Warings. It is too dark, she said, it smells un-lived in, of old things, like a museum. And she had gone about trying to let in light and fresh air, where she could. But Derne was low-lying, and the air that summer was close and still. Hooper crossed the wide hall, and here too, because it was the front of the house, no moonlight came. Behind him, the wood of the staircase settled back upon itself, after he had trodden it. At first, he could not decide which key it might be. There were three together in the left hand drawer. But one was longer, with a smudge of red paint across the rim. Red paint for the Red Room. It was at the back of the house, facing the copse, so that when he pushed open the door, he saw it in full moonlight, almost as bright as day, when the lights always had to go on, because of the yew branches, overhanging the windows. Hooper stepped inside. It had been designed, by the first Joseph Hooper, as a library, and there were still the glass cases, reaching from floor to ceiling, all around the room, filled with books. But nobody ever read, here. The first Joseph Hooper had not even done so. Edmund Hooper examined the titles of some of the books the day when he was brought here to see his dying grandfather, and they were of no interest. There were bound volumes of the Banker's Journal and the Stockbroker's Gazette, and complete sets of the Victorian novelists, never opened. It was his grandfather, recently dead, who had started to make use of the Red Room. He had been a lepidopterist; he had filled it with glass showcases of moths and butterflies. It was like the roof of a museum, for there was no carpet of the polished oak boards, and the display cases stood in two long rows, from one end to the other. There were trays of insects, too, which you could pull out from recesses in the walls. 'Your grandfather was one of the most important collectors of his day,' Joseph Hooper had said, showing the boy around. 'He was known and respected the world over. This collection is worth a great deal of money.' Though what use is it, he thought, what use, why should I not sell it? He hated it violently. He had been brought in here, afternoon upon afternoon, during the summers of his boyhood, led all about the room from cabinet to cabinet, he was lectured and instructed, he had been forced to watch as the insects were removed from their poison-fume bottles with tweezers, spread out and then down through their horny bodies on to the card. 'This will all belong to you,' his father had said, 'you must learn the value of what you are to inherit.' He had not dared to rebel, he had gone back into the Red Room every holiday, feigning interest, acquiring knowledge, disguising his fear. Until, at last, he had grown older and found excuses for spending all of his holidays away from the house. 'It is easy for you to despise and shrug your shoulders,' his father had said, seeing how it was. 'You pay no attention to what a man has done. I am an international authority, but you think nothing of that. Well, let me see you make a name for yourself, in some way or other.' Joseph Hooper had known that he would never do so. He tried to salvage a little conscience by teaching his own boy. 'It is a splendid thing for a man to become world famous in that way,' he said. 'Throughout his life, your grandfather devoted all of his free time - for it was not his profession, you understand, it was only his hobby, he had a job of work to do. Every ounce of his energy apart from that went into building up this collection.' For ought not a boy to feel some pride in his family's importance? Edmund Hooper had gone about the Red Room, looking closely, saying nothing. 'I have seen you catching butterflies in jam jars and so on,' Joseph Hooper said, 'I daresay that is a sign of interest, I daresay that you will follow in his footsteps more than I ever did.' 'The butterflies were just a craze last term. We caught larvae and watched them hatch. Nobody's interested now.' He walked to the window and looked out onto the copse, swept by the first heavy rain of summer.He did not say whether the stiff moths, inside their glass cases, interested him or not. 'Why didn't you bring me here before?' 'You came - you were brought here as a baby.' 'That's years ago.' 'Well - yes.' 'I suppose you quarrelled with grandfather then.' Joseph Hooper sighed. 'That is not the sort of thing to say, it is not something we need to be concerned with now.' But he understood, looking at the boy, a little of how it had been with his own father, he felt the need to make some kind of reparation. I am not a hard man, he thought, I have more to regret about my own son than he had about me. For he knew that he had failed, from the very beginning, to ingratiate himself with Edmund. The small key that fitted all the glass cases was kept inside a Bible on one of the lower shelves. At first, Hooper walked up and down the room softly, looking at all the moths, laid out on white card, and at the labels beneath them. The names pleased him - Hawk Moths, Footmen Moths, Lutestring Moths. He read some of them out to himself, in a low voice. Moonlight came through the window, coldly, onto the glass. Above the wooden panelling of the Red Room were the animals, the stag's head with antlers branching out over the doorway, and the cases of grey fish, against their painted backgrounds of weed and water, the stuffed bodies of weasel, stoat and fox, glass-eyed and posed in stilted attitudes. Because of the old man's long last illness, and the neglect of the housekeeper, it was some time since they had been cleaned. Mr Joseph Hooper said that the animals should be sold, they were not a matter of family pride, they had only been bought in a lot by the first Joseph Hooper, who wanted to equip his library in the manner of a sporting person. Hooper stopped in front of a case at the far end of the room, beside the uncurtained window. He looked down at the flat, fragile shapes. He was fascinated by them, excited. He inserted the small key and lifted up the glass lid. It was very heavy and stiff from disuse. A puff of old, stale-smelling air came into his face. The largest moth of all was in the centre of the case - 'Acheroptia atropos' - though he could only just make out the writing on the card, the ink had faded to a dark yellow in the sun. 'Death's Head Hawk Moth.' He stretched out his hand, put his finger under the head of the pin and slid it up, out of the thick, striped body. At once, the whole moth, already years dead, disintegrated, collapsing into a soft, formless heap of dark dust. ------------------------------------------------ Woot! That's chapter one! Chapter two up soon! |
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I'm no expert on Ginseng, but I remember that quite a bit was grown commercially in Wisconsin -- under shade cloth so it wouldn't get too hot or too much sun since it is an understory plant in Midwestern & Eastern forests in nature. I suppose you could always try and then write a report fior us.... ;^). |
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My understanding is that Ginseng is quite difficult to grow and usually grows in a natural woodsy site. People here have tried growing it and it is quite a process and needs lots of artifical shade. I'm wondering if your area is going to be too warm and sunny? Also, it takes several years to produce a crop. Good Luck ! |
Ginseng needs cold weather. You might be the first to try growing it and digging it up to give it the "chill", then re-planting. It needs about 78% shade in the summer too, with damp, cooler condition like those found on the northern slope of a hill. It grows wild here in z6b TN. Not trying to scare you from trying it, anything can be grown anywhere if you can control the environment. |
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The Colloquium, which is hosted by the Australian Gas Industry Trust (AGIT), was attended by 29 young members of the gas industry, who were selected from 45 nominees and who represent all sectors, including upstream, transmission, distribution, retail and appliance manufacturers.
The objective of Gas Speak is to encourage an awareness and knowledge of the gas industry in Australia by providing a forum for young people to present papers, chair sessions, conduct syndicate discussions, and develop the art of self-expression and communication. Gas Speak has been a successful and highly regarded gas industry event since 1982, and provides an opportunity for organisations to develop their younger staff and their communication skills, industry awareness and industry networks.
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Federal Minister for Resources and Energy Martin Ferguson provided the keynote address to the delegates with a run-down of the current state and expected future of the industry. AGIT Director and Australian Pipeline Industry Association (APIA) Chief Executive Cheryl Cartwright then provided an industry update, explained the objectives, activities and members of the AGIT, and highlighted AGIT's involvement with the International Gas Union as the Australian Charter member. Ms Cartwright urged the delegates to seize the opportunity being provided by their employers, the industry and AGIT, saying that she wished such a forum had been available in her early career.
Article continues below…On the Monday, Louise Carter from Performance Partnership provided delegates with invaluable advice, comments and tips on presentation skills, overcoming presentation anxiety and on using PowerPoint effectively.
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The Annual AGIT Gas Industry Dinner, which is held as part of Gas Speak to encourage informal interaction between delegates, mentors and industry representatives, was held on 11 September at The Boat House by the Lake. The guest speaker, Sam Cawthorn, provided a motivational speech on "bouncing forward", and shared the highs and lows of his journey through life so far, from when he was involved in a major car accident which left him without a right arm and with a permanent disability in his right leg.
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Generic Name: fluticasone topical
Note: This page contains information about the side effects of fluticasone topical. Some of the dosage forms included on this document may not apply to the brand name Cutivate.
Not all side effects for Cutivate may be reported. You should always consult a doctor or healthcare professional for medical advice. Side effects can be reported to the FDA here.
For the Consumer
Applies to fluticasone topical: topical application cream, topical application lotion, topical application ointment
In addition to its needed effects, some unwanted effects may be caused by fluticasone topical (the active ingredient contained in Cutivate). In the event that any of these side effects do occur, they may require medical attention.
You should check with your doctor immediately if any of these side effects occur when taking fluticasone topical:
More common- Dry skin
- Breakdown of the skin
- burning or stinging skin
- hives or welts
- irritation and redness of the skin
- itching
- numbness of the fingers
- raised, dark red, or wart-like spots on the skin, especially when used on the face
- skin rash
- Pain
- red rash with watery, yellow-colored, or pus filled blisters
- skin rash, encrusted, scaly, and oozing
- swelling
- tenderness
- thick yellow to honey-colored crusts
- warmth on the skin
- Abdominal or stomach pain
- backache
- black, tarry stools
- bleeding gums
- blistering, burning, crusting, dryness, or flaking of the skin
- blood in the urine or stools
- blurred vision
- chest pain
- cough or hoarseness
- dry mouth
- facial hair growth in females
- fever or chills
- flushed, dry skin
- fractures
- fruit-like breath odor
- full or round face, neck, or trunk
- increased hunger
- increased thirst or urination
- irritability
- itching, scaling, severe redness, soreness, or swelling of the skin
- loss of sexual desire or ability
- lower back or side pain
- menstrual irregularities
- muscle wasting
- nausea
- painful or difficult urination
- pinpoint red spots on the skin
- redness and scaling around the mouth
- shortness of breath
- sneezing
- sore throat
- sores, ulcers, or white spots on the lips or in the mouth
- sugar in the urine
- sweating
- swelling of the throat
- swollen glands
- thinning of the skin with easy bruising, especially when used on the face or where the skin folds together (e.g. between the fingers)
- tightness in the chest
- troubled breathing
- unexplained weight loss
- unusual bleeding or bruising
- unusual tiredness or weakness
- vomiting
- wheezing
Some of the side effects that can occur with fluticasone topical may not need medical attention. As your body adjusts to the medicine during treatment these side effects may go away. Your health care professional may also be able to tell you about ways to reduce or prevent some of these side effects. If any of the following side effects continue, are bothersome or if you have any questions about them, check with your health care professional:
Less common- Body aches or pain
- change in hearing
- common cold
- diarrhea
- difficulty with breathing
- ear congestion
- ear drainage
- earache or pain in the ear
- headache
- loss of voice
- nasal congestion
- runny nose
- Burning, itching, and pain in hairy areas, or pus at the root of the hair
- stuffy nose
- Acne or pimples
- burning and itching of the skin with pinhead-sized red blisters
- increased hair growth on the forehead, back, arms, and legs
- lightening of normal skin color
- lightening of treated areas of dark skin
- reddish purple lines on the arms, face, legs, trunk, or groin
For Healthcare Professionals
Applies to fluticasone topical: topical cream, topical lotion, topical ointment
Skin atrophy may become evident within one to two months of use and is due to the inhibitory effect of corticosteroids on collagen formation. Skin on the face, axilla, and groin are most susceptible to the adverse long-term effects of topical corticosteroids. Use of high potency topical corticosteroids on these areas should be minimized or avoided.
Topical corticosteroid use may suppress local immune responses, rendering the skin more susceptible to infections. Folliculitis has occasionally been reported.
Perioral dermatitis or rosacea like dermatitis has occurred in patients treated with potent topical corticosteroids who are of seborrheic skin type. This condition may flare temporarily upon discontinuation of topical steroids, prompting patients to continue their use. If topical corticosteroids are discontinued, this flare and the initial dermatitis generally resolve over a few weeks.
Worsening of psoriasis has occurred in a few patients.[Ref]
Local adverse effects have included burning, itching, dryness, redness, or irritation, especially if applied to denuded skin. Also, acneiform eruptions, folliculitis, hypopigmentation, blisters, hypertrichosis, and infection have been reported. Long-term use of topical corticosteroids may result in skin atrophy and thinning, and the development of striae, telangiectasia, subcutaneous hemorrhage, and easy bruising and bleeding. Allergic contact dermatitis has been reported.[Ref]
Endocrine side effects have rarely included symptoms of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis suppression. These effects are more likely when higher potency topical corticosteroids are used over extensive areas and when occlusive dressings are used. HPA axis suppression has been reported with topical fluticasone when used at doses of 30 grams per day on patients with diseased skin.[Ref]
Nervous system
Nervous system side effects have included lightheadedness in less than 1% of patients treated.[Ref]
Dermatologic side effects have included burning and pruritus at the site of application. Postmarketing experience has included reports of erythema, edema/swelling, bleeding, and a lack of efficacy.[Ref]
In a controlled study, the incidence of burning and pruritus occurred in 6% of both fluticasone treated patients and those who received vehicle only.[Ref]
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Things I Can't Stand About My Insulin Pump
Part 1
My insulin pump has changed my life. My A1C has improved, I've felt more energetic, and I've controlled my diabetes more effectively overall. It has been the biggest and best change in my diabetes treatment since I started on insulin a quarter-century ago.
But it hasn't all been great. Indeed, actually living with a pump day in and day out proves how far the technology has to go. We haven't reached the age of human-robot integration. As a matter of fact, we don't even know when that age will begin.
My point is simple: My relationship with my pump is complicated. I love it for the control it gives me over my disease, but I detest it for its flakiness, its arbitrary malfunctions, and the host of tiny aggravations that turn it from a blessing into a curse.
Here, then, are five of my pump aggravations. Stay tuned for the next installment, when I describe five more ways that my pump aggravates me, and perhaps you as well.
The Lousy Adhesive
Depending on your pump, this might not be a problem. But I have one of the disposable pumps that attaches right to your body. The insulin reservoir is in the body of the unit. While this type of pump avoids the dreaded tubing of other models, it puts a lot of weight (literally!) on a thin piece of bandage-like adhesive. If that adhesive fails, the pump begins to sag and eventually falls off entirely.
I've tried to fix it. I stick on adhesive bandages in a futile race against time. Sometimes I gird the entire pump with three or four bandages, which rather negates the futuristic effect. Sure, the worst that happens is a simple pump replacement. But why can't that adhesive just stick a teensy bit tighter?
The Beeping
All pumps need regular maintenance, of course. Reservoirs must be replaced or refilled, and cannulas must be removed and re-inserted. But do the pump control units have to be so annoying about it? My pump beeps for four hours before it expires. It beeps when only 20 units of insulin remain. It beeps when the time is up. And if it isn't changed immediately, it continues to beep at aggravatingly random intervals, just to make sure that you're paying attention. I am! Honest!
The Bizarre Basal Rates
You spend weeks, if not months, collaborating with your diabetes educator to find a perfect basal rate. It spikes when your blood sugar spikes and drops when your blood sugar drops. It's a perfect mirror of your day-to-day life with your diabetes. Until the day that it isn't.
Why doesn't it work anymore? No one quite knows. Perhaps you've lost weight. Maybe your diet has changed. Maybe your pump has decided to rebel against you. Whatever the case, you have to start over. And any change that you make, however small, can mean a string of other changes. Will it work? You have no way of knowing. You'll just have to wait and see.
It's enough to make one yearn for the days of NPH.
Hello? Insulin? Where Did You Go?
Everyone on insulin injections has had the experience of giving a shot and then not seeing the expected results. Instead of going down, your blood sugar goes up. While that's frustrating, it's easy enough to change injection sites and try again in a couple of hours. In insulin pump land, however, if a cannula is inserted in a bad spot, you have to start over: Time for a new infusion set or a new disposable pump.
The answer, as pump companies and educators will tell you, is to change and rotate infusion spots. For me, at least, that's easier said than done. No site works as well, or as consistently, as the abdomen, and that means that bad spots keep cropping up.
The Nagging Pains
This may sound petty, and perhaps I shouldn't expect anything different since I'm walking around with a cannula inserted in my stomach 24/7. But it's one of the less pleasant sensations around to feel that bit of tubing when I twist my torso or bend down to tie a shoelace. It breaks the illusion, somehow. Yes, you still have diabetes. Yes, you still have an insulin drip inside your body 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Darn.
That being said, I understand that cannulas used to be even larger and cause more discomfort. We should appreciate what we have, I suppose.
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Fruits, Proteins Can Help Thwart Kidney Disease
For those living with type 2 diabetes, kidney disease is unfortunately one of the associated risks.
But according to a new study, eating a diet rich in fruits and complete protein can go a long way toward preventing it, further emphasizing the important role diet plays in keeping diabetes symptoms under control.
High blood sugar forces the kidneys to work harder than they should, and can potentially lead to more debilitating problems including chronic kidney disease (CKD) and kidney failure. Though kidney failure impacts less than 10 percent of those with type 2 diabetes, those who do develop kidney failure will require either dialysis or a kidney transplant in order to survive.
Knowing all the right preventative moves can lessen the risks, according to the new study from Canadian researchers.
In addition to eating a diet packed with fruits and complete protein, moderate alcohol intake - usually seen as a glass of red wine a day - was also linked to a lower risk of kidney disease and death, researchers said.
The study, designed to examine the association between diet and kidney disease among those with type 2 diabetes, included more than 6,200 diabetes patients, who researchers tracked over a 5 and a half-year period.
Almost 32 percent developed chronic kidney disease and 8 percent died during the study period, but those with the healthiest diets - including those who ate more than three pieces of fruit a week - were less likely to develop CKD than those with a less healthy diet.
"A healthy diet and moderate intake of alcohol may decrease the incidence or progression of CKD among individuals with type 2 diabetes. Sodium intake, within a wide range, and normal protein intake are not associated with CKD," concluded Daniela Dunkler, of McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, and colleagues.
The study appeared last month in the JAMA Internal Medicine journal.
Sources of complete protein - proteins that contain all nine essential amino acids rather than just a few - include meat, poultry and fish, eggs and dairy products, quinoa, and soybeans.
Other foods that are smart choices for kidney health, according to experts, include foods rich in antioxidants such red bell peppers, cabbage, garlic, onions, apples, cauliflower, strawberries, blueberries, cherries, raspberries, cranberries and red grapes, which can protect your kidneys from damage and inflammation.
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World of Warcraft played using Kinect
Make gestures, not war.
Kinect has been hacked so many times, and in so many ways, we have actually lost count. So we are just going to present this without boring you with previous details (not that we can, we have lost count remember?).
An institute for Creative Technologies, based out of University of Southern Carolina, led by Evan Suma has created an open-source 'middle-ware' that allows players to control World of Warcraft with physical gestures using Microsoft's motion-camera Kinect.
The software is called FAAST, or Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (yeah, we are just going to call it FAAST), which translates gestures into keyboard commands – so it's like custom keyboard mapping but with physical movements instead of keys.
Currently FAAST is pretty basic, with left hand for controlling the camera, right hand to select attacks, and hunching for character movement, but the devs say the repertoire of gestures will increase over the next few weeks.
Of course, the program is no replacement for the keyboard and mouse. "If you're in casual play, at a basic level you can go around and do enough spells for common tasks. You can grind for leveling, go on quests … but this isn't going to be a substitute for your keyboard and mouse," said Suma.


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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date: 25 September 1997
Number of pages: 352
When it comes to the craft of writing, bestselling novelist David Lodge finds much to celebrate, analyze, and confess. In this absorbing collection of seventeen essays he ponders the work of writers he particularly admires, current and past trends in literary style, and the mechanics of the craft itself. Revealing, enlightening pieces on Graham Greene, James Joyce, Kingsley Amis and Anthony Burgess are interspersed with personal reflections on Lodge's own artistic and technical struggles. His insights into the contemporary world of publishing, and mass culture in general, are both trenchant and refreshing. As entertaining as it is edifying, this collection of fine writing about writing will prove valuable to students of the art as well as to Lodge's many, loyal readers who wish to know more about his own work.
Whether you are looking for instruction or entertainment, this eagerly awaited new collection from the author of The Art of Fiction has something for every reader or writer. With refreshing candour, Lodge turns his incisive critical attention to his own profession, assessing the achievements of the writers who have influenced his own work, scrutinizing the motives of biographers, pondering the merits of courses in creative writing - revealing the secrets of his own workshop in the process - and pulling the rug from under certain fashionable critical theories. (Kirkus UK)
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Re: How STRATFOR got Hugo Chavez's attention
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Email-ID | 26757 |
Date | 2010-04-06 05:24:29 |
From | email@example.com |
To | firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com |
From: Reva Bhalla <email@example.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 22:18:05 -0500
To: George Friedman<firstname.lastname@example.com>
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Subject: Re: How STRATFOR got Hugo Chavez's attention
to clarify, noticiero digital posted the link to the interactive graphic
that shows the plants with capacity and output. Have been told by two
other sources that our other coverage since then is being circulated to el
presidente and the electricity minister. we're obviously not the only ones
watching this, but the govt has started to heavily censor their data.
We'll try to break through that by getting a remote reading on the water
level of the Guri dam through another intel source with that capability.
If we can manage that, we will really freak Hugo out.
On Apr 5, 2010, at 9:29 PM, George Friedman wrote:
And so you all know, Reva was the one who got the intel that drove Hugo
up the wall.
Reva Bhalla wrote:
George wanted to share this with the rest of the Strat-team...
As you may have noticed, we've been covering the electricity crisis in
Venezuela in a lot of detail. The situation is turning really critical
there and the Chavez government is facing a real litmus test.
Our coverage is apparently being followed intensely now in Venezuela.
Our own sources are getting forwarded our analysis by ministers within
the government, engineers, opposition journalists, etc.
One particular Web site, Noticiero Digital, which is under attack
right now by the Chavez government, has posted our analysis on their
site. The best part is that the post from Noticiero Digital says
Chavez "shouted at the sky" when he realized that the ' gringos' are
monitoring the electricity crisis with very detailed information that
is being published on a "well-known Web site" that "gringos" respect.
That well known gringo Web site that they link to is STRATFOR (see
below). We also have a source in Caracas who is passing our reports
to the electricity minister. The good thing is that we're also calling
out Noticiero Digital for circulating fake photographs of the Guri dam
level in our analysis, so Chavez will have a more difficult time
branding us a CIA group backing the opposition. My ultimate goal is
to get Chavez to shake his fist at STRATFOR during his weekly Alo
Presidente TV address.
Here is the noticiero digital posting citing STRATFOR.
Publicado: Dom Abr 04, 2010 4:03 pm
Ti? 1/2tulo del mensaje: (Rumor): Chi? 1/2vez 'pega grito al
Me informan que el Presidente Chi? 1/2vez a 'pegado el grito al cielo'
cuando fui? 1/2 informado del monitoreo que realizan los gringos de la
crisis electrica venezolana y de lo detallado de la informacii? 1/2n
que manejan a travi? 1/2s de una pi? 1/2gina WEB muy conocida.
Sin mas que agregar les coloco el link de la pi? 1/2gina para que sea
Usted quien valore la informacii? 1/2n que se manejan los gringos al
Ver aqui?
1/2: http://www1.stratfor.com/images/interactive/Venezuela_Crisis.html
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pines are conifers.. and there is a conifer forum... where this has been addressed many times... but i dont care where you post ... burn is a function of winter temps... and wind burn .... aggravated by winter sun ... it is VERY NORMAL in recent transplants ... and stressed plants.. and plants that are not fully established ... new growth will not be affected .. all pines shed their needles.. sooner or later .... so... what dan said ... the only thing you might have done.. was to give it a thorough deep drink in late fall.. so that it went into winter with proper water levels.. especially if drought was an issue last summer ... water it properly all this year .... especially this fall do you know how to properly water it??? ken |
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NAB and Others Appeal Licensing Fees
Washington - Jul 15, 2002 - The NAB and several radio group owners have filed an appeal to the ruling from the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania dated August 1, 2001, which grants summary judgment to the U.S. Copyright Office and the Recording Industry Association of America.
The NAB lawsuit arises from a disagreement concerning the copyright law's treatment of public performances of sound recordings that occur during streaming of radio broadcasts over the Internet.
The NAB cited the history behind the recent ruling and pointed out that the intent of the RIAA was to protect the interest of record sales, primarily due to potential losses from services such as Napster. The NAB further states that these concerns did not and do not apply to streamed radio signals because these services provide a listening service and not a distribution scheme.
The appeal calls the action of the Copyright Office and the RIAA "digital hair-splitting" and in doing so "the Copyright Office contorted the plain meaning of Section 114(d)(1)(A), misread the legislative history that supports that plain meaning, and thereby imposed a legal liability upon the radio broadcasting industry that Congress never intended."
The summary of the NAB appeal states, "AM/FM streaming - the Internet transmission by an FCC licensed radio broadcaster of the program fare offered by such broadcaster pursuant to its FCC license - constitutes a "nonsubscription broadcast transmission" within the meaning of Section 114(d)(1)(A) of the Copyright Act, and thereby is exempt from the limited performance right in sound recordings conferred by Section 106(6) of the Act. This is apparent from the plain meaning of Section 114(d)(1)(A) and the Act's supporting definitions."
The appeal was filed by Bonneville International, Clear Channel Communications, Cox Radio, Emmis Communications, Entercom Communications, Susquehanna Radio and the National Association of Broadcasters.
A summary of the appeal is available at www.nab.org/Newsroom/PressRel/Filings/StreamSum071502.pdf. The entire filing can be viewed at www.nab.org/Newsroom/PressRel/Filings/Stream071502.pdf.
FCC Shuts Down LA Transmitter Site for RFR
Los Angeles - Jul 12, 2002 - The CGC Communicator reports that the FCC shut down the Mt. Wilson transmitter site because of RF radiation levels in a publicly accessible area. Read the account of the entire event at www.bext.com/_CGC/2002/cgc523.htm.
FCC Revises Regulatory Fees for FY2002
Washington - Jul 3, 2002 - The FCC has revised its Schedule of Regulatory Fees to collect $218,757,000, as required by Congress for Fiscal Year 2002. Section 9(a) of the Communications Act, as amended, authorizes the Commission to assess and collect annual regulatory fees to recover the costs of its enforcement, policy and rulemaking, international and user information activities.
The Report and Order identifies the revised fee amounts for each fee category. This information will be published in the Federal Register and will be available on the FCC's website at www.fcc.gov/fees/regfees/2002regfees.
The action was taken by the Commission on July 3, 2002, by Report and Order (FCC 02-205) by Chairman Powell, Commissioners Abernathy, Copps, and Martin.
Comedy Central Film Builds Radio Systems Set
Bridgeport, NJ - Jun 25, 2002 - Currently in production in New York City, Comedy Centrals' first original film, Porn n' Chicken, directed by Lawrence Trilling, is based on Yale Universities' controversial underground club that received national attention for its mission to meet every week to do just that: eat chicken and watch pornography.
In one scene, the club's founders visit the campus radio station to be interviewed. Set decorator, Carol Silverman, had to build a realistic-looking college radio station for the shot. She asked Mark Olkowsky, vice president of engineering for WCBS (CBS/Infinity) in New York, for help. Olkowsky knew that Radio Systems, the company that rebuilt the studios for the New York flagship station, WCBS-AM, two years earlier, had a college radio heritage and sent Silverman there.
Silverman's job was to make the station look like the seasoned studios she had recently seen at nearby Barnard and Columbia Universities. When Radio Systems told her that the only used equipment that it had available was trade-in equipment that was "really beat," she knew she had the right source. The next week, a truck was loaded with consoles, racks and all manner of studio equipment to be reassembled for the shoot in New-York, coincidentally, a long-abandoned theological Seminaries' radio studio. The set was completed with the mandatory wall collage of torn record company posters and album jackets.
Porn n' Chicken will air on Comedy Central in the fourth quarter of 2002. Watch for the college radio station scene that will surely take you back to your own days of radio without a spot to air or a music rotation to follow.
The college radio studio built for the film by Radio Systems.
Klotz Announces Program for RoadShowCase
Atlanta - Jul 9, 2002 - Jeff Detweiler, broadcast technology manager for Ibiquity Digital, will be on hand to discuss implementation and technology on August 2, 2002 as part of Klotz Digital's Roadshowcase.
Detweiler carries more than 20 years of experience in the radio industry. As broadcast technology manager for Ibiquity Digital, he manages the introduction and launch of in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital audio broadcasting technology to radio stations worldwide, coordinating conversion requirements for stations, including building conversion packages with transmission equipment manufacturers. Additionally, he sits on the Advisory Rollout Board and manages the technical aspects of Ibiquity's EASE (Early Adopter Station Enhancement) program, which provides free station assessments for digital upgrades. Prior to joining Ibiquity Digital, Detweiler held the position of worldwide sales and marketing nanager for QEI as well as northeast sales engineer for Allied Broadcast Equipment. He has also served as chief engineer at WWWE/WDOK, Cleveland, and WHWH/WPST, Princeton, NJ.
Roadshowcase is presented by Klotz Digital America in cooperation with the Los Angeles Chapter 47 of the Society of Broadcast Engineers at the Holiday Inn Media Center, Burbank, CA. Studio Technology and Wohler Technologies have joined the growing list of vendors participating in this interactive, hands-on showcase. Radio and TV broadcast engineers and programming personnel in the Southern California area are invited to experience a free day of equipment exhibits, demonstrations and debuts from a host of broadcast manufacturers including 360 Systems, Thales, Klotz Digital, Omnia, Moseley, ERI, Henry Engineering, Telos, Graham-Patten Systems, Orban, Gepco, Broadcasters General Store, Symetrix, Auralex, Radio Systems and RF Engineers.
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Sporting News Radio Taps Netia Again
Boston and Los Angeles - Jul 18, 2002 - Sporting New Radio, a user of Netia's Radio-Assist 7, has ordered equipment for its two new sites in Boston and Los Angeles. The Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles studios for the network will benefit from a complete, audio-digital Radio-Assist system, from production to broadcasting. For Sporting News Radio, this new installation represents a great technological step: The three databases (Chicago, Boston and LA) are entirely accessible by everyone. Sporting News Radio has almost 430 affiliated stations.
Each studio site possesses its own database and produces its documents locally. These three systems are connected by one wide area network (WAN) and they communicate amongst themselves with a T-1 line. From any workstation, the user can consult and upload the audio documents that he needs for his radio program. For the journalists and presenters, this instantaneous sharing of all the audio documents is advantageous and enriches the contents of the sporting news.
Signex Appoints Independent Audio as Exclusive North American Distributor
Portland, ME - Jul 17, 2002 - Signex, a UK patchbay manufacture, has appointed Independent Audio of Portland, ME, as the distributor of its pro audio product line in North America. Contact Independent Audio at 207-773-2424, email@example.com or online at www.independentaudio.com.
Audio-Technica to Distribute Sabine in UK
Alachua, FL - Jul 16, 2002 - Sabine, the manufacturer of the FBX Feedback Exterminator and 2.4GHz spread spectrum wireless systems, has appointed Audio-Technica, of Leeds, England, as its exclusive distributor for the United Kingdom. Audio-Technica will distribute all of Sabine's professional audio and wireless products. Audio-Technica distributes the Audio-Technica product line in the United Kingdom and other countries.
DG Systems Delivers the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Dallas - Jul 12, 2002 - Following the success of its secure and simultaneous digital distribution in early June of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' single and title track By The Way, DG Systems will collaborate with Warner Bros. Records for the delivery of all 15 songs from the Red Hot Chili Pepper's latest album. The distribution of one single from the album per day on 15 consecutive days by DG marks the first time that an entire album has been digitally delivered to radio stations through a private digital network.
From June 21 through July 5, more than 140 radio stations in key markets nationwide simultaneously received one track per day from the new album. Distributing the tracks via DG Music's secure network, which reaches about 7,500 radio stations, allowed Warner Brothers Records to control the timing of the release so that each station received songs at the same time. This allowed Warner Brothers to maintain control of song airplay and quality. The album was released in stores on July 9.
Digigram Completes Acquisition of Innova Son
Montbonnot, France - Jul 15, 2002 - Digigram completed its acquisition of French-based Innova Son, a designer of digital-audio mixing consoles. Innova Son consoles are used for sound reinforcement in live performance such as concerts, broadcast television, theatrical presentations, religious services and corporate events.
The deal completes a move made by Digigram when it acquired a 44.76 percent stake in Innova Son in January 2001. Digigram now owns 100 percent of Innova Son. Innova Son will preserve its own identity and commercial autonomy within the Digigram group and its products will continue to be distributed by the company's established network, while Digigram will provide sales support in markets that the company has yet to penetrate. Innova Son's current management remains in place, with Philippe Royer as managing director in charge of sales and marketing and Gérard Malvot as technical director. Both are co-founders of Innova Son.
The Innova Son acquisition reinforces Digigram's ambition to realize 40 percent of its 2002 activity in the public address market, which includes fixed installations, live sound and sound reinforcement.
Arbitron Reaches Agreement with Infinity and ABC
New York - Jul 15, 2002 - Arbitron has signed contract extensions with Infinity Broadcasting and with ABC Radio, which gives their stations access to quarterly radio ratings up to the release of the Spring 2003 radio survey as well as access to additional services currently provided.
"How the Portable People Meter will affect the scope of our radio ratings services over the next few years is an important topic of discussion between Arbitron and our customers," said Steve Morris, president and chief executive officer, Arbitron. "As we make progress in our market trial of the Portable People Meter and in our joint venture discussions with Nielsen Media Research, we will be better able to articulate the value proposition for the new ratings service. This contract extension is specifically designed to provide the time we need to give our customers the information they have requested in our continuing discussions for the long-term renewals of their ratings contracts."
Herman Becomes Master Distributor for Canare
Miami - Jul 11, 2002 - Herman Electronics, a Miami-based global distributor for the broadcast and audio-visual system integration industry, has entered into an agreement to distribute Canare's broadcast and A/V offerings including specialty connector products, premium cable and wire, A/V materials and broadcast equipment, patch panels and tooling. With its large distribution facility in South Florida, Herman will give the Southeastern U.S., Caribbean and Latin American markets access to a significant amount of Canare inventory within just a few days shipping time. Together, the companies form an integrated resource for a full range of broadcast and A/V solutions.
Allen and Heath has New U.S. Distributor
Agoura Hills, CA - Jul 8, 2002 - North American Pro Audio (NAPA) has been formed to provide United States distribution for British audio mixing console manufacturer Allen & Heath. The new company will operate as Allen & Heath USA. The new representation and distribution agreement goes into effect on Aug. 1, 2002. Previously, A&H representation was handled through the Utah-based Harman Music Group. Allen & Heath left the Harman International Industries group following a management buyout in June 2001, but the two firms continued working together on distribution until now.
The move was the final step to full independence for A&H. NAPA was founded by Lynn P. Martin, an industry veteran who has held executive positions with Harman International and, most recently, with Guitar Center, a musical instrument retailer. Allan Nichols will continue as director of sales in the new company.
NAPA will retain its existing rep network to ensure a smooth transition for the dealers and the customers that they serve. The new company is headquartered at a newly built facility in Agoura Hills, in Los Angeles, with Nichols operating a satellite facility in Nashville, TN, to offer East and West Coast coverage.
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Adelstein Nomination Approved for FCC Post and Senate Vote
Washington - Jul 17, 2002 - A Senate panel has approved the latest nominee for the vacant seat on the Federal Communications Commission. After several months of discussion, Jonathan S. Adelstein, an aide to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle since 1995, will be considered by the full Senate for a vote. It is expected that Adelstein will be approved.
Wilson Joins Harris as VP of Studio Products and Systems
Cincinnati - Jul 16, 2002 - Haldane Wilson has joined Harris' Broadcast Communications Division as vice president, studio products and systems. In his new position, Wilson will be responsible for the overseeing of the day-to-day operations for DTV products, the Harris Broadcast Center, and the Harris Broadcast Systems unit for consoles and facility installations for radio and television.
Wilson brings more than 25 years of management experience to Harris Broadcast in domestic and international Fortune 1,000 businesses. Most recently, Wilson was senior vice president of customer service with Rolls Royce Energy, a division of Rolls Royce PLC, a $9 billion provider of air, land and sea power solutions. Prior to Rolls Royce, Wilson has held various executive positions with General Electric Company, domestically and in international markets. He was also director of strategic alliances and domestic sales for Cooper Energy Services, a $500 million division of Houston-based Cooper Cameron.
Wilson is a graduate of the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York with a Bachelor of Science degree in business management.
Belden Names O'Connell as a Vice President
Richmond, IN - July 9, 2002 - Belden Electronics Division promoted Brian O'Connell to vice president of sales and marketing for the Americas operation. O'Connell originally joined Belden in July 1999 as vice president of Belden's Alpha Wire Company. He was responsible for all Alpha Wire sales, marketing, manufacturing and distribution activities.
Prior to joining Belden, O'Connell served as vice president for the Industrial Business Unit of Wauregan, CT-based C&M. In that position he was responsible for the unit's sales and marketing, design and manufacturing efforts.
FCC Chairman Commences Second Term as Commissioner
Washington - Jul 1, 2002 - FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell commenced his second term as FCC Commissioner for a term expiring June 30, 2007. He was originally nominated as FCC Commissioner in July 1997 by President Clinton, confirmed by the Senate in October 1997, and sworn in November 3, 1997, for a term expiring June 30, 2002. Powell was designated Chairman of the FCC by President Bush on January 22, 2001.
In May 2001, President Bush renominated Powell, and the Senate confirmed him, for this second Commission term running from July 1, 2002, to June 30, 2007.
HHB USA Appoints New President
Simi Valley, CA - Jul 10, 2002 - HHB USA, which recently moved from West Los Angeles to a larger office and larger warehousing facilities in Simi Valley, CA, appointed a new president, Doug Schwartz. Taking over from David Beesley who has returned to the UK, Schwartz is an experienced audio industry professional serving time in retail and as an independent rep before establishing his own professional audio and video accessory company, Pacific Supply and Trading. Schwartz has assumed dual roles as president of both companies.
AKG Names Templin as VP
Nashville, TN - Jul 2, 2002 -AKG Acoustics U.S. has appointed Garry Templin to the position of vice president of sales and market development. Effective immediately, Templin assumes responsibility for the development and implementation of AKG's U.S. sales and market development programs across all of the vertical markets it serves.
Templin joins AKG Acoustics U.S. from Telex Communications where he held the position of vice president sales, live sound and was responsible for the general management of the Telex Pro Audio Group including strategic planning and sales. Prior to the merger of EVI and Telex, Templin oversaw sales at EVI Audio where he implemented structural improvements for multiple brands and delivered consistent annual growth over his five-year tenure as vice president, sales. Templin also previously served as national sales manager for Electro Voice.
Templin began his professional audio career as a manufacturer's representative, serving with Cambridge Marketing Group and CL Pugh & Associates in Pittsburgh, PA. He has a Bachelor of Arts from West Virginia University. He has also completed multiple management programs including ISO 9000 Executive Training, Total Quality Management, American Management Association courses and served as a sales course leader with the Dale Carnegie group.
AKG Acoustics microphones and headphones are manufactured in Vienna, Austria. AKG Acoustics U.S. markets the full line of AKG Acoustics microphones and headphones and processing technology for recording, concert, sound reinforcement, commercial sound and broadcast applications. AKG Acoustics U.S. is part of the Harman International family of companies.
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Apple Releases Quicktime 6
Cupertino, CA - Jun 4, 2002 - Apple has released Quicktime 6 featuring full support for MPEG-4. Quicktime 6 also includes Apple's new Quicktime Streaming Server 4 and the new Quicktime Broadcaster.
Quicktime Broadcaster supports live encoding with real-time preview, and the ability to record and hint in real-time to the computer's hard disk for quick video-on-demand posting. It supports Quicktime codecs as well as MPEG-4 and AAC audio, AppleScript, the ability to create custom settings, communication via TCP between Broadcaster and Server, and auto-configuration of connections between Broadcaster and Server.
The software is available on Apple's website (www.apple/com/quicktime) as a free download.
Telos Releases Software Updates for Series 2101 and Twox12
Cleveland - Jul 12, 2002 - Telos Systems has launched Version 2.0 software for the Series 2101 and Twox12 Talkshow Systems. Version 2.0 offers several new features and performance enhancements, all of which were the direct result of client feedback on earlier versions.
The Series 2101 v2.0 software offers:
Highlights of TWOx12 v2.0 software include:
Users can obtain these updates free of charge by choosing the Software Update menu item on the units themselves (when an Internet connection is active), or from the Telos Systems website at www.telos-systems.com/support.
Mackie Intros Multi-DAW Control Surface
Woodinville, WQ - Jul 8, 2002 - Mackie Designs has unveiled Mackie Control, a nine-fader master control surface with nine touch-sensitive Penny and Giles motorized faders. Mackie Control supports software integration for a growing family of DAWs that currently includes Soundscape 32 by Mackie Broadcast Professional, Nuendo and CubaseSX by Steinberg, and Digital Performer by MOTU. Support is coming soon for Cooledit Pro by Syntrillium Software, SONOR 2 by Cakewalk and many others. In addition, Mackie Control has been pre-mapped to enable power-user functions by many of the supported DAWs, and is the first to offer DAW-specific Lexan overlays allowing users to take advantage of these functions.
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If you're visiting from the amazing Tricia's Morning T, welcome and thanks so much for stopping by! Isn't her home glorious? She's got the most beautiful style and her photos...well, don't get me started or we'll be here all day!
Let's get this tour started, shall we?!
Wow! Keeping this secret has been one of the most difficult things that I've done since hauling my concrete urns inside from the front porch! Come in...let me show you what I mean.
Yep, that is a concrete urn in the foyer. You'll see the other one in the living room hearth. I filled them with live greens to give our home the smell of Christmas even though we have artificial trees. The urns were heavy as heck to move but worth the trouble once they were in place!
In the kitchen and great room of our home, pine cones and birch twigs are joined by vintage red plaid blankets and plaid flannel ribbon for a rustic lodge-like feel that I've decided is something akin to Paul Bunyan meets The Polar Express. It's much more casual and I have to admit, it's in these rooms where we spend most of our time and where everyone feels most at home.
You may wonder why I decorate the one room in the house where I have my eyes closed most of the time. The answer is simple: for me, there's nothing like going to sleep to the glow of twinkling lights (and it keeps me from tripping over the dog when I get up in the middle of the night to see if it snowed or if Santa has arrived. You can read that story and see more photos of this room here).
Needless to say, we're still in the thick of the holiday season with DIY projects, baking, and the 12 foot tall tree in the family room still left to decorate. I've also got many more photos of these rooms that I'll be sharing on the blog in the coming days so I hope that you'll visit again soon!
Now, please continue to the next stop on the tour, Paige from Simple Thoughts. Paige is a wonderfully talented photographer, mom, and newlywed! She's got a style that is as elegant as it is powerful. She's honest, candid, and will make you feel like you've known her forever.
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The Vatican Film List
By Steven D. Greydanus
On March 17, 1995, almost exactly 10 years before his passing, Pope John Paul II addressed a plenary assembly of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications, which that year observed another anniversary of particular importance to its own mission and to the Holy Father's heart: the centenary of the motion picture.
"Since the first public audience in Paris viewed the moving pictures prepared by the Lumière brothers in December 1895," the pope said, "the film industry has become a universal medium exercising a profound influence on the development of people's attitudes and choices, and possessing a remarkable ability to influence public opinion and culture across all social and political frontiers."
The pope's remarks were both forward looking, speaking to the potential of cinema to become "a more and more positive factor in the development of individuals and a stimulus for the conscience of society as a whole," and also historically minded, speaking positively of the praiseworthy contributions of "many worthwhile productions during the first hundred years of [the cinema's] existence."
Later that year, the pontifical commission provided an important reference point to Catholics interested in assessing the cinema's "many worthwhile productions during the first hundred years of its existence": a list of 45 films that has come to be known as the Vatican film list.
Though often characterized, somewhat misleadingly, as "the Vatican's top films," the list is meant neither as a set of definitive or magisterial "top fifteen" lists nor to establish these particular films as definitely more worthwhile than any film that was not included. Titled simply "Some Important Films," the list is simply a cross section of outstanding films, chosen by a committee of twelve international movie scholars appointed by the head of the pontifical commission, Archbishop John Foley. Archbishop Foley has said that the list is not intended to canonize these particular films; and, in releasing the list, the commission acknowledged, "Not all that deserve mention are included."
The list is made up of three categories, "Religion," "Values," and "Art," with 15 films in each of the three categories. Some are well-known favorites (e.g., It's a Wonderful Life; The Wizard of Oz). Others have extraordinary moral or spiritual significance (e.g., A Man for All Seasons; Schindler's List). Still others are challenging "art films" that demand literate critical engagement (the austere mysticism of Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev and The Sacrifice; the exotic grotesquerie of Fellini's La Strada and 8½).
The list includes comedy (The Lavender Hill Mob), horror (Nosferatu), science fiction (2001: A Space Odyssey; Metropolis), animation (Fantasia), sports (Chariots of Fire), family melodrama (Little Women), a number of war movies, several silent films, even a Western (Stagecoach).
This openness to cinema in all its forms reflects the view articulated in the Holy Father's address to the pontifical commission. "The Church's overall judgment of this art form, as of all genuine art, is positive and hopeful," John Paul II declared. "We have seen that masterpieces of the art of film making can be moving challenges to the human spirit, capable of dealing in depth with subjects of great meaning and importance from an ethical and spiritual point of view."
At the same time, the pope sounded a note of caution: "Unfortunately, though, some cinema productions merit criticism and disapproval, even severe criticism and disapproval. This is the case when films distort the truth, oppress genuine freedom, or show scenes of sex and violence offensive to human dignity."
This moral caution may also be discerned in the choices reflected by the Vatican film list. For example, silent cinema pioneer D. W. Griffith, honored on the list for his ambitious epic Intolerance, may be better known for his landmark, deeply controversial The Birth of a Nation, a Civil War epic marred by much racist imagery.
Though undeniably an "important film," Birth of a Nation also "merits criticism and disapproval," to use the pope's words, for "distorting the truth" and even "oppressing genuine freedom." Such considerations may well have played a role in the decision to honor Intolerance rather than Birth of a Nation on the list.
Likewise, the list's representative comedy, Ealing Studio's caper picture The Lavender Hill Mob, might possibly have been given the edge over another arguably more popular Ealing comedy of the same period, Kind Hearts and Coronets, for moral reasons.
Both films epitomize the sophisticated, drolly subversive dark humor that were Ealing's trademark. The Lavender Hill Mob stars Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway as a pair of gold thieves; Kind Hearts and Coronets stars Dennis Price as a disgruntled distant heir to a peerage methodically killing every relative (all played by Guinness) that stands between him and the title. Was the black-comedy serial murder of Kind Hearts and Coronets deemed less suitable for the Vatican list than the modestly dark caper comedy of The Lavender Hill Mob?
Though the list honors films that show restraint in the depiction of violence and sexuality, it doesn't confine itself to films that totally avoid such content — any more than the Church's patronage of other art forms has historically eschewed depictions of violence and nudity. Nudity, sexual content, obscene and profane language, and explicit violence can all be found in films on the list.
Yet all demonstrate a level of restraint that distinguishes them from morally unworthy productions. In acknowledging films that deal with potentially disturbing content, the list again reflects the thought of John Paul II, who wrote in his Letter to Artists, "Even when they explore the darkest depths of the soul or the most unsettling aspects of evil, artists give voice in a way to the universal desire for redemption" (10). (See also "What Are the Decent Films?")
In recognizing the merits of these particular films, the commission did not endorse everything these films contain, or gave them any kind of imprimatur or blanket ecclesiastical approval. Movies, like other works of culture, are seldom if ever perfect. Even with good or important ones, the viewer must be able to think critically and sort out the good from the bad.
Thus, the films listed in, for instance, the "Values" category possess special moral worth, but that doesn't mean that they are perfect even with respect to moral content — and certainly not with respect to religious or artistic significance. Likewise, there is no endorsement of the religious or moral ideas of the "Art" films; these films were included because they were landmarks in the art of cinematography, not because of religious or moral values.
For example, 2001: A Space Odyssey is rightly recognized as an extraordinary cinematic achievement, but its non-theistic ascent-of-man mythology is reflective of a secular worldview that Christians cannot accept. It is possible, however, to appreciate the film's achievement without accepting its worldview, just as one can appreciate The Iliad without believing in the Greek gods. The pontifical commission also recognized the religious significance of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Gospel According to Matthew even though Pasolini himself was a Marxist.
The list is not infallible, or even authoritative. Catholics may reasonably take issue with the inclusion of certain titles. I have my own quarrels with the list, which in my opinion includes both the best movie ever made about St. Francis of Assisi, Rossellini's The Flowers of St. Francis, and also the worst, Liliana Cavani's Francesco.
There are also absent titles I would gladly add, above all Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest. The lovely Polish film Faustina, too, would surely have merited consideration, if only it had come out a few years earlier than the 1995 list rather than in the same year. Perhaps it could be included in a follow-up list 90 years from now.
What other films from the last ten years might warrant inclusion in such a follow-up list? Many films celebrated today, such as Million Dollar Baby and Sideways, seem unlikely to generate much interest decades from now. The Passion of the Christ, on the other hand, seems likely to have a long-term impact that over time would make it an increasingly obvious candidate. Archbishop Foley has defended The Passion against its critics, arguing that "if they're critical of the film, they would be critical of the Gospel." John Paul II, who may or may not have said "It is as it was," would quite possibly have agreed.
"Some Important Films"
for the 100th Anniversary of Cinema
Pontifical Council for Social Communications
Andrei Rublev *
The Mission * Roland Joffé (1986, UK)
La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc) *
La vie et la passion de Jésus Christ
Identified on the Vatican film list as La Passion Pathé
Francesco, giullare di Dio
Il vangelo secondo Matteo
Thérèse *
Ordet (The Word) *
Offret — Sacrificatio (The Sacrifice) *
Francesco *
Ben-Hur [A Tale of the Christ] *
Babettes gæstebud (Babette's Feast) *
Nazarín *
Monsieur Vincent *
A Man for All Seasons * Fred Zinnemann (1966, UK)
Gandhi *
Intolerance *
Dekalog (The Decalogue) *
Identified on the Vatican film list as Il Decalogo
Au Revoir, Les Enfants (Goodbye, Children) *
Dersu Uzala *
L'albero degli zoccoli
Roma, città aperta (Open City) *
Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) *
Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal) *
Chariots of Fire *
Ladri di biciclette
It's a Wonderful Life *
Schindler's List *
On the Waterfront *
Biruma No Tategoto
2001: A Space Odyssey *
La Strada *
Citizen Kane *
Metropolis *
Modern Times *
Napoléon *
8½ *
La grande illusion (Grand Illusion) *
Nosferatu *
Stagecoach *
Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) *
The Wizard of Oz *
The Lavender Hill Mob *
Little Women *


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Dec 16th 2009 7:16AM I was hoping the stable issues would be fixed but they still have not fixed it. 20 more days of cooldown or whenever a GM finally answer my ticket on it.
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Dec 14th 2009 11:59AM I hope it fixes that issue becuase I got it yesterday on my hunter and it was really annoying when the tank d/c during a drake cos run and I could not switch to get my tank pet.
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