text: Latest Post: Started By: Rank: Category Daily breaking news and news the liberal media doesn't want you to know, won't report, or just daily news issues.Americans for many years have had to rely on left leaning biased news reporting from liberal media such as NBC, ABC, and CBS and the New York Times. As most of these outlets struggle to remain on the air and in print, the new media is flourishing and people are hearing both sides of the issues. This forum will provide people with a place to discuss daily news issues of any kind or discuss articles not printed or aired by the liberal news outlets. Member Commentsluvthesouthasknot and rocker...sorry to hear that you both have been under the weather. each year there seems to be some virus that goes around to make everyone feel cruddy. i am glad to know that both of you are doing better. i have been getting the flu shot for the past few years and it seems to help in that i do not seem to suffer quite as long with the symptoms. although the flu shot is useless against bacteria...hence antibiotics. Posted 372 days ago. thegreekequal rights, period. Is that why Barry and Holder threw so much gasoline on the GZ/TM case? For unity and understanding of each others equal rights or to get us all chapped at each other? Posted 372 days ago. rockerluvthesouth, I've been terrible. I got sick with some kind of stuff going around but I'm now finally recovering now after 2 rounds of antibiotics. Our whole family had it so I knew sooner of later I'd get it. I haven't been playing guitar too much lately at all either. What about you? I could still kick myself for selling that Gibson "The Paul" guitar I had. Especially after what you said it was worth. Oh well. Posted 372 days ago. luvthesouthrocker...how have you been lately? you seemed to have been on the down-low. Posted 372 days ago. rockerOh okay asknot, I didn't know that about banning them. That's not good. Thanks for informing me. I just wish we could see people as people instead of grouping them into this group and that group. Posted 372 days ago. luvthesouthgentleman, glad you enjoyed the Lesbian humor. i was a little concerned after i posted it that some may not see the obvious humor in the notion. while i am certain that feathers will be ruffled if they are not allowed to participate, i am saddened that someone would not allow our Hockey player to have a facimile of our constitution air-brushed on the back of their USA helmet. in the same line of thinking...our soldiers were not allowed to carry bibles when operating in predominantly Muslim countries, but we will require the Russians to accept an aspect of "our" culture. rather perplexing. Posted 372 days ago. luvthesouthasknot, you are correct. China is indeed coming out of its shell with regards to their oceanic claims. if you remember they had a slight stand-off with one of our Naval Ships operating in the area. it was recently reported that China currently holds about 1.7 trillion of our debt as well as a sizeable portfolio of housing especially in economically depressed areas such as Detroit. theri recent bravado in my opinion indicates that they may perceive a vaccum in the postion of a world power not only monetarily but militarily. i have the sneaking suspicion they that would like to fill that vacuum. but like everything else these days, we ignore the obvious and paint it as simply conspiracy theories...at least until it comes to pass. Posted 372 days ago. thegreekOh Rocker. It is a valuable tool to use to irritate people into divisional classes so they get so mad at each other they go at it with total anarchy as the desired end result !!! Posted 372 days ago. rockerI don't understand how gay rights have anything to do with the Olympics anyway. I got an idea, how about everyone keep their sex preferences to themselves, shut their mouths, and play the dang games. USA USA USA!!! Love the "ICBM Lesbian" comment LTS lol. Posted 372 days ago. luvthesouthif Bush's middle-east conflict is known as the "Sand-Kicker"...will this then turn out to be Obama's "Rice Bowl"????? China moving to 'retake' island from the Philippines: report The People's Liberation Army plans to "retake" the disputed island of Thitu in the South China Sea this year, reports the Manila-based Philstar quoting a report on Chinese business and political website Qianzhan. Claimed by China and Taiwan but controlled by the Philippines, Thitu is the second-largest island in the hotly disputed Spratly chain....."Philippines to defy Beijing's South China Sea fishing rule, defence chief says Philippine fishermen should ignore a ruling by China requiring foreign fishing vessels to secure permission to enter much of the South China Sea, Defence Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said on Thursday." Posted 372 days ago. luvthesouthasknot...you ought to appreciate this: LTS Headline......"U.S. threatens Russia by sending four ICBM Lesbians"...A senior Italian IOC member criticized the United States on Wednesday for including openly gay athletes in its official delegation for next month's Sochi Olympics. "It's absurd that a country like that sends four lesbians to Russia just to demonstrate that in their country gay rights have (been established)," Mario Pescante said at an Italian Olympic Committee meeting in Milan on Wednesday, in comments widely reported by Italian media. "The games should not be an occasion and a stage to promote rights that sports supports daily Posted 372 days ago. thegreekA new era. They are calling it "retirements" I would call it an *** whipping by those republicans. Maybe their constituents got to their stupid decisions !! Since December, four Democratic incumbents have announced they will not be seeking reelection to districts that contain large proportions of Republican voters. Of those, Democrats freely admit that two seats — one held by Jim Matheson of Utah, the other by Mike McIntyre of North Carolina — are almost certain to shift to Republican hands. In the two other districts, both in New York, Democrats will be forced to wage hard-fought and potentially costly races to defend seats that are in their column. politico.c om Posted 374 days ago. luvthesouthis the place called Roswell, N.M. where an ant farms referred to as an "Alien Ant Farm"? signed....Smooth Criminal. Posted 375 days ago. luvthesouth"A middle school student opened fire in his gym with a shotgun today and critically wounded two students in Roswell, N.M., according to authorities." lifes problems can all be handled with a shotgun...so says Joe "Double-Barrel" Biden. Posted 375 days ago. moderationBend over and grab your ankles, Governor. Oh, ok then just bend over. We know you are hiding the truth somewhere, and we are going to be thorough. Posted 377 days ago. scrappileHey, you know who, explain beck objector, can't seem to get NRTW to do it, ^•\/•^ . __. Posted 378 days ago. scrappileHey, you know who, explain beck objector, can't seem to get NRTW to do it, ^•\/•^ . __. Posted 378 days ago. BeRightThis was in the A.M. this morning in regards to the "war on Poverty" "Programs designed to increase economic security and opportunity lifted over 45 million people from poverty in 2012, and led to an average of 27 million people lifted out of poverty per year for 45 years between 1968 and 2012." Sounds like that war has been won. Maybe we should get back to the War on Women. Posted 378 days ago. Post a Comment |


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Without the box provided to us we'll simply just get straight into the card. As you can see it's a pretty standard looking kind of Zalman cooler. Really, it's hard to see how this card differs electronically to a standard 3870 due to the reference model having a cooler that stretches from one end of the card to the other.
As you would expect, we see standard equipment like the PCI Express power connector located at the top right of the card while across the top of the card towards the I/O side we have our Crossfire connector.
Quickly having a peek at the I/O side of things it's also very standard with our Dual Dual-Link DVI connectors and the standard TV-Out.
Physically the biggest changes from a standard 3870 are the Zalman cooler along with the blue PCB. Where it becomes interesting though is what GIGABYTE say they use as far as components go.
While the card carries the same default core of 777MHz and the GDDR4 comes clocked in at 2252MHz DDR, where this card differs is by using the same high grade components used in GIGABYTE's motherboard lineup. The MOSFET front sees "Lower RDS(on)" which are designed to help produce less power draw; this in turn helps keep the temperature down.
We also see Ferrite Core Choke Design which stores the energy; this particular design that GIGABYTE uses helps hold the energy for longer which results in lower power loss. We of course also have all solid capacitors which have always been known to give the best reliability when it comes to anything they're used on.
While this might sound all nice, what it's actually going to do for our gaming experience is a bit unknown. Fortunately we will figure this out soon enough so let's get stuck into the benchmarks.

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Injection therapy is one of many treatments available for patients with subacute (longer than six weeks) and chronic (longer than 12 weeks) low-back pain. Where the injection is given, what drug is used and why the injection is given can all vary.
The injection can be given into different parts of the spine (the space between the vertebrae, around the nerve roots, or into the disc), ligaments, muscles or trigger points (spots in the muscles that when pressed firmly will produce pain). Drugs that reduce swelling (corticosteroids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAIDs)) and pain (morphine, anaesthetics) are used. Injection therapy can be used for individuals with low-back pain with or without pain and other symptoms in the leg.
A number of electronic databases of healthcare articles were searched up to March 2007. This search identified 18 randomized controlled trials (RCTs; 1179 participants) that looked at injections with a variety of drugs compared to a placebo drug or other drugs. The injections were given into the epidural space (between the vertebrae of the back and outside the coverings that surround the spinal cord), the facet joints (the joints of two vertebrae), or tender spots in the ligaments or muscles.
The review authors rated ten of the 18 RCTs as having a low risk of bias in the way the trials were conducted and reported. They were unable to statistically pool the results because the injection sites, drugs used and outcomes measured were too varied. Only five of the 18 trials reported significant results in favour of one of the treatment arms. The reviewer authors considered the likely treatment benefits to be worth the potential harms in only two studies.
In nine out of the 18 studies, side effects such as headache, dizziness, transient local pain, tingling and numbness and nausea were reported in small numbers of patients. The use of morphine was more frequently associated with itching, nausea and vomiting. Rare but more serious complications of injection therapy have been mentioned in the literature, such as cauda equina syndrome, septic facet joint arthritis, discitis, paraplegia, paraspinal abscesses. Although the absolute frequency of these complications may be rare, these risks should be taken into consideration.
Based on these results, the review authors concluded that there is no strong evidence for or against the use of any type of injection therapy for individuals with subacute or chronic low-back pain.


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Mesmerising Miller spins Jamaica back on track
Published: Saturday | January 24, 2009
CAVE HILL, Barbados (CMC): West Indies left-arm spinner, Nikita Miller, helped holders and current leaders Jamaica get back into their WICB regional four-day match against the Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC), after their batsmen let them down yesterday.
Miller snared four wickets for 14 runs from 11 overs, as the CCC reached 59 for five, replying to Jamaica's first-innings total of 162 on the opening day of their key third-round match at the Three Ws Oval.
The Jamaicans, sent in to bat, were dismissed about five minutes before tea - Xavier Marshall, just back from the West Indies' tour of New Zealand - hit the top score of 74. Dave Bernard made 31 and Donovan Pagon got 28.
Off-spinner Ryan Austin was the pick of the CCC bowlers with three for 37 from 16 overs; Khismar Catlin supported with three for 42 from 12 overs; and, Jamel Noel took two for 25 from 7.5 overs.
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But Miller started a CCC collapse when he bowled opener Romel Currency for five with his third ball.
Brendan Nash stepped in to add to the home team's woes, when he had the CCC's Jamaican-born captain Simon Jackson lbw for seven.
The two spin bowlers applied severe pressure on the CCC batsmen and it was only a matter of time before they broke when Miller had Omar Phillips caught at midwicket for six and struck in his next over, when he trapped Floyd Reifer lbw for a four-ball duck.
Earlier, Jamaica made a shaky start, when Brenton Parchment was caught behind off Kevin McClean for two. Donovan Pagon joined Marshall and added 66 for the second wicket before Austin had him caught at mid-off for 28 off the penultimate ball before lunch.
Jamaica were 81 for two at lunch with Marshall unbeaten on 50.
Following the interval, the visitors' innings went into meltdown, as the CCC bowlers maintained a steady line and length and gained generous bounce and movement from the pitch.
led the fight
Tamar Lambert was run out for six and two overs later, Nash was caught low down at extra cover for two to leave the Jamaicans 99 for four.
Marshall continued to lead the fight for the Jamaicans, but he too, succeeded in gifting his wicket, when he top-edged a hook at a bouncer from Catlin and was caught behind.
Next delivery, Keith Hibbert was startled by another bouncer from Catlin, fended away and was caught behind for a first-ball duck to leave the Jamaicans on 126 for six.
There was little sting in the Jamaican tail and they lost their last four wickets for 22 runs from 47 balls.


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'Lost' (S3): What did the ''Flashes'' episode mean?
In which we ask the executive producers of Lost to give us a tantalizing tidbit about tonight's new episode.
This week, the focus is once again on Jack father-haunted, Thai-tatted spinal surgeon supreme, currently held captive by those deceitful, manipulative, grilled cheese-serving Others. Your 10-word tease from Carlton Cuse is:
''Can a six-thousand-mile journey help Jack find himself?''
Like many tireless, truth-seeking Lost theorists (or, if you prefer, ''scarily obsessed freakjobs''), Ed Markel from Nebraska became instantly fixated with the now-notorious ''aversion therapy film'' when the ''Not In Portland'' episode strobed his pupils on Feb. 7. A thick block of geek eye-candy, embedded with enough gummy wonder to keep folks like Markel and me chewing for weeks, the ATF immediately joined The Comic Book, The Orientation Film, and The Map as one of the richest, most delicious pieces of theory fodder in Lost history. Clearly, we must spend some serious time exploring this densely coded flick...but not this week.
No, this week, Doc Jensen needs to respond to the alarming abundance of 9-1-1 calls that I've received in the wake of last week's Desmond-centric episode, ''Flashes Before Your Eyes,'' in which the lovelorn Scot seemed to travel back in time immediately after turning the failsafe key in The Hatch and (allegedly) blowing it up. Waking up in the London flat that he shared with his one true love, Penelope Widmore, the poor and proud set designer once again experienced his profound humiliation at the hands of Penelope's rich industrialist Dad, Charles Widmore, and once again experienced his breakup with Pen. Crucial to the story was Desmond's crushing awareness of future events and his mounting conviction that there was nothing he could do to effectively avert his Button-pushing, marooned-on-Mystery Island destiny.
This trippy tale of time travel and romantic fatalism seems to have inflicted a Perplexity Pox upon the Lost Nation. Symptoms: head-scratching, head-shaking, just plain headaches. Did Desmond really travel through time or was it all a hallucination? What was up with Ms. Hawking, the creepy old lady in the ring store who knew everything about Desmond's unstuck-in-time plight? And how does any of this explain Desmond's flashes-of-the-future, which portend to purport Charlie's certain death? My interactions with Lost watchers this week have turned into proverbial house calls: ''What was that about?! Do you have ANY idea?!''
And of course I do. Several ideas and one wild theory. First, however, let's establish some context, including a clarification or two from the co-writer of the episode, executive producer Damon Lindelof:
1. The episode is essentially an ironic riff on some Big Ideas put forth by Desmond's namesake, the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Those big ideas include a skeptical posture regarding the notions of interlocking cause-and-effect and seemingly miraculous phenomenon.
2. According to Lindelof, the events that transpired in Desmond's flashback ''did NOT happen ''solely in Desmond's imagination.''
3. If Desmond truly did travel back in time, says Lindelof, then ''ANY changes he made during this series of 'flashbacks' indeed DID happen... and thusly, the ramifications of said changes might reverberate later.''
4. It would be a faulty leap in logic to assume that because Desmond's flashbacks were a form of time travel, then ALL flashbacks on Lost have been a form of time travel. ''I don't really see anything in the show to support that,'' says Lindelof.
5. Otherwise, the episode is open to interpretation.
With that said, here are my best guesses (at the moment) at how to explain ''Flashes Before Your Eyes.''
IN A NUTSHELL: Desmond never really traveled back in time.
HUH? The episode was called ''Flashes Before Your Eyes'' as in ''Your life flashes before your eyes during a near-death experience,'' which the episode chose cleverly to dramatize as something akin to time travel. To wit: you would probably experience such a thing interactively, not passively, like watching yourself in a movie. Re-experiencing your past with your present frame of mind... well, that would probably feel like some pretty freaky déjà vu.
WHAT IT DOESN'T EXPLAIN: How the heck did Desmond survive the implosion/explosion of The Hatch? Moreover, this hypothesis still doesn't explain Desmond's hot flashes-of-the-future precognitive abilities. Additionally, there's the puzzling cipher of Ms. Hawking, aka The Creepy Old Lady.
DOC JENSEN SAYS: Ms. Hawking who bullied Desmond into following in his past footsteps with her severe take on predestination and ominous threats (she told Desmond that if he didn't repeat his past actions, ''every single one of us is dead!'') could be the embodiment of Desmond's survival instinct. Remember, this is a near-death experience; physically, Desmond is fighting for his life while he's tripping through memories. Had he defied Ms. Hawking and proposed to Penelope and lived happily ever after, Desmond would have created a fantasy more preferable to his reality, and so choosing that fantasy would have meant choosing death. (Also see: Open Your Eyes, or its U.S. remake starring Tom Cruise, Vanilla Sky.)
EITHER THAT, OR... Since The Island seems to behave like a sentient entity, with its own agenda, maybe Ms. Hawking was an expression of its own survival instinct. For some reason, this loopy locale NEEDS to keep Desmond around.
BOTTOM LINE: Plausible, but incomplete, and perhaps flirts too much with ''It's all taking place inside Desmond's head,'' which Damon Lindelof says isn't the case.
THE MINDF--- HYPOTHESIS (Doc Jensen's Paranoid Conspiracy Theory of the Week!)
IN A NUTSHELL: Desmond really didn't travel through time, and he really doesn't have precognitive powers but he's been brainwashed into thinking otherwise.
HUH? Clearly, The Dharma Initiative was fond of playing mind games with its participants (see: the Swan and Pearl orientation films). And The Others are clearly engaged in some kind of brainwashing/aversion therapy inside Room 23 at The Hydra Station. What if some powerful agency maybe Dharma, maybe The Others, maybe the as yet unseen Patchy or Jacob, or maybe The Island has messed with his memory?
PAST PRECEDENT: Desmond's experience could be a more focused version of what happened to Charlie in last season's equally bizarre ''Fire + Water'' episode. (It was the one where everyone thought Charlie was back on dope and trying to kill Claire's baby.) To date, the matter of Charlie's feverish hallucinations self-generated delusion or telepathic assault? remains unresolved.
WHAT IT DOESN'T EXPLAIN: Ms. Hawking. The Hatch implosion/explosion mystery, and how Desmond survived it. And the motivations behind what would be a pretty extravagant conspiracy.
OBLIGATORY MS. HAWKING EXPLANATION: She could be a false memory, implanted to compel Desmond toward certain actions that benefit this nebulous ''conspiracy.'' In fact, perhaps she'll eventually be revealed as an agent in this conspiracy. Did she handle Desmond's brainwashing personally?
DOC JENSEN SAYS: Remember that Dharma was conducting experiments in psychology, parapsychology (mind over matter; telepathy), and meteorology. That could mean that Dharma had developed the means to control the weather. And that could mean that someone intentionally generated the deadly lightning strike that Desmond forecasted and thwarted maybe the same someone who implanted in Desmond the memory that said lightning strike would happen.
BOTTOM LINE: It would be a rather subversive and downright evil twist on the cosmic themes of fate and free will that Desmond represents.
THE DR. MANHATTAN HYPOTHESIS (also known as: The ''Desmond Goes Jedi'' Conjecture)
WARNING: Piles of quasi-legitimate pop-science poppycock are about to be thrown at you like a hyperactive dimwitted monkey throwing balls of turd at traumatized visitors to a zoo for demented animals.
IN A NUTSHELL: Desmond really did travel backward and forward in time.
HUH? Inspired by a character in the classic Alan Moore comic book Watchmen, The Dr. Manhattan Hypothesis can represent any explanation that hinges on the idea that Desmond really toggled through time. In Watchmen, Dr. Manhattan was an all-powerful figure who experienced his past, present and (to some degree) future all at once. And just so you know, Watchmen ain't no arbitrary, pulled-out-of-my-ass reference; Damon Lindelof has cited the work as a seminal influence.
THE SCIENCE: Dr. Manhattan was a scientist who in a similar fashion to Desmond got blown up in an experiment gone awry, but through force of will managed to reform himself, albeit into a being of pure energy the embodiment of quantum mechanics. The tragic irony of his new Superman state despite being profoundly disconnected from humanity was that he experienced his own omnipotence most impotently. For Dr. Manhattan, time was a fixed constant; he could do nothing to change it. (In real science, this strict bit of logic is known as the Novikov self-consistency principle.)
WHAT DOES ANY OF THIS HAVE TO DO WITH DESMOND? According to the Orientation Film inside The Hatch, the occupants of Station 3: The Swan were originally conducting experiments on The Island's ''unique electromagnetic fluctuations'' and according to quantum physics, all matter is suffused with electromagnetic energy. Moreover, recall that the Dharma Initiative was conducting experiments involving ''parapsychology,'' or mind over matter. Think of it along Star Wars lines: Dharma was basically messing around with The Force.
AGAIN WHAT THE HELL?! After Desmond blew up The Hatch and himself, he managed the biggest Jedi mind trick of all time: he rebuilt himself by manipulating this electromagnetic energy a matter of mind over matter, a la Dr. Manhattan. Moreover, when Desmond was (momentarily) obliterated, his ''blast radius'' extended across both space and time forward and backward like a ripple expanding on the surface of a pond. When Desmond rebuilt himself, that ripple contracted, and in the process, he brought back with him knowledge of the future.
WHAT THIS THEORY DOESN'T EXPLAIN: Ms. Hawking, whose staunch stance against changing the past makes her the embodiment of the Novikov principle.
CRACKING EASTER EGGS: Do the hidden clues in ''Not In Portland'' the Juliet-centric episode that aired a week before the Desmond-focused ''Flashes Before Your Eyes'' help clarify the puzzle of Lost's newest mystery (old) lady? Ms. Hawking shares the same name as Stephen Hawking, whose book A Brief History of Time was referenced in ''Not In Portland.'' The book was being read by an Other named Aldo; the page he was studying dealt with how black holes can warp the fabric of space-time. Finally, it was revealed that Juliet was recruited by The Others via their off-Island company, Mittelos Biosciences. ''Mittelos'' is an anagram for ''Lost Time.'' Perhaps Ms. Hawking is one of The Others, and her presence/intervention in Desmond's life/story services their agenda. (P.S.: Ms. Hawking was played by Fionnula Flanagan, who starred in a certain famous Nicole Kidman horror flick called... The Others.)
BOTTOM LINE: What can I say? I'm a big geek.
THE ''DESMOND IS GOD'' POSTULATION (Doc Jensen's ''Leave 'em even more confused than they were before'' theory of the week!)
IN A NUTSHELL: The point of ''Flashes Before Your Eyes'' wasn't to suggest that Desmond traveled through time, or that he was brainwashed by Dharma or The Others it was to suggest that Desmond is subconsciously shaping reality on The Island, and by extension the history of the world!
HUH? Lost is a fantastic allegory for a very relevant and real idea: the dynamic interplay between people and their environment. The show puts forth an extraordinarily profound question: What kind of world do you get when it's filled with people living unexamined lives?
BUT WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH TIME TRAVEL?!?! Absolutely nothing. And that's the whole point.
AND THE POINT IS?!?! According to the mythology of The Dharma Initiative, the island is fluctuating with ''unique electromagnetic'' energy. We've also been told that Dharma was studying ''parapsychology.'' Big words and weird science, I know, but really, all you need to know is this: The Island is a place where mind over matter is possible. Got it?
NOT REALLY BUT CONTINUE. AND CAN YOU KEEP IT BRIEF? Sure. When Desmond crashed on The Island, he basically rebooted reality on The Island. The Dharma Initiative, The Others, The Monster all these things are expressions of Desmond's subconscious. And now, they've taken on lives of their own, both on and off The Island.
WHERE'S YOUR PROOF? In the ''Flashes Before Your Eyes'' episode, did you catch the painting in Charles Widmore's office? It was a weird thing, with a polar bear, an upside down Buddha, and the word NAMASTE spelled backwards. All these things are elements of The Dharma Initiative. Moreover, we learned that Desmond used to be a set designer meaning he used to work in showbiz, which is in the business of illusion, of creating utterly believable artificial realities. The Dharma hatches are clearly elaborately detailed sets. And hey: one of them even included costumes and theatrical glue!
IN OTHER WORDS: The Island is chockablock with details from Desmond's life that have been reassembled into a wholly new, original reality that's cosmetically unrecognizable to the very dude who created it, but spiritually suffused with his hopes and fears. Hope of rescue, redemption, and reuniting with Penelope; fear that fate and powerful forces are conspiring against him. One has to wonder what will happen to reality on The Island when Desmond finally examines his life and starts making these connections himself.
THIS IS GOING TO COOK YOUR NOODLE. We know that Lost is fond of anagrams and Easter egg clues. Well, check this out. We've been told that DHARMA is an acronym for ''Department of Heuristics And Research on Material Applications.'' (Yes, you sticklers: according to official sources, the ''And'' is part of the acronym, but ''of'' and ''on'' are not.) I haven't worked all of this out yet, but I'm thinking that full title is an anagram for something a sentence that might reveal a big secret of Lost. A sentence that includes the words ''DESMOND HUME'' and ''PENELOPE.'' (Work it out the names are totally in there. But what's the rest of the sentence? Email me with your theory directly to my special new Doc J mailbox: firstname.lastname@example.com!)
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MS. HAWKING: Your tell-tale clue is the brooch she was wearing an ouroboros, or a snake swallowing its own tail. An ouroboros can symbolize many things including Lost theorists who chase after their own tails to make sense of everything but in the dream-come-true context of the ''Desmond is God'' theory, I appeal to Carl Jung, who believed that the ouroboros was a symbol of... self-creation. I suspect that ultimately, Ms. Hawking will stand revealed as an ally to Desmond. Her job: to make sure he doesn't deviate from the unfolding story of reality that he himself is authoring a story that ultimately will lead him back to Penelope.
ESTIMATED CHANCE OF ACCURACY: Keep dreamin', Doc J. Maybe one day, one of these theories will come true.
Until next week, when I'll do my darndest to REALLY confuse you
Doc Jensen


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Fan Mail Letters
From Peter - 19 Sep 2010
Animalkind, Inc
Tony & Bianca Napping
I will be out to visit you tomorrow afternoon with my Siamese rescue mentor/partner Barbara Galin. It will be good to see you and your kitties again.
PS - Tony is well & fatter and gets along with my current fosters quite well.
I tell ya there's birds out there...


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Conclusion: What have we learned?
Could the videos produced in fulfillment of this assignment have been more intellectually rigorous, more self-aware, more carefully edited and executed? Definitely. But as they are, they show a wide range of strategies for composing with sound, a much wider range than we suggested or taught. Can we as instructors offer guidance to students composing with sound? Definitely, as long as we don't make the mistake of limiting their choices, boxing them in when in fact we want them to employ the creative spirit that drives the box logic Sirc has described. Our research team, as teachers of this assignment, have learned that we and anyone else who might teach a variation on this assignment, can offer our students more direction, or more prompts, than we did in the fall of 2005. Rather than simply suggest that students start with a song and illustrate the song, or start with a concept and support that concept with music, we can offer them the general categories of literal illustrations of songs, associative applications of songs, background enhancements through songs, and mixed methods. These strategies can be suggested along with the range of genres we have already identified (the traditional video, the trip video, the concept video -- categories that would benefit from additional analysis and definition, but that is another article.
One of the ways in which we and others will be able to draw more educational value out of this assignment is to use the kind of post-assignment self-analysis that Jody Shipka suggests for multimodal composing tasks. Shipka makes strong arguments for seeing the complexity in these tasks and in acknowledging that "students are able to prove that, beyond being critically minded consumers of existing knowledge, they are also extremely capable, critically minded producers of knowledge" (292). Where we have asked the students simply to reflect on their time commitment, their experiments with PowerPoint, and their use of visual composition strategies, Shipka suggests that students articulate their goals for a multimodal composition, then explain how their composing choices were intended to meet those goals, as well as why they made those choices rather than other choices (289-90). The students in our study were generally able to provide these kinds of explanations during the interviews, and revealed, in cases like Amanda Houkom and Erich Wilkerson, methodical and careful composition strategies. Rich Rice, in his collaboration with Cheryl Ball, expresses a concern that "Students who use presentation or form to schmooze the audience, but do not themselves understand the rhetorical affect or even why they're presenting what they are presenting, limit their opportunity to learn." What we found in our students, and see in the work of other students discussed in others' scholarship, is a high level of understanding on the part of students, an understanding that we have tried to tap into through this research.
If instructors want to try and ensure that students use some of the more demanding tasks and strategies that we saw employed in this assignment, certain multimodal composing tasks could be required.
1. Splicing and remixing of music was a new and demanding task for those students who worked with multiple clips. Selecting 3-5 clips, yet still producing a coherent whole, demands careful consideration of the clip selection, the arrangement, and the co-ordination of the music with the images and/or text.
2. Privileging, even requiring, the associative approach over literal or background uses of music would force students to acknowledge the meaning and intent of the song(s) being used, and then require a careful and coherent match between their own purpose and the original song's message. We have suggested that this approach is analogous to incorporating research into a print-based essay—a task we know that most students find difficult and demanding.
3. Assigning "degrees of difficulty" to certain tasks can give students a range of tasks to attempt, and such guidelines can give instructors a clearer sense of how to respond to student work accordingly. Literal illustrations and background enhancements can demand careful and nuanced literal illustrations, they can demand precise co-ordination between the movements of a Concerto and the movements of images or text on a screen, and the careful choice of music can bring a variety of moods, tones, tempos, and cultural associations to a particular video. Of course a difficult task for one student is not always a difficult task for another student, so students and instructors would have to work out individualized "degree of difficulty" grading contracts.
The field of composition, as it considers the implications of "composing with sound," is perhaps rediscovering an underutilized set of hermeneutic strategies students may already have developed. Kate Ronald and Hephzibah Roskelly argued for "Listening as an Act of Composing," although even in 1986 they worried that students' "headphones attested to their comfort with the passive sort of response to music that lulls a hearer" (29). Our interviews with student composers, and the reflections of students in Ellertson's and Ball's work, suggest that there is much more going on than passive reception of popular music. We can see that students generally listened carefully to lyrics -- and listened actively in the sense that they listened for images and concepts to illustrate directly or themes or motifs to play with. Composing with sound assignments might be able to build off of this willingness upon the part of students to listen carefully, whether as the basis for analytical assignments, for other kinds of multimodal composing assignments, or as an analogy for teaching close reading.
We also learned from our surveys that 53 of 60 students put in more time on this assignment than they put into the other assignments in the course, 7 put in the same amount of time, none said they put in less time; ten did not respond to this question, perhaps not wanting to acknowledge that they put in less time. Not all students indicated on the survey how much time they put into the assignment, but only 13 said they spent less than 10 hours on the assignment, and 27 said they spent between 10 and 15 hours on the assignment. While putting all this time and effort into a small assignment might not be what instructors think is in the students' best interest, we think that writing teachers need to recognize what kinds of assignments elicit commitment and effort and build assignment sequences around those kinds of assignments. We have collected additional information through surveys and interviews that suggest that students found the assignment both technically and intellectually challenging, but that topic needs further exploration and definition. We also found students regularly commenting on the fact that they learned quite a bit about fair use guidelines and copyright law, a topic we hope to elaborate on in a future publication.
The technologies that support composing with sound are becoming increasingly stable and affordable, making it likely that opportunities to do music videos in any number of software programs, podcasts, or any kind of audio recording that blends music and dialogue, will seem increasingly feasible. Music is so clearly important to our students that we overlook an opportunity to engage students with innovative assignments when we choose to only analyze music, or not include it in our courses at all. Students bring to the tasks of composing with music some strong, intuitive skills that if exposed and tapped can potentially lead to stronger text-based compositions as well.


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Believe me Rod Blagoijevich will be getting my letter soon. ;-)
I hear that several congresmen are trying to forbid the President from declaring war at the present time [as we all remember the right to declare war belongs to the legislature, not the executive.] Legaly the President CANNOT declare war [of cource we have not had an official "war" since the end of WWII] but congress typicaly lets him anyways. I'm glad to see that at least some of them are actually trying to assert themselves.
By the way if you wanna see something really scary go here
this is a sight set up by many of the conservatives in the Bush administration, and it is VERY creepy. They want to militrise space people...SPACE. They're not just talking about a phony baloney misile defence sheild [althought that is BS as well] they're talking about SPACE MARINES!!! Click on "statment of Principles" at the top the the page, you'll see a eerie overview of their designs, and a list of contribiturs to the project, see how many of them you recognise.
I think it would be a great Idea to impeach that jerk, and more importantly his even worse cronies.


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Since I was so busy dancing that I got completely behind on my writing, I thought I would introduce the members of our Dancers at Sea group that were on the New Year Pacific cruise.
This picture was taken on the New Year's Eve formal night. The other pictures are simply a collage of snaps at various times during the voyage.
There are lots more pictures to come but for now here goes:
We had booked a transfer from The Intercontinental Resort to the cruise ship pier with the Princess Cruises representative at the hotel. There were advantages to doing this. Firstly, although the recommendation for normal check-in time is after 2 Pm for speedier processing, our transfer was scheduled for 11 am and we could check in as early as 11:30 am. That gave us lots of time to get settled and still have the afternoon to explore the market and pier-side area of Papeete.
It also meant that apart from having our suitcases ready for pick up by 9 am, we could forget about lugging bags and things in taxis. Check-in was very quick.
We took advantage of being on board early to visit the Lotus Spa on the 10th floor next to the gym. We both booked massages. I booked one for the 31st, thinking that after four days of dancing my body would really need it. I also booked a pedicure thinking that I could get purple polish to match the dress I was going to wear on New Year's Eve.
One food experience we did not want to miss was a visit to Les Roulottes – the Papeete Food Night Market. Street food dining has taken on a new flavour so to speak, in many cities including Vancouver. From the days when street food meant only hotdogs, pizza or pretzels, the street cart program at least in Vancouver has encouraged a varied "gourmet" street dining experience with carts at different locations throughout the city (Vancouver Foodie Tours Tastes Curbside Kitchen Food).
Papeete has its Roulottes. These are like the street carts we see in Vancouver but they are located in a large market area near the cruise terminal. There are tables to sit at and enjoy your meal. The vendor who was recommended to us was said to serve "restaurant quality" foods.
On my previous South Pacific Dance Cruise we journeyed from Hawaii to French Polynesia. I flew home from Papeete the day we docked in Tahiti and had no opportunity to see around the island. This time I planned to spend a couple of days in Tahiti before boarding the Ocean Princess to sail in the reverse direction - Tahiti to Honolulu. This would give me time to actually see something of the island of Tahiti.
Since I would be spending Christmas and Boxing day in Tahiti, I chose the stunning Intercontinental Resort in Tahiti as my base for a three night stay. My cabin mate for the cruise was flying into Papeete the day before the cruise. Another friend who is a specialist in tours to Italy, booked a couple of nights in a bed-and-breakfast in Papeete, and we planned to explore the island together.
The first word in French Polynesia is - French. So how did I so badly ignore that very important fact. If I had been planning to travel to France i would have packed my travel adaptors and brushed up on my French but somehow, it escaped me that the electrical outlets in Tahiti would be based on European not North American standards. Naturally none of my plugs fitted so to recharge my laptop battery I had to get an adaptor. The friendly Francophone guest services man came up with one - but when I plugged it in my poor little laptop was buzzing - literally. I hope I am not frying its poor little insides. Anyway next day I bought a better adaptor and the buzzing stopped.
Two years ago I cruised from Honolulu to Tahiti with Dancers at Sea, on the Pacific Princess - South Pacific Dance Cruise. To reverse the cruise that I did in November 2009, I decided to dance in the New Year of 2012, on board the Ocean Princess, this time journeying from Tahiti to Honolulu.
Rather than fly from Vancouver to Tahiti and then Honolulu to Vancouver, I opted for a return ticket to Honolulu where the cruise terminates, an overnight in Honolulu at each end ( so we can attend a dance in Hawaii at the end of our cruise), and a one-way flight from Honolulu to Papeete, to pick up the cruise.
The Air Canada flight to Honolulu was scheduled to leave at a convenient time – 2:30 and get into Honolulu early evening.
For 11 days as 2011 gives way to 2012, I am cruising from Tahiti to Honolulu on the Ocean Princess, with my dance-crazy friends from the Dancers at Sea travel group. My vacation begins with an overnight in Honolulu and a flight to Tahiti where I will stay a few nights at the Intercontinental Resort before the cruise.
This post is the index to the South Pacific Ballroom Dancing New Year Cruise Travelblogue.
Links will become active as the stories are added.
The Islands of French Polynesia
Three Nights in Tahiti
Circle Tour of Tahiti
Embarcation Day
Our first stop, a mere 15 miles and 3 hours sailing away from Papeete, was the island of Moorea.
On my previous visit to Moorea, I drove around parts of the island and visited one of the resorts. The islands of French Polynesia.
This time I signed up in advance for one of the Princess excursions. It was described as a lagoon trip to a beach on a motu (island) with a beach barbecue.
Despite dancing till 11 Pm the previous night and falling asleep easily, I slept very fitfully. I thought I would be exhausted and just pass out, but I guess I was a bit anxious about that nasty cut on my toe and whether it would be affected by the salt water, since I would hopefully be swimming in the beautiful blue waters surrounding the island.
We anchored in Cook's Bay, and passengers were taken ashore in tenders. Our excursion to the lagoon for swimming and a beach barbecue, was a whole day one, and we had only had to assemble at 8:45 so that meant a little less rush in the morning. Margaret had also signed up for this excursion.
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"What is a hackspace?" It's a place where people can go to build things, share skills, learn and maybe use equipment that they don't have at home. Does this sound good to you? They're open to anyone, so think about finding one near you and dropping in. The Manchester Mini Maker Faire will be hosting quite a few Hackspaces. They'll be showing off some favourite projects, running soldering activities and probably working on others, so stop by to have a go and find out more.
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A Texas legislator, a jeans-clad UT student and a restaurant waitress walk into a bar. The politician orders a single malt scotch and a grilled beef tenderloin filet; the college student orders an imported beer and an oversized burger with fries; and the waitress orders a specialty martini and a seared ahi tuna salad with the vinaigrette on the side.
Waiting for the punch line? There isn't one. This is a near daily occurrence at downtown Austin's hip "multi venue" bar and restaurant, 219 West. In fact, it's not uncommon to encounter all sorts of odd bedfellows mixing it up at 219 West, often at the same table or cozy leather couch.
After all, 219 West's classy, comfortable lounge atmosphere lends itself well to making new friends and hobnobbing with the city's elite.
Opened not quite a decade ago in Austin's popular Warehouse District by hands-on restaurateur Marty Munden, 219 West – a name that gives a nod to the venue's Fourth Street address – prides itself on offering a little something for every taste.
Top-quality ingredients and a passion for diversity drive the restaurant's six cocktail and cuisine pairing menus, which feature everything from premium beers and American tapas to distinctive martinis and fresh seafood entrees; from julep cocktails and Creole-inspired dishes to Old and New World wines; and from contemporary fare and sipping tequilas to refined Mexican cuisine.
The reasonably affordable fare – all made in-house from scratch by deft hands – is clearly prepared with care and precision.
But don't let the cuisine fool you; 219 West is also the champion of the cocktail, and the bartenders know a thing or two about creating classic mixed drinks and one-of-a-kind adult libations.
In fact, one of 219 West's beloved Texas-style cocktails, the Longhorn Ice Tea (a refreshingly smooth combination of SKYY vodka, triple sec, El Jimador Blanco Tequila, Bacardi light rum, sour mix, fresh lime and orange juices, grenadine and Coke), was even featured in Playboy magazine as "a big ol' bucket of Austin sunshine."
"The idea with 219 West was to create a welcoming place where there's something special for every taste," Munden says. "We specialize in diversity, and it's really neat that on any given night, you'll see a very diverse crowd enjoying our various menus. We always want to be sure to provide that balance between what's familiar and comfortable, and what's new and more exotic."
Munden is an expert at defining what his customers want. The seasoned restaurateur – who opened the original Old Alligator Grill in California, and consulted on the opening of Austin's Saba Blue Water Café and Eddie V's Edgewater Grill – has employed 219 West to fulfill his dream of showcasing elegant food and cocktails while providing diners with a comfortable, inviting and posh space simultaneously well-suited for mingling and intimacy.
It's apparent that Munden spends every day at 219 West (he knows many of his regular patrons by name), as his passionate energy has been infused in every detail of the venue, from the kitchen creations to the décor.
A longtime staple on downtown's foodie and cocktail scene, 219 West is known as a mainstay in the corporate community for wining and dining clients, and as an ideal spot for corporate happy hours or simply relaxing with friends over a few cocktails after a long workday.
But 219 West made an unprecedented upgrade when it recently relocated to Austin's most prominent thoroughfare: West Sixth Street. The new location, housed in the building that formerly held Union Park, allowed 219 West to nearly double its size to a whopping 8,600 square feet of expansive, yet charmingly intimate indoor and outdoor space.
If the décor looks familiar, that's because it is. Munden had the comfortably familiar furnishings and adornments – all three bars, the plush banquettes and the restaurant's signature curved railing – uprooted from the Fourth Street location and replanted at the new restaurant, where everything's been given new life alongside added features that are characteristic of 219 West's classic lounge aesthetic.
And the new location doesn't betray the restaurant's multi-venue composition. In addition to the rooftop deck, 219 West boasts a new patio on the front side of the building that's perfect for people-watching along Sixth Street, a large main dining room that anchors the downstairs space and a more intimate upstairs dining room that offers the ideal spot for private parties, special gatherings and unique events.
The Sixth Street move comes just in time for the holiday season, with the downtown buzz spreading about the new venue's prestige in hosting some of the most chic holiday parties in Central Texas.
The new capacious rooftop deck at 219 West, with spectacular downtown views and plenty of alluring seating vignettes, is destined to become the new go-to hot spot for businesses in search of a hip holiday happy hour – a popular trend replacing the requisite and often dull workplace Christmas party.
Holiday party guests are encouraged to raise a toast to 219 West's cosmopolitan Sixth Street location with the bar's new signature cocktail, the 219Tini, an exhilarating mixture of cucumber vodka, fresh lime juice, a splash each of sour mix and 7UP or soda and a dash of simple syrup.
So whether you crave dining in a chic lounge environment alongside the city's trendsetters and politicos, want to sip a cocktail atop a rooftop deck flaunting one of downtown's most inspiring views or simply can't make a decision between tapas and tenderloin, the new and improved 219 West has something special for you.
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Quoted from Diane_Gerencser If you could choose your blood type (and the food list that goes with it), what would you be?I could only give 7 options - so AB wasn't broken out into secretor status.
Quoted from TJ The only thing I'd change is secretor status. I miss sugar....
Quoted from TJ Ah, chocolate. I'd gladly trade tomatoes for chocolate!
Quoted from sml I would gladly take back wheat and milk products...I think the most I miss is a good bowl of whole wheat speghetti and cheese grated on top of it!
Quoted from C_Sharp If you have not determined your GenoType, you might want to determine if you are a teacher.Teachers get lots of cheeses! Even explorers and warriors get some cheeses. Lots of other types of pasta available to those who cannot tolerate wheat. Whole grain spelt pasta tastes a lot like whole wheat pasta for those that can tolerate spelt (It is neutral for As).
Quoted from Ribbit Jenny, you're able to eat wheat now too?
Quoted from kate4975 I'm pretty happy with my B-ness. All in all, though, the balanced B is where it's at!


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Is it possible to measure mass in a weightless environment? Also, why does mass exert gravitational forces? Does it go down to the atomic level where different particles have different charges, therefore attracting each other?
Yes, mass can be measured in a weightless environment. Basically, "inertial" mass is defined by Newton's law: F = m a. So, if you can measure a force and acceleration on an object, you can measure its mass. The standard method on earth uses force-balance, with one of the forces being the gravitational one, which is itself proportional to the "gravitational" mass, which has been experimentally shown to be exactly the same as "inertial" mass up to quite high precision. In weightlessness you could not use the gravitational force to measure mass and so you would have to measure it by the inertial approach, using an unbalanced force. For example, measuring the frequency of oscillation of a spring with the mass to be measured attached would give the mass pretty accurately. Gravity is not associated with the charges on things - otherwise it would not depend just on mass, but on what kind of microscopic relation there was between charge and mass. It is a very weak force, at least on a human scale, but it is indeed completely independent from the electrical forces. It was a good suggestion though - practically all the interactions of matter we run into in our lives are through electromagnetism - gravity is the one exception. There are two other forces at very short distances in the nucleus. One of the goals of physics is to try and unify all four forces to treat them as one, but there is no working theory of this yet!
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I add that gravitational mass equals inertial mass by definition. That is the way the gravitation constant (big "G") is defined, in the equation F=GmM/r^2 in the equation for the force between masses m and M separated by a distance r (r^2 means "r-squared). What is important is that G is the same for ALL pairs of masses, no matter what they are made of. This fact, which is what has been verified to high precision by experiment, is sometimes referred to as "the principle of equivalence".
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At the bottom of the page it states I add that gravitational mass equals inertial mass by definition. This statement is wrong. Gravitational mass and inertial mass aren't equal by definition but by observation. i.e. it is an empirical fact. Thank you.
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Why 7 days of Christmas food is too hard to swallow
Sun girl gorges on festive fare for a week...
WE all love to over-indulge at Christmas. Roast turkey with all the trimmings, mince pies and sausage rolls are firm favourites.
So it would be great if we could guzzle mulled wine and stuff ourselves with festive food every day of the year. Or would it?


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Dear Editor:
(An open letter to Environmental Protection Commissioner Carter Strickland)
I am writing to express both my outrage and my desperation.
Over the past three months I have paid almost six hundred dollars $600 in water and sewer charges, an average of just under $200 per month. That is more than my average natural gas and electricity charges combined. And now I receive a bill for a "minimum charge" because I have not used, in your estimation, a sufficient amount of water for this billing period to warrant equitable billing.
How dare you?
Water and sewer services are utilities, much like those provided by Con Edison. And yet, Con Ed understands the reduced circumstances of most senior citizens. It has seen fit to institute methods to assist us. It directs customers who are having a hard time due to fixed incomes to ways that their utility charges can be reduced and to assistance (not charity) to pay them based on income. But you find it appropriate to overcharge us for things already covered in the excessive property taxes we pay. Indeed, both water and sewer services once were delivered at no charge at all to the homeowner. Now they constitute just one more excessive charge.
You appear to have no comprehension of two essential facts about senior citizens, those of us in our so-called golden years. We are fixed incomers of advanced age, most of whom have outlived our marital partners, live alone and therefore utilize fewer essential services than before.
And yet, in light of all of this, you see fit to punish us with a minimum charge of your excessive and ever-rising fees. And you do that notwithstanding that, in your literature, you ask us to conserve. Where is your conscience? Where is your sense of fair play? Where is your fundamental sense of logic?
I look forward to your timely reply.


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"He let me know that he was going solo," Ashleigh joked while appearing in the This Morning studio with her canine friend on Tuesday.
"I support him all the way as long as it's just the movie and nothing else..."
Pudsey the Dog: The Movie sees the talented pooch befriend a group of children in a sleepy English village, as he helps them outsmart an evil landlord.
In the film Pudsey is voiced by Britain's Got Talent judge David Walliams.
"I think David has really brought (his voice) to life," said Ashleigh. "For me it sounds half David and half Pudsey, so very cheeky and very naughty."
Since winning BGT in 2012, Ashleigh and Pudsey have travelled the world and met a host of famous faces, all while showcasing Pudsey's exceptional talents.
But Ashleigh admitted she was daunted by making the film as it was something neither of them had tackled before.
She said: "I was really worried because obviously with film work I couldn't shout out commands or tell him what to do.
"So he had to learn a different sign language so when I was behind the cameras or under tables or behind doors, he knew what to do just by looking at me.
"But at the end of the day you can't teach an animal to act, so he was a bit of a natural."
At @itvthismorning with Ashleigh - about to go live! pic.twitter.com/RLtS63KnsS— OfficialPudsey (@OfficialPudsey) July 8, 2014
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Robert Aschentrop, CBIZ Benefits, Insurance, Tax & Accounting ServicesRyan McNeil, Digital Evolution GroupJohn Waggoner, Community Volunteer
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While there will be plenty of events and volunteer opportunities to get involved throughout the year, we are also looking for volunteers to serve on our committees.
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The next leg of the tour was to Shanghai. This is the trip I was most excited about since I have heard amazing things about Shanghai. I don't think I could write enough to properly describe this city. It is massive. I have heard that it is almost 4 times larger than all of Los Angeles. In 2000 the population was at 17 million. Today it probably tops 20 million. There are more people than I had anticipated.
Every place you walk there was somebody else there. It was a great experience to visit, but I could not live there I don't think. It was like one massive ant colony.
Everywhere you look, and everywhere you drive, you just see building after building. I must have taken close to 2000 photos in the 4 days that I was there.
Day 1
After 13 hours on a plane, or in an airport, we made it to Shanghai. Waiting for us at the airport was Daisy, the K-Swiss representative for this trip.
Daisy giving me a fuck you look, and jimmy caught mid sentance
Daisy is really nice, but has no problem speaking her mind. She has a tongue that is worth of a sailor, but she gets shit done. Also waiting for us was Jimmy Au. Jimmy works freelance for K-Swiss, and had organized the 5-city Asian K-spray tour last year. Jimmy is like my Chinese brother.
jimmy acting a fool
I love this guy. I have never met someone that is positive as much as he is, and is organized beyond description. He had our days planned out to the hour before we ever arrived in China. Jimmy is the oil that keeps everything flowing smoothly on these trips. If wanted me to fly over to China to pick flowers, I would do it as long as he is in charge of organization.
yummmm, meat
We were whisked off to a restaurant where we had enough meat to make a vegetarian cry. Food was good, and the beer we had never tasted so good.
terrible photo of spa. they had little rocks down the hallway for the walkway.
After dinner, we were taken to a massage spa for an all over massage. Anyone who has traveled for 13 hours straight understands how amazing this can feel. Before we went, I felt like someone had beaten my shoulders and neck with a baseball bat. I cannot begin to tell you how great my life is. Where else can you get this type of treatment??
After the dinner and massage, we made our way to the hotel. This hotel is unbelievable. it was like a friggin city inside a building. it was huge. the view was fucking incredible.
and the view? i cant explain. here is a little 180 degree photo for you, i couldnt fit it into one shot, so it is in 3 pieces
this is to the far right
this is in the middle
this is to the far left
a view during the day
See that building on the bottom of the photo? that one with the four squares on the roof? that was the same building that was used to hold the Sneaker Pimps show about a year ago.
Day 2
Today we went to this temple, whose name I forget. it was an amazing place. it was gated behind these huge walls. The picture below was from the neighborhood it was in. it had this really unassuming entrance, then when you walked in, it was like paradise opened up.
do you know why the bridges are not straight? the Chinese believed that the spirts, or ghosts could only walk a straight line, so if they made the bridge with many turns, they could not follow them over the water.
see, we are not ghosts
It was an amazing place, and had bridges that snaked over the water to little buildings. It looked like it was out of a kung fu film.
I kept expecting guys to jump out with swords and to start fighting. Guess that is the problem when the opinion I have formed on china is based on the martial arts films I saw as a kid. I must have taken hundreds of pictures there. Every turn was picture perfect. We walked around for an hour or so, then emerged out from the walled temple to the outside
outside the temple
i fucking hate starbucks
There were beggars and desperate tried to get money from us by hawking bootleg watches. You kept hearing the persistent sound of 'hello, hello, sir, hello, watch? Rolex?' but the Rolex came out "Lolex" instead. It would have been funny if they didn't follow me half a block every time I looked up.
We went to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai.
The museum if beautiful, with huge windows, and tall ceilings. The Shangai Biennale was up and the art was great. I wish I could tell you the names of the people who I liked, but I can barely remember a name when it is in English. Asking me to remember a Chinese name is like asking me to fart rainbows.
We checked out the show for about half an hour, then we made our way to the roof top patio for a meeting with the director of project development at the museum. I have no idea how Jimmy and Daisy arranged for this to happen, but I was happy they did. We sipped on kiwi juice drinks and talked about future possibilities.There has been chatter about maybe doing another k-Swiss event in Shanghai, and I think they were trying to see if this was possible to do in Shanghai. Outside of the K-Swiss business though, we kicked around the idea of doing a show at the museum that showcases urban art. No guarantee that it will happen, but if it were to happen it would be the first intensive museum showcase of urban art in Shanghai. How insane would that be? Me in a museum! Fuck yeah! We also pitched the idea that Sixten ten and myself curate the show. I am excited to see what w can make happen.
lesson learned: dont eat the jellyfish
Daisy before eating jellyfish:
Daisy after eating jellyfish:
talking w Himm outside
For diner we went to a famous Chinese restaurant that I can't remember the name of. It was an interesting place. Some days I feel adventurous and want to try new foods, then other days I just want to eat comfort food. This was a nonadventerous day for eating. I can tell you now; the fried jellyfish wasn't my favorite. It tasted like eating a gummi worm that had been left in the sun for a few months, then had the flavor extracted. For dinner, Himm of Urban Look (www.urbanlook.com) joined us for dinner. Urban Look is the first magazine of urban art in China.
after dinner, we went to some swanky outdoor place and had a drink. i was the usual gluttonous pig, and ordered desert too.
Shola looking at blurry daisy
how chris looks after a long flight
the night was getting late, so we made our way back to the hotel and met up with Chris, the production manager of K-Swiss, and Shola
Day 3
Woke up this morning and had breakfast with Chris, the production manager for K-Swiss. We went over some of the production issues with the shirt and shoes. I always enjoy hearing about the behind the scenes stuff. How the factories work, how things are made, etc. Chris filled me in, and we managed to relax and have a great breakfast while overlooking the skyline of Shanghai. I love my life.
Holy Grail of shoe stores
Tom knows whats up
Afterwards we went to Sole Society. Solesociety is a sneaker shop that is beyond description. Next week they are having their grand opening. For the Grand opening the list of people flying in is like a streetwear list of whose who – Hiroshi, Stash, Futura, Jeff Staple, and Edison Chen. The show had a display that was like a sneakerheads wet dream. Almost every single shoe I have seen over the past 3 years on sneaker blogs were here. The shoes were loaned to Sole Society from Hiroshi, Stash, Futura and the rest of the bunch. I don't consider myself a sneaker head, but even my jaw was on the floor. My only regret is that I wont be around for the opening next week. Would have been good to meet Hiroshi and everyone. Jimmy took us upstairs to meet the owner of the store, Tom. Tom was a super nice guy and really humble. He took time out to chat with us and give us the background on how the store came into existence. Come to find out he lived in Los Angeles for years and went to Art College there.
Epha looking a cute as a bugs ear
tape drawing
After that we headed to the Ground Floor Gallery to check out my good friend Ephameron. This falls under the 'small world' category. Epha is the one who helped organized the Brussels Exhibit I was in 2 weeks earlier. As it turns out, she also had an exhibit at the same time in Shanghai. Even stranger, her hotel was next door to the same building that the K-Swiss event is going to happen.
Nigel's work:
Epha was showing with a guy by the name of Nigel Peake, who was from Ireland. He was a nice guy, and I enjoyed the art he had. We chatted for a few minutes, and then we had to head out to get ready for dinner
ummmm, desert
That night we had dinner with the Chinese distributor of K-Swiss. We went to this swanky Thai restaurant that was inside some compound. It felt like we were driving into Lord Bruce Wayne's manor or something. It was straight out of a comic book. The tops of the building were lit, and there were security guards checking to make sure we were supposed to be there. Once we were inside, we had one of the best dinners ever! Dish after dish came out, and out of the 15 dishes that were served; there was only one that I wouldn't eat again. We finished our meal, and parted ways with the distributors. Me, Sixten, and the whole k-Swiss crew hit the town for an evening of drinks.
First stop though was along the Hangpu river at The Bundt. The Bundt is on the river, and boasts one of the best views ever, and some of the most impressive architecture. beautiful
This is what we looked at as we slugged down drinks.
First place we hit was the Shangri-la. It was on the top floor and must have been 20 floors up. We ran into Diana from MOCA there. In town for 2 days and already feeling like a local. Somewhere along the way somebody (me?) had the bright idea that we should order a few shots of Patron. That was the beginning of the end.
Drinking makes you do this
drinks make us happy
at least one of us looks sober.
We had a few more drinks then went to another roof top bar on the other side of the Hangpu River. It had a great view, and great drinks, but there were 80% westerners there, and maybe 20% Chinese. It felt kind of odd, but with our crew nearly 10 deep, we were pretty self-contained. More shots of Tequila, a few more shots of something else, and a few more beers, and we were done. Back to the hotel to sleep it off, hopefully.
Day 4
Today was great. Woke up and had breakfast with Ephameron and Nigel in the hotel. The hotel had one of the most extensive buffet style breakfasts I have ever seen. You had to walk half a block to go from the hot food to the breads. Crazy. This was the first time that we could sit and chat since we were both in Shanghai. We finished breakfast and decided to go to the ovservation level of the hotel. the views are incredible.
my hotels view can beat up your hotels view
After stuffing ourselves with a large breakfast and checking out the view, we parted ways until the evening time. Met up with the K-Swiss crew, and we did some errands, and then made out way to the venue.
Jimmy with preshow jitters.
Carl decorating
the roof with no box
This was the view from the rooftop
The venue was amazing. Jimmy had this box fabricated that was huge. It kinda looked like a fish aquarium. The front and back were clear so that the crowd could see into the box. The border around the glass wall was the pattern I use in my art, and on the other side was Sixten's. For this show we were to be inside the box, and paint the inside of the glass wall. We figured it would be kind of cool, but it was a little tricky. Normally when I spray a stencil, I start with the lightest color, which has the most detail. This means it is easy to line up the next color because there is so much detail to register it with. The only problem with painting on glass is that you have to start with the black, which has the least amount of detail. Trying to line up the stencils backwards with little detail to work with was difficult at first, but turned out pretty good.
when the interviewers become the interviewed
More, intensity!
Their enthusium is contagious!
This is how you say 'fuck you, stop taking pictures of me' with your eyes
Before the show however, we needed to do some press interviews. Press interviews in English can be boring because they ask the same questions, but press interviews in Chinese just plain odd. I was asked questions like 'which building is favorite', and 'what is future of Graffiti Shanghai?'. How the hell am I supposed to know??? I am not a graffiti artist, and I have been in this city for 72 hours. Luckily, we had Shola and Daisy translating for us, so suspect the stepped in to make sure some sort of intelligent answer came from me once it was translated back. Every time I do interviews in any Asian country, I just keep thinking about the 'Lost in Translation' scene where Bill Murray's character is doing the Suntory commercial. If you haven't seen it, you should. It is funny as hell.
calm before the madness
After the press stuff, we went back to the hotel to relax for an hour, then back to the venue for the event. We started about 8:30 and the crowd seemed to enjoy it. I had made the mistake of going into the Art Aquarium once, and had a posse of photographers line up outside and start taking pictures. It was a little overwhelming. The only problem with the whole painting on glass thing is that people seemed to like getting 1 inch from the glass and taking pictures of me while I was painting. A picture here and there is fine, but I was ready to paint the camera of this one guy that had a camcorder and was filming with the lens nearly touching the glass. I finished my piece and was happy with the outcome.
Sixten preparing
sixten and me painting
crowd seemed to like it
my finished piece
sixten in front of finished piece
this happened when i walked in front of my finished piece
Chatted a bit and then we were off to a diner. It is a bit odd to go to a traditional American style diner in the middle of Shanghai, but I wasn't in the mood for food roulette, and the others with us were really in the mood for it too. Jimmy drooled over the menu as he read the names of each dish. Jimmy lived in San Francisco for years, so it had been a long time since he had American diner food. I ordered a Reuben. It was good, but when you have had a Reuben sandwich at Canters deli in Los Angeles, it's a standard that is hard to live up too. We finished off the night and went back to the hotel to sleep. You know you are getting old when a soft bed sounds better than going out on the town. Got some sleep though,
the end of the night
Day 4
Got up, met the crew, then made the long drive to the airport. This was the end of a very long, very exhausting, very exciting trip. As I type this I am en route to Los Angeles for 3 days of rest before heading to Baltimore for a wedding.
Here are a few pictures that have nothing to do with nothing, but i liked them for various reasons
no underwear, see through skirt. mercy
its like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder, how i keep from going under
crab dumplings, what you know about that??
saw this jacket with Lucy Maclaughlan's artwork on it.come to find out it was a bootlegged shirt. she never licensed the artwork out. thats china, folks!
round round, i get around, yeah!
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Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE: ADI), a global leader in high performance semiconductors for signal-processing applications and the market leader in amplifiers, today introduced two Class-D audio amplifiers designed to meet the low-power, small size, and growing sound quality requirements of portable electronics. A leader in delivering innovative sound processing solutions for home and professional applications, ADI is applying its expertise to Class-D amplifiers that address the space constraints and battery-consumption requirements of cellular handsets, handheld game machines, MP3 players, laptop computers, and handheld media devices.
ADI's SSM2301 and SSM2304 Class D amplifiers are designed to efficiently drive speakers in handheld and portable consumer applications by consuming minimal power, employing sigma-delta modulation to reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI) emissions, and integrating a filterless topology that eliminates external components.
"Combining the power-saving and space-saving benefits of Class-D audio technology with ADI's linear IC expertise has enabled a portfolio of audio amplifiers that deliver exceptional sound for a range of applications—from portable devices such as cellular handsets and MP3 players, to thin flat panel advanced televisions and multi-channel surround-sound car stereos," said Steve Sockolov, product line director, Precision Signal Processing. "While most Class-D amplifiers use some variation of pulse-width modulation (PWM), ADI's Class-D amplifiers use a sigma-delta pulse density modulation (PDM) to reduce the amplitude of spectral components at high-frequencies, thus significantly minimizing EMI emissions."
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The SSM2301 (mono) and SSM2304 (stereo) devices operate at a very high 85 percent efficiency over a wide range of output power levels. The SSM2301 delivers 1.4 W into an 8 ohm load, and the SSM2304 delivers 2 W of power into a 4 ohm load. Both devices operate on a single 2.5 V to 5.5 V supply, have a micro-shutdown mode with a maximum shutdown current of 20 nA, and feature a built-in thermal shutdown and output short circuit protection. The ability to function at very low voltages makes them ideal for applications, such as cellular handsets, where the speaker amplifiers are driven directly from the battery voltage.
Small Packaging and Exceptional Audio Fidelity
The new Class-D audio amplifiers are housed in tiny 8-lead, 3 mm × 3 mm lead-frame chip-scale packaging (LFCSP). Board space is further conserved with a filterless topology that eliminates external output filters.
The SSM2301 and SSM2304 have less than 1 percent total harmonic distortion plus noise (THD+N) when driving peak output loads from a 5 V supply, and a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) that is better than 98 dB. The fully-differential input provides excellent rejection of common-mode noise on the input. The amplifiers also include click-and-pop suppression circuitry that reduces audible noise on activation and deactivation—and feature flexible fixed and user-adjustable gain configurations.
The SSM2301 and SSM2304 are the most recent additions to ADI's portfolio of Class-D amplifiers, which also includes the AD199x family of audio power amplifiers.
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The SSM2301 and SSM2304 Class-D audio amplifiers are sampling now, with production quantities available in August 2006, and are priced at $0.55 per unit in 1,000-piece quantities. The devices are fully specified over the industrial temperature range of –40 degrees C to +85 degrees C. An evaluation board with additional measurement filters is also available.
About Analog Devices
Innovation, performance, and excellence are the cultural pillars on which Analog Devices has built one of the longest standing, highest growth companies within the technology sector. Acknowledged industry-wide as the world leader in data conversion and signal conditioning technology, Analog Devices serves over 60,000 customers, representing virtually all types of electronic equipment. Celebrating 40 years as a leading global manufacturer of high-performance integrated circuits used in analog and digital signal processing applications, Analog Devices is headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, with design and manufacturing facilities throughout the world. Analog Devices' common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker "ADI" and is included in the S&P 500 Index.
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