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New comers to this site will soon discover that this website is meant to be: (i) an archive of my own life and work, and (ii) the lives and the works, the thoughts and the words, of many others both in the past and present. There are many criteria I draw on for the inclusion of the work of others in order to produce this internet island of what I like to think has both diversity and quality. I am no specialist but, rather, a generalist who has been reading and studying, teaching and learning, in a host of different ways for more than 7 decades. Due to my being a generalist, readers will find more than 100 different sections and sub-sections, disciplines and fields, subjects and topics at this website.
I have not come to know more and more about less and less, as is the nature of the specialist's life. I find myself, as I enter the first years of my 70s, knowing less and less about more and more. At least I feel as if that is partly the case. This is especially due to the great array of burgeoning regions of knowledge where one can only skim the surface of some vast expanse of materials and messages, information and instruction that represents their respective fields of study. The more that one comes to study this immense range of disciplines and sub-discplines, the more one realizes how little is the little that one knows. But I am no polymath. I am not one of those renaissance men, as they are now sometimes called, whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas. I am no prodigy, no genius. There are vast stretches and tracts of the learning and experiential landscape which hold little to no interest for me but, if I began to list them all here, it would lead to prolixity.
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I am your ordinarily ordinary, humanly human, Everyday, Everyman, sort of person with a wide range of interests. These many interests are displayed here at my website. These interests have resulted from having had both a generalist's education as a student over 18 years in classrooms and lecture-halls. I have also had a generalist's teaching career from pre-school children to university students, graduates and post-graduates, who were working on all sorts of degree and diploma programs, advanced degree & certificate courses. I also had a generalist's wide range of jobs and human experiences across the lifespan, jobs and experiences which are listed, FYI, in my resume which is readily accessible in cyberspace at: http://www.ronpriceepoch.com/welcome.html
Every word and idea, concept and notion, thought and supposition, at this website is meant in an unnumbered variety of ways. Every image and video, link and brain-wave is meaningful at least to me in some way or other. Others who come upon this vast literary collectivity need to choose from the smorgasbord of subject matter what is of interest to them. Where there is music and art, essays and books at this site, it is due to the sources and the resources to which I have responded over the many years of my lifespan. Such a varied scope, such an immense variety of reading material, at this site is without theoretical limit. In the first 5 years of this latest edition of my site, 2011 to 2015, a website which was started in 1997, I have barely got started. I look forward in the years ahead as I go through my 70s, 80s, and 90s, if I last that long, to the continued and continuous development of this site, of my life and of my society.
I would like "The Good Web Guide Review" of my website to read as follows: "Ron Price's website entitled: Pioneering Over Five Epochs is a generous and wonderful delight. Ron's website provides a window into the future for cultural multi-media websites. His site ought to be a spur to an artistic renaissance on the internet; it is so beautifully designed. In Ron's audio and visual resources there are fascinating dialogues. His video archive is a treasure-house of wit and insight." This is what I would like my review to read but, as yet, the audio and video resources have not been designed and uploaded as extensively as I'd like, and the wit and insight can also be deepened and extended far more than it already has in the last 18 years during which I have had a website.
I will be leaving many aspects of my website to the 5th edition which I hope will come out sooner rather than later. Still, there now exists the equivalent of some 60 books at 80,000 words per book of sources and resources, of essays and poems, of books and ebooks, of videos and photos, for readers with the interest. Readers who want to comment can do so by pressing the 'comment' button at the bottom of virtually all the webpages.
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A leopard has adorned this accesspage, this homepage, of my website for the last 14 years. The leopard is an opportunistic, single and versatile hunter; it is often used in heraldry, on coats of arms in tracing geneology and to indicate a particular ancestry. My first use of a leopard on this opening page of my website was largely accidental, but its use has proved fortuitous. When my son, Daniel, and I were creating the second edition of this website more than a dozen years ago in 2001, a photo of a leopard was available. We stuck it in to provide a visual stimulus. I kept the image in this website's 3rd edition, and again in the 4th edition as part of my introduction, my homepage. Perhaps, as this website enters its 5th edition in the coming years, I may change this photo, and the several others. My website design company, Design Studio of Mosman NSW, added these photos nearly 4 years ago. Time will tell what eventuates in future editions of my website as I go through my 70s in the years 2014 to 2024. Before continuing, I should give my son, Daniel, a thank-you for his work over the years in helping me with problems that arise in my IT world. My son is now 38 and a technical-writer here in Tasmania.
The leopard is the smallest of the four "big cats," the others being the lion, tiger and jaguar. What follows at this site is a collection of writings from an animal who, like the leopard, is quite solitary or, should I say has become more solitary with age. I have developed, like the leopard, what I like to think is an agile and versatile, opportunistic and stealthy style, an ability to adapt, again like the leopard, to many habitats. Like the leopard, though, I do not always catch my prey. Even after more than seven decades of hunting: (a) for my survival and (b) for the simple pleasures of the hunt, I still do not always win in the hunt and gather process. In the many modern forms of hunting & gathering, quite idiosyncratic to each individual, at least in some ways, my hunting and gathering has become largely literary and intellectual, scholarly and cerebral, bookish and creative---especially in these years of my retirement from what was a half-century of a student-and-paid-employment life, 1949 to 1999.
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These hunting and gathering activities, of course, have been psychological and sociological, historical and metaphorical. Hunting and gathering has characterized most of the historical timeline of the human species. Foraging was the ancestral subsistence mode of Homo. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunter-Gatherers says: "Hunting & gathering was humanity's first & most successful adaptation, occupying at least 90 percent of human history. Until 12,000 to 20,000 years ago, all humans lived this way." Following the invention of agriculture, hunter-gatherers were displaced by farming or pastoralist groups in most parts of the world. Then, of course, came the industrial and post-industrial revolutions. My life has been lived in the context of these latter revolutions. My life has been a studious & academic one as a: student & scholar, a teacher & a tutor, lecturer & adult educator. Now in my retirement years, my latter years of withdrawal from so many things that occupied me until what seems like just the other day, I have reinvented myself as a writer and author, poet and publisher, online blogger and journalist, reader and researcher, editor, marketer and publicist of my own work.
Since the neolithic revolution, or the neolithic demographic transition, sometimes called the agricultural revolution, the world's first historically verifiable revolution in agriculture in the years 20,000 to 12,000 BP; since the domestication of various types of plants & animals evolved in separate locations worldwide, starting(circa) in the geological epoch of the Holocene 12,000 years ago; since the modern agricultural & industrial revolutions of the century from 1750 to 1850, to say nothing of the many revolutions of the last 150 years, human existence has been transformed far beyond what it was like for the many millennia of our hunting and gathering history, indeed, for virtually our entire existence as homo sapiens sapiens.
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My habitats in the last seven decades were mainly social ones: school and family, paid-employment & volunteer groups, friendships & peer groups, clubs and communities, teams and triads, in-groups and out-groups, dyads and organizations. There has always been, though, a strong element of the solitary in my literary and studious habitations, my social & school settings. I was the only child of older parents. I was conceived in the autumn, in mid-October, of 1943 in the midst of the second World War. The Holocaust was in full-swing unbeknowst to most people at the time, and the New York Yankees had just defeated the St Louis Cardinals in baseball's World Series, a fact well-known to baseball lovers.
The Oxford English Dictionary cites the first known usage in the English language for the term 'World War' as being in April 1909 in the pages of the Westminster Gazette. The remains of the Báb were buried on March 21, 1909 in a six-room mausoleum made of local stone. I have always found a synchronicity of many of the aspects of Babi-Baha'i history & aspects of modern history of personal interest. This is largely because I have now been associated with this latest of the Abrahamic religions for more than six decades of my life. My religious evangelism has become more quiet with age, and I try not to knock people over with my convictions.
Everyone has convictions of some sort, and the notion that 'I am right and you are wrong' causes so many problems in our search for 'answers' in the complex world of the humanities and social sciences. I have no desire to add to that great divide between minds and hearts by an intolerant insistence on agreement and finality. There is, in our world, a strong need for a tolerant assertion of preference as we each deal with the absolutes in our private worlds, without calling down fire from heaven on those who do not agree with us. There is a strong need, too, to stress the cultural similarities underneath what are often deceptive but superficial institutional divergences. Reality, it seems to me is like a white light that is broken-up partly by the prism of human nature into a spectrum of values and colours, ideas and attitudes.
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My father was 55 when I was born, and my mother 40. I learned early, at least by the late 1940s, to occupy myself pleasantly without the need for human interaction with play-mates. The places I came to occupy, though, beginning in those 1940s, were increasingly those involving physical activity and the social, academic & increasingly literary habitats. On 23 July 2014 I entered the last decade(70 to 80) of late adulthood, the years 60 to 80 according to some human development psychologists; my lifestyle had become, by my 70s, very academic and literary and, as in those years of my early childhood, very solitary.
I am not entirely a hermit, not entirely reclusive, though. Over a 12 month period I am seen in various homes: some of family members, and some of friends, people whom I have come to know and interact with in Tasmania in the 20 years I have lived in this southern extremity of Australia. I have lived in this oldest town in Australia, George Town, since I was 55, some 15 years, since taking an early retirement, a sea-change, as it has come to be known in some parts of the world. I am also a husband and father, grandfather and uncle, online blogger and journalist, editor and researcher. I spend much time in cyberspace, about 6 hours daily, and also 6 hours in real space. I then spend 12 hours in bed due to the medications I take for my bipolar I disorder, and several other infirmities. All of these roles involve me with people in one way or another, except those 12 hours in bed; then I have to deal with dreams. But I leave that subject to other sections of this website.
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Like the leopard I eat meat but, unlike the leopard, I do not climb trees, at least not any more, not since the early 1950s when, in the years of my middle childhood the ages from 6 to 12, again according to one of the many models of human development in the lifespan, I used to climb cherry trees, among other types of trees, near my home in southern Ontario Canada, in what is known as the Golden Horseshoe. Nor do I eat humans. The leopard and I also part company in that I write poetry & prose. Those who come to this part of my website can even read my last five annual letters to family and friends for the years 2011 to 2015. These annual letters are quite detailed; they bring anyone who is interested up-to-date with my life and the 'significant others' in it, as they say in psychology. These letters are found amidst several pieces of my writing, and by scrolling-down the left side of the following link, FYI: http://www.my-diary.org/read/d/465760
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According to the U.S. Copyright Office copyright is a legal right for someone to make copies of, sell, & otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or other creative work. A copyright is good for the life of the author, and then for a period of 70 years after the author dies. If the work was anonymous then copyright lasts 95 years from the date of publication, or 120 years from the date of creation (whatever comes first). I refer to use of my literary work, my prose and poetry, as "under license" or "with permission." I have placed all my writing in the public domain, and I regard it as public property.
I hereby offer my work under my own version of what is known as "A Creative Commons Copyright Licence." This means that I permit users to make use of my material in various ways. All the content of this website exists, as I say, under my own version of a creative commons copyright. This means that others are free to copy, distribute and remix what they find at this site. I would appreciate, but I do not require, that others cite the source of material they find at this site. These paragraphs above and below provide a simple and readable summary of, but not a substitute for, a license.
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Readers are advised to note the following disclaimer: "These words of mine highlight the main, the key, features of the terms and conditions of the use others make of what they find at this site. These words that I use here do not constitute a license, and they have no legal value. Readers can, if they so desire, carefully review all of the terms and conditions of actual licenses before using any licensed material they find in cyberspace. I leave this to the discretion of readers. This statement is my own simulation of "A Creative Commons Copyright License." It is not the equivalent, though, of a legal document obtained from a law firm. I do not provide legal services, or anything that could be described as legal advice, at this site. Readers who want to link to these words, to distribute them, or to display them in any way do not, in the process, create a lawyer-client or any other kind of legal relationship with me.
You are free: (i) to share, to copy, and to redistribute the material in any medium or format found at this site. and (ii) to adapt, to remix, to transform, & to build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. Readers are advised, as I say above, to give appropriate credit for what they find here, if they use it for their own purposes. Readers may do so in any reasonable manner, & I do not ask readers to adhere to any other restrictions. In addition, I am not in the business of checking to see if readers have adhered to my advice and suggestions in the above paragraphs.
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Leopards, just to continue on that opening subject here, can be observed in their private habitats and I, too, welcome visitors to mine. Except for the snow leopard, the leopard is a relatively abundant species. 'Ron Prices' are also abundant; over 5000 of them can now be found in cyberspace: some of notoriety, and many with significant degrees of talent & achievement. Although these other 'Ron Prices' are neither nameless nor traceless among the burgeoning billions now on our planet they, like most other human beings, make only a very small mark on history's woodpile, the immense landscape of climatic and vegetation, soil and population-density regions covering our planet. This virtual anonymity has been the case with most humans who have ever lived. This is still the case even with cyberspace giving some degree of publicity to millions of men and women.
Like the snow leopard, though, my life is increasingly endangered as I head into the late evening of my life & the inevitability of death. All of us, all humans, have lives which are endangered since we are all going to die. Some will die sooner & some later, but all with an inevitability & certitude. I have no desire to live beyond 100, and certainly not as long as the proverbial Methuselah. But, given the advances in modern medicine and my increasing interest in health, exercise, and what some call 'personal hygiene factors', I think I stand a good chance. Of course, "no man knoweth what and when his own end shall be", wrote some poet.
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According to the Hebrew Bible Methuselah, that oldman in the Bible, is purported to be the oldest person to have ever lived. Extra-biblical tradition maintains that he died at the age of 969, 7 days before the beginning of the Great Flood. Methuselah was the son of Enoch and the grandfather of Noah. The meaning of Methuselah's age has engendered considerable speculation, but no widely accepted conclusions. These speculations can be discussed under four categories and their combinations: literal, mistranslation, symbolic, & fictional interpretations. If there is to be another great flood, which many 'time-of-the-enders', and people concerned with many varieties of apocalypticism, keep talking about, I would be quite happy to make my exit Methuselah-like. I often think another Great Flood has already begun, but I leave such speculations to readers with Biblical interests and enthusiasms, as well as interests in catastrophes, past, present and future.
The human species, such is my view, is on its way in the centuries ahead to a Golden Age, a future that is unimaginably glorious in spite of appearances to the contrary at this juncture in history. That process has already begun. Some appearances even now are distinctly utopian compared to what life was like for most people until recent times: nasty, brutish and short, according to the 16th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes. As the famous French philosopher, paleontologist and geologist Teilhard de Chardin(1881-1955), whose works were condemned by the Holy Office, has argued, it is the utopians who are the realists. Chardin was thinking here of the unbelievably vast changes that have taken place since humans lived in caves & hunted like that leopard mentioned above, & not so long ago as geological & archeological time flies. Chardin also tended to be on the side of utopia and not oblivion.
I take deep satisfaction, and much personal delight, from the advances in society that have been made in the last 150 years, the lifetimes of my generation, the generation of my parents, my grandparents, and my great-grandparents. Since, say, Darwin's Origin of the Species(1859), and Einstein's publications at the turn of the 20th century, as well as a host of other contributors to our knowledge since the middle of the 19th century, and especially contributors to science and technology, human life in the developed world has been transformed. I take a particular and quite personal pleasure from the processes that have been knitting together the peoples and nations of the world, again, in spite of appearances to the contrary. From the telegraph in the middle of the 19th century, to the internet at the end of the 20th and early 21st, the tyranny of distance has been overcome, at least for some if not for the entire human race as yet. The issues and questions in relation to this subject, this process and progress, and the very meaning of history, of course, are complex. I deal with a great many of these issues and questions, among a vast array of subjects in various ways at this website.
In some ways my eventual, my long-range, aim at this website is to have, arranged in this one place, the central, the main, some of the many thousands, the components of knowledge and experience that have made up my lifetime, my lifespan. It is a lifetime that has been marked, almost year by year, by things of significance. Some of the things I discuss are significant to others, and some have meaning and purpose only to me. I see this whole website apparatus, indeed, I experience it as a single thing, but a single thing only in the sense that a galaxy is a single thing, when seen from a distance. This website, of course, does not deal with all fields of knowledge & experience. My literary interests, though wide, do not include any and every subject in existence. This site deals with over 100 sub-divisions of human knowledge, but readers who come to this site will find little mention of: gardening & cooking, eating & drinking, the mechanical workings of cars, refrigerators, and dozens of others items in our technological society. The list of topics I do not deal with in any literary way is virtually endless: toys & taxes, games & gambling, clothes & clubs, fish & factories, maps & minecraft, inter alia.
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In the following paragraphs I compare myself and my life to a galaxy. Much is known about a galaxy, and much is unknown. A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system. The older I live, the more massive becomes the quantity, the details, the unnumbered events in my life. A galaxy consists of stars, stellar remnants, an interstellar medium of gas and dust, as well as dark matter. Dark matter is an important, but poorly understood, component of a galaxy. My life, now more than 70 years of existence, also contains much 'dark matter' as well as 'much light'. We all carry with us through our days 'a higher self' and 'a lower self', selves which I discuss in some detail in this autobiographical website as I go about analysing and commenting on my life, my society, and much else. The concepts 'higher self' and 'lower self' are common to many religious traditions as well as to many modern religious and new age movements. Go to this link FYI:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_self
The word galaxy is derived from the Greek word 'galaxias' meaning literally "milky", a reference to the Milky Way. Types of galaxies range from dwarfs, with as few as ten million stars, to giants with a hundred trillion stars, each orbiting their galaxy's own center and its mass. There is a great deal of my life that orbits around my central mass of some 235 to 240 pounds, with a body-mass index of 33, and on a frame of 5 feet and 11 and 1/2 inches. Ideas, thoughts, concepts, actions, motivations, emotions, attitudes, loves, likes and dislikes, passions and prejudices, indeed, a vast array of abstract and quite concrete stuff is part and parcel of my galaxy.
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Galaxies have been historically categorized according to their apparent shape, usually referred to as their visual morphology. Galaxies come in three main types: ellipticals, spirals, and irregulars. So, too, can people be categorized by body shape and type: ectomorph, endomorph, or mesomorph. There are also three separate body types in men: the thyroid, pituitary and adrenal types. I am a combination of several of these types. The majority of galaxies are organized into a hierarchy of associations known as groups and clusters, which, in turn usually form larger superclusters. So, too, is my life, my individual life, like a galaxy, organized into a hierarchy of associations. I have belonged to many groups and clusters of people: families, employment, volunteer and interest groups, local, regional and national groups. My supercluster is humanity itself.
Although I now have millions of readers, something quite unimaginable until the early years of this 21st century, few of those who visit my website and my writings in cyberspace, actually come into my literary habitat, my study here in this little town in Tasmania. When they do, I can not show them 'my etchings.' What one writes is not like what one draws, paints or sculpts. Words on a page are for the private delectation of readers in their private spaces and, increasingly, in public and electronic spaces. My words can be observed by the millions on the internet for those who are interested.
Collectors from charitable organizations, and those who have some cause to tell me about, come to my door. The only ones who come in the door, and not just to the door, are a few family members and friends. Occasionally a big crowd comes into my home, family gatherings or a big Baha'i group, but not nearly as often as big crowds once did. As I say, my life-style, my modus vivendi, is much more solitary now, a suitable one for the full-time writer and author, poet and publisher, as well as the online blogger and journalist which I have become. If I want a bit of social contact, like some residue from the more than half a century of wall-to-wall people in my life, I go for a short walk and visit a friend. In this respect I am much like my grandfather on my mother's side. I remember him well in the evening of his life, and in the childhood which was mine back in the 1950s. Reading and going for walks with an occasional appearance at family gatherings, and/or a visit with a friend, was his modus operandi, as I remember it in those 1950s. This way of living is largely mine as I head through my 70s, from 23 July 2014 to 23 July 2024.
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The camouflage of the leopard makes sightings rare. I, too, have a certain camouflage or protection that takes the form of my books as well as my hard copy and electronic files, my prose and poetry, my many intellectual pursuits: learning and the cultural attainments of the mind. But all is not camouflage at this site. Readers will come across a mild confessionalism, a confessionalism to partly satisfy curiosity and whet the whistle of readers. It is also a moderate confessionalism that goes hand-in-hand with my autobiography and memoirs.
Readers will find at this site a wide range of subject matter, causes to which I am committed and interests in which I have been engaged, some for decades. Readers can access this content by clicking on the subject titles at the top of this page or by scrolling down and clicking on the topics below. Of course, it could be said that the more topics, or the more strings to a writer's bow, or anyone's bow for that matter, that a person has, the smaller the feathers in their cap must be.
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The more than 100 sections & sub-sections of this website demonstrate the breadth of intellectual curiosity in my work & whatever scholarly allure it possesses. Hopefully, readers with an interest in one or more of these sections or sub-sections, one of these small feathers, one or more of my concerns or enthusiasms, one or more of my interests or the causes to which I have been involved with most of my life in various ways, can get that same curiosity satisfied, those same whistles whetted. Given the burgeoning quantities of information now available on every conceivable topic on the internet, I will only gain a coterie of the 2 billion users who now come into cyberspace. I have millions of readers after 20 years in cyberspace, after engaging in what are called search engine optimization techniques, and after registering at over 8000 web sites.
Whatever need I once had for recognition, for a readership, has been satisfied to the full. I write now largely for pleasure and, if readers come along, that is a bonus. I don't mind bonuses, especially of that sort. Given the immense variety of content found at this site, I should like to think that there is no such thing as a shallow subject, only a shallow treatment of it. In the more than 100 major sub-divisions of content, a certain shallowness is inevitable for an academic generalist like myself. This shallowness is, of course, from the point of view of specialists and experts in those many and various fields of knowledge.
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Readers who spend much time at this website will come across, again and again, my optimiism, not only about myself, but my world, & especially the Baha'i community which I have been part of, in one way or another, for more than 60 years. Even when I describe the awfulness of existence for billions of people in this 7.2 billion-peopled world, and the tragedy of much of history, I present readers with an optimism that is sometimes like subtle background music, and sometimes like a quiet but insistent drumbeat. Through all this writing and all this living, with each word, perhaps as evidence of a person who is certain of his message and the basis of his optimism, I try never to shout. Even though I feel a sense of certitude, a measure of doubt often accompanies what I write for I am more than a little conscious that the feeling one is right is not the same as being right. Such a view that one is right and the other person is wrong contributes to much that is a problem in society, and I don't want to contribute to that problem or at least very little.
The voice of the intellect for me, if not for all those who are thinkers and who are intellectually inclined, is a soft one. I consider that I have many responsibilities, but none greater than this: "to last", as the famous American writer Ernest Hemingway once said, "and get my work done." I want to be, and I try to be, as another famous writer James Baldwin once said, an honest man and a good writer. Of course, I try to be much else and readers of my website will find out a great deal of this 'much-else.'
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To read more of this introductory, this access, page of my website go to:http://www.ronpriceepoch.com/welcome.html For my annual email for 2011 readers can go to the sub-section of this site entitled 'Autobiography' at: http://www.ronpriceepoch.com/auto.html That annual email has received more than 1700 hits since it went online nearly three years ago in late 2011. All these hits more than justify my placing that annual letter on the internet. Having that many hits is a modest figure, though, in a world where many successful sites get millions of hits. Realising that fame, celebrity status and wealth will always elude me, I write for many other reasons having to do with things like: the sheer pleasure of writing, the desire to communicate with others, my general health problems which limit my physical activity and socializing, and a host of other reasons, reasons I write about at many places in cyberspace, both on this my website and at dozens of sites in cyberspace.
If I did not get as much pleasure from the act of writing and reading, I'd work in the garden and visit more places of culture with my wife. I'd do more cooking and cleaning; I'd invest my enthusiasms in sport and watching TV, as well as taking-up some fancy or not-so-fancy, expensive or not-so-expensive, hobby apparatus. I'd also occupy myself with a variety of forms of entertainment, with having fun, with exercising & educating myself with my several interests in the social domain. These things have become the occupation and lifestyle of millions and billions now on the planet who have the leisure-time, the financial capacity, the health and the well-being to do so.
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I keep the summer edition of my annual email/letter for 2012-2013 available at: http://mnemotechnics.org/blogs/ronprice/summer-edition-of-ron-prices-annual-email-for-201213-3113.html That annual email for 2012-2013 updated the details about my family and my general activities that I reported in my annual email for 2011-2012. There is no need to repeat all the details that were found in that 2011-2012 annual communication again. My 2013-2014 annual email/letter has moved on to other topics & subjects, as well as updating that previous year's email. By 2 March 2015 my annual email for 2011-2012 had received more than 6000 hits, making a total of more than 15,000(circa) hits for my five annual emails sent in the five year period 2011 to 2015. My annual emails have also been at sites with no counters for at least three years now, & so I can not accurately quantify the number of hits which my annual posts receive. I no longer, therefore, try to quantify the number of hits my annual emails have received with any accuracy. Total hits are now guesstimations.
In summary, then: readers wanting information about my family & my daily life can obtain those details at my 5 annual emails for 2011 to 2015. The last annual email was updated on 2/3/'15, with less than 3 weeks before the end of summer in the Antipodes. The 5th edition of my annual email for 2013-2014, which had a guesstimated 2000+ hits, is found at this link:http://www.my-diary.org/read/d/465760 Readers need to scroll-down the left side of the access page at that link, and then go to the posts for: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. For those who actually enjoy my writing, I wish you happy traveling through my annual emails, and at many of the more than 100 sub-sections of this website, as well as wherever else you come across my writing at some 8000+ of cyberspace's sites. For those who just want to dabble & surf-about, there is plenty of stuff here for you. For those who have already had enough, I wish you a fond farewell.
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By my 70th birthday on 23 July 2014, some eight months ago as I update this access page of my website, I had also 'unfriended' some 150 of my former Facebook-friends in order to free myself from what had become an essentially distracting form of communication. Those former Facebook friends, and even new ones, who wanted to access my Facebook-page could do so at: https://www.facebook.com/ronprice9 In the last six years, 2009 to 2015, as I was freeing myself from as much distracting internet activity as possible, as I was engaging in this necessary form of avoidance, the readership of my online writing climbed into the millions. This readership was found across the vast landscape of cyberpsace at over 8000 websites. I would not have believed this possible far back in the last years of the 20th century when the first edition of my website went online.
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The Epson WorkForce 600 is a sleek all-in-one inkjet printer that combines excellent performance with easy-to-use wireless features. Epson says this printer is "engineered for small business and home office" but it's so easy to setup and use you'll wonder why any home would be without one. Forget about messy USB cables or a complicated wireless setup. The WorkForce 600 cleans up your desktop clutter and the setup is as easy as 1-2-3.
WorkForce 600 Specifications:
• 5-in-1 printer with WiFi: Print / Copy / Scan / Photo / Fax
• Draft speeds up to 38 ppm (black and color)
• Extra High-capacity Black ink
• 2-year limited warranty with registration
• Uses up to 3x less power than a laser printer
• Built-in memory card slots and 2.5-inch LCD
• Maximum Printer Resolution: 5760 x 1440 optimized dpi
• Scanner/Copier Resolution: 2400 x 2400 dpi (9600x9600 dpi interpolated)
• Scanner Bit Depth: 48-bit color / 24-bit output
• Maximum Paper Size: 8.5" x 44"
• Paper Sizes: 3.5" x 5", 4" x 6", 5" x 7", 8" x 10", 8.5" x 11", 8.5" x 14", A4, B5, A5, A6, half letter, executive, user definable (3.5" – 44" in length)
• Borderless Photo Sizes: 3.5" x 5", 4" x 6", 5" x 7", 8" x 10", 8.5" x 11", A4
• Connectivity: Hi-Speed USB 2.0, Wireless Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g), Wired Ethernet (10/100 Mbps)
• Operating Systems: Windows Vista, XP, XP Professional x64, 2000, Mac OS X 10.3.9, 10.4.11, and 10.5.x
• Software Included: Epson printer driver, Web to Page, Epson Scan, ArcSoft Print Creations, ABBYY Fine Reader OCR
The Basics
The Epson WorkForce 600 is slightly larger than the average all-in-one printer tipping the scales at 18.3 lbs. Its dimensions are 18.1" x 13.6" x 9.3" with the paper trays closed (18.1" x 22.1" x 12" with the paper trays open) so although it takes up less space than a separate printer, scanner, copier and fax, the WorkForce 600 uses more desk space than a regular printer.
The exterior of the WorkForce 600 looks strikingly similar to the Epson Artisan 800 that we previously reviewed with some key differences in the front panel. The glossy black plastics are prone to smudges and difficult to keep clean but the overall look is modern. Both the input and output paper trays fold into the printer to keep it compact when not in use.
The rear-loading paper tray can hold up to 100 pages of paper or 10 envelopes. The paper feeder supports plain paper, Epson Bright White Paper, Photo Paper Glossy, Premium Photo Paper Glossy, Ultra Premium Photo Paper Glossy, Premium Photo Paper Semi-gloss, Presentation Paper Matte, Premium Presentation Paper Matte, Premium Presentation Paper Matte Double-sided, and Matte Scrapbook Photo Paper (letter).
The WorkForce 600's built-in card reader is compatible with CompactFlash, Microdrive, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Duo, MagicGate Memory Stick, MagicGate Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick Pro Duo, Secure Digital (SD), SDHC, mini SD, mini SDHC, micro SD, micro SDHC, MultiMediaCard, xD-Picture Card, xD-Picture Card Type-M, and xD-Picture Card Type-H.
There is also a PictBridge-compatible USB port next to the memory card slots.
The tilt-up control panel and LCD status display is located on the front of the WorkForce 600. The control panel consists of 33 buttons. While that might sound like an awful lot of buttons, keep in mind that 15 of those buttons are basically only used for the phone dialing pad used with the built-in fax machine.
If you lift the top up, you'll find the scanner/copier area. Its dimensions are approx. 8.5 x 11 inches.
If you lift the scanner/copier area, you'll find yourself looking at the inside of the machine. This is where you load the four ink cartridges. While it might sound intimidating to change four ink cartridges it's actually a good thing that the each color of ink is contained in its own cartridge. If you run out of one color of ink you only have to replace that one color … you're not throwing away good ink just because one color is low.
You'll find the connection ports on the the back corner of the machine.
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I noticed over the last 24 hours most of the channels I frequent have turned into pixel messes or have a message that says "REF Code soaoo One Moment Please. This Channel will be available shortly".
This is happening to all my frequent stations and not to the garbage stations. I checked my other tv's (they only have the digital converter box) and the stations are fine on them. My tv is fine and has no picture problem on the junk channels. How do I fix this?
06-25-2011 01:42 PM - edited 06-25-2011 01:46 PM
The error is caused by weak signal levels to your set top box.
If it's one set, check that the coax connectors are snug at the outlet, and back of the box. Make sure you are not routing your coax through any AC surge protector strip coax ports. Check the condition of your coax jumper cable, and check that all connectors are snug at any accessable splitters.
If it just started, the issue can also be outside, with damaged drop, loose / corrorded / wet fittings or upstream into Comcast's RF portion of the plant. Please call Comcast support and insist on a tech to come out to find and fix the signal issues. It could be as simple as one loose F connector or damaged drop cable from animals.
Finally it can be the set top box failing. If the tech comes out, he will determine if the signal levels are proper and decide if it's the equipment.
If you have had Comcast techs out recently and it hasn't gotten fixed, then post back and it will b escalated.
I've been having the problem as well. On the channels I watch most frequently I simply get a message that says channel should be available shortly.
If you have a drop amp in the home, you might be overdriving your outlets too. Digital boxes are easily overdriven by too much signal.
Did a Comcast tech install the drop amp or was a do-it-yourself installation? Without knowing the signal levels at coming into the house, and knowing the splitter arrangement, there is no way to really know the signal levels, if they are low or hi.
Sometimes a drop amp is put in as a "band-aid" and once the initial signal issue is corrected, then having the amp inline will supply too much signal and overdrive the digital boxes.
You are welcome to swap the box, but the signal levels are a guess at this point, and digital equipment will only operate in a certain RF level, usually around -10 to +10db of signal at the outlets.
Without knowing the signal levels, and correcting them if they are off, you will continue to have issues for years.
Since your apparently having signal issues to your outlet, you need to contact Comcast support to get out a tech to find and fix your signal issue.
it won't fix itself, and can be caused by a damaged drop cable, loose / corrorded / wet fittings, issues upstream into Comcast's RF portion of the plant, or inside wiring issues with excessive splitting, damaged, poor workmanship or loose fittings.
Check that all F connectors are snug at the TV outlet, back of the box & at any accessable splitters. Make sure you are not routing your coax cables through any AC surge protector strip coax ports.
Otherwise a tech needs to come out.
We had this problem last fall. The Comcast tech said it was because the cable in our house was 30 years old and did not have the capacity to handle the digital signal. He replaced some of the connectors and added an amplifier. Our picture has been much better since then; although I see some pixelation occasionally. We really need to have the whole cable inside our house replaced. Sometimes Comcast does do things right.
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Gun and Knife Show opening Saturday at CentralTrak Gallery in Dallas
The Gun and Knife show co-curated by Heyd Fontenot and Julie Webb is opening this Saturday, April 30th at Centraltrak Gallery in Dallas. I'm pleased to be included in this talented group of artists and will have several pieces in the exhibit. If you are in the Dallas area on Saturday I would recommend this opening as it is sure to be a fun time. The run of the show is April 30 – June 4, 2011 and all pertinent information about this exhibit and the gallery can be found here. Big thanks to Heyd and Julie for their hard work assembling this show.


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WHRA-6006 (9) That Devilin' Tune : Volume 4 (of 4) [1946-1951]: From Allen Lowe, the Writer/Producer of the international best seller Minstrel to Mojo: An Audio History of American Popular Song, 1893~1946, comes this new epic survey of jazz. Volume 4 (of 4) [1946-1951] includes rare recordings by Frank Sinatra, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Kenton, Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dizzie Gilespie, Dave Brubeck, and others, in state-of-the art digital restorations, with extensive notes by Allen Lowe. Total time: 11+ hours.. AAD; EAN Nr.4015 023 160064 Special! 9 CDs priced as 6. |
This release is a co-production of West Hill Radio Archive (Canada) and Archiphon (Germany), "While such histories have been attempted before, this one triumphs because of its breadth of vision, its scholarship and its ability to discover previously unheralded gems from a variety of sources including radio broadcasts and live sessions." |
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the environment, quiet, cleanness. the hotel's good accessibility - Anett
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Excellent value! Unbelievable- to be honest, very pleasantly surprised. Cool pool and sauna free for everyone. Very good location- it is literally few stops with tram or metro to the central part of Prague. Great staff-very helpful and friendly, just ask and they will give you great tips and advice. Big spacious room, with good facilities. Very clean and comfortable- good sleep guaranteed. Ideal for city trips, backpackers and explorers. Great place to meet new people. The so called restaurant - Anonymous
Stayed here twice now and found it even better this time, lovely double room, two lovely three course meals , and so nice to sit in the conservatory in the warm weather. So easy to walk to Charles bridge and the centre of Prague , definitely use the albatross Botel again. - Anonymous
I was surprised to see such a beutiful place full of Art (by today´s owner´s ancerstors). The crew was proffesional and breakfast very nice. Very good quality for a decent price! - Anonymous
The hotel is close to Florenc station, a short 10 minutes walk. It is close to old town square and jewish quarter too, only a few minutes walk away. We booked a double and triple room (extra bed in a double room) and it was spacious. Bathroom was big too and room was cleaned daily. Breakfast was really good!!! For the price it is a very good choice. I would def. Stay here again! - Anonymous
Room was nice, big and very clean. Room and/or the quests were really quiet. You could hear sounds trough the door (mainly the cleaner) trough the door. Absolutely no sounds came trough the walls, floor or ceiling. The whole staff was polite and helpful. The hotel is new and there are no hindering compromises taken in the building or the decoration. There is metro station right opposite the hotel. 2 out of 3 metrolines stops there. There is also a tram station right in front of the hotel. There - Anonymous
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That certainly describes Willi's. It's a homey place with a long oak bar and a scattering of tables at the back. The wine list is a treasure trove of bottles both celebrated and obscure, more than half from the Rhône and neighboring regions, with about two dozen wines by the glass. A recent menu offered such appetizers as cream of asparagus soup and grilled polenta with poached eggs and foie gras; main courses ranged from grilled tuna with hazelnut vinaigrette to roast lamb with sea salt and rosemary; and desserts included roasted pineapple with vanilla and—a Willi's signature—bitter-chocolate terrine.
In 1997, Williamson bought an esteemed old restaurant called Le Mercure Galant, two doors down from Willi's, and turned it into a breezy, lively place called Maceo. Maceo doesn't pretend to be a wine bar. "It's what I think a restaurant is meant to be," says Williamson. "A nice space, where people can feel comfortable, where they can eat good food and have nice wines." But isn't that what Willi's is, too? "I started the place," replies Williamson. "I called it a wine bar, I defined the genre. Who is anybody else to say that it's not?"
I think of Il Vino d'Enrico Bernardo—an almost sober-looking restaurant-with-bar, all black and white and gray—as the logical, or maybe enological, extension of Willi's. If Mark Williamson married good wine to bistro food, Enrico Bernardo has mated it with more serious cooking in a way that makes wine the unquestioned star. His "menu," in fact, lists no food. Instead it offers a dozen or so wines by the glass—the selection, about 80 percent French, changes every other week—marked as appropriate for first courses, main courses, cheese, and dessert; the waiter asks customers if they have any food allergies or aversions, then brings dishes matched to the chosen wines.
The kitchen uses raw materials often emblematic in their perfection and prepares them simply but superbly. For instance, an aromatic, unctuous 2005 Georg Breuer Rauenthal Nonnenberg Riesling from the Rheingau came with the ultimate German springtime delicacy: poached white asparagus, glazed in butter. The rich and elegant 1997 Château Pape Clément white was served with an inspired ragout of lobster and morels. A 2006 Bernard Faurie St.-Joseph complemented an impeccable risotto of cèpes. A knockout 1999 Château Troplong Mondot, poured from a double magnum, came with heroic portions of juicy, rare côte de boeuf. Prices rival those at the best restaurants in Paris—appetizers and main courses, each with a glass of wine, run 32 to 85 euros (about $52 to $136), with prix-fixe menus priced at about $80, $120, and $305—but the food is excellent and the wines are exceptional, some of them extravagances that mere mortals rarely have the chance to taste.
Like Williamson, the wiry, intense Bernardo came to wine by way of food. A native of Milan, he graduated from culinary school before embarking on a series of apprenticeships—even cooking for a time at the legendary Troisgros. He took a job as an apprentice sommelier at a hotel-restaurant because he thought it would help his cooking. "I wanted to learn things about tasting that would bring balance to my food," he says. "I thought I'd work with wine for two or three years, then go back into the kitchen. That was nine years ago." Along the way, he was named best sommelier in Italy (in 1997, when he was only 20), best sommelier in Europe (2002), and best sommelier in the world (2004). While working as head sommelier at Le Cinq, the highly rated restaurant at the Georges V hotel in Paris, he got the idea for a restaurant where the finest wines would be served by the glass and the food would follow their lead. "With Il Vino," he says, "I've found my harmony." He has also added a whole new dimension to the modern concept of the wine bar.
Il Vino d'Enrico Bernardo 13 Blvd. de la Tour Maubourg, 7th (01-44-11-72-00)
Willi's Wine Bar 13 R. des Petits-Champs, 1st (01-42-61-05-09)
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Au Sauvignon The real attractions at this popular Left Bank spot are the frescoed interior and the small, sunny terrace. There's no cooked food, but the cheeses and charcuterie are irresistible, as is the just-baked bread from Poilâne. (80 R. des Saints-Pères, 6th; 01-45-48-49-02)


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Last year, a 9th grade student created the "Change for Haiti" program at grammar schools and high schools throughout her region. This stellar student spent the summer revamping her program so that students across the country could adapt it for their schools. The toolkit and power point presentation below details the program and how you can get involved in your area. If you are interested in learning more about this, or other fundraising opportunities, please contact Gena Robinson (574)-631-6055 or email@example.com


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quote: De Gea is a great keeper. He just isn't built for the Prem. His save % was the best in the league last season.
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TODAY | April 19, 2012
MATT LAUER, co-host: But we begin with more on the life and the legacy of the man known as the world's oldest teenager. NBC 's Chris Jansing is a few blocks away from us in Times Square . Chris , good morning to you.
CHRIS JANSING reporting: Good morning, Matt. And standing here in Times Square , it's hard to imagine New Year's Eve without Dick Clark . Who among us didn't come down with him, celebrate with him. He influenced everything from the music we listened to to the TV shows we watched. And this morning America is remembering a pop culture icon. From flowers laid on his star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame , to a heartfelt tribute from his hand-picked successor, Ryan Seacrest .
Mr. RYAN SEACREST: Now we can't begin tonight's show without acknowledging the passing of a television pioneer and my dear friend, Dick Clark .
JANSING: To others whose careers he helped make.
Mr. CHUBBY CHECKER (Singer): I think when he put me on TV , that did it. We knew that if we got on television, that's all they had to do, just give me a chance to go on TV with the Twist and the rest would be history.
JANSING: Generations of fans are remembering Dick Clark , an American original.
JANSING: We welcomed him into our homes for more than five decades. Often called America 's oldest teenager, he seemed ageless, hosting " American Bandstand " for more than 30 years. It started as a Philadelphia teen music and dance show in 1956 . That quickly turned into a national sensation, launching the careers of hundreds of artists from The Supremes , to The Beach Boys , even a young Michael Jackson .
Mr. JOE LEVY (Editor, Billboard Magazine): This guy stood toe to toe with Elvis Presley and Madonna and gave both of them crucial national exposure. That's just crazy.
JANSING: Dick Clark was born Richard Wagstaff Clark in 1929 in Mount Vernon , New York . His first job after Syracuse University was in radio, and music was his passion. He talked about it with Matt on TODAY in 1997 .
Mr. DICK CLARK: Music underscores everything that happens to you. The good stuff and the bad stuff.
JANSING: A prolific entrepreneur, Clark created the American Music Awards , produced the Golden Globes , game shows, and in 1972 , launched this New Year's Eve tradition.
JANSING: Then in 2004 , his life took a dramatic turn.
CHUCK HENRY reporting: Clark is recovering tonight from a stroke.
JANSING: He was hospitalized for seven weeks after that stroke, but a year later made a brave return to "Rockin' New Year's Eve."
Mr. CLARK: It was a long, hard fight. My speech is not perfect, but I'm getting there.
JANSING: After that, Clark didn't miss a New Year 's in New York , co-hosting with Ryan Seacrest .
Mr. SEACREST: He taught me how to do television. I studied him as a kid, and I had the fortunate opportunity to work with him for several years on New Year's Eve . And so I'm sad and I'm grateful for what he's given all of us and certainly what he's given me.
JANSING: This year Seacrest was there as Clark counted down to the new year.
Mr. SEACREST: Dick , you've done this for the last 40 years.
Mr. CLARK: All right. And now, the big moment we've been waiting for. Five, four, three, two, one. Happy new year!
JANSING: Welcoming in 2012 , Clark said goodbye to his loyal audience one last time.
Mr. SEACREST: You're such a great friend to me and to the nation watching. Thank you for everything .
Mr. CLARK: Thank you very much . Happy new year.
Mr. SEACREST: Happy new year. Dick Clark .
Mr. CLARK: Oh, wow.
Mr. SEACREST: Come on. Come on.
JANSING: Dick Clark liked to say his greatest asset was that he had his finger on the pulse of everyday people, but this morning he's being remembered by everyone from the president and speaker of the House to music legends. And I want to read you just a few of the many tweets that are out there. From Janet Jackson , " Dick Clark changed the face of musical television." From Diana Ross , "I will always appreciate what he did for me and for popular music ." And from Gloria Estefan , "Not too many people actually deserve the term 'legend.' Dick Clark embodied it and never lost his humility or humanity. We will miss him." And I think Smokey Robinson spoke for millions when he said simply, "I


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Artist Tom Scioli Transforms Career Following Short-Lived Retirement
Artist Tom Scioli details his path from "Godland," to quitting the comic book business to success with IDW's "Transformers vs. G.I. Joe."
When Words Collide - 12/9/2013
Tim conducts his final interview with Joe Casey about the superhero sci-fi spectacle of "Gødland" and what it all means, with exclusive Tom Scioli art.
When Words Collide - 8/26/2013
Tim has an in-depth discussion with Joe Casey about the upcoming "Gødland Finale," the legacy of the series and what it all means. Also: an exclusive glimpse at new Tom Scioli art!"
When Words Collide - 12/24/2012
Tim begins his countdown to the Best Comics of 2012 by looking at the ten that almost made the Top Ten, including works by Brandon Graham, Jason Aaron and Charles Forsman.
CBR TV: Man of Action's Casey, Rouleau on "Ultimate Spider-Man," New Image Projects
Man of Action members Joe Casey and Duncan Rouleau dropped in on CBR TV during Comic-Con International to discuss a number of projects, from "Ultimate Spider-Man" to their various Image Comics series and more.
When Words Collide - 2/13/2012
Tim concludes his conversation with Tom Scioli as they wrap up the New Gods chat and turn their attention toward Scioli's new "American Barbarian" from AdHouse book and his final two issues of "GODLAND."
When Words Collide - 2/6/2012
Tim begins a two-part conversation with artist Tom Scioli, discussing formative Masters of the Universe comics, astonishing Jack Kirby tales and the aesthetic origin of the "American Barbarian" creator.
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: "Gødland" #35
Courtesy of Image Comics, CBR presents an exclusive preview for "Gødland" #35 by Joe Casey and Tom Scioli. The issue crashes into comic book stores December 281
WC11: The Next Great Era of Image Comics
Joe Casey, Nate Simpson, Ben McCool and more locked arms to discuss the recent wave of launches at Image, "Twilight," video games, KGB sleeper cells and more at WonderCon in San Francisco.
PRESS RELEASE: Image Comics Reprints the First Issues of Classic Series in October's Contnuation of "Image Firsts: Wave Two"
Image Comics Titles On Sale July 8, 2010
Image Comics has provided CBR with advance looks at new comics on sale July 8, including "Brigade" #1, "Godland" #32, "King City" #10, "Walking Dead" #74, and more!
When Words Collide - 5/17/2010
After last week's interview, Tim spends some time thinking about Joe Casey and Tom Scioli's Kirby-inspired "GØDLAND" series, and provides a few digressions that lead to this summer's second "Celestial Edition."
Read the Full Issue: "Gødland" #25
Courtesy of Image Comics, CBR presents "Gødland" #25 in it's entirety! The Joe Casey written and Tom Scioli illustrated issue will be collected in "Gødland, Vol. 5: Far Beyond the Bang," which hits stores April 14.
Image Comics Titles On Sale March 31, 2010
Image Comics has provided CBR with advance looks at new comics on sale March 31, including "Godland" #31, "The Sword" #23, and exclusive extended previews of "Cowboy Ninja Viking" #5 and "Jersey Gods" vol. 2!
Image Comics Titles On Sale December 16, 2009
Image Comics has provided CBR with advance looks at new comics on sale December 16, including "Godland" #30, "Underground" #4, and "Amory Wars vol. 2."
The Buy Pile - 10/15/2009
You won't need a dose of venom to enjoy this week's wonderfully winning batch of comics, with a flying monkey coming into his own, a combat magician pulling the trigger and much more, moving past extradimensional sidekicks.
Image Comics On Sale April 15, 2009
Courtesy of Image, CBR brings you advance looks at new comics on sale this week including new issues of"The Walking Dead," "Gødland," "Johnny Monster," "Lillim," "Overlook," "Soul Kiss" and more.
The Buy Pile - 9/18/2008
Another winning week led off by smirking mechanoids, Grant Morrison's Superman and flames and heroism in Asgard, plus "meh" ratings passed out proliferately and sadness with the Sentry, amidst so much more.
Image Comics On Sale September 17, 2008
Courtesy of Image, CBR brings you advance looks at new comics on sale this week including an exclusive preview of "War Heroes" #2 by Mark Millar and Tony Harris, plus peaks at " "Dead Space" and "Gødland."
The Road To Enlightenment Leads to GØDLAND
Writer Joe Casey enlightens CBR News about his Eisner-nominated series "Gødland," clears up speculation on the book's end, and gives us a tease of what is to come next.
The Buy Pile - 5/22/2008
Things don't go so well despite a jump when Spoiler, Reed Richards and the Twilight Guardian stink up the place like seven month old lunch meat. Admittedly, Neela Archer doesn't do much to help ...
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Procera Extends High-Performance DPI for Edge, Access Deployments; PL10002 Provides Carrier-Grade Performance in a Compact Multi-GE PacketLogic Chassis
Procera Networks (AMEX: PKT), a developer of Evolved Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) solutions providing traffic awareness, control and protection for complex networks, today announced an addition to the PacketLogic PL10000 family of products, currently the industry's highest-capacity DPI platform. The PacketLogic PL10002 (PDF datasheet) is a compact, 3RU chassis with up to four gigabit Ethernet (GE) channels at full wire speed and 500,000 subscribers on a single industry standard AdvancedTCA chassis suitable for link aggregation and redundant DPI deployments at the edge or access of broadband networks. PL10002 gives service providers the business intelligence, service creation, network visibility and control required to successfully roll out new revenue-generating services and optimize network performance.
The PL10002 is purpose-built for Tier-1 broadband networks�both wired and wireless�offering carrier-grade performance with full redundancy on vital components such as cooling and power supply. And, as part of the PacketLogic family, accuracy and performance have not been compromised in favor of capacity; the PL10002 includes PacketLogic's renowned traffic identification engine, DRDL, which has been validated by third parties like Tolly to be the most accurate DPI engine available today. It also comes with the new and unique functionality that was incorporated in version 12 of the PacketLogic firmware, released with the PL10000 in May, which includes Flow and Queue Sync for asymmetric traffic support with minimum overhead traffic.
�We've experienced a demand for our high-end PL10000 product line that exceeds our initial projections by far,� said Jon Lind�n, Procera's vice president of global marketing. �We're constantly learning new customer demands, and the new PL10002 satisfies a need below our highest capacity PL10000 platforms, but with equal resilience and reliability, for deployments closer to the customer access of the network. �
The PacketLogic PL10000 series is now populated with the following options; PL10002 is a compact 3RU chassis with 1-4 GE channels, the PL10005 is a 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GE) solution in a 5RU chassis, and the PL10014 hosts multiple 10GE channels in a 12RU chassis that scales to 80 Gbps throughput, which is unchallenged in a single DPI chassis.


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Stress-induced reinstatement of alcohol-seeking in rats is selectively suppressed by the neurokinin 1 (NK1) antagonist L822429
- Jesse R. Schank,
- Charles L. Pickens,
- Kelly E. Rowe,
- Kejun Cheng,
- Annika Thorsell,
- Kenner C. Rice,
- Yavin Shaham,
- Markus Heilig
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Genetic inactivation or pharmacological antagonism of neurokinin 1 (NK1) receptors blocks morphine and alcohol reward in rodents, while NK1 antagonism decreases alcohol craving in humans. The role of the NK1 system for relapse-like behavior has not previously been examined.
Divergence between human and rodent NK1 receptors has limited the utility of NK1 antagonists developed for the human receptor species for preclinical studies of addiction-related behaviors in rats. Here we used L822429, an NK1 antagonist specifically engineered to bind at high affinity to the rat receptor, to assess the effects of NK1 receptor antagonism on alcohol-seeking behaviors in rats.
L822429 (15 and 30 mg/kg) was used to examine effects of NK1 receptor antagonism on operant self-administration of 10% alcohol in 30-min daily sessions, as well as intermittent footshock stress- and cue-induced reinstatement of alcohol-seeking after extinction of lever responding.
At the doses used, L822429 did not significantly affect alcohol self-administration or cue-induced reinstatement, but potently and dose dependently suppressed stress-induced reinstatement of alcohol seeking, with an essentially complete suppression at the highest dose. The effect of L822429 on stress-induced reinstatement was behaviorally specific. The drug had no effect on conditioned suppression of operant responding following fear conditioning, locomotor activity, or self-administration of a sucrose solution.
To the degree that the reinstatement model provides a model of drug relapse, the results provide support for NK1 antagonism as a promising mechanism for pharmacotherapy of alcoholism, acting through suppression of stress-induced craving and relapse.
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- Title
- Stress-induced reinstatement of alcohol-seeking in rats is selectively suppressed by the neurokinin 1 (NK1) antagonist L822429
- Journal
Volume 218, Issue 1 , pp 111-119
- Cover Date
- 2011-11-01
- 10.1007/s00213-011-2201-z
- Print ISSN
- 0033-3158
- Online ISSN
- 1432-2072
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Substance P
- Neurokinin
- Alcohol
- Stress
- Relapse
- Reinstatement
- Fear conditioning
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Jesse R. Schank (1)
- Charles L. Pickens (2)
- Kelly E. Rowe (1)
- Kejun Cheng (3)
- Annika Thorsell (1)
- Kenner C. Rice (3)
- Yavin Shaham (2)
- Markus Heilig (1) (4)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Laboratory of Clinical and Translational Studies, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Drive, Building 10-CRC, Room 1-5330, Bethesda, MD, 20892-1108, USA
- 2. Behavioral Neuroscience Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892-9561, USA
- 3. Chemical Biology Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892-9561, USA
- 4. 10 Center Drive, 10/1E-5334, Bethesda, MD, 20892-1108, USA


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Lisa Anne (White) Murphy, 50, Salina, formerly of Goodland, died Thursday, April 10, 2014, at her home.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Christ Cathedral, Salina; burial will be at 4:30 p.m. Mountain time Thursday in Goodland Cemetery.
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WASHINGTON D.C — Mitt Romney's presidential campaign put four battleground states in its sights Friday, unveiling a targeted television ad campaign in Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia that spells out the GOP candidate's plan for his first 100 days in office.
The four-state buy marks the first time the Romney campaign has targeted ads to single states in the general election, and in each spot, local concerns are brought front and center.
The spot airing in Iowa uses a shot of cornfields, and asks: "President Romney's first 100 days. What will they mean for Iowa?"
The narrator goes on to list familiar aspects of Romney's platform: repealing President Barack Obama's sweeping health care law, working toward balancing the federal budget, and reducing the debt.
"President Romney's first 100 days: For the people of Iowa, they mean fewer worries about their future and their children's future," the ad concludes.
In 2008, Obama won Iowa by a nearly 10-point margin, but the state is labeled a "toss up" on CNN's Electoral Map in 2012.
Romney's North Carolina ad focuses on the candidate's plan for creating new jobs, honing in specifically on industries with a large presence in the state.
"By day 100, President Romney's leadership brings new certainty to our economy and the promise of new banking and high-tech jobs. President Romney's first 100 days. For North Carolina, a new start."
Charlotte, the site of this summer's Democratic National Convention, is America's second-largest banking center, after New York City. The Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Research Triangle is home to large IT and other technology firms.
North Carolina went for Obama in 2008 by a razor-thin margin, and CNN's Electoral Map currently rates the state "leaning Romney."
In Ohio, shots of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and manufacturing plants in Cleveland punctuate Romney's economic message.
"Day One, President Romney stands up to China, demands a level playing field for our businesses and workers."
The candidate also pledges to repeal "regulations that are strangling our energy industry and costing us jobs."
Ohio, whose manufacturing base took a hit during the recession, has seen a revival of manufacturing jobs in the last few years, partly due to a newly resurgent American auto industry, and increased foreign demand for steel.
The state, which went for Obama by a narrow margin in 2008, is classified a "toss up" on the CNN Electoral Map.
Romney's final spot, airing in Virginia, goes after energy workers. The spot opens with a shot of Richmond's skyline.
"By Day 100, President Romney reverses Obama's offshore drilling ban, creating thousands of new jobs for Virginians," the spot promises.
In November, Obama's administration announced plans to open up offshore drilling sites in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska, but didn't include waters off Virginia in the new measure.
Like the other three states targeted by Romney Friday, Virginia went for Obama in 2008. The CNN Electoral Map currently ranks it a "toss up."
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HSU says no defamation payment to MP
PUBLISHED: 20 Apr 2012 09:08:00 | UPDATED: 21 Apr 2012 11:32:53PUBLISHED: 20 Apr 2012 PRINT EDITION: 21 Apr 2012
Health Services Union acting president Chris Brown says reports that the union paid former official Craig Thomson a sum to settle a defamation action are wrong.
Fairfax Media reported on Friday that Mr Thomson, now a federal Labor MP, received a secret payment of $160,000 from the HSU three years after he'd entered parliament.
The September 2010 payment included $129,555 in entitlements plus $30,000 to settle a defamation claim he'd brought against the union and his successor as national secretary, Kathy Jackson, Fairfax said.
Mr Brown said the HSU did not pay Mr Thomson a sum in settlement of a defamation claim against the union.
"No payment was ever made," he said in a statement.
"Legal action against the union by Mr Thomson to have his accrued leave entitlements paid resulted in the union paying Mr Thomson a sum to cover those legal entitlements.
"The sum quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald and other media is wrong and over-inflated."
Mr Brown also said Ms Jackson was at the national executive meeting that approved the payment of Mr Thomson's entitlements.
"Ms Jackson voted in favour of the payment and the deed to give effect to the payment," he said.
Mr Thomson on Friday confirmed a "confidential settlement" was approved by the HSU national executive but did not give any further details.
The HSU and its biggest branch, HSU East, are the subject of two Fair Work Australia (FWA) investigations, police probes in NSW and Victoria, and an internal inquiry by former corruption buster Ian Temby QC.
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She's been hailed as the "one to watch" by British Vogue, and Louise Gray is most certainly one of the rising figures in the fashion scene.
Hailing from Fraserburgh in Scotland, the designer loves to use bright garments and experiment with different textures, and this was displayed in her new collection, which Louise unveiled during London Fashion Week.
Showing off some of her pieces, Louise revealed what her favourite items were. "It's again a very varied collection, there's a lot of pieces that translate to your wardrobe," she said, selecting a mixture of cotton shirts, silk dresses, cotton trousers and sequins as her stand-out pieces.
Louise has caught the eye of many in the fashion industry, and explaining a bit about Louise's appeal after watching her show at London Fashion Week, fellow designer Lee Lapthorne said: "Louise's collection, as we've seen tonight, is really colourful and mixture of a great textures, using cottons and printing over the top clashing of prints, really bright, really colourful, really good fun and that's why she's so successful."
Louise might be making waves in London, but she never forgets her Scottish roots, and also spoke about her feelings about the country's own influence on the industry.
"I feel like there's lots of strong things happening in Scotland, lots of great boutiques in the Merchant City in Glasgow. I haven't been to Edinburgh for a while, but I feel like it's really strong," the designer explained.
Louise added: "I feel like there are really strong opportunities [in Scotland], everyone seems to be really individual in producing their own work which is really nice, you can really get a sense of who people are and it's nice to see that."
Scottish designer Louise Gray unveils new collection at London Fashion Week
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